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Doing a Good Business.

The reports Of the first seven months
Of the fiscal year show that Uncle Sam
is doing a fine business abroad. The
foreign commerce in that period
amounted to $1,752, 421 $3.50 or an aver
age of $25O,000,O00 a month. Should
it continue at this rate the total foreign
commerce for the year would amount to
$3,0oo,0 100000, sum which has
never before been reached. The in
creased business as shown by the re-
ports is in both imports and exports,
but more especially in the latter. I'm
portswere 1896, 764, $50 against $625,914,-
SIG, and exports were valued at 81 1885,
656,764 against 1901, ,026 last year.
Imports which had never touched $780,
100000 in a single month, except in an
ticipation of tariff changes, exceeded
that figure IN six Of the last twelve
months, and exports exceeded that fig
ure in each Of the twelve months, and
in one nearly reached 100000, 900.
The increase in the exports was main
ly in agricultural products and manu-
features. All Of our great European
customers showed a greater tendency to
take our food stuffs and manufactures,
particularly Great Britain, = which IN
creased her bill with US in last Decem-
Der over December year ago $4,000
900, while Germany took 100000
more, Italy 100000 and the Neither.
lands $3,000,O00 more. Meats also
showed a tendency to recover some Of
the ground lost as a result Of unfriend.
| ly legislation in1 Germany and France
tho in this department. the great in
creases are to the United Kingdom
Britain 9 answer to Chamberlain g :dea,
food policy is most emphatic, both il
the markets and the voting. T.
The figures again tend to satisfy the
standpatter that he is eternally right
But it is observable that the nations o.
Europe have in measure put us on ou
good behavior. Germany has given Vi
sixteen months to think it over iGrea
Britain has merely said that she is: no
ready to go into a tariff war with he
breadbasket. But there are indication
that our narrow policy is not popula
abroad. ~ 80. Z ;, ~ s-
Meanwhile the consumer at home /
never thought Of by the standpatter. ,
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English Standpatters.

The Cincinnati Enquirer draws a
parallel between the political condi-
tions in this country and those exist
ing in England just before the recent
parliamentary election which should
be Of some interest to standpatters
and caucus TANNERS in the republican
party. The liberal party, after the fall
of Gladstone, went all to pieces. When
the Boer war came On and it's leading
men opposed that enterprise, the party
sank under the load of alleged treason
to the state. Everything seemed to
favor an indefinite continuance of the
tory party in power and the tory party
assuming the role Of the divine right
to rule, ruled with a rod of iron. But
the time came when the people had to
be consulted and the tory party. was
turned down by an overwhelming vote
It has a smaller proportion Of the new
parliament than any opposition since
1882. ..... ..- En..>
A great many explanations of the
tory defeat have been offered and none
have suficed to account for its stun
ming character except one; the PEG
pie were tired of being ruled by PEG
SSple who assumed the role Of benefac
tors in consenting to rule at all.
There may be lesson for the repub
lican party in this whirlwind of revol
s which went over the electorate Of Grea
Britain. The party which assumes tina
the opposition is dead, that it canno
and will not be trusted, is treadin!
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vania, and is, Of course, full Of romantic

Vanla, and ls, or course, fuil OF romantlc
adventure.
Bertha Runk1e author OF .The Helmet
of Navarro" offers a new story of a
very different type, called 1.-THE Truth
About Tolna." It is a story Of New York
life Tolna being a young tenor Of the
Metropolitan operahouse. The book is
one designed to amuse and entertain.
Jennette Lees Uncle William" Is said
by those who have read it, to be book
Of unusual charm. Uncle William is
a Nova Scotian who finds his way to
New York city, not failing to make an
impression once he gets there
Anne Douglas Sedgwick, author OF
Paths of Judgment" has written book
called "The Shadow of Life The scene
OF the story is Scotland and London
The sixth book Of the list is 1.-THE Lady
of the Decoration" by Frances Little
which has for It's heroine widow who Is
a teacher in kindergarten in Japan
We infer from the notes about the bool
that the widow does not always remain
SUCH
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02
HOW kTTREDGE WAS cHosEi

