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great numbers Of fnr-bearing animals
many Of which are Of no use for any
other purpose and the great service
which their skins render to man leave
little doubt for the conclusion that they
We're intended to be made use Of in that
way.
Nor does it appear to be any less
humane to take animal life for the
purposes Of raiment than it is to take
animal life for the satisfaction Of hum
ger. One is no more necessity than
the other. It is desirable, however, that
the cause Of humane treatment Of ami
mails Of all kinds should not suffer from
the unWisdom of some Of it's friends.
Excess of zeal is sometimes as bad as
a lack of it. There is nothing in the
way Of the slaughter of animals for
man g uses that appears more cruel and
heartless than the killing of seal for
their skins. The fur seal is beautiful,
helpless creature whose soft, appealing
eyes, as he huddles with his fellows in
manifest terror, while the hludgeon of
the sealer falls upon his head, would
surely stay the hand of any less callous
butcher than the: Aleut Of the Pribi-
lofts. and yet his skin is a very useful
article and was evidently intended for
mans use. It is in accordance with
the highest considerations Of human
kindness that the method adopted for
killing the seal should infict practically
no pain, so effectual and instantaneous
is it. ...'.' ~
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What Other People Think
ReehabItes and Army canteen
70 the Editor Of The Journal.

70 the Editor of The Journal.
Y In common with many other readers of
7 h ournal was surprised at the
statement Of your Washington corre-
spondent in regard to the Rechabites and
the army canteen. A letter in the New
Voice Nov. g. sheds abundant light On
this statement which would truly suggest
an anomaly. The letter is from Mrs.
Mary F. Henderson, wife of Ex-United
States Senator Henderson from Missouri,
and I give it herewith, it being an an
swer to Inquiries made concerning the
statement sent broadcast thruout the
country that the Rechabites had adopted
resolutions favoring restoration of the
canteen. In the letter to the Voice Mrs.
Henderson quotes the following from a
friend in Washington:
Dear Mrs. Henderson-You need not think fcr
q moment that our order is for the canteen We
40 not delve into those matters. Only two mem
bers spoke favorable to the canteen project The
Star reported the fact as they had a reporte,
present, The headlines We're not true They
CID not approve the canteen by resolution Of
ot OIL, as tent. The Associated Press
item from the headlines in the Star and sem
broadcast a lie. Our leaders and intimate friends
Know the facts as to our p position osatL ! .,,, "
High Tent Chief Ruler Independent Orde,
Rechabites Washington D. c., Oct. q, 1906
A lengthy letter from Mrs. Henderson
addressed to the brothers and sisters OF
her order, also appears in the same pa
per. This letter is up-to-dat in it's grasp
Of the temperance problem and expresses
clearly the fact that the Rechabites, as
an organization, stands on higher ground
than that of licensing an evil
Interested Reader.
Minneapolis, Nov. 16, 1906.
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Home Rule in Minnesota.

Mr.. Charles P. Hall of Cannon Falls
has an interesting article in the Michi-
gan Law Review upon home rule char
tiers in Minnesota, in which he COM
ments upon the apparent inconsistency
between the constitutional amendment
which grants home rule and the consti-
tutional provision that the legislature
may for legislative purposes divide
cities into classes and pass laws which
shall be paramount to the home rule
charter.
The fact is as stated by Mr.. Hall,
but this apparent annulment of home
rule will not be so severely felt by the
cities from the fact that they are clas-
sifed. For example Minneapolis, st.
Paul and Duluth are now in one CLASH
fcation Of cities Of more than $4,000.
st. Paul and Duluth are under home
rule charters adopted pursuant to the
act Of 1898, but Minneapolis is not. 1t
is quite obvious that while the legis-
lature might legislate for Minneapolis
under the guise of general laws apple
able to cities of it's class, the legisla-
ture would meet with difficulty in adj
iusting this legislation so as to please
the other two cities to whom it would
apply as well.
The sentiment Of the delegations
from St. Louis and Ramsey counties
would have to be consulted and they
would not consent to any legislation
for Minneapolis that would disturb
their status under home rule. AS a
matter of fact the contradiction be-
tween the promise Of home rule and
the assumption Of paramount authority
by the legislature does exist, but prac-
tically it does not defeat home rule by
reason Of the classification feature.
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q @ q K S
BY w. P. K.

