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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
THIS DOG A GREAT TRAVELLER
Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript.
Does a dog become homesick? And is it
reason or instinct which leads runaway
dog invariably to choose the right direc-
t1on to reach home, no matter how great
a distance the owner might wish to carry
him? These questions are just now in the
minds of a family living in Medford, who
make known a somewhat singular incident
In connection with an Irish setter dog
which they own. This animal has just
returned to its home after a journey of
about one hundred miles from Durham
N. H., unaccompanied by anybody. j.
Wesley More ION, a young man whose home
is on Garfield avenue, Medford, Is a stu
dent in electrical engineering at the New
Hampshire State college at Durham, and
on going back to the institution this sea-
son decided to take the dog along, with
the intention of bringing it back at
Thanksgiving time. For convenience the
dog was taken aboard the train at NAL
den by his young master and the trip
was made to Durham.
! Mr.. Moreton kept the dog confined the
first night, to get him acclimated to his
new surroundings, as he hoped The next
morning the animal, which answers to the
name Of Prince, was taken out unleasheC
to see the sights of the town, but soor
wandered away from his master. Mr.
Moreton at once instituted thoro search
of the town for some clue as to the where.
abouts of Prince, asking the trainmen a.
the station, but nobody seemed possessed
Of any information about him.
Prince, being well-liked animal, hat
| been supplied with a collar bearing tn,
name and the Medford address of tn
owner. A few days after Mr.. Moretol
met with his loss in Durham, his fathe
/ received a personal call from a man liv
ing in Chelsea, who informed him that tn
dog was at his home, having followed hin
in the streets that morning. A membe
of the Moreton family went to Chelse
and took the animal home. 1t Is the opin
ion of the owners that Prince came a.
the way from Durham on the roads an
if he had not been taken into the Chelse
home undoubtedly would have found hi
way thru Everett, Maiden and into Med
ford. The Moreton family has just learne
that before the dog came into its presen
home it found the way back to Medfor
from town in Maine, where it had bee
taken temporarily. D."
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
The Council Is Satisfied.

The circular issued yesterday by the ex-
ecutive council Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor contains cold comfort for
those who have hoped to turn the labor
vote against President Roosevelt on ac-
count of the Miller incident
The council contents itself with giving
the presidents position 1t makes no criti-
cism Of him, but makes it plain that
the president was not attempting to lay
down any rule for private employers In
his announcement that government en-
ployment must be on the open shop basis
In fact the council goes SO far as to assert
that the president gave it as his personal
opinion, while in conference with its mem
bers, that outside of employment under
conditions fixed by law he thought 1t bet
ter for shops to be conducted on the union
principle instead of as open or non-union
shops.
The council reports that now as former
ly the president believes in the eight-hour
! day on public works.
Once again the president has demon
strated how we'll it pays to be brave and
candid In public life. He has not lodged
and he has not indulged In dema'
gogy. He has merely done his
duty and spoken his honest opinions. The
result Is that altho every effort has beer
made to put him in the light of being 6
foe to labor he is stronger with the labor
ing men to-day than he ever was.
While giving credit to the president, thu
conservatism, moderation and good sens
of the council must not be overlooked. I
has handled a delicate affair in a yer.
diplomatic. manner.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
ADAM BEDE'S FUNNY STUNT
Pine Knot Editor Speaks the Associated Press
f Banquet.
The Fourth Estate.

