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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
A JEFFERSON ANEcDoTE
.Harner's Weekly.


Joseph Jefferson once told friend that
during his long stage career he had meyer
been associated with any one showing un-
due familiarity with him save one indi-
vid,al a man named Bagley. who some
years ago was property man in the come
dams company. ~.s~ -&." ~
This Bagley annoyed Mr.. Jefferson very
much by his somewhat offensive manners,
but, owing to the valuable services rem
dered by him, Mr.. Jefferson had always
been loath to take measures more severe
than reprimand. But finally the familz
iarity of the property man increased to
an extent impossible to endure, so he was
summariy discharged. This dismissal
occurred just before the opening of Mr..
Jefferson's engagement one year in Bal
timore. '< 4.
That night Bagley got exceedingly
drunk, Paying his way into the. theater,
he repaired to the gallery, there to see his
old employer enact Rip Van Wrinkle.
The angry Gretchen had just driven
poor, destitute Rip from the cottage,
when Rip turns, and with a word Of pa
thos, asks: Den hat no interest in der
house?" The theater was deathly still,
the audience half in tears, when Bagleyss
cracked voice was heard in response: q
"Only eighty per cent, Joe, old boy,
only eighty per cent" Is -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
Time for Something Practical.

The time is about ripe for some prac-
tical good-roads legislation for Mime
sofa this winter. The good-roads move
ment has acquired an impetus and has
backing of public sentiment; which
calls for decisive step forward in this
state. One Minnesota legislature had
the liberality and foresight to adopt
a constitutional amendment creating a
state highway commission. Since that
time nothing Of value has been accom-
plished. The biennial grab for. the
road and bridge. fund has had such a
supervening attraction for the law
makers that they have refused even to
make the highway commission amend
ment effective. There is no state au-
thority, or supervision Of the subject
whatever. Each member Of the legis-
lature has been striving to make him
self solid at home by getting $500 for
a bridge over Coon creek or some other
purling waterway, and this $500 local
grab has outweighed all future consid-
erations.
Good roads are largely a matter of
education. The farmers want them
more than any one else, but the rural
overseer knows no more about roads
than his neighbors: He plows up the
roadside in the good old fashioned way,
and the next rain washes it out in gull
lies and ridges. It is all 80 .wasteful
and SO senseless that it is hard to be-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Wants Better Gas.
o the Editor of the journal

To the Editor of the Journal. ~
AS a resident Of Minneapolis I wish to
publicly complain Of the service We re-
ceiVe from the Minneapolis Gas Light
company. Charges for gas may have been
reduced slightly, possibly, but the benefit
which we might derive from that Is more
than counterbalanced by the wretched
gas with which we are served. With two
chandelier lights and one drop light
lighted in my residence at o'clock in the
evening, it is impossible to read and con-
sidering what we pay, regard the situa-
ton as abominable. If the fault lies with
me, and not with the gas company, I
should like to know it, and for that rea-
son hope that others who may or may
not be affected will express their opinions
either one way or the other. ~'s,
A curious and unpleasant circumstance
in connection with gas bills in Minneap-
oils is that they are almost always the
same amount whether little or much gas
is used. It seems very strange, but
nevertheless an actual fact, as can be- at
tested by many who have had the same
experience, Complaint at the office is met
with the reply that the gas meters are
depended upon, and must tell the true
story. If this is so, the gas meters, for
inanimate objects, are most thoroly In
sympathy with the gas company.
Citizen.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
THE Log CABIN.

