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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
STATE REDMEN MEET
Close to $50 Delegates Attend the
Little Falls Convention.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Little Falls, Mimi, Aug: 9.-The
twelfth annual convention of the Im-
proved Order of Redmen convened in
Little Falls yesterday, with about $50
delegates in attendance. The meeting
was called to order by Chairman T: }.
Vasaly and Mayor G.. E. Vasaly deliv-
cred an address of welcome, which was
responded to by 7. W. Lyon, great
sachem, of Little Falls:
After the kindling of the great coun-
ell fire, thirty past sachems We're given
the great council degrees, and much
time was spent in the presentation. of
reports and in doing routine work.
The business reports show that there
are 1920 members of the order in Min
nesota and 4sS members of the degree
of Pocahontas in the state. The order
is in fourishing condition and Is
constantly growing stronger. :,
Great disappointment is evinced be:
cause of the non-arrival of W: A. Bird
of Kansas City, the great senior saga,
more of the United States, who had
been expected.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
MARTIN COMES FROM CHINA
Will Discuss Exclusion Laws with thu
President and Root.

. Seattle, Wash, Aug. DIR. w. H,
Martin, who for about forty years has
been preaching and teaching in China,
is in this city on his way to New York
and Washington. He will call on Presl-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Root,
relative to the Chinese exclusion laws
at the request of Chang Chin Tung.
vicerov of two central provinces near
Hankow, for whom he acted as ln'
structor for the last three years:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
PROHIBITIONISTa
State Ticket Nominated in Convention
at Lincoln.

Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 9.-Nebraska pro-
hibitionists held their state convention
here yesterday and nominated the fol-
Associate justice of the supreme
court, F. B. Beall of Harlan county.
Regents Of the university. Nathan
Wilson of Polk county and II. L. SUIT
ton of Nance county.
The platform declares constitutional
and statutory prohibition the greatest
issues in American politics. 1t declares
that moral and mental qualifications
are the only questions to be considered
in deciding the right of suffrage and
closes by declaring for the initiative
and referendum.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
Battle of White Stone Hills,
To the Editor of The Journal,

A correspondent writing T he Jour
n from Kindred, N. D., under date of
July ~, attempts to discredit the loca-
ton of White Stone Hills battlefield in
Dickey county, North Dakota, and claims
the engagement occurred in Sargent
county. ]. G. Luce of Groton, who was
in that engagement as member of the
Sixth Iowa cavalry, Identified the grounds
of the battlefield in 1884, in company with
Lieutenant Ritzius, then quartermaster
at Fort Sisseton. The data are on file
in the war department at Washington.
The question of the location of the bat
tlefeld has been fully established There
is no question but what the engagement
occurred west of the James river. Head
stones have been. ordered for the soldiers
who fell, and the motive of those who,
at this late day, are trying to discredit
the facts is beyond comprehension.
Reeves.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
Jefferson De Angels.

To the Editor of The journal.
Will you kindly advise at your earliest
convenience exact date that Jefferson De
Angels was last at the Metropolitan the
alter and name Of his play
&C. w. S. B.
In 1.-THE Royal Rogue" Jan. "a, 1902.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

This is the day when Japan throws
five aces on the table and reaches for
the stack.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

The original copy of the state consti-
tuition has turned up a good state Of
preservation. The courts and the legis-
lature will be chagrined to find that they
have been busy all these years mutilating
copies and that; all their work will have
to be done over again. A..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

tend that the conviction Of innocent
men exists only in novels. In real life,
they say, innocent men are invariably
protected, while many guilty men es-
cape. The truth lies between these two;
statements. Some innocent men are
convicted, and their conviction is usual
ly due to the appetite for notoriety in
the detective.
The possibility Of fame and substan-
tial reward excited in the inspector by
the publications of his exploits develop
in some men a mania for notice which
quite defeats the purpose Of making him
detective. There is an ;ncongruity
in setting man to watch the criminal
classes and then advertising him all
over the world in such a way as to make
the criminal class acquainted with his
features, his history and his associa-
tions. The heads of police departments
in America seem never to have taken
the slightest notice of the injury done
to the police service by this anomalous
condition. Yet it is obvious that even
slight Encouragement of publicity
about the inspectors would not only ai6
the police departments of the country
to catch real criminals, but would pro
tect innocent men from the machina
lions of mere newspaper detectives.i
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
A WELCOME FROM ELROD
National Railway Commissioners TO
Meet in South Dakota.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Miller, S. D., Aug. 9.-Railroad Com
missioner Smith will start for Dead
wood on Monday to attend the nation
a. erecting Gf Fa m de9er the ad
dress of welcome, and the meeting
viii be attended by the South Dakota
congressman. Judge Cowan of Texas
speaks upon public supervision of COM
mon carrier corporations.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY
.Bix' in Nebraska State Journal.

