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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26
vantage Of the change Of administration.

Il + Il \ s
How the Government May Own the
Railroads.--William j. Bryan, solver OF
political and economical problems, in
Success for June writes of government
ownership Of railroads. He says In part:
@ The ownership of all of the railroads of the
United States by the national government would
throw upon 1T the employment Of an immense
body OF men, and these men could not be en-
ployed from Washington swithont largely in
creasing the relative Importance of the federal
government as compared with the state gov
eminent, and the removal of so large part of
government work from the states to the nation
would weaken the states power Of resistance
to FEDERAL entertainments. system Of state
ownership for the local network Of railroads,
coupled with the federal ownership of the trunk
lines, would give all the advantages that could
come from the federal ownership of all the rail-
road lines. and at the same time avoid the
centralizing tendency Of undivided federal own.
ership.
Alcohol as Poson.-The prohibitionists
and AL the embattled hosts Of the enc
mics of rum will rejoice in the recent
declaration attributed to Sir Frederick
Treves, surgeon to the king Of England,
that alcohol is distinctly a poison, and
that its use should be limited as strictly
as that of any other poison, says Har-
per's Weekly. Sir Frederick does not ad-
NIT that 1t is even an appetizer, and
points out that even in small quantities it
retards digestion. It's use in hospitals, he
says, is distinctly declining. He finds con-
sumption Of it inconsistent with any work
requiring quick, keen, alert judgment
| With this last opinion there will be gen
eral concurrence by persons Of average
experience. Men who drink with judg-
ment, as, after all, good many men
| do, are not only very moderate In their
rotations, but defer them altogether until
all the work Of the day that requires
"quick, keen, alert Judgment" has beer
done. r.. .... e..--@ 90.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26
HAS VALUABLE PATENT
Minneapolis Man Secures Letters on In
proved Horseshoe CaIks.


Minneapolis Man Secures Letters on Inn
proved Horseshoe caIks.
j. O.. Mac Cune & Co. have just re-
ceived word from Paul & Paul, their at
torneys, that a patent had been granted
on an improved form Of horseshoe calk.
The ordinary detachable calk screws into
the shoe, and when 1t has to be replaced,
the exterior portion is frequently worn
down SO nearly fiat that the pliers will
not take hold. In such cases the stub has
to be punched out, new thread cut and
q larger calk inserted. The inventor OF
the improved calk remedies this neon
Venience by making square hole thru
the axis Of the calk. Thus whensthe calk
is worn down flat, a square key can be
inserted and the shank unserewed with
little trouble. Mr.. Mac Cune has coed
assurance that the Invention tho ex-
tremely simple, is very valuable.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26
Steffens on Philadelphia.

Edmund Burke once said that he did
not know how to draw am indictment
against whole people, but Lincoln }.
Steffens does. He drew one against a
all the people Of st. Louis, followed
that with a blanket presentment
against New Jersey, and has followed
that with wholesale Indictment of
Philadelphia. The trouble with Phil
adel phia, he says, is not sleepiness or
apathy, but corruptior Of the people.
He goes on to say: -.
I believe you could analyze the cit
izenship Of Philadelphia and show that
q majority of it's voters, either for them
selves or their relatives or their
friends or their institutions or their in
terests are in on the corruption of Phil
adelphia, or of the state Of Pennsylva-
MIA, or Of the United States.
If this is true, it indicates a sad
state of affairs in Philadelphia, and one
which will make it difficult to throw off
the ring yoke.
But is it trues How many of the
voters Of Minneapolis were corrupted
by the Ames regime9 Very few. How
many belonged directly or indirectly
to the Butler gang in st. Louise Only
enough to man the different wards with
leaders clever enough to befog the rest.
How many belong to the gang in Phila-
delphia9 Perhaps more than in any
= other city, except New York, because
Philadelphia occupies unique position
toward the tariff. Her manufactures
are the direct benefciarieS Of the sys.
tenn and hence the employees are voted
like sheep in favor of high tariff can
didates every time. '..~s
By cleverly dovetailing their inter
ests with the tariff interests, the loca
corruptionists have been able in Phil
adelphia to produce condition of ap
parent contentment with evidently in
tolerable conditions that is amazing
and gives some color to Mr. Steffens
Indictment. But it nevertheless re
mains true that there is in Philadelphia
a residuum of highninded, pure-spirit
ed and valiant citizenship, which i
willing to fight, and which is able whe1
well led to lift even those who hav
been touched with the poison of cor
cuption to a higher plane of thinkin,
and acting.
Philadelphia needs a leader. Perhap
she has found one in Mayor Weave,
tho his acts in the first stages of tn
gas steal were not encouraging evj
dences of independence. The mayo
has now come out brilliantly agains
the gang and, knowing them personally
Knowing their mode Of doing bushes
and knowing how to insert the stilett
where it will do the most harm, he bid
fair to make winning fight.
Mayor Viewers temperature is highe
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

