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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
THE UNEASY CHAIR

"A CASE OF. 1.-THE SINS OF THE
EATHERS"-AND THE MOTHERS
Despite the implied denial of the view
that. virtue is always rewarded and sin
always punished, with which denial
Bettina Won Hutton prefaces her new
book Pam, her story goes to show quite
clearly that dining at the house Of folly
is costly and must be paid for by some
one, whether the diner or some one else.
Pam" is the story of girl whose par
ents are not married, at least not until
the girl is approa ching maturity, and yet
who live together a care-free, joyous
life. They are Indifferent to the stings
which a position without the social pale
ordinarily inf1icts. But the suffering they
escape falls in the end upon the heart Of
the girl. She pays the price of their light
hearted folly, thru misconcepticn of sex
relations, fostered by her anomalous po-
sition and training.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

",
Yet Pam is girl of fine spirit and high
morals. Despite her warped notions about
marriage and love, she wins the sympathy
OF the reader at the outset and holds it
until the end of the book. One thruout is
hoping that she will be lifted for good and
all out Of the miasma of the social level
into which her fate has cast her--this lit
tie thing with mind much too old for
her years. and heart with warnings Of
like quality. But she isn't, more's the
pity. and therein lies the story. and the
story doesn't end. just breaks off. leaving
the girl at the Threshold of life with
wretched handicap and the readers
views on life's relations, mayhap, worse
tangled than before he began the story's
reading.
And in this confusion of life's relations
liesna serious fault in the story. If stories
of the kind must be told. it is at least the
duty Of the teller to keep the sane view
of the things dealt with where the reader
may not overlook them. Another weak
ness of the story is in PANS father and
mother. They are, the author makes out,
deeply in love with each other and happy
far above the ordinary. But as the au-
thor portrays them there are in reality
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
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A Safe Investment.

An inquiry at Minneapolis bank
with regard to the Japanese loan met
with frank advice to let it alone. The
of savings which it seemed to him would
be we'll invested in bonds drawing per
cent, the rate which the Japanese agree
to pay.
This eagerness to secure a high rate Of
interest and readiness to accept any
kind of financial security, if only it is
far enough away, is one of the 'peculi-
arities of Investment by people who are
not experienced in financial matters. 1T
is true that some Of the eastern banks
are floating the Japanese loan, but their
sales are usually made to people of very
little business experience. The banker
or broker in Wall street sells the Japan
csc bond, gets his commission, and
stands from under. People who know
the Japanese character view this Jap
anese loan as something that will prob
ably be paid if the war turns out favor
ably to Japan and the conditions make
it easy to meet the obligation. If, on
the other hand, it should seem to be to
Japanese advantage to repudiate the
obligation, the commercial reputation
which the people of that country have
established affords no assurance that
they will seriously burden themselves
to discharge this debt.
This Japanese loan instance is more
Interesting, however, as an illustration
Of the preference some people exhibit to
pass right by good, safe opportunities
for investment at home and seek for
chances to plant their money in out-of
the-way parts Of the world in schemes
with regard, to which they can know
nothing definite and with respect to the
management Of which they can have nc
opportunity to inform themselves
:s.It is characteristic of the small in
weston with nothing but savings to i'll
vest to fall prey to the solicitor who
is.plausible and persuasive and actuated
BY a commission of some rs to SO pei
cent. The thousands and even millions
scattered around in loose investments of
this character, if planted in Minneapo
lis real estate, would certainly not only
produce better returns, but would be
Invested in tangible property, some
thing that could be seen, managed an6
disposed of to the best. advantage.
II The opportunity for profitable invest
ment in Minneapolis real estate was
never better than it is now. It is the
Judgment Of men who know conditions
turnout the country. that in no city il
the union is real estate cheaper today
than in Minneapolis. At no time in the
history of this city have it's prospects
been as bright as they are today, ant
never before has it grown as rapidly az
il is growing now.
" Under these conditions, Minneapoli.
4 real estate would seem to offer great at
fractions to conservative people. The
wonder is that property of this charac
ter has not received more attention thar
i it has. Fhe hesitancy may possibly 81
accounted for in part by the unfortu
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

consequences Of suche error no one can
estimate. One lu u lala s al stake. may
work more damage than succeeding
legislatures can ever repair.
The responsibility for any such mis-.
take is upon the members, and, while
they are standing up to it heroically
that will not save them from the wrath
to come if the code is found to har.
Dor woodchucks. In passing the revi
sion offhand, they are taking some big
chances. I'll ..,, :, u ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
Not a Substitute for Filtration

