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In Memory of Mrs. Julia E. Gibson

No sex is spared, no age exempt.
Death to them tLst be Gods CHI
dren, is no other thing to them than
the dispatcher OF all displeasures.
( When the hearts Of husband, chill
dren and parents arc crushed by a
blow of our common enemy, death,
and home loses a faithful and af-
fectionate wife, a devoted mother,
| IL is hard to realize that God doeth
all things for our9ood aud His gloryi
but we have to console ourselves by
the precious promise: "Come unto
me all We that are heavy laden, and l
will give you rest" Sister julia E..
Gibson had a heart full Of kindness
Cor all she met, and the highest love
and alteration for her Maker. She,
no doubt, was the JOY of happy
family, and the pride o all who knew
her, for TO know her was 10 love her.
She bad been failing in health for
some time, but was corined to her
ped only few days. She bore her
Affections with great christian forii-
tude, but death came inan upexpect-
ed hour. yet she was not afraid to
die, but was ready 10 60 to meet her
Savior whom she loved. May we
bow in humble humility aud ador-
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tionsl Bank.
"A National Bank is cele-
10th anniversary to-day
having been organized
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fin Madison and up to the
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

within him. Rome, according to one
writer Of the time, became city full
of eyes and ears for both that which is
and that which is not. - If man
wouldn't say anything reasonable, he
was tempted to do It. If he still re-
fused, he was denounced anyhow, on
the general principle that man who
could give up' and wouldn't give
up, must be made to give up.
A policeman Of an ordinary American
commonwealth really is bird with
clipped wings compared to the police
of Rome. They mot only had superv1-
sion over the dispensation Of food sup
plies to the poor, but they controlled
the whole food supply Of Rome. A small
army Of men under "prefectus an
nonae" looked after this. The police
also looked after the water supply,
which was magnificent. They regulated
the profession of medicine and made the
doctors conform to certain regulations.
I They collected the market taxes, prose
cuted food authorizations, were examin-
ers Of weights and measures, had power
to fix taxes on bread and -four, and even
had the power to imprison any who
tried to form a corner in foodstuffs of
any kind.
There were plenty Of markets to offer
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a good field. There were separate mar
kets for oxen, for pigs, for corn, vege-
tables, wine, fish, etc. All these were
under complete police control.
Then there were the guilds, such as
the bakers, the coppersmiths, and SO on,
who also were under the thumb of the
police.
Street peddlers and sidewalk mer-
chants were permitted to drive their
trade everywhere and anywhere. Par
ticularly prominent among them was
our old friend the frankfurtel man, for
sausage and pea meal was q favorite
dish of the Roman populace. aJugglers
and acrobats performed in public with
out hindrance. In the streets magic
ians, snake eaters, sword swallowers
and men with iron jaws produced their
thrilling acts just as they do in the
fairs of America
The "cops' were not gentle ones.
"Move on, there" and SEQ along and
shut up, or I'll run youse in" probably
were as common words in the Street Of
Macmillan or on the Field Of Mars as
they are in our streets. And at the
times of the games, when as many as
100000 people tried to crowd into the
circus OF Titus, while 10000 piled into
each amphitheater, the police had their
hands full.
They managed the crowds in good old
(and new police fashion, by riding into
them and stabbing and cutting with
lances and swords in a genial and
hearty manner, SO that citizen of New
York or most other American towns
would have felt quite at home in those
days In the crowds around the Circus
Maximus or Nero g Golden House.
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the great one remains. But into the
darkness the sound is speeding, and the
eye instinctively follows it, in vain en-
deavor to watch it's invisible flight. No
wonder bards have often sung Of this,
the music Of thousand ages, the music
that fits all sentiment and is in accord
with every human emotion. Far out in
the city the sound is flung, reverber-
ating against walls and towers and
trees, hurting itself at and thru the
rolling clouds, as if obeying the impulse
Of the immortal Tennyson,
Ring out. wild bells. to the wild sky.
The sound is lost, but slowly the city
of fairyland grows into being beneath
us. Long lines of light mark out the
main roads radiating from somewhere
below; the eye follows one Of them. It
is Washington avenue. First a series of
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bright star-like dots in line, then q
break or two, and further the dots
again, that become so closely Joined
that they end in faint meteor-like line
vanishing into darkness. The silver out
lines of the falls of ST. Anthony take
shape to the east, and from them in
both directions stretches the sinuous
thread of the river, joining more than
separating the two sides of the city.
