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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
THE UNIVERSITY
MONEY Is RAISED
Monument to Student Volunteers i
Spanish War Is Assured, -.'

The erection on thte university campus
of monument to the university
students who died in the Spanish war
is now assured. The committee in
charge of raising the necessary funds
has reported that pledges amount
ing to $4,000 have been secured and as
the monument planned can be erected
for $4,000, work will probably be com
regents have announced their willing.
ness to contribute $500 to the fund, pro
viding the consent of the state board of
control can be obtained. !
!. Memorials of like nature have al
ready been erected in most Of the lead
ing colleges Of the country. n =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
Will Elect CAPTAIN.

Members Of the university basket
ball team of last year will gather in
the university armory tonight for the
purpose of electing a captain for the
team that is to uphold the maroon and
gold in the 19O4-19O5 race. Ten Of the
members Of last years squad will be
present at the e, meeting and are entitled
George Tuck, who has played center
on the team for the last three years,
will probably be, chosen captain, altho
there is some sentiment In the team
in favor of He Ion Leach, baseball
and basketball star. .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
LOOK TO MINNEAPOLIS
Southwest Wheat Crop Has Practical.
F All Been Marketed.

From now on the movement of wheat
into Minneapolis will be a matter OF i'm
portance to the trade The southwest Ia
about payed out, according to late adj
vices.
The Home Grain company Of Kansas
City, which is Van Dusen- Harrington
interest, reports falling off of almost
30 per cent in country receipts of grain
along the Rock Island. J. T. Templar OF
Hutchinson, Kan, says the winter wheat
crop is practically in. Crossville. ILL.,, re-
ports only per cent of the wheat left
In farmers hands.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
ROPING CAMELS
: tn ARIZONA
ONE RANcHMAN. LOST PONY AND
! NEARLY HIS LIFE.
Talk of an Expedition to Domesticate
the Wild Beasts of Burden Caused
ella Man to Become Reminiscent and
skeptlcal- Camel That Walked Off
Sixty Miles an Hour with Horse and
Rider.

~, ella City Ariz,, Nov. 4.-The To.
peka report that an expedition may be
organized to round up the wild camels
Of this region was read here with much
interest. There, are several droves of
these camels in Arizona: They are fire.
salt desert. If it had been proved
possible to capture and domesticate the
animals they would have been put to
practical use by the people Of this Sec
tion before this. The men who have
attempted to do what the members of
the Topeka expedition now purpose do
ing met withasIsignal failure and none
ence again. '%..> s-.'
"Them eastern fellers can round up
want no more of it m mine, = was the
remark which q Glenn Miller made
when told Of the project. Miller has
a ranch !, the Mexico border, be.
mind being off at a safe distance when
the roundup takes place, but excuse
me from participatin' in it. 1t would
be fun for the onlooker, but awful for
the other Teller. Maybe they do use
camels on the fSahary' desert, but they
must be a different breed from these
'Arizony' animals.
Would Rope a Few.
"When I started my ranch few
years ago / thought it would be a good
idea to rope few Of these camels that
roam around here an use 'em to bring
my ranch supplies over from Yuma
also had an idea THAT could estab-
burden, as my schoolbook used to call
them, and do regular freighting bust,
ness! with them between the towns of
Arizony.' / WASH t no tenderfoot
when | struck this part of the coun
try. I'd lived too long in west Texas
and in the Apache region of New Mex
leo not to know how to hold my own
on the range or:in the mountains; 9
never met wild animal that could get
the best of me in a square deal. But
to tell the truth, I had never consid
cred the .camels as being wild animals
i The only camels / ever had seen unit
came to Arizony was them that are
carried around in circuses back east
They were tame enough.
A Camel Roundup Tried.
Well, one morning four years ago
about this time Of year, / set out with
three of my cowboys to roundup 6
bunch Of camels. My cowboys were
experts with the rope. Two Of then
were Texans and the other was Mexi
can whom I picked up in Sonora. Hi.
/ one Of the party who objected to 90
ing. He hung back and repeatedly
1 told me that the camels were NJ
] bueno, and I had to give him a goot
tcussin in my best Spanish before
could get him to bunch up to the game
Tt was nigh Qn to noon when WI
first caught d sight igiht ct Ct = drove lp q
mails feeding on some desert plant
/ near one Of the big sand dunes
about seventeen miles north of my
ranch. They were probably half mill
4 away from us when they first saw us
i They rose their heads and seemed Il
sniff the air a few times and ther
lleisurelY disappear behind the sant
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
November Minnesota Magazine.

