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edition, 80 to 86 1.80 The Journal would also be pleased to have the names of men living who were newsboys In Minneapolis twentyfive years ago, anU their present addresses. The Vice Presidency. The Chicago Evening Post calls atten tion to editorial which appeared in that paper on the 22d with regard to the vice presidency, and wants to know what this paper thinks about it. The Journal thinks about as the Post does. has thought so for some time and has said so before.

It believes that the policy heretofore pursued of regarding the vice presidency as a sort of fifth wheel is a mistake, that the vice president of the United States, just as the vice president of a big corporation, ought to be chosen with reference to his sympathy with and his ability to assist in carrying out the policy of the president. The duty which is assigned to him of presiding over the senate is not a proper part of his functions The senate should be presided over by one of its own members and the vice president should be a close counselor and assistant to the president, thoroly conversant with the policy and the work of the administration, and a part of the machinery for carrying them on. Under this plan the vice president would not only render valuable assistance to the president and relieve him of much work and exhaustive detail, but in the event of it being necessary for him to take up the president's work, he would be in touch with its condition, acquainted with the policy in hand and in sympathy with its purposes There would be no period of uncertainty and unrest as to what policy would be pursued As it Is now, there is no assurance, in the transition from vice president to president in the White House, that the policy of the late administration will not be reversed In many important particulars When Mr Roosevelt came into the presidency, thru the lamentable tragedy at Buffalo, the first question which the business world had to propound was, "What will be his attitude towards the McKinley policy?" Mr. Roosevelt made haste to assure the country that he would carry out the McKinley policy, and this statement gave to the country at once that assurance which it was most eager to receive "Vice presidents, however, have not always carried out the policies of their predecessors when they have come into authority In fact, a little review of the history of our country will show that they have generally disregarded them, and policies which were indorsed at the polls have been reversed in the later administration Nor is this to be wondered at so long as we continue, when the nomination is the outcome of a fierce and contest, to pass over the vice presidency as a sort of consolation prize to the most important defeated faction, and then leave the representative of that faction entirely out of any participation in the policy and acts of the administration. would respectfully suggest to Superintendent Charley Mitchell that he exhibit some of this weather at St.

Louis next year. Chamberlain's Escape. A correspondent ot The Journal from Montreal, who betrays an understanding of British politics, writes to The Journal on Secretary Chamberlain's resignation and the political crisis in England, pointing out that Mr. Chamberlain is resigning, not because Mr. Balfour has refused to indorse the Chamberlain policy, but because he sees that Balfour's policy cannot command any considerable degree of support, and because he foresees the early downfall of the Balfour administration.

A procuring cause of this state of feeling, it is pointed out, Is the education act, which has a'lienated the nonconformist voters and provoked them to open hostility. Recent disclosures with regard to the conduct of the war in Africa have also contributed to the unpopularity of the administration. All of this Mr Chamberlain rightly estimates, and he is shrewd enough to abandon the sinking ship before it goes down. At the same time, this reviewer of British politics, while recognizing Mr. Chamberlain's remarkable capacity for leadership, is evidently a very conservative observer and exhibits little confidence in the ability of the late secretary for the colonies to carry out his preferential tariff and imperial federation schemes.

Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the principal possessions to be affected by this policy, are manifesting very little interest in it, but great interest in their own domestic problems and more inclination to emphasize their Independence than to ally themselves more closely with the mother oountry. In the United Kingdom, too, any policy which means dearer bread and Chamberlain's policy would mean that Is sure to encounter stiff head winds. In the meantime Mr. Chamberlain has been shrewd enough to soparate himself from an administration that is toppling to its falL Before that happens he will been able, probably, to locate himself lit an attitude of clear opposition and ready to profit by the fact of separation in any shitting: of his position that may seem politic, a feat in which Mr. Chamberlain has already shown remarkable DeUvsred by Cantor.

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7 45 Poat Building. AN INVITATION la extended to all to visit the Press Room, which la the finest In the west. The battery of presses consists of three four-decs GOMS Presses, with a total capacity ot eight-page Journals an hour, printed, folded and counted. The best time to call Is from V.ll to 4:80 p. JO.

inquire at the business office and be directed to visitors' gallery, of the Prase Room. i TWENTY-FIVE YEAES AGO The Journal would be glad celve by mall, or otherwlae, the namei of all pereons who were readera and subscribers to this paper when It started, twenty-five years ago this fall, or who became subscribers during the first year of Its existence, and their present addresses. dexterity. The paragraphers and punsters are indulging: in a great deal of Leavitt(y) over the invasion ef the Bryan family by the young artist who has secured Miss Bryan's consent to be known as her husband. A Defense of the Present Economic System.

hear much of laudations'of socialism and of denunciations of it, but little is said in positive defense of the present method of distributing wealth. take it for granted that there is no necessity to dwell upon excellences of the present system. But in doing so we make a mistake. In this time when so many individuals and societies have unearthed so many shortcomings of our civilization and are striving so strenuously to correct them we are apt to get a sort of impression that at the best the present system is a pretty poor makeshift. Yet it is not that, for.it is the best system some thousands of years of experience and evolution have been able to give us, and for all its imperfections it is essentially the best system we can have.