i -
A CLOSE RANGE STUDY OF. THE
iMMIGRANT.-It seems that the general
American public holds false impression
of the European immigrant; that he is
worthy of more respect than he is gen.
orally credited with, and is the raw ma
terial out of which an excellent citizen
and great citizenship may be made.
At least the above is the case, if one
may believe Edward A. Steiner, pro-
fessor in Iowa college, Grinnell, Iowa,
who gives the results of elose-range
studies Of immigrants in a book just
published and called On the Trail Of the
Immigrant.
Professor Steiner twenty-five years
ago was himself an immigrant. He had
been student at Gottingen, Leipsig and
Heidelberg, but he cast in his lot with
the steerage crowd, and the result has
been an intense sympathy with those
who come to America in the same man
ner, yet this seems not to have warped
his judgment, for what he has to say Of
the immigrant is said in way that con-
Vinces the reader that it is the truth,
and the truth about the immigrant is
something that every good American
citizen is under obligations to know.
Besides, Professor Steiner has not formed
his OPINIONS from one trip with the i'm
migrants. More than ten times he has
crossed the Atlantic, passing thru the
great American immigrant gate at
Ellis Island with Slavs, SeandinaV-
ians, Germans, Jews and Italians
as fellow travellers. He, therefore,
knows all classes and knows them
from perhaps more intimate study
than any other man living has given
them. He has made them his life study,
and of them he speaks with authority.
rnf Ctrs,,
birth Of a new race, lone destined to
build or DESTROY and he believes the
| immigrant of today, be he Slay, Italian
Or Jew, starting upon his trail, with no
culture, it is true, but with virgin
mind, In which culture may be made to
grow, is the kind of material out Of
which to create a race that will build
| and not destroy. He believes that the
real danger to America is not in it's i'm
migrant classes, but in the first cabin
passenger class, more in the American
colonies in Monte Carlo and Nice than
| IN the Italian colonies in New York and
Chicago He argues strongly for i'm
proved conditions in the passage across
the Atlantic and at Ellis Island He be-
leVes the welcome an immigrant re-
celVes here has much to do with the opin-
ion he forms of the country and with his
| attitude toward it. He believes that the
steerage passage should be abolished,
and the stories he tells of the treatment
of steerage passengers and of the condi-
| tons in which they are forced to live
will convince the reader that he is right.
Altogether Professor Steiner has done
| great service for those Americans who
have an interest in America larger than
their own pocketbooks,> and for immt-
grants who will go to the making Of the
future American people. He has written
a book that enlightens. appeals, to the
| sympathies and prompts to action.
Fleming II, Revell company, New York.
$3.50 net
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Boston and the Yankees.

"What's the matter with Bostonsn
was the question pumped at Boston 3
young Irish mayor, John F. Fitzgerald,
by Sibyl Wilbur, Of the Herald. It
made the mayor scratch his head for a
moment, but he came back with the
terse reply, "Too much ancestor wor-
ship.'
1t is rather refreshing to note that
Boston begins to be conscious that
there is something the matter with her.
The phrase, "the decadence of Bos-
ton," has begun to be heard and it
hurts Boston pride. H. G.. Wells, the
English literary socialist and seer,
writes about Boston s Enchanting
and Intellectual spirit land that
hurts. So the mayors diagnosis
takes on additional interest.
"Boston is cold and proud" he says.
1T wraps the mantle of ,puritanism
around it. It is deaf to the throbbing
heart of the youth at it's door. But
it has got to open to us, it has got to
let US in. It has got to let the young
men of Irish, Italian, Jewish and
French blood get into business.''
The Yankee American, in the
mayors view, is entrenched in Boston
and tho the city has the largest Irish
population of any cis-Atlantic city,
this young Irish-American blood does
not get the chance Of business. The
Jew has been driven to New York with
his various industries and his talent for
finance. While Boston sits at the
tombs of her ancestors and fingers her
laurels, New York comes in like a.
giant and seizes what she wants.
Mayor Fitzgerald makes a telling
point. Beyond question New York is in
vigorated and rejuvenated constantly
by the fresh blood flowing in from the
young and glowing west. It is not
the native New Yorker, the Knicker-
booker, who does things in the metrop-
oils. It is the energetic westerner
who seizes upon the opportunities there
and turns them to account.
Boston must give the young man a
chance, even if he isn't a Yankee
Young man. There are other things in
life than culture and baked beans. es-
pecially in the life of the city that
would be a metropolis.
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Luxuries for the Ladies.

