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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-02-27


that he offers to pay $500 in legal money
of the United States for any case of Leu
corrhea, Female Weakness, Prolapsus, or
Falling of Womb which he cannot cure.
All he asks is fair and reasonable trial
of his means of cure.
vI suffered from female weakness for five
months" writes Miss Belle Hedrick, of Nye
Putnam Co. w. Va. vI was treated by a good
physician but he never seemed to do me any
rood / wrote 10 DR.. r. " Pierce for advice,
Which received, telling me to take his Favor
lite Prescription and Golden Medical Discov-
cry When had used the medicines month,
my health was much improved. II has contin-
ued to improve until now can work at almost
ali kinds of housework. had scarcely any
appetite, but II is all right now. Have gained
several pounds In weight. DR.. Pierce's medi-
eines have done wonderfully well here. 1
would advise all who suffer from chronic dis
eases to write to Or. Pierce"
Favorite Prescription" makes weak
women strong, sick women well.
DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps
to pay expense of mailing only. Send
Al one-cent stamps for the paper-covered
book, or 81 stamps for the cloth-bound
volume. Address DIR. R. v. Pierce, Buff
falo, N. Y.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
TUESDAY EVENING,

promoting a too inquisitive inquiry
into the business records Of public sery-
ice corporations engaged in interstate
commerce, it makes effective the anti
rebate amendment to the Interstate
commerce law and extends the power
of the bureau Of corporations Of the
department Of commerce and labor.
Attorney General Knox is by this
decision, abundantly sustained in the
prosecution of the suits brought in
1902 against the beef trust and
other com binations in restraint Of
trade The application Of this
decision, as against every contract and
combination in restraint of trade, is in
order, for the supreme court makes
the talk Of Unconstitutional and
"un!awfully inquisitorial" useless. It
is in accord with the general drift Of
public sentiment, whatever may be
any political advantage Mr.. Hearst
may derive from it, as the promoter Of
the suit.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
GRAND OPERA SEASON
OPENS WITH #aLOHENGRIN''

overdone., She has a. tendency toward
staginess such as is too often evoked by
grand opera. Yet 1t is relief to see an
Ortrud who expresses her fierce emotions
freely, even when she does not have the
center of the stage. Vocally, Miss well
has certainly made great Improvement.
the crudeness noted in her work last var
having largely disappeared The prophe-
cies made then of real career opening up
before her seem more than ever justified.
The role of Ortrud, however, is written
perhaps too high on the average to eX-
hibit her true contralto voice to the best
advantage. This was most noticeable in
certain climaxes, like that in the second
act, where Miss well seemed fairly to
strain her voice in the effort to reach
powerful fortissimo. Her obscure enuncia-
ton is, however, her worst vocal fault.
What use to sing in English, If the words
are not made plain?
Mr.. Marsano was only passable Telra-
mund. His voice seems rather uncertain
of pitch at times and his enunciation is
usually too indistinct to permit the words
to be understood. His voice, however, is
of good quality and he satisfied the
dramatic requirements of the role. Mr..
| Boyle made a kingly Henry l., judicial
and dignified. He sings in a clear, musical
bass and speaks with beautiful distinct
ness Mr.. Lawrence made a satisfactory
herald. his rendition exhibiting that color
less formality expected of such a function
airy. The choral and orchestral effects
were beautifully handled and the whole
production moved off with stately pre-
cision. w. B, Chamberlain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
JAPANESE THINGS THE FAD

There is great breaking out OF Jap
anese girls in New York since the war in
the far east began. The shopkeepers are
selling all kinds Of Japanese things par
ticularly kimmonos, fans and Oriental hair
ornaments. Some of the women are even
buying little red caps for their husbands
to wear about the house. OF course, the
fez is not Japanese, but it is Oriental, and
this helps the effect around the house.
One japanese shop in Broadwayis fairly
overrun with women. This is a, favorite
place for shoppers to meet and drink tea.
The woman with the Japanese fad will
want to take up the fruit and. flower diet
airy, as it has been called, and will live
on celery, cooked fruits, white meats, fish
and easily digested hot breads, rather
than upon creams, red meats and the in
digestible concoctions which taste good
once in awhile, but are death to the COM
plexion when eaten as steady diet
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
Supreme Court Nominations.

