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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-04
Books and Authors
EVERY cay ENGLISH.
= Editor of The Journal.

10 the EGltOr OF Inc journal.
Allow me to thank you most cordially
for the kind review Of "Everydays Eng
-hsh5', of which you have sent me a copy.
May I fmosts respectfully remark that
think give; DR.. Johnson's spelling as
great veneration as is due to thing only
one hundred fifty years Old; and that my
endorsement Of che DON'T was formed
before I noticed Thackeray's use of it..
In the Notes for Teachers" in the APP
pendix of Everyday English you would
find cited Professor Brander Matthew'S of
Columbia university Richard Grant
White, and Doctor. Hosmer, Of our own
city, as endorsing its use to-day DR..
Hosmer considers that it's employment
by the early novelist, Samuel Richardson,
should be sufficient endorsement for its
use to-day. In studying into this subject
as thoroughly as possible, Fam forced to
conclude that ''he don't is the historical
form, rather than he doesn't Should
you be able to point out to me upon
authority that am mistaken in this view,
I should be greatly your debtor.
Professor Maria Sanford also indorses
che don't" We hear it from many cul-
tivated lecturers upon the stage. 1t is in
harmony with the genius of the English
language, which has it's greatest power
in its dropping Of infections! To insist
upon 'he don't" seems to me trying to go
backward!
Jean Sherwood Rankin
l Nevertheless, while it is natural for
champions of spelling reform" to insist
upon arbitrary changes in the structure
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-04

At Minnesota Wisconsin have
factory Dakota North Dakota, Iowa and
Montana The proposed factories will require
working capital 900 and would annually purchase
beets to the value of $14,7O00O0. ~ -" 5I a.: ~ f.
already produce than they con-
Utah, consumption 1929 51 pounds, pro-
ducon O0O Colorado consumption 4So produc
500; California consumption produce
ton $780, The total domestic sugar production cane
beet, the present time yields enough to supply all OF
the of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in
Guiding South Dakota and fourth Of Iowa. but
emitting This region has population of about
140O0,O0O @-t3 l..
sS437,50O paid to farmers for beets and
to labor $19O000 Large paid for supplies ana
besides existence the 500 FAC
required the imported, they
would ss4375Ooo for beets With the
the beet will be produced IN
the United States at cost onethrd less than at present.
example of the profits of the business take the
Sugar company which total operating
paid interest and general expense items
of $13000 paid dividends to the amount OF
S240 900 retained a surplus of $685. 1885,.
Michigan including cent interest capital and
depreciation costs 81 $50 produce OO
pounds sugar market figures In
Minneapolis clean dividend margin
factory producing $4,000 tons during the
running of $685. AS such factory be built
$25oooo, this is equivalent to about 10 per cent
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-04
The President in an Accident.

The narrow escape President Roosevelt
had from death yesterday raises the ques-
ton of the wisdom OF presidential jour
neys. A travelling president not only runs
more risk of assassination; but possibly
also of accident than a demonstrating one.
Yet presidents are men and will not i'm
prison themselves in Washington. The
people, too, will insist on having their
presidents call on them.
Yet the increased chances Of losing
such a president Roosevelt are pretty
high price to pay for the personal con-
venience of the president and the curl.
osty Of the people. Theodore Roosevelt
is a rare president. He is just the
man the nation needs at this time. Mil
lions of Americans are to-day devoutly
thankful that the accident which took the
lives of two other men did not take
the vastly more valuable life of the
president.
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For Actual Settlers Only.

