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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

power that was at one time scarcely
less than that Of a car, when his will
wasspotential law, he yet left congress a
poor man. w. %.
We need more Reeds in congress, more
men Of massive strength, leonine cour-
age, bountiful vitality, and the rare
quality Of leadership. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
WILLING TO TAKE CHANCES.
Grand Forks Herald,

Y ~ Grand FORKS Herald.
DR.. Bracken Of the Minnesota state
board Of health, warns the public of the
danger OF contracting smallpox by hand
linz. money which passed through the
hands OF infected persons. The warning
is a timely one, but it will not be
needed. The average man who has "a
chance 10 get hold of dollar will take
chances Of anything from bubonic plague
down.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
PA AN, NE.

Pa an me, we had fight .ss5. 49,
In a hay-cock other night.
1 seen pa an John the hires,
Man a-restun cuz they'sf tired.
An I 'es' sneaked up an sat
On his stomick. Oh an at
Made i'm grunt, an right away
We was fightun in the hay.
En- I got to laffun so
I can't fight a tall. An oh
Yes hay stuck into my
Eye, an EN- 1 had to cry.
Pa an me has lots of fun
In the summer time. An one
Day mos UP to grampa's lake
Once we seen rattle snake.
VIII Dillman.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

Tom Reed was not quite as stanch a
sound money man In 1896 as some Of his
admirers could have wished, but no one
ever suggested that it was from lack of
courage. Reed never merited criticism
on that side. .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
Sioux City Journal,

- SIOUX CITY JOurnaI.
Governor Cummins heartily approves of
the Presidents message. He grants that
it does not so quite as far on the question
OF tariff revision 'as9 some of us have
gone. but he says the president Is
headed in the right direction. Nor does
the governor overlook, as to those cases
wherein monopoly exists and there is an
absence of competition, that 1.-THE pre-
dens Used almost the language OF tn
Iowa Platform
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

"a In youth IL SfelCereQ me ~ 49,. .n.-E-r
But what do 7 care now!
PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson has decided
after considerable original research that
football is rough house game. Well,
it isn't exactly like raking the lawn ~,
The Berlin courts are making the crit
les think twice before they write once.
Fraulien Gretemeyer, of he Leasing the
alter has been awarded $3.50 damages from
Herr Strecker, critic, who described her
movements on the stage as being las
graceful as those Of a hippopotamus." An
assessment of $3.50 is likely to wither the
critical faculty. ..' -,<:'- .,- ..-F.s~ -
People who were in congress at the time
or who were interested in it's workings
win not soon forget the excitement when
Speaker Reed began to count quorums'
and so forced the house to do business in
spite of itself. Under the old methods Of
work. the members Of a minority, by re-
fusing to answer to their names on a roll
can, were considered as not present and
as the house could not act without a quo
rum, the minority had legislation at its
mercy. -'..- -
One day the speaker began counting
those as present whom he could see to be
present even if they did not answer to
their names. This violation of precedent
almost caused a bloody riot. To one mem
Der who was making violent TRADE
against the ruling, the speaker said: :
Does the gentleman deny that he Is
PRESENT."
A burst Of laughter followed and the
speaker carried his point from the force
Of it's common sense. -.
Mr.. Reed was so large a. man that he
made presidents his enemies. His
bon mot on PRESIDENT Harrison after the
Indiana man was nominated by the Min
neapolis convention In 1892 was never for
given by. the president. Reed, with the
brilliant minority of that convention, was
for Blaine. After Harrison was nomin-
mated Reed started for home in great dis
gust. ~ ;.-.r..t - :. = ..l ~..: s,-...~. -
''Mr. Speaker" asked a, delegate, "aren't
you going to board the Harrison band
| wagon?' -. -,
Gueried the speaker.
The speakers final retirement from
politics was due to his hostility to the
republican policy regarding the. Philip
pines. When President Mckinley spoke
Of carrying freedom to the isles of the
sea, the speakers only remark was that
he didn't believe "in sending canned free
| dom to the heathen." Shortly after this
when he retired from public life, he was
altogether out Of sympathy with the trend
of events.
From these incidents it will be seen
that the mans sense of humor was toe
strong for "success'' if high office Is con-
sidercd success. If he had been dull and
pompous and carried his points by a
heavy insistency he might have been
president, written a message that would
have filed three sides of a newspaper ano
| would have been read by proofreaders al
| over this broad land of ours.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
A Live issue,

