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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER

Founding Of Cripple creek.-About a
dozen years ago. a weary, plodding man
with hammer in hand, left Colorado
Springs to look for gold. He was poor
man, and on this trip he had been grub
staked--that is, some one had lent him
enough money to pay his expenses with.
the understanding that if gold was found.
the man who lent the money should re-
ceive certain proportion This weary
plodder had trod those mountains for
years He knew every canyon, every
peak, every crag, and after all those years
he was poor in pocket but rich in ex-
.perience. It was on the morning Of bright
July Fourth Independence Day that
he looked into a wild basin lying between
the mountain peaks. Far away to the
west he saw Pixies Peak, piercing the
clouds, but the grandeur and wildness of
the scene were nothing to him. He was
thinking of the day-Inde Day
and wondering when his day Of indepen-
dence would come. Within twelve hours
it came to him, and Winfield Scott STRAIT
ton found the great bonanza that Fourth
Of July, and he called 1t "Stratton's In
dependence. I" Thus he founded Cripple
Creek, and from that mine he has taken
the wealth of a Midas and Croesus three
times over.-From 1.-THE Path Of Empire
by Thomas H Davies, in Four Track
News for June r2.sfsl
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
Wanted-More O'Keefes.

Judging from the number of boats
now reported moving on the lakes,
the chances for the masters and p1-
lots to win are growing less every day.
The outspoken determination of the
longshoremen's and other unions to
keep their contracts with the carriers
sacredly, presages the end of the
strike, for it gives quietus to the pos
sibility of sympathy strikes. More
than that, it must enhance everywhere
respect and admiration for wise and
courageous union leaders like Daniel
O'Keefe, the longshoreman, who in
sists on the sacredness of all contracts
made by his union and who does not
believe in strikes, least of all in SYM
pathy strikes. The more O'keefes rise
to labor leadership, the more good
works will lie in the hand Of union
labor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
REFoRMERs CAN'T UNITE
Attempt to Fuse Parties in Norway
Is Difficult.

At district meeting of the Work
ingman's society held at Skien, Nor
way, last month, there was a spirited
debate over the question of uniting
with some political party. There were
SO many different sentiments, how
ever, that the only points on which
the delegates could agree was to sub
nit the questions of union or Of form
ing a new political party to the local
unions. Several Of the radical mem
bers Of the storthing participated in
the meeting.
Opposition to union with the labor
party was expressed because it had
been charged that the party was simp-
" branch Of the socialists, whose
doctrines the delegates were not pre-
pared to wholly accept. A motion to
unite was voted down, as was mo-
ton to negotiate with the labor party
regarding terms for fusion. Finally
a motion to form a new organization
under the name Of the peoples party
was defeated.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
Nornannaheinen
NO ELECTION
CHANGES now
SWEDISH RIKSDAG MEMBERS OP-
POSE HOPED-FOR REFORMS.
Governments Program for Extension
Of Right of Suffrage Bitterly At
tacked-No Relief From the Pres
ent Conditions in Sight.

Sweden is not likely to obtain any
election reforms from the present
riksdag. While no vote had been
taken up to the time the latest ex-
changes from Scandinavia were re-
ceived, the trend Of the speeches in
very little chance for the passage Of
any Of the propositions before the
riksdag, even tho some are very un-s
satisfactory and grant but little relief
from the present conditions.
Some very sharp attacks were made
on the governments program to ex-
tend the right Of suffrage, so as nom
inally to make it universal. In the
first chamber some Of the speakers
used bitter language. Hr. Lithander
declared that he was opposed to either
bill, because they did not offer suffi-
cient protection against tyranny by the
masses. He was surprised that the
government would propose a measure
which would surely ruin the country.
Hr. Benedicks said that the pro-
posed election law would create new
class in the second chamber which
would not. work in harmony with the
first. Hr. oberg declared that the
masses were too easily led and could
not be trusted with any responsibility
| in political matters
Others declared that extensions Of
the right of suffrage simply meant the
| turning over of the country and It's
industries to Adventures.
In the second chamber the measure
known as the proportional method
was advocated by several speakers, in
Guiding Hr. Ernest Carlson, I1r. Staa1
and Hr. Won Scheele. Hr. Branting did
not believe that the law went fal
! enough in the direction of democracy
and similar views were expressed by
Hr. Olson of Vixen. Some of the
i speakers were afraid, however, tc
trust the people with the responsibility
i of electing members of the riksdag
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
SvERDRUP'S "NEW LAND"
An Interesting Book on Arctic Travel
Has Been Issued.

