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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
Too MANY ACCIDENTS

Congress may investigate railway acc1-
dents. Such an investigation is needed.
Mine accidents also require a rigid in
yestigation. Both kinds of investigation
should lead to some sort of legal enact
ment that will have repressive effect
on accidents. Neither in mines nor on
railroads are preventable accidents now
at a minimum If the fear Of personal
penalties were upon the owners and
managers of both there would be a re-
markable decrease in the number of ac-
cidents.
The New York Sun showed the other
day, how probable it is that many rail-
ing of that most responsible class of en-
ployes, locomotive engineers. If there is
any class of workmen in the world that
require an eight-hour day it is passen-
ger train engineers. Whether they want
it or not they should have short day.
The responsibility for life that is upon
them is of itself enough to affect the
nerves Of sensitive man. Add to that
their innumerable duties and minor re-
watching the fireman,
keeping to the schedule, inspecting the
engine, observing signals from the train
men, scrutinizing the road signals, read
ing and keeping in mind Instructions from
train dispatchers, watching the track
and you have such a burden as no man
should stand, much less a man who holds
an his hands hundreds Of human lives
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
MIR. GRAHAM IS THROUGH

For nearly thirty years c. E. Graham has
been publisher of the Waseca Radical. He
has just sold out. His vaedictory follows;
1t is usual for the editor, in passing, to
thank the public for past favors. We thank
nobody. What we have had we have earned
twice over. We have turned grindstone to
grind more axes and for less pay and fewer
thanks than any other man living-or dead.
For twenty eight OF twenty-nine years we
have been at the crank, and we know what
we are talking about We do not say, like
Vanderbilt, ''the public be DID, but We say
There is nothing to say,ecertainly
nothing to thank anybody for
If there be any position where one does
more work for less pay, turning grindstone for
more jobs, than the country editor, and for
fewer thanks and les money, we say Good
pity him. for he needs pity. The position as
editor of country newspaper is the most
treacherous, difficult hardest to-please, east
est to Offend and s,irest to receive kicks, cuffs
and advice, we have ever heard of, and we
know there is none worse-there cannot be.
q You speak well Of man for 999 times, and
forget or are unable from cause to speak the
thousandth time, and he is your enemy for
life and will always afterward have his work
done at the ''other place. If his wife or
daught er goes to 'Jimtcwn'' for visit, leav-
ms on the night train and returning in the
same manner. and you fail to mention the
fact, though you know nothing about it and
can know nothing about it unless told, you
are deep, dark villain with designs against
him and working for his rival OF his enemy
whose wife you did speak of as going on
visit because he came to your Office and told
you all about it and asked you to mention it
in your paper-n two places, and be. very
careful not TO get the two items in the same
column or on the. same page"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
"THE UNITED STATES Isl

"The United States is" has been ap-
proved by the house OF representatives.
eommittee on revision of laws. Thls
RELOCATION of "the United States are to
the limbo of other phrases and ideas that
belong to period Of national evolution
long since passed, merely follows popular
usage and the major part OF authorlta-
tive official usage for the last fifty years.
It will be hard on our editorial friends
who like to roll under their tongues the
sweet verbal morsel, "These United States
are" and some of the spotless purlsts or
grammar will be shocked almost beyond
recovery. But the United States is ma
ton 1t is the government OF the people
of the United States. In its use as the
designation of the nation it is and always
was properly singular, Notwithstanding
it's plural form. 1t is only when we go
behind the government and consider the
nature of the country it stands for, and
find that it is made up of states that are
united, that we are justified in saying the
United States are
To use the plural verb in speaking OF
the nation is to perpetuate the false idea
that this nation is league, confeder-
acy, an idea that was buried in the civil
war so deep that not even the trump OF
the judgment day can awaken it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
AN ARTISTS BISCUITS
Washington Star.

