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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22
Feature Of the Stock. Market.

The speculative markets 4 took on
activity this week not seen for some
time. The stock market, after a long,
steady rise, based largely upon contli-
tions warranting enhancement, suffered
a severe check, and coincident with this
the Gates wheat corner in Chicago col
lapsed. This corner, now the source Of
so much news, Was pretty we'll thrashed
over as to possibilities when it first ap-
peared, several months ago. fat aAtime
when Chicago May wheat was around
$1.15. No firm or Individual of stand
ing or good Judgment in the tradeever
thought that the things then predicted
would come out. TWo-dollar wheat and
the accompanying tales met little ia
vor at the hands Of conservative com
(mentators, who saw that some readjust-
ment, some closer working together of
the. nearby and the distant futures in
wheat would have to be effected or
the thing would fzzle out. Hence the
later course of events has not been sur
prising.# S..55 3Sa* s Il H. AZ H:
The Gates corner was too serious at
thing to be passed over lightly; no one
could safely. figure out possibilities for
stocks without allowing for the prob
able temporary effect of a change of
front on the part Of the Gates follow
ing. III Hence at the close Of last week
there was a stock market tending up
ward, and having sound fundamentals
to go on, but in a state Of nervousness
over number Of things, principal Of
which were the pending naval battle
and the Gates wheat corner.
That the Chicago deal would col;
lapse was the general. expectation, and
many wheat and stock traders who are
believers in higher stock prices ulti-
1nately, either got out from under tenn
porarily or. stood ready to run.
Wall Street is now in position where
the general trend Of affairs is favorable,
but a number Of minor things Of con
trary effect are working in and out#S:from
day. to day. Broadly speaking, there
is opportunity fol. a great rise in stocks,
for a wave OF prosperity is sweeping
the country. Scarcely a report that
bears upon. general conditions but is
| favorable. s III .a..t
Meanwhile, the street is disturbed
over the possible effect Of a japanese
reverse at sea, while close at5home the
Equitable fight is still on, with re-
elimination increasingly bitter, and
fnanciers are conc erned with this not
alone because Of the exposure Of ir-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

Governor La Toilette has won his fight
with the. Wisconsin legislature, and is
free to accept the toga the people threw
over his shoulders in January. He has
secured a railroad commission, for which
he has been battling for years, and this,
with the anti-pass and other railroad
legislation, puts wisconsin in the front
rank Of statesr3which have by law pro-
ceeded to put a curb on this much-abused
"private' business. Presidents futile and
Fish will be considerably Disguised, but il
cannot be helped now D.. J., ..,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

Who says women are not fitted for
politics? When the election of Mrs DON
aid Mclean as. president general Of tho
Daughters of the American Revolution was
announced the Mclean delegates jumped
to their feet en- masse and yelled them
selves :hoarse; women fell on each others
necks and wept for joy; the delegates and
alternates in the gallery reached a per-
feet frenzy of emotion. What could have
been more like a national convention of
mere men? .li -...- . 81.
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1. ..RockefelIer's sReba tes.

