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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
"RAw, eARlsH," MODERN ATHENS

An American traveller writes: Athens
itself, as a city, is insufferable. It is raw.
garish, new, staring, crude. 1t smells OF
paint. It reeks Of varnish. 1t is redolent
Of last week. It is the newest city one
sees in southern Europe. It is dusty, it
is noisy, it is vulgar. Everything in It
is imitation. The palaces are imitation.
The hotels are mutations. The army is
imitation. The city is sham. 1t IS a
Joy to leave the commonplace streets, to
quit the insufferab1e city and to climb the
Acropo1is. There everything is calm and
peaceful and the magnificent ruins are
restful. There only in Athens do you find
g. spot which is not oppressively new and
raw. The royal palace is one Of the new
est and the rawest Of all the raw, new
buildings"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
WHEN DANES WERE SKINNED

In former times the Danes used to sail
UP the mouths of the English rivers to
pillage the churches. When they We're
caught they were skinned and their skins
nailed to the door Of the church they at
tackled. In course Of time all the exposed
portion would peel off, but that covered
by the nail would be protected and thus
bear testimony to the cruelty of the an
cient Englishmen. In the London College
of Surgeons may be seen three specimens
of human skin bearing labels such as this:
..Pmtion Of human skin, said to be that
of Dane, from the door of church at
Hadstock, In Essex" A second specimen
is from Copford, in Essex, and a third
from the north door of Worcester cath
edral. Such fragments Of sacrilegious
Danish hide have been found on doors in
Westminster abbey.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
Mr.. Bede's Discovery.

10 the Editor OF line Journal
1t is refreshing to note that Minnesota's
pet humorist has made a discovery which
has opened the eyes Of so great and in
fiuential journal as the New York Trib-
une and furnished material for the worlds
greatest cartoonist. Now what is that
discovery? It is that the Wall street
operators are 'datists;'' that "watered
stock" is fiat property, pure and simple.
Now, doesn't that jar you?
The Journal likes news, and the
purpose of this writing is to furnish a
little. So long ago as 1887, when the
writer was lecturer for the State Farmers
alliance, he wore the term fiat property
almost threadbare. And during all the
succeeding years it has been like a, serio-
comic farce to note how the trusts ana
combines have held up hands in holy hor-
ror at the thought Of a nation issuing
| fiat money to its people, while they were
| gorging the people with fat property. 1t
was enough to make angels weep. The
| pious solcitude Of these cormorants for
the unsullied honor of the government has
been the most disgusting farce Of the age.
To one who has been for eighteen years
| exposing in public and in private as well
| as in the press all this colossal hypocrisy
which was plundering by fiat property the
/ very people it affected to protect from
the bugbear Of fiat money, it is not q
| little gratifying that at last the same
thought has fired the electric brain Of oul
4 north star humorist, and that the emf
/ nent newspaper mentioned above, which
has so long been sitting in darkness. ha
at last seen a great light. May the ligh
spread.
Nor is it singular that the visual or
gans Of the comic congressman and tn
staid newspaper should be still somewha
defective. Their perspective Is still bad
Like the partially healed blind man OF tn
New Testament, they ''see men as tree
walking Let US be charitable. The
really believe that flooding the countr
with ''watered stock is rank populisn
What a pity the vultures did not see
that way themselves. If all the corpora
lions, trusts, railroads and dealers In fla
property had only known they were popu
lists, how triumphantly Mr.. Bryan woul
have gone into the presidents chair VIII
did not j. Adam Bede let his light shin
eight years ago?
Thomas c. HOdgSon.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
voLsTEAD MIsREPREsENTs HIS
PEOPLE.
Marshall News Messenger.

