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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
THE AWFUL CORONATION ODE

It il fit question whether the court
fool or the court poet is the greater fool
Thereis no Question which is the greatest
sycophant. A court fool is at liberty to
mix his batteries with plain truths, but
the court poet is an eternal sycophant.
Next to the kings bodily weakness the
greatest cloud lowering over the corona
tion ceremony, in London to-day is Sll
Alfred Austin's mass of nauseating, obse'
quious, fettering verse. L. - t
Listen to this description Of King Ed
ward: ...-z,. ..~ts.>. =.
For tbs nor crown nor purple men revere, :
But the majestic mind and regal soul, ->
Which, through clashing clamors, help t.
steer
A realm unto its goal. S.
+ Now King Edward is, after some rathe'
inglorious years gone by, q very re
spectacle, typical, mediocre English gen
tleman. No wonder it took the poe
laureate such a long time to get himsel
in state of mind to announce that tn
king is revered for his majestic mind
and regal soul.''
Not content with so magnifying tn
king Sir Alfred must exalt the royal lin
by clubbing them:
| Transmitters Of race whose right to rul
should seem and be divine:
Well, once again we return thanks tha
| we live in republic.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
LITERARY NOTES

Lewis, Scribner & Co., New York, the
publishers of ''Friars and Fiipinos, an
abridged translation by F. E. Gannett, sec
retary of the first Philippine commission OF
the late DR.. Jose Rizals ''Noli Me Tangere,
which has been highly commended by Presi-
dent Schuman of Cornell and by President
Roosevelt.
Besides Majors Dorothy Vernon Of Had
don Hail. two unknown writer's have un-
dertaken to steal some of his literary thun-
der by putting forth Dorothy Vernon, the
Beauty of Haddon Hail." and Mistress
Dorothy of Haddon Hail." both inferior
stories of the same period, written after Mr..
Majors title was announced. The worst OF
it is that the copyright law has no provision
against such near approach to copying title.
The Macmillan company's list Of best fc-
tion of 1902 reads: Gertrude Atherton's THE
Conqueror," Nancy Huston Banks 'Old-
field" Jamse Eugene Farmers "Brinton
Eliot" James Weber Linn's THE Second
Generation" Charles Majors Dorothy Yer
non of Haddon Hail." Margery Williams
''The Late Returning Owen Wister's THE
Vrginian.'
General Botha and General De Wet are
preparing to write. an official history of the
South African war from the Boer standpoint.
Hamlin Garland is writing play, the scene
of which is located in Colorado.
London publisher recently remarked that
pay while three out of every six are aoso=
lutte failures and the finding of new authors
is a risky gamble and a very risky gamble
and half the known writer's have a dwindlinS
and inconsderable public This is discour-
aging for authors and publishers but authors
are less likely to be discouraged than pub
| fishers.
| Charles Godfrey Leland is still living at
Florence in his seventy eighth year. Leland
| is known by many as the Hans Breitmann'
| Of the old Graham's Magazine of Philadelphia,
and he was q contemporary OF George H.
Baker and Bayard Taylor, writing much for
periodicals. and was editor of the Philadelphia
| Evening Bulletin at one time, contributing
also humorous matter over the signature or
| "Meister Karl" He mas written much about
| the gipsies and art work. For some years
| he has lived in England and on the continent
| His Hans Breitmann papers were the most
| humorous of the kind forty or fifty years
| ago. .-i-l I.~
! 1.-THE Coast Of Freedom is story of the
| days of the wtcbcraft superstition in Bos-
| ton. in which the interest in the heroine,
| Mistress Temple Armitage, little maid ac-
| cused of witchcraft, never halts.' Her ex-
| animation by the stern Cotton Mather IL
| dramatically described and the author, Miss
| Adele Shaw, has shown her fine power in the
description of the escape of the maid with
| Roger Vening from the Jail. She was worthy
| of all the tribulation he endured for her and
| there is one of the sweetest of love passages
| at the close, when these two are face to face
and heart to heart. The author has surely
studied the spirit and temper of the period o!
| which she writes most effectively. Published
by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, and
| sold in Minneapolis by N. Mccarthy. Price.
! 81 S0 ~--
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
THE MAGAZINES

of the American Journal of Sociology is Pro-
fessor ToIman's statement as to the extent
of. the study of sociology in institutions of
learning in this country He shows that 1853
different mems colleges give some attention to
the study and $50 of these give one course
or more to It; sixteen womens COLLEGES and
universities give fairly adequate treatment OF
it. but in no university in this country is the
whole field of sociology covered, the nearest
approach to 1t being at the University OF Chi
cago at Yale and at Columbia. A classified
tion of the various sociological courses of
fered by colleges and universities is given,
Under the caption, THE Trust Problem Re
studied Victor Yarros discusses the prob
able result of the renewed agitation of the
subject. For some years trusts have teen
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
DOES COURAGE PAYs
The Thistle.