~ Bibliotheca Sacra for April has q few
words Of defense Of Rockefeller, which
take the general ground that clergymen
cannot sit in judgment.fupon nor keep
the conscienees Of the great captains OF ct
industry; that Rockefeller, has never
been convicted of anything worse than
selling cheaper than his competitors;
that he has been entitled to lower rates
on the railroads by reason of his larger
volume of freight, and that the Stand
ard Oil company is not an oppressor, but
is giving the people cheaper and better
oil than they could otherwise receive,
because Of its careful Organization. VT !
There are, of course two branches to
this subject, and it is by cleverly mix
ing them that the Biblotheca endeavors
| to make out case for the Standard.
There is first it's relation to its competi-
tors in the matter Of productions and
price, and there is, second, it's: relation
to the common carriers of, the country.
| So far as his relations with competitors
| is concerned, the public could not quar-
rel with Mr.. Rockefeller If he gave
them cheaper and better oil. I" But how
| did he acquire that power9 It was not
thru superior knowledge Of the business,
because there were keen men in the
Pennsylvania oil field before Rockefel-
Ter entered it. Mr.. Rockefeller did not
invent any1new process for the treat
ment Of crude OIL. nor devise; any. spe-
cial machinery which would enable him
to hold an advantage over his competl-
tors; Rockefeller never invented any,
thing but a new way of harding the
railroads. Rebates and preferential
rates had been known before his time
but it was Rockefeller who invented the
scheme whereby he was not only to re-
ceive rebate: on the oil shipped by
himself, but a bonus upon every barrel
shipped by his competitors. F.: I'll. 800.
1t is useless to inquire here how he
induced the railroads to enter into such
contracts. The fact is that he did. The
result was that he monopolized the OF
business, that he drove competitors
honorable and upright men, to bank
ruptcy, to ruin, and to- suicide, anc
that he did it without once wincing al
| his own work. If this is the kind Of
man to patronize religion and furnish
the means to convert the heather, the1
!. Christianity must be in sorer straits
than it ever was before in it's history.
=, The relation of Rockefeller to thu
public carriers has been all wrong, i'm
moral ard ubiquitous. The evidence
is overwhelming. The denial can b.
nothing but the pattering of apology.
2 Our old FRIEND Laundering Gordon, ha
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

THE UNEASY CHAIR

NoN-REsISTANcE AS a MEANS OF.
BREAKING BAD HABITS, AND OTHER
THlNGS.-Non-re resistance, as a means Of
freeing oneself from a bad habit or a.
nasty temper or almost anything else that
one doesn't want and yet Is pretty sure
to have, seems on first thought the acme
or nonsense. Yet the theory, as set forth
In Annie Payson Calls The Freedom Of
Life, is convincing. In 1.-THE authors own
words, the theory is this:
1t is the law Of concentration and relaxa-
being willing, on relaxing until we have dropped
every bit Of resistance to the circumstances
balanced point Of xiew v, Whence is we can see
clearly how to take firm and decided action.
First Of all, one by concentration must
get clear back into the recesses Of his
soul and convince himself that he wants
to let go Of the thing that he has been
fighting, and must will so to do. There
must be no quibbling, no compromise; the
thing must out everlastingly. Then, or
along with. the conviction that the thing
is to be put out of court for good and all,
must come a relaxation Of the tension to
| which one has become keyed by his con-
slant doglike watch, lest the thing get
the better of him.. In reality, this con-
! slant tension has at best only served to
| keep the thing, whether c1garets or grog
! Or something else, just beneath the surface
| Of the mind, ready to pop out on TIE
slightest provocation. Having decided thai
| the thing is utterly bad, therefore, and
having relaxed the strained watch against
it, it vanishes from sight, sinks into OBJ
| livion. ''~ ..". s!...-re .tr-l,
e.. Apply this theory to sleeplessness. There
| is no doubt that the victim goes to bee
perfectly willing to sleep. Indeed, he
tries to go to sleep, and in his trying gets
up a tension which keeps him awake
In other words, 1T Is the unwillingness
to lie awake that keeps him awake By
being willing to do the very thing we have
not wanted to do (non-resistance) we d.
| the thing we do want to do.
! . The process is worth trying. AS ex'
planned at length by the author, it seem!
more and more reasonable. 1t is in realit!
no new thing, but it Is put in a new way
which to many makes it as good as If i
We're a. new thing. 1t is, however, one O.
those things which gives cumulative re
Suits SO that, if the first results are no
large, the plan should not be abandoned
i7's.'< Little Brown & Co., Boston.
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Figures So Big You Cant Think
in Them. o., ;.t..u