Captain Otto Sverdrup, the skillful
arctic explorer, has written a book on
his Greenland experiences. In justice
to the author it must be said that
while these two handsome volumes do
not possess the dramatic interest of
"Farthest North" they
add far more to our knowledge of the.
lands within the Arctic circle. With
his admirably perfected equipment,
absolute freedom Of action, and his
harmonious and efficient assistants,
Sverdrup was enabled to explore
vast area previously unknown, an
area which he estimates at 100000
square miles. It is important, too, to
note that but for ice conditions, which
checked the advance of the Fran to
the north of Greenland, the expedi-
ton was fortunately prevented from
traversing much of the same region
as was being covered by Peary. A
useless waste Of energy was thus pre-
vented, tho at the time the Norwe-
gian leader regarded the interruption
of his plans solely as misfortune.
He was enabled, however, to lift the
veil from the mysterious region west
ward from Smiths Sound-named
variously Ellesmere, Grinnell and
Grant lands, and to achieve results
more extensive than ever before &C
complished by a single ship. These
have been admirably mapped by Cap
tain Isachsen, the photographer of
the expedition.
The Fran wintered the first year,
1889, in Rice Strait, near the en-
trance to what appears on the old
maps as Hayes Sound, but which was
found to be no more than a ford
The winter of 1S99-190O was spent in
Havne Fiord, on the north side OF
Jones Sound; and the two following
winters in Graase Fiord, eighty miles
to the westward, the chief explora-
tions being made, Of course, by
sledge parties. That so much was
accomplished was largely due to the
abundance of animal life in the new
lands, and the consequent ability tt
keep the dog teams, as well as the
men, in good condition in spite O,
their arduous labors and severe hard
ships, The musk OK, which Sverdru1
insists upon remaining "polar-oxen,
because he failed to detect the odol
Of musk in their flesh or milk, wa.
found in great herds, and the Arctic
hares, bears, wolves and other game
were plentiful. The volumes are copi
ously illustrated.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
A Practical Demonstration.

The board Of trustees Of the Min
nesota Soldiers Home will be sub
iected to some harsh criticism for the
action taken yesterday on the PEN
sion question: but when the facts are
all taken into consideration, they
must be credited with acting In the
best interests of their dependent
charges.
The soldiers relief fund, estab-
lished to aid i'll and dependent veter-
ans outside the home and their fam
lilies, is administered by the board.
Distributed among so many, the fund
yields only a pittance for each one,
so that the general condition Of those
outside the home is far less comfort
able than that Of the veterans housed
at the expense of the state. There
fore, as a matter Of simple justice.
the board cannot be censured for re-
fusing to impair the relief fund to
make up the deficit caused by the
new plan.
The board has complied with the
act Of congress-, and hereafter none
of the pension money drawn by in
mates will be used to support the in
stitution. Under this plan the amount
of federal aid will be increased, but
the additional money from Washing
! ton will not make UP for the loss in
the other direction. The home is now
supporting some 800 veterans at an
annual expense of $4,000. The in
! come will fall off from $1,000 to $10,-
600 this year, and to make ends meet
the board must reduce the popula-
ton of the home.
This may seem a harsh measure
but there was only one alternative.
That was to reduce the meager allow
| ance given to veterans and widows
finding their own living outside. Fair
minded persons must admit that the
board took the best way out of the
predicament in which it was placed
by the action Of congress, at the in
stance of Congressman Lind from this
district.
The net result Of the reform is re-
duced efficiency for the home. The
!. pension money will all go to the in
mates personal benefit, or that o
their families, but fifty or more in
mates will have to find homes ant
, maintain themselves outside. Wher'
is the gain from this much-vauntet
: reform?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
THE "ANGRY TREE

