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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-08-15

the 10th. day of September, 1902.
E. j. Jones.
Will Ramage did business in
Window Saturday.
L. S. Nelson left for his home
in Slayton Friday.
J. j. Bingham made business
trip to Window Saturday.
Geo. w. Wilson and wife returned
from Colfax, Iowa, Friady morning.
W. Wamsley and wife left Tues
day for a visit in Yellowstone Park.
Swanson and Anderson's new
hearse arrived Saturday morning.
Miss Florence Green of Rock
Rapids is visiting friends in the
city. =.
Hubbard and Palmer elevator is
receiving fresh coat of paint this
week.
Miss Hazel Stephens of Luverne
is the guest of Mrs E. L. Ventioner
this week.
J. D. Petit and wife visited
friends in Rushmore Friday
afternoon.
Miss Elsie WEIGH of Sheldon was
the guest of Miss Claribel Kendlen
Saturday.
Miss Lucille Bryan returned from
a three weeks visit with friends at
Sioux Falls.
Gentry Bros, big Animal Show
is advertised to be in Worthintgon
Saturday, Aug, IL.
Mrs. N. Nelson left Friday for
Minneapolis where she will make
her permanent home.
Ed Allen is how employed with
the Western Union Telegraph
company at Mitchell. -
Mrs. 1. N. Wilson returned from
a visit at the home Of her daughter
in Little Rock Friday.
Call in at Palmer's music store
and look his large new stock of
White Sewing Machines.
DR.. Riley Of this city is visiting
friends at Spirit Lake and Arnold IS
Park this week.
The Misses Florence and Nellie
Lyons left Friday for a short visit
with friends in Pierre S. D.
Mrs. B. Chase and daughter
Bernice, of Sheldon was visiting
friends in this city Saturday.
Miss Matte Bryan returned from
Luverne Saturday where she had
been attending summer school.
Mrs. A. S. Wilson of Milwaukee
is the guest of her brother, G. J.
Smallwood and family this week.
Gilbert Anderson and wife left
Friday for Glenwood where they
will visit Mrs. Anderson's parents.
G. V. Petit and family moved
into the house formerly occupied by
Us. Frink on 18th street last Friday.
W. B. Hart and..wife of Pipestone
are guests of G.. H. Hart, head
baker in Stefin's restaurant this
week.
Miss Neeta Harden returned
home from Luverne Friday, where
she was attending the summer
school.
r. schencker of,~.Cedar Rapids,
Ia, was in the city making i'm
provements on his farm in Elk
Township.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Gray who
have been visiting at the home of
G.. V. Petit for a week left Satur-
day for Minneapolis.
Sturgeon and Kies the hustling
land men of this city had a large
land excursion here Thursday ook-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03
Great Is Football,

The return of the football season finds
the American public as keen for the
gamo as ever. So listless a game as that
Minnesota and Carleton college brought
out a relatively large attendance. News
papers everywhere devote as much atten-
tor to practice and preliminary games as
ever, and the football monomaniac is as
common as ever.
While public interest is so persistent the
great football questions, viz, the effect on
studies and students and the casualties
incident to the game, seem to be full OF
vitality. The season has begun with some
frightful accidents. We have read Of two
young men with broken or fearfully
accidents Is as great as ever.
Over in Wisconsin they do not purpose
to bother themselves much about an acad-
emic discussion of whether football can
be harmontzed with due attention to stud
les. The faculty makes it wholly
football player Stacks up in
his studies he Is pulled out Of the
squad" and compelled to concentrate his
energies on his studies. This is not new
practice, but they seem to be more rigor-
Gus at Madison this year than anywhere
else, or else football has been more harm
full to studies there than elsewhere.
But however it fares with studies and
with life and limb, football Is here to stay
indefinitely. The players like it, the pub
lie clamors for it, and 80 long as that is
true it will be impossible for college au-
thorities, except in isolated cases. to check
the game. Moreover football has come to
be such an important factor in a univer-
sity's renown and reputation that trustees
and president and faculties, being wise in
their generation, have not attempted much
more than little salutary regulation of
the sport.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03

