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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-11

ever, the denizens of the Indies do make
snow OF pride and 1t develops when they
come in contact with a package Of butter
bearing the bald word "adulterated." They
balk. at that and pass the package up
AS result of this fastidiousness on the
part of the West Indian contingent, who
represent all the demand there is likely to
be for this unanalyzed compound known
as tropical butter, the numerous concerns
in the United States manufacturing it will
be compelled to go out of business, unless
the commissioner of internal revenue is
able to afford them some relief. That this
relief will be forthcoming Is exceedingly
doubtful; the commissioner asserts that It
Is not g. question Of Interpretation with
his office: the law is specific upon this
point and the authorities have no alterna-
tive but see that the spirit and letter Of
the statute are complied with.
Two of the largest concerns in New
York have already shut down and are pre-
pairing to move their plants to Canada. 1t
Is said all concerns making this product
will be forced out Of the business or to
join the oleo colony on the other side Of
the border Ea $50 -. s. +,
The sudden collapse Of the demand for
this tropical butter, which amounted to
many millions of pounds, annually, is
working serious hardship upon the
farmers in the sections adjacent to the
concerns making the butter. The price
has declined about 6 cents per pound and
for some reason it appears to have at
Efected the price Of the best grades of but
ter, also. II, .-..T - -" -.s
" e|1-,t Denmart's Secret.
It appears that the Denmark butter
makers have been getting the inside track
| In, the tropics and are getting the bulk
OF the business where a strictly first-class
article is desired. The reason for this Is
said to lie in the fact that the Danish but
ter makers have some secret process for
| preserving the freshness and favor of the
butter which the American creamery man
| has not discovered. Nil .--#
France has stepped in and gobb1ed w
| the cheap trade, heretofore supplied by
| the tropical butter, there being no law in
| France requiring that mixed butter shall
| carry upon its own package the words
which In the eyes Of the consumer con-
denim it.
The Roasted Salt Color.
| Speaking of the proposition to circum.
vent the law imposing a tax of 10 cents
per pound upon cOlored oleo by roasting
common salt and mixing it with white
! o;eC, giving the mass golden shade, sim
| liar to that of June butter, the commits.
J stoner said he understood that such a pro.
| cess had been discovered, but that it haG
not as yet been officially brought before
him. AS a matter Of fact he remarked
| that scores Of people were apparently sit.
ting up nights endeavoring to devise
schemes to beat the law recently passed
by congress. He could not say whether
| these people would succeed in their enter
Iprises or not; he should take up matter.
as they came before his office and decide
the propositions upon, their merits.
/ g.. w. w. Jermane,
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city and it was simply my own mental
anguish and the fact that my wife was
destitute and probably starving in ST.
Louis that led me to come back. My wife
wrote me that she had discovered her let
tiers had been. destroyed when they went
through members of the gang and she
came herself to Mexico.
Il agreed with her that it was better tc
make clean breast of my wrong doing
and do what I could to rectify my mis-
take and returned with her to st. Louis
The rest everybody knows y.
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OVER 1900 MILES
Marconi Solves the Problem for That
Distance.

Rome, Sept. Marconi in an inter
view published here, declared he has COM
pletely solved the. problem of sending
wireless messages over a distance Of more
than 1900 miles and that he Is confident
that communication between Europe and
America will be established In the imrne-
date future He IS to visit King Victor
Emanuel Sept. IL.
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nEArH roL1oWs a auNAwAY.

Fred Lipde, a st. Paul teamster. was injured
in a runaway accident on Eighth street, st. Paul,
yesterday, and died an hour later at the city
hospital. The horses became frightened and Mr..
Iinde fell from; the seat in front of the rig.
10th wheels passed over his body.
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ST. PAUL'S DIVIDEND
It Is Three and One-half Per Cent
With an Extra"

New York, Sept. 1.-THE directors OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul in
session here to-day, declared a. semi-an-
dividend of "a of per cent. The last
dividend was semi-annual one of 3
per cent. ~.
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. .
The farmers, who cast four-fifths of that
vote, will name the candidate If they
turn out. Otherwise, the cities and viii
lagos will do the nominating. No man at
tempts to predict the result with any
degree Of certainty.
Charles B. Cheney.
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A HOT FIGHT
IN The NINTH
There Are Five Competitors for the
Republican Congressional Nomi-
nation in the Big District.
Grindeland of Warren and Valentine
of Breckenridge Seem Neck and
Neck for the Lead, Nv. ).
While STEVENSON of Crookston Is a
Dangerous Third-The Can
vass a Personal One.

