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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
SHAKE HANDS WITH FATE

'Tis a sad old world, and a bad old world,
It is scarce worth while at all;
It's sorrows cling and its friendships sting,
And even its joys will pail. N"
But dear is life for all its strife,
And love is better than hate
You'll find grace in the surliest face
1f5you'n just shake bands with fate.
With light in your glance and right in your
glance
And YOUR lips in a curve to the sky;
A spring in your walk and a ring in your
talk, -EsE - ....-
Sure hope will not pass you by.
The path that you will winds over hill,
But it leads to an open gate;
So trill you song to lure love along,
And just shake hands with fate
,Tis in yourself is the demon elf.
'Tis in yourself is God;
And you'll never straw from yourself away
Gods light or the devils prod.
Whatever your mind you'll meet in kind.
Aud what is yourself create:
The world will view what is really you
Therefore, shake hands with fate!
Regina Armstrong in Leslie's Weekly.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

Divested Of all authority over the ma
tives and at the same time utterly inde-
pendent of them. the army in the Phil
ippines will be no more of an irritant
than Is the army at home. and from be-
ing an object of hatred will become one
of admiration.
In proportion as the Filipinos have
been oppressed and disturbed by mill
tary rule they will! become attached to
civil rule. They will have a considerable
motive for being loyal to the new regime.
For If they are not loyal there. In the
background, is the army, prepared to
crush insurrection again, as it. has
crushed it once, and to replace tina mild
civil with the stern military rule.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

= After all the efforts made by. Americans
to relieve the Martinique sufferers it
appeers that the provisions never reached
many of them. The politicians in con-
troll Of the local government are known
to have distributed the supplies in many
cases, not to relieve suffering, but, to
promote their own popularity and re-
ward their political friends, This per-
version Of a great charity is not to be
charged to the French government.
Though it is not generally known, Mar
Unique has enjoyed d great degree of
local self government. which has con-
tributed to making the colony a con-
tented one, but this local government is
largely dominated by an .unscrupnlous
negro element. whtch1 became all power
full after the death Of Governor Moutet
at St. Pierre.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
THESE NEED ENCOURAGEMENT


The person who really needs the attention
of the commencement week speakers is the
man who has passed his college days and has
found to his dismay that sheer force OF cir
curnstances has crowded him into rut. This
is the individual whose mind has stopped
growing and who fancied that his education
was completed" when he left his high school
or academy OF college. Very likely some
misguided professor assured him at the time
that his education would prove invaluable tc
him He looks lack and fails to see where II
has advanced him materially. He has forgot
ten most Of the facts he learned save few
vague generalizations. He would be at a loss
to extract the square root OF any number OF
four figures: he could not construe Latin
sentence or conjugate Latin verb to save
his life; physics, chemistry. mathematical
are sealed books to him. That he decides te
nut These things behind him, concludes that
his time for education is past and puts aside
with sullen resignation all future opportuni-
ties for learning is not at all surprising.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
A TIMELY WARNING
philadelphia Ledger.

The steel frame umbrella is light, con-
yenient and much less clumey than its prede-
cessor with wooden shaft; but there is an
element Of danger in it. A lady at Atlantic
city. day or two ago, was struck by bolt
Of lightning attracted BY the metallic frame
OF her umbrella, and men have been killed
by Inadvertently letting the steel points OF
their umbrellas come in contact with low
hanging electric lights. Such cases are not
numerous. but they have occurred, and, as
the season OF thunder storms has now begun,
ii ID we'll to exercise some care in CARRYING
umbrellas equipped with steel rods. /
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

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may. after all, be animated by very
selfish motives.
But it has repeatedly been asserted Of
the steel corporation that 1t was essen
TALLY constructive. and that destructive
work was no part Of Its plans. There
Is much evidence to show that it does
not exert itself to crush rivals.
Whether this is the fact or whether
the company is merely so fortunate as to
have got that reputation without deserv-
ing it, there Is suggestion herein as to
the true course Of these vast industrial
corporations. II, Notwithstanding theil
immense power for evil, they exert theil
influence for the general welfare and
eliminate from their business destructive
sel1shness, they can gain the good will Of
the people. *s& e,
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
A SENSIBLE DEPARTURE
Indianapolis News.

