The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-28

fact that had a great influence upon
the man who was afterwards to do so
much for science, tho Indirectly. is told in
these first. lines Of Professor Langley's
pamphlet: ..a s..s.% .*s.t.., Faftl..
The founder, of Smithsonian Institution was
known in his earlier days James Lewis
Macie his mother, Elizabeth Keate Macie, being
at the time of his birth, in 1865, the widow Of
James Mac1e, country gentleman Of an old
family resident at Weston near Bath, Eng.
Mrs. Macie was lneally descended from Henry
VII. -. 4. -.
,Smithson himself in his will describes
himself as "son to Hugh first Duke of
northumberland, and Elizabeth, heiress Of
the Hungerfords of Studley, and neice of
Charles, the proud duke of Somerset"
| With such proud lineage unfortunately
the memory Of man when the titles of the
Northumberland and the Percys are ex-
tinct and forgotten"
| Smithson was a scientist of considerable
ability, but it. is thru his founding of
Smithsonian Institution that his name will
about G120,000. How it was given to the
United States is told in his WILL which
/ Professor Langley prints.
! The publication this month by Little, Brown
& Co. of the last two volumes of the eighteen
= volume set Of the national edition of '.The
= Speeches, and Writings of Daniel Webster
! makes 1t possible to obtain for the first time
Tie colholeLe WORKS OF tnls great American
statesman. -,
Paul Elder g. Co. of San Francisco are
putting some novel valentines on the
and possibly some. Feb. Ii flutterings OF
hearts. The Vacant Valentine" and
THE Temptation Of st. Valentino arc
clever conceits. FLOWERS of Fate is a
, booklet in which one may learn-Without
error, Of course-his greatest desire, his
chief trait, hts occupation if he doesn't
; know it already, when he will marry and
other highly interesting things.
The Associated Press and other news
agencies keep watch on the course OF
, events at the nations capital, but the
men who dig up the things from that
source that people most like to find out
about are, the Washington correspondents
The news agencies tell what has hap
pened Or what is going to take place
sometimes, but it is the correspondents
who more certainly tell what Is ION the
books and that much more interesting
, thing nine times out of ten, why. They
t are the men who watch the wheels &c
round and know what the force is thai
l is moving them. For that reason the
l Washington correspondents are a very in.
: teresting body of men, and Ralph Nj
McKenzies little book, Washington Cor.
respondents, Past and Present, has ar
interest quite it's own. It contains brie;
sketches Of the frank and file,'' will
pictures Of great and lesser lights.
( Animal Observation-Disclosures that heal
/ The Independent for Jan. IA prints an ar.
, ticle by John Burroughs which is likely
to make" the reader do some thinking
t It is aimed at the so-called Modern
r School Of Nature Study members q
t which would have, you sbelieve, for in.
/ or that a fox caught in trap will ''plas
possum," even feigning to be frozen stiff
3 or that a fox will ride on a sleeps bach
r to throw hounds off his trail, etc. Border
4 P. Bovine in the same number writes O.
Y "Spencer's Nescience,'' or his agnosticism
s was not very hostile to faith when HI
: could write thus, as quoted in the article
8 Sympathy commands silence toward all who
: suffering under the ills of life, derive comfor
from their creed; while it forbids the dropping OF
p. hints that may shake their faiths, it suggest.
=. the evasion of questions which cannot be dis
cussed without unsettling their hope
I Jane Adams and Hull Rouse.-A Ions
:" article with a pastel Of Miss Adams ar,
2 the features Of The Pilgrim for January
Other articles relate to the United State:
supreme court, the work Of a stock the
:. atrical company, the real Jefferson Davis
: the natural bridge. Thrown in is a gen
9 erous quantity Of fiction.
d Poems by Johnny Wright, 10 Years OF,
THE Tyre, "twanged monthly" Januar.
e number, contains collection Of poems b,
!, Johnny Wright. Johnny says the edition
! is limited. Here is a stanza from a poem
i entitled MY Fathers Boot:
: The things we did when we were small
q Impress our lives the most OF all; 40.
The jokes and pranks we used to play
Return to from day to day.
We oft recall the knocks and joys
That marked days when we were boyu;