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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20
CHINA'S TROUBLES

The revolt which was started in the
southern provinces of China last autumn,
according to Hongkong cable, is assum-
ing formidable dimensions and the i'm
perial troops under General Ma have been
defeated several times, the situation be-
ing so precarious that General Ma has
sent to Picking for troops from the i'm
perial province Of Chill, where are To-
Gated the best-drilled troops in the Chi
nese empire.
The seat Of this disturbance is in the
southern provinces of Kwang-si and
Kwang-tung, whose normal condition is
disaffection, and the success Of the in
surgents there has stirred to activity the
disaffected in the neighboring province
of Yunnan The troubles are partly due
to floods and famines, always procuring
cause of Chinese antagonism to provincial
and imperial authority, and largely to the
chronic ambition of the natives in the
southern provinces to overthrow the rul-
Ing Manchu dynasty, which imposed itself
by conquest upon China about 27O
years ago, and substitute, If pos
sible, the rule Of the Tartar con-
quest. 1t may be remembered that
the great city of Marking, near the mouth
Of the Yangtsekiang, was formerly the
capital Of China and the location Of the
capital by the Tartars at Picking was an
tagoniZed by the Chinese as an unWar-
ranted disturbance of naturally advan-
tageous conditions. The very thought of
Picking forcibly reminds the native China
man that the supreme authority rests in
foreign hands, but the Manchus will never
consent to remove the seat of govern
ment back to Marking, remote from the
former home of the dynasty in Man
churia. General Gordon, who performed
heroic service for the imperial govern
ment when it was terrorized by the Tae-
ping rebellion some forty years ago, ad-
vised the Picking authorities very earnest
ly to transfer the capital from the north
to the center Of the empire, as con-
ducing to the better maintenance Of
order, but they would not listen to him.
Without Gordon's mast erful help there
is little doubt that the Tapping chief
tain, Tieu Wang, who succeeded in, es-
the splendor he could afford, would have
brought to an end the domination of the
Tartar dynasty. Indeed, some of the
best authorities on Chinese affairs at that
time predicted the dissolution Of the Chi
nese empire, as the result Of the Tae-
ping uprising, and the absorption of adj
ministrative power by European treaty
nations at the free consular ports and a
gradual extension of an armed foreign
prot over the adjacent country.
This prediction might have been fulfilled
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The inference from the Tribune's edit
orial criticism of The Journal for
denouncing an unjust. inhuman and re-
voting means of extracting revenue from
vice is that it is better to let the fearful
permit the official degradation of women
and put premium on the sin Of men
than to say a word about an I'M
pleasant topic. 1t is the policy Of holding
the nose rather than removing the cause
Of offense to the sense of smell, the policy
of ignoring whatever Is unpleasant to
know, the policy of the ostrich with It's
head in the sand.
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OTHER PEOPLES NOTIONS
Now the Hens.

To the Editor of The Journal:
With hearty approval read the opinion Of
the anti-dog- deifer, and agree that Mayor
Ames has done a wise act by the enforce
ment of this law. Just let some of these
weak hearts, pay all their lHe's earnings
into home, trying to beautify a lawn by
expensive trees and flowers, and try to Guilt
vate a little garden for family use,' and
then be obliged to suffer his neighbours dogs
and hens undo that which the lawn owners
have taken years to accomplish. live in that
part of the ninth ward where live people
with more hens to the square inch than their
land or pocket will conveniently stand, in
consequence Of which we who are striving to
make our grounds presentable, cannot do so
without "neighborhood row." in which
'hen-g growers in the city seem to delight
Let the mayor come out this way and see
for himself those dirty, filthy pests scratch
ing and leaving our steps and porch in filth,
and make another law regarding hens, as he
has regarding dogs. Now, one has to COM
plain first; but these law4breakers and hen
growers have a hatred for people who try
to live in a civilized condition, and one does
not care to have war of words A law
would settle it. Experience
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question. Mr.. Winship seems to think
there is, and he is acting just as we
would have any good citizen act II con-
fronted by the situation that Mr. Winshtp
believes confronts him. It is the mans
magnificent personal Independence, his
stalwart refusal to be bound bytan office
in anyway; his refusal to sell his political
heritage for mess Of patronage pottage,
that commands our admiration. Many a
man just as good as Mr.. Winship would
proceed with more caution at such q
juncture. He would not commit himself
by public promise, he would not bind
himself to take an active fight in the ap-
preaching political campaign and stand
where he has always stood heretofore.
He would recall the ancient prudential
relation of discretion and valor. But that
is not enough for Mr.. Winship.
81 accept the Office and thank you for
it," he says in effect. "but not for mo-
ment will it cause me to deviate from my
chosen political path. Take me as ! am
ad as I warn you will be, or take
back the job"
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THE RIGHT SPIRIT