Lax enforcement Of government land
laws and evasions and violations of them
have so long continued that many per-
they have a grievance against the depart
ment of the interior because 1t has an
nounced that the spirit of the new irriga-
ton law is to animate it in dealing with
public lands affected by the application
of that law.
Every effort was made by the trainers
of the irrigation law to confer the benefits
of government irrigation work upon actual
settlers only. To this end the measure
as originally written, was , sweepingly
amended, and only the homestead portion
of the land laws was made applicable tc
the lands to be benefited by public irriga
ton. But this did not seem to be much
of barrier TO men who had bent the
homestead laws to speculative ends be.
fore. Why not, they said get a location
In some valley that is to be irrigated, the
Milk river. for instance, spend a day OF
two on it from time to time, build. the
shanty and break the required amount o.
land. commute it at $3.50 per acre at tn,
end of fourteen months and have land tina
| will be worth $40 when the government
| ditch Is built? The spectators saw in
| finite possibilities in this scheme, old al
| it is. They would take claims in TIL
names of their sisters. cousins, aunts an,
| all relatives and friends who had not USE
| their rights" They might even--as }a
been done many time before-pay me-
| to take claims to sell to Them 3 TIL
scheme looked promising, until the secre
homestead laws would be literally: en-
forced. Then it lost its glamor. AS som
six months Of actual gexidencaaar neces
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sary even for communication, the scheme
lost its observation-disclosures
Spectators are all right in their place.
But for their enterprise the northwest
would not be settling so rapidly as 1t now
is, great land grants would be tied UP, and
the rich agricultural lands of these states
would not be quoted at somewhere near
their actual value. But~the justification
of the government irrigation work is tc
provide more homes for the people as
cheaply as possible. This purpose will
be defeated if sham homesteaders and
non-residents are allowed to stand be-
tween any genuine settler and an oppor.
tunitS to get piece Of the rich lanc
which only needs the water the govern
ment will provide to be better than any
land in the humid regions
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PROPOSAL BY PIANO.
By>JAMEs GORDON

the parlor the strains of a popular song,
"Ain't 1t a Shame? The guitar promptly
answered, TIE Waited, Honey-Waited
Long For YOU Back from the piano
rang 81 Thought Heard Somebody Call
ing Me-" And she smiled again as
moment later the music changed to Take
Your Clothes and Co." for she realized
that this musical hint was not for her.
Carl waited a moment for her comment,
which came tinkling in the refrain of
You're All Right, but You Don't Ring
In to be answered by Il Don't Want to
Play in Your Yard and won't You Come
Out and Play?" from the piano
Clarice glanced at her aunt. I'm the
Sweet By and By she played, and eager
response came in ooh, Promise Me-" and
that his meaning might be perfectly clear,
Carl ran in few familiar bars from the
"Lohengrin' wedding march. A vivid
blush mounted to the girls forehead. and
she glanced nervously at her aunt Sure
| ly such a keen-eyed chaperon must mark
| her embarrassment. For a moment the
guitar lay untouched. Clarice was pom
dering the question, and not until the
| first few strains Of ANSWER" f1oated out
upon the night did she again pick up her
! instrument. But her decision had now
| been reached, and right bravely she played
| ''Tu Be Your Honeysuckle; You Be the
| Bee"
| A mighty crash emanated from the pia-
no, followed by the lively chorus Of I'm
! the Luckiest Coon in Town; q seconds
Pause, then, with martial swing, Hold the
Fort, for I Am Coming!
! When Carl stepped out on the piazza,
| Mrs. Harvan regarded him with an unfa-
vorable eye. When he bent over Clarice's
| hand she froWned. But this mild disap-
prevail changed to vehement gestures
when he caught up the mouthpiece of the
flexible ear trumpet the elder woman
| carried.
/ IT have asked Carice to marry me.
Mrs. Harvan," he explained, and she says
yes. I must go abroad on Saturday next,
and I'd like to take her with me. We can
be married you pass through New
/ York tomorrow, sail planned on Sat-
urday and buy that trousseau in Paris.
know you don't want to be separated from
CIarice, and I don't blame you; SO won't
you come with us?'
when did you ask herr" demanded the
old lady suspiciously.
Just now" he made answer into the
ear trumpet II played my proposal on
the piano. =
i Mrs. Harvan stared at him in amaze
ment then smiled grimly.
"Weu if you were shrewd enough to
do that you were bound to get her some
time, SO I might as we'll yield. But as
for that trip, don't care for the sea, and
II guess you'd enjoy your honeymoon
better alone. Now, I'm going upstairs.
Clarice, and don't you stay up later
than 12."
With colors still flying and her head
high, she marched down the broad piazza
, and it was a pity that she could not near
the air, strummed by masculine fingers
, on Clarice's guitar, For She's Jolly
Good Fellow
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THE MAGAZINES.

