davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Casco Bay breeze., 1904-09-01

n trolley representing the latest type
of modern car building embodies the
semi-convertible idea: that Is, the win
dows when not in use disappear in re-
ceptacles in the roof.
The director OF the Berlin Germany
street railway has received an un.
stamped letter. on which he had to pay
twopence postage. The sender inclosed
two penny stamps which he said he
owed the company.
Fishermen on the lake OF Neufchatel
are using automobile boats. They are
driven by benzine motor and lighted
by electricity. They are fat bcttomed.
glide noiselessly over the water. do
not frighten the fish and are a great
success.
Although the Caspian and AraI seas
have no outlet and receive large riv-
ers. especially the Volga. the Ural and
scores OF streams from the Caucasus.
both have for many years been get
ting shallower. Evaporation exceeds
the infcw.
"whistling' trees grow abundantIy
in Nubia and the Soudan. They are a
species OF Acacia. Insects form a sort
OF globula bladder on the tree. After
they emerge they leave a circular hole
in the swelling which played upon by
the winds sounds much like a sweef
toned flute.
Casco Bay breeze., 1904-09-01
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

There are more blind people amcng
the Spaniards than among any other
European race.
Casco Bay breeze., 1904-09-01
TERMS:

THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER I, 1904
Casco Bay breeze., 1904-09-01

The blind delight in races of al
sorts. They do not run toward a tape
as the seeing do. but toward a bel
that jangles briskly.
Casco Bay breeze., 1904-09-01

Glad you cane?
Casco Bay breeze., 1904-09-01

We hope so.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

Mr. A. B. Robbins has written another
letter to The Journal. 1t seems to
be unnecessary to reproduce the letter, as
Mr.. Robbins writes under misapprehen-
sion of what was said in the article Of
Oct. 81, replying to his former communi-
cation. T h e J GU a |, following the
report of the public examiner, stated that
many permits for cutting state timber
were deficient in the log mark. Mr.. Rob-
bins has looked up the cases cited, and
finds in most Of them log mark on the
stumpage record book, This is. the book
where final settlements are entered, and
they are made after the timber is scaled
by the surveyor general. He reports a
log mark with the scale, and this is en-
tered in the stumpage record book Where
Mr.. Dunn was lax was in his failure to
require a log mark with the permits. The
law demands this, and permits are not
valid without bark mark accompanying
them. The reason for this is plain. Tn
less a log mark is recorded at the time
of the sale, there is no notice to the sur
veyor general, and there is nothing tc
prevent part of the logs being given a
private mark and carried away. This has
evidently been done in some cases. The
permits cited which Mr.. Robbins has
been at such pains to look up, do not
bear a log mark. In most of the cases
the stumpage record book shows wha
log mark was reported by the surveyor
general, but in three Of the permits Mr.
| Robbins had to go to the books Of the
surveyor general to find the log mark
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
~ - NTH the Long B0w
It's a landslide!
q u q
Vote for Blank and the stumps The tmbers gone

Vote for Blank the stumps The tmbers
Minnesota furnishing absorbing chapter for P Halls
Observations And it is safe that H. P out the euro doing
observe
The close call that the president had in his fall from his horse calls
the head
Secretary would have president
of the office All that will be remedied Tuesday
q u y s-~. sza
There's something in the wind St. the flying machine
kind
They may both be right -ars~:5@.s@
Saturday
to visit Aunt Sarah Lane and frnds.' -.so.~
How like Sarah
M-m-m9
expected cos arshp out the heavenly
from his hand Instead doing paved the atmosphere
few bit chunk the kicked propees and of
over Iowa before Mr.. Baldwin could h, there
|" q q q -:t
Haper Weekly has kindness issued another series Of
+ Don'ts'' This list something like this:
Don't talk of the cost Of things =
+ Don't children.
I Don't discuss dress.
Don't discuss diseases surgical operations
f. Don't meni family feuds
Don't tell personal interests, occupations, hopes or
Don't indulge in personalities.
This bad list lists but goodness those happen be
the things most OF us talk about
keeps the will begin to tie towels around
the heavy furniture out into the entry and to
that housekeeping time
you disease this matter housecleaning and certain
it. Why had aunt
and spess after Feb TO- and the
got would think there and start the
his fierce nvectye against the have
the ceiling had he happened have pencil his n
housean violently that they want the
lawn sod taken up off, Others houseean
winterand then, II
they little times their mouths water.
!: "A. j. R.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