The American Medical association, at its re-
cent meeting, broke down old barriers, and
voted to permit It's members to be called IN
consultation with physicians of the homoeo-
rathic and other schools. 1t is an unexpected
departure and puts new aspect on the
practice of medicine. AS explained IN me
disnatches. the '.old school, physician, under
this new dispensation, is permitted, without
injury to his standing, or that Of his col
leagues, to consult with any legally 1ua.if1ed
practitioner Of medicine, without reference
to school or pathy. This shows that q leaven
is working, and that gradually ana surely.
nractitioners of medicine, irrespective Of
schools are reaching the conclusion that the
needs Of humanity are paramount to all
codes
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
THE USES OF CHAFF
The Spectator

On the whole, as we have said. school chaff
does good, though we do not recommend it
quite on the same principle as that on which
the stern old country squire recommended,
or. rather, insisted upon, a cold bath every
morning for his children IF they can't
stand IT, he said, they're not fit to be
nv sons, and I won't have them School
ehaff is wholesome In most cases, but it may
cramp what should not be cramped AS to
the chah which man gives ana gets at a
university. however, we do not think there
can be two opinions. 1t must do good, and
It has not the opportunity of doing harm
Only those receive it who lay themselves
open to receive It; the quiet man who wishes
to read or to think apart need hardly ever
come into contact with his fellows unless
he SO chooses. ,-.a.s
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
PRESIDENT MIrcHELL,s REPLY
Pittsburg Dispatch.

Pittsburs Dispatch.
The reply of President Mitchell Of the
United Mine Workers to the anthracite opera
tors is temperate and logical, fortified by
facts and figures from federal and state re-
ports and from the statements Of the coal
carrying companies.
President Mitchell's statement will do much
to retain the public sympathy which has been
SO strongly enlisted upon the behalf Of the
miners 1t will be all the more unfortunate
If this sympathy should be alienated by an
ill-advised decision to order general strike.
which would place the operators in the posi-
ton Of refusing to accept a contract with an
association which, by breaking contracts in
other fields, mad shown, that its pledge was
not binding.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
so SOON FORGOTTEN!
Chicago Journal. s.

Chicago JOulnaI
William Jennings Bryan and his variout
ssms got another severe jolt. The democrats
of Illinois lined up behind their Indiana breth-
rem and forgot all about their peerless leader
of two years ago and his Kansas City plat
form.
.Are we SO soon forgotten?' asks Rip Van
Wrinkle, and we fancy that Mr.. Bryan could
respond to the question with even deeper
pathos.
Two little years, and Bryan's name is az
absolutely unmentionable in a democratic con.
vention as though he had never been torn.
while his Cod given ratio" of sixteen to one
is ignominiousiy kicked into the ditch.
Would anybody have believed it?
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

The action Of the street railway COM
pany in announcing that Canadian coins
will be accepted by its conductors is SEN
that much Canadian coin comes here.
Inasmuch as It Is not accepted at all OF
else at discount it has been a great
nuisance. But with the company taking
it other business concerns will follow suit
The change is one that Canadian visitors
will appreciate. . ~'
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
LUCK AGAINST THBM

