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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
c. E. PLEDGE STIFF
Position Taken by Several Congrega-
tional Pastors in Association
Session To-day. y
Others Held the Pledge Represented
an Ideal and Should Be
&c. Maintained. ~.

Brisk discussion over the Christian
EndeaVor pledge was. q feature OF the
session Of the general Congregational
association of Minnesota at the Park
church, ST. Paul, to-day. Following
the report of the Christian Endeavor
committee a discussion was precipi-
tated by Rev. J. Sibley Gould of
Owatonna, who declared that the
pledge exacted from those who join
the society was too stiff. 1t was be-
lieved bad policy to demand such
stern code, and then wink at it's break
ing. Mr.. Gould's position found some
supporters, who suggested that the
pledge might well be dispensed with
entirely.
Rev. Andrew Bond of Anoka said
members of the church did not always
live up to the vows they had taken,
yet no one believed in releasing them.
The Endeavor, pledge represented an
ideal, and it was well to keep 1t before
the young people. -.
Holmes Of Minneapolis, and Rev. G..
A. Traut Of Excelsior supported this
view. ~ .- -
Rev. w. II. Medlar presented the re-
port Of the committee. There were
seventy-five new societies organized
last year, tho the society had no SAL
aried officers There are in all 635 So
ClSIlGS LII lIlS SIdIS- Will A0'oo
bers. The state is In need of a field
secretary who can give all his time to
the work. i !:
Senator Clapp's Address.
Senator Moses E. Clapp addressed
the convention this morning in schol-
arly fashion. - He gave a historical
survey Of the development of human
liberty, showing how the advent of
Christianity had introduced a new
thought of the value Of man, however
humble. Before that time govern
ment had been based on power gained
| by birth Or b ythe sword.
| The Race Problem.
Rev. DR.. w. L. Tenney, secretary OF
the @. NJ. A., spoke on Progress in
the Solution of the Race Problem in
the South" He declared positively
Our country cannot retain It's place
among the nations of the earth If she
tolerates the, Tillmans and accept:
their teachings as superior to the
ethics of Jesus Christ" DR.. Tenney
could not agree that our fathers hac
made a mistake that a certain elemen
in the south has alone understood thu
problem and that the friends Of thu
negro have gone at the subject from
a wrong standpoint.
Rev. r. P. Herrick, superintendent
Of the Sunday School and Publication
society, presented a report SHOWING
/ that SO new schools had been started
in the year, having an aggregate O.
1926 pupils. l.,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
An UnIucky Ladder.

A ladder broke and Karl Klene fell
twenty-five feet to the ground, sustaining
severe injuries. Now he has sued Henry
Parsons, the contractor for whom he was
working at the time of the accident, for
900 damages. The case is on trial be-
fore Judge Elliott.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
SAYS HE WAS INSANE

Joseph O'Brien's Defense-He Is on
Trial To-day.
Joseph lO'Brien, the man who per-
formed with a revolver to the injury
Of several persons last August, is on
trial before Judge Pond to-day. The
defendants defense is temporary in
sanity. He was willing to plead guilt
to assault In the second degree but the
law prohibits any such disposition Of
the case when the plea is insanity.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
Commercial club Meetlne-The annual

