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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-15
GIVEN TO JURY
Fate of Bob Langford Will
Be Known Soon.
CASE CAVE UP IN COURT TODAY
Is Accused of the Larceny of $50 From
Jack" kellough, a Young
Ranch Hand.

The case of Robert Langford, ac-
cused of the larceny Of $50 taken up
in the superior court this morning
went to the jury at $40 O'Clock this
afternoon.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

the rainbow of hope The philosophy OF
the optimism he suggests is stated thus:
I believe that God made the world as nearly
perfect as he could, and yet leave to man free
choice, aud In leaving man free choice he
reached the summum honum Of perfection.
From the theses may be gathered much
optimistic thought, as:
God made 1t easier to be good than ba d.
:" The golden age is always in the future,
never In the past, no matter how golden that past
may have been. Unselfshness is life
and growth sellshness is blasting and death.
The world is not 30 perfect that there
is no room for Improvement; but God is good
and he has decreed a twofold blessing upon every
effort to make it better.
Mary Swift's my Summer on the
Farm. is a purely personal narrative of
"a girls experience or her uncle,s farm,
and the hearty simplicity of a girl who
enjoys real country life and observes
things closely, makes the story attractive,
strengthened, as it is, by good photo illus
trationS.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
Lind's Obscure Committees.

It is singular that Representative
John Lind Of this district should re-
ceive such unimportant assignments
on the committees of the house Of
representatives. The fact that Mr.
Lind is a democrat should not have
operated to prevent him getting good
assignments.
The minority is, of course, repre-
scented on all the. committees, and a
member Of that party who has served
three terms in congress and is so con-
spicuous by reason of his success IN
such a strongly republican state as
Minnesota ought to be among the
minority members of at least one of
the important committees. 1t is
known that Mr.. Lind strongly desired
appointment to the judiciary COM
mittee, of which his ability as a law
yer would have made him a useful
Land conspicuous member. Instead of
! this, Mr.. Lind got only assignments
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
The Indomitabla Pearv,

What is the use? is the question
often asked concerning attempts to
reach the north pole. In the National
Geographic Magazine for December
Robert 3. Peary, who has tried so
long to attain that point toward which
the aspirations of so many brave and
dauntless men have turned, answers
that question SO well that none who
read what he says is ever likely to ask
it again. Aside from any scientific value
there may be in actually attaining
the north pole and solving the question
of whether that part of the world is
land or sea, there is the satisfaction to
the whole world of having accom-
plished something that has long been
attempted. There is nothing of i'm
iportance elsewhere in the world that
has not been found out and discovered.
The discovery Of the south pole will
easily follow the attainme1it Of far
thest north. In Lieutenant Peary's
Judgment the north pole is, in the
words Of old Martin Frobisher, "the
one thing left Of this world by which
1 a. nOtaDle man MAY become famous
and fortunate.
| Peary estimates thatsit will require
from 100000 to 100000 to enable
him to fit out an expedition that vii
bring him to the pole. He feels sure
/ that it is worth while to spend thai
much on SO noble purpose wher
100000 is spent in a single year te
hold the Americas cup. How much
slgreater an honor will it. be to, discover
1.-THE north pole than to hold or win The
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
Poor Minnesota!