. -.
There is a Washington portrait artist who
:prides himself on his ability to cook. He has
a summer home at Arundel on the-Bay, and
during the hot weather he always has num-
Der of bohemian friends with him. His wife
was away from home when a contingent Of
friends drifted in upon him one. Saturday
night last summer. They were accorded a
royal welcome and the evening was spent in
sailing on the water and slipping mint juleps,
favorite decoction of the artists.
When morning came the host was up early
to prepare "a steaming hot breakfast. Hot
biscuits he had placed on the bill of fare,
and he started out to make them. He stirred
the flour and water, and then happened to
think that there was no baking powder in the
house. A happy thought came. A box Of
seidlitz powders he always kept in his room.
Why wouldn't they do in place of baking pow
der? he queried. An excellent substitute, he
answered himself. -
The. seidltz. powders were stirred into the
dough-, which Immediately began to rise,
AAbidextrous he succeeded in getting the
dough into the tins. A quarter of an hour
later, when he opened the oven door, each
biscuit touched the roof of the oven. They
had the shape of mushrooms. There was
great laughter at the breakfast table when the
ethereal biscuits were brought, on. One Of the
guests saved his and brought it to Washing
ton, where he showed it to local baker. The
baker, with a laugh, registered the opinion
that he didn't think the American people had
reached the stage where they demanded a
medical biscuit ~ &
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15

The great number Of violent crimes in
the Philippines. which give the hangman
almost daily occupation in those islands,
do not cause General Chaffee toSbecome
hardened to the demands of justice. in
the face of such carnival Of hideous
crimes by the members of the katinpunan
society, as might we'll cause many officers
with the power of life and death to argue
that it would do no harm if an occasional
innocent man were sacrificed, rather than
any chances should be taken on letting a
guilty man escape, General Chaffee firmly
insists on proof of crime, according to
established rules of evidence, and re-
views all court proceedings on the princi-
pie that no innocent man shall suffer.
That the military governor is able to ,ad-
here to such lines of official conduct in
such trying time of insurrection and
reconstruction, should be ample guarantee
to the natives of the kind OF treatment
they may expect from the United States.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15

you something And. opening her trunk
she took from it an old-fashoned revolver
minus a lock- and with only the stub of a
trigger '--
90, what do you carry that with you for?''
ITO scare away burglars when l meet
them replied May, displaying the innocent
weapon which her. small brother had dropped
in as joke while she was packing her trunk.
We'll, there is no danger of your being
disturbed by them here" laughed her hostess
.One never knows" said May, with a pout
and shrug of her shoulders, as she babe her
good night and tossed the Anticipated relic
carelessly on the bed
Three hours later, when the whole house
hold was wrapped in sleep, young man
walked rapidly from the gate to the front
entrance of the Manders residence, drew a
latchkey from his pocket, opened the door
and slipped in so cautiously that he could
not have been heard had any one been awake.
He paused in the hall moment to hang up
his hat and then crept silently up the broad
carpeted stairs and softly tried the door OF
the room in which the husband hunter was
reposing SURPRISING an ejaculation at find
ing it locked, the young man turned away,
but paused again at the head Of the stairs,
muttering:
Il forgot the bathroom. They may have
left that unlocked He retraced his steps,
passing the barred door and trying second
one little farther down the hall. Here he
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
MIMI ESOTA POLITICS

An interview in the news columns of T e
journal yesterday stated that the SEN
ators had agreed on method of settling the
district attorneyship. The journal $
informant says that M D. Purdy is to have
first place. and c. G. Haupt Of Fergus Falls
is to De frst assistant, receiving a somewhat
larger salary than that position commands.
The story is plausible and time will soon
tell whether it is correct. Clapp wanted
Frank M. Nye, and did not want John H.
Steele. Nelson declined to indorse Nye, and
Purdy Seems tQj be the alternative. 1t is
fortunate, if the story is truei that political
exigency results In so good selection.
Purdy s appointment will not make more
than the usual number of sore spots, and he
has good many friends, both here and over
the state, who will be pleased by his app,
pointment.
G. c. lHaupt was Clapp's original choice for
district attorney, and it would be something
of come iown for him to accept second
place. If the report is correct, however, he
will be well taken care Of in the matter OF
salary.
The following from the owatonna Jour
nal, which has fallen in line for the merger
and against Van SAINT. is directly7in line with
the news article in yesterdays J VI a /:
Mr.. Dunn declares he is not candidate for
governor and there is no need to question the
candcS of that declaration. But neither Mr..
Dunn nor anyone else is likely to decline
the republican nomination If he once can be
convinced that to accept it would in the
party's interest. In this view Mr.. Dunn is
no doubt possibility ard strong one Many
things may happen between this and midsHm-
mer to induce the auditor to change his mind.
The foregoing is the prevalent method of
the anti-Van SAINT press treating Of Dunn,
denial. Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
TN Which the Muie SCORES.

