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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-10
pains should be taken not to exclude from
favor any meritorious candidate.
At last the oleomargarin bill is law.
Tawney and McCleary will now tell their
constituents how eacL did it all.
THE WEST INDIAN CATACLYsM

The later reports touching the volcanic
eruption and earthquakes in the leeward
and windward island groups would indi-
cate calamity of extraordinary horror.
Under such visitations there is always
more or less exaggeration. Few people.
under the stress of such visitation, can
keep cool. Many so insane. The Judg-
ment is bewildered and falters. When the
heavens rain fire and yincandescent stones
and the earth yawns beneath ones feet
and frightful explosions almost destroy
the use of the auditory nerve, and per-
sonal peril Is more apparent than In the
horrors Of even a great battle field. the
impression is, apt to be made that, like
the awful submergence of the lost At
lantis, huge segment of the earth has
been blotted out OF existence. 1t is pos
sible, indeed, that under such a visitation
as that which has desolated Martinique
and wrought fearful disaster throughout
the Windward and Leeward islands, tho
mortality has exceeded 100000, for the out
side world has not yet heard from the
whole field Of ruin. 1t is possible, too,
that other old craters may blow off their
lids and eject their glowing masses of
ashes, dust and liquid stones.
Yet treacherous as apparently extinct
volcanoes are, people build houses about
them, even up to their very lips. and
take life easy. The eruption described so
graphically by the younger Pliny, and by
which the elder Pliny lost his life by pur-
suing his observations too closely, oc-
CURED after calm Of several centuries.
The sides of the mountain were clot he'd
with gardens and vineyards and fine farms
and villas, and three notable Roman wat
ering places we're planted at its base. An
earthquake occurred some years before
the eruption Of the year 79, but the
houses demolished were rebuilt and all
went merry as a marriage bell until, sud-
denly, the top of the mountain began to
smoke and then the fearful discharge be-
gan which buried Pompeii, Herculaneum
and Stabise.
Since then Vesuvius has been regarded
with suspicion and has been in fiery oper-
alton at intervals since. The long pause
in its outbreaks, previous to that Of 79,
shows that no apparently extinct crater
to-day can be depended upon to keep
quiet. There are several supposed extinct
craters on the Leeward and Windward
islands and no doubt it will be found that
they have: contributed to the great de-
| struction. These volcanoes have been
quiet for the past century.
IT ( h1ed froY, ondop Drofeeenr
Milne, the seismologist, noticed no dis
turbance of his very sensitive instruments
| during the disturbances in the West In
dies, and he thinks Mount Pelee simply
had its head blown off by al tremendous
pressure of steam generated by subterra-
mean water and the internal heat of the
earth. But there is reason to believe that
the Titanic blows from below directly up
| ward, came from electro-motive force. !
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All attempts to let our English cousins
down easy on the trans Atlantic merger
were as vain as they were well-meant. 1t
is now plain that the cream Of the At
lantic shipping has passed to American
control, and there is nothing to prevent
the merger from building all it's new ships
in America, # it chooses. Well did An
drew Carnegie say that business doesn't
care a fig for the flag. The English
owners of these, great steamship lines
were probably as patriotic as other men,
but when it came to disposing of their
interests for handsome sums of money,
it seemed to make no difference to them
that their action was pushing little far
ther the process by which commercial
supremacy passes from Britain to
America.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-10
The WEEK IN BUSINESS