Commercial Club MeetIng-The annual
meeting Of the members of the CONNER
cial club will be held at 8 p. m, Nov. ).
Walter Gregory Is one Of the retiring
announced
To Speak on chrysostom-Rev Frank
H. Cooper will give the first of a series
of lectures under the auspices OF the
Northwestern Bible and Missionary train
ing school this evening in the chapel OF the
First Baptist church. His subject Will be
"Chrysostom' The lecture begins at 8
o'clock and the public is invited.
Fine Arts Annual Meetins-The annual
meeting Of the Minneapolis Society of
Fine Arts will be held tonight at the
picture gallery of the public library. Inc
annual reports of the officers OF the So
ciety and of Robert lSoehler, director of
the art school, will be given and the
election of directors will be held. The
officers are elected by the directors.
Schools Must Pay-The waterworks Of
ficals are determined to shut Off all con-
nections with the public schools on Oct.
Is unless the board Of education secures
a stay of proceedings In some manner.
The park board has opened negotiations
! with the waterworks committee and Sc
2 cured stay for three weeks, but nothing
has been heard from the school board.
Shadyside Association Meets-Members
of the Shadyside association, who live on
Fremont avenue S, met yesterday at the
Commercial club together with Aldermen
! Powers and Clark and Street Commits
! sioner L. c.. Fry. The meeting grew out
of a plan to put livery barn near Tween
ty-sixth and Hennepin, but the project
had been abandoned Monthly meetings
will be held at luncheon hour at the
Commercial club. The blocking Of the
Twenty ninth street crossing by the Mil.
waukee road was taken up also. Severa
matters for Improvement were suggested
to the aldermen.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
$4,000 FOR A CONSTITUTION

Ernest X. Wilkins Sues the University
and the State.
A suit for $4,000 damages has been
brought by Ernest K. Wilkins against
Thomas G. Lee, the University of Min
nesota and the state Of Minnesota.
Plaintiff alleges that his 15-year-old
son was put to work building an iron
fence when he was supposed to be do
ing light work in the laboratory of the
medical department of the university
and that thereby his constitution was
permanently injured
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07

Gustave's SOS Gone ~ ustaye Momandia,
farmer residing near Brooklyn, Henne-
pin county, reported to police headqual-
ters this morning that he had been robbed
of s66 in a barn near Twentieth avenue N
and Washington. .s.-,.s .a.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07

NORTHWESTERN POSTAL CHANGES.
Special to The Journal
Washington. Oct. Thomas M. Casa
way was to-day appointed postmaster at
Chimney Rock, Park county, Montana.
August NJ Blixt was appointed rural car
rier at Cannon Falls. MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
P. Person Acquitted,

Peter Person, indicted for grand larceny
In the second degree, was acquitted by a
jury in Judge Ponds court yesterday af-
ternoon.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07

The Art of Being Agreeable.
1t is a valuable art for any man or
woman. Learn it from the Adelaide
Gordon letters in the Saturday Jour-
nal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07

ISABEL BEATRICE ALLEN, aged %.
wife of e. H. Allen, died Oct A at 1919
Hennepin avenue. Funeral from the rest
dence tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. Interment
at Laymans cemetery.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07

The Art of Being Agreeable.
Would you acquire it? Then read
thet Adelaide Gordon letters in the
Saturday Journal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
The Art of Being Agreeable.

IA It means the differenceE between
success and failure. The way is
pointed out in the Adelaide Gordon
letters in the Saturday Journal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
y. BLOWS, KICKS, POISON

Grounds Alleged in Mrs. George o.
Parker's Divorce Suit.
Because George o. Parker struck,
kicked, tried to poison and then de-
serted his wife, Anna M. Parker, the
latter has begun an action for divorce
In the Hennepin county courts. There
Is one child, the custody of which is
asked by the plaintiff.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07

MISS DORA CLARK, formerly teach
er in the Minneapolis schools, died at
Sioux Falls, s. D., Monday. Sept. 90. The
remains were taken to Mount Pleasant,
Iowa. for interment Miss Clark had
many friend In this city H. So
MRS, DANIEL SMITH, aged 90, died
this morning at: her home 1927 Second
avenue s.. Burial at Hampton. Iowa
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
CITY NEWS.
WEATHER NOW AND THEN
Maximum Temperature To-day o.
Degrees; Year Ago SO Degrees.
AT THE THEATERs TONIGHT

Metropolltan--'.King Dodo."
BiJou-"Across the Pacific.
4Lyceun1-"At Valley Forge"
Dewey-Bowery Burlesquers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
MR.. ELW0oD RECOVERING
President OF Real Estate Board Has Been
Down With Appendix

Lester B. Elwood, vice president of the
Corser Investment company and president
Of the, Minneapolis Real Estate board, is
recovering rapidly, at his home on Ridge
wood avenue, from a severe attack of
appendicitis which began about two weeks
ago. me family physician expects Mr..
Elwood to be out again the first of next
week. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07