The passageway from the barn to the barn.
yard was covered with ice last week before
the farmer sanded it, and thesmule and the
goat, who were early out to get bite OF
the crisp morning air, stood around watching
the other beasts make laughingstocks of
themselves. The two old cronies were feel
ing in remarkably good temper, and the re-
marks they banded back and forth caused
some indignation among the heavier animals
because Of their levity. When the matronly
and rather weighty Mrs. Cow came down tho
planks and slid half the way with her four
feet wide apart and a look %of strong anxiety
on her countenance, the goat remarked with
a waggish air: @j$a
$50 our farmer is going into the flower
business!" %S3l T.
Glover business?"' asked the mule, inter-
negatively. ~ lSEE,!a AKA d
"Cowslips, don't you know replied the
goat as the boss laugh resechoed through the
yard I,f
The mule felt little sore, especially as this
ancient witticism was worked off on him, and
he gave a feeble grin. t|& MA
"Well,'' he said 81 dunno but I'd rather
see the cowslip than to be here when Mr..
Bull comes down. ~
How so?" asked the goat, lightly, forget
/ ting himself. 4
''Well,' replied the mule, 'there isn't much
fodder for me in bulrush, though they do
say that goat can make a dessert off OF AN
old basket"
The goat lowered her head and made one, OF
those celebrated cane rushes, but the mule
went up into the air, all four corners at once,
and the goat shot in under and, hitting moth
ing rolled and slid down the icy slope like
a bag of potatoes.
The remarks of the rooster partook of as
| constituent and alarm, and the horse was
| weak from laughter. The mule, too, felt full
of ginger and lifted the three-legged milking
stool over the fence by moving suddenly with
one of those occupied corners sometimes used
as support or for walking purposes. The
goat felt himself over and discovered no in
I jury except to his morals because of holding
malice in his mind. But he stood around all
the morning meditating some future coup &c
mule that would count 5 on his score card.
| How he did it is another story.
"a r4%r@-A II. Russell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
IGNORANCE PERSISTED IN

We forgot all about the fact that the
editor of the Daily Northwestern of Osh-
kosh was once a consul himself, or we
would have asked him to read a recent
editorial on the consular service before
we printed it, We would then not have
confronted his indictment of an "astonish-
ing amount of ignorance" all because we
said that the line between a consuIs
proper duties and duties of diplomatic
nature is not so plain as it might be.
The Northwestern is at much unneces-
sarS pains to tell us that the diplomatic
and the consular services are separate.
True, they are,. though more in theory
than fact. They are not, as 1t says, as
separate as the army and navy. The fact
that both are at present in the same de-
partment shows that We reassert, on the
other hand, that in these days the ques-
lions that come before minister largely
grow out of trade. Nations fight and
scheme and make treaties for trade more
than anything else. In trying to prove
that the diplomatic and consular services
are never merged in any degree, the
Northwestern proves too much. OF course
the consul does not necessarily succeed
the minister when the latter is absent
But in an emergency the assignment is
likely to fall to him. Witness John Good
now at Shanghai when Conger was shut
up in Picking. The Northwestern admits
that in country that has no minister,
"these rules are some times modified, = and
that in Egypt the consul general has
quasi diplomatic powers, while in few
Of the smaller countries the same man
may act as consul general and minister
resident"
AS a matter of fact, the separation of
the two services is nowhere near SO pro-
nounceds as it theoretically is or as 1t
might be. AS an instance of diplomatic
work by consuls, take the confidential re-
ports on political conditions of the coun-
tries to which they are assigned. In the
current number of the North American
Review, Albert Halstead says that a good
American consul can always be relied
upon to keep the department Of state in
formed on diplomatic as we'll as CONNER
cial districts. At the present time the
consuls in South America are turning in
some very significant information about
German schemes in that region. This in
formation directly concerns our diplomacy.
Another proof Of the intimate connection
| between the two services is that a minis
ter has power to suspend consul.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15

