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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
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zAMERIcANs GIRLS IN LONDON
Iondon Daily Chronicle

~ LOnQOn daily .CITOlllCle. .s-...
The bus driver, who is good Judge
In these matters, says that there are more
Americans in London this, year than ever
before-that is to say, Americans who
ride on omnibuses;a sthe coronation pos
sibly attracted more of our wealthy cousins
last year.. And, to. sduete the buso driver,
they are very charming. 1.-The = party,
which. generally manages to secure front
seats at western terminus, and travels
right thru the city, consists, as a rule,
of "momma' and two or three girls.
"Poppa" presumably stops at home and
pays the bills: They talk the whole way,
and most of their conversation is directed
to the driver in the shape Of questions
as to what this or that building is and
why things in London are so and so. TO
anybody but a man who could drive over
his route with his eyes shut, sthis cross
examination might be distracting. To be
in a position to impart information Is so
rare that it should be its own reward.
The only grievance Of the bus driver is
that in this case Of American ladies 1t SO
often ia
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

Parks, the grating New York labor
leader, was seated In the convention OF
at Kansas City. If that precedent is to
be established In organized labor it would
seem to be sufficient notice to employers
that the way to settle labor disputes Is to
pay the price Of the walking delegate,
But the precedent will not be established
Parks has already been repudiated by or
ganized labor in New York city, where the
members refused to parade with Parks on
Labor Day to the extent that the New
York parade included only about }1,0ot
more men than were in line In Minneap-
oils ~
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CASUALLY Observed,

500 6# casually OpSerVSus
Yes said Uncle Ellery Marsh, Il
tried to get into town, but was run into
on the North Side by one of them Red
Devil Autopsys and had to be taken home.
The streets amt safe any more.
The thin ice is looking over the small
boy with a view to business later In the
season.
A few United States warships ought to
climb the Bulgarian and Macedonian
mountain passes and throw few shells
among the rioters.
Mr.. Worm, Chicago man who left the
newspaper business for the theatrical
business, may be said to be out OF the
hole. H
That youthful death dealer, the padded
football boy, appears to be slightly
sWelled.
A North Dakota exchange contains an
ad that announces the following fact: "At
our restaurant you will find sardines,
horseradish, pigs feet, oatmeal, ,mush-
rooms and linbergef cheese. Come here
for your lunches, binding Irvine, hardware,
Goldfish. novelties, oysters. Screen doors
and ice cream in season. After you have
worked into the threshing season a way,
you are able to eat right thru bill OF
fare like this without getting filed up.
Tame Moose" that northern Mime
sofa temperance drink, is declared by a
sCrookston expert to contain too much
wood alcohol and concentrated I've to make
it a safe holiday drink.
Rollin Smith who has been doing a
newspaper stunt in Minneapolis for sc
L ~ 80 1,1 +r
him a delirious joy. has deliberately re-
signed all connection with the press and
is about to open a brokerage establish.
ment in the Chamber of Commerce to dea
in grains and to. make money, actua
sordid,. perishing pelf! In some way OF
other Mr.. Smith has become infected will
the idea that money is all right and should
be acquired, hence he enters the list O.
| collectors. Anybody who thinks that
newspaper man can be kept away from thu
game for any length of time by a littl
thing like mere money will be badly de
ceived. It, won't do
:. The North, Dakota Record tells how tn
wife of prosperous farmer had a siste
come from Chicago to make a visit. On
day the threshers came and~the guest in
i sisted on doing the work alone and sen
her sister away for rest When tn
hungry threshers filed in to supper tina
+ night; they found at each plate a sand
witch TIED with a ribbon, one chicken Gro
quette, one cheese ball the size of
marble and button hole bouquet-noth
ing more.s< Strange, strange, but tn
threshers never came back for breakfas
An old friend of the family, Thomas F
Faithone, came around yesterday to tax
, me to ride in that strange mode of con
,, Veyance Of our ancestors, a, horse and
buggy. Mr.. Faithone says that he ca
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
absorption and tender confidence Of youth
full lovers

