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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
.CONSP|RATOR ARE
D0WNED IN BASEBALL
Conservative Factions In Control
in the Major and Minor
= Leagues.
CIV York Herald Special Service.

New York Herald Special Service.
New York, Dec. 16.-Al of the out
of-town magnates have left for their
homes. The deep thinking and plan
ming for the last year by Mcssrs. Brush,
Hermann and Griffiths has miscarr1ed.
When the time came for showdown,
the conservative element Of the game
both with the major and minor leagues,
have come to the front and 'smotherel
the few self-appointed leaders, turning
in substantial victory for the old
game.
The original plans for securing con-
troll of baseball was made one year
ago at the annual meeting of the Ma
tional league, when Howard Griffith,
ias the champion Of the Glass A MINOR
leaguers, compared notes with Mr..
+ Brush, of the New York club. The
guns were trained on General Ban John
son of the American league, and any
. man that dared to consider him power
in the game. The American league man
! stood his ground and at times was al
z most alone in his own league.
Griffith Mistake.
S One great mistake was made by
Messrs Brush and Hermann in select
ing Attorney Griffith of Jersey City
j N. j., for the leader of the minors
simply for the fact that he failed to
: keep peace with P. T. Powers and The
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
SHOOTERS INVITED TO
COMPETE ON COAST
Supremacy Among the Amateur TRAY
Shooters Soon to Be Decided.

San Francisco, CAL, Dec. 16.-With
the idea Of deciding the question of SUI
premacy among the amateur trap shoot
ers Of the United States, the Avalon
Gun club Of Catalina island, CAL, will
hold several important live-bird shoots
Two of >the events will be Of cham.
pionship character. One Of these will
be for individual honors and the other
for team prizes. The cup for the indi
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-05
BATES OF ADVERrIsIKe.

,,rs square, ave lines NonpareiD first insertion
- a.. subsequent insertions 80 cents. special
- made with monthly. quarterly and yearly
sdygftlsers.
r4y-LoeaI notices and political or persona
unications - cents per line Bourgeois
-tseguent Insertions 10 cents per line.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-05

ST. DENIS HOTEL NEW YORK
Nor. Broadway and nth St. Centrally
, =, European Plan. Modelate
Nh@rges. Excellent cuisine,
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-05

additional train will leave Annapolis at
.l.u. m aud Baltimore HOO p IA. ON satar-
u@' szz2ay gFalss.
leave Annapolis s. 90 aud 8. 40 a. m, o. 40
anil 700 .. m
rave baltimore 500 and 1905 q. M, 600
and s. 80 .. m.
arrive Baltimore . O5 and 10 5 a. M. a. and
arrive Il e. Annapolis 9O5 and II Os a. M. 90 and
a. ,. "a.
Is. Brown, ]. WILSON BROWN,
q. I. q +. Agt. Manager
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-05
SNAPSHOTS.

Even lean man may be pulled
up with conceit.
Even the plasterer may feel that
his work is sublime.
Most of us waste our youth in
Wishing we ware grown up.
Never say dye is not the motto
of the bleached blonde.
Many fellow works himself to
death by making living.
The careful man sees to it that
-uEht hand is never left.
The man who invented the pianos
tor children to practice on over your
head On fiat must get deeper INTO
uur2atoyy every year he stays there.
Its easy TO staud toothache if its
in another fellows jaw.
The times are out of joint when
tlC poker rooms are all closed.
10 MUD your own business is
triumph Of mind over matter.
If the clock didn't strike once in a
while it wouldn't know il was work
Hr
The Bohemian mode of life is al
ways alluring 10 those who don't nave
t3 i've that way
LII makes woman proud of her
good influence 10 think that her hus-
tand has gone to the races and LOST
anal then TO find out that has only
playing poker and won.
When a'man sits at girl 5 feet I'M
oer tree aud plays banjo TO her
she thinks that is the way they would
Ea on doing after they are married
amt had seven children.
The man who has never been
Jealous has never been in love.
Its the lunch that hampers the
Ilcnic
Even the smallest men can do
iali lying
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-05

Sin IS chaos. Righteousness is or
der
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-05
Annapolis, Washington & BALTIC. z. R.

