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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
LITERARY NOTES

The Scribners announce a new novel by
Cyrus Townsend Brady entitled IA Doctor
Of Philosophy" the scene of which Is
laid in Philadelphia.
Brander Matthews has written a new
book entitled '"The Development of the
Drama which the Scribners will pub
lish.
Frederick Palmer's new novel, s'The
Vagabond," will be published this week
by the Scribners.
At a recent book sale IN London, a copy
OF the fourth folio Shakspere was sold at
$3.50. and first editions Of the first and
| second parts Of Sponsors "Faerie Queene"
brought $1,105.
Miss INLAY Taylor, author Of ..The Re-
bellion Of the Princess" is q Washington
girl OF notable ancestry. Her book shows
familiarity with Russia, for she has made
Russia a life study.
Viola Roseboro, author Of 1.-THE Joyous
Heart" Is the daughter OF a minister
born and brought up in a small Tennes-
see town. She had a love for books and
the drama, and went to New York alone
and appeared on the stage for a while,
and then took UP newspaper work, and
from that became story writer for mag
| azines, and Is now reader for the S. S.
Mcclure company.
| Swarthmore and Bucknell colleges in
| Pennsylvania have chosen the Philadelphia
Public Ledger as a text book to be used
classes
| in literature. The Ledger is a greatly
improved paper since the late change OF
| management, but the college authorities
referred to might get some very good
ideas In Journalism from other newspa-
pers also.
| July 20 is the one undredth anniver-
sary of the birth Of Thomas Lowell Bed
does, author of Deaths Jest Book .The
Brides Tragedy 1.-THE Improvisa tive
| Beddoes early recognized the genius Of
Browning and Shelley. He committed SUI
icide in 1849. Beddoes was 20 years writ
ing the dramatic poem Deaths Jest
Book"
Lord Dufferin relates this "Reminiscences
of Disraeli: 1.-THE elder Mr.. Disraeli, be-
ing as yet more celebrated than his son,
my mother had expressed desire to see
him. But the introduction could not be
| managed, ina smuch as at that particular
moment Mr.. Disraeli had quarreled with
| his father. One fine morning, however,
| he arrived with his father In his right
hand, SO to speak, in Mrs. Norton's draw
| ing-room at Storey's Gate. Setting him
down on q chair and looking at him as IL
| he were some object Of vertu Of which
he wanted to dispose, Mr.. Disraeli turned
round to my mother and said in his some
4 what contentious manner: Mrs. Black
wood, I have brought you my father.
have become reconciled to him, my father,
on two conditions-the first was that he
should come and see you; the second that
he should pay my debts.
Lee e Shepard, Boston, announce ''The
Hermit; A Story Of the Wilderness by
/ Charles Clark Mum, to be published in
1september.
4 The tendency to dramatic novels has
had the effect Of making many fiction
writers increase the dramatic situations
in their books oppressively and tiresomely.
TT begets an unseemly straining after dra-
lmatic effects and many Of them get be-
lyond their depth
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14

cussion on this bill only commenced to-
day one week before the date assigned for
accepting or rejecting the canal treaty,
which has been in the hands OF the Co
lombian congress for three months past.
The Colombians evidently have no idea
OF reporting fayorably on that treaty and
there is not the slightest probability that
our government will consider proposition
to construct the canal thru a territory
practically under Colombian dictation and
interference, and pay that disorderly gov
eminent s2o.ooo,oOo for the privilege OF
Colombian insolence. There is not a
power in Europe which would consent to
construct an isthmian canal, costing some
5000, 900, on such terms.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
Colombia's Canal Scheme,

The new canal proposition before the
Colombian congress, reported by our min
lister at Bogota to our government, is
quite an unspeakable piece of cheek.
Here are a few interesting features: The
French Panama Canal company is to pay
to the Colombian government $4,000, 900
for the privilege of transferring It's franz
chise and plant; canal zone lease, 100
years, excluding Panama and Colon, the
termini Of the canal; rental $3.50, 900
yearly, renewable at termination, at 25
per cent increase. The Colombian gov
eminent is to retain sovereignty over the
whole territory and population and ex-
clusively control ali sanitary arrange
ments as we'll as policing the region. Dis
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
Books and Authors
ADVANTAGES OF FAME

