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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-03
A Trio Of Amusing Tricks

you are going to screw them together
without screws. Again they will doubt
your success, and again will you show
your power.
With a sharp penknife cut away part
OF the surface OF each bullet, thus max
ing those two parts fiat. Then put the
two fiat parts together, and press them
with a slight screwing motion, when II
will be found that 1t will take a little
force to pull them apart. You may make
a number of them stick together In the
same way, thus forming a sort Of bullet
stick.
Another pretty trick, says the Chicago
Inter Ocean. may be performed with ar
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-03
Chinese Newspapers.

Chinese newspapers, owing to the
cheap quality Of paper used and to the
low price of labor. both literary and
mechanical. are issued at an extremely
small figure. The price Of the ordinary
Shanghai journal is four cash, or about
one-hfth of a cent.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-03
STRENGTH of Elephants.

At a recent test of animal strength
two elephants broke the record by
pushing the indicator up to $500
pounds. One elephant alone scored
1900 pounds, and the two showed a
strength equal to that of rs men or six
horses. Two camels only pulled 1000
pounds.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-03
BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.


rx-Goyernor of Wisconsin, Former Ed
Itor Of ''Peck's Sum-" Author Of
"Peck's Bad Boy" etc.)
Copyright. 1905, BY Joseph B.. Bowles)
well, | suppose you have got your
European airs worn of, so you can
come down to plain American living
again." said the old groceryman to the
bad boy when he came into the grocery
with a kerosene can, and sat down on
the barrel of dried apples, and reached
into the barrel Of lump sugar, and filed
his pocket. The old man had Just cut
a new cheese, and he sliced off a thin
niece of cheese and laid 1t en- a big
square cracker and handed It to the
boy, saying: Just lay that inside
your ribs and tell me If you got any
thing to eat in Europe that could hold
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-03

when they all got asleep, and ! began
to cry. and wish | was dead, dad woke
nm and said. Now | won't do a
thing to your Greeks and he went
around to the sleeping bandits and
took ell their knives and all their
money and he took off the petticoat
tbev had given him to wear and tied
. b,anke around his waist, AID he
tied their legs together with strings
- the saddles of the mules. and just
before daylight on the second morning
ADD and / got on the biggest mule and
started down the trail, and when we
struck level ground we mauled that
mile end be got q move IN him and
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-03

by monographs
and gramophones,
invented by Mr.. G.
A. Parsons, the
inventor of I h e
steam turbine, and
Mr.. Horace Short.
A small valve Of
peculiar construc-
ton controls the
admission into the
trumpet Of COM
pressed air sup
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-03

The Bad Boy and Hi Dad at a Chris
tian Science Boarding House-The
Bad Boy Tells His Uncle How They
Were Kidnapped in Greece-Dad
Sang "Hot Time In the Bandits
Cave and When They Were Asleep
Escaped on a Mule.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-03

Antwerp is yet the fourth largest port
in the world, being exceeded in the ton
mage of the vessels entering only by
London. Hong-Kong and New York.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-03
A NEW "FAR-SPEAKER.'
Attachment for Talking Machines
Which Multiplies the Sound
Many Fold.

The "auxetophone" is an attachment
for reinforcing the sounds given forth
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

creation, Pacific Monthly, Burr McIn-
tosh, Cosmopolitan, Worlds Worw,
Everybody S, Country Life in America,
Cuba Bulletin, Sunday Herald, the AS
ISOLATED Sunday Magazines, and other
weekly and monthly publications. He
always prefers to remain a free-lance
rather than. tie down to exclusive
work for any one publication. The
Field Columbian and American Muse
,ums, the Peabody and Brooklyn Insti-
tutes, the New York Educational board
and such lecturers as Burton Holmes,
Ernest Thompson Seton and Mrs. John,
Hays Hammond, are freely. using Mr..
5Matteson s slides and photographs.
More than half Of the photographs used
in the Burton Holmes published lee
ture on "Maki Land" and of DR.. Dor
sey's M~ischongnovi- Snake ceremony
were taken by Mr.. Matteson, tho both
had at considerable expense, their own
professional photographers in the field
with them. j.
It always proves a surprise to photo
graphers to learn that Mr.. Matteson 8
negatives are all on films, for he has
never used a plate camera. Most Of his
side trips have been made on a bicycle
where it would be impossible to carry
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10
GRAND JURY WILL PROBE
MURDER,

