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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-11
Winter Wheat.

According to government estimate just
out the farmers of the winter wheat states
have put in "a larger. acreage than last
year by over 5 per cent, the newly sown
area covering 34,0o0, 900 acres. The con-
dition is also very high, being placed at
99.7 against Se.7 on December l, 1901. This
means, a big crop if conditions are main
tanned. -: "..s..rs p. ~ ;.a> ,s
But the December report Is not always a
safe guide in winter wheat. There are
many things that may develop between
now and the harvest next spring.
The most important factor and one that
will bear upon wheat the world over is the
fly Professor Huston has found the hes
sian fly prevalent in Indiana and there are
reports of spotted districts in other states.
1t is this hessian fly development or lack
of development that may make or I'M
make the crop, and it is this that the grain
trade will watch with great interest from
now on. @
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Senator McMullen Of Mt. F.

Senator McMullen Of Mt. Forest,
Ontario, threw a brick at the reciprocity
dinner in Detroit last night. After dis
cussing the cool reception which advances
for reciprocity made by Canada had
received in the United States and as
surfing the banqueters that Canada was
not nearly as anxious for reciprocity as
she used to be, the senator added "and I
say that you must first settle the Alaskan
boundary question" Canada, he said.
believed that the United States had OBJ
tanned some territory. in the northwest
belonging to Canada, and before anything
in the way of reciprocity could be accom-
plished this boundary dispute must be
settled. Canada, he said, desires to
leave it to arbitration. Senator McMul-
len is probably mistaken in his idea that
the settlement of the Alaskan boundary
is a necessary precedent to all negotia-
tons for reciprocity. At any rate. there
is little probability that that matter will
ever be submitted to arbitration. All the
evidence goes to show that the United
States makes no claims which are not
warranted by the facts, and to submit to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-11
Not Aiming Higher.

Governor Van SAINT is through. Per-
sistent efforts have been made to cause
it to appear that he has further poll
cal ambitions. He has been credited
with a desire to go to the senate, with
an ambition to be Woe president and
with a determination to turn in two
years hence and take Tawneys place as a
congressman from the first district.
None Of these ideas, I'll e Journa
is assured, finds any favor in the govern
or's mind. On the contrary, his highest
ambition as to public life Is to serve out
his next term, giving to the public best
of which he is capable as governor
Of the state of Minnesota. He hopes
during that time to have the merger
problem solved satisfactorily, to see
another law raising the gross earnings
tax to per cent go before the people,
to have constitutional amendments sub
mitted which will permit the legislator
to so amend our tax laws as to cure
recognized defects, and I to meet any
emergency that may arise in the mean
time with such wisdom and courage as
will reflect credit upon the state With
his $4,000 majority the governor feels that
he has been abundantly honored and re-
warded by the state and that he has
achieved enough honors to satisfy rea-
sonable ambition. -.,. -s
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IN A NUTSFIELI..... i
... #sa74z L Enoourge Vokmns

Much has been written of den1oalizing
ect OF trades unions the capacity quality the nd
Vldual Worknen but according Ambrose p Winston
an article in this months Atlantic
leve that unions have effect At
worth while to notice what Winston point
lie freely admits that in large Of the
world considered desirable restrain the
energy OF exceptionally capable The
Mr. Winston has to offer tendency
times has the good result of restraining speed
work that might in
age worHmen In other words the union holds that if
man develops excessive speed and efficiency the employer
instead OF rewardng him with proportonate apt
to take him the standard inferior
Aside from this point Mr. Winston finds is no
valid excuse for restraining energy
Mr. Winston agree operates
to- the disadvantage Of the superior establishing
equality of wages between superior inferior
that OF special skill hope
conspicuous service He points out that
do not exist paid by classes rather
merit. day laborer, for instance, a
day. matter whether he be good bad Employers
orally have system of paying certain
men In each sort of work Some unions impose a
minimum IS insisted upon it
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really is minimum and not Then
again, the system Of by applies
of the membership unions
system the most rapid workman always gets the
The point" Mr.. Winston makes
couraging ability. 553z E US rs S@ H s5#z
The extent to which unionis competition
for higher is Offset in Mr..
manner in which it tends to eliminate poorest work
So long there is minimum wage employer
worth keeping: But when the employer finds that he
must such workman much superior the
former is discharged Thus the Ssyste1n
operate to the inferior worlSan
enervate the capable. But the fact long
remains in certain class the
is thought to stimulate improve
ascend into higher class, where the prevailing of
is higher Mr. Winston conclusion as follows:.
'rhus since the regime not cease stimulate
the capable, but does certainly ncom
petent it the whole the
tive advancement Of better time the
modern of the great industry with its
gradaons Gin with wide
~ distinct crafs) largely facilitates process by which
to- proper places"
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DAILY DIVERSION