Minnesota's representation in the
meeting Of the republican national
committee is not calculated to pro-
duce that chesty feeling in the breast
@of the average republican of the
state. Mr.. tshevlin, the national com
mitteeman, having important business
in Toronto, sends his proxy to Chair
man Hanna $1,000
There isSnothing particularly wrong
about that, but there were a good
many republicans in Washingt ton
two senators and eight congressman
for eXample-among whom it might
have been possible to find one willing
to serve as a substitute in the meet
ings of the committee, where repre-
sentation is important on account of
the special arrangements necessary to
fit our method of electing congress
sional delegates to the convention. .
The proxy having landed in Mr..
Hanna's hands he losses it over to
Secretary Heath. Now Mr.. Heath is
entitled to the presumption of inno-
cence till proven guilty, but certain
charges of culpable laxness, to say no
more. in connection with the business
of the postoffice department have
| been preferred against Heath and it
! is conceded that he ought not to serve
as secretary Of the committee till the
| charges are cleared up.
| But further than this, it is reported
that some member or members of the
| Minnesota delegation, fearing that our
| state would not be properly repre-
scented, asked Alex Mckenzie, commit
| teeman from North Dakota, to look
/ after our interests: Mckenzie, it will
| be rem embered, served a term in a
| United States prison for his peculiar
methods, of discharging the duties OF
the office of United States marshal al
I Nome, and has a reputation for a
preference for the mysterious in poll
Etics.
So there you are. Mr.. Shevlin al.
i lows business engagement to KEEP
him away. Hanna receives the proxy
and throws it over to Heath, conspic.
i uously mentioned in the postof1ice
scandal, and some one who ought tt
l have known, better invokes in behal,
of Minnesota the offices of a mar
l who has ,.done time
4 Poor Minnesota! s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

Il . = --T
up. altho not quite In the former
ratio of increase over last year. The
stock market has been stronger and
more active all week. and the element
working for immediate advance
against the more conservative waiting
tendency has carried the day. The
old hopelessness is slowly dying away
and itt noted that many Of the most
pronounced bears, who haveAlong been
on that side. are wavering, while some
have gone over tos the other side in
the belief that there is a good year
in sight and that the worst has been
discounted.
The grain trade has this week been
directing attention toward the winter
wheat states, and the reports bearing
upon the condition of the growing
crop have been studied very closely.
To startswith. there was the knowledge
that the stand in Ohio was somewhat
below last year. There had been talk
of damage already done or likely to
result from lack of sufficient mois-
ture. This served to increase the in
terest ordinarily manifested in the
December reports. Officialf bulletins
from Kansas, Missouri and Michigan
were issued in turn, all showing de-
clines in condition and small acreages
as we'll. The whole found reflection in
a government report, which, on an
estimate embracing the entire winter
wheat territory. put the condition 1871
points off from last year Cat $50
against 1913 and the area 100000
acres under, or 32,000,O00 acres
against 100000. Last years was
the largest acreage ever sown, and the
figures for this year are good aver
age, but the November deficiency Of
precipitation has not been made up,
the plant enters the winter in poorer
condition than for several years and
considerably lower than the average
for ten years, and in the spring very
favorable weather will be necessary to
prevent the abandonment Of an acre
age much larger. than that usually
plowed up.
The bulls in wheat have felt their
position strengthened by these recent
reports, for it is now clear that even
with milling and shipping require
ments only normal, the spring wheat
supply will at best barely hold out
until another crop is gathered, hence
it is highly important that the win
ter wheat now growing should turn
out WE'LL.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
ADVANTAGES OF ELECTRIC POWER

Scientific American.
The following interesting comparison OF
the mechanical and electrical methods Of
transmitting power was given by L. B.
Stillwell at a meeting Of railway men: A
steel cable 11s inches in diameter. travel
ing at the rate of twelve miles an hour.
can transmit 1000 horse power; but by
taking a copper wire 1 square inch In
section and applying TO it, a potential OF
10000 volts at 1000 anperes a square
inch. we find We are transmitting In an
invisible form over the wire more than
10. 900 horse power. which is enough to
rupture instantly six such cables as are
ordinarily used in operating cable rail-
way As much power can be transmitted
thru such copper wire under the con-
ditions named as thru six belts, six feet
wide. and running at the rate of a mile O
minute.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
An Optimism that Grew In the Dark-HeI.
en- keIer's Study Of Life with Three
Senses and What She Makes OF tan
Appeal for the Strenuous, by David
Starr Jordan WhItcomb Family
Records.

