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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
Books and Authors
III MEANS HARD WORK

James Whitcomb Riley, In recent In
terview, said: Young writer's want to
achieve success all at once. They are
not willing to spend years and years at
work, and the hardest kind Of work at
that There must be unceasing toll and an
eternal striving after success. Good writ
ing is always hard work, just as every
thing excellent is hard work. He said,
also, that when he was young Fellow
he INDUCED the illusion that some day he
could get money when he wanted 1t by
''dashing Off, poem and having a check
sent to him at once.
Mr.. Riley does no sloppy work and, con-
sequently, he finds good writing just as
hard work as in his earlier career when
he was trying to find out just what the
public wanted. Riley has not the monu-
mental conceit of Scuderi, the protege Of
Cardinal Richelieu, who. in the preface to
his epic poem, "Alaric, says: Il have
such facility in writing verses, and also In
any invention, that a poem of double its
length would have cost me but little
trouble. Attic 1t contains only II, 90 lines.
I believe that longer epics do not exhibit
more establishment than mine. Where
to-day are the works of Scuderi? He was
one Of the fellows who dash OF" poems.
1t is true, as Riley says, that young
writer's who are not willing to follow the
example of the greatest poets and prose
writer's of the world and rewrite and polish
again and again what they desire to have
occupy a distinguishing position In litera-
ture. would better abandon literary
| career. If
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
"wlrcHcRAFr" III MISSOURI

George Browning, who lives in the Scot
land neighborhood In Jasper county, Mis-
souri,, made a singular complaint to JUS
tice Potter Of Joplin a few days ago. He
asked the court to restrain neighbor
named Anderson from "hoodooing him.
Browning says dispute arose between
him and Neighbor Anderson over certain
promising pig. Since then Anderson, he
declares, mas constantly been trying to
cast spell over him and his family An
derson, a dark-visaged man, stands and
gaZes fxedly for hours ION his residence,
he affirns. Small pebbles fall upon his
housetop at hight, and the windows rattle
when there is no wind. ALI this, he is
sure, is due to the Vaccinations Of Ander-
son, and som etirnes it causes him and his
family to feel so strangely that they can't
eat their dinner, nor digest it If they eat
it. One night Browning further relates,
when he had to pass cemetery he made
wide detour. fearing what the effects Of
the hoodoo might be upon him if he VEN
tured near. Suddenly he met Neighbor
Anderson standing directly in his path.
and gazing ixcdly and mutely upon him.
This scared Browning, and he says he
cracked Anderson's head with the wooden
pail he was carrying, and skedaddled. In
his fight he cut across the cemetery. He
was sure he had left Anderson behind, but
Suddenly he met that ubiquitous individual
standing in his path again, gazing upon
him In his mute, pensiye, immob1le way.
Then, you may be sure, Browning ran for
dear life. Browning declared to the Jop-
lin News Herald that if the courts didn't
stop Anderson's Fostering of him, Scot
land would surely lose a family. He can't
stand the strain any longer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
NEGROES IN OFFICE
Nashville American.

The appointment Of negroes, no matter
what their qualifications, to official posi-
ton in the south will always be cause
of ofrense to the dominant race. The au-
tforities at Washington know this, and it
Is. therefore, passing strange that they
will persist in a policy which can only
incense southerners. No race since the
foundation of the world has witnessed
with equanimity the elevation Of their in
feriors to office. Why should the. south
ern people be expected to be different from
other nationalities? Nor would northern,
people, even those who talk SO much about
the rights Of the negro, view such appoint
ments In their own localities with indif-
ference. The Master made the white man
to rule and rule he will, laws to the con
trary. This may be wrong. It may be
prejudice, but it is determination which
cannot be successfully disputed. The ne
gro has his place. He is useful part Of
the nation. Wherever he behaves himself
he is respected and protected. But when
he is forced into official position where he
is brought in contact with the whites
there is always bound to be more or less
friction and unlawful acts, such as thai
alleged to have occurred in the case OF the
negro mail carrier 81 sumner count
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
PACIFIC COAST DIPLOMACY.
New York Post.


