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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
LITERARY NOTES

A writer in the Critic pays this delicate
tribute to Miss Mary E. Wilkins (Mrs.
Freeman) which her many readers cannot
fail to appreciate: miss Wilkins may
know her own New England no more In
timately now than when she first SO sue
cessfully celebrated it. But 1t Is plain
that she has grown to look upon it
little differently; more tenderly-almost,
as it were, more maternally-and tho her
comedy was always Of the kind that is
near to pathos, she seems now more than
ever to smile thru tears of sympathy at
her own delicious creations"
The opinion expressed by Gilbert Ches-
terton, a judicious English critic, that
'Pippa Passes is the greatest poem ever
written, ought to win for him from the
Browningites a gold medal set In dia-
monds. Moreover, he is not very far
astray in his view. a
Francis Grierson, writing Of Paul Yer
laine in the Critic, quotes him thus from
a personal interview with him: "Ah,
what difference there Is between the
word mere and the word 'mother!' The
English word is SOFT homely, and musical.
love the English language. There is the
word heaven, how much more beauti-
full 1t Is than the word 'c1el.' English Is
made for sentiment and poetry" A good
many English speakers who are addicted
to disparaging their noble and expressive
language ought take THIS FTenCnn1an, 8
opinion to heart. a.,
s. S. Mcclure is spending the summer
in Switzerland with his family and, when
he returns, he will personally edit Nc
Clure's magazine, which he says has been
edited by the whole staff. Miss Jean
nette Glider says this must be taken in
a Pickwickian sense as Mcclure really
makes his personality felt in every page
of the magazine.
| Miss Jeanette Glider writes from Lon
don to the Critic that the London even
| ing papers print their "extras' by leav-
! ing blank space. in the early editions
headed "Slop-press News which is
later, filled with dispatches of no great
| importance, according to American ideas.
The American way Of lifting out early
news and substituting later and more i'm
portant matter Is preferable, certa inly.
The Duke of Argyle once visited Long
| fellow in his colonial residence at Cam
| bridge, and afterward remarked to Cen
eral James Grant Wilson, who relates the
incident in the Criterion, that he found
Longfellow ''such an ignorant person.
and explained that the poet "could not
| tell me the names Of the birds and flow
els to be found and seen in his own
garden" General Wilson asked the duke
how many languages he spoke. The duke
replied, But one" The general then told
him Longfellow was perfectly familia,
with six, speaking and translating them
freely. The duke did not pursue the sub
ject Of LongfelIow's Ignorance" The
poet indeed, was neither a botanist nor ar
ornithologist, but he did know thing OF
| two.
The aesthetic tendencies Of John Ruskir
are suggested by the statement of one OF
his friends, that he carried a cash book
which contained comparatively few fig.
ures, but was full Of notes about pictures
| and art. N.-,.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
COMRADES

In solitary rooms, when dusk is falling,
I hear from fields beyond the haunted
mountains,
Beyond the unpenetrable forests
/ hear the voices Of my comrades calling,
Home, home. home.
Strange, ghostly voices, when the dusk is
falling,
Come from the ancient years: and re-
Sd member
The schoolboy shout, from plain and
wood and river
The signal cry Of scattered comrades. CALI
ing, E. /,
.}5 $3.50 e'W lillian Canton.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

A few weeks ago the Canadian Pacific
steamer Monterey was wrecked in the
Gulf Of st. Lawrence, and the other day
the Lake Manitoba struck on a sand bar
near Montreal, necessitating the unload
ing of her cargo. The two accidents,
coming so near together, will have bad,
even if not deserved, effect on the ST.
Lawrence route, and may tend to strength
en- Premier Lauriers plea for an ALICIA
madam rail route to an Atlantic seaport,
since even when the st. Lawrence is open,
it is handicapped, Notwithstanding its IA
vorable geographical location.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
REGARDING cARLYLE's HEAD

Lord Young, the doyen of the Scottish
bench, in speech at Dumfries, when he
received the freedom of the burg, made
interesting a1lusion to Carlyle, whom he
met when still obscure. Lord Young 8
father, in making the Introduction, re-
marked: 'tTake my. word for it, this Mr..
Carlyle will become a great man in this
country In relating the story to a
young woman some time afterward Lord
Young said Carlyle's head was like a
great block of stone hewn out Of a quarry
Whereupon the fair listener replied, flip
PANTY, .'Well, you know his father was
a stnnemasOn."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

The lynching of negroes has now got
SO far away from being merely a mob
punishment for assaults on women that
a South Carolina mob recently lynched a
negro because he didn't tell-and he
maintained to the last that he didn't
know-the whereabouts of the negro the
crowd was really looking for. las the
Charleston News and Courier says, this
crime doesn't even deserve the dignity OF
being called a lynching. It is just plain
murder. Will the murderers be punished!
Probably not.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