Of the bustling crowd we know is
beneath us, nothing is visible but a
legion of fre-flies that dart hither and
thither-cars and autos, these-and
nothing is audible but subdued hum
of wheels and brakes and horse hoofs;
all lesser sounds are dwarfed into moth
ingness, for we are now held high on
our pinnacle above material things, en-
veloped by the unstable element man
has yet to conquer.
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~ IAGARA FALLS is to be pre-.
~ served as one of the seven won
ders of the world under for
NAL agreement between the United
States and Great Britain. The hand of
industry which has been diverting the
waters from this stupendous cataract is
to be stayed. In accordance with In
structiens given by the president, Sec
rotary Root will initiate negotiations
with Sir Mortimer Durand, the British
ambassador, to limit the use of the wa
ters Of Niagara river for industrial pur-
poses.
The prospect of the destruction of
Niagara Falls as one Of natures scenic
wonders was called to the attention of
the president some weeks ago by civic
association Of New York. This organ
ization expressed deep concern over the
encroachments upon the flow of water
and perdicted that as result of the
operations of the electric development
plants erected on the American and
Canadian sides Of the stream, the vol
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did cause trouble with the clock, hence
the regulation.
A night survey from the sttops' is
something to be remembered forever.
It was disappointing to find that first
climb of the city hall tower by day
light had destroyed the thrills of mag
ination, and that the darkness-real
this time-did not suggest spooks and
bogies when climbing the steps. Every
thing was plain, unromantic and real,
but very dark.
What change, tho, when the belfry
was reached. The pillars we had left
but a few hours before, were they really
so Target Are we really alone, and
are those shadows or imps crouchine
beneath the parapet2 Why does the
handrail shake? There should be nc
vibration here! What nonsense-it is
the hand that trembles, not the rail.
Twice we essay to call out, twice the
effort is too great for US. Summoning
all our will power, we at last venture
a disappointing Hello, and imagine
we hear the sharp reply: sSpeak
louder, get closer to the phone.' But
there is really no answer, and we are
just becoming accustomed to the dark
ness, when
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Is Have you ever stood alone save fol
the silent presence of a family of huge
Ebellse Have you ever done this al
night, when one Of them, within a foot
Of you, has been struck by it's giant
hammers IF SO, you know the feeling
and will understand the paucity Of Ian
guage.
Boom bing bang bong -g-g-g.,'
It is the first quarter, and the great
bells have sent out their message
faithfully to the city beneath.
Science is real up here; the sound
waves Of these iron-throated heralds ca,
be plainly felt, and the hand that grasp
the rail so firmly tingles with the vibra
tions Of melody, harmony and over
tone, Z, until the smaller bells ar
Quoted, and only the vibrant hum q
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beyond a generous limit. And these
great square-topped buildings reveal a
new city, known to but few people.
Little industries are carried on up here
out OF the way, during the summer
months at least, that the average citi-
zen does not dream Of. One Of the large
stores had repair shop on the roof
during the summer The care-taker of
another building spent his entire season
IN his s roof garden as he termed it.
An fastener went into the office of
one. of the largest buildings in the city
recently and put the query to the agent,
DO you want to rent the roof9O The
CONSERVATION this simple inquiry caused
amused the New Yorker, who jocularly
explained he was thinking of building
a departure platform for future insur.
ance men who wished to take the air
line : to safety. He really wished to
negotiate for space to operate an adj
vertising night sign.
The top of the metropolitan Life
building is Interesting on account of
the thermometer, the little wind gage
SuAOt WIN OllC
slightest breeze. !. This continuance is
set on. top Of a steel mast with project
ing steps, and down In the weather
bureau Office in Sthe federal building
nearby, a little ticker is recording the
velocity Of the wind and other data
for the observer.
The view from the Union station
clock towersis sappointing. Permis-
sionabeing grantedb the stationmaster
we were led by sthe janitor thru the
doorway of the tower, which was care
fully locked behind us.
Why do you lock the tower door
janitorf,'
So much. hot air rushes up wher
they are loose that it stops the clock,
he says. . sss. 81
On further inquiry Of the officials il
appears there was mo satire in The
janltor's statement, for it is a fact. thai
the air currents OF varying Temperature
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BY Julius Muller.

