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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
The Western Union Case.

The influence of the work of Henry
George on questions Of taxation is real
in the world. While his single tax
plan has not commended itself to the
people Of this country, many of his
ideas are. forcing their way into the
schemes Of taxation. One of these was
the idea Of taxing franchises as! if
they were visible property like lands
or buildings. In the latest develop
ments Of tax methods this idea has re-
ceived recognition. It stands on the
tax laws Of New York, and it is recog-
nized indirectly in. the decision of the
Minnesota supreme court in the West
ern Union case. /.
The direct money benefit to the state
from the back taxes this corporation
will have to pay over is small part
OF the public benefit. The future
rights Of the commonwealth are secured
as the right to tax franchises is estab
ished- To be sure the court did not
and could not say how, they should be
taxed, that being left to the admins
tratlve branch of the, government and
at present the ultimate power seems
to rest with the state board, of 3equaliza
ton. The new powers Of that boar6
make it's constitution of more import
ance than ever. Whether it shall be
large body Of citizens called together
once a@year. to. perform in a short pc
riod a vital function or shall be recon
stituted as small body of experts con
tinuously studying and : determining
the bases of valuation is a live ques
ton, particularly if the people .shal
ratify at the nextselec tion.the widesope1
amendment which has been submitted
to them by. the legislature.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
The Lost Arts Myth.

The Scientific American has recently
taken occasion to expose the untruth
of most Of the stories that are heard
about the Lost Arts. There are no lost
arts, it AYERS, except those which have
been outgrown. - ;. - -
It used to be. accepted as a fact that
modern engineers could not quarry as
large stones as are used in the mono
liths of Egypt. Yet modern engineers
have not only quarried larger stones,
but, they have taken down the mono
iths themselves, transported them
across oceans and set them up again in
new lands. They could if they wished
transport and set up again the pyra.
mids themselves or build larger pyra.
mids, but the fact is there is no demand
for pyramids in our times. - ..., ~
It is very doubtful, the American
says, whether the famous Damascus
blade could stand the strain undergone
by the modern band saw or whether il
contained as good steel as the spring OF
an ordinary watch. The most of the So
called lost arts are arts which have
been replaced with newer knowledge.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23

/. The book is unhappily christened. ''The
Boss is not a real hero Of the tale and
fills by no means the most important
role. The hero is "the major" young
man who went to the war C'The Boss"
his rival in love, having proved success
full rivaD, and, returned to take up the
practice of law in Little Already, and to
take part in the village life, life that,
as Mr.. Wilson paints it, is highly inter-
esting and full Of delightful humor
The book opens with Colonel Potts in
the foreground. Colonel Potts is char
acter the village ardently desires to be
rid Of. : His morals are atrocious. An
example of the way he seeks to corrupt
the youth of Little Already Is found in
the following, spoken by Scion Denney,
1.-THE Boss" and editor Of the Little
Already Argus:
He begged me to 60 into that Skeyhan's
drinking-place with him and have glass OF
liquor. / said very sharply: Colonel Potts, /
have never known the taste of liquor in my
whole life, nor used tobacco in any FORM AT
that he looked at in the-Cutmost astonish-
ment and said: ''Bless my soul Really? Young
man., don't you put it off another day-life is
awful uncertain" 'why, colonel' I said,
chat isn't any way to talk but he simply
tore down the street, saying that l was taking
great chances. -. = ar-. =. -..-... -... -
The colonel takes flight, however, and
tnen the center OF the Stage is TAKEN ny
Miss Caroline" who Is Mrs. Lansdale
from Virginia, and then, in turn, By
Little Miss Mrs. Lansdale's daughter
It is then that "the major" finds a new
interest in life. and does as curious BIZ
of love-making as has been set down ir
a novel for many day.
All in all, Mr.. Wilson has taken a BIZ
of early postbellum life, has exaggerated
| it's salient and its minor features, has
| colored them to suit the demands Of {
rich imagination. which sees more thar
! the prosaic in life, and at the same time
has idealized them, SO that the picture /:
| Arcadian in a high degree. The result
! for the reader is one of the best thing:
that life affords-a book that delights
| quickens the sympathies and revivife:
the quiescent good in ones nature.
| Lothrop Publishing company, Boston.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
JUNGLE BLY, TAYLOR. ALMOST 100.
49,. MARCHED IN THE G. A. K. PARADE
Old Citizen of La Crosse Served Three Wars and Under
'" Commands of Fiue Officers Who Be-
49,. came President.

