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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
FROM EVERYWHERE

Swift It is as hard to satirize wei, q
man OF distinguished vices as to praise
Well. a man of distinguished virtues. :.
white river. Arkansas. is said to be the
crookedest stream in the United State.
II not In the world. It travels 1000 mile.
In traversing a distance OF 800, zie-xax
sing. winding, twisting. curving, bendin.
It's may. tortuous, tortive way through
the beautiful Ozark mountains, the Alpt
of America
= The characterization Of the colonies f
not permitted to lag. W. H. Wright, ter
rltor1al treasurer Of Hawaii, has been in
dicted for embezzlement -: -- =
Colonel r. H. Pratt, head Of the gov
eminent Indian school at Carlisle, Pa,
reports that the enrolment of Indian stu
dents there this year has reached the
are encouraged to earn money by hiring
out during vacation, and they made rearly
1872, 900 that way last year
In the past decade the Methodists in
Ireland have increased 11.27 per cent
their number now being $4,000. The Ro-
man Catholics have declined 81 per cent
and the Church Of Ireland So per cent
There are 211.031 widows in the island
as compared with ss,034 widowers. AMI
one widow to every three married women
Instead Of crying her eyes out because
the bridegroom failed to appear for the
wedding breakfast, a girl in Paterson, n
j., placed q, dummy at the head Of the
table and the festivities proceeded gaily
The young woman was not only sensible
but candid. ~. 1871 b.
This was among the questions sub
nlitted by the civil service examiner
What is a mirage?" And the was the
answer given by. the applicant for posi-.
ton: "A mirage is the act. Of getting
stuck in the mud" u 20
Rain doesn't fall on the unjust man who
has your umbrella. -.... ...,.
There are times when man should
put his foot down hard, but the time Is
never on rainy day in a sloppy street.
1t is hoped that the eood people Of tho
south will not become excited or peevisf
because Mr.. Cleveland has consented t
appear with Booker Washington at Z
meeting to be held in Philadelphia in De
cember in the interest Of manual train
Ing scheol for colored people.
A French scientist visiting the ruins o
ST. Pierre Martinique, notes that while
much OF the stone. l1asonry IS well pre-
served, every yestige of iron work ane
other metals was destroyed by the fear
ful blasts Of hot gases that came from
Mt Pelee nothing being left but a blacl
powder. Evidently some extremely rapit
chemical action took place, which changed
| the metals into oxides, etc.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
TO ONE IN PARADISE.

Thou vast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine;
A green isle In the sea, love,
< fountain and a shrine
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers
And all the flowers were mine.
All, dream too bright to last.
All, starry Hope, that didst arise
But to be overcast:
A voice from out the Future cries,
con! on!"-but DER the Past
(Dim guilty. my spirit lowering lies
Mute, notionless, aghast.
For, alas! alas! with me
The light of Life is DER!
No moreno moreno more
(such language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder blasted tree
Or the stricken eagle soar
And all my days are frances.
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy gray eye glances.
And where thy footsteps CLEANS
In what ethereal dances.
BY what eternal streams.
,4 Edgar Allen Poe.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01

Senator Nelson, we are pleased to see
has come out strongly for the ratitica tion
Of the reciprocity treaty with Newfound-
land. He is reported to have received
many letters from his constituents. urging
him to do his best to secure the ratifca
ton Of that treaty. Herein is a good sug
gestion to citizens who have only a gen
eral interest in desirable legislation. Re-
member that the man with personal in.
terest always bombards congressman with
letters and kilograms until they think tina,
public opinion is just the reverse Of VIVA,
it is. If you believe in reciprocity write
them to vote for the Cuban and New.
foundland treaties
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
DAILY DIVERSION

Settins Next to 'Humor''-shoenakers
chlloren may not wear shoes, but it l.
ga, saIs 70 say that they know how they are
mace, and it is the same with the clildran
Of that unhappy mortal-the professional
fun1orist. p'o1o''ioildi
CHARLES Battell LOOMS has two how.
"; VINO O. nave long studied the American Joke
IN the columns of Life and Puck and eIse-
where. and the manner of it's constrnc.
ZION is evidently no mystery to them. This
source OF qualification to the parent.
VINO looks forward some day to retiring
from business: ,......~' '>'- ais
a lew days ago the younger of the two
ooys, a little fellow of H. came to his
i ,;a with a: piece OF paper and said:
joke" ..ce;.. 40 - " eooo
mr.. LOOMS looked at it and wept tears
OF Joy as he realized that his little Son
would soon support him. The boy had
crude1y outlinedEa carriage and Under
meath 1t were these words.
Ihls carriage was drawn-by a horse ~
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A Lesson by Mr.. Eliel.

