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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
pears, box; sl.75g2,so; grapes, Malasas, crate.

pears, box; s175el2,So; grapes, Malagas. crate,
GRAPES-Concords. basket, zoe.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Cod, bril- 1925.
Observation-Disclosures, crate 75c Lock Nord.
crate. $500; gems. 1-3-bu basket, Acc.
SWEET Observation-Disclosures. brl. $3.50
BANANAS-Jumbo punches, $3@3.2o; large
punches, $250M2.Io; medium punches. SEQ 200
NEW VEGETABI4ES-Bea string. bu. Toe;
beans, wax, bn, Toe; beets. bu, onci carrots,
bu, soc; caulihower, doz, 15c@$1; celery, 200
3Oc; corn. green, doz. S01oc; cucumbers doz,
25c; egg plant. doz, 81 al Is; garlic, l0@12hc;
lettuce, d0z, 15c; lettuce heads. Zoe; mint, doz,
Ace; onions. doz lunches 15Gt zoe; parsley. doz,
23c; radshes. round, doZ punches. lS02oc;
rutabagas. bu, 35c SQUASH, doz. 81 al 20; to-
matoes, fancy. bu, I5dlS0c; turnips, bu, 6oc'
watercress, COZ 0Oc. -..1ral -4
CHICAGO PRODUCE, Oct, 1.-PRutter, steady;
creameries 14Gl20c; diaries, 13M 1Ic. EGGS
steady at mark. cases Included IN; l4@1dIiASG;
| Cheese firm: daisies, 10G1ohc; twins. oAm
| 9Ec; Youn" Americas. 1Uc Live poultry
steady Chickens 01ac; springs, lOhc: tur.
keys, 12c Potatoes weak; ra .rdse soe Tsn;
easy 50 to 6o;pound weights ~ g'e 0 TO u
75-pound weights, &c; 50 TO l2o-pouhe
weights 6la lac. ..-.-
NEW YORK PRODUCE, Oct. 1.--Butter, firm
unchanged: receints. 1927 pkgs; weekly e x
| ports $50 boxes. Eggs, easy; receipts 6,of!
pkgs: state. Pennsylvania and nearby 1ah ,.!,
selected 2sGl soc: white extra. y &c: Wnlt'
western fancy selected, 21la@22c; southern
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SATURDAY EVENING,

are likely to be unsettled and this will
York market.
Freight blockades have been a han
dicap to business, resulting not so
much from increased volume of traf-
fic as from long continued weather
conditions unfavorable for railroad
operation. Earnings are showing the
moderate decreases expected, and are
not SO bad on the whole as looked
for. nineteen principal roads making
gross decreases for the week Of only
81 percent.
The steel mills now report orders
in hand equal to almost so per cent
of steel rail capacity for 1904. This
is no such brilliant showing as was
made for the past several years, but
it is much better than was indicated
when the new year opened.
Some 1,400 telegraphers on the mid
die division of the Wabash railroad
are said to be planning q demand for
higher wages, but this Is about the
only important new development in
the labor field.
Wheat has entered into that state
Of speculative activity where ordinary
price changes are no longer of i'm
portance, and gains or losses of 2 to
4 cents are the order of the day. So
great Is the outside interest in the
market, and so quick the buying on
the upturns, that new high points
have been made repeatedly, with May
touching top at $1.05 to this writing.
That many farmers have held wheat
back for S. a bushel need not be
doubted, but how much there is back
it is impossible to estimate closely.
Whether there is a considerable guam
tity SO held, or whether, as the bulls
maintain, the country is more thoroly
cleaned out Of wheat than for years,
will probably be demonstrated soon,
now that cash wheat in nearly all
markets is we'll above 81. The next
important price-making factor will be
the government report of Feb. !, CIV
ing an estimate Of stocks Of wheat
remaining on the farms. ..-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
The Machen Verdict.

