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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
PHILADELPHIA GANG.
IS AFTER WEAVER
Select Branch. Of City Councils
Will Look Into Conduct of the
Reformer Mayor.

Philadelphia, Aug. 18.-The select
branch Of city councils has passed a
resolution calling for the appointment
of a committee Of seven with full power
to investigate the removal of all Off
GERS and employees Of the city during
the last three months. The resolution
gives the committee full power to
summon witnesses and, employ counsel
and such other assistance as may be
deemed necessary.
The resolution was introduced by. Mil
ton G.. Work, who explained that two
directors Of departments, several bu.
reau chiefs and several hundred other
employees have been dismissed from
the service Of the city without the
mayor. giving any reason to councils, as
required by the laws governing the city.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
SEES THREAT IN
ROOSEVELT WORDS
Buenos Aires Newspaper Says
President Struck at South
America.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 49,
The Prensa, commenting On President
Roosevelt s speech, says:
"President R~oosevelt's statements
are an expression of his aim to cement
the position Of the United States among
world powers. The object of his policy
is not to protect South America, but
to increase the influence of the United
States.
"This is not blamable, but it I'M
deniably contains a threat to South
America.
president Monroe only stated that
the United States would not tolerate
European territorial ,conquests, while
Mr.. Roosevelt assumed it to be a duty
to compel South American nations to
fulfill their obligations. South Amer
lea never recognized the doctrine nor
conferred on the United States any
right whatever. Mr.. Roosevelt's inter.
probation, therefore, is humiliating for
South America
The Prensa also says the extension
given to the Monroe doctrine without
the adherence Of South America will
be a policy of violence.
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". Il. DUNWOODY'S
C0ACHMAN KILLED
Body OF William Swanson Found
at Daylight This Morn
ing.
Mystery Surrounds the Tragedy,
Which Occurred in the
Stormy Night.

William Swanson, a coachman in the
employ OF W. FL. Dunwoody, met death
IN a mysterious manner last night in a
vacant lot near Aldrich avenue and
Thirty-third street.
The body Of the man was lying face
downward in the mud, near an alley
which runs from Thirty-second to Thir-
ty-th1rd street, between Aldrich and
Bryant avenues.
1t was first seen by Mrs. Alfred John
son, 1924 Aldrich avenue, at 6 O'Clock
this morning. She told her husband
and he Immediately went to investigate.
The coroner was summoned, but could
decide on nothing definite without a
postmortem examination.
The inside of the mans mouth was
badly burned, as tho by some drug.
There was a strong odor of some pc
culiar drug on the man handkerchief,
and his face was discolored. The first
impression was that he had committed
suicide.
lightning Struck Nearby.
A residence at Aldrich and Thirty
third street was struck by lightning
last night and Swanson's body was
but a short distance away. One theory
is that he was lear the house and was
killed by the bolt. The house, how
~ ""o OnAJ oi1SAt1y .udIldStu duu
the occupants were uniniured.
There is some mystery connected with
the case, and the police are unable to
explain tie Eusn' s presence in the neigh
borhood. Te had lived in the city but
a short time and nothing is known Of
him at the Merchants rooming house.
where he occupied a room. In his
pocket were several letters of little
Importance, and a picture of a young
wonl2r. "
No Marks Of Violence.
When the body was taken to the
county morgue it was examined by
Peter Morton, morgue keeper. but no
external evidences Of violence or of
burning by lightning could be found.
Appearances indicate that the man had
taken poison. The first theory ad-
vanced was that he had been killed by
thugs, but this has now been abandoned.
The autopsy, which will be heldlate this
afternoon, may clear up the mystery.
Was w. II. ~Dunwoody's Coachman.
Swanson came to the city about two
months ago and engaged a room at the
Commercial hotel on Nieollet avenue.
He worked at odd jobs and recently had
been serving as coachman for W. II.
Dunwoody. He vas to have quit there
soon, however, and he may have been
looking for a job last evening when the
storm struck. He has a brother and
sister in Seattle, WASH, and they have
been notified Of his death.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
NEW CASES WORRY
FEVER.STRICKEN CITY
Noon yellow fever report: New
cases in New Orleans since 6 pm,
Thursday, Ia. Total to date 1887.
Deaths today, one. Total deaths, 181.

