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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
THE MAGAZINES

The Architectural Record for June con-
tains two notable illustrated papers, one
on the relation of sculpture to architec-
ture and the other on recent church build
ing In New York The value of purity
and beautysof the proportions Of build
Ing is shown. Among the illustrations is
the scaena of the Roman theater at Or.
ange, France, the wall Of which Louis
XIV. said was the finest in his kingdom
The progress of church architecture in
New York is shown by Montgomery Schuy-
Ter in text and profuse Illustration. Pierre
Calmette's illustrated paper on the new
artistic society in Paris, La Porgnee, Is
q feature of the number, and In M. Ma
zude's How to Live In Paris on 5000 a
Year. will be found many suggestions of
value.
i A notable paper in The Atlantic is Os-
valid Wizards "The Negro in the Regular
Army" in which he shows their loyalty
to the service and their sterling character
istics as solulers in the civil war, in the
Indian wars and in the Philippines. Mr..
De Wolfe Howe, in his 1.-THE Boston Re-
ligion,' discusses the rise and influence
of Unitarianism in that city under its
great intellectual leaders. Professor Bas-
CONS paper on Changes in College Life"
portrays the advantages and disadvan-
tages of the great social and educational
methods which have been for some years
jolting and displacing. old college meth
DDS J. B. Osborne contributes capital
paper on 1.-THE Glamour of Consulship,'
detailing some of his own experiences;
and the story of Lafittes Pirate King
dom" among the Louisiana bayous, is
well told by l.. Hubbard, Jr., and Professor
Goodwin Smith contributes fine paper
on 1.-THE Cult of Napoleon A notable
contribution is President G. w. Eliots
| Emerson as Seer"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
TUESDAY EVENING,

did, that all Carlyles imperfections, as
well as his good qualities, should be laid
bare and placed under telescope scrutiny
to insure a just and truthful biography,
even if his wife's unhappiness should be
dragged before the public, generally under
the influence of morbid curiosity to have
all domestic curtains pulled aside; under
such circumstances, 1t is right to con-
clude that Froude acted in a strictly con-
sicentious way, and would view the publf-
cation of Miss Jewsbury's letter with calm
equanimity.
There is not doubt that Mr.. Froude was
by far too conscientious. He has stirred
up a controversy on both sides of the
Atlantic, whose echoes will be heard thru
the twentieth century; and Feven Miss
Jewsbury will be remembered by her med
dlesome contribution to the controversy.
1t may be said that, so far as the Jews
bury revelation is concerned, 1t suggests a
somewhat humorous contemplation as to
the probable effect of paternity upon Phi
losopher Carlyle, who was the last person
in the world one would think of as walk
ing the floor all night with a succession
of babies in his arms and administering
catnip tea.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
Books and Authors
"sERloUs", READING

There was recently cited in these col
umns some convincing evidence that
Americans are not, by any means, utterly
given to the reading of fiction. ( The i'm
pulsion of the American mind is increas-
ingly toward history, biography and
science. In, England also the reading pub
lie are calling for the works Of Herbert
Spencer, Huxley, Grant Allen and Lang,
which they are taking to the extent of
100000 copies a year. That is a fair Off
set to the weekly sales of 100000 copies Of
cheap fiction disposed Of in England. We
can't expect the reading public either in
England or in this country, to get gen
orally hungry for the books of Huxley,
Darwin, Spencer Tyndall and Haekel all
at once. even if sugar coated artistically.
Some day the children may cry for the
works Of the great scientists, but their
precocity will have been steadied by the
accession of a power of discrimination
which will enable them to distinguish be-
| tween a statement of fact and assump-
| tion and theory unverifed. Scientific
books have to be revised at intervals be-
cause their authors, dazzled with the
glamor Of their own theories, often state
the latter as scientific fact and are thus
misleading. If the reading Of cheap fiction
is ever abandoned and the race is in SOL
emn search for truth, the "infant of days.
will be so well equipped that he can't
be fooled by the baseless visions of in
discreet scientists.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
THE WORM TURNS
New York Post.