DER the vision like as mirage falls $500,
The old log cabin with its dingy walls, . - Il
And crippled chimney with the crutchlike prop
Beneath sagging shoulder at the top
The coonskin battened asst on eltner slde-Tr
The wisps of leaf tobacco" cut and dried
The yellow stands of quartered apples, strung
In rich festoons that tangle in among
The morning glory vines that Chamber Ger
The little clapboard roof above the door;
The old well sweep that drops courtesy
To every thirsty soul 80 graciously.
The stranger, as he drains the dripping gourd,
Intuitiyely murmurs, THANK the Lord!'
Again, thru mists Of memory arise
The simple scenes Of home before the eyes;
The happy mother, humming, with her wheel,
The dear old melodies that used to steal
So drowsily upon the summer air,
The house dog hid his bone, forgot his care,
And nestled at her feet to dream, perchance,
Some cooling dream of winter time romance,
The square Of sunshine thru the open door,
That notched its edge across the puncheon door.
And made a golden coverlet, wherein
The god of s1umber had a picture drawn
OF babyhood, in all the loneliness
OF dmpled cheek, and limb and hnsey dress;
The bough-flled fireplace and the mantel wide,
It's fre-scorched ankles stretched on either side,
Where, perched upon it's shoulders meath the
5 joist, 5fs 500
The old clock hiccoughed, harsh and husky
voiced, III .ts H s d
And snarled the premonition, dire and dread,
When It should hammer Time upon the head;
Tomatoes, red and yellow, In row.
Preserved not then for diet, but for show,
Like rare and precious Jewels in the rough,
Whose worth was not appraised at half enough;
The jars Of jelly, with their dusty tops;
The bunch of pennyroya1 and the cordial drops;
The TASKS Of eamphof and the vial OF sauills;
The box OF buttons, garden seeds and pills,
And ending all the mantels bric-a -brac,
The old, time-honored family almanack.v
-Jsmes Whitcomb Riley. Il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
The President s Trip.

President Roosevelt's jaunt to st.
Louis has been triumphal progress.
Some have questioned the wisdom of
the presidents visit to the exposition
on account of the risks it involves,
but it is too much to ask Of man
with his active temperament that he
shall seclude himself like the pontiff
in the Vatican or the car in his palace.
Then is it not worth while to take
some chances for the sake of such
scenes as the presidential party wit
messed along the way yesterdays At
every stop from Pittsburg to Indian
apolis, thousands Of cheering people
were gathered to get look at the ma
tion's victorious head, if possible to
hear his voice, and to show that the
tremendous Roosevelt majorities were
an expression of their love and
confidence. The president was happy,
and no mistake about it. In fact, tho
he has quit saying it, he, was 'tdee-
lighted,' and in his little talks from
the rear platform he came into closer
comradeship with the people than ever.
At Denison, Ohio, the train took on an
other passenger in the shape of a live
coon, presented to the president g for
luck' by a lifelong democrat who has
become Roosevelt republican. In In
diana the president told the people how
thankful he was for their treatment on
election day. Some one inquired:
s1What g. the matter with Ohio?' to
which he replied, "Nothing at all, ~ and
then, as an afterthought, he asked in
semiconfdence, "What's the matter
with Missouri"
"Nothing at .all,' say all of us, after
those Roosevelt and Folk pluralities of
Nov. 8. Missouri is abreast of the
times. In visiting st. Louis the presi,
dent is honoring great exposition and
a great state, and he will doubtless be
made to feel that the honor is appreci
ated.
The people of every state and every
political belief will wish that the jour
ney shall end as pleasantly as it has be
gun, and that the "lucky coon' from
Denison will bring the president more
Of the good fortune that has followed
his affairs all thru life.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26

Northeastern Minnesota has developed
more slowly in an agricultural way than
other sections Of the state, because Of the
general rush for prairie land. Now there
are signs that the time has come for .'the
land Of the big red clover" Settlers have
proved that splendid farms are to be made
in the cut-over pine lands. The farmer
who has a little money to invest and is
willing to work, can make hrst-rate liv-
ing on new land In Pine, Aitkin, Isanti,
Kanabec, Mile Laos; Carlton or Itasca
counties, which have filled up at a re
markable rate in the last. four or five
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
Saturday Evening,

