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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
Balm for Iipton.

Sir Thomas Upton says that he knows
that many Americans would have been
glad to see him lift the Americas cup.
He is probably not aware Of the deep inn
preston his personality and sportsman
like conduct have made on the American
people, Probably half the population
would as soon he had taken the cup as
to have the American yacht successfully
defend IT, There has probably never been
another International contest in which the
attitude of the American public was so
little affected by their patriotism. Partly
because of their admiration for sit
Thomas, and partly because they would
like to see the cup raced for in British
waters, after so many races on this side,
a large part Of tho interested American
public rather hoped that after close con-
test Shamrock III. would win. 1t is with
genuine sorrow that the public receives
Sir Thomas capitulation-his admission
that the quest of the Americas cup is
hopeless Such a surrender on the part
of Britisher less popular In America
might have been received with unseemly
exultation, but coming from him 1t gives
the victors about as much pain as 1t does
him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
AS TO OLD AGES
Portland Oregonian.

The pope had lived long, but Thomas
Parr and Henry Jenkins are, respectively,
credited with the ages of 1872 and 1863.
Jeanne Serirnphan was married when she
was III ard and died when she was l2S.
DR.. Dufournel married at 116 and became
the father of two children, and died at
100. Marie Priou reached the age of 1853.
"A woman Of Metz, the mother OF twenty
four children, died at the age of 100. Sur
Fgeon Politrnan celebrated his one hun
dred and fortieth birthday. Patrick O'Neil
buried seven wives and died at 100, and
a Norwegian peasant is recorded as dying
at 100 and leaving two sons, one aged ,108
and the other only nine summer. Robert
Taylor lived to be 1874 and died of excite
ment on receiving the picture of; Queen
Victoria signed by herself. An Irishman
named Brown, who was a habitual drunk
ard, lived to be 12O A French drunkard
lived to 4l28; he had a daily Jag for ninety
years. Durand dEstivel of Ca,hors lived
to be 1913. A woman of 124 drank strong
coffee in great quantities all her, days.
while a man of ia lived on fruit, chiefly
melons, and chewed lemon peel.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
THE CRITIC.

To beautys charms this man was ever
blind, Rs
But for all flaws he had an eagle eye.
No, patent virtues could he keep In mind,
But; little vices he would magnify
A rent within a fabric he'd descry. !.
And with poking finger widerSrend.
No thing he saw or heard, but he would
try
To pick or tear or warp or break Of
bend. ~ =.
The fairest picture ever painter Iimned +.
Was faulty in his view. He could point
out &
In books inspired, thru which he'd lightly
skinned,
Grave errors and mistakes beyond all
doubt,
He marked the canker in the blooming
The sun to him was but q spotted
sphere. s5. ~
To any harmony his ears he'd close.
But strike q discord and he'd quickly
hear. s5*s
You may imagine him a saddened man,
BY this perverse and carping spirit
swayed.
But he was cheertul-quite content to
! scan , IS
The universe beneath a darkened shade.
For il a man will ever look for harm
4 And fault and flaw wherever he may
stray, ~ r
Tho he may miss a little OF life's charm
Hell not be disappointed, anyway.
Chicago News.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
EARLY Wheat Shipments.

TIL Journ a l is in receipt of COM
munication from a North Dakota wheat
raiser In which the point is made that the:
not be apparent for a long time. Last
year threshing began in the central por-
ton of the Red River valley about Sept
to z, and from present indications, al
lowing for the recent bad weather, opera
lions this year should be under way at
about the same date, and the corre-
spondent thinks the new wheat will come
upon the market at about the same time
and In the same volume as last year.
The farmers, he thinks, will not hold
wheat to any important extent, and the
early movement Of wheat from North
Dakota will be such as to indicate a large
yield to those who draw conclusions only
from yearly comparisons of shipments.
{ ''It is to be noted,' he says, that the
early deliveries from North Dakota in a
year Of light crops, like the present one,
are about as heavy as in abundant years.
There are as many threshing machines
at work and the North Dakota farmers
The falling off in farmers deliveries must
be at the latter end Of the crop year.
It Is true that the early movement is
not a sure Indication Of the size of a crop.
Wheat may come into Minneapolis from
North Dakota in quantity once the move
ment is well under way, yet if the esti-
mate that North Dakota has raised TO-
900, 900 bushels less wheat this year than
last is correct 1t is certain to mean an
earlier dininution Of the movement, and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
THE STORY OF A KID

