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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

The New York state library has been
issuing some good advice by bulletin.
Director Dewey says:
DO not buy encyclopedias while in
progress Of publication. They are aggra-
vat1ons until complete and can always be
bought more cheaply than they are at
first offered a few months after publica-
ton. Read Eugene Fields story Of the
"Cyclopedy" and take warning. The
same rule holds good to all subscription
books. Avoid them. Shun books in parts.
They cost more than they are worth in
library. Do not buy "sets" or complete
editions of authors. Buy the volumes you
need and as you need them.
This is pretty good advice as rule.
Encyclopedias and ''sets'' are for big
libraries. Yet there are few SETS
Pepys' Diary, Dickens, perhaps Steven
son. that people will have, no matter
what the size Of their book collections.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
Senator Cockrell and the Presi-
49,. 49,, dent. -.

There will be some growing in Mis-
souri, over the presidents offer Of high
office to Senator Cockrell. That is only
natural, and the signs Of wrath must
not be taken too seriously elsewhere.
Missouri republicans have. fought; so
long and SO hard thru SO many years
of defeat that now all democrats look
alike to them. .-. ~
On the other hand, 1t must be remem-
bered, that at. the inception of his nev:
and broader policy the president is
bound to recognize those influential
democrats who have not persisted in
Bourbonism, but have on occasion voted
on principle, There have been several
occasions when Senator Cockrell's vote
and influence were very helpful to both
Mckinley and Roosevelt. Now that he
is to lose his beloved chair in the SEN
ate thru a republican victory in Mis-
souri,, it is only right that the president
should endeavor to find some other place
for the senator in pub bile life. .s,.s,., -.
Hidebound republicans outside of
Missouri will protest, too, but 1t looks
as if they would have to take their
medicine and prepare to take more.
There seems to be no reason to doubt
that the president considers himself
more the president Of and the choice
Of all the people than any president
since Monroe, in whose administration
party lines virtually disappeared. It is
altogether probable that, during the
next four years he will do more with
regard to the interests Of the country
as whole and less with regard to the
/. interests of the party organization thar
any president in the last seventy-fve
wears. IL fl g T.. fl. ~. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
A Carnival of Crime.

sTwo bloody crimes have been COM
nMtted near Minneapolis within three
days. Highway robbery and cold-blood-
cd, senseless murder marked both
events. The two desperadoes who shot
Tandem near Elk River, Sunday morn
ing, had hardly been lodged in jail be-
fare their deed was outdone. The
community is struck with horror over
the butchery at Columbia Heights last
hight. The three robbers who poured
their fusilade into the unresisting
crowd, shooting down one man and kill
ing an innocent child, were nothing
short of fiends.
Are these two appalling crimes mere
coincidences9 Is it just a mysterious
wave of passion that brutalized these
men and sent them on their murderous
efrands3 Apparently not, for each in
cident is only sequel of former crimes.
Ehe men who murdered Lundeen are be-
ieved to be responsible for the series Of
Boxcar tragedies committed on freight
trains near the city, within the last two
years. The saloon at Columbia Heights
was the scene of another bloody raid a
year or two ago.
q What, then, is the explanation? There
is no army Of unemployed now, and no
lack Of opportunities to make an honest
living. There is nothing in industrial
conditions to make men desperate.
These murderers must be men who pre-
fer the excitement Of outlawry to the
1nonotony of honest toll. They must
be reckless by instinct and habit, hold
ing even their own lives cheap, despis-
ing law and humanity.
fsCs.n it be possible that the lax en-
forcement Of law attracts men Of this
character to Minneapolis as base Of
operations and has brought these crimes
to our doors? Has the "wide-open"
policy nursed this nest Of criminals9 It
is, impossible to escape this thought,
much as it may be scoffed at by the re
sponsible officials. They will say the
city needs more police. True enough;
the. city needs more and better. police,
hut the city also needs more attention
to obvious violations of law. J Once
clean out the resorts that breed and
shelter criminals, and there will be less
work for the police, the coroner and the
courts. ~., -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

