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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
The Union City Mission.

The report Of President T. E. Hughes
of the Union City mission, covering
ten years of growth, was presented at
the annual meeting of the society last
evening. This report marks the end
ing of the first decade of successfully
organized interdenominational mission
work in Minneapolis. The facts re-
the mission has field and that it is
striving more earnestly every year to
fill it. The mission has expanded from
a room in an empty store building to
the ownership of hotel in which the
mission has an equity representing over
$4,000: The departments which have
been added are the lodging house for
homeless men, the free reading rooms
baths and laundry accommodations fol
men. A restaurant, labor bureau and
women IS work exchange have also beer
put in operation. The hotel depart
ment is accommodating profits which &C
toward sustaining the mission work.
| The hotel feature Of the mission il
capable of development. The locality
would support hotel with twice o.
three times the accommodations af
forded at present, and the profits would
go long way toward pushing evan
gelistic work among the friendless. Thu
point is that the mission has proved
the need of it's existence and the man
agement has shown capacity to grass
the problem committed to it for solu
ton. The further extension of thi
most necessary enterprise is not strictl,
one to be left to the managers of tn
mission. It is rather up to the larg
business community to assist the mis-
sion in the extension of it's work. /
large gift to add to the hotel strengt
Of the mission would be most apprc
pirate. It would be a benefcence we
placed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

DO ANIMALS REASON?-The ques-
ton as to whether animals reason prom
Uses to become as famous as WHO struck
Billy Patterson" We are warranted in
abiding to it here again, because John
Burroughs has out a new book of essays,
in which the subject comes up again and
again. Mr.. Burroughs goes thus far:
'eWhat we call the intelligence Of animals
is limited for the most part to sense per-
ception and sense memory OF course
that "for the most part" leaves the au-
thor room for escape If he should need it,
but so far as we have read him, he has
not needed it. ~ -. e..
Mr.. Burroughs, however, has not
Shown US. We would not for a. mo-
ment presume to debate the question
with so thoro a student of animal nature
still we are not satisfied that animals dc
not show actual reasoning powers some
times It occurs to us that the defend
ers of animal intelligence and Mr.Bur-
roughs expect too much as evidence. The
deviation OF the animal from habit in any
instance is to the total mental equipment
and needs of the animal as the deviation
of man is to his total mental equipment
and needs. If this be true, very little
should be expected Of the animal In an!
single case. y - ~.
Mr. Burroughs story Of the beaver Il
| In support or some SuCn view, tho NJ
| looks at it the other way. He says 1t
| has read Of a beaver that cut down a, tree
| which was held in such a way that it die
| not fall, but simply dropped down tn
! height Of the stump; he cut it dow1
again, again it dropped; he cut it, down {
| third and a fourth time; still the tre
stood; then he gave it up. Was he sim
ply discouraged? Does becoming dis
couraged involve no reasoning-no menta
| process? Did not the beaver by stop
ping show that it had added somethin,
| to his store Of knowledge? If the stor.
| had gone on to tell that the beaver late
! cut down another tree, which dropped il
che same way, and that he straightwa
! left it, our point would be made, we think
! We could then fairly infer that MI
Beaver at least mildly swore to himsel
and contemplated migrating to land
| where trees fell as they should whe
they had been cut down. But that kin
of inference is the kind that Mr.. Bur
roughs condemns in the romantic nat
/ uralists. ..-.s.' H.. s
Whether we agree with Mr.. Burrough
or not, there is a deal Of pleasure in read
ing his book, and deal more in the JOY
that the open will hold ever afterward.
! Houghton, Miffin Co., Boston.
i S1.10 net.
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Baseball Umpires.