DAZZLE Was Rattled-Re present;a,ti tive
Dahle Of Wisconsin, who is an absent
minded man, was making speech in the
house the other day. Getting warmed up
10 his subject, lie began striding up and
down the aisle, waving his arms above
his head and talking at the top of his
voice. In the midst Of. his flow of ora
tory he forgot what he wanted to saw
next, and hurriedly retraced his steps to
his desk, where he grabbed a pile of notes
and began to turn them madIy over in
search Of the missing link But, search
as he might, he could not find it, and at
last. in his wrath, he began furiously to
throw each page on the floor as he Went
over the typwritten notes. -". go :,
"Confound it!'': he groaned under his
breath, while Precipitation began to- start.
There was q litter. Where are those
COMPOUNDED figures anyway - -.
r. At this moment Representative Mudd
of MARYLAND, who had been chatting with
some friends a short distance away, came
dashing furiously down the aisle. ., =
Here. stop that, Dahle!',he indignantly
exclaimed. What are you throwing NV
notes on the floor for? Those are the
notes for the speech I'm going to deliver
when you get through. Go back to your
own desk" - - -.,%--r. .at.s.. ts::s 49,.
!, And DAZZLE meel1y and dazedly went
away from Mr.. Mudd's desk and found his
own with some difficulty. But he had
become so thoroughly ''rattled''E that he
could not deliver the rest of his speech.
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without my tellin you. Your brother
had to leave his property to some don
Key, your admit. Maybe he preferred
one he loved to one he didn't
Old Judge Smith had taken his place
when they arrived at the courthouse.
will Of Abel barley, formerly OF
Baslow Health called one of the clerks,
and two lawyers stepped forward to the
counsel table. Nathans representative
James Burroughs, who labored under the
local pseudonym of Screw jim" was first
He was: closely followed by Ged Smith
brother to the judge and proponent of the
document.
The crowd leaned forward in rapt atten-
ton as the clerk commenced to read the
Will. =. The disposition of Abel's property
had been the subject of endless specula tion
throughout the district, and half the vot-
ing population wer there to listen.
The. clerk began in aid roning monotone
i, Abel barley, being of sound and dis
posing mind, do hereby make, publish and
declare the following as and for my last
will and testament The next few lines
Of technical commonplace were lost in 8
tumble of inarticulate speech Then the
clerk raised his voice: ~
All my estate, both real and personal
i give, DEVISE and bequeath to my beloved
friend. Blythe Dunton. as trustee for tie
following purposes: To invest the same
and to apply the income and as much OF
the principal as may be necessary to the
care, education, maintenance and we'll be.
ing Of my beloved friend and donkey, Miss
Belinda. On the death Of the said Be.
linda the remainder is bequeathed to my
brother, Nathan barley of Baslow Com
mon" -. -
= When the clerk had finished, Screw Jim
arose. to address the court. If your
honor please, I object to the probate ot
this will on the ground that the chief
beneficiary is an improper person in the
eyes OF the law and incompetent to in
herlt. The will is invalid
Hear. him., shouted Ged Smith. I'm
proper person! She amt a. person at all.
And as for her bein' incompetent to in
herit, it isn't So. If you can show me a
statute on the books Of this great and free
commonwealth that forbids a donkey to be
an heiress. l. want to see it. She amt a
lunatic is he? She. sin't a corporation or
BODY polite. She amt married WON
an. She amt alien In fact, there
isn't single law framed by the legislator
Of this liberty lovin', state that impugns
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Sanitary Organization,

