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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-05

Our Home Cooked Food Department
Is a great convenience to house.
keepers. Everything to eat
ready for your table, hot OR
COLD MEATS.
Everything purchased at the
Yerxa stores is dependable mer-
chandise. Your money back if
you are not suited.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-05
BIGGER BUTTER PRIZES
STATE FAIR MANAGEMENT WILL
MAKE IT INTERESTING FOR
MINNESOTA DAIRYMEN.

A growing interest ri in dairying in
Minnesota and the northwest has led
the officials of rthe. Minnesota state 1fairr
stonincreaseo thel' premium .offersTT for
cent. Last year the sweepstakes offer
was $500 which was divided pro rata
among the exhibitors whose butter
scored 90; or better. b, This year $1,000
will be divided among these butter
makers and It is expected that the COM
petition will be keener than ever on
this account.
A. W. Troy Of G1enville is superin-
tendent Of the butter and cheese divis-
ion at the Minnesota state fair and has
already made arrangements for large
display of this high-class product of the
"Bread and Butter State.'' The other
premiums offered in Mr.. Trow 8 depart
ments are these:
.' .7@@ 80 DAIRY BUTTER.
d. z..sr Prem.
Made on a farm from a single herd Of
cows, In tubs, prints or Jars of not less
than five 20 pounds nor more than
Display Of ornamental butter. ........... $500
ORNAMENTAL:
Display Of ornamental butter. 1925. 90
| GLASS 61-CHEESE.
| Factory cheese, commercial size, pro-rata
premium. minimum points IS. .......... rs. 90
If less than 20 entries ........: 100 90
| M.@ 4. Prem. Prem. Prem.
Dairy cheese one box - - =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-05

inventors
America . Best 10c Cigar.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

| only theory which resisted analvsis
was that Of medical treatment, and
careful examination of different skulls
bearing similar marks with variations
sufticed to convince me that they were
caused by incisions or cauterizations
performed upon children or adults as
curative or preventive measures.
Quite by accident, l at this period
found several texts left by classical
surgeons of the middle ages, who rec.
commended that in cases of convul
sions, mania, epilepsy, cephalaigia
etc., incisions and authorizations
should be made on the head, i. e., the
very operation to which I had, on the
strength of my observations, attrfb.
uted the sincipital marks. I was thus
able to establish the link between pre-
historic and modern surgery.
This custom still survives among
certain primitive races. DR.. Bertholon
of Tupis has informed me that the
Arabs cut. or cauterize children in this
way TO prevent certain diseases. DR..
Lehman Nitsche, curator of the An
thropological Museum of La Plata, has
sent to the Paris Anthropological So
ciety texts relating to similar customs
primitive inhabitants of the Great
Canaries.
with the ancients it seemed prob
able that these operations were per-
formed as remedy against headaches,
nervous disorders, excess Of humidity
in the brain, etc.
The teeth of the skulls surrounding
us seemed barred no longer in sardonic
smiles, but in agonized grimaces as
the vision of proniscuous and CHASTITY
operations for chills and what not was
evoked with serene professional calm
by DR.. ManOuvrier.
"The sincipital T, which was the
most frequent operation, was far sim
pier than trepanning. 1t appears to
be caused by incisions or cauteriza-
tions on the periosteum or outer lining
OF the bone from which the skull de-
rives its thickness. Where the perios-
teum is cut. the skull stops thickening
while the development continues else
where, so that the scars appear very
bad, although the bone was not cut
through.
'Take this skull, for instance. The
patient was operated on several times,
SO that he must have had no trouble in
resisting the effects. He has the sin
cipital T, and furthermore trepan-
ming to one side of it, and a cauteriza-
tiOn little farther away
Then these prehistoric surgeons
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26
Pins That Are Hard to Get.