Much of Mr. Dunn's campaign stock in
trade has been claims with regard to set
Element Of the various railroad land
grants, made by early legislatures. to. en-
courage railroad building. ,.-~.. ..'
He especially mentions the Great North
ern grant, which he claims to have settled
by getting the company to accept the old
deed made by Adolph Biermann, Mr..
Dunns predecessor. This deed the COM
pany had refused to accept, until most Of
the desirable lands were gone. Mr.. Dunn
found a land company willing to purchase
the lands from the railroad, and so ar
ranged with the railroad company to &C
cept the grant. BY this act, as he claims,
the lands were placed on the tax roll.
The fact is that they had been on the
tax roll ever since Hermann issued the
deed. Taxes had been accommodating on
them for ten years. The supreme court
of the state and the United States decided
that Great Northern lands were taxable.
If the company had accepted the old deed.
it must have paid $4,000 or 5000, 900 in
taxes to clear the title Attorney General
Childs had declared that the old deed
could not be annulled. Ir spite of this,
Mr.. Dunn Cancelled the old deed and is
sued a new one, thus relieving the lands
Of all the accumulated taxes. The only
difference was In one tract of GA acres,
which might have been settled by a sup
Elemental deed Instead of holding the
company for the taxes. Mr.. Dunn man.
aged to release them, and save the Great
Northern large sum of money. This
money was lost to the state and local
treasures.
Mr.. Dunn also claims credit for the
compromise Of the Little Falls & Dakota
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

" stimulated that within half generation the
Canadian west will be as we'll populated as Min
nesota and the Dakotas today. 1t will then
have more than 5000. 900 people. and will be so
poyerful in the Dominion councils, by reason or
its population and wealth, that 1t will rule
Canada. Eventually, all the great questions
concerning the future relations of the United
States and Canada will be settled. so far as
Canada is concerned, between Lake Superior and
the Rocky mountains. One day the valley of
the Saskatchewan will mean as much to Canada
rs the valley of the Mississippi means to the
United States at the present time.
A distinctive feature of the Review OF
Reviews for November is the series OF
sketches Of men of the hour. 49,
Where Does RadIum Come From?-If
radium is continually disappearing, and
would totally disappear in a very few
thousand years, it follows that it must
be reproduced from other substances, at
an equal rate, says Sir William Ramsay
in the Popular Science Monthly. The
most evident conjecture that it is formed
from uranium, has not been substantiated
Soddy has shown that salts Of uranium
freed from radiun, and left for year, dc
not contain one ten-thousandth part Of
the radium that one would expect to be
formed in the time. It Is evident there
fore, that radium must owe its existence
to the presence of some other substances
but what they are is still unascerta1ned
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
2. C., DJ7VWS OFFICIAL RECORD


land grant with the Northern Pacific. The
company had not completed its line with
in the time specified, and the state
brought suit to recover 1900 acres of land
which had been decided, claiming that the
grant was not earned. The COMPROMISED
gave them these lands and $4,000 acres
! more. A significant feature is that be.
fore the state decided the lands selected
to the railroad company, the pieces In
| Dodge, Martin and Pipestone counties
were sold by George A. Finn, state land
clerk, to private parties. When the states
| deed to the railroad company was filed,
! the company's deed to Finn was FLED with
| it. Other lands in Aitlzin county were
decided to Charles H. Warner, former
clerk in the auditors office, and now
secretary Of the state committee e.
Mr.. Dunn fought the Duluth & Iron.
Range grant. and refused to accept $4,000
acres of land offered for selection in tins
different lists. He selected 44,644 acres
of the same land for state institu!
lions. The railroad company sued for the
lands and filed the lists, certified from tho
auditors office Mr.. Dunn permitted this
suit to go until six months after the
court had decreeed the lands to the rail-:
road company, before discovering CD that
the lists he had certified included the
state institution land. 1t took infinite ne
gotiation between the attorneys for thu
state and the railroad company to get the
decree amended and these lands decided
back to the state. Mr.. Dunn delayed the
negotiations by his treatment Of the rail-
| road company officials. He now claims
credit for saving these lands to the state.
But for his blunder they would never
have been in jeopardy. .'17t
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
THE MAGAZINES