The republican congressional nominal
ton In the ninth district is believed to lie
between Andrew Grindeland of Warren
and Ezra Valentine Of Breckenridge, with
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-11
CALLN IN FUNDS.

State Treasurer julius Block has called III
S2OO0OO of state funds on deposit in country
banks to meet incidental expenses which must
be paid before the November tax settlement,
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r.
IN
THE CLEO TRADE
A Steram of Butter Lawyers Makes
Life Interesting for the In a
ternal Revenue Man. ~.
Renovated, and Adulterated. Butter
Badly Tropical Butter
:. Is Laid Low.
Denmark Farmers Have a Secret for
Preserving Butter That Is}of
T.. Great Value. :>

From, The Journal Bureaw, Room. 81. Posi-
Building, Wasiinato'. ..- .--
Washington, Sept. 11.-Commissioner
Yerkes' office which was not arranged
for that purpose, has been converted into
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-19
Iron. but No Coal.

It Is reported that negotiations are un-
der way for the transfer from the Fill in
terests to the United States Steel com
Minnesota estimated to contain 800, OO0,-
900 tons of ore. This vast mass of ore
would last ten years if all the miners in
the lake region were turned on to it, and
will probably last the steel company at
least thirty years.
The dispatch that brings this news rep
resents a steel company official rs say
ing that Minnesota is unfortunate in not
having large bodies of coal. It possesses
iron ore and limestone in abundance, and
If it only had COAL should according to
this official, be great iron and steel
that Minnesota which Is the greatest iron
ore producing state . in the union is
hardly in the list of iron making states.
!. To the layman it is always a source of
wonder that iron can not be made just
as well near the ore as near the coal.
fleets in the world carries oyff ore nearly
1000 miles to meet the coal. Why the
coal cannot be carried the other way to
meet the ore is something the layrnan
can't understand. Doubtless there is a
reason for it. and good one, too, but
the CIergue theory. we believe, lis that
the nearer you can get your iron and steel
mills to the raw material the, better the
location. Just at present, in view of the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-19
American Free Trade,

. The house of representatives voted yes
terday to reduce the tariff on Philippine
products from IS per cent to IS per cent
hope that the senate will concur, but the
action OF the house undoubtedly reflects
the will Of the people.
The time is coming when there will be
free trade between the Philippines and
the United States, and the sooner the
change is made the better:
To other nations the stars and stripes
may stand for All almost impregnable
tariff barrier. but for the country and the
dependent regions over which they float
they have characteristically stood for free
trade. Every addition to American terri
tory so far has meant the extension of
the area in which people may trade with
each other without the restraints, restric-
t1ons and annoyances of tariffs. In one
sense the United States is to-day the
greatest free trade nation in the world,
In no other part Of the world are so many
people Of such high civilization and such
great commercial capacities permitted to
trade freely with each other over an i'm
perial territory at 100000 square miles.
1t is fngrained in the nation that there
shall be no artificial trade barriers of a
permanent nature where the flag Of the
republic floats. The nation writhed under
the Porto Rico tax and sighed with relief
when 1t was raised. Conditions in the
Philippines during the period of. recon
struction have been enough different from
those in Porto Rico to make us less anx.
tous about free trade with the Philippines
but. the time IS coming when the nation
will demand that = r. -. j.. :. c.' !,
Commissioner Wright says that it is TO,
20 the best interests of the Philippines tt
have free trade with the United States
notwithstanding the views Of some of gu,
county commissioners elected by mistake
to congress; and 1t will serve the interests
of the United States to have free trad,
with the Philippines. =. ~. = :, ..>.
At present we supply them with only {
fraction Of their imports. We ought t,
send them almost all.
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had used every legitimate means without
avail. Is it unreasonable to believe that
they had recourse to the elasticity of dag
nosis to produce the very remarkable cpl
ien1ic which prevailed in Cleveland dur
ing the past summer? III other words,
that measles, chickenpoX and other erup-
tive fevers were reported as smallpox? At
all events, the Chamber of Commerce was
forced to take hand in the game, APP
pointed committee to investigate, and
without attempting to go behind the med
zeal statistics, they reported that the pub
lie danger had been exaggerated. How
ever, with the sagacity of the counting
room. they saw what was necessary to
quiet the medical agitators and advised
everybody to get vaccinated.
+ I am reliably Informed that over 100000
persons have been vaccinated in Cleveland
in the past six months. The sum realized
directly and indirectly from those vaccin-
ated has assuaged the local anxiety in the
medical breast. The only fear now is
that Cleveland as object lesson will be
misread by the incompetent, non-medical
public and that sanitation will have to be
fought and discredited in other cities. To
prevent these calamities every effort is
making to hypnotic the public into I'M
CONSCIOUSNESS of the facts. 1t cannot be
done,s however; there are too many widely
read journals which are free from medical
domination. -Lora c. Little.
1.-THE implication, Of this article that the
medical profession of Cleveland were I'M
worthily Influenced by niercenary- consid-
erations is to be understood as resting
upon the. authority, of the writer: of the
above alone; we have not found the pro-
fession SO infiuenced.-Ed. J ournaL1
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p.
The Modern Way. :

