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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
HE SAVED HIS DIGNITY

A wealthy New York broker who has d
county home on Long Island Is SO fond
Of flowers that he frequently spends
some time in and about his plants, some
times doing a little gardening himself.
A few days ago he thought he would
coachman, who was standing near a
watering can, and told him to fill and
bring 1t to him. q
beg pardon, sir, I'm the coachman,,'
said the English importation, touching his
hat.
''Well, that's all right; bring that can
here
Beg; pardon, sir. I'm the coachman."
"Well, well, know that. Bring the
can here. want it,
The coachman touched his hat and still
made the same reply Then something
dawned on the broker. I
oh he said, $50 you're the coachman
and can't bring the can.- WE'LL coachman,
go and have the black team hitched to the
family carriage and bring it here. Have
one of the hostlers ride on the box with
you
The Goa Gilman touched his hat again
respectfully and went. Presently he
drove up in style.
Now. said the broker, drive to where
that can is and you, hostler, pick it up
get back on the box, drive around to the
stable with the coachnan, fill it with
water and have him drive YOU back
again."
It was done. and the can brought, filled
Nov, hostler,' said the broker, "you
may go. Coachman, you remain where
you are may need you again Don't
drive away until give you leave..''
The coachnan saved his dignity, but he
sat on the seat of that coach for two
hours after the broker had finished water
ing the flowers
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Books and Authors
GOOD HORSE SENSE"

i - ls2t- 49, : ~
The Critic publishes full-page por-
trait Of George FL. Iorimer, editor@of the
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, and
author Of that successful book, II Letters OF
a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Mr..
Lorimer, after graduating from Yale, got
paying position in Phil Armour's big
pork packing house In Chicago, where he
absorbed practical business ideas before
he undertook journalism. The Critic af-
firms rightly that the success of the Let
terss of a Self Made Merchant to His Scr"
In this country and In England goes to
show that good horse sensetsis understood
by all people, There is, indeed, a com
munity of interest" thEuout the world In
such blunt, practical philosophy of life.
Lincoln talked to the apprehension and
-compre hension' of the masses In that way.
When he said: ''You can fool all the peo
pie. part of the time and you can fool
some Of the people all the time. but you
can't fool all the people all of the time,
he spoke in language clearly compre-
,hended by the people. Mr.. Lorimer, no
doubt, encountered in his packing house
experience originals of "Old Gorgon''
Graham's philosophy, who gave him q
basis for the Nurlvarnished pork house
ethics he has recorded in his book; but
he has probably exploited extensions and
amplifications of such ethics out of his
own home made repertory. Probably
pork house philosophy did not produce
such observations as these: Give most
men a good listener and most women
enough note paper and they tell all they
know" There isn't any such thing as be
Ing your own boss Iii this world unless
you're tramp, and then there's the con-
stable. Whenever any one offers to let
you son the. ground floor, it's pretty safe
to take the elevator to the roof garden
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
The. Coup of Perkins.

The Associated Press does not always
transmit all the news OF general interest.
A modern instance of this fact is to be
found In the news OF the incidents and
aftermath Of President Roosevelt's visit
to Seattle and Tacoma. BY study of the
Seattle and Tacoma exchanges we learn
that a Tacoma. gentleman, to whom the
Seattle Times refers as Sammy Perkins"
proceeded without invitation to occupy
riages provided by the Seattle committee
for twenty five members Of the presi-
Dental party and twenty-three local
celebrities. 1t does not require an alb
struse calculation to ascertain that one
Seattle gentleman was thereby displaced.
The man who couldn't get seat with
the prominent citizens in hacks was
Mr.. Collins. chairman of the Seattle re-
ception committee. This Perkins, it APP
pears, is, among other things, Tacoma
newspaper owner, and he used his organ
to rub in his villainous audacity in taking
by stealth seat among the prominent
Seattle citizens in the presidents pro-
cession.
What do you suppose this man did when
he returned to Tacoma? He had his pa
per get up a. cartoon ridiculing the fact
that President Roosevelt during a horse
back ride in Seattle. stopped at the resi-
dence Of Colonel A. ]. Blethen. proprietor
Of the Seattle Times. Instead of car
looming the facts, which were that the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11


Here is a situation that would be
humorous If it were not so serious: Moth
ing is being done to repair the cave lin in
the street supported by the viaduct over
the railway tracks entering the union
depot. The city refuses to do the work,
because the structure was built by the
Great Northern, and the latter refuses to
do 1t because 1t alleges that it is the
city's part to maintain and repair such
structures In the meantime the street
railway company is putting its tracks on
trestles and the hole remains. The sit
uation ought to be cleared up ir1me
diately. 1t seems to use that it is up to
the city to make the Great Northern re-
pair the bridge or else repair 1t itself and
take steps to collect the cost afterwards.
That is the way the city has been doing
with minor repairs. Why should it cease
to follow its usual practice when a really
serious injury occurs? j
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
THE MAGAZINES

