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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
"GREASING GREATNESsn

u One of the reasons why America is
forging ahead in the Industrial contest
between the nations is that it is not
handicapped with the weight of an idle
nobility, false ideas about the dishonor
Of trade or preoccupied with questions
of insigni6cance relating to royalty, .aris-
tocracy or mOss-covered traditions
The difference between England and
America in this respect was well illus
trated in the news columns of T h e
o urn a yesterday. A London CORE
spondent had taken the trouble to send
dispatch relating the vast amount of
serious attention given in England to the
question of to what extent the ancient
religious ritual should be observed in
the coronation of King Edward, includ-
ing the amounting of the kings breast.
It was related how holes will be provided
in the kings clothes so that this ridicu-
lous archaicism can be performed with
ease.
The correspondent did well to send such
'rot," because it is intensely interesting
reading to Americans on account of its
righteousness from the standpoint of a
thoroughly up-to-date people. The tele-
graph editor wrote over the dispatch a.
head with the first line, "Greasing Great
ness" That is precisely the way such
superfluity of ceremony, entirely out Of
joint with the times, impresses the
American.
But we are told that the king is pre-
occupied with just such matters. and that.
there is controversy between church.
men about emphasizing the sacredotal
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
A Saving Enhancement
By James Allison

Copyright, 1902, by the S. s. Mcclure Co.
You did it on purpose
Believe me, nothing was further from
II shall never believe a man SO long as I
live"--
The hands fumblng with the entangled
skates closed convulsively over the cleaning
steel of the smaller pair.
The trouble was that you never did be-
lieve in him really. You were always I'M
just
His voice was low and tense The. girl
drew aside impatienty.
Mr.. Ludlow, will you kindly disentangle
these 0kates, or at lease let us step out of
peoples way"
Her cheeks were 'aflan.e. Nell Priestly had
just leaned over the side OF her cutter to gaze
at them curiously, standing thus before the
Palace drugstore
81 am doing my best" came the humble
reply. He jerked off one glove, and Helen
could not refrain from CHANGING down at his
long, shapely hand, with the seal ring she
had given him the Christmas just after their
engagement was announced. He had not sent
it back: with the other things.
The two pairs Of skates swung apart but
he kept close to her side.
LAS long as we've gone this far--I mean
er-We've been seen together again. might
as we'll walk with you. l take it we are
bound for the same place, the park
Helen stared straight ahead.
81 believe you did it on purpose she
remarked irreleVantly. 49,. za
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
LORD SALISBURY AND. AMERICA

i,-s LOuuOn. Gfapn1C.
Lord Cranborne's statement in the house
Of commons the other day in regard to the
attitude of Great Britain before and during
the late Hispano-Amercan war seems to have
created considerable stir in the United States
although the facts have long been known out
SIDE of1clal circles. and were even published
by the Times several weeks ago. None of the
comments we have seen, however appear to
grasp the real significance of Lord Sa1isbury's
action 1t was by no means a piece of hand
to-mouth craftsmanship, prompted by the
hope OF some immediate gain, or by the idea.
of ranging this country with the probable
winner, against the probable loser in the war
The truth is that 1t was a manifestation of
what has been a Cardinal point in Lord Sails
burys foreign policy ever since he returned
to power in 1895. That point has been
frank trusting and enduring understanding
with the United States Other British minis
ters have spoken prettily and even elouuently
OF such an understanding, but Lord Salisbury
has been the first English statesman since
the American war of independence to- give
practical effect to it in the foreign policy of
the empire. Few people have realized what
a tremendous revolution in foreign policy was
represented by Great Britain's attitude during
the late ispano-American war From the
time Of Canning and the famous Panama con-
gress eighty years ago, the preservation of
spanish sovereignty IN CuDa naQ Deen ranked
as a British interest of the first magnitude.
Throughout the last century Great Britain
and France always acted together to defeat
American designs on Cuba, and as the pros
pect of an interoceanic canal became clearer
that anti-American copartnershp became
closer. It is with this policy that Lord Sails
bury has finally broken. The recent Hay
Pauncefote treaty was the logical outcome of
giving the United States free hand in Cuba,
and not. as has been imagined, one Of those
graceful concessions with which a
vulgar superstition has identified the name of
Lord Salisbury. The real significance of Lord
action is known and appreciated
by the United States government, but if it is
to bear the fruit to which it is entitled it
should be better known to the American pub
iic. The old policy of this country in regard
to the United States was based on certain
element of mistrust and suspicion. Lord Sails
bury has rightly Judged that if Anglo-Ameri-
can relations are to be eternally friendly,
and if the fundamental identity of the SUI
preme interests of both powers is to be COM
pletely realized, every yestge Of mistrust be-
tween them must be discarded.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
The NonpareiI Man
Casually observed.