Marshall News Messenger.
Congressman Volstead has made his
maiden speech in congress, and placed
himself squarely against the important is
sue Of a reciprocity treaty with Canada,
and in support Of his position he asserted
his views were Endorsed by his constltu-
ents in the seventh district. We confess
that we are unable to positively reflect the
sentiment Of the people Of this district up
on this question, and yet we bel1eVe we
know as much about it as does our es-
| teemed friend Volstead, and, our firm be-
lief is that four-fifths Of the voters are
emphatically in favor of Canadian reel
procity and it's associate issue of a just
revision of the tariff, especially SO far
as the tariff promotes trusts and combina-
tions Of capital Our faith Is founded
upon extensive personal communication
with farmers and business men generally
upon sentiment dominant in the country
press, and upon the result Of the last cleo
| ton in this district. Mr. Bowling was one
Of three candidates, and his strongest
plank. published broadcast, was that OF
Canadian reciprocity. Mr.. Volstead was
elected by a bare plurality Of 200 votes.
and he had no specific platform while II
is everywhere conceded his election was
the direct result Of a personal appeal for
the votes of his, own nationality We
doubt if since the election, our congress-
man has made any effort to learn the SEN
timent Of his constituents upon this ques-
/, ton, ana DelloVe MS dSSeILlOl rlloWSNoA
sincerely made, is grave error of judg-
ment Mr.. Volstead made good speech
, and jlstly received the congratulations OF
5 members upon his successful effort, an6
if he had honestly represented his district
+ we would gladly award him all due credit
: But If he did not present the views or hlE
constituents, it is significantly true tina
he received the plaudits of the "standpat
7 ters'-those who are against any reel
procity or movement to revise the tar1ff
l and those who stand by the promotion
and support Of all trusts and combination
that have grown out Of, and are main
tanned by. an unjust tariff. Minnesota
alphabetically stands for Canadian recipro
city. no less than does its political division
Of the seventh district, and while 1t
i to be regretted that our own congressna1
f lis supported by most Of the delegation
6 from this state, it is still more regrettabl
: that the delegation is not in more accor
! with the sentiment in their several dis
g tricts. A notable exception is the effo1
If of Congressman Stevens on the questio
!, of Canadian wheat, which is a concessio
q to the public demands. and rather IN tn
line of hedging upon the issue Of reciprc
- city, and in which he has the supper
- active and Indifferent, Of a portion Of tn
= Minnesota delegation. Possibly the sent
~ ment of the people Of this state Is enti1l
,. wrong and is due to the more rugge
temperature prevailing in Minnesota an
: the great northwest, as compared wit
= protection breezes waited to Washingtc
~ from the manufacturers and capitals
-, :, ~ from the more balmy eastern states.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

on a single line. The distribution OF
which would enable the
workman to live in a good environ
ment and yet be near to his work is
desirable. and there is a
tendency to realize that end by locat-
ing new manufacturing plants in the
suburbs Of great cities, all the way
from five to twenty-five miles out.
where they enjoy the advantages Of
both city and country. There have
been, and always will be, concentrations
of population and wealth at certain
favored places, and neither distance
tariffs nor any other form of railway
regulation can prevent them; nor is
it desirable that they should be pre-
vented.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
BOOKS RECEIVED

sYLv1As HUSBAND. By Mrs. Burton Harri-
son. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
CHILD LIFE IN MANY LANDS. Edited by II.
Clay Trumbull, ID. D. Chicago: Fleming II.
Revell company. Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy.
Price 81 net.
FROG HOLLOW POST BAG. Assorted and Ar.
ranged by the Hermit. Henry D. Muir Boston:
Richard G.. Badger, The Gorham Press. Price
ST 25.
CHRYsED AND OTHER POEMS. By Will Nc.
Courtie. Boston, Richard G. Badger, The Cor.
ham Press. Price 81.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
WEED SEEDS CAUSE MIGRATION

It is becoming evident to students OF
birds that they are Influenced almost SOLE
~ in their migratory habits by the harvest
Of weed seeds and not by the climate.
Formerly it was supposed that the birds
started southwark as soon as the chill OF
autumn approached, but cold. frosty Wea-
ther might come in August, and the
birds would not begin to migrate. Iney
are not weather prophets at all, but sim
ply hungry little creatures in search Of
ripening seeds.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
HE AHoL,sHEs "PREsENTINe ARMS"