Does courage pay? Listen, my boy and then
tell me. A few years ago some Wall street
men were out on a sailing trip. During their
outing there came UP storm and wreck and
ruin seemed almost inevitable The mad sea
was white with rage and the men aboard were
white as the sea with fear. Confusion en-
sued among the passengers and crew ~
It happened that aboard this boat were
men who held great financial interests on
shore But the men who feld some of these
interests in trust, making. coveted holding
lost heir heads and became abject towards
of the elements. This was observed by one OF
the captains Of industry Hence when NJ
got safe ashore he quietly said to himself
Suppose these friends and associates o.
mine should get caught In a storm on the
street when the sea of business is billowet
DER, what would they do?" And he Wen
straightway and Withdrew his interests from
their keeping Does courage pay?
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
-
GuBA'SsNEEDS

The Cuban-American League, according
statement demanding urgency in the mat
ter Of the proposed loan of $33,000,O0O in
3O-year gold, per cent bonds and 10 per
cent off face. -
They contend that the loan is not too
large for Cuba's strength and is essential
for the future credit of the island: The
league thinks that way out of Cuba's
impecuniosity would tbe to issue national
currency based upon the holdings of the
Cuban national bonds by the Cuban banks,
the bonds to be Endorsed by the United
States. These bonds have been frequently
discussed in the, past, and our govern
ment, some time ago, settled the question
as to any responsibility on it's part for
the payment of these bonds issued by the
Cuban junta in New York during the re-
volt against Spain. Some of the members
of the Cuban constitutional convention
were very anxious to commit Cuba for
mally to the payment Of great mass of
bonds and other obligations issued in sup
port of the ten years war, but the con-
stitutional convention declared in the con-
stitution that Cuba "does not recognize,
nor, will not recognize any debts or COM
promises contracted prior to the promd1-
cation of the constitution, except obliga-
| tions legitimately contracted for in behalf
| of the revolution from and after Feb IA,
1885, The old Cuban bonds have thus been
repudiated by the act of the Cubans them
| selves. >-.s: . er5-- - - , oy5s@s =: ,.::.s<4:e
| The economic situation in Cuba is very
unpromising, apparently. Had congress
done its obvious duty, there4tis not the
slightest doubt that, American investments
| in the island would aggregate $3.50, ,000, 600
Land more instead of $50, ,000, 900 as now,
and business would have been in good con-
dition. ..-..:. .. +. .@..-.@ =. H. s.ss3
1t is said that the Cuban government is
l seeking to effect reciprocity treaty with
our government, to be ratified at an extra
session Of the senate in septem-
! ber. Whether the senate would
ratify such treaty, If negotiated
is problematical,: for it is by no means GER
l tain that the senate has experienced s
change of heart since the adjournment o1
congress. There rather seems to be some.
thing like senatorial effort to force the
Cubans to accept annexation as the way
OUT The present Cuban congress Is dis
posed to assert itself and its prerogativt
as indicated by the tall maximum tariff
duties it has drawn against our expor
trade with the island The Cuban con
gress may indeed try It's hand at block
ing the effectuation Of the provisions mos
vital Of the Plat amendment, by ad djonrn'
ing indefinitely. the duty Of embodyin,
those relating to coaling and naval sta
tions and the Isle of Pines in a permanen
: treaty.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
The FRIAR LANDS