Lord Elgin, who looted the Farthenon
for the benefit Of the British museum and
was denounced by Byron in poetry that
burned, has been INDICATED by Dutch
professor, who says the marbles would
have decayed before this if they had not
been removed. Possibly, but this does not
explain why they had to be taken to the
British museum. Were there no places II,
Greece where they could be protected
from the weather?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26
COMING TO MINNEAPOLIS
R'nat Birth VIII Hold Next District Con
ventIon In Flour CIty, ..--

Jonas Well returned today from Mil
waukee where he attended the annual
convention Of Division No. 8, B'nai Birth,
one Of the largest Jewish organizations of
the world. Thru his efforts the next con-
vention will be held in Minneapolis, prob
ably next May. The conventions last
three days and delegates are, present
from the seventy lodges Of the district,
which includes Minnesota Iowa. Illinois,,
Michigan and Wisconsin,. The convention
generally brings between two and three
hundred delegates and visitors. Two
days are taken up with business sessions
and the third day with social affairs.
The organization is purely secular, but
the churchmen are well represented in
the delegate body. It's work includes hos
pitfalls, schools and asyums for the Jew
tsh people. Mr.. Well was elected chair
man Of the important committee of ap-,
peals. <77 ST.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

Possibly some Of the people who were
laboring SO zealously in the last legisla-
ture to secure the enactment of a. recip-
rocal demurrage law would be surprised
to know what kind of a demurrage law
they have in Connecticut In that state
the shipper is entitled to four days free
time in which to unload freight and four
days free time in which to load It, But,
Of course, this unreasonable measure does
not produce good results While the
shipper Is so unreasonably favored in this
respect he has to suffer In others. The
Connecticut law with regard to demur-
rage is so unfair that it has become diff
cult at certain times to obtain cars in
which to haul coal into that state, with
the result that industries have been EN-
barrassed for lack Of fuel. This comes OF
playing the hog" The Connecticut
shippers asked too much, and now they
are anxious to get rid Of their demurrage
law with the prospect that regulations
will swing over to the other extreme, and
they will have less latitude than Is allowed
in most other states.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26
HORSE HAS A LUCKY OWNER
Logansport (Ind.) Times

LOganSpOrt1 Ilnd.) Times.
Want to know about the crops around
Lucerne? Communicate with William
iBackus old sorrel horse. He comes as
near to being in every garden, truck
patch and field in the community as any
creature we know of The people put UP
with it, too, because-well. we don't know
why We would say some awfully ugly
things about this public nuisance, but
William. is assessor. and has not been to
our house yet.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

All that Chicago needs in order to Sc.
cure the streetcars is the price. The
companies are anxious to sell. Of course
after that she will have to negotiate with
Shea for the privilege Of trundl1ng then
down the street = y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

Mrs. O.. H. P. Belmont Is preparing to
In the world for it, the largest antirace-
suicide tenement house in America. It
will cover an entire city block and will
stand twenty stories high. The more chill
dren the tenants have the better Mrs.
Belmont will be pleased. Moreover, the
ground floor Of the big block will be oc-
cupied by a department store, so that the
tenants can get nursing bottles, baby car
riages and paragoric at special prices,
without having to leave the premises.
Perhaps it is hardly necessary to say
that it will be called 1.-THE Roosevelt
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
Kansas City Star.