All true progress will be in accordance with its general principles, while all reform that strike at the roots of individualism is dangerous. The current number of the American Journal of Sociology contains an article by Mr. William A. Giles of Chicago, which ably contends that, for all the fault we find with it, the characteristic principle of the system of distribution we now have is vastly superior to any of the syatsems of the various forms of socialism and anarchy. Mr.

Giles correctly holds that our present economic system is based on the idea of distribution according to contribution. He admits, of course, that the theory is not always and that some receive less than their contribution demands, and others more. On the other hand, complaint is often made without justification. The laborer is sure that he is not getting his share of production, but he does not fully realize what capital is entitled to take. forgets that 40 per cent of all business enterprises fail, and that in most such enterprises there are years when capital gets no profits.

Yet whether an enterprise fail or be without profits, labor gets its wages. re cannot outline Mr. Giles' argument here, but we desire to call attention to it. This is a good time, when there is so much unrest in the business world, for both capitalists and laborers to get a clear un- derstancUTigj of the merits of the present system, for the socialist is certain to take advantage of trusts and strikes and riots to preach his impossible Utopia. So far in America we have been remarkably free from socialism, our workmen have believed as firmly in the present method of distribution of capital, and the continued prosperity of the country depends largely upon whether or not they retain their present clear understanding of the situation.

The fact is that we have now the best possible system in principle. There is abundant room for bringing practice nearer to itand therein lies the proper road of reform and progressbut if we shall ever be tempted to give up the system we shall enter upon dangerous ground It Is now in order for somebody to sugto Colonel Watterson that the invasion of Kentucky by the Salvation Army is a scheme to turn that state into the republican column next year. The Millers' Strike. The workmen In the mills are entitled to credit for having done a square thing when they, after having declared their intention to strike, stuck to their jobs until the work in hand was completed and the grinding stopped without entailing loss upon the mill owners, from unfinished work. There is pretty good evidence in this of the amicable relations which have heretofore existed between employers and employes in this great industry.

The appeal of the employes to arbitration is calculated to gain for them considerable public sympathy. On the other hand, it is undoubtedly true that the millers of Minneapolis have received better wages and have worked under better conditions than obtain anywhere else in this Industry, and it is well understood that no industry of this kind can be carried on under conditions of expense materially different from those which exist in competing establishments of a similar character fn other places. The employing millers contend that with the experience before them that arbitration usually results in compromise, and with their belief that they cannot yield anything more to the demands of their employes at this time, it is impossible for them to regard the controversy as one for arbitration. As to this, we have no expert knowledge, and, as we have said before, no advice to give, altho we know that arbitration of disputes of this kind Is the popular method and that an appeal to it is calculated to enlist popular favor. The case of Miller, the non-union workman restored to his position in the government bindery at Washington, from which he was discharged because he was not a member of the union, has been referred by the American Federation of Labor to a committee, and may not come up for consideration again at this meeting of the federation.

Mr. Mitchell's influence and wise counsel is supposed to have subordinated what was undoubtedly seized upon by unscrupulous politicians and meant to be the main question before the executive council. The Russian government can hardly escape responsibility for the Gomel massacre. The outbreak at Kishinef might have caught the authorities unprepared, altho, of course, that does not excuse them but, with Kishenef so recent, there is no excuse for not preventing another anti-Jewish outbreak at Gomel. The suspicion that the Russian government, inflamed by fanatic zeal, has contributed to these bloody and savage deeds of violence, is supported by the facts of the situation.

That young Vanderbilt, who, just 'for the sake of variety in the family, does things, can do something else besides make locomotives. He dashed out of the Grand Central station in New York, thru a pouring rain, into an institution of (which he Is a director. Jupiter fe4 THE MINNEAP6LIS Pluvius," he exclaimed, "this is a deluge. Over there at the station even the locomotives came in ringing wet." "Who are you?" said the 16-to-l spook, as a new entered the chamber of issues dead and buried. "I am the late said the newcomer.

AT THE THEATEES Holmes." The reappearance of Herbert Kelcey and Miss Effie Shannon in their familiar "Sherlock Holmes" suggests the announcement, "Old Favorites confession better suited to a summer resort stock company than to the principal theater of Minneapolis. But the first month of the theatrical season offers little hope of better things. Within that time six "attractions" have been presented. Four of the six have about as novel as the very metropolitan introduction "Way Down East" and a city that has enjoyed, in the past, the best media of the greatest actors has been requested to welcome with enthusiasm two new entertainments: one a weak war-melodrama set to second-rate music, the other a wishy-washy comic opera that local amateurs tried to make fit for publication. Small wonder that even such fine actors as Mr.