The census reports show that the south
is growing at an increasingly rapid rate,
a rate that is now somewhat larger than
the rate Of increase in the north The
Canadian boomers are now using aphrase
that applies equally well to the south,
with the substitution of a single word,
"The hour Of Canada's destiny has
struck With the occupation Of the last
Of the free or cheap lands in the Ameri-
can northwest, large part of the steady
stream Of immigration that has poured
into this region will be DETECTED to the
rich and. even in its most populous parts,
undeveloped south. The next fifty years
will witness a growth and expansion
and enrichment Of the south comparable
6nly to the growth Of the middle west in
the last fifty years. BY the south the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
THE UNITED STATES AND THE EAST
ERN QUESTION

Perley M. Stone, brother Of Miss
Stone, the American missionary, said In
an interview in T h g j ourn a l #yester-
day that the capture and detention q his
sister practically means that the United
States will be drawn into the eastern
question. 1t is singular fact that w. T.
Stead in his characterization of the
World" takes much the same view He
says that If the brigands get their money
it may be expected that more American
citizens will be caught and held for ran
som, land thus the American govern
ment may be forced to take action. If,
on the other hand, Miss Stone is killed
the Macedonian question viii at once be
raised"
Mr.. Stead holds that the wide distribu-s
ton Of American missionaries through
out Turkey may yet lead to the most
violent action by this nation against Tur-
key He pictures an American mission
destroyed by a Kurdish chief the mis-
sionary thrown into the flames and his
wife and daughter carried off to the harem
of some pasta. This is nothing more
than the outrages the Christians in the
east have submitted to through many
generations. The outrage being dWelt
upon by the American press in all it's
horror and atrocity would, so Mr.. Stead
thinks, SO stir the wrath of the republic
that there would come from the people
the imperious mandate, '"To the Darkan-
Giles! to the Dardenelles! ~
In three weeks the commanders who shut
tered the Spanish fleet. at Manila, and drove
the ironclads of Admiral Geneva in blazing
ruin upon the coast of Cuba would appear
OF the Dardanelles to exact instant and con-
dign punishment for the outrage inflicted
Upon American women.
Nor would they stop at the Dardanelles.
The Stars and Stripes would soon fly over
the waters Of the sea Of Marmora, and the
thunder Of the American guns would sound
the death -knell of the Ottoman dynasty. No
power on earth would be able to arrest the
advance of the American ships, nor, indeed,
is there any power in Europe that, would
even attempt to do so. The patience OF
Chrstendom has long been almost worn out,
and Europe would probably maintain an ex-
pectant attitude while the deathblow was
struck at the crumbling relics of the Ottoman
power.
At any rate, Turkey offers splendid
opportunity for some energetic nation to
distinguish itself in the cause of hui
manty. 1t can not be denied that
Americans can be more quickly stirred to
imperious, thoughtless wrarth than any
other people. Turkey seems remote from
our proper sphere of action. but it is not
nearly SO far away as the .Barbary states
were in the first years of the nineteenth
| century, when Americans were the first
| to terminate by armed force the 4outrages
these states committed on the merchant
marine of all Christian nations. What
| Preble, Decatur and Bainbridge did then
for our seamen may yet be done by our
sailors for the missionaries of to-day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
THE CONVERSIONS OF HATE