In the Grand Forks, N. D., Herald Of
last Sunday there appeared a remarkable
deliverance. In what may be called
paper, George B. Winship, who has re-
Gently been appointed register of the land
office at Grand Forks, states the relation
existing between himself as editor and
prospective oficeholder and the North
Dakota republican machine Mr.. Winship
pertaining to these matters. He tells his
readers that he is under no obligation to
anyone for his appointment, that he got
it because his friend Senator McCumber
saw fit to recommend him. And, although
the senate has not yet confirmed his APP
pointment, Mr.. Winship with impressive
candor goes ahead and serves notice on
the machine and everybody else just what
he purposes to do. He says that he ac-
copied the nomination with the distinct
understanding that it did not carry with
it any pledge concerning the attitude of
the Herald Its proprietor on any ques-
tion whatever.
face value Mr.. Winship reasserts his OPP
position to machine rule in North Dakota
politics and even goes SO far as to say
that if conventions are manipulated in
the interests Of the favored few in the
republican party, disregarding the will of
the people and pandering ito the worst
element in our political life,'' 1.-THE
Herald will counsel that the people take
the only method open to them and ad-
minister rebuke at the polls such as
will forever serve as warning that there
is limit to the endurance of even the
American people,. Mr. Winship even goes
so far as to say whom he favors for mem
Der of congress in the southern part Of
the state, and, theoretically, whom he
opposes, and frankly declares that he
Senator Hansbrough, if it seems good
policy to take the senatorship, rather
than the member of congress. Otherwise
Mr.. Winship will support Mr.. Hansbrough.
He frankly declares his opposition to Jud
La Moure as congressman from the north
ern part of the state.
The journal has no intention Of
dipping int North Dakota politics. It
merely wishes to point out and commend
the spirit of Mr.. Winship. It makes no
difference for this purpose whether there
is or is not a political machine in the re-
publican party in North Dakota, and 1t
is not now our concern to inquire into this
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Copyright, 1902, by the s. S. Mcclure Co.
Hes there all alone with nobody but an
old servant. His mother and father are still
in Europe, no one knows where. It's all over
work, the doctor says, and he ought to be
thankful it's not total blindness. But I'd
be cross, too, If l had to sit in a dark room
for six months without any one to read to me.
And he's so anxious to get on with his law
Mona Stewart gazed intently at the visitor,
whose jetted fringe ratified a castanet ac-
compartment to her stream Of talk. Who
ought to be thankful? .
The talkative lady did not say.
When she had gone, Mona slipped from her
corner by the window and stood behind the
great chair where her grandmother sat winter
and summer playing solitaire.
Grandmother, she said questionngly,
'who ought to be thankful, and why must it
last six months?"
Eth? Why, Of course he ought to be thank
full. Inflammation of the eyes is no joke even
If he did bring it on trying to learn every
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Daily New York Letter

