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Not Guilty.

The Anoka Union criticises the twin
city dailies for not printing the timber
trespass stories that have been running
in the Park Rapids Enterprise. The
esteemed Union is in error as far as
TIL journal is concerned. This
paper has always given the fullest pub
LEFTY to the facts about looting of state
timber. In recent issue Of The Sun.
day Journal appeared a column article
covering some Of the cases developed
at Park Rapids, and the news of the
states suit against Bonness & Howe has
been fully given. -s..
Most Of the trespasses mentioned
have been old stories, however, as far
as T h J ournal is concerned. They
were included in the reports made by
Public Examiner johnson Two years ago,
which were ignored or discredited by
most Of the state press for political rea-
sons. The facts were fully set forth
in h e Journa at that time. Most
of the cases mentioned were outlawed,
but the attorney generals department
is pushing the collection of those that
can be reached. It cannot be denied
that a great service was rendered the
state by the Johnson investigation. Re.
forms in law and administration have
followed it, and the state authorities
are now handling trespass cases in a
manner that would have discouraged
the looters and saved the state millions
if the reform had come ten or twenty
years ago. Vast amounts are known
to have been lost in the cases now out
| lawed. The state has collected or will
collect good many thousands on cases
that are still to be reached, and the
cry of "political persecution, so otter
| heard in 1904, is heard no more. The
examiners probe and the publicity
given his reports did the state grea
service.
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Nelu Reading from the World of Books
By W. r. KIRKWOOD

Powell, the author of "The House on
the Hudson,' and Jesse Lynch Will
liams' new novel, 1tThe Day Dreamer;
Being the Full Narrative of the Stolen
Story Professor John G. Van Dyke 3
"The Opal Sea- scientific, poetical
description of the sea in it's many
aspects; Andrew Lang's life Of Sir
Walter Scott in the Literary Lives
Series; new and revised edition OF
James Hardy Roper's "The Apostolic
Age in the Light Of Modern Criticism, !"
are some Of the other works promised.
Later will be published Mary Ray
mond Shipman Andrews new book,
"Bob and the Guides,'' the amusing
experience Of an all-round small boy
and one or two grownups as well, and
Francis Wilson's "Joseph Jefferson:
"reminiscences of Friend,'' most
sympathetic and entertaining apprecia-
ton Of that famous actor. Thomas F.
Millard's book, called s"The New Far
East, (which contains the results of his
years of travel and study in the east
and presents some highly important
and noteworthy views on present condl,
lions in that part of the world and
the probable future of Japan, will also
appear toward the end Of the month.
The Experiences of an American
Teacher in the Philippines, by ". B.
Freer, is also scheduled for March. The
new commemorative edition Of A. G.
Buell's "Paul Jones: Founder of the
American Navy which contains an
additional essay by General Horace
Porter, late United States ambassador
to France, describing the search for
and discovery Of, the body Of Paul
Jones, will also be brought out before
the first Of April.
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doning the idea of becoming a minister
lowing his father as an ironmaker. AS
an nonmaker he is thrown into a fight
with some high fnanciers, business as
sociates of his fathers who have tried
to play the game of freeze-out, and
after that into struggle for class
of trade in which the municipal CRATER
is an important factor.
Parallel with these business expert
ences, and influencing Tom-Jeff's char
acter even more strongly, runs an affair
Of the heart, or of hearts, in which
Tom-Jef almost loses the object of his
alteration thru the Vaccinations of as
thoro-going villain as one often comes
upon in fiction.
There is room for much dramatic
play and for a considerable bit of melo-
drama in the story, as may be seen,
and Of both Mr.. Lynde has made effect
i've use. The action is rapid, but is
easily followed, and grips the attention
thruout. The chief weakness of the
story is in Tom-Jeff. Clever in q bust
ness battle, quick to grasp situation
and to make differences, masterful at
getting at the heart of things and at
extricating himself from difficulties of
a commercial nature, in his romantic
affairs he is ~b1underer of an almost
tunforgivable sort. One would hardly
recognize him as the same man. How
ever, his generous impulses Cor is it the
moral sense refnding itself-the quick.
ening?) save him, and thereafter, we
may believe, heart and head work to.
gether the better. Despite Tom-Jeff q
inconsistencies, the story is one to alb
sorb the attention and hold the reader
until the book is read to the end.
The Bobbs- Merrill Co., Indianapolis. s15o.
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Government Red Tape.