In the December number of the Review
r. f1jsiews DR.. Albert Shaw discusses
in CONJUNCTION the subjects Of direct
the inequalities of senatorial represen-
tation. The two subjects are intimately
connected. So long as less than 100000
people in Wyoming, for example, have
the same representation in the senate
that New York's 100000 have, it is es-
pecially important that the senate shall
reflect public opinion. .
/ AS it is now we have both inequality
of representation in the senate and mis-
representation The legislatures stand
between the people and the senators.
The senatorial attitude Is not so much
determined by what the people want, as
by what the senator thinks are his
chances Of persuading q legislature to
re-elect him, a matter that is often to-
tally unrelated to the will of the people.
DR.. Shaw correctly speaks Of the pop
ular demand for direct election Of SEN
ators as being mot merely popular
whim, but an intelligent and profound
conviction.' The unrepresentative or
misrepresentation character Of the senate
is shown by it's bold and persistent
ignoring of this fact. There is probably
no question that might be submitted to a
national referendum which would receive
suoh a large affirmative vote as this,
and the senators know it; yet they stub
bornly go on voting down every PROPOSE
ton to amend the constitution, SO as to
make themselves representative.
It is strange that the republican party
does not take cognizance of this strong
and righteous popular feeling and incor
porate an expression Of . it. into a. ma
| tional PLATFORM. The democrats have al
ready taken that step and it may be a
campaign. .-..-~ e.. .....,...
The American people are very con-
servative about changing their: organic
| law by direct act, but they are also
intensely democratic: and s will not much
longer "stand for a legislative body
that is but slightly more responsive to
popular will in ordinary times than the
English house of lords, and is at the
same time vastly more powerful, assert
i've and aggressive in legislation. The
! tendency seems to be for the senate to
become more and more powerful in 1egis
lation. This tendency must be viewed
with misgivings so long as the senate is
not directly elected by the people.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
"oLD GoRGoN" GRAHAM's PHILoSo.
PLY, .--

From Letters From self-Made Merchant
to His Son.
A s12 clerk who owes $50 for roses needs
a keeper more than a wife. I want to say
right here that there always comes
time to the fellow to blows $50 at a lick
on roses, when he thinks how many staple
groceries he could have bought with his
money.
To marry for money or to marry without
money is a crime. There is no real OBJ
lection to marrying a woman with a
fortune, but there is to marrying a
fortune with a woman. :,
While you're at it, there's nothing like
picking out a good-looking wife, because
even the handsomest woman looks home
ly sometimes, and so you can get little
variety; but a homely one can only look
worse than usual. Beauty is only skin
deep; but that's deep enough to satisfy
any reasonable man.
I've heard a good deal in my time about
the foolishness of hens, but when it comes
to right down plumb foolishness, give me
a rooster every time. He's always strut
ting and stretching and Growing and brag-
ging about things with which he had
nothing to do. When the sun rises.
you'd think that he was making all the
light, instead Of all the noise; when the
farmers wife throws the scraps in the
henyard, he crows as if he was the pro-
WIDER for the whole farmyard and was
asking a blessing on the food; when he
meets another rooster. he crows; and
whe nthe other rooster ticks him, he
crows; and so he keeps it up straight
through the day. He even wakes up
during the night and crows little on
general principles. But when you hear
from a hen. she's laid an egg, and she
don't make a great deal Of noise about 1t,
either. s- - -.-.-...r ~.
Hot air can take up a balloon long
ways, but it can't keep it there And
when a fellows turning flip-fops up
among the clouds, he's naturally going to
have the farmers gsping at him. But in
the end there ALWAYS comes a time when
the parachute fails to work I don't
know anything that's quite so dead as a
mans who's fallen three or four thousand
feet off the edge of a cloud.
Easy-come money never draws interest:
easy-borrowed dollars pays usury
Whenever any one offers to let you in on
the ground floor it's pretty safe to take
the elevator to the roof garden.
There's no alarm clock for the sleepy
man like an early rising manager; and
there's nothing breeds work in an office
like a busy boss
Some fellows can only see those above
them, and others can only see those
under them, but a good man is cross
eyed and can see both ends at once.
Be slow to hire and quick to fire.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

