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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
Books and Authors
BENEFIcENT 1lBLIoMANIAcs

The individuals who are spoken Of by
some people in a somewhat contemptuous
tone as "bibliomaniacs" and book
cranks," should be recognized as benefac-
tors and patriots. Your bibliomaniac or
book crank must be credited in many
cases with preserving from utter oblivion
books which are of very great historical
value, national and state. Sometimes in
the collection Of book crank are found
old books whose contents embody his
toric facts which can never be duplicated
and prove of very great value to histor-
lans. A man who, with patient research
thru many years has assembled mass Of
historical, legal and literary documents,
bearing upon the early history of his
state, which would have been sent to a
paper mill and into the pulp vat or con-
sumed by fire is performing real service
for the public. Such service has been per-
formed by William Nelson Of Pater-
son, N. j., whose valuable finds bearing
on early New Jersey history are detailed
In the current issue of the Literary Col
lector. Certainly DR.. Gate, who, in his
enthusiasm as a book collector went into
the damp and unwholesome cellars Of the
monasteries In lower Egypt and rescued
from torn and rotting pilese Of Greek and
Coptic manuscripts of very ancient date,
valuable texts of the gospel and epistles
and Greek classics, performed a service
of no small Importance for modern schol-
arship. The book crank should be hon
ored; he should never be sneezed at.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
THURSDAY EVENING,

changes wrought by the annual fight over
the appointments have not greatly affected
the rank and file. But the fire department
ought to have at its head a man brought
to his position by merit and not by dex-
terity as q political wire-puller.
But 1t is Illogical to put the fire depart
ment on a permanent basis as to tenure
Of office and leave the police force at the
caprice Of each new mayor, with his
swarm Of political hackers demanding rec
ognition. The charter commission ought
to have no difficulty In deciding that the
police force, except the chief and one or
two other members, should be taken out
of the sphere of personal appointment.
In fact, all of the routine offices Of the
city which are not elective and are not
potent in shaping municipal policy, should
be put on a permanent basis. No clerk
ought ever to have to give thought to
politics except in the way any good ctti-
zen should. To make him curry favor
with politicians to get his place, and then
make him contribute to- campaign funds
to keep it, Is not in harmony with the
way in which big city should be admin
iStered.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
The Late Judge Flandrau.

One Of the most notable of the pioneers
Of Minnesota has been removed from the
activities Of the great modern common
played such a conspicuous part, in the
late Judge Flandrau.
During his residence of half a century
in the territory and in the state Of Min
nesota, Judge Flandrau progressively won
the confidence and profound respect Of his
fellow citizens, and showed himself In
every crisis Of the commonwealth a man
Of robust public. spirit At the bar, on
the bench or in the storm and stress OF
battle, he proved himself worthy citizen
and to. those less fortunate than himself
in material things, he showed himself a
never spoke, but which were known and
appreciated by the many benef1ciaries
Kindly and helpful in his relations to the
poorest, Judge Flandrau won the love AND
admiration of all.
1t may be said of him that he coulC
boast of being democrat Of the demo.
Gratis" With his ability and his power
to win men, he could, in political life
have made himself conspicuous, had hi
chosen to transfer his political allegiance
to the republican party Of the state, but hi
was deeply rooted and grounded in demo
cratic principles (not, indeed, Of the lat
ter. day democracy. with its free silver ant
fiat money heresies), and once when {
friend suggested to him the political ad
| vantage to him of identifying himself will
| the dominant party, he admitted it, bu
affirmed his undying devotion to the part!
in whose cradle he had been nurtured
Men like Judge Flandrau are. not fount
"round the corner" so to speak. W.
need more Of them. Minnesota is, indeed
fortunate in her Sibley, Flandrau; Ramsey
| Pillsbury and other honorable early pro
1noters of her wonderful and illustriou
! career. 80, ~ -...-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10