The conviction Of Machen late gen.
eral superintendent of the rural free
delivery division of the postoffice de-
do and Samuel A. and D. B. Croft of
Washington, for conspiracy to defraud
the government, is triumph of JUS
tice which was hardly expected where
the conditions under which the prose-
cution was conducted are understood.
The government made a strong case
Of a circumstantial character, which
showed that whenever the Groffs made
a sale of mail-pouch fasteners to the
government they presently RENTED
by check a certain percentage of the
amount received to Lorenz of Toledo.
The government also developed the
fact that, altho great pains were taken
by Lorenz to cover up the transac-
ton by splitting up the deposit and
dividing the renittances to Machen,
half of the amount sent to Lorenz
found it's way in every instance to
Machen. 4
There was nothing to show why the
Groffs should remit to Lorenz except
the possession by Lorenz of a $50 in
terest in. the fasteners. This merely
nominal interest wasS1ot large enough
to Justify the large profits which twas
producing annually, and there was
nothing to explain the remittances
from Lorenz to Machen except the
theory of the government that it was
a part Of the rake-6ff paid by the
Groffs and reaching Machen in this
roundabout way thru middleman.
While this evidence was strong and
convincing, the peculiar practice in
the federal courts of the District of
Columbia Of permitting juries in GRIM
inal cases not only to go at will be-
tween sessions Of the courts during
the trial, but also the fact that the
panel from which this jury was drawn
was made up several weeks before
the trial commenced, gave every OPP
portunity for the purchase of the jury
if it had been possible to do So The
verdict, under the circumstances, is a
strong tribute to the honesty Of the
twelve men in the jury box. Machen
and his co-conspirators did not expect
conviction, until the very last. On
the contrary, they were very confident
Of acquittal, and their confidence
raised strong suspicion Of the integ-
rity Of the jury.
In the conduct of this case, Milton
Purdy of Minneapolis played an i'm
portant part and won new professional.
honors: He made the opening speech
for the government and presented the
case in a. manner which attracted
much attention in Washington and
excited exceedingly favorable COM
ment from lawyers and other public
men. *
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4. -. ~ = I
mission account for the existence Of
the strong. new Religious Education
association that holds its second an
nual meeting in Philadelphia next
week to consider as its main topic
Religion in Practical Life The ex-
istence Of such an association led by
men like Or. Nicholas Murray Butler
of Columbia. Dr. w. r. Harper Of Chi
cago university, Professor FIX. Sand
efs Of 5Yalesand Professor GA. Coe of
Northwestern university. gives q basis
for a strong hope that the church is
about to take up this fundamental
duty earnestly and intelligently under
the distinguished leadership Of these
great educators, who are putting their
expert pedagogical knowledge at the
service OF the church.
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Howard Chandler Christy has drawn the
for the book.

Howard Chandler Christy has drawn the
illustrations for the book.
." p" BE KIND TO POSTERITY.
When thousands of guneas are eagerly tossed
For copyists copy of paradise Lost
we gen1uses should, when typewrite
wares,
Slip carbon sheet in for humanity's heirs
B. l.. T., in the Reader Magazine for March.
The latest volume in Appleton's His.
toric Lives Series" is James Ogethorpe,
the Founder of Georgia. 1t is dedicated
to the children of Georgia, but it is
a book to interest more than the
children Of that state or of the
south even. James Oglethorpe was a
man whose works entitled him to be re-
membered longer and to be known more
widely than has been his fate. He was
one of the reformers who helped to change
the atrOctous prison conditions in Great
Britain, and as founder Of Georgia he OPP
posed the slave trade when all the colonies
around him were encouraging it and re-
ceiving support from the mother country.
The book is by Harriet G. Cooper, is we'll
written, illustrated and attractively
bound. -. :. -.t-
Mrs. George Madden Martin author of emmy
Lou has just sent her new novel to Mcclure,
Phillips & Co. It is a story of the north and
the SOUTH and shows the difference in characters
between the two peoples that make up the United
States. The action takes place on the border
line, some years after the civil war. ."rti.
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BURNED THEATERs FOR AMUsE-
MENT.

