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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER

The Real "Yeow Perll."-David B.
MacGowan's ''The Cossacks," in the Oc-
tober Century, says: 80.
Napoleon pronounced the Cossacks perfect mas
tiers of partizan warfare, furious In attack and
impossible to reach, and said that he did not re-
member having made prisoner of a single one
of them. Finally he had the Cossacks in mind
when he warned Europe that. unless checked
by such powerful unit as he had sought to
construct Russia would enslave the world. That
Napoleons prediction has not been forgotten
may be inferred from the recent assertion in
various quarters that the real yellow peril is
the possibility Of the organization Of the Mon
golian races by Russia and that Slavic Jenghiz
Khan may direct new Golden Horde against the
west
An article Of novel and widespread in
terest in the Century is Gilbert H. Gros-
venor's "Inoculating the Ground" which
sets forth a remarkable discovery in
scientific agriculture which is likely to
have far-reaching influence.
feature Of the number also is an
ode in the Wordsworthian spirit by
Henry van Dyke, entitled God of the
Open Air. with pictures and decorations
by Henry McCarter, printed with touch
| Of color.
| DR.. Mitchelrs "The Youth of Washing
tom closes in the current number
Dare We Educate Everybody7-'.Is
| ~N-NNO11 ASeSNS
| of universal education for actual life? ''
| asks an editorial In The World Today for
| October Culture Is essentially purpose
less; education is purposeful. But tc
| have a purpose means that generation
is dissatisfied with its present Tc
arouse an ambition In generation and
to attempt to give that generation larger
self-control Is also to arouse 1t to dis
content. An educated people can never
be content to be contented And witt
| this discomfort comes a desire to change
| to improve, to equalize ones lot with tina,
of another, to increase ones own priv
ileges and to deprive another of those
which seem unjustly his. No wonde,
some countries have been so much in ter.
ror of popular education. The priv.
| LEGGED class preferred an ignorant under
class that was content to an educated
proletariat that was ambitious
The editorial closes thus: "A school
house should be the place where socia
equality and fraternity, and not mer,
| fighting power are bred 1t must Great,
a democracy and not an oligarchy. D,
/ we really want a democracy? If not, lie
Il us close the schools. -
i The same number Of the magazine L
8 rich in material Of general interest Yer,
timely Is the article on College Athlet
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
A Real Issue.

While the two great political parties
have been searching the national wood
pile for suitable chips to carry on their
shoulders thru another presidential
campaign, some very important wood
has been left unsawed. It will have
to be sawed some day if republication
is to stand. Organized capital, thru it's
enormously increased law-compelling
power, is beginning practically to AFRO
gate to, itself the claim of Louis XIV,
II am the state.' It is foolish to blink
at the amalgamated %factsthat have been
and are being brought to the attention
Of the public. Shall the government be
administered in the interests Of privil-
eyed class, which, by means of combi-
nations of capital, is able to control
public utilities for private gain9
Those whose ears are to the ground
can detect in the rapid growth Of So
cialism the tread Of a great army of
protestants. The figures just given out
of the socialist vote of the world show
that during the past ten years 1t has
grown from two and one-half millions
to six and one-quarter millions, ratio
of about two hundred and fifty per
cent. During the same period in the
United States the socialist vote has
grown from q, 512 to 1908, a ratio of
over one thousand per cent. When one
remembers that socialism stands for
the control of the great industries SO
that the profits and advantages shall
accrue to the whole body Of the people
in the. form Of better service and
cheaper products, rather than to pr,
waite individuals, it is not hard to tell
where the wind sets.
The day Of theoretical, Utopian so
cialism is past. To use the language. Of
John Graham Brooks: "All socialism
! that is becoming effective now enters
the political arena withsa very grim
purpose to fight out its issues at the
polls.' Socialism is more than Greco
it is a passion. Are we willing tc
have the socialist saw our wood fol
ius, Of. is either political party great
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
A DAKOTA HARVEST FIELD