The employer-when most a worm-will
turn. That is the salutary lesson for or
ganized labor taught by the events which
crowd the news this morning. In this
city the employing builders have had to
federate against federated unions, as a
necessary measure Of self defense. There
Is a limit to the concessions which can be
made; wages cannot Indefinitely go up;
hours cannot be cut down without end;
owners have few rights still; managers
must be allowed some voice in the man
agement. In other words, the trades
unions have at last provoked, by their
mounting arrogance Of dictation, an as
sertion Of common right and common
manhood on the part Of employers. Moth
ing but their. desire to avoid friction, and
their undoubted willingness to share, as
they have shared, the profits of these pros
porous years with their men, have pre-
vented such a resolute stand from being
taken long ago. It is a sharp and whole
some reminder. Wages and hours OF
labor remain, what they have always
been, matter for adjustment between
workmen and employers, Of give and take.
But 1t was high time the unions were
given plainly to understand that they can
not go on forever giving nothing and taxi
Ing everything.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09

inant forms Of life in every region en-
tirely govern the physiognomy OF the
landscape, so that a naturalist dropped
down anywhere on the earth can tell
where he is by an examination of a few
plants or animals. The chapter on the
harmonies of nature Is fine example
OF the authors style. In the chapters
on the vast and minute in nature, he in
terestingly contrasts the extremes Of ami
mated nature, as the whale called the
rorqual, the largest creature in the world
and the melicerta and other minute or
ganisms discernible only with the mi
croscope. The milicerta builds snug
little house Of stone, cemented symmetri-
tcally the stones being deftly fashioned
and laid with expert care In mortar. The
insect carries with it its own; tools. Some
space is devoted to the sea serpent, with
an examination of the many stories by
people who allege that they have seen the
creature. The author turnout the volume
relates many attractive incidents touch
ing the ways Of animals and birds.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
A Fiendish Illinois Atrocity.

All the best people in Belleville, ILL.,.
were present Saturday at the lynching OF
negro Women attended with their
children; and small boys, from points of
advantageous view, announced to the mob
the progress Of events as the leaders slow
ly hammered down doors between them
selves and the wretched negro. Nothing
was done to stay the mob. except that the
mayor made a speech which unfortunately
had the effect of inflaming the mob's
blood passion. The negro was burned after
he had been stunned and choked The
crowd Is described as very orderly and
chiefly composed of spectators, the actual
lynching being done by about fifteen UNI
masked men, but the dispatch adds that
there will be no arrests because the muir
derers cannot be identified. All this is
not In Kishinef or in the Philippines or In
Africa, but in the great, populous and
powerful state Of Illinois. It Is up to the
state authorities to force an investigation
Of this dreadful business, and assert the
laws rightful monopoly Of public justice.
The officials at Belleville counseled
the mob on the ground that force would
anger the man-hunters. One of these days
some sheriff will stand by his post of duty.
anger the mob with an offer of force for
force and when the crisis comes will shoot
with deadly aim. The sheriff who will set
a good example to all other sheriffs and
establish a monitory record for mobs, by
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rule of mob law. It would be almost
enough to elect to the sheriff's office men
known to be fearless and determined. 1t
Is a nice sport to hunt a lone, defenseless
prisoner out of a Jail while the officials
look ON. and quite another thing to con-
duct the hunt with the chances favorable
to the hunter being potted himself.
BY the way, Sheriff Castles of Montrose
county, Wisconsin, would doubtless have
inflicted summary punishment ON a lynch
ing mob at Tomah and Sparta last week
If the mob had dared to carry out its
threats. Like man of duty and action
he rescued his prisoner from the mob at
Tomah with the aid Of a dozen rifle carry
ing deputies and took him to Sparta
where another mob snarled around the
Jail but dared not strike in view Of the
force that stood ready to do a little legal
killing if the mob had tried to lynch the
prisoner. Belleville needs a Castles. an6
so do hundreds of counties in the United
states. If there were more shooting
sheriffs, there would be fewer hangine
mobs g.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
Somebody to Blame.

A large section of a busy street fell
into a railway subway yesterday. At the
moment of the collapse street car with
lis passengers on board was on the sec
ton that fell, and the motorman had just
time to turn on the. current and jerk his
car out Of the abyss. At the same mo-
ment steam train was pulling out from
under the viaduct, but the rear end Of a
passenger coach was crushed and pas
senger had his arm broken. The accident
might easily have been terribly destruo-
tive of life and limb. Only good luck
prevented catastrophe Of impressive
proportions.
The responsibility for the collapse lies
either with the city engineers office, the
Great Northern railway company or both.
One of the duties Of the city engineer is
to see that such structures are safe, and
as it was built by the Great Northern its
engineering department would naturally
be supposed to have some responsibility
for the collapse. It is no excuse to say
that the bridge was old and overloaded
It's age called for rigid inspection and
strengthening, and overlooking should not
have been permitted.
We imagine that after this collapse
people will hold their breaths when pass
ing over other bridges in Minneapolis
People use these bridges here as else
where in blind confidence that their lives
are safeguarded by the proper authorities
but after yesterdays breakdown it will
be some time before their confidence Is
restored. It would be interesting to know
just how often and how thoroly the vari
GUS bridges and viaducts of Minneapolis
are rigidly Inspected
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09

