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The stream was swift and the youth
full bovine innocent and confding. Some
lumbermen getting out logs that day in
the vicinity of Spirit island were very
much surprised to see half-drowned
calf scramble out Of the debris piled
against the island and begin nibbling
the scanty heritage at its base. After
considerable difficulty they got the ami
NAL ashore, and this incident undoubt-
eddy furnished the title by which the
island was known for some time.
Captain Tapper's Adventure.
Captain John Taper. VINO ran the
ferry between the west side of the river
and Nicollet island from 1849 to 1855,
owned several boats which when not in
use were moored at the island shore. He
lived at that time on knoll where
the Eastman residence now stands.
Early one morning he discovered that
one of his row boats was gone, and as
| it was one of the best in the fleet, he
started out. to search for it, thinking
that some one had rowed across to Col
onel Stevens place, where the union
station now is, without asking his
leave. His search above the falls was
futile and he came to the conclusion
that the boat had probably BEEN
abandoned and drifted over the falls.
It was a. staunch craft and so he con-
tinued the hunt.
Down beyond the government mill he
got glimpse of the man who had TAX.
en- the boat, but couldn't get to him
because the west channel of the river
separated them. The man was astride
log which was humping up against
Spirit island, was wildly gesticulating,
and probably yelling, but his voice was
drowned by the noise Of the cataract,
He was in a perilous condition and it
behooved Captain Taper to rescue
him.
Captain Tapper's Bravery.
, Taper, who always acted quickly In
emergencies, hunted up barrel, nailed
the heads in tight, and with the assist
ance Of lumberman who was fOrtu'
nately close by, fastened one end OF
. a raft tow line to the barrel and with
/ the other end held firmly in their hands
both waded out into the streaem and
launched it. After an hours hard
work they succeeded in landing it near
the imperiled man, who abandoned the
log, grasped the barrel and was soon
drawn ashore none the worse IoT HE
j. adventure. His first act after landing
was to go down into his hip pocket
pull out bottle of whisky which
like himself, had escaped the perils OF
1 the river and rocks, and offer his res
g cuers drink with the remark which
: betrayed strong Irish brogue, "Take
c some Of it, the waters cold.'
: The captain cannot remember wheth
: err he took one or not, but he certainly
+. inwardly "cussed' the fellow fol
: stealing and losing his boat. 1t seem:
' that the man while intoxicated hac
, during the night taken the boat fol
!, the purpose of rowing across the river
: but being unable to manage the craft
r had drifted down stream and over the
e falls. He survived but the boat was
1 never seen again. Cautair Taper
I who is of practical turn of mind, say
!, that he never saw the spirit on the
0 island, but he had an opportunity Il
test the virtue Of that which came of
it. Edward A. Bromley.
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waits without, who would fam seek ad
nics;nrii,, To, o,1i nrsticn order - =

waits without, who would fam seek adj
mission to our mystic, order. "
This second parsonage is evidently
some one Of exalted station, for he is
addressed as "Most Worshipful Pan
iandrum,' or something like that, in
very respectful terms. He is apparently
astonished at, the: presumption Of the
wording who has the nerve to pene-
trate. cavern of gleem where all sorts
of things may happen to him. In a
harsh resonant voice he roars:,
'sDoes he understand full well the
fate. Of, him who enters hereg"
CHE does, oh, Most Worshipful Pan
jandrum,' responds the sentinel
CTS he sound Of. limb, and brave Of
HEARTS, he prepared to undergo the
awful perils Of the journeys' next is
asked.
The sentinel answers that the can
didate has these requisites.
"Then let him enter, and I will in
quire further,'' thunders the awful
voice.
-. .-z....... !. -. 81 ........
There is a. clanking of chains, and
the drawing of heavy bars, judging
from the noises, and; then the candidate
feels himself pushed forward in the
darkness. He IS walked. rapidly around
in circles. until he loses track of him
self. Finally he IS halted and agai1
the voice Of royal displeasure inquiries
"Whom have we here?'
GA stranger who petitions that HI
may be submitted to the tests to prove
his fitness to be one Of our sacred
brotherhood. -. =: -
The Panjandrum is perhaps somewhat
Modified, for he says in gentler tones
"Thou seemest to be Of goodly mie1
and well intentioned. I, will give you
guide the password that will. admi
you to the inner portals of our imperia
castle. But first you must make tht
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-24
MINNEHAHA COUNCIL
Ten New Members Are Initiated
Banquet and Ball.

