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A Word To WOff1en.

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ICE CREAM In any style, shape, price or color. Hillside Dairy Depot, w. M. Glass. Mgr, 3l2 N. 2lst street

Lotta! Who's LottaP You'll find out at the Orphans car nival.
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 nenuued atO
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Follow the crowds to lunch It Dairy Depot.
FREE!

FREE! Grand Band Concert, 30 pieces, East Lake, Sunday. May 1st.
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Our newly imported electric light cab inet lined with French plate mirrors. Beautiful to behold, wonderful in salutary rheumatism King Edward uses cabinet like this daily and all the English royal
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
MUCH MORE TRAVELLING
Business of Railroads Along All Lines
- - Increases.

Washington, July 1.-THE inter-
state commerce commission has an
nounced it's statistics of railways in the
United States for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1904. They show that the
par value of the railway capital then
outstanding was $12, 500, 99O,25s, which
represents a capitalization of $63,1SO
per mile. 49,.
The number of passengers carried
was 694,S91,535, an increase of As
033, 030 over the previous year; freight
carried, 1904, 1914, 323 tons, an increase
Of 104 ,078,536 tons. The gross earn
ings from the operation of the total
of 205,313 miles of railway lines
which is the aggregate single track
mileage were $1,900,846,9O7,. an in
crease of $174,466,640; operating ex-
penses, $1,257,53S,S52, an increase of
Sal, 290,105; net earnings, $643,3OS,-
055, an increase Of sS3,176,535; income
from other sources than operation
$205, 687,4S0; net income available for
dividends or surplus, $296,376,O45.
Total casualties, S6,393, of which
9,840 represented the number of per-
sons killed and 1858 those injured
Aggregate number of locomotives in
service, 43,S71; increase, 2,646; cars in
service, 1,753,3S9, an increase of over
l 900 during the year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
Why Davis Was Chosen.

The nomination of Henry G. Davis
of West Virginia seems the most dis
creditable act of the democratic con-
vention, in the light of the reasons
now known to have governed that ac-
ton. Fitness for the office or for
presidential succession We're entirely
ignored. The nomination was made
at the dictation of David B. Hill and
August Belmont, for the following
strategic reasons:
Davis nomination makes West Vir.
ginia a doubtful state, and ties the
hands of his son-in-law, Stephen B
Elkins, republican senator from thai
state.
His nomination placates another
powerful relative, German of Mary.
land, and probably makes the cleo
toral vote of that state secure.
Davis is a multimillionaire, and |:
expected to sugar" the campaign lib
orally.
Further. his railroad and corporate
connections are expected to help thu
ticket in circles whose politics arr
governed solely by selfish considera
tons.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
Wheat Prospects,

+ More favorable than had been az
pected is the government renort
covering the condition Of the crops
July 1. Conditions, as expressed
declmally, are high, passing the
figures of year ago and in the main
running above the ten-year average.
Spring wheat, in which the interest
northwest is principally conferred, is
shown to stand at 93.7, which com
pares favorably with 1914 on June 4:
S2.5 on July /, 1908; s2.4 at cor
responding date in 1902, and a. ten
year average of S6.s. The report in
itself is favorable and with wheat
prices in leading markets now 10 ia
lie above prices of. July year ago.
1t might be supposed the effect would
be weakening.
That material decline will follow is.
however, very unlikely. A govern
ment report takes no note of condi-
tons later than the first day of the
month of issue. All the grain trade
knows is that since July l winter
wheat has suffered severely from
floods and continued rains, while the
weather over the northwest has not
been warm enough or dry enough to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12