-, In yesterdays u n / MIR. J. C.
Elfel talked right out in meeting re-
garding reciprocity with Canada. He set.
a good example for some Of our business
men who would profit by reciprocity, but
who think it very astute to lay back OF,
their oars and say: "Oh, what's the use
You can never get reciprocity. It's all
right to talk about when conversation
lags, but it is hardly within the realm OF
the real -
Mr.. Eliel points out the practical way
to carry on the reciprocity campaign. II
involves eartto-f1eart relations witt
members of congress. = Men. in congress
who wish to stay there, and men out Of
congress who wish to go there, are to be
made to understand in very emphatic
way that there are some votes that nc
man can get who is against reciprocity
The plan is to make our congressman
get back to the good old idea that they
are in Washington to represent their con.
stituents.
We would hardly go SO far as Mr.. Ellie
in saying that this is. to be. altogether {
selfish and sectional struggle-this cam
paign for reciprocity. There are many
signs that when the lines are clearl,
drawn, there will be powerful interests II
New England and New York fighting To-
reciprocity. Indeed, New England ha
done more work for reciprocity alread,
than any other part Of the country. He
congressman are not fright" yet, but
judged by the only test of reciprocity W.
have recently had-the vote onreciprocit,
with Cuba in the last session OF congress-
our entire Minnesota delegation wa
wrong. The New England members a
least voted for that form of reciprocity.
At the same; time Mr.. Eliel has TIL,
right conception Of how reciprocity mus
be evolved in the action and counterac
tion Of selfish interests which always pre
dominate in shaping tariff SCHEDULED
When other sections are greedy, we mus
be, too; and We must say to them, wl1ei
the reciprocity movement has game
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
The Governor and the Speakershir

The Governor and the speakershfp.
Naturally, Governor Van SAINT is disin
ship fight; He has right to assume that
the members of the legislature were
elected in sympathy with his admin
istration. and that the unprecedented
majority given him in the last cleo
ton will be taken as pub
the legislature to act in harmony with
him and assist him in carrying out his
policy. 49,,
There is no use Disgusting the fact,
however,-indeed, it is SO plain that no
mistake on that point can be excused
that an effort headed by DIR. Babcock is
being made by the political opponents Of
the governor, and by those interests which
labored most diligently for his defeat at
the polls, to nullify the victory of last
November and thwart the will Of the peo-
pie then expressed. The character of the
support which is lined up behind DR.. Bah
cock leaves no room for doubt upon this
point. H.
Some of his friends may be friendly to
Babcock, it is true, but all his enemies
are in the Babcock camp.
Furthermore, the maintenance Of an at
tftude of neutrality on the part of the
governor will relieve him of no measure OF
discredit in the event of the election OF
speaker controlled by influences hostile
to the administratio s-.s
In other words. whether Governor Van
SAINT takes a hand in this fight or not
Babcock's election will be, defeat for
him.
For that reason he might just as
we'll declare himself vigorously and frank
ly on the issue raised in this contest. He
might much better. do that than remain
silent, for we do not believe that the
house would dare to defy public sentiment
by placing the control Of it's operations
in the hands of those justly regarded as
hostile by the governor. ~.
Governor Van SAINT is no boss. He has
never displayed any of the traits of g
political DICTATOR He Is a strong party
man and Jealous for party harmony. nc
. ~
doubt this consideration has Influenced
him to remain quiet, and maintain an at
titude of seeming Indifference, even wher
he could see that those Influences which
were most bitterly hostile in the last cam
paign are seeking to organize the 1egisla
ture against him. But he may yet#de.
eide, in spite of his strong disinclination tt
do so, that his duty to his party now re-
quires that he make plain and unnistak
able protest against the choice of Bah
cock and the organization of the house or
! lines hostile to his aims and purposes
There are many things Of Importance a
stake which the governor has greatly a
| heart, matters relating to the board o
| control, tax refrom, the gross earnings ar
rangement, etc-whicf make it vital to tn,
| success Of his second administration tina
| the house shall not be organized by those
| most active in DR.. Babcock's support.
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Pensions and Proft.Sharing.