absorption and tender confidence Of youth
full lovers"
It never needed ':the wedding touch of a
great sorrow to make the lives of Arch.
bishop TAFT and his devoted wife "a per-
feet whole" Speaking Of her many years
after she had been taken from. him. he
said: '"To part from her, if only for a
day, was pain only less intense than the
pleasure with which I returned to her;
and when 1 took her with me it was one
of the purest joys given to man to
watch the meeting between her and our
children"
When David Livingstone had passed his
3Oth birthday with barely a thought for
such IAN indulgence as wooing and we'd
| ding he declared humorously that when
he was a little less busy he would send
home an advertisement for a wife. pre-
! ferably decent sort Of widow and
yet so unconsciously near was his fate
| that only a year later he was introducing
his bride, Mary Moffat to the home he
had built, largely with his own hands, at
Mobatsa. From that .'supremey happy
hour to the day when. eighteen years
later he received her last faint whisper
| ings't at Shupanga no man ever had a
more elf-sacrificing, brave, devoted wife
that the missionary's daughter.
In fact, they were more like two happy.
! light hearted children than sedate mar
ried folk, and under. the magic of their
merriment the hardships and dangers Of
| life in the heart of the Dark Continent
were stripped Of all their terrors.
| Jean Paul Richter confessed that he
never even suspected the potentialities of
human happiness until he: met Caroline
Mayer, "that sweetest and most gifted of
women when he was fast approa ching
his 40th year; and that he had no monop-
| oily of the resultant happiness IS proved
by his wife's declaration. THAT Richter
is the purest, the hottest, the most godhke
man that lives. To be the wife
of such man is the greatest glory that
can fall to woman while of his wife
Richter once wrote: II thought when I
i married her that had sounded the depths
of human love; but I have since realized
how unfathoma BILE is the heart in which
10 Dob1a woman, has her Shrine''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
A. Successful Labor Organization.

There was a national convention of a
labor organization held in Cleveland the
other day Of which not much notice has
been taken. 1t has. however, about 5000
members and branch organizations in va
rious parts Of the country. The purpose
of this union Is, like that Of all others,
the benefit of it's members.
There seems to have been at the Cleve-
land meeting no agitation for shorter
hours, no regulations adopted limiting
the days work and putting all members
on a dead level Of efficiency. and nothing
said about refusing to work with men
who do not belong to the same organiza-
ton. There was, however, encourage
ment for members to become thoroly ac-
quainted with their work. Steps. were
taken to educate them in its various
know his own; particular division Of the
work to be done, but have general un-
Outstanding of the whole business. Any
thing calculated to raise the standard and
efficiency Of members was welcomed and
a general disposition manifested to study
and promote the interests of their en-
ployers.
This organization has recently issued q
little pamphlet which announces courses
of lectures and a plan Of study for the
next year. This book also contains a
| number of maxims. One is to the effect
| that 'T4e who avails himself Of oppor-
tunities to be helpful to others will help
himself Another suggests that 1.-THE
man who aspires to excel his fellows can
afford to neglect nothing that will add
to his mental and physical equipment
| Still another says that "the man who
knows how has always been in demand,
but never so much as now
This is quite a strong organization. It
is skilled labor and a strike on the part
Of it's membership would very quickly
paralyze the business Of the country. 1t
seems, however, to have no strike fund
and not to regard tho strike as the best
means Of advancing the interests Of its
emphasize as the most effectual way tc
lpromote the welfare of its members the
performance Of their duties in the highest
measure of efficiency and diligence, the
man who can do the most work and do II
best within given time having credi
for having exemplif1ed in the best manner
the principles of this labor organization
The organization referred to is the
American Institute Of Bank Clerks. The
membership Is intelligent and just as self
ish as human nature is on the average
|, and seems to think that it's selfish inter
ests are best advanced by the principles
, and methods it has adopted as an Or
ganization.
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THE NONPAREIL MAN

