The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-25

"
Increasing infirmity and too frequent
aches and ailments remind me that l am
nearing the awful moment when I must
bid adieu to -sublunary things and appear
before that Divine Being to whom alone.
my country owes the success with which
we have been blessed. But the great Dis
poser Of events is also the Being who
has formed the instruments OF His will
and left them responsible to the arbitra-
ton of conscience Therefore I have of
late spent much time in considering my
past life. and how it might have been bet
ter or more successful, and in thankful
ness that it has escaped many pitfalls.
my reflections have brought back to
mind a remark which seems to me just,
made by my aide, Colonel Tilghman, a
man more given to philosophic reflection
than have been. He asks me if did not
think there was something providential
in the way each period Of my life had been
an education for that which followed it.
said that this idea. had at times present
led itself to my mind, and when betrayed
curiosity he went on to say that my
very carly education in self-reliance and
my training as a surveyor oftwild' lands
had fitted me for frontier warfare, that
this in turn had prepared me for action: on
|! a larger stage, and that all thru the
greater war my necessities called for con-
slant dealing with political: questions and
with men who were not soldiers. He
thought that this had in turn educated me
| for the position to which my countrymen
summoned me at a later time" e..
Readers interested in the war in the
cast will find in the April Century also
'The Great Siberian Railway" a paper
written from recent personal investigation
by James w. Davidson, lately appointed
United States consul at Antung. Mr.. Da-
wilson had unique facilities for his four
months study of the great thorofare. A
paper of current interest in scientific in
vestigatiOn, entitled "Protozoa and Dis
ease,'' is contributed by Gary. N. Calkins
of Columbia university, whose important
work in tracing the life history Of the
smallpox germ is about to be announced.
| Landmarks Of Poe in Richmond" by
| Charles Marshall Graves and THE Fights
\ of the Fur Companies by Agnes C. Laut,
are other. articles of unusual interest.
MINNEAPOLIS is to have book auction,
one of the kind that keeps the bibliophile
! awake nights In happy anticipation of the
| fun he is going to have in bidding on this
of the delight which will follow in case
he drags Off some gem, hope of becoming
| the owner of which he has long cherished
| The biggest prize is a second folio Shak-
spere. The value Of this may be esti-
mated when one knows that a copy sold
recently in London for the insignificant
sum Of .s4,250. The auction will be al
Hubert Bown & Co.'s next Monday and
Tuesday afternoon and evening.
1 William Harvey King in his book Med
ical Union No. 8, takes for theme the
growing power of labor unions Looking
/ ahead, and in the form of fiction, the
scene Of the story Is laid in New York
in the middle of the twentieth century
| when even the ministers and doctors are
! banded together in unions. One DIR
| Schneider joins Medical Union No 6, anG
the story relates the experiences Of the
doctor under the new order OF things
| The union doctors work only six hours 8
day, and one man is permitted to treat
4 ailments in only certain designated parts
| Of the body. Patients must take sucl
| doctors as may be, sent to them from
union headquarters. Nonunion or unfaith
! full doctors are promptly killed.
i The Uneasy Chair fidgets over trifes
| sometimes, but it isn't worrying abou1
! doctors unions fifty years hence. 7
/ The Uneasy Chair.