In one Of his letters to Schiller, Goethe
says: Tt is by our worst books that we
make most money" AS q matter Of fact,
after an author has securely gained the
ear or eye of the public, it would seem
that anything he chooses to write-good,
bad or Indifferent will go" Kipling, for
instance. has reached that commanding
position and will no doubt hold it until
death stills his powers. His literary OUT
put Of whatever kind commands most
satisfactory prices, and be occasionally
writes some very poor stuff. Sir Conan
Doyle has reached the advantageous
point referred to. and he maintains it so
that he can doubtless exploit Sherlock
Holmes in many a volume yet Tennyson
was able to command his princely rates
for some really inferior poetry. There
are others who could be mentioned. in
Guiding some American authors, who oc-
casionally collapse, but the public do not
mind it and go on reading their books.
Goethe no doubt was right about worst
books" 1t is fortunate for authors that,
after man gets good grip on readers
they will take anything he writes as a
masterpiece, his worst especially.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
That "Historio Platform. "

On Jackson's Day In 1899, Colonel
Bryan delivered an address at a banquet
in Chicago given by the Andrew Jack
son league, in which he said:
1.-THE democracy of the nation is still
defending Jeffersonan principles with
Jacksonian courage, and has no thought
Of departing from the principles enunci-
ated at Chicago in 1896. That platform
will live in history, and the hour of its
adoption will be remembered as the hour
when the money changers were, driven
from the democratic temple. There will
be no turning back The platform will
be added to, as new conditions force new
issues into the arena of politics, but moth
ing will be subtracted from 1t. Events
have vindicated every position taken by
the platform"
About the time Bryan was expressing
these views, the head Of the alleged
sacrosanct democratic combination,
known as Tammany, was saying: II
think the 16 to 1 question as outlined in
tho Chicago platform a decidedly dead
issue; this was fully demonstrated in the
last election $780," This Tammany
philosopher also remarked: II believe
in expansion; I believe in holding what
ever possessions we have gained by an
nexation, purchase or war; the policy
is not only patriotic, but it Is the only
safe one to pursue
MIR. Croker then went on to expatiate
on the ssst that Thomas Jefferson was an
'.expans;oH list"
AS 4, :s.ppened, the presidential cleo
ton zoo fully demonstrated" also
as did the election Of 1896, that free silver
was a dead issue, and that Colonel Bryan
did not comprehend the meaning OF the
term "Jeffersonian principles" which
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
ORIGIN OF THE HANSON

The hanson was the invention of Joseph
Hanson, the architect of the Birming-
ham town hall. But the two wheeled cab
which he patented in 1884 little resembles
the vehicle which now bears his name.
1t had a square, sedan chair shaped body,
hung between two wheels nearly eight
feet high. The drivers seat was in front,
as also was the door; the fare entered the
cab between the wheel and the shaft.
The modern hanson was adapted from
this original by Messrs. Gillet and Chap
man. 1t is peculiarly English vehicle,
and no foreign nation has ever comprised
the logged courage of the Briton who can
sit calmly inside it,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14

Holman f. Day in Woman's Home Com
panion.
We'll, I've been doing some business
on my own hook" I said. II sold the
machine we brought with us, and I have
delivered it, 1
Cash or instalment?" Carter asked,
looking at me in some establishment.
well, the whole trade isn't exactly
clinched," I admitted, "but it's the same
thing. She has taken it for three weeks
on trial, and says she'll probably keep it,"
"Who?'
Mrs. Peter Stott-lives up nearly op-
posite your woman
First Carter sat down and laughed then
he made some remarks that were ex-
tremely ungentlemanly didn't like such
talk, and I told him as much
zs"You blamed fool" he shouted, chat
woman has worked every sewing machine
agent who has come along-when he has
been gulible enough. It's her old. trick.
She will never buy a sewing machine, for
she doesn't need one. She does her sew
ing each season on the machines that the
fool agents leave there on trial. Now you
go right up and take back that machine
She'll claw you down in good shape, but
it will teach you to look out for the snides
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
Worlds Work.