Harry Laramie and James R. Egan,
accused Of the murder of Special Officer
Peter Raverty of ST. Paul, were bound
over to the grand jury yesterday 81.
Judge Finehout.s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

AUTO ACCIDENT PROVES FATAL.
Sergeant Major Senior Of the Third
artillery, who for several years had
been with the quartermaster1s depart
ment at st. Paul, died yesterday at ST.
Joseph's hospital from injuries received
a week ago when his Wagon was struck
by IN automobile.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10
THE PASTOR WHO IS -
ENFORCING THE La W.
His Present Campaign in
the R1yerside District Is
Not the First Req. B. L.
7horem Waged Against
the Liquor Taafic-Story
of HIS Life.

The Riverside residence district is
stirred by a temperance campaign at
present such as it has never known be-
The man. behind the movement, who
personally caused the arrest of half the
sa1oonkeepers of Riverside for not OBJ.
serving the Sunday closing law, and
who says he intends to keep up the fight
until he is successful no matter how
long it takes, is Rev. Benedictus L. Tho
rem. He lives at 2216 Twenty-ffth
avenue s, and is pastor of the Swedish
Evangelical Bethany church, adjoining
his residence.
Mr.. Thoren has associated with him a
committee of eighteen prominent resi-
dents Of the district. This committee
has made a house to house canvass, and
pie to their movement for literal en-
forcement Of all liquor laws.
"Every house has been visited from
Twenty-third avenue S to the river
said Mr.. Thoren to he j ourna l..
Gin some blocks, SO per cent of the
residents pledged their moral support
to. the reform work. Right in the neigh
the residents were with us. The aver
age of those giving our cause encour-
agement was about 90 per cent. There
are twelve saloons in the Riverside dis
trict, and we insist that they all strict
ly. observe the law. We won't stop
our campaign until they do.
~ have promises of plenty Of finan-
cial backing, and several firms of at
torneys have offered their services free
It needed for consultation or pRosecu-
tions.'
Mr.. Thoren is not new to this work
of reform. In 1895 he was pastor of a
church in Pawtucket, R. /. There he
was secretary and an ardent worker in
the cause of enforcing all laws for reg.
%nlation Of the liquor traffic. He and
his associates made the cause an issue
in a political campaign. They sue
ceeded in defeating Tipke, the republi.
can mayor and nominee, and electing a
democratic temperance mayor. He was
the first democrat elected there in forty
Years, the city being overwhelmingly
republican. The city has a population
ofs.35. 900. much the same population as
the district in. which Mr.. Thoren is
now leading a temperance campaign.
Mr.. Thoren was born in 1868 in Sina.
land, Sweden, a great religious center
the son of a Swedish merchant. He
went thru the Swedish university al
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

VILLAGE MARSHAL Asleep
": Jarvis of Bald Eagle was held up
streets, St. Paul YESTERDAYS BY two y
thugs. They commanded him to turn
his face to a stone wall while they went
thru his pockets. They obtained but
$3.50 and ran.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