The residents Of Seattle and Tacoma
have entered upon a fight to the death
in order to decide which shall be the more
hospitable. After a long course of d.
plomacy, compared with which the settle
ment Of the Venezuelan muddle was mere
child's play, Presidents Roosevelt's time
in the two cities was finally allotted But
neither has been content; on the one hand,
he was to spend several hours more in Sc
attic; on the other hand he was to take
q, longer ride on a Tacoma. steamboat.
In order to correct this latter glaring ir
regularity and make the devout citizens
of Seattle happier in this life and the
next, sCpngressman-elec Hum phrey Of Sc
attic went to Tacoma Saturday and de-
manded space on the steamer for ten men
from Seattle, who could thus be hos
pitable to the president during the whole
OF the trip. Tacoma scornfully refused.
and is apparently ready to let the Seattle
people perish in their sins. But Seattle is
not to be turned SO easily from the patl,
of virtue. According to the morning dis
patches, a delega tion will follow the presi-
dent to the wharf and insist on being taxi
EN- aboard. II President Roosevelt is cruel
enough to leave them out of the ark OF
safety, the sermons to which he has list
ened during this western trip are evil
IDENTIFY seed that has fallen upon stony
lsgrOund.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
BE YOUR OWN MASTER
Opportunity.

The only really free men in the world
are those WHO own land. II you don't
own land you must pay tribute. that is,
rent to those who do own land. Il you
have no personal wealth and are not able
to work you become a tramp or a candi-
date FOR the poor house. Everywhere you
will be ordered to move on. The land
belongs to private individuals and the
streets are not for the use of those who
have neither property, money nor vigor.
A man can not live in another's house
and be a free man unless he is indie
pendently wealthy. But the man who
owns a piece Of land has stronghold to
which lie can retreat when the battle Of
life goes agains thin. Over that strip
of the earth's surface he is lord and mas
ter It is the tendency OF the social or
sanitation under which we live, for the
land holdings of the rich to increase and
for those OF the poor to decrease. The
rich man recognizes that land is the
foundation Of wealth and gets all he can.
Every man who can buy a piece OF land
owes 1t to himself and his children to get
it LAND will be 1and'' more than ever
in the next generation. Extensive culti-
walton OF the soil will bring values UP
Ieyerywhere.. Don't tell your children and
grandchildren forty years hence how you
might have owned a piece Of land, but
buy it now, hold onto It and buy more
when you CAM
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22


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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
Ar HETIIEATERs
MetropoIlt Are You aMa.on7"

II
The old, old theme OF the troubles that
befall husbands whogtry to deceive their
wives does duty AKatn in Leo Dttrich-
stems adaptation from the German, Are
You a. Mason?" But new variation is in
troduced In the form OF deception em-
ployed. Two husbands, one the son-in-
law Of the other, pretend to have joined
the Masons in order to enjoy certain even
ings away from home undisturbcd. Each
has contrived this scheme independently
OF the other and the best part Of the fun
arises out Of the efforts Of each to con-
vince the other that he is really a crafts
man. Indeed, this lead" is so good that
1T is to be regretted that the playwright
has not worked it out more carefully in
stead of spending his time on other and
less novel complications. The situations
arising out of the false claims to mem
bership in the Masons are intrinsically
funny but not so much can be said Of
some Of those that arise from the femin-
Inc representations attempted by a friend
Of one of the involved husbands. This
episode is permitted to overshadow the
Masonic affair and detract from its inter-
esting development in the last act of The
farce. Still the farce is most amusing,
particularly as it is well acted. There is
but little Of that offensive exaggeration
which mars SO many farcical productions.
John G. Rice, who plays the young hus-
band, is funny without departing too far
from natural methods. His bland and
convincing style Of mendacity is very
effective. Thomas H. Wise as the father
in-law. uses quite another style of comedy
but equally funny in a quiet way. The
foolish smile that spreads over his features
when some compiled ton threatens to over
topple his elaborate structure Of fabrica-
ton Is funny indeed. Edward Abeles is
| the obliging friend who impersonates the
young French girl and he extracts deal
OF the "Charley's Aunt" kind Of fun from
the situations that ensue. His imitation
of the walk now In favor with the other
sex was one of the best touches in his
work. George Richards, an old time
favorite come dian, gets some quiet amuse.
ment out of the confiding countryman who
4 wants the pseudo Masons to help him
into the order. Charles j. Greene imper-
sonates q Tamnany sort of blackmailel
/ successfully, while Ralph Yoerg Is salts
factory as real Mason and a sutton FOL
4 the hand Of one Of the old mans daugh
ters.' Their lachrymose mother, who
makes life a burden for him, is well don.
by Gertrude Witty, while Amy Mulle
makes a pretty and confiding young wife
The unmarried daughters are imperson
ated by Margaret Evans and Hazel Chap
ple while Sally Cohen is a pert and mis-
1 chief making cook.
i w. b. Chamberlain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22


