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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
A Great Future.

In these days the Pacific northwest re-
ceives much free advertising. 1t is related
that at the launching of the great Mime
quirers were heard to ask whether Seattle
was on Lake Superior. It is not long that
such Grass ignorance will be common.
The commercial news and gossip Of the
day has much to say about the forging
ahead Of the North Pacific ports in compe-
tition with San Francisco. An English
engineer, just returned from the Orient.
has declared that Seattle Is destined to
become the Liverpool Of the Pacific. The
railroad editors all over the country are
beginning to learn that oriental traffic
flows not west but northwest. The north
that put the southern out Of the running.
The latter begin to understand that if
they are even to hold what they have they
must put forth tremendous efforts. Curves
must be taken out, grades shoveled down,
mountains tunneled, mileage shortened.
Hartman is beginning to do for the
southern lines what Hill began to. do for
the Great Northern fifteen years ago. In
these times fifteen years is long lead.
The great route for oriental trade will for
years If not forever be along the northern
lines to Seattle. That will make Seattle
the great American port of the Pacific. AS
the population Of the United States grows
and it's productions increase, as trade re-
lations are established with the trans
Pacific countries, the Pacific commerce
will become a vast one. The skeptical are
wondering what j. J. Hill will find to stow
away in the huge bulk Of the Minnesota
and Dakota, with their capacity Of $500
freight cars each. The freight will soor
be ready. One per cent grades brought
railway freight to Seattle and these great
ocean carriers will attract the water.
borne commerce of the Pacific to the same
port.
To an inland city, like Minneapolis, Il
may make no vital difference whether Sa1
Francisco or Seattle is the great port OF
the Pacific. yet it is something to be or
the main travelled road If the commerce
of two and perhaps three continents |.
to roll by our doors we ought to get some
benefit therefrom.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
PRACTICE, NOT PROFESSION

Adrian, Nina, Guardian.
But for its absurd spelling the English
language would be easy to acquire and
even thus it is less complicated and con-
fusing than any other language in use by
a. considerable number of people.+St. Paul
Globe
Everybody comedies that our present
spelling is absurd yet very few Of the big
dailfes are willing to do their part to-
ward correcting 1t by adopting the few
initial reforms recommended by. the edu-
cational associations. If changes are to be
erected, the big dailies must take the
lead. Fall in line with The Mime
apolis journal, Mr.. Globe, and give
Fit affair trial in Minnesota and others may
follow. It's up to you. d
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
LITERARY NOTES.

The memorial volume to Alice Freeman
Palmer, issued by Houghton; Mifflin &,
Co., contains the addresses delivered at
Harvard in January by President Eliot and
others at the memorial service, with five
photographers of Mrs. Palmer from child
hood to her death.
Doubleday, Page & Co.'s assertion that
IAN Englishwornan's Love Letters was
written by Ester Marion Foley, an English
woman. ought to make Laurence Housman
apologize for allowing himself to be cred
tied with the authorship so long without
denying It. $3.50 IS
The Harpers announce a new Virginia
novel by the authors of 7ssEastoyer Court
House, :. Henry Burnham Boone and Ken-
meth Browne. e ~ vs.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
Stopping the Land Loot.