Kelcey and Miss Shannon played last night to the galleryto a house altogether "top-heavy." The local admirers of these sterling artists must regret to see them sacrifice their popularity and talent in a western "clearing sale" of dramatic merchandise too shop-worn for eastern consumption. Mr. Kelcey. indeed, despite himself, is becoming comparatively stale and mechanical in a melodramatic cnaracter which, unlike the classic roles, does not admit of Indefinite development. Miss Shannon has recently admitted her distaste for the part of Alice Faulkner.

The public will agree that so exquisite an Interpreter of refined womanhood should never be terrified and tortui-ed to arouse the yells of street boys in the gallery. H. B. Curry. WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK Political Crisis In England.

To the Editor of The Journal. Mr. Chamberlain knows how to play his own game. His resignation at this moment is a masterpiece of political stagecraft. He has not resigned because Mr.

Balfour has refused to indorse his policy. He has resigned because Mr. Balfour has put forward a policy which is itself weak and cannot command, as Mr. Chamberlain is shrewd enough to see, any great degree of political support and because his administration is sunk in a morass of unpopularity and contempt. The education act of 1903 alienated the whole forces of nonconformist voters and instigated them perilously near violence.

The recent disclosures of the war office commission have aroused the people to a jpitch of fury which no government can stand against Mr. Chamberlain is the one popular figure in a despised and disabled cabinet his resignation merely hastens the fall which he sees to be inevitable and he does well, while he has yet time, to sever himself from a party whose.unpopularity would involve his own. The tory party -will fall In a. welter of unpopularity. Mr.

Chamberlain, however, will now contrive by his resignation to preserve his own personal reputation and his action at this moment will serve him to form a party of his own to come in once again as his own leader. Mr. Chamberlain, however, is likely to complete that zollverein which he makes the object of his policy. The mass of English opinion is against him, partly because his scheme threatens to raise the price of fooda vital consideration with the poorpartly because they run counter to the economic doctrine of the country and largely the wave of imperial fervor which Mr. Chamberlain has exploited to his own great advantage has reached its tide and Is on the ebb.

It is recognized that the time has come for a quiet period of consolidation and not for a further extension of the bonds which tie the colonies to the motherland If opinion at home is hostile, in the colonies it is apathetic or divided. Mr. Chamberlain relies on colonial support he will be deceived. Australia, Canada and New Zealand have problems of their own which absorb their whole energies. They take only lukewarm interest in imperial politics and fear rather to lose their own independence of action than tdesire to take part in the control of the empire.

They scarcely subscribe to the navy and have little interest in and small knowledge of many of the home problems, nor should it be otherwise. They have their own work to do they need their independence in order to do it. They are sure to resent any efforts of the home government to interfere with them. In England Mr. Chamberlain is suspected of sacrificing England to the colonies in the colonies of shackling colonic I independence, and his skill will need to be great if he is to triumph over this double distrust.

Englishman. Montreal, Canada, Sept. 21. ONE ON THE GROCER New York Times. He walked into the grocery store with a slip of paper in his hand, DAIRYMEN APPROVE ORDER Albert Lea Times.

The order of State Dairy and Food Commissioner W. W. P. McConnell prohibiting the use in Minnesota after Jan. 1 of butter color containing the poisonous coal tar ingredient will meet with the approval of all save the companies manufacturing and selling the impure coloring.

The order will be approved by the public, for it, is for the protection of the public health, and it will be approved by all reliable dairy and creamery men for the same reason. Indeed, there would be no cause for complaint on the part of any one save the manufacturers of the impure coloring, for the only other interested parties are the makers of butter, and they can all use the pure makes of butter color, which, while they are somewhat weaker than the mineral color and must be used In greater quantities, yet are fully as serviceable and almost as inexpensive' LOOKING FOR Charles Frohman was morals of the average play. "I believe in a clean stage," he said, "and I think the stage, pretty generally, is clean enough. Here and there, to be sure, you can find a spot of black, but you have to look for it. You have to nose for it in the corners and remote recesses.

"Some of us can find uncleanliness anywhere. A woman found uncleanliness once in Dr. Johnson's dictionary. am sorry, She said, 'to see in your work so many naughty three times within his experience have them, tjie old lexicographer reI torted." MINNESOTA Van Sant has effectually nailed the story of a combination between himself and Thomas Lowry as a candidate for the senate. The interview published in yesterday's Journal leaves no room for doubt as to where the governor stands on the aenatorship.

