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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Booth Buried In the Potomac.
the Editor Of The Journal

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TO the Editor Of The Journal.
Under date of June 8 you publish in
The Journal Of same date a press
telegram from Enid, Okla, under the cap
ton OF Strange Story This" which gives
q circumstantial account OF the identihca-
ton Of one George, a suicide as Junius
Brutus Booth, the assassin of Abraham
Lincoln.
1t is an absurdity as old as the death OF
Booth by the rife of the soldier who
shot him in a moment Of misguided zeal.
/. At the time of the assassination Of
President Lincoln I was in the service of
the United States sanitary commission
and stationed at City Point. Va My
duties took me often to Washington, our
principal depot of supplies. AT the time
of the capture of Booth I was in the city.
Complete mystery attached to the dispo-
sition made of the body Of the assassin,
the authorities rtghtfully wishing to avoid
all sensational announcements or any pub
Hcity that would add to the excitement
or lead to unpleasant demonstrations
The story was then started that 1t was
not Booth. after all. that had been shot.
II 1t were, why not expose the remains?
An old friend of mine. DR.. Henry A.
Smith, long since dead, was then on duty
as assistant surgeon upon a gunboat at
this time lying in the stream off the
United States arsenal below the city.
$50 OAioA IDLY upOil t10 SSISSt
While the excitement was running high
over the matter, and of course, spoke Of
1T to him, knowing that his boat was on
patrol service on the lower river.
He smiled and said: Don't let that
worry you. l was on the medical boat
that made the autopsy and had my own
| finger in the bullets hole that caused
Booths death. All the particulars Of the
| examination, he added, were made up in
due form for the department of justice
and duly attested. The body was then
wrapped In blanket, a shot placed at
It's feet, and 1t was slid overheard into the
Potomac, beyond the reach of friend or
1 foe.''
It was the silence and mystery attend
Ing this appropriate disposition of the un-
happy monomaniac's remains that gave
rise to the curious story of mistaken iden-
| tity Strangest of all Is the resurrection
OF the Idle conjecture after an oblivion oil
1 thirty eight years, to make the sensation
OF day. The unsoldierly conduct Of the
man Boston In shooting Booth without
| orders when his capture alive was as
sured, has rendered it forever impossible
4 to get at the true story Of that great con
spiracy Of murder Of which Mr.. Lincoln
was the only victim. But all that mer
! could do to get at the bottom facts was
done In the great trial Of the conspirators
/ and there is no doubt to-day but thai
| substantial justice was done in the find
ings Of the court. There the matter
/ ought to rest.
| A. M. sperry.
| Was1oja, Mimi, June 4, 1903,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
Chicago Journal.

CnlCaSO journal.
The faculty of being able to adjust one 8
self to circumstances is excellently illus
trated in the career Of Herbert S. Mills,
a business man of Chicago, who has just
completed a years confinement in the
county Jail. Rta
Mr.. Mills was unfortunate enough, in
the transaction Of his business, to send
matter thru the mails that was deemed
Improper by the federal authorities. He
accepted his fate philosophicolly, was
driven to the jail by his coachman, and,
instead Of idlings away the time in fret
ting and chatting, began the study of So
GEOLOGY and penology, not from books but
as he saw them day by day within his
prison.
During the whole year Mr.. Mills worked
In the midst Of tragedies and trouble such
as the great public gets glimpses of thru
the newspapers. ~! He learned the inner
histories of hundred of seamy lives; he
became acquainted with fearful. broken
hearted wives. children and, sweethearts
as they visited the JAIL he gained a
mental grasp on the under world such as
comes to few in his station. But that
was not all he did. From the first day
of his confinement Mr.. Mills became "a
practical philanthropist. Dozens o1
families that might have gone hungry and
neglected were provided for out of his
purse. A number of cases that he
thought deserving were carried to the
higher courts. Lawyers were retained fol
penniless prisoners. Mr.. Mills financed
the Improvement Journal, and In all, &C.
cordtng to Jailer Whitman, spent nearlS
$1,000 for the betterment of mankind dur.
ing the year in jail.
Mr.. Mills is an interesting lesson Ii
versatility. He saw an opportunity ant
seized it. Perhaps his original motive
was to save himself from ennui, but ,ht
| speedily found his studies absorbing
Granted much liberty within the Jail, h,
became as indefatigab1e a worker as Mr.
| Whitman himself.
Now Mr.. Mills has emerged, and In
stead of bearing the stain Of disgrace, h
is greeted as a hero, is banqueted in state
and received back into society with opel
arms. When he went to jail Mr.. Mill
was known merely as a local bushes
man. He comes out with a reputation
that extends over the country.
There are many stepping stones to fam
1 even the county iail
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05