Captain Hobson is going to run for con
gress in the sixth Alabama district. If
Congressman Bankhead Of that district
has now discovered that Hobson had nc
intention at first of going to congress, but
is now going to try because he is out OF
a job, Bankhead will wish he had sup.
ported Hobson's bill for retirement from
the navy. The captain maintains tina
Bankhead opposed the bill because he
didn't want to be an instrument of sup
plying the captain with an income or
which to contest the Sixth Alabama sea-
in congress.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

Mr.. Jerome says this is an age of graft
AS he views it, nearly everybody is graft
ing more or less, in some form or other
Corporations are the subjects of graft
he saws, quite as much as government
This is -eminently a commercial age
it is commercially lop-sided, and 1t is
therefore, not strange that commerce
should have been extended into a region
that does not belong to it-and such ar
extension is graft.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
EMBARRASSING PREDIcAMEN7
Kansas City Journal

A young Oklahoma man went to church
with his best girl Both were quite hand
some and modest. When the collection
was being taken up the young man ex-
plored his pockets, and whispered to the
young lady: 'I haven't got, a cent:
changed my pants In the meantime the
young lady had been searching In her
pockets, and, finding nothing, blushed a
rosy red as she stammered: I'm in the
same predfcament.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

imposition Of ridiculous penalties the
states were becoming too feeble to perform
their duties. This feebleness, Judge Ham-
mond was sure. was due entirely to the
scowardice Of juries. The masses
would not, in his opinion, long toll
rate such feeble government but would
support such a change Of the constitution
that the United States would become q
highly centralized republic like France, In
stead of a nation Of states.
This warning of Judge Hammond's is
not original with him. 1t has been many
times pointed out that unless local self
government shall give us a better admin
istration Of law than we have had In re-
cent years in some states there will be a
spontaneous demand for the Strengthening
of the central authority, SO that the federal
government, for which the people have
such respect and evil-doers so greatly fear,
will be empowered to do what local COM
munities cannot or will not do.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

around two sides Of triangle, and the
Canadian Pacific to get direct route to
the sea had to build across Maine. And
now that point bobs up again, inasmuch
as the fact that 1t is under the stars and
stripes makes it necessary to make the
proposed Grand Trunk Pacific a hundred
miles longer. r.. .. H..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
PROBABLY KNEW THE WIDOW
PHILADELPHIA Ledger.

Visits of consolation are not by any
means pleasant, and there is no class Of
men in the world who know 1t better than
ministers of the gospel. They try to be
comforting but it is not always they say
just the right thing.
did the minister say something COM
forting?' asked the neighbor of a West
Philadelphia widow recently bereaved.
Indeed, he did not, was therauick re-
3ply -. He ,husb band SWISS better
off. 5 Rs
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
out Of Date.

The Hutchinson Leader, struggling with
a severe case Of the mullygrubs, says:s
Do you ever think as the hearse drives by
That it won't be long, till you and
Go riding out in that big plurned hack,
And never remember coming back?
No, dearie, we never did think sny-
thing Of that kind, and we do not
intend to begin now. People who have
their eyes fastened on the hearse, and who
seize every opportunity to do a weep of
that character areenot fitted to butt into
life and extract the sweets thereof We
prefer to sing Whittier's hymn beginning:
O Life that maketh all things new,
The blooming earth, the thoughts Of men.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

There is great scandal on In Alabama
because it turns out that most Of the
participators in the recent junket Of the
editorial association of that state were
not editors at ALL A lot Of rank outsid-
ers broke in and the railroads now find
that they didn't haul editors, and the
Canadian cities that entertained the tray
elers didn't get their moneys worth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

When a negro speaks Of the enfranchise-
ment of his race in wholesale fashion as
an almost unavoidable bluhder, 1T begins
to look as if the whites would not have
TODD all the solving Of the negro question.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

