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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

that Wheaton should be q member Of
the Clarkson club, and Wheaton as
sented, OH the presidents representa-
ton that 1T would be a good thing for
the bank. Vacant apartments were
offered at this time in The Bachelors,
as 1t was called, M and he
availed himself of the opportunity to
change his place Of residence. He
saw here. In the intimacies of their
common table, men of q higher social
standing than he had known before.
Their way Of chatting. one another
Knocked at the gods and were not de-
stroyed. Raridan was a new species
and spoke a strange tongue. Raridan
and Wheelocks appeared at the table in
dinner coats, and after a few weeks
Wheaton followed their example.
Raridan, he knew dressed whether he
went out or not, and he established
his own habit in this particular with
as little delay as possible. The table
then balanced, the shelter, manager,
the secretary OF the terra Gotta manu-
featuring company and the travelling
passenger agent of the Transconti-
mental railroad appearing in the habit
spective places of business and Rari-
dan. Wheaton and Wheelock in black
and white.
The humor of this division was not
lost on the travelling passenger agent,
who chaffed4the glad rag" faction, as
he called. it, until Raridan took UP
arms for his own side of the table.
1t may be true, sir, what you say
about a division here between the
working and nonworking classes; but
wit and beauty have from most an
cient times bedecked themselves in
robes of purity. A man like yourself,
whose business is to persuade people
to ride on the worst railroad on earth,
should properly array himself in sack
cloth and ashes, and not in purple and
fine linen, which belong to those who
severally give their thoughts to the
er-promction of peace'-indica
Wheelock--''sou finances indicat-
| ing Wheaton, and--e1e-in my own
Case
yes, do tell u.s. said the. railroad
| man. ironically.
ITO faith and good works." said
| Warrick imperturbably
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And mostly works. don't Think.

And mostly works. don't Think"
declared Wheelock.
Raridan had a contempt for Whea-
toms intellectual deficiencies; and
praise OF Wheaton's steadiness and
success yexed him as having some
sting for himself; but his own amia-
BILE impulses got the better of his
prejudices, and he showed Wheaton
many ktndnesses. When the others
at the Bachelors nagged Wheaton, it
was Raridan who threw himself into
the controversy to take Wheaton's
part. He took him to call at some Of
the houses he knew best, and tho this
was a matter Of propinquity, he knew,
nevertheless, that he preferred Whea-
ton to the others in the house. Whea-
ton was not noisy nor pretentious, and
the others were sometimes both.
Wheaton soon found it easy to do
things that he had never thought of
doing before. He became known to
the florist and the haberdasher; there
was a little Hambletonian at GER
tain liyeryman's which Wary Raridan
drove a good deal, and he had learned
from Wary how pleasant it was to
|'drive out to the new country club in
a runabout instead of using the street
car, which left a margin of plebeian
walking at the end of the line. He
had never smoked, but he now made
it point to carry cigarettes with him.
Raridan and many other young men
Of his acquaintance always had them;
he fancied that the smoking of a ci-
garette gave a touch of elegance to
a gentleman. But while he acquired
| the superficial graces, he did not lose
his instructive thrift; he had never at
| tempted to plunge, even on what his
| associates at The Bachelors called
! sure things, and he was equally in
! capable of personal extravagances. If
he bought flowers he sent them where
| they would tell in his favor. If he
! had five dollars to give to the Ga
zette's ice fund for the, poor, he con-
sidered that when the newspaper
| printed his name in it's list Of ac-
acknowledgements, between Timothy
Margrave, who gave fifty dollars, and
William Porter, who gave twenty five,
he had received an adequate return
| on his investment.
| (To Be Continued Monday.)
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Don't, this winter, wear coats with
padded shoulders for padded Shout
ders have gone out, and in their place
have come neat, easy, shapely ones.
He who hereafter shows himself
abroad with the legs and neck and
massive and discordant shoulders of
a Hercules will be derided by the we'll
dressed.
Don't, in the morning, wear a sack
coat that is short and tight, and that
goes in at the waist and ripples out
over the hips in a. little skirt. The
sack coat of to-day is long and loose;
it has none of the corset-like. military
effect of the past; it is a baggy thing.
Yet, with all it's bagginess, it hangs
well. It has four buttons, with one
vent. or slit. at the back. and iii front
it is not rounded off at the lower cor
ners very much-the front is nearly
straight.
Don't wear, an overcoat that is too
tight at the bottom, SO that, when you
walk, the skirts cling to your legs,
producing the same effect as would
be found if the bottom of the coat
were pulled in by means of a very
tightly tied drawing-string. Avoid this
drawing-string effect. Get an over
coat with skirts that grow fuller and
fuller as they descend.
Don't wear freak shoes-shoes with
buckles instead of laces and with soles
abnorn1ally extended. Wear shapely
shoes this winter-shoes that fit. Their
toes are somewhat pointed, and they
have graceful and strong and light
look. For the morning laced shoe
of black or tan calfskin. For the after
noon with the frock coat a buttoned
patent leather shoe. For the even
ing Gf you would follow the English
mode spatent feather slipper or
pump; otherwise an ordinary shoe OF
patent leather.
Don wear baggy trousers. The
width Of the trousers is now medium
"a mean between the loose and the
tight He who diyergas in either the
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London Mail.