Time Schedule In Effect July End, 1905.
Trains leave for Annapolis Junction connect
ny at Odenton aud the Junction with trains
OF Baltimore aud Washington, and other
points foliowss
VIA A. w. 4 b. AND p. X. Il.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
Retain Activity of Interest

A distinguishing mark of the mod
ern attitude has been a decline in
approximation, says Scribner's. 1t
is not that people live longer on the
average than they once did-a disput-
ed point of vital statistics-but that
they live longer during a normal life
in maintaining activity of interest up
to the last. This is evident, DESPITE
an occasional and perhaps growing
tendency to impose an age limit Of
forty in more strenuous physical SER
vice where, under pressure of compe-
tition, full bodily vigor is required for
efficiency. In social life, notably, the
peculiar badges and distinctions Of
age are increasingly discarded. The
passing of a once familiar type Of
grandmother, at least, to the Oldest
of us, IS an Illustrations lovely old
lady in black silk gown, wearing a
cap with strings and a neckerchef,
the inevitable book or work bag in her
lap, conversation with her being sup
posed to be concerned principally
with what she did when she was a
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
A Vermonter's Round Barn

Waterford, VT, a town containing
many prosperous and enterprising
farmers, is proud of Winfield S. Hast
ings, and Mr.. Hastings is justly proud
of his round barn, says the Boston
Globe. Though built solely for use it
has, nevertheless, attracted much at
tention, and over $500 persons have
driven up the hilly road from the val
ley of the Passumpsic to the high
ridge of land where his 400-acre farm
lies. Mr.. Hastings runs a dairy farm
and the barn was built in this way. as
he believed it would be more service
able than any other kind.
1t is eighty feet in diameter and the
basement contains no posts, but is
trussed with 10 by 10 timbers 81 feet
long, radiating from the center like
spokes in wheel Around the wall
are the nests for a flock of 100 hens,
which contribute twenty-five dozen of
eggs to the weekly product of the
farm. Eight octagonal sites, all con-
nected, encircle the silo and furnish a
home for forty pigs.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05

Whales are captured in nets by the
Japanese. The whalers put off from
the shore as quietly as possible ana
when they come within the proper DIS
lance of their objective the boats
which have hitherto worked in cou-
pies, separate and, dropping their nets
as they go, work round to the rear
and TANKS of their expected kill. me
nets are made in large squares. each
side being aboSt forty feet long. One
net is composed of six squares in line
and the squares are fastened to each
other lightly. When all is ready the
boats which have worked round to the
rear of the whale then commence TO
drive him gently toward the nets
Moving along lazily at first, the whale
soon realizes that something untoward
is happening, and, hurrying forward
dashes into one of the nets. This Is
the critical moment and when the fish
ermen see that the whale is well in
the center of one Of the squares they
raise great shout and charge in upon
him.
When the whale is about spent
man chosen for his strength, activity,
pluck, GOODNESS and general fitness for
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
Catching Whales IN Nets

bis work then leaps upon his back and
with great triangular-shaped knife
nroceeds to cut two great gashes in
HE hodv lust back of his head
through the underlying blubber and
these two gashes he passes a rope and,
.knotting it. makes loop of 1t. He
then repeats the same operation as FAR
hack on his body as he can. When
the fight has been completely knocked
ont of the whale boats range alongside
of him and by the help of the loops al
ready mentioned the hapless cetacean
is slung between them in such man
ner as to minimize the danger OF his
carcass sinking.
Then the boats form in procession,
and making for the shore, there com
mences the most curious part OF the
whole affair The whalers, with real
fervor and in the most solemn manner
possible, begin chanting prayer for
the ease of the departing spirit by call
ing out. "Joraku! Joraku! Joraku!"
in low. deep tones. Upon the third
day after the kill memorial service is
held in the village temple and prayers
are offered for the repose OF the dead
whales soul.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05

girl" it is this type a social chronic.
Ter pictures for us In an account of a
reception given in New York about
sixty years ago to the venerable"
widow of Chancellor Kent, vigorous
and alert woman of seventy, who sat
in chair of state in one corner Of
the drawing room all the evening.
The guests, including many notables
of the day, paid their respects to her,
exchanged few words and then with
drew" This conformed to what was
then the ritual of life, to pay cere-
monious Difference to age according to
an arbitrary distinction Of birthdays.
This change in social attitude toward
age truly reflects, as is widely recog-
nized, the changed actual attitude, the
attitude of encouragement in contin-
ued activity in business, professional
or political effort, regardless Of con-
ventonal limit. That such a change
contributes greatly to the promotion
of individual happiness in the aggre-
gate, however, 1t may handicap race
efficiency in an industrial age, is hard
ly open to- question.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05