The French minister Of war. General
Andre. Is one of the best abused men in
France because of his recently announced
purpose to promote equality in the ranks
of the army To further this object he
has recently abolished the custom OF pre-
senting arms as mark of respect He
is accused Of fostering socialism in the
French ranks and of deliberately following
ont 4 policy of religious and political per-
secution. He condemned to two years
hard service in the ranks sixty Polytechnic
students who rebelled against the severity
of an examination. General Andre is
great favorite with the common soldier.
He began life in the army as Lieutenant
in the Imperial guard.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
THE BALLADE OF DEAD SELLERS.
with Anolooies to yillon.>

5aIE with Apologies TO S1llOn.)
Oh, tell me now. past all debate.
Just where 1.-THE Right Of Way may be,
Or what dim lands are consecrate
To sHarun's' rustic chivalry?
BY what strange ways Of land or sea
Doth Audrey she'd the casual tear,
Or sJanice Meredith take tea:
Where are the books Of yester-year?
What Crisis now makes desolate?
Where's "Eben Holden's' word Of glee,
Or 'tMrs. Wiggs's?' Who doth prate
To-day Of Vernon's Dorothy?
'sTo Have and HOLD them one time we
Were glad enough, but now, fear,
We chant their dirge right merrily:
Where are the books OF yester-year2
Who'll now '.The Christians woes relate?
Poor 'Knighthood's Flower you'll all agree
Is 'Run to Seed" and much that fate
O'ertook the whole white Company
''Red Rock" is lost; inaudibly
sThe Choir Invisible" makes cheer
And '.'Trilby'' sobs tn insistent plea:
'tWhere are the books OF yester-year?'
L'ENvoI.
O, Publishers, on Bonded knee,
= ask: Where did they disappear,
All these and more past memory
Where are the books Of ycster.year?
Reginald Wright Kaufman, in the Booknnan for
February.
II. Clay Trumbull. D. D.. in an intro
duction to Child Life In Many Lands, al
ludes to the value Of the study Of child
life in various lands as a means of deter.
mining the progress Of true evangalizatior
of the world and Of the work yet to be
done in that line. He refers to a fac
noted by Dr. William G.. Prime in hi!
wide travels. DR.. Prime told Dr. Trum
bull that nothing In his travels had i'm.
pressed him more than the fact that she
had never heard the voice iof child i,
song outside Of Christian land Rare
ly, indeed, did he find children giyins
signs of enjoyment as the conscious OBJ
jects Of love and tenderness "A marked
change in this respect has been noted II
those lands into which Christian mission
aries have carried their work. The littl
book which DR.. Trumbull introduces an,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
edits contains chapters by various writ
ers from all parts Of the globe. These
tell Of the children the writers know by
personal contact. The book Is illustrated.

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, distinguished as an
educator. was born at Billerica, Mass. May IL,
1904 She published number Ct books u laelq Tue
House Of Austria, and "Reminiscences Of DR..
Charming" and was among the pioneers Of the
kindergarten system in this country, says the
sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1t Is
proposed to celebrate the one hundredth ami.
versary of her birth by publishing memoir r, OF
her life and work. The request Is mace tna ma !.
persons owning letters written by her should
send them, or copies Of them, to B.. Pickman
Mann, 1918 Sunderland place, Washington, ID. =.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

Dr. Manuel Anador has been elected
president Of Panama. Panama is a small
republic somewhere In Latin America. in
which the American people were greatly
interested way back in 1908.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

William Redmond, member Of parlia-
ment, assumed that America would be In
suited by the statement that there Is cor
ruption in New York. Our ideas OF self
respect do not go that far.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
Great Record for
January

