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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-04
Left for Home.

He left Chicago the following day
and arrived here last Saturday very
i'll. His condition. became critical yes
terday. He sank rapidly and passed
away at $3.50 this morning
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-04
seoretary Shaw Going East.

Boone, Ia. Dec. 4.-SecretaTy of the
Treasury Shaw and Mrs. Shaw stopped
in this city on their return trip to
Washington.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
Books and Authors
POPULAR NovEL SALES,

Fyyy.3 - lss Ri . -
me Bookman recently requested
number OF publishers III popular move,
TO state the actual salesof the same, as
2 check on the conflicting, figures pub
silsned. It appears from these pub ishers'
statements, the correctness of which they
vouch Tor, that MRS. Wigs Of the Cab
page Patch has sold UP to Feb l, to the
extent Of 100000 copies and has been
exceeded In sales only by Hall Caine's
Ihe Eternal City which sold to the ex-
t t.sll OF 80. 700 copies, and Churchill's
The Crisis" 100000 copies. Even 1.-THE
Hound OF the Baskervilles'' records but
o., obS copies. and the publishers of
AUDREY, admit 10000 for that fine
novel, The Leopard's Spots scores it's
nlnety-fourth thousand; THE, Virginian."
100000; "The Two Vanrevels, 80,154;5
The Cavalier" 100 900; a"Captain Mack
lin, 70, 900. It is noticeable that the
novels OF American authors sell better
than any English novel, even s The
Eternal City," for Churchill's THE
Crisis beats that by 10000 copies.
Americans have for thirty years past been
reading America n novels increa singly,
while formerly they largely assumed that
only English nove1ists could produce
stories worth reading. This tendency to
TURN to American novels is entirely JUS
tilted by their increasingly good quality.
IN England there is no little criticism Of
English readers because they are in
creasingly demanding the publication of
American novels. ....k e" .-.,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
THE MAGAZINES.

The Municipal Journal and Engineer
contains special Illustrated articles on
street pavements, full Of practical in
formation by expert engineers, who dis
cuss the: respective merits of asphalt
black stone, bitulithic, wood, coal tar and
brick pavements and paVements for towns
and small cities. The department Of
is of special interest and there are valu-
able papers on the firemen of New Zea-
land. London's motor fire engine, and New
York's fire service, the latter showing the
progress in fire engine construction from
the old hand engine to the modern steam
er. (New York: No. 253 Broadway
Masters in Art for March is devoted to
Jean Antoine Watteau, the distinguished
painter Of the French school, whose genius
raised him from extremely humble Cir
cumstances to be master of his art in
France. His creative genius gave inspira-
ton to the eighteenth century painters
He was thoroughly French in his style.
Pearsons publishes the first hapters of
Cyrus Townsend Brady's blood curdling
romance, 'Sir Henry Morgan-Bucaneer
There is fine tribute to Uncle Joe Cam
non, who will handle the gavel in the new
house of representatives. .-L.-,-.... 81.
Ainslee's is az notable success as "a
magazine of clever fiction as it announces
itself upon it's title page. Th%e are stor-
les by Governeur Morris, Mrs. Poultney
Bigelow, Joel Chandler Harris Ella Peat
tie and other we'll known writer's, and the
spring poets are getting out their ink
horns. 3(New York: 1856 Fifth avenue)
The Smart Sets completed novel is
t'Kersalec' by Justus Miles Forman. who
makes plain, the unrest and instability Of
two married women, one of whom watches
her husband perish in the sea through a
spy glass, and confesses her love for Cap
tain Berkeley in the hour of her release.
There are some capital short stories in
the number. ,s< abe
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
The Facts Are Enough.