The government experiments with
sulphate Of copper>in the publication of
water have reached an Interesting stage
where the experimenters. are willing to
say that the copper treatment of water
is free from danger to the consumer
They are also on record as saying that
the sulphate treatment is not to be con
sidered substitute for filtration and
that it never can Sbe. This is the point
on which many. Of. our local economani
acs have gone off and it is proper te
draw them back before they put al
their faith in a cheap process of purifi
cation which does not exist.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

If the stories are true. that the wives
and children Of the Russian soldiers who
were sent into Asia are starving, the rev.
dictionary movement is likely to gain con-
siderable momentum. People asa rule,
except perhaps the Russian aristocracy,
dislike to see mothers and children starry
ing to death.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

A correspondent who has been white
capper'' writes the Indianapolis News that
the whitecaps are not breakers Of the law,
but defenders of it. They plead that the
regular officers of the law and the courts
can not or will not do their duty; they
step in and act without fear or favor.
They break the law in order to enforce
the law! This shows one Of the things
a community gets for not enforcing the
law .-g, ..- ..,.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

Bishop Berry's advice to young min
listers to make their pastoral calls in the
evening when the man of the house is a.
home seems good The difficulty with
afternoon calls is that the minister does
not know whether he will bump into
sweeping day, ironing day or butt In upon
the <chug chug club engagedsin discus
sion of the relation Of ancient Egyptian
Industry to the stoking ssoetsspn odern fur
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

Mr.. s. G. T. Dodd, undeterred by the
spectacle H. II. Rogers made of himself
has rushed to the defense of the Standard
OIL. Mr.: Dodd. with the bunch of initials.
says that the reports set in motion by
ministers that John D. Rockefeller secured
his money dishonesty are very, very vile.
1t Is pretty late for Mr.. Dodd or any: Of
his compatriots to try to load responsible
ity for such charges upon the ministers.
The responsible witnesses are the legis-
latures of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the
congress Of the United States, the attor-
ney general of Ohio, the historian Miss
Tarbell and sundry and divers Employees,
agents and officers Of the Standard Or
company. The ministers got their infor-
nation from these sources, and it is in
formation that has never been contradict
ed by the Standard Oil company. q.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
With the Long Boo.

An enthusiastic friend of his states that Frederick HILL
was mentioned N tins column the other day having finally permitted
born Norris Minn and well graduated
Providence It. cuts no ice with Mr. Hin
whether there is pants button in his contribution box
Pieces grass them being sold for fine
fresh strawberries again The crime laid at the door of Texas
The Panama years.
for 300 LONGER m e Gs aay %oad GHdff %
plains the popularity Of the president
The poioner abroad pup attempts anayze
subtle perfumes along the route Keep
and ve in of the things difficult person
the nose for to understand Still people like have perfumery
squred them There accounting As between the
chosen by the dog and the smell pumy many applied per-
hap some excuse may be found for the animal 90
Two Grafton explorers
thing that particularly wasp
which full Of boarders AS the
for they get full of and high life and the
travellers slept at a night Mr. Haus
also made sinister complaint Of two Blankets occupied by
1000 feas not that them bit him
night for him and for the Others who had to listen to his talk
day party the space
boat occupied warm boiler which made the the
They gulf Ncoye spanard
drunk the This gulf full of sharks which will
the Grafton delegation quietly and nofnsve the boat and did
their tired feet ds1 sides into the and vtr I M a
selves the which worthy Of admiration On the return trip
glide gracefully sandbar
and stick like plaster rheumatic back Then the strong
the old tuba pleasure
lifted off into what left When
they mad enough fight the sharks but
cautiously held their
that Central America all right but that
yprefer inhabitants Of North Dakota.
who ourneyed town northern Minnesota to
who had
rates. destination the evening series Of meetings be-
ing held and the agent feeling pretty sure that the man in was there
The holding forth something
after this fashion:
''N1y friends He after of
hurry either to catch He'll
get you.''
The insurance whispered his neighbour
: .''Who is he?''
! ''The devi'' the reply q
| - the preacher
/ tu1 ttat,sR Rev
r. WIS the right man him for $4,000
/ r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

The Morocco. war cloud, rat present no
larger than mans hand, would certainly
darken, should Foreign Minister Del
'casse's yelled hint Of a protectorate. be-
come a French policy. Smaller things
have started a war and larger things have
failed to provoke llostilties -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

The president is with his rough riders,
and when Alkali Pete ran over his excel
lency, as, they say in Arizona with, a
bucking broncho, the president said it just
did him good, it: was such reminder of
home and the senate.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

The La Toilette men in Wisconsin, are
willing that John c.. Spooner shall be
secretary Of state or have his choice OF
foreign missions, the more foreign the
better. But John says he just, dotes on
Wisconsin, where the summer evenings
are long and the cranberries are full OF
juice. ca,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

