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The Leon reporter., 1902-07-17

There will be all kinds of attractions
to entertain the crowds which will attend
the Emancipation jubilee celebration in
Leon on August and 6. The managers
have signed with the colored ball clubs
Of Atchison and Des Moines to play two
games. There will be the famous Bux.
ton band Of 81 people, colored vaud.
eville company from Des Moines, and
the best cake walkers from Missouri and
Iowa will meet in contest for the title Of
champions of Iowa. Hon. Samuel Reed
of Bethany, will speak on August 5th.
II will be the greatest colored celebra.
ton ever held in all Iowa.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-17

For reading our advertisements and watch
ing for snaps on clean, fresh eatables W,
do not make you tempting conces
sion to-day in order to get advantage o
you tomorrow. We sell the best grades
produceable and same price to all.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
!. CURRENT DISC UsslONs
The Philippine Currency.

New York Times.
The plan for coinage and currency in the
Philippines, which is included in the bill for
the government of the islands reported to tile
senate, requires very thorough discussion Il
lssdifticut to see in what this scheme of com
age differs in the least, except in the weight
OF the dollar, from the scheme of free com
age which was defeated in this country with
SO much trouble and at the expense of such
CONFUSION, dscredit and loss. Nor is there
any reason to suppose that the scheme will
work any less badly in the Philippines than
here.
The Value of Youthful Ideas.
New York Sun.
q. The London Spectator begins an ESSAY ON
The Unpopularity of Youth, by laying down
as foundation for its discussion the asser-
tion that young men, especially young men
OF promise, are, generally speaking, dislked.''
Now, In England, that may be the curious
factN which the Spectator calls it, but the
curious fact here is rather the prominence
Won by young men in affairs, more especially
ard the respectful consideration with which
their judgment is received by older men who
nave been successful likewise in that sphere
of activity.
In Wall street, for example, are many young
men who have demonstrated so strikingly the
sort of ability required for the successful pur-
su1ts OF Its business that even old heads in
that mart will listen respectfully, even eager
~, to their counsel and pay humble heed TO
their criticism. The sight of gray-headed
capitalists and fnanciers grayely considering
relatively juvenile opinions and even inyit-
ing them as of very serious value. is not in
frequent. Difference of years yields to actual
achievement. The alert mind of youth is
recognized as having an advantage over duler
age, more especially, at this period of new
business DEVELOPMENT
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05

"a Z Y,
insure effective restraint. The terms of
the will recognize the necessity for main
tanning the peace Of the world and the
real, effective agencies for such main
tenance.
Mr. Rhodes, it must be said, was a
maker Of war himself. He had large re-
sponsibility for the South African war
with its cataracts of human blood and
waste OF property and treasure In this
Will he seeks to make some compensation
for his malign influence in this matter.
1t may not, however, be looked upon. as
penance simply. He had South Africa
much at heart. He had done great work
In extending the empire in that region.
He leaves much Of his wealth to promote
the Well-being of that interesting and
War-blighted country. May his benefcence
SOW the seed of much more wholesome
crop than his influence while living
brought forth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
INDIAN ANCESTRY

