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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
Monroe Doctrine and Commerce.

In the house of representatives at
Washington yesterday Representative
Lind said that he favored the extern
sion of the area of free trade on this
continent so that its boundaries would
be coterminous with those Of the Mon
roe doctrine. -
Probably most Of the men who have
been interested in the Pan-American
idea have had some such thought in
mind as this, but we do not rem ember
that it has ever been so definitely ex-
pressed. The reciprocity treaties ne
gotiated with American nations in the
Harrison administration were re-
garded by the late James G. Blaine as
first steps towards closer commercial
relations between the United States
and the other American countries.
All citizens of the United States look
| forward to a time when American
commerce will annex the trade OF
South America, Of which we now have
but a small share. If free trade OF
reciprocity prevailed turnout the
hemisphere our commerce with the
countries to the south of us as well az
| to the north would grow very rapidly
Our commerce Is bound to expand, an6
| as it expands it will burst the tariff
barriers that now restrict and con
| fine it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
THE BEAR HUNT.

You'd, in the Isle of Nippon,
Land Of the dim gray dawn.
Huntsmen are grasping their rifles.
Buckling their cartridge belts on.
Word has gone forth that the monster
Frightening the Mongol kline,
Robber of Manchu goat-pens,
Menaces Korean swine.
Cloven- hoof herds may flee him,
Man. yet, his passage disputes.
And these little hunters of Nippon
Are men, all, from cap down to boots.
Old Europe's Nimrods have watched hir
From his great den raging FORTH
Snarl at the Bosporus barrier,
Harry the Films of the North.
After long vigils they see him,
Baffled and furious, wheel;
Turkoman, Mongol and Manchu,
Rend with his claws of steel.
None but, at sight of his turning,
Covertly draws a, deep breath;
Yet should the brute meet his victor,
Ali will be In at the death.
So we shall witness a bear hunt,
Grandest the ages have known.
Power to the manikin hunters
Facing this monster alone.
ID. ]. Times.
Adrian, Mimi. Jan. 20.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

The colored people of the south will di-
vide about $3.50, 900, 900 among them from
the 1908 cotton crop. Their prosperity has
caused them to move back and forth.
These migrations, together with the in
tention of the planters Of putting in more
cotton than ever next year, have put the
negro laborer in great demand. Arkansas
planters are encouraging large numbers OF
negroes to move to that state from Mis-
sissippi by painting harsh picture Of
what will happen to them during Varda-
mans administration. Apparently pros.
perity in the south will go long way
toward solving the negro problem.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
THE AMERICAN GIRLS JOKE.

Miss Gladys Deacon, an American girl.
amazed a scientist whom she met recently
at London dinner party. The scientist
narrated in great detail to the girl series
of experiments he was conducting with the
microphone. 1.-THE microphone," he ex-
planned, .'magnifies sounds to the ear as
the microscope magnides objects to the
eye. The footballs Of centipede heard
thru the microphone resemble q tatto on
a kettledrum. The dropping Of a pin is
like the report Of cannon ''That is very
interesting and odd,' said Miss Deacon
This afternoon" resumed the scientist
81 caught fly and studied its note. The
note resembled the neighing Of a horse
Perhaps said the young girl, ut was q
horsehy.''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
Hired Mans Golden Age.