ming light I saw all the glory Of her face
Her eyes cleaned for me.
! Her lips smiled for me.
I looked into the face in proud hur1il-
lily; 1t made tears in my heart to know
such aZface was clad In radiance because
of me.
It made hunger in my soul because I
knew 1t could not be; was too good to be.
| She came to me as a lover and a mother
might. 60.
She held me tenderly as il were very
young, and she kissed me. and the music
of it was like the tireless sea. Then
awoke.
l. There was no sea.
There was no anything, only a London
morning.
Only breakfast, and the coffee was BIT
ter and bacon cold. N
The landlady's head bore crinply curls
horribly jangltng.
And she talked of dead relations.
From that day have not dreamed, and
! there is something wanting In my life.
! That Is the story.
On the whole, it's silly story.
# q man told such story In a club,
his head would get broken with a soda
| syphon.
Men do not tell such stupid tales-they
think EN-.
| Else, they are old.
! The man who. listened broke a. coal on
| the fire and said: HIM.
And another older man, to whom he
told the story, said:
Adam dreamed that way the night he
| lost his rib.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
FULLY CLOTHED.

New Z oFk Sun. X. J.
"A party of much travelled men were re-
turning one, hot.rnight last week from
Manhattan Beach when the conversation
turned to the salt water bathing costumes
Of the countries they had visited.
An Englishman told how the women of
his native land took their dip apart from
the men and clothed in hideous garments
resembling nightgowns.
A Frenchman described the barerlegged
frolics of the gay Partisan women sum-
mering by the sea. ~ = 6srr ..-ssi Ia
An American explained how the sexes,
absolutely unclothed, enter the waters Of
Japan, with nothing but bamboo. rods
to mark the more or less imaginary line
dividing the men from the women eEr
"Ah,' interposed the Englishman, Chow
immodest!'
Eyes, perhaps" observed a Christian
lied Turk, who was of the party, shut in
my country men and women do the same
except that each man and woman pre-
serves modesty by wearing a white
mask"
Suppose said the American, "you
should wish to battle without the mask?
"Ah," replied the Turk, you must veal
the mask-it is the bathing costume!"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
MOVING OF STOCKS
New York Times.

Russell Harding known as one of the
finest Of the splendid corps of officials
that George Gould has gathered about him
for the administration Of his railroads, be-
lieves that the business of a railroad Of
fetal is running railroad, not making
stocks move. He was interviewed not long
ago by a reporter who asked many ques-
lions about the railroad, and finished his
series with this one: 3.
When do yeu think the stock viii be-
gin to move, Mr.. Harding Pr 80
TITS moving now said the general
manager. 1--WE haul several hundred, cars
a day into Kansas City. They complain
that the conditions are not just right
II mean the securities-the Stocks" in
terrupted the reporter. - $50 ri :
Mr.. Harding smiled, but said disgusted-
ly: sstas.s1 Esg 80
= IT don't know anything about It, When
me move stock out west itsshelps to pay
Missouri Pacific dividends, but when they
move it here it doesn't seem to help any
thing, except, perhaps, the Waldorf bar. >
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
The Presidents Homilies.