The Canadian West 70 Rule Canada
Theodore NJ Knappen, writing for the
November number Of the American
Monthly Review of Reviews, predicts that
within half generation the Canadian
west twill be so powerful in Dominion
councils that it will rule Canada" He
says:
The tremendous multiplication of the wheat
production of western Canada which will take
place in the next few years is not likely seri-
ously to disturb the worlds markets. The
United States will gradually cease exporting
wheat, and Canada will as gradually fill the gap
The prospect is, therefore, that western Canada
need have no fear of reducing Its income pei
bushel on account Of its increasing contribution
to the number of bushels. II this prospect il
realized, immigration into western Canada, es
pecially from the United States, will be 80 great
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

Pursuit of Priceless Diamond and the
Hand of a MiIlIonaIres Daughter.-With
startling rapidity of development, Arthur
Morrison introduces the reader to the
story of the Eye of Goona, The Green
Diamond. The most exciting pitch of the
story is reached in the first few pages,
and as the tale is primarily one of adj
venture it is disappointing that the pitch
is not maintained. However, the story is
readable from cover to cover, altho the
author does not restore the lost diamond
|. The wonderful green stone. famous for
| its size, color and history the envy and
contention of kings for nearly thousand
years, is stolen at the durbar, and altho
the ostensible thief is slain as he fees
the rajahs tent with his prize, thru the
Juggling Of an imitation, the diamond dis
appears. 1t is soon disclosed that a
travelling merchant, buyer OF curios, has
been instrumental in the robbery and has
concealed the jewel in a magnum Of i'm
perial tokay, which he entrusts to an
unsuspecting casual friend. an Eng
lishman, to carry to London. The
young Englishman, Harvey Crook, sees
a chance to make good bargain for his
friend and sells the tokay to an American
millionaire on board for remarkably
high price. That Crook is more interested
in the millionaire's daughter than in the
case of tokay is evident. s. 49,.
| When the vessel arrives at Southamp-
ton, the millionaire finds that ne is sat
isfied with one bottle and sells the other
eleven magnums at auction. AS .soor as
Crook arrives in London he is met by
the owner of the magnuns. who demands
them. His rage at finding them sold in
dictates to Crook that the diamond must
have been in one Of the bottles. Crooi
decides that the diamond is a fair prize
for any one and the race to recover the
Eye of Goona is on. s
l The rest Of the story is taken up will
the pursuit of the individual bottles. VIVA
becomes Of the diamond and whether
, Crook wins the hand of the daughter o.
the American millionaire is the author:
story L. s. K {
L. G. Page & Co., Boston. Powers Mer-
camille Co., Minneapolis.
The Dream Bag, by Winifred Agnes
!. Haldane is another original conception
, by the author Of that popular little book
! ga Chord from a Violin" In the au,
thor's charming style, she tells Of Doro'
thy and Marjory's strange adventure!
5 with the quaint, funny old Moon man
J, of their trip to volcano and Of othe1
, startling journeys. Under the gossame
) Of fiction is woven a delicate moral, unob.
trusive but perceptible. There are ST,
) full-paee illustrations in six colors.
Laird & Lee, Chicago. Price 81.
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Don't Be Fooled.