There has just been discovered in the
far east species Of the acacia tree, which
closes its leaves together in coils each day
at sunset and curls it's twigs to the shape
Of pigtails, After the tree has settled it.
self thus for nights sleep, If touched the
whole thing will hutter as If agitated or
tent at being disturbed The oftener
the foliage is molested, the more violent
becomes the shaking of the branches, and
at length the tree emits a nauseating
odor, which, If inhaled for a few moments,
causes a violent dizzy headache. It has
been named the angry tree b
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
AT THE THEATERS
Metropolitan = "Rogers Brothers In Lon.
dom"


don."
It was almost a case of standing room
only at the Metropolitan last evening,
when the curtain rose upon the Rogers
Brothers in London" show. From the
opening chorus to the close of the long
entertainment furnished by these mimi
table fun-makers, 1t was evident that they
lad secure place in the good will and
interest Of the audience. r.
The show follows the same general lines
that have made Rogers Brothers so sue
cessful in the past. There are dazzling
light effects pretty costumes, bright faces,
good music, clever dancing, interspersed
with number of unhackneyed jokes, that
keep the audience in constant roar
deed, there is always something doing,
and one does not realize where the even
ing has gone when the end is reached.
The three scenes are laid on board the
Kronprinz Wilhelm, in Trafalgar square,
London, and in a department store in New
York, and were all effective settings. The
| choruses were all good but naturally
enough, too largely feminine to be proper
ly interpreted. The voices, however, were
fresh and sweet and the singing sponta-
neous and bright. The Coasters 'Oliday
chorus closing the second act, was sung
with commemorate abandon and was very
| jolly. The American Beauty chorus was
sung in flower costume and with bewil-,
dering maypole effects that were beautiful
and novel.
The play abounds in lyrics, some Of
which are very tuneful and pretty. The
Queen Of the Bungalow song and
dance by the Rogers Brothers and Miss
NeVa Aymer, was delightfully."- entertain
ing, both for its lifting music and for the
delicious abandon of Miss Aylmer's dan
cling. 'In the Starlight" sung by George
Austin Moore and Miss Carrie Reynolds.
was but mediocre. "By the Sycamore
Tree" sung by Mr.. Moore and Miss Lii
| liam Coleman, was one of the best things
musically Of the evening. The latter is
far and away the best singer of the COM
pany, and it is to be regretted that she is
not heard oftener during the evening Mr.
Moore has a pleasing but not convincing
voice, and Joseph Coyne's conception Of
the English lord is not happy. The clos
/ ing song, Say You'll Be a Friend of
Mine" by Rogers Brothers and chorus
of girls, was fitting climax to the even
4 ing's fun and occa stoned gales of laughter
i by the natvete and abandon of some of the
grotesquely bedecked maids and mock
Iurchins. M. Melville Ellis piano melange
i of 'Lohengrin,' Carmen" Belinda ct
al. was well received and doubly encored
The Rogers Brothers show the same
spontaneity and freshness of wit and
j voice that has characterized their previous
efforts. They are always entertaining 1t
is a pity that an occasional lapse into the
coarse and vulgar should mar an other
wise delightful evening.
4 Howard Boardman =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10

The Abbey Effervescent Salt COM
pany,is Incorporated for five millions.
Its offices are in New York, London
and Montreal. During the last five
years the company has spent upwards
Of five millions Of dollars in adver-
Using Abbey's salt.
Edward E. Morgan has been with
the company for the past five years.
having worked up from a travelling
salesman and having held positions as
secretary and treasurer. Altho only
% years old, he is general manager
of the company to-day in which his
never-failfng energy and his physical
and moral courage are helping to
make him some new records in the
business world. The company does
some splendid advertising.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10