The people of Minnesota can manage
their own affairs better than the govern.
ment at Washington. Hennepin county
can attend to certain matters of local
concern better than the state. Likewise
the city Of Minneapolis can attend to local
affairs more satisfactorily than the state.
The state itself has recognized this fact
by adopting a home rule amendment. to
the constitution and passing laws to make
it effective. The last legislature saw fit
to increase the measure Of independence Of
the municipal governments. It gave them
greater borrowing powers. These they can
take advantage Of in making new charters
or not, as they please. At any rate, what
ever the charter commission may do. it
is not likely that the people will be any
more eager to tax themselves than the
legislature is to tax them without consult
ing them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
The Pacific Cable.

It has been announced that the Ameri-
can Pacific cable will be ready for busi-
ness on July 4.
The world Is no longer astonished at
such achievements. The laying of cables
In these latter days, whatever may be the
distance has become matter of business
and there are no longer formal ceremon-
les or devout initial messag es, as in the
mites. Congratuiatory messages in Aug
ust. 1858, were exchanged by Queen Vic
toria and President Buchanan upon the
completion of the Atlantic cable. That
cable soon ceased to work and 1t was
eight years before plucky capitalists put
their millions into the sea and made an
absolute success Of cable laying. Pre-
yiously Morse's telegraph line between
Baltimore and Washington had demon
strated the practicability Of land teleg-
raphy, altho Morse at that time had not
discovered that 1t was not necessary to
have q metallic circuit as the earth natur-
ally attended to the completion Of the cir
cult.
81 The American Pacific cable is an abso-
business communications demanding
promptness have depended on the British
line to the east, and since we have &C
unired territorial as we'll (as larger com
1nercial interests in the western Pacific
both for government and private purposes
q cable under American contsol IS inpera;;
lively demanded. It has been in opera
ton from San Francisco to Honolulu FOL
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
Can't Be Suppressed.

When the city council authorizes an IN
vestigation Of municipal accounting. and
the report Is submitted by the investi-
gator 1t would be supposed that 1t would
be read to the council and that it would
appear In the minutes Of the meeting to
which it was submitted. But it seems
that such minor reports touching on such
trivial matters as a deficit Of 100000 in
city fund, explaining the cause thereof
and pointing out the remedies, are not OF
sufficient Importance to be read by the
city clerk nor to be in the minutes unless
special directions are received from the
council. 4,
1t is possible that the city clerk did not
care to give large 9publicityto the report
because it incidentally stated that altho
the charter expressly directs that the city
books shall record all assessment rolls of
special assessments in books to be kept by
the city for that purpose, neither the pres
ent city clerk nor any other has ever
done so.
In view Of the facts, Alderman West
phal, chairman Of the committee on &C
SeAIAAAAo 90
course In proposing that at the next meet
| ing the Stacy report be Incorporated ir
the proceedings of the council and official
ly printed. Mr.. Westphal says that 9
proper and modern system of accounting
of the various city funds is a matter o
public Importance. The public will be In
clined to agree with him in this respect
and will expect to see the Stacy repor
treated with the consideration its careful
preparation and great Importance demand
The report has made a deep impression OF
the business men Of the city, who realiz
how important a perfect system of book
keeping is in the transaction Of any larg
business, and the council is expected t
i act favorably upon Mr.. stacy's recon
mendations for an improved system Q
accounting.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
The Hall Of Shame. "