.Z- -, r Z + u. {. I
While the playhouses of London as "a
rule give the effect of being unsafe. the
lack of easy exit being conspicuous, stat
istics would seem to show that they are
the safest in the world. For considerably
more than half century not life has
been lost in a London theater. That the
world progresses is forcibly illustrated by
the present strict regulation of theaters
as compared with the fact that in the
eighteenth century it was one Of the reg
ular amusements of the young bloods to
set fire to a playhouse. In 1921 a drunken
young earl was on the point Of firing the
Lincoln's Inn theater when the cor,stables
arrived. In TAO it was a. marquis who
ordered his ragtag and bobtail to burn
Drury Lane. And In steady progress in
rank, it was the Duke of Cumberland who
In 1749 set a mob to fire the Haymarket.
They did their best. destroying everything
of value and throwing lighted candles on
the stage to set fire to the scenery, but the
blaze was luckily extinguished.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
DINNERS COME LONG DISTANCES

1t has been estimated that the average
dinner de luxe at Sherry's. in New York,
travels 100000 miles before it finally
reaches the table. The ordinary theater
supper at the Waldorf travels about 2s,00e
miles before being served 1t will easily
be seen how these enormous totals are
made up when it is considered that cav
tare comes from Russia, a distance of
5000 miles; olives from Italy. about 5000
miles; sailed almonds from Levant. over
10000 miles, and the coffee from Java.
which is half way around the world and
probably a distance Of $4,000 miles by any
route. Nearly all the sauces and relshes
come from far distant places. the she'll
fish, meats. butter, bread and sugar alone
being supplied on this side.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
The journal
Goes Home,
The War and Business Conditions.

All the money markets of the world
are now feeling in greater or less de-
gree, directly or indirectly, the effect
of the far-eastern war. Violent dis
turbances have recently occurred on
the principal European exchanges.
The contest raging in and about the
Yellow sea is not, properly, a factor
sufficiently great to upset the even bal
ance Of the worlds financial scale
Declines In such bonds or other securi-
ties as are directly borne upon by the
war were felt soon after hostilities be-
gan, as was to be expected, while
prices Of the more highly speculative
commodities, since very cratic, had
begun to show severe changes, and to
cover wider ranges Of fluctuation, even
before war became a certainty. Yet
the Observation-Disclosures struggle pre-
sents, in itself, nothing to cause gen.
eral monetary disturbance. o.,
Possibilities great and terrible, and
patent to careful observers, lie in this
contest but they are possibilities, not
probabilities. Until within a few days
the political world had offered moth
ing to suggest entanglements, and
open report had been favorable. The
effort of Secretary Hay, looking to-
wards the defining of a fighting zone,
yhe narrowing or localizing of the war,
and the favorable spirit In which this
far-sighted and rather daring diplo-
matte move was received by other
great powers, strengthened the belief
in monetary centers, that the war
would be fought out without the drag
ging in of other nations.
Meanwhile, however, the gathering
cloud in the Balkans caused some little
concern, and rumors arose later, from
almost every corner of Europe, of
secret armament, preparation for
mobilization of troops and indications
of a general clash. It needed only the
departure Of the Russian ambassador
from London to bring the crisis.
The clouds lifted in a day or two
and the moves Of the Russian ambas-
sador were found to be without i'm
portant significance. The outlook
cleared, and things that had looked
SO threatening were found not to be
30 pregnant With danger, after all; but
there had been panics In the mean
time in Paris, Berlin and Vienna, and
decentralization almost approaching
panic in the London securities market.
New York suffered only such decline as
was consequent upon the liquidation in
that market Of blocks of securities by
foreign holders forced to realize, but
the effect upon investment sentiment
was to increase caution and upon
speculative sentiment it was chilling.
1t was a forcible illustration of the
great uncertainty of the situate on.
While this uncertainty exists, ant. the
aggressive attitude of the Turks and
Bulgarians, additional to the Russian
Japanese war, threatens to disturb the
peace of Europe, the foreign markets
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
Mr.. ATkINsoN,s SIGNATURE

Tho not so very aged Che is only ~.
Edward Atkinson, the noted anti-imper-
ialist, anti-expansionist, economist and in
ventor of the Aladdin oven, is so feeble
that he can no longer write with pen,
but uses a. rubber stamp in signing his
name This is done even on checks Of
small or large amount. AS such a sigma.
ture is not illegal, Mr. Atkinson renders it
SO by attestfng it according to the Ber-
tillon system He inks the bail of his
thumb on a pad and leaves the imprint on
the check, as much as to say Edward At
kinson, his thumb. Bank cashiers in
Boston and elsewhere have become famil-
lar with the hair lines of the Atkinsonian
thumb and a piece Of paper bearing it il
as good as legal tender.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
Religious Education