H. G. Wells, the well-known writer OF
semi-scientific stories, begins a series Of
papers in The Cosmopolitan for Septem-
Der, discussing world problems under the
title THE New Republic" The first
paper is entitled Mankind and the Max
ing There is interesting Illustrated
paper on THE Cars Simple Life" by
Fritz Norris. The Captains of Industry"
series contains in this number, biogra-
plies of l. H. Patterson, Sir H S. Maxim,
H. H. Rogers J. w. Gates, G. R. Flint and
John Arbuckle. .. -.
What To Eat Chicago. Pierce Publish
ing company does not scare worth a
cent" over the high price of edible com
modities, but tantalizes the party of mod
crate purse by many attractive recipes
for new ways of preparing meats. One of
these, the chop suey fad, over which New
York society is wild, is a Chinese treat
ment Of pork. DR.. Felix Oswald continues
his dietic health hints and firmly advises
us to get ourselves down to a meal and
half day, instead of attacking, like
vultures, three spreads.
The Bookman has a chapter on humor
by La Touche Hancock, who tells what
some of the humorists like John Hendrick
Bangs, Dorothy Dix, C. L. Loonlis, George
Ade Ambrose Bierce, think of their own
work. They generally admit to writing
under heavy pressure. Carolyn Wells
could not exactly tell how she did her
work II Father think it does me-" said
she Will hampton says, instead of wait
ing for the divine afflatus, I simply jump
aboard a train of thought and away co.
Minna Irving admits she is 'saddest when
I'm gladdest." Ambrose Bierce writes
with my legs inter-twisted, while exud-
ing globes of perspiration and achieving
copious protrusions of tongue" One of the
best features in the number is Rousillon' s
illustrated Trench Men of Letters in
Caricature," and readers will be inter
ested in Jane Parkers discussion of the
question WAS Talleyrand Born at Mount
Desert, Manner"
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Apply the Law.

One Of the provisions Of the primary
election law which is now evoking much
discussion and difference of opinion as to
it's application in practice is that which
directs that the voter shall receive "a bal
lot Of the political party with which he
then declares (under OATH, If his right
thereto is challenged) that he AFFILIATED;
and whose candidates he generally sup
ported at the last general election, and
with which party he proposes to affiliate
at the next election"
This provision was designed to meet
one Of the most generally made criticisms
Of the Hennepin county primary law, viz,
that it placed no obstacle in the way Of
democrats nominating republicans and
vice versa.
1t was and is widely and justly felt that
only members Of a party are entitled to
+ participate in the selection of it's candi-
| dates for office. It is true that under the
Hennepin law the voter received the bal
| lots OF both: parties and that under the
new law he is to, receive only one. But
| If he were not required to make a state
ment Of party utilization before receiving
that ballot there would be nothing to pre-
| vent democrats taking and voting repub-
lican primary tickets.
1t is also true that the law, if strictly
applied, will keep an honest and sincere
convert from voting the primary ticket of
his new party and also of his old party. In
fact it DISTINGUISHES him so far as the
primary election is concerned
If the voter counts himself a repub-
tlican, but Scratched" to such an extent
| two years ago that he voted for more
democrats than republicans he must,
If he is perfectly honest, vote the demo-
cratic ticket at the primary this year and
announce his intention to vote it at the
final election, if he votes at the primary
at" all.
At first glance it seems unfair and un.
just to exclude any voter from the pri.
mary election privilege.
But the primary is party affair, merely
placed under state regulation by the new
law.
The republican primary ticket is for re.
publicans and the democratic for demo
) Gratis.
II man changes his politics let hin
give evidence of his change of faith by hi
works AS a novitiate he can hardly ex
pect to exercise the privilege Of an Ok
; member before he has undergone proba,
ton.
It is very essential that party lines b.
maintained in primary elections. For,
they are not, the party feeling will eventu
ally assert itself in the destruction of tn
new system.
=. AS the spirit and the letter of the lay
are in perfect accord it is plainly the dut
Of election judges not to give a voter
ballot until they have ascertained to thei
!, satisfaction that he is asking for the bal
, lot: of the party which heagenerally sup
ported at the last election and which h
8 intends to support at the approachin
9 election. Only by such vigilance on TIL
!, part of the judges, and if need be, {
, party challengers, can the new law b
" given fair test and such perversions c
=, it avoided as that which permitted tn
q democrats to help make Anes the repuh
lican candidate for mayor two years ago
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To avoid misconception of these fig
ures, it must be borne in mind that Pres
ident Mckinley got 26,902 votes in Hen
nepin county, or 1900 more than Mr..
Fletcher. Many democrats voted for the
republican candidate for president and for
congress, on national issues, who sup
ported the democratic state and local
tickets. However, not SO many voted for
Mr.. Fletcher as for President Mckinley.
1t is also a we'll know intact that many
democrats were opposed to Mr.. Fletcher
opponent, Senator Stockwell, on personal
grounds, and that he lost much of the
party strength for that reason.
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The arrest Of Captain Edward Williams,