When the Hon. Eugene Wrayburn,
made famous by Dickens, received a
bill he carefully numbered and fled
it away. He said that next to having
a receipt the best thing was to have
a bill properly docketed, and as he
never expected to have receipts, he
took particular pride and care with the
docketing of his accounts.
President Roosevelt, in his remarks
to the Keep commission, intimated a
similar ambition on the part of govern
mental officials. They come, in time,
the president said, to regard not so
much the case as Fthe papers in the
case as the all-important matter with
which to deal and to feel proud sense
Of duty performed if all those papers
are appg Fly docketed and re.
The presisESMy't, being man of action
is not enamoTed of a system of doing
business too much entangled in red
tape. He wants each case arising run
thru the mill in order, but would like
to have department chiefs make spe
cifc recommendations so that each Incl
dent as it arises may be intelligently
and swiftly dealt with.
Of course. this is the only way ii
| which the government machine may be
kept from clogging. It is what every
| body wants and it is what everybody
finds hard to accomplish. The Kee1
commission was appointed for the pur
pose not so much Of tracing specific
abuses as of unraveling the system 0:
accounting in the government service
It's business is to cut as far as pos
sible straight paths from cause to eff
feet. In this effort it has the sym
pathy and good will of everybody VIII
has transacted business with the fed
eral government.
But not too much should be ez
pected from the recommendations o
this commission. When all is said an
done, the vastness Of the machine an
the necessity of a ponderous routin
remains.
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Saturday Evening,
old and still hale and hearty and good
for six or eight appeals more.

old and still hale and hearty and good
for six or eight appeals more,
IF a railroad could actually be COM
PEELED to put up in court subject to the
order of individual shippers the differ
ence between it's rate and the COM
mission s rate one Of two things would
happen. On account Of the amount Of
money rendered temporarily useless, ap-
peals would be promptly prosecuted, or
few would be brought. The working
of the Spooner amendment would be to-
ward fastening the settlement of con-
troversies between carriers and ship
pers provided it worked at all. But we
believe Senator Clapp stated a point
well worth considering by sincere
friends Of rate legislation when he ar
gued that it would not work at all. 9
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Garfield and the Beef Trust.

Mr.. Garfield, chief of the bureau OF
corporations, has stood a good deal Of
criticism for the failure of the prose-
cution of the Chicago packers. He is
charged with having bungled the in
vestigation of the beef trust and with
having been responsible for the escape
of the members of that trust from
prosecution.
In view of this fact, our Washington
correspondence bearing upon this mat
ter today will be read with interest
and profit. The history of the Garfield
investigation, how it came to be held,
how it was conducted and what the
government expected to accomplish I'M
der the indictments, is new and inter-
esting. It clears Mr. Garfield s reputa-
ton and places blame upon congress
for having tried to do by "brass band''
had practically accomplished before
some congressman, anxious to make
political capital, thought of instigating
the investigation.
While no charges against Judge
Humphrey are made, some exceedingly
interesting and significant facts are
stated from which the reader may draw
his own conclusions.
1t seems strange, too,. that the gov
eminent is without the right of appeal
and here again congress appears to have
been at fault in failing to enact legis
lation urged repeatedly during the past
fifteen years by the department Of
iustice
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gen. ~ ..
HE ANNOYED ALLISON

Senator Allison of Iowa visited the
White House the other day and went in
TO see the president Senator Allison
wanted to talk on a very important mat
ter and was much surprised to find the
presidents office filled e with waiting
statesmen. The senator began talking to
the president in a tone of voice that
would have made telephone operator
ashamed. When he. had finished the
president blurted out the substance of the
whole confidential talk in a voice heard
by everyone. 1--WE might as we'll carry
on our confidential business with the
president by writing open letters Sena-
tor Allison declared on his return to the
senate. HE is the loudest thinking man
I ever talked WITH '{..
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The Spooner Amendment.

