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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

Senator Frye was in reminiscent mood
the other evening and told Of Mckinley S
first appearance on the floor of the house
of representatives
"He was genial, yet somewhat shy
said Senator. Frye, and when we drew
lots for seats he drew a very good seat
and I drew a poor one. The next morning
found ali his things in my seat, and my
books and papers had been removed to the
better seat that he had drawn.
g How is this, major?' 1 said; there's
some mistake saa
(" Not at all, congressman he replied
graciously, this seat belongs to YOU
" mo, this will not do, said; you drew
this seat and 1 must insist upon your
keeping it.
I" Now, look here, congressman said
Mckinley, you have been here before and
you are likely to obtain the attention OF
the chair and address the house, while
this is my first term and I am expected
to do nothins, but look wise
." Yes, but the rules of the house,? |
replied.
What are the rules of the house be-
tween friends? You take the seat was
the answer Of the future president. Major
Mckinley never failed to win friends
wherever he went, and his superb unself-
ishness and goodness is treasured mem.
Dry Of all who knew him. @
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
The Pure Food Law.

There is some interesting reading in
the government report of reflections of
imported. food products during the
past month because of authorizations
more or less dangerous to consumers.
There was rejected at Baltimore a
shipment Of sauterne wine from Bor-
deaux because it was found to4contain
an excessive and injurious quantity of
sulphurous acid and sulphites, and a lot
Of frankfurter sausage containing a
positively injurious amount Of benzoic
acid was condemned. Such discov-
cries are frequently made, and, as to
imported French olive oil, lot after
lot was found to be made Of American
cotton seed oil and peanut oil, the
olive not figuring at all in the in
gradients. Cotton seed and peanut
oils are not perilous to the American
health, but. the labels on the French
bottles were intended to deceive peo-
pie who think foreign preparations are
Of a better quality than the American.
The new pure food law excludes
adulterated goods from abroad and
those falsely labeled, the government
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

known to many football enthusiasts in the
northwest, has a football tale In the
Christmas Scrtbner's It Is called The
Sub Mascot" and shows the doctor; to
be very clever raconteur. A white bull
dog was the mascot The Sub" was q
kid" Of years John Fox, whose dog
in Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come"
Is one Of the best characters OF the book
has d dog tale In the: same number under
the misunderstanding title, Christmas
Night with Satan" Among the poetry OF
the number is IAN Ode to Music" by
Henry Van Dyke.
Rockefe,ier's sAtmosphere Of mystery
Ida NJ Tarbell,, in the Christmas Nc
Clure's, which Is made up largely OF fic-
ton, containing nine short stories, re-
sumes her history Of the Standard Oil com
pany. She; says, speaking OF the feeling
toward Rockefeller in the oil regions in
1882: Their. notion of him was very
much like that which the English common
people had for Napoleon in the first part
of the nineteenth century dread
of power, cruel, omniscient, always ready
to spring. This attitude OF mind
was based on the atmosphere
Of mystery in which Mr.. Rockefeller had
succeeded in enveloping himself He
seems by nature to dislike the public eye
The sawmill has been celebrated in
song. Florence Wilkinson In the current
McClures has poem Of some length, in
which this is the refrain:
4 Vast and unresting my shrek,
! Insistent, sibilant, grim,
While the endless pulleys creak
l whirl to swiftness dim,
Blurred to lnotionless speed
Center and Jagged rim
Stirred to splendid greed.
Singing my terrible rede,
whirl to swiftness dim.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
AMERICANS PHYSICAL TYPE HIGH