1t is to the everlasting credit of the
medical profession that no class of men
are more dligent in creating conditions
calculated to prevent disease and insure
health than they. Wherever there is a
movement or an organization for the pro-
motion of sanitary conditions it will be
found that a physician is the leader. and
this, notwithstanding the fact that, to the
extent to which disease is prevented, the
physicians practice and revenues are
necessarily reduced. 1t is still true how
ever, that the physician is the most active
promoter of healthful surroundings and
conditions among the people. 1t is he
who sounds the alarm against impure
foods, bad water, contagion and epidemic
All honor to the doctors for their high
minded and unselfish devotion to the vel
fare Of the people. -
/ These remarks are suggested by the
reproduction of an address made by Sec
rotary Bracken Of the state board of
health, delivered before the Southern
Minnesota Medical association at Ovation
ma last summer. This address appears in
In that address, DR.. Bracken cites at the
outset the commonly accepted idea that
1.-The function of the physician is primar-
than to "cure people, Preventive medi-
truth. Rather, he says, let it be assumed
that to prevent disease is even better
than ito cure people, Preventive medi-
cine he insists rather than healing medi-
cine, is the matter of first Importance
His address is an argument in favor of
thorough Organization for sanitary pur-
poses. 49,. III. -.- "a 80 ss. J.. . y u
A, bill passed by the legislature of 1901
state, but in the judgment of the secre-
tary made little provision for them to ex-
ercise intelligent authority so there is
practically nothing in the way of sanitary
advisor between the state board of health
and the township officers. Sanitary con-
ditions in country districts can be great
~ aided through township officers, but
there should be an intermediary con-
Meeting link for the most effective work
and that connection should be supplied
through an efficient county health officer.
: . i ~
Such officer should be a physician of
good standing and well compensated for
his services, in order that he may be
able to devote to it the time necessary
| for satisfactory results
DR.. Bracken expresses the hope that
the coming session of the legislature may
perfect the organization of the state for
sanitary purposes. This is certainly a
very important matter for our legislators
to consider. Naturally they will act rn-
| der the advice of the state board Of
health in framing legislation of this char
aeter, and whatever that group Of effi-
cient and public spirited men may recon-
mend should be adopted and put into ef-
feet without delay. We have just gone
through in this state an experience which
emphasizes the Importance of the most
intelligent and effective sanitary organi.
- *
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DECEMBER MAGAZINES

In The Atlantic for December there is
an unusually rich collection, beginning
with the Ideals of America" by .Presi.
dent Woodrow Wilson of Princeton col
lege Mr.. Wilson is very much in the
public eye just now by reason of his re.
cent election to the presidency of Prince
ton. because of some Of his peculiar ideas
with regard to, education, and also or
account of the. recent appearance and
great sale Of his History Of the American
People, P. T. McGrath discusses .'At.
lantic Fisheries and Frances H Mich
OILS writes about Chinese Dislike of Chris
tianity." C. Harper Henderson writes
Some Impressions of Porto Rico and Her
schools" These are only a few of the
good things in this number.
. The Cosmopolitan open with an illus
trated article on Training Wild Animals, .
by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen Other ar
ticles Of special interest are, 1.-The Best
Tricks Of Famous Magicians,' by Ruth
Everett, What Mother Can Do for Her
Daughter, by Lavinia Hart, and the be-
ginning of a new series entitled, ''Ro-
mances of the Worlds Famous Mines; the
first article is THE Comstock and It's Great
Bonanza by Samuel E. Moffett In 1.-The
Captains of Industry series the princi-
pals are Henry Phipps, John Fairfield
Dryden, James Anthony Bailey, George
Frederick .rEBaer and Nicholas :, Murray
Butler. -. -
: 1t is difficult to see how a student OF
current events can fall to appreciate SO
valuable an adjunct to the daily newspa-
per as The World To- Day. The events OF
the month are gathered up, illustrated
sifted and digested and made available to
g.. degree which makes one wonder how
he could get along without such month s
summing up of events before such publ
cations were issued In the Book Talk
for the month appears picture of James
K. Eosmer, the Minneapolis public libra
rian, who has recently written the pref
ace and edited a new edition of 1.-The Elk
petition of Lewis and Clark. >
The leading article in Records Of the
Past is on the Museum at ConstantinopIe
In the North American Review we have
President Roosevelt and His First Year. u
reviewed first by progressive republican,
second by a Jeffersonian democrat 1t is
strange to say that about the only thing
the Jeffersonian democrat finds fault with
is the presidents appointment of the an
thracite arbitration commission. Especial
interest will be taken In an article by the
late Thomas B. Reed on What Shall We
Do with the Tariff" The first of series
of articles on Christian Science written
by Mark Twain is in this number. W. d.
Howells reviews the work Of Frank Norris,
the late lan1ented and brilliant young now
elfst; and Erving Winslow draws attention
again to the almost forgotten anti imperi-
alists by an article on 1.-THE Anti-Imperial-
list Faith
The 7ookman, under the head of "Elev-
en- Books Of the Moment" reviews Booth
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That: is a brave, and con'mendable un.
dertakingc which the village council of New
Brighton will consider this evening. After
having suffered from the suspension Of the
packing industry there and from the un
certainty Of its resumption, the citizens
OF that suburb now purpose to bond the
village, buy the plant and secure some
permanent industry to occupy it. =. With
such an example of enterprise and public
spirit at her very door, Minneapolis ought
to receive fresh inspiration in the process
OF waking up and getting busy now al
ready under way. -. -. w. -.
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HERE LIES BELINDA.