Senator Spooner's amendment to the
railroad rate bill is said to be one which
will prevail because it will have the
support of all the New England sena-
tors and also of such senators as Elkins,
Foraker, Kean, Platt, Depew and a
number Of others, both republicans and
democrats, who are entirely opposed to
rate legislation. The Spooner amend
ment provides that when the commits
sion has on hearing declared a rate I'M
reasonable and has substituted new
one, the railroad interested may appeal
to the courts and secure an injunction
against the putting of the rate into eff
feet until it shall be judicially passed
upon and pending such adjudication,
the railroad shall pay into court an
amount equal to the differences be.
tween it's rate and the commission Is
rate, the same to be paid to the ship.
pers or back to the defendant in accord.
ance with the decision Of the court.
The Spooner amendment, it was
pointed out by Senator Clapp the other
day, might be construed by the courts
as putting an extraordinary burden
upon litigant. The ordinary practice
is for an applicant for an injunction tc
put up bond. The Spooner amend
ment requires a cash payment into
court. It might and probably woulc
be claimed by the railroads that con
gress had not the power to put them il
"a different class from other litigants
and successfully contest that portion OF
the rate law which provided for. casl
| payments into court. The railroads
would then have the rate law about
where they want it. It would be al
endless procession Of never-concludee
| suits. The interstate commerce com
mission now has some seventeen year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-24
WHERE THE PEOPLE IN "wHo's

WHERE THE PEOPLE IN sWHo'S
WHO' COME FROM.-The l906-l907
number Of Who's Who in America, re-
Gently issued, is more complete, and
therefore more valuable, number than
any previously issued. It contains more
names than any former edition, a sys-
tenn Of cross-references with former
numbers has been included, and greater
care both in inclusion and exclusion
has been observed.
Some interesting figures and facts
are to be cleaned from the various
parts of the Introduction. For example,
there is a table of birth and residence
statistics that shows where the people
named in the volume came from and
where they live. This table shows that
in Minnesota have been born sixty who
have been found worthy to be classed
among the "who 50 OF Am@r1ca, and
,, that in the state there reside 22z
worthy of the same honor. One may
easily draw the conclusion from these
figures that the great look to Minnesota
as a good place in which to live; also
that people coming to Minnesota hno
| here opportunity to win distinction ano
embrace the opportunity. Either view
| is complimentary to the state.
North Dakota shows two natives ano
81 residents who have won ."Who Is
Who' honors. South Dakota has done
somewhat better so far as residents are
concerned. Two natives and 81 resi-
dents of that state are on the honor
| roll.
While Iowa has given 2O5 great tt
the nation, she has only 100 residents
who have won prominence. Her grea1
seem to seek other worlds to conquer
Wisconsin has a somewhat similar rec
ord, with 259 natives who have gained
| distinction and 204 residents.
! New York wins first place with 2,So'
natives and 1906 residents who shine
Massachusetts comes second with LOU:
natives and 1892 among the favored
| DR.. Osler's theory is set at naugh
by the average age of those who have
climbed to fame. It is about SO, which
would show that 40 for the limit OF
great initiative is far too low.
Men Of success and prominence seen
i to marry as early as the rank and file
! contrary to the generally received view
The average age for marriage for tn
men in the book is 28.70 and for thu
women %.
The college man still has the bes
of it, despite those who decry the col
lege education as a means OF success
Of the total great, named in the cur
rent "Who's Who,' about 69.76 pc
cent nave had Lne advantages foI GU
lege training. That was the figure TO
the previous issue, and the editors sa..
] there is no ground for materla
! change in this.
i These and other facts collated in tn
new HWho's Who' show the book t
have a value aside from that of mer
directory Of people who have won dis
tinction among more than 100000
Americans.
A. N Marquis & Co., Chicago. $3.50.
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Legal Aspect of Political Loot.