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j. Adam Bede, editor of the Pine Knot
Budget, ex-United States marshal for
Minnesota and member Of congress from
the sixth Duluth) district Of Minnesota,
was one Of the last, but also one of the
most entertaining of the speakers at the
Associated Press banquet, held at the
Waldorf New York, last week
The fact that Mr.. Bede held his audi
ence, and gleeful audience at that
despite the lateness of the hour, says the
Commercial Advertiser, shows that his
western reputation as a purveyor of
hearty laughs has good warrant. Among
the noteworthy paragraphs of his speech
are the following:
I fully realize that neither time would
permit, nor this audience endure, any
thing sensible from me, especially at this
hour of the night. I am somewhat in the
position of a young lady friend of mine
who was very thin and very homey, and
had sense enough to know it, who desired
to unite with the church.
When the good preacher told her she
would have to renounce the world, the
flesh and the devil. she responded that she
was willing to renounce the world and
the devil, but rather than lose any more
flesh she would join sideshow And so
I realize that whether I express my real
thoughts or not tonight, you could pos
s1bly see thru me and get them your
selves.
Two years ago you used our butter here.
DO you remember how the little families
! IN the DackWoods set the cream on the
back shelf in the living-room where all
| the folks sat and talked, and smoked to-
.bacco and other things?
Why, do you know the milk would take
up all those things, those odors you know,
and when you brought the butter down
| 10 New York and ate it at Delmonico's or
| the Waldor-Astoria you could taste
every member of the family. Now we are
improving those things, and the world is
| seetihs pettef as we go along.
or course my associations have beer
very largely with cattle in the west, an6
Win what little culture I have attained
nave gotten from the cattle, not from poll
tlc1ans, and after an arduous campaign
no one can understand how delightful it is
TO get away from the maelstrom of poll
Tics and associate with COWS again.
NOW have been told in other cities :
united impression is abroad here in New
| YORK that you can lick a Jersey COW anf
make her give whipped cream. That i
not the ordinary way Of getting tha
product for the market. You have to b.
kind to your cows. More than that, yo,
have to use good language in their pres
ence or the butter fat will be driven away
and 1t has become business proposition
| with us folks out in Minnesota to b
| decent. F..
You have got to be kind to your COWS t.
get the best results, and it changes yo
gradually Be kind to your animals, an
, after awhile you will be good even to you
wife. It extends all along the line.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
A Bad Mess.

Confusion worse confounded represents
the state Of the New York municipal cam
paign. D..
Tammany last night nominated for con-
troller and president Of the board of
aldermen, respectively, Edward M. Grout
and Charles D. Fornes. Both of them
hold those offices at present as fusionists
and both have been renoninated by the
fusion of republicans and democratic re-
formers.
Now that they are on both tickets, the
Kings county democracy, representing
the democrats of Brooklyn. refuses to
support them, and the republicans and
the citizens union are considering how
to get them off the fusion ticket. r%
Tammany's great object in this cam
paign is in some way to acquire for the
democracy the prestige of having carried
New York. It desires not only return
to municipal power for itself, but it de-
sres to help the national democratic or
ganization by the band-wagon effect of
what, If it comes to pass, will be de-
scribed as a political revolution in New
York. s......
"There is no hope for the democrats to
carry the United States,'' said Mr.. De-
laney in nominating Mcclellan for mayor,
unless we carry the state of New York,
and we cannot carry the state of New
York unless we can carry the city Of New
York. .....sag p =
OF course, there is no necessary con-
nection between an off-year municipal
election and the state and presidential
elections next year, but it is the Tam
many idea to persuade democrats to sac
rifice their substantial interests as citi-
zens Of New York to their alleged inter
ests as adherents to democratic princi-
pies in national politics--Whatever they
are.
It was this determination to win at any
cost that led Murphy, the Tammany boss
| to dictate the nomination Of Grout an6
Fornes, hoping that with such municipa
| reformers on the ticket the head of i
would be carried thru. At first glance
this looked like very clever politics, ant
may yet prove to be, but with the King
! county democracy refusing to swallow
the fusionists and the good government
i forces planning to throw Fornes an,
Grout overheard, as they deserve to be
for their stupidity or treachery in i'm
| periling the cause Of good government i
i New York, it may prove to be boom
i erang.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02

Behold the cheerful Humorist; take note Of him,
say, =.
Who steals Gods sunshine from the skies and
prints it every day;
Who drains the honey from the flowers, like
any busy bee, E.t
And compasses it in his types to sweeten you
and me. f-. .
Behold the cheerful Humorist; what griefs may
1@:. be his share, t'-> =
Who knows? And vet he let's the world know
nothing Of his care;
He tunes his song to: Joy alone and makes the
weary way ~ s- . - ..E
OF Life a little happier for some one every
day. "'
Upon the fertile fields of Joy the seeds of
laughter sows, -+ -
The sun behind the angry cloud Is shining still,
he knows;
The thorny briar thrusts aside to pluck the
flower there, e.. :s.E .
Somewhere upon the desert sands he finds oases
fair;
What If the tempests buffet him? BE laughs
their winds to scorn,
The years may age and wither him, his cheeks
be and worn,
Yet he is Gods own optimist; his heart Is ever
new,
And by the weary way Of Life he comforts me
and you. -'- .-~r1 ..-.- -t ~ .a q. '~
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02