The skilful carpenters who shaped the
Cuban reciprocity plank for the Mime
sofa republican state convention made.
one grievous error. They forgot to super
wise the press reports. In view of the
fact that their work depended for Its
effect largely upon adverbs and commas
It is strange that in their care to lay
every hair in its place they did not de-
vote more attention to the careless cor
respondents. The latter, in summarizing
the plank, found no time to analyze it
into its sawdust, and SO cont ented them
selves with saying that the convention
had declared for reciprocity with Cuba as
) favored or urged by President Roosevelt.
These reports getting to Washingt on
gave the members Of the Mimi esota dele
cation there bad 36 hours. Going else
where they created the impression
throughout the country that the Mime
sofa republicans indorsed the presidents
Cuban reciprocity stand without qualif-
cation 1t was only last night that
copies of the platform reached Washing
ton and it was found that the Cuban
plank was satisfactory to the Minnesota
members Of congress. While the con-
gressmen were unnecessarily worrying
the president was rejoicing over false in
formation.
But the erroneous reports have done
their work No amount of explaining can
remove the general impression that the
Minnesota platform emphatically in
dorses the president as to Cuban reci-
i procity. From this error will flow good
rather than evil. The error represents
the republicans of Minnesota as saying
what they would and should have said
and, consequently, gives the state the
reputation of having spoken right on a
question whereon it's heart is undoubtedly
right.
AS O rule when congressman stand for
any petty local interest, real or supposed,
they can count upon the support of their
own people. But in. the case of the Cuban
reciprocity controversy the Minnesota
congressman find themselves without
any real support at home. Even those
who were satisfied with such an ambig-
uous and evasive plank as that adopted
on this subject by the convention do not
at heart believe their congressman are
right. They merely wished to "let them
down easy" because of personal friend
ship, admiration for their ability, or out
Of consideration of their general excel
lent service. . s5
It is certainly very creditable to the
people of the state that they have risen
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

ITO cover street car tracks with tor
pedoes may be better way Of celebrating
the Fourth of July than the old way OF
formal public exercises but it will take
some very determined argument to make
US believe It..
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

In view of the inability of the police to
repress the disorder on Third street last
night it is timely to ask what would hap
pen If they had an angry crowd, bent
upon violence, to deal with instead of q
good natured crowd, bent upon noisy fun.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
TRAIL SONG

Frank Harrington, in 'Lippincotts Magazine
Here's out on the open trail, nv lass 2
With heart for rain or shine! -:
Heres out to race with wind in the face,
TO roam and rove at the wildfng pace
Where the weather thrills like wine.
Wen follow the wind Of the way, my lass.
Where 1t chases truant stream.
Well loaf along with a vagrant song,
With the glow Of life all thrilling strong.
And the future a vibrant dream.
For what's day or a year. my lass, :.
But time for finding Joy?
We've naught to do. we crony two,
With the ship Of Worry's crafty crew,
We're free from all annoy, *.
Then here's song. q song, my lass,
A song for the open trail! .. = II.
We're off to seek the crimson streak Is
That's sunk behind West Mountains peak,
And to drink from Freedoms grail.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
WE'RE IN THE MAJORITY
Boston Herald

Boston Herald.
And yet, notwithstanding tn extent OF MS
realm, King Edward rules over only 56,00o,-
600 of English-speaking people. while Presi-
dent Roosevelt is at the head of nation
containing about so,o00.0eo inhabitants speak
ING that tongue. So the really big English set
,tlement is OF, this side Of the pond, after all.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
a F1ELp FOR THE INVENTOR

Among purely modern Inventions the ele-
vator Has perhaps been least improved in q
mechanical sense since It's first introduction,
except in the sole item OF speed: and where
this has been carried beyond q certain point.
1t is the reverse OF Improvement. Serious
elevator accidents are much more frequent
than they ought to be. There is field here
for further invention. and the man who oc-
cupies 1t and lessons the danger to human
life ana limb should be we'll rewarded
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

That noise you hear from Wisconsin
way is merely the echo Of the sounds
made by the La Toilette "Half-breeds"
as they jump on the PROSTATE forms Of
the 'Stalwarts." s-s
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

Oar Reese lays his defeat to Governor
Van SAINT. Ever since j. ]. Hill struck
the buzz-saw there has been tendency
to attribute every unusual act or fact to
Governor Van SAINT. <. ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
AMATEUR VS.. PROFESSIONAL
New York Tribune