The Tribune is striving hard to get the
correct vote of the state on governor.
Yesterday 1t estimated Johnson's plu-
rality at $4,000. Today it gives an ''offi-
cial' table, showing Johnson 5000 votes
ahead. This does not agree with the
county returns when properly added. TIE
correct footing of the Tribune's table
gives Johnson 1896 votes instead OF
149,3e7, and Dunn 141,614 votes instead of
14o,S5s. BY the ordinary rules of arith-
metic the Johnson plurality is reduced to
5.341 on the inaccurate returns printed by
the Tribune. For the correct result our
contemporary is referred to the complete
vote as printed in T h Journ a l yes
terday, giving official returns from every
county in the state for the first time If
unable to add and subtract, why not bor-
row?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

The 20, 900 socialist votes cast in Mil
waukee at the last election are sufficient
to give the socialists a good chance to
win in a three-cornered fight for control
Of the city. There is already talk of fu-
sion between democrats and republicans
in the city in order to assure the defeat
Of the third party in case the issue is
Joined. If the socialists continue to grow
this is what they will find themselves
against In many cases. People are not
going to overthrow the whole existing
fabric Of things on a few years notice.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

The Crookston Times reads Polk county
farmers lecture for buying potatoes,
and says that too many of them expect
to get rich riding under a sunshade on a
self-binder and hauling wheat to market.
There are too many one-crop farmers in
the wheat country, who will not take the
time and trouble to raise their own veg
etables, and even buy butter and eggs.
of the thrifty farmer. The money paid
out by a farmer for farm produce will
often account for the absence of a bank
book. e. . .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
SWIMMING THE CHANNEL

Three more swimmers have failed In
their attempt to cross the English cham
mel. This narrow stretch of water has
been fatal to the ambition of a number
Of those seeking aquatic laurels. Captain
Webb who was unquestionably the great
est long distance swimmer that has eyer
been before the public, was. we believe,
the only man who successfully fought his
way across the English channel. Before
him many had tried and failed, and since
his great swim. dozens have attempted
to equal his performance, but have been
unable to do so.
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dered the preparation Of an imperial
ukase which embodied a plan for popu-
lar representation in national assem-
bly,, but before the matter got before
the public, the nihilists began season
of dynamite activity, and he returned
to crushing repressive measures, and re-
form was pigeon-holed and forgotten.
It may be said Of this zemstvo move
ment and the apparent strength which
characterizes it, as coming from the
heart of a population two-thirds that Of
European Russia, and composed chiefly
of peasantry, thoroly loyal to the
"white car" that, if the mouiik ele-
ment throws it's heart into the demand
for constitution and representative
government, it's corollary, the reaction,
airy element will find very great Difficult
ty in overruling the czar s sympathies.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
Kansas City Star.

Kansas City Star.
John d. Rockefeller may not appreci-
ate it himself, and it is certainly not SO
understood by the great majority Of the
people, but it is true, all the same, that
he is working harder than any other man
in the United States Of America to bring
about not only government management
Of the railroads, but also public supervis-
ion of such essential resources as coal and
oil. The people Of this country are not
vet prepared to make such a travesty Of
popular government as to place in the
hands Of one man the sources of light and
heat and the control of their distribution
not, at least, in the hands Of such a
person as Rockefeller.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
ROOSEVELT LAUDS
THE SIMPLE LIFE
President with Characteristic
Force Introduces Books Au-
tor to Washington.