bered that Argentina consumes only a
small part Of the wheat she produces,
her milling industry is yet in its infancy
and most Of her crop comes, as wheat,
upon the European markets.
A few days ago 1t looked as IL Min
neapolis wheat would again go back to
the dollar level, but it does not now
seem that this will occur soon, unless
something enormous in the way Of De-
cember liquidation should develop be-
fore delivery day. The situation hero
is unchanged, except that the approach
ing close of lake navigation and the
higher freight rates then to become
operative, stimulate fhe -four trade. Mil
lers hope this will continue, but fear a
dull period after Dec. S. Meanwhile
stocks continue increasing, as receipts
here are running above a year ago.
This accumulation of wheat in Min
neapolis elevators has been one of the
most important bear arguments.
Now, however, it begins to look like
a falling off in the Russian movement,
and it is not likely that that country
will long continue sending out 100000
to 100000 bushels week, as she has
been doing. With this there is the I'M
certainty about Argentina.
The downward trend carried Deem
Der from $1.21% to $1.0611a, and May to
$1O9h, but both options have since re.
covered about four cents, and at present
it is as much a bull as bear market,
the tendency depending mainly upon
news from far-off Argentina.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
THE UNEASY cHAlR.

Satire Of Mans Present LIttIenessea
and Prophecy Of His Future Greatness In
Il. q. Wells Latest Book.
Brutes that tear each other with their talons,
that howl, and grin, and chatter and wallow in
the mud-these are the final abstract OF man-Of
his Instincts, Of his ambit Tons, Of his hopes.
That is Alfred H. Welsh's epitome OF
Jonathan swift's satire Of man, in Gull
iver's Travels It lis the very antithe-
sisso the view Of Henry q. Wells as en-
bodied In his really great allegory The
Food OF the Gods. So striking Is the con-
trast that one is almost compelled to be-
lieve that Mr.. Wells deliberately set him
self the task Of answering Swift's pess-
imism with Swift's own method. Read
the above quotation again, and then read
this from the lips Of one Of the giants in
''The Food Of the Gods:
''Wes are here, brothers. to what end7 To serve
the spirit and the purpose that has been breathed
into our liyes.r4sWe fight not for ourselves for
we are but the momentary hands and eyes Of the
Life OF the World. - Thru us and thru the
little folk the Spirit looks and learns. From us
by WORD. and, birth and act 1t must pass to still
greater lives. This earth is no resting place;
this earth is no playing place, else indeed we
might put Bour throats to the little peoples
knife. having mo greater right to live than they.
vermin We fight not for ourselves, but for
growth, growth that goes on forever. Tomor-
row, whether we live or die, growth will con:
quer thru US. That is the law of the spirit for
evermore. To grow according to the will OF
God: To grow out Of these cracks and crannies,
out OF these shadows and darknesses into great:
ness and the light! Greater, greater, my broth
ers And then still greater! To grow and
agatn--to grow! To grow at last into the fell
lowshtp and understanding of God! Growing
Till the earth is no more than foot
stool. y. Till the spirit shall have driven
fear into nothingness and SPREAD = HI
swung his arm heavenward-" There" 81 $50
In that giants speech, ringing words tt
fellow giants awaiting attack by the lit.
tie people who seek to destroy the 'bol6
new motif creeping in among ancient an6
honorable airs" there is a very passion
Of optimism, there Is that which stirs the
blood and quickens the faith in a destiny
for man here and beyond the horizon o
time and space. =, 1888 -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
DOING THINGS. NOT FOLKS

From Bedes Kansas City Speech.
We have quit the old idea of doing
folks; we have put the grafters into the
horticultural class and now we do things.
You used to think you had persons to do.
There are no political parties in the
United States any more, and SO talk
to you as II we were all of one family. I
asked a Montana conductor why his train
was two days late, and he said one half
mile Of the d-n scenery fell down. That's
what happened few days ago-no one
but Roosevelt was running. You have
asked only little thing Of mea deep
water river to st. Louis. feared that
you might ask for deep water canal to
Denver. promise right now that you
shall have It. Can't do 1t all in minute,
but promise you shall have It all in
good time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
Waiting to Hear from Argentina.