..Bix'' in Nebraska State Journal.
Four ears of boiled sweet corn, a saucer
of sliced tomatoes handsomely decorated
with sugar and cream, the half of a
spring chicken fried until tender, one
mealy potato buttered and sailed to taste.
three whole wheat gems with the bark
on and a full cup of Java coffee-all this
for Sunday dinner ought to make you
feel that you haven't lived in vain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
"A DEADLY COMBINATION
Chicago Chronic1e

There is a growing belief that the auto
mobile, taken by itself, is not particularly
dangerous. 1t is the combination of one
automobile and half a dozen highballs
that is responsible for nineteen out of
twenty killings and maimings.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

The late General Maxine Gomez once;
caught one of his brigadiers selling
brown sugar to the Spaniards. Gomez
stripped the traitor of his stars and
said: "Frorn this time forth you are
Brigadier Raspadura, y which, trans
lated, is Brigadier Sugar Cake.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

The census returns Of some of our
to them. = ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Mr.. Buckley says there are a good
many clowns in the pulpit, and then
again some who are funny when they
don't realize it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
Eoyer Chat.

"Christopher Jr.," with Dick Ferris
and Florence Stone as Christopher and
Dora Hedway, is keeping large audiences
in merry humor at the Lyceum this
week The play Is from the clever pen
of Madeline Lucette Ryley, author of
"The Altar Of Friendship and other
modern dramatic successes. The vaude-
vile specialties, which are introduced
between the acts, are entertaining.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

It seems that Lord Byron got too much
advertising out Of his swim from Venice
pion says anybody in good health could
do it. How about Leander, who swan
the Hellespont and got cramps? Must he
come off his pedestal, also?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Walter Wellman intimates that NJ
White has come over here to bluff with
not a thing in his hand. If the ENJOYS
get thru this business without fighting
one another it will not be the fault of
the great American correspondent. Ko-
mura and Witte would do well to confine
their reading to the Bible and the Albany
Argus during the next three weeks.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Somebody claims that Nicola Tesla
has made an invention "that will throw
the earth out of it's: orbit The present
orbit is good enough for us.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

We cannot expect to keep Barney
Oldfeld with us always. Every metropoli-
tan newspaper has his biography on the
standing galley.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

designations from the state. and city
service caused by Wisconsin's antipass
law cannot be such serious losses that
they may be called irreparable. There
are other patriots. a ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Baron Komura brought along eighty
trunks. Mrs. Komura must be with the
baron. = .'-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

The director Of the Fanciulli band,
playing at Lake Harriet, is a singularly
reserved gentleman, who appears to have
little or no disposition to jump over him
self. But what the leader lacks in jiu
jitsu is made up by the drummer man,
who plays four instruments at once,
humping the back, front, sides and
works simultaneously, meanwhile giving
polished exhibitions of the art Of hop,
skip and jump. He has talking drums,
weeping drums, laughing drums and
drums that throw statistics on black
board; drums that are easy, drums that
are wheezy; drums that are mellow,
drums that can below; all kinds of
drums with all kinds Of quirks, from the
drum that cries to the one that smirks.
The drummer at Lake Harriet is four
drummer boys of the Rappahanock rolled
in one.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Russia is buying twelve warships for
the Baltic. The Baltic is a much less
stretch of water than the
sea of Japan.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Perishable goods are accepted on the
railroads subject to delay. Where Is
Chauncey's vindication?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

The AGRICULTURAL department disclos-
ures did not prevent the crops from just
humping themselves. .-.....- ~ = ..a.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Summer must be severely on the tobog-
gan. The football managers are begin
ming to interview themselves.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

a very religious magazine, this defense
must be justification by faith,'' as
it certainly is nots a justification by
logic or common sense.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

The man who ''tal<es his business to
bed with him. is the husband who
"l1icks'' on the breakfast. .. '.-. f.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

The Russians have made another rec
ord. One of their gunboats destroyed a
defenseless Cretan town.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Governor Douglas will go down in his
tory as the first man who refused a presi-
dental nomination before it was offered
him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Luther Burbank, the California plant
wizard. says that If the proper methods
were pursued. methods as we'll adapted
in their way as hts methods in treating
weeds, it would be easy. to produce the
perfect child. And just as he was about
to be perfected, he would be caught
some day yellow handed with a cigaret-
and then you would have to begin all
over,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
Minneapolis, Aug. 2.