.Dr. Deimel Linen Mesh underwear"
Agent Hoffman's Toggery Shop.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07

MISS ANNA ANDERSON, Is years
old, died at the Swedish hospital on Oct.
s.. Funeral Thursday. Oct. 8, from the
undertaking parlors Of Olson Earl & Sons
at p. M. and from Augustana Lutheran
church, Seventh street and Eleventh ave-
nue. 8, at 2:3O p. m. Interment at Lake
wood. -. ~.-. - Il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-17

connections as are Wemen in this country.
They are tolerant, and expect their hus-
bands to be tolsrantvi Society is the end
oil of the life oftsuch'a an American woman,
and, since she has obtained foothold in
England, society has degenerated from a
polite pleasure into a''profession. There Is
little privacy in English society now. Din
ners and dances are Fully described in the
newspapers. Who dives or walks Is re-
ported The slightest is alluded
to in print A para8f6ph writer calls early
in the morning and again late in the after
noon. and is Inspired so that the most
trifing and apparently undressing per-
sonal detail may be pablished in the news
papers. "'.G
Is the American woman in Europe a sue
cess a. a mother? 1t is too early to answer
that question. 1t will be surprising II 1t
later is found that the kind of woman that
has been described has been a successful
trainer of her children, and If she proves
successful in that direction 1t will be proof
of the good qualities Of the American char
acter and the results of free and indie
pendent institutions.
Has the American woman come to stay?
men of this country can maintain the
higher and more womanly ideals which
have been handed down to them from past
generations and profit by the educa ton
and experience of modern surroundings
they may await a reaction with confidence,
assured that their beauty, their home-mak-
ing qualities and their disinclination 20
thrust themselves under the limelight will
be appreciated when men of the old world
cease to go to the new to procure money
and when the American woman and her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-17
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
HARRIET SAWYER PUTS A Bull
LET NEAR HER HEART.
Was Formerly the Wife Of John Cecil
Clay, WellKnown Illus
traitor.

The New York Herald today publishes the
following:
Discouraged because she had failed to
earn the recognition as light opera singer
which she considered her talent entitled her
to, Harriet Sawyer. twenty-four years old,
attempted suicide in the Martha Washing
ton Hotel yesterday afternoon by sending
bullet under her heart She was taken to
the New York Hospital, where 1t was said
she will probably recover
Was on the Stage.
Until ten days ago Miss Sawyer sang in
the chorus of musical comedy which is
being produced at Broadway theater. She
had worked hard understudy to a
singer who had more important part I'M
til her nerves gave way. Members Of the
company noticed for several weeks that she
had been acting in Respondent manner.
When the company was in Baltimore she
became so excited because she was chided
by the manager, that she fled into the
street declaring that she would kill herself.
Until last Monday she lived In boarding
house at No. rs East Thirty-fourth street.
She left there to go to the Martha Wash
ington. A pistol shot attracted the atten-
ton of two bell boys to the young wo1nan's
room on the eighth floor at o'clock in the
afternoon.
Women Were Excited.
Excited women who also heard the shot
ran from their apartments and filled the
corridors. The clerk had Miss Sawyer's
door forced open, and she was found lying
on the bed. She had written a letter to her
father. James Sawyer. who lives in Mil
waukee. Physicians were summoned and
they had her taken to the hospital i'll a
carriage. 1t was not until I o'clock that
the police of the West Goth street station
We're notified.
Miss Sawyer told the police that she had
failed in her ambition to become great
singer and wanted to die She said that she
would try again if she survived. The wo-
man is said to be the divorced wife of John
Cecil Clay an artist. 1t is said that she Is
related to the late Philetus Sawyer. who
was a United States senator from W1scon-
sin
Cen Cecil Clay chief clerk of the De-
partment of Justice. declines to make any
statement regarding the suicide at a hotel
in New York of Harriet Sawyer. the for
rner wife of John Cecil Clay. son Of Gen.
Clay and who is we'll known as an illustra-
tor and artist in New York. Mr.. Clays
studio is at No. West Thirtieth street
and he is one of the best known artists in
his line in the United States A number Of
years ago he married Harriet Sawyer. the
daughter of a Milwaukee broker. She
had been studying music in New York. The
marriage did not turn out to be happy
one and it was not long before the couple
separated. Mrs. Clay went to the DakotaS
two years ago and obtained divorce from
her husband on the ground Of desertion,
and since that time had gone upon the
stage. The family of Gen. Clay and his
son have consistently declined to discuss
or comment upon the divorce or any of its
features.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-17
Washington Grove News.