What To Eat Chicago: The Pierce Pub
fishing Coz is a notably interesting num-
Der. full Of good gastronomic counsel and
rich In manus and table fads and fancies
and household suggestions. One Of the
more interesting features is an entertain
ing description, by Mary r. Gray. of I'VE
Oide Cheshire Cheese a tavern still I'M
changed by the march OF Improvement in
London, and notable as one of the haunts
OF Samuel johnson and his chun1s. The
very marks of Johnson's and Goldsmith
greasy wigs on the walls are shown. and
the old house keeps up its ancient reputa-
ton OF providing goodbye fare.
Impressions Quarterly (San Francisco:
Paul Elder & Coz is artistic in Its make
up and reflects credit upon the publishers
taste In bookmaking. There is most
pleasing paper by A. A. Wheeler. entitled
Some American Lyrics, = with special al
fusion to- Drake, Pierpont and Poe, and
A.. r. Murray's paper on Translations
From the Greek Dream. is a good bit
Of honest criticism and one may find many
good suggestions III Mr. Keeler's ''The
Building Of the Home. Mr.. Wheeler's
poem, Fair Women is to the June man
ner born. s.t
The Open Court Chicago: The Open
Court Publishing company paints a por-
ton OF Professor Fa Delitzsch's second
lecture on Babel and Bible and there
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11

The flooding Of East st. Louis by the
Mississippi river is one more powerful
argument in favor Of Uncle Sans taking
hold in earnest of the great problem OF
controlling the drainage Of the Missis
sippi valley No one at all familiar with
the courage and resources Of modern en-.
cheering science can doubt that, with the
federal government behind them, the engi-
neers will succeed in controlling the rest
less and unreliable stream. and those ca
PRECIOUS tributaries. the Ohio and Missouri
This great nation cannot afford to go on
with millions Of its people and billions OF
Its property annually jeoparded to some
extent by the failure Of the rivers to keer
to their channels The controlling Of the
floods carries with it the improvement OF
navigation and the promotion Of irriga.
ton. It will be surprising, indeed. If the
next congress does not take steps towarc
wrestling with this great internal phys.
ical problem.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
"Priyate Business, 2

The president thinks that a fundamental
trouble with the postoffice department is
that the government employees have been
attending too closely to private BUSH
ness There is reason to believe that
this opinion is correct. When this tend
ency of army officers in the Philippines
to devote too much attention to private
business" and pocket gains from unlaw-'
full transactions with government ma
terial was discovered it was promptly
located and stopped. The ascertained
facts about over-indulgence in private
business in the postoffice department
are sufficient tovisit a considerable num-
Der of employees with the legitimate award
Of their indiscretion. The get-rich- quick
idea seems to be- diffused over pretty
large area Of the government service.
The rural free delivery service is i'm
mensely popular, but that is no reason
why a subordinate postoffice official
should undertake to exceed the bounds Of
the congressional appropriation for that
service and extend the same without the
money to pay for the increased charge.
1t Is no reason why rural free delivery
carriers should convert themselves into
travelling agents for manufacturers, and
devote a considerable portion Of their
time, for which the government pays. to
the prosecution Of private business" for
profit. It Is no reason why government
employees should purchase costly articles,
and for private use, and have them paid
for by government funds. There are too
many people employed In the postoffice
department who are looking too closely
after private business It has devel-
oped that the auditing Of accounts In the
postoffice department Is very defective
and little or no check has been imposed
on department heads, and so the tempta-
| ton to do careless work and to commit
frauds has been strong.
Manifestly such conditions should not
| be allowed to exist longer. The president
| will stop the scandal babble, which has
| for weeks been in the ears of the nation
and purify the department whatever the
disinfecting process may cost some in
dividuals. The government will stop
| rumors, which always become gross ex-
aggerations as they move, and ascertain
Ing all the facts, will strike a blow ia
! hurt, at the source Of the trouble.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
THURSDAY EVENING,

by Colonel Lamping, DR.. Rixey and two
outriders, Perkins represented the presi-
dent in a hack, and accompanied by
whom? why" as the Seattle Times
veraciously remarks. "Mr. 8. A. Perkins.
OF Tacoma. to be sure! - No wonder
the Times gets red In the face and re-
lieves its feelings after this manner:
or course. it Is a piece OF folly to&de-
vote SO much attention to 30 lnsisnlficant
a ubJect-but sometimes the most lnslg
nlficant things on earth become the most
annoying. 5s;,5.
Probably not another human being In
the state Of Washington would have had
the audaclty to have committed the out
rageous breaches Of courtesy OF which
Sam Perkins was guilty on the day the
president of the United States visited
Seattle!!,.
In spite OF the fact, when Judged from
the standpoint Of intelligence, journalistic
and business ability, there Is probably not
man engaged In the newspaper business
In the commonwealth who is not Perkins
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. there Isn't another
newspaper man In the commonwealth who
could have produced the dIsagreeable re.
suits which Perkins did on that occasion
Because Of that fact so much space Is
devoted to a matter which was only no.
ticed after three consecutive personal at
tacks against the editor OF The Times had
been made by Perkins hirelings! /!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
LITERARY. NOTES