In Argentina, that far-off country,
whose grain-producing area has been
steadily increasing from year to year,
the time is close at hand for the har-
Evesting of another wheat crop JAM
Il is the date usually taken as
marking the height of the harvesting
+ season, but, in advanced localities, cut
h ting begins much earlier, and the first
/ week of December in any year may
bring reports from which an estimate
/ of the quantity and quality Of the crop
can be made.
The time is therefore but a few days
off when the grain trade, passing over
other influences as secondary in import
tance, will turn attention principally
toward Argentina. For fortnight re-
ports of unfavorable weather have been
coming, but as the wheat fields Of Ar
gentina cover wide area subject to To-
cal climatic conditions, and as the
weather on the whole has been variable,
and the means Of obtaining quick and
reliable crop information are not so
good as in our country, there have
necessarily been some conflicting ad-
vices, and cables of one day would
make the crop promising, the next day
perhaps finding conditions again I'M
favorable.
Yesterday the first really serious re-
port came, to the effect, that continued
heavy rains have done some damage.
This was rather indefinite, but the for
eign markets felt it; Liverpool adj
vanced, and American markets followed.
There is little doubt that an authentic
report Of serious damage would send
wheat prices up sharply the world over,
but while it is now evident that condi-
tions in Argentina are not favorable,
there is still nothing to warrant the be-
lief that the crop promise has been cut
materially. ...
How much wheat Argentina will raise
1t is impossible to say, nor is it posi-
bic to get down to very close figures
even in year when bad weather Just
before harvest is not consideration, as
1t must be this year. The production
increases steadily. From Jan. l to
Nov. Is, 1908, Argentina shipped
6O,s64,O00 bushels. In the period cor
responding, in 1904, she exceeded this
by 2S,277,000 bushels, shipping s9,141,.
600. The prediction has been made that
from the present crop Argentina will
have from 11O,0O0,O0O to 125 5000 600
bushels to export. Senior Stricken, a
leading miller Of Buenos Aires, who was
in Minneapolis recently, gave it as his
opinion that his country will do this
safely, provided the crop comes thru in
fair shape.
A surplus Of 125,oo0,000 bushels in
Argentina would mean more as a price
I making factor than would be supposed
from a comparison of that total with
the worlds production, for while the
figures put against the world Is figures
really look small. it must be remem
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
Uifb the Long Boz
Eve Naturs,s WAITS, shoot Fo1y as II Pres .
Football season is over.
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Say do believe Harvard Yale against
q TX [1HSs#s Fl
And then could Michigan afterwards. |Fs Il

afterwards
W. used ss @ s @ ne
Of good game
9 in Eas as
not only @aud the Doctors eleven but the we're n e a9gs
by the Indians that the doctor considerably chastened
Just 2sa ne sf Of s z55 ball the
with the straight The a touchdown
seconds time called with na Indians
Exciting you like to be
spinach right garden yesterday.
that he having straps Ike those in the street car put
MINI. the s5nh t said that NJ Hines establishing
5s? # hi: = III sn st DO Ps
certainly
has right go out and establish church he wants TO- is free
there S
organization for American voter But efforts tending TO-
sn 5sa. ts Of s Go s % ut ITS
hence all boys and join and there won't but
just what the creed Of the grand old Church Of William Hines of Pine
s william b not out Sns S a r @ y s
creed that would SaE the child AS on Alex
the one we attend That was easy "
Thanksgiving day left Farmer Ben Of the Austin Transcript in min-
in jefferson when the family
] ti % r as TSs
with high deep tucked bch into
tight from the old skillet about
week rubin the tow we'll it hot We never had
things W. but had s @ 9 an bn s a
the old warmth with
off the chils Win
with when the level
din all the ice Whippes pond attraction for
schools I've
miles and champion Of spoilers help
gvn the orthography
pen book And the old schools
Angel his fiddle to lead
often by the teacher
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which Uncle writes the golden America And
classic 'Ddown Folks There
England odown
the old pitcher kissing
huskng bee and LATER it singing school and the old fe
Folks. be
facsb tOldtown Folks is life. A j. Il:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26

The bylaws Of the New York board Of
education prohibit corporal punishment.
but it is asserted that the prohibition is
Illegal, and, therefore. null and void, as
the penal code gives a teacher authority
to restrain or correct a child, provided
that the force Of the violence used is
reasonable In manner and moderate In de-
gree" AS many teachers in New York
have been fined during the last two years
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
: ART: FOR THE SOULS SAKE

