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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07
story of the Death of the sphynx.

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A copy Of the Alexandria, Egypt, Post
News, dated 10000 B. c., has Just been exca-
waited from the ruins of the burned Alex
| andrian library 1t contains some remarkable
stories of the ancient world fresh from the
reporters pencils and throws considerable
light some Of the old classical legends.
The paper was printed at the time of the
excitement at Thebes over the Sphynx and
contains special dispatches regarding that
mysterious person or monster who was after
wards cut in stone as she has come down to
us to-day. The dispatch reads as follows
Thebes. sixth month, 21st day-This quiet
little city has been seriously afflicted by the
depredations of a monster which has been
infesting the high road and which has been
named the Sphynx. Thotfmes Fl. Smith was
recently killed in an attempt to get into the
city, and several peasants have lost their
lives in the same way.
Reporters from the metropolitan press and
local correspondents have interviewed the In
habitants Of the district and have found them
terror stricken by the monster. It or she
has the body OF a lion and the head Of a
woman. 1t lies crouched on the top OF a rock
and its custom Is to arrest all travellers who
come that way and propose to them a riddle,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07
OTHER PEOPLES MOTIONS
She Protests.
To the Editor Of The Journal.

To the Editor Of The Journal
May permitted through the columns Of
I 9 ] GU n al to take exceptions to the
portion of Governor Van SAINTS speech de-
livered before the Garfield Republican club
at Duluth, Mimi, and published in e
o urnal, where he states that the repub
lican party won the victory in the war be-
tween the United States and Spain? After
stating how that party had abolished slavery
and squelched free silver and all that, he
says: "ln- one. hundred days by the matchless
valor Of her gallent sons on land and sea,
she drove Spain from this continent forever
have never heard political party spoken
of as She although it is not question
OF English that i wish to quarrel with Mr..
Van SAINT about, but is it not rather a
sweeping assertion on the part of the COVER
nor to claim all the gcry for the republican
party? Has he forgotten Dewey, Hobson,
General Wheeler and all the other democrats
who were in the little skirmish? Now, l call
it real shabby of the governor to claim all
the glory of driving the Spaniards away for
the republican party, when there were SO
many democrats in the little skirmish, for you
know democrats are nothing-if not fighters.
"A Democratic Girl.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07
OUR NEUTRALITY OBLIGATIONS

The report that the British govern
ment is carrying on the business Of re-
cruiting men for service in South Africa
against the Beers in louisiana has not
as yet been adequately confirmed, but, if
1t Is true our government should and, no
doubt, will, take steps to remove the
1mputation Of permitting such violation
of the neutrality laws. 1t is true that
some recruiting for the Boer army has
been done in this country, and the only
proper position for our government to
take Is to stop any such transgressions of
recognized law by either side promptly
and effectively. 1t has reiterated that it
is neutral in this South African war and
1t must abide by that declaration. The
reported recruiting in Louisiana should be
thoroughly investigated and if actually
done it should be Immediately stopped:
Attorney General Knox suggests an in
teresting point under the law Of neutral
ity when he Classics the sale of such
supplies as mules to nation engaged in
war along with the sale of coal to the
naval vessels Of a nation engaged in war.
He suggests tentatively that carrying on
commerce with a belligerent in a manner
practiced before the war cannot be con-
strued as giving aid to belligerent; that
the mere increased demand for articles OF
commerce used in the prosecution of war
does not necessarily make that commerce
cease to be the same as before the war.
What seems to be lacking in this case is
knowledge Of the exact facts, and in the
meantime the attorney general discusses
possible conditions, and in that discus
sion arrives at the very interesting con-
clusion that laid given to an army en-
gagged in actual warfare must stand upon
the same footing as aid given to fleet SO
engaged, since both equally involve the
taking part by neutral in furthcring the
military operations OF a belligerent.' 1t
IS quite possible that England may have
been buying mules and other supplies for
her army before the Boer war broke out,
but the traffic certainly had not assumed
anything like the proportions which it
has recently attained, and the point which
the attorney general makes In comparing
supplies furnished to an army with those
furnished to a navy, as for instance, coal
Is certainly suggestive Of the Importance
Of careful investigation by our govern
ment.
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with the condition that all who solve it
shall pass safe, but those who fail are killed.
Later-The sphYnx is dead! This happy
news was brought to the city to-day by Osiris
=: Jones, who says that the destruction of the
monster is due to3young Oedipus, son Of the
king: Oedipus determined to give the mon
steE trial and attempted yesterday to pass
by her lair on foot. The sphynx stopped him
| and asked:
why is a hen?"
Oedipus thought a moment and replied
Because her son never SETS
| The Sphynx was SO mortified at this neat
turn that, giving fearful cry, she cast
herself down from the rock and SO persisted
The gratitude Of the people. is so great that
they are demanding that Oedibus become theil
king and marry the queen, Jocasta. This will
doubtless be brought about.
| Oedipus Is fine looking, solderly young
fellow, and carries his honors lightly.
A j. Russell
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07