Now that the true inwardness Of the
Minnesota Horsebreeders'f association and
it's designs on the state fair grounds have
been so thoroughly exposed it is incon-
ceivabIe that the legislature will give seri-
Gus consideration to the bill to turn the
grounds over to the association. The
evil Of the proposition, which is nothing
less than a proposition to 1egalize in Min
nesota form of gambling the state has
prospered without, is so apparent, that
no legislative body animated by honest
motives and having the good of the state
at heart would dream of accepting it.
To US it seems that any further exhor-
tation to the legislature to do it's duty will
imply the assumption that that body is
not to be trusted alone with silverware or
anything else of value. For our part, we
are confident that the statement Of the
undisputed facts has settled the disreput-
able gambling bill it and it's evil purpose
and sneaking methods.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
A Bucket.Shop Boomerang.

A freakish mood possessed, or obsessed,
the lower house Of the legislature yester-
day and it voted the bucket shops up and
the Chamber Of Commerce down.
After the committee on general legisa-
ton had voted down the Gjertsen anti
bucket-shop bill, it reported substitute
abolishing all option dealings in grain,
stock or provisions for future delivery.
This extraordinary proceeding seemed to
have many friends in the house, and
among them, we regret to say were some
Minneapolis members.
One Of these, Representative George w.
Armstrong, fastened to expose to the
public view his limited knowledge on the
subject by saying that all dealing in flu
lures was gambling. These gentlemen
would have different view Of the situa-
ton one day after their foolish bill be-
came law, if it could really be enforced.
AS an object lesson such a law would be
a good thing, If it were not so costly.
But, for this anti-option bill and the
resolution to Investigate the Minneapolis
Chamber that body itself is not blame
less. It is perfectly plain that the anti
option measure. is retort to the anti
bucket-shop measure which was pushed by
the chamber. AS practical business men
the chamber members made a mistake
when they undertook to secure anti-buck-
et-shop legislation. We have nothing to
say In favor Of the bucket shops, but many
people don't know the difference between
a chamber Of commerce and bucket
shop, and to them it was easy to argue
that the bucket-shop bill was merely the
attempt of one set OF spectators to head
off another set. That is the way the mat
ter seems to have appealed to certain
members of the legislature. If the bucket
shops are gambling institutions, pure and
simple. let them be proceeded against as
| such by the proper authorities. but it is
dangerous business for anyone to interfere
| with a suckers divine right to chuck his
money into any rat-hole he 'fancies.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
IN. A. STRANGE LAND.
Scottish American

; *~-s.. III, Scottish Amercan. - O."
A Scottish tourist wandering about the
streets of Paris, some distance from his
llotel.> found himself in maze from
which he could not escape, and. to; make
things worse. he failed through Ignorance
of the language to get any light toaguide
him hom eward.. %% : -,
Then a happy thought struck him. BY
:dint Of signs he concluded bargain with
a fruit hawker for$ a basketball of goose
berries, and then to the Amusement Of
everybody went about shouting: Zine
Scotch grossets! A penny a punt, This
went on for awhile. till a fellow country
man rushed forward to him. and seizing
him roughly by the shoulder asked: s.
mon, dye think we're in the streets Of
Glasca, that We gang about like a mailman,
crying grossets? Pr; 7'''
''Ech' he replied, with sense Of re-
lief, 'sYere just the mon was looking for.
Dye Ken the way: to the hotel ----?,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25

ton Of this bill is to be taken as an in
dication that there is any more reason
Just now why bonds should be Srequired
than there has been heretofore; as q.
matter Of fact, we are inclined to believe.
that there is less reason forsssuch re-
quiremer,t now than at some other time
not so very remote. but beginning had
to he made some time. There Is no rea-
son to assume that the members Of the
house will take any, exception to this
proposition. The county will buy the
bonds. The members Of the board, if they
will eliminate their personal interest in
the matte rare bound to concede that as a
business proposition this bill Is right.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
A MEETING OF HEROES


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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25

