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TRAINS ARRIVING

Additional trains leave Troy 400. due n
nington IS p. m, and leave bennington D.
due Troy 655 p m.
This train runs daily
Stops only on signal 10 take, or on notice
to conductor, TO leave passengers
: Time q, m. G.I Igse3
For further information address Gee. b.
Morrill, ~1 - -
eenlWestern Passenger Agent. Troy. N. y
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BUTCHERS, MERCHANTS AND
HYDE BUYERS

Should write to Carroll :. Page. Hyde Park. VI
WAC wishes to purchase their Hides Calfskins.
sheep Pelts, Falo w aud Bones. He pays spot
cash lie pays the freight. lie pays full market
va ues. He wishes TO arrange with someone in
every vii age where he has No agent TO sell
Pou Try Supplies ard to pick up for him Hides
CllisRius Sheep Pelts ami Bones He furni hes
money with which u buy anc he keeps his
agents III u.bly posted at an times as to
market ya,ues. Write him for full particulars
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Highest prices paid for Scrap Iron,
Metal, Rucber, Zinc, Lead and Junk
OF all kinds. Entrance to gSt ne
house at Mill-st bridge. Open ev:yy
Friday and Saturday.
ddiess Pc, Boxs43. Bennington. VI.
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TRAVELLING statesmen WANTED
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BOSTON, MASS.

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MOTICEI

Notice is hereby given to all persons who de
sire license to engage in the business of en-
balming human bodies, that an examination
will be held ut the Laboratory of Hygiene. Bur
lngt n Thursday February 1s, at Two O'Clock
D. m. HENRY ID. hOLTON,
Secretary State Board Of Health
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BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD,

Corrected to Oct. 70. 1903. Trains leave Ben.
nington daily, except Sunday, unless otherwise
noted.
TRAINS LEAVING.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

youngsters. The teachers declare that
there Is a type of boys that requires
whipping, just as there is another
type that it would be perilous' to whip.
They insist that they must have tau-
thority to chastise those who need it.
The discussion has even gone so far
in the metropolis that they are con-
sidering the relative merits Of various
instruments of punishment. So far
the inner lining of rubber hose has
the best Of the controversy as opposed
to the rattan, the strap or the ferule.
Many are the excellences of the inner
lining of a rubber hose when applied
in punishment to the surface of the
human body adolescent. It stings and
stings and stings and sends thrills
into the most hardened conscience,
vet it raises neither welt nor blister
nor causes a confusion. It's appliea-
ton is followed by the most marvel
GUS results. One application has been
known to cure the worst cases of bad
boyism and restore order in demon
allied school.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
People who have things to say to the pub
lie that ought to be said, are Invited to
use this column. But the space Is linn
tied, and all communications must be
t''boled down" as much as possible.
Three hundred words Is safe limit.
Not Heralded.

To the Editor of The Journal. ..,,.
I have read your editorial, :'Same Old
Ames," and most emphatical!y indorse
the same. Since h e. Journal has
the courage Of its convictions, I would
like to add a few facts, very likely I'M
Known to ;lllany of the readers Of your
paper
During the campaign of 1900 I was
president of the acknowledgement Re-
publican league, and as such had 1.-THE
pleasure of seeing Doc Ames attending
our meetings. He was then as meek
as lamb and sweetly reasonable. In
fact, one would almost have believed he
| meant what he said. He was elected.
The results of election in the first, second,
third and ninth wards showed plainly the
| strength Of the F'ranco-Canadian vote in
! his favor. @e .-..
Then came, in December, 1900, the
runlor that the official ak was to fall on
tried and faithful policemen. At the re-
quest of some French Canadians then on
the police force, I went to ascertain the
! intentions Of the mayor. elect toward
| them. There was no lamb-like meekness
| in evidence then. In reply to my inquiry
! as to the record of these French Cana
dian policemen and if their removal would
be "fOr the good Of the SERVICE" Ames
said: mo, they have a record Of which
any one may be proud. But" he sharply
added, my boy l am the mayor of Min
neapolis, and I will do as 1 please with
my police force
Then comes the pathetic part, showing
clearly the genial Doctor in his true
Il light, especially when the Campaign
funds are involved. Among the French
Canadians then on the police force was
a man with perfect record whose wife
had died after q long illness, leaving g
large family of small children. I tried
:, to impress upon Ames' mind the pitiable
condition in which this man would be
placed should he lose his position in the
middle of the winter, but without avail
The result was that this man (who has
since been reinstated in the police de-
| partment) lost his little home which HI
was trying SO hard to pay for
. Such is one of the unheralded deeds O.
DR.. Ames. F r. LeRoux
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
! "A Musty. Argument.