new chapter is about to be added
to the history of pins. The young
man who looks after his own ward
robe is going to write it. 1t will
treat of the very small pins used to
1asten ribbon and other things that
come put up in bolts.
II want some of those pins the worst
way said the young man, but I can
not find any. l have been in every big
store in town and half the little ones
looking for them. 1T has been a hope.
less quest. They are not in the mar.
ket. Where can + get them?' l ask
the clerk in desperation They can.
not tell.
But there are such things 1 insist
Somebody makes them. l have seen
them
$50 have L. the clerk admits, but
only in ribbon and skirt binding
"According to that will have to buy
about twenty bolts of baby ribbon to
get as many small pins as I need,
That will make pretty stiff price to
pay for them, so, if anybody with q
little regard for a lone mans pocket
book will volunteer some information
on the subject I shall be eternally
Obliged - ~ .
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

ing on to it's confines to bring it to-
the front as a field for most extensive
and profitable settlement. IN
The whole country embraces an
area of over S5,000,000 acres and de-
Quoting water and broken land there
is plenty of wheat growing territory
to produce twenty times over the
requirements of Great Britain.
AS wheat can be grown at $3.50 per
acre with wages to the men doing
their own work besides, and as year:
in and year out the yield and price
are twenty bushels at go cents, the
profits are $3.50 per acre.
AS live stock doubles every three
years and grows like wheat while the
farmer is sleeping, we expect that this
will always be one of the leading feat
ures of the agricultural industry. AS
the Pacific coast or warm winds melt
the snow in Alberta almost as rapidly
as it falls, the herds of live stock
live out on the open prairie the entire
year through and are in good condi
ton every spring. The native grasses
are highly nutritious and 'retain their
qualities the whole winter through,
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

dences of advancement. The first
eushel of wheat was shipped in 1882,
In fact the first shipment from Mani
toba, merely as sample, was made
in 1877. In 1904 there were under all
crops, excepting hay, 1.575, 900 acres
in the western provinces, producing g
l7,25O,350 bushels of wheat, 1S,250 $40
bushels of oats, and 1850, ,42O bushels
OF barley, realizing total of about
$18,5G0, 900 for the farmers.
In Manitoba there were grown in
1904 41,600,000 bushels of wheat and
other farm products in proportion.
The first mile of railway was built in
the country in 1880, and today there
are over 5000 miles of road in opera
| ton, and further extensions are going
ahead as fast as men and money can
build them. There are two trunk
lines in the country, the C. P. R. and
the Canadian Northern, with the
Grand Trunk commencing it's trans
continental line. In addition to these
trunk lines, all systems are extending
branches to all sections where there
are settlements to patronize them.
The grain elevator development is
another assurance of the wonderful
expansion of the country, the one.
fourth of the whole area, or about 95,-
100000 acres of the country traversed
by railways being now fairly supplied
by elevators. In all there are l.015
Of them in the country with a combin-
ed capacity of 27,683,O0O bushels and
erected at a cost of over $55O00,OO0.
In addition to these. elevators at the
head Of the lakes have storage capac-
ity of 18,200,00O. Fourteen years ago
the entire storage capacity of the
elevators was 7,62S.000 bushels, today
it is 41,600,000 and increasing yearly
from five to ten million bushels.
What the settlement of the country
will be in the next ten years may
we'll be imagined from the fact that
last year the immigration was over
$4,000 souls.
There are those who believe the
grain-producing area of the country
must be limited, but results tell
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26
FREE LAND FOR SETTLERS
Western Canada To-Day the Country of Oppor:
q. pa tunity for Millions

He would have been called a cream
sr of the most imaginative class who,
shirty-five years ago, when the North
west country became a possession of
canada, prophesied the present pros
perity in the lapse of so short a period
Of time. Three e>transcontinental rail-
ways have been financed through on
the ample assurance there is business
IN the west to warrant their: construc-
ton, and resources to liquidate the
consequent Indebtedness.
Manitoba in the eastern portion of
the country was created a province a
year after the purchase from the Hud-
son Bay Company in 1870. In 1882,
the western country was tapped by
the extended main line of the C. P. R.
That year also territorial government
was established, the remaining out
lying country being converted into
four Observation-Disclosures, Assiniboia
Saskatchewan and Athabasca-witha a
central government for all at Regina.
The few thousand people of those
days have grown into the half million
Of to-day.
Let us now note some of the evi-
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