1t is enthusiastically modes,lH for a
banking house to butt into" an interna-
tional financial row and propose to set
tie the disputed account in return for be-
ing appointed custodian of the debtor
nation S customs houses pending liquida;
ton. It reminds us of how essentially
economic interna tional rela lions have now
become 90.
From the news to-day it begins to look
as if the Venezuelan trouble would work
out this way:
United States Minister Bowen will act
as a sort of judge in bankruptcy pro-
ceedings and a New York banking house
will discharge the baa1krupt's debts and
take charge OF his. business, i. e: the
customs, until it has been reimbursed, to-
gether with fat commission.
r h G j a ! pointed the opportnn-
ity out to Pierp Morgan the other day,
but the old man was too slow.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-19
IN A NUTSTIELL>.....
The Reservoir the Good That viii Come

other than this world would have been
amazed the stupendous British have done in
Egypt by danining Nile Assonan This great
which was formerly dedicated "Wednesday week had
really been completed for year. The work begun
February 1885, $4,000 o0 and completed
ahead of time. though the working
fined to eight months. During much of this time the
thermometer indicate 80 degrees m shade AT times
H. dam and
$4,000 the barrage lock at Assiout Most of the
workmen natives, but as many as 900, European
employed, most of them Italians
include besides the dam proper the Assiout
which increased supply of
the Ibrahaimeh canal navigation channel at Assouan,
Assou head of the lbrahaimieh
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-19
OTHER PEOPLES NOTIONS
Smallpox and Vaccination.

To the Editor of The Journal: $5s.,at
Knowing that your readers will be inter-
ested to learn further facts about the
smallpox epidemic in Cleveland. I beg to
offer the following as a, supplement to the
article on the subject which appeared: UNI
der CITY News in The O urn a ! of
Dec. 49, .-. ....,..l..... -.
fDr. Friedrich, Cleveland.s health officer.
abolished vaccination, not because he is
opposed to it in theory but because it
was proving so dangerous in practice that
it could be enforced with great difficulty.
and the law was fast becoming dead let
ter. (See his pamphlet. How We Rid
Cleveland Of Smallpox 49, Ftt
Smallpox had existed in Cleveland since
1898. much of the time as an epidemic,
and vaccination had been worked to the
limit of public patience, when DR.. Fried
rich, in July, 1901. decided to drop it and
try sanitation. From Aug. 90, 1901, to
about April 1, 1902, not one case of small
pox originated in Cleveland, according to
DR.. .F'riedrich's own statement. To what
can this remarkable immunity be attrib-
.uted? No other large city In the United
States was free from smallpox during the
seven months between these dates. Min
neapolis had over 800 cases In that time
The result of Dr. Friedrich's experiment
pleased everybody but the medical men.
They were alarmed and with reason: a
cherished dogma, on which rests more
than the average layman comprehends.
was in danger of being overthrown. They
urged the great danger of non=vaeeina-
tion,, when they know--those who know
anything Of vaccination statistics-that
the state of Utah has abolished compul-
sorry vaccination without Ill result, and
the city of Leicester, Eng, has been prac
tically unvaccinated for twenty years,
with the result that it is and has been
freer Of smallpox than any city of its
class in Great Britain.
The Cleveland doctors trusted to the
public ignorance Of these and similar
facts. and continued their efforts to get
compulsory vaccination in force again.
Winter. the season of smallpox, passed.
and still no smallpox appeared except a
very small number of imported cases.
Now. diagnosis and report, the basis OF
medical statistics, rest with the doctors.
The Cleveland doctors knew what would
reinstate compulsory VACCINE ton. They
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Profitable Annexatiou.:

In northwestern Indiana millions of
dollars will be spent to drain and make
tillable some hundreds of thousands of
acres of land. -. 80: - =
So long as there was good land in
Iowa for $25 an acre, SO long as there was
good land in Minnesota and Dakotas for
$40 an acre or the trouble of taking it
from Uncle Sam, no one thought of drain
ing swa1nps even 50 near Chicago But
with the rise in the price of land, with
the public domains supply Of accessible
land arabic without irrigation SO nearly
| exhausted, men are turning everywhere
in this great republic to efforts to redeem
land hitherto valueless for one reason or
another, or to the use of land lin regions
long neglected. In some places they
| are draining, in some places they are irri-
eating, in others they are, clearing; off the
forests. They are seeking out. the fer
tile valleys of the mountains and they
are turning to the cheap lands of the
great fertile, neglected south. They
are even surging oyer the northern
boundary and pushing into cold regions
which they would formerly have long
]
hesitated to enter. + -.,~ = tGs.
| Through all these agencies homes, for
millions will yet be found ON the land in
the United States, on land that has never
yet known the pillow. These homes will
be eagerly taken. There are unmistak-
able signs that men are losing some
thing OF their hot zeal to rush to the
great cities Modern improvements
are, giving the farm many of the advant-
ages of city life.
The farmer is getting the telephone.
he has the rural free delivery mail, which
is accompanied by rural delivery Of goods
by the carrier on his personal account.
He has machinery that is improved
every year and does more and more of
the hard work and gives him more and
more time to think and plan and manage.
The rush to the cities has already been
schecked IN Minnesota and Wisconsin and
Ea few other states. a larger proportion
/ of our people are living in the country
InoW than ten years ago It is a. good
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languorous joy. 1t was late afternoon,
and a womap's voice, gentle and refined,
was calling: prudence, come in. l need
YOU -.
Keith laughed a not 90 pleasant laugh.
$50 do T. he declared.
"A voice, deliciously willful, f1oated
through the open window. -
Il won't" it said. 1.-THE SUMS slipping
behind a far mountain, the woods are
painted, the valleys are splitting over with
gold mist
Keith's laugh rang out as it. should, and
he went to the window to view the young
person. It was young person, of course.
But she was gone-caught up, maybe, on
the curled-up edge of the crimson cloud
that, was sailing straight into the sunset
splendor. ~
In the gossip that rippled round the
clearinghouse table. that night he heard
that a widow and her niece who were to
spend the winter in the cottage next door,
had arrived Keith was a silent, unsoci-
able fellow, but his heart leaped unac-
county at the careess words.
1t was the name. he assured himself, a
name full of dignity and repose, that at
tracted him..
That night the name came between him
and the letter he wrote home. It danced
on the pages of misconceptions he cor
| rected. PrudenceEft was a delicious
name. = - y = 1888 3
''Pll be hanged if don't believe I'm be-
witched,'' said Keith irritably. He got UP,
went to the nantel and took down pic
| ture. l.
| you've got rival" He had formed
the lonely mans habit of sometimes
speaking to himself. She's not in the
| least like you. Her name is Prudence"
For the hundredth time Keith looked
| into the smiling eyes and wondered why
| a beautiful and cultured girl such as the
| picture declared her to be. should take
this hoydenish way of making mans
acquaintance.
| = Fancy man returning from long
day hunt In the Maine woods to find a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-19
DAILY DIVERSION