free delivery box, got a fine Of 5000. Uncle
Sam will not stand fooling.
It costs s1.17 a word to cable to Luzon.
While this rate lasts, onr conversation by
cable will be confined to Anoka.
Last week started out quietly in Isanti,
says the News. Sunday was peaceful
day, Monday was beautiful and serene,
but on Tuesday something broke. The
town was overrun with drummers for
everything, from a course of shorthand to
q set of public reports in book form that
could only be sold to people who had been
Recommended to the publishers.
The latest great discovery is that of F.
x. Schoonmaker of Chicago, who will pro-
coed to Pixies Peak, and with new and
powerful machinery shoot large magnet
into the sky with such velocity that it
will stick there. His theory is that 10000
feet from the earth the pull Of electricity,
or the power that Newton called attraction
of gravity, will cease, and any object that
gets 10000 feet from the earth will stay
there. To this magnet will be hitched a
thin copper wire. And the electricity will
come down that wire in a steady stream
and light. the world and furnish power
for all factories and solve the power and
/ light problem for all ages of the world
Anybody who believes that a heavy mag
net, with about a million pounds Of cop.
per wire hitched to it, would stick some
where up in the air or above it without
| tumbling back, ought to be operated or
for severe case Of compound assininity
Lloyd Mifhin Is out in another volume
Of verse entitled cat the Gates of Song
Mr.. Mifflin has made a mighty struggle
to make himself into poet, but he ha:
just lodged it. Now let's take his first two
lines Of the sonnet describing his ides
Of a poet: ...
| Thru beds OF asphodel he walks along -.
| To amaranthine meadows of the prime.
There they are! "Asphodel'' and Gam
aranthine meadows'! We insensibly lool
ahead to see If there isn't a sky of ZANE
thist" to rhyme with the mist. No. sir
'tamaranthine' and "asphodel," whateve
they may be, were badly frayed out from
overuse by poets way back in 1920. Whel
we see "anaranth'' and 'asphodel" but
ting into poem, we duck.
Uncle Jim, the philosopher of the Ap
pleton Press, has been devoting some at
tention to the people who talk too much
a species who are particularly offensiv
in smaller city or town and who, Cncl
Jim says, may always be found in tn
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
THE MAN FOR THE PLACE
Tribune,


Judge Parker of New. Y erk made a POI
|litical trip to Georgia without saying any
thing that anybody can remember. He
may, therefore. be just the man the dem
laesatic party NEEDY 80, -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
MINNESOTA POLITICS

n Outside Of Minneapolis it seems to be
assumed that Hennepin county has q
great big slice Of the state pie when It
gets the lieutenant governor, and that
this locality will be satisfied next year
with that one nomination. Fit,
What process of rea soning the brethren
use to reach this conclusion Is not known,
but almost any way of figuring shows that
Hennepin is entitled tof-more recognition
than one office, paying $500 q year.
There are fifteen elective offices In the
state and nine congressional districts.
That is six more than enough to go
around. Hennepin is only one congress
sional district but when compared with
the others 1t is like a giant among pig
mics. 1t is easily one-seventhS Of the
population Of the state, and at the last
election cast $4,000 out Of f. the 276,071
votes. or more than seventh. Henne-
pin pays one-fifth OF. the state tax.
In view of these facts, Hennepin is
surely entitled to at least two places on
the state ticket Whether more than one
place Will be asked for no one knows.
There would be no real improperly in
giving Hennepin both the governor and
lieutenant governor, but of course the
| rest of the state would rise as one man
ana give such a proposition the horse
laugh.
| 1t is more likely that Hennepin will ask
for the lieutenant governor and one
lustlce OF the supreme court. Judge C.
3. Elliott, the senior judge Of the Hen
nep1n county bench, sis being urged for
promotlon, and may be presented by the
| delegation as candidate for one Of the
three nominations falling due next year.
! The Lakefield Standard says:
| Every little while the name of J, F,
Jacobson Is mentioned as a possibility for
the position of railroad and warehouse
| commissioner and it is noticeable that his
Endorsement comes not only from his own
district, but from the state at large. With
a great body of the voters jacobson is
stlll power and should he allow the use
OF his name, there can be no doubt but
that ne would develop phenomenal
strength in spite of the defeat he sus-
tanned last year in his race for state
auditor. AS a member Of the Legislature
Tor many years he accomplished much for
the state notwithstanding his eccentrici-
ties and peculiarities and the people
would be doing no ungracious thing in re-
warding him."
endorsements of Jacobson are plenty,
butt 1t is by no means: certain that they
| Will bring him into, the field. Ne has
many friends and many enemies as well,
and he' realizes since the battle in the
state convention last year what a power
! those enemies can WELD. Until he can
be assured that they will call off their
fight and give him a chance for his life,
1t is not likely that the veteran will be
drawn from his retirement in Lac qui
Parle. -,
State Auditor Iverson has won consider
able communication for the calling down
he, gave the Ramsey-S county board OF
equalization in his !; Interview Monday.
When he showed how their effort would
4 result in st. Paul escaping it's share OF
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

AN INVITATION is extended to all. to visit
the Press Room. which Is the finest in the west.
Goss Presses, with u total capacity of 144,ooo
eight-page J o a ! $ an hour. printed. foidea
and counted The best time to call Is from :lo
to 1850 5. m Inquire at the business office and
be directed to the visitors gallery. OF the Press
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
Casually Observed.