different story. In the northern Peace
River country, 900 miles north of the
international boundary, wheat is
grown every year 62 to IS lbs. to the
bushel, from 20 to 80 bushels to the
acre, and natures in 1O7 days from
sowing. The length of day and there
fore the greater amount of summer
heat in the "a hours fully compensate
for the disadvantages of latitude. AS
there are already thrifty settlements,
with their grist mills, large fields of
grain, numerous herds of live stock in
that north country, it only requires the
extension of the railways now push
Business in the Home.
The adoption of business principles
in the home is not only one of the
ways to obtain happiness. it is the only
way, says Good Housekeeping. We are
speaking now of the average house
hold composed of an average man and
an average woman. And here is the
first step toward happiness: First, the
husband must have the absolute right
to refuse money to the wife; second,
the wife must have the absolute right
to demand money from the husband
It doesn't look like affection, it doesn't
seem connubial. But snalyze it,.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26
PREHISTORIC SKULLS SHOW EVIDENCE
s OF SKILLED SURGERY ii.
BY the Medical Ancients in France

II there was one department of hu-
man activity to which no one had
ever dreamed Of applying the trite
adage that there's nothing new un-
der the SUM- it was surely modern
surgery. Delicate operations on bone
and organ were held up as brilliant
examples of perfect progress, and the
awed world wondered. But to-day, the
revelation has come that this, too, is
old and that surgery existed before
history began.
This remarkable discovery is due to
the researches of DR.. L. Manouvrier.
the most famous anthropologist in
France, who having observed and
studied unmistakable marks on pre-
historic skulls found in the region of
Paris, now boldly declares that the
great twentieth century surgeon is
merely treading in the wake of skilled
practitioners who, without anaesthet-
les or antiseptics, with blades of flint
instead Of tempered steel, performed
three or four thousand years ago op-
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

, making winter feed as inexpensive as
j summer pasturage.
/ AS $2,835,51 worth of live stock
was marketed in that country in six
months of last year an idea may be
formed of the proportions it may be
led to attain when the country be-
! comes fully settled up
Dairying is the third leading busi-
| ness of the Northwest farmer, and
| may, like the others be developed
while the farmer is sleeping 1t is
| found that on account of the cost of
! farm help, and to avert the expense Of
erecting suitable buildings for the
/ purpose, the cooperative system is
decidedly the best. Under it the en-
| tire management is in the hands of
the government under expert opera
| tives, though control of sales. etc,
rests with the patrons. The farmers
simply deliver their milk or cream,
| usually the latter, at the dairies. re-
ceive monthly advances. and bal
ances OF proceeds of sales at the close
of the year.
The schools are free and non-denomi
| natiOnal-national. There is no tax for
attendance, the government defrays
the greater part of the cost of sup
port of a highly certifcated staff Of
teachers. There are schools in all
country districts where there are
dozen pupils to attend them and the
tax is rarely more than 81 a year on
every quarter section. AS each prov
ince-Alberta and SaskatcheWan-un-
der the new provincial autonomy will
receive at the start from the Federal
government $1100,000 year, there
will be but very inconsiderable taxa
tion for any and all provincial pur-
poses.
Fuel is the bugbear of many of the
prairie countries. In Western Canada
however, there are but few districts
without an ample supply of timber,
and as coal of the best quality is
everywhere present no farmer being
more than 200 miles distant from q
mine, and the price never more than
$3.50 per ton to him al his door, it is;
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

eratlons requiring thorough knowl-
edge and consummate ability.
1T is established beyond question, -
said DR.. Manouvrier, that trepanning,
even to-day delicate operation, was
not only known in prehistoric times
but was practiced far more extensive
ly than nowadays. Before trepanning
surgeons must have known of other
operations, the traces Of which have
disappeared, like the wooden tools
and arms which preceded stone. Am
putations and bone-setting required
less imagination and certainly no
more skill than certain openings in
skulls whose perfection is simply
amazing. Men able to do such work
could not be disconnected by small
operations. AS for dressing wounds.
they must have understood the art
perfectly, for trepanning requires very
complicated dressings."
And" was suggested. 'these mar
velous prehistoric operations were fol-
lowed with the usual gratifying re-
suits of modern surgical achievements,
signal triumphs from the professional
point of view, but the patient unfor-
tunately dying from complications ?"
<'No, for we have proofs that the pa
tients survived.''
From the skulls filling the glass
cases which lay about him, DR.. Man.
ouvrier selected one.
"This skull, which is particularly
beautiful one"-- he began.
"You said?"
Beautiful" he repeated. Don't
you think so? Well, not only was the
operation Of trepanning successfully
performed, but the patient lived long
enough afterward for the bones to
knit together and cicatrise, that is,
several years at least On this other
skull the evidences are the same.
"The opening, as you may see, was
about oval, and was made by scraping
beveled furrow round the line traced
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

