davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
A Chance to Invest.

The Union City mission should be put
on it's feet. This institution, as now
equipped and conducted, is doing a
splendid work in uplifting and caring
for the city's floating population. The
hotel feature affords pleasant haven
for visitors with small means, and 1t
also serves to attract and hold many
transients who would otherwise fall into
evil surroundings. In numerous other
ways it is bringing practical help to
4 the poor and unfortunate.
!! The mission is run on business prin-
ciples, and is now self-supporting in the
sense that it pays expenses. Unfor-
tunately, the first cost of the property
has not been met. There are bonds out
standing on which interest must be
paid. and several thousand dollars in
bills for repairs and alterations are still
to be met This Indebtedness is bur
Aden on the management Of worthy en-
kerprise, and a menace to it's future.
& An appeal for help has been issued,
and it should meet with ready re-
Spouse. There is no better opportunity
offered for an investment that will
bring perpetual dividends, not in money
but in the well-being Of humanity.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
THE MAGAZINES

An Election Paradox.-It is great mis-
take to assume that the republican party
is OF necessity entrenched in power for
long period to come, says the Review OF
Reviews for December. The voters who
elected democratic governors in Mime
sofa and Massachusetts, this year might
easily elect democratic congressman two
wears hence or democratic president
four years hence, if conditions should
arise to convince them of the desirability
of changing the party balance in the
house, or the political character OF the
next administration. This enhanced mo-
bility in the voting mass ought TO sieid
a, new zest to politics 1t helps to break
down the tyranny of mere machines ana
bosses. It opens wider the field in which
Mr.. Roosevelt himself has fought his way
to the top.
An interesting account, among many
other good things is given in the Review
of the tests of the big electric locomotive
built for the New York Central railroad,
which raced one Of the roads fast trains
and won out.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
Prisoners Must Work.

ssTen wears at: hard labor has an
ominous, grinding sound when pro
no,,nced over a convicted criminal. STne
hard-labor requirement seems to add
severity to- the punishment. Yet. ex-
nerience shows that: labor OF some SORT '
is a necessity for men in confinement.
It is not oppression, but Kindness that'
compels the inmates Of prison to eat
their bread by the sweat Of their
brows. .-..z .$. s.r.-. s--%
+. Illinois, is having an enlightening ex-
perience. A mistaken agitation result
cd in the enactment Of a law which
prohibits the ordinary forms OF convict
labor in that state. The prison author
tiles have been unable to find other
work for the men, and since July they
have. been fretting in idleness. NOW
ehabeas corpus proceedings have been
brought by attorneys for some ct ct tbs the
worst inmates Of Joliet. Their petit
lions state that the prisoners were sen sen
fenced to hard labor, and that the SEN
tence is not being complied with. More
over, the enforced idleness is cruelty
to the men and violates the constltu
tional guarantee against cruel ana IN
human punishment.
It can hardly be possible that the
courts will open the prison doors or
this plea, altho the very same poln1
is being used in Iowa against a dlsobe
dent inmate of Anamosa. Sentenced
| for murder, he protests his innocence
and refuses to work. AS he was sen sen
| fenced to hard labor, sthe prison Off
Gals claim that the past year has takel
nothing from his sentence, which vii
have twenty five years to run from tn
time he begins to work.
i The agitation, at any rate, may re
suit in finding work for the men. I
is really inhuman to confine men i
solitude for months and years; in men
tai and physical stagnation, with n
companions but unpleasant thought
J. They should be put to work and not
/ any treadmiIl occupation. Prison expe
T renee shows that men can only be KEEP
/ healthy and cont nted when they al
| making sonnet hing. Ghopping wood
3 pleasant exercise, but it will break tn
i spirit of any. man. when he is force
) to stand for hours striking a log wit
/ the head Of an ak. He must see 5th
/. chips fly. So in all schemes for sol,
$ ing the problem of convict labor
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
The CITY Man in the Country.