Hiram Maxim, the gun man, promises the
world a practicable flying machine in ten years
Nothing is said about the price. Meantime:
the old gaspipe bike is high enough up for
us to fall out of. zE
DR.. Dowie paid up the brother-in-law claim
rather than have a receiver looking into his
lace business. A fool receiver always wants
to know everything about a business in the
most disgusting way.
The story about rats in the White House
has gone the length and breadth of the, coun-
try and Secretary Cortelyou is now receive
Ing 1000 letters day telling how to persuade
the rodents to leave. The only sure way is
to burn the house -
Upward, ever upward" is now Chicago's
motto, the skyscraper :, limit having been
taken off. ~. - = 4.
When the damage lawyer sees the slippery
sidewalk at work he believes in providence.
Some day heavy wind will catch Santos
Dumont on the fly.
suHerer complains that the mince pie of
commerce contains prunes which are thus
palmed off on the public as raSins "The
Mystery of the Mince' grows deeper with
the passage of the suns.
New York lady appeals to Americans to
send the Boer prisoners school books. Why
not lace pocket handkerchiefs with their
initials worked in? ...
Charles A. Towne, the Wall street magnate
now owns an automobile Bryan has a S4OO
heifer, Pettigrew has bunch of money in
the bank and Governor Hogg is an oil ccto-
pus. No wonder anarchy rears it's horrid
head and crashes its false teeth
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07

part OF the ritual. Then there is dis
pute as to whether the archbishop Of
Canterbury shall wear q inter at the
coronation or not But not only are the
king and clergy preoccupied with these
matters. They are taken with profound
solemnity by the English people, as the
tone of the English papers shows. At
all times the attention Of Englisfmen Is
more or less distracted by some trivial
ity relating to jejune. traditions, anti
quated customs and personages that are
OF no Importance whatever in the mod
ern democratic world such as counts
and earls and dukes and baronets. The
American, on the other hand, has free
held and is much freer man.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
TIME TO GET OFF
Tit-Bits.

Three Birmingham card-sharpers entered a
train in that city and succeeded in getting
seats beside green-looking Scotsman who,
they knew, had big wallet. They were very
polite; he was genial. He explained that he
was ging to Manchester. They were, too. So
lucky, etc. A little game was proposed and
started. The countryman played awkwardly,
but was evidently enjoying the fun. High
stakes followed-very high. They let tile
countryman win, of course Suddenly he
started up. 81 must get off here, ''-she said.
q am on the wrong train
Eth? What?" they calculated. s.Yon said
you were going to Manchester
Did II" he replied. t0h, meant to Liv-
trpoo. Good day
The green Scot was not SO verdant as he
looked. IS
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
Full Valuation Argument.
Mankato Free Press.

Minneapolitans are plain and sober peo-
pie, little given to display. The veracious
tax rolls show that they own only $72 900
worth of jewels. AS this is about IS cents
apiece, it cannot be charged that they are
luxurious or given to spending their money
for baubles. But their memories! -Minneap-
oils Journal
Well, the less said about their memories
the better But it really looks as though
full valuation assessment scheme would be q
good thing in such case as this
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
Rev. HI. p. Nichols on Liquor Laws.