The silo occupies the center of the
building and performs the double duty
of storing 400 tons of ensilage and
supporting the rafters that radiate
from it on each floor. The silo itself
is eighteen feet in diameter and fifty
feet high.
The cows occupy the first floor of
the barn and enter from the ground
on an inclined plane. Arranged in a
circle around the room are the stalls
for eighty-four COWS and thirteen stan
chions for the calves. Mr.. Hastings
has at present herd of fifty grade
Jerseys, which give weekly butter
product of 200 pounds.
The big hayloft on the upper floor
is entered from the ground through
big doors. This room has a capacity
Of 175 tons of hay.
The building is well lighted on every
floor, while ventilators extend through
every part of the building to the
caves. The builders used 100000 feet
OF timber in its construction, and no.
600 shingles on the octagonal roof and
the sides.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
To Fathom Stars Secrets

Housed in a modest, unassuming
brick structure standing just around
the corner from Lake avenue, Profs.
Barnard and Ritchey are just now be-
ginning an important work in con-
nection with the installation of the
great Yerkes telescope on Mount VIII
son, says the Los Angeles Times.
Six months ago the proposition was
made to the board of trade that if
that body would agree to furnish a
suitable site the observatory peopIe
would put up workshop and manu-
facture all their delicate instruments
in Pasadena, The offer was accented
and committee raised the funds and
presented the company the present
site on Santa Barbara street. The
workshop buildings have just been
completed and are now in occupancy.
giving employment to several score of
men.
BY all odds the most interesting oh.
ject in the workshop is the wonderful
five-foot telescope lens, which has
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05

All, dear Idleness, how shall I bedeck
thee?
Dear tired playmate, dreaming In the
shaded
Soon upon the pool where the water lily
closes
Split will be the moon with the planets
in braid.
Where the ripple witches her, a wide
whispering the osier to close his elfn
There, elbow deep, win I dip and lift and
snaked in thy hair a-drip. jewel upon
jet.
Faithful my comfortl Long, far haunt
Following my days from a dream into
a dream
Where a-fiake with emerald the may
circle f1oated,
Swirled upon the eddy. swept adown
the stream.
Then were it mine, could grasp it, to
crown me-
Mine alone the guerdon as mine alone
the brow!
If at length it come to tired hand cap
Wear it of right. but ah, contemn not
thou
Brave men, my comrades, sought with me
the jewel,
Each for his own to bear bound upon
his crest:
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05

been received rough ground from
raris and will be finished and polished
mere. In order to complete this con-
yex lens block of glass eight inches
IN thickness is being ground to min
mum depth of three-quarters of an
men and SO great is the precision re-
CURED that the finished lens must CON
form to within one 1000 .OOOth of an
men OF its proper measurement. This
measurement must be taken by means
Oh light and complicated figures. IL be-
ing obviously impossible to take the
measurements in the regular way.
Inc great mirror will then be sill
vered and mounted. The mounting is
perhaps the moa tedious thing of all,
for 1t will require twelve plates to
pack up the crystal mass, each plate
supporting exactly one-twelfth of the
Total weight of one ton. This great
fve-foot lens will be used in photo.
graphing dim nebulae and will have a
local depth of twenty-five feet. The
temperature of distant stars will alse
be measured by them. 'i1r oI
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05

~ AeAfJ @NSeSns
My dad he says. he says to me
I've got to realize
That work must never disagree
With folks that want a prize
IN this here life. But goodness land
1t strikes me as a rule
There amt enough o. circus and
There's too blame much O. school.
It's mighty tryin' in the spring
To have to settle down,
I'm thinkin' bout the sawdust ring
An wishin' fur the clown.
l long to hear the big brass band
An see the tricky mule,
There amt enough O. circus and
There's too blame much o. school.
But dad he says l might as well
Git used to feelin' so.
He says. the honest truth to tell
He'd shorely like to go
A hshin', or with gun In hand,
Or loafin' where It's cool,
He says 'twould be a circus, and
Plain duty's wuss than school,
An so I'll strive an stand the stress
An cheerful seek to be,
What's good enough for dad, / guess,
Is good enough fur me.
But when / think how things are planne
1t does seem downright crool,
There amt enough o. circus and
There's too blame much O. school.
--WashinRtOn Star
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
To Save browning Person.