Worlds Work
An example Of ingenuity is the method
adopted in replacing old wooden trestle
bridges with permanent structures In
the Rocky mountain district are numerous
ravines which are spanned by trestles be-
cause of the time limit of construction,
and also because Of the great cost of
transporting steel bridge material across
the continent When 1t became desirable
to replace the wooden trestles division
superintendent Of the road, who was him
self an engineer and who had assisted in
the building Of several roads, suggested
filling in the important ravines. He was
laughed at.
Why, man, it will take all the cars we
have to transport the gravel, and it would
cost a fortune objected the chief en-
gineer. =
The division superintendent had worked
out the problem before making his sug-
gestion, and he quietly replied:
1t will not be necessary to haul gravel
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
Kansas City Journal

hdHSdS lily JOurndl.
IA man may be as crazy as a March
hare on some subjects, and as wise as a
statesman ought to be on Others" re-
marked Judge Edward Higbee of Ian
caster the other day. Judge Higbee then
told a story to illustrate his point. Sew
eral years ago Elder Andrew Hicks, a well
known Baptist exhorter of his county, was
taken into probate court on his wife's
application to show cause why he should
not have a guardian appointed to take
care Of his large property. Judge Higbee
was Hicks counsel, and he made clear
that in regard to business matters Hicks
was as sane as any man. His neighbors
testified that he was especially clever on
a trade, and several of them told how
they had been skinned by the thrifty old
preacher. Hicks made good witness for
himself. Mr.. Payton, Mrs. Hicks coun-
sci, questioned him closely.
.He told of the first dollar he made
says Judge Higbee ''how he invested it,
how his fortune grew and his method Of
business, which was strikingly sound. He
gave from memory list of his notes and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
THE NONPAREII MAN

aesthetic has good strong nerve and is
going to win out whatever his luck may
be with barbed wire fences.
Medicine Hat has put away its Panama
in the moth closet
A game of gossip played in some
sections of the east with much favor,
seems TO have in it some elements of
danger. The game is played with photo
graphs which are shuffled and dealt out
like cards Everyone in the party re-
ceives photo. 1t is then the play to
go around the circle each party In turn
telling every mean thing that can be
thought of about the party photographed.
The Grafton, N. D., Record says it knows
OF localities where the game has been
played for years without photographs.
Too true!
Albert Hedtke. Of Waconia, grew tired
of sitting by his lonesome in his lumber
yard waiting for customers when there
were things doing in other parts Of town
Of much 1nore interesting character.
So he used little head work. He pro-
cured a large noise-some bell which he
hung in the yard with instructions on it
for customers to. put ring in the slot
and draw the proprietor Of the yard from
his duties elsewhere. The bell could be
heard all over town The small boy was
the first to discover the noise producer
and he naturally lost no time in putting
in a little work on it. The result was
that Albert was frequently seen flying
across town to find no one In sight ex-s
cept a few small boys about block
| away standing innocently around and
enjoying Mr.. Hedtke's quick sprint. He Is
now threatening to have a bunch Of the
| little scoundrels arrested.
| Geneva, Switzerland, Aug dear Ones
at Home: Mary H. remarked this morning:
this don't seem like Switzerland to me-
| ''Why not asked Lucille ''Oh," said
Mary H. listlessly,'' seems if we ought to
be climbing somewhere and falling off Of
something But sitting comfortably in
our quiet hotel you would hardly know
that there was anything to fall from. We
| got a little view of the mountains from
the balcony fronting our windows and
they looked steep. The hotel clerk told
us that people fell from them every day
and that 1t was much nicer and quieter
! to sit comfortably in our hotel and con-
slider the prices Of board and room which
were fully as steep and not nearly SO
| dangerous to life and limb. Papa might
think differently" said Mary H Anyhow
we sat around all day and read Benjamin
Fiur and other stories until bedtime and
then, tired to death with the days adj
ventures and sight seeing, we dropped
into dreanless sleep. Switzerland is
beautiful country. Lovingly you're; Luz
ellie, Margaret and Mary H. "A. J. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
Divert .Bassett's Creek.