president NorthrOp in addressing
the club women of the state a few
days ago referred to the total INSULT
cheney Of the efforts Of the church and
the home in character training His
criticism of the negligence of mothers
has been considerably commented
upon, but the other coordinate factor
in the training whose neglect he de-
plored has been overlooked in the dis
cussion. Perhaps the attention is be-
Ing directed chiefly to pressing home
upon women their responsibilities be-
cause there are q good many en-
couraging signs to indicate that there
is a growing recognition and accept
ance of them and that the criticism is
therefore likely to be fruitful of re-
suits.
Signs are not altogether lacking,
however, that the pendulum has
swung to the farthest extreme in the
lack Of sympathetic religious training
of children thru the agency Of the
church. A few years ago the diocese
of New York appointed Sunday
school commission to consider what
steps should be taken for the inn
provement Of the Sunday schools.
The findings Of this commission were
that the church had not advanced with
the day school along lines of educa-
tional reform, largely overlooking the
study Of pedagogical principles as APP
piled to her Sunday schools, and al
most completely ignoring it in the
training Of her clergy.
On the basic principle that the Sun
day school is school and it's prob
lens are educational problems, the
commission arranged series of i'm
portant lectures by educational experts
covering important educational ques-
tons applied to the religious training
chairman Of the commission, formu-
lated the result that should be ex-
pected and demanded from the Sun
day school as fitting men for their
duties of life. While granting the
value and place of preaching and
other tie-honored features of the life
Of the church, this lecturer declared
Il1dl lIlS Wdip WOOl anu WeD OIL Cnr1S-
tan character are wrought out dur
ing the schoo pleriod Of life. 'Tdaes
cannot become the permanent pos
session of the world" he said, .'that
do not first enter thru the door of
childhood"
On this basis it is argued that the
function Of the preacher is important
but that the function of the teacher is
Of even deeper Importance. There
fore a pedagogical training for it's
ministry is urged upon the church as
prerequisite Of the religious training
Of the children Of the church, and as
a source of power and influence In the
pulpit. Aptness for teaching was
claimed by Luther as a prerequisite for
the work Of the ministry. He saw
the need Of the church school and pro-
vided for it, preparing himself two
catechisms for the instruction Of chill.
dren, writing children's hymns and
prayers that live as wildly as his
preaching and theological writings.
The same questions that engaged the.
attention of the Sunday school COM
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
"JAps" AND EUROPEAN BOOTS

The newness Of European civilization in
Japan Is amusingly shown In a story re-
Gently told by q correspondent Of Lon
don paper of having seen the japanese
soldiers in China during the march to
Picking carrying their new European boots
in their hands and marching sturdily along
in their bare feet or in the light straw
sandals to which they had been accus-
toned. The thieving army contractor with
his paper soles evidently cannot bring the
Japanese army to standstill. And the
matter of commissariat is simple for an
army which can march all day on a little
cold rice
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

sPeh VI Amelia, his fancee, one VARIETY.
Inc next seen Of him is in action as a
sel,atoE at Springfield. Then another va
flety takes turn at him This variety
is a winning woman's suffragist chat 8
what Mr.. Whitlock makes herr, and Nor
icy suddenly finds himself on the floor of
the senate making q ringing speech for a
resolution intended to aid the cause of
"oman,s suffrage. He has exhausted for
MAJ ana logical arguments, and closes his
speech thus, according to the author:
Age cannot wither, nor custom stale. her in
finite variety.'' 1890 1870 A'S1 40
He was growing weary. He had already shown
the Impressive exhaustion Of the peroration He
mad sacrificed collar and drunk all the watc.
In his glass. He fumbled the emntv tumhfss
Tor moment, and then lifted it on high while
he said: 'eA "N'1o
7 filled this cup to one made up
Of loneliness alone,
. woman, of her gentle sex 60
The seeming paragon
Her health. and would on earth there stood
Some more of such frame,
Ihat life might be all poetry .
s And WEAKNESS ma ne !" - 81,
When he had done there was a moments
stiffness; then came the long sweep of ap-
OF course all this gets into the papers,
the Chicago papers, and the following
Wednesday when the resolution is up for
final action there comes down to Spring
field Mrs. Overman Hodge-Lathrop at the
head of a company Of women who are op-
posed to woman's suffrage fand therein
the %woman's suffragists will take offense
at the Nbookl j. And; Anne iaa is with them.
But Mrs: Overman Hodge -Lathrop is the
next shade Nof the infinite variety to play
upon the softness Of Morley. But that is
the real nut of the. story and it won't do
TO tell Suffice 1t to say that Morley is
no equal for infinite variety, even when he
d. " Nv f1reo l.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

