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grain in railroad’ cars on railroad Seales is required by a bill introduced by Representative A. Hanaford. The Present regulations as to the state Weighmaster and his duties are re- tained, except to require that the Weight of grain ascertained by weigh- ing the loaded car on a railroad. scale and then the empty car, the difference being taken as the weight of the grain shipped for which the grain elevator must pay.° State supervision of roads and ad- vice as to construction and material but no direct aid to townships or coun- ties, is provided for by a state high- way commission bill introduced by Representative R. H. Jefferson. A bill fixing the maximum rates that may be charged for the transmission and delivery of messages by telegraph was introduced by Representative 8, D. Peterson. Two bills reimbursing owners for horses and cattle ordered killed by the state live stock sanitary board be- cause of infectious diseases, were in- troduced in the house. A state industrial school for girls, to be established and managed by the state board of control, as are other state institutions, is authorized by a bill introduced by Representative J. H. Dorsey. Senator O. G. Laugen introduced a bill which, he believes, will relieve residents of the southeastern part of the state from the life-destroying rat- tlesnakes. The measure offers a boun- ty of $2 for killing rattlesnakes, half of which is to be paid by the state and half by the county. St. Paul, Feb, 2. — Minnesota will probably elect no state officers in pres- idential years if the constitutional amendment introduced by Representa- tive A. K. Ware is adopted. The amendment makes the term of office of all elective officers four years. If the amendment is adopted by the peo- ple legislators say that the terms of all state officers elected in 1906 then will undoubtedly be four years, and state elections would be held every four years thereafter, so that Minnesota state elections would be held in what are termed “off years,” a year when’ there is no national election. The time during which the polls must be kept open at primary elections is reduced in towns by a bill offered by Representative Nicholas Juliar. The number of game birds that may be legally killed is reduced, and the coursing of hunting dogs during the closed season is prohibited by bills in- troduced by Representative George MacKenzie. The protection of clients against their lawyers, and the punish- ment of attorneys for malpractice, is sought by a bill introduced by Repre- sentative Andrew Miller. The house committee on towns and counties will recommend for passage the bill by Representative A. D. Lar- son authorizing counties to condemn sites for court houses and public build- ing: The *iligent and economical captur- ing, killing and destroying of musk- rats is made a substitute for road work by a bill introduced by Representative A. D. Palmer. The bill is intended for the protection of roads passing through swamps and marshes or along streams and lakes inhabited by musk- rats. The governor’s private secretary is deprived of all notarial fees and his salary is fixed at $2,000 a year in two bills introduced by Senator A. B. Cole. The measure, which is to take effect Jan. 1, 1907, Senator Cole says, is rec- ommended by Gov. Johnson. Railroads are prohibited from rais- ing rates without the consent of the railroad and warehouse commission in a bill introduced by Senator L. O. Thorpe. The measure is practically the same as one introduced two years ago and is recommended by the rail- road and warehouse commission. St. Paul, Feb. 3. — A civil service system is to be established in the state dairy and food department by a bill introduced by Representative J. R. Morley. The dairy and food com- missioner alone is excepted from the terms of the bill, which require that all appointments be made on the basis of merit, and the qualifications of ap- plicants as disclosed by a competitive examination. Townships are authorized to issue bonds to aid in the construction of roads by a bill introduced in the house by Representative O. B. Ekman. The recommendation of the state board of control relating to the trans- portation of persons committed to a state institution is made effective by a bill introduced in the house by Rep- resentative J. A. Gates. Delegates to the state convention for the nomination of state officers will be clected by primary election if abill introduced by Senator O. G. Dale becomes a law. The measure DOLLIVER TO OPEN FAIR. And Dan Patch Will Go Against His Record on Opening Day. Senator J. P. Dolliver of Iowa will open the Minnesota State fair with an address. And the opening day, Sept. 4, is La- bor