President Roosevelt is making liberal
use of the opportunity his exalted posi-
ton gives him to exercise the functions
Of teacher and leader of the people.
From time to time, in letters intended for
publication, in inspired interviews and in
speeches, he lays emphasis on the need
Of this republic to raise up men and women
Of strength and honor and virtue. When
the occasion arises to rebulxe some ma
tional sin or shortcoming, he speaks out
in firm, clear tones. In regard to lynch
ing he spoke at precisely the right mo-
rnent. The press and the pulpit had pre-
pared the ascent to climax Of denun-
citation Of this infamous crime, this trea-
son to the republic; and the president
supplied the climax. . ~: -....sz
It Is true that the president does not
discover to us any new moral truths, or
any new incentives to virtue, and to some
of those who have no need Of admonitions
to a better life, his remarks may seem a
trife platitudinous. But mankind Is wont
| to follow a leader. The masses almost
entirely do as others do, and no person
example. Where no attention would be
| paid to invectives against lynching by
men of less prominence, the most COM
I monplace remarks by the head Of a ma
ton Of SO,0OO,0 900 command attention and,
from millions, the most implicit accept
ance.
| When the president speaks on a sub
! ject, that subject assumes an Importance
| that 1t can attain in no other way. The
thoughtless realize that the lynching
mania is really getting to be an appall-
ingly serious national crime and disgrace
when the president feels impelled to dis
cuss it.
Public communications by the president
have wonderful effect in strengthening
and focusing public opinion. So long as
can, during his term Of office, by simply
speaking the commonplaces of virtue or
due occasion, accomplish much in i'm.
proving the moral atmosphere of the ma.
ton.
In his earlier addresses the president
dwelt on the desirability of the active
life, and thousands of young men have
been made by those appeals for life
of effort and achievement. Now the pres
ident Is laying more stress on doing right
and the result will be that countless per
sons will be impressed with the inpor
lance of correct living and lawful con
duct.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
An ENTIRE VILLAGE. PAUPERIzED
;Phila delphia Ledger. /.

{, :, 49, lPhila delphfa Ledger. srssssza
A good many, years. ago a wealthy, and
phflanthropic English woman left to her
native village, which was one of the most
British isles, a large sum Of money. ia BE
held in trust, the income to be applied
from time to time to the genuine needs
of worthy applicants: After a; generation
of the administration Of the trust a so
biological Inquirer made saG study. of the
village, and found, that the money thus
generously but .unWisely given: had prac-
ticaJly pauperized the whole place. The
stamina of the self-supporting yeomen had
departed, and from being a self-respecting
and elf-supporting,y irile people, they had
gradually come to lean more and more on
this fund. which they knew was held In
reserve as a last resource, until finally
they nearly all became paupers and de-
pendents and incempetents The generous
and philanthropic giver had laid aablighi
on a smiling land worse than any curse.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
The LITERARY Center

Tits interesting 70 note Sin the Sep
TENDER Atlantic M. "A. De Wolfe Howe
reviYes the question Of the terary Cen.
ter I ssss ss5
5s It is. a calm and judiciosss review of the
subject relinquishing Rostons claim, de-
ciaring that, practically., her distinction
passed with the death of Dr. Holmes.
With the gradual passing Of the older
brotherhood he. says, d Boston unques-
:tionably lost. its Ife-enin ences. as the
literary center Of the country. Where
this wandering spot has fixed itself, or,
where it may BE found ten years hence,
one may not assert TOO confidently" New
| York, of course, claims the distinction,
and points to the Boston publishing houses
which have located or established
branches in that city, and to the literary
lotteries existent. Mr.. Howe claims for
Boston a long and deserved erninence
in literature because distinguished literary
men could be identified with the most
| characteristic and agreeable life of the
| town, and the best expression Of Boston
thought and life has never come from a
class set apart as writer's, Bancroft and
Hawthorne were employed in the custom
house at Boston; Holmes was a doctor;
/ Longfellow a Harvard professor. It is
| true, as Mr.. Howe says, that the writer's
whose work has stood the test Of half
a century in this country, belong to Bos-
ton and its neighborhoed, The transcen-
dental movement carried the younger
brains Of Boston and New England with
lit and, altho the effort to actualize it in
the Brook Farm movement failed, it in
i tensified the intellectual atmosphere, ac-
centuated with such names as George
Ticknor, w. H, Prescott, Motley, Long
4 fellow, Holiness LOWELL, Hawthorne, White
tier, Emerson, Fields.> The founding Of
the Atlantic Monthly in. 1859 emphasized
the intellectual vigor of the Boston liter
airy, group, the periodical achieving wide
distinction in a short time; thru the work
OF these writer's, identified with Boston
and vicinity. Moreover, since the date
Of its birth the Atlantic.s fney literary
1 quality has been maintained uninterrupt-
edly, while its constituency is found thru
out the whole country.
1 Boston is to be IGNORED always because
of her former literary pre-eminence and
because of the undeniable beneflcent in
fuence of her Intellectual exploitation
tupon the whole country, thru half of':the
nineteenth century at least 8: &zS b
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29

