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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-12
CITY NEWS
THEY'D SHUT out
The PRISON TNINE.
IMPLEMENT DEALERS ASSN. OBJ
i JECTs TO THAT COMPETITION.
The Annual Convention Meets with Big
Attendance and More Coming Com
petition of Catalog Houses Another
Topic Which Is Causing Spirited Dis
cussion Among Association Members.

Prison binder Irvine, specifically, the
output Of the Minnesota penitentiary
at Saltwater, and 6 catalog houses are
the principal thorns IN the sides Of the
several hundred retail implement deal
ers of the state, whose second annual
convention was opened in Morgan post
G.. A. R. hall today. Nearly two hun
bred visitors were in their seats when
Mayor Jones delivered his address of
welcome and with the scores who will
arrive late today and tomorrow it is
expected the mem bership OF the associa-
tion will be increased by 800 per cent.
Irvine is inferior to that fairly man
|ufactured. their principal objection is
that they lose thousands Of dollars each
year by the plan. They say the inten-
ton Of aiding the poor farmer by man
ufacturing his Irvine in the prisons has
miscarried and, instead Of the poor man,
the farmer with cash is the patron of
the prison. The men who cannot muster
the cash necessary Ito patronlze the
prison plant, the dealers say, buy Irvine
Of them on time, giving chattel
some radical action on the matter and
the subject will doubtlessly receive
much attention following the paper of
r. F. Lamb Of Slayton, who will treat
the subject Wednesday afternoon.
After Catalog Houses.
President C. D. Grinols Of st. Cloud
opened the campaign against the cata-
log houses when he urged each mem
ber of the association to demand from
the representative or senator Of his
district, on penalty Of denial Of sup
port, that the parcels post bill, now
pending before congress, be killed. The
parcels post bill, said Mr.. Grinols, is
the creation of the catalog house and
designed to give that rival Of the retail
dealer better facilities for carrying on
the aggressions already SO disastrous
to the latter. ,,
The subject of catalog houses is be-
ing discussed in the hotel Hobbies. Many
means have been suggested for com
batting the mail-order institutions and
warm opinions and radical action were
offered at the executive session this
afternoon after William E. Lee Of Long
Prairie delivered a paper on the sub
iect. Some of the members favor war
against the jobbers who deal with the
catalog houses, as they enable the
mail order institutions to sell goods
sometimes at lower prices than the re-
tail implement dealer can buy them at
II -. y 49, : : +
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04
HEARD IN PASSING

Instead of endowing libraries, Tom Lawson tries to write them himself.-- Washington Star.
 If the coal barons are getting poor and the coal patrons are being robbed, it would be well for congress to inves- tigate who it is that is distressing the people.-Norwich Bulletin.
 There are no republican conventions or conferences scheduled for Monday, October 2, so all the leaders will be free to attend the trial, set for that day, of Armitage Mathews, secretary of the republican county committee, on charge of conspiracy and grand lar ceny.-New York Evening Post.
 There is some talk of f5appointing ex- President Grover Cleveland as the head of the American delegation to the new Hague conference It Is said that he will be appointed if he can be induced to serve and a great many people who admire his sturdy person. ality, irrespective of politics, hope that he will consent to act.
 The expediency of a system which defers for % years an accounting with a policy holder and leaves the accumu. lation in the hands of life insurance eompany's officials is one to be seri. ously considered by the legislature, and another is whether, in view of current revelations, some limit should not be fixed as to the volume of con tracts to be undertaken by any one compaHy-New York Herald.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04