fCcpyright 1905, by Mcclure, Phillips & co.,
~ HERE is on old Egyptian story
that tells how the captain Of
the guard of Rameses l. took a
bride from a thief who wished to steal
the old gentleman s treasure. The cap
tain Of the guard was chief Of police;
no we may be sure when we unearth
some Of these mummies in fine linen
with blue masks over their 3,000-year-
old faces, we often unearth good old
CRATER. s..
Later, In the days Of Haroun Al
Raschid, he and his poor old grand
vizier, who seems to have been kind
Of DR.. Watson to the Khalifa g Sher-
lock, had their hands full o. nights try
ing to reform the grating police Of
Bagdad.
Probably there will be discoveries Of
Che same old graft in the records of
Babylon as the excavations there pro-
coed, for it is altogether unlikely that
the police of 5000 years ago were any
more careless about their opportunities
than they have been ever since. A.:
The previous fact is that police graft
appears to be almost natural, tho hate
full, consequence of the unnatural con-
ditions of all civilizations, modern and
ancient, which all present the anomalous
circumstance Of hired men being en-
ployed by the people to boss and rule
them in their daily concerns.
Old Egypt did it and it's ancient liter
allure is full Of moral reflections about
the iniquity Of collecting blackmail and
extracting riches by oppression. Mod
ern New York does it and modern Ber-
lin and modern Paris. Un-modern Con-
stantinople and Teheran do it, medi-
eval St. Petersburg does it, the black
police Of Port-au-Prince and the white
police of every other Americar town
do it. =
And old Rome s police did ibid it in
q measure that would have caused
political agony turnout modern city
not to mention the physical agony which
was caused on slight provocation.
Good Old Graft.
Old Rome's police history really is
very Illuminating as to the history OF
police graft generally. Before Nero's
day it became organized, and for cen.
turtles afterward it was SO powerful that
the rulers themselves, like the reform
rulers today, couldn't stop it, and, in
deed, were Eshaken down. themselves
ut times.
Rome really was very much like s
typical city of today, even to the tene
ment houses and the 'Fjerry' builder
for the imperial city had quarters where
the rookeries were built up as high a.
six stories and now and then they woulc
fall down.
There were constant squabbles be
tween the different departments. TIL,
health board and the police had con
ficts about authority frequently ant
then both sides would join hands tenn
porarily to have conflict with the PEG
pie, who didn't like to have law, order
cleanliness and health forced ,on then
by police authority any more than tn,
free and enlightened electorate of to
day likes it.
.%s Like most of our American cities
Rome grew in a hurry. For severa
centuries it was in the chronic Ameri
CAN state Of "being finished Afte
the Gallo wars, most of it had to be re
built and the work was done in hast
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HAD THEIR HANDS FULL
OfNlGHTS TRYING TO REFORM
The GRATING POLICE :.
OF BAGQAD -

ignorant men in the world, men cunning
in trade and men hot with fighting lust
and quick to kill.
Officially there were about 100000
paupers in Rome. Actually more than
100000 applied for the city. dole Of
grain and other food during Cesar's
time. These beggars wandered from
house to house in troops. They occupied
the bridges and the pubic streets,
crowded the forum, covered in door
ways and begged openly. Among them
were many thousands Of free Romans,
for the high rents and the speculation
in foodstuffs made homeless folk Of
mapy who would have been quite well
able to earn a living, had the cost Of
everything not been so excessive. !.
This mob frankly and impudently de-
manded ''bread and games from the
authorities, and the police became the
dispensers Of the food. That made the
finest - Of Rome as popular with the
mob as the police are today. S
Uncanny Streets.
The streets were unlighted, and all
sorts of Adventures, from Algerian
corsairs to Tartar savages, attracted
by the glamor. Of the mistress Of the
world, found the darkness welcome
field for their drunken orgies and their
thirst FOR money or blood. @-.-
The taverns Of the imperial city were
famous over the earth, from Cathay to
Gibraltar. In the police records they
were classed with the lists Of thieves
and dicers. Their owners were known
to be fences and panders. They were
thick with filth and alive with insects
The better classes never dreamed Of
staying in a Roman tavern over night
but went to the houses Of friends.
Thieves, street bandites, crooked gam.
blers and women Of all nations from
the blacklist negresses to the fair haired
Germanic beauties made these taverns
their headquarters and hiding places
Thus, with beggars to add to the un
canny company, the society to be found
On Roman streets at night was not ex
actly delightful. .....