Now that the darlington boys 1t
is the swimming" season, is near at
hand. few practical suggestions
about the rescuing of drowning per-
sons may help to save lives.
II the rescuer be held by the wrists,
he must turn both of his arms stimuli
taneously against the drowning per-
sons thumbs and bring his arms at
right angles to the body, thus dislo-
eating the thumbs of the drowning
person If he does not let go.
You can try this on land or in the
water, and you will find it impossible
for any one to hold you; but take care
to learn 1t properly before you start
challenging.
If the rescuer be clutched round the
neck, he should take a deep breath
and lean well over the drowning per-
son; at the same time place the left
hand in the small part of his back,
raise the right arm in line with the
shoulder and pass 1t over his arms,
then pinch the nostrils close with the
fingers. and at the same time place
the palm of the hand on the chin and
push away with all possible force.
The holding of the nose will make
the drowning man open his mouth for
breathing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05

paste it on small mirror. Hold the
mirror in the sunlight so that the re.
Election will be thrown on shaded
wall, and the design will appear on the
wall very dark, with light back
ground.
Porous substances are those that
are full of tiny holes. Nearly every.
thing is porous, though the holes can.
not be seen with the unaided eye
You may make an experiment to show
this by filling glass with boiling wa.
ter, and placing over it a piece OF
pasteboard. On top of the pasteboard
invert dry glass, and the vapor from
the boiling water will pass through
the pores of the pasteboard and show
itself as moisture on the inside of the
glass.
Make the same experiments with
the various substances, such as cloth
wool, rubber, wood, glass, or paper
and you will find that some are porous
enought to let the water vapor pass
through, while others are not.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
4 SMsZz|'' * 3 81
|F0RK1'SSIgJNG R! '|'|;'!,'l.T

Being under water, choking will en-
sue, and the rescuer will gain com
plete control.
Should the rescuer be clutched
round the body and arms or round the
body only-a rather improbable posi-
ton, but one which may occur-he
should lean well over the drowning
person, take a breath, and either
withdraw both arms in an upward d.
rection in front of his body, or act in
accordance with the instructions for
releasing oneself if held round the
neck
In either case the rescuer should place
the one hand on the drowning mans
shoulder and the palm of the other
hand against his chin, at the same
time bringing the knee up against
the lower part of his chest, and then,
by means of strong and sudden push,
stretch the arms and leg straight out
and throw the whole weight of the
body backward.
This action will break the clutch and
leave the rescuer free.
Many gallant person has lost his
life through lack of knowledge of
these simple and effective methods of
releasing oneself from the drowning;
yet with little study and frequent
practice in the water even a moderate
swimmer can go out fearlessly to aid
others.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
Eor the Three Trloka.

and putting your finger over tho tube
turn the funnel over and pour the
water from the glass into it, Instant
ly drink off this fresh water. turn the
funnel upside down to show your aud
fence that 1t is empty. rapidly turn the
funnel upright, letting the water be-
tween run out into dish,
Every one will be amazed at this
trick, but you must refuse to repeat
IL and must put the funnel away be-
fore 1t can be examined.
Another good trick is to make n
stick leap out of pot. Get piece OF
stiff whalebone, about three inches
long, and stiff card. Fold the card
down the middle and make a slit in
both folds half an inch from each end.
Slip ar end of the whalebone into each
Of these Sits so that the bone will be
bent upward like a bow
Have a pot in which stands a cup
upside down. and on 1t fasten the cars.
No one must come near your table to
see this. Pour water into the pot ur.
til II is full. leaving the whalebone
about two inches under the water.
Then take a lightweight stick, or a
piece of very stiff cardboard, and
pressing an end against the highest
point Of the whalebone in the water.
let go, and the stick will fly out of the
pot.
A third trick is to construct bridge
of three knives with no support except
thst CT three tumblers under the han
dies OF the knives. Arrange the tum-
biers in the form of triangle, and
place the three knives so that the
blade of No. / rests on No. and
the blade of No. on No. 8, and the
blade of No. 8 on No. /, with the han
die of each on one goblet This ar
rangement win complete your bridge.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
Sparrow Fed Canary.

