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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-12
Nicollet Avenue.

Someone who signs himself "Citi-
zen' wants to know if T J gu rn |
doesn't think it about time ''to jar the
city street maintenance department. on
the condition of Nicollet avenue.' Per-
haps the best way to do that would be
to compel the people who compose the
department to ride over the street.
There has been about as much Earring
of the other kind as would seem to be
worth while. r4 ..s /:
The difficulty, as already pointed out
in The GU ma Is not that the
| members of the council do not realize
}the necessity Of improving Nicollet ave
nue., but that they do not know how to
go about it. They do not want to lay
asphalt again, because of the difficulty
Of getting good asphalt, and because it
it not supposed to be a pavement espe-
cially adapted to this climate. They
cannot surface with brick or blocks be-
cause the concrete bed is laid with ref
erence to an asphalt surface. The use
of brick or wooden blocks would mean
raising the street so as to practically de-
stroy the curb. The curb is low enough
now in the case of very heavy rains:
Some solution. however, of the Nicol-
let avenue paving problem must be
found and if nothing better can beS dane
a new coat Of asphalt should be laid. It
ought to- be possible to obtain some
guaranty from an asphalt company suf,
ficient to justify undertaking that kind
of pavement again Good asphalt paw
ing has been laid in this latitude.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-12
THE SHIFTING OF ANCIENT
MORAL AND SOCIAL. LANDMARK

In story Of tragic setting Elizabeth
Cherry w altz has shown how our ancient
moral and social landmarks are being
5m 90, about. The story bears the title
Ihe Ancient Landmark. Its scene is
kentucky, 50 often called land Of
acters IF the book in i hand as s Woman man, Is
ingdom," q land where ''people will
have your spiritual pedigree. - Obvi-
ousiy the scene, for the purpose, is the
best that America affords, for, from
the above happy Characterization of the
FAIR state. it may be seen that certain
moral, spiritual and social landmarks,
which have been thrown down and de-
stroyed elsewhere, are still to be seen
there, clearly marking off right from
wrong IN the relations Of men. But even
there there is shifting Of the land
marks, and the story Of the author is
ting story OF one of these shiftings.
Dulcie De Witt is the wife Of DR..
De Witt. a degenerate thru the use Of
drink and drugs. For years she bears
the burden of. life with the man. I'M
dergoing physical violence and that far
worse thing-daily, association with a
loathsome human too weak even to
make an effort. to throw off the tyranny
OF disgusting habits. Then comes a
distant. relative, who seeks to rescue
only way, apparently, is thru the di.
vorce court. But in ."woman's king
DOM divorce is last resort, a thing
leaving a stain upon the innocent as
well as the guilty. The friends of
Dulcie cry out against such course.
They would prefer to have her return
again and again to her misery, "be-
cause misery is her luty,' than to
bring disgrace upon herself by. the final
appeal Of outraged ,wifehood. 1t is
the old protest, "Remove not the an
Ecient landmark; which thy fathers have
set only the landmark in this case
was set by the mothers and is moral O al
and spiritual, rather than material. But
the distant relative comes from among
the "moderns, AS one of Dulcie s
friends says:
the old IDEAS. i*s@'* He thinks life
is all for pleasure and happiness. He is
absolutely Indifferent to anything We
think or feel whenever 1t goes against
his desires. He does not look upon 6
woman as we do. I've seen him witt
the Hartopps and the Greathouse girls
He treats them much as I do my help
ers If they're decent at all-like sort O.
| good fellows whom he'd help in any way
| he could: I think he feels much In the
same way toward Dulcie. -.
This relative moves the landmark
With what result, is for the reader tc
discover in the book. The story, is 8
strong one, holding the reader &closely
! thrnoI1t.. tho in the end he may won
/ der why Dulcie had not appealed. fo1
relief from her husband to the probate
court, or such other court as passes
upon insanity cases in Kentucky.
Mcclure, Phillips & Co., New York.
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CIVIC ACTIVITIES

