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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
Church Discussions.

The church should be the CONSERVATION
Of the highest standard Of human con-
duct. When it fails in this office, it
has lost its reason for being.
In view Of this fact, the internal dis
sension which breaks out, from time to
time, in the ranks of the, church, is
most disheartening. If the institution
which stands sponsor for. the golden
rule and exponent Of the gospel of
"peace on earth, good will to men,
is itself torn with strife, what hope is
there for society at large9
People pray for peace among the ma
tions and turn to war among them
selves. It would be a tragic spectacle
were not the keen edge blunted by the
humor Of the situation.
A Great Teacher once said eff thou
bring thy gift to: the altar, and there
*rememberest that thy brother hath
aught against thee, leave there thy gift
before the altar, and go thy way; first
be reconciled to thy brother, and then
come and offer thy gift.'' If this rule
were enforced in the churches, there
is danger that the services would some
times come to a summary pause until
lawsuits were settled and personal diff
ferences adjusted. . :
Has the church outgrown the Sermon
on the Mount9 Is love no longer the
fulfilling Of the law'9, Is there a
newer commandments Is the whole
mass Of the beautiful literature Of the
church on charity simply poetic license,
a dream, an impossible fancy9 It is
enough to make the heart ache to think
Of the disparity between the Sabbath
ideal Of the church and its everyday
reality.
If dissension injured only the church
guilty Of it, the result would not be
so serious, but it reacts on all churches.
Outsiders scott and say that religion
is. a matter Of either hypocrisy or delu-
sion; that human nature is the same
within the. church as without.
Is this the philosophic attitudea Is
this the correct .conclusion9 We do not
say that art is delusion because most
students copy their model badly
Neither are we justified in saying that
religion is delusion because most
Christians copy their Model badly. The
world might forever point out the frail
ties Of human nature without weaken
ing one iota the foundations of reli
gion, because they are built not upon
human nature but upon divine nature
The greater the frailties Of the one, the
greater the need of faith in the other
It is true that human nature is the
same within the church as without
The idealist who expects to find it other
wise is doomed to the same experience
that he meets in every other phase Of
fife disappointment. But that is nj
reason why we should give over the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
Togo Made Sure.

George KEENAN, s story Of Port Ar
thurs capture which has recently been
concluded in the Outlook throws some
new light on the assault upon "2 03-Me-
terri hill. According to KEENAN, this
eminence was Of no, Importance what
ever in the siege of the city. It was
taken merely as a point Of observation
for the bombardment Of the, ships in
the harbor. 1t cost 10000 men, which
Mr.. KEENAN, affirms is. the highest price
ever paid merely for a point from
which observation might be taken in
war.
The hill was outside the ring Of forts
defending the city, but was held tena-
ciously by the Russians when they saw
that the Japanese wanted it badly. It
was four times captured and three times
recaptured before the Russians finally
retired. Then the Japs began their
operations on the ships in the harbor,
and in five days reported to Admiral
Togo that the Port Arthur squadron
was no more. Togo, tits related, re-
fused to take the word of any one in
such an important matter and landing
in a boat, climbed to the top Of the hill
and with a powerful glass assured him
self that all the Russian ships were rest
ing on, the bottom. Then he sailed
away to reft his own vessels for the
coming fight with Rojestvensky.
/. The expensive assault on this hill was
undertaken simply to: accommodate the
navy and to- make sure that when Ro-
jestvensky came Togo would have no
fire in the rear from Port Arthur. The
spirit of cooperation between the army
and the navy~was, another strong con:
trast between the Russians and the
japanese. There Wase All almost total
absence of it on the Russian side.
A Missouri man has written a book
called IA Year in Hell.' Get away and
come up to Minnesota!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
Upper River Improvement.