under Captain Abraham Lincoln. While
in the regular army he served at Fort
Crawford when that post was COM
handed by General Zachariah Taylor.
He also served in the Mexican war IN
der General Taylor.
Very soon after the civil war began
he enlisted in the Fourteenth Wiscon-
sin, serving four years, and was with
his regiment in all of the battles in
whieh it was engaged. In the civil
war he fought in battles where General
Grant was the commander, among them
Shiloh.
For a brief time in the Mexican war
his command was attached to a brig
ade commanded by General Franklin
Pierce, and at another time a brigade
commanded by Colonel Jefferson Davis,
from which it will be seen that this
man was uniformed servant under the
command of five officers who subse-
quently served as president-Taylor
Pierce, Lincoln and Grant, presidents
Of the United States, and Jefferson
Davis, president of the southern con-
federacy. What other living or dead
soldier has such a record7
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
Stature day Evening,

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nues Of work have been opened. up. The
spade and pick might dig the Panama
canal in a generation, but by means Of
great steam shovels which scoop out
eight cubic feet Of earth at a time, it
is expected that the big Culebra cut
will be completed insthree or four years.
It may be said that every labor sav-
ing machine has created more demand
for labor than it has supplied. The
field for machinery is constantly widen
ing. Every want that is supplied by
the creation Of a machine only opens
other avenues Of progress. The deyel-
opment would seem to be limited only
by the wants Of man and they are
bounded by only his boundless imagina-
ton 4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
The Law Enough Crv.

Every time the government, by siren
uous efforts, succeeds in bagging rail
road criminal, the railroad lobby holds
up its hands in admiration Of the work
and adds: "This proves again that you,
have law enough 1t was so when
the interstate commerce commission sue
ceeded in breaking up the private car
line. abuses in Michigan, and it is SO
again when the government has OBJ
tanned pleas of guilty from some Of the
Chicago packers who. were accused of
obtaining rebates. # seems useless to
point out to them that neither rebates
nor private car5line extortion is the en-.
tire question The Whole question is
one Of reasonable rates and reasonable
regulation Of the whole transportation
system. The government is doing, the
best it can with the laws which exist
but every effort made by the attorney
general to put down ,lawlessness in this
matter merely emphasizes the need of
more directly applicable laws. ~.z:5*5'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
Mr.. Hills Secret.

The first number of the Northwest
ern Railway Record, published at Du-
luth, contains what is called ga Char
was written by W. A. McGonagle, vice
president of the Duluth, Missabe &
Northern railway.
In that sketch Mr. McGonagle I'M
dertakes to account for Mr. Hill s rise
to the foremost place in the ranks Of
successful railroad men and assigns the
following reasons
Appropriation.
b-Observation.
c-Execution.
Perhaps all three of them are neces-
sary to account for Mr.. Hill, but the
hrst one, preparation, will admit of
some emphasis. How much it figured in
the making of the great railroad builder
and manager is suggested by the state
ment that "When Mr.. Hill began as
an employee, he prepared himself not
only for the work to which he was in
dividually assigned, but also for that
OF his immediate superior, so that when
an opportunity for advancement came
1t was apparent to his employers that
they need not look further for a suit
able man to fill the place.
1t really ism It necessary to look any
further for MI. Hill's secret Of success.
That policy would make any man a
success who would carry it out. Of
course, there are men of limited capa-
city who never could fit themselves for
the places occupied by their immediate
5 superlors, but as a rule this is not the
case. AS a rule, the subordinate by
dint of extra effort might fit himself
for the work of his Immediate superior,
but as rude the subordinate fails to
Go so, because of Incidence or love of
pleasure or lack Of spirit.
They have term in the theatrical
world which describes this relation.
They call it that Of an understudy. The
understudy is selected from the COM
pany as the one best qualified to take
the part of the principal in the event
OF illness or accident. That is a mere
precaution on the part of the manage
& ment. The disposition on the part of
the. individual to prepare oneself to do
as well as the principal the principal IS
work is born Of ambition, and ambition
is the spur to success. The man who
has no inclination, no desire, no intense
purpose to succeed will not care to pre-,
pare himself for a station above his
own, but the man who has such an in
centive and who follows this simple
rule Of Mr.. Hill S early life will land
at the top.
It is very easy rule to learn and one
& which learned and pondered and fol
lowed by any young man of today, will
bring him success despite the theory
that the present monopolization of op
portunity has deprived the young man
OF today, without money or influence
OF the chances of success which offered
generation ago.,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
\ TIE y
ACR[N BONA
u! fs IN