On every side the golden stubble stretches,
Looped and laced with silvery spiders webs,
From stalk to stalk the swapping insects leaping
Add sparks of Offering fire to gold and silver
haze.
Their clicking fight the only sounds Of living
In all the deepening solemn hush
OF flooding failing light thru dropping dreamy
si grain.
The sweet warm light grows every moment
richer,
Ever more sonorous the damp and hollow air,
And now there comes the clatter of the reaper
And loud !, and CHEEKY urging Of the tired teams.
Around unseen, the choir Of evening crickets
Deepens and widens with the fading DUSK
And distant calls to supper reach across the tan.
gled grain.
The overarching majesty Of purple cloud grows
brighter
Soaring above in seas of green and blue.
tumbled mountain land of cloud crags. fired
3s and lighted
To glowing bronze and red and yellow gold.
And thru the grain the reaper still goes forward
And still the crickets, chirp and insects leap
And overhead the glory Of the sunlight turns t.
--Hamlin Garland, Prairie Songs. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

ment Of currency is expected to begin
this week.
There appears no definite prospect as
yet, of resumption of work by the Fall
River mills, but in New York the build
ing strike is probably dose to a col
lapse. r. - &2& SIS 7 =
Eastern traffic managers talk IA
vorably of present business and pros
poets and the Chicago and ST. Louis
trunk lines are handling large business.
The western railroads are now taking
care of grain tonnage well in excess
of last year, and it is likely the show
ing of the second week Of September of
an average increase of 6.62 per cent in
earnings Of thirty eight roads will be
passed very shortly.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
TWO Kinds Of Curiosity Satisfied by Flo.
tIon; That Which Seeks for Sensations,
and That Which Seeks for Truth-The
Latter Sign Of Growing Culture, Says
the Editor of Harper's Magazine.

The novel which deals with the life of
the spirit H. M. Alden, the editor Of Har-
per's Magazine, regards as 'the most
signal mark in the development of our
culture Beyond doubt it is a great
advance over the story Of the writer
whose object 'is a stirring and pictur-
esque drama in which the romantic mo-
tive Is usually prominent, but which is
devoid of any psychical interest as a
fresh revelation of vital truth" We have
come to a, time and a place at which our
spiritual, or psychic, natures invite-yes,
compel-to study and investigation. No
field was ever so fascinating. No field
ever promised so much humanity speaking
at least. And the imaginative novel
writer, if he be cautious, may be q use
full explorer therein Mr.. Alden is surely
| right when he says that the novel which
takes us into such fields is far in advance
of the picturesque drama" with which
we have so long amused and entertained
and still do amuse and entertain ourselves,
| delightful as the recreation has been OF
is. Such novels are seeking to get al
the highest truths of life, the truths which
save life from becoming sordidly mate
REALISTIC. Mr.. Alden, speaking of the field
Of the spiritual, says: -. So"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
Important Feature of Our Bust
ness Situation.

There is one feature of the present
situation that should not be overlooked
in any attempt at business forecast,
and that Is the fact that stocks of mer-
chandise in the west and northwest are
unusually light. It is doubtful if there
Is q locality in the entire north Missis.
sippi valley and the country westward,
where there has been any accumulation.
A few points, possibly, are carrying
more merchandise than a year ago, but
1t is the report, based largely upon the
observation of traders, that the aver
age merchant in the country has a
lighter stock on hand today than at this
time last year, and that country stocks
ion the whole are somewhat under
normal.
This is not an unnatural condition.
The first effect Of bad crop report is
TO breed conservatism. Continued bad
reports increase the feeling. The de-
Cline Of the crop stand to a point sug-
costing heavy losses means caution
turning to fear. The country mer-
chant does not enthuse over business
possibilities when the farmers coming
into town tell Of damage and talk dis
couragingly. It can scarcely be said
! that there has been general feeling
Of confidence. In, the country. at any
time.
Despite this, northwestern jobbers
and manufacturers have done fair
country business. The turn, mean
while, has come. The fact that the
wheat loss is not a very serious mat
ter relative to the whole is becom.
ing more apparent, and with it the fact
that the high prices are bringing the
farmers good returns even where grain
yields were light and the quality low.
cred, while in the sections where the
crops were bountiful and the quality
high, the current prices are making the
6 farmers more prosperous than ever be-
fore. An enormous buying power that
has been strengthened by the holding
back tendency so long in evidence, is
beginning to show itself and is likely
to be felt in increasing force from
now on. 4s
cline in sterling exchange, the result OF
q large supply of cotton bills of ex
change has made it appear likely that
gold may be imported, and the sale in
Europe of large amount of Mexican
securities, financed primarily by New
York houses, gives further reason tt
look for it. A heavy westward move
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
.MoNTEzyMA's TREASURE