The suggestion has been made that
judges of the supreme court should be
nominated first by the next republican
state convention. Advocates Of this
plan say that it would give the proper
importance to the places on the SUI
preme bench, and would remove them
from the atmosphere Of trading.
Anything that will improve the
present system is welcome. MINES
sofa has drifted far away from the
principle Of nonpartizan judiciary
and there is now no way to avoid
drawing party lines at the polls. The
supreme bench lost its nonpartizan
character six years ago, and demo-
Gratis are now barred.
The selection this year will be
made by the republican party, and it
will be made at convention where
the great issue is the governorship.
Candidates for supreme court nomi-
nations are bound to be drawn into
the maelstrom. Doubtless they will
do their best to remain free Of en-
tanglements, but they will be at the
mercy of a political convention, and
it will be practically impossible to
keep from playing politics."
To nominate the Judges first will
only draw them out into the lime
light, and make them more important
considerations in the big game. They
cannot be made the paramount issue
Of the convention. It is true that If
the judges are left to the last they
may be nominated in hurry, but
there might be worse things. They
should be kept as far as possible from
deals, and the worst mistake the con-
vention could make would be to make
the judgeship nominations as the re-
suit of a deal on the governorship,
and so identifying the new judges
with faction of the party. This
would be most likely to happen with
the judges coming first on the list,
just before the nomination Of a can
didate for governor.
If the convention wants to avoid
haste in naming the judges, let it ad-
journ over night, and name the SUI
preme court candidates the next
morning.
Our judges should not be selected
at a political convention, to get down
to the root of the matter. Judges
ought never to be compelled to
stoop to politics, either to get or to re-
tain a place on the bench. They
should at least be selected at sepa.
rate convention, which could act or
the merits of the case. Better still
would be a nonpartizan convention
meeting by agreement between the
two political parties. Such a con.
vention is impossible this year fol
several reasons, the principal one be-
ing that there will be four republican
judges up for reelection, and the re
publican party will not be willing tt
mark any Of the four for retiremen
by a democrat. Such an act of sac
rifice would make refreshing spec
tacle, but the millennium is not her,
yet. - .s..- ....
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
Home Rule for Ireland.

The liberal reaction in England
goes on apace. There seems to be no
stopping it. Whether it be the result
of the Chamberlain fiscal agitation, or
whether it be the mere rebound from
too much conservative government,
the fact remains that the by-elections
are so steadily reducing the conserva-
tive majority that there seems to be
no doubt that when the general cleo
tions come the conservatives will be
overwhelmingly defeated. Out Of "a
tested by the liberals in the by-elec-
tons, twelve we're won by the liberals.
Out of seven liberal seats contested
by the conservatives or unionists,
only one was won by them. Since
Chamberlain began his campaign the
liberals have gained six seats from the
unionists of thirteen contested-not
50 large a proportion as was won at
| the by-elections preceding the advent
of Chamberlain.
If this recent rate Of gains shall be
kept up the next parliament will have
324 liberals, 264 unionists and 80 ma
tionalists. BY voting with the union
lists the nationalist could then keep
the liberals out of power. The lib
erals will have to make terms with
them. That, of course, will mean the
revival of definite attempt to give
Ireland home rule.
Thus as the tide sets against Cham.
berlainism in British politics, it sets
once more toward home rule for Ire.
land.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
The Hartman Suit.