It IS difficult to explain Fred D. Under
woods remarks excusing ex-Mayor A1nes
on any other ground than that Mr.. I'm
derwood has been away a. long time and
does not understand the facts. This city
has been disgraced and all the people in
lt-shamefully disgraced and outraged in
their confidence and self-respect and good
name. The one man who made this pos
sible, as they believe, and more than anv
one else to blame for the disgrace is
the man whom Mr.. Underwood seeks to
justify. 1t must be that Mr.. Underwood
is not posted.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
ROLE OF THE LAMB.
Aberdeen Is. D.l News,

William R. Hearst has finally over
come that shrinking modesty of which
some newspapers claimed he was pos
sessed, and has consented to attend
the Des Moines banquet at which his
candidacy for the presidency, is to be
formally launched. It is quite a trial
for one Of Willie's shy disposition to
attend an affair of that kind, but he
realizes that for his countrys sake he
must sacrifice his own inclination and
obey the call of his party, which sore
" needs a lamb for the slaughter
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
Rhode Islands Shame.

The public is familiar with the political
depravity Of Delaware.. The New York
Post is now showing up Rhode Island as
a state that can hardly afford to call Del.
aware black. Between it's 4old-fashioned
constitution the corruption of it's voters
and the venality Of it's political leaders,
the little, old state is SO sunken in the
mire of boss rule that it can hardly be
said to have a republican form of gov
ernment. The political degradation Of the
state has actually reached such a point of
desperation that good citizens coolly pro-
pose to fight fire with fire, that Is, brib-
cry with bribery. They say that there is
no hope for that constitutional reform
which is an essential Of marked improve 4
ment unless the reformers are prepared to
buy majority Of the state senate The
state has been sold into bondage to the
bosses, they say, and must be ransomed
out. Comment is not necessary; that
proposition speaks more than volumes for
the political decadence of Rhode Island.
The citadel of corrupt bossism in Rhode
Island is the constitutional provision that
assigns senators to towns instead Of to
districts Of equal population. The con-
sequence is that twenty towns with only
$500 voters have twenty votes in the SEN
ate against one for Providence with 90, $50
voters. Here is rich prospect for the
corrupt boss. All he has to do to get the
state by the throat is to control a majority
of the voters in those twenty towns or,
even less, to control enough voters to give
him majority. General Charles r. Bray
ton, the republican boss Of Rhode Island,
has that control. The result is that he
runs the state, even though there is a
reform democratic governor: there is no
veto in Rhode Island. Brayton has 50 long
been In the vote-buying business that in
many towns an honest election would be
an object of wonder. Vote-sellng has be-
come SO common that men no longer feel
that it is wrong. So far has the democrat
| ization gone that the clergymen Of the
| commonwealth dare not fill their parts as
| moral leaders of the community, and stir
| men up to better things. Were any clergy
| man, dependent on his congregation for his
| living, to speak the truth he would lose
copal church, however, has the courage to
| denounce present conditions in Rhode Is
| land as IAN outrage on our civilization"
| It is this kind of political corruption
that keeps in the United States senate that
champion of every form Of bloated "vested
interest" Senator Aldrich. the leader OF
the senate; who has been styled 1.-The boss
of: the United States" and recently had
the supreme nerve to speak of, himself as
| defending the manufa curing interests ot
the east against the greedy farmers of the
| west
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
NEW BOOKS.
THE LIGHT BEHIND. By Mrs. wilfred Ward.
author Of Zone Ton Scruplc.''; New York:
John Lane, The Bodley Head 1T !

