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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
Attempts to Clean the City and
Make It a More Inviting Place
to Live in-Leagues and Clubs
at Work to Improve Untoward
Conditions.
Chicago Post.

L
The weatherwise, reading the direc-
tions Of the wind and the signs Of the
times, prophesy that Chicago, a city
standing for type of material prog
ress, is on the brink of transforma-
tion.
Under the influence of a score Of
foAces public opinion is gathering to
accomplish miracle. Reports state
that seventeen committees Of practical
sight to untangle existing conditions
and clear the way for a clean city, and
at the same time make it more in
viting place to live in.
At the other extreme are the little
bands Of kindergarten children organ
izing in neighborhood Improvement So
cieties, meanwhile Haunting banners
with the legend: ...-.-4
To make us love our city,
We must make our city lovely
truism with deep meaning. Har-
monious surroundings enlist the affec-
lions. ~~a.
Civic improvement is actually pro-
crossing along businesslike lines. The
clubs and ardent individual efforts have
stirred up discomfort with unkempt
localities-and once breed the dlscon-
tent and reform follows apace. Let him
that imagines that civic reform is In
ULO uduu6 VI Cu0 Low 1Coo .Aoo ~ ~
busy ones who are interesting them
selves in gardens, parks, architecture
decoration, Fairgrounds and sanitary
reform. --
Among the declarations Of societie
| that meet and compare notes Is tint
Neighborhood Improvement League o:
Cook County, comprising about twelv'
clubs. The Federation Of Improvement
clubs comprises about fifty, ware. i'm
provement clubs. In many public schools
are Clean City clubs, in which the chill
dren look after waste paper, broker
sidewalks, insanitary alleys and repor
to the health office the results Of thei
spying.
The Woman IS Auxiliary Of the. Amer
can Park and Outdoor Art Associa
ton has a record for improving schoc
grounds and planting trees. in add
ton to it's larger interest in obtain
ing state forest reserve and adm
in the national park schemes. The yea
| hook of the South Park lmprOvemen
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
PRESIDENT SMITHS DEFENSE
OF THE MORMON CHURCH

The president Of the Church Of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, upon
request from the editor of Out West
to respond to the charges made against
his church, devotes a large part of has
article in the September number Of that
magazine to a historical survey; the
following quotations are from that por-
ton Of his paper dealing 5 WITH 'c4 pRe
charge as Ssthe alleged departure of the
church, under the present administra-
ton, from it's original standards; the
sordid and selfish enforcement Of the
temporal above the spiritual. - His ba-
sis for the system of tithing is:
ttThe revelation given through 10
seph, the prophet, at Far West, Mis-
souri,, July 8, 1888, in answer to the
question, 20 Lord, show unto thy. ser
wants how much thou requirest Of the
properties Of the people for tithing7
Verify, thus saith the Lord, [ require all
their surplus property to be put into the
hands of the bishop Of my Church of
Zion. And after that, those who have
thus been tithed, shall pay one-tenth
Of all their interest annually; and this
shall be a standing law unto them for
eveTa + for my holy priesthood saith the
The article concludes with this dec
laration:
CIT is true the present trustee-in-
trust is prominent in various business
concerns that have done much and are
| destined to do more in the develop
ment Of the material resources Of Utah
| and the west; but it is also true that
many of the offices held by him in those
concerns mainly directorships = have
descended to him from former incum
bents of his position; fact which his
enemies, in all their unwarranted stric.
lures upon his course, keep carefully
out of sight. It is true that the church
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
GORKY DESCRIBES A
. u. +. :. JEWISH MASSACRE

