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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23
AT THE THEATERs
Lyceum-"A Night off.

"a Night Off," Days farce comedy, is
the offering of the Ferris players at the
Lyceum this week. Wa ,l have said that
it is a sequence of "The Roof Off, %
the fve-minute tragedy which Dick
Ferris staged with telling effect
Saturday night. Despite the i,lterpola-
ton the show is well staged and wen
worth the while of those who have the
inclination to have a laugh with the
comedians.
The comedy goes with a snap and a
crackle that carries the audience with it.
Charles Burnham's drolleries are delicious
and Ben Johnson as the .tham- fat actor
shows touch that almost leads one to
the belief that Benjamin in his early
days had experienced the difficulties Of
the budding Thespian on the Kokorno
circuit. Oscar Grey Briggs, Lewis Stone,
and Laurette Allen add to the fun Of the
production with telling effect.
The Susan of Grace Hull tickles the
fancy and is not carried too far. Taken
all in all it is good play for nerve
racked Minneapolitans to see this week
1t takes the crack of breaking trees out
of the ears and puts one in a good hui
NOR with the world at bedtime. The
presentation requires three hours time
but the work of the players runs sc
smoothly that 1t seems much less. 1t is
one Of the best things the Ferris players
have done for some time.
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WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THJNK
Rural School Ventilation.

To the Editor of The journal.
I noticed an article in T h J o ur a
of the 18th in regard to applications for
state aid to rural schools. Our state SUI.
perntendent, J. w. Olsen, early in the,
school year. issued a circular in which
he stated among other things that to Sc
cure state aid some other system Of ven
tilation than by windows and doors would
be required; and heating simply by stove
would not be accepted" These are nearly
his exact words. Now, then, in the alb
sence of any more definite plan or instruc
lions from the state superintendent, the
schools thruout Benton county have en-
cased their stoves, supplied outside fresh
air by cold air shaft and registers, pro-
vided for escape of foul air by means Of
pipe from near schoolroom floor, and in
good faith have devised plans for VEN
tilation and heating. They spent their
time and money in an effort to comply
with Mr.. Olsen's demands, that they might
secure state aid. Now, he informs these
schools ''they they have not fulfilled his
requirements, therefore they will not Sc
cure state aid. Why did ne not define
ceDtable, so that all could comply with his
requirements?
In the absence of any definite instruc-
lions, Mr.. Olsen should accept what has
been done in good faith to comply with
his requirements.
If ne knew what he wanted why did
he not say so and not leave it to the dis
trict officers? [ know of one district that
has changed its heating plant three times
to comply with the state superintendent 8
demands.
George B. Paddock.
| Oak Park, Mimi, Aug. 20.
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twenty -millionth of an inch in thickness.
We should like to have Sir Oliver measure
some of the things we have read; we be-
lieve the soap film would have difficulty
in maintaining the place Of distinction it
now holds.
The same number Of the Scientific Amer
lean contains information about tibet 1905
eclipse of the sun, and an interesting arr
ticle about Togo's flagship, the Mikasa,
with a very fine picture Of the vessel
September Lipplncott's.-Francis Willing
Wharton has new novelette, in the Sep
TENDER number Of LlppIncott's Magazine,
entitled 1.-THE Deep Waters of the Proud"
This is the story Of young man who.
with the whole world at his feet, hears
from his physicians that he is going blind.
With the promise of twelve months of
light before the darkness finds him, he
resolves to enjoy all he can get out Of liv-
ing and then-die game. How he is turned
from his purpose belongs to the author to
reveal The half-dozen short stories of the
month begin with one by Alden March,
entitled Help Wanted, Females" In
it there is confusion of typewriters (of
the feminine gender) and happy con-
cluSiOn. =. *
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THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER

"Reminiscences of Stanley.-There are
some fine tributes to the great explorer in
the "reminiscences of Sir Henry Stanley"
by A. j. Mounteney-Jephso in Scribner's
Magazine for September things to set the
is the last surviving officer of those who
tributes perhaps the finest is that which
MIR. Moufteney-Jephson quotes from Har-
ry Johnston, who has spent half his life in
Central Africa as British official. He
says:
The character he Stanley has left behind in
Africa is q grand one. All native traditions Of
''Stamli, " ''Istandili, "Bula Matari'' are graf
flying to the pride Of our race. No disparaging
word has ever, in my hearing, fallen from the
lips of an African So Stanley was, be-
5lieve me, universally respected wherever he
Travelled In Africa. His memory is loved and
cherished in Uganda. A month, two months,
three months hence, men will meet in knots in
the towns and villages of central Africa and say
to ,one another with unfeigned regret: .-Stan-
ley4is dead
The four-and half pages of reminis-
cences Of Stanley In this article give the
reader a glimpse of one of the world S
great that clothes life with new dig
nifty.
The magazine is noteworthy for other
articles as well as that mentioned.
The Thlnnest Thing known.-The Sci
|entifc American for Aug. 20 contains
something about atoms by Sir Oliver
Lodge, FRS, in which we learn that the
really "thinnest thing known" is the thin
nest portion of a soap bubble just before
the moment Of bursting. 1t is about the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23
Advertising Manager OF r. A. MeWf1irr
Company, Fall River, Mass.

The R. A. McWhirr Co. of Fall
River" Mass, succeeded r. A. Nc
Whirr who started small store in
that city in 1879. The opening was on
a very modest scale, the store occu-
plying a space Of $50 square
feet. The venture was successful
one from the start. The phenomenal
growth of the present firm dates from
its reorganization in 1898 with Mr..
Asa A. Mills, Richard Thompson and
James Mahoney. Vigorous and ener-
getio management instilled new life,
and the business has grown very rap.
idly, in fact, so fast that many addi-
tons have been made from time to
time the store at this date occupying
S. 100 square feet. The builders are at
it again, and when Improvements are
completed this fall the store Will
cover $4,000 square feet with 'front.'
age of 142 feet, making one of the
finest and most complete department.
stores in all New England and the
pride of the city of spindles
One of the greatest factors In the
upbuilding of this great department.
store has been the free and liberal use
of printers ink" judiciously applied,
and in keeping faith with the public
at all times. All lines Of merchandise
that go to make UP the modern de-
partment store are represented. me
later addition will be large restau-
rant. The present store when COM
pleted would accommodate under It's
roof nearly 100 Of the original.
Mr.. Hedge is a thorough adver-
Using manager and is largely respon-
sible for the firms f1ourishing pros
perity. He is a thinker and judge or
advertising in broad way.
| When he was asked what in his
opinion was the relative value OF the
| morning newspaper and the evening
| newspaper as advertising mediums, he
replied Generally speaking, we be-
| lieve the evening papers are away
| ahead Of the morning papers for adj
vertising."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23
Source of the mississippi.

Professor H. w. Kingery of Wabash
college has written an interesting arti-
Gle for the Popular Science Monthly
on Saving the Mississippi's Source" in
which he is content to take Lake
Itasca as the origin of the river. He
recognizes, of course, the fact that
there are streams and other lakes emp
tying into Itasca which may be re-
garded as higher sources than the
lake which Schoolcraft and the
schoolboy have agreed is the begin
ming Of the great river, but this trac-
ing Of ultimate sources is capable Of
being pursued to absurd extremes
The waters Of the Itasca lake region
are gathered from various directions
and sources into Lake 1tasca and
begin there the ceaseless flow of the
great river till it reaches the gulf.
Professor Kingery's article is the re-
suit of a summer vacation trip to the
headwaters Of the Mississippi and
aside from it's scientific value is sug-
gestive to the vacation tourist thru the
information it gives of the scenic at
fractions of that beautiful region pre-
served now by the state in the condi-
ton that nature made it. For this
fortunate fact perhaps no one is more
to blame, 50 to speak, than Judge
Douglas Of the supreme court, who,
as attorney general, has been in an
official sense as we'll as from reasons
of great personal interest, the special
guardian of this reserve. A gratifying
feature of Professor Kingery's contri-
button to the literature of the subject
is his apparent ignorance of, or at
least, his complete failure to take no
tfce Of the presumptuous claims of
| Lieutenant Glazier to having made the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23
How to Lose Your Money.