Minneapolis has been fighting Bassett's
creek for years. But the persistent little
stream Is still far from being defeated.
Assisted by the torrential rains Of the last
few days, it has overf1owed its banks to
height of ten feet, has tied up one rail-
way line, has driven many families out
of their homes, and, as it subsidies, will
leave behind 1t trail of Shiny desolation,
injurious to health and offensive to nose
and eye.
There is only one practicable way in
which this pestiferous stream can be
beaten once and for all. That is to act
on the advice Of Mr.. r. NJ Henry In T h g
journal of Sept. 8 and divert the
course Of the creek. A ditch three miles
long from a point in Golden Valley two
or three miles this side Of Medicine lake,
to Cedar lake would divert so much water
from the creek that below the point Of
diversion the old channel would thence
forth serve merely to drain the local ac-
cumulations Of surface water This Of
itself would never be large enough to
raise the creek to formidable proportions
and can. as the city grows, be handled as
easily by the sewers as other surface
drainage within the city.
Bassett's creek is an open backyard
sewer all thru the city limits and beyond
Naturally it was beautiful little stream
but it has been defled beyond redemption.
AS it Is to-day it is a source Of injury to
property and a menace to health.
There is a double purpose to be gained
by the proposed diversion. The water Of
Bassetts creek is a nuisance in the chan
mel Of that creek; poured into Minneapolis
| chain of suburban lakes it would become
useful. It would raise them to a proper
level and save them from the danger Of
drying up and passing from them to Min
| nehahay creek, would make that a bank
| full, charming stream within the city
| limits, and make the real falls of Mime
| haha like the falls Of the pictures.
Mr.. Henry's plan is perfectly feasible.
We have to-day a demonstration Of the
need Of permanent relief from the ravages
of Bassett's creek. The city, the park
board and the county commissioners ought
at once to begin to investigate the sub
| ject.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
TWO REMARKABLE FAMILIES

In Webster county. West Virginia. live
two remarkable families. Currence Greg
DRY has thirteen sons, all over six feet tall
and all weighing more than $50 pounds
They all vote the democratic ticket Each
boy owns a farm. Mr.. Gregory. is still
young at ~. His wife does all the house
work at 65 years. The other family is
that of Benjamin Hamrick, a near neigh
Dor of the Gregorys. He is six feet five
inches tall, and his nine sons, all over six
feet tall They weigh from 155 to 226
pounds All in his family vote the repub-
ucan ticket.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
"PlnNlne DOWN. SECRETARY HAY

Secretary of State Hay is noted for the
slippery manner in which he lodges ques-
tons which he does not care to answer.
Not long ago newspaper man was COM
planning Of how the secretary "ducked"
some queries. why don't you pin him
down." asked friend. What? Pin Hay
DOWN." answered the newspaper man.
why tried that the other day, and he
told me what whisky was in twenty diff
ferent foreign languages. BY the time he
got thru I didn't know whether he thought
j was drunk or not, but I didn't try any
more to pin him down on foreign ques-
tons"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
LoNDoN,s GROWTH AND NEW
Works.
Chicago Chronicle.

During the nineteenth century London
grew from city of 100000 people to one
of $500, 0Oo-that is. increased eightfold,
New York increased from go, 900 to 8 ,5OO,-
900, nearly sixtyfold. London is now in
creasing II per cent in a decade and New
York 35 per cent, or twice as fast If this
rate should hold good for fifty years more
New York would have over Ii, 900. 900
population and be 1000, 600 ahead OF Lon-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
IT'S a BEAuTEoUs EVENING

It is beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time Is quiet as nun
Breath1ess with alteration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility;
The gentlehess of Heaven broods DER the sea;
Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like MISUNDERSTANDING.
Dear child! Dear girl! that walkest with me
here,
If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,
Thy nature Is not therefore less divine.
Thou Hest in Abraham's bosom all the year;
And worship'st at the temples inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not. :;
-WordsMorth
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14

John Breidenthal, a Kansas populist,
has an interest in eleven banks, and
Charles A. Towne, who once shivered in
the presence of the money power, is now
power himself and is writing Tammany
platforms. Well, everybody for himself,
Won know. --.-- $1,000
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14

The cheerful man who has for several
months been looking for better weather
in a day or two is about exhausted.
After the deluge come frosts with no
burst. of sunlight between. About the
only consolation there is is that the whole
world seems to be suffering from bad
Gather.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
Casually Observed.