On Saturday the house committee on
banking and currency favorably reported
the Fowler bill which they have had
under consideration for some time, the
text Of which was published few weeks
ago.
This measure not only makes provision
for carrying out the pledge of the repub-
lican platform adopted in philadelphia in
1900 to provide bank note currency
adapted to the wants of our commerce,
flexible and we'll secured, but it provides
for the completion of the work of placing
this nation on the gold standard, begun
with the act Of March IA, 1900, by making
the silver standard dollars redeemable in
gold at the treasury. If this congress does
no more than give statutory effect to this
latter provision it will be doing great
service to the country, and. if the Fowler
bill is not passed, there are two or three
measures pending, which specifically pro-
which may be passed.
The other leading features of the Fowler
bill are the provision for the redemption
| Of $195, 000,0 900 Of greenbacks; for the issue
in place of the withdrawn greenbacks of
bank circulation and emergency notes
against the general assets Of the banks
instead of bonds. the notes so issued to be
protected by a 5 per cent guaranty fund
and tax upon bank notes; the division
Of the country into clearing house dis
tricts to facilitate the current redemp-
ton of the bank notes so that the amount
Of outstanding notes will be co-ordinated
to the volume of business done, and
branch banks are provided for at home
and abroad
The chief objection which has been
made against the Fowler bill is aimed at
the proposition to redeem the green
backs, or s195, 100000 of them, leaving
$151, O00, 900 backed by the same amount of
gold in the treasury. The greenbacks
issued in the emergency of war as legal
tender and not redeemable in gold were
intended to be withdrawn and congress
began to withdraw them in 1864, but
stopped in 1873. The maximum amount
had been reduced from SAT- ,O0O, 900 to
$346, 100000, when the process was sus-
pended, although there was no lack OF
ability on the part Of the government to
continue the withdrawal of the paper. In
stead of retiring the notes as was in
tended, congress undert ook to keep an idle
gold reserve of 100000, 900 as pledge for
their payment, but made the notes reis-
suable after redemption. This disposition
of the notes has been leading procuring
cause Of monetary peril to this country
since. The conservative business ele-
ment in the country favors the carrying
out Of the original intention of with
drawing the greenbacks entirely. They
were conspicuously useful in their day
when the country was in great
emergency. 1t Is proper to withdraw
them now.
The proposition for the issue of asset
currency is opposed on the ground that
lit is not issued against state security
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07
procity, and they are anxious that Mime
apolis should be represented by delega-
finl, 49,. ~.
ST. LOUIS, OWN FAULT