What would be the difference in ones
spiritual natures ifs other conditions hav-
ing been the same he had grown up minus
his two most important senses? In other
words woEld one be better or worse with
out the senses of sight and hearing from
birth or early ch;ldhood-better or worse
off spiritually? This is to ask again
whether a healthy mind, almost wholly
shut in and thrown back upon itself and
forced to much meditation. would not de-
yelop a finer spirit. and have a more di-
rect and deeper vision of the real nearing
of life?
| 1t is easy to hear ali instant and insis-
tent cry of mos" i'll answer to these .ques-
tons. On the contrary, many will say:
THE more angles of vision at which we
may see life and the more we see Of the
/! best in life, the more nearly we will get
J, at it's real meaning. But sometimes more
! is gained by concentrated and continued
study from one angle than by divided at
lstention from many.
Examples Of those deaf and blind from
childhood do not prove that the negative
/ is the true answer to the questions pro-
pounded. for with such persons the con-
] ditionS have not been the same. They
I have been treated often as idiots, or, at
least, as hopelessly beyond reach of aid,
and they have thereby been deprived or
| the mental stimulus of education and as
ISOLATION with the worlds: great minds.
/ Furthermore; they have been unable to
express their thoughts. SO that it has been
! impossible to get at the real state of their
/ minds.
! Our own answer to the questions, of
| course, also would be a negative one. The
questions, however, have been suggested
| by Helen Keller's essay on Optimism. Miss
keller's story of her life was interesting
reading, but as q psychological study it
lacked the interest that this statement OF
her creed possesses. ,Ehis shows what
! she makes Of life, as she has studied it
with her three senses. 1t is, therefore, Il
I document of extraordinary interest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
IN ICE THIRTEEN YEARS

An almost forgotten mystery OF the Aus
TRAN Alps has at last been. cleared up.
Thirteen years ago q guide named Cnten-
steinen disappeared from Grossvcndiger.
and nothing was again heard Of him until
a few days since when his body was found
:thickly sheathed in ice. He had evidently
fallen into crevasse, and the body, form
ing round itself an icy casing. had during
thirteen years followed the movements OF
the glacier being at last recovered at its
lowest extremity, where it emerged to
sr.-sa-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
COWS AS FOX HUNTERS.

Edgar Palmer, Jr.. and John Murphy OF
New Haven, VI, recently killed fox in a
peculiar manner, While working on a
farm their attention was attracted by the
cows making a disturbance in the pasture
around a stone pile. On Investigation they
found that the cows had cornered a fox
in pile of stones and were endeavorins
to get at him. They rushed to the scene
and with stones and rocks succeeded in
killing the fox.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
The tonnage passing thru the. $500

The tonnage passing thru the, $500
canal this year is about 100000 tons less
than last year, but even with that tenn
porary backset the figures are imposing,
being about $4,000 900. tons Only those
who live on the Great Lakes have any I'M
derstanding of the immensely and import
ance of lake traffic. The fleet of the steel
trust alone handles in one season as much
tenn and about twice as much as the Union
Pacific.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
kerr HARDIE's ODD CASE

Keir Hardy, NJ. p. the English labor
leader, who is recovering from an opera
ton for appendicitis. has had peculiar
experience. Since he had an attack of
fever in childhood he had lost the sense of
smell, but since the appendicitis operation
he has regained it. The surgeons cannot
account for this phenomenon. The case is
being carefully investigated
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
GREAT is LITTLE "RARTo
Franklin Tribune.

The current number of the American
Monthly Review of Reviews contains some
fine cartoons from the leading American
and European newspapers on current
events, and the strongest of these car
toons are from The Minneapolis Journal
That Lady or the Tiger cartoon in Th c
10 urn a of last Saturday was the .bes,
ever. Great is Bart.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
NO CAUSE FOR DlscouRAeEMEnT
Seattle Times.

