The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-23
JANUARY %, 1904.


associates of quick decided action.
notable Illustration of his practice of doing
things thoroy and instantly occurred about three years
at the White House.
Mr. Warner had called see President Mckinley
and in the watng-room he found Andrew Carnegie 4
Their conversation turned in time to the subject of the
atter's interest in libraries, the steel man remarkng
purpose.
Quick flash Mr. Warner picked White
cord his promise Mr.. Carnegie hesitaed for an in
slant, smiled quizzcally these words:
If congress shall provide site will
give $4,000 10000 for the erection Of free
Congress promptly provided the site, and Wash
ington's free public library building will be opened
some time during the coming year.-saturday Even
ing Post.
Many stories have been told of the grlhood Of
Queen Alexandra, the simplicity and beauty of
the home life of the ruling family in Denmark, but
none shows the innate sweetness of Engand's queen
the court made Prince Christian Frederick elect
to bring up his family in sem-prvate man
mansion which still stands in the principal street of
Copenhagen. Here homely simple life was led, and
the children who destined to be kings expresses
and queens slept in modest bedrooms the windows of
which looked out the old coachyard.
But it was the castle at Bernstor which was really
home in those days There in the quiet country they
threw off all ceremonial restraint, and lived
the peasantry the unassumng lives of a landowners
family Every Sunday the father mother and their
boys and girls walked to the parish church with their
humber neighbours and all the week the children
romped in the woods and meadows Many stories
told of their escapades. Once the two little madens
Alexandra and Dagma, let them ride
in his wagon back to Bernstorfe and their nurse
properly Mortified their arrival by their crumpled
One afternoon there tea party in the woods
at Bernstorf, and the three sisters a little
girl friends with them After their tea they
the low bOughs of the great and fell to talking
children do of what they wanted in life Each little
maid had her say The Princess Dagmar wished to be
grand and great and have all obey her The pres
en Duchess of Cumberland would ask her fairy If she
gave her wish that she might be wonderously beau
tful. When it came to Queen Alexandras turn she
said: WELL should like to be good and have
everybody love me very much'-Chcago Chronicle.
A boyhood memory of Abraham Lincoln contrib
ueed by Captain w T. Burgess reveals the great man
in peculiarly gracious light In 1858 1859 Captain
Burgess, then boy paid visit to his brother, Rev.
opened about that time, and the boy visited it.
One afternoon when he strollng about the
fair grounds by himself, young Burgess noticed i'm
mense machine built of great timbers and somewhat
peculiar in it's construction 1t was unlike anything he
had seem He was alone save one man who was sitting
of the beams of the machine, and after vanly
to make >its the boy determined to ask
the what kind of machine it
IT stepped UP close to him., writes Captain Burgess.
His head was bowed down upon his hands, seemingly
about to withdraw when he and said:
@ We'll, my boy, are you trying to investigate this
II told him that was, and asked him if he could
explain it me- and he proceeded to do so very clear
y and minutey. We went all it and all around it.
and finally he said
How yoke of oxen, my boy, do you think
it takes to drag this machine?
Il made a guess of eight yoke.
Well said he they haul it with eight yoke but
when heavy dtching it to be done they generally
TWELVE
think must have spent at the
chine, then the said: had better
over to the buildings is going on
laid his hand on shoulder and talked to me all the
when neared the building several gentlemen
stepped forward in search of brother. soon
upon him. and he said he had been looking for He
wanted to Abraham Lincoln. we went into
of the buildings, and brother went up to the
with whom had been talking.
Mr.. Lincoln, said he may I present my
brother?
Lincoln turned around and seeing smile,
said Why this boy and I old friends. We've
been talking together for hour At the time
put his around and lifted from the
ground.
'"This was the great Lincoln and had he never be-
famous and the president Of the United States,
should have forgotten him. He