parts of the state. The city has a public library and the Historical Society has a very valuable collection. Mr. James J. Hill has in his home one of the finest galleries of paintings in the country, and one that is an inspiration to lovers of art.

Minneapolis is best known to the outside world as a milling city. Its mills produce 80,000 barrels of flour a day, and 20,000,000 in a year. A single mill can produce 15,000 barrels in a day. The city is the largest primary wheat market in the world. It is also the largest lum

lakes of considerable magnitude and the beautiful Falls of Minnehaha. It has a noble Public Library building, in which may be found an artroom containing one of the best collections of illustrated books on art that can be found in the country. In the same building is the art school, originated under the direction of Douglas Volk, and now conducted by Robert Koehler, which is doing much for the advancement of art in the Northwest. An art gallery, with very valuable pictures, is also in the Library building.

ber center in the country. It has more than 40,000 pupils in the public schools, of whom 4,000 are in the four high schools. The University of Minnesota is in Minneapolis, on the east bank of the Mississippi River. It embraces eight colleges and three technical schools, has an attendance of 4,000 students, a large majority of whom are residents of Minnesota or the Dakotas, and graduates annually more than 500 students in Arts, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Agriculture, Dentistry and Pharmacy. The city has a most charming park system, embracing four

Northfield is the seat of Carleton College, an excellent Congregational institution, and also of St. Olaf College, belonging to the Norwegians. At Saint Peter is Gustavus Adolphus College, a Swedish institution. Faribault, the former home of Bishop Whipple, has a collection of Episcopal schools: Shattuck for boys, St. Mary's for girls and Seabury Divinity School. At Owatonna the Baptists have a flourishing academy, named after Hon. George A. Pillsbury, the founder of the school. And at Winnebago City, the Free Baptists have Parker

College. The state has five normal schools. The high school building at Duluth is probably the finest high school building in the country. But a few years ago Duluth was regarded as being in the extreme northern part of Minnesota. But the discovery of the very rich deposits of iron ore in the country lying still farther north has totally changed the situation, and a number of prosperous mining towns has sprung up between Duluth and the Canada line. What is especially pleasing is that these thriving young towns all hasten, as one of their first duties, to erect handsome and comfortable high school buildings, while all the improvements of modern life are made a part of their method of living. As they have no old things to be destroyed in order to make way for new things, they wisely get the best from the first.

This State of Minnesota is so rich in iron ore that the shipment of the ore gives employment to a large fleet of vessels on Lake Superior; so rich in agricultural products that the hunger of the world is in good measure appeased by the products which pass through Duluth and Minneapolis; so healthful in its climate that a million people within its borders would rather live under its skies than any where else, just for the joy of living where the air is so invigorating-this Minnesota was thought so little of when its territorial government was first established by Congress that the grant of public lands for educational purposes was made twice as large as usual, because it was supposed

that few people could ever live in so cold a region, and the value of the land would never be great. Minnesota is not exactly in the "banana belt" yet, but the tide of emigration has long ago swept into more northern regions, and now Manitoba and the other provinces of western Canada are the most dangerous competitors that threaten Minnesota's supremacy in the production of wheat.

Both North Dakota and South Dakota have state universities and agricultural colleges and experiment stations, all of which are growing in a healthy way and keeping pace with the growth of the states. Denominational colleges, too, like those at Yankton, Redfield and Fargo, are as numerous as the population requires. Large areas of country once supposed to be worthless are, by irrigation and other means, being brought under cultivation, and the people who, ten or twelve years ago, were poor and felt that their future was almost helpless, are now generally prosperous, with satisfactory bank accounts, with better houses and barns, better stock on the farm, better agricultural implements, better schools, better markets, better prices for everything they can raise and an outlook on the future that is hopeful and bright. Unlike the old-time New England farmers, they do not have to work unceasingly from early morning to late evening every day in the year, but when their crops have been harvested and the grain has been sold, many of these farmers with their families visit the cities and take in the

sights, the various things that make up city life, and refresh themselves by the best kind of recreation. And to the fam

ilies that are not so prosperous and that can not leave their homes so easily, the State Traveling Library goes with its supply of inspiring, instructive and interesting books, distributing these wherever the people are hungry for books and doing much to comfort the lonely and to awaken the dull and to inspire the resolute and the ambitious.

While all the prominent religious denominations are working with more or less zeal, and churches are built sometimes where they ought not to be by reason of partisan zeal, but generally where they are needed, the Young Men's Christian Association is as busy as elsewhere, trying to save young men, and the Young Women's Christian Association has its organization in many places. The Y. M. C. A. has a building in Minneapolis that cost several hundred thousand dollars and is paid for. Saint Paul is now engaged in a campaign for $300,000 for a Y. M. C. A. building; Duluth is engaged in the same work.

Every year witnesses large gatherings of earnest students at various Chautauquas, notably at Devil's Lake in Dakota,

where men and especially women who hunger for knowledge congregate in large numbers and study with a seriousness and earnestness that only those who have never had the opportunity to learn what they wanted to know, ever exhibit. And so the process of assimilating three or four distinct races, each represented by several hundred thousands of people, goes bravely on, the Church, the State, religion, science, literature, art, philosophy, all contributing to the development and harmonizing of the people. The outcome is or will be: the general use of the English language, a religion broad and catholic, Christlike, in idea at least if not in full practice, and a patriotism that is unfalteringly faithful to the United States as native or adopted country, the only country to which the people of the Northwest, whereever born, now owe allegiance. The old homes, in New England, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Ireland, are still dear, but to the citizen of the Northwest, "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty," means always the United States of America, with her equal rights for all and her generous justice to other lands. And of the United States, if one part is a sweeter land of liberty than another, it is the Northwest.

KOREA

icy is going to help the toiling millions of the peninsula.

The Koreans would like to know what they have done to justify this wholesale confiscation of their government and

their commerce. They have made no war upon Japan; they have offered no opposition to Japan's plans for administrative reform. Korea has made no war upon foreigners of any sort. She has pro