Tarkington's 1.-THE Two Vanrevels''; Mr..
Kipling's "Just-So Stories; George Hor-
tons THE Long. Straight Road; Mr.. Je-
rome's paul Kelver": Miss Seawell's
"Francezka": Marion Crawford's "Ce-
ella; Gustav Frenssen's 'tJorn Uhl'';
Wyngate"; Anthony Hopes THE Intru
sions of Peggy; Alexander, Glovatskis
1.-The Pharaoh and the Priest; and Felix
Dahns IA Captive of the Roman Eagles"
These reviews are by different writer's.
Everybody's Magazine has a series Of
types of American Women drawn by
Thomas Mitchell PIERCE. with verses by
Carolyn Wells. Marie Van Worst has a
series of articles on Women That Toll"
describing the life of the women of the
southern cotton mills. -:
Municipal journal and Engineer opens
with a chapter on Havana and what has
been done in the way of municipal house
cleaning there. Ohios New Civic Code is
reviewed by Mayor Jones of Toledo J.
w. Howard has an article on "Pavements
Injured by Walter and How to Minimize
the Injury Then there is the usual
collection of information about munich
pal affairs, editorial comment, etc.
The American Federatist has an artf-
Gle on Government Coal Mines by
A. S. Leitch, and another on why Labor
Organizes" by James Lynch
Holiday art books receive special atten-
ton in the Christmas number of the
Book Buyer. The Introductory article on
that subject is by John c. Van Dyke.
Hamilton w. Mabie reviews some of the
important fiction Of the year. and Cyrus
c. Adams Books of Travel and Explora
ton" Nature Books are reviewed by
Earnest Ingersoil, and Recent Poetry
by Frank Dempster Sherman; History and
Biography by George Mclean Harper;
Humorous Books by Carolyn Wells and
Juvenile Books by Tudor jerks
notable feature of The Critic for De-
cember is an article on THE Responsible
ties of the Novelist by Frank Norris.
Few men. probably. appreciate their re-
sponsibiiity more than did this brilliant
young writer. Mr.. Norris mentions the
pulpit. the press and the novel as "in5iis-
putably the great moulders of public opin-
ion and public morals to-day; but the
pulpit. he says speaks but once week:
the press is read with lightning haste. bnts
the novel goes into the home to stay. It
is read word for word. is talked about,
discussed: its influence penetrates every
chink and corner OF the family. How
necessary, then" he argues, lis it for
those who. by the simple art of writing.
can invade the heart, that they WELD such
power rightfully.'
The Housekeeper has number of inter-
esttng Illustrated articles and stories.
Among the former is one entitled n Per-
sian Breakfast Party and another de-
scriptive of life in a Moravian community.
This popular publication has just under
gone change of editorial management
which will no doubt be to Its advantage.
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The NonpareiI Nan
Casually Observed,