One strong argument in favor of the
proposed new charter lies in the fact
that its enemies find it necessary to re-
sort to gross Misrepresentation in or
der to get ostensible grounds for ,oppo-
sition. The false statements of the
Tribune relative to safeguards against
bond issues have been fully exposed,
and are not likely to mislead voters who
take pains to inform themselves. And
now comes George Harvey, who is cir
culating card in which he advises
workingmen to vote against the charter
because it Eprovides for the contract
system and ten hours a day." and 9 in
creases the mayors appointing power by
which he could build up political ma
chine that would perpetuate them in
office as long as he wishes.' 1t would
be interesting to know what friends of
the workingmen employ Mr.. Harvey and
pay for his cards. The proposed char
ter does not in any respect alter the
present one so far as it relates to the
called "contract system. There is
no "contract SYSTEM in either instru.
ment, except that the city council may
order public work to be done by day
labor or by contract, as it sees fit; mol
does either instrument touch upon tho
hours of labor, which under the pro
posed charter could be fixed, as now, by
the council. AS to increasing the may
| or's power, no man of ordinary in
teiligence can read the proposed char
ter without seeing that one of it's mos
important merits is that it takes the frt
and police departments, and the boar(
of charities and corrections, out of pol
itics, and makes it impossible for ;
mayor to again prostitute his office t.
the building up of political machine
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

switching devices will be insisted upon,
so that semaphores will first denote dan
ger before a switch is opened Hand and
light signals will be made uniform and a
rule will be introduced that no train hand
shall work more than a specified time
each day, whether he wants to,or not. An
agreement to- this ieffect might be ar
ranged in the United States, were it not
necessary to make unfair dividends on
watered stock. These conditions must be
changed or the slaughter of the people
will continue.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
A REMARkARLEEcHo

An ordinary echo is curious thing, but
according to the statements of French
man at watering place in the Pyrinees,
one echo on the Franco Prussian frontier
is far from ordinary.
AS soon as you have spoken" said the
Frenchman, who had secured an audience
OF wide-eyed tourists, you hear distinctly
the voice leap from rock to rock. from
precipice to precipice, and as soon as !,
has passed the frontier it assumes the
Spanish tongue.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
AT THE THEATERS
MetropoIitan-"The Jewel of ASIA

Metropoltan-"The Jewel of ASIA"
"The Jewel of Asia proved but mildly
irritating to the disabilities of the audi
ence at the Metropolitan last, evening.
The music is not Of the swinging, catchy
style and the linesE5are bland in their eff
forts to provoke amusement It was
even-t toned thruout and pitched in a key
that did not strike a sympathetic chord
with chose present. at any time. Will
liam Blaisdell struggled to make sue
cess of the part in which "Jimmy'' Pow
ers failed and, lacking the talkative legs
of Powers, fell short of his desired goal,
Vera Michelena is pretty but lacks vi
vacity in the role of Zaidee. She has a
voice that pleases when sustained in its
middle tones. but beyond her natural
charms and the assistance of the spot
light, she did little to add to the life or
gaiety of the performance. The show
girls, appeared in succession of pleas
ing gowns, but some of them would no,
suffer from a course of study in the
"beef, iron and wine' varsity
The scenic effects are pleasing, the col
orlngs harmonious, but the playwright
had foredoomed the work of the PLAYERS
to failure by. his commonplace reaches
after situations and neglect to provide
even one climax that would provoke 8
| hearty laugh from prospective audiences
- .f... r.. go, j. H. Ritchie
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

foiltaclans' thoughtless of the comfort
OF Henry Gassaway Davis, have been
making making state taxation the paramount is
sue in a red-hot West Virginia campaign.
How can a anfeel enthusiastic over an
outcry Tor more taxation, when he is
worth $40, 100000, and has a brother who
is even richer, and a son-in-law who ha s
some more Uncle Henry would much
prefer to discuss the tariff.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
The Baltimore American saws:

Mr.. Swallow is not laboring under any
painful uncertainty about the result Of the
campaign Whatever else happens he is
sure to go down.
Yet Mr.. Swallow, in his letter of accep-
lance, says: = III,
4 | regard your nomination., even if as
sured of defeat, which I am not a greater
honor than a nomination and election,
from any of the parties subsidized and
controlled by the liquor traffic.
So it seems that Mr.. Swallow, unless he
is telling an untruth, is not assured of de-
teat. We hate to see the old man torn
by anxiety as to the outcome. -....
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
An authority on railroad affairs ats