And now Tom Nast's name is inscribed
on the roll of the dead His work long
since done, the brave old cartoonist passed
away in far Ecuador. Younger Americans
find it difficult to understand the inf1u-
ence Mast once welded through his car
toons, good as. they are. It must be re-
membered that the weapon was then new
as a regularly used instrument Of polit-
icaf attack. Cartoons were rare and weak
before Nast's time. The public mind was
not accustomed to them. The field was
virgin, and Mast was. equal to- the oppor
tunity. His cartoons fell upon the read
ing public with a force and accompanying
conviction that cannot now be appreciated.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

Southern Rfodesia's gold output in May
was the highest recorded, being over 49,
500 ounces.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

THE JOU NJ A L Is published every
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

1t looks as if it were all over but the
voting in the speakership contest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed .

James w. Foley Of the Bismarck Trib-
une is getting out a little book Of poems
containing 100 Prairie Breezes," or blows
which have not come anywhere near kill
ing father. - ,5+s j., -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

HORSEPOWER, slash that tree!
Saw off each waving bough,
In youth 1t sheltered me ss
But what do care now!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

To marry for money or to marry without
money is crime. There is no real OBJ
lection to marrying a woman with a
fortune, but there is to marrying a
fortune with a woman. =,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson has decided
after considerable original research that
football is a rough house" game. Well,
it isn't exactly like raking the lawn.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
TEDDY AND THE IOWA PLATFORM.

Be slow to hire and quick to fire.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

+ Easy-come money never draws interest:
easy-borrowed dollars pays usury
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

Whenever any one offers to let you in on
the ground floor it's pretty safe to take
the elevator to the roof garden
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

There's no alarm clock for the sleepy
man like an early rising manager; and
there's nothing breeds work in an office
like a busy boss.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
Foyer Chat.

''Mr. Jolly of Joliet opened weeks
engagement at the Bijou yesterday to
large and well pleased houses. At the
Lyceum the Ferris bill was the popular
old melodrama. 'Hazel Kirke." Otis
Skinner opens his brief engagement in
"Lazarrc" at the Metropolitan tonight.
The productions will be reviewed in this
column tomorrow.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-23
HI MURDERS FIVE
Awful Tragedy Enacted Near ST.
Augustine, Fla.
ONE NAN KILLS lNTlRi T.NlY


A st. Augustine. Fla. May 90. special
says: Crazcd By his %infatuation for
little AbCtha Mccullough. a thirteen
year-old girl. William Austin. a young
man, early yesterday killed the girl
and -four other persons and then com
mitted suicide in a loaely farm house
Of William WilkinEon. near Hastings,
a thriving sittlcmclt eighteen miles
from this city. The dead are:
William Wilkinson. aged hfty-two:
Mrs. Wilkinson. his wife: Miss Abetha
Mccullough. aged thirteen: Miss Will
kinson. sister Of William wilkinson;
one child; William Austin. the muir
derer and suicide, aged twenty-five.
The crime was first discovered by
John Keller, who visited the Wilkinson
house, where he fouad six torpscs
scarcely cold and bat one living wit
ness to the tragedy. a helpless infant.
Austin had been madly infatuated
with the Mccullough girl. and it is
claimed that he killed the entire fam
lily because his advances were rejected
and because the girl was also opposed.
He went to the Wilkinsoas Friday
night and proposed marriage to Abe
tina Mccullough. He was rejected, and
vowing he would marry her. hurried
to this city and procured on Saturday
n marriage license. He went to church
on Saturday and told everyone that he
was to be married that night.
About 3 o'clock Monday morning
several bistol shots were heard. but no
investigation was made. When Will
kinson failed to appear at a neighbours
house. where he was engaged in hlr-
vcsting n crop of potatoes. John Keller.
a farm hand, was sent TO Wilkinson's
house and the tragedy discovered.
Sheriff Perry and the coroner have
zone to the scene.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-23
FATAL ACCIDENT AT O'NEllL
section Man Killed while Engaged In
His Work.