In his Sunday morning sermon the Rev.
G.. =. Morrill, Of the Peoples church
preached q doctrine Of the use Of summer
time Sundays that always stirs up more
or less opposition when put in words,
tho it has come to be the accepted doc
trineSof the large body Of our people. Mr..
Morrill, did not hesitate to say that in
his opinion it was impossible to find fault
with the man who is closely bound to his
work all the daytime Of six days and
elects on the seventh to go out into the
country, to the grass, the trees, the flow.
ers. the lakes and the streams, instead OF
to the formal worship in the churches. It
IS useless to try to bring the people back
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
The Carlyle Family Skeleton.

A London cable announces that the lit
erary executors of John Anthony Froude.
the historian, have published a manuscript
FOUND among Froude's papers as a justif-
cation OF Froude's treatment of Carlyle
In his biography of that philosopher.
This exhunped material is a confidential
communication from Miss Jewsbury. the
intimate friend of Jane Welsh CARLYLE,
who declares that the whole trouble be-
tween the philosopher and his wife was
due to the craving Of Mrs. Carlyle for chill,
dren which she never was permitted to
have, and she emphatically says that Car.
he ought never to have married, and
intimates that he had no desire whatever
to have children, and that his ungovern-
able temper totally unified him for ter
nifty. Miss Jewsbury states that Mrs Car
lyle came near leaving her husband sew.
eral times, and that he told her she could
go whenever she wished. We have all
heard a deal about this family skeleton
but the root Of the unhappiness of Mrs
Carlyle has not previously been disclosed
so candidly. The publication Of Miss Jews
bury's letter Is unfortunate, because it
will add fuel to the controversy over the
developments made in Froude's biogra-
ply and in the published letters of Mrs
Carlyle.
1t would seem from the fact that Froude
left Miss Jewsbury's letter among his pa !
pers, that he did not care If it fell into
the hands of his executors, for he him
self declared that Carlyle was too great
: to permit the escape from print of any
circumstance in his life. He proposed to
snow his hero in what the French call "the
altogether" And he did it. In his biog-
raphy he reveals more of the weakness
Of Carlyle than his heroism. Carlyle said
of himselftthat he was "a very unthank--
full ,ill-conditioned, bilious, hayward and
heart-worn son of ADAM and his self
reproaches after the death of his wife are
very pitiful; but Of the tender hearted
and affectionate Carlyle to which Mr.
vision in the biography. We must go to
Peter Bayne fer faultless Carlyle, and
learn that the life of the philosopher was
instinct with true eptcal grandeur II
i Is noticeable that Carlyle ordered that nc
life Of himself should ever be written
q Afterward he left to Froude's discretion
as to use or non-use, the mass OF papers
out Of which the. "reminiscences and the
several volumes Of Mrs. Carlyle's letters
were evolved; but he said especially as t.
the portion relating to his wife, that he
found 1t impossible to determine whether
1t ought to be published or not The par
relating to himself, he told Froude tt
"burn freely" Under these instruction.
it is evident that an instructive resolve O
privacy as to his wife's letters had no
dawned Ia his mind. Feeling as Proud,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09

BY the time the eulogists of the merger
get thru we will all discover that after
all we ourselves and not Mr.. Hill did ut.
1t seems that he was a mere piece OF
machinery in carrying out what every
body wanted. Another important fact we
learn is that it was necessary for Mr.. Hill
to get control Of the Northern Pacific,
but at the same time we are assured that
there was not the slightest suspicion OF
an intention to merge the Great Northerr
and Northern Pacific.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
1T SAVED HIS LIFE

A story has reached the state depart
ment at Washington of a novel use to
which a life insurance policy was recently
put by an American travelling in Russia.
The citizen In question had neglected to
provide himself with passport, and when
he arrived at the borders Of the car 8
domains he was held up by an official with
a, demand for his passport. For an in
slant the American was stumped, but he
quickly rose to the emergency. Diving
into his inside pocket he pulled out his
life insurance policy and handed it to
the Russian. The latter gravely looked the
paper over, carefully scrutinizing the inn
posing looking seal and the array Of sig
natures. With a satisfied air he handed
back the paper and the American
passed on.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
A Mistake Demonstrated.