New Orleans, Aug. ls.-While the
low death rate from yellow fever in
New Orleans is gratifying, there is con
siderable public anxiety to see a dimi-
mutton of the number Of new cases,
which will indicate more surely the
control the authorities have of the sit
nation. Malaria continues to be mixed
with the yellow fever list that is re-
ported daily.
The Louisiana state board of health
was advised today that on the
riverside plantation in st. Mary's par
ish, there has been a total Of forty
eight cases Of fever annd three deaths.
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YANKEE YACHT TO
RETAIN The CUP
Wins Fifth Race in the
Series with the Canadian
Temeraire.

!, Charlotte, N. Y, Aug. 1s.-The Amer
lean defender, Iroquois, today won the
deciding race Of the series for the pos
session Of the Canada cup, the yacht
ing trophy contested for by the Temer-
aire, the Canadian challenger. The race
tions distinctly favorable to the Amer
lean boat.
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KERM1r RnosEyELr coMINa wEsr.

Oyster Bay, Z. T., Aug. 18.-Kermit Roose-
welt, the second son Of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, left today for Deadwood, S. D., on
a yistt to Captain Seth Bullock, the super
intendent of the Black Hills forest reserve. Kerr
NIT Is taking the trip alone. He will remain
with Captain Bullock for two Or three weeks
on q hunting expedition.
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HURRICANE KILLS 100
Marshall Islands Visited by Storm and
Tidal Wave.

Sydney, N. S. w, Aug. ls.-Confrma-
ton Of the report that the Marshall
here. One hundred lives were lost.
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DIR. LEWIS H. LAuDY DEAD. -
New York, Aug. 1s.-Dr. Lewis H. Laudy,
professor of chemistry at Columbia university
for thirty-four years, is dead from apoplexy.
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Church Is Patriotic.

DIR. Knudsen said that the unanimous
and enthusiastic support rendered to
turnout the kingdom had been very re-.
markable. Parish meetings all over the
country had adopted resolutions and
sent in commentator for what had been
done. This, he said, was the more re-
markable because Of the fact that as. a
rule the churchmen have hitherto taken
little interest in politics. Convinced Of
the hopelessness of the endless contro-
since ceased to be stirred by The appeals
of the politicians. But the storthings
act Of June 7 had awakened the utmost
enthusiasm everywhere. Priests in all
the churches had read the storthing's
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RUSSIA'S FAIEFUL
DAY DRAWS NEAR
Adjournment Of ENJOYS Today
Will Be to Rest for Last
Struggle.
DEADLOCK ON CZAR,S
EASTERN NAVAL RIGHTS
But Real Crux of Dispute Lies in
Jap Demand for Land
and Cash.

Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. ls.-With
the peace ENJOYS of Russia and Japan
peace.
Some of this springs from the fact
that the conference did not break up
this morning in an adjournment until
Monday. Optimists see in this a de-
sire on the part of Russ and Jap to
persevere toward an agreement on all
possible points, before the final struggle
over land and indemnity.
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managing Eoitor OF he journal.
1905, BY The Minneapolis Journal.
Christiania, Norway, July 21.-The
solidarity of sentiment in Norway in
support of the government and its
course is one of thS most remarkable
exhibitions Of patriotism on record. Es-
pecially is this true in view of the fac
tionalism that has hitherto marked the
course of Norwegian politics. The strug-
giles of. the radical left and the con-
sentative right have been going on for
years concurrently with the contro-
versies with Sweden. Itis not a decade
since a joint Swedish-NDrwegian com
mission, appointedsto find a solutionsof
the union difficulties; brought in four
separate reports!! Two&of them were
Norwegian and two Swedish, and each
represented a different shade Of public
opinion. The recent political events,
however, have had the effect of quite
.o~bliterating party lines in Norway and
uniting the whole nation in support Of
the policy of the Nicholson ministry.
An interesting phase of this patriotic
harmony is that presented by the church
of Norway. DR.. Christian Knudsen, who
holds%the portfolio Of church and schools
in the professionally government, dis
/ had presented t99i96im 5 letter from
his old friend, 1orc&ssssor3G eerg Sverdrup
Of AugsbA'g seminary, Minneapolis.
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Silent on what He Saw.