An O'Neill, Neb,. May IS. special
says: George Malone. aged twenty
sever one of the section men on the
F.. +. a NJ. V. railroad, was killed
about one mile east of O'Neill yester-
day afternoon by a steam shovel while
working IN a gravel train. The train
was in charge of Conductor Porter
field and pulled by Engineer Shively.
II appeared from the evidence obtained
at the coroner's inquest that while I'M
loading the gravel from the Hat cars
the pillow caught on some obstruction
on the car and the conductor called
Npon the local section men To get on
the ear and shovel away some of the
gravel to release the pillow. When he
stepped upon the plow it in some man
ncr became looSened and shot forward
about eight feet. the jar throwing Ma
lone of his feet. lie was caught un-
der the rear beam of the plow and was
crushed SO that he died about forty
minutes afterward.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-23
BIG STRIKE M MEN
Coal Miners Determined, md strike May
Assume National Character.


A Hazelton, Pa. May IL. special
says. The convention of anthracite
miners, which met yesterday afternoon
and declared for a fignt to a finish with
the coal magnates for higher wages
and an eight-hour day. again went
into session this morning. A cam
paign is being mapped u and the
final details of the strike that forces
indefinite idleness upon $4,000 men
Will be taken up.
All night the ordinarily quiet streets
of the village were crowded with peo-
pie. while kilograms in great numbers
continued to be dispatched and re-
ceirod from all parts of the anthracite
field by the miners officers.
Business men throughout the region
are depressed today. many declaring
they will give no credit to miners dur
ing the strike. The bituminous miners
are union brothers OF the hard coal
men and will support the strikers. pro-
viding the use of soft coal in the mines
Of the east promises to cause a failure
of the strike.
At this mornings session the united
mine workers convection petitioned
the national officials to issue a call
for a national convention of all the
coal miners employed in the United
States for the purpose of considering
the situation in the anthracite field.
II the desire of the anthracite miners
Is sustained a national suspension of
coal mining will be- inauguratod.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-23
TELL TALE LETTERS
i;ccf Packers In u i'rctty Pickle Because
of Them.

\ Chicago. May 20. dispatch says:
Promptly at > O'Clock yesterday after
noon the legal battle between the so
called meat trust and the government
began In earnest. when arguments
Tor Gad AGAINST the issuance of a tenn
pOrary injunction. restraining the
packers from conducting business in
restraint of trade and in violation of
the Sherman antitrust law. were
heard by Judge GrossCup in United
States circuit court. District Attorney
Bethea Will have Il final conference
with Solicitor General Richards and
Special Sounsel Day upon their arrival
from Washington soon. BCthca will
not indicate the extent of the evidence
IN possession of the government, but
believes it Ia be sufficient to establish
IA strong ease.
According 10 a credible source, the
packers realize the hOpelossness of q
defense and Will not resist the issuance
OF a temporary Injunction. They and
their representatives refuse to discuss
the many letters published Sunday and
today which cOuClusively show an ar
rangcment' between them. In this
connection an cmploye of Armour ad-
mits that one of the firms letter files
was stolen.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-23
MINERS ENTOMBED
Believed That $50 Are Dead IA Result
of Gns Expln,iOn.

Miners numbering at least $50 are
believed to be dead as IA result of a
terrific gas explosion at s o'clock Mon
day morning in the Coal Creek COM
pany's Fratersville mine. two miles
from Coal Creek. Tenn. Three uniden-
ti.iCd bodies have been taken out. a
rescue party is attempting to force an
entrance to the place where the en-
iombCd men are supposed to be To-
Gated.
About two hundred men were in the
Fratersville and Thistle mines when
the explosion occurred. Both con-
meet. although the openings are a mile
apart. The disaster sealed the en-
trance to the Fratersyille side of the
mine. but the mouth OF the Thistle
mine remained open and through this
a number Of the men came out. the
latter being those who had not gone
far On their way to work.
The payroll of the Fratersville main
tainS 200 names and that Of the Thistle
100. But $50 men of the former were
at work today and 100 in the latter.
Superintendent Camp. OF the Thistle,
in an official statement. estimated the
number of killed in both mines at 1870.
while Major T.. G. Camp, president of
the company. is of the opinion that il
the explosion was III the Thistle side
of the mine but few escaped.
Neither mine hitherto has given
trouble on account OF gas.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-23
SAYS PEACE is ASSURED
Boers Declared to Have Practically Ac-
Ceptcd Terms,