Rack to the farm is now the talk
and dream of thousands of people who
begin to realize that the city does not
hold all of life that is worth having.
Ten or fifteen years ago all the talk
and tendency was Of and to the city.
Every city boy was determined to stay
lin the city, and every country boy of
energy and ability had made up his
mind to 90 to the city in search OF
fortune.
Now city boys plan to live in the
country, and thousands and thou
sands of men and women grown
weary Of the narrowness city life
means to the less fortunate, are
hoping and planning for the day
when they may leave the smoke and
Crime and imprisoning walls Of the city
4 behind and seek the country, with its
open spaces, it's pure air and it's free
lSlom. Of course, the city will always
draw from the country. 1t must if it
is to succeed. But it is essential that
there shall be something in the country
for it to draw from, which there will
Il not be if the current is always to set
in. one direction. It would be well for
q the nation if every generation could
Ispend it's youth or a large part of it
in the country. 80,
OF course, there are bound to be
many disappointments for those who
leave the city for the farm. Some Of
them have sentimental liking for the
lcountry, but are not able to adapt
themselves to the conditions Of life and
business in the country. They wish to
fbe in but not Of the country. Others
Ecarry their city notions Of money-mak-
ling to the farm and expect to get rich
4 quick. These are generally disappoint-
led early in the game. An agricultural
paper tells Of a city man who buried
$3.50, 900 on 250-acre farm IN fifteen
years trying to breed fancy stock An
other city man, who could easily earn
T$2,4O0 year in an office, lost $4,000
In Kentucky experimenting with bee
farm. A travelling man who has been
making $4,000 a year tried Angora
goat farming in Missouri and lost 81 ,OOC
in three years. - &
i Yet the editor who narrates thes,
4dISrluCh oGOI uOOS uoG OISCOu1d ILL
city man who would turn to the farm
he only advises him to begin humbly
learn we'll and proceed cautiously. In
stead of going into specialties at first
Il the beginner would better try diversi
fed farming. tsIt is the small farm, ;
the editor says, ",some poultry, a fey
hogs, two or three cows, some fruits
berries and a few acres of common crop
that must satisfy the man who make
the abrupt change from city to cour
try
While some successful city men max
b failure of farming because they g
at it with more money than prudenc,
& there is not the slightest reason to dout
that thousands of men who are not nal
ingamuch out of life in the city ,woul
de- we'll on farms. 1t would be bette
ffasthe city, better for the country an
better for themselves if such men an
women could be moved from the ell
to the country. The fact. that the
ID don't move and can't be moved show
how little similarity there is betwee
the theory and practice Of economic
Tie {. economic man = always know
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
THE UNEASY CHAIR

Il Rider Haggard's New Story Tale OF
Love and Terrifying Adventure.-Love
and hate. high and fine ideals and bestial
passions, self-sa crifice and seltishness, re-
ligious zeal and bigotry, mystery and mys-
ticism, the beautiful and the terrible, fair
and fine spirited maidens, brave men OF
great stature and skill with the sword
and no end of good fighting in them
yawning abysses, frightful precipices
dizzy causeways, an age of chivalry and
warfare and dreams-all these and many
more things dear to the authors heart
enter into the makeup Of Rider Haggard's
The Brethren a. ~. L. 49, ,... :. -, III
''The Brethren is best described by thu
adjective Haggardesque, a word which
will need no exegete for those who know
Mr.. Haggard's works, his love for mix
ing romance and terrifying adventure un
der startlingly picturesque circumstances
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

