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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-25
Timely Suggestions.
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At this time, when diphtheria exists in
various parts of the city, some effort
should be made to warn school children
and others against the danger Of putting
coins or the points of lead pencils in THE
mouth. When the writer went to school
teachers did not allow pupils to form the
habit OF putting pencils in the mouth.
Now teachers frequently set the example,
and nosattempt is made to stop the filthy
habit The child in school, as wen : as
the clerk in the store, will almost inVari-
ably put the pencil in the mouth before
using st. Lead pencils are put together
with aglue, and that ought to be$enougl1
to- gag&sany one But pencils pass thru
many hands; they are exchanged, .laid in
various places, handled with soiled hands
and then put into the mouth.
1t has frequently been stated that a
kiss may communicate disease, and re-
Gently the daily papers have reported the
case ola child afflicted with hydrophobia
who communicated the disease to its, par
ents by. being kissed. There is Just as
much or more danger from putting in
the mouth pencil, coin or other object
covered with the germs of disease. Per
heps no one would do so if he could first
examine the article thru a MICROSCOPE
But that is out of the question in most
cases, and children should be warned
by parents and teachers.
1t may be as important as the anti
splitting ordinance or a reform in the
construction of theaters.
And while the board Of health is after
the splitter, why not try to put a; stop tt
the unsanitary work done by women whe
wipe up the filth of the streets with theil
skirts and distribute that dirt everywhere
A man who would trail his Overcoat .ir
the dirt would be worse than a tram
and would be run in by the police,
Diphtheria and typhoid fever coult
probably be avoided by better knowledge
| and observance Of the laws Of health
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THE MAGAZINES

Stock Quotations Of feo3-In the Manual
OF Statistics supplement for January are
complete statements in regard to the high
est and lowest quotations Of the leading
stocks and government, state, railroad and
miscellaneous bonds in the New York,
Boston and Philadelphia stock. markets.
These tabulations give. the highest and
lowest quotations for 1902 and 1908, and
also for the month of December, 1908.
Other information in tabulated character
form relates to cotton futures, cotton
acreage and cotton crop movements, a
matter which is Of absorbing Importance
at this time when the cotton prices move
ment has become a thing Of. so much
popular concern. Editorially the supple
ment says OF the lessons of the year 1903,
that the financial community will not look
back thereon with feelings Of satisfac-
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The Globe expresses sympathy with the
settlers in western Canada. 1t says of
them: with thousands of miles between
them and the nearest centers of trans
portation, they are absolutely dependent
upon monopoly in every least detail of
their lives Well, what Of it? Isn't rail-
way monopoly good thing? Haven't we
been assured over and over again that the
merger was the best thing that ever hap
pened to the northwest states?s If mol1op-
oily is such a good thing on this side Of the
line, why isn't it all right on the other
side?' Or, did the Globe make a slip and
admit fact Internationally?
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At TlDEWATER

The red and yellow Of the autumn salt
grass, s#
The gray flats, and the yellow-gray full
tide,
The lonely stacks, the grave expanse Of
marshes
0, Land wherein my memories abide
have come back that you may make me
tranquil
Resting a little at your heart of peace,
Remembering much amid your serious
leisure, ~
Forgetting more amid your large release.
For years the wisdom OF the night and
morning,
The word of the inevitable years.
The open Heavens unobscured commun-
lon,
And the dim whisper Of the wheeling
years.
The great things and the terrible bring
you,
To be illumined in your spacious
/ breath
Love. and the ashes Of desire. and anguish,
Strange laughter and the unhealing
wound Of death.
These in the world, all these, have come
upon me,
Leaving me mute and shaken with sur
prise.
Oh, turn them, In your measure1ess con-
temptation.
And in their mastery teach me to be
Charles G. b. Roberts.
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The Right View.

