The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01

| the progress of railroad consolidation. with
| map showing that half of the 100000 miles of
| railway IN the country is controlled by few
combinations of capitalists who have their
headquarters in New York. Mr.. Cunnim re-
CARDS return to rabid competition as a re-
turn 10 Wasteful economic condition. while
pooling is a dubious remedy, especially where
direct line divides freight with roundabout
ilne "hlch can't haul 1t SO cheaply, and the
shipper ultimately pays for the waste. The
outcome will be either private MONOPOLY or
government monopoly, as the situation looks
now. Mr.. Lusk of New Zealand contributes
paper commencing the compulsory arbitration
law OF that country as successful social and
economic experiment. Among other features
OF interest, Mr. McAndrews paper on teach
ers wages will command attention by the
V1sor with which he pleads for the raising of
teachers salaries to a good living basis
Lipplncott's completed novel is entitled
The Standings" by John Strange Winter
1t is a very pathetic love story embodying,
of course, a girl who had nc heart and played
the mischief with men, and girl with red,
warm FLOODED heart who opened it for her
wife-deserted brother-in-law. There is some
good matter about Lincoln in paper entitled
''Lincoln's Official Habit" some very good
short stories, and the second part of Sidney
Laniers "Music of Shaksperes Time"
What To Eat for February gives it's read
ers appetizing menus and recipes which make
ones mouth water, and is even kind enough
to furnish a supply of jests for the table ard
tell us how to become successful after dinner
speakers. What To Eat says success largely
depends ones ability to tell story in an
interesting way. Perhaps so! 1t, is crafty
ing to read Helene Dubois sharp and honest
complaints of the miseries of fashionable din
ing. 1t is very funny. One can't overlook :.
DR.. Oswald's Mexican food study, and the
three greasy meals of brown beans. tortillas
and bacon, Offset by bananas and Jumps Of
brown sugar and fried axolotl and Flascual-
| tepec salad sandwiches, everything fiery with
red pepper.
| Frank Leslies for February is bright
| and interesting number with new and cheer
full cover design and throwing in fine
| portrait OF Mckinley from the celebrated
| Marceau- painting detached. The fiction is
| notably good, as MacHargs Children of
| Death" with illustrations in color, and 1.-THE
Pot of Paint" by Onoto Watanna. Carl
4 Hovey's illustrated paper, 1.-THE City's Edge -
| gives an interesting insight into the daily
! life of stevedores who unload and load ships
| at city "harves, their work being of the
hardest, done chiefly by Irishmen and Italians
| in New York. There is glimpse given too,
| Of the river pirates and others '.the edge
A notable illustrated paper is Mr.. Hulberts
Our Inland Fleet, an interesting account Of
! the marvellous traffic on the great lakes.
New York: Nos. 141-147 Fifth avenue.
! Harper's illustrative features FEBRUARY
number) are very attractive. Notable
! EuWlu a. ADCey engraved illustrations,
| marginal and full-page, of Henry Van Dykes
fine poem, 1.-THE Dwellings of Peace and his
illustrations Of GoldsfIth's The Deserted
| Village" Austin Dobson contributes an in
! PRODUCTION to the fayorite poem, Of peculiar
| interest. There are seven fine full-page pict-
ures. Some of the stories are illustrated from
water colors, as ''The Story of Amabel and
| Amoris," by the author of AN Englishman's
! Love Letters Another interesting feature
is "Sir Arthur Sullivan's Diary by Arthur
Lawrence, with portrait. Mark Twain con-
| cludes his thrilling detective story begun in
| the January number. MAN and the Upper
Atmosphere by DR.. R. Surfing, of the Royal
Meteorological institute, Berlin, discusses
| balloonng and the elevation above the earth
where human life is in peril This he places
| at $1,000 feet. 1t would be dangerous to try
| to get any higher
| Ainslees February number has such at
| fractions Frank Arnetts THE Jewels OF
| American Women showing that little over
| twenty New York society women own over
500, 900, 900 worth of iewelry and that not
| few fortunes in jewels have been carried by
American girls who have married titled men,
| to Europe. ~
/ The Century's illustrative art features are
very attractive, as Timothy Coles wood en-
craving Of 1.-THE Daughter of Ell Greco
from the painting by Domenico Theotocopuli.
and H. G. MerrilPs engraving Of the Princess
Mathilde, accompanying a very charming
paper by Victor Du Bled on 1.-The Salon of the
Princess Mathilde,'' which is also illustrated
by engraving of Prosper Mer1mee Read
ing to the Princess and Her Guests There
is group Of Poems Of the West" one Of
which is contributed by Richard Burton
C'The Old Santa Fe TrailD with fine mar
ginal illustrations and full-page engraving
on wood of Gilbert Stuart's portrait Of
George Washington, owned by NJ. J. Perry Of
Providence, R. I. There is merry lot of
humorous sketches and tales, notable among
which are ]. c. McNell's -Four Negro
Songs" and Albert Bigelow Paine's ''The
Don't Hurry Club. A feature of interest is
Kozowski's ''Visit to Mount Vernon Cent
ury Ago." drawn from the diary Of the Polish
poet, NiemcewicZ noting among other things
conversations with Washington.
An important illustrated paper in The
Popular Science Monthly is Professor Hale's
"Stellar Evolution in the Light of Recent
Research The professor has charge of the
great forty-inch telescope of the Yerkes OBJ
servatOry, Chicago. In this paper he sug
gests the large advantages Of astronomical
students to-day through stellar photography
and shows some of the facts accomplished and
reproduces some of the photographs OF star
clusters the solar corona and lunar craters.
The triumphs of the spectroscope also
set forth, for 1t has given the observer the
power to analyze the gaseous vapors Of
nebulae and to divide star light into its COM
ponent parts. DR.. Knowlton of the National
The Journeyings of Birds" in which he con-
cludes from the fact that birds travel along
defnable routes in migrating, over thousands
Of miles Of water, they must possess the in
stinct of direction, not being dependant upon
any landmarks. Professor Thurston OF Cor
nell writes Of "The College Man as Leader
in the Worlds Work. arguing strongly that,
after the inventor and mechanic have pro-
vded the apparatus Of production of new
world and converted barbarism into civliza-
ton, the effective Of the apparatus must
be directed by trained through sys-
tematic and scientific instruction and drfl.
Social Service New York: 2S7 Fourth ave-
nue) has some notable features, as g. paper
by United States Consul General Mason OF
Berlin on the f1remen's exposition in that
city last year at which there were only four
American exhibitors Captain Mattox de-
scribes the boys garden school founded by
the National Cash Register company, in con-
nection with their works at Dayton, Ohio.
The garden is useful feature of the better
ment work of this firm, who took boys preyf-
ously bad and vicious and organized them into
clubs and brgades and taught them to re-
spect themselves and the rights Of Others
They were given gardens to work and there
are now seventy-fve gardens and most OF the
| boys supplied their families with vegetables
last year and earned money by selling the
product to pay for their school books. The
boys take pride in their gardens and conf
pete for prizes offered by the company for
fathfulness and proficiency. In Russia there
are half a million children working school
gardens. There is very interesting Illus
trated paper by Victor Holmes on the NUM-
4 cipal labor exchange in Copenhagen. The ex-