easily recall the age when horses were
hitched to vehicles and used on the
streets. After the Subtraction vehicles
were perfected horses went out OF use.
The few old fogies who persisted in using
horses were stoned and mobbed frequently
and the horses were cut loose and allowed
to run away. Horse meat also went out OF
fashion after a time and the horse be-
came in time curiosity like a camel.
Once in while travelling circus at
tracted some interest with a herd of a few
horses and people focked to see them.
My friend Faithone was a crank on the
subject of horse just as men used to be
cranks on the subject Of buffalo, and were
accustomed to keep small herds of them.
Faithone always kept a horse in his auto-
mobile house and would sometimes
harness it and venture on a short ride
It was on one Of these occasions that he
came after me. I stepped into the old
fashioned carriage with some trepidation
and the beast started off with a strange,
jerky motion. Lines were strung from the
animals; mouth to the driver and the
| beast was guided by jerking his head to
one side or the other, depending on the
| direction you wished to go
| AS a malodorous, filthy, back number
| the horse must certainly have been facile
| princeps We attracted a great deal of
attention and was glad to get out and
| take a comfortable aerocab home. Why
! a man as muCH SSISe dS T ditilOlie CdleS
| to keep beast like that, on his premises
! is a constant surprise to me.
The Jefferson, Iowa, Bee tells how
George Smith sold his shepherd dog, Min
ME, to man at Rolfe, 100 miles distant
| She was taken to Grand Junction and
| there put on board the baggage car and
taken to the new home. Last THURSDAY,
worn out and footsore, with foot OF
4 f,rop hoy
/ came back She was about as near ;"all
/ in" as a dog can get, but it is said that
| human gladness is nowhere to the joy she
showed when she met her. two puppies,
from which she had been. SO cruelty sepa-
rated. -. - &C
/ Can love like that be annihilated? No
sir! We expect to meet our dog IN
| heaven and the glad wag of his frenzied
tail is going to be one Of the happies
And why not? why should heaven be
such an unnatural place? George Bern.
ard Shaw described kind Of HEAVIER
that we are trying to dodge. He SAID:
At every one of these concerts IN England 80
will find rows Of weary people who are there
not because they really like classical music. Du
because they think they ought to like 1t. Wen
there Is the thing In heaven, A number O.
people sit there In glory, not because they ar
happy, but because they think they owe 1t t
their position to be in heaven. They are almos
all English. 49,.
It is not humorous thing, but al
actual fact that there are people VIII
consider heaven a sort OF glorlhed Nes
port, R. l., to which they have tree entr
. as member Of "our set
There are a whole lot of us going t
have the disappointment OF our lives "ne
, we die. 49, sz .s.s.s.- ........ IL.
OF course we think that We are a
4 right, but we DO fear for the other Eel
, lows "A. ]. R.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
AN ENGLISH FISH STORY

A circumstantial fish story is told by the
London Daily News. The captain Of the
steamer Benalder Of Leith, on a voyage
to China, threw a bundle of old letters
overheard in the Mediterranean. Some
Spanish fishermen of Aguilas, near Car
tagena, later caught a large fish, and on
opening it, found bundle of letters in
side. They took this to the mayor who
managed to decipher in one the name and
address of the superintendent of the
steamship line in London, and thus to
restore the letters to their owner.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
The Governor and the senatorship

The Governor and the Senatorship,
A paragraph In Minnesota politics In
e%Journal a day or two ago to the
effect that Governor Van SAINT was a can
didate for the senate in the disguise OF a
third termer fell under the eye Of the gov
ernor and he has given T h e Journal
an interview which is published to-day.
The governor very emphatically repudf-
ates the insinuation that he has any pur-
pose Of being candidate for the senate.
He has no designs on" Senator Clapp's
place.
1t is to be hoped that the Crookston
Times will have the; good manners to pub
lish the governors interview and take
him at his word. He certainly is entitled
to besso taken until he has done some
thing to Justify different view Of the
matter. ;
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
BY THE SIGHT OF TOLL