Open doors are becoming quite the rage,
William the Sooner is the latest states
man to mix himself up with the anti-clos-
ing movement. He has ripped up a. seam
in frances monopoly of trade in Moroc-
co that makes the boulevards fairly sizzle
with .'Voila!" and .now you see". =,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

The Wyman bill for the distribution
of life insurance surplus Accommodations
among the policy -holders seems. to have
stirred up something of breeze in com
mittee where it has been charged that
it is the work Of an attorney who wants
to use it as club to, bullyrag the in
surance scompanies.' We do mot quite
see how the companies are going to be
subjected to bullyragging by a law
which makes it their duty: TO- make
distribution once in five years of their
surplus assets which belong to the
policy -holders. Nor is it true. as alleged
before the committee that this is a plan
which is not followed by the largest or
best insurance companies. The public
has been learning lately that. there may
be a difference, between largest and
best. While" the largest ought to be
the best, it is still a question with them,
as with the smaller companies, of using
the cleanest methods of doing business.
The tontining Of dividends is a plan
| which was invented by Neapolitan
banker named Tonti in the seventeenth
|
cial schemes. Its application to life
insurance came later. Its presumed
benefits are that the surviving or per-
sisting policy-holder who leaves his
dividends, with the company gets at
the end Of the 1tontine period not only
his own share of the profits Of thes in.
vestment, but also pro rates with others
the share Of the lapsed policies in the
same class. Its disadvantages are that
man may die~the day before Ills Ton
tine period expires in which case his
estate loses the whole of his share as
we'll as his anticipated share of the
profits of others, who have lapsed.,1 In
going into tontine arrangement he. is
betting the amount of his share that@he
will survive the period So far the plan
is all right, being optional with the
policy purchaser. But the states
have tried to make laws to com
pei the companies to account for the
profits on their books. Obviously the
only way they could do this would be
either to pay oyer the. money. to the
policy-holder or to carry the unpaid
amount as liability. AS matter of
fact, good many companies do not
carry these amounts on their books as
a liability, but they appear on the cash
side Of the ledger as an asset, which
is not true in fact. = g -
Some Of the very best insurance com.
panies now account for these items of
surplus either. by paying them in cash
each year or by crediting them to the
policies as earnings. The. Wyman bill
seeks to compel all companies doing
business in Minnesota to make, such, an
accounting at least once in five years
The. discussion of INSURANCE. affairs
recently has4been educational The law
makers are taking greater interest in
having laws made which will protect
the, great body Of the people, who are
investing in life insurance TIA greater
rate than ever before in this history of
the world. They are seeking to elimi
nate the speculative element from in:
surance as much as possible and so re,
duce it. to a form Of investment which
cannot be lost. There are no companies
doing business entirely in the interest
of the policy-holders who can have any
objection to, such laws. <.$
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

Medical Talk has bit of practical
philosophy on. its cover this month. 1t
says:
The world will grow better and
healthier just So soon as men leave off
trying to make others behave and each
one begins to behave himself.
1t is good deal easier to edit your
neighbours conduct than it is to blue
pencil your own foolishness.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

Work on Mr.. Rockefeller's wonderful
new marble palace in the Pocantico Hills
will begin about May /. He is planning
to put about a million dollars into the
building alone. The estate will doubtless
be the finest in America and would be
an ornament even to the Lowry Hill dis.
trict. 49,,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

We are going to. have state census
this summer, but everybody refuses to get
excited over the possible result. Tt was
different fifteen years ago; the, gap be-
tween Minneapolis and st. Paul was not
so wide then; ~" -. r.. ,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

nate experience Of twenty years ago;
but :whateveg this city, in common with
Others, may have suffered From inflated
values at that time, there has been full
recovery, and prices today are demon
strably low and afford wide margin
of legitimate profit. es ss II
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

The lord provost Of Glasgow has an
swered the cable of the lord mayor OF
Chicago; offering him the loan Of the trac-
ton manager Of the Scottish metropolis
Hoot mon, and higher up my bonnet!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

Shiloh church met the other night and
without strain suddenly increased the
pastors salary. There are many pastors
in whose lives an incident like this would
come In the nature of glad surprise
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

With a million year in tithes to in
vest just as. he likes do you wonder that
President Joseph F. Smith looks upon
Brother Dowie as one of the minor
prophets?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

The chuckles of Thomas Lawson over
the general Equitable-R Rockefeller munich
pal ownership situation may be heard half
way across Massach usetts bay.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
THE BEAM IN OUR EVE
Louisville Courier-Journal