Public service corporations, must be
public. IT, . ..-
That Is the gist Of the statement
made to the Hartford board Of trade
by President G. S. Mellen of the New
Haven & Hartford railroad The
statement is remarkable for it's candor
and its public spirit, something that
the public does not expect from high
railway officials. It was generally
known when Mr.. Mellen was president
of the Northern Pacific that his views
were Of the general nature of the ut
terance he made at Hartford, but he
rarely, expressed them. They were too
much at variance with some of Mr..
j. J. Hills views.
Mr.. Mellen said in so many words
that the public service corporations
must serve the public faithfully and
| honestly or else the public utilities
will be manned and operated by the
public that created them, even tho
the service be less efficient and the
result less satisfactory from financial
standpoint"
! 1t is certain that a free people will
not long submit to tyranny and AFRO
gance from its own creatures. The
public service corporations must UNI
derstand the true nature Of their re-
lation to the public and act in har-
mony with it or else be prepared to
see themselves ultimately dispossessed
of their property.
! A riff Of is in, i1r1-o
agement has proceeded from the fail
ure Of their directors and managers
to realize that a railway corporation
is utterly unlike a strictly private cor
poration. From time immemoria]
transportation and government have
been closely linked together. When
private agencies do not supply means
Of transportation, governments are al
ways expected to do the work. When
a government delegates special privi-
leges to a transportation company, il
is merely encouraging it to take up q
governmental task. A railway COM
pany is really the agent Of the state.
This relation has been largely 1g.
nored in practice, and men have
talked about railways and acted
towards them precisely as towards any
piece Of personal property.
Men of the Mellen school, however
are something more than sharp clerks
with only crude ideas of economics
and politics, raised to influential anG
powerful positions. We shall doubt
less from now on have more anc
. more such men. The era of railway
brigandage and speculation and ex
ploitation is passing away. Conditions
, are becoming permanent instead o
changing, and railways have becom,
mighty factors in industry and com
merce instead Of being the footballs
, of reckless fortune seekers.
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Mysterious Illnesses - How Some
of Them Are Contracted.

Their is a lot of good sense In q
communication printed today under
the heading Of Timely Suggestions .
Diphtheria and other contagious dis
eases are contracted in the most mys-
terious ways. It is often impossible
to account for the appearance Of this
disease in a family where apparently
all the conditions of the home are
favorable to health.
The habit of putting used lead pen
ellis in the mouth. however, is a very
common ones especially among school
children, as every one knows and the
spread of disease in that way is doubt
less much greater than is generally
appreciated. But rs. e. does not
stop with one suggestion. He calls
attention to a good many other vlo-
lations Of the law Of health which
are quite as bad as the splitting habit,
against which the health officers are
making very timely crusade. The
wearing of long dresses on the streets
and allowing them to sweep the side
walks and the crossings is a custom
more or less common among ladies'
which men have not yet been able to
understand. Ladies who are ex.
| tremely fastidious in every other re-
spect sweep the floors Of public halls
and offices, sidewalks and the street
cars with their dresses in way which
must load up great deal Of filth and
thoroly impregnate their garments
with disease germs Of all kinds. AS
rs. E." says, a man who would allow
| his overcoat to trail on the street
would be regarded as disgustingly
dirty fellow. Why should it be re-
garded as any more clearly for lady
to trail her dress in the same way ?
Walking dresses and all dresses worn
outside the home should never be al
lowed to touch the street, and some
day no woman will be willing to wear a
dress of that kind on the street, or
in business place or in any kind OF
public conveyance.
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:
"A very touching and beautiful tribute is
paid to the late Emma Booth-T by
her father, the man Of action in Christian
work, General Booth, prefacing a sketch,
entitled The Consul, of the life and heroic
work OF this estimable woman by her
husband, Commander Booth Tucker. The
tragical death of, Mrs. Tucker while faith
fully and nobly engaged in her rescue work
was great sorrow to all who knew and
recognized the value of the Salvation
Army work as a power for uplifting men
and women, and giving their lives new
direction and nobler aspiration and sub
stantial aid and incentive to good citizen
ship. Commander Booth in his biography,
gives very interesting incidents in the con
SUBS life and work Her influence was
widespread. She was one Of those noble
and self-sacriicing women Of action. fol-
lowing and rescuing lost humanity wher-
ever itIwandered.
Professor Denney~ Of the United Free
Atoner1ent and the Modern Mind, applies
his fine exegetical powers to a valuable
discussion Of the Christian doctrine of the
atonement. !. In it's simplest form this doc
trine is thar there is mediator between
God and man, Jesus Christ, and forgive
ness of sins is. nediated to: us. thru Christ,
and, specifically, thru the death and blood
demonstrate to men his love and mercy.
The incarnation embodies the atonement;
the atonement embodies the incarnation
Professor. Denney takes up each obiec-
ton, Of the modern mind to this doctrine
Which he shows to be set forth in the
Christian scriptures. Such objections. as
that man needs no atonement for sin; thai
sin itself is only an incident of human
life like having a headache, or the measles
or q bad cold; that Christ himself in.
stead Of being God incarnate, was only an
additional unit in the worlds population
and man laboring under a delusion an6
deluding others; that the Idea Of atone.
ment by the shedding Of blood and the
closely-related doctrine Of the resurrec.
ton Of the dead, atoning Christ, are con
trary to human experiences, such pleas
as these are very forcibly handled by Pro.
lessor Denney. The idea of making atone.
ment for sin has possessed the minds o.
men from the beginning Of mans career
The science Of anthropology shows this
Atonement by the sacrifice Of sometime
valuable is 1nwrought in the constitution
of man. The popularity Of the Christian
religion is that it presents for human
contemplation, one offering avowedly suf
hc1ent to cover the sins Of the whole worle
OF humanity, upon the act Of repentance
and a new life after the example given b,
the incarnate God, during his sojourn upol
earth. !
AS an indication that all the novels Of the da,
are not utterly ephemeral, that the meritorious
among them show wearing powers; 1t Is interest
ing to note that Messrs. Harper & Brothers re
! port that Sir Gilbert Parker's sThe RIGHT n
| Way, which was published in September 1901
/ and IS now consequently in its third season. hat
during the recent holiday buying time a sal
which surpassed that OF very much Of their new
fiction Of the year 1903.
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Speaking of the Weather,