travel and adventure and never misses
a chance to invade new fields with. his
camera. His collection Of negatives
now numbers over $4,000, and covers a
wide range of outdoor subjects. His
first thought was to cover the perish
able things of the southwest, and no
one else has so complete a set of mega
tives on the Hopi Indian ceremonies, in
which the deadly rattlesnakes play so
important a part, the strange remains
Of the cliffdwellers' civilization, the
Pueblo ruins and the frontier life of
the southwest. '-
1t is only within the past eighteen
months that Mr.. Matteson has given.
up other lines of work to make a real
business of writing; lecturing and
photo illustrating, and during this time
his work has taken a decidedly artistic
turn toward portrait studies, cloud eff
fects, animal life and genre subjects.
Professional photography does not APP
peal to him and he has never made any
negatives for others, but having Sc
cured a good negative for himself, is
glad to furnish prints and slides to
others interested.
Mr.. Matteson's first article to at
tract attention was in the Cosmopolitan
for May, 1899, on "Daring the Rather
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10
MOUNT CURVE AY,
PEOPLE LIKE THE AUTOS

There was a time when residents
along Mount Curve avenue felt pugil-
istic every time automobile was men
toned. They were up in arms against
the modern highway locomotive because
it not only paraded in droves along
their street but did SO with a terrible
noise which racked their nerves by days
and kept them awake by nights.
Mount Curve avenue goes both down
and up, and in order. to traverse it
chauffeurs have to get q good start
down one hill in order to climb the
other.
But the feeling of amnesty against
the autos has disappeared and the resi-
dents who formerly yillifed are now
praising them. The reason is. unusual
and striking. The housewives have
found that the frequency with which
the cars go along Mount Curve avenue
has left the air thereabout surcharged
with gasolene-not enough to be dan
gerous to health but just sufficient to
drive every family Of moth-millergg
gasolene or any Of the products of pa
ltroleum distasteful. and, being free to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

plates. Besides, he finds the v
fence and speed in exposing as well as
in developing films, and their extreme
latitude and a~daptability for use in all
classes Of work, make them indispens-
able for his use.
Mr.. Matteson is a lover of nature and
no one appreciates absolute freedom
more than he. Not least of his chosen
subjects is that of wild game pho
Biography, and in this he has met with
considerable success, his most valuable
negative being that of a wild Rocky
Mountain goat. below Sperry glacier,
Montana. This, with his unlimited en-
ergy and enthusiasm. his patience and
daring, his art and keen perception of
things interesting, his ready pen and
freedom Of speech. e%minently fit him for
his chosen work and insure for him con-
tinued success as an explorer, a lecturer,
a writer and a photo illustrator.
On Wednesday he left on a four
months trip over the 500, Canadian
Pacific, Great Northern and Northern
Pacific lines to complete a set of mega
tives covering "the great northwest"
and these he will use for magazine and
lecture work in New York city the com
ing winter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

Golfers, Leslie's Harper,s, Brooklyn
Life, Illustrated Sporting News, Outing,
Out Door Life, Field and Stream, Re
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

~ amateur photographers one OF
AVA the most energetic and sue
cessful as well as artistic
and original workers, in the person of
Sumner W. Matteson of New York,
some striking examples of whose work
are reproduced herewith. Mr.. Matte
son has been spending some days with
old friends here, but his restless spirit
did not permit him to remain idle ven
under these conditions, and his camera
was swapping right and left most of
the time. One of his pictures Of the
Bisbee, the fast autoboat on Mime
tonka, appeared in II h e j Journal
last Saturday. Attracted by the re-
. ports of the great h%eronry on Crane
island, Minnetonka, Mr.. Matteson en-
listed the aid Of some friends and in
vaded the nesting places of the
I "cranes,n as the Blue herons are col
loquially called at the lake. He secured
some good negatives Of the odd birds
and their young. altho the latter are yet
too small for the best results;
Mr.. Matteson was graduated from
the University of Minnesota with the
class of '9S, and is a member of Chi
Psi. He has always had a taste for
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