y Yesterday Mr.. 3Volstead, member of
the house of representatives for the
seventh Minnesota district, made
speech opposing reciprocity with
Canada. 1t is said to have been a
speech that did credit to Mr.. Volstead
This Is highly complimentary, for any
speaker who can make a good show
ing In. opposing reciprocity with
Canada must have more than or
binary ability. 1t takes a good lawyer
to win a poor case. Not enough of
the speech was reported by telegraph
to Justify discussion Of it in detail, but
1t is plain that it's general lines are
the same old ones that have been
fractured in a thousand places by stu
dents Of this. question before Mr..
Volstead ever began to think about it,
To start with, Mr.. volstead took the
position, time-honored in American
political history, but as inconsistent
now as ever, that while he believes
in the general theory of reciprocity
he is opposed to it's practice in specific
cases. Applied to the seventh district,
this means that Mr.. Volstead has
promised that since his constituents
are farmers they must be opposed to
| free trade in natural products with
Canada. Further, that being the case,
| MI. Volstead proposes to lull them to
sleep in ignorance instead of assist
| ing them to see the light.
| SO MI Volstead attempts to
| l.; in, thnjr
assumed conviction that reciprocity
with Canada would be detrimental to
| their interests. He insists that the
tariff on Canadian agricultural prod
ucts is a real benefit to the American
farmer, tho both countries have large
agricultural SURPRISES and the United
States to-day sells much more farm
produce in Canada than Canada does
in the United States. For the sake OF
this imagined protection Mr.. Volsteac
would have Minnesota sit down be-
hind a Chinese tariff wall and watch
the growth and development, enrich
ment and population of the grea
country to the north of us withou
any share in it's business Or its pros
perity, with scarcely any trade will
it, with a fiscal system that stimulate
International friction" instead of neigh
borly coming together. ...... <,,
MIR. Volstead is afraid; of the chea:
farm of Canada. Is the Iowa -farme
, afraid of the cheap farm of Mime
+ sofa or the .Dakotasg?. 49, Zone Of tn
great contributing causes of prosper
! ity in this country has been the II
v cessant demands made upon GU
:, manufacturers and farmers by the d. de
9 velopment of new country Most
): the new country%fit for: abitation@,a i
al awaiting development Con this cor
V tinent is in northwestern Canad
= Shall we profit by its conversion
t., agriculture, commerce and manufa'
= lures, as we have proited by ever
o western expansion in a hundre
IL years, or shall we not?
W Mr.. Volstead says not.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
A VERSATILE GENIUS
Alton Packard Makes Cartoons, Plays the
Plano and Sings.