The November issue Of the Minnesota
Magazine will be placed on sale next
week. The number in the nature Of
faculty issue, as most Of the con-
tributors are faculty members. There
are articles by DR.. McClumpha, DR..
Schaper, DR.. Burton, Mrs. Potter and a
poem by Mr.. Firkins. 4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
SENSIBLE IDEA.

81 Chicago News 49, n VIE
He--Do you believe in long engagements?
She-Sure thing.
II He-And why, pray
S She-Because a woman should allow her .HMe~
pective husband to pose % her ideal G
q possible 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
PROMPT APPREHENSION,

n ------- n = chicago ---7-- n
Mrs. Ferguson-George, dear, how do you
like my new hat?
Mr.. Ferguson-Do you want my real opinion
Of it, Laura?
Mrs Ferguson-No, don't. you mean thing.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
: BAD COMBINATION

192AV1UOO F-OV1V1V& y Os1Ae9I1 e111A 10OoIIOQ
Revolver Attract Attention.
revolver attracted considerable atten-
tion at Washington and Hennepin early
last evening.
Fears were groundless, however, for
she was after but one person, namely,
man who owed her money. He
avoided meeting and prevented a
tragedy. A policeman happened along
and took the revolver away from the
excited woman and then allowed her
to go.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
AN OBSERVING wANDERER.


ss'You must have seen great deal Of the
world ~ said the farmers wife to the tramp
.Not 50 much I'd like replied the wan
derer. '.You see, was too busy taking OBJ
| servations.''
| "What kind Of observations ~
"a careful series of observations Of prison
life from the inside, ma am. y
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20
The County School.
(St. Paul Globe.)

This country school, where the grad
ed system has not intruded, where the
course of study has not been set up
as an idol to which hecatombs. of child
rem must be offered annually, is simply
a place where the child may grow
naturally as he ought to grow. He is
not cut off in one direction and stretch
ed in another, MANNED and mutilated
and disfgured in order to make him
fit in with a prearranged system of
grades and a foreordained course of
study. He can remain the distinct
human entity that he was born, and
grow along natural lines. Instead of
associating with few pupils all in his,
own grade and pursuing the same:
studies, he meets those of all different
degrees OF advancement, and receives
hints and suggestions and spurs to his
ambition on every side.
If he has some special aptitude at
some particular period, it may flower
harmlessly in the country school. The
teacher usually has some time to de-
vote to the study Of pupils as individuals
and so to aid each in the special diree>
tions where his needs are greatest. In
word, the country school is human
institution adapted to infinitely vary
ing human needs, instead of a great,
pitiless machine grinding up the hu-
man material that is thrown into it
and turning it out in nicely squared
and compressed blocks of as nearly the
same size, pattern and quality as
possible.
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20
Square Dances the Proper Capers

No dance is aesthetic in which the
young women's waists must be belted
by the masculine arm; no round dance
is aesthetic, for they all develop the
physique more than the graceful
dances; the aesthetic dance is quiet
graceful, soulful; the aesthetic dance
is intended to develop the natural
grace of young women. ~
This is the decree, of the members of
the Chicago Woman's club. Accord
ing to these new arbiters of correct
dancing, neither the waltz, the twostep,
the old-time polka and galop, the. clog
or the ballet is aesthetic.
To be past master in the art of
aesthetic dancing, one must know how
to trip through the minuet and to move
slowly and gracefully through the
mazes of the court dances of France
and the square dances Of the colonial.
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20

Now. the poor. chaps hav got to stay
till four O'Clock. to do a little more
work. What farce and a cinch. I tell
you it's the civil service humbug and
wrong that is keepin' a lot of trash in
places where they amt doin' the work
satisfactorily or hustlingly. What
would us poor farmers think if we had
to 60 to work at eight o'clock in the
mornin' and knocked off at four in the
afternoon and a half hour noonin' taken
out Of that in the bargain? There amt
one of. us but would be boardin' with
John Manning in year. ! tell you the
civil service humbug is the biggest i'm
position ever perpetrated on Intent
and blindfolded government.
FARMER BEN.
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20
Nelson Brothers r1ay
Escape Hanging.

