The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-07-10
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RntapIan. a Rogue Elephant and
Other Stories. BY Ellen Eelvin, author
of '.Tales Told at the zoos.' etc. illustrated.
/ Philadelphia: Henry: Altemus company.
Price $1.25. s..s. -, !. ST. -
This volume contains some very excellent
stories of animal life, by d writer who has
written many useful and attractive books for
the young The title story, ''Rataplaa,
Rogue Elephant" tells of a Ceylon elephant
who was SO irritable that no herd would ad-
INIT him to it's ranks, and he wandered alone,
avoiding with singularly sensitive instinct
the many snares and pitfalls prepared for him
by men for a long time. until a little decoy
elephant led him to his ruin by her caresses.
Other stories like "Gean, the Giraffe LEO,
the Lion Chatter. the Chamois, - "osra,
the Ostrich .''Siccatee. the Squirrel" etc.,
portray the animals; not as they are portrayed
in fables, talking like men and women. but
as they are in real life, with wonderful in
stinct of preservation, and showing their
various characteristics in a most informing
way. The illustrations are In eolors, and the
author has introduces human interest in her
text sufficiently to show the wrongness OF
wanton cruelty to animals.
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Frank Lesies contains an entertaining
variety of stories and sketches, very lively
one being Mr. Elwells 'Man-Ki1ling Horses"
of bronco -busting-the reduction to submits
sion of banting, bueking, squealing, rolling,
kicking brutes, who not infrequently sue
coed in killing their riders. Mr.. loves ac-
count of John Alexander Dowie and his
christian Catholic Church in zion, near
Chicago, is decidedly interesting He shows
that Dowie sincerely believes he has a mis-
sion as a prophet sent by God; that his peo-
pie iatrust hundreds of thousands of dollars
to his keeping and believe him to be abso-
lutely honest, and the president Of the bank
of Zion Mr.. Barnard, Is q level-headed busi-
ness man, who cannot be the t'dupe" of any
body Dowe has built up a town Of over
3,ee0 Inhabitants and likely to contain 10000
within two years. In operation are big lace
factory, an electric power house, brick and
lumber yards, and a harbor on Lake Michi-
gan is planned There are public schools.
general stores, and bank, and church
seating 5000 people, and more business 10
done in the town than at any other point
between Chicago and Milwaukee The town
votes as Dowie votes, and Will soon have
to be taken into account by the politicians
His system is spreading through the country.
Dowie may be crank, but he has acute
business instinct and is not worried by. the
abuse heaoed upon him.
The Popular Science Monthly, on the sub
gject of the causes OF volcanic
eruptions, adopts the theory that
the earth is "solid clear through, but
there arc local reservoirs of molten rock
beneath volcanic districts, whose tension Is
eased by eruptions through the fractures
along lines Of geological disturbance, the ex-
pulsive force being either the contraction or
the earth or the vapors held dissolved IN
the lava. This. however, Is not science, out
conjecture Professor Cattell OF Coiumbfs
university contributes suggestive paper on
.sThe American University, In which ne
outlines a history OF the higher sdueation
since Harvard was started as an English
college In 1886 The university Is more than
school for boys, and the professor defines
tr,,e university as: "a place where each
would gladly learn and gladly teach; open
summer and winter. night ana day; center
in each community for the conservation o.
the best traditions and for the ortginatton OF
the newest ideas; closely in touch with every
forward movement OF civic and national HE;
q home from which will go out and to which
will return our leaders in every department
Of human activity" This idea be finely de-
yelopes and illustrates. There Is paper
ON s.sugar and the Sugar Beet By DR.. Wad-
dell Of the Ontario School Of Mining He
gives very interesting details Of beet sugar
manufacture, showing how the improved
methods of extraction and cultivation affect
tho amount of beets necessary TO produce
a ton of sugar. This has been reduced from
121s tons to less than tons, while the profit
in raising beets averages $40 an acre Other
important papers are The Commercial Value
Of Human Life, by NJ. o. Leighton. and
Instinct" by Douglas A, spaldinG
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