Harris Cohen Of Chicago, who died re-
Gently, was an enthusiastic horseman. He
once claimed that he had a horse that
would stand still faster than most horses
would gallop.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

A kid who pulled up the anchor Of his
shotgun when it was aimed at a rural
free delivery box, got a fine Of 5000. Uncle
Sam will not stand fooling.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

State Auditor Iverson has, won consider
able commentator for the calling down
he gave the Ramsey- county board of
equalization in his !. Interview Monday
When he showed how their effort would
result in ST. Paul escaping it's share of
paying for the new capitol, he hit the nail
on the head. 1t is safe, to say that val
ues In Ramsey county will stay up.
s3SE Charles B. Cheney
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05

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It costs Sill a word to cable to Luzon.
While this rate lasts, onr conversation by
cable will be confined to Anoka.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-28

The DAILY TIMES DISPATCH Is SOLO
1t 2 cents a copy.
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sold at centsa copy.
Tho DAILY TIMES DISPATCH o :.
nail-5o cents a month; $500 n year
$3.50 for six months; $3.50 LOT '"' %
\ months.
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mail $500 a year.
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4 ciudng Sunday, In Richmond anu 80.
chester. BY carrier 10 cents per "eoA'
Or 50 cents per month.
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Carrier cents per week.
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Uptown Office at T, a. Miles, w.
b1e East Broad Street.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-28
DRIVER INJURED;
MULE is KILLED
Serious Accident on Lower
Main Street Early Yester-
day Morning,

Harrison Lomas, middle aged negro
dr,ver for r. T.. Chenery & Company, was
seriously injured In street car accident
shortly after O'Clock yeste'diy morning
Tomas was driving a double dray'
with a load of mill feed on, consigned TO
Fulton merchant. At the tlme of the &C !
dent Tomas had just gotten his team cur
~ the way for a west bound ear to rass,
when his wagon was struck in tho rear
by an east bound car, running at terri
flo speed, ~
When the car struck the wagon. re
driver was knocked from his s5at INTO the
air several feet, and one Of the Huses
was instantly killed
The motorman evidently lost his lledd ~
the time, for he did not succeed IN cHech-
ing his car until 1t had pushed the WAGON
some distance, Tho other mule was tAals
bruised and cut, While the heaVy MusO'
.waa considerably damaged
Tho driver was picked out OF the WIIun'
,and carried into a store and tho ampur
lance summoned. He was raHen ~ t snv
Virginia Hospital TO be operateo w ~
his condition was critical. ,,,,o,
The accident was Witnessed ~ . u.,ost
of people, who say It was the ''lo'oF.
~" The DRYERS condition was critical last
night
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-28
Mr.. RoYaIl's Last.

Editor Of The Tlmes-Dlspatch:
Sir ask space for one more word L. on n
the trusts. 1t Is supposed by many per-
sons who have been kind enough 70 iiie
to think Of the matter at all. that J. y, nave
changed my views about trusts. rms ID
"A mistake and have made no chanse
whatever.
published pamphlet In 1897 defend,
Ing the trust principle. The theory and
proposition OF that pamphlet was that
gregatlons of capital. were the result Of
evolution. that there was a natural right
In man to make these great aggregatlons,
to make them vas that they must IT, not t
destroy a rival, though they might be
made With the Intention TO to deS IRE 7
have never varied from that position II
the smallest degree. and hold TO It
still. But. as l contended In that pam :
phet that no ono had a right e do
SO IScontend now that we, have a TIGHT
by LEGISLATION to prevent !, the trust II from
DESTROYING It's rival BY dishonest eo1n n,
upon him naiciously. This is no more
the the trust Of the limitation upon It which
nature of things. / submit. therefore.
that have made no change whatever In
my original position, but stand now just
where l stood when l published my
. : . J.. d
And as l commended then that the only
injury the trust does the. public was IN
dishonesty interfering with rival so
I contend now that If the trust IS pre-
vented from trading dishonesty and is
forced to sell Its goods upon their merits
only, the whole trust evil Will be cured
and the great aggregations of capital
will be unmixed benefits to the public
and injurious to it nowhere That is the
point to be dealt with, and when the
trusts are restrained and compelled to
sell their goods on their merits instead
Of giving them away to destroy a rival,
we will hear no more OF trusts. I am
not welded to the plan OF commissions.
though I feel absolutely certain they ca
deal successfully with the case. But the
crucial point insist upon Is that the
trust shall be forced to abandon dishonest
competition and compelled to offer its
goods for sale upon their merits only,
and believe the commission plants the
best that can be devised to accomplish
this end.
WILLIAM L. ROYALL.
Richmond August %, 1908.