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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-03
THE BIG TREES.
A Wondrous and Awe-inspiring Product
of Nature, Found only in California.

California s attractions are mostly of
it's own kind, peculiar to the state, and
Of none is this so emphaticallY true as
that unique product the Big Trees. The
age of these colossi is from l 800 to 1000
years. The Mariposa Grove, which can
be visited while en- route to the Yose-
mite, contains some of. the largest. In
one hundred of huge size. Near Santa
Cruz is a beautiful grove of redwood
Big Trees which will well employ a
days visit. These can be best reached
by the Union Pacific whose fast trains
from Missouri river reach California 16
hours ahead Of all competitors.
For pamphlets and maps describing
formation about the most comfortable
and direct route to the Pacific Coast,
inquire of H. f. Carter, T. 2. A., 376
Robert street, st. Paul, MINI.
Ginter Grocery Changes Hands.
The well-known Ginter Grocery Co.
has changed hands and will hereafter
be known as the Wolpert Grocery Co.
The business was established. some five
years ago by Mr.. Ginter, who intro
duced new departure in groc ery-sell-
ing, that Of selling in large quantities
at Wholesale prices to, the consumer.
Other interests caused Mr., Ginter to
relinquish his interest in the concern,
which Mr.. Wolpert has Just purchased.
Mr.. Wofpert is we'll known IN Mime
apolfs,a having been located here for a
great many years. His intimate RnowI-
edge of the wholesale business puts him
in position to conduct the business in
its proper manner.
The long established, retail store of
the Crescent Creamery Co., at 61S Hen
nepin, has been purchased by w. w.
Miller, well-known to the dairy trade
in Minneapolis. This store was until
recently known as Roper's. and is an
ideal establishment for the sale of
butter, eggs, cream, milk and other
dairy products.
Insist upon getting Pickwick Rye
no substitute is quite as good.
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the national field He had the misfor-
tune to be governor during the Span
ish war, which remorselessly exposed
the weakness of the militia system in
the state He had the eynic bad judg
ment to appoint as insurance commits
sioner the notorious lobbyist, Lou
Payn. Nevertheless, there are worse.
men.
Odell is a strengthened, heavily
built man whose cheeks hang in
pouches and whose eyes look tired. He
seems one who has Inisused his iron
strength so long as to be now less
than strong. He takes no exercise; he
is man OF lamp1ight and the council
chamber. In congress he was known
as Platt's deputy boss As governor
he made a splendid record IN his first
term, but fell below it in his second.
His grip of steel upon the party will
some day be broken as suddenly as he
broke that OF Platt | do not pretend
to say when. That day may be far it
may be near. In the latter case there
will be few to mourn Odell does not
inspire the friendship of politicians as
does Platt. nor the affection of the
people as does Depew. He is just
0dell-as you might name some abb
stract impersonal quality. There is
strength in him, but no magnetism.
Black inspires closer attachments
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on zest in life Most politicians have
other interests. Croker loves horses;
Black loves camping out; DepeW goes
abroad every year, 0dell is a business
man, fond of cigar; Hugh McLaugh-
Inns hobby was parks. Hill has moth
ing. Out of politics, he is lonely old
man, without even vices He is a
bachelor, he does not smoke, drink,
play cards He does not care for golf.
He cannot understand men who do
not remember how many majority Til
den got as governor nor the year of
KelIy's bolt against Robinson. His
abstemious life has preserved him in
excellent health; he is a good swim
mer, but not much Of an athlete other
wise. He has no business cares out
side of law practice which, constant
" interrupted as it has been by politi-
cal engagements, mas not made him
wealthy.
Hill was one of the best governors
New YORK has had in years. He has
his Maynard. as Black has his Lou
Payn. BIT there is a difference. May
nard is dead. Hill was not personally
responsible for Maynard's nomination
as secretary of state. He called it bad
politics. That was his extreme of
emphasis.