A petition for clemeney in the case
Of the Nelson brothers, the -OWatonna
murderers, was heard before the State
Board Of Pardons> last week and a
decision will be given Jan. %. 1t is
believe that the sentence of hanging
will be commuted to life imprisonment.
Perhaps the most dramatic thing in
the whole hearing was at the windup.
Senator Lord had plead for the boys
lives. County Attorney Littleton who
followed Senator Lord, was pleading
against the boys.
He was arguing that the mere fact
of the boys youth should not count in
their favor and he went on to cite cases
where boys of Is and l6 had committed
murder before. This line of argument
did not strike Chief Justice Start
favorably, and he said:
changing boys for murder does not
keep other boys from committing
murder. Would it not be better, Mr..
Littleton, to stop forever the dens
where their feet are turned toward hell
from keeping open in consideration Of
miserable monthly stipend called a
fine? Would it not be infinitely better
to look after our boys and safeguard
them than to wait until they have be-
come criminals and then hang them?
"No, even hanging does not stop
them; so what could we expect to-. ac-
cemplish by imprisoning them for
life?' rejoined Mr.. Littleton. ~
senator Lord, agitated with emotion.
sprang to his feet to answer Mr. Little
ton, and in dramatic voice cried:
eff these boys are guilty it is by rea.
son of their evil environment and in
tluence, they are guilty because the
public officers of Owatonna, who for
months have been clamoring for their
life blood and who come here to-day to
beg for their lives as a sacrifice upon
the altar of brutal passion, have failed
to do their duty and have refused to
enforce the law which they took their
oath to support. We have indisputable
evidence that on the very day of the
murder Harry Krier sold liquor to
young boys, under II years of age, and
this violation had been daily occur
renee, and no officer of that county
protested. But they can clamor for
the blood Of these boys because they
deem it their public duty to do so."
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20
Lower Prices on Binding Twine.

-. a. = - :
The state board of control, after 8
conference with Warden Wolfer of the
state prison has announced the prices
at which binding twine will be sold to
Minnesota farmers this year, 1904.
They are as follows: e =
Sisal, 500 feet to the pound, 81 cents.
Standard, 500 feet to pound, 81 cents.
Standard MANILA, $50 feet to pound,
9 cents. ..zsz-
Mixed MANILA, 600 feet to pound, 10
cents. *.~'
Pure MANILA, $50 feet to pound, II
cents. -. :"
These prices are half cent lower on
each grade than the prices of 1903. As
the seasons output will be about 9,000,.
600 pounds, the saving to farmers will
be $45,OOO more than last year. The
board has alread purchased or con
tracted for practically all of the raw
material and is able to figure out the
price very closely. The sisal is brought
direct from Yucatan, and large quanti-
ties of MANILA are imported for the
prison direct from the philippines.
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20

see by my paper that congress is
tacklin' the civil service humbug with
an idee of cuttin' it down gradually
but of course nothin' will come of it.
What a rocky arrangement this civil
service is anyhow you figger it. A lot
of old grannies hav got it into their
heads that it protects officials in holdin'
on to otis and they can't see that this
is the very reason why the system
should be fired out. My paper says
that down in Washington there are
thousands and thousands of old, dilapi-
dated, wornout, good-for- nothin' clerks
in the departments who hav outlived
their usefulness, but who stick to their
salaries and do mighty little work in
return. The work IN the departments
is thus behind the times and it takes
twice as much of a force to do it as
would be required in any regular busi-
ness establishment. And think of the
gall of these same barnacles kickin' be-
cause last week the authorities ordered
'em to put in seven hours and half
insted of seven hours day as hereto.
fore they've been doin'. just think Of
the enormous injustice and hardship of
!. this new deal. Hitherto, these barna.
cles and lazybugs hav been comm to
offs to loaf at eight O'Clock and got out
at three thirty, with,half hour no6nin.'
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20
High School Dances Discouraged.

If the pupils of the St. Cloud, Mimi.
public schools indulge in any more
'high school, dances hthey will do so
without the sanction of the superin-
tendent or board of education, as that
body has passed resolutions condemn
ing the practice, the object being to
shift the burden of responsibility for
failures in school from the board to the
students and their parents.
The board will not attempt to regu
late the conduct Of the pupils out of
school hours, but will discipline them
for failure to keep up with their classes
and if pupils are not up to the stand
ard in their studies they will be sus-
pended.
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20
Town Dwelling Insurance Company.