The university regents seem to have
shaken things up at the big institution in
a bewildering way. They have abolished
the art department and likewise expert
mental psychology; to cut down expenses,
it is said. AS the saving will not be a
great oneS the public is entitled to guess
that the departments named were abol-
ished for other reasons. The regents
censor very rigidly press reports of their
transactions. This, we think, is mis-
taken policy. We can understand why it
would not be well for the regents to hold
public meetings, but they ought to give
their conclusions to the public without
reserve. It is a bad thing for a state in
stitution when the impression gets abroad
that its management is unwilling to take
responsibility for its acts.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
..rHE PEACH" HAD BEEN GATHERED
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
The Nonpareil Man.
Casually Observed.

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
sHREwsRuRYs CELEBRATION

The ancient English town of Shrews-
bury will devote a week in July to cele-
bration of the 500th anniversary of it's
great battle, which occurred on July 81,
1903. The celebration will begin on Sum
day, the 18th, with a ppropriate services
In the old Abbey church. The next few
days there will be performances of erich
ard H., Henry w. Henry "" and
The Merry Wives of Windsor by Ben
sons Shaksperean company The central
figure OF the whole celebration will be the
lat knight who was never in Shrewsbury,
II, indeed, he ever existed. Hotspur, the
two Henrys and Douglas will take second
place to the immortal Falstaff
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05

The crowding of Englishmen into cities
IS having marked effect in the physical
deterioration OF the common people. In
ls45 only los recruits per thousand were
below feet inches in height; now the
number is 565. The average height of
English soldiers now is less than feet
8 inches and the average weight less tina n
l25 pounds. While the English are ret
regarding in physique the French, Ger
mans and Austrians are improving. and
the Improvement is attributed to the
physical exercise enforced by compulsory
military service.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
STORY OF HIS FIRST EDITORIAL"

Mason in
still the
all
society sush for the
was known
considerable dignity This became my hero
chair sat and mould public opinion was th
tob his editorials hopeless
had not
editorial subject which
him
at hies but
the
IMuset'
Of
unchanged joy
in editorials the
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working he
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05

The millers have decided to give wide
publicity to Professor Harry snyders In
vestigations Of the food value OF wheat
flour Professor Snyder's work exploded
the all too prevalent idea that the eater
of white bread Is sacrificing his health to
his palate. The public has been served
with SO much ex parte testimony against
white wheat flour that it really behooves
the millers to take up a campaign Of
education in behalf Of their much abused
commodity
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
THE GHOST THAT FAILED

Chicago Journal.
Brown is a very good fellow; but, alas
he has one bad habit. It is that of never
reaching home until the small hours 4of
the morning.
But one day last week Mrs. B. hit upon
a PLAN If she could not persuade him out
of the habit, perhaps she could frighten
him out of it. And, consequently, when
he reached home that night he was con-
fronted by a tall, white-s hrouded figure,
which glided toward him.
Wh-wh- w what's that? gasped poor
Brown.
Il am the family ghost!'' replied a Sc
pulchral voice.
Brown heaved sight Of relief
Great Scott!'' he said. How you
frightened met thought it was the
missus!'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
SHE HAD HIM Clicked

herself
One the circle had the
still Worrying their bone the London Out
lo.h
behind him. the novelist significantly said think
Fredera OF
bank what Fcka? My Fredercka
judicial
himself
Come here
snail ell mew Frederick is
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
HUXLEY ON THE BISHOPS