There Is no interdependence Of the
farm hand and the theater. Not in a
generation has the theatrical business
been worse than now in most parts of
the country. Not in a generation has
the farm hand been more prosperous.
The farmers hired man In Mime
sofa now averages. according to the
bureau Of statistics, $S3.11 a month
without board, or $22.79 with board.
Never have farm wages been so high
in this state. Away back in 1866,
when there was q lot to learn about
agricultural machinery and farm Ia
borers were smashing new machines In
order to prevent competition, the
hired man Of Minnesota received about
50 less than he does to-day. The first
selfbinder set up on Minnesota farm
was burned by the angry laborers.
Farm laborers get about 50 more a
month in Minnesota than they did In
1879, and at no time between 1856 and
1899 were they within 81 Of being as
high as the point they have now
reached. Speaking generally, the
wages Of farm labor have advanced
at about the same rate turnout the
west and north.
Now $33.11 without board or $22.79
with board seems mighty small pay,
after all, to the man who has difficulty
in living in the city on $25 a week
But how many of your city men en-
joying good salaries have a surplus OF
$23 month after paying for board
and room? Not many. Then, too
your hired man Is no Beau Brummel
tho he may sometimes seek to be the
prize swain Of the countryside. Even
at that, an outlay Of $50 year fol-
clothing is liberal. If he is provi'
dent and ambitious man, it won't be
| long before the savings from his
| wages will prepare him to rent or buy
| a farm.
The hired man is no wage-slave
either. Your pale-faced city clerk has
| heart failure every time the floor
| walker comes his way for fear he i:
| about to lose his job. In the country i
is the other way. Every time thu
hired man approaches the farmer the
latter is apprehensive of an irresis
tible demand for more pay or Of notice
of leaving.
| There are plenty of farmers but {
scarcity of hired men. There are more
than 100000 farmers in the United
States and less than 100000 hire(
men. Farmers sons to the number O
1000, 900 more help the farmers ex
tract wealth from the soil, but ther'
remain about a, million farmers VIII
must be their own hired men. -.
And still our cities continue t.
swarm with loafers and with mel
souirning and struggling with eac1
other in overcrowded occupations 10
the scant rewards of impure food an
squalid lodgings.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
NIGHT

. u E.
I heard the sounds Of sorrow and delight,
The manifold soft chimes
That fill the haunted chambers Of the
Night
Like some old poets rhymes.
From the cool cisterns Of the midnight air
Ny spirit drank repose;
The fountain Of perpetual peace flows
there
From those deep cisterns flows.
o, holy Night! from thee learn to bear
What man has borne before!
Thou layest thy finger on the lips Of Care
And they complain no more.
Peace! Peace! Orestes-like breathe this
prayer!
Descend with broad-winged flight,
The welcome. the ce-prayed-for the
most fair,
The best beloved Night!
IS Longfellow.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
The Great Daily
Offhe
Great Northwest
A Record for 1908
that Counts.

THE JOURNAL in 1903 carried
1913, 756 inches of advertising or
62,964 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, OO6
copies, which goes directly to the
homes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
MEMORIAL FOR All THE "sieNERs'

The officers Of the Jefferson Memorial
association, which organization is to erect
a memorial building in Washington, are
considering the proposition to enlarge the
scope Of their project so that the proposed
structure shall commemorate all the sign
ers of the Declaration of Independence,
instead of it's author only. The building is
to have four corner stones, conspicuously
placed above the foundation lines. One is
to symbolic the patriotic achievements
of Jefferson, another. his educational work,
the third is to typify his part in the en-
actment of the Virginia statute for re-
ligious freedom, and the fourth will repre-
sent his advocacy Of the freedom of the
press. 5
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
BOOKS RECEIVED

THE INSIDE HISTORY OF THE CARNEGIE
STEEL COMPANY. / A ROMANCE OF MIL
LIONS. By James Howard Bridge. New
York: The Aldine Book company. Minneap-
oils: N. Mccarthy. Price So net.
SUMMER IN TELEMARKEN and Some Char
acter Sketches. BY N. n Ronning. illustrated.
Minneapolis: The Northand Press.
BACTERIA, YEAsTs AND MoLDs IN THE
HOME. By H. W. Conn., Phi. D., professor Of
Biology In Wesleyan university, author of
Agricultural Bacteriology,'' etc. Boston:
CHM & Co.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