EDWARD everett Hale hardly have been
otherwise. and If the predictions of the
publishers may be accepted, the northwest
will be glad that it was not otherwise
Lewis and Clark are about to have their
day. Oregon is preparing a Lewis and
Clark centennial celebration for next year;
ST. Louis is to live prominence to the cap
tains at its exposit :on next summer: a new
definite edition Of the diary of their ex-
peditior. is nearly ready, and now they
are to be. the subject of a work Of fiction.
by Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, author Of INC
Jsoughlin and Old Oregon. "5'- .r>
Mrs. Dye has been at work on the ro-
m:tnce for several years, and has crossed
tile continent four times in her search for
orig inal, aocuD nts bearing on her subject.
She has discovered material never before
used in NInant, and her book is said to
throw new light on many points. Her
s orr is pronounced not only a powerful ro-
nance but {. notable addition to the his
toricaI literature Of America.
Whether all the good things that are
said OF the work in advance are true or
not such work, prepared with such care
and based upon so important an incident,
is sure to attract attention in the north
west. 1t is sure also to stimulate interest
III the study of the history of the north
wesr. which has been too near to have
the enchantinent of real history. History
Isl NIT histo. 5. so long as one can hear its
tales by word Of mouth from those who
Werc participants in its making. A story
of the sort described will remind north.
western folk that they ape getting beyind
thu days when theNssmay hear from the
lips Of pioneers narratives Of brave deeds
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03
No Place for a Jail.

The suggestion has been made that the
proposed public baths in the old city hall
have the central police station as a fellow
tenant. The suggestion is not a good
one, from any point of view. The purposes
of public bath establishment and a po-
lice station are so utterly different that
they cannot be effectively associated in
the same building. The public baths are
distinctly an uplifting, amelioratine
agency. They are not for criminals and
should not be contaminated by being
housed in the same building with munich
pal Jail.
, What room there is in the old structure
beyond that required for the baths nigh,
well be used for those social purposes
which Health Commissioner Hall has sug-
gested. which may be grouped under the
designation of popular club. A branch
library, a reading room, public waitine
room, etc.; good place for the clean
Idle man to spend his time while waitine
for employment, making altogether a.
splendid Offset to the cheap saloons and @
pleasant refuge from the numerous bad
influences that surround the unemployed
men who huddle together In that part O,
the city. .-#'s. .-.. r-,:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03
Tom Johnson's Plan.

Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, who
is racing over Ohio with red automobile
and a circus tent when he is not jumping
around the state on railroad trains, STIR
ring the people up on the subjects Of taxa
ton and municipal home rule, has stopped
long enough to give out the following plan
for an elastic note circulation: 49,:
I would have the government issue
notes, based on its legitimate power to
pay. I think congress should fix the
amount Of both bonds and notes to be is
sued by the government. That is as far
as congress should go. The notes should
be convertible into bonds at will and the
bonds into notes. This would give the
necessary elasticity. When money was
tight the Understanding obligations
would become a non-interest bearing cir
culat1ng medium, and when people were
looking for investments the bonds could
easily and readily be substituted for the
unnecessary surplus Of notes. The idea
is not mine, and it is an old one, but it
seems to me that the convertible note will
solve many of the problems which face
us to-day.
This plan would make the government
more than ever the master of the circu
lating media of the United States. In ad-
uAIAOIl ~ coming all money, 1t would be
the issuer and maker Of all paper money.
Most Of our doctors for our ills financial
wish to get the government entirely out
of the circulation controlling, business.
They want it to be worked by one great
national bank or by individual banks, as
at present On the other -. hand. even
among bankers, there is a strong
prejudice against one, great note issuing
bank or even groups of branch banks.
Many people believe that the govern
ment should dabble with currency even
more than it does now, and that it should.
as johnson would have 1t, be the only
agency Of currency issue in the country.
The trouble with this scheme is that.
like our present national bank notes it
rests on government Indebtedness. Unless
that Indebtedness shall be purposely con-
tinued in order to shave-a bank note cir
culation, it will, in the ordinary course Of
events, be extinguished within 20 wears.
And as 1t is reduced in the interval the
note circulation will, Of course, decline.
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The Important Serv