Are we on the verge, as many indica-
lions seem to point, of some great general
ization that will show all our so-called
elements to be merely Elusive forms of
one or two fundamental kinds Of matter
and those, perhaps, undistinguishable
from what we call electricity and ether
or merely modes Of motion, as Professor
Osborne Reynolds suggests, fronts of
waves in an inconceivably dense medium
that exerts4 a pressure of 5000 tons to the
square inch, or. again, only such stuff as
dreams are Ifiadeiof? Time will show per-
llaps, and we -1f1ayAb be- on the threshold Of
discoveries transcending all our wise men
have ever forgotten.
Sir w. Ramsay made the important an
nouncement last night at the London In
stitution that radium gives off a heavy
gas, which slowly changes into heIium and
then VanlShes.
Radium is a metal, an element which
is extracted from mineral known as
pitch1bende. and is remarkable in that it
gives off light and heat without wasting
or without being consumed. Helium is a
very rare gas, which exists in the sun and
which has only recently been obtained
and isolated. 1t is totally different from
radium in form and nature-as different
as is gold from iron.
Hitherto chemistry has been based on
the theory that the elements are con-
other. But now it is seen that radium of
its own accord and without external in
reference turns into, a totally different
element.
1t has been known for some months that
radium appeared to be giving off helium.
But now Sir Ramsay has definitely stated
that he has observed and examined the
process. His discovery is of commanding
Importance to science. and may revolution
lie all the old ideas about chemistry.
The gas given off by radium does not at
first show the spectrum Of helium. Its
spectrum is unlike that of any element yet
known. 1t therefore appears to be some
new form of matter and by it's process of
change from one element to another 1t
may supply the key to many mysteries in
science.
Sir William Ramsay. whose name is as
sociated with that of Lord Rayleigh as
the pioneer in one of the most promising
and fruitful paths of research that modern
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
THE CLIMAX OF SCIENCE
tuler Details of Sir William Rameys Surprising Discovery
the Transmutaton of Radum
Secrets Of Matter May Be Discovered Following

