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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10
The Discretion of the Auditor.

The Bemidji Pioneer, in defense of
Mr.. Dunn, says: "Trespass cases have
always been in the past and are now,
settled by the state auditor for the
best fguresp ossible to, obtain. This is a
matter in which the state auditor Is
compelled to use his discretion
Provided, that he shall not make
any such settlement for an amount
less than double the value Of such TIM
Der as shown by such scale and ap-
praisaL 1853, Laws Of 1895,
Section 80.
This extract from the law shows
how much discretion is left to the au-
ditor. This law was passed after Mr.
Dunn had declared in his paper, the
Princeton Union, that estate auditors
have exercised too much discretionary
power heretofore" The law puts a
limit on their discretion, point about
which Mr.. Dunn was properly solicit
tous before he came into office, but
which he seems not; to have kept care
fully in mind thereafter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

dash and lighting qualities, has won
the admiration of the world; but this
lis likely to be a long war. and first
successes do not always mean Anal
success.
The issues being fought over APP
pear almost as impossible of settle
ment by mediation as were the guess
lions involved in our own great civil
war. When that war began. the south
did brilliant work, and at the first
Bull Run gave the north a blow worse
than any Japan has so far inflicted
upon Russia, and even after over two
years Of fighting a southern army was
right up In Pennsylvania and was only
turned back after three days Of car
mage in battle beside which the
fights in. the Russian-Japanese war,
to date, are as so many skirmishes.
Many financiers view the far east
ern war as not yet fairly begun, and
the final outlook as very uncertain
/ indeed, notwithstanding everything is
going Japan's way just now.
Gecretary Shaw thinks Mr.. Hit, the IL
linois congressman, Is the man for vice
president. The most interesting thing
about this suggestion is that the secre-
tary of the treasury carefully abstained
from making pun on tha congressman
mama
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10
Sentiment and Business.

How little sentiment there is in
business is pretty we'll illustrated by
the negotiations for loans by the two
powers now at war. Russia, it is
found, can borrow $200,000,000 and
sell her per cent bonds at 98@9SA,
while Japan, asking $50,000,000, must
offer her per cent bonds well below
par, or down to about SO @93k. Fl.
Additional to this, the big New York
banking-houses handling the Ameri-
can end of the loan, are fully as tight
with their money as the European
bankers, and both insist that Japan
pledge her custom house receipts as
security, while asking no such hard
terms from Russia.
Primarily the question Of credits is
one Of facts and figures. Receipts and
expenditures relative to the size of a
country, together with prospective de-
velopment and the likelihood Of fur
ther borrowings, are the important
things.
This particular incident is princi-
pally interesting as illustrating two
things: That the sympathy Of the
English and American peoples with
Japan avails that country little when
she enters the loan market, and that
the idea advanced some time ago that
because of prosecutions of the Jews
in Russia, that country would fine
herself handicapped by the opposi.
ton of powerful Jewish financial
houses was fallacy. Sentiment an6
business do not mix.
Cool, calculating fnanciers look fa1
ahead. So far everything has gone
against Russia. and Japan, by he
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