7 The baseball season has come to q
close and the talent which makes up
the population Of the diamond is scat
tered. The public does not know much
about what became of it, but presum-
ably the managers know where to lay
their hands upon it in the spring. The
pitchers are going on the stage, the
catchers are finding employment in the
hog-cutting line and the outfelders
have tip that mining or. digging
canals would keep their muscles in con.
dition. All seem to have some place to
go, all except the umpires. What be-
comes of them in the winter?
The Saturday Evening Post has re-
Gently raised the question, what is the
social status of an umpire? Is anyone
it asks, conscious of ever having in.
troduced such a person as My Friend
Mr.. Blank, the National league UNI.
pire?' Did anybody's sister ever
marry an umpireg Has there ever been
social paragraph in the papers about
a cinch party or a pink tea at the
house Of Mr.. So.and-So, the popular
u1npire9 There are no such paragraphs
So far as it is known umpires Rave
never made social record. UNI Tres
get into the census, but they prot IDLY
enter themselves as real estate al ents
or clerks or under some other disguise
If an umpire g life is spared thru The
summer he is glad enough to sink hi
| 5,,rinor ho nj $3.50 5fss
It is rather strange, too, that UNI
4 pires should be 50 shy Of showing
themselves. There is not a class 0.
men clothed with more power in thei
line than the gentlemen who hold til,
1 ticker on baseball players. They ar,
made more and more monarchs by tn,
rules Of the National baseball league
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
Electing u. S. Senators.

Popular election of United States
senators has been a familiar plank in
platforms for these many years, and
has come to be regarded as a sort Of
political rainbow, always eluding pur-
suit. The obduracy of the senate in
refusing to submit the constitutional
amendment has been discouraging.
However, the reform may not be so
far away after all. Twenty-four states
thru their legislatures have memorial
lied congress to call constitutional
convention for the purpose Of submit
ting the amendment. This is done I'M
der the provisions of Article V. of the
federal constitution, which says that
congress, con the application Of the
legislatures of two-thirds of the sew
eral states, shall call convention for
proposing amendments
This provision is mandatory, and if
six more states join in the action, con-
gress must in obedience to the consti-
tuition call a convention. This conven-
ton would draft and submit an amend
ment, which would need the ratification
of the legislatures or conventions of
three-fourths Of the states. Congress
does not need to wait for these six
states. but a two-thirdg vote Of each
house can submit the amendment direct
for ratification. That would save the
cumbersome convention of the other
plan.
The reform cannot come any too soon
The present method of electing SEN
ators encourages bribery, thwarts the
popular will in a good share Of the
cases. The original idea was identical
with the scheme of presidential elect
ors. The theory was that the popular
voice was not entirely to be trusted
SO the choice Of president was left
to body of select men. The growth
of democratic ideas soon made the
Electoral plan worthless for what il
was intended. Electors now merely reg
lister the choice of the sovereign people
Members Of the legislature are sup
posed to do the same in electing {
senator. When there is a senatorial con
Test the issue in legislative districts
turns on the senatorship. Men are elect
led to the legislature because they hap
pen to be for or against Senator Blank
and not because Of their fitness t,
make laws for the people.
In our state next year an entire nev
legislature is to be elected. IF the on
position to Senator Nelson attempts t.
defeat him, that will be the issue il
every. district. Men will be elected a
T Nelson men, or as opposed to him. TIL
senatorship will be settled within tn
-srat two weeks of the session and the.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

Sabina is the daughter of an Amish
farmer, into whose home comes a young
artist to board while he spends a summer
sketching. Nothing would seem farther
from possibility than that Sabina and the
artist should be seriously drawn toward
each other-she an uneducated, ignorant
peasant girl, given to the strange distor-
lions Of English common to her sect, and
he a young man knowing the world, tho
untainted by 1t and manly. But the
subtle powers of physical propinquity
often overcome spiritual distances. And
SO it is in this case. The girl, however.
is the subject of a peculiar psychic phe-
'omenon; she is warned Of the approach
of danger or calamity by the appearance
Of an evil face, and Of this face she had
had glimpse when the artists coming
was announced in her fathers home. On
that hangs the tale.
The story is in no sense a great one. 1t
| is only a tale of peculiar succession OF
| incidents in a peculiar setting. But, ow-
| ing to the unusual interest now felt in
psychic phenomena, and the naturalness
and simplicity with which the author de-
picts the character and tells her chapter
from their lives, the book IS one deserv-
ing and likely to have a wide reading.
| The Century company, New York.
| 81 .25.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
Chinese Trade Chances.