C. II. Kerr & Co., Chicago, have issued
Goods Children; A Modern Allegory," by
James Altman, who discusses the short
comings of human society from the So
cialist's standpoint. Price so cents.
George Eliot's 'sSilas Mariner; The
Weaver of Raveloe,'' appears from the
press of John Lane in red and gold, pocket
edition..
Hutchins Hapgood, author Of 1.-THE Au-
photography Of a Thief" has gone to Flor
ence to visit his friend, the art critic, Ber-
nard Berenson.
Fox, Duffeld & Co., New York, an
nounce for early publication a novel by
Mrs. f. Reynolds, entitled THE Man with
the Wooden Face a story of Wales.
The Manual of Statistics company. go
Broadway, New York, has issued THE
Manual Of Statistics. Stock Exchange
Hand Book, 1903" This is the twenty
fifth annual issue of this valuable refer
ence book for information as to railway
securities, industrial and government Sc
cuEities, stock exchange quotations, min
ing, grain and provisions, cotton, money
banks and trust companies. Valuable
maps and charts are appended and the
| index page and thumb provides easy &C
| cess to the contents. Price S..
The Lothrop Publishing company, $50
Atlantic avenue, Boston, announce two
new Juveniles Defending the Bank by
u. s.. Van lille, and THE Mutineers," by
p. L. Williams of the Philadelphia In.
quirer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
THEsLATE IA. u. sToDDARD
New York Post.

80 ~
One somehow thinks OF the late r. H.
Stoddard as more significant in his type
than in his personality. He was lonely
survivor Of the class which, seventy
years ago, made many an American liter
airy reputation on a slenderer basis than
his. Willis and Halleck, and Paulding-
they were, as Irving, numbering himself
with them, confessed to James Grant will
son, fortunate in being born so early
We should have no chance now against
the battalion of better writer's Stod-
dard seemed to belong to that generation
tho born too late to reach great fame
by IT'S standards. He had its ambition for
general culture, its facility in miscellane-
Gus activities, and its fidelity to the great
literary tradition. In the increasing spe-
cialization and narrowing OF literary pro-
duction, which came in with his middle
life, bringing new intensity &of talent fe-
verishly worked out to the last fllament.
he necessarily suffered somewhat. But
tho his individual name and work stood
for less, his typical capacity appeared to
be heightened by the flight of years; until,
at his death, he represented as no other
American writer did the tender grace Of a
day that is dead.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
THE TELEGRAPH is FlFTY.NlhE

In the spring of 1874 travellers from
Baltimore to Washington saw force OF
men engaged in putting up several lines
Of copper wire on a rowffof lofty poles
extending between the two cities. 1t was
the first telegraph line erected in the
United. States After four years of watt
ing. Professor s.. F.. r.. Morse had at
length got a grant of 100000 from con-
gress for the purpose Of providing that q
message could be sent by electricity a
distance of forty miles.
Over $4,000 Of the original grant was
spent experimenting with underground
wires, which could not be made to work,
and then the overhead system was
planned. gzsss.5
On the morning of Friday, May a.,
1874, f1fty-nine years ago to-day, Pro-
lessor Morse took his seat at the tele-
graph instrument piaced,in the supreme
courtroom in the capitol. Many Of the
chief officers OF the government; were
present. The professor pressed the key
OF the instrument with his finger. In an
instant the waiting operator at Baltimore
received the message, and it was sent
back to the capitol:
What hath God wrought?'
In second Of time these words had
trayersed a circuit Of eight miles. When
they were read in the courtroom aathrill
Of awe ran thru those who reverently lis
tened; 1t seemed as tho the finger Of God,
not man, had written the message, which
was copied from the Bible. Numbers
xiii, %.
In 1871, at celebration held in New
York in honor of Professor, Morse, the
original instrument invented by him was
exhibited, connected. at that moment, by
wire, with every one Of the 10000 instru-
ments then In use in this country. At q
signal a message from the inventor was
sent vibrating turnout the United States
and was simultaneously read in every city
| and In most towns of the republic, from
New York to New Orleans, from New Or.
+ leans to San Francisco. g
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11

"A New York dispatch to-day announces
States is now about 100000 tons a week.
(which seems staggering quantity for
the consumption to take care Of. = Surely,
If it does. It would take about $1,000
freight cars to handle that much iron, If
loaded almost to their capacity. It hardly
seems as If even this great nation of more
than S0,ooo.ooo people, even after allowing
something for exports, can go on very
long swallowing iron at the rate Of 4o0. 900
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
DOUBT AS 70 SOME INFANTS.

