davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
Caught With the Goods. y

The stereotyped answer. to the ship
pers' demand for government supervi-
sion Of the railroads and the exercise
of the ratemaking power is that dis
elimination in rates no longer exists;
that the Ellzins law has put a stop to
all that sort Of thing; that every shipper
= gets a fair show, and that there is no
II occasion for extension Of the power Of
I the interstate commerce commission in
any direction.
The trouble with that answer is that
1t is not accepted by the general public.
The public does not believe that dis
examination has been stopped and they
are no. likely to believe it while in
stances continue to come out, wherein
rank discrimination is practiced.
The latest exhibition of this abuse
on the part of the railroads was devel-
oped by an inquiry recently held before
the interstate commerce commission on
complaint from the independent oil
companies in the southwest. These COM
panies charged that the Illinois Central
and Louisville & Nashville railroads
vor of the Standard Oil company. The
evidence showed that the following
rates were charged:
NoRTHBoUND.
Per 100 Lbs.
New Orleans to Cincinnati 80 cents
New Orleans to S 81 T2nis 50 cents
Chicago to New Orleans ............. % cents
sSnfin nI il TO NeU Gr, Orleans z cents
From these rates it appears that oil
shipped under exactly the same conIi-
tions paid nearly twice as much for
freight when north-bound as when
shipped south-bound over exactly the
same route and for the same distance.
Here was discrimination Of the
rankest kind in favor of the Standard
Oil company. A very interesting
feature of this case was that the rail
roads did not even deny the charge or
seek to explain it. Of course, they
could do neither. They had simply to
acknowledge that they had been
caught, as the current phrase goes,
with the goods on them,'' and they
Immediately established the same rate
for oil going north that they had been
charging for oil going south. i
In the face of such facts as these
is it any wonder that the public refuses
@ to accept the representations of the
railroad companies that all shippers are
4 treated fairly, and that there is no jus
LITIGATION for the demand that the gov
ernment shall have any further super
visory power over the transportation
business? n
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

One of the mistakes made by the park
poard IN trying to combine a music pa
Vlllon and a bathhouse is that the music
lnterferes at times with the ease with
which the people on the roof hear the
shouts and splashing of the bathers The
use of bathing suits by some of the bath
ers IN Which an lgorrote would feel en-
harrassed is not calculated, either, to har-
monte the situation
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
SHUT OFF GARBAGE
Richfield Town Board Puts an Embargo
on Industry

Richfeld will not permit any garbage
to be hauled within the precincts of the
township after Sept. /. One Of the in
dustries Of Richfeld is that of fatten-
ing hogs for the market, and for this
purpose the hotel and restaurant garb-
age is eagerly sought. But in conveying
the stuff from the city to the hog
ranches some Of it is dropped, creating
to sight and smell. DR.. FL. M. Bracken
Of the state board attended the meeting
Of the board of supervisors yesterday
afternoon, at which the action against
hauling garbage was taken.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED

THE FATE OF A CROWN. BY Schuyler
staunton. Chicago: The Reilly Britton COM
rany.
NOTES ON NEGRO CRIME PARTICULARLY
IN GEORGIA. social study made under the
lanta conference. Atlanta: University Press.
IN AND OUT OF THE LINES. An accurate
account of the Incidents during the occupation
of Georgia by federal troops. By Frances Thorn
as Howard. New York: The Neale Publishing
company. $1.5O.
THE MEDAL OF HONOR. A story of peace
and war, by General Charles King. Illustrated
by George Gibbs and e. w. Deming New York:
The Hobart company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

When John Wanamaker's daughter
Mrs Warburton, walked into the dinine
room OF hotel on the arm. Of Booker T
washington, the south probably boiled
over with indignation, particularly thai
portion of the south which is about one.
fifth negro.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
LIVELY CONTEST
Photo Engravers' Union Of Twin Cities
dominates Officers.

sow of Minneapolis secured the nomin-
alton for corresponding financial secre.
tary at meeting of the Photo Engrav-
ers union of the twin cities, held at
Alexander IS hall last night.
Other nominations were: For presi-
dent, George Wiley of st. Paul; for
delegate to the national convention, W.
L. Jobe of st. Paul. The election will
be held in st. Paul the second Monday
in September.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

ton. He wants to know, 9 if the prac-
tice of five delegates-at-large is wrong,
will It he J ournal please explain
why there should be, any delegates-at-5
large? .
| That's easy There shOuldn IT,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

Rev Robert F. Sample, who died re-
Gently in New York, was for many years
pastor Of Westminster in this city. He
served the church first when it was a
wooden structure on Fourth street just
back of the Brunswick hotel and was
with it when it moved to Seventh and
Nicollet when the society erected the
great brownstone edidce which was the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