Not many people give thought to the
size Of our country commercially. We
know that we have passed all in inter
nal commerce; that industrially we
have eclipsed the European countries;
that in many other ways we are in the
lead and are rapidly becoming the
money power Of the world, but just how
much business we do in day or II
year is a matter few have gone into.
That we are a mighty proposition
must be brought forcibly to the mind
Of one who looks into the report or
the New York Clearing House, just
issued. Here are figures of such magni-
tude as to run beyond the denomination
of the ordinary man, figures that were
1t not for the dollar sign prefxed might
make one think he were dealing with
some proposition astronomical.
The. New York clearing house takes
In every day about 100000 checks,
/. sometimes as many as 10000 from a
single big bank. The business Of al
average day runs above 5000, 100000
About five per cent:of the total is repre-
sented by exchanges Of actual cash, the
balance being Offset by obligations of
one institution against another. So*per.
feet is the system that instances are
recorded of a bank turning in thousands
Of checks against other banks aggre
gatiag 100000, and receiving in iex
change the checks drawn against 1t
and effecting settlement@by payment OF
1918 in money a Another bank went
in one day with checks for $1,3OO,0OO
and in the settlement paid over ten
, cents to balance Occasionally. how.
ever, a big cash balance is paid. and
/. in one of. the banks there may be seen
the receipt for the largest sum ever SO
paid. 15,243,O6O.51. 1e* = =. i
Ask what: was the largest day ever
recorded and the report, will tell you
$662,410, 525.56. Ask the largest cal
endar year and the total is $59,672, 1896,
S04.41, and the largest twelvemonth
period, $1,000, 672 ,493. 65.ss. ...tnas
The clearing house has never made a
{ mistake. The story once went around
that there were twelve cents missing
s Uut ILLS Iue ududgeHeHC vigorously Qe-
MED. In the 6fty-four years Of it's ex.
istence the New York clearing house
has handled money or checks to The
/ brain-staggering total Of $1,565,66S,
321,737.75. An array Of figures, purely
nebulous to the ordinary mind, it never
theless makes it clear that we must
have been doing some business in The
country.
A daily glance at the figures Of the
bank clearings is a fair guide as to tht
run Of business from day to day, ant
/ will serve to impress one with the vast
ness Of financial and commercial opera
tions in our country, and in connection
with this it must not be forgotten, that
\ what New York. does is only the more
sevident part of the whole. Other cen
4 tiers like Boston. Philadelphia, Chicago
md st. Louis pile up great figures fol
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22
Satur day Evening Ill

Cos, 597 bushels mot as much as she
should have done, and not a record
production by far. That.Kear North
Dakota produced 55,24O, $50 bushels
and South Dakota a Z ,252, 994-a total
for the three states of 173,146,l71.
This was not a bad crop, but it was
nothing to brag Of as to quantity and
the next year was looked to for an
offset. Conditions were even less ia
,v5oerahle, however, in the season that
followed, and Minnesota fell under, to
| SO ,344,a56 bushels, North Dakota fell
off to 50 1892, 1913 bushels and South
Dakota, suffering even greater proper
tionate loss, decreased to 31,556,7S4
bushels--a total for the three states
of 1853, 793,23s, or loss Of 19,352,93s
bushels from the already moderate pro-
duction of,5the year before. s# hi
Minnesota seeded last year 5, 3a9,394
acres, North Dakota 4,567 ;2O4 and
South Dakota $685., 05 Ia total Of 49,
Il93,655.5 This year there will probably
be at least 100000 acres planted.
laa From the fact that the early. start
is 50 good, and from the law of aver
ages, by, which q number Of poor sea-
sons. are. usually succeeded by a good
| one, the northwest should have big
| wheat crop this year. The Interstate
total should run well over 200,0O0,00C
bushels if the weather lis anywhere
near favorable thru the summer.
! To Theodore Roosevelt-Keep in touch
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22
A DAY OFF

Want to get off in green world of clover
Bees huntin' honey, an doves fyin' over;
Let loose my soul. with the joy of rover
Want to get OF for day!
Want to get of where the south winds are
creepin'
Over the brook where the speckled trout's
1eapin';
Away with the sowin'! Away with the reapin'l
Want to get of for a day!
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If Mr. Gates has lost. few millions
in his wheat corner, it is no great loss
He has the money-and some more.
Gatesey has never gone into any such
foolishness as books, antiques, libraries,
gold watch chain that sells by the pound
and delights in flashing a roll Of bills as
large as ''$5 worth of lettuce" Mr.. Gates
may not be particularly refined" but he
has "the dough- He may lose this time
but, in the language of the street, he will
"sweat it back" .--...- ="
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