It appears from the report of the sur
geon general Of the United States army
that the total number Of candidates exam
med for enlistment was 1928, and that
of this number about two thirds, or 3O,176,
were accepted. This is a large proper
ton, when the fact is taken into account
that the standard of excellence required
is very high, none but physically perfect
men being accepted. OF the 1928 appli-
cants for enlistment, 42,183 were white
men and 3,035 were colored men, Of the
white men, 27,790 were accepted and OF
the colored men 1885. Out of every 1000
men accepted 1O5, on the average, were
born in the United States, 64.76in British
territory, 4225 in Germany and 879 in
Sweden and Norway OF 1S American
Indians examined, IA were enlisted as
scouts. 1t is interesting to note that dur
ing the year 736 native Malays were ex-
amined for enlistment as Philippine
scouts, and that of these all except 20
were accepted, showing a surprisingly
high standard of physique among the FIJI
pinoS.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
FRIDAY EVENING,

pay the high price for American
goods and the high freight rate, while
the foreigner gets the low price and
the low rate? Why should publishers
In America pay more for American
made print paper than the publishers
of England? Why should the steel
trust sell steel rails for SO less a ton
In Canada than in the United States?
Why is 1t cheaper to send threshing
machine from Indiana to Australia
than from Indiana to California
We are told that 1t Is necessary to
secure a foreign market for the
American surplus, IN order to keep
our factories operating up to the limit
Of their capacity, and that as a low
price Is necessary to secure a foreign
market, the domestic market must
pay a high price to make the average
about right. Thus, the theory is, the
railroads and the great manufacture
Ing corporations operate as the coll
lectors Of a sort of enforced charity
whereby hundreds of mills are Kept
running and hundreds Of thousands
of men at work.
Now there Is something in this
theory-there is no denying that. But
why not experiment little in the
home market with reduced prices and
freight rates? Would not half the re.
| duction- the foreigner gets so sttmu-
late the home demand as to cause In
creased consumption and keep the
factory fires glowing and the wheels
whirling?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
NEWS OF BOOK WORLD
''Mrs. Wlggs," Representative Of Spirit OF
American optlmisr-some Reflec-
tons About Which Dispute Might
Arise-Tt'e Saw Mil In Verse.

Conservative men are like paper weights--th
hold things down. but seldom move.
The most depressing sight know OF is a fat
woman trying to be cute.
South Sea Islander with a ring in her nose is
savage, but New Yorker with pearl screwed
to her ear is civilized. n;
Play little ping pong;
Have a little. chat, t4s5
Make a little chocolate fudge,
Then go find your hat.
Say you've had Jolly time,
AS she waves her fan,
Now isn't that exciting sport
To tempt a healthy man 1-391,
Nothing is SO depressing as remorse. Nothing
is more weakening to the moral fiber than good
resolutions that are likely to be. broken.
Ea6a
These are a few sample Reflections of
the Morning After, from Herman Lee
Meader's book by that name. We haven't
had much experience with mornings after,
or nights before but from the. best evil
Idence in our possession gathered from the
testimony OF others and from observations
Of friends who have refused to listen to
our advice we should say that such re-
I Elections belonged perhaps-well, say to
the third morning after They are too
cleverly put, however erroneous, to go well
with that headache, dark brown taste, .
and feeling Of general good-for- nothing
| ness that are such important features OF
mornings after.
I We have been led to think, too, that
mornings after were largely given to reso-
luton making. Good : resolutions Mr.
Meader doesn't think much Of Perhaps
| the trouble is the resolutions should be
made the morning before Making them
the morning after is like locking the stable
after the mare is stolen.
+ Professor Faulkner of Drew Theological
Seminary has contributed to 1.-THE Story Of
the Churches" series, The Methodlsts
(which is the story of the origin, rise and
expansion Of the great, aggressively active
Methodist communion. The Wesley Metho-
dists or followers of John and Charles
i Wesley, organized their first, church ii
1888 John Wesley died in the Anglican
! communion, and, six years after hi:
death, was begun the separatist movement
in the, Methodist New Connection body
Methodisrn never developed in Eng
land with the rapidity with which it ha:
developed in this country, where it nov
has more than 100000 communicates. thu
Methodist Episcopal leading with 1896
ministers and 2, 9O1;79S comm unicants ii
the northern body, and 1,518.S54 in tn
southern body. The author thinks Their
We're profound inconsistencies in Wesley
relation to the Church of England; pro
Tossing constantly undiminished love 70
/ that church. circumstances were constant
/ ly driving him into acts utterly inconsist
ent with loyalty thereto" Wesley's orig
inal purpose was to have the gospe
preached thoroly in neglected places.
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LESSON in .HlsToRN
New york Times.