There probably never was more vigor-
Gus denunciation of city lawmakers than
that administered to members OF the st.
Louis house of delegates by the grand
jury. Consider this description of city
fathers :
we regret to report that we found number
oi 1hese utterly illiterate and lacking in or
ullhary intelligence, unable to give a better
reason Iors .favoring or opposing a measure
'nan desire to act with the majority
IN some no trace of mentality or morality
could be found: in others low order of
framing appeared, united with base cunning
and groveling instincts.
There are and have been other aldermen
OF whom the foregoing is a true charac-
terization, but the st. Louis grand jury
Is the first one bold enough to state the
case in plain language.
Why is 1T possible for city like St.
Louis to be disgraced by such aldermen?
On it's face such situation seems to be
an Indictment Of popular government
There is not monarch in Europe who
would appoint commission made of men
without morality or mentality Yet that
is the sort Of men the people appointed
in st. Louis. 1t would be more accurate
to say that that is the kind Of men the
people permitted to be appointed It is
not to be thought foI moment that il
the people of St. Louis had seriously Civ
en- attention to their own public affairs
such class of men could have got into
power. Perhaps there are one or two
wards in that city where the immoral and
dull predominant and would, therefore,
naturally be represented by the same
class of men. But we are forced to as
sumo that morality and intelligence are
IN the majority in St. Louis; in an over
whelming majority. That being the case,
how does it happen that a number of ut
terly 1lliterate and unintelligent men and
some lacking in mentality and morality
were elected?
There Is only one explanation. The peo-
pie were not enough interested in their
own public businss to choose the right
sort of men to run it. When an intel
hgent man deliberately chooses no.
toriously unreliable agent to attend to his
business, we do not weep with him if he
comes to grief. St. Louis deliberately
chose unworthy men to run it's affairs.
Why should we feel sorry for the town i?
1t has got what it wanted and what it
deserved. When the people of ST. Louis
want good, clean, honest government,
they can have it. In the meantime. let
them enjoy the other kind This is a
Tree country" and any city can have the
precise kind of local misgovernment that
If wants
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07
The Journ IL is in receipt of a let

The Journ a is in receipt of let
ter from A. B. Hu1it, secretary OF the
Western Reciprocity League, nonpar-
tizan organization, having headquarters at
Chicago, for promoting the. cause of reci-
procity. M. Hulit incloses a call for. a
national reciprocity conference to be held
at Chicago April TO- at the Grand Pacific
Hotel, to consider the advisability of
forming national organization This
conference is called by Governor Stanley
OF Kansas, president of the Western
League, and is the outgrowtn of pre-
limtnary meeting held at Topeka in Sep
TENDER to encourage and promote senti-
:nent in that state favorable to reci-
procity. The meeting in Chicago is for
the purpose of broadening the scope Of
the organization and making the move
ment national in its character "All
manufacturers, millers, packers, stock
men, grainmen, transportation companies
and others interested in building up our
foreign trade" are requested to send dele
gates. Mr.. Hulit says that the indica-
lions are promising for the attendance Of
many Of the leaders In the cause Of rect
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07
INDICATED

When the Tax Payers League was de-
feated in the courts last winter in it's eff
fort to protect the county from exorbit-
ant charges for printing material, par
ticularly in the case of tax list books,
some people not in sympathy with the
work OF the league were disposed to exult
over the outcome. This seems to be a
case, however, of "he laughs best who
laughs last" The court allowed the Great
Western Printing company to collect a
bill of $1,000 for seventy-eight tax list
books, although the Tax Payers League
submitted evidence to show that the work
could be done for $500, and still afford a
good profit. Through the diligence of the
league bill passed the last Legislature
requiring bids for printing supplies
amounting to. over 500. The law is now
in effect, and to-day for the first time bids
more than last year, and identically the
same thing as to quality and form, were
opened by the county commissioners. And
here they are: Miller-Davis Printing
Company, $3.50; H. Crawford & Co, $606;
Harrison & Smith, 1888; Great Western
Printing company, $3.50; Commercial job
Printing company, $4O6.
In other words. the printing house
which charged $1,000 last year is willing
to do the same work this year for less
than so per cent Of the previous cost
while another bidder is satisfied with &C
per cent.
And yet we are told by all kinds of mer-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07

The Wisconsin paper mill workers will
have the sympathy of the public in the
strike which they have inaugurated. Their
demand Is that the mills shall close at 6
O'Clock Saturday night and shall not open
until 7 O'Clock Monday morning. In other
words, 1t is a strike for the Sunday rest
day. 1t is we'll enough for the working
man to resist the tendency in this coun-
try in these days Of great Industrial activ-
ity to deprive him Of his day Of rest. Apart
from any religious considerations. the
workingman is entitled to his one days
rest every week on physical and social
grounds, and he should stand up for it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07