It seems certain that the old Spanish
conquisadors did not get all the gold Of
the last Inca of Peru. nor all the gold and
precious jewels of the Mexican monarch.
"A story is now current that the Incas'
treasure, withheld from Pizzaro and now
discovered in Bolivia, is worth s16,0o0,0 900.
Pizzaro received a great sum from the
Inca whom he killed, but in so doing he
missed a greater amount, which the Inca,
hoping to save His life, promised his
tormentor.
One gentleman who has the blood OF
Montezuma in his veins and in whose
family the traditions of the times of the
conquest have been preserved has said
that probably fully sS0,000,000 worth OF
treasure escaped the hands of Cortez and
his followers. Some have said that it was
thrown into Lake Texcoco and not many
years back extensive excavations We're
made in the Pedregal. near Coyoacan, on
a spot indicated by tradition. A series of
subterranean chambers was found, but no
gold
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

The burlesquing of the Irish race on
the stage is causing trouble again in New
York. Rioting has occurred IN several
theaters of the state this week and at
tempts are being made in the city to ban
ish from the boards the fantastical rep
resentation of the Irishman that has CIV
en- so much offense. The Ancient Order
Of Hibernians and other Irish societies
are reported to be planning campaign
against the managers and actors who pre-.
sent a grotesque depletion Of the son Of
the Emerald isle. Such! plays as INC.
Fadden's Row of Flats we could wei
get along without, but there are stage
Irishmen that the world would not b.
willing to let die. -*@at~2
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
Defense Will Not Stand.

The Anoka Free Press says, referring
to the reports of Public Examiner
Johnson: 49,.
In condemning r. c. Dunn for having,
while auditor, permitted employees Of his
office to purchase leases emitting them
to prospect for minerals on state lands he
shows himself ignorant of the law gov
erning such matters. The law fixes
stipulated price on such leases for every
100 acres and limits the time for such
leases to run. It Is the height of alb
surdity to- claim that it makes any differ
ence to the state what name the person
bears, or position he holds, who puts up
his money and binds himself to perform
these requirements OF the state. The
state Is safeguarded in all events and
state official can derive no greater bene-
fit from the contract than could a boot
black with money enought to comply with
the states terms and conditions.
This is sample of the arguments
used in defense Of the abuses permitted
by Mr.. Dunn. They follow the former
auditor IS lead by ignoring Section 6666
of the Statutes of 1894, which expressly
prohibits an official who has anything
to do with issuing a lease or contract
from obtaining any interest, directly
or Indirectly. This law was plainly
violated. . ~,A.,. ..,s...
1t is impossible to Justify the favor
itism and back-stairs politics disclosed
by the mineral lease report, even If we
set all law aside, as Mr.. Dunn seems
to have done. Outsiders were denied
leases on state land because the title
had not been settled, but lease fixed
up'' by his land clerk was signed
"without looking' two days before
going out of office, and this lease COW
cred a tract that was holly contested.
The title to it was not settled until
some two weeks ago, twenty months
after tho accommodating auditor issued
the lease. - s%}
If Mr.. Dunn had wished to bring the
state some money from this lease why
did he not give public notice Of his in
tention to lease the "Sliver'' tract
The public had right to know that
this valuable property was subject to
a lease, and such notice would have
brought dozens of applications. When
there is more than one application the
law requires the lease to be sold at
auction, and the state might easily
have realized thousands on this one
case. If the state auditor had been
solicitous for the states interests, he
would have seen that there was oppor'
tunity for more than one bid.
With entire disregard of public trust
Mr.. Dunn signed this lease "without
looking' and turned overf:the mining
privileges of this rich, claim to a sister
of one Of his clerks, for the paltry sun
of $25. Is there any honest defense fol
such conduct
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
LITTLE TOGO