Among the recently published Essays
Of John Fiske'' (the Macmillans) are some
delightful "reminiscences Of Huxley, at
whose house Mr. Fiske was frequent
visitor during his. stay in London. Here
is one of these charming and illuminative
stories:
Gin an examination on anatomy very
Scallow lad got the valves of the heart
wrong, putting the mftral on the right
SIDE but Huxley took compassion on him
with the remark, Poor little beggar! /
never got them correctly myself until ]
reflected that a bishop was never in the
right -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
MODERN coNvENlENcEs in. ALPS

The monks Of St. Bernard have taken
advantage Of modern inventions in their
work OF saving lives. Ten days ago two
Swiss alpenists started out to go to the
hospice. Half way up they were over
taken by a snow storm and lost their
way. After. wandering around the summit
for several hours they came across one Of
the new shelters built by the monks. In
it they found bread, cheese, wine, spirit
lamp and telephone. With the latter
they called UP the hospice and asked for
help. BY the time they had finished a
good meal q monk and dog arrived to
show them the way. The telephone at
these shelters has saved many lives during
the past winter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05

Politically unripe population" is a
phrase used by the St. Petersburg Novoc
Vremya in speaking of the. United States.
This is good coming from a country
where the people do not exist at all po-
lltically. The Novoe Vremya is wrong IN
supposing that there is deep seated
prejudice in this country against Russia
On the contrary, there has ever since the
civil war been a bias in her favor, but
1t is not strong enough to cause us to
overlook such a horr:d atrocity as the
Kishinef massacre.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
THOMAS CARLYLE AND HIS WIFE
London Outlook.

London Outlook.
AS married couple they were indeed
to be pitied if the world had known it.
They were childless, and therefore half
the world was dark to them. No man can
be a sage" who has no children A
barren woman is like half story. Let
her be ever so clever, so literary so witty,
when 1t comes to the essentials of life
she is open to the retort, How do you
know? And so it was with the Carlyles
in their unsatisfying world of literary
eminence. Pity them, gentle reader!
When they shut the doors of their sew
eral bed rooms at night a mouse might
not squeak or a fly buzz but they must
start full awake in the blessed dark and
moralize, the one on eternity and the
other on Thomas.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05

I think it is a mistake for American
railways to haul wheat any cheaper than
they do flour" says Paul Morton, second
vice president Of the Santa Fe Now if
the millers will just fill all the railway
management offices in the country with
men like Mr.. Morton their troubles will
be over
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
AT THE THEATERS
Foyer Chat.

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Large audiences continue to greet the
excellent presentation of David Belasco' S
new play, 'Du Barry by Mrs: Leslie
Carter and her talented associates at the
Metropolitan. Performances tonight and
tomorrow AFTERNOON and evening will
close Mrs. Carriers season, the company
going direct from here to New York. After
Tomorrow nights performance the Metro
poiltan viii be closed for several months,
during Which extensive repairs will be
made.
Lovers of melodrama find much to their
liking at the Bijou this week, where "Over
the Niagara Falls" is the attraction The
scenic equipment is elaborate, the main
feature being the sensational representa-
ton of Niagara Falls
Russian mobiles, soldiers, serfs, members
OF the secret police and taskmasters in
the Russian mines and political convicts
will throng the stage of the Bijou next
week when the now Russo Siberian play
For Her Sake win be the attraction.
closing the season at this playhouse.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
THE BOOKSELLERS ANSWER TO K1PLING

who OF
He thin and
bookselg
rs this good?
bookseller he said don't
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05

Hereafter nobody will get diploma at
the University Of Minnesota unless he
can spell. The faculty would make the
requirement a little easier if it would
adopt The Journal spelling re-
form.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05