The public lands have been looted right,
and left for years. There is probably not
a SINCE method provided by law for the
alienation of government lands that has
not been abused. Even the popular home.
stead act has been made the vehicle Of
as much fraud and, perhaps, more, than
any other. IF the truth were known, it
would be found that only a very small
proportion of the ''claims" taken out UNI
der 1t of recent years have been taken in
full compliance with the law. Perjury
is common, and some very poor bluffs at
occupation make citizen Of a distant
place resident on the "quarter" he takes
from Uncle Sam. The homestead law is
all right in purpose, and is about the only
method of taking government land that
should be left on the law books, but it
ought to be rfgidly restricted for the bene-
fit Of genuine homesteaders.
The department of the interior seems
to have determined that henceforth it
will leave no stone unturned to convict
perpetrators Of land frauds, and there is
evident. a laudable purpose to make ap-
plicants for government land comply with
the laws. In the Duluth land office dis
trict a large number of timber and stone
filings have been held UP, and the federal
grand jury is bringing In indictments
against those accused of fraud. Some in
teresting developments may be expected.
Everyone who knows anything about the
land business in northern Minnesota is
| morally sure that there has. been much
fraud in the past. AS the free land gets
scarce and more valuable the temptation
to commit frauds increases. Last year
the sales of timber and stone lands in the
Duluth land office district amounted tc
more than $4,000 acres, and the original
homestead entries to nearly 300, 900 acres
In the whole state there were 100000
acres of government land taken last year
| The timber and stone act has been in
terpreted so broadly that it. is strange
/ that at this late day there should be
timber cruisers and purchasers so foolish
as to lay themselves open to its penal.
! ties, But probably as the available tim.
1 Der and stone land dwindles, competition
to secure it becomes brisk, hence the
making Of agreements with entrymen tt
sell their land In advance of securing it
! The whole timber and stone act is nov
so unjustifable and is, even at best, suct
an easy means of raiding the forests
that it. makes but little difference in. di
rect results whether the law is abused
or not. But a. few, convictions might hav.
a salutafy effect. in checking the raid.
until congress can. get around to the ref
ormation OF the entire body Of public lant
| laws.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
NO "sus" FOR GROVER THIS TIME

Aberdeen g. D. News.
Grover Cleveland has written a letter
to q southern editor in which he declares.
in answer to an inquiry as to whether he
will be a candidate next year: IT can say
no more than to assure you that at no
time since the close of my last admins
tration have been DESTROYS Of carrying
the democratic banner. for the fourth time
in presidential contest" But Cleveland S
actions speak louder. than his words, and
he does not say in his letter that he would
try to find substitute If he were drafted
BY the eastern democrats.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
Books and Authors
HOW "BEN HuR" cAMEsTo BE WRIT,

HOW "BEN HUR" cAMEsTo BE WRIT
TEN
In his new book ION the Trail Of
Moses DR.. Louis Albert Banks repeats
was inspired to write his great novel,
Ben Hur'';
''I had written a serial story Of The
Nativity but had laid the manuscript
away. On railway train / met Colonel
Robert Ingersoll who invited me to SIT
down beside him.
well, if you will let me dictate the
subject, will said T.
. Certainly. That's exactly what /
t-@I took seat by: him and began: Is
there a God?'
Quickly as flash he replied: T don't
know; do your
is there a heaven?'
7 don't know; do you?'
is there a help
I don't know; do you?
:" rs there a hereafter?"
I don't know; do you?
II. finished, saying: There you have
the texts. Now go ahead
"And he did. He was in a prime mood;
and, beginning, his ideas turned to
speech, flowing like heated river.
when we separated at Indianapolis it
was a long distance to my destination,
put preferred TO Wdlk, 1Or Was III o.
confusion of mind not unlike dazement.
ITO explain this. it is necessary now
to confess that my attitude with respect
to religion had been one Of absolute in
difference. I had heard it argued times
innumerable, always without interest.
So, too. had read the sermons Of great
preachers, but always for the SURPRISING
charm of their rhetoric: But-hoW
strange! To lift me out of my indiffer-
ence. one would think only strong affirm
atoms Of things regarded hottest would
do. Yet here was moved as never be
fore, and by what? The. most outright
denials of all human knowledge Of God.
Christ, heaven, and the hereafter. He
had made me ashamed of my ignorance;
and then-here is the unexpected of the
affair-as walked on in the cool dark
| ness was aroused for the first time in
my life to the importance of religion
And, while casting round how to set about
the study to the best advantage, thought
of the manuscript in my desk. Its clos.
ing scene was the child Christ in the
cave of Bethlehem; why not go on with
the story down to the crucifxion?
! II did as I, resolved, with results first
the book Ben Hur,' and second. a con
viction amounting to absolute belief II
God and the divinity Of Christ"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
NEW BOOKS.
MR.. cLAeHoRNs DAUGHTER. By Hilary