Of course the citizens spasmodically
demanded reforms and the police die
what they do today. They let the tav
erns and the crooks do what they
please until the agitation became toe
strong. Then they made spectacular
raids and drove thousands of disorderly
characters out, only to let them come
in again as soon as the excitement died
At other times they had investiga
tions, ;" like our assembly investiga
| tions. One Of these was into the begga1
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1V Of view, whether Of the actu-

~ ~ OCH depends upon the point
~ Of view, whether Of the actu-
alities of life or. Of thoughts
and theories. Things look very differ
emit when. viewed from unusual stand
points; conventional standards are dis
placed, and new ratios and comparisons
must take their place. -,
IN Such is the philosophy that forces
itsef upon one when looking on the
commonplace objects of everyday life
from great attitudes. There is sense
Of exhilaration in looking down upon the
earth, proportionate to the attitude Of
the viewpoint and the consequent range
Of vision. It is not given to all Of US
TO stand on the rim Of the grand canyon,
or revel in the historic panorama from
Lookout mountain, but right here in
The center of Minneapolis there are
ascents well worth undertaking, and
quite as fascinating in their way as sur
veys further afield.
+. !. !.
The city hall is so much part of
civic life, it's great clock that gets the
time with tolerable accuracy, and its
peal of bells are as familiar to Min
neapolitans as the street cars and
s stores, ana eye anu ear nave become so
accustomed to placing them in their
proper perspective that they are seldom
given more than a passing thought. The
Guaranty Loan !, building, CHOW the
Metropolitan Life), with its little. par
titions and weathervane, are accessible
at very small sacrifice Of energy and
money, yet but few take advantage of
the opportunity thus afforded by look
ing at the town from the top. The Lum-
Der Exchange, the Union station and
the old Auditorium across the river,
have their separate stories to tell, for
the philosophy Of the house-tops is as
full of variety and incident as life on
the ground floor.
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quick-acting, smooth-running ele.
vator takes one to the limit Of its cable
in about fifteen seconds, and sets one
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A Fine Detective Force,

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Besides the regular uniformed and
armed police force, which was military
in it's organization, there was a big de
tective force. that was greatly feared
because it had become unspeakably cor
rupt in loving sympathy with the grow
ing corruption of the emperors. While
it had been formed originally to un
cover crime Of all kinds, it became
almost entirely political after a, while
s The misrule Of the emperors pro
duced more, or less dissatisfaction con
stantly not only among the common PEG
pie, but among the mobiles, and the de
tective force was Invaluable in discover
ing plots and agitations.
The officials of this detective force
were known as spectators and
frumentarii, = and officially belonged
to the army as officers, but in reality
were, nothing but spies.
When they had developed their sys
tenn of espionage to the full, blackmai
and graft fourished in way to make
the heart of a political boss laugh
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down on the top floor of the city hall.
The echoes Of footballs thruout the inner
quadrangle are weird and indistinct,
and are the only sounds that reach the
vaulted room of this cement and iron
gallery.
Cropping towards the point where. a
rectangle Of absolute blackness indicates
the place for an iron door, one comes to
the foot of winding stair that leads
upward with problematic fascination. It
would be impossible to so far over
come curiosity as to return without
finding out the secret of Sup there
and the ascent is commenced. Two
rounds Of the stairs and the darkness
is complete. A poor struggling beam Of
sunlight penetrates the loophole, and
dies on the cold, harsh angles Of the
steps and the curving wall. Small need
Of poesy is in this matter-of-fact seal
ing Of a chimney, yet that little sun
beam whispers to us Of HChillon IS
dohjon deep and cold,' and tho the
smile stops there, a shudder comes over
us at the thought: Round and, round
ever upward with uncertain step, for
the continual turning brings dizziness
with it, we climb towards the light we
is here. Five score steps or more we
count, until we stop the climb for want
of breath, the darkness all around us
But tho the limbs are motionless, mag.
ination is. rife. in that five minutes
climb, it has carried us back five cen
turtles, and across five thousand miles
of land and sea, to the fortresses and
castles Of medieval times, and it is
with a sort of disappointm that, the
next hundred odd steps negotiated, we
emerge on the platform Of the tower
and find ourselves really back again in
the actualities Of today.
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The size Of the tower amazes us
It would be quite large enough for 9
good-sized at home or dance, and the
stone balustrades are SO high and ,close
that there is no danger of falling over
The great cylindrical columns that sup