Town Dwelling Insurance Company.
The Town Dwelling Mutual Fire
Insurance company began business last
June and has written $50, 1000 insurance
Only one loss, amounting to SIS, has
been incurred. The officers elected
Tuesday are: President, A. D. Stewart
of Redwood Falls; vice president, K
B. Bulls of West Concord; secretary
K. L. johnson of Austin; treasurer, w
f. Define of Cannon Falls; board of
directors, the officers and Ira Padden
of Austin, w. H. Palmer of Anoka and
George A. Bradford of St. James.
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20
:
Personal Property Tax
s.flust Be Paid Before rlarch Ist.
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CITY OF AUSTIN.

AIbertus G F...s 20 40 Austin Milk Co..
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20

Wanted, trustworthy lady or gen
tleman to manage business. III this
county and adjoining territory for
house of solid financial standing. $1,000
straight cash salary aid expenses paid
each Monday direct from headquarters.
Expense money advanced: position
permanent. Address Manag ger, COS
Moron Bldg, Chicago. A
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20
TESTS AT THE CREAMERY.
A Buttermaker Names Some of the
ransAS nf VarvSuGr


There is, and there always will be,
more or less disappointment and COM
plant possible from patrons about the
test of their milk at the creamery or
cheese factory. Sometimes there may
be abundant cause for complaint, for
buttermakers and cheesemakers, even
with the best intentions. may some
times make mistakes, and we regret to
say that there may be buttermakers
and cheesemakers who do not always
have the best intentions. r..
But even under the most favorable
conditions tests will vary, and more
often than otherwise, perhaps, no sufh-
cient explanation can be given for this
varia ton. A Minnesota buttermaker.
iieasant
Valley creamery, writes to the Dairy
Record on this subject as follows:
''At the end of each month we are
asked many times: What is the matter
with my t;'st? 1t is several points
lower than last month";
''They should ask themselves this
question: What have l done to lower
my test?
Il will mention few Of the things
that will make the test vary.
'SOmetimes the whole herd is excited
by some unusual noise, or possibly the
dog was sent after them at milking
time, or it may be they came in coll
tact with the hard side of the milking
stool. These things will lower your
test every time.
'Treat yolr COWS kindly and induce
them to come up at milking time of
their own free will. 1t is a good plan
to give them a handful of feed each
| time they come in the barn. They will
soon learn that you are their friend
and they will pay you we'll for your
extra trouble.
sometimes we forget when we are in
a hurry that the last part of the milk
is the richest in butter fat. 1t also has
tendency to dry your COWS up when
not milked dry. Milk regularly, feed
and water as near the same time each
day as possible, keep your COWS COM
Portable every day in the year. All
these things will increase the flow of
! milk and have a tendency to raise your
test. -.,.
| ''Sometimes we haul milk to the fac
tory in large cans, and to prevent the
milk from stopping out cloth is used
between the cans and milk, and by
the time it reaches the factory the
cloth is saturated with cream.
During warm weather and wheI
the roads are rough the cans that are
not full are so badly churned wher
they reach the factory it is impossible
to get fair sample Of the milk. AL
ways fill your cans full. In the win
ter some of us forget to cover our can:
and find when. we reach the factory
that the cream is frozen into the bot
toms of the covers. We pour in thu
remainder of the milk and then asl
the buttermaker, What makes my tes
drop off SO suddenly"
''The last point that will mention
but not least, and possibly some of III
never thought about it, is part of til,
year we may be milking cows that ar
very poor testers, and the rest Of til,
year the majority of them may be ex
ira good cows and still give a goot
flow of milk ~ *~s
4 r u 8 F.. r r.
Mower County transcript., 1904-01-20
Austin Steam aundrx,

Patronize home institutions and
have your laundry work done at The
Austin Steam Laundry in the highest
style of the art. No chemicals used.
Laundry delivered free of charge.
Give us trial. s. ,853 : s8
Z. M. BURNHAM, Proprietor. i
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-12
The Meaning of "Mews."