~ Louisville Courier journal
In all the United States, outside of
cities, there are but 5000 miles of macad-
amized roads, while in France alone there
are 100000 miles. If we spent more of
our energy building good roads. and less
Of it in boasting of our superiority to the
rest of creation, we could better stand
comparison with the rest of creation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

Philadelphia is talking of providing a
school garden" fr, each school in the
city. It is a fine thing to get children in
terested in the soil.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

The wheat in the southwest is said to
look so rich and promising that farmers
are just, standing around holding their
breaths. r& ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

There is no truth, says Mr.. Leavitt, in
the story that he said; ,..:Next:@ year the
board Of control can go to thunder" Mr..
Leavitt denies any Knowledge as to where
it is going. i.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

Creatore has a few gestures that have
never been thrown, ready for tonight. If
you have never seen jiu jitsu music dom
miss it. s-.. --.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

T Coal has now dropped to a point so
low that rich men can afford to put it in
for next winter. --...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

Crop Note-It looks now as tho the crop
Of sweet peas would be about the largest
ever raised in Hennepin county.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

are no officers in sympathy with the
government to do the collecting.
Surely our goddess schools have never
done anything quite SO ungodly as this
partnership has done in France and
England.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

The fatality attending the spotted fever
epidemic in New, York recalls the name
given that disease when It was raging
twenty-five or thirty years ago. Then 1T
was known as cerebro- spinal comeand-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
THE INDIAN GIvER

Life. you give us youth,
Then. before we know,
Scoring pity, ruth,
Grown US cold, with snow.
Life. you give us love.
Then, ere we're aware,
Heaven Is dark above.
Earth is one despair!
New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

The people who We're bound to have
Judge Dunno resign from the bench are
about to have their wish gratifed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

Colorado had fellow feeling for the
Simlaites. That earthquake was so much
like spring election. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
THE HENRY JAMES CULT is "SE.

THE HENRY JAMES CULT is "sE-
LECT."-1f you have never read a Henry
James book. you need have no special
fear of admitting the fact; there are
others "A writer in the New York Times
Saturday Review shows there is not a
great demand for James novels among
the members of at least one reading club.
and perhaps, that club is typical. Here
is what the writer in question, ]. w. ABB
ernethy, Of Brooklyn, 4. Y. says:
During the past five years it has been one
of my duties to cater for reading club of
about 100 members. All of the novels of Henry.
James have been given to the club with other
current publications, and I find by referring TO
the charge book that not than three of
the hundred take out one of the James
novels. Popularity may be a crude test OF
genius nevertheless it is test that has been
applied with pretty uniform results to all great
regulations in fiction. Poets and reformers
sometimes write for posterity. and. like. Milton.
content themselves with .'ft audience. tho
few" But the novelist who does not reach Il
large audience in his own day and generation
will not have large place in the history of
litera ture: and it is contradiction or excepE
ton to this natural law Of literature that nj
very small novel frequently gains very large
audience and presently sinks into the oblivion of
the commonplace zach go. ~ Z
"A TEMPTING AND SATISFYING
SHORT HISTORY OF. ENGLISH LIT4
ERATURE.-Eva March Tappan's AZ
Short History of EneIand's Literature Is
a book that contains much in little re-
lating to English literature. We have,
read it for the sake of clarifying our
birdseye view of the subject, and find
it does the work admirably. The au--
thor has built the book and built 1t well,
upon the theorieS-which We indorse-
that 1.-The prime object of studying litera-
ture is to develop the ability to enjoy 1t,
that in every work of literary merit there
is something to enjoy, that it is less irn-
portant to know the list Of an authors
works than to feel the impulse to read ore
of them, that it is better to know few
authors we'll than to learn the names OF
many One setting out with. purposes
so sane. could not fail to do good works.
Incidentally. We discover in the book
in hand the authority for the statement
that there are no snakes in Ireland. The
author tells. US that the record OF Ire
lands snakelessness was first made by
1.-The Venerable Bede." who died in 49,
AID. one of Englands earliest literary
lights" who shone not because of his
strength so much as because of the sur
rounding gloom of his time.
Houghton, Miflin & Co., Boston, So cents
net. $3.50
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
HOUSEHOLD STANDARD OIL

Wen my pop talks of Standard Oil
It makes my heart beat faster,
Fur fear I'll git some, cause know
The standard oil is castor.
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
MAKES FAMILY JARS

Washington Post.
DIR. Patton says that Language q
thoughts pottery"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF LOB.
STEERS ,~. ,-r

Minnetonka Record.
Lobster fishermen in Maine have formed
a union to protect themselves against the
lobster trust. The time will come when
the lobster will be owned and operated
by the government.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

LoNDoN-Journal on file at American Express
office, 8 Waterloo place, and U. s. Express
Office, 90 Strand.