The announcement found elsewhere in
this paper Of five Minneapolis lectures on
literary subjects by Richard Burton, Phi.
D., Feb. II, 20, %, "a and 26, will bring
pleasure to many. DR.. Burton has host
of friends here who will welcome these
opportunities to hear him again.
A very interesting book is Mr.. Ronning's
Summer in Telemarken, telling about his
visit to his native Norway after a long
sojourn in Minnesota. He tells his story
in charming, natural way and he injects
into it a fine, CHEEKY humor which IS de-
lightful and, having extraordinarily good
descriptive power and being a close OBJ
server, one may easily imagine himself a
travel companion along the Norway fjords
and crystal streams and lofty mouptains.
The author says of his arrival in Chris
tiania:
1t really was interesting to hear all the boys
talking Norwegian. In Minneapolis many Of the
older Norwegians speak their native tongue on
the street, but the Norwegian boys speak En-
glish, and you cannot. as rule, tell them apart
from out-and-out American boys. To hear the
little tots talk ''Norsk'' and nothing but
"Norsk'' struck me being almost wonderful
as If the monkeys at Minnehaha park all of a
sudden should begin to talk in some human Ian
guage.
Getting back to his boyhood home at
Boo, he realizes that he is once more in
fatherland where it is most beautiful and
|
black mountains play grand overtures for
the listening world.
A lesson in Japanese pronunciation that
may be useful to Americans, especially in
case Of war between Russia and Japan, is
given below. It is from A Handbook of
Modern Japan, by Ernest W. Clement CA.
G. McClurg & Coz.
A like in father; al as in aisle; e like
e in men; Ell as in weigh; i like j in pin;
au, o as in bone; o like o in pony; u like
90 in book; u as 90 in moon
I in the middle Of word and u in the
middle or at the end of a word are some
times almost inaudible.
The consonants are all sounded as in
English: G, however. has only the hard
sound, as in give, altho the nasal ng is
often heard; oh and $ are always soft, as
in check and sin; and before has the
sound of d. In the case of double con-
sonants, each one must be given its full
sound.
! There are as many syllables as vowels.
There is practically no accent.
Be sure to avoid the fiat sound Of a,
which is always pronounced all.
| Professor Conn has done good service
! for the public in his book on micro organ
| isms Bacteria, Yeasts and MoIds, in
which he shows the value of the science
Of bacteriology in its practical relation
! to household affairs, as warden of health
and promoter Of good sanitary condi-
lions. The professor shows the agency
/ Of the micro organisms in the decay and
spelling of foods and in the production OF
contagious diseases thru drinking water
or other methods of conveying the ba-
cilli OF diseases to the human body. The
diseases best known to the household,
due to microscopic parasites, are very in
diligently and perspicuously dealt with,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

1t is notable that the National Board Of
Trade yesterday adopted resolutions espe-
cially recommending reciprocity with
Canada. If a few more national business
bodies will resolve in favor of reciprocity
with Canada. the politicians may awaken
to the Importance Of the subject by the
time it is too late
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
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 linn
tied, and all communications must be
"boiIed down" as much as possible.
Three hundred words Is safe limit.
Head OF the shacks.

To the Editor Of The Journal.
I think a few lines might have been
added to your editorial in a recent paper
in regard to house-moving which would
voice the sentiments of the majority of
your readers. These additions are these:
That buildings-or shacks, which they fire.
quently are-should be dropped in a To-
cality where the surroundings are in
keeping with them and not in neighbor-
hoods where they are great eyesore to
the community and depreciate the valu-
alton of surrounding property and at the
same time advance insurance risks by
making them much more hazardous.
An ordinance prohibiting their removal
at all without in RACED coalition would
meet with the approval of the majority
Of our citizens.
Charles W. Simmons.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
FRIDAY EVENING,
The western nations have much tohope
for from Japan; from Russia nothing.

A lot of good old Minnesota money has
been put into gold mines outside the
state. Very little Of it has ever come
out. In view Of that, why not bury your
surplus capital in the gold mines Of Swan
vile, Mimi? To speak Of the gold mines
of Swanville now Is to laugh, but later
on the Swanvillers may laugh.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

The American Protective Tariff league
had it's annual meeting yesterday and
adopted an address to the public ex-
planning that in view of its name it must
continue to advocate protection without
any modification. It is a cardinal doc
trine of the league that every tariff that
is high is good, and that no tariff change
is a step forward that does not raise
duties.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
LoNGINGs FOR SUMMER

Sweet summer days, pine for thy return,
Thy scented sedge, thy shy and graceful
fern,
Thy lavish promise of a bounteous yield
From vine and tree and cultivated field
The whirling whoof Of this Icelandic
breeze,
Howling its dismal dirge thru naked trees
Expresses me- long for leafy bowers,
And resurrection OF the summers flowers!
Campbell, MINI, Jan. Z.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
Pure Food Legislation.