James L. Stack, one of Americas
well-known advertising men, halls
from the Twin Cities, having been a
former resident of st. Paul, where he
started his advertising work and
began making friends" which have
been such a potent factor in his bust
ness success. Mr.. Stack is one Of the
ablest of the new school of advertising
agents. There is nothing of the has
been" about his makeup-he is a
mower" ..- = -. ~. -
Mr.. Stack has gotten out of the
rut, and has passed the point of be-
ing simply a clerk, not devoting his
entire time to clerical work, as most
agents do, but spending his entire
time and thought to the promotion of
his clients business.
He has made an enormous success
of the Schlitz Brewing company
business by continually pounding the
public with the one slogan, "Schlitz
Beer is pure; it costs more to brew
1T than any other beer, but it doesn't
cost the. consumer any more" Then,
again, every reader is familiar with
his slogan, "Schlitz, the beer that
made Milwaukee famous" ....
His business Is personal one and is
conducted on lines different from any
agency In the country, Mr.. Stack de-
voting his personal attention to the
ADVERTISER; not doing a general bust
ness, only representing about a dozen
large and successful advertisers.
His advertisers do the checking and
most of the clerical work, which
leaves Mr.. Stack free to devote his
time to- the promotion Of their bust
ness thru publicity. -.,;
Personally, Mr.. Stack is most en-
ergetic and resourceful. He is full of
good ideas and pat phrases"-the
kind that make good advertising.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
EFFECT is ONLY LOCAL
The Pere Marquette Deal Won't AT.
feet Middle West Traffic.


The merger of the Pere Marquette,
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
and the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louis
vile, is not likely greatly to change
the trend of middle west traffic, ac-
cording to the Wall Street Journal.
1t is important locally only. The
Journal says:
1T will give to the Pere Marquette
a lucrative tonnage in Hooking Val
Michigan peninsula and Wisconsin
by the rail and cross-lake route, prac-
tically all rail. It may also make
Detroit distributing point for soft
coal inA western q. Ontario. 1t may
bring to the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton certain amount Of business
from the peninsula and Wisconsin for
distribution for points along the Ohio.
In both respects it will initiate,
to certain extent, against the Ann
Arbor and Wheeling & Lake Erie,
the Gould combination serving the
traffic both ways. It will create a
new route for Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton traffic from Chicago, and
will destroy the usefulness of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton traf-
fic agreement with the Monon. 1t
WILL therefore, result in loss to the
Monon.
''The things the alliance will not do
are, perhaps, more important. In the
first place, it will not divert traffic
from the direct lines-Cincinnati-B
falo-New York. The route via Tole-
do is not practicable in competition
with Erie or the Vanderbilts. 1t will
not touch the New Orleans-C Chicago
traffic. The Queen & Crescent and
not compete with the Illinois Central
or 'FriScOD
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
.RUMOR AGAIN
SELLS THE C.G.W,
O., M. & ST. p. SAID TO BE DICK.
ERING WITH STICKNEY.
The Report that the Milwaukee Has
Already Made Deal for the Wis.
consin Central Is Also Revived
RailroaderS Says Some Big Deals
Are Pending.

The Milwaukee road is charged with
having acquired the Wisconsin Gem
trail, also with having designs on the
Great Western.
The Wisconsin Central rumor is
based again on the transfer of the
Centrals shops to Milwaukee with the
additional fact Of the lapse of the
voting trust a short time ago. Both
are said to be Rockefeller roads, SO
that practically there will be only
merger. Regarding the Great West
ern deal, western railroad man has
said in New York: 81 am figuring
that the Great Western is going to be
taken over either by the Milwaukee
or the Missouri Pacific. 1t has already
cost the trans Missouri lines thru
rate decentralization and other forms
Of competition more than the sum of
it's entire apitalization,. and some
thing now is going on which has for
it's end the elimination of the Great
Western as a disturber. There has
been of late. a suspicious lowering of
Chicago Great Western prices while
President Stickney is with his lawyer
in London.
= There are negotiations going on
covering great territories of railroad
field of which the public has appar-
emily at the present time scarcely a
SUSPICION"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12