MR.. CLAGHoRN's DAUGHTER. BY Hilary
Trent. New York: ]. S. Ogilvie Publishing
company, 81 Rose street Price 81.
This is rather peculiar love story. The
authors design in writing it was to assail
and Witty the Calvinistic theology. She
introduces several gentlemen addicted to
that system and Natalie, the daughter Of
Beverly Claghan, father and daughter be-
ing agnostics. The father is represented
as having been driven to- agnosticism by
the Calvinistic theology. Natalie, a bril-
liant girl, marries one of the CalVintst1c
ism and Leonard's Calvinism won't mix.
She has a, child who soon dies and she
charges her husband with holding to the
alleged Calvanistic doctrine Of "infant
damnation"; refuses to have any more
children by him, "to be damned" and they
SEPARATE, Leonard runs off with another
woman and Natalie falls in love with an
other man and permits his attentions and a
divorce is procured from the faithless
Leonard, and she nnarries her cousin Mark
Claghorn. All the moral lapses in the
story are charged to Calvinistic theology.
The author, like many other people, in
Guiding not a few clergymen, does not,
evidently, know what the Calvanistic
theology; is, It is doubtful II she ever read
single section. of the Institutes" Thru
out this story she ignores ethe real teach
Ing VI IlLdL IuSOlOSy IIldLs Ii1S udIIi1IoI1O1i
of the reprobate springs from their own
corruption of nature and then perdition
finds it's cause and matter in themselves
and in their exercise Of their power Of con-
trary choice. The author manages, in
deed, to make something of a sensational
story out of her perverted view of CAL
vinism, which, while certainly a. severe
theology has been the creed of thousands
Of heroic and noble and self-sacriicing
men and women.
SACRnEGE FARM. BY Mabel Hart. New
York: d. Appleton & Co. Price 81.
This is a weird, eerfe tale, told by Mar
garet, the maid of Mrs. Sylvester, widow
of one of the Sylvesters who lived at
Sacrilege Farm, a gloomy old place. once
a monastery, which had evil reports as
ghost-ridden and under a curse as stepped
with crime. The maid Margaret found the
atmosphere Of the place mystery laden.
Mrs. Sylvester's husband was q. brute who
had married her when she was a bright
young school girl. and soon wearied of her
and maltreated her and kept country girl
he had seduced in the house. He turned
her out of the house one cold night and
shortly afterward he was murdered. The
family pride Of the Sylvesters led them to
conceal the affair. The murderer is re-
vealed toward the close Of the story. ( The
family had burned the portion sof :. the
house where Mrs. Sylvester's husband had
been murdered. Something like hell exist
ed at Sacrilege Farm after the murder,
but there was some wonderful @heroism In
the grim way the Sylvesters looked after
the honor of the family. Margaret is q
splendid raconteur' of ghostly mysteries
| turnout.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
CHANGES IN FARMING
Andover IS D1 Gazette.