This nation has spent in the fiscal
year just closed the tidy little sum Of
$l25,000,000 merely to import articles
Of luxury. Calamity enough, we have
devoted by far the largest part Of this
sum to Injuries for the ladies. In dia-
monds and jewelry our little bill from
France, Holland and other countries
has been oyer forty millions. We have
paid some forty millions for cotton
laces, edgings and embroideries and
some seven millions for ostrich
feathers, and such like fripperies,
while nearly seven millions have gone
for silk laces and ribbons. The item
of perfumeries and toilet articles
amounts up to over a million. So the
American women are responsible for.
approximately ninety three Of the,
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worth while to know whether the long
hours and regular requirements of bust
ness life are profitable on the whole
to the community; whether morals are
conserved by the association Of women
with men in industry, and whether, in
short, woman is serving her highest
aims and purposes in the stiff compe-
tition and under the nervous strain Of
modern industrial life.
This question becomes specially i'm
portant if what Miss Mcdowell says is
true-that women is there to stay. It
need not be assumed that the work
which woman does in the industrial
world viewed from the standpoint of
physical strain is necessarily harder
than that Of domestic character to
which she has been accustomed for
many generations. 1t is rather mat
ter of the conditions under which she
works, the effect upon her and upon
others of her participation in the gen
eral work of the world and whether
that participation has not become a
source of more injury than good to men
as well as to herself. -
Coupled with this bill to investigate
as to woman work was a provlso
that the inquiry cover also the matter
of child labor. No less important is it
that the government shall know what
is or is to be the effect of depriving
children of their rights as children,
shutting them in almost as if they were
slaves and taking out Of their lives
the sports and games and natural en-
joyment which are matters of first i'm
portance in the development of the
healthy, normal child who is to grow
into the healthy, normal citizen.
Miss Mcdowell presented this bill
before the Federation Of Labor, asking
their endorsement and the same propo-
sltlon was commended in President
Gompers' report. It seems hardly pos
slble that knowledge so important
should not be gathered and utilized
as speedily as possible.
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Congressman McCleary Is on his way
to Boston to speak next Monday night
before the Home Market club. This club
is the center of high tariff sentiment and
influence in this country. Mr.. McCleary,
as a repudiated advocate Of high tariffs,
ought to be peculiarly interesting per-
son to the extreme protectionists of the
east. It was his devotion to their cause
in opposition to the sentiment and inter-
ests of the people Of his district, as they
In their blindness see them, that cost him
his seat in congress. ----
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The report comes from Berlin that a
clique Of German statesmen have bound
themselves together to take advice from
spirits In mundane matters and have
been making efforts for months to win
over the kaiser to their way of thinking
The head Of the cult IS Prince Philip Won
Gutenberg, former ambassador to Vienna
who recently exhausted all his talents to
convince the kaiser that the spirits had
wig -wagged Fire Won Buelow for your
own safety" The kaiser replied that he
believed IN spirits in moderation and
auaffed bucket Of beer to Won Bue-
lows health. Later-Von Buelow's health
is much improved.
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AUTUMN.