Mr.. Coward, the. amiable British giant
of the Mosely education commission, had
this to tell Of his experiences to party
of friends he was entertaining at the Park
Avenue hotel: .5sEsc
i was addressing about 1000 children
in assembly down on the East Side, and.
touching on history, I said Landmarks
are very good guide to history. We have
many such i'll England; for instance, the
cathedrals and castles, nearly all Of which
remind us of some: epoch in history; then
we have Nelson's old flagship, the Vic
toria. which recalls the battle of TrafaI-
gar. Now, what ship have you to remind
of some past event in history r
after a few seconds - delay a small
voice piped out: Please, sir, the Reli-
ancet'''E $500
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BOOKS RECEIVED

REFLECTIONS OF THE MORNING AFTER. BY
Herman Lee Meader. bound in calicoes OF ORR
entail colors and designs. Boston, H. NJ Cald-
well company.
THE METHODISTs. By John Alfred Faulkner,
ID. D.. professor Of historical theology in Drew
theological seminary. New York: The Baker
& Taylor company. MiJieapolis N. McCar-
thy Price 81
FROM FRIEND TO FRIEND KALENDAR, 1904
Evanston, Ill: William S. Lord
THEIR CHILD. By Robert Herrick, author OF
1.-The Web Of Life etc. New York: The
Macmillan company. Minnea polls: N. McCar
thy. Price 80 cents.
LITTLE HENRY,s SLATE By W. D. Nesbit
Evanston, ILL.,: William S. Lord Selections
from the Chicago Tribune series OF LITTLE
Henry's Sayings"
ATALANT1S. By Lowell Howard Morrow. Bos
| tom Eastern Publishing company Price
st 30. Al,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

having inspection performed by ex-.
perts. To remove complaints that this
inspection detains goods too long, as
the analyses have had to be made in
Washington, the government has sent
an expert chemist to New York to do
the work there. as there is greater
amount Of 1t to be done there.
In a recent speech to the Association
of Official Agricultural Chemists, Sec
rotary Wilson remarked that while
many good things can be said Of this
country, it cannot be declared that
there are no rascals here, and, there
fore, the people ought to be protected
from the rascals OF their own coun-
| try as well as from those Of for
eign countries, and it is for the benefit
of the consuming public that they shall
be adequately protected from injurious
adulteratlon. and that all food sold
shall be exactly what its label calls
for.
The agitation of the subject has
stimulated federal and state 1egisla-
ton, and, there is no doubt that there
will ultimately be placed upon the
statute books Of the nation a national
pure food law which will properly
cover the ground. In some of the
states the sanitary laws are playing
havoc with insanitary milk, meat
fruit and other essential articles OF
food which are usually the subjects
of the adulterative processes of Score
tary Wilson's "rascals,' but as SEN
4 ator McCumber Of North Dakota says
the states cannot successfully solve
this problem of the adulteration OF
| domestic food products. The fedora
government has an important duty tc
the public to perform in that connec.
| ton.
The agricultural departments com.
mittee on food standards recently re.
! ported schedules Of such standards tt
the secretary, covering meats, dairy
products, sugar and glucose products
spices and cocoa products, ETC., in ac'
cordance with the act Of congress O.
June 8, 1902, which authorized the
secretary of agriculture to establish
standards of purity for food products
and to determine what are regarded
as authorizations, such information tt
guide the officials Of, the various states
and the courts Of justice in their deci
sions in cases of alimentary sophistica
ton. This movement is potentia
aid to the protection Of the public
i from the crime of food adulteratiol
and deterioration. 1t will give uni
form standard of pure food for thu
whole country.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
ENGLAND,sePLUM PuDDINGs

What is an English Christmas without
plum pudding? Thirteen miles of Christ
mas puddings punctuated with milestones
ofsmince pies piled up 300 feet high, form
az vision calculated to fill the heart of any
boy, English or otherwise. with gIa dness
These thirteen miles of Christmas COM
pounds represent So 600 separate and dis
tinct puddings, which Is the annual out
put of q single London firm which makes
"a special business at Christmas catering,
mot only for England. but for all the ends
eof the earth. The manager of this great
business says that he is sending larger
number Of genuine! plum buildings to the
United States than before. These. export
buildings cost from so cents to $15.50, and
they are made according to a. fifty year
old recipe, the secret of which has made
the, fortune Of this particular firm,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
SHE WAS NELSON'S FLAGSHIP