Andover Is. ID Gazette.
The rapidity with which this portion Of
South Dakota is being changed from an
exclusive wheat raising country to a re-
gion Of diversified farming is not fully ap-
preciated even by the people who are ef-
fecting, the change. A, few years ago a
man who put in a field Of corn was re-
garded as a crank, or as a man fresh
from Iowa, who did not know that it was
impossible to raise corn. here-now the
corn crop has come to be SO important
q factor in our farming operations that a,
failure Of this crop means financial
stringency in the region where it occurs.
Dairying also and poultry raising are
gaining every year, and are beginning to
form a considerable portion Of revenue
bearing wealth. s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
NEGRO CARRIES THE BAIT
rhina 90 liter Ocean.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
Booker T. Washington in his address at
the Auditorium Frlday- night talked In
parallels. He did hot discuss the race
question except IL 81 far as to. define the
position Of the negyp # q controversy :, OF
Illustrate, he .toId ssths Story, Of the old
negro fisherman. who plunged into the
water to rescue a drowning boy, not be-
cause of any relationship or Of any senti-
mental consideration whatever, but be
cause the boy had the bait in his pocket.
The story was a light one, but In its
application it was stronger than appeal
to one side and better than argument to
the other. It was a honely story, but It
carried with it no intimation that the ne
gro of the future is to be simply a ser
want, a. newer of wood and carrier Of
water. In the character Of a man with
the bait in his pocket, he is, thru work
and education and progress, to make him.
self SO much Of a, necessity to the white
race that he will be treated with respect,
consideration and favor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

The people of the northwest residing
east of the region devastated by the I'M
seasonable blizzard that has wrought such
damage in Montana and the northwest ter
ritories in Canada. will keenly sympathize
with the afflicted cattle men and ranchers.
The loss of 10000 head of cattle in Mon
tana alone isga stunning blow for the cat
tie men of that state.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

It is good to learn that the Hennepin
county roads are now reaching such a
condition Of excellence that maximum
loads can be hauled on them at all times.
but 1t is ,humiliating to be told that when
the farmers team reaches the city limits.
it's easy work is over. because the subur-
ban streets Of Minneapolis are so much
worse than the country roads: Perhaps
II these suburban highways were called
roads instead OF, streets they would fare
ba4far
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

did nothing. Shall It look as calmly upon
the wholesale butchery OF Jews in the
domain Of the head Of the Holy Orthodox
Greek Church OF Russia and in the king
dom OF the. heal OF the Rumanian
branch Of the Orthodox Greek church?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

Mrs. Lulu Hadley, who refused to make
UP Booker Washingtons bed at the
Hotel English. Indianapolis, has received
money gifts of $4,000 or $4,000 in apprecia-
ton Of her act. If the contributions keep
on Booker Washington will never be able
to get his bed made up in the north.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
THE APPETITE. oF.cHlLDHooD
Washington (Iowal Press.

washington Qowa). Press.
Childhood is an organized appetite. It
can't get enough. It is hollow to the toes.
Children could be developed much faster.
And their natural greed is a, cue that
should be taken. Wouldn't you healthy
fellow like to have a guardian appointed
for you, who should stuff you with pie,
fruit, Strawberries, cakes and ice cream,
till you needed to have the hoops driven
tighter on you? It would be happy
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

Charles T. Yerkes, formerly of Chicago,
but now of London, is in love with the
people of his new home. He says that
over there once you get a street railway
charter you've got it forever.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
THE "sTEPPINe FORTH" SEASON

Atchison Globe
This is the season when the daughter,
who cries when she burns the fudge, gets
up In a white dress at a. commencement.
and solves the problems of life in such
a simple. easy way that her own parents
don't know her.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

Cuba has certainly made a very good
showing during her first year Of indepen
-dence. AS Secretary Root cabled Presi-
dent Palma, she has confounded her enc
mics and strengthened the courage and
hope Of her friends.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

Six hundred wagon loads Of mud have
been removed from the waterworks reser
voirs. There are 600 wagon loads of fer
tility for some farmer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
ONE CROP NOT AFFECTED

New Rockford IN. d. Transcript.
The June bride crop was too far along
o be affected by the frost OF last week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
The Nonpareil Man.
Casually Observed.

Casually Observed.
the ymater tootie? asked Its genhe
bite replied the
g.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
JUDGE MunoER's INJUNCTION
Tacoma Ledger.