District Attorney Jerome will soon
be in position where he will have to
fish or cut bait in the matter of the
prosecution of the officials who de-
prived the policyholders Of the insur
ance companies of their property to
give it to political committees. Magis-
trate O'Sullivan has put it up to the
grand jury to inquire into the facts
and has instructed them that if they
find that the contributions were meant
to defraud the policyholders then the
crime Of larceny has been committed
and George W. Perkins is guilty of lar
eeny, while. Cornelius N. Bliss and
George B. Cortelyou are guilty of re-
ceiving stolen goods.
The district attorney has declared
that in his opinion there is now law
which governs the giving Of such contri-
l buttons. He admits that if there was
an intent to defraud it constitutes lar
Bceny, but criminal intent would be i'm
possible to prove, in his opinion. A
man for himself or for corporation
might give political contributions with
the most patriotic motives. He might
salso give them with the basest motives
sConfronted with a complaint the de-
sfendant would naturally claim high
spatriotic resolve in his parting with
trust funds for the purpose of bolster
ling political campaign.
e. Whatever the legal aspect of these
contributions may be, their moral at
amosphere is now we'll understood. They
Aconstitute the purchase price of {
license to rob. The trustees of the
three New York life insurance com
spanies paid both political parties an(
I'm addition bribed the legislature TO-
Immunity from legal attack while the,
stole the policy holders blind. Tha
bolicy holders could be stolen blind AM
Vet the companies show up entirel,
#olvent seems like contradiction,
proposition, but in the insurance bust
hess it is not so. The trustees an,
Their outside pals so handled the SUI
bIus funds that the profits from larg
Eeady-money transactions found thei
NAY into the pockets Of the cabal rattle
Ahan into the treasures of the com
Ssanies. The policy holders premium
nave been the foundation and cas-
basis Of tremendous loot. The polit
- HcaI payments merely guaranteed tina
HE loot should go on undisturbe6
hamilton, Mccall, McCurdy and a
theirs of their class were but cogs i
lie wheel. Morgan, Hartman, Rya
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-24
HERBERT SPENCER AND GEORGE

HERBERT SPENCER AND GEORGE
ELIOT.-It was Herbert Spencer who
first advised George Eliot to write
fiction. In reminiscent article in
Harper's for April. written by two
ladies who for many years kept house
for the philosopher, they record that
Spencer told them this interesting fact,
and added that George Eliot and her
and Tom TulliVer in 0The Mill on the
Floss.' The writer's aver that Spencer
"seems to have been responsible for
more than one important event in that
authoress' career, for it was he who let
out the secret of her identity. Some one
blessed with more desire for informa-
ton than with tact had asked him
point-blank if it were true that Marian
Evans and George Eliot were one and
the same, and his simplicity being too
great to allow him to prevaricate, he
; kept silence, and so the secret was
Out.'' @.
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1.-THE JUNGLE" AS A PIECE OF
thinn ahnnt tho

THE JUNGLE" AS A PIECE OF
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES about the
shocking and filthy practices of the
beef trust, charged in The Jungle, by
Upton Sinclair, was told in L e
0 u n a of Feb. 81. Enough was said
then to make the reader thereafter
turn from some packing house products
at least with loathing. Yet the
picture of packing house methods is not
nearly SO appalling as that of the life
led by the submerged of Packington.
In the latter the author has shown his
greatest strength strength almost, if
not quite, of genius. The portrayal Of
packing house conditions is only part
OF the greater and darker picture.
Turnout it is evident that the author
has been more bent upon getting his
story told than the manner of the tell
ing. Sometimes in his impatience to tell
the things that were crowding for ut
only. Yet he has written with force
and directness even when careless, and
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Today the Savior calls:
For refuge fly:
The storm of justice falls,
And death is nigh.
Xs

The New York Society for Ethical
Culture has published lecture ON
The Spiritual Attitude Towards Old
Age recently delivered by its leader,
DIR. Felix Adler. This lecture discusses
DR.. Osler's view of old age and gives
in opposition to that view an ethical
Interpretation of the meaning OF old
charge upon application to the extern
sion committee of the. Ethical Culture
society, 33 Central Park West, New
York city,
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THE sELF-HYPNoT1zED AUTHOR,