chemists have trodden, undertook to show.
with the help of many simple but interest
ing experiments what is, the place of re-
Gently discovered elements, from argon to
radinm, in the general scheme of nature.
Long Search Rewarded.
But the most novel and attractive part
of Sir William Ramsay's lecture was at
the close. He described how the long
search into the problem of what becomes
of the minute particles with which we
know that radium is always parting was
lately rewarded. Besides it's other mani
festations, radium constantly gives off an
emanation which seems to behave in all
respects like a heavy gas. 1t can be coll
lected in tiny TASKS, measured and
weighed and used to display the char
acteristc properties of radium But it is
not permanent; in about a month it en-
tirely disappears. What becomes Of it?
Now Sir William Ramsay has caught
this emanation in the act of vanishing.
He found that after it had been collected
for a couple of days its spectrunl-Which
previously was entirely unlike any yet
studied-began to display the typical yell
low line of helium, the gas first known
and christened by it's constant presence
in the sun. In four or five days the helium
lines grew brighter, and in another week
the spectrum of helium was positively
that had been filled with the pure emana-
tons or gaseous output of radil1m.
In other words, one element had been
literally seen to change into another of
quite different nature under the eyes of
the experimenters.
Oldest OF Human Dreams.
What is this, asked Sir William RAM
say, but an actual case of that transmuta-
ton of one element into another in which
the ancient alchemists believed when they
painfully sought to change lead into gold
and incidentally founded our modern
science of chemistry? No doubt he must
not be taken to mean that the aIchemfsts
had grasp of the real truth-still less
that their clumsy crucibles and alembfcs
had elected a fact which only the appli-
ances of the most perfect modern 1ajbora-
tories are competent to show. But this
realization of one of the oldest of human
dreams is very suggestive,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
LINCOLN'S LETTER OF ADVICE ON
THE NEGRO SUFFRAGE QUESTION
Regarding
Men Of Louisiana Now
Intelligent Fought the Ranks
Recommended Suffrage.

Michael Hahn. to whom the letter was
written, was not .carpet-bagger, but
had lived in New Orleans since infancy.
In 1S60-61 he was a member of the COM
mittee that canvassed the state against
secession, and he personally exerted all
his influence to prevent disunion. He took
the oath of allegiance to the United States
on the arrival Of Admiral Farragut's fleet
before New Orleans, April rs, 1862. and he
represented the second congressional dis
trict of Louisiana in congress as a replb-
lican from Feb. II to March 8, 1863 At
the end of his term he returned to New
Orleans, advocated the reopening of the
federal courts and advocated emancipa-
ton in the New Orleans True Delta,
which he bought and edited.
He was elected governor of Louisiana
Feb. y, 1864, at an election held under a
proclamation by General Banks, military
governor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
NOT DANGEROUS
Rattiesnake Fanss Do Not Usually Pene.
trate Thru Clothing.
PHILADELPHIA Press

Hn1laQelpnl8 Press.
There is a good deal more right about the
bite of rattlesnake than there is actual dam
GER said well-known physician. ~ do not
mean to say that the bite of RATHER isn't
very serious thing. but ] do mean to say that
this particular sort of snake 10 really not so
ready or apt to get In his bite as some
others {,
In the first place, there is the now gener-
ally credited fact that the RATHER is the most
honest of snakes. He doesn't pick fight; he
doesn't lie In wait for any one. He won't run
away. of course, for he's plucky reptile, but
he will curl up and give you fair warning from
those rattles of his before he attempts to strike
remember in the west finding a RATHER
just ahead of my horses off foot. had no
weapon of any sort, 80 1 rode on, passing within
a few inches of the reptile. The snake was
curled up and ready for my horse in case the
animal side-stepped, but we did nothing
of that sort we were allowed to pass in peace
Again, the truth is that the poison of the
RATHER does not easily get into the wound in
f1cted by the fangs in the average human being
For the average human being nowadays is
clothed, and the holes in the fangs thru which
the poison comes are rather far up toward the
roof of the mouth. Consequently, very otter
the point of the fangs may enter the skin, while
the poison dribbles out harmlessly enough upon
the trousers or the boot. 1t is then that the
victim gets scared fills up on whisky-a bad
thing in bona fde cases of rattlesnake bite
and believes himself marvelously cured when hs
wakes up next day.
The Germans are especial lovers of cities. In
the nineteen cities of above 200 600 popuIa lion
SO per cent of all the Germans in the country
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FACIAL RESEMBLANCE
This Man Disagrees With Public
Opinion.
ew York Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express.
Psychologists tell u.s. observed wel1-known
actiy alike. and / think they are correct, altho
we often hear Of one person being the exact I'M.
age of another. That this is largely matter of
ina eination can be proved by investigation. For
example, / have in my office clerk who is con-
stantiy mistaken for myself; several people say
when deny the relationship. In order to ascer-
tain how much reason there was for these state
ments | took the fellow to a photogra pher' $
one day last week and we both had our pictures
taken together and 1 would defy any one to
point out single point of resemblance.
s .sMy clerk, however, regards the matter as
good Joke and half suspect he acknowledges re-
Iationship in good many cases Intentionally, so
as to cause complicat lions: have shown the
photograph to several people who have made the
mistake but it has no influence upon them what
ever, and it is impossible to convince them
against their WILL
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(Private.).