Charles Hallock, of Washington, D. c.,
and formerly resident Of Minnesota.
contributed paper to The American An
tiquarian for March on the question Of
the forebears of the races found on this
hemisphere by the first European ex-
plorers in the fifteenth century On that
he has been criticised in a vigorous way.
In some quarters, because he holds not
only to the Asiatic origin of these peo-
pie, but believes that the first corners
from Asia brought with them the superior
civilization Indicated by the half buried
cities found by Squires and LIE Plongeon,
Desire Channay and others in Mexico and
Central America, who, because of fearful
cataclysms, the result Of earthquakes,
volcanic action and great submergences of
the land, were dispersed far and wide
over the continents, gradually relapsing
into savagery through the struggle for
existence and developing, in the course of
years, inherited ideas which are found
matertalized in the extraordinary works
of the mound builders which cover wide
extent of country, and in the peculiar
tenements and irrigation work of the cliff
dWellers.
Mr.. Hallock names Korea as princi-
pal point from which the Asiatics en-
barked for the east. 1t is, of course, not
necessary to give Korea special promi-
hence, although it is known that Korea
has been, from time immemorial, coun-
try of advanced civilization, as is the case
with China, the first settlers there bring
ing with them the Accadian civilization
whose remains of high type are ex-
cavated to-day in the Euphrates valley. 1t
types in printing centuries before the
Christian era.
Mr.. Hallock is conspicuously right in
rejecting the autochthonous theSry Of the
origin Of the Indian tribes stoutly held by
some scientists. The theory falls before
the testimony of a common origin of the
human race in central Asia, found in
archaeology and in tradition and language
peculiarities. even If the testimony of
the Christian scriptures is rejected
In Mexico the ancient names still at
tached to localities show Asiatic origin,
as the recurrence of the term 'tepe'' in
compound words, and In use by the In
dams to describe their dwellings. 1t
means hill or eminence of any kind like
mound and the same term is found in
central Asia, as in the name Geoktepe
where the Russians had such hard fight
with the khans. The word "Yucatan''.
is simply slight variation from Jok
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
The BUCKET-SHoP

The luminous discussion of bucket-shops
by G. M. Harrington, published in an
other column to-day, should be read by
every person who has the least interest in
the grain trade or desires information in
a nutshell as to the differences between
Chamber of Commerce operations and tho
cruel and hollow, yet ludicrous, mockery
of the bucket-shops.
Incidentally it may be remarked that
Mr.. Harrington has ably reinforced the
conclusions in another editorial in this
issue that the speculative side of the
exchanges that actually are centers for
real buyers and sellers of commodities is
legitimate and necessary, though seeming
ly inevitably accompanied by frequent
illegitimate and useless operations in the
chief centers of speculative trade.
The simple truth, as Mr.. Harrington
shows, is that the bucket-shop is a
gambling house that uses market quota
lions instead of cards, dice and other
ordinary gambling paraphernalia and then
manipulates the "deal' so that the patron
has against him not only all the natural
chances of the market fluctuations, but is
likely to be confronted by fictitious
quotations. especially created for the pur-
pose of freezing him out. The bucket
shop then not only has no connection
whatever with the real future business
of the Chamber of Commerce, but has no
relation even to the purely speculative
phase of the chambers operations and
can snot even be relied upon to give the
quotations with accuracy
The Chamber of Commerce is perform
ing public service when it seeks to
stamp out these pestiferous concerns
through taking from them every shred of
a respectable or legitimate appearance by
depriying them3,of market quotations. It
is to be regretted that the law and the
Interpretation Of the law are not sufi-
GENTLY comprehensive to make the cham
ber's task one easily and swiftly accom-
plished
While on this subject it is pertinent to
express emphatic approval of the efforts
being made to prevent the repeal of the
war tax on bucket-shops. AS the Com
mercial West puts it this week, the tax
is not heavy enough to be much of bur
den to the shops, but as an incident to the
tax they must keep their books open to
inspection, which makes it possible for
their customers to ascertain how they are
"flched of their money" Thus the tax
acts as sort of inspiration to virtue,
while at the same time reducing the
profits of the shop proprietors The
revenue stamp on all his deals is con-
slant reminder to the bucket shop patron
That he is in pure gambling venture,
and thus serves as warning to many
innocent amateur Spectators" who have
not yet gone far enough to understand the
radical difference between a bucket shop
and chamber Of commerce.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
A WORD FOR THE COYOTE