Seton Sang to. Them.-Elnest Thomp-
son-seton-hez of animal STORYTELLING and
converted name fame-was describing, to
a. clergyman the other. day some of his
experiences with various animals, partic-
ularly squirrels -
81: 1t is an astonishing fact, said Mr..
Seton that | found, after a few tests.
that could attract squirrels. howsoeyer
wild, by singing to them. Whenever /
sang they would come out of their holes
or down from the trees. and though at
first showing some timidity sit and listen
intently and apparently with enjoyment.
! remember one day. however, when. after
singing them various songs-ra time and
others tried Old Hundred on them
Would you believe it, the instant they
heard it they scampered off. nor could j
induce them to return that day And to
this day can understand why
The clergyman, a far-away look in his
eyes, suggested very briefly:
Probably they were afraid you would
next proceed to take up a collection
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-19
A Song of Good Times.

There was nothing gloomy about that
interview Governor Van SAINT gave. T. h e
urnal yesterday. D. It was redolent
of savory prosperity, 1T smelled OF fat bank
accounts, trade channels running full to
the banks, fat cattle we'll flied granaries,
easy. money, INDEPENDENT farmers. Brisk
markets, good wages, work for everybody.
The governor is prophet of prosperity
without Ifs He unqualifiedly pre-
diets the continuance of good times. j..
J. Hill was represented as saying that the
times must soon be worse because they
are now so good. but Governor Van SAINT
thinks that they will continue to be good
because they are SO good. He considers
that prosperity is the child of prosperity.
Governor Van SAINT says the American
farmer was never SO independent as now
There are other worlds for the trusts to
conquer yet then.
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place. Navigation past Assouan will
now be the around instead of in high water only
formerly. $50 5
The straight miles long <eItis twenty
three feet wide at atts deepest part eighty-
two feet The height is 1S1 feet The reservoir will flood
thesNe valley for distance fifty miles south of Assouan
during the months between December The stored
head on the dam will be six ty five feetf SIR s6
The Assouan will asreser4oif supply the
Nile during the months, when is most
needed and naturally the scarces The AssIout barrage
will improve the Ibraaimfeh canaf that about
of land will irrigation the
land already under perennial irrigation il Middle Egypt
Fayru will receive improved irrigation during the summer
months. . . >. q
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sUescRlPTIoN TERMS
An Industrial War.

The anthracite arbitration commission is
listening to a lot Of irritating testimony.
The case of the miners concluded with
nroof that at least one of the operators
had undertaken to deceive the commission
by making It believe that certain wages
went to two men whereas they were dis
tributed among four or more.
Now the operators lead OFF their case
with maddening testimony Of the crueltles
of the boycott and intimidations practiced
by the union miners against the working
non-union men. Men We're murdered
wounded. ostracized, deprived of the ne
oessaries of life. because they chose to ex-
lsrcise the free Americans right to work if
he pleases. -
A strike Is an industrial war and It is
hell about as much as a war of armed
forces, though not so destructive Of human
life.
Conditions in the anthracite region to-
day are in many respects similar to those
following a civil war. Churches have
been broken up. lasting hatreds have been
'engendered. old friends are sworn enc
mics, society is demoralized and chaotic.
And just as ultimately other regions
than those Of the actual theater Of warfare
suffer- SO large area Of the United States
lis suffering these cold winter days because
Of the Industrial tragedy in Pennsylvania.
Men starved to death in Manchester. Eng
land. because of the civil war in America.
and men have frozen to death in New York
because Of the industrial disorder in Penn
sylvanla.
But out of all this evil some good must
come. The civil war gave us the end of
slavery and the coal war has advanced a
generation Of average thought progress the
movement towards more equitable indus
trial conditions in America. One more
strike would probably take the anthra cite
mines out Of private ownership, and for
that very reason there will not be another
strike there for many year.