4 - g. . -
make certain demands upon the "Great
Assassin" He taunted them as he sat
on IAN unwaled terrace, surrounded by
a mighty gulf, with his, aged councillors
about him. e. - =. y o..
..what chance" he said, .'has this lord of
yours against a nation sworn to obey to the
death? You smile? Then come hither you
and you.'' And he summoned two of his
das by name
They rose and bowed before him.
Nov, my worthy servants he said 'show
these hereto dogs howyou obey, that their mas
ter may learn the power of your master. You
old and weary of life. BECOME, and await
me in Paradise .
The old men bowed again. trembling a
little. Then. Strengthening themselves, without
| word they side by side and leaped into the
abyss.
It is the tyrant who does this who orders
Wulf to ride tilt with a French knight
who is an enemy of Wulf's and has served
Sinan, the Lord of Death The joust is
/ to be on a lofty unwalled causeway. 200
PAGES long and scarcely three PAGES wide,
and by moonlight
| The fate OF Wulf and Goodwin in such
| land Is something to awaken suspense and
keep it wide awake, untl-well, let Mr..
| Haggard tell
There is nc reed Of comparing ''The
Brethren with other stories by Mr.. Hag
gard, or with the stories of other writer's.
1t is a, story from "the blessed kingdom Of
| Romance wherein We 'tdream that men
and women, their fortunes and their fate.
are as we would fashion Them
/ Mcclure, Phillips & Co.. New York.
Pushing shakspere Memorial Project
An effort is to be made. says New York
/ Times dispatch from London, to bring to
! realization the long discussed project OF
an adequate Shakspere memorial In Lon
don. Subscriptions are to be invited in all
parts of the world, and the promoters
count on getting a large amount from
!: a member of the committee to deal with
the preliminaries. - u
Friends Of the Little Representatives,
: were so many interesting friends of the
Five Little Peppers whose lives were only
the faintest of outlines in the series end
Ing when Phronsie was grown UP, that q
volume. devoted to this outer circle has
been written to meet the persistent de-
mand It bears the title Five Little Pep.
pers and Their Friends, and is, of course,
by Margaret Sidney. The illustrations are
] by Eugene NJ Wireman.
J Iothrop Publishing Company, Boston S15o
Life Of Walt Whitman.-An addition to
! the Beacon Biographies" that will be d
Y Interest to many is Walt Whitman, by
e Isaac Hull Plat. The writer of the little
e book is an unqualified admfrer of the
: poet. vet, he says, he recognizes the faci
I that there are other ways of looking at the
q subject. However his attempt to estl'
4 mate Whitnan's poetry is dispasslonate
n one. and his sketch of the poets life az
: comprehensive as the limitations OF tne
: biographies would permit.
t Small, Maynard & Co., Boston IS cents.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
MN the Long Boz.
--.Eye hooffDD II

Savage has defense Adam Adam honest
1There every woman lie Nv,
Every up lesvay
sees soul mate coming
Mr. schmid of Northome $4,000 last
that
known be before met their Waterloo
My friend you buy'' wealthy you
later on when you lad acquired moreq
openheartedness
had bought something else
Secretary openly that the
hen threw of twenty billion last This each
habiant Of the United States $50 less than day Why
creasng the per capita
Willard Chicago Psychologist has been foong around Gizeh
digging great pyramid
he also convinced that Noah built
@ o' ons ii me the @ Mr. Willard does mot
explain this information but its denenes would
dictate that he had dug up N e@ loge9ok
Wing has for John Rockefeller The News
supposed kicked by gen engine but this
r. The trick Rockefeller played
@ no sent US the h e5 n of s an @
last evening" threw ourselves the mercy of the Adv
Using company and eventually the News was published
Ps-Anybody buy second hand gasolene engine9
the last few by baky gasone
eu ra %sted about 20 points under that Of the composing
gaoene opened with than
N'1'0 !, ~ Y Y" -. -.- .--.
telephone for time subject to sudden
Of thirty minutes cessation of business while
the Of the day have aled
gossip respected The other hurry
failed miserab He could hear the ladies
pleasantly about the dongs of their SETS and he finally
broke n and asked:
81 AREN'T you ladies most thru?''
81 A back thru the phone
going to keep this line as long please
twelve the
ladies heard this OF
them said:
i tWel, suppose will have to stop now
ladies' the Mere Man politely,
party fromwh help has died ~
r. hung with two quick little
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
Winter Wheat Threatened.