Special Correspondence OF me Evening Star.
WASHINGTON GROVE. Md. July 10. 1903.
Miss Susan p Pollock met the children of
the Grove Tuesday morning. There were
about sixty present and they spent an en-
joyable hour with the kindergarten games
and drills.
Tuesday evening the first of the socials
took place. Mrs. Frank Rynexs Sunday
school class had charge.
A short entertainment was given, includ-
ing a solo by Miss Gertrude Wiley: recita-
ton Miss Ada Belts; piano SOLO Mrs. Her
bert L. Davis: recitation. Mr.. Frank Allen
Watson. Ice cream was on sale and a So
c.al hour followed. Proceeds for the bene-
fit of Assembly Hail.
Mr.. Benz. Welch. who has been visiting
here. has returned to Philadelphia.
Mr.. Frank Calhoun is visiting here with
his sisters.
Miss Alice Weaver is the guest Of her
cousin. Miss Mabel Campbell of LIST avenue
Miss Letitia Weer and Mrs. James RAN
ME of Baltimore are the guests of Mrs. Jas
Carter.
Miss Olea Wood has set the fashion for
pets this season She has two alligators
brought from Florida They have proved
to be so attractive to the neighbors that
cats and dogs will no longer be in demand
but every one will be wanting an alligator
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Kensington News.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
KENSINGTON. Nd. July II. 1908.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Johnston enter
tanned about fifty Of their friends at a
euchre party Wednesday night. Their home
was beautifully decorated and large num-
Der of Japanese lanterns Illuminated the
porches and lawn.
Mayor Eckhardt Is entertaining his sister,
Miss Bessie G. Eckhardt, and his brother,
John Carl Eckhardt. He will also entertain
the latter part Of the week the Rev. Mar
ion j. Kline, d. D., general secretary Of the
board of foreign missions Of the general
SYNOD of the Lutheran Church Of America
Miss Alice Harr and Miss Gertrude
Massey are visiting Mr.. Edward Harr at
Iceland. Md.
Miss Lillian Brady has returned home
after several weeks visit with friends in
Roseville, Va.
Miss Lenora Hunt has returned to the
home of Mrs. Marshall b. Cushman. after
spending the winter in Vienna, Austria,
where she has been studying under the
masters as an accompanied.
A special executive meeting of the coun-
ell has been called to meet in the town hall
tonight for the consideration of street re-
pairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-17
FORTUNE FOR TOBACCO.
Many Thousands Spent by Man Whom
It Finally Killed.

CHICAGO. July IA dispatch to the
Inter Ocean from Kalamazoo, Mich. says:
William G. Pattison of this city Is dead
In his eighty-ninth year as the result Of
the excessive use OF tobacco. His to-
bacconist. from whom he bought exclusive
ly. gave out the statement after his death
had been made public. that in twelve years
Mr. Pattison smoked more than $4,000
cigars which cost him $500. In his early
life he was an even more constant smoker
than in his declining years, and local cigar
men estimate that in the last twenty years
Of his life he had smoked 100000 of his
favorite brand. which would cost him
$1,000
Mr.. Pattison was pioneer stage coach
man of the middle west. having established
the first stage line between St. Paul and
st. Anthony, Mimi. along the bank of the
Mississippi river. He also established the
first stage line between Grand Rapids.
Mich. and this city.
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THE AMERICAN WOMAN.
Henry Labouchere's Report on the In
vasion Of Europe.