In this latitude and longitude we
accept, a certain degree of cold
weather without comment. From
many days when the mercury stands
above freezing. We are not disturbed
when the mercury sinks below zero
five or ten degrees. We are not sur
prised when it goes to Is. or 20 be-
low for a few hours, but when it gets
subject worth talking about, and when
1t drops on down into the 30's, as it
has done the last two days. weather
becomes the subject Of prime import
ance. =, , t4
Weather like this has financial as
we'll as meteorological importance.
Coal fades away into the bright NAV
Of the furnace that successfully bat
ties with the cold for supremacy with
lin the four walls of the home. AS the
coal pile goes down, the pile in the
bank is apt to settle a bit.
Such weather has a. certain moral
worth, also. ooh, why should the
spirit Of mortal be proud?' when the
human form is exposed to blast of
that famous dry atmosphere of ours,
refrigerated to the extent Of IS de-
grees below zero, or or 81 degrees be-
low the freezing point Of water?
Well, it isn't. There is nothing that
will take the cockiness out Of a man
quite so quick as q frost-bitten nose
frozen ears, cold feet, singing fingers
and a permeating chill. After a dose
old Mother Nature increases amazing
~, and we begin to perceive that we
must hasten if we would catch uI
with her -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-25
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
New Zealand Not a Utopia; What it Has
and Has Not Done Told in Book
by Henry Demarest Lloyd Sketch of
Consul Booth-Tucker-"Th Atone
ment' and the Modern Mind"