GOLDEN FLEECE. THE AMERICAN ADvEN-
TUREs OF A FORTUNE HUNTING EARL.
By David Graham Phillips. New. York: Nc
Clure, Phillips & Co. Minneapolis: N. Nc
Carthy. Price $1.50.
There are some very recognizable and
amusing portrayals In this book of the
fortune hunting titled foreigner in this
case an Englishman, and of the American
who has made himself or thinks he has
made himself, into an Englishman, ito
the manner BORN in dress, speech and
manners. Mr.. Langview and Charles
Sidney are interesting types Of the latter
made a toboggan slide down to his last
seventy pounds and, under such condi-
lions, he went after the Golden Fleece in
New York and Chicago and found it in
Miss Dorvie, who had the millions in
sight, made Sin trade,'' as the English
say. The duke did not mind the way
those millions were made. Duke George
then helped his younger brother, who
was furnishing for money, to a fortune and
the whole business of buying and selling
titles is displayed panoramically, with
some exaggerations and large amount of
generalization wrongly substituted for
specialization. The amount of fashion
able English slang is intolerable and the
profanity of the men In the presence of
ladies in the ancestral halls is, as the
English say, ''beastly.'' The Earl Of
rockingham was in chronic state Of
surprise over the things he saw and heard
in this country. He was made much Of.
altho poor and monotonous, but, as Wal
lingford said: IF he were plain, poor.
incapable, rather dull American, is there
one of us that would waste five minutes
with him?''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
FOLKS TROPHIES


Another six5year sentence for bribery in
lSt. Louis! Joseph w. Folks string Of
lscalps IL becoming q long one.
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70 MISSOURI, FOR ALLTWE CARE

st. I,epis Star.
The Minneapolis Journal says: Bryan
will bolt In heavens name, where to?
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05

: ST. Paul includes most of Ramsey
county, but according to the application
for wolf bounties there are more wolves
in Ramsey than in frontier Mile Lacs
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
NEW BOOKS
HIS DAUGHTER FIRST. By Arthur 81

HIS DAUGHTER FIRST. By Arthur sherburne
Hardy, author of "But tea Woman "Passe
Rose" etc. Boston, Houghton, Mifhin &
Co. Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy. Price, 81 so.
The author of this fine story has
achieved a fair literary reputation by his
former books. He has been transferred
from his post as minister to Switzerland
to Bellamy Storers position at Madrid
as minister to Spain where he will, no
doubt, produce his masterpiece. In His
Daughter First" Mr.. Hardy shows himself
most able portrayer Of certain phases
Of American society, conspicuous among
the people being gambler in stocks, who
has two charming women in love with
him, one Of them the daughter of Jack
Temple. the conspicuous man of action in
the story. We have for a heroine Mrs.
Kensett, one of those lovely, gentle
women, who always want something to
lean upon and generally find it. She was
widow and her investment of consid-
cradle portion of her fortune in Argonaut
mining stock on the advice Of Mr.. Head,
the Spectator and promoter, influences
largely the trend of events in the story.
Jack Temple extricates Mrs. Kensett out
of a per1lous situation induced by her
thoughtless mining stock investment and
"Argonaut" figures thereafter interest
ingly. Mr.. Hardy has gracefully and elab-
orately developed strong interest around
tHe lHclueHt OF Tempe love LOT MRS.
Kensett, her reciprocated feeling, his pro-
posal of marriage, and her refusal on the
ground that Temples daughter did not
like the prospect Of her fathers marriage,
and so the marriage was suspended in the
air until the trouble was overcome. Tenn
pie had determined that between anger
ing his daughter and persisting in his
pursuit of Mrs. Kensett he would recog-
nize his daughters claim first, but this
determination weakened when he found
his daughter passionately in love with
Head, the Spectator, and he himself
somewhat dependent on Head for sue
cessful manipulation of Argonaut stock.
There are other characters who figure
subordinately, and, as a study of character
and temperaments the book is certainly
a brilliant success. Paul Graham and
Margaret Frazer and Miss Gaunt are in
teresting studies by themselves.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05