It is probable that definite action
will be taken by congress at this ses-
sion asa to pure food legislation. as
the house on Wednesday passed the
Hepburn pure food bill by the de-
cisive vote Of POI to 50, and the SEN
ate committee on manufactures has
ordered a favorable report on the Nc
Cumber bill of like character and pur-
pose.
If the senate passes the McCumber
bill, there will probably be no serious
difficulty in ultimate agreement by
| the two houses on a measure which
will cover the laudable purpose of the
promoters Of such admittedly neces-
sary legislation for the protection OF
the people from falsely labeled, and
In many cases, really tnjuriously adul-
terated articles of food and drink
| Under the proposed law, the stand.
ards of foods and drugs, as to their
purity, strength and character, Will
be scientifically fixed, and adultera.
tons will be strictly defined, an6
nothing will be left in doubt.
While such official and authorfta:
tive standard Of food purity is of very
great importance, there is no doub
that the fixing Of the standard Of puri
ty for drugs as a measure for the pro
lection Of the public health is hardl,
of less Importance. We have laws t
protect the public from adulteratet
foreign wines and some articles o
| x1y17s1 la &C. r.
protect the public from injurious
authorizations of articles produced a
home. sl S-..
The bureau of chemistry at Wash
ington recently published an interest
ing statement showing how extensive
ly the public are victimized by i'm
pure and adulterated drugs and me
dicinal preparations. It is shown tina
the drugs marked Chemically pure
are frequently not pure, and whel
they enter into physicians prescrip
tons, such medicine naturally doe
not work as the physician intended
When life and death hang in the bal
ance, and. a medicine whose ingre
dents, or some of them, are not vi
to the proper standard Of purity, an,
fail to work in consequence. and
patient dies, surely the unquestion
able purity of drugs becomes an alb
solute necessity.
Professor Allen, secretary Of tn
r National Pure Food association, VIII
recently returned from Europe, wher
} he investigated continental food prod
$ ucts, states in his report some inter
esting facts derived from the author
tiles Of municipal laboratories in Pari
and elsewhere. The use Of antiser
: tics in foods is scientifically antae
, onized and artificial coloring of food
is regarded now as a means of cor
3 cealing authorizations in order to pl
the goods on the market. Sixty pc
cent Of the French wines and 80 pc
cent Of French champagnes are adu
q terations or limitations. Most of tt
, wines never saw vineyard and the
!, are innocent of grapes.
:. Germany and the United States al
the most advanced nations in tt
: work of promoting pure food legisl;
q ton. Germany has accomplish
more than we have.
q If the present congress agrees upc
), a rational pure food law and enac
90 it, and it is strictly enforced, it w
perform an inestimably valuable pu
T. lie service.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
western boundary Of North Dakota
and in some parts OF Montana.

western boundary Of North Dakota
and in some parts Of Montana.
There seems to be no reason for
discounting the sanguine expectations
that were entertained when macaroni
wheat was first introduced into the
northwest. It Is giving a reliable
grain crop to considerable areas on
which other varieties Of wheat yield
precariously. The indications are that
more macaroni wheat will be pro-
duced in the Dakotas this year than
last, tho the high prices prevailing
for standard milling wheat will doubt
less tempt many farmers to risk the
old wheat in regions where there Is
scarcely more than an even chance
for a good crop.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

John Linds speeches in congress may
not have much effect on legislation, but
they afford evidence supplementary to
that Of hotel registers that Minneapolis
is represented at Washington.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

The largest oil ship in the world
the Naragansett, has lust been been
launched in the Clyde. She will hold
IL, 900 tons of oil, which can be dis
charged at the rate Of 900 tons an
hour.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

AN INVITATION is extended to all to visit
the Press Room which is the finest IN the west
deck Goss Presses, with a total capacity OF
l44,o eight-page Journals an hour, printed T.
folded and counted. The best time to can ID
from 3:16 to 4:3O p. m. Inquire at the business
Office and be directed to the visitors gallery.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

Mr. Dunn's idea of campaign in Hen
nepin seems to be to feed the hungry.
Dunn meetings are opened witl1-oysters.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

railroad presidents who are for Hanna
for president. Well, there's fifteen votes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