Feb. THE New York Sun says
The latest striking contribution to the dis
cussion about the liquor law is the sermon
preached on Sunday by the rector Of the
Church of the Holy Trinity, in Harlem, the
Rev. H. P. Nichols formerly Of Minneapolis.
'How far is the law to be enforced?" asks
Dr. Nichols. Evidently, in the atter's opin-
ion, as far only as the official primarily con-
cerned thinks best.
Laws should be designed for preventing
men from iniuring their neighbors.'' Some
laws aim to enable men to benefit their
neighbors.
I'm the enforcement of law there is some
discretion allowed to the executor AS it
may interest people to know DR.. Nichols
authority for this theory, will quote it.:
lone Of our foremost clergymen assured me
that this is the fact. He said it is univers-
ally admitted that all law permits discrimina-
ton to the executor. - However little this
legal commentator. whoever he may be,
knows about the law, it is safe to say that he
would do infinitely less harm at the oar than
he does in the pulpit.
''There must be discretion in enforcing
the laws It is the common belief that that
is also the opinion of Mayor Low though the
latter does not say in so many words.''
A Disguised Alderman.
Alderman Bridges is not going to attend
honor of Prince Henry at the Metropolitan
opera-house in Manhattan. He said he would
not give so cents to see the prince and does
not care who knows it. ''This whole thing
makes me SICK" said Alderman Bridges in
discussing the arrangements being made to
receive the prince, land 1 think It is all
farce. I amt got no use for any Of this
blue blood business nohow.
''This prince amt any better than I am
or he amt any better than any one else.
What's he coming over here for, anyhow?
heard Of him until all this talk about him
coming was started. What's the matter with
this country. Are we getting afraid Of Ger
many and want to square ourselves. 1t looks
that way to me-
C'est La Chat.
1t was in the third act Of "a Royal Rival"
at the Harlem~opera- house last night. VIM
Faversham, the star, was busy with an
.aside'' when large female Angora cat,
owned by the property man, jumped out Of
the lower right box onto the stage and
alighted at the actors side with a light feline
thud.
who was that woman?' said Faversham at
that moment. Then he noticed the cat and
broke into a laugh in which everybody in the
theatec Joined. The cat fed. 1t was almost
five minutes before the audience quoted
down.
A Few Bad Days.
Captain T. A. Custer of the three-masted
coal-laden center board schooner Charles No
BILE Simmons, which was towed into port to-
day from anchorage off Fire island, told a
somewhat incoherent story Of the experience
of himself and his Portuguese crew in the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
/ SHOWER OF MILEAGE BOOKS
Sioux Falls Journal.

Sioux Falls Journal
One of the recent and one of the best illus
trations that circumstances alter cases is in
the change that has come over the Great
Northern Railroad company. A few months
ago, when the newspapers along the line Of
that road offered to pay for mileage with their
advertising space, Jim Hill said ''the news
papers be damned" He didn't want any
thing to do with them. It's different now
Since his big consolidation scheme has been
sprung he wants favorable public sentiment,
and he has just found out that newspapers
are the medium through which to gain his
present great necessity. and consequently his
mileage books are easily and readily reach ed
Several have been received in Sioux Falls
since the cold snap set in.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat.

10 arlsn Prlest, Daniel Harris simple
s STORY OF everyday life, with it's exquisite
th l more lformances, might and to-
morrow afternoon ard night, by Daniel Sully
anu MS company
Sunday night Melbourne Mcdowell and
MISS Florence Stone will begin brief engage
nentoa at the Metropolitan presenting sardou' S
strongest drama. ''La Tosca.,' Mr.. MacDowell
VIII pe seen as Scarpia, tho part in which he
D 1" Famous. Miss Stone will appear as
Flora Tosca, for the portrayal of which she
mas been accorded high praise
The sale of seats for the sumptuous revival
OF The Tanning of the Sherew," to be seen at
the metropolitan the last half of next week,
VIII open Monday. Charles 3. Hartford, who
mas many admirers in this city will DO seen
as. Petruchio, and Miss Helen GRAVITY, one Of
the most beautiful women on the stage to-
DAY, will appear Katherine The re-
il'Snder or the company is composed of
recognized artists of ability in shaksperean
comedy NEs.
The Heart Of Maryland, season after
season has more than maintained its posi-
ton as one of the leading high class dramatic
attractions of the present, decade. 1t found it's
OASIS IN the historic incidents Of memorable
natlonal conflict. In it's progress it reveals
gllmpses of the crueltes, the Glamour and
confusion of the battlefield and the stern
discipline Of camp life. It presents graphic
glimpses of the perils Of the spy and the
,ignominious death that awaits his capture
and the scant reward that attends his sue
cess. And above all and beyond all and
through them CLEANS the unfading light
which dominates with Its glow of romanticisra
the light of woman's love. 1.-The Heart OF
MARYLAND will be the attraction at the Bjou
next week.
Lost River is to he presented at the Biiou
but three times more, concluding it's en-
gagement with performances tonight and to-
morrow afternoon and night. The engage
ment has been a most successful one. ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07

We must have been dreaming or rather
night maring. 1t now appears. by their
own testimony, that we had none but
warm friends in Europe during our, debate
with Spain. Presently we shall discover
that Won Diedrichs and Dewey united in
sinking the Spanish fleet off Cavite
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
And He Never Saw One.