Washington, Nov. 23.-President
Roosevelt introduced the Rev. Charles
Wagner, the author. to the large audi
ence at the Lafayette operahouse yes
terday, where, under the auspices of
the Young Men s Christian Association,
Mr.. Wagner delivered a lecture on
"The Simple Life.'' The president
said in part:
Mr.. MacFarland, Mr.. Wagner, Men and
Women of Washigton: This is the first
and will be the only time during my presi-
dency that shall ever introduce a speak
er to an audience; and I am more than
glad to do it in this instance, because if
there is one book which should like to
have read as a tract, it is 1.-The Simple
Life," written by Mr.. Wagner.
breaches to All Glasses.
I like the book because it does not
merely preach to the rich and does not
merely preach to the poor. What We
need to have impressed upon us is that it
is not usually the root principle of the
vice that varies with variation In social
conditions, but that it is the manifestation
of the vice that varies; and Mr.. Wagner
has well brought out the great fundamen-
tai truth that the brutal arrogance of a
rich man who looks down upon poor
man because he Is poor, and. the brutal
envy and hatred felt by a poor man to-
-
rich, are, at bottom, twin manifestations
of the same vice. They are simply differ
ent sides Of the same shield.
The kind Of man that would be arrogant
| in one case is precisely the kind of man
who would be envious and filled with
hatred in the other. The ideal should be
| the just, the generous, the broad minded
man, who is incapable Of arrogance If
rich as he is of malignant envy and hatred
| if poor. (Applause.)
| s:Classes'' Ruin Republics.
| No republic can permanently exist when
| it becomes republic Of class, where the
man feels not the interest Of the whole
people, but the interest of the particular
| class to which he belongs, or fancies he
belongs, as being of prime Importance.
We can keep this republic true to the
principles of those who founded, and OF
those who afterward preserved 1t, we can
keep it republic at all, only by remem-
] bering that we must live up to the theory
Of it's founders, to the theory Of treating
each man on his worth as man; neither
| holding it for or against him that he &C.
cupies any particular station in life, sc
! long as he does his duty fairly and well
| by his fellows and by the nation as a
whole. (Applause)
=. M. g. "A. Commended.
The profound regard which have al.
ways felt for those responsible for the
work Of the Young Mems Christian asso.
/ Citations and the Young Women's Christian
associations IS largely because they have
! practically realized, or at least have striv'
K en- practically to realize, the ideal o.
I adherence to the text which reads 'Bt
4 doers Of the Word, and not hearers only
1 If you here today came only with thu
i Idea Of passing pleasant afternoon ant
/ then going home and do not actually prac
4 tice somewhat of what MIR. Wayne
! breaches and practices, then small viii
be the use of your coming.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
81. M. 6. "A. Commended.
THE CIRCULATING MEDIUM

The amount Of money in circulation in
the United States is now greater than at
any other time in the history Of the
country, the aggregate being 81. 55S, 279,-
1884, which Is $189,377, SOC more than on
Sept. ], 1858. Based on the estimates of
50, oss, 900. the amount in circulation, If
equally distributed, would give each man,
woman and child in the United States
S31. 16.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

make a good chief of police for Mime
apolis. He knows his business. why not
import him? It would be worth some
thing to Minneapolis to have all the crooks
and criminals know that man like Ward
was on deck here y. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
it was only natural that the trio should
join in pressing this subject at Wash

it was only natural that the trio should
join in pressing this subject at Wash
ington.
Some critics may say that state ex-
Iecutives are going outside their pre-
rogative when they assume to take the
lead in matters of national legislation.
What harm can they do, and who can
have better right to speak for the
people of their statesa Have not all
three governors been Endorsed repeated
.ly by large majorities7 They are just
as close to the public pulse as any SEN
ator or congressman, and they are free
from Washington influence and atmos-
:phere. Governors have no votes down
there, and have no right to dictate
legislative action. They do not pre-
tend to have, but they have citizen g
right to speak their minds on vital pub
lie questions. Moreover, the joint opin.
ion Of Cummins, La Toilette and Van
SAINT is not to be lightly cast aside.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
a WEEKS RECORD
Arkansas Democrat.