-. - ART FOR THE SOULS sake. -
No cunning of mere craft can cozen long,
In fresco, bust song. -
A world may praise; but when the rapture dies
May not the world despise? ~" ...1.>
Only the master workers shall endure,
Who wrought being sane and sure.
First the deep heart, the athletic midland then
The chisel, brush and pen. 'er..-. r -.
Lee Wilson Dodd in the December Century.
Dedicated to the Human Race.-RaIph
Connor's story of Gwen, which is known
to readers Of 1.-THE Sky Pilot" has been
given to the public in new form. bearing
the title Gwen, an IdyII of the Canyon, and
dedicated ITO all who question the why
of human pain" OF course, the author
in making his dedication had no thought
that his story made known all the un-
known quantities In the problem Of hu-
man suffering. But he does emphasize
one of the known quantities which to
many Is one Of the unknown. One finds
! it In these words Of the Sky Pilots to
Gwen:
I mean they love you tho they let you be
hurt; [or rather, they let the doctors hurt you
because they loved you and wanted to make you
better. - =. -
The front cover Of the book is a fine
picture Of mountain scenery in dark green
on a white background. The pages in
side are decorated with line drawings OF
things to be seen in the foothills.
Fleming H. Revell Company, New York.
.ss.. IS cents net. F..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
A Homicidal Nation.

That is terrible revelation Of Grim
inality that S. S. Mcclure makes in
this month IS issue Of Mcclure g Maya
zine. In three years more people have
been killed by design than have been
killed by the railways in that time,
more, in fact, than the British army
lost in the Boer war. It appears also
that in proportion to population there
are about three times as many homi-
cides committed in this country as
there were few years ago. AS show
ing how much more common is the
crime of murder in the United States
than in the better governed parts of
Europe, it is enough to compare Chi
cago with Paris and London. Both
these cities are much larger, than Chi
cago, yet last year Paris had only fif-
teen murders and London only twenty
six, as compared with 1913 in Chicago.
. In London every murderer was run
down and convicted except in two cases,
where destruction defeated the law.
In Chicago only about a fourth of. the
murderers were convicted, and in thir:.
ty-three cases there were no arrests.
This small proportion of convictions
and large number of escapes indicates
one of the reasons why homicide is so
comparatively common in America. In
Chicago there are three chances out of
four that there will be no conviction,
and about nine chances out of ten that
there will be no death penalty. These
are chances that are very tempting to
the man with murder in his heart.
What we need in this country is law
nforcement-police that are reliable
tireless and incorruptible, judges that
will do their duty, juries that set a
| high value on human life and view
with horror it's criminal destruction
If it were as certain in the United
States as in England that the muir
derer will die on the gallows, there
would be an end of this carnival OF
homicide in a very short time.
We shall never, perhaps, be able tc
show so good record as England, fol
we are different people and live in
an environment which is more favor
able to crimes of violence than that ir
which the British people live in thei1
little islands. ''s - .. r.
Offhand, we should say that murder
is distinctively the American nationa
crime. Border warfare, the race trou
bles in the south, conflicts with des
peradoes on the frontier, have caused
us as people to hold human life il
less esteem than that in which it il
held in such an old and settled country
as England. So long as we do not rep
rebate murder as it should be, we shall
have more than our share Of the crime
The cowardly, pitiful murder at Co
lumbia Heights the other night is ;
direct sequence of the miserable mis-
carriage Of justice in the pardoning O.
the young scoundrels who SO delibe1
ately killed a man at Owatonna yea
ago. If the perpetrators Of such sor
did murder can escape with their lives
) why should any villain hesitate to tax
human life, even that Of a baby9
Let us think more of the murdered
and less of the murderer; let us thin]
more Of the community and less of tn
family of the criminal; let us have NOR
Justice for assassins and less lenienc.
for crime.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
THE MAGAZINES

! A Country Without a BattIefeId.-.1f
history were written only in blood, Aus
traliaf would have no. history at all, for
there is not "a single battlefield turnout
the length and breadth of the continent
SO writes Burriss Gahan, under the head
ing taThe Real Australia in the splendid
December number of The BookIovers'
Magazine. The magazine is one contain-
ing many informing articles, much to de-
light the eye in the way Of illustrations,
and much to read for the joy of good
reading.