Roswell Field in Chicago Evening Post:
We Presbyterians have taken an I'M
portant step. We have declared that we
were mistaken for many years In one OF
our little points of doctrine, and that we
are now ready to concede that all In
fants are saved. Personally we think this
is going a little too far for we have in!
mind several infants who should be, at
at least, put on probation
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
WORKING "A LANDLADY NINE
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Kansas City Journal.

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tons a week. or nearly 21.oooooO tons a.
year. The same dispatch is probably not
far wrong when 1t says that there are
signs that the production has at last over
taken consumption. If 1t has we may be-
gin to look for a slowing down in the bust
ness gait turnout the country to pace;
that will keep production and consump
ton balanced.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
THE .NONPAREIL MAN
Casually Observed.
the semi arid region is for "dreenage.

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
SHE CAME AND WENT

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As q twig trembles, which bird.
Lights on to sing. then leaves unbent,
So is my memory thrilled and stirred;
only know she came and went
As clasps some lake, by gusts unriven,
The blue dome's measureless content,
So my soul held that moments heaven;
only know she came and went.
AZ. at. one bound. our swift spring heaps
The orchard full Of bloom and scent,
SO Glove her May my wantry sleeps;
only know she came and went.
An angel stood and met my gaze,
Thru the low doorway Of my tent;
The tent Is struck, the vision stays;
only know she came and went.
o, when the room grows lowiy dim,
And lfe's last oil Ii nearly spent
One gush of light these eyes will brihd,
Only to think she came and went
IS ~. r. Lowell
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
ADsuM
Into the night they went.

Into the night they went.
At morning, side by side,
They gained the sacred place.
Where the greatest Dead abide.
Where grand old Homer sits
In godlike state benign:
Where broods In endless thought
The awful Fiorentine; ~
Where sweet Ceramics walks
A smile on his grave face;
Where gossips quaint Montague, II.
The wisest Of his race;
Where Goethe looks thru ali
With that calm eye OF his;
Where-little seen but Light
The only Shakspere Ii.
When the new spirit came.
They asked him., drawing near,
Art thou come like us?'
He answered, 81 Am here. .
-R. q. etpddard.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
ToLsToY HELPS THE JEWS

Count Tolstoy's contribution Of $500
in aid of the prosecuted Jews Of Kishinef
is one of the largest made in Russia. Tho
not a Jew, and a harsh critic at times
of the Jewish theology. Tolstoy has not
hesitated to denounce in unmeasured terms
the treatment Of the race by the Russian
government and people
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11

Attorney M. D. Grover of the Great
Northern advances the novel doctrine thai
ownership of a majority Of a railway
company's stock does not carry with 1t
control. Gentlemen who are figuring to
get possession Of 81 per cent of the stock
in corporations in which they are inter-
ested will please take notice Of the fulfil
ity Of their labors
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
WORSE THINGS THAN CYCLONES
Chicago Chronicle.

Chicago Chronicle
An Iowa gentleman who was landed in
the top Of a tree In the next township the
other day, naturally feared that he had
been hit by touring automobile He
was greatly relieved to- find that It was
only a cyclone.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11

is another instalment Of Major j. w. pow
ellis biogra ply, with personal reminis-
cences Of the distinguished Promoter OF
Research by Marcus Baker, one Of his
staff. Among other features of interest
there Is p scholarly paper by the distin-
guished Rev Bernhard Pick on the uools
Of Ecclesiastes, the Sphinx Of Hebrew
Literature which Is contrasted with the
typographical Book Of Wisdom DR.. Pick
rejects the theory of the Solommic au-
thorship of Eoclesiastes
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
OLDEST AMERICAN NAVAL VETERAN

In the naval home in Philadelphia will
liam Mackabee will celebrate his one hun
dredth birthday next September. He is
the oldest living veteran Of the American
navy. Born If Baltimore in 1903, he Joined
the frigatc- Constitution as an apprentice
in 1917. He served nearly continuously
in the navy until old age sent him to the
naval home.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11
STILL TIME FOR CORN
Lincoln Journal.

Lincoln journal.
Old Nebraska farmers are not dismayed
by the prospect OF having to plant some
of their corn in the first week in June
One Of the best corn crops Nebraska ever
had was planted between the LIST and 10th
of that month because Of the very wet
spring. Corn comes jumping, planted in
a moist soil just as the hot weather Is
due.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11

Mayor Haynes does well to stir Mime
apolis up to more liberal giving for the
relief OF the thousands Of flood sufferers
Minneapolis is prosperous, unaffected by
the floods and thankful to have escaped
them. It can well afford to give more thar
it has. y