Morgan Robertson has contributed to
the March Critic an essay in an en-
tirely new field on "The Self-Hypnosis
of Authors.' He takes as his text the
seriousness plus a dominant idea. and
proceeds to show how overwork and
constant hammering on one set of con-
ceptions will bring about most peculiar
yet natural conditions in the minds and
output of various authors.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-24

An Omaha physician declares that out
of 500 operations for appendicitis in
Omaha hospitals in the past year not 10
per cent were real cases. The appendi-
eitis craze is in full swing but, he says,
the profession is not entirely blamable,
as "the people demand operations THE
people have a constitutional right to
know what is going on inside of them,
and the surgeons have certain curios-
ity about it, too.
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l. General Rennenkampf gives notice that
he will execute all Of the 600 prisoners in
his charge if any more attempts are made
on his life. In case of a successful at
tempt he will presumably have left orders
with his successor to kill few hundred
innocent people.
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A MAN IN THE MAK1Na.-The

moral progress of a male specimen of
humankind is an interesting thing to
watch, especially if the specimen under
observation early gets into the thick
of what we call the battle of life, and
is subjected to the mighty influences
and forces that leap and swirl and
eddy there. 1t is such progress that
Francis Lynde has sought to depict in
The Quickening, a story of these days
of the divided conscience-the con-
science of the private life and the con-
science of commerce and industry.
Thomas Jefferson Gordon, heir to a
fighting spirit on his fathers side and
to quick religious nature On his
mother g, son of Tennessee, is early
" converted at revival. His mother g
hope for him, hope in which the
father acauiesces, lis the ministry. Fol-
lowing his conversion, "Tom-Jeff" be-
gins a bitter spiritual battle. His fight
ing spirit and his moral nature enter
upon a war which ends in his aban-
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
MARCH 81

143o-Mahomet IL. born.
1455-Pope Nicholas v. died.
16o3-Queen Elizabeth died. Sue
ceeded by James l.
17a2-Spain acknowledged indepen--
dence. of the United States.
1821-Napies occupied by Austrian
army.
f9s2-Henry WadswortF LongfeI-
low died. Born Feb. 81, 1907.
18s6-kansas City swftchmen's
strike ended.
189o-GeneraI Robert C. Schenck
buried In Washington.
1s95-Attempted assassination Of Il.
Hung Chang at SImonosekI. Japan.
1eo5-JuIes Verne. French writer
died.
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and Rockefeller were the big winners
in the game.
1t may not be possible to convict
Perkins of larceny in court. He is al
ready convicted in the country. What
is now needed is legislation which will
prevent his having successor.
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NO WHITE MEN THERE BEFORE

A British explorer recently returned
from Abyssinia says that he was for four
months in a region hitherto unknown to
white men. Along the tributaries Of the
Blue Nile he found a mining population
engaged in washing gold. He reports
gold in this region, in which thousands of
natives work,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-24

The annual conference of the National
Florence Crittenton mission will be held
in Boston. April 1926. The conference is
called to consider the best interests of the
Florence Crittenton homes, Of which
there are now sixty three, including four
in foreign countries. The inmates are
numbered at S,197.
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STORY OF SANKEY'S LIFE AMI

STORY OF SANKEY'S LIFE AND
GOSPEL SONGS.-To anyone who has
felt the power of t'Gospel Hymns Ira
D. Sankey's book, which bears the title
Sankey's Story of the Gospel Hymns,
will prove story of more than usual
interest. Aside from that it is a story
of great human interest, an incident
that makes an appeal Of the latter sort
is that of the outbreak of the great
Chicago fire. Following an address by
Mr.. Moody, Mr.. Sankey was singing
"Today the Savior Calls,' having
reached the third stanza,
Today the Savior calls:
For refuge fly;
The storm of justice falls,
And death is nigh.
when his voice was drowned by the
clangor Of fire apparatus fastening past
the hall, to the beginning Of the now
historic confagration. Mr.. Sankey has
written the story Of his own life and
the stories Of the songs he used so
effectively in a manner marked for Its
simplicity, but very effective.
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