The sweeping democratic victory Monday has put the republicans on the run and turned their camp upside down. Chairman Kellogg seems to he getting 1t right and left, not only from the editors of our two contemporaries, but from correspondents as well. It was certainly a poorly managed cam paign, and Neighbor Blakeslee must realize by this time that he didn't get the support he was entitled to. Even the writers who are now 1ounderlng about for some sort of an excuse to put forward for the defeat gave him a very "wishy-washy" support. They were anxious enough for a republican victory, apparently, but didn't care a. picayune about Blakeslee Now that it is all over they turn the vials of their wrath on Chairman Kellogg. The sum and substance of it is, however, that the one term of the republican administration was sufficient for the people of Waterbury, and at the very first opportunity they spoke their minds very forcibly by the election of Mayor Thoms, and they would have gone still further by giving him a democratic board of aldermen, had all the men placed on the ticket worked like some of them did. It was glory enough for one day and gave the g. o. p. an internal eruption to look after.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04
NOISES OF AN IRON HOUSE.
It's There One Really Learns How
 Rain Can Patter on a Roof.

It's There One Really Learns How
 Rain Can Patter on a Roof.
 T had scarcely thought" said the middle aged man, that I should ever 8 gain hear the batter of the rain on the roof as l heard it in my youth, when I slept in the garret in the home of my bOyhOod. But now it has been brought back to me most yiyidly.
 ''In the summer just past I lived for a time in a one-story cabin built of corrugated iron. The little house had a nice little veranda across the front and was very comfortable within. And besides these distinguishing features the little iron house had some other characteristic traits. For one, it was the most sensitive house I ever knew to changes of temperature.
 Tt was q lovely day on which We struck the place. AS we sat on the yeranda and locked out through an opening in the trees in front upon a broad and varied landscape of water. woods and mountains and then up at a fleecy summer cloud we thanked the good luck that had landed us there And then, as that light cloud fOated on across the face of the sun. we heard coming from behind us sounds which We realized in a moment came from the house itself. It was the iron room, now in shadow of that cloud. contracting when the heat of the sun was withdrawn. And then in a mo- ment as the cloud passed on, we heard from the house again the roof expanding as the sun once more fell upon it
 It was the first responsive house. by far, in rainst0rm that I ever slept in. On the first night we were there we were wakened by the sound of what we thought at first must be a buckshOt cataract falling on the head Of a giant drum. But in a moment again we realized that this was the sound of rain falling on our corru- gated iron roof. And talk about the batter of the rain drops on the old, moss grown shingles, Why. on this roof the rain came down Iike-like buckshOt? Like graPeshot. cannon balls; innumerable. countless. cOntinu- Ous millions of cannon balls pounding with constant TOaT~
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04

business to sell liquor. About the same time the same influence was used to prohibit the selling of liquor at the house and senate restaurants in the Capitol. Now both restaurants are nominally dry. But anyone who has the combination can get any sort of liquor they want served to them in a teacup with spoon. It was good deal more serious with the army posts. They did not have congressman among their patrons, and they abolished the sale of beer and light wines to the en- listed men. The officers in charge of the posts knew just what would hap pen, for they knew the peril of 'the blue goose" That is the army name for the groggeries that spring upon the outskirts of every army post where there Is no canteen. The soldiers, when they had the canteen, spent their money for drinks there. They got pure LII ihho anu lAcIS Huo dDOuL tO per Gcul profit in it. This profit went to the ''mess fund" and the men were able to buy themselves things to eat that were not on the regular ration list of the army. But as soon as the canteen was abolished the blue goose sprang up again. The soldiers had no place of meeting and they bought vile liquor and got none of the profits. The recent conference of the army surgeons de clared flatly that the bulk of the dis ease and desertion in the army could be traced directly to the abolition of the canteen and they urged its re- establishment Army officers, after three years experience of doing with out the canteen, hope that the recom- mendation of the surgeons will be needed. But there will he a great howl from the temperance advocates if it is. The question is shall soldiers drink wine and beer under decent home restrainings or shall they drink rot-gut in brothel?
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04
AN ORGAN 70 YEARS OLD.