"The piercing shrek of child file
the air. In the motley hurly-burly G!
the crowd it seemed like a gleamir
flash of lightning among clouds. Aft
it the noise seemed lessened.
. "a pile of plates fell from the wi,
dow, and then, shimmering in the SUI
shine, came samoyar. -
"From the roof came frightflI
screaming.
MtEyerybodyz looked up: The iro.
tied. Then there suddenly appeare
over the edge something large. It r
manned, quaking, stationary for a m,
ment, then, with whine and a howl +
rolled off and fell. Alsoft, soul-repe
ing thud.
ct ran away, and behind me sounde
a wild, malevolent roaring:
+ "'Ah, ali, ah!' ~---- 10
-" AHA. ah!'
Flung down at last! All, ah!'
+ sHOn the street people were smashin
chairs, tables; splintering trunks, tea
ing all sorts Of apparel. laughing. Tt
air was filed with eiderdown. From tt
windows of two houses there came pi
rags; and the mob, crazed with a lonI
ing to destroy, seized these things, tea
ing, breaking, smashing them.
"That same evening I passed a pickle
of Cossacks in the market place, an
heard one say to the other:
sG.'They say y fourteen gp-tee15 Jews were tor
"AndZ the other pulled his pipe an
made no comment upon the words Of h
comrade' - -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

whose main support is the tithes Of it.
members, has from time to time placed
means where they would be likely to
do the most good, For itself and fol
the community at large; and as result
it has paid off many of its debts and itls
credit today is sound and unimpaired
But it is not true that the church has
or that there has. been any, radical
change of policy in the financial con
duct of the authorities, in the course
pursued by them, spiritually or tenn
porally, since the days Of Lorenzo Snow
MILFORD Woodruff, John Taylor, Brig.
ham Young and Joseph Smith. I de.
nounce as an infamous falsehood the
allegation that the tithing system of
the Latter-day Saints is q. system of
wretched ibelers continually declare.
The tithing of the church, which I have,
shown to be a tenth of the annual in
crease Of its members, is purely a vol
untary offering, willingly and cheer
fully made by. them in obedience to.
what they hold to be law of God.
The leaders s1, pay tithing as well as the
ton in it, and no shad S7,
Saints have been used largely, from
the very beginning, for the support of
the poor, the relief of the sick and
afflicted, the care of the widow and the
orphan. Other purposes for which these
funds have been expended are the build
ing Of temples and houses of worship,
the emigration of the poor, the found
ing of hospitals and other benevolent
institutions, and the maintenance of
church schools thruout the stakes of
Zion, now reaching from Canada to
Mexico. The outside missions have also
been aided in various ways 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
ADJUSTMENTS
Unioue-Amateur Night.

Amateur night" was in high favor at
the Unique last evening. There were
singers and acrobats, sketches and dane
ing turns galore. The large audience
present voted the show success.
little Jimmie" scored an immense hit
in his sketch, 1.-THE Booking Agency" in
which he was assisted by Harold Beck
row and Herman La Fleur. The singers
were Charles Schaffer, Allen ,Sommers,
Donald sisters, Eugene White, Eva
Lumpkin, Sara Steinfeld and Mary Cum
mings, and all were well received" Other
entertaining acts were presented by Mill
err brothers. acrobats; Williams sisters,
comedy sketch; Dorothy Sakley, pianist;
Rose Larsen, recitation; Macy brothers,
acrobats; Marguerite Gilman and Frank
lie Love, comedy sketch; Morris Freed
man, comedian of the Hebrew type;
Theo Henderson, songs and Dances and
last, but by no means least, Mrs. Mary
Critics. the all-around amateur, whose
birdlike notes were drowned in wild an6
furious applause. #s--
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
A MccURDY POEM

President Richard A. McCurdy Of the
Mutual Life, in the role Of a poet, is a
new figure to many. However, he has
from time to time contributed verse to
periodicals. Most qds them have been
anonymous, but onesWhich was signed,
appeared in the Independent on Dec. %,
1898. It was entitled "Apage, Satanas."
1t is. in part, as follows:
Swift flow the circling years, and Christmas
bells
Again ring out their message loud and clear,
Alas,
If to the heavy heart If to the leaden ear,
Their vibrant melody no story tells
OF hope or cheer,
Babe of Bethlehem, Mary's child adored,
Savior, Redeemer,, born on this day.
Alas,
Tho doomed for sin to suffer and to ransom
pay,
For 'prisoned souls-ring, ring Thy bells, dear
Lord,
In sweet accord.
Ring gladstone chimes until the leaden ear
Shall harken to their vibrant melody,
Alas,
"Get thee behind me. satan,'' mine thine
the cry.
But 10! 1t triumphs! Heart be Of good cheer,
Christmas is here #
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
CHICAGO UNDERTAKES
SOME MIGHTY TASK.