Admiral Togo, the Japanese naval COM
smander, is little man-sman even among
his countrymen. He is about Sc years Of
age, with coal-black hair standing straight
up from his head, expressionless eyes,
prominent cheek bones and a powerful
jaw relieved by an imperial Always I'M
impassioned, he gazes as steadily at the
flight of passing bird as he did ten
years ago on the sinking Of the Kowshing
and the sending Of 1000 human beings to
watery grave, an event which awoke
the world to the rising of new star in
the far east. II.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

The Maple Lake Messenger takes a
mean advantage of the democrats who
voted the republican primary ticket in
that place, by publishing the list of the
fifty republicans registered, and calling
attention to the fact that there were only
thirty votes cast for Van SAINT in the viii
lage two years ago. Such conditions are
not peculiar to Maple Lake. ..
The Little Falls Transcript accuses
The Journal of misrcpresenting con-
ditions in the sixth district, because it
printed Mr.. Fosters statement Wednes-
day refusing to concede defeat. t
] ournal did not mix into the congress
sional contests, and in the Wednesday
issue Buckman's nomination was an
nounced, like the Foster claim, as mat
ter of news.
On every corner politicians are roast
ing the primary election law, and demand
Ding it's repeal. Nominees for the legisla-
ture, however, are keeping discreetly
silent They are In no hurry to get into
trouble. There will be enough for them
to talk about when they are faced by a
hundred proposed amendments to the law
next winter Candidates for office are 8
little careful how they talk repeal.
49, 80 Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

Senator Nelson made a. splendid presen-
tation of national issues in his speech at
Madison last evening, scoring especially
hard on the trust question. When he
came to the necessary defense Of the re-
publican candidate for governor, Mr.. Mel
son appeared to less advantage. It was
the fault Of the cause, however. and
not of the advocate. He did the best he
could Il ~ - = Il. -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
POET OR ORGAN .eRINDER
New orleans Times-Democrat

New Orleans Times Democrat.
II sometimes feel" bitterly confided
the wife Of the great poet to her sister,
that would have been happier with an
organ grinder. Then we could at least
pass the hat around unabashed. The pride
that goes with great gifts too often walks,
hand in hand with starvation to satisfy
an ordinary woman s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

Ex-President Cleveland's new book will
be out shortly. 1t is called presidential
Problems and is discussion of some of
the vital questions which pressed upon
Mr.. Cleveland for settlement during his
years in the White House, including the
conditions involved in the Venezuela
boundary controversy, the Chicago riots,
the bond issue, etc. That matter Of the
biggest fish getting away Is not taken up.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
Saturday Evening,
CARTOONS AND CARTOONS
Leeds. N. D.. News,

There may be a good deal in having
the reputation, but the papers printing
Davenport's cartoons are not in it lit
Journal cartoonist. That seems to be
the general sentiment in this part of the
state. Davenport cartoons lack life.
There's nothing to them. Everyone of
"Bart 81 tells a whole column story.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24
The University Fire.

The state university sustained Sc
we're loss this morning in the burning
Of what is known as the Hmain build
ing" The old graystone structure, the
first building erected on the university
campus, and for many years all that
the university was able to afford in
the way of building accommodations,
is now smouldering ruin. While this
old building possessed no architectural
beauty and was out of keeping with
the more modern buildings on the cam
pus, it was cherished for it's historic
associations. 1t was erected in 1857
and has been the scene of long and
hard struggle to maintain the life Of
the institution and perpetuate it for
the state. s2& -
The state will no doubt replace it
with something better, something mod
ern, something vastly better adapted
to the needs of the institution; but it
was worth great deal to the univer.
sity as a monument to the past. 1t
stands for the years Of small things
years Of struggle and effort and sacri
fee and triumph on the part of men
living and dead, who have devoted the
best years of their life to the upbuild
ing of this great institution. AS the
years went by, it came to possess
greater interest by reason Of it's con
nection with the past, and it is a dis
tinct loss to the institution that the
building in which it had it's beginning
should have been erased from the uni
versity grounds. 1t is, however, 81
much of a wreck that it's reconstruc
tion and reformation will probably
| never be undertaken.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