Mr. Childs was not in the army in the
Sixties being too young to go to war at
that time. The title of general is
usually conferred on the occupant of the
office of attorney general of the state,
which office Mr.. Childs held a few years
ago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Corn is growing so rapidly that
sounds like the farmers Wife's new ST
dress.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

A treaty of peace under another name
will be promptly repudiated by Ports
mouth, N. H.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

The Minneapolis team has a fighting
chance to finish third, but it does not
appear to be fighting. .....-...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Duluth Man Thinks the "Eternal Curse"
Is Upon RockefeIIer-A Defense of Vel
low Journalism.-W. G. Joerns Of Du-
luth i'm The Arena for August discusses
Rockefeller's character. Among other
things, he says:
Rockefeller, however, is not repentant. The
sordid curse still rests upon him and his kind.
At least there is convincing evidence that
single ray of the light of God has yet en-
tered his soul. To all intents an. purposes, so
far as the world can Judge from what he has
done and what he has left undone, he emains
the same abject and benighted slave to mamnon
that he ever was. Enormous wealth of the
material kind is his, but the grace Of God is not
with him. He has sacrificed all the altar
of greed and the eternal curse is upon him
evermore.
In the same magazine Lydia Kingsmill
Commander rises to the defense of yell
low journalism. She gives it credit for
some of the things it was supposed to be
utterly without. She says:
But a sensational presentation of the news
is not the only distinguishing characteristic of
the yellow newspaper. If it were, there would
be little to be said in its favor. The yellow
journal, like the American people, tho faulty
in the extreme has also its full share of vir-
tues. 1t is vulgar and emotional; but it Is
kind and generous, active, wideawake and pro.
gressive. 1t is a living creature. 1t has a
heart and conscience, well brains and
strength. Other papers have opinions; 1t has
| feelings. 1t loves hates, pities and protects
or despses and exposes. Ordinary journalism
| talks; yellow journalism acts.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
Groton, s. D., July 81.
A Civic, Not a Military,

A Civic, Not, Military Title.
To the Editor of The Journal.
Kindly inform me thru the columns OF
your paper what battles General Childs
who prosecuted DR.. Koch, fought in, and
what regiments he commanded.
w Wilson
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

If any man attempts to lower the
waters of Lake Calhoun shoot him on the
spot.-From the unpublished works OF J..
b. Myers, = -...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
THE MAGAZINES

Past Brutality in Sports outdone.-One
of the most hideous instances of the rage
for brutal sports is furnished by Arizona,
says Leslie's Weekly for Aug. 10. In that
territory which has so often proclaimed
it's fitness for statehood, joyful assem-
blages have been gazing on displays Of
ferocity, worthy of his surname, by one
Bulldog Pickett, a negro. For one
wearing the guise Of human being, the
latter as an entertainer is certainly a
novelty. His program consists in gallop-
ing alongside of running steer leaping
from his horse grasping the steer by the
horns, bringing it to a standstill, twisting
the poor brute's head until he gets the
animals nose so high that he can lean
over and grip it's upper lip with his teeth,
then letting 90 with his hands and falling
backward, and bringing the steer down
on it's side with it's head twisted halfway
around.
In other words, Pickett is a bull-baiter
in the shape of a man who outdoes the
fiercest dog in utter brutality.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09

Mcclure, Phillips & Co., New York. 81 net.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-24
Suggestive Unlicensed Motor Case.

The inadeGuacy of the automobile license
regulation now in vogue in the District was
attested yesterday by a Police Court case
which lacked defendant The other night
a motorist was arrested by bicycle police
man who failed to discover the presence OF
a license tag on the machine. which was at
the same time devoid of lights. The man
was taken to the station house and after
he had deposited the staggering sum of 81
as collateral for appearance In court on
the double charge he was allowed to mount
his motor and ride away. Being a sensible
man. appreciative of values and not actu-
ated by burning zeal to obey the laws
which he had already fiouted. this motorist
adopted the simple expedient of refrainng
from visiting court the next day. making
no attempt to recover his collateral The
net result of the bicycle policeman's enter
prise is that the court funds are 81 larger
and the unlicensed motorist still has the
dodge the police.
The Star has repeatedly called attention
TO the folly of permitting station house Of
ficers to accept triiing sums in collateral in
cases which may subject the prisoners to
much heavier fines If they go to court. 1t
has urged that the practice should invarta-
bly, be to exact the maximum of the pos
sible fine. Thus in this case. there being
two distinct charges against the prisoner
that of running without license and that
of running without a ight-the station
house sergeant should not have released
him on less than $50 collateral. He would
probably then have appeared In court, or,
II he regarded his chances of acquittal as
SLIM he would at least have suffered suffi-
GENTLY in pocket to persuade him quickly
to take out license and to light his lamps
II the maximum OF the fine is not as
sessed as a bail sum the Police Court may
as well be abolished The taking of less
than the largest possible fine in effect con-
stitutes the desk sergeants at the station
houses judges of the offense. They are
| in truth merely recording officers, without
power or discretion. and II they are not
| made to realize this point they will continue
! to play havoc with the administration OF
| justice.
| Moreover, it is interesting to know on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-24
Business" VS.. Oratorv.