beautiful and comfortable is emphasized
all thru the magazine, and is applied to
log cabins. farms and city houses. Home
makers Will find the number full.of help
ful suggestions, and the splendid illustra
tions will furnish many ideas.
We have seen the ST. Louis exposition
from almost every phase In the different
magazines and papers, but Charles H.
Caff1n strikes new note in the Interna-
tional Studio for July, when he writes Of
The Artistic Ensemble of the Worlds
Fair" Octave Maus tells of the time in
1854, when group of Belgian artists In
yited James McNeill Whistler to join their
club as its first foreign painter. Whistler's
experiences in Belgium were varied, and
they are recounted in an interesting fash
ion with charming reproduction in color
of one Of his sketches. The magazine as
a whole Is exceedingly interesting and the
designs for week lend cottages, metal, pot
terry and woodwork will bear close study
from the student and craftsman
In the opening article of What to Eat
for July, Felix l.. Oswald becomes the
champion of the small boy who is still
hungry when the meal Is finished and who
wants something between meals. He calls
Spencer to support his view and traces the
development of the boy in regard to the
food he desires and needs. Lyle 0. Har-
T is, In contributing number of old Ala
bamn recipes, has done the housewife a
favor.
Pintoricchio, the Italian painter Of the
period of the renaissance, is the subject
for the July number of the Masters in
Art. The reproductions are almost alto
gether from his mural decorations. and
they are hardly interesting to the modern
artist, except for their historical value
In spite Of his poor drawing, for many
of the horses and knights which he
Groves into his pictures do not stand
squarely on their feet, in spite of the
gaudy coloring and the love of display
and brilliant ostentation, there Is a SIM
pllctty Of feeling which commends his work
to the lover of art.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
AT THE THEATERS
Lyceum-"Niobe."

Nothing so thoroly enjoyable as '.Niobe"
has been presented by the Ferris Stock
company in many months. Profound i'm
preston was made by the huge undertake
ing of "ParsifaF; not few of the SEN
timental wept ard shuddered at the high
ly emotional and tragic scenes of Cleo
patra.' But in "Niobe' almost every line
is funny. Added the art Of Benjamin
Johnson, in the leading comedy role Of
Peter Amos Dunn and his good support
and the result is laughter that rolls on,
with scarcely a lull, thru the entire even
Ing. sff65s.z=
The fact that the play is based on the
impossible-the revivification of the statue
of Niobe, widow of Amphion, king of
Thebes-does not interfere in any degree
with it's humor, except that the strange
TRANSPORTATION caused some children in
the audience a fright. Writer'S of comedy
have a license las broad AS the wind to
blow on whom they please and many of
them take even more advantage of it than
the Paultons have in "Niobe.'' Aside from
the coming to life of the statue, the play
is consistent drawingroom comedy, with
clever repartee and puns and ludicrous
situations that cause one to smile in rec
objection all the way home, even tho some
other passenger may be standing on ones
pet corn.
Mr.. Johnson is no less the artist,
but Is much more pleasing in the
role of the troubled Dunn in ''Niobe'
than as Sir Everard. the schem
ing money-getter in "a Gold M1ne,''
or Kephran, Cleopatra's faithful guard.
The fright and incredulity he shows when,
alone in his house while his family are
at the theater, he secs the statue move
from her pedestal and hears it. speak to
him, and the difficulty he has in explain
ing to his wife (Lovell Alice Taylor) and
his domineeri1g sister in-law daurette
Allen) the presence of this beautiful
strangely clad woman in his house and
his arms, is excellently acted.
AS the statue Florence Stone is ire
proachable. The same cannot be said of
her live Niobe. Her monotonous drawl
becomes dreadfully tiresome, and her
weeping is too frequent and too loud. II
was apparent last night that she wept
much more than the authors Intended
and that many Of the weeps We're cover
for untfmely laughter at modern day
jokes and puns which woman dead these
5000 years shauldn't have understood at
all. But the insincerity of her perfor-
nance is a small fly in the ointment OF
enjoyment which the entire play provides
A. Byron Beasey appears in the rolls
of Cornelius Griffin. Dunn,s brother-in-
I law; Lawrence Barbour as Jefferson
Tompkins, the art enthusiast who pur
chased the statue Of Niobe;. Charles c.
Burnham as Parker s. Silox, a retired
merchant, and Masie Cecil as Dunn's
niece, a yivacious, irrepressible, mis-
chievous girl. Their parts are wen taken.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
RAILROAD NOTES.