You may remember the effort that was
made to start a Christian Endeavor So
ciety some time since in the Phliipplnes
to bring about a state of civilization, put
there was nothing to pin the badges on.
SO say, the world Is getting a little
better along these lines, too.
Why, did you ever stop to think that
civilization begins in a cold country?
You cannot go down Cat least you never
did go DOWN to the tropics and start a
civilizatio and go north. You always
begin north and go south. ts
You have got to have concentration
we had snow in Minnesota the other day;
you have to have something that makes
rugged manhood and a womanhood to do
business in this little world, and so it
happens that temperate climates like
ours-like our northern part of the United
States-starts the ball rolling and civil
Lies the rest of you equatorialities in the
course of a little time.
I was talking to friend Of mine who
owns a large ranch in North Dakota-a
large ranch; we do not call 1t planta-
.tion up there. He said he had become
worried with all this recent progress;
that he had not only had to buy i'm
proved machinery, but that it had come
down to a point where he had to build
gymnasium on his farm to give his
hired men exercise after they came in
| from their work. So I say, the world is
! getting better-and easier. In a little
while farming will become profession
| It will be one Of the most refined of the
professions.
met a fr lend Of mine complaining
| one day. He was just coming out of g
| saloon. He had been in buying some lin
| ing for his underclothes, I presume. He
said his horse went dead, and his mule
| went lame, and he lost six COWS in
poker game; then a hurricane came OF
a summers day and blew his hous
| away; and then an earthquake cam
| and swallowed the land the house stoo,
on; and then the tax collector came an
charged him up with taxes on the hole tn
| house went in.
AS I said, great civilizations mus
come from a cold climate like tn
United States. You are shaping the des
tiny of the world. You have got tn
power to do some things that I cannC
do. I have got the western people t
quit yelling for fiat money. Now I woul
like you to get the eastern people t
quit yelling for fiat stocks. We will qu
watering our goods if you will quit water
ing yours.
The question of the trusts has bee
touched upon here tonight. They ar
one Of the evolutions that are comm
about with our western civilization, to b
checked at certain places, to be sur
Some Of these great things are liabl
to fall, and you have got so much wate
in them that I fear when they do ia
about all the stockholders will have
them will be their riparian rights.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
MORE POSTAL INDICTMENTS
Beavers and Greene Draw Another
One-Scott Towers, Also.

Washington, Oct. 2.-The grand jury
brought in three more postal indictments
yesterday.
One was joint indictment against
George w. Beavers, formerly chief Of the
salary and allowance division Of the post
office department., and State Senator
Greene Of Binghamton, n. Y, charging
conspiracy.
The other indictments were against
Scott Towers, who has charge of one Of
the principal subpostoffice stations in this
city He is accused of having received
a commission on the sale of book type
writing machines to the government.
The grand jury will adjourn finally next
Monday and the expectation is that
number of other postoffice indictments
will be returned on that day. Immediate
ly after receiving information of the in
dictment of Towers the postmaster gen.
eral dismissed Towers from office,
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02

e. P. Butler in Frank Leslies Monthly.
The Worm seated himself comfortably
on the edge of the book. =.
'Do you like limericks?" he asked; II
don't. They remind me Of limerick
hooks, and they use worms to bait lin
erick hooks"
i don't believe know what they are,"
said Alice, doubtfully, "but they sound as
If didn't like them'' s
"Then I will be glad to sing COUPLE
said the Worm, and, crossing his eight
cen feet, he sang in a low, fearful voice:
lady named Rose had a Daughter
Who did things no lady had ought'er;
The good folk confessed E-
She was none of the best
But notice they all Of them bought her.
tYou see,'s he continued "people
couldn't agree about the book. It was
regular case Of Ward politics. But it was
different with the Pit. Every one enjoyed
that. 1 tasted it myself and I made a
limerick about it. 1t goes this way:
Said Annabelle Susan de witt,
II fear 1 have fallen bit;
-. For several nights .-s
.-.. I was Up On the Heights, ~
But now am deep in The PITT
why exclaimed Alice, that's a
pun"
"Of course it is,'' said the Worm, hap
PLY. "You wouldn't think it Of me, would
you?" Without pausing he sang:
A poet swore several curses
"For empty he said, t'ny poor purse is:
.-5 My poems, alack! 1'- ~
Meier fail to come back
And my verses are always reverses"
II don't think that is very funny" said
Alice, doubtfully,, for the Worm was laugh
ing until the tears ran down his nose
which was odd, because he hadn't any
nose.
Don't you?' he asked. "Neither did
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
A TRIBUTE TO THE HUMORIST