Milward Adams, a Chicago man, has
received the decoration of the Order of
Leopold from the King of, the Belgians.
We do not know how MI. Adams can
afford the reputation Of being such a
warm friend of the present King of the
Belgians, but he may intend to wear it
under his coat. iEg2'Gt -. go g.. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

The eastern papers state that "a Phil
adelphia gas company has offered s25, ooo,
900 for a fifty-year franchise" 49,, This
throws dim, irreligious light on the gas
business in Philadelphia ~ 2:ie ~ %zA
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

A LITTLE rToo PREvIoUs."-In
some quarters Harry Leon Wilson, author
of "The Spenders," and now of a new
novel, 1.-The Boss of Little Already" Cloth
rop, Lee & Shepard company, is being
called 'The American Dickens" Doubt
less this is only the exaggeration Of book
booming, but it Is a good bit. ''too soon''
to give such big title to Mr.. Wilson now.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

q Statistics show that the United King
dom is first In the consumption of tea.
Germany in beer, the United States in
coffee, France in wines and Russia in
whisky. Everybody to his taste d..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

Omaha has Joined the clawhammer
league Of cities by scraping up an audi
ence of 5000 for 'Parsifal.' AT least
that's what the papers Of Omaha say-but
we recall the Omaha. census 2 IL. III -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

The New York Sun, having long hunted
for somebody to club, has, hit on Harri-
man and is after the great railroad king
hammer and AK Why? Oh, just because
it is the Sun. "
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22
A Narrow Horizon.

To get the commercial news of the
day and get it in all it's proper bearing,
one must go east. Here he will find in
print from time to time a record Of the
latest doings in trade and commerce
and much concerning new industrial
development, with accompanying COM
ment as to it's effect upon conditions
elsewhere and in general. For example,
the New York Journal of Commerce has
an item regarding the building of a
"big flour, MILL at Armourdale, a
suburb of Kansas City. This is to be
a mill that will cut a figure in the
trade. The daily capacity will be all
! of 1000 barrels. Alongside of it will
20 up a mighty elevator. This will
have capacity for the storage Of all of
100000 bushels Of wheat. When all
this gets going, other milling centers
will have to watch out or they will go
into the background.
Incidental to this is, the story of the
. construction of ''the greatest -four mill
in the world.' This will go up in New
York. It will throw shadow that will
darken everything else in the milling
industry, for it will have daily capacity
of the enormous total Of 10000 barrels
When this gets going, then, indeed, the
relative Importance of things will be
changed. ~
. Presumably the man who wrote OF
q the big mill of Armourdale and the
"largest -four mill in the world - never
heard of a place called Minneapolis.
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!. WANTED-A. JOURNALIST

Advertisement in Council Bluffs Iowa)
\: Nonpareil. US
% Printer for country +; must be able to
make up, set ads, do job work, run cylin-
der and p1aten presses, do binding and
musician; permanent position; 50 a week.
Apply r. C. Birdsall, 4O1 sOperahouse
block.
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When the kaiser sees so much trouble
travelling, about and he not able to get
into it., he must perceive the disadvantage
Of having such G reputation as a hard
hitter i; s.gf n 81. ~. ID ri .4si h - -
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Wlfh The Long Bzoap.
Eye natures walks. shoot folly as IT MOS"