It is an unusual and mot very pleasant
sight to see women working in American
fields. But sonSs Ws pSs 4 sanight better be
working in the fields than in some of the
places they find inn thetcities. There is
some farm labor that Dis too; hard for
women, but there Is also much that is no
Harder on a:ewonan than many kinds. of
factory work. Drivenoto new expedients
by the scarcity OF farm labor, the New
England market gardeners: have In some
instances tried italian women on their
farms, and with s'ery satisfactory results.
This experiment mas have "a ,laudable
tendency ton, divert italian Immigration
from the cities to the fields, The men
may be Expected to follow the. women, if
the latter like etheirswork; land certainly
it would be better for them and for the
country If they were t. occupy themselves
with agriculture instead of swarming in
-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
Protecting American Interests.

Notwithstanding the fact that Vice
Consul Magelssen was not, killed in the
attack made upon him, the president has
determined to carry out the naval pro-
gram and Admiral Cotton has startedlf for
Beirut with the Brooklyn and the San
Francisco and the Machias, smaller
vessel with fourteen rapid-are guns, has
been ordered to coal. at Port Said and
there await orders from the admiral The
Brooklyn and San Francisco have for
midable ornaments Of breech- loading and
rapid-fire and other guns, and carry be-
between them eighty officers and S25 men.
Indemnity should be demanded from Tur-
key for the assault made, upon our vice
CONSUL altfo he was unhurt,7 for that de-
caying power should be taught proper re-
spect and protection should be given by
every nation to the consular or other rep
resentative officials Of every other.
| At the present time, when disorder
abounds in European Turkey and the sui
tan almost hears the clash of arms in his
palace on the. Golden Horn land insur-
| gent depredations are recorded in easy
reach Of Constantinople itself, there is
reason to believe that Mohammedan
fanaticism is aroused in Asiatic Turkey,
and that 1t is possible that outrages like
that few years ago in Armenia may be
| perpetrated upon American interests,
whose security has been guaranteed by
! the slippery sultan at :Constantinople.
| During the dreadful Armenian massacres
| by the Turkish soldiery and their allies,
the predatory sKurds, under the authority
of the sultan, destroyed valuable Ameri-
can missionary property, and no attention
was paid for several years to our gov
|ernment's demand for indemnity, and
then indemnity was forthcoming only thru
the persuasive power of positive threats
| Of shot and shell compuIsion. At Beirut
/ some of the churches of this country have
valuable mission property. as. the Pres
byterians who, for over seventy years
have had educational institutions there
which are now of great Importance, in-
GLIDING large college and an important
publishing house and medical school
4 which are recognized agencies for good
in Syria. The important Roberts col
lege, on the Bosporous near CONSTANT
nople. is practically under American pro-
| lection.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29

Vice Consul Magelssen really ought to
tender his thanks to the man who tried to
assassinate him. The report Of the vice
consups death called forth some splendid
obituary notices which constitute the BEST
kind OF advertising he could get. This
advertising will doubtless tend to hasten
Mr.. Magelssen's promotion in the con-
sular service. Besides he has learned that
the humblest representative Of the Amefi-
can nation abroad has at his call the
strength Of the republic. The attempted
assassination has. revealed to the presiF
dent what manner of man Mr Magelssen
is, and when In the future there is q call
for some stalwart specimen Of American
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
SATURDAY. EVENING,

America cannot fail OF good year, as
many articles largely imported by us are
low. two items that figure heavily on our
import list. namely, coffee and sugar,
being at prices the lowest ever known.
Against this our corn. wheat, provisions
and cotton are all likely to bring prices
much higher than last year and since the
principal commodities we have to sell are
high and many that we must buy are low
our export trade for the coming period
should represent the working Of an In
verse ratio making for a largely Increased
balance abroad.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
Hunting in~Pairs,