The 500 Line announces rates over seven routes
for the national G. A. r. encampment at Boston.
The rates range from $2S.40 to $50. 95.
The Pere Marquette has fitted M lunch
counter car for Its resort patrons, which looks
like a bakery lunch counter in town.
The Omaha road has put out new fishing
guide containing maps of lakes and streams
and giving the main new hunting and fishing
places along the system.
The Rock Island road has issued new
folder of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, CIV
ing a complete map of the grounds.
Robert Rantoul has resigned general man
ager OF the Montana Central. His duties will be
cared for fy the president. r. A. Harlow.
G.. H. Anthony, general agent of the Wis
consin Central at Pittsburg, has been transferred
to Duluth, succeeding NJ j. Bryan as general
agent t. B. Montgomery. general agent of the
road at Milwaukee. succeeds Mr.. Anthony at
PIT
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12

men and women who stand
around the streets Of our large cities by
the hundred thousand, bold, bloated, dis
solute, blackeyed sinful. dishonest, de-
graded, Gebauched, never sober except by
accident incapable of self-respect and
content to dweG in filth and rags indie
scribable.'' 1t is hoped that the English
woman has exaggerated 1t a little so as
to make her point asS5
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
AROUND THE WORLD ON A "elkEn

Rev. Il. M. Spiclsler a young Baptist
clergyman hailing from Polo. III, ha 9
landed in San Francisco on the last stage
OF bicycling tour around the world He
lett nome three years ago. and since then
has wheeled over a great part of Europe
ana Asia. The only especially disagree
able experiences he encountered were in
Tested him in hopes that he would bribe
them, and in Bombay, India, where he
lay sick for eight weeks with typhoid fe
yer. He intends to. make a tour OF Cali
Sfornia for the purpose Of studying socio
logical conditions there ,-f
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12

An Englishwoman writing in the North
american Review says that the cause Of
England's decay is not so much free trade
rs ''our great national hobby drunken
ness" The direct expenditure upon drink
che estimates at but little short of a
Billion dollars. To this must be added
the cost of the poor taxes, prisons, police,
homes. hospitals and asylums for the vic
tims. She finds that there are about -
100000, CT Ole in -four of the entire popu-
aation, who are in abject poverty too
incapable for anything, even for
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
cAssINI MAY HAVE OBJECTED

Mr.. Takahira, the Japanese minister at
washington, is on friendly terms with the
russian ambassador, Count Cassini and
is careful never to say ANYTHING to a.
fend him. But he likes harmless pleas
antry once in awhile, Some one informed
him that President Roosevelt had decided
to discontinue the training in ,jiujits,l,
ana asked him II he could guess why.
Can't imagine the reason replied the
envoy; perhaps Cassini objected to the
lessons as a breach of neutrality -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
The Neglected Vice Presidency.