Senator Ellzins declines to lead a. d.
vided republican party in West Virginia.
should say not; look at the record Of
father-ln-law Davis. He led the demo-
cratic party in West Virginia until it
got SO small it could not divide. Steve
ought to be able to do as well.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

Henry S1enkieWicz, the Polish novelist,
mas been sentenced to stay at home in
definitely because he criticised the gov
eminent. Mrs. Sienkiewicz will doubtless
embrace the opportunity to have the
kitchen floor painted, the shades rehung
and a railing put on the cellar stairs.
We think when she is thru with hin,
Henry will never criticise the government
again.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
pride of the city until it burned to the

pride Of the city until it burned to the
ground some Years ago. DR.. Sample on
his removal from Minneapolis became a
New York pastor and died while in the
all Of his ministry was spent as the pas
tor Of two churches, both Of which APP
preciated to the full his deep religious
spirit and his scholarly eloquence. DR..
Sample was a master of good English
and his sermons were models in literary
form as we'll as in spiritual force.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

Thomas Lawson will be annoyed to
learn that the public instead of selling
its stocks is buying more and that the
price is going up. Are the people goine
PACK on Thomas and his fight on the
"SYStem?"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
CROWD JUMPED ON
Helped Punish Colored Man for Draw
ing Knife.

w. M. Herdon, a colored man, was
severely beaten by a crowd at First
avenue s and Third street about.
Q CLOCK this morning, when he attacked
young man with a knife. The two
had a dispute and the white man, who
was much the smaller, threw Herdon
to the ground and was beating him
soundly when the crowd that had gath
cred started in to help him. He then
left and the police arrested Herdon on
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

1t has taken some time but the jap
anese have now raised the Russian cruiser
Variag, sunk at Chemulpho. Altogether
the Japanese have raised $40, 900, 900 worth
OF Russian ships. The war has been a
fine thing for Nippon's navy,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

SO many cities are reporting typhoid
fever epidenics that it is just as well
to boil the city water a few times. One
may drink fever germs and not get the
fever, but they are not recommended bv
the pure food department,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

The Japs believe that a preponderance
of influence in Korea would be as nrofi+-
able under any other name. They with
hold their consent from the more brutal
title merely thru politeness 49,.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

No Connecticut paper-nor anv other
mas yet flung to the breeze at the top OF
a windy editorial page the banner en-
blazoned with the legend, For President.
H. H. Rogers of New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

Russia has been hit in the face with
Korea and smashed in, the neck with
Manchuria, but thank heaven she has not
yet been Inundated and the chances for
peace are still bright .J,-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

Constipation removed. tsDr. Laurit-
zen s Malt Tonic, at druggists or
delivered to house. Phone, N. w, East
40; Twin City, 1899.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

Mr.. Witte is incensed at secrecy It
is such an unheard-of thing in his coun-
try that it is no wonder it makes his
blood boil. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

No matter whether Chicago university
gets that last $4,000 900 from Mr.. Rookie
Teller or not, Miss Tarbell will not lecture
on political economy there.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

A new commercial treaty with GERMANY
is being worked out. Next winter it will
be interesting, if not pleasurable, to watch
the senate kick a hole in it,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

A church row may be said to be
fully under way when the members of the
board of directors are mad enough to
set fire to one another's barns. III.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

Indianapolis is enjoying a 6oc gas
movement. So far it is merely move
ment," no gas having been sold at that
figure.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

The, czarevitch's first year, just com
pleted, has been a troublous one, but he
has had sense enough not to let it worry
him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

The weather's turned quite warm again,
The way it does in spring.
The grass is green; the birds are back
And all that sort of thing:
The bright spring clothes are here again,
Likewise the light spring hat,
But Casey-what's delaying him
Old Casey at the Bat?
Isl Kansas City Times.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

Some band leader would doubtless com
pose a Roosevelt march if he could only
hit it UP fast enough.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
WHERE'S cAsEY2

Reports are made Of snow on the moon.
That is much better than blood.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

chairman Shonts went down to the
lsthmus of Panama, looked around and
came back, It's something to locate the
place.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

1oNDoN-Journal file at American Express
Office 80 Strand.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