Pennant, the naturalist and antigua
ry, in his Account of London" Q79OJ
says that con the north side of Charing
Cross stood the royal news, where the
kings falcons had been kept since the
time of Richard ILL.,
"Mews" is thought to be derived
from the French muer, Latin mutare
to change or mott, and to have been
used Of cage for Noting birds, as
muette is used in France for place in
which horns shed by stays in the for
est are kept by officials Of the chase.
AS time went on horses were kept in
the Enclosures used at first for hawks
and the old name was retained.
In this connection we may quote
Drydens line,
Nine times the moon hath mew'd her
horns,
and Milton, who speaks of the eagle
as "mewing its mighty youth"-i. e.,
fresher from it's Noting, and Shake
speare, who adopts the secondary
meaning. "More pity that the eagle
should be mew'd."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-12
All Ready tO Mourn

Lucy is smart young cOlOred WON
an who officiates as maid of all work
in Brooklyn family. She is much
esteemed by her mistress and the rest
of the family, and all take a very
friendly interest in Lucy and her af-
fairs. When, on a recent afternoon
out" she appeared in a complete suit
of mourning, several inquiries were
made with regard to her bereavement,
as she had said nothing about the re-
cent death of any relative.
''How long have you been wearing
mourning, LucyY asked her mistress.
"Well, IN, this is just about the fust
time Abs worn this yere suit, and it
amt egzectly mohnin'."
"Not mourningw was the reply. Gun
less you were swathed in Grape you
couldn't wear much deeper mourn
ing"
"Yass'm, All know de colors all right
black enough, but All isn't really in
mohnin' yet cause he isn't daid yet
You see, Abs engaged to marry Clar-
ence Jones, an he's daown right low
with an Oncurable disease Nom
cahn't possibly git better. An seem
as All had to hev a new dress All
reckoned All might as we'll git mohnin
right now, then Aid be sure to hev ii
when All needed it."-Brooklyn Eagle
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-12
Force of Habit.

A distressed young woman called or
the Rev. Minot Savage the other even
ing.
Il know this is not confessional
said the visitor, 'but l want to tell yor
one of my troubles. l am a stenog-
rapher and typewriter, and when l at
tend service in your church l always
find myself unconsciously taking down
your prayers in shorthand. That seems
to me to show a shocking lack Of de-
votional spirit, but l don't appear tC
be able to help it. Do you think it is
sinful? If so, what ought l to do tc
break myself Of it?"
"My dear young FRIEND" said the
pastor, $50 long as there is nothing in
territorial in your apparent irreverence
if you are really striving hard to Tx
your mind upon the service, l should
say-but what are you doing now, may
l ask"
81 beg your pardon, doctor, | was
taking down your remarks in short
hand without knowing it."-New York
Times
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-12

THE NEXT ONE CAME IN SLOWLY, A SLEN-
DER, GRACEFUL CREATURE.
on going. l was On my way to your
place. l had hoped for this day with
you
She laughed TREMENDOUSLY 81 wish
you wouldn't hope, Jack. I'd like to
have you-for-for a friend if only
I'D be content with that Well, l
won't. l want you for my wife, want
to have home with you in it, want
to have you to go home to, want to
work, plan, save, spend, for you. It's
all you, Elsie. Are you really going
to Mrs. Young's, dearY'
"Jack," she said firmly, II don't love
you. | will never marry you. This talk
of yours makes me unhappy. Will you
please not repeat it?"
mot till l see you again." he said
good humoredly. Another gray hat,
by Jove" his eye catching it's fresh
ness. Il believe those gray hats are
my hoodoo. Something is. You love
me all right, my darling. Get a white
hat, Elsie; white, trimmed with blue
corntiowers, just the color of your
eyes. think you'd say Yes then"
II should-then." The strangeness
Of her voice held him. "Goodby," she
said lightly and hurried away.
Her eyes grew troubled, piteous. She
did so want to see Dave. 1t came over
her with rush just how unhappy she
was, how lonesome. Her heart ached
almost to bursting. The woods no
longer attracted her. She turned to-
ward Mrs Young's listlessly.
You're all worn out" said that lady,
with concern. THAT gray hat takes
the color out OF your face too. Gray's
not becoming, Elsie. Get a blue one
next time"
'Or green one," said Elsie irritably
Brown, white, blue, had been recon-
mended. Why not green, red, purple
she thought desperately.
"You are worn out, that's sure" said
Mrs. Young.
Elsie took off the despised gray hat
ard held it lovingly in her slim hands
1t cOmforted her. She was soon chat
ting away gayly, but her head ached
and there was a strange heaviness
weighing her down. She wanted to
cry instead Of laugh.
wait" said her friend as she was