- The arrest OF Captain Edward Williams,
manager, of the Masonic Temple building,
Chicago, for uttering false tax receipt
for s2e,770, is said to be only. the first
move on a lot of tax dodgers In that
city. Very sensational developments are
expected involving men prominent in
business, and developing the existence OF
a conspiracy of alarming proportions Tax
lodging seems to be justified in the minds
Of a good many people who are, sorupu-
..lously honest about meeting their sobliga-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-04

The Iowa democrats did not think II
necessary to bind themselves to the dead
corpse of the Kansas City platform, in
which respect they differ from the Ohio
democrats. But then the Iowa conven.
ton was not dominated by a boss who
has presidential aspirations which will not
let him antagonize the Bryan ring; al.
though he processes no faith in the 1e. to
proposition.
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The .NonpareiI Man
Casually Observed.
Otto Carmichael, u Washington CORES
pondent has annexed Haiti. ~

Casually Observed.
Otto Carmichael y Washington CORES
pondent, has annexed Haiti. -.
Fortunately twas only a Preside
The motorneer whoIwould run his car
like the man at -LenoxWesterday ought to
be driving an -autornorgue. =, Z !
Mr. Schwab's parting advice to young
men was, "Work hard.' Where have we
heard that before?
The ice man is beginning to worry.
The smoke inspector is wearing ground
glass spectacles for his eye trouble.
The civil service people have decided
that the postmaster may throw up his hat
and boiler when a political procession
goes by.
Mayor Tom L. johnson, of Cleveland,
has achieved the fine art of riding two
horses at the same time when they are
going in different directions This
art Mr.. johnson exhibited in all it's Won
| derful beauty yesterday to a delighted
| throng at the Ohio democratic convention
when he swallowed the Kansas City plat
form whole whilo opposing 16 to l.
The possibility of the feat Of standing
on the K. c. platform while opposing its
provisions is one that has given Mr.. Hill
of New York, and Mr.. German, of Mary.
land, many thoughtful hours. But they
never solved the problem. Yet here come:
! Mr.. Johnson, mere tyro in practical
politics, and by a little judicious politica
trigonometry, he manages to square the
| circle with one brain lobe tied behind his
| back.
There is a species of politician in Maine
who IS "for'' the prohibitory lazy bu
''agin" its enforcement. This is some
thing like Mayor Johnson's position on tn,
Kansas City platform. 1t satisfies Mr.
johnson and it ought to satisfy both tn,
Bryanites and the gold democrats.
Mr.. johnson has certainly exhibited al
the symptoms of first class Moses AM
| should be encouraged rather than frowne,
upon. The fact, too. that he is from
Ohio Is likely to give the republican ma
tional committee a few bad dreams Thi
column IS for Johnson and reform!
Dear Pap-The feed on the dining-car i
out O. sight. There is no end Of chicken
out in the tall grass, too, but your. chill
is out for auntiloope this trip, an h
don't fool with chickens. We had a mar
row escape yestiddy. saw an anima
that looked to me like a buffalo and
drawed a bead on it, The ball wen
through the high hat the man who own
,&this special train. = He said it was NIT
!: lgluckys L didn't hit Ethe, COW, for COWS cos
railroads so much already that they hav
Ito. combine. = Then they all laughed Blu
, [sn1e. Since thensI haven't hit anything
and looked to- see what was the matte
sand found they were feedin' me blan
cartridges t'for the safety of the public
f they explained. Say, I was sore! Jus
got the dispatch about your accident
:. Why didn't you hand that motorneer gu
a lefthander? So no more at presen
, from your aft. son, Teddy.
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tions in business. Perhaps one way to
account for it Is on the prevalence Of
the feeling that the money collected in
taxes is largely wasted anyway. Which,
Of course, is no Justification, since the
tax payers, in the last analysis, are re-
sponsible for the way public money is
spent, being responsible for the spenders.
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+ There is a peculiar kind of consistency
and morals which leads state fair man.
agement to rule out the selling Of pools
on the races and permits a bucketshop
( to use the fair grounds for the exploiting
of it's business. ...
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MINNESOTA POLITICS