hard-luck tale, which would appeal to the
tender-hearted, and he usually got S. or $40
from them.
He threw one OF his fits yesterday afternoon
on the stOop of the house at 42 East Sixty
ninth street just as Jesse ]. Straus. the
banker, Of 40 East Seventy-fourth street
was coming out The young man staggered
and then toppled over on the stone steps and
went down in heap and called out. Heart
failure. Digitalis, quick. I am dying"
Mr. Straus hurried to the supposed dying
mans side. Several women came out and
Gray was about to be carried into the house
when Bicycle Policeman Leazenbee came
along and recognized him from the descrip-
ton sent out. The policeman declared that
the man was taking and said he guessed
he would take him to the station house. Mr..
Stratus and the women protested against what
they thought was heartless treatment and
demanded that medical aid be summoned for
the man. The policeman compromised by
agreeing to take him to the Presbyterian
hospital. On the way there the 'sick' man
said he felt better and asked to be released,
! and when the policeman refused to let him
go he started fight. but surrendered.
At the hospital he again complained that ha
was i'll and doctor was summoned to the
office to examine him.
This man is fakir, doctor; he is no more
sick than l am the policeman said to the
physician.
Guess you're mistaken this time. He has
pulse of 105," the physician replied.
This is Gray, the fit tbrower. He can
raise his pulse whenever he wants to do so,"
declared the policeman.
The physician examined the mans heart
and found 1t all right. He summoned all the
other physicians in the hospital. They
amined the man and were greatly puzzled by
the rapid heart beats.
The man finally admitted that he not
! i'll, but refused to explain how he was able
to raise his pulse.
He's a wonder. It's a remarkable case
said one of the physicians as the man was
| taken out and locked up in the station
house.
Gray has been on the "black list of the
Charity Organization society since 1885 as =
most successful imposter.
During the past week complaints, from eight
residents in the upper west side Of the city
were received at the society's Office. In each
case the was taken suddenly i'll and OBJ
tanned money by saying he wanted to reach
an tot town relative. Sometimes 1t was
dying father at Lynn, Mass, and again a
sister at Providence. r. l. Sometimes his
trouble would be an epileptic fit and at other
times 1t would be heart failure.
The man Is about Is years old, and Is said
to be a college graduate. His father lives
in Brooklyn, and is said to be we'll o-do.
The policeman said in court that Gray lives
in furnished room East Twelfth street
and usually made $40 day by his feigned
ILLNESS.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20

One hundred and eighteen years ago,
March Is, 1884, Alexander Hamilton drew
up the constitution for banking insti-
tuition then organizing in New York.
Hamilton was a member of the first d.
rectorate. This bank is doing business
to-day, having weathered the financial
storms Of this long period. Two hundred
and thirty-six consecutive semi-annual
dividends have been paid, and the stock
holders have received no less than $780,
491, 695. The Bank of New York suspended
dividend payments in the panic Of 1857,
but made up for this by double dividend
in the following year. 1t affords the best
American illustration of the advantages
Of pursuing a consinuously conservative
policy, having witnessed, in its day,
the rise and fall of thousands Of less
carefully managed financial Institutions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20

st. Paul people seem to take as kindly
to the primary election system as their
friends in Minneapolis. A slightly larger
percentage of the St. Paul electors voted
Tuesday than voted in Minneapolis in
1900 at the first trial of the system in the
state. Never was there an attendance at
the old party primaries that could even
be remotely compared to that at the new
ones. When cities poll at primary cleo
lions more than 85 per cent of their
registered vote in presidential year, it
is demonstrated Beyond question that the
people will gladly take part in primaries
where their votes count.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20
A Discovery ON Mt. Ararat.