readily seen the fuel problem is al
ready solved
AS shown above the railways are
everywhere tapping new districts
where free land is offered to all re-
gardless of religion or nationality.
Even in some of the older parts there
is yet plenty of free land, Manitoba
having 100000 acres of it.
The land is there for the asking
and the next ten years will see a large
area of it everywhere dotted with i'm
proved farms, grain elevators and
rich, prosperous and pre-eminently
contented population.
Last Shot Brought Death.
IN the battle of the Sea of Japan
the Russian vessel Borodino contin-
ued fighting till she sunk. What was
practically her last shot struck the
Asahl astern, killing or MORALLY
"oundlng Lieut.. Morishita and seven
others. Lieut.. Morishita's leg was
shot on, but, using his sword as a
.crutcn, ne managed to reach the deck
There he asked for some paper on
which to write a farewell message to-
the Japanese navy. He scraw1ed the
words: Banzai! I die a glorious.
death, and fell back dead.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26
cleanliness, whereas in Paris the sam.

cleanliness, whereas in Paris the same
operations are generally fatal, though
all antiseptic precautions are taken.
The reason is that where the air is
pure and the life healthy there are
few microbes, whereas these swarm
wherever humanity gathers together
in a small space"
But why should such a horribly
painful operation be attempted?'
we have no way OF knowing that
Perhaps the reason was wound in
the portion of the skull which the tre-
palmer removed, and which might
have caused cerebral disturbances.
Nowadays trepanning is resorted 10
when a splinter of bone weighs on
the brain. Since they knew the oper-
atiCn in prehistoric times, they may
have known the reasons also. Never
theless, we are led to believe that
they trepanned too much To-day
there is perhaps one case of trepan-
ming for a million men. Among skulls
of the neolithic period, found in the
Paris region, one skull from every
twenty-five, at a rough calculation, is
in some way operated on"
Then there were different forms OF
operations?"
"Certainly." answered DR.. Manou-
vrier opening another case in his lab
oratory and taking out skull marked
with a curious T on the summit.
There was simpler operation
which was far more frequent and
which was the first to attract my at
tention These marks were certainly
made on the living subject by the
hand of man. On account of their
form and their position / named them
the sincipitaf r. and T sought several
hypotheses to explain them. It .ap-
peared possible that these marks
might have been caused by peculiar
and weighty form of headdress or
else branding to mark prisoners, or as
sign of mourning, or religion. The
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

for the operation. The> operation of
wearing away the bone lasted at least
one hour and perhaps two, and must
have been frightful It. was accom-
panied by external and Internal hem
orrhages and the definite destruction
of important vessels. '. ><,':'.'"- r f.
First, ribbon of flesh morerthan
three inches in length had to be cut
In the scalp. Then in order to lay
bare the bone more than half Of the
temporal muscle had to be severed.
Then the skull itself was attacked by
scraping- until a section would be re-
moved, to be replaced afterward so
skillfully that it knitted with the sur
rounding edges and the patient lived" !"
And without anaesthetics
"Antiseptics," interposed DR.. Man.
ouvrier, "are necessitated by the
overcrowding of our modern cities.
There are to-day in Central France
regions where certain operations can
be successfully performed without an
tiseptics, sometimes without common
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26
were equipped with instruments for

were equipped with instruments for
burning as we'll as cutting?"
"Certainly For cauterizing they may
have used sharp pointed instruments
heated red hot, as we use to-day;
sometimes they would appear to have
used, for broad authorizations, wads of
burning wool. For their cutting, they
had instruments of silex-or f1int-and
quartz SO delicate and so perfect that
modern surgeon might use them for
the daintiest operations. The object
OF these instruments has long puzzled
scientists, and can only be explained
by surgery"
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