A dispatch from Memphis to the New
York Herald says that a successful cotton
picker has been invented in that city. If
that is so Memphis ought soon to have at
least one more millionaire.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22

and the reader Of this volume will OBJ
tain some very practical information as
to conditions Of contagion, which can be
prevented, and methods Of disinfection.
Directions are given to housewives how
to prevent the growth of molds, and the
distinction between the injurious mi
crobes and the useful ones is drawn,
showing the function Of the latter in
yeast, in the making Of vinegar, havoring
Of butter and cheese, etc. The book is
turnout very practical and useful and it
is very profusely illustrated. A merely
cursory reading will show any house,
keeper its value in domestic economics.
Mr.. Brauer's critique on 'The Philos
ophy Of Ernest Remain, in Bulletin No. IS
Of the University Of Wisconsin, is rather
severely critical Of the erudite French ra-
tionalist, with respect to his inconsist-
encies in the affirmation of his own
philosophy Renan never could effectively
shake off his early religious faith. This
influence shows itself in his much read
Life of Jesus He himself in a revision
Of the early edition of that work elm
| mated the charge that Christ was party
to an impOsture in the incident of calling
Lazarus from the tomb. Mr.. Brauer de-
| clares that If Renan was the most intelli-
gent man of the nineteenth century, it is
certainly true that he was the most in
consistent Perhaps Mr.. Brauer is Sc
curely right when he says: "Is ii any
wonder that a personality so 1leterogene.
Gus, who in thought was man, in feel
ing a woman, and in action child; whose
writings reflect now the reminiscent
poetry of an outworn faith and again the
subtle criticism Of an aridly erudite in.
tellect; a tissue of contradictions as hi
calls himself: is it any wonder that sucl
a man should find it impossible to repre-
sent On paper all the disparate medley
Of his conflicting judgments upon expert
ence, even to their finest shades and tran
sitions, within the inf1exible limits Of syl
logistic logic?"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-22
AT THE THEATERS
Metrop oIitan-"Sau Harbor,

Metrop oIitan-"Sag Harbor."
One of the several contributions which
the late James A. Herne made to the lite
nature of the stage was satisfactorily pre-
der the name Of Sag Harbor.''
Like "Shore Acres,' it relies for it's
strength largely on character sketches
and, like Hearts of Oak" it is album
! dainty blessed with fine sentiment.
Being a seaside story, there is the sailor
boy who apparently hasn't a sweetheart in
every port and who comes back from a
! brother has acquired the hand, if not the
/ affections, of his fiancee. With this for
a foundation upon which is builded a
really pretty, tho homely, story, and al
lowing for the introduction of the baby, a
New England dinner, a shipyard and two
or three Of those odd characters of which
New England soil is SO prolific, the play
! wright has given capable company op.
portunity for evoking laughter and tears
in pleasant succession. 49,
The chief fault of the piece is that i
is occasionally too talky and the player:
are therefore put. to the necessity Of sus
! tanning an interest which the audience i:
in imminent danger Of losing. There art
times, too, where the atmosphere become!
4 too suddenly and unnecessarily melodra
matte. But on the whole "Sag Harbor'' i
} worthy Of Mr.. Herne and has the meri
VI UellI9 C1Gettl anu IlcdlCIly, OueIlHS
pleasing antidote to a wearisome success
sion Of musical comedy.
The honors go to Charles c. Brandt
who in the character of Captain Da1
Marble shows a complete mastery of hi
art. In the climax of the last act he sue
cessfully ascends from comedy to tn
seriousness Of a scene that would be fla
enough were it not for his good reading
Samuel Colt as Freeman Whitmarsf
''house, sign and boat painter and leade
Of the choir, is responsible for much o
the comedy and the manner of his play
ing is most creditable. In the leadin
role of Martha Reese beloved of the tw
brothers, Amy Hamlin grows in strengtl
with the progress of the play and is alto
gether satisfactory. AS Jenny Cauldwel
the Bridgehampton music teacher kath
eryn Swift is deserving of praise for he
comedy work in the last act, and with tn
exception Of J. c. King, in the role Of tn
sailor brother, the others in the cast NEE
II ha 6c ma