& Professor John Bates Clark Of Columbia
university is on recSrd as having several
times declared that present Industrial ten
Enevolent feudaHsm which Mr., Client and
others have insisted that we were ap-
preaching. Professor Clark has held that
the tendency was developing for trust and
Labor. organization to41nite, like two bands
Of rival brigands, and use their combined
strength and resources to rob the pubic
Just as two powerful bands OF robbers
of each other, would find it to their inter-
ests to merge, so Professor Clark has held
! that the trust and the labor organization
would soon find that it was not worth
while to quarrel over the division of profits
when they could simply unite and make
the public pay. as much more. as either
gang desires. On its side, thetrust would
undertake to keep. out of the field oompet-
ing employers who might seek to give the
consumer better prices, while on its side,
| the union would agree to see that no work.
men were permitted: to work for any en-
ployer outside the trust. 49,.
| Such state Of affairs has already been
realized in some cities. Minneapolis has
seen demonstration of it In the combi-
nation of employing and workmen plumb
ters, which was carried to such a point that
there was nothing except dummy conpe-
tition to be found by those. seeking bids
for plumbing. The union plumbers refused
to work for any firm not in the associa-
ton, and the employers who wished ito
l:stay out of the combine found the greatest
difficulty in getting. help. ssr
I In the September McC Cures. Ray STAN
nard Baker graphically describes the way
in which Chicago has been subdued by
these rapacious combinations of capital
and labor to- squeeze the last drop of reve-
nue. out of consumers and drive to- the
wall all persons in their line that refuse
to join the union on the one hand or the
employers association on the other.
The coal combination. composed Of en-
ploytng teamsters and drivers, absolutely
controls the distribution Of coal in Chfcago.
Coal can be bought and delivered only on
the terms laid down by It, No man can
enter the retail coal business in Chicago
l. T - Z, =
without making terms with them; no
team driver can get a. job without joining
the union. The union men VIII not work
for employers not in the combine, and the
combine will not employ men not in the
union. TO join the union costs SIG to
start with and 81 a month.
/. The milk dealers and milk wagon driv-
|ers' got together and decided that one de-
Livery Of milk a day was enough for Chi
Icago. Hundreds Of infants died in conse-
tauence- but that made no difference.
Rysden,5 g sheet metal contractor who
tried to go TT lone and make honest bids.
was ruined sbygthe combine. The associa-
ton fined him to exhaustion and the union
wouldn't work for him. This combine was
taking $4,000 Of extortion out Of the public
on buildings worth $50, 900, after allowing
$4,000 profit. The extorted sum was di-
yided among the allied brigands, while one
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
to show up with great effect along I,
wards the end of the crop year.

Chief Conroy's order forbidding police
men to enter saloons while on duty, ex-
scept on business, will be a surprise to the
Minneapolis public which supposed that
police officers had long been under orders
to keep out Of saloons. The saloon is no
place for the policeman except when called
there by duty. Policemen. ought to be
men who both by habits and appearances.
as well as by character. make good Inn
preston on the public.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29

the Danville mob which Sheriff Whit1ock
received with buck shot, has been con-
victed Of assault and rioting and sem
fenced to an indeteminate term in the
pen1tenttary. Several others Of the mob
leaders are likely to follow Baker to
prison. These facts will be found handy
by the would-be lynchers when consider
ing invitations to join lynching parties.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
CHILDISH AMUSEMENT

!. 49, Washington Star. = S.,s-f,.
'tAre you playing horse?',5 asked the be-
11evolent gentleman who takes an interest
in children. Sc ~
..Certain1y not answered the little Bos-
ton boy. I'VE are amusing ourselves by.
the assumption that brother Waldo Is an
ichthyosaurus and that am prehistoric
man In pursuit Of him"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29

Ex-United States Senator ssBilly' Mason
once took his s-year-cld son with him
into q barber shop. After they had
reached home the little fellow was over
heard telling his sister all about what he
had seen.
Papa sat in big chair up high" said
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29

The late DR.. Thomas Hoyt after preach
ing his last sermon as pastor OF the Cham
bers-Wylie church, was entertaining Pres
ident Patton OF Princeton, Henry C. Min
ton, moderator OF the general assembly,
and other eminent men at dinner The
guests were speaking in strong praise of
the sermon the minister had just preached
on the different religions, and those versed
in theology were discussing the doctrinal