Mr.. Martins triumph in Virginia is symp-
tomato Elsewhere in the south what is
called business" in politics is prevailing
over the old powers of hastings eloquence
Men who organize and hold following
upon what is called practical lines and
when In office get their share of what is
going" are growing stronger than the
men who simply crate. The mere orator.
or the man who is mainly orator. is passing
His best field now is the county court
house or the corner grocery.
In South Carolina Mr.. Tillman boasts of
what as Senator he gets for the state in
the division of favors here and not of any
views he entertains or expresses on the
Constitution and its scope. He does not put
the case very delicately or diploma tically,
and pictures himsef as walking off with
share of plumber. but his people do not re-
sent it. They seem even to like it. and
certainly they stand by him He is in his
second term in the Senate, and his hold at
home established fifteen years ago, is still
mistaken.
In Tennessee MIR. Carmack Is Offering for
second term in the Senate and the criti-
clsm he encounters is that he has nothing
of a practical value to the state to show
for his first term. His critics charge that
things to say against the President and
the administration than hustling for Ten
nessee's interests. Bob Taylor has taken
the field. and his friends are claiming that
as senator he, like Mr.. Tillman would get
liberal share of the plumber. His parti-
sanship is stout enough, but he has humor
and gifts as a 'jollier." and 1t is believed
that they would capitalize well in a hunt
for favors.
The appearance of this sentiment in the
South is deplored in some quarters. where
debates about the general welfare clause
of the Constitution and the real author of
the resolutions of '9S still popular The
fear is that craftsmanship may become too
practical and too commercialized, and that
the south may catch uD with the business
procession. But there are others who take
more cheerful view of things and hail
the change sign of health and political
progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-24
TIPS and Graft.

If the practice OF the restaurant walters
OF one OF New York's new big hotels be-
comes general patrons OF public eating
places will perhaps eventually switch their
tips from the dispensers of food to the pro-
prietors OF the cafes. The manager OF this
hOstelry has discovered that a conspiracy
has existed for long time whereby his re-
ceipts from the restaurant service have
been lessened. IT is estimated by fully $500
day. The walters and the checkers or
ganized. and the result was that although
the patrons of the cafes continued to pay
the exorbtant rates demanded by the cards,
with such fancy prices as the walters might
find opportunity to slide into the checks.
the house was getting only a fraction of
the cash.
II Is not to be doubted for moment that
these walters were taking and expecting
and almost demanding tips from customers
all the time they We're making. on the av-
erage. from IS to Si2 a day above their
wages by means of this graft. In a Iirst-
class restaurant In New York the waters
wage averages about $3.50 a day. Ills tips
will run. Il has been calculated. fully twice
a. much as his regular pay. Thus. these
walters were getting at least $3.50 a day
from house and customers and stealing
perhaps on the average $40 more. This
would give. on the basis of six days OF serv-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-24

Ice no less than s105 a week, or S5.460 a
year. granting no vacation. very tidy sum
for ste-handlers, and one to be envied by
many a young lawyer or physician during
the first ten years of professional work.
Even without resort to graft the waiter s
Job in a first-class restaurant Is by no
means to be despised as a money maker.
A clever man. capable of giving good serv-
ice to a large number Of patrons at once.
often takes in $40 a day in tips. and IN
special seasons he will double this sum-
Multiplying the average tip by the number
of walters in even one hotel of the first
class. with its half dozen or more cafes,
and the total spent in twenty-four hours
by the public for the privilege of being de-
Gently served reaches a startling figure.
1t is always to be remembered that
large percentage of these tips really
wasted. in that they are given by Gus
toners who never return. casuals who tip
the waiter because II eases their conscience
or gives them the feeling of aff1uence. If
the tip Is a reward for specially good serv-
Ice already rendered these solitary gratui-
ties are justifiable If they areas In the
great majority of cases-bribes to persuade
the waiter to do better by the tip-giver
than by any other patron. there Is no vir-
tue in any tip whatever unless it becomes
a regular feature of every meal. And to
prove that the waiter keenly appreciates
the difference between the tip as a reward
and the tip bribe. all that is necessary
is to stop giving while continuing patron
age.
The whole system is evil, and unfortu-
nateiy 1t can be eradicated only through
cooperation between the public and the
restaurant owners. If the latter were wise
they would abolish the tips by paying their
walters living wages and prohibiting the
payment of checks through the walters
Only through the pay at the desk sys-
tenn can the bribery of the plate bearers
be discouraged practically