Thomas Lawson, the Boston specu-
lator to whom the Standard Oil peo-
pie handed out financial transaction
that made him very indignant, has
just issued his second chapter of
"Frenzied Finance thru New York
magazine. The deal he relates is
something that can only be described
in the slang of the streets as fierce"
Mr.. Lawson describes in detail the
manner in which, he says, the Anal
gamated Copper company came into
being thru the agency of H. H. Rog-
ers, William Rockefeller, the National
City bank and various lawyers, Of
flee boys and clerks" The next step,
declares Mr.. Lawson, was to capital
ize it for $75,OOO,OO0 with clerks and
office boys as members and directors.
The third part of the transaction
came when the office boys and clerks
resigned their positions as directors
and officers of Amalgamated in favor
of more responsible and better known
Standard Oil votaries.''
Then, says the writer, the stock was
sold to the public thru misrepresenta-
ton for SIS, 100000, the promoters
pocketing the $36,O00,0OO that was
left after the $3s,oo0,OOo that was
paid to the original holders was
marked off the banks books.
The fourth chapter, declares Mr..
Lawson, came months afterward,
when the public, who had borrowed
their money from the City Bank and
from other banks and trust and in
surance companies to buy Amalga-
mated stock at 100 cents on the dol
lar, were obliged to resell their Anal
gamated, which they had bought at
500 per share, for the best price they
could get, which was S33 a share
This is. not. exactly highway rob
berry, but it comes so near it that OF
the two, a majority Of people would
| prefer the robbery by force. AS 6
rule one loses less-and doesn't fee
SO much cut up about it.
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Give Them Their Dues.

The Russians have so far got 50
little glory out Of the war, that
we ought to be careful to see
that they get all they are en-
titled to. The siege Of Port Arthur
is showing Russian valor and de-
termination at their best The
soldiers who are holding Port Arthur
against such great odds are worthy
successors of the men who so long
held the allied French and British
armies at bay before Sebastopol. The
stubborn resistance Of the fortress
that has now been beleaguered for
near three months has served to take
a little of the conceit out of the
Japanese. There was an excursion of
ministers, dignitaries and newspaper
men from Toxic about July 1 to see
the fall Of Port Arthur which was
scheduled to come off about July 10
at the latest. If this, excursion is still
in the neighborhood Of Port Arthur
the tickets will have to be extended a
considerable time for the return pas
sage.
The Japanese were, no doubt, rem
dered overconfident by their easy
victories at sea and their comparative
ly easy victories on land in the first
engagements. They imagined that it
would not be a very difficult task to
take Port Arthur by storm. So
often have the Russian lines reeled
and retreated before the charge of
Japanese infantry, that the mikado's
generals probably thought that the
taking of Port Arthur would only in
volve heavier attacking forces and
more bloodshed than in preceding en-
gagements. But division after di-
vision has sailed to reinforce the be-
sieging army, assault after assault has
been delivered, the summer is nearly
over and still Port Arthur stands.
| Sooner or later the fortress will fall,
but the Japanese will pay dearly for
their prize. When they have Port
Arthur they will begin to realize that
a great war is a terrible catastrophe
even for the victors.
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Foyer Chat.

There are numerous inquiries at the
metropolitan concerning the forthcoming
engagement Of Way Down East. !" which
comes to this city on next Sunday for
falr week. William A. Brady is sending
the rural drama with completeness Of
lnvestiture never given it before The
presenting cast is still headed by Phoebe
Davis.
Next week Grace Hayward will return
to the cast at the Lyceum in her success
'Thelma," by Marie core1li.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23

In New York meat is selling for prices
much lower than before the strike was
instituted The dealers were forced grad
ually to reduce rates owing to the fact
all the shops il. the borough are over
stocked at present, and the butchers are
glad to sell at very reasonable prices.
Best beef at wholesale is worth but 9
cents per pound, and there is no lack Of
it for even lower prices.
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Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how mean thing is man.
THE FOX-PEOPLE.
"a japanese superstition. ,

"a Japanese Supersttion)
Faint lights creep out amid the bamboo wilds,
Wayering and Pickering with eerie grace
And strange contortions.
From our heart goes forth
30 Shaka, save us from the fear
That we may lose our souls, for drawing close
Are the Fox-People
They who steal the breath
The mind, the life, to shape to their own SIM
And pray forest mist steals up,
Shutting FROM view the treacherous sparks, and
The eastern night is fair and still again.
Elsie Cassien King, in Lippincotts Magazine.
Booth Harrington, author of 1.-THE Two
Vanrevels," 1.-THE Gentleman from Indi-
ana" ETC., returns to America after nearly
a years stay in Europe. He lived in Rome
last winter, and has been spending most
of the spring and summer in Paris Next
winter he will reside in New York He ex-
poets to spend his time studying the
phases Of political life and continuing the
political stories which he has been writing
| for McClure's Magazine. The stories will
be brought out in book form by Mcclure,
Phillips & Co. in 1906.
| The fly leaf of Stewart Edward Whites
book, "The Forest" bears the inscription:
| 3'To Billy. In explanation of who Billy
| is, one literary journal has come forth
with the statement that the book is in
scribed to Mr.. Whites halfbreed guide
Billy let it be stated authoritatively
here was Mr.. Whites special name fol
Miss Grant of Santa Barbara, Cal, who
is now Mrs. Stewart Edward White.
Few men are as happy as their neigh
bors think them or as miserable as they
| believe themselves to be.-Town Topics.
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The history of international arbitration
shows that by decades from 1910 to 1900,
there We're, respectively six, fifteen,
twenty three, twenty-six, forty five and
sixty-two cases. In the last three years
there have been sixty-three cases.
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discovery Of Elk lake, to which he gave
his own name on his own charts. and
which he claims as the source OF the