Some of the western railroads have
been reaching out this week and feeling
around with view to ascertaining what
may be expected in future westbound
tonnage. The roads know the crops will
make or unnake their earnings
Starting with hope and confidence in the
situation, and assuming that this is GER
tain to be a satisfactory crop year, they
are carrying their analysis further along
and covering every phase of the outlook
down to the most minute details.
In the advices received from agents at
many points there is much Of encourage
ment. Stocks of merchandise In the
hands of country merchants in the middle
west are found to be, on the whole, con-
siderably lighter than is usual at this
time. In the northwest they are moder-
ate. The southwest is carrying light
stocks as the natural result of the un-
certainty and recent fear of a winter
wheat failure, which prompted conserva-
tiveness. There is no noteworthy accum-
ulation anywhere, even in the staple COM
modities, which were purchased literally
early in the spring. --
The most gratifying feature of the gen.
eral business situation is the surprising
manner in which traffic on the western
roads Is holding up. Scarcely any falling
off In tonnage is noted, although the grain
and live stock movement Is light. The
enormous westbound traffic holds up the
total. Lumber, machinery and iron and
steel products are being rushed west
ward, and the present traffic is made up
in great part of the class of freight that
goes to build up a country. The west but
awaits assurance Of good crops when it
will buy heavily OF the finer merchandise,
go in for the satisfaction Of the more
superficial wants and take its full share
of the luxuries.
Could the country be rid of the labor
phantom there would be ready commit
ment to many of the new ventures now
being held up. For the entire week at
tention has been upon the anthracite coal
region, which presents the most serious
feature of the labor situation. There is
also the continued handicap to building,
and delay in finishing up old contracts,
caused by the delay In obtaining ma
terial.
Iron continues strong, but on the long
time contracts there are no material ad-
vances, the future strength arising ,prin-
cipally from renewed pressure for prompt
delivery.
Wall street has settled down after the
! furry caused by the suspensions Of houses
connected with the Meyer Webb syndi.
cate that marked the opening of the
week. Within a few days two smaller
| western roads, namely, Wisconsin Centra!
| and Chicago Great Western, have beer
leading to some extent, this accompanied
by rumors Of their absorption by tn.
great systems. Money was tighter thar
ordinarily, which had tendency to checl
! speculation in some degree.
| Minneapolis, with total Of $15,944.144
beats every city in the country this weel
in the proportionate~g gain in bank clear
ings. showing an increase equal to "a
iEper cent. This is asainst "a Increase o
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The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed.