Hill was responsible for the snap
convention which he called in the
spring of 1886 to cinch the New York
delegation; lie wanted to be president
Weaker meal than he have obtained
the goal Il he has had fault as a
leader, it has been in not approaching
the force OF ideals that appeal direct
to the people. He has relied too much
upon politicians, upon politics as a
game of maneuvering He has played
it as one plays chess. And. though
beaten in a disastrous campaign that
will cause him to DE known in history
as leader of q forlorn hope, ne was in
his prime the most successful leader OF
his party in New York since Tilden.
he has done the state service in pre-
venting Fammany Hall from graspfng
its supreme power, and his personal
honor goes untainted, much as he had
to do with Albany politicians in a
time when Asbany was worse taan
now.
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known as Marion Maekay. Her prin-
eipal education was received in Eng
land, but it was while at a French
convent she began to show the en-
thusiasm for things spiritual, the
flights Of fancy that afterward were to
earn her the name of mystic. one that
dWells with the unseen The Bible
and Plato to-day are her favorite
reading. Her work has attracted much
attention in India, where The occult is
the real, and in fact all the world
reads her strange books. It is thought
there is perhaps no living English au-
thor whose works have been so extern
sively rendered into foreign languages
She has boxes of letters from people
in every quarter of the globe, from
foreign potentates down to working
miners in Australia and California. +"
Royalty shows unusual interest in this
writer. We have all heard OF The In
terest evineed by Queen Victoria and
the prince of Wales in Corelli, and it
is reported that among her admirers
are no less personages than Queen
Marguerite of Italy and the queen Of
Roumania.
Until recently it was almost inlpos-
sible TO obtain picture of Miss Gorel-
Ii, or to obtain facts about her life.
she is an adopted child. reported OF
Italian and Highland Scotch extrae-
ton. The family into which she was
adopted was one of high musical and
literary gifts; and herself early hay-
ing displayed unusual musical talent,
musical career was planned for her.
A precocious child, at the age Of IA
she began work on an elaborate oper-
eta. Alegays seer of visions 9when
she grew up she paid more attention
to putting the visions into words than
to her music; and she becomes the
noted author rather than the famous
musician. When her first book, The
Romance Of Two Worlds. was pub
Hshed. it made small stir 70. awhile,
but when once it took hold OF the pub
lie its fame spread like fame It was
translated into Swedish Russian, Ger
man, French, and modern Greek, Bar
abbas, A Dream Of the Worlds Ira
gedy, alike the most reViled, the best
praised, and perhaps one of the wild
est-read books of the day, has been
translated into French. German, Hin
doostanis and into the language of the
Parsis.
Although popular now. her first book
went begging. After several publish
ers refused it, she rubbed out her own
name from the title page. and. presto!
the thing went. What magieis there
in the words Marie Corelli2'
NORMAN. GETTING.
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ABOUT MARIE. COREL-L.|
WOMAN NOVELIST WHO IS SO
REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL.
Difficult to Get at Facts of Her Life
Mysterious Lady and Creator
of Novels Dealing with
the Occult

we snail not attempt to weigh and
judge the peculiar product of this pc
culiar literary lady, Just give few
facts of her career.
But what eerie names she does have
for her bool1s-The Sorrows of Satan,
Barabbas. Norwood. The Romance
OF Two WofIdse Gods Good Man, The
| Master Christian, The Mighty Atom.
The Murder of De1icia The Soul of Lii
18th, Temporal Power. Vendetta, lis
ka, the Problem of a Wicked Soul!
The author OF these deptnfl.l and
| mysterious titles and their accompany
ing volumes is comparatively young,
and decidedly pretty woman. Ne
realize that she is enormously indus
trious and very successful Her books
sell way, way up in the thousands her
| rewards are tangible in house and
lands and money.
Marie Corelli is at outs with critics
and reviewers, and in a way she can
afford to be. Every once in awhile she
comes out with a flashing of these Of
fensive and inoffensiye strugglers after
the needful bread and butter, bur to
the interviewer she not infrequently
shows a pleasant attitude. is friendly
and hospitable. The latter invariably
| assert that the lady is much maligned.
Of course, you know she is English,
and probably that she lives in STRAIT
ford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's town.