He is not a candidate himself, and he is in no combination to "do up" Senator Clapp. He is for the senator's re-election. There are a great many republicans in the state who do not agree with the governor in thinking that the indorsement of last year's convention gives Senator Clapp a prescriptive right to a reelection. That convention had no business with senatorial Indorsements, and its declaration was not binding for all time. The convention next probably declare, on the( senatorship4, William H.

Eustls may become a candidate for congress, but to insistent fellow republicans who have been urging him to enter he has said that it is too early to make a decision. He is not at all sure that he desires the nomination, and will by no means enter unless he feels that the party is solidly behind him. Whoever the republican candidate for congress is next fall, he would be certain of a united party support. A there are two state conventions coming next The most vehement speaker in congress In recent times was Representative Broslus. His gesticulation was of Private John Allen used to say that whenever Mr.

Brosius made a speech he burst his suspenders. One afternoon Mr. Allen and a party were watching Brosius' exertions. "There go now," Allen exclaimed. bet you his galluses parted that time or else he lost both buttons at the rear of his trousers.

As soon as he stops talking we an the grocer at once produced his pencil and order book, for the boy's mother was a good customer. "Good morning," said the whose curly head scarcely reached to the counter. "I want three and a half pounds of sugar It's 6 cents a pound, ain't it? And rice is I want two and a quarter pounds of that. And a quarter pound Of your 70-cent tea and two and a fifth pounds of your 36-cent coffee, and three pints of milk. That's 8 cents a quart, ain't it7 And please give me the bill," he ended breathlessly, "for I have to get to school." The grocer made out the bill, wondering at the queerness of the order, and handed it to the boy, asking as he did so: "Did your mother send the money or does she want the goods charged?" The boy seized the bill and said, with a sign of satisfaction: "Ma didn't send me at all.

It's my arithmetic lesson, and I had to get it done somehow." And as he ran out the grocer opened the cigar case and handed out smokes to the men who were there. "It's on me," he said. "Say, there's more than one way to skin an eel, isn't there?" PLEASED WITH THE CORN BELT Will Chamberlain in Vermillion (S. Republican. Gold on corn cobs in Dakota fields is better than frozen rocks in the vale of the Yukon.

And the corn-belt is a little better spot for a home than a shanty under the Arctic circle. Beatrice Fairfax says she has hej ideal of manly beauty, and it is this: a face charming' in its quiet strength and earnestness, the mouth firm but almost womanly in its sweetness, the eyes steady and true, the brow broad and benevolent, the head shapely and well poised and a voice of liquid gold, capable of every shade of feeling, from stern anger to melting sweetness. Somebody has been telling Beatrice all about us! Who has done this? and it will be perfectly proper for it to do so. There is every indication now that it will declare for Senator Clapp, and that he will be renominated by the legislative caucus. However, that is a matter for the convention to settle when it is reached.

Governor Van Sant's interview will probably lead to a story from the opposition, that he has gone into a combine with Senators Clapp and Nelson. Some of the pro-merger "boxers" are known to have no love for Clapp, and the governor's declaration of friendship for the junior senator will make them mighty suspicious. However, their artillery is loaded for Van Sant, and they are not likely to waste any ammunition trying to dislodge Clapp from his coign of vantage. The almanac says that autumn took a Fall out of the year yesterday. A Chicago man has just slipped comfortably Into the penitentiary about a yard ahead of three excited wives.

He's safe until he gets out. It is related that when Emperor Francis Joseph and Emperor William met the other day, they kissed each other three times. These effete monarchs of Europe ought to catch up with the progress of American invention and hire a typewriter. One of those men who is always bothering about problems that you cannot understand, one of the species that sits and thinks over the top of a chess board all alone by himself for two mortal hours, one of the kind that reads books, one look at the title pages of which gives you a headache one that takes the $200 mathematical scholarship in college when the rest of the crowd is out on the diamond one of these chaps called on us the other day at the office with the strange light of unreason in his eye. "I've got an idea in my mind," said he, earnestly.

"Then all I can say is that it is in a mighty tight place." "And it is going to have a surprising effect on the human race," "Good!" "Weil, I don't know whether it's good or not. That's what bothers "What is it?" "You know these investigations with radium and the modifications they have brought about in our ideas of what matter really is?" "In a dim way know, from what I have seen in the papers." "Well, that's it, that's it. If matter isn't the hard and fast thing we've taken it for, ifthen, there's that fourth dimension idea "You are getting ''batty' again, boy." "Very likely I'll see you later." I did not think much more about this conversation, for there were more practical things to take up the mind, but last Saturday, at 5.20 p. the cat came back in other words, the gentleman with the idea came into the office and dropped lightly into a chair His face was glowing with satisfaction and interest like that of the man who has just worked out a very difficult problem in calculus. "I've got it." "If you had said 'them' instead of I might believe you "Well, it may look that way to you later, only you'll think you are the one with "What is your game?" "I have mastered the art, or science, of reducing matter back to the ether.