Years ago bill, entitled IAN Act for the
Preservation of the Heath Hen and Other
Game" was introduced into the house OF as
sembly Of the state of New York The speaker
Of the house, not especially interested, grave
ly read it IAN Act for the Preservation of
the Heather and Other Came He was bliss
fully unconscious Of his blunder until an hon
est member rose to his feet. Il should like
to move an amendment to the bill,'' he said
mildly, tsby adding the words except In
dams y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
The Vaccfnated Have Small Pox

To the Editor Of The Journal
While testimony for and against the efficacy
of vaccination smallpox preventive con-
tinues to appear in the newspapers, allow
me to offer the following: $50
Captain Biegler Of Terre Haute, Ind: who
Was in the Philippines about a year and half
and Was sent home wounded, says his men
were vaccinated twelve times and that small
pox was among the soldiers all the time, re-
gardless of this number Of vaccinations.
Another proof that it saves life is shown
In the case of the Rev. George Leck of North
Minneapolis, who went to Korea as a mis-
sionary in September, 1900. He was success
fully vaccinated just before leaving this
country. On the 9th day of December 1901,
he died from smallpox
Let the public have the facts on this side
of the question once in awhile.
! Il. G. Williams
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07

81 couldn't" he responded, knowing full
we'll what she meant 1T would take months
of practice to entangle a pair of skates like
that just in passing you, and you've given me
no chance to get that near you inflow many
months is it, Helen?'
She ignored the question. ..-.
e But you came into the store on purpose
Vain child! l needed some potash tablets
for my throat
But she persisted. you did not dis
cover the fact until you caught my eye
across my cup of hot chocolate, and then you
hesitated."
80 you acknowledge that you were watch
ing meg Well, that is hopeful symptom
Somehow lately when We've met I've felt
that you saw nothing but space.
do stop raking over dead ashes, Lester!"
'Are they really dead, Helen? Isn't there
just the least little spark still burning?"
This was not banter. He was thoroughly in
earnest .....---s- ......... =. *.
You must know that love you; that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07

. The Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac
enjoys being addressed as my lord" by
the clergymen of his diocese. This is q
case OF the English invasion Of America.
Another case of the same invasion is fur
n1shed by those cheerful American idiots
who strive to emulate the equally cheer
ful English idiots in celebrating the
memory of the martyr king, Charles ].
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
OTHER PEOPLES NOTIONS
Editors and the Primary Election

-,,..-., Law -
To the Editor of The Journal:
In view Of the fact that the annual meet
ing OF the Minnesota Editorial Association
will meet at the West hotel in Minneapolis
on Feb. 20, take this means of suggesting
that some member OF the association, who is
we'll posted on the primary election law, pre-
pare paper to be read before the members
OF the association at this coming meeting
Ihere are great many throughout the state
who do not clearly understand all points con-
tanned in this law, and among them are a
great many. editors City elections are close
at hand, and with the general election next
fall, think The paper would be greatly ap-
preciated. Surely it can do no harm. Hoping
to hear from some more, informed editor, I
am, very truly yours, e. N. Edwards,
Publisher Index Easton Mimi
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
Call for n Commercial Club.

Seattle Times.
A Minneapolis paper asserts editOrially that
the Commercial club Of that city has MEM
bership Of 900. What a power in the bust
ness community it must be. How Seattle
would gain by such a club, even with half
that membership.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07

Duluth has most distressing time try
ing to make up it's mind whether it
wants Hugo or Truelsen for mayor. If
it weren't for the other it would be pref
ty we'll satisfied with either 1t is case
Of skies and Fights.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07

At the present rate Of chopping up the
tax bill. the popular question in the Min
nesota legislature will soon be, "Why are
we here?" instead of Where are we at?'
though the latter question will not be
without a certain appropriateness.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07

1t is becoming pretty plain that there
is going to be full and fair discussion
of the proposed tax law. From the num-
Der of criticisms that are pouring in from
all parts Of the state and all interests it
is evident that the measure is far from
popular 49, ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07

the American sugar mills from lower
tariffs. 1t means that the consumer shall
pay more for his sugar in order to save
the home industry. Senator spooner S
plan to return percentage Of the duty to
the Cuban treasury and thus enable Cuba
to pay an export bounty to her planters
is cheaper Cor the American consumer aud
seems to serve the same purpose as to
the American producer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07

Judge Morris proposes to solve the
Cuban trade question by raising the duty
on all imported sugar and then reduce
1t as to Cuba by a reciprocity treaty. This
scheme is designed primarily to protect
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
RESURGAM

All silently, and SOFT as sleep,
The snow FELL flake on flake.
Slumber, spent Earth! and dream of flowers
Till springtime bid you wake.
Again the deadened bough shall bend
With bloom of sweetest breath.
o, miracle of miracles,
This life that follows death!
IT, 3D. Aldrich.