.f
Executive Mansion, Washington,
March 10, 1864: Hon. Michael
Hahn-My Dear Sir: ! congratulate
you on having fixed your name In
history as the first free-sta gov
ernor OF Louisiana. Now you are
about to have convention, which,
among other things, Will probably
define the elective franchise. Il
barely suggest for your private con-
sideration whether some of the COL
ored people may not be let mas,
for instance, the very intelligent,
and especially those who have
fought CALAMITY in our ranks. They
would probably help In some trying
time to come to keep the Jewel of
liberty within the family of free
dom. But this is only suggestion,
not to the public, but to you alone.
Yours truly, "A Lincoln.
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GUNMAKING IN CHINA
A Significant Sight that Furnishes Food
for Thought.

tor ] hOuSnt.
A correspondent of the Lahore Civil and Mill
tary Gazette visited one of the Chinese arsenals
and thus put down his impressions: 'Finaii!
We were taken. among other places to the great
where every form of munition of war, from
rifles to forty-fve ton guns was being made.
We wandered thru a wilderness of factories.
covering acres of ground. aud were shown the
whole process Of manufacture. And there We're
nowder factories and other institutions not far
away which we had no time to visit. That
perhaps the most significant eSPeriensfe OF
hut have YOU seen place turning out great
guns the dozen and machine n9 Guns by tine
fii o" and with only couple Of Engshmen
engaged solely in consultative supervisor.
men men and designers in pigtails and blue gowns
goiemnIy stolidly and assiduously getting out
that furnishes food for thought. And as you
leave you ask yourself the question: III these
men can make guns, why may they not work
them some day !!
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Statistics gathered at Princeton Theological
seminary show that forty members OF the
association died last year at an average age of
6S years.
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THE QUICKER WAY.

professor YangIey would better have invest
ed his money IN a theater. =
why so?''
"a theater has wings and iies.''
NO USE.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
No. sir. 1 never should ask woman with
brains to marry me-
well, really, don't believe 1t would be
worth your while
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The Germans are especial lovers of cities In
the nineteen cities of above 200 900 population
SO per cent of all the Germans in the country
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. UeDAtaDIe &RUtSIIUNs
ER father continued to joke
about the school director
ship, and a few weeks later,
when they We're alone, re-
LII III ferred to it III a way which
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Don't wear baggy trousers. The
width OF the trousers is now medium
Ia mean between the loose and the
tight. He who DIVORCES in either the
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-18
ONE LEYEE GIVES u u
The st, Francis Is Now at Mercy Of
the Waters.
GLOON AT MEMPHIS.
Numbers Of Residences and Bias: nea3
Houses Have Been Flooded and
Many Of the People Had
to Hastily Depart.