Those who believe, with Mr.. w. j.
Client, that we are evolving into an In
dustrial feudalism, will find support of
their theory in announcements just made
by the steel and oil trusts. The former
has elaborated plan whereby employees
are permitted to purchase stock in the
company, and also a profit sharing plan,
which distributes among employees both
cash and preferred stock. The latter
announces that all employees who have at
tanned to GA years may be retired with
l1alf-pay for the first year thereafter; and
subsequently a permanent pension Of rs
per cent Of the salary at time Of retire
ment. In this connection it should be
noted that several railway companies
have ,inaugurated a pension system.
Whatever may be the motives of the
corporations announcing these pension
and-profit- sharing plans, there can be no
doubt that they are steps In the right d.
rection. 1t Is sound economy as we'll as
ness as the steel corporation on the
theory that when profits are large enough
to justify increased incomes for ca pital
above ordinary interest rates, there should
be increased incomes for employees above
ordinary wage rates. In fact this plan
treats profits in the economic sense for
it really designates as profits net income
over and beyond that share Of what is
ordinarily called profits that is needed to
pay interests, dividends and maintain the
sinking fund. The plan involves the
theory that labor and capital are part
ners in production, that each Is entitled
to certain returns, capital in interest or
dividends; labor in wages or salaries, and
that all income beyond that should be
distributed as a dividend to both labor
and capital A workman employed by
| such q company can use the possessive
pronoun in q very real sense in speaking
| of it.
The pension plan is good, too viewed
| from both the standpoints of employer
and employee. To the employer 1t prom
| Uses steady body of workmen, not a moi
of hired men. coming and going from day
to day. TO the employee it holds out hope
of an escape from htlmiliating dependence
! or misery In old age.
It is ungracious to inquire whether sucl
generous plans, SO likely to be beneficial
to both employers and employees will b,
equally beneficial to the community, bu
! from that point of view there is, perha ps
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
BUT IT WAS NOT ,ncANDEscEnr.
Cassell's Journal.

Casselfs Journal.
And the voltaic current" continued the
lecturer, was the discovery of Volta and
Its development is a comparatively recent
achievement of science.
A still small individual hoisted himself
to chair in the rear of the hall.
'.HoldSon there. professor! What about
the earlier discoveries of Noah?''
II don't understand YOU, sir.'
Didn't Noah make the ark light On
Mount Ararat?'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01

Consul General A. D. Barlow Of Mexico City estimates
that Of American
mens in Mexico This capital is owned by III firms
corporations The this large has
vested the twenty years half
put in within years sss
already buys United per
all sells the United States so
exports. With inflow of American
this relation of the republics will
rendered The flow of American capital
Mexico has only just begun. ~ H&sa@ g##
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The Nol,npareil Man
casually. Observed.