Miss Corelli is very fcnd of the old--a
Worsh9per devotee. defender. The par
ticular old she has been noted for pro-
teeting are Shakespeare relics STRAIT
ford memorials. She has besought and
assailed in this crusade appealed to
the throne. eensured paflianentarians
hurled broadcast plea and protest.
She herself lives in an interesting old
stratford place. and among the mel
low influences there finds inspiration
for the books appearing so regularly
from her hand.
BY the way. Marie Gorelli is but a
pseudonym. IN private life she is
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has not made good" They are pro-
posing to abolish the commission as it
now stands and authorize another of
not more than three members, and
these gentlemen to receive salaries OF
not exceeding $500 a year each. The
salaries OF the present commission are
$4,000 year. Naturally there will be
some opposition to reducing this COM
mission, and especially to a reduction
in its compensation. The commission,
of which Rear Admiral Walker is
chairman, is prepared to show that
each member has performed valuable
service, and that its future work de-
mands at least seven members, each
one of whom can have particular
branch Of the work in charge.
The house committee, of which Mr..
Hepburn, of Iowa, IS chairman. and
which visited the isthmus just before
the meeting of congress, seems partlc-
ularly set against a continuance of the
present commission. Members assert
that the commission has done very lit
tie work and that all of a practical ma
been due to Chief Engineer Wallace,
who is supposed to be subordinate to
the. commission. These congressman
claim that the work should be put in
the hands of Engineer Wallace abso-
lutely, and that he be given authority
to select an advisory board of en-
gineers with whom he can consult on
the problems presented in the con-
struction of the canal. They are will
ing to compromise by authorizing a
commission of three men, who may
have charge of the executive features
of the enterprise, but who will not be
allowed to interfere with the ccnstruc-
ton and with the engineering details.
There is a strong feeling that the
whole work should be placed under
the control of the army engineers in
the war department Engineer Wal
lace's report is now being awaited with
great interest. as it is believed that he
will show that a sea-leveI canal can
and ought to be constructed.
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stamp.

him, Gov Odell would have carried out
his bargain but for something else.
Between the morning and the after
noon of that Thursday he was changed
from a Black man to a Depew man.
Who did the changing? There was
every reason for Odell to set his
strong jaw and stick. Platt had come
from Washington, injudieiously, to
fight for Depew; it was rare chance
for Odell to administer death blow.
Why not2
State Senator Bracket, of Saratoga,
says that he was a party to the origi-
nal bargain in Blacks behalf; that
the DepeW delegates were not numer-
Gus enough to elect; that the one in
fuenee4 paramount with 0delI vas Ed
ward Hartman. the railroad presi-
dent. This is decidedly interesting. if
true. And Bracket, though ne is the
political protector of the Saratoga
gamblers, is not man who lies.
Moreover, he was one of the three
revolving senators who, in the legis-
1ature two years ago, stood ont against
has described would explain why he
was good. last winter and offered no
objection to OdeIfs policies.
Unkindest cut of all, Gov. Higgins,
who ran SO far behind his ticket be-
cause known as .Odell's man, has
made appointments of his own men.
Particularly notable is his naming OF
a business man of Clean, unknown in
politics, as superintendent of public
works, to have management of the
great s1o1,0o0,o00 deepening OF the
Erie canal Higgins himself IS a bust
ness man, those who know him well
say he will be his own master and a
good governor. He IS wealthy; the
fame of well beginning the canal
might satisfy any man.
With Higgins showing independ-
ence; with Plat ehuekling about his
Depew victory with which he had
rs much TO do as the fly on the wheel;
with Bracket and other leaders in re-
volt; with Black bitterly his enemy,
and a grave doubt how far MS infiu-
enee may run in canal matters, Chair
man 0dell is puzzled.
Why should q great railroad presi-
dent mix up in New York politics?
With hundred million dollar canal
Just beginning, there are many possl-
BILE reasons, say the Brackets.
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n 1864 He made his way to Wash

n 1864. He made his way to Wash
ington and, like all negroes. looked on
Abraham Lincoln as the patron saint
Of his race, and the one TO whom he
could appeal for help He reached
President Lincoln and related his tale
Of fleeing from slavery and coming to
Washington by the underground route.