A writer in the California Fruit Grower,
after sarcastically urging the man with
the gun to shoot the horned toad, the
gopher snake, the meadow lark, the
road-runners, the ground owls, the spar
row hawks adds:
Shoot the best frieds of the rancher-the
coyotes. It's true, they take chicken now
and then, but don't you know that it takes
thirty hundred weight-a ton and half of
rabbits, rats, gOphers and the worse pests
that the ranchers have to contend with to
feed one Of these wild, self-supporting dogs
until he is a year old, while your three or
four lazy house dogs have eaten the price
OF a hundred hens and sucked all the eggs
they can find? But these are necessary to
bark at night and impress all Of your visit
ors with the necessity Of going armed But
shoot the coyotes.
There's another class Of birds that really
ought to be shot Take them far out on the
desert, for they are not worth burying. They
are the thoughtless, needless shooters that are
Unfortunately Gripping and killing the best
friends that the farmer and orchardist has
in California.
This puts the coyote in a new light to
people who read in their papers about
the efforts being made by sheep and
stockmen to exterminate them, or who
has learned from Seton Thompson's pages
of their blood thirsty cunning But it
seems that in California they are the
farmers friend. far more valuable to him
than his devoted domestic dog. Seton
Thompson has made us love the little
rascals SO much for their sagacity and
successful struggle for existence that it
gives US pleasure to know that in Cali
fornia at least they have earned the right
to pose as mans friend instead of as his
enemy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
THE RHODES Will

The will of the late Cecil Rhodes, as de-
tailed in a London cable, is one OF the
most extraordinary instruments Of that
kind ever made. His enormous wealth,
with the exception of some estates in
England, is left for benefcent public uses,
to a large extent educational,-a disposal
which will perpetuate his memory through
all time.
He remembered the United States in
making provision for two Oxford scholar
ships to each Of the present states and
territories.
Germany is the only other country re-
membered outside Of England, and, in. a
codicil. he said: For good understand
ing between England, Germany and the
United States will secure the peace Of the
world, and educational relations form the
strongest tie
In laying down the qualifications for
candidates for the Oxford scholarships,
Mr.. Rhodes shows his English robustness
by emphasizing manly courage and fond
ness for outdoor sports OF manly charac-
ter. He would have them show leader
ship qualities and aim to prepare them
selves for public duties as the highest
aim.
Mr.. Rhodes took our country into the
scope of his large beneficence because of
its power and prominence among the
English speaking nations. He knew. as
every thoughtful person knows, that, how
ever an element in this country may kick
against all talk Of friendship between
Great Britain and the United States, and
even seek to embroil the two nations, the
ties Of language, kinship and commercial
intercourse bind and will continue to bind
the two together. He recognized the fact
that, as Great Britain and Germany in
accord are the two conspicuous promoters
Of the worlds peace in Europe, that pact
will not be complete In itself as q pre-
ventive of war, but the influence Of our
great and powerful nation is essential to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
THE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATES

The high school debating contest for
the honor of winning the silver CUP. Of
Tered last fall bv The Journal. has
resolved Itself now to final struggle
between the team Of three representing
the Glerwood high school and the three
representing the LeSueur high school.
The contest has been waged all over the
state for several months with increasing
interest and spirit as the circle of con-
testants gradually narrowed down to the
present final trial. First high schools in
the several congressional districts con-
tested with each other the honor Of rep
Tesenting their respective districts. Then
came the contests between the repre-
sentatiYes OF the districts. An admir-
able s0rit Of friendly rivalry has been
maintained, although the greatest inter
est has developed in every community
represented. Large delegations have at
tended the debaters who have gone away
from home to meet their opponents, while
the home teams have not lacked in enthu-
siastic SUPPORT nor fallen short in their
duties as generous hosts.
The effect has been good in many ways
apart from the development Of interest
and proficiency in the art of public dis
cussion on the part of the young de-
baters. It has stimulated interest in the
community in it's own high school and has
prompted the determination that it shall
be as thoroughly equipped and we'll sus-
tanned as the resources of the communit y
will permit.
The outcome is, perhaps, quite as for
tunate as could have been expected from
the fact that the final contestants come
from two Of the smaller schools OF the
state. It shows that tho pupils of the
smaller towns have an equal chance with
those of the larger schools in the princi-
pal cities and may successfully compete
in this highly honorable contest, where
favoritism is effectually excluded and sue
cess is Won on merit.
The closing debate Is arranged by the
High School Debating League to take
place at the state university in this city
early in May and will certainly enlist
great interest throughout the state.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
The NonpareiI Man
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