come-on advertisement In the papers In that
vicinity, said he could cure him as easy as
lying. This human magnet discovered that
Krings had $3.50, and he told him that with
this amount on his person he ought to be
cured quickly. He got him to place the
money in an envelop next to his heart for
three days. The "cure'' not having appeared
in this period of time, the Magnetic Marvel
soon had 1t figured out that the fund Of
wealth was shy on vibrations" and he per-
suaded Krings to let him have the money to
sleep on for a night so that he might thoroy
magnetic 1t. Krings gave UP his wealth like
child, and in the possession Of the strong
armed man the money became so active that
it skipped out Of town over night, dragging
the magnetic doctor with it. The magnets
trunk was checked to Minneapolis. Sheriff
Lins Of Winona county has been seen visit
ing friends in this vicinity, and should he
happen to detect anybody on the streets CIV
ing out sparks or drawing nails out Of the
billboards as he walks by, he will be slapped
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05

THE SINS OF A SAINT. By ]. r. Aitkin. au~
thor of 'tLove in Its Tenderness New York:
D. Appleton & Co.
This is a romance of the tenth century,
when yet the kingdom won by Alfred
the Great was still the dominant power in
England. It details the career of Osbae,
a prince of the blood royal, who had be-
begun, to make hideous record of i'm
morality and who was sent by Dunstan,
the primate.. to monastery to be re-
formed. The sequel shows that Osbae,
instead of being led into g, pure and holy
life, became very fiend in carnal lust and
came to grief. Incidentally the effort of
Dunstan to bring the English church un
der the complete authority of the bishop
of Rome is interestingly detailed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-05
A STUDY IN ADAPTABILlTY.

n -T1T|- ~ 3IIs OPOl J
Wasioja, Mimi, June 4. 1903.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
PROGRAMME OF SPORTS TODAY.

RACING-At Morris Park. Louisville St and
Worth
RASERAII-National League-Pittsburg at New-York
Cincinnati Brooklyn, Chicago at Boston St Louis
Cleveland Boston Detroit Philadelphia Louis
Washington at Chicago. Other games-Harvard at
University of Pennsylvania, Cornell at Princeton. Holy
Cross at Yale 18th Regiment at Annapolis, New-York
university at Hartford. Williams Tufts LAFAYETTE
at Carlisle Union at Wesleyan Rutgers at Ursinus
Iehigh Fordham
IACRoSsE-Harvard Crescent Athletic Club. Colum-
bia at Stevens
porO-Finals Squadron A trophies Van Cortandt
Park p m
ATFI .ETICS.-Princeton Columbia. dual meet, at
south Fled; Rutgers IS. New-fork University at
Ohio Field; University of Pennsylvania Cornell
dual meet; irterschoastic meet. New-Haven.
championships, Princeton pre-
paratory schools Princeton; doubles, at Columbia.
CRICFlET-arvard at Eyeritt, University Of PennsyI-
yanfa at Philadelphia Cricket CLUB Kings County Va
New-Jersey at Prospect Park
ROWING-Yale freshmen against Columbia freshmen
Lake Whitney. Conn.
ptia al Merton Cricket Club; Garden City, team
match with Princeton Dyker Meadow. second monthly
handicap: Elizabeth, match with South Orange:
Presidents Cup; Richmond Hill, handl-
can foursones qualifying round; St Andrews second
monthly handicap: Hillside. Golf Committee Cup and
. Somen;s handicap: YouHtakah. handicap; ArJIsIey
handicap match Fngewood. handicap Class II and
team match with Yale; Essex County. team match
yvtn FoxI Hills: Princeton team match with Cornell:
TTaWorth scratch competition for Copeland Cup West
field serii-hnal round OF spring tournament; Inns
Field club boyle competition North Jersey. Gov
ernnrs' CUP: Colonia Presidents Secretary
cups and class events; Nassau. club team match
seni-fnals; Kingston. team match with Powelton.
match with County; Oakland monthly handi-
cap: Fox Hills, boyle handicap.