Fergus Falls, Mimi, voted strongly for
municipal ownership at a special cleo
ton. . |''@'E
Webster City, Iowa, is without city
council as the result Of a fight over
municipal ownership. At the last cleo
ton five Ownership aldermen were
elected. The five holdover aldermen are
opposed: When the council met it was a
tie. Now the new aldermen will attend
none but regular meetings, where the
subject Of ownership can come up, and
the holdover none but special meetings,
where, it cannot. There has been no
council meeting for a month, city en-
,ployees are without their pay and the
city has no tax levy for the next year.
The situation Is considered to be unique,
as Webster City is the only municipality
IN the land which has no local taxes.
- For the first time in f1fty-fiVe years the
town Of Clinton, Mass, had town meet
ing on Sept. 20. The meeting was called
at the instance Of fifteen voters by petit
ton. Over 1,400 voters were in attend
ance, and after discussing for two hours
the matters presented to them they re-
fused to take any action, referring every
thing back to the selectmen.
: The Canadian minister of railways ad-
mits that the Intercolonial railway has
been run at loss of 100000 in the
past year, and he sees no hope of reduc-
ing: the deficit, which will have to be
made up by taxation. He attributes the
failure of government ownership to thu
high; wages, the fact that government
railway employees cannot be laid off in
times Of depression without creating an
uproar, and to the fact that rates are not
adjustable under government ownership
as they would be were the railways pri-
vately owned.
Clerk Campbell Of the Suffolk superior
court refuses to patronize the. Boston
printing plant because its prices are
about third higher than those OF pri-
vate plants.
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WHEN THE VOICE CHANGES

I'm worried doggone near to death,
They's somethin' wrong with me;
Most ev'ry time 4 try to talk d.
My voice runs up to "Z;'' 4.
I start out just as natural M
AS anyone could speak.
But fore say dozen words
I, somehow, start to squeak.
1t used to be sang right good,
Jist coon songs an the like.
But now my voice gifts cracked so~much
I'm 'fraid a note to strike.
Today while talkin' to a girl
My voice began to buck.
She smiled an SEE: .You talk jist like
"A turkey" dern the luck
My.yoice is high an then it's low
oh; jist bout half an half
I'm 'shamed to use 1t cause it makes
Most everybody laugh.
Ma SEE its changin'. an that soon
I'll talk long diff rent lines,
I better er, doggone It all!
Ill start a. maxim signs.
-Bide Dudley, in Kansas City Star.
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PROBABLY BORROWED FROM LIE
SUEuR
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
The night editor Of the Tribune re-
sceived the following. query from CORE
spondent In Indianapolis last night:
"Cry Of aged wife restores husband tc
life after he had been dead several hours
Want 200 words"
With Professor Loeb and Mr.. Burbank
in mind, and being a man open to the
conviction that miracles are believable if
verified by stop watches and conducted
under purely amateur rules, the night
editor ordered the correspondent to send
seventy-five words .:..
The correspondent did. This is what
he sent: ..-
Indianapolis, Sept. 25.-William Krie-
der of Logansport, "a years Of age, died
at noon yesterday and when his wife
entered the room four hours afterward,
the sight Of her dead husband overcame
her and she screamed at the: top of her
voice. The old man opened his eyes,
looked about the room, and asked in a
feeble voice what was the matter. He
was so much better early this morning
that it is thought he will recover"
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Nothing MYSTERIOUS.

ia A !, journal reader in Valley City,
IN. ID, writes with regard to, the oppo-
sition Of grainhandlers, to the Wiscon.
sin state system Of inspection at West
Superior. He thinks it strange that
the graindealers and shippers should
object to the Wisconsin inspection un-
less it be that the Wisconsin inspection
is more rigorous.
The trouble, as we understand it.,
with the Wisconsin inspection is that
the graindealers generally do not know
what it means. It is new thing COM
paratively, and dealers in Atlantic
ports and in foreign countries do not
know what they are getting when they
are offered wheat sold under Wisconsin
inspection. They do know what they
are getting under Minnesota inspection,
because it has been in effect a long
time: and has come to be known IN
eastern markets. As long as the deal
ers cannot sell, under Wisconsin inspec-
.tion as readily as under Minnesota,
there doesn It seem to be any special
mystery about the opposition Of the
grainhandlers to the efforts Of the Wis
consin authorities to enforce their sys-
tenn at West Superior.
So far as the property holders in SUI
perior are concerned, however, it does
seem strange that they will insist upon
forcing upon the grain men a system
of inspection which is calculated to
drive that business out of their town.
1t is the not infrequent remark of ele'
vator men on the Wisconsin side that
they regret very much being located
| there, and they will not erect storage
for another bushel Of grain on the Wis
| consin side until this annoyance fr0s'
the Wisconsin inspection bureau Is
abolished. Doubtless the storage fol
grain at the head Of the lakes will in
crease, but doubtless it will not in
crease on the Wisconsin side until the
foolish jealousy Of Duluth, which in
spires this inspection movement in Su
perior, is overcome and graindealers or
that side of the line are allowed tt
avail themselves of a system of inspec
ton which is known and accepted d il
the markets of the world 1t will bt
very much to the interest Of Superior
as: a business center when that time
arrives.
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How the Portland Exposition