association reports definite work in tt
planting in its district with a view
giving an object lesson to the propeA
owners. 20 this society the word il
means general housecled
ing and lettering of streets-pavii
tree planting, watering and keepit
clean, banishing unsigiltly signs al
weeds from vacant lots and doing VIII
ever it's hands find to do.
Cooperating with the Others are e
American League for City ImproYI
ment, the Tree Planting society, II
Chicago Architectural club, the NUM-
pal Art league, the City Homes. as
citation and the City Art commissi.
Two of these societies are directly.
terested in saner architecture and b
ter homes for the average citizen.
Each of the social settlemel
NAV be said to he leaven for its spec,
neiehborhood. There are now eighte
of these welding an influence for goo
The Municipal Art league has e
teal way the identifying Of strees
or public buildings or places In q
eago; hence its activities may
widespread. The committees repo
honorable work. They have assisted
securing plans for Grant park and Il
placing Of the John Crerar library al
the Field Columbian museum there1
They have brought war on billboarI
and the smoke nuisance. The art COZ
mittee has founded the municipal a
gallery and is interested in a comp
tition Of designs and drawings of fou
tains, sculpture, electric light pos
and artistic business signs, ETC., tn
are suitable for city decoration.
Another organization little hea
from is group OF men forming
architectural club whose purpose is
draw ideal plans Of an architectuI
scheme that will help the city of t
future in it's development along hs
mony and symmetry. -
Conspicuous for its good works
the special park commission, which b
founded and has in working order fo1
teen Fairgrounds for children in d
tricts without park opportunities. i
account of a day at one of these pla
| grounds is assuring that good Wor
bring a reward and appreciation. II
commission does not rest upon its
bors, but has recently issued an &
peal for Fairgrounds in seven ne
| 1ected wards, Including the Ghetto a
| Little Bohemia and the dreary vast
of the lumber districts and facto
neighborhoods. ~-.-s..
The Public School Art society &C
Germs itself with the esthetic traini
of children through pictures and wo1
| Of art. Its plan of action is pract1c
| decorating entire schools, loaning C
lections and giving lectures and ex
| billions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
THE TWO MYSTERIES

We know not what it is, dear, this sleep SO deep
and still; . ,.a
The folded hands, the awful calm, the cheek
pale and chill; =.
The lids that will not lift again, tho we may
call and call;
The strange, white solitude Of peace that settles
over all.
The child who enters life comes not with know
ledge intent
So all who enter death must 60 as little chill.
dren sent.
Nothing is known But, nearing God, what hath
the soul to dread?
And as life Is to the living, so death is to the
dead Mary Mapes Dodge.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
Driving Away an Improvement.

The city council may have over
reached itself in it's demands on. the
Great Northern. Rather than build the
expensive steel bridge required by the
council, the company declares that 1t
will abandon all the work planned west
of Superior boulevard, where fifty acres
recently acquired were to become the
site Of shops, freight terminals and
grain elevators. The city seems to be
in imminent danger Of losing all these
valuable improvements, if it has not
already lost them.
The council was actuated, no doubt,
by the best of motives, but acted with
out the deiberation that the case called
for. A committee visited the present
bridge leading from Kenwood parkway
to Superior boulevard Friday afternoon
of last week. The company offered to
extend this bridge to cover the new
trackage required, but this did not suit
the committee. It decided that the
company must build new steel bridge,
not directly across the track, but on
a. long diagonal, which would give an
airline route from Superior boulevard
into the city. Having decided that the
city wanted the bridge, the committee
did not take the trouble to enter into
formal negotiations with the railroad
officials. The report was presented to
the council that same evening anc
adopted offhand.
If the city loses the valuable Great
Northern improvements as a result Of
this hasty action, the council will re
pent at leisure. But the city does not
want to lose them, and if the question
is still open for negotiation, the coun
cil's action should be reconsidered.
The aldermen conduct in this in
stance is in strong contrast with thei1
dilatory course on the grade-crossinE
question. For ten or fifteen years they
have been dallying with the grad
crossings in Southeast Minneapolis
where many human lives are endan
gered every day, and where there i
no danger of driving away industries
The city fathers have waited till
railroad company comes in with pre-
posal to do something for Minneapolis
and now demand as a condition tina
the company does something more.
If the city had given any attentio:
TO Superior boulevard in the past,
would be a different story; but tn
miserable condition Of the city end o
that thorofare has always been a dis
grace. 1t is steep hill badly graded
and practically impossible in any sor
of weather. What work has been don
has only served to make it worse, an
the route is regularly avoided by team
and automobiles. The city has nc
seemed to care anything about the S,
perior boulevard outlet until latel,
Now 100000 bridge seems more dea
in the eyes of aldermen than mi
ion-dollar industrial plant. Why tn
sudden access of interest in Superic
boulevard?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
THE STERN PARENT