The most interesting development
in connection with the dissolution Of
the Northern Securities company is
the Hartman suit to compel the re-
turn of Northern Pacific stock for
Northern Securities interests held by
the Hartman people instead Of a
proper proportion Of the stocks in
Northern Pacific, the Great Northern
and Burlington. BY his holdings Of
common and preferred, Mr.. Hartman
had control Of the Northern Pacific,
as the result Of the great stock deal
in 1901. More than half Of his stock
was preferred, and under the law the
common stock was able to retire the
preferred. The effect Of this was to
the Northern Pacific. If, in the dis
tribution Of the Northern Securities
stock, the court should allow him to
demand for his original interest in
Northern Pacific, put into the merger,
Northern Pacific common stock, he
would have control of that road.
This is pointed out by merger news
papers and others as deplorable re-
suit Of the dissolution Of the North
ern Securities company, and a reason
why that organization should have
been allowed to continue. Mr.. Harri-
man, it is assumed, would Immediately
proceed to. divert business from the
Northern Pacific to other lines where
it is claimed his interests are larger.
We confess an inability to appreciate
fully all the alleged dire possibilities,
to say nothing Of the probabilities,
of such a course. The Northern Pa
cific was a pretty good road for the
| northwest before Mr.. Hill came in
| control of it, and as competitor with
his line why should it not continue
to be useful institution? It is too
good piece of property for Mr.. Har-
| riman to throw away, and we are in
| clined to think that whatever loss of
| thru business, if any, it may suffer
| as the result Of Hartman control will
| be offset so far as the public interest
is concerned by the competition which
| would naturally follow between Mr..
Harriman's Northern Pacific and Mr..
Hills Great Northern, not only on
local but on thru business.
Much is made, also, Of the enor-
nous proportions Of the Hartman
syndicate, with it's control over Union
Pacific, Oregon Short line, Southern
Pacific and other roads. It seems
hardly consistent, however, for advo-
Gates of railroad combination to take
exceptions to the size of Mr.. Harri.
mans combination, since it is quite
universally agreed that the natura
and logical outcome of the merger
policy would have been the concen
tration of control of practically the
entire transportation system of the
country in one great merger. People
who can view such a possibility with
equanimity are hardly entitled to an.
apprehension over the size of the Eiar
riman combination.
This combination, however, may b.
the source Of well-founded apprehen
sion as are all great combinations O.
this character. Certainly the large:
they become and the more the com
merce of the country is conferred il
the control of one man or one grou1
Of men the nearer we get to the ques
ton of governmental control, if no
Of government ownership, of all rail
road transportation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
WHY HE DIDN'T GET PORK

A prominent educator in Philadelphia
tells the following story on himself: In
his early teaching days he had a position
In country schoolhouse in New Eng
land The people in the neighborhood
worked out their taxes by giving him
board, and when there was no vacancy
in the farm houses he took small room,
while the neighbors supplied him with
food. One day young boy came run
ming breathlessly toward him. "Say,
teacher" he gasped my pa wants to
know if you like pork?" Indeed, I do
like pork" the teacher replied, conclud-
ing that the very stingy father Of this
boy had determined to donate some pork
to him. You tell your father if there
is anything in this world that I do like,
It is pork" Some time TRANSFERRED, and
there was no pork forthcoming One
day he met the boy alone in the school
yard. look here, john" he said, chow
about that pork?" "Oh," replied the boy,
sthe pig got WE'LL
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
THE NONPAREJL MAN