A Rome cable reports the strong disap-
proval by the vatican Of the sale, last
year, by the friars Of the Dominican order,
Of a large quantity of their lands to the
Philippine Sugar Estates Development
company, an American corporation, the
lands being located in Luzon and among
the most valuable tracts held by the
friars. -.
This matter was brought before the
senate Philippine committee during the
last session of congress, and it was de-
veloped that the corporation intends to
contest the right of the government to ac-
quire the lands they have bought and has
taken stand against the governments S
right, indicated in section IS of the Phil
ippines government act, to treat the lands
acquired by the purchase Of the realty Of
the monastic orders, as public domain, and
sell or lease to the tenants occupying
them, at stipulated price. The Philip
pine Sugar Estates Development company
has characterized such disposition of lands
by the government as socialistic and cen
surable. The act of the fr1ars in selling
these lands to secular corporation with
out consulting the vatican, makes them
amenable to the discipline Of the Roman
| church, and they will have to make az
accounting of the transaction. 1t would
| appear, as the lands sold by the Dominic
ans were church property, which could not
lawfully be alienated by sale to secular
corporation, or in any way disposed Of
| without the consent of the head of the
church at Rome, that. the title of the pur.
! chasing corporation in Luzon is fatal!
| defective.
| The government Of the Philippines mus
| bear the responsibility of an undue growtl
| of corporate power. The government bill
| was designed to prevent ESQ far as fran
chises and landholding are concerned) tn
taking up of vast tracts of land by corpo
rations on tenant basis or, through coo
lie labor, developing them, and to hav
such regulations as will not exclude al
Individual of moderate capital from en-
tering the field of productive enterprise
What is needed is the steady development
of the resources of the archipelago an
| concurrently safeguarding the interests @
the people, natives and others. 49,
Meantime, the speedy settlement of tn
land purchase question is most desirabl
and that 1t will be settled satisfactorily t
the parties concerned, is probable. Th
attempt to decry Archbishop Ireland
sound advice to members of his own com
munion, by some Of the latter, is to b
regretted, for they are seeking to rails
the spirit of religious antipathies, whic
this nation has relegated ITO the museu1
of medieval curiosities.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
is NOT THE PRICE TOO HIGHT
Chicago Inter Ocean.

90 = ~ Ch1cago Inter OceaIi. " ....
Coal Is to industry what food rs to man.
II industry cannot obtain coal it sickens.
And when industry sickens We have hard
times. ~.''@a-.- /" "<c .., .s. -..:-
This is the vital fact which it behooves
those who advocate a general strike of coal
miners to consider This is the danger to the
coal miners themselves and to the nation as
a whole Therefore, the questions which the
delegates to the miners national convention
should consider are the plain. human ques-
tfons: s#>ss 81 - -
'tDo we wish to expose ourselves and our
families to the conditions and hardships of
1895? DO we wish to bring back hard
times Have we enough to gain to pay us
for taking this risk?
Y Hard times, of course, hurt everybody.
They hurt the banker and the stock jobber
and the merchant and the professional man.
All have to pay part Of the general loss. But
hard times hurt, most OF all, the man who
works with his hands. and his wife and his
children. His savings are small and he must
depend almost entirely upon his daily labor
for his daily bread and theirs.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
THE STATE SONG

Duluth News-Tribune-The Minneapolis
journal offers $50 for the proper sort OF q
Minnesota state song. Intending competitors
should move the exclusion Of j o ur =
nal's Nonpareil Man from the contest.
& Red Lake Falls Courier-The Minneapolis
Journal offers to give $50 for state song.
What's the matter with '.ole Olson
Tintah Call-The Minneapolis Journal IS
offering the sum Of $50 for a suitable state
song for Minnesota 1t is something we need.
Many of the other states have their own
songs.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
If the Red Wing Argus is to he M

If the Red Wing Argus is to be Mr..
Rosing's official spokesman, during this
campaign, we would suggest that he
might find 1t to his advantage if he could
induce the editor of that paper to have
some regard for the facts in the case
when he undertakes to indulge in a con-
troversy over such matter as the mer-
ger. The propensity of the Argus to mis-
represent facts and misquote statements
strengthen the suspicion that Mr.. Ros-
ings campaign is made in the, interest
Of the merger. If it is not to be so made
the peculiar attitude of a paper supposed
to speak for him is difficult to account for
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09

The burning of the working house OF
steel tank elevator at Ft. William, Ont,
and the injury, Of some of the tanks; has
revived the question with bankers and ele-
vator men as to whether the modern con-
struction elevators are as safe as prom
ised. Yet reports from Ft. William indi-
cate that the conditions were exceptional.
and that only small amount of grain was
injured. Had the elevator been of wooden
construction it would have been a total
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
!. IN A A#NUTSHELL....
Some About Submarine Telegraphy