The Brooklyn grand jury says that
street car conditions are intolerable. The
company does not appearFte be suffering
so much. 49,.
This is the first day of the new year
and this office is so good that 1t does not
have to swear off anything.
50 sharp st. Louis man who burned Eas
arranged a series of little pipes that took
the gas by the hand and led 1T gently
around the meter without going in to have
itself registered and it's ticket punched.
1t worked fine, until one day the gas com
pany's coarse inspector caught the pipos
IN the act and cut them all out to act as
evidence in court of mans inhun1anity to
gas companies.
A fat man, weighing $50. managed to
get aboard a New York elevated train yes
terday and dropped dead from the excite
ment of his success. +.
There was some doubt in the Florida
hotels at first over the imroster who rep
resented himself as "Governor Beckham
Of Kentucky but as he drank freely and
ordered the best Kentucky whisky the
hotelkeepers' scruples vanished for time.
| A New York uptown street had several
saloons and one church. After a recent
snow storm, the walks in front Of the
saloons were cleaned, but in front of the
| church, not. Whereupon ''Old subscriber
wrote to his paper and gave the awful
facts. The next day the. sidewalk was
promptly cleaned. Who says ."Old Sub
scrfber" doesn't mold public opinion?
In the Tingley Times libel suit at Sandy
DaEo. California, the court proceedings
naturally rather dry az might be expected
from the character Of the SOIL are livened
up a bit by the introduction of evidence
regarding the lost mysteries of antiquity
It would appear from the testimony thai
| many Of the people who formerly boarded
at the RAmeses hotel with Mrs. Tingley
Astral brethren and left town biting thei,
thumbs in the very face of the lost mys.
teries. They are now eager to throw
| 1t into" the mysteries, II one may be per.
nitted eolloduialism on SO important q
matter. They Also seem anxious to khoH
that, so far as they were able to find out
there wasn't a first-class mystery doins
II you bar the HASH. &',.s< ~
The Philadelphia Record has an inter
| estihg story regarding the vaccination O.
valuable dogs. It seems that dog.
in the east are subject to smallpox aht
a. large number OF them have died from
| the disease in Philadelphia The animals
are muzzled and an assistant holds thei
| heads: A space the, size OF silver dolla
| is shaved clean on the back, and herr
| the virus is applied, II choose this spo
1 to work on" said tho surgeon, ''becaus,
! the dog can't scratch himself here. If
vaccinated him on the leg he would b
apt to irritate the wound and make it, yer.
Sore The surgeon then added this char
4 acteristic remark:
/ .I advocate every pups vaccination
/ When dogs take smallpox they take i
badly"
4 It would. indeed, be very unp,easan
/ to see valuable beast with his face al
covered with the marks. his complexion
ruined and his selling value diminished
Have your pup vaccinated at once or W.
will not be responsible for the conse
/ quences. rs.
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something TO be said against them. The
pension plan will undoubtedly cause many
man to settle down in the rut of en-
ployment of the corporation, and give up
all hope and desire for economic indie.
pendence. To. quit the job will not only
carry the risk Of not getting another or
Of not succeeding in business, but will be
to sacrifice the surety of something to
lean on in the evening Of life. The tend
ency Of Americans to come and go and
move north, south, east and west will
be overcome in some degree and our
society will rapidly take on that station
airy aspect so characteristic of all lands
where men are slaves to their jobs
should industrial pensions become gen
eral. =. a,,... h
Profit sharing and stock distributing
will tend to draw trusts and their en-
eployes closer together and weld them into
an industrial unit. No ctnploye of trust
with promise Of profits and stock before
him will find anything bad in the trusts
No matter what the general public may
think, the employee will know that big
profits for the trust mean good times 70.
him: Thus may be brought about thai
combination of what Professor j. B
Clarke has compared to two sets Of brig.
ands, the trusts on the one hand and the
labor unions on the other, for the common
purpose Of preying on the public. a.
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CAS-. SURE AS FATE.
,Brockton (Mass.) Times.

Both sides of the Cuban reciprocity
fight are assembling for. the contest at
Washington, and 1t IS to be determined
anew whether Roosevelt or Oxnard is the
head OF the republican party. At the last
session it seemed to be Oxnar1; but in
the late. elections the people seemed to
entertain q different conyiction.-Pitt
burg Dispatch s,sN
There can be- no doubt as to how the
fight will terminate. The president posi-
tioh will be sustained and Cuban reci-
prpcity become reaaity.
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ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat.