Mt Ararat, Feb. 2O-We arrived at the
mountain yesterday and after washing our
faces and getting hasty breakfast at the
monastery, where we are stopping, we started
at once with an Arabian guide to climb the
mountain. We might as well say right here
that we made a most astounding discovery
Arrived near the top, we sat down on the
loose stones to rest. 1t was broad, level
spot, say 200 or 900 yards long by 100 yards
wide, and on looking it over Lucille, who
was poking her parasol into the cracks in
the rocks, suddenly remarked
wouldn't this have been splendid place
for the ark to have !anded?'
She was filled with enthusiasm at the idea,
but Mary H. threw cold water on it by say
ing:
"Then where is it now?"
80, they used it for frewood during the
middle ages and before" replied Lucille.
perhaps relic hunters carried it off, sug
gested Margaret. Il would give good deal
for genuine piece of the ark, don't you
know. Wouldn't it look nice in our parlor
at home with card reading Piece Of the
ark, discovered by Miss Margaret --, on
Mount Ararat in 1902 "
Suddenly, Lucille exclaimed in great ex-
element, "Girls, just look here
We looked at the rock where she was point
ing with her parasol which she had been
using to scrape away the moss There was
the large letter $50 cut into the rock by
some blunt instrument.
''What does that mean,' demanded Mary
H. and Margaret in one breath.
.'Why, how stupid" replied Lucille. THAI
is where Shem, Noah's Oldest boy, carved his
initials -,sl ..-....- .
but there is only one initial" said Mary
H. s .@..-
'Well, he didn't have but one," replied
Lucille.
We asked the guide what he thought about
it, but he had not heard of Shem or Of Noah
either for that matter, and could give us no
information. Several Psychologists to whom
we have since confded our discovery, have
looked interested but have expressed some
polite doubt We looked everywhere for a
piece of the ark but it is safe to say there
are none left at this late day. We offered a
reward of IS for genuine piece of the vessel
and nearly cord of wood has been stacked
up in front Of the monastery for us to make
a selection from, some of it so new that the
sap is Still in It,. We are fast losing faith In
the natives and Mary H. says she believes any
one Of them would lie for money-or perhaps
for the simple pleasure they seem to find
in it. Still, they sometimes do that IN the
United States, I have been told. At any rate,
we are perfectly satisfied that we have found
the initial that Shem carved in the rock. One
of the monks told us that it was the remains
of an old medicine advertisement, Some
| body's specific" he couldn't remember whose,
but we knew he was making it all up.
We start for the Euphrates and the Garden
| of Eden tomorrow. Lovingly, Lucille, Mary
H. and Margaret.
"A. J. Russell.
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USED TO CROW THE HOURS ]
LENT

..During the season of Lent" says the
London Chronicle, cit was anciently the GUS
tom of the watchmen to crow the hour Of the
night instead Of shouting it, the intention
being doubtless to remind sleepless sinners
of the effect the third Growing OF the cock
had on st. Peter. This custom. too. was
observed at the royal court, an officers known
as the kings cock Grower performing the
duty within the precincts of the palace. On
the first Ash Wednesday after the accession
of the House OF Hanover, as the then Prince
of Wales, afterward George H., was at sup
per, this officer entered and crowed past 10
4 O. clock. The astonished prince mistook the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20
FOR CUBA
Owatonna Chronicle.

OWatOnna Chronicle.
President Roosevelt, who fought to liberate
Cuba, declares that we ought to give CUBA
the assistance needed in the form Of rec-
prooai trade concessions with this country.
Governor General Leonard Wood. who fought
at Roosevelt's side and has won the love
and confidence of the whole Cuban people.
says that the United States must make these
concessions OF the new republic will be
wrecked The people of the United States
with practically unanimous voice indorse
.Roosevelt's, Woods and Lees positions on
the matter.
AS against these are raised the voices OF
the sugar trust magnates and the insignificant
beet sugar monopoly, who roal. because their
big dividends are threatened with shave.
Quite few congressman sympathize with
the sugar men.
Quite a few of the people agree with Roose-
welt, Wood and Lee.
We belong 70 the latter clasas.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20
swAy1NG OF THE EIFFEL TOWER

= New York COMMERCIAL Advertiser.
In a recent volume on the Eiffel tower by
its builder, NJ. G. Eifel, an ingenious method
OF measuring the swaying of the tower dur
ing high winds is described On the third
platform, at height of 300 meters. was
placed a diagram of concentric circles, alter
nately colored white and red. each twenty
millimeters in breadth. and ten in number.
The center OF this target" was made to
coincide with the intersection of the cross
wires of a strongly mounted theodolite at the
base of the eastern pillar. The observations
were made by observing the circle on the
diagram which came under the intersection Of
the cross wires. The general effect of the
wind was to make the top Of the tower de-
scribe an ellipse. The maximum displacement
occurred on Dec. 20, 1898, during @ wind Of
seyenty-one miles an hour. The motion of the
top was slightly less than four inches.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20