--lI-@I7 ArKarlSdS DeIuUCTdC. 1893.
The killing Of the sheriff Of Indepen-
dence county, the murder of Conductor
Warren Baldwin. murder in this city
and several other crimes in the limits Of
the state, all within less than week, re-
minds us that human life is very cheap
in Arkansas. The record is appalling.
Something must be done to check the
spirit of lawlessness that pervades many
communities In the state.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

"Only one out Of every los glasses of
whisky sold in New York is good" says
a statistician in the New York Herald.
And too many men cannot feel assured
that they have had that one good one
until they have sampled the whole 1O5.
Hence so many of the worlds troubles.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Goevernorshlp Boom Started for Brewer
Senator Lord May Also pc Factor In
1so6-Fullerton's Position Secure for a
Year at Least-Elmer Adams to Have
Appropriations Committee.
---- .. 4
REN3-lT

Robert Mcneil Of Alexandria, one OF
Senator Nelson's appointees at Washing
ton, who has been back home for the cam
paign, started a boom yesterday for Sem
ator Ripley =. Brewer OF st. Cloud for
governor In 1906. Senator Brewer was q
Collins leader at the time of the state
convention, but has ties in the other di-
rection, being a son-in-law of P. e. Han
son, and he took the stump for Dunn dur
Ing the campaign. He therefore would
not be obnoxious to the Dunn leaders.
A great many booms will be started
name has hardly been mentioned of late
may prove formidable factor by that
time. Senator Samuel Lord Of Kasson
has been held in reserve in the minds of
great many republicans in the past year
or two, as good material for the executive
office. Senators We're not eligible this
year, but they will be at the off year cleo
ton, and If Senator Lord has any aspira-
tiOns toward the governorship, he will
be able to rally a strong following. He
was a Collins supporter before the state
convention, but accepted place on the
state committee. A9a.I -g. .E"
The result of the state election prob
ably means that the state game and fish
commission will not be disturbed, and
that Sam Fullerton will continue to be
executive agent for the next year at least
The commission consists of five members,
appointed last year under the new law
One member goes out next year and two
the year following. The executive agent
is elected by the commission. from among
its members. The commission as it now
stands is republican solidly, and it will
stay by Fullerton. The legislature will
hardly repeal the law and create a new
commission. giving the democratic gov
ernor chance to make the appointments.
Fullerton was a strong Collins man
last spring, and was to have walked the
plank in the event of Dunn's election, The
program was either to- legislate him out
of office or prefer charges of some sort
on which the governor would remove him.
Fullerton did not support Johnson, but
seems likely to profit by his election.
1t is reported that when the house COM
mittees are made up by Speaker Clague,
Elmer E. Adams of Fergus Falls will be
chairman of the appropriations committee.
Altho new member. Mr.. Adams is wide
ly known over the state, and well quail
fed for the position.
w. B. Anderson of Winona, who was
put on the Hugo slate for chairman of
the judiciary committee, is likely to get
the same post under aClague He got
into the Clague camp in plenty of time
to be in line for good treatment.
John Landeen of Garfield, the new house
member from Douglas county, arrived in
st. Paul yesterday; and at once declared
for Clapp for the senate. This is con-
sidered pretty good evidence of where
| Senator Nelson stands on the senatorial
| cnocessiOn: -,4,-E
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

Wheat is high, corn is high and cattle
prices are satisfactory, but hog prices
have gone off remarkably The farmers
are likely to hold their hogE crop awhile
and feed it a little of that big corn crop.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
BRIDGE MADE OF coFFiNs

One of the most curious bridges ever
built was that made by the British troops
in 1860. They were marching on Peking,
but found their progress barred by a
flooded river Of considerable width and
depth. Al timber party was formed, but
found nothing to cut down or borrow suit
able for a bridge. AT last a huge store
Of collins was discovered in the village,
and with these the5 soldiers built their
bridge and crossed alive over the recep-
tacles for the dead. @ b 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

Thanksgiving will be great day for
the Jennings family at. Stamford, Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Jennings are to OBJ
serve their golden wedding. Their daugh-
ter will celebrate her silver wedding at
the same time. Their granddaughter will
be married and the Jennings dog will get
the turkey bones.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