The members of Minnehaha Council
No. al, with their. ladies, last night
had Christmas social at the Elks hall.
A banquet was spread early in. the
evening, and the initiation of ten new
members followed, after which there
was dancing.
Among the guests were Walter
Jacobs, of Aberdeen, grand counselor;
Past Counselor Ernest Grant; Senior
Counselor Kerr and Past Counselor Ellis,
of council No. 60. Three past counsel
ors Of No. 141, j. D. Cakes, William
Weed and H. g. Blake, of al, were
also present.
Minnehaha council was organized
seven years ago and now has mem
bership of $50. It's officers are: Senior
counselor, W. Z. Grasse; junior coun-
selor, T. G. Chalmers; past counselor,
J. D. Cakes; conductor, W. L. Mortland;
page, 7. G.. Brown; sentinel, "A. Van
Bragg; secretary, G. A. Vandever.
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ARRANGE ANNUAL PLAY
Members of orpheus Dramatic Club Pres
--.., pare for Appearance.

Among the best entertainments Of jan
uary will be the annual play of the Or
pheus Dramatic club. composed of the
younger members Of Gethsemane church,
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Jan.
16 and II. 1.-The Noble Outcast," pre-
senting the best features, with additions
Of the older piece, "Jocrisse the Juggler,"
is the choice Of the club. The leading
role, that of Jerry, the outcast, will be
taken by M. W. Austin. John Francis
will appear as Colonel Mathew Lee.
George Kicker will play the william. James
Blackburn. Leonard Eoulof will be Jack
Worthington, Blackburn's, rival. He will
introduce several new parodies and songs
between the acts. Miss Hazel Olcutt will
appear as Mrs. Lee, wife of Colonel Lee.
Miss Blanche Everloff will be Sadie.
Frances Lee will be taken by Lucille NJ.
Howe. Tickets may be obtained from any
member of the club, at the rector's offics
or the woman's auxiliary and guild
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commercial ssma tns Sss eaed
II the order of the United Com
mercial Travellers of America, and quite
appropriately. 1t is secret fraternity!
which binds together in brotherhood
men whose business interests and avo-
cations have much in common and who
can thus accomplish much that is Of
mutual benefit. By their united effort
needed reforms are brought about,
wrongs righted, and determinations
eliminated.
The men who established the order
were far-seeing, and they had past ex-
periences to profit by. Exclusively
beneficial organizations for travelling
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journey of the secret passageway. The
way is dark and stony, beset with
perils. IF you fear! at once retire and
forever abandon hope of learning
further of theI . great secret that binds
us together In cur sacred brotherhood.
Do you of your free will consent to
undergo .thesea perils7 49,
Il do says the candidate, but
somewhat TREMENDOUSLY.
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rope, where he spent five months,
chiefly at Paris and Berlin, where he
has relatives, .--..- ,.- ..-s ~.
Earl H. Wetherbee, for several years
with Griggs, Cooper & Co., has taken
the position of manager of the coffee
and tea department for Foley Bros, &
Kelly.
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Niagara Falls

This wonder of the world is even
more beautiful in winter than in sum-
mer. Go east via the Erie Railroad
and your ticket is good for stopoyer
at this wonderful place. Three trains
daily from Chicago to New York. Ask
| E. r. Porch, Gen. Pass. Agent, st. Paul,
! for particulars. rates. etc.
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A department devoted to COM
mercial travellers is to be made a
regular feature of the Sunday
journal. Items of interest to the
members of the U. G.. T. are So
licited to be received not later than
Thursday of each week. Address,
Commercial Traveller Department.
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7. Riding the Goat
=. Into a Secret Lodge
Narrowing Experiences of Ne Member I7itiatio7---
Tests Of Courage and Faith March Which Are
Hideous to a Bindfolded Man.
sk y