Great Britain has Il. From our numerous
universities, many Of them having dollars
to spend where the English universities
have cents, there come forth every year
ten men OF developed brain power to one
that England puts out, We spend fabu-
lous sums for the development Of indus
trial power, but we spend equally fabulous
sums tot develop the power that will di-
rect the material power.
Education has always been the watch
word of American progress. Now the So
licitude of the preceding generations for
the education of the people is bearing
fruit, and we are doing far more for the
generations to come. Our higher educa-
ton Is making good" in very practical
way. And yet there are, and there always
will be people, who will sit around and
wonder whether a university education is
good thing or not; for this or that in
dividual there is room for speculation, for
the people as a whole there is no question
It Is significant that modern nations are
taking their places in the contest foI
supremacy In the order of their devotion
to the higher education.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
The Macarorll Campaign.

TO the Editor of The Journal,
The thousands Of peopleswho have sam
pied the bread made out of macaroni
wheat during thealast few days have in
Varlably pronounced it good
There are q number 5of millers and
bakers who show much interest from a
business standpoint. A great deal of in
vestlgation is now going on in regard to
macaron1 wheat and it's products, and
when the new crop of ID this wheat is
ready for the market there will no doubt
be a. good many ready to- buy it..
Therenis now a. disposition to look at
this question much as one expressed him.
self 1.-THE situation evidently is that
this wheat is hereto stay and we might as
Well accept this as a fact and be governed
accordingly. If we are to handle 1t and
offer the products to the public we can
not afford to run it down, and as soon as
we have familiarized ourselves with Its
merits we will not be slow to inform the
public
Such a position the raisers of macaroni
wheat are satisfied with All they, ask is
that prejudice be laid aside and the wheat
bought on its merit. In fact, they are sc
confident of it's Intrinsic worth thatsthey
would much prefer to see it's product sold
on the open market under its true name
rather than have it go into mixtures. :.
L. A. Neland,
Chairman of Committee on Macaron1
| Wheat Of Grain Growers Convention
at Fargo. s.-.. s.....
Edgeley, N. D.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
Higher Education INDICATED.

English Drawn and sinew have had their
turn Of Knocking by the English them
selves. Now comes the turn Of English
brains. England has been running down
at the heel and falling behind in the in
dustrial race, we have been told, because
the English workmen has been getting
too fond of good time and too much
inclined to lose time seeing that he does
not do a stroke more of work than he is
paid for in full.
But now Sir Norman Lockyer. president
Of the British association for the advance
ment OF science, says that British brains
must be indicted. There is not enough
brain power In England he says, to keep
running up to the maximum Of efficiency
the great industrial machine of the en-
pire, which is entered in the world
sweepstakes for the worlds leadership
against the industrial machines of the
German empire and Of the American re-
public.
American progress is fed and stimulated
by 1874 state and private universities;
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Library at the City Hall.

/. Isl
10 the Editor Of The Journal.
IN your Issue Of yesterday appears an
article headed Library at City Hail."
containing statement regarding the pro-
posed plan Of locating a reading room in
the rotunda OF the courthouse, which Is
scarcely just, either to board of court
house and city hall commissioners or to
the library board.
AS matter Of fact no formal offer of
this room has been made to the library
board for the excellent reason that it is
impossible for the commission to ascertain
at present whether or not they will have
FUNDS sufficient for the proper finishing of
this room, nor until the estimates and
olds are all in for other and most neces-
sary work at the courthouse can this be
determined.
On the part Of the library board. think
1t may be said that 1t will be ready at
any time to take up this matter and deal
with 1t as literally as its means will al
low, approaching thoroly the generous
offer OF the commission. It certainly has
no ground of criticism of the commission,
who appear to be acting wisely and with
g desire to serve the bestsinterests Of the
pubic In the matter. 81.
49, s.5!.f 34$. .t5s,E jacob Stone.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
Rratnoher on Alaska.