Now while you laugh, I'll give you a practical illustration I threw back my head to laugh, but I am sure I presented a strange spectacle for the laugh was suddenly stopped midway in its career, and I jumped as if some one had struck at me. I had been looking stra.ght at my old friend, sitting there in the office chair, and he wasn't there. I looked around the room and felt of the chair. Nothing in it' Nothing in the room' WhereMn the name of all that was gracious I noticed a misty appearance in the chair, and then a solid body again, and there the scoundrel sat. apparently dazed a little, but smiling at me good-naturedij.

I grabbed him by the shoulders. "What do you mean by playing these fool tricks on me? How did you do that After I had quieted down enough to be sensible he said: "I can't exactly explain it, but It's something like thi. Matter in itself being nothing but a twist in the ether, so to speak, an electric charge, perhaps, our sense of its solidity is in fact a 'sense' only, or a testimony of the mind of the senses, not an actual reality or thing in itself Now in fooling around the metaphysical bases of the subject, in my mind, I found in some way or other, sort of hit on it by a kind of knack, I expect, that matter being a sensuous phenomenon the resolution of matter back into its native nothingness in itself, or back into the ether if you prefer that, was also a matter of a changed relation of the mind towards it. See?" "NO, I don't." before the congressional primaries. Mr.

Eustis does not think the time opportune fpr agitating a congressional nomination. From the tone of the country press since the appointment incident closed, It looks as tho a Eustls boom for governor would meet with a favorable reception in a good many sections of Minnesota. Charles Cheney. A SIGN OF POVERTY Justice David J. Brewer of the United supreme court- lived in his childhood in A6Ia In the town of Smyrna.

Justioe Brewer sometimes recounts Interesting scraps of philosophy, of humor, or of epigram that he heard in Smyrna when a boy. The other day he said: "Adjib, a Scribe of Smyrna, once paused to speak to me on the highway. Adjib's robe was as white as snow, but there was a hole in It. 'There is a litlte hole in your robe, I said. know Adjib replied, 'If you know it, why don't you darn I asked.

'For the sake of appearance, Adjib answered. he -went on, 'may be an accident of the most recent happening. A hole will pass upon a king, a noble, or the most rich and powerful person. But a darn is the sign of poverty. There is no getting around it, no misunderstanding it I cannot afford to wear a darned THE "BOSSY" HUSBANDS 4 Harper's Weekly.

The husband still ranks as the head of the family, and tho cases are common where he Is not really in command, the happlestvfamilies are those in which he is equal to his not any word of scripture in the marriage servicf ftxat the husband the senior and? ruling nature and the force" of eircumstaiaces! Moreover, the fear which some young women have of havtag to obey a husband is just a bugraboo As things turn out there is division of and therefore of authority. The wife has her realm and rules in it. The husband takes her orders in mat ters under her control, and she his in some other matters, and over other matters still they consult and agree upon a course. -Of course a bossy husband is objectionable, but a bossy husband is apt to be a good deal of an ass, and no young woman ought to marry a man who is a good deal of an ass unless the exigency is pressing and she can positively do no better. THE VEHEMENT BROS1US MINT EMPLOYE A THIEF will go over and find out about it." After ten minutes more of gesticulations the gifted orator sat down, wiping1 the moisture that streamed from his brow and his cheeks.

His collar was wilted, his hair was saturated with perspiration and his shirt front showed visible evidences of the struggle. Mr. Allen approached the matter delicately, calling the member by his first name, complimenting 'Frisco Official Steals $200 Worth of Gold Dust, but Won't Be Prosecuted. him upon his speech and the force of his delivery, and finally remarking that he (Allen) could not Indulge very much in gesticulation without "busting his galluses." "Mine parted about the middle of my remarks," remarked the orator, innocently, whereupon Allen shook hands with him again and led his party away. AND THE NEIGHBORS "TALKED" Atchison Globe.

Our people are beginning to assert their rights. An Atchison man was left alone, by the death of his wife, and one of his daughters who hadn't married very well said: "Poor father must not be left alone," and went home to him With her husband and children. "Poor father" stood it for two months, and then he said he wanted to live alone that he had reared one family of children, and at his age, was not going to begin on another. Daughter and her family were obliged to get out. The neighbors "talked" terribly about the unfeeling old man, but he says the neighbors can go to Jerusalem.