ODSeENSu.
Rev. G. L. Morrill, made the parade with
Fields Minstrels the other day and sin sick
souls all along the line of march were moved
to forget their condition and indulge in CHEEKY
smiles.
Wrathful British papers find that the big
steamship people lied about the. deal. The
British will know more about business
of this kind later. 1t is unfortunate, but
such lying has to be done or the financial
peewees break up the deal. AT least, this
is what they tell US. Personally. most of
us would prefer to be comfortably poor and
retain our hardly won reputation for telling.
the truth if it breaks a suspender.
The hard coal barons refuse to arbitrate.
And the soft coal barons are just about
as obdurate. Burn peat!
One of the dattos who managed to duck
when the U. S. army exploded, has come in
with frightened look and asked for peace.
Well, there are a few of the peaces left, but
they come high.
]. L. Stack, the advertising agent, declares
from Chicago that there is no basis for the
story OF his being at the point of death.
Before Death gets an advertising man he
has to get his scythe snarpened.
; The king is said to be annoyed by the
shipping combine What right has king to
butt In on business matters, especially as
he knows that Mr.. Morgan holds the ace?
The small receipts of wheat this spring
show that the farmer has all kinds of money
in the bank and don't care, b'gosh!
The Pail Mall Gazette says the shipping
combine is grossly overcapitalized'' and
that freight rates will have to be raised to
pay interest on this capital. Perhaps the
P. NJ Gazette thinks It's friend Morgan is in
business for hygienic and sanitary reasons.
If the COW doesn't step on the new garden
or the children play tag among the sweet
peas, the governments bad weather report
flies the coop and then all the seeds quit
growing sit around the fire and tell how their
grandfathers were frozen to death in the
cold spring of 1854.
volcano is one of the most dangerous
attractions to have in q country. Granting
that it may attract some tourist trade and
make business good at the hotels, the danger
of eruption is SO great and the loss of prop
erty in case of eruption SO serious that a
live volcano. is never a paying Institution
for any country or even. state. For this
reason the county commissioners Of Henne-
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pebble in the organization is In no posi-
tion tosget general view Of the mighty
structure; he can see neither its founda-
tions nor It's SUBMITS. II he sets about to
inform himself by systematic reading and
observation he is apt to find that after
ten or twelve hours of daily labor he has
left little energy or time for the studies
he longs for. These are things that a man
should know in; a general and theoretical
way before he enters business II he has
set his ambition upon the topmost rung
of the ladder. These are matters that
can be pursued in the college far bet-
ter than elsewhere.
College executives and trustees are re-
ceding from their former position that
no special training Is required for busi-
ness and that a general college course
is as good a preparation as anything, it
being held by them that with the general
discipline of that course the college man
would acquire in a few months the prac-
tical experience ard business knowledge
gained in as many years by the man with
out college training. They are coming to
recognize that there is as much room
within college walls for education in COM
merce as there is in engineering, law,
medicine, agriculture, ETC.
With respect to these professions it has
long been, the custom in many colleges to
begin to dtfferentiate the course Of in
struction, for those who wish to follow
them, from the regular academic courses
n 10 iryn
times. in The sophomore years. While
taking some studies in the general cur
riculum, they are taking others OF a
special nature. Sometimes the differ
entiation is so great that special degree
is granted a the end of four years. Some
times year or two more are required
and often where three or four years are
required iii the professional colleges the
last year in the academic course or per-
haps the last two years, are counted in
both courses. '-~.@ ?
Now similar courses, sometimes
amounting to the dignity of separate de-
partments or colleges, are; being estab-
lished for commerce. Dartmouth COL
lege, assisted by a beeuest of $sOO,0ol
from the late Amos Tuck of New York
leads in this movement. The course Is
| open to college graduates and lasts two
years, but students at Dartmouth may
combine the senior academic. year with
the first wear in the commercial college
| so that five years at college finds then
equipped with an excellent business edu-
cation. The universities of Michigan
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Chicago. Cali
fornia, Vermont and South Dakota, ar.
also devoting much attention to CONNER
cial: educati g..
The great value of a commercial courss
in a college is that while especially fit;
ting the student with information and un,
derstanding Of business he is not de-
prived Of the advantages of broad ant
general culture. When business men gen
orally are men of such education bust
ness life will! not be considered diyergen
from culture and the higher life an
more than the. so-calIed liberal profes
sions are now. And the same time the
will be better business men for their col
lege training.
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COMMERCIAL EDUCATION

The long and often acrimonious dispute
between those who would have everybody.
capable of assimilating it have a col
lege education, and those who in
sist that men who intend TO enter busi-.
ness are better off without a college
course win come TO an end one of these
days with a COMPROMISE in the form of
commercial course or college in all the
universities.
It is rather strange that there should be
so many who oppose a college education
for business men in these days when the
college engineer; the college electrician,
the college LAWYER. the college doctor and
the college newspaper man are as a. rule
taking all the best places in their lines
of work. A man doesn't become great
bridge engineer or great mechanical en-
gineer nowadays by beginning as an ap-
prentice to a caroenter or blacksmith.
| Scarcely any Of the men who enter bridge
building or machine making in that way
now rise to the top Of the callings. The
| college educated men who go from the
college to fairly good places to begin with
are the ones who get the best places and
most responsible places in those careers.
The great business enterprises Of to-
day have reached such a scope and are SO
highly and complexly organized that a
general study of underlying principles OF
modern business and it's relations to poll
tics and history is almost Indispensable
to him who would be captain Of indus
i try in the next generation. There must
be. too, broad and philosophic studies OF
accounting systems, OF transportation, OF
political economy and of modern eiviliza-
1 ton in general. This is preciselY the in
! formation and training that il is almost
impossible to get after one has embarked
in business. The humble clerk down In
one OF the Yalleys OF lbusine S.. q raers
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-10
THE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE

Those who may have entertained the
fear that athletic sports and contests en-
gage the interest and enthusiasm Of the
young people of the schools to the exclu-
sion of interest in their regular school
work, would have had their ideas on that
point corrected If they could have wit
messed the splendid contest in the arena
of debate which took place in the univer-
sity chapel last night.
The final contest of the Minnesota High
School Debating League was participated
in by the three representatives of the Le
Sueur high school and three from the
Glenwood high school, the series of local
and inter district debates having elimi-
mated all the other schools and having
reduced the struggle for supremacy to
these two. The full account of the even
ing work is given in another column, but
T e Journa is inclined in this con-
nection to express its great qualification
at the character of the final contest. The
young people certainly acquitted them
selves with great credit upon both sides,
and while, of course, it was necessary
that some one should win, the fact that
the decision of the judges was not unani-
nous, and that those who agreed upon the
winning team were ready to concede to
the other almost if not quite equal skill,
indicates that the unsuccessful team was
defeated with honor.
1t must have been a surprise to any one
not familiar with the attainment Of the
high school pupils OF these days to wit
ness the skillful manner in which the ar
guments pro and con were arrayed, and,
particularly, the manner in which the con
testants, in their short rebuttal speeches,
which must necessarily be extempore
drove straight at the points in controver-
sy, and arrayed their facts and arguments,
offensive and defensive. r., n
The first year of the High School De-
batting League has certainly terminated In
manner which will stimulate interest In
the work of the league during the coming
year. T h e ou n extends it's con
gratulations to the winpers. It feels
amply repaid for the service which it has
| undertaken to render to the league by
providing a handsome and substantial
! trophy to be contested for, and INDUCES
in the hope that all contests may be con.
Quoted with such manifest fairness an6
| good feeling on the part of all concerned
as was exhibited last evening from begin
ming to end. - ' ~
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Too MUCH "PUFFERY"

It We were 60 make up our estimate OF
the value of the literary output of these
days by means of sort of composite of
the most extravagant things said nv the
thousand and one reviewers about the
books that please each of them most, we
should come to judgment which would
SO glorify this age that the Victorian and
Elizabethan ages Of English literature
would be utterly cast into the shade:
Shakspere and Spenser, Mariowe and
Johnson; Tennyson and Wordsworth.
Dickens and Thackeray. Taking America
by itself we should conclude that there
had arisen score of brighter stars for
each one that ,shone in the armament of
which England was so proud in the mid
die of the last century,
1t is indeed a poor, wretched piece of
fiction that can not find some reviewer to
call it "the book of the year" or ''the great
est since Dickens" Suggestive Of
Balzac,' recalling Thackeray at
this BEST or something of the
sort. Among some Of the ex-
travagant sentences used by critics of
standing of nearly as many different cur
rent books or authors are the following:
Nothing more graphic has ever burst from
red-hot inspiration.
It leads the procession at one bound
The greatest female writer and thinker
of the Slav world.
A book that will live and its influence will
be far-reaching.
Undoubtedly the best book OF. the year.
1t will undoubtedly become classic.
Tho iefs had
ance yet accomplished on this continent.
The most splendid achievement Of any
American man woman in fiction.
The highwater mark of romance is
reached.
I The great American novel.
The most noteworthy book of recent years
Tremendous force and power.
So exceptionally, delightful that one in
voluntarily searches to find emergency ad-
| jectives. s,5 s ST Il II.
L "A volume of uncommon ability and in
iterest. - $E:.. 81 g =. sz.5s
| "A novel OF the, first class. .-zEs -Es
| The rapidity with which their great
l5American novels and their most note
worthy books Of the year and their high
water marks OF fiction disappear in the
mass OF the commonplace after a year or
two ought to be enough to warn reviewers
lsagainst being too ready: to discover new
l|literary peaks. ia work pleases them
! and is good let them say so, but let them
beware OF attempting tosmake a classic
of it with a few lines Of typewriting, or
i establish it next to the masters of the
1 past because it appears to rank we'll up
with the stars of the present.
It is hardly necessary to warn our i'm
petuous. generous reviewers against the
other extreme of being toe severe. But
there is, here and there, harsh voice
calling for fierce, savage reviewers. who
shall relentless1y slay and exterminats
every hook that can not proye an unim-
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-10