An authority on railroad affairs states
that all of the carrying corporations OF
Canada have agreed in response to a
circular from the railway commission OF
the. Dominion, to draft uniform set q
rules to govern the operation of trains
All roads will be compelled to introduce
block systems wherever business is heay,
enough to make 1t necessary. Automatic
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
THE PROPOSED CHARTER
Persistent Efforts to Deceive the Public
with Regard to It. .:&e

Persistent Efforts to Deceive the Public
with Regard to It. ,:av~
One of the Minneapolis papers is OPP
posing the charter with arguments that
cross and recross until they become hope
lessly involved, but it occasionally makes
a direct statement and this statement is
usually incorrect For example, the Trib-
une says the new charter opens the door
to unlimited bond issues. AS a matter Of
fact, the new charter makes an absolute
bond limit of per cent Its provisions
in this respect were drawn by John Cros-
by, who has always been considered. a
conservative in the matter of public debt.
Then the public is told on one side that
the charter contracts the patrol limit and
on the other hand that it makes it easier
to expand the patrol limit. 1t does neither.
The present patrol limits is adopted word
for word and the matter Of changing it is
not in the charter at all, but in the ena.b-
ling act. There the provision is that it
takes a three-fourths vote OF the peo-
pie to change a line Of the patrol limit.
This seems as safe as anything could be
made There may be an attack made on
the patrol limit next winter, but it will
not be in the charter. If 1t comes off it
will be in the legislature. The nominees
are being surrounded already on the sub
ject by the brewing interests, and If the
people are not sure OF the legislature on
this subject they have an opportunity
to take it into their own hands by adopt
ing the charter. gE6!
The first and second charter campaigns
died thru Indifference. The presents one
seems to be working up a little. Those
who oppose the charter are, as usual CIV
ing false reasons for it, and are putting
their literature into the hands of those
who wear falsefaces, but it is something
|sthat they are confessing their enmity to
the home rule move.
In The Journal yesterday the
commissioners meant to give credit to
those who have helped the charter cam
paign, but omitted to speak OF the Min
neapolis Times. which was the first paper
to publish the charter in full and which
has numerous editorial articles explaining
the provisions of the instrument and urg-
ing its adoption by the people.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

To his Bible class Sunday. John n
Rockefeller' Jr., decried the rush for sud
den wealth and upheld the dignity of the
little things of life. Huh! That's an easy
doctrine for John D. Jr
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

One of the most dangerous forms Of
graft is the graft SO yelled that you can
not reach it by law. Some of those min
eral leases issued to Bad Dunns clerks
are not safe, however
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

The New York subway carried over
million people in the first four days. The
campaign must be warm where so many
people feel like crawling into a hole.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

The Dunn bandwagon, about which Sur
veyor General Peterson had so much to
say Monday night, Gis beginning to look
a good deal like a wheelbarrow.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
Powerful whistles are to be placed on.
our warships. Still, as we are rapidly
growing as a world power.'' our navy
will be expected to do something besides
blow.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

Inc Boston Globe is mean enough to
think it is hot wrestle between Cortel-
you and President Harper as to which one
gets the more money. If there were any
thing in this silly persiflage, it might be
considered almost providential by Mr..
Cortelyou that President Harper has been
suffering from appendicitis lately.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

Colonel Wattersonss has started a joke
column in his paper. 1t will bother the
:.'make-up'' some 10 know where to put
the editorials now.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04

Or: Felix Adler, speaking at Carnegie
hall, New York, deplored the erection of
such things as a bronze bathtub for cats
ana dogs at the corner of Fifth avenue
and Fifty-third street, instead of such ia
clllties for, cleanliness in the crowded ten
ementhous 'e: It .issone of the unpleasant
straWs that show whittier we are drift
Ing but 1t is only a straw,