The New York Press thinks the 'Model
City, exhibit at st. Louis, in which
twenty-five American municipalities are
to make displays, will be uninteresting.
The exhibitions will be too good to be in
teresting,s thinks the Press, and it adj
vises the exposition authorities that If
they want an attraction that will attract
they should provide an exhibit of What
the Model City Should Not Be- Sample
exhibits proposed by the Press are as fol-
lows:
st. Louisa real live alderman, cap
tured by Circuit Attorney Folk while in
the act of taking 5000 bride. A sched-
ule of prices for votes, showing the
cheapest outfit of boodlers yet caught
with the goods on in this country. A
copy Of the blood curdling oath taken
by the combine" gang. A composite
photograph of the average st. Louis citi-
zen. showing him to be a creature of al
most human intelligence.
Minneapolis-A wax model of Mayor
Ames (the living original being in the
possession of the Minnesota state peni-
tentiary) The famous big Mitt led
ger" In which was kept the record OF
blackmail collected by the chief of po-
lice and divided with the mayor. This
like the st. Louis exhibit, shows the
primitive form of graft in the United
States, which western towns have not yet
| outgrown.
Judging from the eagerness with which
the whole country is now pursuing thu
heretofore numerous boodler and I'M
faithful official wherever he dares t.
show himself, the great space given b!
newspaper to accounts Of corruption In
| vestigations and trials, and the crowd
that clamor for admission to the cour
rooms where such cases are tried, tn
Press is right. The Hall Of Shame
would draw. Then, too, it would kee!
the guileless foreigner from going HON
with the impression that all our cite
are model cities whereas the only model
4 they possess will be at ST. Louis.
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is evidently
a chip off the old block. John D. Rookie
teller, ST., always set great store on
formal religion, and tho he has always
been in evidence at prayer meetings, he
has never been able to see any conflict be-
tween the ethical shortcomings of the
Standard Oil company and his own great
piety John D., Jr., practically asserts
that so far from there being a conflict the
Standard Oil is really managed by divine
guidance. Addressing his Sunday school
class the other day, he said he believed in
the direct answer of prayers and that he
consulted God daily in all affairs Of his
business and received help from him.
Certainly the Standard oil Is very sue
cessful.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
THE SOLDIERS LAST MARcH

John r. Rathorn in scribners for May.
why is it that the most solemn service
ever devised by man, the stately hush of
a vast cathedral, the imposing robes, the
stained -glass windows, the pealing organ,
all fade into insignficance beside that
soul stirring, simple act-the trumpeting
out Of taps over the body of a dead
soldier? No man who has ever heard it,
either on the field Of battle, at the quiet
army post, or In the haven for these weak
and shattered units Of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, ever forgets 1T. For the
Sbugle-notes seem to take into their own
all embracing cadence the tears, the mem
cries. the shattered hopes and the long
farewell rs -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
FRIDAY EVENING,

sometime and its completion to Guam and
Manila on July will be something OF q
cable-laying triumph. while its ultimate
landing on the Asiatic coast Is only a
question of little time.
Since the Atlantic cable was laid in 1858
there have been put in operation nearly
1900 submarine telegraphs aggregating
over 100000 miles In length and costing
nearly $300.000,OOO The British Pacific
cable which was completed and in opera
ton last December. runs from Vancouver
to flaming Island Fiji and Norfolk Island
In the Pacific and from that island by two
cables to Queensland and New Zealand.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
LITERARY NOTES.