The rainbow Of his gayety in happiness ap-
pears
When the bright sun of his glad hopes is shin
ing thru his tears, ..1-..
He asks to bear with him the burden of
his care,
He plucks the sob from weary hearts and sets
his laughter there.
The bowstring of his fancy twangs, his smil-
ing arrow fiies
To find the heart Of Care, and dead upon it's
- H. way it lies. '..- ... .
The gladness of the fields is his; the rose of
q = Joy, with dew 4 f. 50
OF Humor all bejeweled this he plucks for me
z and you. -
God bless the cheerful Humorist; and may he
reap some day,
The fruit Of all the Happiness he scatters by
the way.
The lances of his wit he hurls against the
ranks of gloom,
The vastness of the fields he treads to find
where flowers bloom.
And some day God will smile on him and bid
him come away
To where the Sun of happiness makes bright ar
endless day,
To where the angels laughter always echoes
thru and thru,
And God will give him back the smiles tha
he has given you.
Foley in Bismarck Tribune
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
LOW TALKS TO MAYORS
Delivers an Address at the Auditor.
ium Theater. Chicago.

Chicago, Oct "A banquet to the Wis
iting mayors and concert by the Marine
band, followed by public gathering at
the Auditorium theater last night. at
which Mayor Seth Low Of New York was
the principal speaker, brought the CEN
tennial celebration to close except the
fireworks display last night.
At 6 o'clock the mayors Of a score of
cities sat down to banquet in their
honor, attended by more than 400 citi-
zens Of Chicago. At 1880 the United
States Marine band of Washington be-
gan a concert in the Auditorium theater,
and one hour later the banqueters took
seats on the platform to listen to Mayor
Lows speech upon sCivic Federation
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
FRIDAY EVENING,

Of the assessment Of special franchise
corporations, and even the individual in
justices that have resulted from its max
ing heavier the burden Of those who did
not dodge the assessor may bear good
fruit next year. Undoubtedly the board is
trying to do It's best, but the harder 1t
tries the more clearly it demonstrates the
unfitness of our taxation system to mod
ern paeds
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
Attacking the President Thru Wall
Street.

More than once voice has been given to
the suspicion that a part Of the Wall
street depression is due to a deliberate
manipulation of securities with view to
bringing about a condition of unrest and
dissatisfaction, of which President Roose-
Welt shall be made the scapegoat 1t Is
no secret that the great Wall street pow
ers the men who make and overthrow
fortunes from day to day for the sport Of
it, or who can see no possibility Of right
eousness in any course opposed to their
interests entertain a fixed and settled
enmity to President Roosevelt. They have
found that they cannot make him their
tool Firm as a rock he stands between
their pressure and temptations on the
one hand and the appeals Of demagogy
on the other. Between the attacks Of the
criminal rich and the criminal poor, he
pursues his straight and honorable course.
The Wall Street Journal is convinced
that capital cor rather certain powerful
representatives of -capital, having discov-
cred that they cannot control the presi-
dent, are therefore now schening t. drive
him out of office" A part of the scheme
Is to help Tammany beat Low in New
York this fall, but the major part Of it is
outlined by the Wall Street Journal as
follows:
The footprints Of the conspirators may
also be seen in the speculative markets.
Is 1t not fair to ask whether these hostile
financial interests. if not actually aiding
in the destruction of prices, are at east
doing nothing to stop the fall, secretly
hoping that every fortune wiped out or
impaired, every profit reduced, every mill
closed. every mine put on half time, will
create new enemies to Roosevelt, and
make new converts to the platform of his
capitalistic enemies, which makes the
baseess claim that the break In the prog
ress of prosperity began with his attack
on the Northern Securities company and
his advocacy Of publicity?
The Miller episode was welcomed by
these schemers inasmuch as it promised
to unite to the power Of money the ange,
OF 900 voters. But there no longe,
seems to be any danger that organized
labor will be turned away from the presi-
dent by that affair. And without some
powerful voting support even the fornnid
able power Of Americas greatest million
aires, thru market manipulation or with
drawal Of financial support for the repub
lican campaign, and granting Pactoleal
contributions to the democratic campaign
can hardly hope to triumph over the con
yiction of the American masses that ther
is in the White House strong man,
man who stands for all Of the people.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
Minneapolis, Oct. 1, 1903.
Gl' s7t
Arbitration.