q Is
He Seemed to Have the Qualifications for
Z, the Place.
Washington Correspondence st. Louis
Globe-DemOcrat. RI
Altho 1t was several weeks ago that
the committees Of the senate were Sc
lected, a story has just come to light that
illustrates in a way the way they have Of
doing things in the senate. There Is a
committee on committees, which has In
cluded In it's membership some of the old
err members Of the senate. Such old gray
boards as Allison and A1drich dominate
the committee, and to them falls the
duty of saying who shall and who shah
not be placed on the important commit
tees and who shall become chairmen
Of them. OF: course the rule Of seniority
is observed In advancing senator's, but
the power Of the members Of that COM
mittee can hardly be overestinlated. .;z
One of the most important of the COM
mittees is that on judiciary: Usually the
senators selected for that committee have
had service as lawyers, but, like nearly
all other things Of the sort the element
| Of politics enter into the selections In
| one Of the middle western states there
was an ambitious senator who had come
into the senate during the last session of
| the. congress, and who had as a colleague
an old senator. The older senator, being
under obligations 10 }hisl junior colleague,
| tried to- assist him in his COMMITTEES as
sfgnments and was insisting upon him
going on the committee on Judiciary
He sought out Senator Spooner and
handed him a long line of argument. He
spoke of the geographical location of his
state; of the political forces which had
combined to bring his young colleague
into the senate; Of the help it would be to
him in his next senatorial race before the
legislature of his state; Of the wish of
this interest and that for the place to be
given his colleague; Of the social position
his colleague would undoubtedly occupy
and Of a hundred and one other things
other than his real qualifications as a
legislator. spooner; listened with a de-
gree of patience, and then b1urted out:
It's time wasted. to tell me all those
things The place IS going to sena to,
Kittredge Of South Dakota 80 -
The senator from the middle west was
almost staggered by Spooner's abrupt.
ness, and then inquired why Kittredge
was to be so favored. -.
well, for one reason he is a better
lawyer than your man, and better fitted
for the place, and perhaps as well fittet
as any man in the senate There arr
other reasons, but that is enough t.
give" -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

The first man to announce himself a
candidate for lieutenant governor was
G. NJ. Sprague of Sank Center, a leading
banker and lifelong republican, who has
served eight years on the state board of
equalization, and was it's chairman at the
last three annual sessions. He proved
his ability as a presiding officer in that
capacity.
Cassius NJ Sprague was born in ILL
nois in 1S47, and came to Hastings, Mimi,
with his parents in 1854. He was raised
on a farm, and received a good common
school education. He went with Captain
Arson Northrop to the relief Of Fort
Ridgely during the Indian massacre; en-
listed In the First cavalry Mounted
Rangers in 1862, went with the Sibley eX-
pedition, and was mustered out in No
vember, 1868. He enlisted in 1866 in the
Second Minnesota, going south with
Colonel Uline. At the close Of the war
he came to Sank Center and entered the
store Of Joseph Capser as a clerk, and
later as a member of the firm Of Capser
& Sprague. After twelve years he retired
from the firm and engaged in the drug
business until the organization OF the
First National bank, of which he was
made cashier. For eighteen years he
was cashier and manager, and was
| elected president in 1902. Mr.. Sprague
| IS interested IN the lISl ANdLlolldl pchh
at Ada; First National, Twin Valley;
First National, Ulen; First National,
Glenwood; First State bank, FELTON,, and
First State bank Of Mahnomen. He has
| held the office of city treasurer, member
of the library board, school board and
city council Of Sank Center. He has
been grand master, grand representative
and grand treasurer Of the Odd Fellows,
and in January last was elected grand
treasurer for the fourteenth time.
| The Blue Earth Post says:
| We are sorry to note that The Minneapolis
| Journal spoke fayorably of Senator Lord a short
| time ago. The senator is q friend Of ours.
| Senator Lord couldn't prevent T h q
lJournal from talking about him;
neither should he be held responsible for
his friends. ~
| Condo Hanlin, chairman Of the repub-
llican state central committee, returned
from a trip last Tuesday, but up to date
he has not issued any call for the meet
ing of the committee. -
Ole l. Opdahl. II. H. Dunn and others
have been thinking of running for the
senate in Freeborn county since Senator
i Morgan announced his retirement, but
while they waited Vigger Gulhrandson OF
Albert Lea took plunge, and made Tor
NAL announcement this week. Seems as
tho we need little "vigger" in the SEN
ate. -Cnafies d. Nhelies
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

on dangerous ground. The standpat
element in the republican party today
corresponds to the toryism Of Eng
land. It is the faction which knows it
all and which will not listen to coun-
sci nor take advice. It may be riding
to a fall.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