4#8ts45 GaSuaAlNyODBeTyeu.
The allied people party has s.ons advan-
tages over the democratic party. Mention of
Its platform does not cause a free fight.
Nine. Emma Eames Story, the prima
donna, tells Chicago people that they do
not know how to relax Relax! Good heav-
ems! If man relaxes in Chicago, some
other fellow gets his money away!
The rise in the price Of beef is attributed
to the short corn crop. The real reason is
the long trust crop.
The coal Trusts advising its friends to
lay in its next winters coal. II you do not
take this advice, the trust fines you ten
cents or SO onSthe ton per month.
Football athletes guarded some Of the poll
ing places in Chicago. Few illegal voters
attempted to hit the line.
The odorH of Rochefort cheese is said to be
due to the wild thyme on which the sheep
feed. The aroma would seem to indicate
that the sheep had bad thyme.
The Bryan democrats declare that Colonel
Watterson plays the piano. Isn't it an Or
gan?
Meat-has gone up TIL you can barely hear
the moo.
The wife of New York professional beg
gar had her diamonds stolen and has ruined
her husbands business by making fuss.
even Yell county, Arkansas, went back on
Jones: It was like Bourbon county, Ken
lucky, going for prohibition.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
TEE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

tan. the tribal leader mentioned in the
book Of Genesis, whose people were To-
Gated in southwestern Asia. The tradi-
ton of the deluge is strongly fixed in the
minds of the aboriginal nations on this
hemisphere; very deliberately In Mexico
and extending along the continent north
and SOUTH, and found clearly indicated in
Alaska.
Mr.. Hallock's theory Of decadence from
a high degree Of civilization is perfectly
reasonable. The traditions of nearly all
nations locate in the remote past period
OF perfection and happiness, when men
We're In close touch with the gods and
We're governed by them. Portions of the
human race. in migrating from the cradle
in central Asia, lost, in their struggle
for existence, the civilization of the ma
lions Of the Tigre- Euphrates basin, (which,
under the present system of excavations,
is shown to have been Of very high
quality. In Egypt it is shown that under
the first dynasty jewels of exquisite quail
ity We're made as we'll as other Access
series of high civilization, and this.
400 years before the Christian era. 1t
Is not surprising that the peoples who
wandered far from the cradle of the race
into Africa and western Europe suffered
decadence and retained only crude ideas
of the social status of their forebears.
There was no "stone age" common to
the whole human race. 1t is becoming
more and more evident that the original
stone age" was only peculiar to those
portions of the race who had wandered
out OF sight and memory of their ances-
trail workers in iron, brass and copper,
who also wove cloths, had imposing ar
chitectures and played on musical instru-
ments and calculated eclipses. There are
peoples on the earth to-day who are yet
In the stone age. The three ages of stone
certainly do not synchronize.
1t is perfectly possible, as Mr.. Hallock
claims, that the descendants of the orig
inal Asiatic immigrants, pushing into the
two continents of this hemisphere, lost
all but some traces of the original civil
ization, and the type was changed by
climatic effects and by environage, just
as quite radical changes take place in
many kinds of animals when transported
to new climates.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05

Mayor Ames ought to acquaint himself
with the facts when he talks about his
opposition to unconstitutional bonds. The
Duluth case decision he quoted as the
bulwark of his position was on the other
side. In the meantime it is to be hoped
that some way may be found to make the
clty's suffering for the mayors mistake as
light as possible Controller Rogers
proposition to forestall the water depart
ment revenue is good one in itself. and
should be acted on if it is possible to
do so without creating dangerous
precedent.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05

citlc railroad companies and Mr. Hill in
the Ramsey county district court yester-
day. The matter presents no new phases
OF particular interest, but it indicates the
ment of the state to employ all the legal
remedies available in the assertion of
the majesty Of the law and suggests that
the Northern Securities, as device for
the evasion Of the law, cannot yet be de-
clared demonstrated success.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
A Bug Concealed in ii.