To the Editor of The Journal :.
Internationally since the settlement Of
the coal strike by board of arbitration
there has been a remarkable growth Of
public opinion in favor of that method of
dealing with this class of labor trouble.
It seems to me unfortunate that the mill
ers have rejected the offer of their men
to arbitrate their differences. Every
argument proposed by the millers in sup
port of their declaration that there is
nothing to arbitrate'' is an argument
which might properly be made before a
board Of arbitration, and have no doubt
that if they could establish the sound
ness Of those propositions they would win
their case. Their unwillingness to sub
nit their case to arbitration raises the
suspicion that it is not as strong as they
claim it to be. Respectfully, i.
t3-gs- w. w. Williams.
105 W. Twenty-ninth street. +.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
Smoking on Street Cars.

To the Editor of The Journal.
A contributor recently makes complaint
because ''the smoking public is not pro-
vided for in the new cars of the twin
cities trolley lines, and asks, why should
they not be?" It appears to me the coun-
ter question could as pertinently be asked,
"why should they be?', Why. not as log
ically provide for "the eating public or
the drinking public? c?"'The cars are for
transportation, not for dining. drinking OF
smoking. Smoking is Objectionable tc
many persons who use the cars, and il
'the smoking public are to be pro
vided for'' it should be in separate cars
as on the railroads. - A Passenger
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02

In its financial statements the street
railway company never mentions its
franchise among the assets. If it hadn't
got into the habit of making that omission
it might not have so much difficulty in
reconciling itself to an increase of nearly
So, coo, 900 in its assessment. But then we
mustn't be too hard on the company, for
it is actually installing sufficient power
generating machinery to enable it to
handle its traffic.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
HE FEARED THE COMBINATION
Harner,s Maea zina

: y I
Frank had just passed thru the throes
of his first composition and the result was
something like this: 'My dog has two
eyes. My dog has four legs. My dog has
a tail.'' His teacher said: "Frank. YOU
should combine all those facts about yonr
dog into one sentence and forthwith
gave him THE Horse" as the subject for
his next essay. =S
The following day Frank entered the
schoolroom with an air of conscious
triumph, and hailed the teacher in a
I've combined!" And he had, for this is
what she read: my horse has a fine dis
position, a long tail and young colt
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
JUST A FRIENDLY VISIT
King Victor's Trip to Paris Has No
Political Significance.

Rome, Oct, 2.--King victor's journey
to Paris has no special political signif-
canse, except that 1t materially demon
strates the re-establishment Of good rela :
tions between France and Italy. 1t will
have no European International conse-
quences. it is said, for Italy has no inten-
ton to abandon the triple alliance, which
has just been renewed, and which has
had a beneficial effect on the maintenance
Of peace for more than twenty years.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-02
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Street Privileges.

SIreeI privileges.
To the Editor of The Journal.
I read with interest your article on
street privileges-but why did you not
give US the law in the case, or is this
state without a law, and every one to be
a law unto themselves? Surely the state
has q; law to guide teamsters, not only
when they meet but when they are going
in the same direction. L don't know how
1t Is here but in some Of the other states
the law reads something like this:
When the driver Of any vehicle ons any
road, street or highway is overtaken by
any person riding or driving at a faster
rate Of speed he shall quietly turn to the
right and let the other pass. Failing to do
SO he Is liable to fine Of from 81 to $40.
If there is such law in this state 1t
should be enforced and then the street
cars and drivers of light rigs would not
have to suffer the inconvenience and an
noyanees they are enduring at present.
Let us have light on the subject.
.lg p. L. M.