THE LIGHT BEHIND By Mrs. wilfred Ward.
author Of Zone Ton scruple.''s New York:
John Lane, The Bodey Head. 81 : !
Lady Cheriton,: the heroine of this
book, is not very impressive heroine.
She married Lord Cheriton for position
and her talents were given chiefly to poll
tics, her husbands profession. She fast
ened whatever heart affection she had
upon Henry Dacre,, a brilliant young ex-
priest, and, through her influence, put
him on the political highway and
Henry conveived al deep admiration
marry her cousin, who broke the
enga cement through the discovery by
her woman,s INSTINCT that Dacre did not
love her and did love Lady Cheriton. The
divorce from LordE;Cheriton. who had
heard dark rumors of Dacre's intimacy
with Lady Cheriton and the death of the
latter are the closing incidents. Lady
Cheriton, before her death, got the ex-
priest Dacre. although he was an .apostate,
to take her dying confession of faith and
penitence. curious incident In the
story. The story taxes the reader S
patience, somewhat, by the SLOW. move
ment and deficiency in%dranatic power,
which might have been used with fine
effect on certain chapters; -,'..-
A DAUGHTER OF THE PIT. BY Margaret
Doyle Jackson. Boston:EEE= Houghton, Miffin
& Co. Minneapolis N Mccarthy. Price,
$l:5O. ...:
This is a story of the English coal pits
and of the people who work in them and
about them and very pathetic tale 1t is
too, with bright bursts Of sunshine here
and, there, but the tone is gloomy, sug-
costing the dampness and fog which per
| vaded the little English town. There
| is a touching love story wrought out. OF
all the suffering and pain, and the au.
thor's descriptive power is notably shown
| in the twenty seventh chapter, telling Oh
| the horror of a coal mine on fire and II
explosive wood, with men down in the
depth, caught in the relentless doom, anc
among them Meade, the betrothed lovel
of Eliza Whitlake, who rescues hin
| through flame and smoke in a wondrou:
| burst of heroism. The woman who wrote
this story has the brains and talents to d.
great things in fiction literature. She. wa:
a pupil teacher IN the suburbs of Man
chester, England: ard 2isS personally sac.
quainted with the life, She portrays 81
graphically and realistically. A scene, no
to be forgotten is the wooing and winning
! Of Elizasby Meade, when 1.-The robins came
and .perched above the two unconscious
heads, whistling sweetly to each ! othel
that 1ove-love-love was down there il
| the wood p
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
The Norpareil Man.
Casually Observed.

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
SATISFACTORILY DISPOSED OF

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
ROAST FOR THE SENATE
, Sioux Falls Arp,,s-T,e % dor

This forced session will do much to
Increase the contempt among the peo-
pie which the senate has aroused dur
ing the past ten years. 1t will do much
to promote the popular demand for a
direct election Of senator's BY fore
ing this extra session the United States
senate which is fond of calling itself the
most august deliberative body in the
world, has demonstrated to the public it's
ineapacity to do business and has shown
again the governmentsof the United States
is carried on, not through the senate, but
in spite of it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
Checking the Board Of Control.

Some thought is being given to the sug-
gestion that some sort of a board ought to
be created to act as a check and advisor
to the board Of control. The idea, we
believe, is that like the old board of char
tiles and corrections, its members Should
serve without pay. 1t is argued that the
members Of the board of control are too
much immersed in business matters, and
are apt to overlook what may be called the
humanitarian side Of their duties. It is
further urged that it is unwise and I'M
American to give unchecked authority to
any board, as it is given to the board of
control. ~ .r.--. D.. ....s.
There is weight in these arguments.
and they are not, lightly to be brushed
aside. The board of control land its
friends have no objection in theory to
such a supplementary board. Whether
the two boards would work we'll together
in practice would depend largely on the
personnel Of the proposed board. It could
be made the instrument Of much annoy
ance and impeachment to the board of con
troll, If it were dominated by men hostile
" tHdL OJdI u dllu Tie DOdTO OF COntrOl
system. It might easily degenerate into
a board of captious fault finding The fact
that there was comparatively little fric-
ton between the old institutional boards
and the old board Of charities and correc-
lions does not throw any light on the
probable relations between a state board
of control and a state board of charities
and corrections with purely advisory and
critical authority. Because it was a state
board, the old board had a certain tacitiy
recognized authority over the institutional
boards.
A board of unpaid members, giving a
few hours a year to the institutions.
would hardly be in a position TO criticize
men who ere devoting ali their time to
| them. If they did good work. it. could
only be through employing an expert sec
rotary. That Being the case the state
might better create directly sort of Of
flee of examiner Of the board Of control.
AS to the humanitarian side of the work
the present board does not seem to have
neglected It. If members should be here
after appointed as experts in corrections
and charities and business nlanag cement
there would be little reason to expect neg
lect Of any phase of the work in the flu
! ture. One member might be especially
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
-
Loyal to Bryan.