NO you belongq That is, have you
allied yourself with secret
order-are you Hbrothers'
1t not, you will probably be inter
ested in learning something about
lodge night and if you are barred
from the circumstance that you are a
woman, you may know something of the
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men had been failures, so had the secret
societies without benefits. They saw
that no matter how lofty might be
the principles of an order, that the ele
ment of good fellowship was needed to
put them in action. So they started
an order that was to be brotherhood,
and their plan was a comprehensive
and we'll digested one. They decided
upon four main features all Of which
were designed to appeal to needs that
were distinctly felt-fraternalism, So
cial uplift, care of widows and orphans,
and insurance, at reasonable cost,
against accident and death.
They adopted as their tenets, unity,
charity and temperance. A member
was to be taught to believe his calling
one of responsibility and dignity; that
he was not a .peddler, but an agent in
the development Of the commerce of
the nation.
Gives Dignity to Vocation.
The man who respects himself is
more apt to be respected by Others and
the vocation of selling goods on the
road had a new dignity that soon made
the, term drummer obsolete, as a
result Of this organization.
The founders Of the order realized
that men on the road went to pieces
thru dissipation largely because they
have no social life of refinement when
away from home. The establishment
of subordinate councils in all the cities
of the country of much commercial i'm
portance was decided upon. These
were to have the social features of q
secret fraternity. 1t was planned that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-24
Hoodwinks the oculist. Madden Eye
Medicin cures eyes. Don't smart.) Csc.
Low Rates

To all points on the 500 Line for the
Holidays. Tickets on sale Dec. 22d to
Jan. LIST, 1906, good to return until Jan.
I'd, 1906.
For further particulars call at ticket
office, 119 Third street s.
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Always avoid harsh purgative pills.
They first make you sick and then leave
you constipated. Carter s Little Liver
Pills regulate the bowels and make you
well. Dose, one pill.
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Dashed Over Falls.

tsIn few seconds the canoe was at
the top Of the falls, where it paused,
and then, borne on by the rush of wa
tiers, down it dashed and the roaring
waves covered the victims with their
white foam. Their bodies were never
seen again, but tradition says that on
misty mornings the spirit of the Indian
wife, with her two children folded to
her bosom, is seen gliding in canoe
thru the rising spray about the Spirit
island, and that the sound Of her death
song is heard moaning in the wind and
in the roar Of the Falls of st. An
thony.'
One day early in the SOS venture
some calf belonging to one of the squat
tiers on the west shore of the river
stepped into the current near Stevens
landing to take drink. He. got it, in
fact he got more water fthan he wanted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
By Nj i'm N a
L h o mn as Antrim

toward her parent? Does she repay sacrifice with
love o'ert1owing? Not SO. She wears her bauble
queen her crown She considers it her right
therefore thanks are superfuous.
Her 1nhumanity toward her father is many-sided;
but it finds its maximum in a total lack of appre-
citation of what he does for her great cost to
himself, and in treating him with brutal animosity
when he refuses upon principle, to assume obga-
lions that he knows he cannot honor. Selfshness
estimates her father simply the who pays
the b1ls-and woe unto him should he refuse to
pay hersl A girl and her father are soon parted
when he leaves undone those things that she thinks
he ought to have done, and does those things that
she thinks he ought not to have done, and to her
mind there's health in him. In consequence,
she avoids him studiously
Comes "The Man" anon. Her inhumanity
henceforth starts 1overward From the first she
determines to harass his mind, and make him win
her through sundry tribulations known only to
young women who lead their pursuers circutous
chase. Finally, lest she lose him entirey-for mans
patience has limt-she consents to marry him
some day. Even in the hour that love enters her
heart, she prods him with the uncertainty expressed
by the noncommittal some day." However, he
loves her manfully all the better that she has been
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE for APRIL 16, 1905