M. N. Price, superintendent Of Dowie's
printing plant in Zion City, has been in
Chicago two days looking for a printer
who does not chew, smoke, drink or
swear. he has not yet found his man.
Sermons by the general overseer and
his elders and articles on the creed OF
Dr. Dowie form the largest part Of the
printed matter at Zion. These things
should not be touched by profane hands.
Elder Price examined fifty ordinarily
good printers at Union headquarters last
week, but nearly all Of them confessed to
having said d-n at the proofreader at
some time or other and SO were rejected.
At last the printers sent out for Henry
l.. Bush, the great moral support Of the
Typographical union Of Chicago. Mr..
Bush never spits on the floor and does not
use rum or tobacco. He also said that
he was not a swearing man and would
like the place, but he did acknowledge
that during the recent strike he had made
certain remarks that would not pass mus
ter in Leaves Of Healing. Mr.. Price asked
what these remarks were and shook his
head sadly. Mr.. Bush was thrown down.
The peculiar temptations to profanity
that surround the printer have long been
noted with sorrow in the literary world.
We fear that Elder Price will have to
raise his own printer from boy.
The biggest mail order that ever came
into a department store was received by
a. Chicago house. says the Magazine Sue
cess" This Chicago store has shipped an
entire church, complete from belfry to
Bible, into the heart of Africa, on a SIM
pie mail order. Anything else to-day?
When Mayor George 3. Mcclellan of
New York was a reporter, new city
editor sent him over to get mice, chatty
interview Of column and half" out of
J. Pierpont Morgan. Mr.. Mcclellan says
that he went over but all he got out Of Mr..
Morgan was "scowl and a snort" A
good, bright reporter would have extended
that to q column at least.
Perhaps we're foolish and over par
| ticular after ALL for the London Medical
Press asserts that apart from prejudice
there is no particular reason why we
should not feed on our domestic rodents.
The editor seems to have the courage Of his
convictions, for he adds: Their f1erl is
delicate and savory'' Come to thin OF
/ it now, can you conjure up any reason
why we should eat the cow and pass by
/ the rat?
/ A Brooklyn man rejoices in the father.
ship Of triplets twice within three years
none having gotten away.
| Citizens Of Manchester, England, are
complaining bitterly and writing to the
papers because the conductors on the
tram cars squeeze twenty persons into
seats constructed for eighteen What dt
you think Of that? Under circumstance:
like that a Lake Harriet resident would
think he was having private parlor cal
with bath at his disposal.
( The Tibetan llamas have held a spe
cial service and have solemnly cursed tn
English column now proceeding to juml
4 their claim. If curses were any harm thu
street car company's stock would b.
4 worth about 80 cents.
The East Side High School Limpet tell
OF a boy who claimed in class that Haw
thorne wrote the "Tanglefoot Tales
| Let Admiral Crowninshield take a.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
A Notable Decision.

Whatever may be said from a |
purely political standpoint Of the deci- |
sion Of the federal supreme court, yes |
terday, in the suit brought by w. r.
Hearst In 1902 to compel the anthra-
cite coal-carrying railroad companies
to show their hands, it means that it
may be revealed whether they are
maintaining a monopoly and a very
grevious one in Pennsylvania, or not.
The Delaware, Lackawanna e.
Western, and the Delaware & Hudson
were the chief agents in bringing
about the formidable strike Of the an
thracite coal miners in 1902 which
was finally settled thru the extraordi-
nary investigating and Cancellation
work of a federal commission under
Judge Gray. The two roads referred
to alone held out against the five cents
ton wage increase for the miners
and soon brought the Reading, Erie,
Erie Coal company, Lehigh and New
Jersey Central lines into combination
with them and brought about one Of
the most determined and disastrous
strikes on record, affecting coal con-
sumers over many states.
The decision scores victory for the
Interstate commerce commission, be-
fore whom the case was instituted by
Hearst, who charged discrimination in
rates on coal by the railway combina-
ton, which refused to produce papers
and contracts relating to the business
of the companies controlling the coal
output. The anthracite roads con-
troll, not only the output but the
transportation, and are able to OBJ
struct and crush the business of the
small operators and shippers, on
whom they force their own terms. In
the west, the railroad companies have
long made practice of making con-
cesssions in freight rates to big ship
pers enabling them to underbid other
buyers and shippers of smaller. BUSH
ness in the same market, process
which the law of 1887 was expressly
designated to stop.
The interstate commission has al
ways complained that it is handi-
capped in securing compliance with
the law, by the refusal of the Offend
ers to produce their contracts and
n OJneT papers bearing upon Cfle1r DuSl-
ness methods. The supreme court de-
cision affirns the right of the COM
mission to make investigation into the
alleged determinations, and find out
the way interstate commerce is con-
Quoted and, In order to do this, it is
necessary that the relations between
carrier and shipper and rates charged
and collected should be known. Such
inquiry should not be too much mar
rowed by technical rules as to the ad-
mission of proof, and it should go far
enough to determine the question
whether rates are reasonable. "To
ynreasonably hamper the commission
BY narrowing the field of inquiry be-
yond the requirements of the due pro-
lection of rights of citizens says the
supreme court will be to seriously i'm
pair the usefulness and prevent the
realization of the salutary purposes
for which it was established by con.
gress."
Whatever may be said by transpor.
tation interests about this decision. a:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05