New York Tribune.
With what furious energy and earnestnest
tha undergraduate athletes play ball and
strive for honors in rowing, while the profess
sional mines and crews seem to care for little
else than the drawing of their salaries! The
contrast was never more striking than i u
now.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

above the narrow sectional view OF this
question and viewed 1t in the light Of na-
ttonal policy and duty. Unquestionaply
the plain people have attained higher
plane here than their congressman have.
Sometimes the Washington point OF view
is hopelessly wrong. The congressman
who have opposed reciprocity with Cupa
have been largely animated by the idea
that inasmuch as eastern members VINO no
were favorable to that reciprocity We're
unfavorable to other kinds OF reclproc1tv
it was the duty of the former to prevent event
the latter from having their way { SrWe rrW 3
can't have our way they said In ehect,
"you can't have your way" And 1t made
no difference to them that. however selhsh
eastern interests may be and undouDt-
edly are, they happened in this case to be
lined up on the side of Justice and moral
right. It is unnecessary to point out, the
inferiority of such position to that
taken by the rank and file of the Mime
sofa republicans, who have never been
able to see the justice Of refraining from
doing an honorable and morally neces-
sary act In order to force somebody else
to be generous. The insurgents are
probably right in contending that5we shall
never get reciprocity in general until
eastern manufacturing interests are
dubbed into line. But why use Cuba as
the club, especially as the process hurts
the club in this case more than those the
blows are aimed at? S.:
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

James Gray has suocumbed to tempta-
tion. He is a candidate for the demo-
cratic nomination for mayor \
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

Uncle Sam forgot to give his foster
child, Cuba, any money for Fourth of
July fireworks
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
Rntld ntgger or anit Braeg1ng.

st. Louis Globe e-Democrat.
According to the view Of Lord Beresford,
Great Britain will have to provide herself
with a bigger and better navy or quit trying
to rule the waves. a
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
JOURNAL TELEPHoNE-AlI de-

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spartments may NOW be reached ON
the Northwestern nystem by e"AA1hs
for Main D. Ceutral Will conhect
you with The Journal sVvitchboara'
the operator ON which will connecs
Son with any department OF person
you desire, ar Will tell you W hom to
cali for If you state your bus1ne"s.
Twin City Telephones-Busine
No. o; Editorial, No. ii; subscription'
No. 1O2.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

The desperate efforts Of the Minnesota
delegation to prevent unqualified tndorse-
ment of the president, by means Of an
evasive plank, show that they realize that
their views were unpopular. Had they
supposed that they were indorsed at home
they would have sent up from Washing
ton an emphatic Endorsement of their
position instead Of the mongrel they did
send. That being so are they not plainly
in the attitude of deliberately seeking to
have the republican convention adopt a
Cuban resolution that they knew did not
express the views of the members Of the
party? Does it not also show that they
had little confidence in their own asser-
tions that they were support ed by their
constituents?
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
53,()77l

The Journals circulation is net
a circulation of the street. Nearly
all of its circulation is its 8 o'clock
edition which goes into the home.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

In 1904 the Minnesota republicans will
scrutinizc their platform before they
adopt it.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

Two of the last Hennepin delegation in the
house filed their certificates yesterday as can
didates for denomination. Both are clean,
able men with excellent records. P. G..
Deming filed as a republican candidate from
the thirty ninth district, and George W..
Armstrong a republican candidate from
the forty-fourth.
Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

The journal with it's 6 issues a
week, 155 days, ran more columns
of advertising than the daily and
Sunday papers Of the city CON-
bined carried in 18l days.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
Advertisers have proved The
Journals circulationby results.
12H PER GENT.
THE IRIBUNE'S RECORD.

loO2-Jan to July y1............ 6,8o3 columns
THE TINES RECORD.
19O2-Jan. to July y1..............5,6 5,614 columns
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1902-11-21
po11A1 TO THE OCCASION.
.., business Form That
Met with an Acceptance
In Kind.