SAAAS ASAA CL0AO oSLCll-
ton to detail the
portrait Of a wo-
man. The book is
nothing more than
that-a word por-
trait, with the nee
essary background
and high lights and
all the rest that
goes into the art of
portraiture. Y gu
pick up the book,
open at the begin
ming, and there in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

Standard OIL people and others have
sued Mr., Lawson for libel and he pro-
fesses to be nightly pleased and very
anxious to get into court and show his
proofs Let the good work go on. We
are learning something every day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

It is reported that Mr.. Moody is to stay
in the cabinet long enough to give the
beef trust wrestle. Government suits
against this combine would fill the popu-
lar cup Of joy very full,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
WAR AND CIVILIZATION
Boston Transcript

The Japanese minister to France Is
something of an epigrammatist. as is
shown by the following: When we had
to our credit only great artists, they
treated us as barbarians; now that we
are killing people, they say we are civ-
ilized.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
THE GREEDY TOAD

In one toad's stomach have been found
seventy-seven tllousand-leg worms, In an
others thirty-seven tent -caterpillars, in
another's sixty-ave gypsy-moth caterpil-
lars, and yet in another's f1fty-five army
worms. Thirty large caterpillars have been
fed to a toad in less than three hours
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

I Wilhelm Won Siemens has invented what
is called "vanadium glow lamp" which
promises to make sensation in electri-
cal circles. A good practical light is still
needed g.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
NEWS or THE BOOK WORLD
The UNEASY CHAIR

Word Portrait Of an English Woman
Charles Marriott. with that painstaking-
ness that is characteristic Of the Briton
in art, has In his Geneva drawn with
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

Jack Frost has, been so busy in Europe
that he has overlooked the northwest.
But you watch out.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
THE MAGAZINES

Great Britsln's New DomInion.-So
much has occurred to attract the atten-
ton of the world in other directions that
little notice has been given to the fact
that the British empire has been ex-
banding it's power. The National Geo.
graphic Magazine for November calls
attention to the fact that Great Britain
has extended her control over northern
Nigeria, "a territory of 100000 square
miles and containing a population Of
20, 900, 0O0.' This extension has been made
by Sir Frederick D. Lugard, British high
commissioner to northern Nigeria, as
sisted by few score Of white men and
at an annual expense of about $4,000, 900.
Slave raiding has been stopped and
slave markets have been abolished. The
article in question shows the territory ac-
quired to be far advanced from the saw
age state.
The Water Organ: Roman Keyboard
nstrument.-A description Of a peculiar
instrument, a water organ operated by a
keyboard, is found in the Scientific
American for Nov. 10. The water was
used for COMPRISING the air, but. in a
quite different way from that in which
waterpower is now applied to pumping
pipeorgans. The Instruments appear
ance was that Of small pipeorgan. One
thing that surprises the reader who has
been taught that the keyboard is a COM
paratively recent invention is the fact
that the hydraulus, or water organ was
invented by Ctesibius between 800 B. G.
and ESQ B. G.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
RIGHTS BUT NO PRIVILEGES
Nreur orleans picay,,ne

New Orleans Picayune.
In the south today the negroes have
full protection, and the enjoyment OF
every right. When it comes to privileges,
they are wisely restrained for the good
of society and for their own good.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

HowelIs In Italy for Wlnter-William
Dean Howells, the American author, has
arrived at San Reno, Italy, and will
spend the winter at that place, collecting
material for new book .s+.....
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

Turkeys will be cheaper next week per-
haps-and taste just the same.
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Ralph Stuart, as the happy go-lucky
young American, the hero of by Right
of Sword is meeting with much success
at the Bijou this week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23
AT THE THEATERS
Foyer Chat.

Edward Morgan and his associates will
present "The Eternal City, for the last
time in this city at the Metropolitan to-
night. y.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23

A double bill, including his latest comedy
success, David Garricks Love-" and a
new one-act tragic play, 'tJewels of Fire, :"
will be used by Walker Whiteside for
his brief engagement at the Metropolitan,
commencing Sunday evening.