Artfully taking advantage of the pre-
vailing excitement Mr.. Rockefeller
slips ten millions into the general edu.
cational fund and makes his getaway
in safety.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

If Luther Burbank would onlv de.
vote his attention now to making cher.
ries grow abundantly on bushes not
more than ten feet high, he would re-
duce the number of these painful
stories in the papers about people
who fall out of cherry trees.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

Justice Brewer of = the Supreme
Court said recently: Japan, it would
seem, has made the goddess of liberty
her hired girl" Let us hope Japan
will not be compelled to discharge her
for staying out at night.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

A Chicago woman poured hot tea
down her husbands back because she
was Suspicious that he was flirting
with another woman. Married men
should impress it upon their spouses
that they ought to be like Caesars
wife-above suspicion.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

There is new word, "euthenics, :"
to signify beautiful living" It was
coined by some women professors in
the Adirondacks. 1t would be a good
thing if. the use of the word would
inspire the application of it's meaning
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

A Boston author claims that in
twenty years he has received $4,000
for the literature he has produced be-
fore breakfast. But he doesn't claim
to have been in the habit of taking his
breakfast early.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

A cadet at Annapolis has succeeded
in stretching himself two inches. U.s.
ually it is the father of the young
man who is subjected to the elonga-
ton.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

Harvard feels that such proficiency
as the Yale oarsmen show is only
proof that their terms in. college
have been sadly misspent.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

Lord Curzon proposes to resign the
position of viceroy of India. If he does
be will be the only husband of an
American wife known to voluntarily
turn loose fat office.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

George Lindsay Of Brooklyn has re-
fused to obey the courts order to kiss
Mrs. Lindsay once day. Mrs. Lind.
say is pretty, and lives at 125 Dres-
den street.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

The Hon. IL Durham has resigned
his office of insurance commissioner
of Pennsylvania. He had to do that or
be left hanging up in the air. The
city Of Philadelphia was slipping out
from under him.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

Army worms have made their ap-
pearance in parts of Pennsylvania
This visitation, however, will be over
In a few weeks, while Gov. Penny
packer will hang on for year and a
half yet.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

Corea's emperor declares that the
United States is his country's best
friend. Maybe, maybe; but Japan,
with jiu-jitsu grip on Corea's neck.
insists that she is the country's best
chum
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

New York has had to rope off Sec
ton OF Broad street in ring, to keep
"curb brokers" properly corralled.
Now all they need is gloves and a
referee.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

Prof. Mathews says that diet is the
secret of life. We always have sus-
pected that eating had something to
do with living.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

Philadelphia should persist in it's ef-
fort to become respectable. It will
find the experience agreeable as soon
as it gets used to it.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

A woman has no difficulty in rum
ming an automobile. AS soon as peo-
pie see her coming they flee for their
lives.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

Some men seem to think that they
have accomplished all that is required
OF them when they have made some
good resolutions.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

1t may be true, as fashion journal
says, that the ''hoopskirt is making
slow progress but it is cutting q
wide swath.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

The Department of Agriculture has
otticially assassinated the cabbage
snake but the corn snake continues
to lurk within the bottle.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

A cradle operated by electricity has
been invented. The mother touches
the button and the baby does the rest
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

In order to, attract any attention
now the Balkan war cloud will have
to assume rotary motion.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

For 9 long jump. from obscurity to
fame consider the case Of the late Mr.
Omiltchuk.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

"A New York man has been fined 81
Tor assailing a Mrs. Shakespeare. Prof.
Triggs should note this.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

Judging from the description the
canal strip will never attain much
popularity as summer resort.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

The new directory provides only
twenty-one Damms for Chicago's g.
272,760 people.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

While Mr.. Burbank is producing his
"cobless corn" he might try his hand
at evolving a jagless corn juice.
The Cook County herald., 1905-08-26

French Scientist Who Declares He
Thousand Years
Which Bears