Lillian Russell is credited with saying
that her greatest trouble in assuming
mems parts on the stage is in making l:er
neckties look dressy and stylish. Don't
get discouraged, Lilly-the most of us
have experienced the same embarrass-
ments.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
BOOKS RECEIVED

OPTIMISM An Essay by Helen Keller. No
York: L. Y. Crowcll & Co. Price rs GEMS
net.
THE CALL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
An Address to Young Men. BY David Starr
Jordan president of Leland Stanford, Jr., uni
versity. Boston: American Unitarian associa-
ton. Minneapolis: N A,cCarthy.
MY SUMMER ON THE FARM By Mary A
Swift. Illustrated. New York: Broadway
Publishing company.
AN OPTIMISTIC EQUATION, and Other Optim
ism. BY f. L. Johnson. Minneapolis: The
II. w. Wilson company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

Canada is cutting the bonds of empire
as fast as possible. She has just wrung
from the imperial government the con-
cession that the commander of the Ca
madam military forces shall be Canadian.
Evidently, to the Canadian mind being a
Canadian and subject of the British en-
pire are not one and the same.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

d The Tribune, after saying that T h e
Journ al defended the regents, of the
University in such "curious way as to con-
firm the impression that. defense is need
ed, among those who do not know the
facts goes ahead and makes about the
same, explanation over again.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

AN INVITATION is extended to oil to visit
the Press Room, which is the finest in the west
The battery Of presses consists of three four
Goss Presses. with total capacity OF Ia, 600
e1ght-page our MAJ s an hour, printed. foidea
and counted. The best time TO call Is from S:l0
TO 4:30 p N. Inquire at the business Office and
be directed to the visitors gallery of the Press
>. s.4 =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
Chance for Another Dispute.

Ever since the..,,Alaska,s, boundary
award there has been talk in the Ca
madam press forecasting another dis
;pute between the United States and
England that might be of even great.
er gravity. This possible dispute is as
to whether Hudson's bay is closed
sea- or not. Even some months before
the award a member of the Canadian
parliament introduced a bill changing
the name of the bay to- the Canadian
sea, with the idea of impressing the
world with the Canadian contention
that Hudson's bay is as, much Ca
madam as Lake Michigan is American.
Before that award, too, Canada had
dispatched to the bay a '1cvessel, the
Neptune, with a detachment Of
mounted police and instructions to
take formal possession of all the
northern shores of the bay and drive
out the American whalers. Very lit
tie attention has been given to this
question in the United States, but an
article inl$the current North American
Review by P. r. McGrath, the New
foundland Journalist, will undoubtedly
arouse general interest and evoke, a
discussion of the Canadian claim.
The claim that. Hudson's bay is a
| closed sea is based on the general
British contention {; that all waters
| within a line drawn from headland to
headland are territorial and upon the
treaty Of cession from France to
England in. 4l7tls5 Whereby sovereign
rights were givenf ii England overo"tfe
/ Bay and straagh ITS Soss'J dson, together
with all lands seas oasts, etc.
and the whole north est of what
is now called Canaos E5v Fsane under the
sway of the Hudson Bay company
If the United States sees fit to dispute
the Canadian position it will be. on the
ground of the treaty of 1918, giving
Americans fishing rights on the Lab.
rador coast, on the consistent Ameri
can contention that territorial water!
T do not stretch from headland to head
land and that what France may have
ceded to England 200 years ago ha:
little bearing on modern dispute. =
1 Still another basis for an American
case is the fact that,for sixty years ou1
whalers have, without rivals and with
out interference, frequented it's waters
They will not relinquish their right tt
pursue whales in Hudson's bay with
4 out a protest. And if they protest, thu
1 government will surely do it's best t
establish their rights. If the Nep
tune expedition uses force to drive gu
the American whalers serious affra,
1 may occur in the far north before
there is any opportunity to settle TIN
dispute by negotiation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

to the committees on claims and Pa
cific railroads Sal
As the democratic leader Is gener-
ally supposed to be, resp onsible for
minority coramittee assignments. the
probability issstrong that Mr.. Lind is
not SO close % John sharp Williams,
the democratic leader. as has been
supposed. It is hardly likely that
Speaker Cannon would have vetoed
any suggestion Mr.. williams might
have made jas to the demo cratic mem
bership Of committees.
g If The Minneapolis Journal is in
earnest in its advocacy Of the abo-
lition. of the governors staff 1t will adyo-
cate the election of Bob Dunn to the gov
ernor's office. In case Dunn is elected we
will guarantee that there will be no gov
ernor star In Minnesota during his term
Of Office. Princeton Union.
WelR that $ worth thinking about. How
would Bob look, anyway in setting Of
blue cloth and brass buttons and gole
lace and elsnging swords?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