San Francisco, Sept. 25.William P. Hundley, assistant weighing clerk in the United States mint, has been charged by Secret Service Agent Burns with the theft of $200 in gold dust The dust was taken to the mint on Tuesday afternoon by two miners. They could not have the deposit acoepted at the time and it was carried over until the next day It is said that Hundley took a portion of the treasure and secreted it in a saloon near the mint, where it was found by the secret service men. Hundley was a confidential man in the weighing department.

He had charge of all deposits and handled thousands of dollars every day. He has been employed at the mint for a number of years. His resignation has been accepted and it is said he will not be prosecuted. HARD OH THE GENERAL He Gets Mixed Up in a Lafayette College Fresh-Soph. Class Scrap.

Sun Special Serrioe. JCaston, Sept. 25.Brigadier General E. V. Sumner, 17.

S. who has entered his son, E. V. Sumner, in the freshman class at Lafayette college, where he will prepare for West Point, was an interested spectator of a "color scrap" between the sophomore and freshmen to-day. General Sumner in his eagerness to get a closer view, approached too near, and in a moment was caught in a rush of students and landed fairly in the middle of the fray.

received the contents of three bags of flour and was pushed and pulled as only sophomore and freshmen can pull when a good scrap is under way. It Was all over In ten minutes and then the general went home for a change of clothing. The students were unaware of the presence of the general in the rush was over. f- The corn belt, the corn belt! This is the place for me Let others praise Alberta, And the islands of thnew sea'. Let others sing oakota Yosemlte And Mexlcd Tallsy loam, to MM cor I ne --tW ol ftaftJ- A NOISELESS, PATIENT 8PIDER A noiseless, patient spider, I marked where 6n a little promontory it stood isolated, Marked how to explore the vacant, Tast surrounding, It launched forth filament, filament, filament, ont of itself, Ever unreeling them, tirelessly speeding them.

And yon, my soul, where yon stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, the spheres to connect them, Till the bridge you need will be formed, til! the ductile anchor hold, TH1 file gossamer thread yotf catch aonefcto-re, soul! 'A YELLOWSTONE SURVEYED About a Million Acres Are Taken -j From the Park. Special to The Journal. 25, 1903. Casually Observed. "WeU, neither do wholly, but that's the best I can explain it." "Say, you go to thunder with your old voodoo.

You got hyppy. were sitting there all the time." "Sure, but not in the way you think I was. No, you were in full possession of your senses. Now you come over to my office and I'll show you the practical workings of this valuable knowledge I followed Smithson out of the building in a kind of a daze. At his office there was an Insurance man sitting in his chair waiting to see him.

"How do?" said the insurance man. "How do," said Smithson. "Now, regarding that matter of protection for your family in case of death of which I was speaking to you yester- day," said the insurance man, "I wanted to lay before ybu a little proposition which is not being offered by any other company at the-present ti why, what inWhere's he gonewhat the devil" Smithson had faded. I leaned against the partition and looked fixedly at the chair. "Where'd he go to?" The Insurance man had arisen to his feet and was looking at the empty chair.

"Where'd who go to?" "Why, that man Smithson "Say, my friend, you ought to take the cure You're seeing things "The trouble is I'm not seeing things The insurance man whipped out a little pocket thermometer and took his temperature It was fairly normal. Then he felt his pulse. "Well, this gets me He put up his notebook and went out of the door. As I looked out of the office window, I saw him making for the Medical block. When I looked around Smithson was in his chair.

"Say, I wish you'd explain this monkey work "I've already explained it the best I can. If you don't like my explanation, you get one of your own that hits it better." "Can you move away from that chair when you "Well, to some extent. I haven't mastered the art fully yet. If I get too far away It's harder to get back, so I haven't experimented much yet" "Say, if you couldn't get back at all, you'd be in the position of a turnip "Well, it would certainly be a case of mysterious disappearance for your paper." "And if I explained it In print, wiry- I'd" "Yes, they'd have you doing a turn at St. Peter in fifteen minutes "When you're'there' "I hesitated for a word, "can you see things 'here'?" "Well, not exactly only as I see them thru your consciousness of them "Can you affect what we call matter? Can you pick up a pen, for instance?" "I never tried it." "Give it a try.

See if you can move that pen." "All right" Smithson did the gray mystery act and then was gone I kept my eyes fastened on the pen which was lying on the smooth, polished oak of a roll top desk. After a few moments it stirred the merest trifle. After that there- was no movement. Pretty soon Smithson was back again. "Crickets' That was the hardest work I ever tried to do in my life It was all I could do to get back.

I'm not going to try any of this monkey work till I get the way blocked out a little better There comes that iceman's collector with a bill. Now, you watch his surprise." The bill collector smiled, said "good evening," and drew out his little yellow slip When he looked up, Smithson was not there. "Why, what the" The collector's mouth was open in'astonishment and his eyes were standing out about an eighth of an inch. "Where'd he go to?" 1 "Who? "Smithson "What Smithson?" I beg pardon, I thought Smithson was here I'll call again As he went out I watched him make a quick run for Mr. "Murphy's place," which pays the city $1,000 a year license.