George Macdonald's declining health has
compelled him to put his pen away on the
rack for good
Lucas -Malet has nearly finished new
novel Her repulsive story, THE His
tory Of Sir Richard Ca1mady,'' will, happi-
ly, not be dramaatized as proposed.
Henry James forthcoming biography Of
w. w. Story will contain many reminis-
cences of distinguished nineteenth CEN
fury people
d At recent book sale in London eighty
three autograph letters of Walter Scott
brought $2.425 with a set Of seventy four
volumes, first editions of SCOTS novels,
published between 1914 and 1929 sold for
$4,000.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22

The Reliance begins to show the qualities
little interest In her. but as the time Of
the great international contest draws on
she will become the object of intense in
terest. From now on every trial Of the
new yacht will be closely watched by the
American public. While 1t is true that
we have held the cup so long that merely
for the sake OF novelty we might not feel
bad If Sir Thomas Upton should take it
home with him, we still desire to win.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22

other words, the party must stand for
something. not for q compromise. Every
good American wants to see the demo-
cratic party stand for something. Healthy
politics demand that opposing parties shall
hold to principles. There Is nothing more
demoralizing in politics than mere organ
lied contests for office.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
last fan the pukhobors, those charmir

Last fall the Dukhobors, those charming
immigration curios of western Canada,
had religious fad for refraining from
animal food or working animals and for
a pilgrimage In search Of Christ. This
season the religious mania breaks out in
the adoption Of the Adam and Eve style
of dress, Notwithstanding the rigors of the
climate Of the Saskatchewan valley. The
Dukhobors problem will not last long, if
the new mania becomes general
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
The editor Of the Independent asked W

The editor OF the Independent asked w,
J. Bryan whether the democratic candt-
date In 1904 should be q compromise be-.
tween the gold and silver democrats, sill.
yer democrat or a gold democrat, and Mr..
Bryan sensibly answers: There is no
possibility of compromise; it the party Is
to be an effective force in politics, 1t must
go in one direction or the other, and the
direction can not long be concealed. z IN
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
One Government Business Enough.

Captain Henry "A. CaStle, treasury 0e-
partment auditor for the postoffice de-
partment, strongly opposes government
ownership, and has several times since ne
has been in his present office used the
workings Of the postoffice department as
data for trenchant argument against state
socialism.
sour entire postoffice SYSTEM" he says
in this weeks Independent, 'is a study In
state socialism. Altho this exercise OF
paternalism is apparently excusable, and,
indeed, necessary to the symmetrical de-
velopment Of civilization, the difficulties
in its administration and serious defects
in its accounting methods must strength
en- the conviction Of every thoughtful
student that there Is somewhere limit
beyond which this incursion into the do
mains of private business should be dis
couraged.' Altho Captain Castle makes
no direct reference in this article to the
present decentralization of the postoffice
department, with its mass Of charges of
| fraud, favoritism, neoptism, nismanage-
ment, carelessness and lack of system,
the article is strengthened by appearing
against such background.
Captain Castle points out that the whole
postonice department enterprise, being
one OF a business or commercial nature
outside Of the ordinary domain Of govern
mental functions, 1t is one Of the lnev1-
! table consequences that private interests
are always selfshly struggling with 1t and
l $50 {,,or inc nj
| It's benefits Captain Castle Illustrates
| his meaning by citing the matter of clas-
! sifcation Of mail matter, which leads
to an irrepressible conflict between those
who are benefited and those who think
they are wronged. Each class. is naturally
irving all the time to get more out O.
the government.
i The success Of the postoffice department
4 has always been a stock argument o
those who favor further extension O
government management and ownership
The error in this argument is declared b.
4 CAPTAIN Castle to be the fact that. ,afte
all. a large part of the work of the post
, office department is done by private
agencies; the department owns pract1
) callv nothing used in transportation of tn
mails except the bags and the locks. Tn
, railroads, the steamboats, stages. stree
cars and carts are the property of In
A dividuals and corporations hired for pub
: lie use.
When the postoffice department become
t seriously embarrassed in its management
0 Of its present agencies and deficit
; 100000 occurs in one fund what Nigh
: we expect if the department owned a
i the instrumentalities which 1t now hires