There is every Indication of activity or
the part of the exnlayors liver -E@F;:
Castro proposes to- fight Europe. After
he comes to, he will be demanding tc
know who threw that International hall
brick. > - !. - -. ~ -
Somebody says that local preacher
prayed for sthe<p,ess,c' the other Sunday,
We have been getting out a great paper
late1y.>r<s &aJorc lava seoA-C 80 : u {! j,
The Mclean County Miner, published al
Washburn.@ Nd, has felt the serpent
tooth OF SANDER bite at its heel. In its
issue, this week the. Miner says:&t
ANY person making the sta tement that this
paper sold Its political convictions or its right
TO express them at any time, is a liar. We
lenge any evidence to the contrary
Any party making such charges would
40 Well to wear armor plate clothes. -
Most puissant and noble lady" said
the Roman Antony, as the queen was
leaning back on her throne on the forward
deck and,listening to the Tapping Of the
silken sail against the mast and to the
soft tapping of the yellow water of the
Nile against the sides of the royal barge,
most pulssant and noble lady, I do be-
think me that the baseborn churl in yon-
DER royal weather tower who hath this
day most basely prophesied and given out
report of icy atmospheric waves upon
their whitening way from the. cold and
frosty Caucasus should find his caitiff
head sitting but lightly upon his low-bor1]
shoulders for, this unwelcome tiding."
Antony replied. the. royal lady Cleo
patra, as she signaled the shapely Iris ia
cease with the fan as she spoke, me
thinks, Antony, that thy high born, pa
tr1clan face worketh too easily when it
cometh to our Egyptian customs thou
would so rude o'erturn. ,Kennst thou
not that yon churl in the higi,
list and hath our most particular.
explicit and purposeful order to gen
crate on paper merely, the cold
and ice blast, for that the news
OF such, be it true or false, doth
drive the rude, unthoughtful com
monalty to the free purchase and acuuisi-
ton of -heatful fuel? And yond same fuel.
though Antony know it not, is a royal
prerogative; thy queen, o most ungra-
clous Roman. owning all the rich and
varied sources Of supply" f--.', q
"Say no more. noble lady; our harsh and
sturd1er Roman ways Of wrestling from the
rude and thoughtless con1monalty his rich
ana serV1ceable coin are coarse indeed
when leveled with the royal Egypt 5
work. 80 =. 49, r =, :, :
Thou are freely forgiven. noble Anto-
ny, - smiled the queen. "but let it be to
thee plain and simple warning to keen
thy lofty, high-born and patrician coun-
tenance as tightly closed as Thebes's bro
Ken oank until thou ,pipest thy royal mis-
tress game. For that she hath no motive
in the things thou understandest not
would, indeed, indict the royal thought of
foul incompetence - =
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Copyright 1902. by r. C. Mcclure.
Good morning, Nathan. Bound for
TOWN. ~
Yep. I'm goin' to court. This morn
in, you know, the will of my poor dear
brother Abel comes up for probate"
Blythe Dunton shifted. Poor dear
brother, eh? You know you hope he
wasn't poor, and as long as he lived he
certainly wasn't dear. You hated him
worse'n poison, and he hated you worse'n
that. | am on my, way to court too. Des-
say amt far wrong in sayin' there's a
surprise in store for you, Nathan barley,
Eth. Belinda? ?"
Belinda did not answer but rtudged
aicng. quietly swishing her remnant of
a tail and waving her long ears. Be
llnda, you see, was donkey-gray, old
and dignified-and in her Nathan at
once recognized former possession of
his deceased relative.
you'll be tellin', me presently said
Nathan, with fine sarcasm, .that my
brother left his property to that lame
NO, I WON'T said Blythe. senten-
tlousy. You'll find it out soon enough
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-11

Bonds OF the par value $3,75o,ooo issuet
by the state of Anazona, Brazil have beer
placed in New York this week, and are the
first South American bonds to be listed or
the New York Stock Exchange. The turn:
ing Of this away from London is an il
lustration; Of thesgrowth Of our country as
aworld' $ money power. : II, former years
South American state desiring a loan
would apply to London bankers as mat
ter OF precedent. The placing of this loaf
IN New York, unimportant in itself, proves
that our country is working into g. posi-.
ton OF greater prominence with reference
to South American finance, and the in
d1cat1ons are that New York bankers will
get more of this business from now on.