Mr.. Lincoln gave him minor place in
his household and, except for year
or two during Cleyeland's first admins
istrat1on, Arthur has been a fixture in
the white house.
In all these years of rubbing against
statesmen md public officials Arthur
has received some polish, but he still
retains one noted trait OF his raee-a
love for the sueculent 'possum. Every
holiday season some of his old friends
in the south send him the finest, fat
test possums they can discover. 1t is
then that Arthur gloats over MS fell
low employees at the white house.
Just you wait till next Sunday, and
if you want to see the best dinner in
Washington, come around to my little
home he will say Il have the finest
latest, Dersimmon-fed 'possum you
ever saw. | will put him out doors
in the frost until Sunday morning,
and then I'll have him cooked with
vans around him and with brown
gravy. Then there will be apple sauce
and persimmon sauce, and Just taste
of something to wash it all down"
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Fourteen-Year-old Boy Drunk.

Forrteen-year-oId William Buckley,
an orphan who has supported himself
for two years past, since the death Of
his mother. was found lying drunk on
the sidewalk on Thirty. fifth street,
Manhattan, the other day by Policeman
Va. J. Forbes In the eh1ldrean,s court
he told Justice Deuel. thai he had been
working for a laundry and while out
collecting he met an=o1der boy whom be
knows by sight and who offered him d
drink of whisky out Of . bottle. He
took two drinks and what happened
after that he does not know.
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Mr. HemmenWay, chairman of the
house committee on appropriations,
already in line. there promises to be a
pretty strict enforcement of the econo-
my policy. A gentleman entered the
senate committee on appropriations
the other day with a lighted cigar in
his mouth, and happened to see Sen
ator spooner, of Wisconsin. sitting
there. Removing his cigar, he asked,
apologetically: Beg pardon, do you
allow smoking in this room2a
.*Oh,',, responded Mr.. spooner, any
thing is allowed in this room except
appropriations
stUncle Joe, as the speaker is IA
miliarly known, is very much agitated
over the s3o0oo,000 gap between I'M
Gle Sans vest and breeches. He has
warned the boys" as he terms the
members of the house, that they must
60 slow on expenditures and help him
to close that gap as far as possible
He has succeeded in cutting down the
military appropriation bill S7.o00,000,
and is now at work on the naval com
mittee trying to persuade that body
that the departments estimate of
s116, 900 is entirely too high. He
advocates retrenchment in the con-
struction of vessels. and declares that
it would be perfectly safe to delay
building any more battleships until it
is discovered whether they are the
very best type of naval architecture
In this move he has the backing Of
Mr.. Hale, chairman of the senate com
mittee on naval affairs, SO that the
prospect of three battleships, five or
six cruisers, and as many scout ships,
which have been recommended. h9ing
built is not very good.
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vofced, and his wife married Morse.
the ice trust king and owner of a
string" of state banks Two years
later Dodge was brought To New York
by a firm OF lawyers to swear that the
divorce from him had been fraudulent
ly obtained. The courts temporarily
set aside the Morse marriage while
this story was investigated 1t was
disproVed, Dodge was indicted for per-
jury and fled to Texas. accompanied
and guided by member of the firm
of lawyers that brought him to the
city. In the effort to defeat extradi-
ton they fought his case to the United
States supreme court. They spent $50
900 on him, much Of it going to Dodge
direct in the evident hope that he
would drink himself to death To fight
these expenditures the district attor-
ney has had to draw for an extra SIS
900 upon the county. Dodge was
brought north by armed force in the
persons of four gigantic Texans, and
he was glad of.their protection. He
was afraid of being kiIled-by mistake,
OF c0ufSe-ln some DdfIooIn ~" !" iieli
whisky failed to kill him.
Who brought Dodge to New York to
perjure HIMSELF Who paid $So. 1000 TO
Keep him out of the state after his
perjury become known? Who Wooed
him to deliriurn tremens that all the
bromides of the county of New York
are having trouble in subduins2 And
why did that man do it? The COM
plete answer to these questions will be
the most amazing scandal of its kind
that New York has seen in many a
day. The case ought at least to result
in the disbarment Of three or foEr
lawyers. That would be some gain.