Train up a child In the way he should
go; and when he is old he will not depart
from it.-Proverbs %, 6.
Foolishness is bound in the heart Of a
child; but the rod of correction shall
drive it far from him. Proverbs %, 15.
The rod and reproof give wisdom; but
child left to himself bringeth his moth
er to shame.-Proverbs 20, H.
Correct thy son. and he shall give thee
rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy
soul.-Proverbs 20, II.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21


head Of the lakes has finally reached
that vicious stage that might have been
foreseen a month ago, when acrimon-
ious comment first began to appear in
the Duluth-Superior press. Today the
-four mills on the Wisconsin side are
finding it difficult to operate, owing to
the activity of the Wisconsin inspec-
tion and weighing force. Wisconsin
weighmen took possession Of the scales
in one mill and refused to grant the
Duluth Board Of Trades weighmen
access to them. Locked out Of another
mill by the Minnesota men, the Wiscon-
sin men returned and broke in the
doors with axes.
This farce-comedy sort Of business
would be diverting were there not a
serious side to it. An immense amount
of capital is invested in milling and
grain storage companies at Duluth-Su-
perior and it is to be regretted that the
ambitions of the two towns should have
brought the inspection contest to such
extremes. ,@}Gt - :s-.. "a &h>@
One cannot blame the people Of Su.
| perior for their ambition to build up a
separate grain market, and it can read
lily be understood that to have the in
spection force come over from Duluth
and handle the immense business is 9
little CALLING to local pride. Neverthe
less, this is the way the thing worked
out in the natural growth of the north
west. Duluth has the market and the
CONTROL Moreover, she has. the prestige
Of the Minnesota inspection, which /:
known in the east and in Europe. M
one can deny that Duluth has built W
her business honestly and along SAT-
lines. That many Of the mills an(
houses controlled from the Duluth Boart
of Trade should have been located
across the line, in another state, is I'm
fortunate for Duluth. It is a goot
thing for Superior, but that city is no
satisfied to have Duluth control her in
dustries.
It was thought that the recent al
rangement to have the grain inspected
in Minnesota before passing it to Wis
consin, would settle the matter, bu
it appears only to have started
afresh. ..,
Allowing for some justification fo
the feeling in Superior, it is nevertht
less difficult to see wherein that cit
has the commercial right Of the matte
No law or combination of laws can pr
vent the development of a grain ma
ket in Superior, any more than la
could prevent the establishment Of
grain market in st. Paul and the cal
ture Of the Minneapolis business. BIZ
,, great commercial bodies are not bui
up in night, nor is their growth faci
itated by such radical measures as 81
: perior has adopted. It took twent.
= five years to build up the Minneapol
g Chamber of Commerce to it's prese1
commanding Importance, and every e:
: change has grown slowly. Superit
= might begin in q modest way, and wit
- many natural advantages in her fave
might in time become a grain marke
- but she seeks rather to capture II
trade by a sweeping change, whic
however fair in law, and however just
fed by circumstances, is working neve
:. theless against conditions long esta
:: lished and long recognized by the trat
: the world over. - .-~ -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

There is a skin that is fairer than mine,
And it is on another girl s face,
She always looks fresh as a daisy.
Regardless Of time or of place.
and if you doubt the efficacy of the rem
edy for chapped, rough and dry skin,
itching humors, scaly scalp and the prep
aration is not to be had at your home
store, send 10 cents to cover postage,
and we will send you liberal sample
by mail. Remember dry skin always
wrinkles, which once started becomes
more and more pronounced. Essence Of
George E. Higgins & Co., Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
WOE WAS MUTUAL.
Duluth News Tribune.