:
In a chat with P. C. Larkin, head of
the Salada Ceylon & India Tea Co. and
known as the Tea King of America
\ Journal man learned the curious
act that tea is. indigenous to India
nd not to China. The shrub is found
! all parts of India growing wild in
the jungle, but never in state of ma
ture in China.
Until ten years ago we got our teas
from China and Japan, while Ceylon
for many years produced the finest
coffee in the world. The coffee tree
was, however, attacked by fatal dis
ease, and with ruin staring them in
the face, the planters started to culti-
vate tea plants, with the result that
their first shipment to Great Britain
brought enormous prices, the delicious
flavor, fine quality and healthfulness
of the tea making it at once a great
favorite with the tea drinker. This
led to enormously increased cultiva-
ton, and now we no longer depend on
China for tea.
Twenty years ago there were 160,-
100000 pounds of China tea consumed
in England and no Ceylon and India
teas. Last year. there were only 49,
100000 pounds of China tea consumed
and 240, 100000 pounds of CeyIon and
India tea, showing that Introduction
Of these really finer teas had resulted
in a largely increased consumption.
Mr.. Larkin was asked to say a
word about his own company, the
largest handlers, Of teas in America,
but said the record of the "Salada"
Tea Co. was fairly well known and
spoke for itself
He attributed his success first to
serving the public we'll with meri-
torious article which, when once tried,
tea drinkers are likely to persevere in
using; next to the sealed lead packets
in which the Salada Tea Co. pack
their product, making it possible in
this way for consumers to get their
tea fresh and fragrant from the gar
den to the teacup; and thirdly, to the
most important of all statesmen. the
daily newspaper.
Mr.. Larkin declares himself to be
a newspaper advertiser first, last and
all the time, and remarked that of
| all. the mediums, he had tried, none
showed such .sa satisfactory results as the
thigh class daily newspapers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

engineering or economic limit of height
below about eighty stories, provided the
area of the lot be sufficient
Russell Sturgis discusses in an inter-
esting way the sculpture on st. Bartholo-
news church, New York, and Kenyon
Cox writes of the Whistler memorial ex-
hibition in the same magazine.
An Argument for Municipal Ownership.
The mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn, has
been gathering figures on municipal
lightning. These are in favor of Nash
vile as compared with Chattanooga.
Nashville owns it's own plant and pays for
each arc lamp less than $50. Chattanooga
pays more than $S5. The installing of the
municipal plant in Nashville has reduced
the price for private consumers from 1S
cents per kilowatt to cents. The figures
above are given in the Municipal journal
and Engineer for May. The leading arti-
Gle in the number is ''An Appeal for
Larger Use of Parks" by Stephen Child,
landscape architect.
Toronto's Fire Traps.-"One of the as
tonishing facts of the Toronto fire was
the entire absence of fireproof construction
within the fire zone. 1t appears that there
was nothing in that city within the fire
| belt save fire traps of ordinary and mill
construction" This is from the Fireproof
Magazine for May, a Toronto fire num-
Der. It is literally illustrated with fire
| pictures.
Preserve the Records of the Past.-That
means the past Of the United States. be-
| fore the territory now included in their
borders was known by civilized nations.
| Records Of the Past for April, over the
/ signature, of Rev Henry Mason Baum. D.
| C. T., sets forth Pending Legislation on
Am rican Antiquities, and urges the need
/ Of prompt and effective measures to pro-
| tect the monuments of the early peoples
/ of the southwest especially. "A Recent
Discovery in Egypt and :Chickasawaba
Mound are other subjects treated.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

The chairman of the local Hearst COM
mittee saws that a railroad in Iowa dis
charged some Of it's employees for work
ing and voting for Hearst, but that it
promptly took them back on threat by
Mr.. Hearst that If it didn't he would see
to it that it's property was taxed accord
ing to law. Hows that? Are we to have
our ideas of Mr.. Hearst's disinterested-
ness and incorruptibility disturbed by the
suggestion that the railroad might escape
it's just share of taxes for all Of him If
it would restore his friends to their jobs?
It cannot be. That looks too much like
} ordinary political bargaining.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10
FOYER Chat.