STIRRING STORY BY CROCKETT
May Margaret, by S. r. Crockett, is a book
that will hold the reader to the end. It
is the life story of one Of the young
maids that We're rescued from the fort
ress of Machecoul the home Of Giles de
Retz. Those who read that strange, I'M
.canny story will enjoy reading the new
story by Mr. Crockett.
OF course it is a Scotch story, May Mar
garet being Of the family Of the Black
Douglas. 1t is picture of the times of
James the Second Of Scotland, strongly
drawn. Poor little Magdalen McKine!
Her letter, written just before her DEATH
is so pitiful, so full Of the tragic fate
she goes to meet:
Dear hearts, from my heart do bid you all
a fair goodnight. shall not another if God
please. This last word receive right lovingly
from the Magdalen who was yours.
"a And again, when they were planning
the safety of Magdalen, just before the
fight, Hughie Douglas rebuke to his
guilty brother James:
What are We greetin' for, Jamie? Ye should
haze taen thocht that afore! Moo, after me,
ilka yin o We. say Hughie Douglas prayer-his
first last and only: :
rr. 'Tak' ye pennyworth'sfo' us, guild Lord! But
save the lassie, and, oh, forgive her. For
kennin' what is in men, brawley ye ken it's
no her fault" r. &"
Then again the interview between
old Malise McKim and his son Sholto,
the father and brother of the ruined
girl. It's too long to quote but as one
reads it. one feels the mighty forces Of
the natures there portrayed.
1t is a strong book It is doubtful If
Mr.. Crockett has ever before reached as
high a level of work as in this, his last
Dodd, Mead & Co.. New York.
$3.50.
MRS. WARD SOON TO VISIT
AMERlCA.-Mrs. Humphry Ward is
shortly to pay a visit to America in order
to study American life and customs, and
to get in touch with the American at
mosphere. There is a prospect that this
material may be used in the prepare ton
of Mrs Wards next novel which the
Harpers have contra acted for. Mrs. Ward
cember.
A "sELF MADE" PRESIDENT
WRITES LETTERs.-For the sake Of the
good name of the republic the govern
ment should establish a book censorship,
and one of the first books to be censored
into oblivion should be Letters of Self
Made President, by James ]. Neville
The book can do little harm at home,
but if it should by any chance attain
even a limited circulation abroad, it
would create the impression that the
United States presidency was a prize for
high imbecility, and even a virulent pes
simist would hardly say that Of the Of
fee. The letters in hand are neither
witty nor wise nor good English. They
are made up of doddering inanities.
J. S. 'Ogilvie Publishing company,
New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

NEW YORK OFFICE. Tribune building.
D. A. CARROLL, Manager.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
THE MAGAZINES

Is All Matter AIive?-What Is the
force we call life, and how did it
originate upon the earth? These are
questions upon which many scientific
minds are at present concentrated.
Burke's experiments with bouillon in
England, and DR.. Littlefelds astounding
revelation of the results of his expert
ments in Indiana, and of which his first
statement has just appeared in Harper's
Weekly, with photographs of the animal
life he has evolved from minerals, are
among the evidences of the present trend
of thought on the origin of life. DR.. C.
w. Saleeby, Of London, writes on this
subject in the September number Of Har-
per's Magazine under the title Universal
Life" in which he repeats the conjec-
lures of Spencer, Tyndall, and other great
thinkers as to the aEveness, the con-
seriousness of all matter, from minerals
to the human being. :a.-.r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

WASHINGTON OFFICE.-W W. Jermane, chief
of Washington Bureau, 9v1 -9O2 Colorado build
tnf: Northwestern visitors to Washington m
stationery. telephone and telegraph facilities.
central location. Fourteenth aud G streets NV.
copies OF The Journal and northwestern news
papers file.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
e BEGINNING of the Drama

me Beginning Of the Drama IN
Amerfca.-We venture to say there are
few who can tell when the first dra-
matte performance was given in the
United States that is the first dramatic
performance on a stage. Oscar Wegelin,
in The Literary Collector for June gives
Anthony Ashton credit for being the first
professional actor to- tread the boards
in what is now the metropolis Of the ma
ton, and TONY did his treading there
in-17O5 or before
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

The moon was totally eclipsed las
night.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
FAST SIDE OFF1CE-Ccntral avenue and Sec
ohG street Telephone Main No. 8.

ELE?HoEE-Journal has private switchboard
Tor both lines. Call No. on either line ana
call for department you wish to speak to.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

CHICAGO OFFICE. Tribune building.
W. Y. PERRY, Manager.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

all papers are continued until explicit order
is received for discoDtinuance and until ali ar
rsaragek are paid.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

@ENhARK-Journal file at U. S. Legation.
81. PAUL oFF1CE-42o Endcott building. Teie'
phone, N. u. Main 22O.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

4AR1s-JournaI on file at Eagle bureau, SO Ru
Cambon.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
THE JOURNAL
LUCiAN SWIFT. J. S; MeLA1N'
STAGE RATEs oF SINGLE Coolies

FUSTAGE RATES OF SINGLE CUPIES
Up to 80 pages Observation-Disclosures. cents
Up to 81 pages Observation-Disclosures. 5 cents
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

PUBLICATION Embellishments Mimi.
Journal building, 47-49 Fourth street s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15

!.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-04-07
Origin of SeedIess Apple.