The London Daily Mail says it I'M
derstands that sufficient indications of
the attitude of the Boer leaders at
V%eerening have transpired to Justify
the assertion that peace in South AZ
RIGA is absolutely assured.
A powerful factor in attaining this
result, the paper says, has been the
British generosity in the matter OF
farm rebuilding, for which, It believes,
about Go, 900 900 has been granted.
All the Boer delegates are now as
sembled at ~Veereningen, Transvaal.
where every facility has been afforded
them for private sessions. the first of
which has been arranged for today.
All the voting will he by ballot, Dur
ing the deliberations at V~eereningen
Lord Kitchener had guaranteed i'm
munity from attack TO all commandos
whose leaders are participating in the
conference.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-23
KNEW OF THE PERIL
st. Pierre People Were Not Ignorant OF
Their Danger.

~ up 'NfN WI VI
Their Danger.
A Paris, May 10, dispatch y It
Is difficult to understand how 1t was
that general exodus of the population
of st. Pierre did not take place before
May 8. A letter just received here,
dated May 3. says:
st. Pierre presents an aspect un-
known to the natives. II Is a city
sprinklcd with grey snow. a winter
scene without cold. The inhabitants
of the neighborhood are abandoning
their houses, villas and cottages. and
are Hooking to the city. II is a curious
pellmell of women. children and bare
footed peasants. big. black fellows
loaded with household goods. The air
Is oppressive; your nose burns. Are
we going to die asphyxiated? What
has tomorrow in store for us? a flow
OF lava. rain of stones or a cataclysm
from the sea? Who can tell? VIII
give you my last thought If | must
die"
A st. Pierre paper of May 8 an
nounccs that an excursion arranged
for the next day to Mont Polce. had
been postponed. as the crater was in
accessible, adding that notice would
be issued when the excursion would
take place.
The adviCes received from Marti-
nique today indicate that the local au-
thoritios are no longer anxious regard
ing food and other supplies. which are
now reaching Fort De France in suf-
htient quantities to meet all demands
until the arrival of the supply ships,
now on their way To the island and
those preparing to sail. The governor
believes that the emergency is over.
The correspondent of the Associated
press learns that the ministry of the
colonies totally discredits the report
OF the destruction of Saint Marie. Mar
Unique, by fire. which has reached
here. as today's dispatches do not men
ton the fact, which they certainly
would have done.
NJ. LHuerre, the governor of Marti-
nique, has sent the following cable
gram to NJ. Decrais. the colonial min
lister, dated Fort DE France. May is:
Il have informed the population that
supplies by the United States naval
vessel Dixie and the steamers Fonta-
bella and Mariana will arrive here to-
DAY. Inc cargOeS OF these vessels Will
be exempted from all duties and other
charges. This is done on all food sup
plies reaching us.
Commander G. w. Ment2, and Cap
tain Crabb. of the quartermaster's de-
partment. have just arrived here on
the United States collier Sterling with
the food presented by the government
of Porto Rico"
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-23
CORONATION AT MADRID
King Alfonso Investrc with u Number
Of Decorations

King Alfonso was invested with n
number OF foreign decorations Friday
last. The ceremony, which was of an
imposing nature, took place in the
throne room of the palace. The king
was surrounded by a brilliant assem-
bl&ge OF high officers of state. Among
the orders bestowed upon him was
that of the garter, which he received
from the Duke of Connaught, as repre-
sentative of King Edward; the Gordon
bleu of the Order of the Seraphin.
from Prince Eugene of Sweden. repre-
senting King Oscar. and the Royal Or
der of Siam from the crown prince of
Siam, the special envoy of the king of
Siam.
There was a brilliant banquet at the
palace at night. DR.. Curry. the United
States special envoy, and the other
ENJOYS were present. The surrounding
streets were dazZlingly illuminated.
draped and crowded with sight-seers.
The British and American legations
were artistically illuminated.