Considerable local interest attaches to
the report of Mr.. Burrill, special agent
Of the department of commerce and
labor, who is now in China investigating
opportunities for business. Mr.. Burrill
has looked into -four selling possibilities.
He finds that Australian flour is begin
ming to come up to China, and sees
much to indicate, that, while in 1904 the
larger part Of the flour imported by
China came from America, it will not
be so this year.
While the matter Of selling -four to
China, concerns the Pacific coast mills
particularly, the Minneapolis millers are
not unfamiliar with the trade, and have
at times done considerable business.
The meat Of the report lies, however,
in the discovery by Mr.. Burrill Of indi-
cations pointing strongly to the ultimate
growth Of wheat raising and -four pro-
duetion in China. Our country has been
giving considerable attention to the pos
sibilities Of trade with the orient which,
beyond doubt, is destined to increase
very rapidly. With reference to the
idea that we would one day supply
China with great quantities Of food
stuffs, there always has been the counter
contention that the Chinese would them
selves get into the business, as soon as
they learned a little more about it. Mr.
Burrill's predictions are therefore not
new, but they are interesting as con
frming much that has gone before.
Wheat, equal to the high product Of
the United States, can be grown in Man
churia, and there is little doubt thai
it's growth will spread if occasion de
mands it. This will work against con
troll Of the trade of northern China
either by our country or by Australia.
The Chinaman is bright fellow no
slow to learn. We may educate him AM
bring him over more to western ideas
but we need not expect that he will fai
to utilize our knowledge for his owl
particular benefit.
= Twenty-Five years from now, with or
dinarily favorable conditions, we shall
in all probability be doing an enorm
ously increased business with China, bu
the visionary idea Of several hundre
million Cinnamon buying everything
from us might as well be abandoned.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
THE MAGAZINES

What's In MccIure's.-The November
Mcclure's begins new volume with the
opening chapters Of two great new series
and big Kipling story. In this number
Carl Schurz begins his "Reminiscences,
the life story of a patriot soldier-states-
rnan-author, fighting idealist who never
compromised with his conscience.
Ray Stannard Baker, with 1.-THE Rail-
road Rate opens his series of articles
on the greatest national perplextty, the
outcome of more than a years digging
into the most difficult subject American
voters have ever had to master.
Kipling's story is with the Night
Mall in which he projects his wonder
full imagination into the tWenty-frst CEN
fury and takes a thrilling airship flight
from London to Quebec. He has invented
a new world of mechanics and found
strange highways in the sky, which are
pictured in color by Reuterdahl I'm pass
| ing he glfmpses a transformed earth SO
wildly real that it is hard to wake up to
the fact that Utopia does not exist
There is much else of high quality
| which space will not permit mention Of
here.
President Roosevelt Writes of Wolf
HuntIng.-In the November scribner'a
| President Roosevelt describes the hunt
| VI
riding at full speed over the fats and
great rolling prairies. The article Is a
distinctly valuable contribution to nat
ural history, and contains a great deal
of special information accumulated dur
| ing the authors many hunting expedi-
! lions in the west. The illustrations are
! from photographs by DR.. Lambert and
w. Sloan Simpson, who were with the
expedition.
| In this number also begins F. Hopktn-
son Smiths serial story, 1.-THE Tides Of
Barnegat," the scene Of which Is laid on
. the New Jersey coast. The illustrations,
which are printed in tint, are by
George Wright. Mrs. Wharton's great
story, ''The House Of Mirth,'' is con-
cluded, and it's final installment is sure
to make a strong appeal to the sympa-
thies of every reader Of the story.
A noteworthy pictorial feature are the
illustrations, in color, of H. G. Dwights
poetic appreciation of New Yorks won
derfully varied interests"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