At this point the chairman is silent.
He does not care to speak of the DIS
h%eartening conditions which he met
everywhere. Here the story is supplied.
by one very close to the chairman. Mr..
Shonts found practically no provision
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JOURNAL TOURS

The Autos Leave the Journal
Building at 9 am, IL am, 2
Pm, 4 p.m.-'Seeing Mime
apol1s.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
HINTS CONCERNING CARE
OF HANDS AND ARMS

vt is quite possible to do manual
tasks and have the hands look nice
too Say you have a solid days
work Of sweeping. wfping up of floors
and rubbing furniture with a damp
cloth. Real ladies' sometimes have
that kind of labor to perform. Wear
loose leather gloves for the sweeping.
That prevents. hardening the hands.
After your rough work is all done scour
your hands, especially the fingers and
nails, with a scrubbing brush and warm
soapy water. Always use a pure soap
for the skin. Rinse all the soap off the
hands and dry them thoroughly, but
gently. Every time you wipe your
hands press back with the towel the
flesh around the root of the nails. This
will in a short time make visible the
little white half moons that add so
much to the beauty Of the nails.
It is said, too. that pressing the fin
gers at the sides from the tips back
ward toward the knuckles with the
thumb and forefnger of the other hand
in wiping will in time, if persisted in,
make the fingers tapering. have never
seen anybody who had achieved such
a result however. Do not cut your
nails down at the corners. This GER
tainly does tend to hatten the finger
ends.
At night, after finishing your heavy
days work, just before going to bed
anoint your hands plentifully with
mixture of lemon juice and glycerine,
equal parts, into which few drops of
tincture of benzoin have been poured.
Rub the mixture well in, then draw up
on your hands some loose, clean old
gloves and wear them all night The
lemon is whitening to the skin, the
glycerin is softening. In the morning
your hands will scarcely be any the
worse for wear. Do not wear tight
gloves at night or any other time.
The lotion above mentioned will pre-
vent the hands from chapping in cold
weather. It can with advantage be
rubbed into the hands every night,
whether the gloves are worn or not.
Washing the hands in hard water is
bad for them. If no other can be got
then half a teaspoonfuI of borax dis
solved in a basin of hard water will
soften it. But rainWater is the best Of
all for the skin
If you have been peeling apples,
| peaches, potatoes or onions and have
/ stained your fingers rub them with
| lemon juice or the inside of a lemon
rind with some of the pulp clinging to
it and the stain will come off; if any
remains it viii be erased completely by
rubbing salt upon it.
Neat typists usually have piece of
pumice stone on their washstands to
rub their fingers with and erase the
typewriter ink when they occasionally
stain their hands with it. The stone
will remove any other stain as well. It
must be wet before being used
A strong looking hand is much hand
somer than fieshless or puIpy one, be-
cause the strong looking hand conveys
always the impression of power and
use. Then, too, the work itself which
temporarily roughens the hands is no
Bile exercise for developing the arms
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strengthened, year by year her infu-
ence widened. Step by step along with
this went official promotion. From
1887 till 1899 she was district superin-
tendent of schools. She had the repu-
tation of being able to manage unruly
boys better than any other person in
the Chicago public schools.
In 1899 this distinguished pedagogue
was asked to take a professorship in
the educational department of the Chi
cago university. Now she is the head
of the normal college. First and last
she is a Chicago product and the one
the great western city ought to be
proudest of.
Magnetism and control are expressed
in the very presence of Mrs. Young,
with her strong, intellectual face and
direct looking eye. She sees below the
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and chest. It makes arms plump and
firm and well shaped. To get the best
results. though. the chest must always
be kept from sagging down upon the
stomach and the. back Of the neck must
be pressed against the neckband. When
you can feel the top Of your collar
against the back of your neck. then
you are carrying your head properly.
if your chin is at the same time held in
Did you ever see a Greek statue with
its arms folded across in front? To be
sure not The position is an ungrace-
full one or the Greeks would have put
it into their marbles. you may be sure.
Sitting with folded arms is unhealthful
as wei unbeautiful. It rounds the
back and shrinks the chest, doing ex-
actly what should not be done. Be
sides such pose gives the impression
that one is so awkward and i'll at ease
that she does not know what to do with
her arms, so folds them to get them
out of the way.
MARY GOULD LYLE.
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The lady's companion.