The Portland fair has been a success
In more senses than one. Financially,
it has come out on the right side of the
final statement, and in point Of attend
ance it has drawn great many moro
people than was anticipated by the most
sanguine Of its projectors. The total
attendance is said to have exceeded
2,250,O00. Z
The attendance has been surprise
to more people than those Immediately
connected with the exposition. It has
probably surprised the railroads more
than anybody else. Not anticipating
much extra travel on account of the
exposition, the railroads made exceed
mgly low rates for the round trip, but
the; holding Of numerous conventions in
Portland in addition to- the .attractiye=z
ness OF the cheap rate and the desire
to see the extreme northwest, sent tens
ofEthousands to: the coast, where. only
few thousand were expected as extra
travel.
The conditions provided for in the
tickets have been very liberal. Stop
over privileges have been granted free
ly,e wide circuits have been included in
the round trips, and the people who
nave made the Pacific coast trip this
year, barring some Of the Inconvenience
from overcrowded trains, have Travelled
TO an extent and under conditions never
beiore enjoyed for the price.
Ehe class of travel, too, has been re-.
= 1,or
people have availed themselves of this
opportunity to see the far, west and
many OF them have been so attracted
by 1t that probably nothing has ever
happened better calculated to draw
population of the best kind westward
and locate it all the way from the Mis-
s1sslppir river to the Pacific coast.
While the people of Minneapolis who
are expected to look. after such thinos
failed to appreciate all that. was to be
gained for this city by this heavy move
ment Of travel, thousands have visited
this city during the past summer who
nave become. Impressed by its beauty.
It's attractiveness as a place Of residence
8 and its advantages as 81 place sof bust
ness, and we have every reason@to OK
pect large acquisitions to- our $popula-
ton from this source. The great pity
I is that, more attention was not paid to-
the possibilities for profitable. advertis-
4 Ing in arranging forthe: return of more
Of these people by way of Minneapolis
with stopcver privileges here. Mime
apolis is so prosperous and so beautiful
chat strangers who visit her in the sum
me-. are almost sure to yield to her at
traetiveness as aplace st residence, Il
they are not permanently.located: i:sI
It should be the business Of the Com
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LIFE ON THE PEAK .@z
OF A HOT VOLCANO

servatory are placed a couple of tab
let's commemorating the death of tour
lists and guides alike, who were over
Whelmed in the awful eruption of 1872.
There were many days during the years
1869 when I thought the observa-
tory positively doomed to destruction,
after all its years Of services A Sec
ondary crater opened up hideously,
vomiting fire and ashes, lava streams
and rocks, between the observatory and
the foot of the cone, filing up the
Piano dele Ginestre. I waited and
waited. reluctant to leave while my
senses were with me; and at last, to
beloved collections rather than for my
self, the great rivers of lava heaped
themselves up into hill Of consider
able height, which formed a kind Of
bulwark for the eminence of San Sal
vatore on which my house is built
On May Ii, 1900, the writer was OBJ
serving the eruption from q point not
far from the crater's edge; his account
Of the incident follows: s'The energy
of the explosions was increasing enor-
mously; and aware that a still greater
not moment to lose, T ran away from
the edge of the abyss, calling loudly to
my assistants, who followed me at once,
knowing that the conditions foreboded
a possible catastrophe. We could not
run very fast, however, because the
cone was covered with immense quanti-
ties Of loose stone that had been eject
ed during the past few days; and
then, moreover, we had to be constantly
looking back to watch the action of the
great volcano, even tho thereby We
should court fate worse than that OF
Lot IS wife. ], remember we fed west
ward. toward the Plair. of the FumaroH.
or smoke-vents. We were hardly sixty
feet away from the edge of the great
crater, however, when a truly fearful
explosion took place. At that moment
I had no other thought than that of my
scientific work, and SO / stopped and
turned eagerly toward the stupendous
column of smoke that rose into the sky.
My assistant and our guides were farth-
er off. Instantly found myself in the
midst Of shower Of hurting stones.
How I avoided them I can not say.
They whistled and screamed like proiec-
tiles in battle. I did my best to avoid
the larger rock masses, which always
fall first. I bent as low as possible,
with arms and hands trying to save my
head. My camera was smashed to
pieces, and while stopping to regain its
lens, I lost my balance and fell into
mass of scalding-hot ashes. I believed
myself lost, but second or two later
realized that the fatal moment had
passed.
This particular observation put Pro-
fessor Matteucci in the Naples hospital
for a number of weeks.
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PEEk-A-BOO