the members will settle down to their
real work, making laws for the state.
They will come with no instructions
and no declarations on railroad legis-
lation, tax legislation or other live
questions, and may or may not repre-
sent their constituents truly. This is
manifestly an absurd system. The
people demand a voice in the election
of senator, and get it as best they
may. It would be far better to give
the election to the people direct, and
leave the lawmakers to make the laws.
Then we could elect men for that
purpose merely. Under the present sys.
tenn the voter has only an indirect
voice in electing senator, and prac.
tically none at all in matters of legis
lation. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
AUTUMN TIME

There is something in the autumn that is native
to my blood
Touch of manner, hint Of mood.
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson
keeping time.
The scarlet of the naples can shake me like .
cry
OF bugIe going by,
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters. like smoke upon the
hills.
There is something in October sets the gyps,
s blood astir;
We must rise and follow her;
When from every hill Of fame
She calls and calls each yagabond by name.
Bliss Carman
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

Senator Beveridge has just shown
great constructive craftsmanship. He
wrote book and forbade his publishers
to advertise in any Indiana papers but
those of republican faith. The demo-
cratic papers are tearing their hair.
which makes the best kind Of ad-
vertising, free at that. The republican
papers are as pleased as the democratic
papers are mad. Result The senator
gets not only free advertising, but a solid
republican press behind him. This is
genius! #s#FF.'... 3 .....- ... ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
HOW MARK TWAIN MET HORACE

GREELEY.-Mark Twain, with charac-
teristically terse humor, describes in
Harper's Weekly for last week, his first
meeting with Horace Greeley in 1870 or
1871 He had gone to the office of the
Tribune to see John Hay, who was doing
editorial work there. By mistake Mark
Twain got into Horace Greeley's room.
Mr. Greeley was writing. his back to the
visitor, who stood mute and rejoicing
at this unlooked-for opportunity to see
the distinguished editor. The aversion of
Mr.. Greeley to strangers is well known.
and what happened that day is thus re-
lated by Mark Twain:
after a while he swung slowly around
in his chair, with his head slightly tilted
backward and the great moons of his
spectacles glazing with intercepted light.
After about a year--tho it may have been
less, perhaps--he arranged his firm mouth
with care, and said, with virile interest:
well, what the hell do you want?' :
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Ry W. e. kIrkMood.

ROMANCE AND PSYCHIC PHENo-
MENA: NEW STORY BY HELEN r.
MARTiN.-The author Of "Tillie: Men
monte Maid" Helen R. Martin, has in
Sabina: Story of the An1ish told a tale
OF triple appeal to the readers interest
There is a pathetic little love story, a
faithful picture Of a peculiar. people OF
Pennsylvania, and a strange psychic phe-
nomenon, several times repeated, for the
authenticity Of which the author vouches
in a brief preface. Any one Of these
would be enough to hold the reader.
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Party Spirit.