A rich mans gas meter knows no va
cation.
A Boston man has house automobile
afoat on the states roads. How would
you feel to find house suddenly running
over you?
The concert Of Europe ought to let off
a little rag time on the Bulgarian frontier.
1t would be we'll for Mr.. Marconi to
bring up a gross of his instruments and
pick little Of this weather talk out Of
the air.
At football the rib Of the son of
man worth $750,000 is broken with the
same ease with which the rib of the son
Of the man who owes $685. more than
he has on hand gives way.
There are lot of swordfsh off the Maine
coast this fall. Perhaps they will get
some Of the Holsters at Mt. Desert, Old
Orchard and Newport, R. l.
MODS in Danville, H., will think twice
before acting once after this About
dozen Of the members Of the last mob
are now in JAIL
Old Man Hicks wasn't so far away
when he figured that Jupiter getting into
opposition on the 18th would occasion sew
eral vibrations in the weather. If we
nave laughed at Hicks In the past we
come down." He had the government
skinned to a finish on weather last week
There is a little Mr. Dooley lust ar
rived and there is baby Lillian Bell
also; and John d. Rockefeller, Jr., is
hitting himself, with divine guidance he
says, to be an octopus. Funny old world
isn't it.
The bicycle boys talked of a run to
Anoka, thence to Excelsior, thence home
for Sunday, but the roads were a trff1e
deep. We used to do those criminal
stunts in 1899 or Whereabouts and when we
think of them now. we wish we had been
COW kicked twenty eight miles from a
railroad.
The Waconia Patriot tells how At
torney Peck of Shakopee, while hunting,
| became entangled in a barbed wire fence.
He fell in such a position that one of the
bones of his right arm was fractured
which DR.. Jones reduced at his hospital
Mr.. Peck refused to submit to the admin
| istration of anaesthetics, altho it is SAID
| that during the operation, which was
painful, he used some stout language as
relief to his DER fraught feelings A
man who can stand an operation like this
without taking some kind of an an
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14

Charley Towne is said to have become
Tammany spokesman. Tammany is
able to command the services Of skilful
advocates and has not made a mistake in
enlisting Mr.. Towne, but that is more than
can be said of Towne. Towne is naturally
a good fellow, but he has peculiar lil1-
ing for variety in his politics.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14

Dwight e. woodbridge, Duluth news
paper man. has struck it rich on the
Mesaba range. Mr.. Woodbridge might
as well start bank right away because
he can't afford to stay in the loan business
in any amateurish way, and there are a
lot of newspapermen in the northwest
whose ships have not yet come in.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
FiRsTA,.fD
Houston Post.

Now, said the professor, suppose
you had been called to see patient with
hysterics-some one, for instance, who
had started laughing and found 1t impos-
sible to stop-what is the first thing you
would do?'' ys%
'Amputate his funny bone" promptly
replied the new student
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
ANOTHER REFoRMER
Chicago Record Herald

Chicago Record Herald.
Eyes, sir said the gentleman boodler,
IT believe the great trouble in this coun-
try is that we are too slow in having the
law take It's colrse. There should be less
delay. am In favor Of having the
statute Of limitations take effect within
tWenty-four hours. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14

An airship was seen In Indianapolis yes
terday. That is nothing. A few years ago
airships were seen in every part of the
United States and in the third ward
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14

Again the annual struggle Of the small
takers and the big takers has rolled
around. The board Of tax levy is about to
begin It's annual effort to satisfy every
body by pleasing nobody.