Mr. Bratnober Of Oakland takes fall
out" Of Alaska in the dispatches to-day.
Mr. Bratnober is very sweeping and ex-
IRENE in his statements. He can see no
good in that country and denounces. it as a
fraud:e' We have heard such things said
about other countries. The time has been
when Minnesota and the Dakotas have
been declared by unwise and disappointed
men to be worthless, and it is the testi-
mony Of such men, evidently, Mr.. Brat
nober relies upon for his impressions Of
Alaska. He refers particularly to the Ia
mana stampede Any country is likely to
get a black eye when men come into it
unacquainted with its resources or the
conditions of life there and unprepared
to meet the demands that may be made
upon them. Men who were in the Tanana
stampede have also testified that undoubt-
edly there Is there great deal Of good
ore which machinery and capital will
some day handle proftably, but that it
is no place for the poor man with the
pick, shovel and pan. The first difficulty
is the cost Of transportation of all food
supplies. The chances for the poor man
in Alaska to-day are certainly not as
promising as they were In the Yukon In
the early days of the Klondke excite
ment or in the Seward peninsula when the
first strikes were made at Nome; but this
is no evidence that ;, Alaska has been
worked out, or that 1t will not continue
to be profitable field for mining opera:
lions carried on economically, as in some
Of our western states.
AS for the agricultural possibilities OF
Alaska, it has never been claimed that
Alaska was likely to become a grain ex-
porting country, but that it has agricul-
tural possibilities to the extent of being
able to produce large quantities Of vege-
tables, forage, meat and dairy products
there is abundant and well-founded opin-
ion, and some experience to support it..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
Municipal Civil Service.

The charter commission will soon re-
sumo it's sessions, and will ere long have
to take definite stand on questions 1t
has heretofore merely discussed. One Of
the most important Of these is the intro
duction Of the merit system into the mu-
nicipal civil service. In our opinion, such
system Is relatively even more impor-
tant in a municipal than in a national
government, yet it has not been intro
duced into the Minneapolis government in
the slightest degree in FORM tho to some
extent 1t has been observed in practice
So far, the commission appears to favor
the introduction Of the merit system OF
tenure Of office into the fire department.
There is no question that it is right in do
ing 50. Tenure Of office during efficiency
and good behavior is, possibly, more essen
tial to the general efficiency Of the fire
department than to any other depart
ment Of city government Besides, the
fire department has to a large extent been
a sort Of political stamping ground, the
fact that it is controlled by the council
making it fine field for patronage-tho
It IL only fair to say that in practice the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
PAINTED PRESIDENTS HORSE
New York Evening World.

WV VI II w VI IU'
District Attorney Jerome has a brother,
Larry Jerome. This brother started his
eccentric career while still at Princeton
by an undue love Of art. Robert Bonner
had given President McCosh of Prince
ton magnificent snow white horse, Of
which the old president was Unfortunately
proud, and which he was wont to drive in
triumph thru the streets. One day, as
the president was about to drive on a
hurry call to Trenton, his hostler failed to
bring the white steed to the door OIL time
Going to the stable to investigate, the
president found that young Jerome had
painted the horse vivid and patriotic red
white and blue. Then he had permitted
the Old Glorious horse to roll in the grass
adding a Galway green to the general eff
feet. AS the president had no circus to
advertise, he missed his drives for the
next month
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
Kentuckv's Leading Industry