The Minneapolis Journal has
again demonstrated right to its
title of 1.-THE Great Daily Of the
Great Northwest, - having car.
ried in 26 issues in January 1.3ll
columns of PAID advertising,
while it's nearest competitor car
ried 1872 columns, or nearly 50
per cent less.
By eliminating Questionable
medical advertising, which The
Journal would not carry, from
the amount Of it's nearest COM
petitor, The Journal carried as
much advertising in it's 26 issues
as it's competitor carried in its
26 daily and five big Sunday
issues.
AS TO CIRCULATION.
During January The Journals
circulation showed the gratifying
daily average of
6I,463 Copies.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

The Russians declare that God Is with
them. Every nation has such a good opin-
ion Of itself and its cause that it Is sure
God must be with it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

AN INVITATION Is extended to all to Visit
the Press Room, which is the finest in the west
deck Coss Presses, with total capacity OF
IA, 900 eight-page Journals an hour. prince,
folded and counted. The best time 10 car -
Office and be directed to the visitors gallery.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

Japan has applied for Russia's Cancelled
space at the worlds fair. Is this an omen
of the outcome of the war?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

IF this great war drama doesn't go on
with more speed the gallery VIII get
noisy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

This winter the car ferries have as
much, trouble on Lake Michigan as the
Russians on Lake Baikal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

The Japanese intercepted a Russian
wireless telegram. This was certainly
perfidious.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.

It makes one hungry just to glance thru
the Boston Cooking School Magazine for
February, for the illustrations Of the new
dishes and dainties are as attractive TO the
eye as the reality will be to the palate.
katherine Louise Smith has an article on
cart and Crafts Creations for the Home,
and other features are on heredity, The
Evolution Of the Mental Idea," entertain
ing and dress, while the new recipes cover
many pages.
There are many new ideas for enter
tanning in the February Table Talk and
the suggestions range from vegetable
fancy dress party to a formal dinner.
Chatting dish cookery is considered, as we'll
as the different methods Of serving the
meat and vegetables which must come to
the table daily. Catering for Two" Is
especially suggestive for the new house
wife.
The Cooking Club for February has a
| number of recipes for Lenten dishes and
! for Good Friday cakes. The magazine
/ will be treat to the busy housekeepeI
| in search Of something new for the daily
/ meals.
The Sunshine Bulletin for February will
! keep the members in touch with the in
!! ternational work thru it's reports from
i the various branches. There is a story o
Mile James, the actress, by Carolyl
/ Lowery. Other stories are by Marion Har
! land and Helen M. Hanrahan and the spe
I! cial articles are on cooking, fashions
physical education, needlework and othe
matters of general interest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Harrison and Bland.
To the Editor of Tho Journal.

70 the Edltor OF Ihe Journal
press dlspatch IN one OF tne Twin city
daliles, commenting on the ol1erenI pos,
slollitles LOT Inc democratic preslueliIlai
iio .a,1u saiu aIoiis QUE enise.
lue ieson e ee.'! ~ w e9itti.s wi -
tiiat Tue rehglo al,,ilatlois VI MaJoi nd
Iison laniny Wooiu Ienuer MN suscep-
tlole 10 the same oDJectlons Wnlch were
urged to the candidacy OF Bland OF Mis-
souri, In 1886
The writer will deem 1t a courtesy II
you will inform him thru the columns OF
your paper. what the religious aHlllatlons
of Major Harr1son's family are. and why
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
TRAVELLERS ABROAD

VIII hnd The Journal on file a. foiiows'
LoMDoN--U 8. Express Co., 30 Strand; AmesA-
ca., Express Co.. 8 Waterloo Place.
DENMARK-U. s. Legation. p,
PARIs-Eagle Bursan. IS rue Cam sa,p mail or
teiegrams sent care of Ibis Bureau Sn ana t ens
same Will be forwarded to them OF neAo A's
" their arrival. - ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

Ghosts Of Great Britain Becoming Uneasy
and Knocking on the 8edstead-Ths,
stir In the Underworld Thought to Be
Due to the War In the orient-A Re-
port DurIng the Recent Cold Snap That
Some one Heard the Arctic.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
" asH1NaroN BUREAU