"Peek- a-boo!' say little Olaf.
"Yu can't find me. Ay ban hid"
Den *Ay Used to look all ovtr 80 -
For my little blue-eyed kid
OPP in attic, dawn III cellar,
: Back Of chairs on parlor floor;
Den he used to laugh. and tai me-
"Ay ban back Of kitchen door,
''Peek-a-boo!'' he used to tai me,
Shut yure eyes, and don't you peek!"
Den Az feel his arms around me .
And his kisses on my cheek.
'Now Ay'm hiding, dad" he tai mel
Maybe, eff you look some more,
Yu skol find yure little Olaf, "
Ay ban back Of kitchen door!''
''Peek-a-boo!" Az hear; him calling,
LAX he called long. time ago. ~. \. "
Var ban little Olaf hiding.
Maybe angel fallers know.
Thousand times Ay look to find him
Hiding back Of kitchen door.
But Az only see some shawods;
Az can't find him any more.
$3.50. William r. Kirk.
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ERA OF GOOD FEELING
y ;eI,oo NJ n Eroo praee

: - Lisbon, n, D., Free Press:
: On the 18th Of September Theodore
Roosevelt completed four years Of service
in the presidency, and that he has more
than fulfilled expecta tons is generally
realized. Both the majority and minority
parties credit him with ability, honesty
and courage and the present period of oul
history is more nearly likened to that of
James Monroe, where party differences
were hardly perceptible. Sectional issues
have nearly disappeared and outside of
the tariff arguments 1t is hard to dis
tinguish a republican from a democrat
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-12
MRS. ATHERToN,s NEW NOVEL

,MRS. ATHERTON's NEW NOVEL.
The Travelling Thirds, new novel by
Gertrude Anterior, is just from the
Harpers' presses. Mrs. Anterior OBJ
tanned the material for this story dur
ing a recent visit to Spain, and the land
Of $brigands and matadors is made to
furnish romantic background ;kga Tor ga
rates The adventures which befall a
party Of Americans who haye been in
duced by madesP qslif f. me- cousin !4h1,,
Catalina, to travel third-clas thru
SPAIN The std1y H. said TO- have. an
unusual swing and dramatic interest.
Mrs. Anterior, who is just recovering
from a serious illness, lis still in Munich.
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NDAVID HARUM,'

Il. tsDAVID HARUM'' PAYS AU-
THOR'S ESTATE 125,000.-"D David
Harum,'' the novel written by the late
Edward Noyes Westcott Of Syracuse,
N Y, Melted the authors estate about
s$l25,000, according to a. statement
made in sufrogate's court yesterday,
when the final acc bunting Ct the ex-
ecutrix of the estate was filed, Mr..
Westcott, who was a banker, died sew
eral years ago, and the estate was held
open to derive the benefits from the
sale of the novel. g g. }'.a.r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-12
Our Declining Birth Rate.