heavy, effective one. Often this dyed
lace is embellished with French knots
or raised work in heavy embroidery
silk. The idea seems to be to have this
lace look as rich and heavy as posi-
BILE.
I am told by a representative jeweler
that smart women are to wear earrings
a great deal this season, even for street
wear, and that these are to be far
heavier in design than formerly.
Be this as it may, I certainly saw on
Fifth avenue the other day a woman
with perfectly enormous solid gold fat
rings in her ears. She was stunningly
gowned and showed every sign of COM
placency as the glittering things dan
gled back and forth.
She reminded me of Dahomey. Still
I suppose it is a mere matter of taste
whether our decorations are barbaric
or civilized.
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Cornela De Bey. one of the three wo-
men now on the school board. who
succeeded in inducing the Illinois leg
islature to pass the bill including kim
dergartens in the Chicago public school
system. DR.. De Bey also led the splen-
did fight that defeated the bill making
married women ineligible as teachers
in the Illinois public schools. Mean
time DR.. De Bey has been also actively
engaged in teaching, having been an
instructor in the normal school. To the
list of her womanly good works must
be added likewise her action as media
tor in the Chicago stockyards strike.
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BLACK Oh YELLOW

Andrew Lang writes about the Maid
Of Orleans in order to discuss and
arrive at a satisfactory settlement of
the vexed question, Was Jeanne dare
"blond" or a "brune''-had she fair or
had she dark hair? With characteristic
thoroughness this deliver into archaic
mysteries puts all authorities on the
subject into the scales of his critical
acumen and, balancing them, finds
greatest weight possessed by a writer in
the towns books at La Rochelle, evil
dence supported by one Guasco, who
had seen the maid in male attiEe at the
court of Charles VII. Mr.. Lang is firmly
on the side of the "brunes" and holds
that the "blonds'' haven't "a leg to
stand upon" In giving judgment he
says:
sI prefer the evidence of the writer in
the towns books at La Rochelle. He
says that on Feb %, 1929, a girl of six
teen or seventeen, born at VaucOuleur,
came in mans apparel to the king. She
wore a black pourpoint and a short
skirt of dark gray and black hat. Her
hair is cut short and is black Now,
this writer is absolutely contemporary.
He has been curious, he has made mi
mute inquiries, he knows the colors of
the coarse dress ia which the maid rode
from Vaucouleur (she was born, of
course, at Donaremy, hard by, but she
started on her mission from the garri-
son town of Vaucouleur), and he knows
that her hair was cut short, not left pic
turesquely floating. Her sole object in
wearing mans apparel was to escape
notice and avoid unwelcome attentions,
and to let her hair float loose and long
would have been the act of an idiot. All
the pictures and legends which repre-
sent her with long hair dancing on her
shoulders as she rode are self condemn
ed. This is the essence of the question.
People who described or painted her thus
had never seen her or gave rein to ro-
mantle fancy The only explicit evil
dence given at the moment makes the
maids hair black and is confirmed by
GFuasco, who had seen her. The other
evidence is legendary and romantic"
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Not as Ills Painted.