A NOVEL FULL OF "FINE FA-
'sLlNG."---" Outside the real world is a
world Of fine fabling,'' quotes Harry
Leon Wilson in his new novel, The Boss
of Little Already. And that is just what
The Boss ,of Little Already" is-a piece
of fine failing; classical, If not a classic.
1t is story to be read a second time; If
not wholly, then in part. It is book to
put on ones shelves to have ready at
hand for those hours, sure to come, when
faith in the things one believes ought to
be true needs Strengthening. 1t holds no
formulated argument to do this strength
1ening. but it's poetry, it's fine failing, is
enough. 1t is full of fine fancies and deli
cate WITNESSES and the faith Of the poets
"a faith almost wholly lacking in THE
Seeker Mr.. Wilson'S previous book The
faith, 1t is true, is not that of the higher
things, but1t is of a piece with that and
its presence makes the difference between
Mr.. Wilson, author of THE Boss of Lit
tile Already" and Mr.. Wilson, author of
'"The Seeker
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
Pass 1t Onward.

Pass 1t Onward.
If we cannot preach sermon,
Sing a single soulful song,
Check for aye the tide Of evil
That goes sweeping on and on, r!.#
will tell you what we can do
Through the hours with promise clad -
Just pass life's brightness onward
And help the world be glad.
IT'S simple thing but potent
Wondrous power for good or i'll,
Scattering bits of helpful sunshine
Or the doubts that blast and kill.
Voicing still a brighter future
Or cloud-enshrouded day r..
All, it means success or failure
To the toiler on lifes way! .. ~
To the one whose load is heavy;
To the soul that seeks the light:
To the heart bowed down with SORROW,
Shorn Of courage and of might;
To race that journeys upward r."
With the sweep of sleepless years;
To the God who hung the rainbow
In the storm clouds crystal tears.
Yes. it means load made lighter,
Just to hope and not despair;
Means a clearer soul perception g..
OF goal divinely fair;
Means heart made ever stronger
Thru the hours that try the soul;
Means mans uplift, grand, eternal,
Gods one purpose, pole to pole.
Let us then lift high life's banner,
Hope emblazoned-hing it out!
Scatter sunshine thru the moments,
Put despair and doubt to rout!
Linger not within the lowlands
Fear encompassed, hearts e'er sad;
Pass it onward-pass the brightness!
Help the world be glad, be glad
&C. W. Hendricks.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
TIE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

courts are open and the grand jury is
frequently in session. Of course, a
proceeding under the state law would
have to- be by indictment and would
give the accused he} right TO a jury
trial. The use Of the municipal court
for the correction Of this class of
offenses has usually been favored since
it is shorter cut and less expensive
than the other methods, But the county
attorney stands ready to bring any
complaint backed by evidence to the
attention of the grand jury and if in
dictments are found, to prosecute them
properly.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
The Clark Ordinance.