"Young man." said the president Of the
bank. calling young clerk to him. II
am sorry to hear that you have been bet
ting on the ball games. 1t is corrupt
practice. What have you to say about
it?"
seWen.'' replied the clerk, after mo-
ment's hesitation, atm sorry you heard
1t, too
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

Secretary Taft's reported statement
that he would cause the dismissal from
West Point Of any cadet guilty of bru-
tai or unfair tactics in the coming foot
ball game with Annapolis, conveys
hint that the governments war school ia
in a fair way to lose eleven good fight
ing men, ~" .st.o. a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

orator cars which none but friends. of
the railroads can afford to hire. It will
not last over night without icing. The
regulation Of rates by the government
tend to instability Of ratesl There is a
laugh coming somewhere. Perhaps the
Pioneer Press is going to come out for
humor in its declining years.
There are other reasons given by the
Pioneer, among them the familiar con-
trast between the work Of the "politi-
cal commission of seven and the
"higbly paid body Of EXPERTS who
make rates for the railroads. Fortu-
nately Mr.. Stickney has punctured this
balloon, and nothing need be added.
There are also "the political pressure,
and the fear Of "distance tariff All
these reasonings are very novel, or
would be if the genial agent of the rail
road press bureau had not already dis
tributed them thru the west.
It seems almost useless to point out
to certain people that the government
is not seeking to make rates de novo,
but only to correct inequalities and in
equities in rates "upon complaint. y
What passes for discussion of this ques.
ton in some quarters is cool ignoring
of what the government is seeking to
do and calm assumption that some
thing the government has never thought
of is what the government is aiming at.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

Paris has balloon race for excite
ment. It has this disadvantage that the
balloons do not run over anybody, but it
is still possible to drop bag Of sand out
on some poor widow. "
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

A device that records telephone con-
versations has been patented Charles
long distance goo-goo with Maud is
likely to sprain it some.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
WHY BISHOP BROOKS CAUGHT NO FISH.

Sigourney Butler, the noted Boston lawyer and
society man, who died few years ago. told
the following story at q dinner party:
81 met friend the other day who had been
on fishing trip with Bishop Brooks. l asked
him if the bishop caught any fish, and ne said
no, he swears too much
Why said, Bishop Brooks never swears. ;
% ooh, yes he does said my friend. 4
caught a large fish, and said, Bishop, that's
id good fish" and he said. Eyes, 1t Il, !"
in response.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
A PROPOSAL.
Philadelphia Press.

FnlIdQeIpnla FTeSS.
Miss Pechis-Mr. Dumley took me for
a Vassar graduate the first time he met
me.
Mr. Yerner-That's strange. That isn't
at all what was inclined to take you for.
Miss Pechis-No? What then? p,
Mr.. Yerner-For better, for worse.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

A new drink in New York is known as
"horseneck" This sounds like an East
Grand Forks cocktail compounded of
wood alcohol, three shrieks and a dash
of delirium. .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

The Japanese plan Of worshiping an
cestors has this drawback, If the ances-
tors find it out they are likely to get
pretty chesty. -,.-. .-.....
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

AS Senator Foraker watches Governor
Folk Of Missouri working the Philadel-
phia graft mine, he must regret that he
did not also cry aloud and spare not
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

You may remember how Freedom
shrieked when certain Polish gentle
man fell. There has been a noticeable
absence of clamor since Gomez left Cuba.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

\ The people of Oshkosh, Wis, never
pay more than $3.50 for Ice. Is it possible
that our ice dealers are being deceived
by their high-priced labor?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

Derangement of the liver, with con-
situation, Injuries the complexion, in
duces pimples, sa]low skin. Remove the
cause by using Carter's Little Liver
Pills. One dose. Try them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

Rev. G. L. Morrill, breaches tomorrow
on "What is Your Gait?" Halloween ia
due shortly and your gate is likely to be
zero. - ... .-...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
LIABLE 10 ROUSE SUSPICION.

care you going to Europe this SUMMER
don't ,snt s :, Mrs sea tn S
you know. When a man travels now a lot
Of people turn up their noses and wonder
whether grand Jury is after him"