There is a great demand for seats at
the Metropolitan for the engagement of
%: II Sothern who comes the latter half
Of the week In McCarthy's I new. love
drama. 1.-THE Proud Prince 1t is alto
gether the most active working role that
Mr.. Sothern has ever given, and his por.
trayal has added to his dramatic emf
nence.
1.-THE Great Unknown one OF the most
successful Of the numerous comedies pro-
duced by Augustin DAILY will serve fr
the reiI1troduction Of Miss Percy HaswaIl
at the Metropolitan for the week com J
mencing next Sunday evening. she wifi
be supported by a talented organization,
including George Fawcett and Alfred
Hudson, Sr.
why Girls. Leave Home is the play
at the Bijou this week. "a matinee will
be given tomorrow.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10
. .Lyceun1-MMx lin. !,

The appreciation of the audience is
pretty evenly divided among the nine,
members of the Ferris Stock company in
the cast of the comedy drama, My JIM
at the Lyceum this week. ~
MY Jim" is a "down east play of the
familiar type with plenty of villainy and
the sudden rise to the occasion of the
BOBBY country boy who saves the family
farm, worth a Million from the hands
of the, villain at the right time; makes II
possible for his sister, the victim Of the
villain, to marry the man she loves, and
weds the heroine of the play, a city girl,
himself. There are plenty of weeps in
| the mixture, but it's acceptability lies in
the sudden glimpses Of comedy, which
never fail to cheer up the emotional audi
ence just as they are beginning. to wipe
| their eyes,. III 5sc5:trs a. 4ss,s stE1t,
Honors were even because, altho Dick
Ferris as Jim Mayne of Maine, the coun-
| try diamond in the very rough, had to re-
Ispond to urgent calls for curtain speech
and w. II. Murdoch, the mean man., re-
cefved the full measure Of gallery Kisses
which all villains cherish, every other
member Of the cast received generous ape
plause as shifting situations gave each ep-
portunity.
Charles Burnham was the old down
east farmer, Abner Mayne, and MAIN
tanned the part with great fidelity. The
action centers around Maise Cecil as
Hetty Kingsbride, a little hoydenish bit of
sunshine from New York. who knew her
own mind to a remarkable extent and who
/ perseyered thru the plot until she accom-
plished the downfall Of the villain and the
capture of Jim as husband in the face
Of the ridicule eof her naughty and IN
bending Goldfish" aristocrat sister, Lu-
cretia Mayne, a part well taken by Fran
I ces Murdoch. s 1zt4 s.
] George j. Gilmore represented effectively
Tom Mayne, the city brother, who was q
better man than his rather affected city
manner indicated. A. Byron Beasley as
Eccless Foxglove maintained his custom
airy good representation of the strong
manly man. Maude Gilbert was the errine
Isister Of the Maynes, and Laurette Allen
was Molly Middlesex, all expectancy ii
her old maidenhood ~
u Edward Smith
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
physical Culture.
TO the Editor Of The Journal.
! !. II nro 40 P1tfnnurn,.fl, q 4aa


Horace Butterworth, teacher Of phys
zeal training, recently said in the Chicago
in part, regarding the
physical training of the Russians:
From a hap-hazard and irregular prac-
tice by scattered individuals the develop
ment of the body by a systematic and
scientific course Of work especially pre-
pared and adapted to the conditions Of a
group as well as to those of d single per-
son, has become a recognized necessity Of
twentieth century life as it is found in the
most highly civilized nations In Rus
STA, however, the point has not yet been
reached where even a passive interest is
shown in any phase Of physical training.
as SUCH It seems that the Russian
because his appetite jutiles it. He
excels in horsemanship, and plays
many out of door games But
sad to relate, as Mr.. Butterworth saws, he
knows nothing about gymnasiums and is
left without any especially prepared and
adapted course Of physical training. In
other words, he has "a hap hazard and ir-
regular practice of exercise. We are
sorry for the poor Russians. We hope
some high salaried American teacher Of
scientific physical culture will go there
and persuade them to abandon their
homely practices Of out door sport and
exercise, and adopt our American sys-
tenn w men an Is eup-lO-QaIe American
thinks his body needs exercise (if he has
time) he. orders his automobile to take
him to the gymnasium where he swings
Indian clubs until he imagines his physi-
cal condition is improved. He then goes
back to his dark office to work until such
time as he is compelled to take some more
ply steal culture.
Perhaps Mr.. Butterworth would have us
believe that a lack Of an especially pre-
pared and adapted" course OF pfysfca'
training has been one cause of the Russian
reyerses in the war with Japan. If SO, We
advise him to wait awhile. The Russians
whipped Napoleon, and they will do thu
same by the mikado Of Japan.
3 e A. Benjamin.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10
THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER

An Eighty Story Bulding.-Ge George Hill,
writing in thes Architectural Record for
May Of skyscrapers, says The height
is to a certain extent unlimited but prob
ably twenty five stories is likely to be the.
average of the high building. The writer
may be in error. for there are many in
fluences to be considered; but so far he
has been able to discover absolutely no.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

The Pioneer Press asks in a very stri
dent tone of voice why the public ex-
aminer doesn't investigate the official acts
Of other state officers besides auditor.
He does. He examines the books of the
board Of control and the board of regents
of the university and the state treasurers
office. He examines these offices and the
auditors because the law requires him
to do so. The Pioneer also wants to know
why the present examiner didn't examine
the auditors books three years ago. Prob
ably because he was not then in office
Another reason is that it was not until
the last session that the legislature called
for an investigation Of the auditors Of
flee. After the legislative inquiry, which
was necessarily hurried, was reported on,
the legislature asked the public examiner
to continue the Investigation He seems
to have done nothing that he was not re-
CURED to do. He has reported what the
records show. 1t may be unfortunate for
certain political interests and regulations
and prospects, but certainly the public is
entitled to know the facts. K
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Mr. Andrew Lang admits himself not
susceptible to the quality of George AIDES
humor, and wonders If things are really
funny in Chicago which are saddening in
Great Britain and Ireland. Will Mr.. Lang
accept assurances Of our distinguished
consideration?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Cabin to the Bijcu next week, is said
successfully to have solved the problem Of
combining the old and the new .'Lfcle
Toms Cabin" into a big spectacular play
that leaves out nothing worth retaining OF
either the straight method or the circus
method.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Plans have been filed in Chicago for
an Iroquois Memorial Emergency hos
lpital, to be erected in that city, and to
provide and maintain an institution in
memory Of the victims OF the Iroquois
theater fire on Dec. so.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Seats are higher priced at the Paris
opera-house than in any other Euro
penn capital In spite Of the fact that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Russell Sage advises young men to keep
out Of Wall street. and maintains that
seven dollars is enough for a young man
to pay for a suit Of clothes Russell is
a sage whose advice runs altogether to
money getting. There are great many
objects in life much more worthy Of pur-
suit about which his advice would be of
very little value.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

The last survivor of the little band
of buffalo, the only animals of that
variety at large in Colorado, has been
slain by pot hunter, despite the
heavy penalty! fixed by the legislature.
The band has been hidden in Lost
Park, Park county, for several years.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Admiral skrydloff is authorized to d,
as he pleases with the Port Arthur feet
But the trouble is that Togo did It first
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Isn't it about time for Kuroki brand
OF cigars or a Togo concoction at the soda.
fountain? Some enterprising genius will
certainly seize the opportunity.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

The Dunn column on the editorial page
morning to lengthy lamentation over
the fate Of the merger. Turn about Is
fir play.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Parker Is passing, Mcclellan looming
up, but it may be Cleveland after all.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10
.GNAwED AT THE ouTPosTs OF THE MILL.