Nelson's flagship, the ancient Victory, has
finished active service Investigation in
dry dock Of the injuries received by her
last Monday reveals that she is fit only for
show purposes. While anchored in Ports
mouth harbor, where she has for years
acted as flagship of the station, the VIC
tory was rammed by the ironcad Neptune.
which broke adrift and started on a wild
career of crime The Victory was towed
into dry dock in a sinking condition. Cur
iously enough the ram of the Neptune had
penetrated her huh in the cockpit where
Nelson died. But for sentimental reasons
the old man-of war would have disap
peared from the active list Of the navy
years aga
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
PoRTueAL's POPULAR RULER

! Spanish newspapers recently talked
about the alleged conspiracies against the
life of the King of Portugal As German
correspondent at Lisbon declares these ru-
mors preposterous. Not in century, he
says, has any incumbent Of the Portuguese
throne been SO universally beloved as the
present king, who was crowned fourteen
years ago. There is no opposition to him,
the republican party being insignificant
and without leader
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[. MEMORY NJ Y i is agpa Abs
Chicago 6hfps,ic, {,

Mrs Mary Med Id 6 probably the old
est living person in the United States yes
terday celebrated the one hundred and
thirty third anniversary Of her birth in the
home for aged and infirm colored persons.
In spite of her great age Mrs. Med
has a wonderfully clear memory and re-
lates incidents Of General Washington
camp at Valley Forge as II they were the
occurrences of few days ago. Among
other things she tells how the patriots
were supplied with food by the women Of
the neighborhood. She was born at Frog
town. near Valley Forge, and reared in a
Quaker family, the descendants OF which
have corroborated some OF her statements
regarding ancient dates. She has outlived
every member of her family. MRS. Nc
Donald is. an inveteratk smoker, and one
OF her chief delights is an after dinner
pipe.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
THE HAUNTED CITY

Some hearts remembrance and regret
Fill every street with life profound;
This corner where of old we met
To me has since been hallowed grounct
I never pass in sun or rain
Now, but meet you here again.
We can not go from where we dwell
And leave behind no lingering traces
Where in the past our shadows fell
s Al shadow of us haunts the place;
Returning now, ourselves may there
Disturb some ghost Of what we We're.
The stones are thrilled by many a tread
That leaves no footprint where 1t strays;
Shades of the living and the dead
! In silence throng the noisy ways;
Here where meet in showers or shine
Your ghost you haply meet with nina.
The air has sounds we cannot hear. s
Is dim with shapes that none can sect
Tho dear the living voice, and dear
The sight of living faces be,
With kindlier warnings yet we greet
The friends we see not when we meet.
A st. John Adccck, in the Spectator.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
THE MAGAZINES


IF an aticism OF the United States. James
M. Buckley, LII. d. in the Century for
December-a most elaborate and meaty
nurnber-says: 1.-THE United States IS q
hotbed of fanaticisms but 1t is much more
Its institutions aud traditions develop
men of sense. self control and patriotism.
1t has had narrow escapes. But
common sense and national patriotism
were never wholly; submerged and speed
lily reasserted themselves M
1.-THE trinity OF dangers which the re-
public has to fear are immortality, indif-
ferentism and fanaticism.
.If heaven is like this, I don't care how
soon 1 co. This is an exclamation by a
tired mother, on Twin Island, the Henry
street children's summer home, New York
city. It. is quoted by Jacob Riis in an
effective word for the fresh air" work
for the poor of the cities that is worth
reading in order to keep ones hands to
the work. The names of writer's whom
most readers like to follow and who have
written for the December Century are too
many to give here.
Or. knipe's Story.-The ex-football
coach of Iowa state university, who is
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
REVELATION

The word unto the Prophet spoken,
Was writ on tables yet unbroken;
The word by seers or sibylsi told,
In groves Of oak, or fanes of gold,
Still floats upon the morning wind.
Still whispers to the willing mind,
! One accent of the Holy Ghost
The needless world hath never lost.
Emerson, The Problem
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Believes in Wood.