Canvas and sheets of paper seven feet
square, easelS, crayons, a Geft hand. Il
keen eye strong sense Of humor and
eloquence of speech are some of the para
phernalia used in his sketch lectures by
Alton Packard, the cartoonist, who ap-
pears next Tuesday night in the popular
entertainment course at the Y. M. c. A.
His subject is Uncle Sans Folks
Packard has never fallen down as an
entertainer. Newspaper comments clipped
from papers from all parts of the country
unite in calling him one of the best en-
tertainers on the road. For over a dozen
years he has been before the public and
has made them damp eyed with his SEN
timent and fearful with laughter at his
crayon sallies. .... ... .~- -
MI Packard says: II am accused OF
being a humorist. also an artist. sup
pose I must plead guilty to both charges.
but tho my humor is contagious. 1t IS
quite harmless. and some even consider
it very agreeable Any in the audience
who happen to catch it generally break
out with the smokers the same. day, un-
less they happen to be English; then they
are not affected some times until weeks
afterward.''
Mr.. Packard is something of singer
and piano player, and part of his enter
tainment is tuneful
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
CITY NEWS.
SCHOOL ART WORK
FOR THE EXPO
MATERIAL TO BE SHOWN AT ST.
LOUIS OF UNUSUAL INTEREST.
Little Folk Grasp Artistic Principles
With Unexpected ResuIts-Work Of
the More Advanced Grades Shows
Finish, but Is Not More Interesting
Than Work of Younger Pupils.

Drawing exhibits are easily the
most attractive always in public dis
plays of public school work. In the
work being prepared for the Louisiana.
Purchase exposition this rule will hold.
Owing to limited space the showing
will not be large, but it will repre-
sent all phases of the work with a,
few typical examples. The work Of
the eighth grades will be shown in
two swinging cases, holding sixty
mounting sheets.
While the results are much more
finished in the upper grades, the evil
dences Of the way in which the wee
folk grasp artistic principles is even
more interesting, and by careful choice
of subjects that combine the greatest
| simplicity with effectiveness the exer-
| cises in color are made very attractive
| to the most careful observer. Gay coll
! ored Japanese lanterns combine exer-
cises in space breaking and color
blending; color blending is. also made
interesting by using it on geometrical
forms suggesting panes of stained
glass: Their toys, the birds seen
about Them their. sports, the mates
rails for their nature study and land
scape provide subjects for the small
! painters. Tending bOnfires and coast
| ing are subjects handled with much
spirit.
Several grades have the effect OF
wind in a landscape as an exercise,
and the examples of this are excel
lent. The third grade has handled
it's pictures of sports in silhouettes
4 with wash. The development Of the
II butterfly in nature work, with the ac-
companying drawings, give scope to
: some beautiful and appropriate color
work, and marines afford an oppor-
} tunity for studies in blue and to show
some interesting moons. In the sew
enth grade. in connection with the
Scottish history, the clan plaids af-
forded a capital color study. and the
specimens make a beautiful mount for
: the exhibition. The fourth grade also
has a mount Of similar but simpler
Z colored textile patterns.
81 In the upper grades the problems II
) design show some admirable results
in book covers, tiles illustrating nur,
sery rhymes, textile patterns, etc
Some of the landscape work in fla
tones is particularly we'll designed ant
| executed. ST.
The most difficult problem for Mis-:
Roberts and her assistants has beer
to select from the large amount O.
excellent work constantly kept OF
hand at the office the limited NUM-
Der of examples that can be used.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
THE misunderstood" MOTIVE OF
NORTHERN SECURITIES MERGER
New York Press.