ra EeEErsaE Er
The journal newsies have been the
guests Of Manager Theodore Hays of
the Biiou theater several times the pres
.ent season, but it is a question if any
of the attractions they have seen have
given them more pleasure than they
will find in their visit to the popular
playhouse next Thursday night when
they will be the guests Of Manager
Hays and Messrs. Gould and Freed,
managers Of nNettie, the Newsgirl.9
AS its title indicates, this play is well
calculated to interest the newsboys,
exploiting as it does the life of the
neWsgirl and dealing with the vocation
that is strictly familiar to the Mime
apolis newspaper vendors.
The play is a %melodrama of extra
ordinary interest, made up Of exciting
scenes, comic situations, pathos and love
interest. The Journal newsies will
march from the Journal building, head
ed by the journal Newsboys' band, di-
rect to the Bijou and will be royalty
entertained by the players that even
-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

go or come as they please, they c1eab
out. for more fragrant fields. And the
Mount Curve residents have learned the
latest virtue of the auto and are molli-
fed.
The Journals excursion to Camp
Lakeview next Friday promises to be
a big event. Attic the tickets will
not be on sale until Monday morning,
the inquiries regarding the excursion
have been very numerous. The Jour
nal Newsboys' band will accompany
the excursion. Governor Johnson viii
review the First regiment. Come and
get the biggest days worth for your
money ever offered. Round trip only
$1.75. Tickets on sale at Journal
counter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10
BRIDGES HOPKINS TRACKS
Street Railway Company Eliminating a
Grade Crossing on 'Tonka Line.

-
Upper and lower deck passage to Min
netonka will be for sale on the street
railways new lake line as soon as it
is opened for operation. The company
is planning its line with a view to us
ing double deck cars and believes that
the idea will take with the public.
lection. The railway tracks at Hopkins
will be bridged, thus removing a dan
gerous crossing.
It has also been decided that the new.
Fort Smelling bridge is to be located
near the present structure, but will
cross the river at a different angle. The
bridge, which is to be built by the gov
eminent, the city of st. Paul and the
street railway company jointly, will
d~iagonally span the river as an extern
sion Of West Seventh street, St. Paul,
and will strike the Fort side at the
terminal point Of the Minnehaha-Snell-
ing extensions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

Upsala, and in 1890 came to America,
first taking a charge for one year at
Newark, n. J. He then went to the
Chicago Theological seminary for three
years, graduating from the institution.
Later he completed his education with
special studies in Carleton college, at
Mortified. He then accepted his Min
neapolis charge.
The pastor is popular with his parish,
and his congregation is constantly
growing. His campaign is receiving aid
from most of the. business interests Of
the Riverside district.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

n His Den, and INCLUDED photographs BY rafting q the fruit Plate Of the
groups, and even serving as a call bell published articles and photographs in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

Special to The Journal.
Armour, S. D., June 9.-Armour is the home of
the Oldest couple III South Dakota, so far as
heard from. George S. Mathews was born in
the town of Legonicr. Westmoreland county,
Pa, on Nov. 90, 1917. and married Miss
Elizabeth Anderson Sterling on July 18. 1899.
Mrs. Mathews was born on April Z, 1919. in
Mercer county, Pennsylvania. They moved to
Iowa in 1855 and to South Dakota in 1869, set
Ting near Meckling. Since that time they have
been residents Of the state. They have five chill
dren, all living, two sons and three daughters.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10

In politics Mr.. Mathews is a stanch democrat,
casting his first vote for Martin Van Buren, in
1910 and voting for every democratic candidate
astic admirer Of William J. Bryan and says he
expects to vote for him in 1908 and see him elect
ed president.
Mr.. Mathews has a good memory and has been
an extensive traveller. He can regale his hearers
for hours by stories of the plains In 1S4S and OF
the Panama canal country and South American
ports he has visited.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-08
Made in Our National Constitution