The shipping business of the country
has been mainly along the lines of lati-
tude. The gradual movement of popula-
ton from the Atlantic to the Pacific has
carried with it the bulk Of traffic. The
west has been the producer Of raw ma
terials and the east has supplied the
manufactured articles. The result is
that our great railroad systems rum east
and west. The cheap transporta ton
furnished by the lake system has also
stimulated east and west traffic. But
as the west has reached higher state
of development and commenced to be
the maker in an increasing degree of it's
own manufactured products the trend
Of traffic is likely to undergo more or
less change and the natural courses of
trade, to some extent at least, will be
restored. We will have the south with
its peculiar products supplying the
north with things which the north
cannot produce, and the north supplying
the south with articles which are nat
ural to northern climes. The trend of
traffic will be increasingly along lines
of longitude rather than along lines of
latitude.
An evidence. Of a better appreciation
of the service which our great river is
destined to render in the future traffic
of the country is to be found in the
meeting at La Crosse, next Tuesday and
Wednesday, of the Upper Mississippi
River Improvement association. This
is an organization form ed for the pur-
pose of improving the Mississippi river
between, st. Louis, and the Falls of St.
Anthony. The river transportation be-
low st. Louis is already important. It
will be very much more important when
there is added to it the volume Of
trade which the upper river is destined
to carry.
In another column today. may be
found some interesting facts with re-
gard to the purposes of this La Crosse
convention and what is to be expected
from the proposed river improvement.
It has been a matter Of slow growth,
but there is evidence that men of af-
fairs, interested vitality in the question
of transportation, have come to regard
+ the natural facilities afforded BY this
river as of sufficient Importance sto JUS
+ tify special effort on their part to Sc
cure their Improvement to a degree
where they will be. of the highest util-
ity. !; W. s..>.. u .r.,ys
incidental to the improvement of
{ navigation will follow the development
OF immense water-powers capable of
adding enormously to the industrial ac-
tiyities of this great valley a
In this convention there will be rep;
resentatives from five states bordering
upon the upper Mississippi. These five
states have a population of 14,OOO.O0O
or oRe-sixth that Of the United States,
and in fifty towns and cities Lying
upon the banks Of the river in these
five states there ara 100000 Of people.
+ Is S, =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
SENTENCE SERMONS
He who serves not sins.

He who serves not ., sins. aas
An empty head cannot be hallowed.- y
You cannot glorify God by despisins
his race.
The race for gold does not make ths
golden race.
In moral matters one and one may
make million. p
People who beat about the bush ges
none Of the berries. -.
All our debts to God are payable to men
X
When a man brags Of a good deed 1t iE
because he knows so few Of them "a:
-
The man whose life leads nowhere u
never late in getting there. y -
Love runs over but it never Stops over.
Only crooked heart win justify its
acts by twisted texts.
!.
Many peSSlmlSC as TO humanity IuQS
his premises in his own heart.
X .-..-s
Many prayers are long only because
they are so thin.
y.
The only way to tighten your labor -
to find something to love in 1t.
The man who can be trusted when no
one is looking will do work that all will
look at.
When God wants a man to come In
ahead he frequently gives him handicap.
:. -
It takes more than a drop Of sorrow to
sWeeten a sea OF sin. D.
!.
Better pass up the Offering than waste
your genius trying to make nickel LOOK
like dollar.
It takes more than brotherly manner
to make up for the lack of business
method in religion.
Tapering off a bad habit is often only
the whiting of the kindling for new
start.
Many a mans UNCONVENTIONAL cows"
tions are in inverse ratio to the denominss
ton of the coin he drops in the cohectlosA
Henry F. Cope.
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They are near enough to the Indian
frontier to be effective Some English
men pretend to feel Inundated by the
thought Of the great British empire de
pending on yellow race to do it's fight
ing, and predict that the Japanese ALI
ance will prove weakness rather than
strength to the empire, since it will
stir up counter coalitions. Tt is not
clear at the present time who is going
to unite against them, but you cannot
prevent an Englishman from having
qualms about the safety of the empire
The movement for large standing
army will probably not result in Eng.
land having larger standing army
but it has already stimulated interest
IN the volunteer forces at home. The
English "clark" and the English me
chanlc are going to have a taste, mere
~ taste, of the continental system
They will be made to do some military
duty every year during a term and
will be given enough of an idea of wal
SO that they could be whipped in a
short time into fair soldiers for the
army Of defense.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
Hungary, Austria's Thorn.