The only objection to Cecil Rhodes
provision for $50 American scholarships
at Oxford is that it means that we shall
soon have $50 collegiate Anglo maniacs
let loose among us yearly. The genuine
Englishman is good fellow and is ap-
preciated better in America than in any
other part of the world. but the Anglo
The man just out Of college is not always
the most lovable creature in the world
What combination, then, will we have in
$50 Oxonian Anglo-maniacs descending
upon us annually.
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1t will be observed that Cecil Rhodes
said in his will that Germany and the
united States were the two most progress
sive nations in the world While the
popular impression in this country is that
the United States and the United King
dom are the two most progressive ma
tons, Mr.. Rhodes was doubtless right
1t is German ingenuity and German en-
terprise that American manufacturers
fear more to-day than those of Britain.
IN the latter country they feel that they
have done their part in commerce and
industry, and are, not so keen for SUI
premacy as they once were, whereas both
Germany and the United States are now
eagerly working to gain the premier place
In industry and commerce.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07
Deacon Hastings Fiddle
BY G. b. Lewis.

Copyright, 1902, by the S. S. Mcclure Company
1t was we'll known fact when Abel Hast
ings was elected one of the deacons of his
church that he not only owned fiddle, but
played on it. He had been censured for this
act of Worldliness, but as far as it was his
only weakness and as he was eminently itted
to I'LL a deaconship his brethren went ahead
and took chances. 1t might be just possible,
argued the majority, that man could fiddle
and not bringsthe church intofdisrepute. But
at the same time he was expected to play
rothing but the most solemn airs and play
them softly.
The first move on the$part of Satan was
to induce the new pillar to stop and gaze
at some circus bills posted on barn A
brother deacon caught him redhanded and
lectured him for AIN hour on the enormity of
his offehse. The transgressor promised better
things in future.
But To- when the circus arrived he permit
ted his daughter Minnie to attend in COM
pany with young Ike Harper! His excuse that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07
The NonpareiI Man
Casually Observed.

"A writer In the Atlantic Monthly, without
using these words however, shows how the
Historical Novel Of to-day is the Penny
Dreadful which has taken College Course.
Now is the time to clean up the back yard
so that the neighbors hens can get at their
grubs without wearing their feet all out.
Some amusing people in Chicago are talk
ing about reforming the city government.
Something too much Of this humor, methinks.
We have heard kubelik and we have heard
the Cherry sisters. They are different but the
evening spent with the latter went quicker.
Give US home talent z 3s&'-
The old book collector who has been living
Off his friends the booksellers for the last
two years by stealing their books and selling
them back and forth jumped the bail OF, $500
put up by q sympathetic friend and departed
for wider fields OF usefulness
The wise man may know something about ii
but he doesn't tell anybody else unless forced
to do so in court
The postal authorities are thinking of put
ting the head of Martha Washington on a
postage stamp. 1t ought to have been done
during General Washington's reign and then
the president might nave got ahead or Martha
for once.
J. P. Morgan is taking his vacation, but his
gas meter runs on just the same
General Miles has applied to the war de-
partment to be sent to Ohio to put down the
Hanna boom. He proposes to take with him
ten Holsters as terrible examples to The
Ohioans.
People who were burned out in the Atlantic
City hotels and came down the ladder are
now receiving bills with "Melodramatic
amusement" charged as an extra.
The mayor has gone to West Baden to be
toiled out and expects to return feeling as
kinky as the cow when she gets the first smell
of fresh grass in the spring. And what a
lot Captain John Fichette will have saved ul
to report
The St. Louis Post Dispatch evidently thinks
that John Bull is all at sea-at least it claims
he is man OVERLOOKED.
Shakopee man who has asthma claims
that the trouble with the climate is that the
life is all squeezed out Of it by the scorchere
who pump it into their tires.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07
The Testing OF Father.