Memphis, March 1S.-The St Fran
els levee gave away late Monday
afternoon at Trice's Landing Ark,
twenty miles north Of this city, and
the waters of the Mississippi river are
rushing through a three-quarter Of
mile creyasse in the embankment with
a roar that can~be heard for miles
This is the first break that has been
made in the vicinity of Memphis.
Sunday night the water was on a
level with the crest of the levee at
Hollybush, and the present rise carried
it over a foot higher, sweeping away
the temporary entertainments at Trice
and tearing the levee itself from it's
foundation giving a new channel for
the food. The break was of such
extent that the engineers realized the
hopelessness of attempting to repair
the breach, and it was abandoned after
the ends of the levee at either side
Of the crevasse had been riveted with
ScHu SACHS anu SlOuSS " pl event Itll III
er cutting away of the embankment.
In the city the situation is the worst
that has SO far been reached. In both
North and South Memphis many
homes and business houses have been
flooded and families driven out Street
car traffic has practically been sus-
pended in North Memphis, one bridge
having been rendered unusafe while
others are threatened. The tracks of
the Illinois Central along Wolf river
are under water, and trains are being
run through the flooded areas until
tracks can be raised above the water.
Appeals are pouring into the city
from all directions for aid by those
who have taken refuge on high points
along the river and who are now sur
rounded by water. All local packets
have gone strictly into the rescue
business, but their capacity is COM
pletely overtaxed and they are unable
to respond to all demands that are re-
ceived. Cargoes of refugees and their
property have been discharged at the
wharf here and there are several hun
dred destitute persons in the city who
are being cared for by charity.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-18
SIX HOURS.

Senate Was in Executive Session Monday
e. t4,sz.,s,..2 That Length of Time.
ID Washington. March 18.-The senate
spent six. hours in executive session
Monday in its effort to pass on the
amendments to the Panama canal
treaty in preparation for the final vote
on the treaty. The greater part of the
day was devoted to debate on the mat
ter of insuring American defense of
the canal, the Democrats contending
in support of the amendment offered
by Mr.. Bacon that the United States
should be given the initiative in that
respect and the Republicans urging
the interests of this country are suffi-
GENTLY safeguarded by the terms of
the treaty as it stands. A substitute
for the provision of the treaty placing
the defense of the canal primarily in
the hands of the government of Col
ombia resulted in a test vote. AS a
result. of s their frequent conferences
since Senator Germans assumption of
leadership the Democrats cast solid
vote in support of the amendment, the
Republicans voting as solidly against
1t. The vote was "a for the Democrats
amendment to 46 against it. !
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-18
ANKCNY SWORN IN.
A. Number Of Amendments Submitted ~
Democrats Voted Down.

A Number Of Amendments Submitted ~
Democrats Voted Down.
.Washingtcn, March 18.-NO legisla-
ton was transacted by the senate IN
open session Monday Before the
doors were closed Levi Ankely OF
Washington was sworn in. lmmc-
diately after the senate met in execu-
tive session the order for the present.
alton of amendments with fifteen min
ute speeches on them went into effect.
There was quite large attendance or
senators Of both political parties, all
having summoned their adherents in
the senate to be present with the view
of making the best possible showing in
case of division On party lines. Con-
sequently the roll calls of the day Wc'e
well responded to and the vote cast
was larger than had been expected.
The first vote was taken about forty
minutes after the doors were closed
and it came up Oh an amendment sug-
gested by Senator Pottus proVidiIS
that the tire atty should not go into cf-
feet until it should be approved by col-
gress. This amendment was voted
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-18

down by large majority, all of the
Republicans and some of the Demo-
Gratis enrolling themselves against it.
The amendment was in the language
of the amendment of similar purport
which had been recommended by the
committee on foreign relations to be
made to the Cuban reciprocity treaty,
In Offering it Mr.. Pettus made a brief
statement giving his reasons for the
amendment which which were found
treaty for acquisition of the canal zone
do not correspond with the provisions
of the law under which the treaty was
made. In the law the provision is
for the ownership of the zone, while
the treaty provides for lease to be
renewed perpetually. He commended,
under the circumstances, that the
treaty was without authority and
therefore not binding without further
legislation. Senator Morgan offered in
turn each of the amendments of which
he had previously given notice. The
first of these, requiring the approval
of France, pertaining to the first arti-
Gle and related only to the state of
Panama Railroad company, This was
voted down by large majority, but
as no roll was called the majority
against it was not recorded. His other
amendments to the article providing
for. the reversion of the railroad lands
outside the zone to Colombia and con-
firming Colombia's reservation of
shares in the new Panama Canal COM
pany, in accordance with the contract
re 1rvs41 Cot No al
provided for the submission of the
treaty to the French government as a
party interested in the treaty. =