away from home to earn my living
would do anything rather than be
what is known as a lady's companion.
and yet, I am told, nine girls out of
ten seek just this very position.
81 don't know what possesses Them
remarked the head of a woman's ex-
change Every girl who is at all
bright or refined comes here with the
lady's companion bee in her bonnet.
I suppose the sentimental novel is to
blame. 1t paints the role of companion
in such romantic cOlors. The compan-
ion is always young and pathetic and
interesting, far more interesting than
the rich woman she attends. So the
rich Woman's nephew fails promptIY
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bling Peter to pay Paul-whioh makes
it pretty hard on you if you happen to
be Peter.
She borrows from you and swears to
return the money in ten days. Ten
days. pass-nay, ten months-and to
all inquiries her invariable answer is
that she expects money in a few days.
If you ever get the entire sum back
you are lucky and if you insist and do
obtain it she counts you as her enemy
to the end of her life.
There is an excellent proverb to that
effect which says. Lend money and
make for yourself an enemy!"
I think the cOiner of that saying
must have had women in mind.
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surface of things, sees and compre-
bends. because she is so honest with
herself and everybody else. most of all,
perhaps, with little children. Small re-
gard has she for the pedagogical pro-
fessional dignity which would throw a
superior beng" glamour around the
teacher In a pamphlet she has writ
ten on Ethics In the School" Mrs.
Young says the teacher-Aiss Smith,
for instance-who is imbued with the
sense of the professional self on enter
ing the schoolroom in effect changes
the command Of the Christ, Suffer lit
tie children to come unto me-" to "Suf-
fer little children to come unto Miss
Smith,
Rivalry and competition among chill
dren at home or in school Mrs. Young
considers a weed to be rooted out. It
kills the development of Individual
thought and makes children imitators
from unworthy motives. THE directed,
The suggested, the premeditated rivalry
develops low forms Of competition, she
writes.
Mrs. Young has written considerable
on the scientific education, all to the
purpose Since 1889 she has been a
member of the Illinois state board of
education. She believes there are still
good prospects for aspiring women in
the teaching profession under favorable
conditions, the first of which she de-
clares to be on the part of the women
a positive interest in the life of the
children or young people whom they
teach" Just so!
Women teachers are devoted to Mrs.
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Women Who Work For
the Public Schools


0% HE Chicago public schools are
noted for their excellence, and
it is only reasonable. to at
tribute this, at least partly to
the fact that the able, intelligent wo-
men citizens are not only teachers, but
also public school principals and mem
bers of the board of education as we'll
1t was two women teachers, Misses
Margaret Haley and Catharine Cog
gin, who in 1900 originated and car
ried through to victory the movement
for just taxation of Chicago real
estate, so that public school teachers
might receive their wages. It was Dr.
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Young She was the first president of
the Schoolmistresses' Club of Illinois.
The women principals of Chicago honor
her so highly that they have for some
years maintained an organization call
ed the Ella F. Young club, disproving
the mean little charge that women are
not willing to serve under women
bosses"
on the whole does it not seem as if
the cause of true education would have
sustained considerable loss if Ella F.
Young had been turned down as
teacher because she was a married wo-
man? LILLIAN GRAY.
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MENpINe LACE CURTAINS.
New York.

There is an easy way to mend lace
curtains which, although it is not per-
nanent, still presents far better ap-
pearance than if the curtain were left
with a hole in it. Let the curtain be
washed and irOned in the usual way.
Then place the torn part on the ironing
board, take a piece of plain net, dip it in
made starch that has cooled, squeeze it
as dry as possible and lay it over the
hole, having first drawn the edges of the
hole as much together as possible with
out puckering the curtain. Iron the
piece of net till it is quite dry. and it
will adhere to the curtain.
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'I cant think of any worse position
for any woman with pride and am
bition. She is always at the beck and
call of a woman who has no respect
for her privacy or her leisure hours.
She is wretchedly paid when you con-
slider her education and refinement and
the long hours she is forced to keep,
although it is the last thing any woman
with pride wants to adopt as a means
of livelihood. You can tell your read
ers, too she added that most Of the
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filled by some poor girl in the same
smart set who is thoroughly conversant
with its manners and customs. The
situation of companion Casually to a
cross old woman or to an invalid) is
practically that of an upper servant and
carries no romance with it. Most
companions fulfill the duties of lady's
maid when required. and airing the
dog and carrying bundles and boxes in
the background are among the per-
quisites.