The evils of putting the university un-
der the management of the board Of con-
troll are cropping out heavily, tho it is
only two or three months since the board
assumed financial supervision of the uni
versity. AS was to be foreseen, in light
of common sense and the experience with
the normal schools, the board might as
well have been given. complete as financial
control, and the regents abolished; per
haps better so. Financial control is alb
solute control. University regents.
formerly one Of the most important bodies
in the state, are now little more than
marionettes to be jerked about by the
board of control.
1t is no wonder that runnor should have
it that President Northrop is on the
verge of resigning, being no longer will
ing to fill q position wherein he serves a
nominal master, who is, in turn, ruled
by another. AS the general manager OF
the university he must find 1t extremely
annoying and battling to find that his
plans are baked at every turn by the
necessity Of dealing with two boards. The
university Is so big an institution that ii
requires a governing body of its own
but an unwise legislature has made a
sport of this great constitutional insti-
tuition and has turned it, with all its edu.
cational and insprational work, over tc
a board whose principal duty is to buy
supplies and keep accounts. The states
greatest Institution has heconoa a neidt
issue" with a board of purchase and audit
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09

The president is taking UP the post
office Investigation as his admirers be-
lieved he would. He proposes to go to the
bottom of the evil and eradicate politics
from the department. After all, that is
the main trouble now. Machen is a poll
tician, and most Of the heads of depart
ments have been playing for favor with
congress, or congressman have been
playing for favor with them. Business
and politics don't mix very WELL The
government can never get the best re-
suits out Of its big business machine I'M
less it gets politics out of it, too.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
AN AWARD OF MERIT


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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09

Interviewed in Washington, General
Reeve says that if Thomas Lowry desires
to succeed Senator Clapp, he will come
close to making it, In view of his expert
ence in 1901, Mr.. Lowry may not have
so good an opinion Of his political ability
as General Reeve
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09

The state press Is beginning to evince
good deal Of interest in reciprocity with
Canada. The idea that the duty of 25
cents a bushel on wheat is any protection
to the American farmer, with Liverpool
setting the general price levels, is rapidly
being dispelled.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
MINNESOTA POLITICS

Democrats of Minnesota are INDUCING in
a lively off year boom for John A. john
son of st. Peter as a candidate for gov
ernor. They have not secured the con-
sent to the candidate, and from the way
he talks they are. not likely to. It Is
well known that last year the anti-Ros
ing delegates to the convention promised
johnson the nomination If he would allow
the use Of his name. He declined to al
low it and joined in Rosing's nomination.
Having declined the nomination in an off
year, the former senator would not be
very astute politically if he faced about
and accepted nomination in a presi-
Dental year. However, the make of
the democratic ticket will depend very
largely on the character of the repub-
hcan nominee.
candidate for governor as any one at
the present writing. He has done more
active work than any of the other possi
bilities. It is rather a peculiar circum-
stance that the most vigorous newspaper
booming Eddy has received has come
from outside the old seventh district.
He has many friends and warm sup
porters there, but the Dunn following is
also strong, and in the Red River val
ley there is more talk of Dunn to-day
than of Eddy. The Crookston Times
comes out emphatically Son; this PROPOSE
ton. saying:
Whatever may be the conditions pre-
vailing in other parts Of the state, there
can be no question Of the position of the
great majority of the republicans Of
| northern Minnesota. His services to the
state have been conspicuous and he is
| the kind Eof a man that the people Of
Isthis section Of the state like. A popular
isvote would probably give Dunn four
| ffths of the voting strength of the re-
| nh ~ tn, or&b d
The Hancock Record comments as fol-
lows on the Dunn-Heatwole situation
from an Eddy standpoint:
Politics are-weL, peculiar, so to speak
| Bob Dunn had the support of the st. Paul
Globe. Jim Hills newspaper, also that 81
lJOel HeatWole, and thereby received con-
siderable comment he did not want. The
Globe was finally called off and there
/ after did not come out so strong for Dunn
in fact, began to talk up Eddy. Also ii
was emphatically announced that Dunn
and Heatwole had had a break and Heat
woles crowd were looking for a suitable
candidate and were seriously considering
going over to Eddy's standard also. How
happy Dunn would be could he only per.
manently saddle the Heatwole and Great
Northern support upon Eddy"
This utterance, coming from the Prince
ton Union, may be considered ex cathedra
Bob Dunn has not said that he would
or would not be a candidate for any pc.
litical office next year or any other year
| hence all the newspaper talk about
bosses managers alliances ant
combinations is the merest rot
The Lake City Republican joins thu
chorus with the following:
q "The Republican does not believe tina
i Samuel r. Van SAINT aspires to a thir(
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09

At last Bremerton on the Puget is all
good. The last saloon has been closed and
all licenses have been revoked. A bust
ness administration in Bremerton is not
what would be called a business admins
tration by the members of the late la
mented Ames gang.