Principals of the New York public
schools are earnestly at work to have cor
poral punishment restored. This relic of
barbarism" was banished from the local
schools twenty years ago. The agitation
for it's revival has been conducted with
energy for several months. While ma
jority of the teachers are opposed to cor
poral punishment, s3 per cent Of the prin-
cipals are in favor of 1t, and Of a COM
mittee of fifteen, appointed by the Ma
tional Educational association to consider
the question, eleven are reported to favor
the rod. There are some boys on whom
moral suasion has no more effect than
good advice on hold-up gang.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
4 MAKES ARTIFICIAL THUNDER

Professor John Trow5ridge Of Harvard
university says that some recent expert
ments he has made in the Jefferson phys
ical laboratory show that 'sthe astounding
noise Of a lightning discharge is largely
due to the dissertation of water vapor''
thru the explosion of the hydrogen and
oxygen gases produced by such dissocia-
ton. In his mimic lightning experiments
Professor Trowbridge produced a torrent
of huge electric sparks. The noise of the
discharge was SO great that the operator
had to stop his ears with cotton and then
wrap heavy cloth around them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10

The steamship lines are now at war
and the European emigrant can come
across for about SO. Fortunately the
rates apply to British, German and
Scandinavian ports and increases in emf
grafton from these will be good thing.
But If the rates from the ports Of south
ern Europe should become demoralized
the case would wear a different aspect
Last year there came not only record
breaking number of emigrants but about
the poorest lot on the whole that was
ever dumped on our shores. The per-
centage of illiteracy was very heavy ow-
ing to the large proportion of emigrants
from the countries Of southern Europe.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
AN EXCEPTION.

Philadelphia Ledger.
Remember said a teacher in one
of our city schools. before her class,
the other day, that no man ever left
this earth and returned 2
There was one man." corrected a.
small boy at the back of the room
WHO was he 2" asked the teacher
j. Santos Dumont," came the reply.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
chIldren Use Strange tongue.

Scientists are greatly interested in two
children recently admitted to an orphan
asylum In northern Denmark. They had
lived since infancy with their grandmoth-
er, who was deaf and dumb, and had
contrived aslanguage Of their own. Sci
entists are anxious to know If 1t resem-
bles any known language, but are pre-
vented, as the little folk are shy and
do not converse with each other when
strangers are near. With the aid of some
of the other children in the asylum, a
portion OF their vocabulary has been OBJ
ta;ined
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
THE SANE BUT DIFFERENT.


The sweet thing tripped into the office
and laid receipt on the counter.
is this the American Express Com
pany?', she asked. II.
NO, ma'am, it's the United States, !,
said the clerk.
"Oh, well. that will do. This says Amer
ican but Of course United States is all the
same.'' hi
And 1t took five minutes to convince her
that it wasn't.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
FRIDAY EVENING,

the difference in the cost Of produc-
ton between the domestic and the
foreign-made article. This, with the
freight furnishes what may be called
rational and ample protection. It is
the kind of protection strongly advo-
Gated by President Roosevelt In his
first presidential message.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
CELEBRATE "DIzzY,s CENTENARY

The Primrose league in England is al
ready making preparations to celebrate the
one hundredth anniversary Of Disrae I's
birth on Dec. 81. It was he who cul-
minated his striking and somewhat thea
atrfcal career by making Victoria En-
press of India It was perhaps natural
that the late queen preferred him to
Giadstone, who was poor hand at fiat
terry. Mr. Gladstone Victoria is cred
tied with saying, "harangues me as tho
were public. meeting. Mr.. Disraeli
talks to me as a woman
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
HONORED BY OSCAR III.
Geraldine Farrar OF Boston Receives
Famous Art Medal

Miss Geraldine Farrar, the Boston
singer, has been awarded the medal of
literature and arts by King Oscar Of
Sweden in recognition of her per-
formances in Stockholm Miss Farrar
is the daughter of Sydney Farrar, now
Boston business man., who in his
day was one of the best known ball
players in the National league.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
JUDGE in Congo.