When faint the city whistles blow
And milk carts rumble to and fro;
When the glad sunbeams newly fling
Abroad their promises of spring,
Then father to the garden goes
And rakes and digs and plants and hoes:
When he has placed leneath the loan
About his glad suburban home
Lettuce and beans and trailing vine
And proudly says, ''All this is mine"
And joyous hears the breakfast bell
And feels his bosom proudly swell,
What sounds portentous the breeze
Cause his slow curdling blood TO freeze;
There, cackling singly or together,
With feet steel shod and lungs of leather
The neighbors' soul destroying hens
Have flown their fragile makeshift pens:
The big white rooster proudly leads!
The air is full Of garden seeds!
The old hen lifts with rapid scoops
Earth, stumps, sod, gravel and the roots
That Pa has planted with such care
And left to grow in comfort there.
TITS nothing but Astounding Grace
That holdeth father in his place,
Instead Of clubbing every hen
He plants the garden once again.
And Ma says, with expression sage.
Eyer fathers mellerin' with age
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07

from the village of Irvington in what is now
known AS East Ervington
bordering the tract on the north and south
SIDES are the properties of the Gould and
cyrus Field estates which are the most
valuable parcels Of property in the Section.
In the very heart of the forty acres is a
natural lake, on the banks of which it is pro-
posed to erect the casino, OIL which the
company proposes to expend $500 900. 1t will
De constructed entirely of stone and will pro-
vide for 200 persons
The land will be developed to represent
hunting preserve, with facilities Of various
entertainments ard sports.
II was suggested to the United States gov
eminent recently that the spot would be q
desirable place for the permanent establish
ment OF hospital for the care of soldiers.
and the project was favorably considered
BEFORE any decision was made the property
was transferred to its present owners
DR.. Heller Newton's Change.
The intention of the Rev. Dr. Heber New
ton to resign the rectorship of All Souls,
church at an early day, with the view, as it
is understood, Of accepting an invitation from
the trustees of Leland Stanford university at
San francisco to become the special preacher
at mat institution, as announced from his
pulpit by his associate, is of interest and
Importance. Dr. Newton is in many respects
ana FOR many years has been the most strk-
ing figure among the Episcopal clergy of New
YORK. Moreover, his selection as a religious
teacher by the great California university is
suggestive, for DR.. Newtons religious views.
frankly liberal and even radical so far dis
turred the repose Of the Episcopal church of
New York that in 1884, Bishop Potter was
| urged to discipline him, and vigorous move
ment was started by the Rev. DR.. De Costa to
have him brought to trial for hercsy.
Bishop Potter simply cautioned him courte-
ously to avoid giving occasion for discord.
When again, In 1891, petition was addressed
to the bishop by several clergymen, asking
that an inquiry concerning Dr. Newtons
teachings be Instituted, and it was followed
up by a request to the same effect from the
accused minister, 1t is true that a COM
mittee OF clergymen and laymen was APP
pointed by the bishop for the purpose; but
nothing came from it. Since that time DIR.
Newton has been left free from interference
though he has modified hts teachings in no
way, unless to make them the more open to
the objections which had provoked the agita-
ton for his trial for heresy; and his eloquent
and persistent fearlessness in proclaiming
them has attracted to his church the more
hearers to be influenced by them. His re-
tirement from his rectorship Is said not TO he
cue to any dissatisfaction with him or his
| preaching In his very prosperous parish, for,
nnquest1onably, the great mass OF his parish
| toner's are deeply attached to him and proud
CT him, but rather to his hope that change
OF scene and activity will be Of benefit to his
health, somewhat impaired by the labors Of
! his long pastorate IN New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-07

The painters of Minneapolis and ST.
Paul have Joined interests. That is the
kind of interurban cooperation that will
in the end do far more to draw the two
cities together than hours and hours of
tiorid after-dinner oratory on twin city
love. The more and more different trades
and business interests recognize that the
two cities constitute one business center
the more they will act on lines of bust
ness interest rather than urban pride ~