In March, 1885, began the laying the Atlantic
CABLE which Field the chief The lay
ing began valentia Ireland attempt failed and
likewise second third attempt successful. New
Foundland connected with Ireland the former had
previously connected with the American mainland The
49, from Queen Victoria to President
But the insulation of the wire became
faulty it ceased to work fs
he cable not laid until 1866 81
Since many trans Atlantic lines been laid in
cluding French and German lines s@ e&$ 7>z". - ri =
England the center of the submarine telegraph system
the world which keeps all the important business
tries world in
with each other I'D. ..s Ill. - j =
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
/. CHANCE FOR INVENTORS
New York Commercial

: ; NVW 4
- MANY smoke absorbers or consumers have
already been devised, but they have all t'een
lacking IN some important feature. They
have either been too expensive to warrant
their adoption, or they have failed to accom-
plish the object. The present condition OF
affairs is calculated to inspire the inventive
genius and bring to light some ideas that
may result in great good to the world at
large, America Is the native land of inven-
tion. and It will be strange If one of the benz
efctal results of the strike is not the inven-
tion of an absorber of smoke No better field
for the inventor ever opened for his cultiva-
ton.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09

The proposed cable long sub
marine telegraph line thoroughly controlled by the United
States government $50 z& <*@.s2
There about 100000 miles Of submarine lines in the
world the them owned by
s capital The English also the chief constructors Of
cables contract making the cable and laying
the line for the American has been
awarded o English company. sFssh sE-azE+
1870 Professor Charles Wheastone drew plans for
line between Dover in England and Calais In
Watkins received permission from
Napoleon behalf of his brother Jacob Brett the In
such line The line connected Aug ~
1880 but broken after few had been inter
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09

Objection to the appointment of Mr..
Waite as chief Of police is made not on
the ground that he is not capable and
honest man, but on the ground that he
might seek to enforce the laws too yigor-
ously.,s We apprehend that Mayor Jones
will make the policy for the incoming
administration, and that such construc-
tion as is placed upon the statutes and or
dinances in relation to the maintenance
Of public order will proceed from the
mayors office. The beauty Of having a
man like. Waite for chief is in, knowing
that there are no gratis being worked, that
police discipline will be, strict, and that
Minneapolis will be squite too warm for
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09

the gang of toughs, thieves, burglars
"big- -mitts' and confidence men which g;
have had such a harvest here under the
Ames administration. What the mayor
of Minneapolis wants is a chief of police
to whom he can indicate the line OF pollcy
which he wishes to have pursued and rely
upon having 1t carried out, without haV-
ing to see to 1t personally. II there, IS
any other excuse for the Office Of chief OF
police, what is It? f..sa-.=.& e.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
The NonIp|areiI Man
Casually Observed.

Casually Observed.
Mr.. Mackay's son. Clarence is now the
rooster who will lay tho Pacific cable.
The attorney, general. shows a quick re-
action. . = -,
The Cuban tariff Is an argument that
makes the boxer people who are up for
reelection hunt for: a nice quiet hole.
1t doesn't pay to hold up trains and seize
900 from your fellow countrymen when
YOU can entice themyinto corn or oat cor
ner by careful headwork. .
Our young life is haunted by the ever-pres-
ent fear that the dramatist will yet endeavoI
to elevate the stage with the career of that
noble Washingtonian-Hen E. Tracey.
The tremor of the 4doge's palace, the fall
of one ycampanile and the probable fall of an
other soon. serves to recall the fact that the
part of Europe in which Venice. is situated
Is only a volcanic. CRUST The next grea
seismic catastrophe is more than likely tt
occur in that region. - ,., l.
Senator Elkins is for annexing Cuba 't>
wunst'' - The attitude of mind is a famllia
one. - .-''
| Annual Crop Review, Aberdeen, Aug. g.
| I drove out into the fields to-day in bugg!
| to inspect the wheat at close range. This
| Of course, borders on unprofessional conduct
and If generally known. disqualifies mai
| from membership in the Amalgamated Asso
| citation of Crop Experts. But l was anxiou
| to sec how wheat looked when growing, ant
accepted a seat in the buggy OF my friend
| General Jumper, who drove me out over tn
prairie ten or fifteen miles. There has bee1
plenty Of rainfall in South Dakota this year
and the wheat fields all looked as If growt]
| Of young bamboo had taken possession o
/ them. I avoided the charge of unprofession
alism. by not getting out of the buggy. s.
sturdy was the stalk of the wheat that It'll
| feared the harvesting will have to be don
with axes, General Jumper jumped out an
| with sharp ak knocked down wheat tire
| which fell with a resounding crash. w
| counted the berries and did a little figuring
I reserve my figures. Briefly, may say
that with so many. acres yield, so man
stalks to the acre. and so many berries t
the stalk; the crop figured out 225,OOO, ,OC
! bushels, exactly the estimate I placed on
yesterday before toying with the arithmetic
| I now place great deal Of confidence i
| these figures.
Some 400 crop experts are now housed
the Sherman house here and bloody fights al
of constant occurrence. An expert Will CIV
out his figures and the other 399 experts I'm
mediately proceed to give him the hoars
boot. Verbal and often fistc difficulties 70
low. 49,. - ..,. -.-..
A nonunion expert who attempted to siz
up the crop was killed in Huron last weel
The Crop Experts association has decided
allow no nonunion figures to be given out 9
this crop. If organized attempts are made
do so, the governors staff will be called ou
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09