The Wall street sringency which has kept Sec
rotary of the Treasury Shaw loosenng
ends of cash. naturally panic though the
parallel does not far For those bad and these
good times, then business langushed, is full
Of life energy country affected,
the storm is only by the rain being squeezed
out Of few financial York Having rigid
and being great money in that time
general liquidation, the banks resored to instrumenta
ties" outside the y
The principal fundamentally of this kind clear
ing house though manufacturing and other
mercia enterprises issued bills
money bankers in all of the issued
cashiers certificates Of deposit small
for similar purposes Clearing house associations
times certificates which
culated Mr. A. B. Hepburn from whose recent
Pennsylvania association
that this circulation clearly
subject the 10 imposed all other than
tona bank circulation but that the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03
Amount of Advertising
carried by the Twin City
Papers for September:
Real Equalization.

The heated discussion Of taxation prob
lens during the special session Of the
legislature last winter seems now to be
bearing some good fruit in the work Of the
state board Of equalization. The under
assessment of rural real estate and, the
over-assessment of city real estate has
long been a fragrant abuse, but the consti-
tuition Of the state board of equalization by
judicial districts has made it appear to be
impossible to right this wrong, since the
cities would always have to contend with
a large majority, the selfish interest of
whose constituents was promoted by this
Inequality in taxation.
1t is to the credit Of the present board
that it has hoisted the valuation Of acres
in most Of the counties. In Stearns county
the assessment has been increased Is pei
cent, yet the valuation is now only 1891
which is probably not more than 80 pei
cent Of the real valuation Of the land. It
is not necessary to dwell upon the injus-
tice Of the former assessment. Those as
sessments too it must be remem bered, in.
clude the improvements as we'll as the
bare land.
Eennepin county real estate was not
raised In valuation by the board and
stands at $41.36 an acre, which is about
SO an acre higher than Ramsey, which
also escaped without an increase. In
fact the three most populous counties OF
the state, with the three largest cities,
Hennepin, Ramsey and st. Louis, have not
ton. while all but fifteen of the other sew
enty-nine counties have been raised in
valuation. This is simple Justice, this is
equalization, and we hope that the con-
stituents Of the members Of the board of
equalization will be as fair as the latter
have been.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03
Fun at the University.

Although an American university is not
a local government corporation and
though the students do not live under any
other laws or any other dispensation than
those suffered or enjoyed by common, or
binary people, they have way down 1n>the
bottoms of their brains lurking belief
that somehow or other they are not the
same before the law as other people.
This belief, while it has no foundation in
law or any theory of civil government, Is
we'll founded on experience. Since time
immemorial pranks and even crimes have
been pardoned or overlooked in col
lege students that would land no
hos in the workhouse and cost or
binary citizens good round fines and
some police court humiliation.
In the great state universities which
are so much closer to the people than the
others, we see little of this theory and
even less Of the practice. But once in
awhile it will break out. After football
games there is likely to be a hot time in
the old town. and many priced sign
disappears to swing no more in it's accus-
toned place. In our own university it
broke out yesterday and the day before to
the undoing Of several park policemen,
who, obeying unwise ORDERS undertook to
keep wheel-riding students off the walks
of the driveway. through the campus,
which it seems is under the care athe
park board, though belonging to the l1li
versity The policemen were hustled Of
the campus in short order and their at
tempts to make arrests became opera
bouffe as they f1ourished revolvers which
the students knew they dare not use.
While it is diverting to see few po-
licemen tossed around by 9 big crowd Il
is not especially edifying. The same set
Element of the matter that is now pro.
posed, VIZ, the withdrawal Of sparI
| boards authority could have been at.
tanned without so much rough play and sc
much rudeness to- the park policemen. Al
| the same time the park board authorities
| should have taken the matter up@Witl
President Northrop. instead of with tht
| students. f4:S%
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03
Sisters in Suffering.