The navy department has named bat
tleship in honor Of Minnesota, and it will
be the privilege Of the people of this state,
in accordance with the invariable custom,
to make some gift to the ship in appre-
citation of this honor. The secretary Of
the treasury says the gift should &C me
from the legislature by appropriation.
Doubtless many private individuals would
be willing to subscribe to a gift Of that
kind, but unquestionably the proper thing
is to make an appropriation so that the
gift shall come from all the people of the
state and not from few.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05

Another tribute to the intelligence and
skill with which our new pumping station
has been installed is the discovery Of the
fact that the intake has been located so
close to the shore as to subject the water
pumped by that station to dangerous con-
tamination. When the advocates Of pri-
vate ownership Of public utilities are look
ing for arguments in support of their posi-
ton they ought not to overlook the ex-
cellent material furnished them in the his
tory of this new Northeast pumping sta
ton,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
POSTAGE STAMP ."TRrMMERs"

In the list of dishonest callings are
three or four that are strange, tho none
of them is indigenous to New York. The
most lagrantly dishonest of these is per-
haps that of the man who makes a scanty
living by cleaning and selling Cancelled
postage stamps. He uses wash, consist
ing of a solution of acids that completely
removes the stencil marks without injur-
ing the engraving. Hundreds of these
stamps are used in a week in New York
alone. One may see at any time men
trimming" the garbage of the city in
search of stamps. OF. course, they are
not the only "trimmers.'' as this is 8, very
fruitful source of wealth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
Father knIckerbocker's Clever Daugh-
tiers Portrayed In New Book by Mar
garet Doyle Observation-Disclosures Battling
Problems.
''The horse-leech hath two daughters,
crying, Give, give" T

Proverbs, Xxx: 10.
Horse : leech's daughters have not
changed since 700 B. c., according to Mar
garet Doyle Jackson's The Horse-Leech's
Daughters. They cry ''Give. give to-day
just as they did then, and there is some
thing very fitting in associating them with
the term leech.
The author has drawn two, both clever,
in her story of about $50 pages. One of
these, the central figure in the story, does
not reveal in that space a solitary CLEAN
Of generosity. 1t is not Intended that she
should, for the simple reason that she
never knows the feelings. Her ruling
principle is that it is better to receive
than to give. So she bleeds her hus-
band, crying, "Give, give" and. having
received revels In Indulgence in the
things the world will give in exchange for
her money. Yet this woman is a sticlzler
for responsibility. The desire for main
tenance of responsibility stands her in the
stead Of moral fibre. But it is with her,
as it ever is, a wabb1y substitute. A
ternpter who understands -her character
is not long in breaking down the barrier.
That suggests tragedy, and that is what
the story Is, a tragedy Of greed and un-
stable morals in high life.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05
methods of cleansing boots and shoes and
of backing and polishing them.

A Russian Enemy. Golfers Weekly,
Easter number, shows a Photographic re-
production of a scene in Port Arthur be-
fore hostilitfes began. It is a picture of
thousands of cases of Ochistevnaga vodka,
corn whisky almost as strong as pure
alcohol. The correspondent of Golfers
at Port Arthur says the supply was laid
IN In expectation Of a siege and that there
is enough liquor there to keep the gar
rison incapacitated for six months. A
feature of the Weekly is a poem by James
Whitcomb Riley. THE Children of the
Childless.''
Philosophical ProbIems.-In the April
number Of International Journal Of Ethics
Will be found the following: 1.-THE Prob
lem of Theology" Felix Adler; t'The
Ethics Of Passive Resistance" Rev. J. G.
James; The Development of a People, 2
w p. Burghardt Dubois; SIS vivisection
Justifable?" c. S. Myers; Professor Will
liam James Interpretation of Religious
Experience" James H. Leuba words
Worth's Ideal Of Early Education" John
II. Muirhead; What Should Be the At
titude Of Teachers of Philosophy Toward
Religion? A Reply j. Clark Murray, and
Byron versus Spencer J. Kindon