Henry Ward Beecher in supporting
Grover Cleveland for president, said that
a dollar a day was enough for any labor
ing man to earn andsspend. During Mr..
Cleveland's second administration many
of them were glad ITO mget a chance to
earn a dollar a day, put today the aver
age is over 80 a day for shorter hours
than during the dollar a day period.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

A Sioux City firm advertised for a ste
nographer who wore short skirts. The
firm explains that the girl who wears
long skirts is practically a onehanded
girl, the, other hand being always engaged
in holding up dry goods. -. !
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

'Our progress in thought as an interpre-
tation Of life has brought US into I'M
charted courses. We can fix conventions
relating to outward conduct within def
mite and clearlyseen limitations, but the
life Of the spirit refuses this mural con-
finement-it has an infinite f1ux, and our
concern here is always as to how much
we can. see and as to the course Of new
paths opened to our vision. Our courage
and our faith are such that we are not
frightened because we are all at sea.
The novelist, therefore, who undertakes
to tell the truth of life is feeling his way
and his style registers the course Of his
tentative thought, which follows the
course of his tentative drama, the events
of which come as surprises to himsel,
as they come to his readers, in moments
which are flashes of illumination"
1t is worth while to have pointed out tt
us the difference between the two kinds
of curiosity satisfied by the two classes
Of fictton-the one curiosity which
seeks only the novel and striking for q
merely sensational effect; and the other
(which has higher satisfaction in the
disclosures of new and vital truths il
nature and in human nature"
The difference means something, too
to the novel-Wrfter Of the future L
means that if he would put the highes
art into his work he must be increasingly
familiar with the highest levels of life
levels which are not reached merely by
sensuous observation.
IN A BOOK OF OLD SONGS.
Dear, were you in a garden old,
Loved of brave troubadours
| Who praised your hairs bewildering gold
| That glimmers and allures;
The greatest, wondering on your face
Between the Hex trees,
Might touch his lutte and thrill the plac,
With sweeter songs than these.
Sophie Jewett, in the October Scribner's
Helen Dawes Brown In her new book
A Book Of Little Boys, offers a humble
of stories full of human sympathy TO
children, and alive with the possibilitie
for good which lie ready to be developed
in children by thoughtful and 1ovin,
| treatment Miss Browns style can be en-
joyed by any one who loves children an,
their ways. Miss Patterson has ably CO
operated with the publishers, Messrs
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and as a result
"A Book of Little Boys is as pleasing il
outward appearance as it is readable.
- -. 1920 The Uneasy Chair.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

Senator Nelson made no reference In his
speech to the f1ourishing mineral lease
business in which the former state au-
ditor's clerks were engaged. The senator
Is a prudent man. Nobody has touched
that subject yet in defense of the auditor
who has not made a bad matter worse.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

Decayed E. Herrick has been nom
mated for governor of New. York by the
democrats Parker says he is a good
man. But then Parker, whatever he may
have been once, Is no Judge.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

Syracuse university in the town OF that
name in New York has had present, of
model factory building, 2oox5o feet, for
mining, engineering and mechanical
laboratory, the cost of which is estimated
at $500, 900. 1t is the gift of Lyman C.
Smith of that city. All the university now
needs Is a strike. +; ,.~'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-24

AS result of eight, weeks OF the cotton
strike at Fall River, the city has lost
IA, 1000 popula ton. The sum paid weekly
for wages has dropped from $4,000 tc
s35, 900. This would seem to show that
the public is Somewhat interested in
strikes. y