The democrats find it impossible to
break away from their ancient custom
of nominating for the vice presidency
men who are not especially qualified
to fill the office of president, or men
responsibility. Mr.. Davis of West Vir-
ginia is obviously not a tower Of
strength to the democratic ticket, ex-
cept so far as his wealth and resi-
dence in the close state of West Vir-
ginia may help. His name is not a
great name. It will add no luster to
the democratic standards. It is not a
less Mr.. Davis is very we'll known in
railway and coal-mining circles In the
eastern states. and as he has been a
delegate to every democratic national
convention held in the last forty years,
he must be intimately acquainted with
the democratic leaders. But to the
people at large he is unknown. He
may be a Milton or a Hampden or a
Bryan, but he is surely mute and in
glorious.
The fact, discovered all at once by
some digger into obscure biography,
that Mr.. Davis is a successful business
man who has accumulated a gold pile
OF no mean dimensions, argues that
he is not without ability of some Sort
But granting that his record, char
acter and natural ability are such as
to make him a good president his ex-
IRENE age should have constituted an
insuperable barrier between him and
the nomination for the vice presidency.
A man 81 years of age is not likely
TO be either physically Or mentally the
sort Of man to bear the vast burdens
of the presidential office, should they
be transferred to his shoulders.
1t should be the practice to nom
mate for the vice presidency a man al
most as illustrious as the presidential
nominee and he should be man fully
competent to act as the presidents
successor. The vice president has so
often succeeded to the presidency that
1t is folly to ignore the chance that a
vice residential nominee may become
president.
On the whole, the republicans have
been wiser in this matter than the
democrats. They have usually chosen
for the second place on the presiden-
tial ticket, men who were equal to the
responsibilities that might be imposed
on them. The succession Of President
Roosevelt to the presidency, to the
leadership and to the presidential
nomination of his party, seems to have
smashed to bits the old prejudice
against giving the vice presidency to
young, able and ambitious man. on
| the theory that to do so was to cut
| short his career.
1t would not be surprising If Presi.
| dent Roosevelt would be the founder
OF a custom of rather expecting the
vice president to grow into the presi.
dency. Four years as vice president
ought to make an admirable school for
the presidency, especially, if our pres.
1dents should fall into the habit OF
consulting with their vice presidents
about party politics and affairs OF
state. If it were to become the cus.
tom to nominate acceptable vice presi.
dents to the presidency after thei,
chiefs have retired, we would be as.
sured of a continuity and constanc1
of executive policy that could be at.
tanned In no other way.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12

Speaking of the charm exercised by. Mr..
Bryan over the democrats recalls the story
OF the birmingham clockmaker, who dis
covered that rival was sending out large
stocks Of cheap clocks to the heart Of
Africa and doing good business with them.
Finally he found a key to the mystery.
Savages like noise. The clocks made by
the first exporter had a particularly loud
and aggressive tick. His competitor had
made better clock, but it was almost
noiseless, and the savages would have none
Of It, ~. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12

At the Woclwich arsenal, near London,
new machinery Is to be installed, and a
Philadelphia firm is to build it, This is
what makes the English manufacturers
grit their teeth but the American con-
Germ proposes to do the work quicker and
cheaper and that is all there is to it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
Hay Dispute Heard.

After hearing the evidence in the case
of the LOTUS Hubbard Elevator company
of st. Paul against the Duluth & Iron
Range road yesterday, the state rail-
road commission took the matter under
advisement The case is based on a ship
ment of hay, alleged to have been dam
aged in transit
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12

At last the republican party is con-
fronted by a reunited democracy and by
a democracy that begins to show some
signs Of discipline and mana cement. The
leaders had the situation very we'll in
hand at St. Louis, as was shown by the
way they directed the convention to the
fulfllment of their Judgment as to the
proper course to pursue regarding the
disconcerting and confusing Parker tele-
gram.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
STRANGELY coNTRAsTED MEMOIR
AIS

Nine. Marie Roze cherishes among her
many treasures two strangely contrasted
memorials. One is a program printed in
gold letters on white satin of the songs
she once sang before Queen Victoria and
the other is beautifully executed testiN
monial presented to her by convict
forger when she sang to the inmates Of
Auburn prison. New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
BOOKS RECEIVED
FRANCIS PARKMAN.

FRANCIS PARKMAN. American Men of LET.
tiers series. BY Henry Dwight Sedgwick.
Boston: Houghton, Miffin & Co. Mime
net HN.--
IN MERRY MEASURE BY Tom Mason New
York: Life Publishing company.
SPARKS FROM THE YULE LOG. Rv Lena
Bogardus Lardner. Fully illustrated New
York: The Broadway Publishing company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
HAWLEY COMING WEST
He Will Look into Conditions on NJ.
& St. L. and Iowa Central.

Edwin Hawley, president of the
Minneapolis & ST. Louis and of the
Iowa Central roads, has started west
for a ten-day inspection in company
with F. H. Davis, treasurer Of the st.
Louis and vice president and treas
urer of the Central. The two COM
prise the stock firm of Hawley & Da-
Wis. Conditions which caused the
earnings Of the companies to drop
will be investigated carefully. The
Fort Dodge road will probably come
in for inspection by its new owners.