From the latest briefs in behalf Of the
Northern Securities company just filed in
the United States supreme court it be-
comes plain, if it already had not been
made clear by the ingenious arguments
Of the army Of able counsel arrayed in de-
tense Of the Northern Pacihc-Great
Northern merger, that this great railroad
monopoly was designed wholly in the pub
| lie interest. 70 find that the trust was
organized not for the benefit Of its phil
anthropic promoters, but, to protect the
rights of shippers, and not to raise rates,
but to keep them down, we have but to
| read the speciOus plea OF Messrs. j.. p.
Morgan & Co. and j. J. Hill and adopt
the point Of view taken therein.
| If we do that, and if the supreme court
does the same, we shall learn. that when
q trust acquires the power to gOuge
the public as well as gull the unwary in
weston In indigestil9lc securities it is &
sign Of the 'trust's'' intention not to
| use that power. This will enable us to
! understand how and why. when a. high
wayman arms himself with a. horse-pistol,
| covers his face with mask and goes out
on the public road, he is generally nailed
as a public-spirited man on beneficent
mission. The fact that he has not had the
opportunity to point his pistol in your
face and make you stand and deliver. is tC
be accepted as the best evidence that he
does not intend to do SO when he gets the
armed with all the weapons shreWd attor-
ncys and friendly legislators can supply
to it wllereWith to restrain commerce, has
no thought of restraining commerce-oh
no! It's charter to prey on trade is but {
blind for a gigantic scheme Of public
benefaction that would make the Carnegie
library endowments seem like pennies II
a Fifth avenue contribution box.
1t is extremely unfortunate for these
high minded and unselfish merger gentle
men, who are having such a hard tim
impressing their altruism on cold-bloodet
Judges, that President Roosevelt and At
torney General Knox we're unable t
adopt their point Of view in dealing witt
the Northern Securities company. Blu
the American people, who also remain OBJ
stinately skeptical of the Morgan profes
sions Of devotion to their welfare, will b
5 able to survive the shock In store for tn
: Wall street interests, which detest Presi
dent Roosevelt for his course in this mat
i ter with a hate that is cordial and
2 malice that corresponds in it's depths wit
+ their contempt for the law Of the lanl
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
CORPORAL Punishment.

Must we return to the age Of force?
Shall we spank our babies at home
and have our teachers whip the chill
dren committed to their charger.
For half q generation intelligent
America has believed in reason and
persuasion. instead Of the slipper and
the rod. When our babies have DELHI
erately smashed furniture and told
lies after the way Of their heather
age, we said, THAT is very naughty,
dear, you ought not to do such
things" a..
Then we have, demonstrated by
sweet reason why they should not de-
stroy. Possibly we have been able to
put into our voices tone that has
touched the lachrymal glands of our
Offspring. They have wept, then, and
been comforted; whereupon the cher
ubs with the old Adam in their heart
have gone straightway and committed
destruction and deceit again. But we
have not been discouraged. We have
reasoned some more, maintained our
equilibrium, eschewed violence and
W1ltG0 lOE-. Tile. L edSulllllS III OCCSS,
thru many repetitions, to win in the
end. IN
When we, were boys we nerved our
selves for any fate our teachers OF
parents or other enemies of boy life
might have in store for. us by saying
to ourselves as we went to our doom
Seedlings don't hurt; whipping:
don't last long and killing they dare.
sent"
Boys have not changed much in one
or many generations, but now we ex
pect little beings with the same saw
agery, the same stoicism in thei
hearts, to go to school, and while hav
ling all the crude old passions Of al
earlier age of humanity stirred by as
ISOLATION with other Indians" NEE
I nothing stronger in the way Of disci
pline than seedlings and gentle re
1nonstrances.
In New York the school teacher
. are by large majority of the opin
ion that corporal punishment must b
restored in schools if we are to hay
+ good discipline and fit training of gu
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
THURSDAY EVENING,

Is ! (
many people make a mistake. The
car is not autocrat enough to have
his own way at all times. Russia is
rather a bureaucracy than an autoc-
sracy. In< 1877 Alexander II. person.
ally didn't want to SO to war with
Turkey, but the furious lust for war
on the part of the Slavonic war party
practically ignored the czar's autoc-
racy. and swept the nation into a
bloody and costly war which ended in
a victory with a sharp sting in it,
from which Russia has not recovered
yet. bureaucratic Russia obstructs
the full exercise of the czar's au-
tocracy by hedging him about with
the council.of state. and several 9TH
err bureaus which assert themselves
every now and then, so that if the
council, Of state wants war with
Japan they will have it;A no matter
how ardently the apostle of peace
contends for peace.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
Law and Common Sense.
To the Editor of The Journal,