According to The Detroit Tribune, the
According to the Detroit Tribune, the
less apple alleged to have been produced
for the first time in the worlds history,
by Colorado horticulturist named
Spencer, and in which Michigan apple
growers nave taken deep interest, is
really nothing new and was written of
in America as early as 1923. An agri-
cultural expert has been found who pre-
tends to trace the seedless apple as far
back as 10000 years. AS this anedates
history and tradition and by $4,000
years the world itself, according to
popular acceptation), it would be inter-
esting to learn upon what reasoning the
20,OOO-year hypothesis is based. 1t is
known, however, that the germs of
shrubs, grasses, weeds and even fruit
trees may lie in the ground for I'M
counted ages and still under favoring
conditions spring into life and produce
each after its kind. Well-diggers in the
town of Penobscot in Maine, forty miles
from the sea, came, at depth of TWEEN
ty feet, upon a stratum of white sand
which excited their curiosity and it was
piled by itself But when the work was
finished and the ground leveled it be-
came necessary to scatter the pile of
white sand. A year or two thereafter,
some small trees were found to have
sprouted in it and being protected were
brought into bearing and produced what
is known as the beach, or sea shore
plum. A foot of earth would not ac-
cumulate in less than 1000 years even
in the most slovely neighborhood. If
the beach plum will sprout after 10000
years, why not the seedless apple?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-04-07
Bad and Good Roads.

The department of agriculture at
Washington is taking an interest in
good road building and in a recent bull
letin gives some excellent advice on the
subject. Bad roads constitute the great
est drawback to rural life, and for the
lack of good roads the farmer suffers
more than any other class. 1t is OBJ
viously unnecessary, therefore, to dis
cuss here the benefits to be derived by
them from improved roads. Suffice it
to say, that those localities where good
roads have been built are becoming rich
er, more prosperous, and more thickly
settled, while those which do not pos
sess these advantages in transportation
are either at a standstill or are becom-
ing poorer and more sparsely settled. If
these conditions continue, fruitful farms
may be abandoned and rich lands 60 to
waste. Life on farm often becomes,
as a result of "bottomless roads," iso-
lated and barren of social enjoyments
and pleasures, and country people in
some communities suffer such great dis
advantage that ambition is checked,
energy weakened, and industry paraly-
zed.
Good roads, like good streets, make
l. oil
they economic time and force in trans
portation of products, reduce wear and
tear on horses, harness, and vehicles,
and enhance the market value of real
estate. They raise the value of farm
lands and farm products and tend to
beautify the country through which
they pass; they facilitate rural mail de-
livery and are potent aid to education,
religion, and sociability. Charles Sum-
ner once said: "The road and the
schoolmaster are the two most import
ant agents in advancing civilization"
The difference between good and bad
roads is often equivalent to the differ
ence between profit and loss. Good
roads have a money value to farmers as
well as a political and social value, and
leaving out convenience, comfort, social
and refined influences which good roads
always enhance, and looking at them
only from the almighty dollar" side,
they are found to pay handsome divi-
dends each year.
People generally are beginning to real
ize that road building is a public mat
ter, and that the best interests of Am
erican agriculture and the American
people as a whole demand the construc-
ton of good roads, and that money
wisely expended for this purpose is sure
to return.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-04-07

on ten articles of treaty or conven-
ton for the purpose of mitigating the
evils inseparable from war; of amelior-
ating the condition of soldiers wound
ed on the field of battle and particular
ly providing, among other things, that
persons employed in hospitals and in
according relief to the sick and wounl.
ed, and supplies for this purpose, shall
be deemed neutral, and entitled to pro-
lection; and that distinctive and uni
form flag shall be adopted for hospitals
and ambulances and conveys of sick and
wounded and an arm badge for individ-
uals neutralized, and this treaty has
been ratified by all af said nations and
by others subsequently, to the number
of forty-three or more, including the
United States of America.
By action of the senate and house of
this association was re-
Gently formed Mr.. Daniel r. Noyes,
Minnesota IN this very I'M
portant matter.
All persons interested in the forma-
ton of such society, will please signi-
fly it by communicating with Mr.. Noyes
at as early date as possible. If
generous pledge of interest and support
is thus secured, a Minnesota branch
will be formed whose business it will
be to see that supplies are provided,
that nurses and other assistants are en-
listed and the society made ready for
any contingency at nome or abroad
whi3 demands their service. The dues
will be small, probably only 81 or 50
a year, but general and generous sup
port of the movement is necessary be-
fore definite steps are taken toward or
ganization.