In his pockets when he was arrested. We
suppose that he argues that it was un-
questionably personal property. But the
authorities will unquesttonably assume
that II Neely was able to have $4,000 in
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09

If these narrowing reports from Cuba
keep on, our friends the Insurgents, In
order to preserve their peace of mind,
will have to read their papers through
the medium of clippings guaranteed to-
contain no offensive matter.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09

Acting Mayor Jones is a modest man
and was little backward about throwing
himself into the police breach, but he
has had SO much kind, good advice In the
last two days that he ought now to feel
thoroughly equipped for the arduous work.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
ownership Cannot BE Maintained

Philadelphia Record. -f
DR.. Asser, the Dutch jurisconsult and
member of The Hague tribunal, who is to ar
bitrate the American Russian sealing dispute
swill be called upon to decide precisely the
same question which was presented for de-
termination to the court Of arbitration at
Paris in the Anglo-American Bering sea con-
troversy. There will be this difference, how
ever, that the United States, which then as
serted a claim to the ownership of wild ami
mails inhabiting the open seas, will now as
sumo the contrary position and adopt the
views Of the British government that pro-
prietary rights in such creatures cannot be
maintained. Ownership might as we'll be as
serted over the sharks of the ocean as over
seals ranging the high seas. Russia's defeat
at The Hague is as certain as was ours at
Paris.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
A Pertinent Query.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Why? Why do the railroads supply the
representatives of the people with transporta-
ton tc conventions and to the state capitalf
Is it for the benefit of the state? Is it 70
promote the interests Of the people9
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09
brought him remuneration at the rate OF
81 a thousand ..-.,s

brought him remuneration at the rate Of
81 thousand. - --. .,s
Mr.. Sawyer says the dime novel is moral
and he ought to know. Most people are
strongly of the opinion that 1t is not, but
then most people have never read dime
novels. The nearest they have come to
doing so ts reading accounts of the bad
results that come from reading dime nov
els. A novel may be quite moral, In
sense, and still produce bad effects. What
Mr.. Carter means when he says that the
dime novel is moral is that the good
hero always triumphs, the william is
always discounted and crushed, the spot
less heroine always marries the hero.
Moreover, the hero Is always wholly good
and the william entirely bad. OF course
blood may flow in tub lots and arsenals
may be exhausted of their ammunition
from the :" Help, Help!' she cried,' of the
first line. to the pierced by a dozen bull
let's, Black Jack, staggered back over the
edge of the precipice," of the last line,
but good routs evil and the bloody tale
ends fright %-
Mr.. Sawyer says his st ories are just
the sort for the sort of people that read
them-people of narrow, dull, monoto-
nous lives. who never get any thrills out
of real life and must seek compensation in
st tories that give them thrill per page.
Well, perhaps. Anyway, the sum total of
wisdom in this world will increase pretty
rapidly If every one will read as much of
w he fS t0
ing other people to do the same. Most
| any sort of reading, barring the absolute
ly pornographic and lewd, and frankly
| immoral in teaching, is better than none
at all. .-
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-09

Between candidates portraits and soap
ads the people of Minneapolis are longing
for theatrical posters.