The longest dry spell the country has
experienced for many years appears to
be breaking, altho, in the thin veneer
Of snow in the northwest and the re-
ports from the south and east, to this
writing, there is only small measure
of relief Indicated. How dry our own
section has been we may know from the
dust that lies inches thick in the side
streets Of the city.
Far down in Kansas and over wide
belt extending across Missouri, Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and well into
Pennsylvania, there is great need of
rain. The dryest November in eleven
years is officially recorded in Illinois,
the rainfall being only 10 inches. Ohio
had .18, making it the dryest Novem-
Der in quarter century, no such lack
Of moisture having been experienced
since 1878. Streams are very low, and
in some localities quite dried up; the
water supply Of number of small
towns has been so reduced that extra
precautions are being taken to avoid
FIRES and the railroads have been COM
PEELED to husband their supplies OF
water very carefully. The most seri-
Gus report comes from Scottdale, Pa,
where it is feared many plants in the
Connellsville coke region may have to
close owing to shortage Of water.
A good rain or snowstorm coming
soon will set all this to rights, but it
must come before very long, or much
suffering will result. . !
One serious and disturbing feature in
connection with this dry weather is
the fact that it is severe in several i'm
portant winter wheat producing states
Drought ravaged the northwest in the
summer of 1900, and cut down the
spring wheat crop very seriously. For
tunately for the northwest, dry weather
at this season can do no very serious
harm. The southw est and the Ohio
valley are not SO fortunate, for win
ter wheat crop is in the ground, and Is
sadly in need of a good wettfng down
So long has it been dry that 1t Il
feared the government report, due OF
the 10th, giving the conditions Dec. l
will not carry a high figure. For tel
wears winter wheat has averaged W.
on Dec. /, but last year it stood at 86.6
We ought to have a big wheat cro1
, next year. The great milling lndustr,
) needs it, the shippers and receivers tn
t railroads, banks, country and city mel
chants and the farmers need it, every
body needs it. A big production Wou1
be a splendid thing for all. ~ -
Here is the first bad sign, IN a or:
fall. that, it is feared, may In som
degree impair the plant. and SEND
: into the winter in weakened CONDITION
< There is nothing to Warrant a scare
0 Fortunately wheat is not a hothous
t plant and can stand some adversely
:. and big crops have been raised in year
k following a dry fall. Nevertheless tn
:. continued lack of moisture IS not II
y assuring. and thousands Of hearts tn
+ country over would send up thanks &c
8 a good rain or snow that would: we
+ down the land the country over. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
Chicago News.

-. q 80 Chicago News. = 5iEE@
Mrs. Neighbors--I'm sorry to hear that your
husband Is Ill.
Mrs Homer oh, guess Il isn't anything
serious. ID
Mrs Neighbors What seems to be the trou-
BILE?
Mrs Homer-Ha took a fancy to "a new brand
OF health food and ate too much of it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

.-rbose st Louis awards ought to make
the best kind of advertising for Minnesota
this year and for some time to come. The
state that stands first in dairy products
in, flour, in mining display, and raises the
finest beef animal in the United States
oor+o i,1v presents some powerful attrac-
lions to the homeseeker. The necessary
thing is to let the homeseeker know
oh
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

The prize for the solution of. a rebus and
a short essay on an assigned topic offered
woman in a Minnesota insane asylum.
Why should we be surprised at this, if it
is true as some people allege that genius
is a species of insanity? ,-... ..s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

More Italians are returning home than
the steamships will carry. The Italian is
sensitive and cannot stand the contempt
with which he is treated by fellow labor
ers of other nationalities in some of the
eastern cities. This is a free country
sometimes a little too free. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

J. Pierpont Morgan has put a small for
Mr.. Morgan is going to have cream on his
baked apples If he has to wreck rail-
road company to get it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
FOR PAS BENEFIT.
Ihicago New

They were seated at the supper table. Il ss5
t'sal. ma, aueried H.tle Dolly, what is 4
miser?,'
A miser, my DEAR answered the diplomatic
mother, az she glanced across the table at her
husband. sis a man who thinks his swffe's hat
should not cost any more than his own
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
Needed Railways.