William C. Carl brought back with him from Japan pipe organ of ancient make which he believes will prove a revelation to modern instrument build CTS
 The organ is TO years old. but. not withstanding this fact. embodies prae- tically all the improvements which present day builders regard as new The pipes are of bamboo. and the fn- Strument is in q good state of preserFa- tfgn- Mir Carl also brought home large collection of Japanese music ar ranged in modern notation Previous ro thirty years ago. he says. all the native music was handed down from one generation to another in ehsrze fers. but since the establishment of sn academy ct Tokio a great impetus has been given to all classes Of music. and more than G0 students were in af- tendsnce at the institution when Nr Czrl visited it-geattle PostInteiik Eencer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04

The new rules for the national for est reserves, announced by the seere- tary of agriculture on July 1, were made to give freer use of the reserves to the residents of the states in which they are situated. Experience has al- ready shown that they are welcomed. The west understands what this means better than does the east. From the first the east has believed In the re- serves and declared that there could not be too many of them; but in the west the first effect of their proclama- ton was widespread alarm. It was feared that the reserves would check the development of the region. would burden naghboring communities with taxes, and would prevent the taking for local needs of the timber which lay close at hand. Both in the east and in the west the wrong idea prevailed that a reserved forest was not for use. 4 forest reserve is meant to yield up its wealth. as a farm does, or a stream which turns the wheels of many mills In the long run fl should both guard and increase the resources of the coun- try in which it lies. The mere crea- ton of forest reserves, without prOyis- ion for their administration. was there fore both intellectual and annoying to local interests dependent upon their re sources. Consequently the secretary of the interior. in 1896. requested the National Academy of Sciences to re commend a national forest policy. This resulted in the passage of the act of June 1. 1897. under which. with several subsequent amendments. for est reserves are now administered. On the theory that the management of land. not of forests. was chiefly in- volved. this law gave the secretary of the interior authority over the re serves. and provided that their sur veying, mapping. and general classii- cation should be done by the United States geological survey, and the exc eutiOn of administrative work by the general land office.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04
FIRE AT SEA.
Laurence Perry, in the American Illus
 trated Magazine for October.

Laurence Perry, in the American Illus
 trated Magazine for october.
 Fire is frequent on all vessels, from the proudest greyhound to the hum blest tramp, or wind jammer. But the records show that they are more ire quent, or at least more deadly, on oil laden craft. There are two types of oil carriers, the full rigged ships and barks, both of which carry oil in cases, and the tank steamships, which carry oil in bulk. The last oil ship to burn in the vicinity of the middle Atlantic coast was the Commodore T. H. Allen, which took fire off Fire Island on the morning of July s, 1901. She had sev- enty-fYe thousands cases of crude oil aboard and the glow of the flames could be seen in New York city. She did not last very long and even to-day parts of her charred bones wash up on the island beach i'll a northeast storm. Just previous to the loss of the Allen, .the oil ship Ariadne was destroyed in about the same place. She was a beautiful sight as she made past Fire Island with every sail bellying, and the marine observers watched her with admiration until they saw a sudden puff of smoke shoot up from the mid ship section. The next instant, before their very eyes, the upper deck and masts and sails flew high in the air and heavy boom fioated over the wa ters. Four days and four nights the Ariadne lay heaving on the water, as tier after tier of case oil burned or ex- plOded. and on the fifth day with a hissing plunge she disappeared.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04

There has been considerable satis- faction in the war department over the action of the conference of army sur geons who recently recommended the re-establishment Of the army canteen. says our Washington correspondent
 The canteen in the army was abolished some years back az will be remem- bered. by act Of congress The con-
 Tessnen who passed the bill did not believe in it. but they did not have the moral courage tO stand out against the pressure that was brought to bear on them by a great many good but mis- taken people who were earnest advo- cates of tempeTance and who did not think that the United States had any
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04
WEDNESDAY, OCT 4, 1905.