AUTUMN
The summer green has faded from the hills.
All dead and sere the stubbe fields stretch
wide,
The springtime music of the meadow rflls
Has run away upon the ebbing tide
The woodland foliage has thinner grown.
The red leaves twirl upon the maple stem,
While one by one the beechnuts, tinted brown.
Seek natures spacious LAP prepared for them
The summer blue has left the placid sky.
And dull clouds drift before the autumn wind
While DER the wood the blackbirds, cireIing
high,
Prepare to leave their summer home behind.
At dawn the husker strews the whitened shock
And piles his basket high with golden corn;
The scattered quail returning to the flock,
Take up their 'customed cleaning at the morn.
Now from the orchard sounds the pieker's song
And rears his slender ladder where on high
All red and gold, the scanty leaves among
Peer out the ''bush,'' the baldwin and the
"spy.''
And here's the entansled vineyard, autumn
Laden with fruit whose clusters seem to stand
As If Dame Nature meant that they alone
Should witness to the fulness of the land.
And this is autumn-aye. her sign is here;
Inc biood-red sumach standing on the hill,
The leadess alder swaying here and there
Told US in years agOne. and tell US still.
The gray squirrel scampers from his forest tree
To search the thousand golden leaves below,
The saucy jay in his untrammeled glee
Screams long and loud upon the topmost bough.
All this by day, and the round moon by night,
And silence, save perchanee some iperched
bird
Or the shy hare that in the pallid light.
Skips down the .leaf-strewn path, tho scarcely
heard.
IT'S now the coon peers from his dim abode
To look and listen lest some foe be nigh;
Now long the woodland brook in search of food
Or where the shocks stand wan beneath the
sky.
IT'S now the owl from some high pinnacle
Looks down into the woodlands deeper shade,
Or, muffed in the shadow of some dell,
His solemn moan re-echoes vale and glade.
Aye, this is autumn; this and more,
A joy that fills the heart-tho summer dies,
Her spirit still abides to hover DER
The silent, somber grave wherein she lies.
Floyd D. Raze, Kindred, n. D.
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$l25,ooo,ooo sent across the water in

$l25,Ooo,ooo sent across the water in
one year.
The men have little bill, too, made
UP mostly Of champagne ($6,oO0,0Oo),
tobacco and cigars ($27, ooGoOo),
pipes and smokers articles (nearly
mlllion), and SO on. But appar-
emily the ordinary American man
is satisfied to buy most Of his Injuries
for his own use, when he buys any, at
home. He has an expensive taste in
Cuban tobacco and he wants a sure
enough sumatra wrapper for his cigar.
He buys numerous cold BOTTLES from
France, it is true, but perhaps the
other sex hepls him drink them. But
it is American women who are re-
sponsible for most Of our foreign lux
nry bill,
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Woman in the Industrial World.

Mary Mcdowell, head resident of the
University settlement in Chicago, says:
"Whether we like it or not, whether
it agrees with our notions of what is
woman's sphere, she has come into the
industrial world to stay.' Miss Nc
Dowell is sometimes spoken of as one
Of Chicago's "famous maiden aunts,'
and she visited Minneapolis last
week to ask the American Federation
of Labor to indorse a bill pending in
congress to authorize the secretary of
commerce and labor to investigate the
industrial, social, moral, educational
and physical condition of woman and
child workers in the United States. This
bill passed the house at the last session
and is pending in the senate. It il
hoped to bring sufficient pressure of
public opinion upon the senate to pro-
cure the passage Of this bill at the next
session.
Z The appearance Of woman in the in
dustrial field, by which is meant in fac
tories, offices and other business places,
is comparatively recent. Not many wo-
men, except the operatives Of few tex
tile factories, were so employed fifty
years ago. At that time the woman
clerk in the store was rarely seen, the
woman stenographer almost unheard of.
The last census showed that more than
five million women were engaged in
gainful occupations other than domestic,
at an average wage of less than 1910
year; that not more than so percent
were "a years old, and that the proper
ton Of women employed in manufac-
lures is increasing more rapidly than
that of men. ~. ..t.s... 81.
The census tells us a few cold facts
like these, but the advocates of the
pending bill want to know more than
the census is equipped to discover. They
want to know about the effect of the
large participation Of women in indus.
trial life upon the health of women,
upon their homes and their children,
upon the Wage-earning power Of their
husbands, upon the birth rate and mar.
riage rate, and to what extent women
are dlSDlaclng men. f.-'t, y.
These questions are quite as import
ant, indeed much more so than mere
compilation Of statistics by the census
department. The census department
is not a sociological research society.
The department. of commerce and labor
comes much nearer realizing that char
acter. There are some exceedingly in;
aeresting questions involved. It is
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IN A LUTHER BURBANK GARDEN

Wnlte are the coreless apple buds,
AS your hand in mine l clasp,
And we wander thru the eyeless spuds
# And the raspberries, sans rasp.
~ You plucked blackberry, dazzling white,
As we chanted a tuneless rune,
And took luscious. soulful bite
OF pitless, skinless prune. "a
The cactus plant neer cackles now, t
{ And calm there falls upon your brow
And calm there falls upon your brown
The light Of q sunless dawn.
In this dear place would live for aye, !
Discussing the whyless how,
And speeding the minuteless hours by,
From the path Of the pastless Now
-. !. =. : -.---- ~. Denver Rennhlfnan
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
NOV, is,