Hr Jacobsen, a lawyer of Christiania,
has accepted an appointment as judge in
the Congo state at salary of 5000
francs year. Amonf the perquisites are
free transportation and quarters with
the privilege of retiring on a pension OF
5000 francs at the end of six years. Every
third year there will be allowed a long
vacation full pay.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
Only 2,4oo Years Old.

An interesting relic from the stone age
has been discovered on the Hessaa estate
in Bjelland, Norway. It is a stone ham
mer, which the wise men say has lain in
the ground for 2,400 years. Several i'm
Elements from the stone age have been
found in Bielland in times past, and also
many articles from the early iron age.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
South Pole Once Was Hot.

Baron Nordenskjold, the antarctic ex-
plorer, in a lecture before the geograpla-
ical society at Stuttgart, Germany, main
tanned that the south pole like the north
pole, was at one time covered with trop-
ical vegetation. This, he said, was con-
clusively shown by many fossils which
he collected on his expedition Of 19O1-O3.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
To own Canal,

Both chambers of the Swedish riksdag
have approved the government PROPOSE
ton to acquire the Trollhatto canal,
which is part of the famous Gotta canal
system connecting Gothenburg with
Stockholm. It is necessary for the COM
merce of the interior that the canal be
widened and rebuilt, and the undertaking.
appears to be too large for private
concern.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
Soldier Won't Drill.

The Norwegian military authorities do:
not know what to do with recruit from
Hjartdal, who refuses to drill or per-
form any other duty about the camps
According to the military code he Isl
liable to punishment but his refusal be-
ing based on religious scruples prevents
the authorities from taking extreme meas
ures. He says that there are a score of
young men in his native parish who be-
long to the same sect and have similar
Escruples.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10

q If Mr.. Dunn is chosen governor of the
state he may be depended upon to give.
the people business administration. He
is familiar as few men are with the prac-s
teal administration Of the executive de-
partments He knows what each state.
officer has to do and how it ought to-
be done.-Northfeld News.
And yet when the bare record of what
he did in office is printed he gets mad
enough to fight and uses language that
can't be printed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10

We are not the only people who find it
of late for Ambassador Mccormick and his
family in st. Petersburg that they would
like to get away if reasons of state did
not detain them. The Russians are SO
incensed at American sympathy for Japan
that they cannot treat our minister cour-
teously. But we must not be too quick
to take offense. Think of what humilia-
ton the Russians have had to endure
since the war commenced. No wonder
they are not sweet and amiable and per-
fectly reasonable just now.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
In Memory Of EVANGELIST.

a bauta stone in memory. Of Hans Mel
sen Hauge will be unveiled on July 10 on
the Bredtyedt estate, near Grorud Nor
way. The ceremonies will be conducted.
by Bishop Bang. The bauta stone. which
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10

was raised thru the efforts OF mission and
young peoples societies in Akersus, is
a wrought granite stone bearing me-
dallion portrait Of Hauge, modelled by
Rev Erling Gronlard.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
Christine Nilsson Was Hostess.

Christine Nilsson recently attended the
golden weddink of an elder sister, who is
married to a farmer at Odensjo, Sweden.s
She received the guests, served refresh
ments and was the life Of the party. Her
gift to the old couple was a tidy sum Of
money r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
Gift from carneaie.

Andrew Carnegie does not confine his
gifts to America and the British isles, as
a dispatch from Stockholm announces /!
that he has given $50,000 fund for the
maintenance Of a teacher in English at
the famous sloyd school, Goteborgs high
school.