A Baltimore woman, the neaie 400 o. a
set. was much surprised nov loHs ae an inyi.
the New York Times, TO tece'S y The sub.
tation of which the following
stance: Nc commitments to
Miss Dash, and requests tne Thursdav
her company at the theaeer
eS eAwsiting and hoping for an early =
favorable reply, we are, yqurs w = CO."
The writer Of this remarkable eausror
&c a Young business man who Is pa.ssn5s
in a large furniture concern; ne as..
n a large proportion OF the coIres ~
ience of the firm, and, OF course. Signs ~
FIRMS name thereto. So absoTpeo Mas
in business that he concluded ms ihvn na
t;on with the sterotyped sentence aD N =
and. to cap the climax, signed tne It'll :
name to it. The fair recipient, however,
annreciated the situation, and the young
man was thunderstruck to receive a rev
ter addressed to him personally, put con.
taing the following reply to his inylta1lonii
'Messrs. Blank g. Co.: four favor u
recent date to hand and contents noteu'
In reply will say we accept the PROPOSE.
tion therein made and hold the goods Or
| dered subject to yr. further instrucslons
| Very respectfully, Miss Dash q Go.
Explanations and apologies foliowea
and the invitation was duly accepted, ou'
| the matter was too good to be p .
secret, and for some time after lite wa
made a burden to that young man. Evei
the meaningless query: "Hows ousl
ness?" suficed to drive him frantic.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1902-11-21
FATAL WORDS.
Of General John Andre, of the
British Army.

At Tarrytown there is monument,
surmounted by a bronze figure ever on
duty, that marks the spot where, on
September 30, 1880, a nan sprang, asst
were, out of the ground, seized the
bride of the travellers horse, and at
the same instant demanded a halt.
Two other men joined the first, and to
these three the traveller offered the au-
thority for John Anderson to pass on
public business, and signed by the ma
jor general commanding West Point,
writes L. K. Becker, in Four-Track
News.
For one moment the pass sufficed;
then therewas doubt. Inthat moment
of hesitationjthe% travellers eyes rested
upon a. coat that one of the men wore.
which he had obtained while a, prisoner
not long before, and recognized the
garb Of the Hessian soldiers attached
to the British army, the traveller con-
cluded, hastily, that he had fallen
among friends, instead of foes. 81 see
you belong to the army down below, as
I DO" he remarked, with a slight ges-
ture of the head toward the river.
Fatal words! they sealed the doom
of Adjt. Maj. Gen. John Andre, Of the
British army. He was quickly dis
mounted and searched, without result.
and still there was delay. Some latent
ems OF required vigilance melted
these humble militiamen to renewed
search OF the travellers person-West
Point was saved.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1902-11-21
h BATTLEFIELD.
Victory In War Will Soon BE the
Fruit of Scientific Equipment,
Training and Handling.

1t is a commonly expressed belief
nowadays that in warfare, SO scientific
has the art become, the courage and
grit of the individual soldier will not
count for much. Victory, it is said,
will be the fruit of scientific equip
ment, training and handling, and if he
be but scientific enough, trained to a
nicely, and is moved about the battle
field with skill, his personal strength
and nerve and stamina will not need
to be of a very high order. This is not
the opinion of Linesman, the author of
swords BY an Eyewitness" While
he lays great and %unceasing stress up
on the necessity for science and thor
ough training, he just as strongly en-
phasizes the Importance of the morale
of the soldier. In his latest book he
shows how UNNECESSARILY greater is
the strain upon the fighter in modern
warfare than in past days. In former
times armies could and en-
camp well within sight of each other,
and an attack often meant nothing
but a dash over a narrow zone of
ground, a short, sharp struggle and a
rout. It was over before the blood
had time to cool, and even the timid
could be excited and sustained by the
rush and fury of the onslaught. To.
day a man may die as Don as the en-
emy's long guns, hidden away in the
distant, cloud-topped mountains, seven
miles off, begin to talk. And over that
seven miles he must walk with caution,
with a wide interval between him and
his pal on either hand.