From the London Truth.
The American woman has Enthusiastically
been a success in Europe She Is generally
pretty, She Is clever. She takes pains to
please those whom she considers worth
pleasing She has that instinct for the class
above which only they have who belong to
the class below, and. to use an expression
employed by NJ. Taine. she always Stands
with shouldered arms and feels herself on
parade" Her afrectations and the sins
which she commits against the command
ments of European good manners are over
looked because OF her American origin.
moreover because of the favor accorded to
them by royal personages. and also because
of the exalted positions which many Ameri-
can women have acquired by marriage
They are the fashion. and 1t is almost i'm
possible to escape the influence of the fash
ions of our own times. With those advan-
raees is 1t to be wondered at that Ameri-
can women have succeeded socially in Eu-
rope?
But are they also a success as wives? 1t
is true that comparatively few American
women have trailed their characters
through the divorce court in England So
cial success is what they aim at. and the
exposure entailed by divorce court pro-
ceedings might endanger this success. the
more so because their social position Is not
as protected as II they were surrounded by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-17
TUBERCULOSIS CAMPS.
How Consumptives Get Well by Living
Out Of Doors.

From the Review Of Reviews.
1t is truly an easy and enjoyable way OF
getting well for any one who Is a lover OF
nature, for, as has been stated, the main
principle carried out is to get in touch with
that which Is out Of doors-to be amid the
trees. continually breathing the air puri.
fed by natural processes. to exercise ana
eat and sleep, If possible, with the sky for
a canopy The medical man OF the olden
time would indeed be shocked If he could
visit one of these places, to see so-called
invalids hard at work in the forests max
ing their camps lolling about in hammocks
in summer with heads uncovered and lying
nuffied in blankets and furs In the sun
light in the dead of winter. with no shelter
but the blue sky above them. But these
are only some of the ways in which health
is sought. Patients who are able to stand
the exercise amuse themselves by clearing
away the snow from the verandas in the
winter-even the women handling the
broom and shovel and enjoying it. Coast
ing on the nillsides is another strange
recreation for those whom we call con-
sumptives encouraged at the Massachusetts,
institutions. Physical culture is one OF the
requisites for those who are able to at
tempt 1t, and daily dozen or a score of
patients are put through the simple move
ments, under the guidance of perhaps one
of their number or "a member of the medf-
cal stan. The tent life Is a part of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-17
A Custom Of the Country.

From the New York Times.
1t Is said that Vicar Fillingham, during
his visit to New York. exhibited more than
ecclesiastical energy alone. and was curious
TO see all sections of the city. In many of
his peregrinations he was accompanied by
an old resident who could explain every
thing of interest One day they came upon
a huge poster adjoining 4 wall. upon which
was represented life-szed pictures of ex-
Gov. Hill. Admiral Schley. Senator Depew
Mayor Low and District Attorney Jerome
each holding II bottle of some special brand
of whisky in one hand and a glass in the
othar.
This Is rather interesting to a stranger"
said the friend, for these pictures repre-
sent five OF our distinguished citizens"
mentioning their names.
How very extraordinary" said the
vicar. land do all your distinguished men
carry u bottle of whisky?'
''oh. yes" answered the friend. Some
caSry.a great deal more
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routine of the women in summer as well as
of the men, and 1t is an actual fact that
in Massachusetts some of the women have
erected their own camps for winter, deco
rating the walls with posters and photo
graphs, and converting them into minia-
ture club houses. where they occupy them
selves in conversation, reading. sewing and
various games.
These camps are unique in many respects
The buildings are composed of but three
sides, that facing the south being left
open They are simply sheds. having a
floor to prevent the dampness from the
ground affecting the inmates. Some forest
trees are used for posts, and the walls
made of plankS boughs fastened to
them. If the temperature is too low for
comfort, 1t is moderated by the use of
small >stove, sometimes open fire.
Draught is furnished by digging a tunnel
through the earth beneath the shed, termi-
mating in a length of clay pipe. When
fire is started the air is sucked through
this conduit, and that keeps 1T burning
brightly.