I.jrs t.H{.' .l s
Packed houses continue to be the rule
At the Lyceum where Ben Hur - the
magnificent comprehensive spectacle, Is
breaking all records. There are still
good seats left but they are going fast.
z. = Dazey's new melodrama, THE
suburban" will receive its first perform
ance here at the Metropolitan next Sum
Day evening. The play deals with the
great racing event Of the yearaat Sleeps
neaq Bay race track. and is fun OF Ax-
citing incidents and thrilling situations
me n1elodrarl1a has proved the most sue
cessful production of the season at Nc
Vlcker's theater in Chicago.
Blanche Walsh as Salammbo. accompan-
led by Charles Dalton. in a gorgeous spec
taeular production Of THE Daughter of
aamHcar,' comes to the Metropolitan
me latter half Of next week. It is said
that some OF the greatest triumphs Of the
scene painters art have been provided
Tor MISS Walsh and her company Of six
ty-seven. So elaborately beautiful are
the pictures Of ancient Carthage with its
WHIT temples and splendid palaces, its
gorgeous costumes and glitterinE Jewels,
ana ITS professions Of priests and priest
esses, dancing girls and barbarian war
riors,. tina t. it is compared frequently to
~ 80 ptouuCtAQn OF Ben: hur.' So IT, ,
Kaleidoscope spectacle seems, to, he
ABOUT the only phrase in the English Ian
suase that describese the performances
o. The Evil Eye The first act CON
slsts OF clever combina ton of melo-
drama. pantomimic situat tons bal1ets,
SONGS choruses and a sensational me-
cnan1cal effect. the human windmill. The
second act shifts to the liveliest farce
comedy, introducing rag-tine ensemble
ana the funny rotating rooms. Then
comes, for the third act, comic onera
presented with all the scenery, costumes.
cnorus and paraphernalia 'The Evil
rye Will start its engagement at the
| b0ou With a matinee Sunday afternoon
Busy Izzy'' is making good at the
hlJou. MI. Sidney. in the title role ,ha
tuii scope for his recognized comedy tai
ents. The Normans, contribute An In.
oian club juggling act, the best of its kim
seen here. - '''i'o
Another packed house greeted the Fer.
! rls stock company in their presenta tio,
OF Graustark'' at the Metropolitan Ia a,
n1sht. + Next week the COMPANY vii, "a.
| turn to the Lyceum and will he saer
sunday evening in Joseph, Arthur's rrea,
| scenic comedy drama THE Still Alarm I,
! "A regulation M. F.. D. fire engine viii he
useu IN the production. =,
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IN A NUTSHELL. =


Seventy per total of American capital
Mexico railways all but three Of the lines in the
republic being owned by Americans. 81
Americans have $50 Mexican mines
large part expended in mining
machinery. ~ S46 81. s.Ess. w "
Agriculture $2s,Oo0o0O Of American capital
There large American money manufac-
enterprises in electric light plants
and works plants telephone systems similar
dustres. t8t ~
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ON THE JUMP.
PHILADELPHIA. Pres

Philadelphia Press.
Flatte-I suppose now that you live IA
the country YOU get chance to run
around In the morning in the fresh
Backlotz-Run around? Huh. All my
running in the morning is done Straight
straight for the station.
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whether committed through the abuse Of
corporate capital power or the abuse Of
labor union power. Let us enter the new
year with brave and hopeful hearts!
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!, tits a good guess that J. Pierpont Nor
gan is popular in his own banking house.
There are some men who even:with ali Of
Mr.. Morgan's success in making money
would not bonus all their employees at 100
per cent of their salaries and throw in
salary increases besides
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One of these days Colombia may agree
with the poet Whittier concerning the
saddest of all sad words: 1T might have
BEEN" ........
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The Hennepin delegation once more
proves itself true to it's traditions and
false-well, let's wait awhile. -.
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The coroner's jury in the Wanstead.
Grand Trunk railway collision case. have
returned verdict that really arraigns the
management OF the railway company.
They have in effect found that company
guilty Of employing inefhcient and inexpe-
rienced operators to attend to business
upon which scores Of human lives de-
pended. whose incompetency did result in
the loss OF twenty eight lives and injury
to many other persons, Notwithstanding
the mistake in orders, the collision would
have been prevented had the company had
competent men at either Wyoming 0,
Kings Court Junction stations. One Of
these was a 16-year- old boy, taking orders
for the first time and without assistance
For seven minutes the dispatcher called
this boy in vain, because he did not un
derstand the signal for his station.
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strength in congress, that We shall enter
into no legislation designed to benefit hos
tile sections unless we have value re
ceived in the kind Of fiscal legislation we
want &. @
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