in his novels He shrugged his shoulders and an
swered "Of the good woman, what is there to
say?"
The question is not thus easy to answer however
nor is the fact implied true answer. Realism has
come with many people to mean the depletion of
the unpleasant. But if the subjects chosen for por-
trayal by Ibsen and by Antoine at the Theatre
Lbre elargely of this character the fault lies not
with the method but with the Realism in its
essence, is merely truth. And to say that human
beings are influenced only by unpleasant motives
to unpleasant action is not true in the least Love
selfsacrice the struggle for the good the effort to
be better and to do BETTER the greatest facts in
life the grandest facts in human history and the
primal forces in the development of the race The
depicting of them is the best and the highest field
of Realism.
To know this, to throb responsibility to these
feelings, to realize them in action upon the stage
is the best opportunity of the dramatist and in
literature of the novelist.
Such is the true field of Realism and in this
field lies the highest success But the first neces-
sity with anyone who seeks to achieve such success
is his clear understanding CT the fact that Realism
is not Reality; that lola was not Bazac that
photography, in its ordinary aspect, is not Art.
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a story setting forth the strong dramatic contrast
between the two great sides of NewYork life the
life itself should have Endorsed quickly and
SO completely as having portrayed events as they
are
The demands of Realism upon author and actor
steadily grow more exacting. The public learned
long ago that the gold was simply tinsel; that the
simply cut paper. l had great satisfac-
ton in my and better snow-storm in 1.-The
Climbers" | had gone one step farther toward
Realism, and surprised by the marked pleasure
with which the public received it. But the
audience learns and more-altogether too
much in factabout the stage the construction must
be concealed deity the voices must grow lower
the story and the action must flow simply,
the illusion ever must be more complete. All this
makes for better drama, and there is no reason
why this country should not produce great drama.
We have tremendously dramatic popular life to
portray, and the vitality and the instinct with
which to portray it.
But the great lesson which needs to be impressed
in this connection is in the point referred that
Realism is not confined in its scope to the darker
and more sordid aspects of life Paul Bourget, at
the dinner given to him in Boston, was asked why
he never had anything to say about good women
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papers, it becomes drama in its highest aspect.
And despite all that critics may say of my work
of other mans work, this describes the
tial difference between drama and melodrama,
which is purely question of treatment. When the
feelings well up naturally from the hearts of the
characters, it is drama; when they pour down from
the scenery in their conventional places it is melo
drama. The subject, the popular life, is the same
in both cases. the difference lies in the brush which
is used-broad bristle camels-hair, as the
may be.
Fifth-ave. and Sixth-ave both TEEN with drama
of their respective kinds, Sometimes, perhaps fire.
quently, they intermngle 1t was this fact which
suggested 1.-The Woman in the Case" Few families
are without skeleton in the closet. Many man
sion has its whispered tragedy. These facts, facts
of our daily experience suggested the play. After
it completed, a certain Nan Patterson became
involved in tragedy with another woman's hus-
band in a story whose dramatic incidents
widely printed, and upon the production of the play
many said that | had dramati2ed the Nan Patterson
case Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The play was completed and delivered before the
tragedy arose. And l took it a not unflatter-
ing tribute in my hope and effort to put upon the
stage the real life of to-day, that when conceived
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so dearly He realizes that even though she
has said YES" being woman, she later may say
mo" Therefore he treasures her fearsonely and
determines to deserve her
Behind him, far may he thrusts the
life that young man usually lives, and looking
into the future paddles his into more quiet
waters than hitherto. His honor henceforth is her
honor, and he keeps it unsullied as an unhaved
creature may. He begins to for her The
small sacrifices his heart to glow and he
thanks God for the love of " a good woman"
Meanwhile, how worthy is this woman of good
mans love? Is she humane? At times. Other
times her inhumanity is marked Has she faith9
Verify. She believes in engaged as she
does in attraCtive-mannered woman whom men
admire. Each is trustworthy when under their
owners eye; not otherwise. She considers mans
fidelity myth, and she confesses her creed to the
man who loves her. AS a whip this baseess doubt
stings; but she will not revoke. The thorn of her
unfaith is left in his heart to ranle indefinitely.
Has she hope, otherwise ambition, for her future
lord? Much. She makes of it a goad lest he tarry
upon his upward way. And yet being unwise-
for is any ego-worshiper other than foo1?-this
inept constantly throws hindering stones in
her frances path that puzzle and pain him beyond
speech
go win thy laurels!" she says. Forge ahead!
Make haste! Get to the top!" Lends she a
helping hand? Nay. Not hour of the time
that she considers wholly her own will she give
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toward the fultlment OF his am
bition. He is expected to perform
miracles. Modern miracles are
performed by work, and work
alone. The price of success is
labor and many trials. Not one
pleasure will she defer in order
to give the man who loves her
his coveted chance. He is her
exhibit, and she exhibits him
continually What place has he
in her heart? He has only one
rival, and that rival some day"
he will call wife.
And if he for loves sake has
labored in the little hours while
Others slept, yet falls short of the
prize, what then? Does she sa1ve
his wounded spirit with tender
ness, and bid him rest a little
while, and then again press on?
Not SO. With flashing tongue or
flashing eyes she sorely Furnishes.
The selfish woman has little SYM
pathy for those who do not win.
This she manifests, holding that
who would have slaves achieve
must praise little and censure
much.
And charitye Having small
faith, has she saving charity?
Condones she those minor weak
nesses to which man has fallen
Continued ON page ~
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w O Nj ms HUMANITY TO MAN