To the Editor of The Journal:
Your account of Senator Tillman's Mil
waukee interview of yesterday seems TO
me to hit the bulls eye. Bond issuer
Grover Cleveland and lam a-democrat
Dave Hill, Judge Parker and all the, rest
of the gold brick democrats will take
notice Git may give them a severe chilD
that what Senator Tillmar stated with
reference to the loyalty of the people to
w. J. Bryan is no dream, but the living
truth, and to a very large extent. Once
a Bryan man always a Bryan man is
equally true They must all secure Mr..
Bryans o. K. before they will go with
the people.
T. -. William Cockroft.
oil linn IA rnla
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
HE GOT THE JOB.

Chicago Tribune.
The Senator-Mr! President, I want you
to do something for a man who needs
help badly.
The President-Umt. What are his
qualifications?
The Senator-He's the father Of seven
teen children and more coming, and
I'D The President-Mr. Cortelyou! 0, Mr..
Cortelyou! [Secretary Cortelyou enters.]
kindly reserve a nice position in your new
department for Mr.. Flllhouse. The TEN
ator will tell you about him. He's a live
Issue and a commercial factor Next!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25

The New Jersey supreme court has paid
the. legislature of that state a delicate
compliment that may not be appreciated
by some members. The court assumes
that the legislature would not Intentionally
punctuate a law so as to give it dishon-
est meaning, and, by moving comma
four places, has broken up the practice
Of paying dividends when there are no
profits
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
PLENTY ON HAND
!. Youths COMPANION. Z

You would get along great deal bet,
ter If you didn't get excited said the
calm man to- his irascibe friend. Cant
you learn to keep your temper??''
Keep my temper! Well, like tf1at!''
retorted the other I'D have YOU under,
stand that i keep more temper In one day
than YOU have in your possession during
whole year."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25

charged with the duty of seeing that the.
| inmates of state institutions are properly
cared for He would be a check on ex-
1cessive application Of the business idea
and yet, as member of the board, would
be less likely to become a cause Of irri-
Itation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25

st. Paul is still agitating for s cent fares
on the street cars. Three-cent fares are
not nearly as desirable as plenty of cars
and cars built so that people can get in
and out Of them without wasting SO much
time in loading and unloading.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25

The meat packing business of the coun-
try is now concentrated in two concerns,
for the purpose, evidently, of merging the
two into one and thus monopolizing the
whole trade under one management. Then
the producer will have just one purchaser
which he can buy. How nice!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25

Major Scott may be trespassing little
on the dignity Of congress in declaring
that the Red Lake reservation law gave
the Indians the worst of it, but we must
congratulate him OH his courage in doing
his duty as he sees it. q. .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
A. DETERMINED WOMAN

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when
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
A COLORADO GOOSE STORY

Gidly
wheat has suffered greatly wild neither
latter bted pancake
hsogs
the unusu
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25

The presidents visit is emphasizing
very acutely the great value to this city
of a big public hall or auditorium. We
may not need a thing of that kind every
day, but when we do need it it comes
pretty near being an absolute necessity.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25

Suppose Cleveland should be nominated,
what would the New York Sun do?n 1t
can hardly be expected to support Roose-
velt--it is so hostile and malicious toward
him. Will it be forced to support one
whom it has made famous with it's own
contemptuous epithet, ''the stuffed
prophet? What a delightful possibility.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-25
KINDLY EUPHEMIsM

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