OWEN LANGDoN.
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debate, and who seldom make speeches
on the general legislation 1t happens
frequently, however, that subjects are
introduced with which they ale thor
oughly familiar. and ii is then that
they command attention and are lis
tened to with interest by their col
leagues. The late Senator Hanna es-
tablished his reputation as ready de-
batter and a foreible speechmaker
when he addressed the senate on the
subject of an isthmian canal The
construction of canals which involves
the use of excavating machinery was
something with which Mr. Hanna was
altogether familiar, and the convin-
cling way III which he talked Of this
business proposition made his speeches
the most effective of any delivered on
the floor of the senate.
The majority of the senators are
lawyers, many of them theorists, and
not a few purely sophomore orators
1t was delight to them to listen to
some one who could talk practical
common sense and enlighten them on
business methods which he could ex-
plain in way to be understood. SEN
ator Hanna could tell to a fraction of
a cent the cost of excavating various
kinds of rock and earth, and he could
explain in language free from techni-
ealities great engineering problems, SO
that his business talks TO the senate
had more effect than hours and days
Of debate by the theorists in that
body.
Senator Kearns, of Utah, has seldom
opened his mouth in the senate, but
the other day, when the subject of the
mining laws and practical mining.
came up. Mr.. Kearns took the floor
and was at once at his ease in discus
sing a subject which he knows from
the bottom up. He had learned mining
from the pick and shovel up to the
latest mechanical method, and there
was no point in the whole subject with
which he was not familiar The SEN
ate listened to him with great atten-
ton, but when he talked of lodges,
outerops, surface indication, dips, lev
els. Stag, strikes, extra lateral rights.
veins bounding planes, segment,
quartzite, apex law, drifts, bores, ver-
teal surface, everything formations,
etc, his colleagues were ready to ac-
cept his statements on faith.
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the story of the factional divisions
that are shaking the party within two
months OF its great victory N the
state
More than year ago the plan was
laid to make Gov Odell chairman of
the republican state committee and to
choose Frank S. Black senator to sue
coed DepeW. Until Christmas there
was no doubt that the bargain was to
why it, could not be. One is a fact;
the other must be accepted upon hear
say and probability.
The first reason is the popularity of
Depew. His gradual retirement from
railroad management has renewed the
only objection against him in the rural
regions while to city and country
alike he has for years been a genial
friend. Moreover, if Mr.. Depew could
have quit telling funny stories SO
years ago-he might as well keep on
now; it's too late to ehange-he might
have been regarded as having qualities
of the statesman He is educated,
SCHOLARLY, Intelligent. ne Hats d ms
presence. health and a good voice. He
has a recognizable face. People who
have never seen him recognize him
upon the street by his pictures. He
has eloquence. known and appreciated
in London almost as in New York.
Less of a politician than Plat, he is
more nearly the type of a senator in
the ancient meaning of the word.
Though neither is of the Conkling
stamp.
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Copyright, 1906. by ]. II. Edsoll.)

Scripture Aathority:-"The Devii sim
n fss from the beginning. 81 Joha IS.
iae Devil was a murderer from the be
ginning and abode not in the truth, be-
cause there is no truth ii him Luke
S:4z God spared not the angels that
sinne3. but cast them down to he'll, and
Delivered them into chains of darkness, to
o. reserved unto judgment."-2 Pet. "a.
Ehe angels which kept not their first es-
tate, but left their own habitation He hath
reserved IN everlasting chains, under dark
ness, unto the judgment Of the great day"
Jude 6. Jesus said: / beheId Satan as
lightning fail from Heaven Luke
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sraon.ge Log Cabin.

Lady fingers that are somewhat
stale and that have become separated
may besutilized for a very pretty des-
sert by spreading the halves with or
ange or lemon jelly ard building them
log cabin shape on "a handsome dis9,
then pouring around them a white Gus
tard made Of 9 pint of milk, half a cup
Of sugar. one tablespoonful corn
starch, and the beaten whites OF two
eggs Flavor with vanilla dotting the
! eustard with small cubes OF the Jelly.
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