Isn't the Tribune rather sudden
in jumping to the conclusion that
the council will repeal the Clark ordi-
nance9 We should not like to accuse
our neighbor of being lukewarm in it's
advocacy f}the ordinance, but its SUD.
den giving up of the fight, is certainly
disconeerting to any who have counted
upon the Tribune as a factor in favor
of the retention of this law. The coun-
ell has not been, polled and there is no
public announcement of change of
vote on the. part of any alderman who
helped to put the Clark ordinance thru
There is no tangible reason to sup.
pose that the council has changed its
mind. Why should it, The Clark
ordinance is very common regula.
tion Of saloons. It but follows the ex
ample Of most cities where the license
system prevails. If the idea has got
ten abroad that it is something drastic
or unusual it should be corrected.
The only excuse that could be as
signed for an alderman who voted fo1
the ordinance voting for, it's repeal is
vexation which may have been stirred
by the activity of the Home Protec
tive league. But this is merely an in
cident. Are we to change our laws
and abandon those which we know te
be salutary and necessary because We
are vexed at somebody? Legislation
! is not usually regulated in this manner
in actual deliberative bodies.
The Home Protective league might
cease from its labors any day and ye
the mayor would need the Clark ordi
nance in his business Just the same
The council will doubtless see that i
would be folly to give up useful ant
necessary law in order to relieve itseE
of the annoyance Of witnessing an oc
casional manifestation of zeal by citi
zens Of which it may not approve.
| The council is in favor of law AM
order itself. It is in sympathy witt
the aims and purposes of the mayor
and if the mayor needs the assistance
/ of the Clark ordinance the council
viii continue to give it to him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23

Special to The Journal.
e La Crosse, Wis, Sept. 23.-The old
est man in the Denver Grand Army
parade at the recent national encamp-
ment was William R. Taylor, better
known as "Uncle Billy Taylor, who
for more than fifty years was a resident
Of La Crosse. Mr.: Taylor was born
May 10, 1906. He is in full possession
of his faculties, stands as straight and
marches as firmly as young, we'll
trained regular, walked three miles to
join the Wisconsin delegation and then
marched nearly three miles before pass
ing the reviewing officer.
No man in the line made more SOL
dierly appearance. He did not seem
greatly fatigued at the end Of the day s
work. All of this for man not far
from 100 years of age seems marvellous.
He has the promise Of good many
more years, judging from. his appear
ance and the condition of his health,
which he says was never better.
Mr.. Taylor engaged in fighting In,
dams in the northwest previous to the
Black Hawk war, in which he served
as volunteer. At one time he served
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
HUsHARY, SWEET, MY OWN

Fair is the castle M on the hill
Hushaby, sweet my owni
The night is fair, and the waves are still,
And the wind is singing to you and to me
In this lowly home beside the sea-
Hushaby, sweet my own!
On yonder hill is store OF wealth
Hushaby, sweet my own!
And jewellers drink to little ones health;
But you and bide night and day
For the other love that has sailed away
Hushaby, sweet my own!
See not, dear eyes, the forms that creep
Mistlike, o my own!
Out of the mists of the murInurfng deep;
oh, see them not and make no cry
Till the, angels of death have passed us by
Hushaby, sweet my own!
All, little they reck of you and me-
Hushaby, sweet my own!
In our lonely home beside the sea;
They seek the castle up on the hill,
And there they will do their ghostly will
Hushaby, my own!
Here by the sea mother crpons,
'.Hushaby, sweet my ownI''
In yonder castle mother swoons,
While the angels go down to the misty deep
Bearing q little one fast asleep
Hushaby, sweet my owni &.
Eugene Field.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
WHO RIDEs HIS TIME

Who bides his time, and day by day,
Faces defeat full patiently,
And lifts mirthful roundelay,
However poor his fortunes be;
He will not fail In any qualm
OF poverty-the paltry dime
It will grow golden in his palm,
Who bides his time.
Who bides his time-he tastes the sweet
OF honey in the safest tear;
And tho he fares with slowest feet,
Joy runs to meet him, drawing near;
The birds are heralds of his cause;
And like never-ending rhyme,
The roadsides bloom in his applause.
Who bides his time.
Who bides his time, and fevers not
In the hot race that none achieves,
Shall wear cool wreathen laurel wrought
With crimson berries in the leaves;
And he shall reign goodly king,
And sway his hand Ger every cline,
with peace writ on his signet ring,
Who bides his time.
~. W. Ri1ey.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
PARkER's INNING
New York Post,