Minneapolis and St. Louis can sympa
thize and also rejoice with each other.
In the first place, it may be said in de-
Tense of these two cities, that there are
others Their fault consists in get
ting caught" There are other cities with
just as bad police or aldermanic corrup-
ton. that have Of late held up their hands
in horror over the revelations in these two
cities. ALL the murderers, thieves,
burglars and criminals of all sorts and
degrees are not in prison. No more is
the villainy Of municipal officials every
where revealed and pilloried by publicity.
These whited sepulchers may gloat over
later The reward Of the atonement we
are now passing through will be good
government for years; incorruptible legis-
lators In St. Louis; irreproachable police
men and faithful mayors in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis and st. Louis are to-day
doing the whole sisterhood of American
municipalities splendid service. They are
showing how possible it is for good citi-
zens and faithful officials to carry by
storm the most strongly entrenched camps
Of boodlers, corruption and faithlessness
to public trust and utterly confound and
humble the proud despoilers Of the public.
In police, in aldermanic, in conscience
less millionaire promoter circles all over
the country the good work done in Min
neapolis and st. Louis will bear fruits.
The buying and selling Of aldermen will
not be so common as in the past, grating
police officials will not be so numerous;
millionaires with punches of bank notes
for votes will not be 80 conspicuous.
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Shorty's account and spent his spare time
wondering how he could exact payment.
Casting about for some means of re-
liev1ng his burden Of wrath, he one day
thought Of Shorty's girl, Maggie Dolan
He had learned, to his SURPRISE that
his former estimate Of her was wrong.
She was not typical thief's woman, but
girl who had become entangled and then
pulled up before it. was too late. He I'M
derstood now why Shorty had struck in
blind fury when he spoke coarsely of her,
but, this did not make his own discom-
fiture any easier to bear. He was All
officer Of the law and Shorty a mere thief.
By every police precedent Shorty should
have received any comments offered with
becoming ,meekness. T.. His hasty action
was a. gr1eyous sin, and he must be made
to- suffer If possible.
Clancy wondered; what had become OF
Maggie He, had not heard Of her break
| down at the factory, nor did he know that
she was just recovering from desperate
| Illness He resolved to hunt her up Per"
laps from her ne coulG gleaF some intelli-
egence of Shorty's Whereabouts
| In one Of his off houEs he knocked at
Mrs. Dolan's door and was, admitted with
trepidation, for the poor woman had come
to connect police ;vasitsewith trouble TO.
I Maggie: The girl, looking very weak anc
| frail, was lying on q sofa: = J.,
| Clancy was prepared to ,abluster an6
threaten, but something in -Maggies face
disarmed him. She was evidently In nc
condition to stand agseene, and he re.
solved to try diplomaeys From her an.
pearance he guessed that she had beer
sick, and he began, by assuming that he
knew all about it. He said that in pass
j ing by. he had called inste see how she
4 Was getting On and hepedEshe was better
| The women knew who he was, and Mrs
Dolan. having no zsIoYeS for Shorty, wa.
glad that Maggie should have the wick
edness of his last act brought home tt
her In this way, In that iieighborhood
policeman was an aristocrat, and she wa!
proud to be admitted to terms of intimacy
with one unprofessionally.a
Clancy made himself as, agreeable a.
possible and left without having learned
anything except that Maggie did not know
the real reason Of Shorty's assault upor
him, and also that Mrs. Dolan would
prove a willing instrument in any move
ment against. the man who had brough
nothing but trouble to her daughter. Sht
t did not know that, in addition to trouble
+ Shorty had brought to. Maggie an awak
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03

copyright, 1902, by T. G. McClure.)
When a. policeman In the line of mis-
duty is struck over the head with chair
and then left ANONYMOUSLY gagged and
bound, he naturally feels aggrieved. II
Was fortunate for Officer William Clancy
that he was left with any feelings at ALL
but this aspect Of the case did not com
fort him., When he reported for duty
after q period of retirement in the hos
pital, he had il in for Shorty Mccoy
ern should that young man ever cross
his path again. - -'"4 IT, =:
But Shorty was miles away from the
end Of Officer Clancys night stick. and
the police of many cities seemed power
less to discover his hiding place. In nine
cases out of ten a criminal will sooner
or later seek the haunts of his kind, and
Clancy waited with hope and resentment
in his heart. AS the weeks passed. with
no news of the missing Shorty, resent
ment occupied most Of the space behind
Clancy's brass buttons, and hope with
drew to a corner and seldom spoke.
Now that he was restored to health
Clancy had to stand a good deal Of banter
from his fellows at the station house.
He, was a hot tempered man and met
these gibes with Language appropriate to
i the occasion. For every thrust -he re-
sceiveds he made a mental mark against
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03
IN A NUTSHELL.....