The troubles of Emperor Francis Jo
seph of Austria seem never to be at an
end but as we should say in America,
HhYou don It hear of Francis Joseph re-
signing.
The srecens troubles in Hungary are
not, as generally supposed, the result
of the political agitation of the Hun
garians for political independence but
involve smaller but more acute ques
tion-whether officers in the Hungarian
army shall be obliged to use the Ger
man language. Naturally they do not
want to do so because they have a
pretty good language Of their own to
which they are accustomed, and besides
national pride is hurt by the thought
sof being dictated to in this matter by
the German end of the conf ederation.
= Probably, also, the aspirations of
the Hungarians for independence enter
into the controversy. At any rate the
Hungarians are quite apt to take this
opportunity to reassert their desire for
separation and to reinforce it with an
example @ofaAustrian tyranny. :.
European history shows that the dual
kingdoms have not beeen a success.
The Swedish-Norwegian pact failed and
has recently been dissolved. The union
between England and Ireland has been
century Of coercion by England and
protest by Ireland. The Austro-Hun-
garian empire has had most unhappy
history. 1t takes homogeneous people
to form happy kingdom. The German
empire, welded together by the terrible
peril of the Franco-Prussian war when
the German peoples saw the possibility
of another Napoleon coming down upon
them, has been success because the
peoples forming it are all German. But
the German empire has managed to live
largely because the empire has dealt
tenderly with the rights and honors Of
the interior kingdoms and principali-
ties. -
The intense hatred that exists be-
tween the Hungarians and Austrians
proper seems absurd in view of the fact
that their union in one empire is their
only safety. Divided they would have
the respect neither of Russia nor Ger
many and might become another Poland.
The feeling between the two coun-
tries is the result of Austrian injustice
and stupidity of two generations ago.
H er efforts to crush Hungarian nation
atty failed as the result Of her defeat
in the short, sharp war with Prussia in
1866 and Hungarian home rule was re-
stored, but the Hungarians have neither
forgiven nor forgotten. Instead of
growing together into harmonious
kingdom the two members Of the empire
have been watching each other with the
eyes Of jealousy and reproach. Their
mutual advantage lies in union which
will be sufficiently strong to claim its
share Of Turkey when the time for par
tition comes. For such union Francis
Joseph has striven. But he has been
| hampered in his work by the hotheads
just as Gladstone was blocked in his
efforts to settle the Irish question by
extremists on both sides.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

attempt to bring out the best that
there is in human nature.
q It is also quite true that the ideal Of
he church IS far beyond it's attainment.
Otherwise it would be no ideal. It is
impossible to overtake our highest
standards. AS rapidly as we advance,
they advance. What is reasonably ex-
.pected Of man is. that he go toward
and not away from his ideals. It is
necessary to keep in mind that right
living, like every other good thing, is
a matter Of evolution.
Heaven is not reached at a single bound
But we build the ladder by which We
rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies
And we mount to its summit round by
round
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

President Dewitt Hyde of Bowdoin
In recent address to the students de.
nounced hazing in vigorous manner.
He called the hazer the greatest coward
and most consummate scoundrel on
earth. He said hazing was devoid of
fair play-always six to two or three
to one-and he asked Bowdoin under
graduates to uphold themselves as gen.
tlemen and to keep their college clean.
The essential cowardice of the hazer
has not been sufficiently dwelt upon.
1t takes not only a coward but brute
to be a good hazer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
Not Needing a Revival.

The critics are predicting revival
of Dickens. A good many people will
be surprised to hear that the great
novelist stands in need Of any revival.
His hold on great mass Of the reading
public has never been shaken.
Many readers who like to follow lit
erary bell-wethers have learned to de-
preciate Dickens. They have learned
that he is a sentimentalist, a preacher,
and that his methods are crude COM
pared to the modern masters of real
ism. So they have erdeavored to forget
the charmed hours spent on Oliver
Twist and David Copperfeld, the tears
shed for Little Nell and Paul Dombey,
the wooing of Peggoty and the airy
graces Of Dick Swiveller. They have
forsaken him for the novels Of psychol-
ogy and dissection. Dickens lives on,
however, in the hearts of many thou
Sands, and if the critics are beginning
once more to acknowledge his power,
so much the better for the critics.
Sentimentalism, Of course, is Dickens
weak point. Pages of pathos which
worked deeply on the feelings of boys
and girls sound strained to the mature
reader. The death of little Paul, even,
tho exquisitely expressed, seems pro-
1onged to unnecessary length. It must
be remembered, however, that neither
Dickens nor his contemporary audience
had been taught the modern idea. They
were just emerging from a long bath
OF sentimentalism. The age Of fearful
heroines, pursued thru spooky dungeons
by dark, vengeful villains, was hardly
passed by, and the "Mysteries of
Udolpho' were still read, incredible
as it may seem. Dickens shows no
trace of that influence, but he cannot
be blamed for yielding to temptation
occasionally, when tears would add to
the effect Of his appeal.
The humanitarian instinct was strong
IN Charles Dickens. He wrote most
often for some definite end, and his
strongest touches Of pathos were shades
to deepen sympathy for the abused,
the neglected, or the downtrodden of
every age and condition. His appeals
to human sympathy were powerful in
their day, but Of greater effect then
than now. Dickens lives in the esteem
Of the literary world chiefly in his real
1stlc pictures of London life, bubbling
with humor and glowing with magma
| ton, yet foretastes of modern realism.
| Dickens showed the English people the
poetry in the life about them, in the
alleys and lodgings Of their own Lon
don, in the cottages and hedgerows of
rural England. No man ever created
SO many living, breathing human char
acters. They were drawn often rudely,
but always with strength and color.
The world will never forget the irtol-
cradle hypocrite Pecksniff, the scintil-
lating Jingle, the soft-hearted Pick
| wick, the incompatible Swiveller, Sam
Weller and his apt illustrations, or
Salry Camp and her cowcumbers.
| Dickens has made millions laugh and
weep, and amid their smiles and tears
has uplifted their moral senses. His
fame and credit rest on no narrow
foundation. His appeal is not so much
to the head, but always to the heart.
and in the hearts of English speaking
people he will always, hold high place.
no matter where critics rate him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