Hennepin county ought to be concerned
in the passage of the per cent gross
earnings law. The law means at least half
a million dollars Of state tax added to the
railroad companies and taken from the
burdens Of the other taxpayers. AS Hen
nepin pays one-afth of the state tax, this
means 100000 less taxes for Hennepin
county every year after the increase takes
effect.
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ance the feeling seems to be gaining
ground that the democrats have "sent a
boy to MILL That speech of acceptance
was distinct disappointment
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23

Bishop Burgess Of the Episcopal do
cese Of Long Island, does not favor
vaudeville shows for the benefit of the
church. He stopped one the other day
that was to have been held. Put down a
credit mark to this bishop.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23

Flireproof cars made of steel are being
tried on the New York elevated. Other
people who travel would also prefer not
to burned to death.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23

President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor and Daniel Daven-
port, executive agent of the antiboycott
association, will debate the 'open shop
question tomorrow before the Washington
County Agricultural society at Fort Ed
ward, N. Y. The discussion will no doubt
be interesting, but the ''open shop is a
local question, depending upon local con-
ditions. Where the union can enforce the
"closed shop it will do 50, and where
it cannot the ''open shop" is likely to pre-
vail until the unions make marked SUI
periority Of workmanship and skill an es-
sential to admission.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23

A new bit of slang has been started in
the east and is likely to become standard
When anybody relates an astonishing
tale, the crowd raises the cry, That's
Chit Everybody understands.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23

A Toxic dispatch says that the mikado
believes sentiment and moral power to
be greater forces in the long run than
are armies and nayies, and that no ma
ton can fout them without ultimate dis
aster!'' This seems to be quite a good
brand of civilization.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23

The Oldest loveletter in the world is in the
British Museum. It is proposal of marriage
for the hand of an Egyptian princess, and it
was made $500 years ago. 1t is in the form OF
an inscribed brick.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23

The effect of the butchers strike is seen
in the heavy decrease in receipts of cattle
and hogs and sheep at the principal live
stock markets; compared with July, 1903
the decrease was from 262O.O46 to ], 554, 45l.
By markets the decrease was 1913 per cent
for Chicago, asa for Kansas City, 52.4
for Omaha, 30.9 for st. Louis and 44.4
for St. Joseph The railroads lost Al per
cent of the business of 1908 from the
same source for the corresponding month.
The sudden and heavy falling off in this
business is all the more interesting from
the fact that in spite of this depression
in July the total receipts of live stock
at these five principal markets was heav-
Ter up to Aug. than up to the same date
last year by nearly half a million head.
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Colonel Romanoff, the new Russian
baby, has responded to the call to arms
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-23

If Minneapolis elects it's deaflnute candidate
for mayor it may find that certain physical in
capacities have their compensat TONS Chicago
Post
Gee whiskers! Are there any candi-
dates up here who can't talk?
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The kindly disposed Japanese govern
ment has taken to writing letters for the
soldiers and it is found to work well. The
military authorities have supplied to each
army sufficient number of postcards,
ready printed, to which the soldier has
only to affix his name, or, more exactly,
his seal, each Japanese soldier carrying
one with him as part of his outfit. On all
the cards the same message is printed:
) This is to let you know that am alive and
we'll. L cannot give YOU my address, 1hot Know
ing where shall be tomorrow. but your letters
will reach me sometime other IT you reply
to the place the name OF which Is printed IN the
postmark. Greetings to my family ana friends.
Som chow the letter seems to miss those
little touches that we sometimes look for,
but it does let the family know that it's
hero is living, and that is much nowadays
in Manchuria.