Germany, in q ,perfumed. note,. re-
marks to France that she does not want
trouble; but she has barrels Of limbur-
ger on the border ready to be hurled
across at a moment s notice. And ''by
care, - France has a few acres Of garlic
she can shoot across, herself. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

it's members John D. Rockefeller, de-
clared in the first Of series of sermons
Sunday at Mandel LIN Chicago univer-
sity, that it was mistake to copy the
life Of Christ too exactly. This must
be the source whence. Mr.. Rockefeller
drew his religious exercise. q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

Mayor Dunno Of Chicago refuses to
take sides. Y He says let the saloons
and the aldermen fight it out; let the
people and the burglars fight it out;
let him attend only, to his I. NJ. O..
speciality. '@z6s go a. 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

Mr.. J. ogden Armour, expert on
poisons, says the public mind has been
treated with arsenic, which accounts
for the fact that it does not believe in
the eleemosynary intentions Of the
packers. Unless J. Ogden is getting
good pay for his copy in the Saturday
Post, he should withdraw it. 1t is
hurting his case.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

J. Edward Addicks has made an
nouncement that he is a candidate for
the United States senate. MI. Addicks
evidently discredits reports Of his polit-
ical death. +
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02
TEN YEARS AGO

March q 1ss6-MInneapoIIs Ter
mnaI elevator Linden and Bryant
avenues, destroyed at loss approx.
lmatlng million dollars. Arrange
ments perfected to give twin cities
telephone connection with Atlantic
coast cities.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

The banqueting crowd appears to be
pretty unanimous for Taft for president.
There Is scarcely any other candidate
who makes such an impression at a ban
quet as Taft. ~ -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

The army. will have a tride under
'$7o,o0o,ooo for its support next year.
This ought to suffice unless the trans
portation account gets mixed again.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

An embalmed sacred cow, 1000 years
old, has been found in Egyptian runs.
A steak cut from this COW might not De
90 unfamiliar to the American tooth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ONE YEAR AGO

March e., 1eo5-st. Paul city coun-
Gil and street railway come to an
understanding that insures a third
fnterurban line and other big i'm
provements. :'t%'@'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

Secretary Taft states that China is
Gin state Of unrest So is the
United States. It is beginning to doubt
it's public sausage, s-r'.> e. #. f
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AGO

March 2. 1es1-PresIdent Hayes
Esvetoes 8 per cent funding bill as his
last official act ~ IS -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02
ATTENTION.!

1t isn't in the papers,
For, they don't get all the news;
They put in lots of trivial things,
And some important lose
For what are all affairs of state,
War, politics, forsooth?
The one thing worth attention now
Is, baby has TOOTH
-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

= What, Scotty ambushed and shot!
Somebody will be throwing vitriol at
the Lawson pink next. 7: ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02
IT WAS WORTH IT
Detroit Journal.

Senator Patterson has been fined 81. GOO
for libeling the supreme court of Colo
RADIO Well, it's worth $1,000 to say what
everybody thinks about the governments
and judiciary of Colorado.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02
Not Amenable to Sentiment.