Judge Parker is entitled to rub salt into
the republican wounds. The open confess
sion that the New York Life had financed
the campaign against him last year gave
him his opportunity, and he rose to it this
morning in admirable temper He did not
profess that his party possessed superior
virtue, in the matter Of accepting funds
from corporations, but only maintained,
and the evidence certainly sustains him,
that the big corporation checks went to
the republicans.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
THE MAGAZINES

William Allen White on "The Kansas
Conscience" People seem to have
formed the habit Of sitting up and taking
notice whenever a rumbling sound from
the southwest indicates that William
Allen White, out at Emporia, Kan, Is
saying things. Mr.. White has an article
in The Reader for October. Its title is
THE Kansas Conscience" and in 1t Mr..
White tells why Kansas has inaugurated
a crusade, the object Of which is to Sc
cure squarasdeal for every man, with
no more favor shown to Standard OH
than is given to the storekeeper at the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
IRRIGATION FALLACIES
New York Press.

Millions have been spent, millions more
will be spent, in irrigating the desert
country. We Of the east have been taught
to Believe that an emigrant can claim 500
acres, and with a little money soon cause
them to blossom as the rose. But it is
officially known and stated in Washing
ton that for every acre watered twenty
five acres must be set aside as an unpro-
ductive "catchment'' area. Thus farm
Of 500 acres will really contain only twenty
acres of tillable soil after irrigation from
impounded precipitation within it's own
boundaries. It is stated further: All the
rain that falls upon the desert or upon its
neighboring mountain, If it could be pro
tected and carefully preserved, would not
irrigate per cent Of the Great Desert
area"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23

fare; The same proportions would not
have held true half a century ago, nor
are they likely to half a century hence.
Americans Read Three Times More
Newspapers Than Any Other NatIon.-In
his article on Paper and Its Manufac-
ture,'' in the October issue Of The Tech
nlcai World Magazine William R. Stewart
says:
The per capita value Of the paper consumed in
the United States yearly is the greatest in the
world, and amounted during last year to about
SITS. News paper figured largest in the total
product, with record for 1904 Of about $50 600
tons, valued at about S23. O00, 900. In 1890 a
total of 196,o53 tons, worth s13 .s34 SUI
feed to meet the demand We were noted as the
greatest newspaper-reading- people on earth in
1890. but in 1904 we read about three times
more, or, at any rate, had three times as much
offered us to read 1t is interesting to note
that in 1880 the cost of news paper about
double what it Is at present. namely s67 a
ton as compared with about S35 now
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23
MACHINERY.

This is an age of machinery. Besides
creating the political machines which
relieve the citizen of any anxiety as
to his public duties machine, the age
has made immense strides in other labor
saving devices. The adding, subtract
ing and multiplying machine bids fair
to drive arithmetic out of business. The
machine which skins the cream from
milk does not lose a drop, while the old
sk1mmlng process was crude and waste
full Washing machines which would
relieve woman Of the drudgery of clean
Ing clothes have not proved an en-
couraglng success up to date, but Ger
man firm has put on the market a crock
cry washing machine which will wash
and dry 5000 dishes an hour. America
has produced an electric shoe black
which will shine six pairs of shoes at
once and take only two minutes to do
it. The newspaper business has today
the advantage Of machines which will
7set type three or four times as fast
as it could be done by hand. Trade in
small articles which has been hampered
/ by the large problem of preparing them
/ FOR The market has now the use Of a
| wrapping machine which will revolu-
!. tionize the manufacturing drug trade.
It will fold and wrap all the powders
which are consumed in this country,
and do itsone hundred times as fast as
fingers could do it.
81 Labor-saving machinery, contrary to
the idea that prevailed a generation
pr two ago, does not relieve anyone
from the necessity of laboring. More
men are employed than ever. before
hnd they are working harder than ever
before. There has been achange in the
i1ectien of their effort, and new ave