Owing to the loudness of its song,
lady used to hang up the canary in
it's cage in the trees in her garden.
She noticed one day sparrow fly to
the cage, and standing on the top of
it, began twittering to the canary. BY
and by it few away, but promptly
returned with a worm, which it
dropped through the wires for its new.
ly found friend. 1t continued to be
thus civil day by day until the canary
would receive the worm directly from
the sparrow's bill. The lady's neigh
bors observing this interesting display
of courtesy, also hung up their cages,
and we're gratified to see the spar
row attend to their birds too, but it
always made point of ministering to
the wants of it's earliest chum first.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
The MAGIC Lamp.

iHC WaHiS GdfuPs
The magic lamp trick requires that
you shut out all the light from a room
except one ray. You can do this by
closing all the shutters except one,
and covering that window with sever
al newspapers or with wrapping paper
in which hole has been cut to admit
the ray.
With a mirror reflect this ray down
into glass in which you have mixed
pure water and few teaspoonfuls
of milk. The milk will shine with SO
brilliant white light that it will illu-
inmate the whole room.
Some pretty experiments may be
made with mirrors. Stand between
two that face each other directly, and
you will see long line of images of
yourself, so many that you can hardly
count them, and they will vanish in
the distance. If you hold lighted
candle in your hand you will be able
to count more of them.
Place two small mirrors with their
edges together so that they will open
and close like a book, having the re-
fiecting surfaces facing each other.
Put between them lighted candle, or
other bright object, and the images
will increase in number as you shut
the mirrors together, and less as you
open them.
Cut a design out of thick paper, and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
A House in the Woods

Better than any printed instructions,
the Illustration accompanying this ar
ticle shows how the frame work of a
rough and ready house in the woods
can be constructed by few handy
boys.
The front should be 6 feet inches
and the back feet. The house should
be 10x12 feet. To make the cross
pieces secure, they should be tied with
strips of bark.
The sides and roof are made from
small branches of the pine or other
close-leafed tree, as shown. When the
frame work is completed to satisfac-
tion, the sides are put in place.
Taking the large end of the branch
in one hand, with the other weave the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05

windows and doors.
The roof is constructed in the same
manner the branches, of course, being
longer and running from the front to
the back, the large end of the branch
being at the front and the tip at the
back. 1t will be well to lay another
row of branches across in the opposite
direction, to assure waterproof roof.
BY selecting four branches an inch
or so in diameter, with a crotch top,
the supports of good camp bed are
at hand. Bury the end Of the crotched
branch in the ground at least six
inches, and in the crotches lay long,
straight branches, free from protuber-
ances,
These make the sides of the bed
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
Some clauer rrinka

The funnel trick is very clever and
you can easily perform 1t If you will
have two thin tunnels soldered to-
gether one inside the other SO that
they appear as one funnel on top. Be-
fore you are to perform the trick
pour some water into the bottom end
between the two tunnels and let it re-
main in that upside down position I'M
til you are ready
Now bring a glass Of fresh water
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-05
An Apostrophe to ldleness

Some of them be dead; a-many have
But " a few ride fortnight. following
the quest.
alone renowned, and by renouncing
I alone handselled it. and in the win
If at length it come to a tired hand
Wear It Of right-but mine remains the
cost.
Far adown the valley. riding in man
hood,
Gaunt go the men-at-arms; high upon
the coast
Shadows OF lance, of pennon. wave and
Faint, yet the thin points lift aloft the
Host.
All longer thou than any shadow faith
Thou mayst not hear their summons.
nor divinei
Only take back thy little hand-it kills
me
Thy dreaming hand. that trustful feels
fer mine!
Farewell. Idlenessl 10. deck thee
dreaming;
Diamond and emerald-wear them, and
awake
To the lone streams echo, and far
hoof sounding
Hollow forlorn. yet fain to overtake
"A. T. CUTLER Couch, in the Speaker.