One of the things needed to bring a
larger population to the country trib-
utary to the twin cities is the building
Of more railways. Nothing tends more
to bring in new population than new
railways. That is one reason why Of
late years the middle northwest has not
received it's fair share of the annual
wave of migration. The southwest, on
tho one hand, and the Canadian west on
the other, have been doing an immense
amount of railway building. This fact
explains in part why those two re-
gions have attracted so large a part Of
the thousands who annually find new
homes.
The prospect for extensive railway
building in both the southwest and
Canadian west during the next few
years is good. In Texas alone 5000
miles Of new railway are in sight, and
the southwest has been adding 1000
or 5000 miles year for several years
past In western Canada there are
about 5000 miles of new railway in
sight, and work is in actual progress
on a large part Of this mileage. The
| Grand Trunk Pacific alone will build at
and the Canadian Pacific and Canadian
Northern systems have liberal building
programs arranged.
What is there in the American north
west to match the activity in Canada
and Texas? The $500 promises us
new line in northern Minnesota and
North Dakota and has just completed
a new line from Glenwood, Mimi, to
4 the international boundary. This line
4 will be the means of adding many thou.
sands of consumers to the Minneapolis
territory. The proposed line will also
be very important, tho it will not pene
trate a new country. If the proposed
Milwaukee line to the coast should be
built openings would be made for thou
sands of settlers and small bushes:
men, but this line is nothing more thar
a vague possibility.
There is at least one line that should
have been built long ago-a line tha
would be of great benefit to an exten
!. sive country without railways at pres
eut anu "Ol Gue uISucSC 4IuPO1 C1ACOf Y.
, Minneapolis. That is the long talked
of line from the Missouri river to tn
5 Black Hills. The distance is about IS
. miles, and there is every reason to be
5 lieve that there would be ample. loca
4 traffic to- support such road. Muc
j., of the country is excellent for agricu
a ture. About half of it lies east of tn
7 10lst meridian, which is generally COZ
J.; sidered the eastern boundary of tn
D rarid country. With the right sort 9
Y cultivation and crops adapted to tn
e conditions it should support a consider
: able agricultural population and coul
: be made a larger producer Of stoc
d than at present. @
This lineSand every other line that !:
y needed must be built il thes middl
e northwest<4is to get its sharessofS=t h
t thousands who are seeking new home
/. and are. naturally attracted by ne
>. railway lines and the numerous oppo
e tunities they usually mean: sr@
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
Saturday Evening,

what is to his interest and is always
ready to adapt himself to changed con-
ditions. The actual man rarely knows
what is to his interest and cannot or
will not adapt himself to changed cir
cumstances.
Governor Van SAINT stated the case ex-
actly last night when he said the respon-
sibility for legislation rested with the
people. If they will only say what they
want in emphatic language, congress and
the legislatures cannot refuse or stand
out The trouble is. that the people seldom
realize the need Of protection till they
have been &steppedlon. 49, -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

. A Chicago man has asked an injunction
to prevent his wife from talking. Some
people cherish the illusion that the courts
have supreme power.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

The veteran actress Mrs. Gilbert, died
in the harness, beloved by all her $asso-
ciafes and by the whole theater-going
world. Tier life has been rich chapter
in stage history.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

Score one for Old Winter He sup
pressed the dust nuisance in short order.
But Hennepin avenue beyond Lowry hill
should be oiled next fall.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

Governor elect Johnson announces that
he will depose J. F. Jacobson as chair
man of the board of control and place L..
A. Rosins in that responsible position.
Are the republicans who helped to make
Mr.. Johnson governor prepared to. shout
with JOY over this proposed action?-Will-
mar Republican Gazette. e.z
There is no reason to think that Mr..
Jacobson's friends would have had a shout
coming if the election had turned out the
other way. 1"}a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

This snow doesn't look so bad to the
man with a big stock Of winter over
coats.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03
WELL KNOWN.

:. Houston Chronicle. 3i$sg3sss
Grayce-There goes Miss Prettygiri. We call
her ..The Inevitable. = 81
& Gladys-Why $7ssE-as}l .5s4 8
1 Grayce-Because everybody bows to her.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

The heirs and executors of the late
Robert Seaman intend to make 1t very
hard for Nellie Bly,, known in private life
as Mrs. Robert Seaman, to keep the big
fortune of $1,OOO,OOO or more that was
once her husbands. The fight over the
property has began in the New York
courts. Nellie married Seaman when he
was an old man and shortly after that
event wrote a newspaper article about
some woman ''who had the divine luck to
be a widow" Nellie now has this divine
luck, but there are troubles going with it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

There is said to be snow on the moon.
Better snow than blood.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

The snow to the petroleum sprinkler:
II :
'.Don't shoot; I'll come down,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-03

Pennsylvania's official plurality for
Roosevelt is 5O2, 900. TITS enough.