English laws are made to be kent:
American laws seem to be made to be
broken. Many of the people Of this nat
urally fair city of Minneapolis are Won
derlng what is to protect the well-being
of this people, morally and socially, when
so many of the evils that infest this city
are winked at, both by public sentiment
and by our courts of justice Of course.
we are glad that Sodini is refused a
license to open another theater for the
sole purpose of making money by demon
al1z1ng the people, or a certain portion of
the people-mostly young men and women
So far, so good; but why wasn't this
action taken before? Why was all the
money, time and space in the public press
necessary to convict our late mayor Of
malfeasance in office? Why was all this
effort wasted? Where is the Justice in
indicting. convicting and sentencing his
TOOLS and yet the responsibility of any
office is supposed to rest on the real in
| cuInbent and not on his subordinates, and
he should be held responsible?
| Where is the justice Of condemning
young men to hang or to Imprisonment
| for life for a crime that the saloon caused
/ them to commit, and let the real criminal
/ go scot free and go on making more OF
4 the same kind of criminals?
| Why was it that Carlisle, the embezzler
the forger, the bigamist, was allowed to
| have his bail reduced so that he could
resume his operations Of the same kind
{ all because he was dying CD of tuber-
culosis? AS soon as he reached Chicago
he was no longer troubled with tuber-
culosis, and is probably laughing in his
sleeve at the deceit practiced. 1t is gen.
1 orally supposed that genuine tuberculosis
can be detected by physicians
!. Are we to let loose another bigamis
of the deepest dye to prey upon some
body's daughters in this or other cities
It looks very much as if this was to b.
done.
i We feel like crying aloud with tn,
i prophet: ooh, Lord, how long! how
i Hong must we endure this apathy Of pub
lie sentiment toward such crimes!
4 Three Women.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

A correspondent wants to know If the
city is not under as much obligation to buy
pure water for the school children as to
furnish it for the occupants of the public
offices in the city hall: There is this diff
ference-the officers and employees demand
good drinking water and have sufficient
pull to get it, while the children and teach
ers have no means of compelling consid.
Grafton of their needs. And yet every.
body knows. that children drink grea
deal more water than grown people.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

- .
Jiu-jitsu is good for what ails YOU"
1t Is not drug or a new philosophy, but
system Of exercise invented by the Jap
anese. 1t may not have been invented
with view to a future struggle with the
Russians, but 1t may prove handy If the
struggle comes, for it includes the science
Of attack and defense. It takes a four
years" course to acquire a thoro knowledge
Of the system and skill in it's use, and
should not be taken in overdoses. At least
that is what H. Irving Hancock the au-
thor of Japanese Physical Training, says
in his book which is all about jiu-jitsu.
If taken properly it will produce astonish-
ing results. Mr.. Hancock says this has
been proved by the fact that the Japanese,
while diminutive race, possess the
greatest endurance of any people on
earth, and it Is added on the paper wrap
per of the volume, ''the happiest Of the
worlds people,
In the book are numerous illustrations
taken from life. One Of the models, the
author says, weighs only 40 pounds, s'yet
he is giant in miniature" and jiu jitsu
did it. Jiu-jitsu teaches as Fundamental
gospel of exercise, that a healthy stomach
is the basis of all strength. Along with
this is emphasized the value Of an ever
| temper. These two things are enough If
themselves to show that the "Japs" have
started to build up their system on sount
grounds. If the rest are as sane, the sys
tenn is, beyond question, good.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
POINTS FOR GARDENERS
To Be Had at Meeting at Agriculture
School Saturday

Market gardeners will hold meeting
at the state agricultural farm Saturday
at p. m. The instructors at the farm
will give talks on different subjects IN
teresting to market gardeners and as lar
as possible will -endeavor to demonstrate
them. The meeting is open to all VINO
are interested in agriculture, and large
attendance is desired.