The government asks fine Of 500 In
each Of three prosecutions Of the Mis-:
souri, Pacific Railway company for fail-
ure to provide sufficient safety appliances
In its equipment. Considering the fact
that the lack Of such appliances is likely
to result only in several deaths and
wrecks, would not the collection of such
an enormous fine as $500 from the COM
pany offend the constitutional provision
against cruel and unusual punishment?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26
FORAGE GRAFT" STANDS

Aldermen Decline to Interfere with the
Street Commissioners. @.g s,
Street commissioners will not be; mo-
Tested in what Alderman Cashier calls
their forage graft" The special COM
mittee which was to Investigate the mat
ter decided yesterday to keep its hands
off, An effort was made to recommend a
resolution allowing the commissioner $40
a month for forage, but a majority
thought that each ward should pass on
the matter without interference. It Is
anticipated that Alderman Cashier will
continue his fight at the council commit
tee this evening.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

Professor Percival Lowell from his OBJ
servatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., reports the
first snowstorm Of the winter on Mars.
The Marian in mittens and comforter
welding the snow-shovel is a. pleasing
picture. .....
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

If the enemies of railroad regulation by
the state had planned to overload the
railroad commission with routine and mi
nor details so it could not give atten-
ton to important matters, they could not
have done the Job better than the last
legisla turea did It,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

: Richard Harding Davis dropped one Of
his NOVELTIES into the Bowen-Loomis
case, but Secretary Taft said afterwards
that 1t did not hurt either side, in his
opinion. " ,...'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

Funny every time a man with a couple
of spare millions wants advice he sends
for Root. This is nuts compared with
being secretary of war at So, 900 and board
yourself.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

While returning from a college enter
tainment Senator Tillman's carriage went
over an embankment and ratified the SEN.
ator so that for a time he lost the power
OF concentrated thought, but not the DOW
er of speech. And it is said the speech
he addressed to the driver was one Of
the most powerful he ever made. d
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

Dealing In futures, according to Justice
Holmes Of the supreme court. is the self
adjustment Of society to the probable"
A corner" would seem to be self
adjustment OF a bunch of badly mistaken
people to the improbable, E-.'>.~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

The Immigrants during this calendar
year are expected at the present rate to
reach the unprecedented total Of 100000.
The influx is SO large and the quality so
poor that the government officials are be-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26
An Overworked Body.

When member of the legislature
has nothing else on his mind, he usually
sits down and thinks out something
new for the railroad and warehouse
commission to do. The result is string
Of more or less Important laws which
make the three commissioners men-of-
all-work for the state. y
This observation is prompted by the
visit of the commission to Kenyon,
where they were called by the insistent
demand Of the village for fagman
at the Great Western crossing. Now
fagman is an important matter to Ken
yon, and if the crossing Is dangerous
it ought by all means to be guarded.
It is not important enough to the state
at large, however, to call for day of
the commission s time. The visit is re-
quired by one of the laws passed last
winter, and it is conceivable that $50
Minnesota villages might want gates
or fagman within the next year, TAX
ing one-half of the working days the
calendar allows the commission. They
have also frequent trips to hear appli-
| inspect interlocking plants, duties more
or less technical and routine. The COM
mission is also at the head of the grain
inspection and weighing service Of the
state, a gravely important department
requiring much attention, and it has
even been charged with the installation
Of hay inspection system. If the
work Of the commission could be sub
divided it might be easier to carry on
all these duties, but it is necessary for
the three members to act as a unit, and
each one must be informed of the facts
in every case.
It is pity that the commission has
been SO loaded with routine, for under
new laws passed last winter its rate
making duties and powers are greatly
increased. No rate or classification in
the state may be changed now, either
up or down, without consent of the
commission, after an opportunity for a
hearing on objections which might
arise. The commission has added au-
thority to examine railroad books and
enforce the new drastic law against re.
bates. Added to all this, the legisla.
ture has given specific instructions fol
a revision Of freight rates, work in.
volving months Of study and investiga
tion, which has only been begun. The
commission must become an expert
body, and it's members cannot put il
too much time on this vastly important
line Of work. Yet under the law il
must give due attention and make a spe
cial trip to every village that wants {
fagman at crossing.
It stands to reason that the commits
sion is overloaded with routine duties
> and that the real interests of shipper
; and public are injured by lawmaker
. with fertile expedients for keeping tn
: commissioners busy. It would be cas-,
I for them to shirk important duties OF
! the plea that routine takes all thei
=, time. Even with the best intention
> and the most Industrious application
they cannot do Justice to their work
1t is time to relieve the commission o
e minor duties by giving them deputies
:, look after such details, or else to sui
:. divide the work so that someone vii
have time to master the rate PROPOSE
tion. Neither the railroads or the pub
lie can afford to have 1t bungled.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