7UNAWEU At LIE - UUItoS1o of THE MILL
broke, and the mill fell over into the
water
Z Save mel shouted the miller of Dee,
as he doated down&the river.
II am sending you to find my lost ba-
-bies," squeaked the little mouse, as she
danced up and down on the bank.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10
Not "Poor Old Missouri Now


1t is no longer poor old Missouri" ..
but grand old Missouri is more APP
propriatee. since the beginning of the
Folk campaign for governor. The
people Of the state have picked up
the brave man who made the fight
practically alone against Doodle in ST.
Louis and will make him governor just
as sure as he lives till Inauguration
day. Nothing more encouraging and
inspiring to the ardent worker for
honest and efficient public service has
ever happened than the enthusiasm
and overwhelming preponderance Of
numbers with which the people of the
old bourbon democratic state Of Mis-
souri, have turned from their long
accepted but now thoroly discredited
leaders and have rallied under the
banner Of honest government and
clean politics. = -
1t is wonderful transformation
where least expected and demon
strates conclusive1y that when the
issue is clearly understood the plain
people can be depended upon to
| choose the right and repudiate the
wrong. The example of Missouri
ought to be and will be lesson and
an incentive to honesty and fidelity in
the public service wherever the facts
become known. The case is 50 con-
spicuous that it cannot fail to have it's
influence thruout the whole country.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

1.-The Northf1eld News again. wants to
know why proceedings have not been
brought against the only real merger in
the state, the merger of the Duluth &
Iron Range and the Duluth, Missabe &
Northern p The proprietor of the News,
who Is managing Mr.. Dunn's campaign,
still seems to disagree with the supreme
court of the United States as to what
constitutes real merger
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

At Wellesley, we blush to state, some
young ladies put red pajamas on the
statues Of Diana and the Woodsman
Well, anyhow the faculty are ahead two
nice pajamases..s SIS
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

w. E. Young. the Mankato lawyer who
has been prominently mentioned for at
torney general has also come out for a
place on the commission, giving the sec
ond district two candidates. 1t was only
a short time ago that the, second district
had no candidates at all for state office.
Now it has zans abundance .ssAsIt is likely
that the district delegation win hold a
caucus before the state convention meets
and decide which Of it's candidates to sup
port. We need hardly look for another
''Mankato conference however.
Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

The latest candidate for railroad com
missioner is Thomas: J.. Crawford, editor
Of the Lakefeld Standard. He Is the
Dunn manager in Jackson county, which
is the strongest Dunn county in the sec.
ond district, and is therefore likely to sen6
a delegation for Dunn and Crawford.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

More "Reminiscences OF the Early Days In
MinneapolIs---A Great Scoop" Scored
on the Discovery of the East Side by
Frank Nlmocks----EarIy scares9 About
the Falls Going Out.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Georgia reports, her first shipment of
peaches. Have we not seen it stated
somewhere that this is big country?
Peaches ripe in Georgia and icicles ripe
in Nebraska.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Russia has borrowed 100000 600 in
Paris. Paris is easy. We would never
have let them have it,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

3. fps are. being given out for T h e
= Q u a Is midsummer flower contest,
MARQUIS of Patthey rules to govern. Hun
dreds OF dollars worth of prizes will be
given. Our nasturtiums, cannas, carna-
ations and dahlfas are swinging Indian
clubs and going UP the ladder hand over
h mar The Chinese pink seeds were
Gaught smoking poppy leaves the other
day and are out of the race for hitting
the water pipes. We notice that the bulbs
are slightly swelled over the prospect of
pulling down the sweepstakes.
Later.-A two-ton dog stepped on our
flower bed Monday night and sank it eight
inehes. The honeysuckles declared all
Uels OF. 80. "A. j. r. y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

The candidates for governor will come
together again this evening at the Sew
enth ward banquet, in the wigwam on
Lake street. Messrs. Dunn Collins and
Eddy are all on the program, and Will
liam II. Eustis has also agreed to talk.
There is renewed Eustis talk since the re-
cent unpleasantness between Collins and
Dunn but the former mayor maintains
the same smiling indifference, and de-
clines to be drawn into declaration.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

They have health food called ."nutose.''
'steakose' and ''bakedpotatose" meets
our present demand.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

Dear Sir: am considering plan to SUNNY
the natives Of Equatorial Africa with ice cream
and electric fans, hence I cannot entertain your
excellent proposition just now
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-10

They are Uncle Tonming In ST. Paul
this week.