kind, up annoy the starsa Such
postal clerk the train had aboard sack destined for lakewood N
and ra a M vocal cat its
enough the clerk did not but gngery
night black and with white tail The cat
adopted the postofce and proceeded
hole The black night boomer became something Of favoe until
@ @ 0f u Gt en s hsa rsn 9 n and
pile Of letters in the drawer rented by the lakewood department
out and the nightingale frightened sudden privacy
and remembering the trip the mail exploded like Port Arthur
policeman lodging shot holes thru the ceiling missing the
postoace strange say and con
tra1y to the proverb, never came back s
Bxby having trouble fellow who gets you in corner
tell you mdewsd Joke and then Rokes yieeus the ribs
Of and he intends breathe
does that. "a ### #."s ~ { gzs r=#z 7
WE DO not IT. feel like s anyh agan S John nd having n
f Optic Waterman living
Bowbes before charged
Unable to furnish When taken the jail and introduced to
Sheriff Lee, following place. -
t "What is your name? ~-.a.--..- --.u
t "Waterman.
/ "what is your businessq .-@ ~ e4-~~-@ IN
.*Wel you can Stay with us until you get bail " sl
~ don't know whether want bail might want stay here
+ || Al right will lead you to good place
Mr. Sheriff haven't dnd morning. and could
little unchany little thing happen to have handy
after which
turnkey bring the cgarets and will make OUT
what the sheriff produced the Optic but wasn't
4-~--~, =-s@Er| s.@ p. ss.a5: So
American
attractive well educated and weahy who wants kind hon
She She
variety catching
the the today You would be astoned the
Of reputable sensible who will nbbe bait like this
the matrimonial
Then sucker the ad telling all
himself how he with what little he
has of the worlds wealth As he has mailed his letter the
he broad leading the loss of
his wealth. The Fargo Forum that we'll that
founding agents. for the
Of the line will be of it.
female He that the the article
him.
and
her This is the and
Of
his distant love him. Then
weeks continuous at the depot until
him has been worked Rather than his painful
asininiy down profit and under the
epence' nothing It quite for victim
girl who wants
her You almost always tell adj
attractive s-zr
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DON'T IMPATIENT.
Marshall core. j Mail.

55ia sfsitsssa Marshall (Ore.y Mail. e
b Our esteemed contempt down the
creek who lis worried over the Mails edi-.
torials on Sheep. Hens, ETC." need not
feel sighted too soon. We will get around
to Asses after "a while &sset III taspt4
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Speaking Of the campaign lie with
regard to Governor johnson g unfor-
tunate father, by the circulation Of
which certain persons hoped to accom-
plish Mr.. Johnson s defeat, the Trib-
une says: "We do know that some
very decent persons were so carried
away by. misguided partizanship as to
try very hard to get it before the pub
lie. They got what they deserved when
the cry Of persecution elected John
son. - It would be interesting to see
a list of those livery decent persons
if the Tribune has it handy. 49,:
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= sasE -
DEATH

What! I fear death?
Believe, me. nos
Out Of d mystery we come,
Into the light We go.
What! / fear death
swear to thee
Ny chfefest thought is one
OF curiosity.
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I REAL y. FunhY-FoR THE BOYS
r. ,,,,,,,4 ntorr,s nm ! Inff3ex:

Mount Morris (Ill.) Index. .srs, II.
h Something real funny occurred not long
since when one of our schoolteachers was
out riding with his best girl On reaching
their destination they found two OF the
girls small brothers had quietly accompa-
MED them, seating themselves behind in
the buggy. Fs f
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

Diggers of the Panama canal are ar
irving on the scene in lots: Of 400. That
Culebras cut might as well offer. to come
down. g4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

NJ Witte is said to realize that he is
In q difficult position. He Isl. J. Hazen
Hyde would not trade troubles with him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

.a The Minneapolis baseball team is not
to be judged by it's initial performance.
The thawing season is not vet active. II
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-22

ff Rome's census shows 56O,s4O people.
Rome: IS getting to be the Minneapolis Of
Italy L...G.-
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daily clearings, while many smaller
cities. like Kansas City and Minneap-
oils, roll up totals that against the
totals Of New York and the Others,
compare very. favorably, population con
'sidered.
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Since the. Equitable got a-gooiing, Ton
Lawson isn't needed to expose things.