day. These three things cause the state fair managers to believe that the open- ing day will be the record-breaker of the fair in the matter of atiendance. Senator Dolliver is regarded as one of the foremost orators of the country. county convention and provides that the delegates shall be elected at the regular September primaries. All members of a family and all of- ficers or employes of a firm or corpor- ation may travel on the same mile- age book if a bill introduced in the senate by Senator H. W. Stone be- comes a law. The bill requires rail- roads to issue coupon books for 500 or 1,000 miles at not exceeding the pres- ent rate charged for 1,000-mile books, which is 21-2 cents a mile. Township supervisors are given greater power to enforce a system of township drainage in a bill introduced in the senate by Senator Daniel Shell. In spite of the opposition of Sena- tor Albert Schaller, Democratic lead- er in the senate, the senate committee of the whole recommended to pass Senator George P. Wilson’s bill plac- ing the settlement of timber trespass cases in the hands of the timber board, consisting of the state auditor, the governor and the: secretary of state, instead of in the hands of the state auditor. St. Paul, Feb. 4.—Joint resolutions were introduced in both branches of the legislature against the granting»of drawbacks on Canadian wheat shipped into the United States to be manufac- tured into flour. The resolutions urge the secretary of the treasury not to tule in favor of the proposed draw- backs, and petition that in the event the secretary so rules congress shall pass an act exempting wheat and flour ¥ The senate committee of the whole recommended for passage the bill au- thorizing the state board of control to select a site for a new state prison and setting aside half of the net profits of the industries at the prison for two years to cover. the cost of the site and buildings. Me Provision for a ladies’ dormitory at the St. Cloud normal school to take the place of the one destroyed by fire recently is made in a bill introduced by Senator R. B. Brower. The repeal of the national bank- ruptcy law is urged in a memorial to congress introduced in the senate in the form of a bill by Senator Julius Coller. Gov. John A. Johnson reported to the house the selection of 20,000 acres of government land not adapted to ag- riculture, made by the state in April, 1904. The governor recommended the appropriation of a sum sufficient prop-' erly to care for and reforest the land. The communication was referred to the committee of forestry. A civil service bill applying to the state dairy and food department was introduced by Representative Karl De Laittre. The measure provides that the assistant dairy and food com- missioner, the secretary of the depart- ment, and all the inspectors shall be appointed after having passed an ex- amination touching their general edu- cation, their qualifications for the work for which they apply, and their moral and physical fitness. Representative P. A. Gandrud intro- duced a bill aiming at a reduction in the number of railroad wrecks. Rail- roads are required to make full re- ports of wrecks to the state railroad and warehouse commission within three days. State licenses for dealers in oleo- margarine or butterine are proposed by Representative Burdett Thayer in a bill introduced. Wholesale dealers selling manufacturers’ original pack- ages must pay an annual fee of $480, and retailers selling in quantities of less than ten pounds, in bulk or in original packages, must pay a fee of $48. The house adjourned until and the senate until Tuesday. Monday St. Paul, Feb. 7. — Box car mer- chants and mail order houses selling food products that do not comply with the standard fixed by the Minne- sota laws are aimed at by a bill in- troduced in the house by Representa- tive Marcus Lauritsen. The state dairy and food commissioner and his deputies are given power to open for examination receptacles of food prod- ucts in the hands of railroad compa- nies, and if the products do not com- ply with the Minnesota standards tc deal with them as if manufactured and sold entirely within the state. Pirating of plays and songs is made a misdemeanor by a bill introduced in the house by Representative James R. Hickey. The measure not only provides for the punishment of the management producing any play or selling a copy of it without the au- thor's consent, but also all persons in the cast or in anywise aiding in the performance. Capital punishment in Minnesota would be abolished by a bill intro- duced in the house yesterday by Rep- resentative J. G. Lund. The Dill makes life imprisonment the punish- ; ment for murder in the first degree. He spoke in