Bill Smith was over six feet tall,
And weighed two hundred pounds.
You couldn't find a huskier man
In all the country round.
His appetite was always good;
Ills throat was always dry;
At night lie slept full ten hours,
To wake IN feeling spry,
And make the hotcakes fly.
Bill's wife was quite little thing,
And never had been strong,
But day by day size toiled away,
And somehow rubbed along.
She always had the cottage neat,
Her meals were something fine.
She split the wood and did the chores,
OF languor showed no sign,
But filled the washing line.
/ Now Bill he had no steady work,
And cursed the wealthy nobs,
So one day Jack the s.wmill boss.
Gave him a choice OF jobs:
But at the very sight Of toll,
Bill suddenly felt queer.
His limbs were all a-tremble at
A job of work SO near,
He had to run for beer. z
Portland oregonia
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
THE FASHION SPREADS

~ -. Judge.
20, DOCTOR moaned the suffering young
woman, II have such an excruciating
pain in my side!"
"Um-yes. What seems to be the ma
ture Of the pain?' asked the physician
Does it cover the side, or is 1t confined
to one spot?"
TT scenes to be scattered all over" ex-
planned the patient; ''just as If it were
In a hundred little spots all at once
.tAh," unused the physician. "This cor
roborates my theory of the influence OF
current fashions upon the human system
You have what we, would colloquially term
g. drop-stitch in, the side" A~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

coming to see it as we'll; and when they
do, there will be no more lynchings.
I believe with Uncle joe" that we will
be cured Of the lynching mania; but mine
is not blind faith that 'things will come
out right somehow" Il believe in God
the Father Almighty" I believe He is
at work in the world. T believe He Is
working thru such papers as h e j r
a to raise mems minds to a higher
conception Of the best way to deal with
an erririg brother.
John Nordholm.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

The millers' strike affords an excellent
opportunity for everybody to keep cool
and do nothing that will unnecessarily COM
plicate further very unfortunate situa-
ton. II we had advice to give, we should
hesitate about giving it just now, when
neither side appears to be in frame of
mind to listen to any outside suggestions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

The promptness with which James
Hayes the colored boy charged with Grim
inal assault upon little white girl, has
been brought to trial is extremely crafty
ing. The moral effect Of such expedition,
together with the guarantee of every right
Of defense which the law provides, will
be exceedingly wholesome: much more
so than any penalty inflicted by mob law
no matter how richly deserved.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

The Journa would be glad to re-
ceive by mall, or otherwise, the names OF
all persons who were readers and sub
scrIbers to this paper when 1t started,
twenty-five years ago this fall, or VINO
became subscribers during the first year
o. Its existence. and their present ad'
dresses.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

Our police service is costing us less per
capita than the averages Of American
cities, and our electric lighting is costing
us more. These facts might well be kept
In mind in making up the estimates for
next years municipal budget. W
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

District Attorney Jerome, who has
been believing and clustering around New
York against the denomination of Mayor
Low, woke up this morning to realiza-
ton of the fact that the people Of New
York who stand for good government have
not been paying much attention to him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

King Edward seems to have thrown
the people Of Great Britain into state
of open-eyed surprise by acting in this
cabinet crisis as II he had concluded that
there was no use Of being king unless he
works at the business himself.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
THURSDAY EVENING,

people Of the eastern and middle states.
who still need something Of that kind oc-
casionally, that Minnesota is not q cold
and barren region, but fertile and pro-
ductive state and capable Of yielding
fruits of superior quality and great va.
riety, as we'll as grains. 1t is worth while
to have the country at large know that
Minnesota has broken the record in the
production of apple seedlings.
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SOME GREAT MEN WHO LOVED THEIR WIVES