i A contemporary, often bright and usually
accurate, had the following bug" yesterday:
Would you say John Smith looks bad or
looks badly?" asked one of those hairsplitting
entomologlsts of us the other day.
Why, looks bad, Of course" was our
prompt reply, for We had been caught on this
question once before.
But suppose he is cross-eyed-doesn't he
look badly?''
And as the hair-splitting entomologist went
to the floor with the big dictionary on top OF
him it looked very bad for Inn.
The sense of human brotherhood leads us
to believe that it was proofreader's error,
for 1t was corrected in later editions to read
"etymologist.' Such things will happen,
but they are funny-when they don't happen
to rs
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05

1t used to be remarked disparagingly a
few years ago that while Minnesota could
win at football it lost in debates. But
this year the university takers seem to
have better claim to superiority than
the football men have. little while
ago Iowa was bowled over and last night
at Chicago the strong takers of the Uni
versity of Michigan went down to defeat
before the North Star boys.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05

Lord Kitchener is certainly the prize
military euphemist Of the day. Gross
irregularities" is such a nice, gentle, re-
med, unoffending term for the murder
Of harmless men, women and children.
But inasmuch as the aforesaid gross ir-
Irregularities were punished with death,
the term is likely to have very extreme
meaning in South Africa after this.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
THE WASTE OF war
1ondon n.,,r nrorra

= IOnu0n Daily news.
We are not trying to make out case for
protection or the boycotting of American
wares. But it is a matter of serious import
that, while we are wasting our wealth. en-
ergies and manhood in the South African
desert, the Americans are steadily securing
control Of our Industries. It is time the ma
ton aroused itself to sense of the gravity
of it's position.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
Rain of Feather. ana Blood.
St. Louis Post Dispatch.

ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
At the Blue River Park. Kansas City,
where the 5000 pigeons set apart for the
grand American hadicap are being shot 10
pieces the ground around the traps and
shooters looks, says a press correspondent,
as though snow had fallen. It is covered
with feathers, and with the falling feathers
there Is a rain of blood. All this in order
to show the skill of few men in shooting
straight, and to exhibit the qualities of Ger.
tain guns and brands of powder.
But what disgusting spectacle. looked at
from the standpoint Of manly man or a
womanly woman. New York has decided,
through Its people and its legislators, that
such spectacles shall not disgrace its fields
any more. 1t has decreed against wholesale
slaughter for sport. Such slaughter is not
necessary; it Is brutal and degrading.
How long shall Missouri sanction this BAR
barism!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
Give Mary and Lolita Chance.

There's no good reason why Miss Mary
Burkhart shouldn't run for congress in the
tenth district of Kentucky If she feels In
clined to- any more than there Is why Miss
Lolita Greenup should not assist her fathers
candidature for congress in the first Ken
lucky district by her fiddle accompaniment to
his speeches. Colonel Watterson isn't en-
titled to a monopoly of the mirth- provoking
entertainment Of the Kentuckians.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
we Pause to Blush.
De smet Is. d. News.

Without doubt the best daily paper that
reaches our town is the Minneapolis Journal
1t has been constant visitor at this office
for the past. eight or ten years and we have
come to look upon it as household neces-
sity. 1t is what might be called crack
a-jack" paper-the more you read 1t the
more you want to.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05

Denied the privilege Of testing in the
supreme court of the United States the
right of the promoters Of the merger to
consolidate the railroads of the northwest.
the attorney general of Minnesota has
turned to the courts of our own state
for remedy. Action was commenced
against the Northern Securities company,
the Great Northern and the Northern Pa