Tacoma Ledger.
Judge Munger. Of Omaha, has modified
his injunction against the strikers. AS
it now stands they have right to be
alive.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

"a Gamblers Daughter which comes
to the Bijou next week, is described as a
modern melodrama full Of love and laugh
ter and possessing a, story of absorbing
interest and at the same time is powerful,
dramatic and original. The piece is from
the pen Of Owen Davis. Miss Clara Thropp
who plays the title role is one of the best
known footlight favorites Of the stage.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
WHAT AMEs MAY DO

Des MONIES Capital
i Ex-M Mayor Anes may vet decide to sue
Minneapolis for heavy damages.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

the Of every glteng
this
asd bond to pay IN years Without d ear
I'll. turkish plan simple and enive when village
will require and
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Louise Booker Wash
making his bed and
would have awakened at
4ao m with It wrapped around his neck Go TO- Louise
@ Often for nn and playing
proclamation of Maine said
tons appoint
y hsar ra that be abolished d' and thus
cleanc conscience y
anybody should day
in last week follows:
calling ms. for
ie'r NICE s't me- R sh hn soe my nfs
at times pstuan and ztrenu-
Ak. sI;f. z
known fair half
vsab1y late Tho their dinner
rs % STONED eg @ " No M s 5 sa ts ap % ns
she rotd over the next course two minutes Late ~
horses He could take from the
e ases e@e
to take the track and
waiting dinner that the needed
Of and p s % no the s and nto the
Equine Horse Astator
n air dry
o'clock dinner exactly time and the girl had thrown up her
shook his head sadly The medicine had been too strong for her.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

when the Bell Tolls" Trayers Vale,s
romantic drama, which Is being produced
at the Bijou this week, is well received
by large houses.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

pands rapidly under modern conditions
There isn't much left of the old notion
that the sole function of the government
is to protect the citizen against injustice
and foreign aggression. For the most part
this expansion is natural and beneficial.
In times when governments did not con-
Germ themselves with such matters the
foot and mouth disease that broke out in
New England last winter would have been
left to run its course and destroy count
less herds of cattle. But the government
took hold Of 1t, and by quarantine meas
ures and the slaughtering of $500 head of
might otherwise have iniuriously AFFECTED
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

a roof ninety-ei feet high, and imme
diately going to his dinner pail, ate his
piece of pie. Oh, we're a hardy people.
Even the pie cannot kill us.
o o g % @
The idiot who rocks the row boat on
you is the kind of a fellow who, If he
enlists in the navy, blows down the
muzzle of a 1s-inch gun when the charge
sometimes hesitates a moment.
@ O. O o O
An alluring bait with the sale Of
mining stock is being offered in the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

A large audience greeted the Ferris
Stock company this afternoon at the Ly-
ceum to witness their production of
"Home and Honor" Opening Sunday the
Ferris company at the Lyceum will pre-
sent the grand religious play "Quo vadis."
Mr.. Castle the stage director. declares that
this will be the best thing. this organiza-
ton has yet done.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21

the entire cattle raising business Of the
country. ,8 ss
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
AT THE THEATERs
Foyer Chat,

=
'Are You ! Mason?" which begins
brief engageme nt tonight is described
as a deliciously droll comedy, filled with
bright sayings and. comical complications
that prove equally amusing to every play
goer, whether he is a Mason or not John
c. Rice and Thomas A. Wise, comedians
of the first rank, are the pseudo .Masons.
Miss Nance O'Neill will open her re-
turn engagement of six nights and Wednes-.
day matinee at the Metropolitan next
Sunday evening in THE Jewess, a
drama in four acts adapted by Mckee
Rankin from the German Of DR.. S. H.
Mosenthal The part Of Leah affords Miss
O'Neill exceptional advantages for the dis
play of her tragic and emotional abilities.
Elizabeth will be given Monday night,
''Magda" Tuesday night, Camille" for
the Wednesday matinee and Friday even
ing performances, the Isben play Hedda
Gabler," on Thursday evening. and The
Jewess'' will be repeated for the Wednes-
day night performance.
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SENATOR BAILEY'S FOXY START
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