= 1t is noteworthy that one Of the most
conservative countries in the civilized
world, England is the mother Of colonies
whose people are noted for their dispo-
sltlon to, test and actualize the most adj
Fanced Kind Of legislation, social eco
nomlc. industrial. Henry Demarest Lloyd.
in his interesting book, Newest England,
wherein he describes New Zealand and it's
methods, attributes the effervescence Of
democracy to the tendency of old ideas
and institutions to gain new vigor when
tranSplanted to a new world, as in the
case of New England, settled by Pilgrims
and Puritans, which left the mother coun-
try far behind and infused its spirit thru
out the great republic, the wonder of the
world to-day. AS Mr.. Lloyd says: What
other countries talk about, New Zealand
does''7 The germs Of all advanced legis-
lation In Australasia, he affirms, were
stored In the older countries. Withal, Mr..
Lloyd found in his personal .sinvestiga-
ton of New Zealand that 1t has not
reached the Utopian condition, as many
outsiders think it has, who read about
its old-age pensions. freedom from capt.
tallStlc oppression and beautific labor con-
ditions. Trades unionism has not recov-
cred from the Overwhelming defeat of the
strike of 1890; the birthrate is decreasing;
there is q sheep ring and coal ring and
a timber ring, and the new institutions
on trial for dealing with land labor, taxa
ton, finance and government industry
each has lame spot. But the progress
OF experimentation is more rapid in New
Zealand than elsewhere. The country has
not reached any final social solutions Yet
Mr.. Lloyd affirms that the New Zealand
ers, the most homogeneous Anglo Saxon
blend Of English Scotch and Irish, are
the least unciviliZed, the least unhappy,
the least disinherited people in the world.
Government and people are 1.-The least bad
this side of Mars This is saying much
for the country.
The people started the boom by in
1tiating great public works and an as
sisted immigration scheme in 1870 which
started the material development Of the
country. Step by step they have estab-
lished institutions and laws that have
made their government and civilization
unique in the history of the world.
Professor N. S. Shaler left Harvard the first
OF January for six months vacation, which he
will spend in the Mediterranean countries, going
up the Nile and then thru Palestine and Greece
He publishes next month thru Houghton, AIiffir
Y Co. an important book on '"rhe Neighbor,
Study Of Race Prejudices,' dealing with perhap.
the most important group Of problems that con
Germs modern states.
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who belong to it. It is true. the state
does that. but would the union man be
willing to enforce the same terms OF mem
bership and require all union men to show
evidence Of high standard of skill before
he could belong to the union? It often
looks to a man on the outside as II the
unions would have to pay more atten-
ton to the standard of skill and the
quality of workmanship among their mem
bers If they are to be successful.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-25
THREE QUEENS
New York su,

New York Sun.
Marie Antoinette was told that the peo-
pie had no bread.
"Too bad" said the sympathetic queen
"Ten them will make them some with
my own hands"
Fearing to take the risk, the people re-
solved on revolution
Elizabeth was having that last interview
with Mary Stuart.
'.I am going to leave my footprints or
the sands Of time" boasted the English
sovereign.
Il don't doubt it, retorted Mary. ''They
are plenty big enough"
The virgin queen signed the death war
rant at once.
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BOOKS RECEIVED

NEWEST ENGLAND. Notes of aDemocratic
Traveller in New Zealand, with Some Austria
liam Comparisons. By Henry Demarest Lloyd.
New York: Doubleday, Page g. Co. Minneap
oils: N. Mccarthy. Illustrated.
THE CONSUL. A SKETCH OF EMMA BOOTH.
TUCKER. BY Her Husband, Commander
Booth Tucker. New York: The Salvation Army
Publishing department, Nos. 12O-13O West
Fourteenth street Price 25 cents.
THE ATONEMENT AND THE MODERN MIND
BY James Denney. D. D.. professor of New
. Testament Language, Literature and Theology,
United Free Church College, Glasgow. New
York: A. G. Armstrong & Son, 3 and West
Eighteenth street. Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy
Price 81.
THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE
19O3-1904. Cambridge Mass. Published by
Harvard university
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INCOME s4o,ooo-DlED POOR

It was matter Of great surprise to New
Workers, as it no doubt will be to members
Of the medical profession thruout the
country, that the late DR.. Cyrus Edison.
one of the most eminent medical men in
the country, has left an estate of little
more that $4,000 His yearly income was
said to be between 100000 and $4,000. The
widow herself gives a clue as to how this
was spent. when the summer came
around and he was tired she said, he
would ask me If wouldn't like to go on,
a yachting trip. I'd be glad. of course, to-
take his vacation with him, and then he'd
go out and charter a yacht for $4,000 or
$40, O00 and by the time we got back he'd
have little or nothing left, and would
plunge into work to get money for the
next great extra vagance." The house at.
Sc West Fiftieth street in which DR.. Edison
lived for many years and which everybody
supposed he owned, was rented
| WOOD VS.. HIS ENEMIES
Sioux City Journal.
General Wood does things; his >ensmiea
say things.
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A. Record forI9O3
that Counts. ~