The financial success Of the Portland
exposition is genuine surprise. The
authorities now announce that if all
goes well until the middle Of this
month the company will have sur
plus Of more than 100000, which will
permit return Of at least one-quar-
ter Of their contributions to all Of the
stockholders. Portland and the coast
have had valuable advertisement for
the money spent.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

There has recently been erected in
the streets Of Berlin an instrument for
catching dust so that it may be an
alyzed. A machine Of this kind on
upper Hennepin after the sprinkling
limit is passed would drag in about a
peck an hour.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

Only two students will die as the
result of the class fight at Madison.
The .humor Of the plan of throwing the
fatally hurt lad into the lake was con-
sidered very rich. All Madison is slpjl-
inc over the prank
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

The st. Louis Republic Indignantly
asks why the women of St. Louis crowd
into the courthouse to hear divorce cases
And why are the men SO hopping mad
about their crowding in?
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For s37 payable 81 monthly, you can
Thomas Carlyle, but some people prefer to
get their dyspepsia at first hand from a
restaurant pie.
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Susan B. intimates that Grover C. is
member any circumstances under which
Grover was submissive. He onse bluffed
Tammany hall.
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TRANS ENcY

Jes smile. an den goodbye.
Summers tadin' frum de sky.
Leaves is fallin' at yoh feet,
Whah de rose once smiled so sweet;
Seems no mo- dan yesterday
Since we felt de breath of May,
Jes song an den a sigh.
Jes smile, an den goodbye.
Washington Evening Star.
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The Pittsburg Times says that Gov
ernor johnson of Minnesota actually
seems to believe that college students
should be governed by the same rules of
conduct as ordinary mortals. This is
the governors first term.
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DOCUMENT "FREELy CONSTRUED"

ST. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Paris writer who thinks that Miss
Alice Roosevelt is violating the constitu-
ton has little idea of what has been done
to that document within the last hfty
years.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
HAVING FUN WITH IT

New York Tribune
Cuba is free, but seems a little uncer-
tain as to what to do with her freedom.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

The subway tavern has now scored a
failure as a regular saloon. Evidently it
had gotten bad name under the bishops
management.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

Another husky athlete has been declared
ineligible to the team for lack of college
credits He should go to the New Eng
land.
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. Senator Clark shifted contemptuously
at his $4,000, 00O marble shack I'm N lew
York. The senator is too rich to enjoy
life.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

Many railroad presidents are reporting
a poor seasons fishing. The difficulty
lay in the danger Of rebaiting.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

Detroit has municipal brick plant
and SO fierce is the contention over it
that the bricks are kept in the air a.
good part Of the time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08

Expert shoe clerks never ask women
the size Of their shoes, thus saving ink for
the recording angel.
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The American Quick Lunch restau-
rant failed in London, praise be! Brit
ons do not yet consider eating in the
LIGHT of a disagreeable necessity.
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HE MAY FORGET,

Philadelphia Inquirer.
Senator Germans promise to get out
of politics If he is made absolute mas
ter Of Maryland is refreshing.
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A Sermon for Today
TREASURES IN HEAVEN.
By HENRY F. COPE.
editor of The RAMS Horn.

a., Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon
-, Tue earth. where moth and rust consume. and
W., mere re tnleyes break thru and steaI but lay
VII, 1920. - nea'e MATT
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T., A Missouri man has written a book
called "a Year in He'll" Get away. and
come up to Minnesota!