influences, and would exercise whole
some restraint on ill-considered or pref
udiced measures. Wealth would be
largely represented in such body
not as menace, but as an aid to just
legislation: Such body would consti-
tute the ideal senate.'
"Let US see how we stand,o I sug-
gested. 'We have agreed that the
president should be elected directly by
the majority vote Of the people; that
congressman should receive majorities
instead of pluralities and that senator's
shall be elected directly by the people
to a senate which may initiate, revise
and discuss proposed enactments, act
ing. as advisers to the house of represen-
or rejection, Of pending bills to the
branch which has been elected directly
by the people. How about the supreme
"The present constitution gives the
supreme. court no right to nullify a law
passed by. congress and signed by the
men who drafted the constitution abso SO
lntely declined to give the court any
such power and even refused to enter
tain a proposition that it be permitted
to offer advice or suggestions, or to
exercise the right Of revision before
law was finally put on it's passage.
however, your courts nave arrOgated
this right, and you must deal with con-
ditions as they exist. If you wish your
courts to have the power to declare
laws unconstitutional, you should pass
an amendment making such action on
their part constitutional. At present
there is no institution in your country
so insistently unconstitutional as your
judiciary. IF, on the other hand, you
think that the representatives of 85,-
100000 Of people, combined with sem
ate and president, are capable of en-
acting laws, it may be we'll to adopt
simple amendment, affirming the SOW
ereignty Of laws passed by your law
making body. England, France, Ger
many and other countries do not find it
necessary to invoke the superhuman
wisdom Of the judiciary, neither do they
wait on the assent of judges for desired
| legislation. Possibly our people have
reached a point where they are equally
to be trusted. It may be well to try
the experiment.
The clock sounded the first note Of
IL. The Three arose, glanced at the
face of the ancient timepiece. and then
turned to us.
"We are going on a tour Of investi-
CATION said Jefferson. "and with your
permission will be with YOU week
from tonight -
"You have it, and we shall be here
waiting for you,' I declared and an in
slant later they disappeared.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-08

nearly 100000 more votes than his oppo-
nent who was seated. Eight years
later William Mckinley had a popular
plurality Of 100000, and an actual ma
Te Candidates Gx as opposod to VOTES lbs CT ean sh
dacy, yet had Mr.. Bryan received 10000
more votes. properly. distributed in
three states, he would have been consti-
tutionally entitled to serve as president
for q term of four years. Whose OK
would have been gored if the will Of the
people had been defeated in that in
stance9"
aag sny weG are ~qs aug6 0pdpoBES raw
GAS party lines are divided at present
it is easily possible for a republican
candidate to receive popular MAORI
ty of 100000 and, yet fail Of election.
They would not submit to it; the dem
9erats will stand anything: # M:
there would have been fight. -
CIT is hardly possible to Judge. OF
that" observed Jefferson, "but such a
system is constant menace, and there
is not an argument to be adduced in its
behalf. If you call yourselves citizens
cratic form Of government. The first
step is the adoption Of a constitutional
amendment providing that your presi-
dent shall be chosen by the popular
| vote OF your citizens irrespective OF
states. He should be the choice OF the
majority, and if no candidate receives
a majority on the first election, sec
ond one should be held, with all candi-
dates eliminated excepting the two re-
ceiving the larger number of votes. "A
president chosen by a minority IS a
monstrous idea, and it is of prime ne,
cessity that the possibility of it should
be discarded without delay
~ have no doubt that the over
whelming majority of the people OF the
United States are in favor of the plan
you suggest l said.
"Whyy do they not put it into ef'
4 fect9' demanded Samuel Adams: l.,
I was compelled to admit l could not
answer that question, and suggested
that we consider the method Of select
ing the lower house of congress.
"Your house Of representatives IS the
government said Jefferson, "and
can suggest only one important change
in it's selection. You should require 9
majority vote for congressman insteac
of a mere plurality. This would require
, supplemental elections in many in
, stances, but this system has been II
operation in France, Germany and 9th
er countries, and the results have dem
: onstrated it's efficiency. Its immediate
, effect would be to encourage the break
/ ing away from the two political par
ties which too long have monopolizet