THE JOURNAL in 1908. carried
1913, 756 inches Of advertising or
62, 1854 inches more than in 1902,
an increase of about 20 per cent.
THE JOURNAL in 1903 carried
over 10000 inches more in it's
daily issues than any other Min
neapolis or St. Paul paper carried
in it's daily or daily and Sunday
issues combined. .. -,
The Journals Circulation
for December averaged 81, OO5
copies, which goes directly to the
homes. -... .
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The Far Eastern Situation.

The Garde Franchise on The field of
Fontenoy, with chivalric courtesy,
shouted to the enemy: Fire. first,
gentlemen!" While one does not sus-
pect either Russia or japan Of such
delicate courtesy, Russia would ap-
pear to-. be waiting rather anXiously
for Japan to fire the firstssho OF. so she
may have a pretext for. moving few
versts further eastward.
Russia, at the outset of the protests
of Japan against her encroachments
upon Manchuria and Korea, assumed
that Japan could be hoodwinked, and
bullied as easily as China has been.
Russia recalled the comparative ease
with which she had succeeded, with
the aid of Germany and Of France, in
depriving Japan Of the legitimate
fruits Of her victory over China in
1894, including Korea, and she re-
called the comparatively easy acqui-
sltion Of the southern portion Of the
great island of Saghalien in exchange
for the Kurile islands from Japan; but
the buck ague" on discovering that
Japan has ALREADY mobolized her first
installment of troops for war service,
and has her fine modern navy with
war paint on, and In readiness for q
Russian naval attack, If the latter
chooses to risk one. ~.
If Russia wishes for war, she can
evidently have all she wants Of it,
altho her item Of war expenditures in
the past hangs like q milestone around
her neck, while 80 per cent Of her
Inhabitants are more or less in an i'm
pecunious condition, struggling for
bare existence, and her foreign debt
IS running up into bankruptcy dimen-
sions.
The tension is severe. Your peace
loving czar has just approved the mo-
bilization of the Siberian army, while
sedulously delivering homilles on the
beauties of peace. In 1877, the wal
party plunged Russia into the costly
war with Turkey, in spite Of the un'
willingness of the Gar Alexander tc
embark in it. The war party to-day
is determined to carry out the object
Of Count Ignatieff's two treaties with
China Of 1858 and 1860, by which
Russia, by swindling diplomacy, &C
auired the lower Amur valley and the
port Of Vladivostolz on the Pacific
In laying her hands on Manchuris
and seeking to acquire Korea, she
proposes to round out her ambition
to get seaports on unfroZen seas
which Great Britain has been chiefly
instrumental in preventing her from
possessing on the Mediterranean ant
the Persian gulf. Having reached
such an acquisition as Port Arthu
and pitched her camps all over Man
churia, a back down would seriousl.
injure her Asiatic prestige.
The sr,1mored purpose of the dow
ager empress to make, a flank attacl
on Russia, simultaneously with sth
opening Of the war between Russi
and Japan, would be a fine piece o
strategy, If the old tergamant coul
invoke successfully the national spiri
In China, which does not seem to: ex
list at present, except in the blind
brutal fury of secret oath-bound so
cieties like the Boxers. OF troops O
paper China has a large and formida
Bile assortment, but Of trained mod
ern troops, she cannot put in the hel
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WHAT 0THER People,: THJNK
:. q ~ No.EsDi

People who have things to say to the pub
lie that ought to be- said, are invited to
use this column: But the space is linz
viteds and observation-disclosures mustsbe
"boiled down" as ssrnuch as possible.
Three hundred words Is a afesI!rnft.s Y
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More men were found in saloons than
in church in one part of London a few
Sundays ago. It wouldn't be so bad as
that in Minneapolis, tho there are prob
ably more saloons than churches open
here on Sunday N-