When Smithson "came back" he said "You see, this disappearance business has its practical side." "If you were falling off an eight-story building couldn't you disappear in mid- air?" "I don't know why not. Still, if I couldn't get the knack quite in time, I'd light pretty hard I don't think I'll try that experiment." I went home considerably stirred and I haven't fully recovered yet If people can mysteriously quit in this summary way, the detective business of the future is going to be immensely complicated. A. J. R.

FLOODS ON TIE MISSOURI Commercial Clubs and Congressmen After an Appropriation of Half a Million. Special to The Journal. Sioux City, Ioka, Sept. 25 The commercial club? of the cities between Sioux City and Kansas City on the Missouri river are planning a meeting the middle of next month to arrange a memorial to congress asking an appropriation of $500,000 for the straightening of the river banks and constructing ripraps at Dakota City and Decatur. The clubs will have the support of many of the congressment along the river.

Senator Millard of Omaha has just completed his official investigation of the damage done by the river at Decatur and Dakota City and reports that the river is likely to cut back into the former channel and return to Iowa a large slice of Nebraska that originally came from Iowa. The Iowa commercial clubs will not oppose acquisition ot territory, says the senator, but -what is wanted in all the states on the river is the prevention of floods. It Is estimated that nearly the sum demanded from congress has been lost by farmers, in the last few years because of the corroding current of the river. Congressman Elmer Burkett of the first, Hitchcock of the second and J. J.

McCarthy of the third, with Walter I. Smith of Iowa, are working with Senator Millard to forward the plan. MOVING New York May Build One to Cost $8,000,000. New York, Sept. 25.It has been decided by the extensions committee of the rapid commission' to recommend the immediate adoption of a plan to build moving platforms to be operated from the Brooklyn end of the new Williamsburg bridge to the Battery in Manhattan, by way of the rapid transit tunnel, now being dug in lower Broadway.

The outlay will be FOREIGN FLASHES Butte, Sept. 25.Inspector Barrett has completed the survey of the boundary lines of the Yellowstone Park forest reserve and has forwarded his report to It is understood the new survey cuts off about a million acres from the reserve, and restores to entry many valuable tracts of grazing and agricultural lands now embraced in the resWalt BerlinThe and Cearina Arrived at Darmstadt to-day to attend the wedding- of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenburg. WINS SECOND PLAGE 1 5 Minnesota Improved in SkirmisH Firing: and Defeated Iowa a Narrow Illinois Held East to First but Minnesota Will Chal Lake City, Sept. 25.Illinois won the interstate rifle competition held at Camp Lakeview, and retains the Washburn trophy, which has been in the possession of that state since 1891. Minnesota, the challenger in the competition, secures second place with a narrow margin of fourteen over Iowa, which gets third and last place.

The feature of yesterday's shooting was the fine skirmish work of Illinois Th men from that 3tate went into the contest in the morning ten points behind Minnesota, which led the other states in the fixed-target firing. By noon Illinois had gained a lead of 838 points over Minnesota and 264 points over Iowa, which led Minnesota by 84 points. The boys from this state, however, found the target more frequently in the afternoon runs, and the score they made, coupled with their lead in the fixed-range shooting, gave them the necessary total to win second place. Will Challenge Again. Minnesota is not discouraged over tho outcome and will again challenge the Illinois team next summer.

The home team had the visitors fairly beaten on the fixed range, but the lead was too small to count for much in the total. The local team recognized its weakness in the skirmish firing, and in reality it did much better than expected. Illinois, the victorious state, has had the team in practice all summer until the men have gained a proficiency which is remarkable. If an interstate competition is held next summer, Minnesota will not be handicapped because of lack of speed in loading, but will have an equal chance wjth the others, for the Krag-Jorgenson magazine rifle will be used hereafter in all contests instead of the slower Springfield, which was used in this competition. The High Scores.

Sergeant H. Breidt of Illinois holds the highest general average made in the shoot, his record being 25. out of a possible 450 Breidt also made the highest individual score in the fixed-range firing, with 168. The highest individual score fo one run in the skirmish firing was made by Sergeant S. E.

Jones of Illinois, who secured 114 points on the morning run. Sergeant J. Hiderman of Iowa captured the highest average In the skirmish work on both runs, his score being 102. Sergeant A. Clark made the highest total score for the Minnesota men at 235.

Major A. Chase made the highest Minnesota score and second highest competition score in the fixed distances at 167, a point behind the first man Sergeant Clarke also made the best single run for this state in the afternoon, with 90 points, and he also has the best aggregate score for skirmishing with 87 points. After the result had become manifest, the joy of the Illinois men was without bounds. Prom this time until the Minnesota and Iowa squads took the train, the men from the sucker state maintained a steady cheering. Following are the scores for the total competition: Completed Totals.