To the Editor of The Journal
Your editorial in yesterdays J o urn a l
in regard to General Wood hits the spot,
and I wish every United States senator
could see it. If we, had more men like
Wood and fewer men like Rathbone serving
our country We would have no need to fear
the outcome in times Of trouble.
Arthur Ulrop.
Aneta, N. D., Nov. "a.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

When Mrs Madge Carr Cook, who is
playing the role Of Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch this season, was recently
enacting the part in Louisville, she was
entertained by the author, Mrs. Alice He
gan Rice, who highly appreciated her foot
light representation of the dear old lady.
'How did you ever come to originate Mrs
Wiggs?'' asked Mrs Cook in a moment of
pardonable curiosity. why, got my first
hint from a real old lady Of the Cabbage
Patch here in Louisville, replied Mrs.
Rice land she grew unconsciously and
steadily in one slight sketch after an
other until at last I realized, from the
urging Of all my friends at the little club
before which read the sketches, that l
had in some way achieved definite new
creation. I never realized when started
out what finished portrait was to re-
suit from my first slight penciling. The
account of the 'theayter party, was my
first introduction OF Mrs. Wigs to the
world. Perhaps there never did exist
quite so cheerful a little lady as Mrs.
Wigs, but meant her to represent the
very spirit Of American optimism
Mr.. Morrow's Atalantls is one of those
coming age stories based upon the
scheme published in New York a decade
ago contemplating the utilization of sand
shoal. a dozen miles or so from the Long
Island shore, for the construction OF
great fireproof pleasure resort, to be called
1.Atalantis" The author finds Ataiantis
in full operation. People in that age
trivel in Arrears at the rate of hundred
miles an hour, and have other improve
ments only dreamed of now There are
love episodes, some Of them very abb
surd, as the career of the girl Lena and
! the Frenchman Baunto. The new Atalan-
| It's seems to have been shot to pieces
differing in fate from the Atlantis Of
which Plato writes.
Mr.. Herrick author of Their Child, is
| an American literary development of the
mast decade who has attracted attention
by his 1.-THE Web of Life and other
| books. In Their Child" which is the
story Of dark fleredity, the readers mind
is borne along the very verge of awful
| tragedy. The child develops the fearful
| instincts of the fathers family. Both
husband and wife suffer thru the inten-
sity of tragical possibility.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

Atlanta, Ca, had dinner last night
at which all the usual after dinner orators
were forbidden to speak. Why not adopt
this rule elsewhere for a change? It
would give some young blood chance,
would delight the customary speakers and
might not result in worse speeches:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

Yesterday. Anybody can kill wolves in
or around Minneapolis except the wolf
hunters. BY the way, would it not be
a good idea to license the wolves?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

An army of 100000 Colombians is to
invade Panama-says General Reyes.
Those two regiments of infantry and that
battery of mountain artillery the United
States is to send to the isthmus may
have something to occupy part Of their
time. s.-4xg
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

/ The Calhoun ice companies are pre-
pairing to harvest their annual. crop OF
laketop provided the people who want to
use it to fall down on do not see it first
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

IAN INVITATION is extended to all to visit
The battery Of presses consists bf three fourdect
,Goss Presses. with total capacity OF $4,000
eight-page ur a Il an hour, printed foiuea
and counted The best time TO call Is from R:15
ito %;So p Inquire at the business Office and
he directed to the visitors gallery of the Press
Room.
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Some people imagine that the Missis-
,sippi and Georgia colored man is down
trodden but if they could see him unfurl
his razor and jump in, it would be under
stood that he was. capable of self defense.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

Charles Frohman will present at the
Metropolitan the last half Of next week
Clyde Fitch's latest success, 1.-THE Girl
With the Green Eyes with Clara Blood
good and the original cast which acted the
NAY during its long run at the Savoy the
alter, New York, last season.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27

The settlement of the cut-over lands
Of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin goes
on apace. Nothing better could happen
to Minneapolis than to have this nearby
country thickIy populated. $