St. Paul last fall during the campaign, and it was the universal opinion of those that heard him that he made one of the best political speeches ever delivered in St. Paul. Dan Patch holds the world’s pacing record, and at the fair this year he will try to make a new one. Patch paced at the Minnesota fair in 1903, but since that time he has loweyzd his record three seconds, and nowit stands at 1:56 flat. His trainers. are confident that he can do better, and a track in the state where he is owned is consid- ered the best place for him to show it. Oldtimer Writes ‘of an Excursion From Chicago to Springfield, Ill, Where He First Listened te Speech from the Idol of the West. : There frequently come to my mind St. Paul; Feb. 1—The weighing of | does away with precinct caucuses and the tumultuous days of 1860, when the 5 comparatively unknown Abraham Lin- coln was nominated for the presidency in the wigwam at Chicago for the first time, writes A. B. C. Hitchcock in the Chicago Inter Ocean. Though in the city I did not have a coveted ticket to the convention, either as a delegate or silent spectator; but there were thousands in the same fix, so there was enough going on on the outside to engage the attention of boy, fresh from the farm, with a decided bucoiic flavor.’ ¢ All through the summer of that year there was intense political ac- tivity in the Queen of the Lakes, and outspoken loyalty mingled with dis- loyal and defiant mutterings almost everywhere, for the impending san- guinary conflict was in the air. Some time in September a great Republican meeting was widely advertised to be held in Springfield, the home of Lin- coln, and the railways all over the | STELEEN A:-DOOGLAS state and adjoining states planned ex- cursions, offering extremely low rates —the round trip from Chicago being but $3. I concluded to be among the excursionists. ‘ Three long passenger trains start- ed from the city and it was our mis- fortune to board the last one. Mis- fortune, I say, for the other two trains seemed filled with patriotic gluttons on a foraging expedition, for the trains followed each other so closely that the eating houses did not have time to re- cuperate or replenish, so they were as bare, when our train arrived, as the cupboard of Old Mother Hubbard—not a bone left. The day was delightful, the air just keen enough to whet our ap- petite to an edge which would not have questioned the quality of any spread obtainable—even breakfast food half sawdust would have been relished. Our train missed but a very few of the’side tracks, and lingered for a while on most of them. So a day and a night were consumed beforo Springfield hove in sight. The city was but an insignificant one compared to what it is now, and was pervaded by ‘the spirit of the sluggish, turbid Sangamon on whose banks it reposed, and was in no way prepared to take care of such a congested mass of hu- manity, estimated at over 100,000 peo- ple. Square meals and lodgings were out of the question and fortunate was he who could get crackers, a stale sandwich or a second-hand cup of coffee. The only thing, except people, was watermelons. Every available spot seemed piled with them, huge speci- mens, at from 5 to 10 cents apiece. They were bought for refreshing seats, to slake thirst, and the seeds and pulp tinds made walking exceedingly. pre- carious, as much so as a highway of banana skins. Rubber boots were a necessity if one would have dry feet. It must have been the banner season for the esculent, the people having largely planted the prairies for a crop, having got an inkling somehow that there would be a great demand for campaign purposes. In any event, they were a godsend in this emer- gency, and, while they were not very nourishing, they kept the blood thin and the stomach. distended, thus pre- venting an utter collapse. After a breakfast of crackers, cheese and melon, I went to Lincoln’s home, which was not thronged at that early hour, was usbered into his unpreten- tions two-story house, was warmly welcomed by the future’ president, and sat down at his bidding for a few min- utes on a haircloth sofa. Finding out that I was a boy from Vermont—the state that, though the birthplace of Douglas, eagerly embraced Republican doctrines from the very first and has never wavered in its fidelity—he plied me with questions and seemed glad to hear from my lips the esteem for him held by the sturdy residents of the Green Mountain state. I shall nev- er forget the warm clasp of his long, bony fingers, nor the sad but inde- scribable benignity and tenderness of his homely face when he smiled. His magnanimous spirit and almost infin ite tenderness of heart irradiated every lineament and made it beutiful, as rugged scenery