Known Skirmish Distances. Firing. 84 88 Illinois- Maj G. H. Damson 155 Capt Clinncn 148 Sergt Qumn 136 Sergt D.

Lewis 158 Sergt S. E. Jones 154 Sergt Hoops Sergt 0 156 H. W. Breidt 168 fceigt J.

T. Scott Lleut. H. Ii. Daniel 153 Totals DID HE DIE FOE LOVE Pretty Chorus Girl Fears Kilpatrick Killed Himself for Her.

New York, Sept. 25 Aileen Redmond, the chorus girl to whom John D. Kilpatrick had written not long before he shot himself on Monday, fears that she was tha cause of the young man's act. Kilpatrick, she says, had repeatedly asked her to become his wife. "On Sunday I consented," she said, "but first I told him that I had no money to buy clothes He said that would be all right and he gave me a check for $300.

Before I went home I said I would like to think it over and that I would let him know by telephone Monday morning. I forgot all about it until noon, and then John was dead." Melbourne, VictoriaSir Edward Barton, federal premier, has resigned, following his appointment to a judgeship in the federal high court. Alfred De-kin, attorner general, trUl form a new cabinet. LondonThe storms of the past summer destroyed the fruit crop both In England and pn the continent, American fruit lain active demand. Sales, mainly of California fruits and Canadian apples, are twice as fca usual, and prices are high.

pa 77 85 283 236 213 48 90 T.01 82 ........1,3.0 Iowa 222 204 245 237 sn Mai P. Fisher 164 Capt V. Cooke 151 Lieut F. A. Bonebrtght 142 Lieut.

E. Gelst 156 bergt. P. Baughman 151 Sentt. Cummings 161 Sergt J.

142 Corp Hird 147 Private Wilstey 164 Private C. 0. 160 84 45 42 80 55 49 2.S3J 188 196 184 236 206 210 241 223 219 223 102 81 55 63 Totals 1,528 Minnesota Maj. T. Corriston 15S Maj Itische 148 MaJ.

A Chase 167 Capt. E. FallT 158 Seigt. 0. Bircl 150 Sergt A.

Clarke 148 Corp. Ficd Brlltui 160 Corp S. Smith 161 Musician E. 151 rrlvate F. Britton 149 606 73 51 60 51 52 87 41 60 54 69 2,184 231 149 227 209 202 233 201 221 209 219 "iii 2148 GIELS GIVE IT UP Tried to Get Along Without the Men, but Failed.

York Sun Special Service. Sullivan. Ind, Sept 25.The young women of Palestine, 111, just across the river from here, who recently organized a "No Man's club," have decided to admit men into the society. The men will required to pay 2 cents a week as dues. TOLD IN A LINE Laredo.

TexasTwo cases of rellow fever havs developed in spite of the strict quarantine Oyster Bay, L. I President Roosevelt and bis family will return to Washingtos next Monday. Westltne, PaGases in a well caused the death of Jones and A Putnam. Two others were overcome temporarily. Miami.

Fla -Captain Jennings of the wrecking schooner Osceo has found a treasure ship sunk near here in 1835, loaded with silver ore. CincinnatiRev. David Phillpwn, rabbi of Mound Street temple, advocates a Jewish world congress to settle the Russian Jewish problem Atlantic City, N. J.Rev. H.

M. Simmons of Minneapolis spoke on "The Cosmic Roots of Religion" before the national Unitarian conference. Cleveland, OhioThe body of W'. Gotham was picktd up off Long Point, Can. He was captain of the steamer Sylvanus J.

Macy, lost last November. Portland, OregonBaling of the Oregon hop crop is under way and Indicates a yield this year of about 80,000 bales, compared with 85.000 baleB produced last year. San Jnan, P. The district court has ordered the release ot Eduardo Conde and Leonldas Gulllot socialists, recently sentenced to six months' Imprisonment for Insuluna the American flag. Honolulu The ship Obalcott, which sailed fiom Ban Francisco on Sept.

10 for Honolulu with a cargo of oil, has arrived here after a tempestrous voyage to which three of her crew were lost New YorkNew York, Jersey City and Bostdh police are making an industrious search for John S. Dunbar who is well krown here in racing circles, and for whose arrest two warrants havw been issued. In one be is charged with bigamy. MilwaukeeG. H.

Hohengarten of St. I-ouis was chosen president of the United Master Bakers of America and August Schmidt of Milwaukee vice i resident. Among the deputy nresiaents are Max Ruppen of Wisconsin and Robert Wilson ot Minnesota. The next convention will be held la St, Louis. vi.