WASHINGTON BUREAU. u.,,
w. w. Jexmane, Chief Of Washington
R,rsau' sol 800 Colorado Building. North
western visitors to Washington invited 20
make use Of reception room, library ats
tionory, telephone and telegraph 1aoan st.
Central location, Fourteenth ana s'As'~
NV.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

Port Arthur may be well defended. but
If we lived on Dynamite alley, just or
the main street, we should feel as uneasy
as the Ministers association over the ap-
nroachine Elks' street carnival.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

The city's typhoid mill, sometimes eu"
phe1nistically called the waterworks, is
running night and day and doing great
work for the doctors.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

How strangely a great battleship, in
yincible on paper or in the pigeon holes
of the naval bureau, will go half way
around the world step on hidden mine
and-bang Then the people in the plush
upholstered seats In the naval bureau
overhaul the contents of Pigeonhole NO Is
and notify friends and relatives OF the
crew A torpedo or a mine has one advan-
tage. It has no hesitancy about it.
a J. r,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

Rockefeller seems to have pretty good
thing, but for comfortable, all-the-year-
around income give us nice little gam
bling joint with the captain or the pre-
cinct as a silent partner.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

It looks to us as If anybody who fooled
around the Korean Manchurian boundary
line was committing suicide. Give US the
Mississippi valley.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

A berth as war correspondent in Man.
churia may be all right, but give US
warm comfortable hut on the sides or
Mont Pelee, where the floors are always
warm.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

A Memphis dispatch says that Japanese
and Russian war names are not 10 pc
allowed for racing horses. A horse WIZ,
some of those Siberian patronynics would
be quite heavily handicapped.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
L'ENvOI

o, Publishers, on Bonded knee,
I ask: Where did they disappear,
All these and more past memory
Where are the books Of yester-year7
-Reginald Wright Kaufman, in the Booknnan fol
February.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

M, Crouzel, chemist at Bordeaux. has
discovered that the human hand is largely
occupied in sowing the seeds of all sorts
Of diseases. The hand, he says, Is not
ONLY the most dirty but the most danger
GUS portion of our anatomy. It contains
on the average SO, 900 bacilli. NJ. Crou-
Eel must have been regarding the small
boys bunch of fives.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17

When we once get to work on the Pa
mama canal the effete sewer contractors
of Europe are going to get the shock OF
their lives A machine has been invented
that will dig a ditch fifteen feet deep ana
s;vty feet long in an hour These ma
chimes are called steam sewer diggers and
when they get busy in Panama the 18th
rnus will be cut like an old cheese.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-07
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

At regular meeting held at Orange
ha II at Houlton. Monday evening. Aroos-
took Loyal Orange Lodge elected officers
for the ensuing year as follows: w. NJ,
Chas w. VAIL d. NJ. VIM. Crawford;
secretary. T. W. Huggard: financial sec
rotary and treasurer. Chas. NJ. Huggard:
chaplain. Samuel Amos; F. of c. on L..
c. w St.trkey: d. of c.. VIM. Doller;
lecturer. John Coffield; l. r. John Wat
son, Jr.: O.. r, James Armstrong. The
ledge is in a fiourishing condition with
l6s members. 10 having been added dur
ing the year
\. fire in the c. c. Coombs shoe store
in the HovSes block at Main and High
streets. Belfast. Monday evening. caused
a damage BIZ smoke and water of about
s1O0 Coomtbs had only a small stock as
he had beent closing ont for several weeks
past 1t is Thought the fire started in a
drawer where busting cloths were Kept.
A NUMBER of men We're in the store with
Mr.. Coopfbs during the evening and as
they werfe smoking it is supposed that a
spark from 4 pipe or some hot ashes
from a scigar fell into the drawer and set
the contents on fire. Mr. Coombs locked
up the kstore about o'clock. and every
thing WAS all right at that time. The
alarm WI rs rung in. about $50 p NJ. Fogg
4 Brownf who have a market in the base
of porf< damaged by smoke and water
ane the damage by smoke extended to
the upper floors