Few great men have paid more enthusi-
astic tributes to their wives than Tom
Hood and probably few wives have better
deserved such homage.
you will Think he wrote to her in one
of his letters, "that am more foolish than
any boy-lover; and I plead guilty. For
never was a wooer so young of heart and
so stepped in love as I; but 1t is love
sanctitied and strengthened by long years
of experience May God ever bless my
darling-the sweetest, most helpful angel
who ever stopped to bless a man." Flas
there ever, we wonder, lived wife to
Whorna a. NOR, delicate and beautiful tri-i
butte was paid than those verses, of which
the burden is, 'Islove, I love thee, tbs
all that can say. 2s..=
IT want thee much,'' Nathaniel Haw-
thorne wrote to his wife, many years at
ter his long patience had won fer him
the flower that was lent from heaven to
show the possibilities Of the human soul .
Thou art, the only person in the world
that ever was necessary TO me. And now
am only myself when thou art within my
reach. Thou art an unSpeakably beloved
woman .,-.s. ~
Sophia Hawthorne was little better than
| chronic invalid and it may be that this
physical weakness woke all the deep chiv-
airy and tenderness of the man. And he
aled devotion in the atmosphere of love
and happiness and inspiration" with
| which his delicate wife always surrounded
him. a
The welded life of Wadsworth with his
cousin, "the phantom Of delight" was a
poem more exquisitely beautiful than any
his pen ever wrote. Mrs. Wadsworth was
never fair to look upon, but she had that
| ,,t1y of xx,bi cI,
! made her life ''center of sweetness to
all around her. 'All that she has been to
me- the poet once said in his latter days
none but God and myself can ever
know and 1t would be difficult to find a
more touching and beautiful picture ir
the galleryso of great mems lives than that
of Wadsworth and his wife, both bowed
under the burden Of, many years and al
most blind, walking hand in hand to.
| gether in the garden with all the blissfu
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

Ruth Bryan is said to have bolted the
parental platform when she declared her
matrimonial preferences. And everybody
knows what her dad thinks Of boilers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

One of the most valuable assets of or
ganized labor is an established reputa-
ton for keeping it's agreements. Mitchell
breaches this doctrine and practices it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
THE PRAIRIE FIRE

High aloft floats my banner of light,
Aglow in the midnight sky. ~, 81
Its folds are the folds of the crimson cloud,
While below in the grass am I,
Where my twinkling lines Of flame creep on,
Till their light grows dim in the light of dawn
And grandly rises my pillar Of cloud
In the calm of the autumn day,
When the prairies sleep in the sunshine warm
And the winds are still as they.
Then creep up the coulee's swelling side,
And crisp the stalk where the wild flower died.
Then as the breezes gently stir
spread DER the upland wide,
And my drifting cloud of pearly smoke
Is the maze In which hide;
And none can tell where my bright flames are
In that battling haze, whether near or far.
Hark, there's a breath Of storm in the air;
A shudder thru the grass.
A gray veil creeps DER the darkening sky;
And soon will the wild winds pass
To moan Ger the upland and shrill thru the
sedge,
Where the rushes and reeds fringe the marsh's
edge.
Leap, my flames, in the freshening galel
O, prairies, you're mine. you're minei
Ere the Indian came. or the buffalo herd,
! was master of thee and thine;
And none that follow can wrest from me
The tribute claim as my due from thee.
All! together they come. they come!
The roar Of the tempest, the night.
Shines the glare of my lurid light.
AS speed down the seething roaring swale,
Where my flames keep pace with the sweeping
gale.
Once more am king of my own domain,
Ny forces are swift as fear, go
And never king led a wilder charge IS
With Death his charioteer-
| Make way for the King and his hosts, make
| way! ss4
All, where is the power than can bid me stay,
On! while the startled heavens hame
And the rushing storm-winds blow.
On! till we come where the time-worn hills
Guard the silent rivers flow,
| And pause where their rock-seamed walls CLEAN
white
In the gray OF the cold dawn's pallid light.
! I pass to wait till my spirit lists
To scourge the plain once more.
| leave the grass to carpet with green
j My trail Ger the prairie floor.
1 While far to the south drifts my smoky haze,
The charm Of the Indian Summer days.
/ Charles G.. Taylor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

The ourna al would also be pleased
to have the Nance OF men living who
were newsboys In Minneapolis twenty
five years ago, and their present ad-
dressed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24

A contemporary speaks Of the "objec-
ton to the new home rule law as a1source
of danger to new charter. It hardly
seems necessary to worry about that. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
JUsTTHINk OF 1T
Des Moines Capital

Des Moines Capital.
4 It would be joke if Mr.. Bryan and
Mr.. Clarke, on their stumping tour thru
Ohio, should forget what they are about
and get into a, joint debate.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL

not from legitimate use but as a result OF
this ridiculous and unbusiness-like mu-
nicipal policy. which cannot be abandoned
too soon.