becomes charming in the play of sunlight and shadow. The fair grounds had been selected as the speaking place of the great gathering, and a dozen stands, per- haps, erected, for no one man’s voice could reach one-tenth of the listeners. Senator Lyman Trumbull, Illinois, Sen- ator Doolittle, Wisconsin, and scores of lesser lights were there to discuss at length the grave issues with an earn- est intensity not equaled since the re- public was born. The defiant and threatening mutterings of the south- ern wing of the democracy were full of ominous forebodings and seemed to inspire the orators of the occasion. About 3 o’clock a barouche, drawn by white horses, brought Lincoln to the grounds. The crowd was too dense for the team to be driven to the stand, so he alighted and was ‘born upon stal- wart shoulders. They were so jostled that it kept the great man waving yery much like a turkey perched upon a slender branch in a high wind. The sight was somewhat ludicrous, but he could not fall, for. there were too many hands eager to hold him up, deeming it a privilege to but touch the hem of his garment. His trousers were pushed up to his knees, and, though put an humble spectator of the scene, I may be called an assistant in car- rying the precious burden, for I grasped one ankle. The platform was finally reached, and, with air of heaven caressing and tossing his locks, he made a brief address in acknowledg- ment of the honor of being chosen as the exponent’ of the young party so soon to take the reins of government in its giant hands. He was a natural orator, with a charming voice, and his usually heavy eyes lighted up and re- flected the fire of his inmost soul as he warmed to his subject, and a pe- culiar sweetness irradiated his fea- tures, which in repose had not a linea- ment of anything but sadness. If ever an inworking spirit came to the sur- face, it was the spirit of Abraham Lin- coln. The recollection of those few minufes when he was addressing the - multitude is a treasured remembrance. All through the afternoon and even- ing store boxes, steps and porches were utilized by spellbinders, polit- ically bubbling over, and, as lodging quarters for the host were out of the question, speechmaking, at sporadic in- tervals, broke out until the morning hour. By a chance, deemed good luck, I climbed to the top of a fanning mill standing on the platform at the sta- tion, and curled up in the hopper, out of all danger of being stumbled over or stepped on. It was not exactly of the shape to fit the human form, so the form had to assume a shape to fit it. It was a coveted place to rest, however, but when I awoke in broad daylight there was an excruciating stiffness in the joints of my frost-coy- ered body which made it exceedingly hard to get off the perch, and some time elapsed before normal shape was assumed, cast, as I had been, in a hop- per mold. Not until Chicago was reached was the delight of a square meal experienced, a fast of nearly four days, in which time no boots or gar- ments had been shuffled off, no face washed save in watermelon juice; but as in the economy of our nature pains are not remembered, the recollection of that excursion with its collateral de- lights, is pleasant to recall. One of Lincoln’s Stories. “Did you ever hear Mr. Lincoln's lightning-rod story?” asked Speaker Cannon of some friends who were spinning yarns. “Well, it’s a good one. “Mr. Lincoln said he had attended meeting at a country church where one of the stingiest creatures on God’s footstool went through the make-me-good idea he was worship- ing the Savior. The minister asked for a free contribution to enable the church fathers to buy a lightning rod for the edifice. “Surely you are willing to lend to the Lord,’ said the minister. ‘Is he not the owner of the cattle on a thou- sand hills? Will he not repay?’ “This was the chance for the old miser to get in his work by giving a reason for not contributing. Rising in his seat, he said: “You say the Lord is the owner of the cattle on a thousand hills. Then, why can’t he sell some of the cattle and buy a lightning rod?’ ”— Washington Times. Lincoln’s Response. An enthusiastic supporter from Buf- falo made the trip to Washington during the civil war to see President Lincoln. The visitor, whose name was Johnson, had prepared this polite speech to address to the president, as he reached him at the public recep- tion: “The people of Buffalo, sir, be- | lieve in Almighty God and in Abra- ham Lincoln.” F The president gave an extra war grasp of his visitor's hand, whisper- ing in his ear: “You tell them that they are more than half right.”—Buf- falo Courier. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Reported by Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn.: Ed- ward Brusseau, Jefferson, S. D., push button; Colin Cunningham, Brainerd, Minn., back pressure relief valve; Gustaf Erickson, Minneapolis, Minn., artificial leg; Harry Jessup, Minneap- olis, Minn., candy carton; James King, Rochester, Minn., seed separator; Jo- seph Posch, St. Paul, Minn., combined trap, filter and air distributor, Sort of an Omnibus Bill. Shortly after his return a young man who clerks in one of the big of- fices down town was telling a friend ebout the St. Louis fair. “It cost me $50 to do that fair,” he said, waving his hand majectically. “Does that include the $10 I loaned you circus day?” the friend asked. “Yes, and $5 more which I was about to ask you for.”—Duluth News-Trib- une. A Hot One. Mr. Cutting Hintz—There is one thing that always struck me as being very strange. Mrs. Cutting Hintz—What is that? Mr. Cutting Hintz—That all the women who have distinguished them- selves by a display of brains look so much like men.—Philadelphia Bulle tin. A Silver Lining. “My poor boy, your father’s death must be a terrible grief to you.” “Oh, I don’t know, Miss. I shall be able to wear trowsis wot fit me now.” —Ally Sloper. Showing Proper Respect. I noticed that he raised his hat as he handed over the coin. “Upon passing a dollar,” said he, perceiving my perplexity—Puck. HAD HUSBANDS TO BURN. What Spinster Said About Widowed Friend J st from Crematory. A good sort of trolley conductor who has ears for other things besides the bell of his fare register and whose run in Brooklyn brings him passengers to and from a certain cemetery, vouches for this story: A woman boarded his car at the cemetery the other day shaking with sobs. She had not been in the car long when two women took seats opposite her. One of them seemed to recog- nize the woman from the cemetery, hesitated a moment, then crossed the aisle and spoke to her. The sobbing one looked up and the identification was complete. “Why, Mary,” said the woman who had crossed the aisle, “where have you been for so long, and what is the mat- ter?” “I have been married,” came the sob-broken answer, “and I’m just after cremating my husband.” Condolences were offered and the widow soon after left the car, appar- ently cheered, while her friend return- ed to the seat beside her companion, and told all that Mary had unbosomed to her. ° “And she’s got husbands to burn,” remarked the companion, enviously, “while I’m still single.’—New York Suv. A FELLOW FEELING. Why She Felt Lenient Toward the Drunkard. A great deal depends on the point of view. A good temperance woman was led, in a very peculiar way, to revise her somewhat harsh judgment of the poor devil who cannot resist his cups and she is now the more charitable. She writes: “For many years I was a great suf- ferer from asthma. Finally my health got.so poor that I found I could not lie down, but walked the floor whilst oth- ers slept. I got so nervous I could not rest anywhere. “Specialists told me I must give up the use of coffee—the main thing that I always thought gave me some relief. I consulted our family physician, and he, being a coffee fiend himself, told me to pay no attention to their ad- vice. Coffee had such a charm for me that in passing a restaurant and get- ting a whif of the fragrance I could not resist a cup. I felt very lenient toward the drunkard who could not pass the saloon. Friends often urged me to try Postum, but I turned a deaf ear, saying, ‘That may do for people to whom coffee is harmful, but not for me—coffee and I will never part.’ “At last, however, I bought a pack- age of Postum, although I was sure I could not drink it. I prepared it as directed and served it for breakfast. Well, bitter as I was against it, I must say that never before had I tasted a more delicious cup of coffee! Fro mthat day to this (more than two years) I have never had a desire for the old coffee. My health soon re- turned; the asthma disappeared, I be- gan to sleep well and in a short time I gained 20 pounds in weight. “One day I handed my physician the tablets he had prescribed for me, telling him I had no use for them. He stayed for dinner. When I passed him his coffee cup he remarked: ‘I am glad to see you were sensible enough not to let yourself be persuaded that coffee was harmful. This is the best cup of coffée I ever drank,’ he continued; ‘the trouble is so few peopie know how to make good coffee. When he got his second cup I told him he was drinking Postum. He was incredu- lous, but I convinced him, and now he uses nothing but Postum in his home and has greatly improved in health.” Nanfe given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each package for the fa- mous little book, “The Road to Well- ville.”