public in great that the govern
ment forhore prosecute. So ss@a Il ~; =
It is estimated that volume substitutes
issued in $685. exclusive large east
clearing associations, $30o0oOOo. Not
cent Of loss resulted from their u.%$a -
The New York Clearing House association issued its
first certificates June 81 and the last Sept. g. All
1. highest figure reached by the total
certificates any time 000 and
$41490000. The Philadelphia clear
1465 900 of certificates; Baltimore,
$1,475,O0O Boston, $11 SOC, O00 %fs:@H{" Z
clearing house certificate is merely evidence Of credit
issued clearing house association to its member
settling debit balances clearing
house. Of such certificates partial
suspension Of currency payment .~re
Mr.. Hepburn thinks that these certificates, though
invaluable day. again
this country The fact that they to the
scarcity money which tends impair credit
bank city, and the nation They all right
debtor nation, but they out Of creditor
nation. ~N-'
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BOOKS.

THE WORTH OF WORDS. BY Dr. Ralcy Hustled
Bell. with an introduction by DR.. William
Colby Cooper. New York: The Grafton
Press. $3.50 net.
This book by one who has attained the
RECOGNITION DR.. Bell has is sure to at
tract attention, all the more because Of
the way in which the writer gets at once
into the middle of things" After few
words by way Of explanation, he goes at
misused words, and there is no misun-
derstanding his point, despite the fact
that one may not always agree with him.
After handling misused words without
gloves and with sleeves rolled up
the doctor passes to "Vulgarisms
and Words no. words" and there
lays about him with telling force.
Every day errors he properly
handles with more gentleness.- His
chapter on Slang" he opens in a manner
sure to attract attention as follows:
as in the brush" Much slang that Is bad.
he says, lives, while much that is virile
and strong is permitted to die. Ones err
rors Of speech are pretty sure to be re-
duced in lumber by thoughtful study
Of the book.
WHEN THE HEART rs YOUNG. b. William
Wallace Whitelock. illustrated by Harper
Pennington. New York: f. P. Dutton & Co.,
81 " Twenty third street. 81 net. s
when the Heart is Young Is book OF
verse for the little folk. Some of the
things it contains are 1.-THE Eyes that
Follow You," "Snooty- Poorly" 1.-THE Boy
Eater" "Johnny's Conscience" Pants
and Round bout Christmas Time"
These are enough to suggest that rhymed
tales of the sort on which children hang
in breathless suspense are to be found in
liberal number in Mr.. Whitelock's little
volume. There are many Illustrations
which tend to heighten the breathless-.
suspense feeling as well as others in diff
ferent veins. go
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03
The american land grabber who is e,

The american land grabber who is ca
gerly buying up all the cheap land in his
own country is reaching out north and
south at the same time. Canadian soil
is not the only foreign land the land -lov-
ing American has his eyes on. He is buy
ing the cheap and fertile land Of Cuba.
Many land companies and colonies have
been formed to operate In Cuba, and yes
terday a big, corporation. was launched in
Ohio to handle an immense amount Of Gu
ban land and put settlers onto 100, ooC
acres. AS showing the way In which
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03

Captain Baldwin, the arctic explorer,
says that he will never again go exploring
with Swede for captain and Norwegian
for pilot. The next time he will have
both Norwegians or Swedes. There is real
ly quite little antipathy between these
two peoples, and it exists to some ex-
tent even among emigrants settled in the
United States
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03
l.. DAILY DIVERSIONS

ne safe Way-At the recent dinner of
me l Pennsylvania society Of New York en-
A 1 General W. u. Hensel of Penn
istie toId the incident of the reconcile
ia.io o OF ,,, Don Cameron and Allan G. Thur
man ma. Thsy sat and talked a.. long tina
man remarked: nu VT
wen, Cameron, If pass st. Peter !
VII tel him that when you come aione
ne must let you in. I will tell him Won = re
good fellow, Cameron, - ~ 9
thurman paused for q moment and then
ADDED refectiyely: And will also tell
him he had better let you in or Won will
make devil Of q fuss outside