NOV, 10.
1so4-General Philip Schuyler, revo-
luttonary patriot, died. Born Nov.
%, 1888. ~.
1s52-Duke of Wellington buried at
st. Paul's. London.
fs61-Confederate congress met.
fe71-Russlan frlgate Syetlana,
with Grand Duke Alexis on board,
arrived off Sandy Hook.
1s76-Seven persons killed by floor
collapse In opera house, Sacramento,
Cal.
1887-Law and Liberty LEAGUE
founded In Ireland.
1se7-Prisoners taken on the Cuban
filibuster Competitor released by
General BIanco.
1ses-contracts signed for raising
and refittina the three Spanish war.
ships sunk in the battle Of Manila.
1so3-United States and Panama
signed canal treaty.
fso4-Japanese blew up arsenal at
Port Arthur.
1eo5-Prlnce Charles Of Denmark
elected king of Norway.
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W-.S@

A ROMANCE IN THE COLONIAL
STYLE.-A pleasing and in places a
rather exciting story is that told by
Edith Sessions Topper in Hearts Trium-
plant. 1t is a story in the colonial style,
for there is a colonial style of novel as
we'll as of architecture or of furniture,
tho we are not prepared to say that the
colonial novel is as good in its way as the
colonial mansion and the colonial chair
are in theirs However, Hearts Trium-
plant" is diverting reading, and it has,
for the title says so, a happy ending.
How could hearts be triumphant other
wise? Burr is the villain, or one of
them, and a coquette. from France proves
not to be so heartless as coquettes are
usually painted, and in the end aids in
the triumph of the two hearts that beat
as one AS We said, the story is divert
ing reading.
D. Appleton & Co., New York. $3.50. -,
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WHERE DOES "soUARE DEAL" COME
INF"
Kansas City Times,

In his speech in Boston the other day
Attorney General Moody said: 'tMr.
Havemeyer, the sugar man, says that the
tariff is the mother Of trusts It isn't the
tariff that is the mother Of trusts; it is
the railroad rebate that is the mother of
trusts and all its collateral relatives
Mr.. Moody does not exaggerate the evil
Of rebates. But he can scarcely deny
that the tariff is an indulgent guardian of
the trusts. which permits them to make a
profit of from 40 to 100 per cent more
than they are entitled to by shutting out
foreign competition.
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MAKING LAwBREAklNe UNPOPULAR
Kansas City Times.

hHnSaS CITY TIMES.
A federal grand jury in Minneapolis
has returned indictments containing 147
counts against railroads for rebating. The
maximum penalties if the charges are
proved is fines aggregating s294,OOO. The
New York Central was fined only $114,-
900 but it still has couple of cases pend
ing against it. If this good work keeps
up rebating is liable to become as un-
popular as speeding motor cars on the
Kansas City boulevards since a police
judge took to the habit Of imposing a fine
of $3.50 on each offender caught.
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The carnival of crime" seems to have
been transferred to st. Peter. There
were more robberies committed in one
day at the democratic ratification at the
governors home than there were In Min
neapolis during the whole week of the
G. A. r. encampment.
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Presidents on Foreign Soil.

To the Editor of The Journal.
The papers are full Of statements to
the effect that President Roosevelt's trip
to Panama is the first time that a presi-
dent of the United States was ever alb
sent from our country during his term
of office. This is not strictly correct
Once during General Grants second
term, and while he was visiting Mia
CARA Falls, he was driven across the sus-
pension bridge, and, for about an hour,
was on Canadian soil.
IS. H. Cranmer.
Aberdeen g n
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THE AMERICAN

Calm.eyed he SCOTS ut sword and crown,
Or panic-blinded stabs and Stays;
Blatant Re bids the world bow down,
Or bringing begs crumb of praise;
Or, somber-drunk, at mine or mart
He dubs his dreary brethren kings.
His hands are black with blood his heart
Leaps, as babe's at little things.
Enslaved; illogical, elate, sa1
He greets the embarrassed gods, nor fears
To shake the iron hand Of Fate
Or match with Destiny for beers.
-Kipling.