Almost unaided, Rev ". a. Lewis of the
Cherry VALLEY tPa.) Methodist church rebuilt tho
house Of worship in which his congregation as.
penter work, and even carried the bricks and NOR
tar up a thirty foot ladder. The church was re-
dedicated recently.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

A sufficient answer to the mysteries of
the Waseca Herald concerning the beet
sugar bounty is that the state agreed to
pay. a, bounty to induce certain business
men to establish u beet sugar factory in
Minnesota. The bounty was to be paid
for a certain number of years. The fac
tory was established. After the bounty
one year before the term for which it was
to be paid had expired, the state refused
to pay any more. The company had COM
piled with its side of the contract; the
state repudiated it's promise. That's all
there is to 1T. 1t may not have been a
wise thing to offer the bounty in the first
place; We are inclined to think it was not.
Subsidies are seldom justified. But that
is not the question; The only issue is
whether the state, having promised the
money to induce the founding of a new
industry, ought to pay it when the party to
whom it was promised had fulfilled the
conditions. The Herald thinks not. We
don't believe theiHerald does business that
way-at least we hope not. If it's poor
rule for g business man to hunt up techni-
calities on which to dodge his promises to
pay, how is it right for the state to do SO!
| The city council does not propose tc
have public improvements delayed next
year because of inability to dispose OF
bonds in time. 1t voted last night to sci
s415,000 worth of municipal bonds at !
tper cent. It will be remembered that the
stagnation of the bond market last yeal
resulted in such delay that when it hat
finally been decided to make the rate 4, in.
stead Of 31s per cent, it was necessary tt
issue only a part of the authorized bonds
as the Contemplated work could not b,
completed in the remainder Of the season
The money for the bonds voted last nigh
! should be ready before it is possible t,
resume work. The council was wise t,
make the rate 4 per cent. Possibly TIN
bonds might have been disposed of at 81
but probably not and it would be intoler
able to have the events of last spring an,
summer repeated in. 1904.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

How completely the country has settled
down. to the acceptance. OF. the Philippines
as a permanent national possession is
shown by the fact that Philippines news
now gets its head and place assignments
from the impartial telegraph editor strictly
on its merits as news, Independently Of the
scene of it's occurrence. Yesterday and to-
day there are two little paragraphs in the
papers that would have been played up
under big headlines a short time ago One
announces the PRONUNCIATION of law abol-
ishing slavery among the Moros, and the
other quietly states that ladronism IS dy-
ing out in the interior provinces, and that
there is less disorder of that kind now
than ever before.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

Mr.. Johnson, in his An Optimistic Equa-
ton. presents twelve theses. which he de-
tends almost entirely by citations from the
world s epigrammatic wisdom. His postu-
late is that the bright side of life is the
natural side and it lies within our power
to always look upon that side and that
.'the sum total of the forces at work in
the world are making for righteousness =
and that the tear of despair has in it the
qualities which may make it reveal to sus
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

The Journal carried in November
1876 columns Of advertising, 400 col
unins more than any other Minneapo-
lis or st. Paul paper, daily or daily
and Sunday issues combined.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
TRAVELLERS. ABROAD

TRAVELLERS ABROAD
Will find The Journal en- file an follows:
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American Express Co., Waterloo
Place. q
DENMARK-U. s.. Legation. 8s
pARIs-Eagle Bureau, So rue Cambon.
Residents Visiting Paris can have their
mail or kilograms sent care OF thas
Bureau and the same Will be TOT
warded to them or held for their
arrival ,tEE -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
THE NONPAREJL MAN

Short and Practical Course in Mrs.
Julia e. Works School Of courtship-
Lectures on How to Hold Your Best
Girls Hand-ciass Discussion on the
Proper Application of the Terms
"Duekie" and "Dovie."