w IOMANS inhumanity to has been
Wv exploited many time and oft, likewise
mans inhumanity to woman but who
has sounded the depths of woman's inhunanity to
man? None The time and the theme seem fitting.
1t begins this particular sort of cruelty when the
woman-child is about two. 1t ends when they do
the and his abuser. At two the child
attacks its Fisherman How? In ways
devious and certain. Supposedly the father is
young and lover of sleep. For what raves his
man-child the moment Daddy tired head touches
its pillow? "A dwink" Being manly, he instead
of his equally somnolent wife, makes pilgrimage
to where the boiled spring water is kept, for
drinketh the twentieth-century infant did its
predecessor from the bathroom spigot.
At dawn, what spirit elf is that sitting bolt up
right in its crib growing its bird-like matin? The
same whose thirst hath murdered fathers sleep.
Who rideth a cockhorse, though feet be
weary and heavy laden with protuberances that
sting like adders?
Who putteth her father to shame by unseemly
dabs at his we'll grooned head, or bringeth tears
to his loving eyes by ungentle pnchings?
Who, if not this woman-child adored? And
thereafter, when swaddlng- clothes have given
way to garb of maiden, is she kind? Well
see. Time has whrled.
At fourteen her relation to is elemental.
Man, to her, a man-her father. Boys
have small speaking part in her life; but not yet
men. She cons her textbooks, and dreams of
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SNCA lOlCd.
Her father is still young, COM
paratively He has to work, that
she and her mother may not
weep; for the average father is
not wealthy They live comfort
ably. What then? Is she con-
tent Rarely. When she asks,
and does not receive certain luxu-
ries, does she cheerily take the
will for the impossible deed? She
does not. She pouts, or appears
abused. She is sullen for days.
AT the worst she phrases senti-
ments that fall like blows upon
the heart of the devoted man
who loves and who tolls for her.
Sometimes she coaxes. If her
father is OF pliable stuff, she gains
her bauble or what-not, at the
price of an added weight upon
an already too heavily burdened
back. Does regret harass her?
Seemingly not, for she covets
continually those things that the
daughters of the rich have, until
there is no mercy in her.
The struggling man who in
dulges wilful daughter once is
in danger; twice, is lost. Having
by one or another means secured
what she wants, what attitude
does the budding woman take
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By Raymond Ball

Oh, friend grown weary with the painful climbing
UP Fame's high mount which ever upward slopes,
On whose sad ear Fate's bells are ever Ginning
Hast thou drunk deep of Marah's bitter fountain?
Hast thy bright gold changed into useless dross?
Remember! One before thee climbed mountain,
And gained upon its summit-but cross!