The Boston Transcript says that, IN
its opinion, Secretary Root took the
r;pbt attitude when he declared that
this country was powerless to interfere
in the Congo Free State affairs: Inc
TRANSCRIPT does not, however, beheve
that the moral sentiment Of the nation
is thereby estopped from manifest1ng
itself in protest to the powers winch
have the responsibility. Labelling Its
article '.The Age Of Indiferentism,'
the Transcript evidently does not ex5S
pect protests to have much effect upon
the signatory powers.
The United States has expended much
moral noise in behalf Of the Americans
in Turkey and the Jews in Russia With
out accomplishing anything in their be.
half. The days are changed since Glad.
stone threw all Europe in fit when ne
denounced the sultan of Turkey under
the title of ''Abdul the Damned and
carried Great Britain on the moral issue
of stopping the terrible butcheries In
the Balkans. The difference is seen IN
the cynical reply Of Lord Salisbury
when he was urged to send fleet &c
the east as a protest against the Ar
menian massacres. He said the Brit
ish feet was a fine fleet, but, unfor
tunately, it's guns would not carry ove1
mountains. Lord Salisbury had lost, il
he ever had it, faith in the power Of
a moral protest. But the United States
has never joined the procession OF In
differentism.s Our ideals are still OF thu
age that preceded shipping combine
and national exploitation of inferio
races for the profit there is in it. W.
were guilty in setting up the Leopold
rule in the Congo; we should be still
I more guilty if we were not active il
attempting to reform it.
The discouraging note In Secretar,
Root g letter is not the fact that h
refuses to have his hand forced, bu
in his concession that if we were i
Leopold's place, perhaps we should b
uniustly criticized, too. This sounds
tho Mr.. Root belonged to the Salisbur
school of craftsmanship rather than t
that of Gladstone, Morley, Hay an
that class Of men who were moved b
suffering and responded to appeals t
their love of their fellow men. %@~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-02

Senator Aldrich is beginning to dis
cover that sense Of humor is a dan
gerous possession.
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When Longworth and the Beautiful
Princess arrived in the Caribbean sea
Mont Pelee let go hard, and all the
cables broke on the description Of the
going-away gown.
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The new Russian national assembly
is scheduled to meet on May 10 with a
sound like the filing of hundreds Of
saws.
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Rev. r. P. Johnson, pastor Of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist church Of New
York city, whose church numbers among
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your one-eyed friend9
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lican state central committee, returned
from a trip last Tuesday, but up to date
he has not issued any call for the meet
ing of the committee. -
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edy, Eight Bells" with the Brothers
Byrne as the guiding spirits, will be the
attraction at the Bijou next week, COM
mencing Sunday afternoon. Together
with the pantomime features are bright,
catchy songs new calcium effects. and
gyrnnastic potpourri that is said to be
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-30
.7ORRENs SYSTEM
MICH DISCUSSED
CONTINUED from First Page.)


State to afford the people the very best
system of land registration, and he was
constrained to believe this was the best.
He thought this was an age of reforms.
and that where good ones were discov-
cred out of the experience of others they
should be adopted.
Judge Phlegar propOunded this diem
ma: If the title depends upon the certiti-
cate, and the clerk misunderstanding an
eXecutory devise or n contingent remain
der, and places his understanding upon
the certificate, who loses the land, the
man who buys the land or the devisees
or remaindermen, whose rights the clerk
overlooked7
This piece of legal sword play was
much relished by the lawyers.
Mr.. Massis Closes.
The argument for the bill was closed
by tho patron, MFR. Massie, who spoke
with great earncstness on the subject.
This is no experiment that l bring
YOU" he said, "but it is the result of
the best thought and brains of the nine
teenth century. BEHIND me In this fight
is the history of fifty years OF the life
of the Engllsh-speaking people
81 yield to no man in my love for my
native State, and / submit that we should
go forward and put the Commonwealth
where she belongs. in the front ranks of
the march of progress"
Mr.. NIassie declared that experience
had answered all the objections to the
Torrcns system, and that 1t stood out
upon its merits. where it had been tried.
He said that there had been $4,000 reg
istrations in Chicago, 5000 OF which took
place last year. on a popular vote on
the question OF adoption there were
21S,0 900 for and 1900 against the system.
and that the chief opposition had come
from title cxaminging company. which
had made s496.00o under the old system
in one year.
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V IS Glee Club.
ia The 'rimes-pispatci,

(SpeclaI To TIC IlIits-I1ISpttNC1l.I -1
The ". II. /. Glee Club will give an en-
tertainmcnt In tho college auditorium
Friday night February 3D. Tho Glee Club
vas organized last session by Prof. Frank
Fl. ABBOTT, of the department OF English,
and Wns taken on a performing tour
throughout the Southwestern part of the
state, whorolt made quite a hit at every
town iniwhich it gave a.concert The clllb
is not a part of the college glec workers
Of the State and having cstahlisheds y
reputation it expects TO take advantage oil
its standing forah more extended trip
TO announce a good itinerary for the club
i