The New York ti-suffragists have issued their annual report, in which they enumerate the suffrage defeats of the past six months, and close by saying, in part: ''The activity of the few women who so earnestly advocate woman suffrage is in no sense dimin
 ished by the successive failures
 Our friends, the enemy, are quite right. Our activity is in no sense di- minished. They say, too, that our zeal blinds us. Again they must be right, for we usually fail to see the defeats which they point out. Indeed. to our eyes, they look strangely like victories. In our ears ring always Miss An thony's words, we have never known a defeat" and in our hearts is the un- alterable conviction that justice must ultimately prevail, all the an'ti-woman suffragists in the world to the con trary notwithstanding. ,r- .=
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04
GRAMMAR oF RrsINEss LETTER.

T
 A few years ago we often heard business men say, What do care for fhe grammar of n letter, SO long as it gets the businessT' Now business men quite generally recognize that grammar is an important element In getting business. Grammar is the sci- ence of the logical relationship of words in sentences. If words are not put together grammatieally they fall to express the meaning clearly. Bad grammar and confusion are one and the same. So. too. the man who does not nunctuate his letters correctly fails to express his meaning quite complete. ly. The impression on the mind of the reader is not quite 90 clear and sharp. An incorrect letter is like a slightly blurred photograph. You can tell whom the hazy photograph represents. hut a picture that Is startlingly clear has A vast commercial advantage over one that is not.
 F X few errors of punctuation and grammar in one letter do not matter much. but the same errors in a hun
 fred letters. accommodating one on top of another. weigh vastly in the final suceess of a business Successful men recognize this. and now the largest re taiI store in the world pays S1 10 it's empl0yes for every error of English one of them finds in any of the printed matter issued by the house. Already many other business houses are follow ing this example in one way or anoth- CT. The most striking evidence in the matter ls the fact that stenOgraphers who can write correct English may get twice the salaries paid to ordinary Sfe10zrapherx- The president of q concern in Minneapolis widely known an over the country. employing fifty sten0eTaphers. said publicly not long ago. If all my sfen0Eaphers. clerks. salesmen. etc. would learn Co write cor rect and effective business letters. they
 would be worth z5 per cent more Co
 me and I should fse willing to par the i'm value Of their seTrices- believe
 that any Ste1oxrzpheT. 10 matter hos god could get his es her salary raised
 bv dint of patient study Of rurTeci 7 English during period of six n1ufhs
 -shgwin COdy h success
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-04
\ Election is Over,
 N. Wm.E. ThOmS Won.

We have been in the shoe business for the last l6 years and we want to win new customers and their full confidence. We carry a line of shoes far superior to any line of shoes carried in this city at the prices We offer. Come and see for yourself our Special g % Shoe.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-11-23

For some time Thomas W. Law
son has been trying to get control
of enough proxies from policy hold
ers in the Equitable and the New
York Life insurance companies to
retire the present officers who have
been fattening upon the hard earn
ed dollars Of these policy holders.
In his solicitations be is often met
with the query, whetherhe is will
ing to pay as much for them as the
other fellows and intimating that
the market quotations on these
proxies were tens and sometimes
hundreds of dollars apiece. This
shows one Of two things, either
these policy holders lack confidence
in Mr.. Lawson and make this an
excuse for refusing to give him
their proxies or else they are i'm
bued with the same spirit of graft
that the officers of the companies
possess.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-11-23

The usual number of prairie fires
seem to be getting in their work of
devastation this season. Between
Ellendale, N. D. and Aberdeen, S..
D., a tract was burned over last
week about five miles wide and over
twenty miles long. Property was
destroyed to the value of $500,000.
Another extensive fire ran over a
portion Of Gregory county, burning
many hay stacks, but the damage
to buildings was not nearly so great
as was that in Brown county.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-11-23
son LOST MOTHER

Consumption runs in our
family, and through it I lost nv
MOTHER" writes E. B. Reid, of
Harmony, Me. "For the past five
years, however, on the slightest
sign of a Cough or Cold have tax
en- DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption. Which has saved
me from serious lung trouble"
His mothers death was a sad loss
for Mr.. Reid, but he learned that
lung trouble must not be neglected,
and how to cure it. Quickest re-
lief and cure for coughs and colds.
Price soc and $1.OO; guaranteed at
r. W. Russell & Co. drug store.
Trial bottle free.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-11-23