The gubernatorial campaign in Ken
lucky IS bringing out either cause or
symptom Of the cheapness in which, hui
man life Is held In parts Of that state.
It seems that the governors Of Kentucky
have acquired a habit of emptying the
prisons of homicides as fast as they are
put in by the courts.
The republicans have published the fact
that Governor Beckham has granted in
all 1873 pardons, ten Of the recipients
having been convicted Of murder: and
thirty three of manslaughter.
The democrats have retorted that while
Bradley, republican, was governor, he par
doned "a murderers and 1O4 men convicted
of manslaughter. To this the republicans
have replied, keeping up the tn quoque
argument, that Brown, democrat, in his
term Of office, pardoned As murderers and
1O1 persons convicted of manslaughter.
Evidently, however much Kentucky
governors may differ in politics, they are
all true Kentuckians. Between them they
have done honor to the time honored sport
Of Kentucky gentlemen-of killing each
other-by restoring to the open air 127
murderers and 23S other homicides. Alto
gether they have contributed to the cause
Of law and order In Kentucky by releas-
ing 1874 men whom Kentucky juries, Ken
lucky juries mind you, had found guilty.
| Now, if in three gubernatorial terms
1865 takers Of human life have been turned
loose, we begin to get some conception of
the banality of murder in Kentucky. There
must still be some murderers in prison,
and a large number were either found not
guilty or else were never brought to trial.
It would be hard to say whether the
appalling number of murders is due to
the frivolousness with which the pardon
| ing power is used, or whether the large
number of pardons is due to the Kentucky
| opinion that murder is not one Of the
grave crimes. Very likely there is an
interaction here: Governors pardon be-
cause they know SO many murderers are
outside the prison that it seems an injus-
tice to keep few within, and murderers
ply their trade because they know the
chances are good that they will never be
| seriously punished, between the opportu-
mites they will have in the courts and
before the governor.
| After studying these figures, we are
| free to say that of all the lynchings we
have heard of, one in Kentucky came
nearer to being justified than any lynch
| ing we have had in America since the
days Of the frontier vigilantes. That was
the case: Of the wealthy white man who,
after committing most atrocious MUIR
der, was still unsentenced at the end of
two years, tho twice convicted. At last
his neighbors, fearful that he would finally
be turned loose among them, took him out
Of the Jail and hung him. That crowd Of
lynchers, considering the general admin
! istration Of justice in Kentucky, and their
own affair in particular, certainly had
| cause to lose faith in formal justice in old
Kentucky. . .--
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
ENGLISH SOLDIERS

In his letter to the London Times on
the physique Of the British, army. which
made very considerable stir in England,
the Duke Of wellington gives some inter-
esting statistics as to the British recruits
In 1900 the average. height was. feet
ga inches; weight, 1874 pounds; admis-.
sions to hospital per Loco, $751;; con-.
stantly nom reflective thru Sickness per
1000, 34.S5; death rate, per 1000, $50.
The percentage of reflections in 1900 was
PA; in 1901, 1904, and in 1902. 1922. The
last figures Germany published were for
1887, when the percentage of rejected was
only 1853, and that from the total num-
Der of conscripts. not from men who 11a>
been accepted by recruiting sergeants
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
The net earnings of the railroads Of this

The net earnings of the railroads Of this
country increased during the first half
of this year nearly $2O,OOO,OOO. Nearly
half of this is on the anthracite roads, but
with s11, 100000 left for all the other
groups it is manifest that the roads are
not doing business at ruinously low rates
yet. The increase in gross earnings was
$90,232,52s. This satisfactory showing
with regard to the railroads is undoubt-
edly due in large part to piece of leg
islation Which some railroad men and
more favored shippers opposed-the
Elkins law; but it is no doubt the fact
that rates have been so much better main
tanned under this law that it has had an
important effect on railroad earnings.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10

They took little gravel
And they took little tar
With various ingredients
Imported from afar. =
They hammered 1t and rolled it,
And when they went away.
They said they had q pavement
That would last for many day.
But they came with picks and smote it
To lay alwatermain:
And then they called the workmen
To put 1t back again.
To run railway cable
They took 1t up some more: :.
And then they put 1t back again 44-s....s.
Just where 1t was before.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
PAT MCBRIDE & COMPANY

