The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-05


The Greatest Passage In: English Lit
erature.-EdWln Markham, in Success
MAGAZINE for October, gives the passage
in English; literature which. he regards a.
the greatest It is this from Carlyle's
sartor Resartus," where Carlyle sees
history as a stupendous procession, forth
issuing from Zimmerman night and van
lshlng into pathetic and fathomless
silence: II. -
Like some wild-faming, wild laundering train
OF heavens artillery does this mysterious man.
Alho thunder and flame, in long drawn quick
succeeding grandeur, thru the unknown deem
Like God-created, fire.breathing spirit host.
we emerge from the inane: haste stormfullv
across the astonished earth, then plunge again
and her seas filled up in our passage Can the
earth, which is but dead and vision. resist
spirits which have reality and are aliye?* On
the hardest adamant some footprint of us is
stamped m the last rear Of the host win read
traces of the earliest van But whence? Oh.
heaven, yhither?: Sense knows not; Faith knows
MOTT only! that it is thru mystery to- mystery.
'f0n s0a g 500, Il 5a"r s.hoos . .
:Thet second NUMBER OF the seni-montb-
ly NORTH American Review maintains the
high standard established BY the first. Il
opens! with = the second = ii1stallment 81
chapters lalp from Mark. Twain's autobiog-
rapty. Professor Bra nder Matthews
VINO IS prominently sconnected with the
movement for spelling reform. discusses
reform and Refor1ner s." John Barrett
urges the adoption of measures which
VIII bring about the most desirable re-
iatlons% between 'theI United States and
La5s1ln 1 In an article entitled
age-a Right, - Ida Hustled Harper
ueep lrfsc the withholding of the suf-
f' age from women. SUrbain Gohier fore
casts 1.-THE Next French = Revolution. !"
Charles A: Conant describes the Euro
pean conditions which aid American
t1nanciers in Selling American Securi-
ties Abroad Arthur Brisbane eulogizes
William Randolph Hearst. Andrew Car
negie breaches against 1.-THE Gospel Of
Wealth" ~ General Fausti1o Guerra
/ Puente< General Pine Guerra) briefly ex-
plains the Causes Of the Cuban Insur-
| rection.' =.
Atlantic for October.-Every American
business man has reason to be inter-
ested IN the. leading article in the At
iantlc for October. Commercial Pan
les, Past and Future'fis the title, and the
author is. A. D. Noyes, financial editor Of
the Evening Post. Just at present. when
I've are riding on the top wave of prosper
1ty, it is well worth while to take a look
ahead. Another panic year will be due
before long. Mr.. Noyes believes that,:if
we can find out the causes that bring
about such disaster, We can control
| them--at least to some extent The same
number contains a timely political article
by,John H. Latane on the "Forcible Col
lection of International Debts" Pre-
cisely what the "Drago Doctrine stands
! for, what the situation was which forced
| it into being, and what our position
should be in future Fcrises of the same
character-these are some of the in1por-
tant points covered. / 60 s" ~,
cummins' Senatorial chances-Gov-
ernor Cummins was *never nearer the
senatorial seat than he is today, not even
t the day. he was defeated by John III.
Gear by three votes, says F. G. Moorhead
in the World Today for October. With
a personal friend and political adherent
in the office Of lieutenant governor, a
legislature friendly to him and a move
1 ment on foot, Endorsed by the, party in
4 Its platform, to allow popular. choice to
govern the action Of the legislature and
with a record Of having swept the state
as no governor has ever swept it before,
! Governor Cumnins may become Senator
| Cummlns before many more pages of
/ Iowa. history har