A farmer in Bon Homme county, South
Dakota, is reported to have sold part Of
his farm for $40 an acre. Seven years
ago he bought the land for 50 an acre.
He has had enc bad year and one indif-
ferent year and five good years. He has
made more than a good living and now
finds his land increased in value a thou
sand fold. This is the more remarkable
because Bon Homme county has been con-
sidered more of a ranching than an agri-
cultural county.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20

Prince Henry on arriving at Cherbourg
commented on the cheerfulness of the
great crowds he saw in America and the
striking faces Of some among them that
made him wish for acquaintance with the
men and women whose minds they fas-
cinatingly reflected. The optimism and
cheerfulness of the American people seem
to have greatly impressed. him. They tell
the tale of better social and Industrial
conditions far more effectively than they
can be set forth by long statistical COM
parsons. ~
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the one star that darkness cannot ouench. Is
woman's love- 1t rises to the greatest he'll hts
it sinks to the lowest depths, 1t forgiyes the
most cruel injuries. 1t is perennial of life
and grows in every climate. Neither GOODNESS
nor neglect, harshness cruelty can extin-
guish it. A w.onlan's love is the perfume OF
the heart This is the real love that subdues
the earth; the love that has wrought all mir
acles of art: that gives us music all the way
from the cradle song to the grand closing
symphony that bears the soul away ON wings
of Are. A love that Is greater than power.
sweeter than life, and stronger than death.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20
MARITAL COMPLICATIONS

Some CONSERVATION has been caused in GER
tain circles in New York by the action Of
Police Magistrate Pool, who refused to rec
ognize Dakota divorce granted to William
C. Haskins, well-to-do mining engineer, and
ordered him to pay weekly sum for the sup
port of his wife. The divorce was granted
fl We years ago without the wife's knowledge.
II the case is appealed, as threatened. some
Interesting points may be raised.
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thing in one year. Commend me to young
men for parcel Of FOOLS And the old lady
snapped king of hearts on a queen and
shuff1ed the pack vigorously.
'Grandmother'-again the small brown
head peered around the corner of the great
cared chair-''who did you say it was?'
Who? Why, young Phil Strong, of course,
the most reckless youngster that ever lived.
l ought to know too. Wasn't his grandfather
my own cousin? Wasn't he just the same,
obstinate q rebel?" ~
Grandmother, did you say that he was all
alone?"
Mercy upon us, child, what next? Yes,
he's all alone. Look cut of the window all
day if you want to, and you won't see a soul
go out or in except the doctor and the
butchers boy. At this time of year all the
silly people have rushed off to roast at the
seaside, and there's no one in town to go
and see any one
Mona looked out of the window at the
house opposite For days she had wondered
who it could be- that the doctor went to see.
Il should think he would be lonely" said
Mona to herself. Il should think he would
want some one to come and read to him. y
There was a long pause. And he's a kind
of cousin, too, besides being my neighbor.
y should think. And grand
mother takes her nap every afternoon at IL
Here's your cousin come to read to you,
Mr.. Phil" The old housekeeper pushed open
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No BACK SEAT

s53 Warren Register.
@J~-esr this awful! AT the Mckinley memo
rial exercises the ambassadors of foreign
powers were naligned to seats behind the SUI
preme court justices. Lord Pauncefote, the
British ambassador and dean of the diplo-
matte corps in Washington, has asked Secre-
tary Hay for an explanation. Nothing less
than war can atone for the awful mistake
Minneapolis Journal.
There is no occasion for our supreme court
to take a back seat for any foreign grandee
or any bunch Of such gentry. Lord Paunce-
fote must be In his dotage, or he would not
raise such q question