Pat rises when the morn is new,
And SO. sometimes. do /;
I see he has enough to do
AS I am passing by.
His muscles seem to be Of steel,
But mine some times relax;
While he so sturdy seems to feel,
l let him pay the tax.
Ny golden profits ne'er escape;
l hide them in my breast
Pat takes his gold in different shape
And sticks it in his vest.
l count my treasures Ger and Ger
AS higher still they mount;
Pats go with those that went before
To swell his bank account.
Pat owns that clover field in fact 49,
And so 1 sadly fear ,a
That love of gain will make him act
Just as he did last year.
The crimson blooms / priced SO high
He cut without remorse,
And sold the seed of by-and-by
And bought a Norman horse.
No man has wealth enough to buy
My epart in this domain.
| would not sell my clouds and sky,
My shadows on the plain;
I would not sell this golden light,
These tales the breezes tell.
Gold has no power to buy my right
For money Pat would sell.
I gaze at ease on every hand
At our possessions fair:
Pat plows and sows and reaps the land
And keeps 1t In repair.
So Pat does me a world OF GOOD,
Willie I do Pat no harm,
And on these terms, well understood,
~ We both enjoy the farm:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
MADAME CALVES PLANT

Nine. Calve is singing brilliantly as
ever at Covent Garden just now, but
probably gets less enjoyment from her art
than any one else. Indeed, she has seri-
ously thought more than once Of leaving
the stage. when I am at work" she
says, IT don't live. I want to have plenty
Of exercise, to see all the museums and
picture galleries, and to enjoy myself, and
all these things are impossible If I am to
sing and act we'll It is life OF constant
sacrifice and am tired of it, Not UNI
like Sarah Bernhardt, who is always ac-
companied by her coffin, Calve has had
carved.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
ON THE TREATMENT OF PAvEMENTss

They took it UP for condutts
u. To run the telephones:
And then they put 1T back again
AS hard as any stone.
They took 1t up for wires
To feed the 'lectric light,
And then they put it back again,
Which was no more than right
Oh. the pa,ement's full of burrows
. There are patches everywhere;
You'd like to ride upon it,
But It's seldom that you dare.
It's a very handsome pavement;
- A credit to the town;
They're always diggin' OF 1t up
Or putin Of 1t down.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
THE DEAD

I think about the dead by day
dream OF them ut night;
They seem to stand beside my chair.
Clad In the clothes they used to wear,
And by my bed in white
The commonplaces of their lives,
The Nghtest words they said,
Revive In me- and give me pain,
And make me wish them back again
Or wish that were dead.
/ would be kinder to them now,
Were they alive once more;
Would kiss their. cheeks, and kiss their hair,
And love them, like the angels there.
Upon, the silent shore. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
GENERAL LoeAN,s REToRT
Brooklyn Eagle

A man who knew John A.. Logan in
southern Illinois before the civil war re-
Gently told me that on certain occasion
young Logan found it necessary to doubt
the veracity of a. man consid erably older
than himself, and told him SO without any
.circumlocution.s
Don't you call me liar, SIR, said the
man, excitedly. II have a reputation to
maintain, and I mean to maintain it If
I have to do it at the point Of a pistol
"Oh,' said Logan, calmly, that won't
be necessary. You maintain Your repu-
tation all right every time you tell a lie.''
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a VENERABLE PEDESTRIAN

Joseph Snyder, an athlete of 90, who
lives in Aetna, N. Y, challenges any man
of Is or older to walk from ten to fifty
miles. Mr.. Snyder says: ''Ill walk him
either with or without canes, tho pre-
fer to carry one just for company. walk
at least ten miles every day, and the fell
low who takes UP my challenge will have
to scratch gravel mighty lively to wirl''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10

. The labor organizations certainly have
a right to feel proud of their street dem
onstration last Monday when the turn out
here is compared with that at other
places. At Philadelphia, for example,
where there are so many workingmen Of
all trades, the number in line was only
has seven times as many people as Mime
apolis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10

II; the Brooklyn and the San Francisco
do not get chance to fire a gun at Beirut
there will be dense, dark gloom In plenty
sun may pour down it's burning rays un-
checked -,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10

A Colorado court has decided that all
timber that is not down is dead, If big
enough to cut. That sustains the corten-
ton, it is thought, Of some Minnesota
loggers as evidenced by their operations.