Lord Rosebery's Characterization of
Japan as an example of national eff
cheney stands as a rebuke to nations
which, with greater resources, power
and room, are laggards in the race thru
some tremendous leakage in the ma
tional development.
This leakage he attributes to party
spirit. "We are all,'' lin England
he says, "engaged in the struggle to
put our leaders in and the other paEr
tvs leaders out Of the offces.' He
intimates that the struggle, in meas
ure at least, ends there. The leaders
having been pushed in, accomplish little
or nothingf to justify their elevation.
Lord Rosebery is party man, and he
does not see any way to dispose Of
party government. What he would, per-
haps, hope to see would be a lowering
Of party rancor and an uplift Of real
patriotism. ~:
The United States suffers also from
party spirit to a great extent. Take,
for example, the tariff. If it is good
thing for the country that the tariff
should be lowered, then it ought to be
lowered whatever party is in power.
Yet in this country, by means Of the
cry that the tariff must be revised by
the friends Of the tariff, and the friends
Of the tariff must be agreed before any
thing is done, the question is made to
drag along. Just before an important
election it must not be undertaken be.
cause Of the effect it might have on
the voting, and just after an election
it is just as impracticable because the
people have not said they wanted the
| tariff changed. This sort of chasing
the devil round a stump might be kept
, up indefinitely. A popular revolt, which
it is hard to stir up, would be the only
means of relief. - ..... ~. w. -"s
The danger of a failure Of party gov
! eminent lies in the fact that parties
thru means often not understood, cease
to be responsive to the will of the PEG
pie. In the tariff question this, NJ
doubt, is due to the growth of wealth
The protected interests have become
sufficiently strong to overawe any or
binary attempt to secure a revision o:
any schedule. The throne Of power il
parties, TOO, is passing from the ele
ments which are directly in touch will
/ the people, and hence responsive, Il
those which are only indirectly in toucl
and hence unresponsive. The senate O.
the United States may possibly be |
wise body Of statesmen, and it may b.
/ to our best interests to permit the sen
. ate to sit tight and do nothing whicl
the people wish done. But it is no
i popular government to submit to sue
a system. The pretense Of popular gov
eminent is overthrown by the fact tina
the senate does not meet the peopl
face to face. It does not perpetual
itself; the vested interests of the coun
try perpetuate it. The demand fo
senators chosen by the people is re
sisted by the members Of the senat
because popular election would max
their positions less secure; but the la1
. ger reason is that the wealthy minorit
which fattens on the conservatism Q
the senate does not wish the metho
Of election changed. It has no desir
to enter into scramble with the people
One Marcus Ma Brown has been pls
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

gersoll on Lincoln, the emancipation. to
make book about Rockefeller. The
Commoner prints deadly parallels upon
M. M. Brown to show that he has been
very graceless in his borrowings even ex-
hibiting such poor taste as to spoil some
Of Ingersolrs sentences by changing a
word here and there, evidently to make
them look like his own. Still one might
expect that anything said about Lincoln
would have to be spoiled before it could
be applied to Rockefeller.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

Bishop Potter urges deferring final
judgment on the insurance grafters. If
the bishop is friend Of the said grafters
he would better urge final judgment now.
The case gets worse for them every day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

A banker has recently given this tren-
chant advice, Work hard, live within
your income, look cheerful" Nothing
wrong with the form of this advice.
Many people who formerly flouted just
such edmonton are now in the peniten-
tiary. Then again some others who never
took such advice, but went into Wall
street, now own six automobiles and play
poker with j. w. Gates.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

It is believed that If all the Philadel-
phians who have not voted for ten years
come out this fall they will nearly offset
the dead ones the gang has been adding
to it's majority during that period.
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AnTTTMN-

AUTUMN.
The days grow shorter and the wind
Signs softly thru the trees;
And hints of gloom, and storm, and cloud,
Come with each passing breeze.
Wild asters gem the meadow-land,
+ And in forgotten dell
The goldenrod, its yellow plumes
To summer waves farewell.
-Pearson's for November.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

ment of the United States, exhibiting the
origin, process and completion of the
standard national laws. It is book for
the library table and the office desk. The
book is dedicated to the sons of the au-
thor, acknowledging that their inquiries
have prompted him to the work.
Lothrop. Lee & Shepard company, Bos.
ton SLIGO net.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.
Little raids in bonds and stocks;
Knocking down their worth,
And presto, little Johnny D.
Owns this little earth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

Judging by reports from Montana and
plainsmen. with frozen feet Medicine
Hat authorities are tampering with the
weather again.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

The drainage canal has cost Chicago
little over $4e,eooooo. 1t is, however,
much cheaper in the end than it is to
run your sewage into your drinking
water supply.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25

"HANDBook OF UNITED STATES
POLITICAL HISTORY" - BY Malcolm
Townsend. This is carefully compiled
and up-to-date presentation of every i'm
portaht event OF the political develop