The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

OF sailing vessel, with auxiliary engines.
How he is going to use it, he tells in the
article. 1t looks easy on paper, but things
up around the pole are not SO smooth as
paper. Still. as Peary says, it would be
a fine thing to know that an American had
actually captured the fagpole Of the
earth and nailed the stars and stripes
thereto. The magazine contains interest,"
ing information and half tones OF Panama
and other timely articles.
What Russia Is Doing for Liberty-She
thinks she has done much by her treat
ment of Finland to destroy civil liberty,
perhaps, but according to Eric Ehrstroem,
the representative in France of the Fin
nish patriots, and an able lawyer, writing
in The Independent for Dec, 3, she has
done just the opposite. Finland had lever
appeared the enemy of the present re-
gime in Russia But now = - the czar
has succeeded in turning a stanch friend
into a bitter foe.' The Films hereafter
will aid those who are seeking greater
liberties in other parts of Russia. Re-
becca H. Davis in the same magazine says
a Woman's word about the education of
children.
Literary Menu for Dyspeptics-Under
the head of "Fumor at the Table as
Preventive of Dyspepsia Henry Edward
Warner, in the .chock fulP' Christmas
number of What to Eat, as diet for
the chronic dyspeptic, prescribes this:
Oyster on Bill Nye Half-shell.
Scalloped Mark Twain.
Cervantes Dressing.
Artemus Ward Sandwiches.
Roast Of Bob Burdette.
Potatoes la Dean Swift.
Salad of Juvenal
Dickens Trout.
MunchauSen Sauce.
Brete Harte Cigars.
Aleck Sweet Cheese.
Wine of Wit.
This could be followed three times day.
Christmas What to Eat is full of other
Christmas suggestions
A Beaux-Arts skyscraper-It is the
Blair building in New York city. How it
has met Or avoided the problem Of Find
ing a suitable clothing for the still skele-
ton system Of construction is told by III.
w. Desmond in The Agricultural Record
for December 1.-THE Architecture of West
Point, which is just now a matter Of
much interest, is discussed by Montgom-
| cry Schuyler. @
| The Best Things to Read--The Lamp
| for December tells In a most comprehen-
sive manner. To the fore, however, is a
| bright little Christmas yarn of a married
| couple who for once were going to have
a quiet Christmas alone together. They
didn't and how it. came that they didn't
is the story.
Who Owns the United States?-We
thought it was 1--WE, the people, but
Serene S. Pratt in one Of the many inter-
esting and instructive things in the Christ
mas Worlds Work says: One twelfth Of
/ the estimated wealth of the United States
is represented at the meeting Of the board
of directors of the United States Steel cor.
! poration when they are all present
- They control corpora.
tions whose capitalzations aggregate more
than so, 900, 100000" Despite these facts
Mr.; Pratt concludes on the showing o.
other facts that there is a wide diffusion
of wealth in this country, attended by al
extraordinary concentration of capital
This looks paradoxical, but the skeptit
will have to read Mr.. Pratt for further
particulars.
4 Vast System of Race culture-Professo
Edgar L. Larkin, director of Mt. Lowe
observatory, near Los Angeles, in an ar
ticle, 1.-THE Illimitable Power of Mind il
December Suggestion, favors a vast sys
i tenn of race culture based upon sugges
ton. Every other system of education
thruout the United States, he says, sfloult
be upset. Education Of all children shoule
,Ibegin five months before they ar
born by surrounding mothers will
healthful. ennoblfng and strengthening sug
gestions. By such a process professor
Larkin believes artists, writer's, scientists
and all the rest t3can and WIFI be developed
| to- a degree beside which those now exist
ing will be as midgets." The professor i:
not talking about life in Mars and is writ
ing in all seriousness.