The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-23
Counterfeit Postal Cards.

Counterfeit Postal Cards.
April 23.-The postal authorities are exer-
csed over the discovery of counterfeit postal
cards in the mails from nearly every part of
the United States. Postmaster Van Colt said
I'VE have received only a few cards at the
New York posteffice. What bothers us is the
fact that those received have come from so
many different sections. Several inspectors
are working on the case The cards are a
poor counterfeit"
The description of the counterfeit cards
given by the postal authorities follows:
Top of name line runs together, genuine
is spaced. Lines of Jefferson's face are coarse
and broken. wreath not uniform Word JET
ferson is light-face; genuine is bold face
type. 1t is a coated paper, not used for cards.
The whole appears to be copied, from an old
and worn-out plate.
Parkhurst Hits Heresy Hunting.
Speaking of heresy hunting, Dr. Parkhurst
| says:
."If that same style of sitting process that
in our day is adopted in bringing men into
the, apostleship (Which we call the ministry
had been applied in those first Galilean days,
it might have shut Judas out. but likely
enough it would have shut Peter out and John
| and half of the rest of them.
There rs big, wide way of taking men
into the ministry, and there is a pudding
| academic way of doing it. man who never
has so come under the inspiration of Christ
and the gospel as to receive a call to "a pas
torate or as to be able to hold a congregation
! together after he has got a call will PROFOUND
| small conundrums to candidate for holy orr
ders-c onundrums that might have sunk the
whole original twelve in the Sea of Galilee.
| 1t is one CT the mysteries of Providence the
| authority that petty obstacles. human and
otherwise, have accorded them OF cluttering
| UP the track of progress and derailine the
| train. on its way by,
. In his talk to the Yale Undergraduates at
New Haven, Bishc2 Potter said:
| Two hundred years ago we broke away
from artiflciality, from pcnp and useless GER
emcny, to freer, more simple and palmer
! life. Since then it has not been mems ad-
luncts, but their simplicity that gave them
| power.
Now, with wealth accruing and establishing
| itself anG making the earth beautiful with
| the congestion of population and with the
spread Of leisure, there has arisen the danger
/ that we shall revert to the artificiality of the
| past.
Now we are being caught up in the vast
hopper of modern machinery by the trusts,
by the corporations, and we are made by them
| SORT of machine We must fully realize the
danger that mind as well as matter viii be
at some time in the future capitalized, and
that the real thinking and planning for the
many will be done by a. mere handful
| Let us remember that in our fathers time
| there could not be sickness without sympathy,
sorrow aud aid from everv han.. How is it
new? A short time ago ! went to the home
of d poor girl who had been thrown down
and injured by horse.
..As went to her house called by mistake
at an adjoining tenement and asked: DO you
know of the Girl who lives next door who
was struck by a horse?'
THE response l got was: We don't know
who lives nest door.
And yet the groans of the injured girl
resounded through the other tenement to
neighbors whom only half an inch of slen-
| der wall had separated for three years, who
| did not know her name anS who were not
| interested that she had been perhaps NOR
! tally injured and was suffering the keenest
pain
What drifting toward a pagan condition
] Of society this Indicates. It is like the Roman
i empire, when a man was stabbed by a stilet-
to-, and those around him ran from him in
stead of TO his assistance. This condition OF
affairs shows a trend to develop the greed
and passions. Step by step the hospital. the