The Princess Margaret Of Connaught
has begun the study Of Swedish, in prep
aration for her marriage to Prince Gustav
Adolph of Sweden. Margaret would do
we'll to begin on something easy-say
-Will1e Kinks Norsk Nightingale poems.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

Mr.. Shea declines to answer any aues-
lions that might tend to incriminate him.
Mr.. Shea does well. Now If he would Just
refuse to commit any acts that would tend
to incriminate him. we should say he was
coming round nicely.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

The kaiser has finished the grand opera
upon which he has been at work An
evening Of that. as one German said,
would be "too much of enough
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26
a STRICT NEWSPAPER CODE
Kansas city sta

A man wrote to the Lawrence World
denying that he was killed in the Snyder.
Okla, tornado, but the World refuses to
print his retraction. AS this paper did
not publish any list Of the dead 1t says.
1.-THE gentleman must come to life thru
some newspaper that did,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

King Leopold has been visiting Mr.. Hay
at Bad Nauheim. Hay probably told him
ne would see him about that. Congo Free
State business in the fall If there was
anybody left there alive at that time.
And Leopold probably promised himself
there would not be. ~. r.. *r .-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

The democrats Of Pennsylvania held a
state convention at Harrisburg on We'd
nesday. One of them was chairman and
the other a committee on platform
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

ELS.-H. B. Marriott Watson in the Lon
don Daily Mail prints list of the twenty
four favorite novels of Andrew Lang as
follows: 81 8
''Tom JONES' # "Old Mortality"
amelia" "Heart OF Midlothian"
'Joseph Andrews ..Pickwick'
''Tristram Shandy." David Copperfeld.
''The Vicar of Wake tGreat Expectations"
feld.'' VANITY Fair
pride and Prejudice. I, 4. Esmond."
Sense and sensibilityn 1.-THE Newcomes."
Northanger Abbey" barry Lyndon"
Persuasion" s"rhe Scarlet Letter"
"Waverley." ..The House Of Seven
'The Antiquary. -. Richard Igiart Feverel"
1t will be seen that Scott, Thackeray,
Jane Austen and Dickens furnish the ma
jority of these novels. Hawthorne, how
ever, as an American author, is repre-
scented by two. Isl.
Mr.. Watson contrasts with Mr.. Lang 8
selections the favorites of2Australian read
ers, including the following:
David Copperdeld.''s '"rhe Cloister and the
"Vanity Fair.'.ss5 - HEARTH
+ Lorna Doone y ~ t.The Last Days of
"Ivanhoe." CT p Pompeii." &,
adam Bede.'A ~-@"The Three Musket-
Jane Eyre GERS" ..r....
Westward Ho." ''Thelma." r., "a
"a Tale Of Two Cities "Kenilworth
'For the Term of His Robbery Under Arms
Natural Life 'The Light that
'.John Halifax, Gentle Failed.''<y:,t,.... ...3
man.. 'David Harum."
''The Count of Monte Ties Miserables''
Cristo. !" r '.East Lynne ~
"i1ckwick'' Uncle Toms Cabin
"She." H. =
The presence Of David Harum" In
this Australian list is a. matter Of con-
siderable interest to American readers. !.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