That is an interesting fact found by the
state labor bureau that municipal owner
ship Of electric lighting plants in Min
nesota results In lower pay for employees
than those who serve private employers
One OF the most frequent objections to
municipal ownership Of any kind is that
tits bound to result in extravagantly high
pay and other liberalities not in accord
with the demands OF economical manage
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

the effect that the Globe would be just as
democratic after the St. Louis convention
as before. Mr.. Pyle doesn't seem TO un-
derstand that for these many years the
Minnesota democracy has pinned for an
organ. It has had alli wants of ademo-
cratic paper that is not democratic about
election time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

Mr.. A. w. Hadley, representing the Ma
tonal Irrigation association. is in Mime
apolis soliciting memberships in the as
ISOLATION. Our people are now familiar
enough with the purposes and scope Of
irrigation by the national government to
be willing to contribute literally to the
association that has brought it about and
is working for it's extension.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
PILGRIMS EXCHANGED GREETINGS

At the recent banquet Of the Pilgrims
club in London cable communication was
arranged with Delmonico's, New York,
while Sir Mortimer Durand, the British
ambassador, was dining with some friends
A telegraph instrument was placed at
each dining room, friendly greetings being
exchanged at intervals turnout the eveu-
ing.
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HER INFINITE VARIETY. By Brand WHIT
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Christy. DECORATIONS by Ralph Fletcher Sey-
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pafiy. -. = g..
JAMES oGLETHoRPE, THE FOUNDER OF
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TRAVELLERS ABROAD

Will find The Journal file follows
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can Express Co., 8 Waterloo place.
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PARIS-Eagle Bureau, 90 Rue Cambon. Resi-
dents visiting Paris have their mail or
kilograms sent of this Bureau and the
same will be forwarded to them or held for
their arrival.
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British Politics.

The Associated Press announces
from London this morning that the
British parliament Wills be dissolved
within six weeks. The dispatch COM
tinues that it is expected that in the
ensuing elections the liberals will win
with a majority Of as high as $50, and
that Lord Spencer will be called to
form cabinet. Joseph, Chamberlain's
friends are said to expect this result.
E&5 If a liberal ministry sshall go into
power this year, with a party united
on the ancient platform of free trade
and backed by a large majority in the
house of commons, 1t may be many a
long year before Chamberlain will get
another chance to test the popularity
of his scheme of: cenenting the empire
with reciprocal tariffs. A parliament
may last seven years and by that time
tGhamberlain's fiscal policy may be
forgotten. 1t has never taken a
strong hold on Canada, the greatest
British colony, because. the people do
not go in for the Chamberlain brand
of imperialism which lis the compile
ment of the fiscal policy. Without
support in the colony where it most
needs support and emphatically re-
jected at home, Chamberlainism is not
likely to amount to much a number of
years hence. It's great opportunity
lay in flushing the game and it has not
been able to succeed in that, shrewdly
and energetically as it has played it's
cards. go '".>.
Yesterday at LIE Sueur Center was a sad
one for faithless bankers. George S.
Brainerd, president Of a bank that owes
It's ruin to him, was sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary, and w II. Patten, a
bank cashier, was sentenced to eight years
for forgery. The juries Undoubtedly knew
their business, but before we can be sure
thatsjustice will be done we must wait uns
TIL the supreme court has had its chance.
Yet we must say that jas a general propo-
.sition the way of the trapsgressor is hard
II Minnesota !'|''sI III Observation-Disclosures. 4
f Some Of theyHagd issn ere, said to be
worried more OVER Gig loss of tronnage
rom closing the pumping stations that
distribute typhoid fever germs than they
are overt The continued distribution OF the
germs. Comment would be superfuons.at s}
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

Editor Pyle of the Globe refused at the
meeting of the democratic state central
committee yesterday to commit himself to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

Is Coffee is a very strong antiseptic. There
are many diseases the microbes of which
are destroyed by it.