The Aberdeen Commercial Club
has passed strong resolutions pro
testing against Pres. Roosevelt's
plan of regulating railroad rates.
The reason given is that they fear
that such a system would simply
mean the establishment of an Car
bitrary principle of mileage by
which South Dakota wauld surely
suffer enormously" The members
OF the Aberdeen Com mercial Club
are not ignorant, they certainly
know that the presidents plan does
not contemplate any such thing,
and they also undoubtedly know
that the record of the interstate
commerce commission does not
warrant the assumption that they
would try to esta blish rates on such
a basis any more than the rail
roads do at the present time. The
motive of the Aberdeen Club is
easily discerned. Aberdeen is am
bilious to become a great whole
sale center. This is laudable
ambition, but to accomplish this
end she needs special favors from
tbs railroads in the way Of rates or
rebates which will give her an ad-
vantage over other South Dakota
towns. These favors can better be
secured under the present system
than under the one proposed by the
president.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-11-23

We have little sympathy with the
effort put forth by certain demo-
cratic newspapers to draw out of
Senator Kittredge a statement of
his Views and probable position on
the railroad rate question. These
papers have probably got just what
they desired-a chance to misinter-
pref Senator Kittredge's silence as
evidence of bis hostility to the
presidents measure. We cannot
believe that Senator Kittredge
would be either willing or courage
ous enough to directly oppose the
we'll nigh universal opinion of his
stituency on this matter.
South Dakota is for rate revision,
not the rate revision that the
railroad literary bureau has repre-
sented to be the presidents view,
but reasonable, necessary, inevi-
table revision. This is no demo-
cratic or populistic movement,
even though many anti republican
newspapers have represented to
the people that an influential ele-
ment in the republican party was
opposing the president in this
matter. The republican party
will rally enthusiastically to the
support of this measure and Sena
tor Kittredge will be found on the
right side with his vote and lnfu-
ence when the time comes.-Union
County Courier.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-11-23

Russia has fully determined to
come up to date with other nations
of the civilized world. For cent
uries that country has reckonea
time by the old Julian calendar
which is thirteen days ahead of the
Gregorian calendar used by other
countries. In order to adopt the
new system Russia will drop thir-
teen days from the coming month
of February, and begin the month
Of March in the new style. This
will be a convenience, but not so
important as her attempt to come
up to date in her style of govern
ment.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-11-23

The state au ditor has made his
report showing the number of towns
entitled to share in the insurance
tax. Each town having an organlz-
ed fire department. is entitled to re-
ceive two percent of the premiums
paid in that town for insurance.
This year there are ninety -one such
towns while last year there were
only sixty-two.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-11-23
State Land Commissioner Bach

State Land Commissioner Bach
has sent out letters to the county
officers over the state announcing
that he has no funds to send out
January l to the different counties
from the permanent school fund
for their investment. There is but
$17.92 of the fund lying idle in the
state treasury, and this would make
an apportionment so small that it
would be of no benefit to any coun-
ty. The balance of the fund,
amounting to $4,670,499 is invest
ed and drawing interest. For the
past year the permanent fund has
not any time amounted to more
than few hundred dollars at one
time, all of it being kept out. The
money coming in is all placed long
before it reaches the treasury, and
is sent to places waiting for it as
fast as it accumulates. The COM
missioner congratulates the differ
ent county officers on their effort S
in keeping the funds invested and
the keeping up of the class ofjn-
vestment.-Lake County Leader.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-11-23

State Supt. NJ. M. Ramer, says
the shortage of teachers in this
stateis quite serious, over half Of
the counties lacking teachers, and
some lacking from twenty-five to
thirty Of having enough to sup
ply the schools. This is an unfort-
unate condition, as the tendency is
to supply such deficiencies by
granting permits to incompetents,
and in many instances this is
worse than shortage.