In figuring on the fifth district con-
gressional fight it is interesting to COM
pare the Fletcher vote Of two years ago
with the vote for the state ticket. To
make, the comparison, the vote on satate
treasurer is fair criterion. 1t shows in
what sections of the city democratic votes
went to Mr.. Fletcher. He ran ahead in
all the wards but the sixth, tenth and
eleventh, and his greatest relative gain
was in the first The vote by wards for
Block and Fletcher was as follows:
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Semi Kansas prays for the rains to
cease and the humid Atlantic coast states
pray for them to fall. Maybe the semi
arid country is ceasing to be such. Parts
OF the west, notably the Canadian west,
have now for so many years received an
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-04
They See McCIeary's Hand.

Political sharps see in some of the SEN
atorial candidates in southwestern Mime
sofa an incipient McCleary campaign for
the United States senate. An instance
in point is O. G. Bale Of Madison. who
is competing with c.. A. Fosnes for the
republican nomination in the eighteenth
district. Mr.. Dale Is an old Mankato
normal disciple of the congressman, and
has been his committeeman in Lac qui
Parle for some years. There is an i'm
preston out there that it was the Nc
Cleary influence which brought him into
the field. Mr.. Dale Is a strong man and
can stand on his own feet, but the Clapp
men in the district will press him for a
declaration on the senatorship, in default
of which they will continue to class him
as a McCleary man.
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abundance Of rainfall that their in
habitants are seriously asking themselves
whether their climate has not undergone
a great change. -
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heavily and he also picks the Albert Lea
man as winner.
Solcitous for His Health.
Mr.. Johnsrud says that according TO last
reports Senator Knatvold will be out re-
Stunning his canvass by the first OF next
week. The Tawney newspapers nave all
spoken very kindly of Mr.. KnatVold since
his accident and wished him a speedy re-
covery, but as his friends they would
doubtless advise him to take care OF h1m-
self, and not start out too soon into the
strenuous game Of politics..
Congressman Tawney wired his regrets
as soon as he heard of the accident
Winona county republicans have no SEN
atorial candidate, unless they put lone on
by petition They realize that Senator
Fitzpatrick will be hard man to beat In
such a strong democratic county. He has
a clean legislative record.
TN. Pugh was down from Duluth yes
terday and promised that he would be
nominated for senator in the f1ftieth dis
trict over f. r. Jefferson. 1t. is possible
that Joseph Ward Reynolds will be the
democratic candidate in that district.
Charles B. Cheney.