The census bulletin upon the proper
ton Of children under five years Of age
to the number of women between Is
and 40 years Of ago, shows decreas
ing ratio, with some few exceptions, for
every decade since the beginning of the
last eenturytr III This decrease has in-
Guided the negroes in~ the south as::weH
as thpswhitsss in the north.l>t <.r7ore j..
Whether the decrease shows an actual
fall in the birthrate is something the
sociologists are unable to determine be-
cause; the vital statistics Of the coun-
try are too incomplete to admit Of a
conclusion. 49,: >'sE"7
The opinion Of General Francis Walk
er, superintendent Of the census Of 1870
and 1880, is, quoted in this bulletin with
the suggestion that it is supported by
statistical evidence. General Walker
thought thataforeign: immigration from
the time it assumed large proportions
amounted not to a reinforcement Of our
population, but to a replacement Of ma
tive with foreign stock; that if the for
eigners had not come the native ele-
ment would long ago have filed the
places the foreigners have taken.
: Whether this : opinion contains the
truth about the assumed decrease in the
birthrate. is not easily decided owing to
the fragmentary character Of our sta
tistics, but it is worthy of note that
Australia, which has had no torrent of
foreign immigration, has suffered such a
severe decline in the birthrate as to
lead to the appointment Of commits
sion in New South Wales to INVESTIGATE
it.
f. For comparison with the opinion Of
General Walker, the arguments iof DR..
John Shaw Billings are worthy of con
sideration:<s sDp.E sBi1lin gs' article was
written twelve years ago, and his OBJ.
servations since have strengthened his
belief in their. accuracy. DR.. Billings
opinion Is that while the decreased
birthrate may be traced to changes in
the. mode of life Of the people, the
gathering toward the cities, the so.
called emancipation Of women, etc.. the
main cause is the deliberate avoidance
of collaborating on the part of steadi
Fly increasing number of married people
He concludes, that, if this view 81
the case be the correct one, the relative
birthrate will continue to decrease AND
decrease faster. ~-ss. >-. g,
DR.. Billings does not share the alarm
list views on the subject. but ratheil
takes the Malthusian end Of the argu
ment, declaring that if the increase OF
population had not been checked. the
world would now be overcrowded. HI
declines to view the lowered birthrate
as in itself an evil. nor does he believe
| it will be worth while to attempt to in
crease it merely to naintain constant
increase in population. ~. -
DR.. Billings may perhaps be excused
for taking an optimistic view Of the
subject here because & the birthrate il
| the United States, while decreasing, il
still respectable, but when we get to The
point where France is today with &
birthrate which is farcical, for an EN-
pire striving to perpetuate itself, its
traditions and language, it may be tina
we shall take a more serious view Of
| the problem.
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The new Grecian bend "poise'' adopted
by English leaders is said to resemble an
Interrogation point Punch sings Of it
thus: ~
This fashion will no doubt amuse
The sstreetboy ever CHEEKY;
And madame, when he airs his views,
Will. feel more queer than :?
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~-eAPPROXIMATE.-In spe

49, APPRoXIMATE.-In speaking of
the . New. England "spinster prob
lem, says Harper 8 Weekly,
Mrs. Mary Wilkins Freeman told a
rather pathetic + little s story of
an aged maiden =lady#who once said that
she had never received an actual pro-
.posal Of marriage, Hbut,'' and here's she
blushed family, ga gentleman once
asked me to walk with him in the gar
den by moonlight, and we all know
what that means, my ;dear.' {. r
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TIE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

Asphalt Paving" by Andrew Rosewater:
''The Toronto Street Railway Agree
ment," by Francis s. Spence; "The
Smoke Nuisance" by R. P. King; .'Mu-
nicipal FINANCE and Accounting" by
Louis Betz, and Municipal Water Sun
pHes,,' by L.. HI. Chappell.
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WITH SPURS OF GOLD,

with SFUR0 OE WILL, Uy IIdaC0o
N. Greene and Dolly Williams Kirk,
with illustrations, is a book OF stories
of famous knights, including the tales
of the deeds Of Roland and Oliver, the
Cid. Godfrey de Bouillon, Richard Coeur
Philip Sidney, While in a way these
are historical studies they are full Of
life, action and entertainment, as well
as instructive information.
Little, Brown & Co., Boston.
81 30.
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Bishop Fallows is not particular wheth-
er money is tainted or not. He says take
a any. money that may: be offered for re-
poses poses. The proper use Of It will purify
it, 8 fEhes bishop says .take what is Of
fered," but does the. bishop propose to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-12

= The Investigating committee has not
yet brought out whether the McCalls and
the McCurdys j carried any insurance.
Possibly they HAD policies in the Royal
Arcanum. - -
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Representative Hull says deficits are
not likely If we make our expenditures
come within our income" Representa-
tive Hull will, if he is not careful, get
in the running with the gentleman who
said a surplus is easier to handle than a
deficit go:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-12

The presidents attempt to put foot
ball on a peace. footing has won him the
weH-merited contempt Of the. violent
ward. ,.7,~