Mrs. Carrie Nation says that she will
stay in Oklahoma for the present, because
Oklahoma needs her. Mrs. Nation is
rather a harsh medicine to take, but she
splits the wood, .-..as'r e
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

1t Is little bit remarkable that just
after Mr.. Pulford of Illinois had his alibi
fixed up and had gotten a certificate of
character from the county attorney he
should commit suicide. Did he consider
In what a painful position he put his
witnesses? 49,. 81"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26


LIGHT ON THE DEPARTMENT. OF
AGRlCULTURE.-Gi H. Grosvenor
has attracted wide Intention by his work
as editor of The National Geographic
Magazine (having increased the member
ship of the National Geographic society
from one to over five thousand during his
association with the magazine) and by his
articles on scientific matters, notably
'1noculating tbs Ground" and "a New
method Of Purifying Water" published in
recent numbers Of The Century. The sec
rotary Of agriculture has now offered Mr..
Grosvenor every facility for becoming ac-
quainted with the scientific work Of that
department, that 1t may become better
known; and his article in the June Cen
fury on Our Heralds Of Storm and Flood
will be the first Of series upon the SCI
ent1fc work of the department Of agri-
culture. relating especially to the work
of, the weather buraeu. This work is Of
a fascinating interest and scientific scope
entirely unknown to the general public;
and Mr. Grosvenor has proved his ability
to write Of scientific matters in manner
to excite popular interest - -.
! SHAKESPEARE A u sPIRITUALIST.-
Floyd B.. Wilson, apostle of New
Thought" in his latest book Man
LmitIess, expresses the belief that
the dawn of the new century Is
Thought period" in history. He be-
lieves that man has advanced to a point
where his consciousness has awakened to
the conception Of his real possibilities.
| Man, he says, now demands that If infin-
1ty holds secrets they shall be disclosed
to him because he is one with infinite life.
One chapter of Mr.. Wilson's book is en-
titled "Shakspere's Ariel He concludes
that Shakspere linked himself to the
source Of life and power thru spirit guides
| whom he saw thru clairvoyant vision and
with whom he conversed thru the aid of
| clatraudiant hearing. This is only one
of the rather daring propositions to be
found in Mr. Wilson's book. However we
may be disposed to disagree with this or
any other of his positions, there is GER
tatnly something stimulating in looking
4 upon man as more than a mere atom in
the universe and plaything Of fate. Mr..
/ Wilson may, therefore, be thanked for
emphasizing this attitude.
1 R. F. Fenno & Co., New York, $125 net.
THE CUB REPORTER AS A DETEc-
/ TiVE.-Three murders executed with
4 neatness and dispatch in certain Quarter
i of Denver furnish the basis of a detec-
4 tive story by Guy Berton entitled Art
i Thou the Man? The regular police re
porter of one of the Denver papers, sup
i posed to be a veteran and high grade
sleuth, gives up the problem Of the muir
ders as '.too much for him." and sug-
gests to the city editor that the cub re-
porter be put on the trail, In the hope
/ that he may stumble onto a solution OF
4 the mysteries that the science of sleuth-
ing has failed to reveal OF course, that's
what the cub reporter does. He solves
the mysteries and accomplishes several
other things that men usually strive for
before they get done with life. The story
is rather an audacious one and not very
: ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

IF you read the Times" says the Times,
you'll not need the noon extras" Is
perusal Of the Times as fatal as that?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

The new Iowa regulation forbidding
doctors to wear whiskers should logically
compel them to shave their heads.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

The notice Of the funeral of Mrs. Jacob
A. Riis requested friends Ito send no
flowers, but give the money instead to the
sick poor This Is worth thinking about.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26

"Once to every man and mayor
Comes the moment to decide,
In the mass Of loot and lootage.
For the gang or peoples side
From poems of passion by John Weaver
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-26
ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat.

The James Boys in Missouri the see
mic melodrama now appearing at the Biz
jou, has made a decided hit Owing to the
success of the souvenir matinee on
Wednesday, the management has decided
to give another tomorrow afternoon.