!. While Mr.. Kipling is .browbeating English
men into the army Walter Crane, a too rar
voice in poetry, writes with profound compass
sion his protest against another South African
Christmas. We reprint from the Londo1
Daily News few stanzas Of his poem
Waterman, What Of the Night?':
How shall be told the tale?
Brave 'gainst brave, what avail?
4 Wild on the wind the wall
For innocents slain.
Helpless in death -camps thrown,
Flower of the grass down mown-
Teeth of the dragon sown,
For harvests- of Cain.
Ashes Of desolate hearth,
Smoke of the burning EARTH
Wraiths of hunger and dearth,
g. Heap on us the curse
Can,st build with vengeance and hate
AS corner-stones for thy state,
o England? Spurn from thy gate
The tongues Of deceit.
What boots it, thine empires pride,
Thy rule Of the waters wide,
When thypurple cannot hide
Famisht ones at thy feet?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
Daily New York Letter

not forbear telling how he had helped to beat
the Chicagoan.
Mr.. Gates invited a concerted attack by all
the other players. according to the way the
game was played over again to day. by
winning $1,000 jackpot about midnight and
carelessly showing that he had held only four
clubs and a heart against the other mans
faces up Then the crowd went after nim''
and at o'clock in the morning he was $4,000
to the bad. "a
Mr.. Gates consoled himself with the thought
that some of the winners were only getting
back small piece of their own money. He
does not usually lose. He was reputed to be
the biggest winner in that famous game OF
last March, which American Steel and Wire
magnates said to have played on a rail-
road train to New York and to have continued
at the Waldorf-Astoria The game ran mora
than a week and 81, 600, 600 all told was said
to have changed hands.
Promoter Flint's BOldness.
Charles R. Flint has not lost his nerve,
though his rubber trust is insovent. GOSSIP
around Wall street is busy with other great
companies. Mr.. Flint's name is often heard.
His wealth Is not what is once was, runs the
talk. In ten years he has organized compa-
ries with total capital OF s3Os, 100000. They
embrace every branch of Industry, from crude
rubber to sewer pipes, caramels and starch.
So vast is the amount Of capital involved
that Wall street wonders what Mr.. Flints
resources are. When there was war, Mr..
Flint never feared to jump in with cruisers,
If necessary to help out countries where his
enterprises fourshed. When the Brazilian
navy revolted. 1t was Charles Flint who sent
the dynamite cruiser Nichtheroy to Rio. The
mutinous navy capitulated and Brazil. through
Flint, won bloodless victory. When Japan
wanted to buy the cruiser Esmeralda from
Chile for the war with China, Chile was
afraid to SELL Flint bought the cruiser him.
SELF sold 1t to Ecuador, and Ecuador sold II
to Japan. Japanese interests were conserved
and Mr.. Flnt's fortunes fourished
Racing to Get Ocean Mall Contract.
Out in the Atlantic the steamships Minne-
apolis of the Atlantic Transport line and the
Saxonia of the Anchor line are racing for the
other side. The object of the race, on the
part of the former ship, is to prove that the
Atlantic transport line is able to carry the
United States mails, the Minneapolis being
the first of that lines ships to take them
over The transport line has been fighting
for American registry, but an old law blocks
every attempt to have the ships fly the Amer
lean flag The officials expect, however, 20
demonstrate that they should carry the mails
direct to London and the United Kingdom
ON an equal basis with the American, Anchor,
Cunard aud White Star lines, and 1t is for
this purpose that the Minneapolis, when she
left port Saturday, wasted no time in show
ing clean pair Of heels to New York har-
Dor. She proudly few the mail flag at her
masthead, and the manner in which she cut
through the water OF the bay promised 8
tough struggle between her and the Saxonia.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
GLAD WHEN THE END CAME
milwaukee Sentinel.

Milwaukee divine tells this story on him
self:
In a celebrated eastern theological seminary
II ia or was. the practice Of the faculty to
require the students to take turns In deliver
ing sermons, custom, by the way. to which,
as a rule, the young aspirants for eccleslasti-
cal3bonors did not take kindly.
Among those who attended the school was
a Young man who now occupies the pulpit of
q well-known Methodist church on the East
side. who, however, formed an exception to
the rule above mentioned.
In the course OF time 1t came his turn to
speak. He prepared his discourse with great.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
TWO EMINENT VISITORS

San Francisco Wave.
4 In making the announcements to his congre-
cation recently, an Episcopal minister whose
parish is not more than thousand miles
from San Francisco, said:
Remember our communion service next
Sunday. The Lord is with US in the forenoon
and the bishop in the evening"