81 The Pioneer Press thinks that the mer-
ger sis not and can not be a substantial
question in Van SAINTS nomination or
election On the contrary it has so far
been a substantial question in the pre-
be substantial question in his election.
The governors stand on the merger ques-
tion is at once an assurance of the NOM
ination and also the cause of what oppo-
sition has developed to him. 1t will,
moreover, insure his election by a hand
some majority.
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]. ]. Hills Minneapolis organ is try
ing to break the news gently to him. 1t is
apologetically and humbly explaining that
he mustn't take the rude rebuff of his at
tempt to break into politics as in anyway
personal or as proof that the people are
opposed to his merger. 1t seems from
this explanation that the people are not
opposed to Hill because he has opposed
Van SAINT, but that they are neverthe-
less for Van SAINT because he opposed
HILL. After this Mr.. Hill will sleep
peacefully. ~ ~
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J. Pierpont Morgan is the Napoleon of
the American invasion, whose goods and
dollars are now marching to the as
sault of every citadel Of commerce in the
foreign world The scope and number of
the mans foreign enterprises, to say
nothing of the domestic undertakings that
articulate with them, ''2are not known 0
many. In shipping. in manufactures, in
banking, he Is laying the foundations of
American control of the worlds trade.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-10
CAPITAL CULLINGs

c. NJ. Wagner will be nominated postmastef
at Dunseath, RoIette county, N. D.
A leader on the republican side of the sem
ate says vote on the Philippines bill will be
secured by Moy. %.
The civil service commission announces that
examination will be held at ST. Paul and
Mankato in Minnesota, Deadwood Mitchell.
Aberdeen and Watertown in South Dakota.
and at Fargo, Grand Forks and Pembina in
North Dakota. July Il, is and 19, for candi-
dates who desire to enter the revenue cutter
service as cadets. Theee places pay $500 &
ye2g.
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The house yesterday passed the omni

The house yesterday passed the omni-
bus statehood bill, It is not likely to be
killed in the senate. Soon we shall well
come the new stateszo of Oklahoma. Ari-
zona and New Mexico! Irrigation in New
Mexico and Arizona is only in it's in
fancy. It will be developed rapidly hence
forth, hundreds of thousands of acres will
be made tillable and the population of
those territories will increase rapidly.
There is no doubt that statehood will
stimulate their DEVELOPMENT.
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Hugh Manu.. who is one-half of the
Canadian Northern railway system, boasts
that there is no Interstate 9 commerce COM
mission in Canada TO hang a yoke about
the necks- Of railway builders. Judging
from the comments of the press of west
ern Canada, there are some Canadians
who wish there was such a commission in
10 -.= r ..s.s ~. .. .. -.
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THE JOURNAL leads because
nearly all its immense circula-
ton is its 5 o'clock edition,
which goes to the homes and
is read by all members of the
family, and itreaches the great
purchasing class as is proved
by its advertising columns.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-10

AS result of General Miles opposi-
tion we are to have no army staff or ma
tional guard legislation at this session
Of congress-. This fact will not rebound
to the generals credit, and will not be
emphasized by his biographers.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-10

pin county are distinctly to be congrat-
ulated on not allowing any volcano to take
out license to do business in this county.
We have always been opposed to volcanoes
and earthquakes on principle, and cannot
now in view of what has happened in the
Antilles, see our way clear 10 modify our
position. -. j. Russell.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-10

Minister WI Ting-fang turned away the
wrath of the Minneapolis Trades and La
Dor. council with a soft answer. The
council probably regrets it's hasty and
ill-advised action more than ever. =
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If the millionaire is the man who finds
out how to make, others work for him,
there are several ''big ,mitt" operators in
Minneapolis who can tell who the coming
millionaires are to be. 5>szs ~
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Senator McLaurin seems to have profit
ed by the lessons in pugilism given him
by Tillman.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-10
Democrats have not
quite given up hope
that John Lind will be
a candidate for gov

When !Tams Bixby first
arrived in Red Wing
this week. he met OH
the street John Stone
Pardee, the editor of
the democratic state
organ pardao ackad