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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

to the creek for drink: Then they sat down log
and Joe said: %-s e -~'.s. .
''There has been barking of dogs Growing of
ROSTERS and far in the woods The
bark Of dog could be heard two miles such
still morning this When started to follow the
first bee to the west. How got off the track
cannot say, but must have turned to the south We
know there settlers in that direction for many
miles. We have got all turned around, but if do not
get scared think we will all right. We have
matches to build fire, but how shall get something
to eat?''
strange dog trottng thru the woods and stopped
at their feet and made friends with them.
The boys knew every dog for three four miles
around their fathers cabin and they they had
this before. He part hound, and the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
PETERS zSLEEP-FRLENDS
Brother Turkey Visits Him.

Peter had scarcely closed his eyes
Before his hair began to rise,
For who should be perched on his bed
But Barnyard Turkey, fierce and red!
9 Peter" he roared, 81 saw today H..
You looked at me as if to say: 5~
AHA! You are so fat and fine
On Thanksgiving I III make you mine!' r. =
= Don't say you didn It, for I know
Your greedy nature makes you So
" Oh, SIR cried Peter, 'fthat must be -
Some other lad that looks like me; T..
=. I am not greedy, sir, at all;
In fact, my appetite is small.
{ Fibber cried Barnyard Turkey. "What!
Shall destroy. you on the spots
Did I not you do your best
To eat my brother legs and breast,
Till you were stuffed so full with him -
It almost made my senses swimq
But now things are the other way,
There III be no more Thanksgiving Day,
We gobblers have it in our view
To turn about and gobble you. +"
With that he pulled and pulled until
He grew as big as any hill
So big the walls just burst apart,
And Peter woke up with start.
With trembling voice he sighed: Oh dear!
Turkey is bad for me, fear"
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(To be Continued.)

they may be growing out Of their place, and in single
night crop of small mushrooms have lifted large stone.
Indeed plants great at breaking the hardest rocks
The island of Adabra to the northwest of Madagascar
becoming smaller and therefore being gradually destroyed
by the action of the that grow along the foot
Of the cliffs They eat their way into the rock direc-
tons and the island is being slowly but surely up
by the nroads of the plants Into the gaps thus formed
the force their way and in time they will reduce
the island to pieces FL
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

sent them scurry1ng
away to be seen no
more. -. - II -.
You may be sure
that both boys were
too excited to think
Of sleep during the
remainder Of tn e
night, and that both
were wide awake to
every sound in the
forest.
An hour after the
wolves had disap-
peared a deer came
treading softly over
the leaves, but as
soon as he got scent
of the b oys h e
dashed away ~:
Later, a bear came
laundering along. He.
shifted at the bones
of the wolves and
came within ten feet.
of the hollow. tree
and growled away to
himself, but as the
boys kept quiet he
finally moved off.
That was the last
disturbance, Of the
night. I -
= When daylight had,
fully dawned Joe
and Dan s t PIP e d
forth from. their shell
ter and went down
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will do the same
thing, and yet you
leave a horse in the
midst Of a forest,
and he is helpless to
find his way back to
the stable.
"He is no good to
help u.s. said Joe,
when the dog had
made a failure Of it,
and we will try an
other way. We will
take our hollow tree
for a starting point.
We will 60 east for
a mile, blazing the
trees as we 60 along.
If we do not find
familiar ground we
will try the other
points Of the COM
pass. Whatever else
we do, we must not
get frightened. You
have got your lip up
and there are tears
in your. eyes,
owe may have to
stay in the woods an
other night, and the
wolves may come
again, whimpered
Dan.
"And we may be
home in time for
dinner. Don't be a
baby. Even if we
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
WHY HE LIMPED.

S. An absent minded professor day observed
walking down the street with foot continually in the
gutter the other the pavement "A pupil meeting him,
saluted him with: #.z4
'tGood evening, professor. How are youi'
'I very WELL thought, answered the professor;
'but don It know what g the matter For the last
ten minutes I've been imping' - sss&zsz
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WILLIE WAS WISE.

Parent: |'Willie, didn It you go the trunkmakers
yesterday and tell him to send round the trunk I
ordereds''
Willie: eyes, father
Parent: ssWel, here is the trunk, but strap.
Didn't he say anything about the straps''
Willie: eyes, father but I. told him thought you
hadn' better have any strap
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MOTLEY,
y "O L LII =. --l--'- :
GLADYS GilleSbY. ReporteT

~ Gladys Gillesby, Reporter.
On Thursday afternoon, December T. the
,ps and Miss Carpenter, their teacher, visited the
ate capitol to study the mural paintings by Blashfed
ID La Fargo.
A *Look-Out'' club organized in the A
Tuesday morning, December s. The officers elected
-e follows: George Hut presidents Raymond Schultz
presdent Gladly Gillesby, secretary, and Chester
cKrdy, The object of the club is to teach
epups how to conduct society to take charge of the
eray work and to look after the general interest of
school. -:
In room, thirty pupils out Of thrtysix received
hundred in the spelling test of Thursday December
The average of the school is about IS.
H has been invited to room for their Christ
program, which will take place Friday, Dec. %.
A will have a debate Friday, Dec Is. The
eG M Eng an
Great.'
Miss Spencer, soois at Bethany Presbyterian church,
ertained the pupils of and for short time
- Thursday Dec 7, by singing number of songs.
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A VARIABLE QUANTITY.

One day little boy told by his teacher that he
could go home pretty soon, and then kept nearly
half hour. On arriving home very earnestly asked:
tMama, how many minutes there in pretty
soon?'''
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EATING UP AN ISLAND.

lovely maidenhar fern. Yet if its have not
to grow they will break the pot containing the plant
Blades will force the kerbstones between which
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SHERIDAN,
Florence Betzler. Reporte,

The Sheridan school bank has increased rapidly.
here about 100 depositors. 49,. r.
has highest average in mental arithmetic test
by Mrs Rollins. :.z.
The school is very proud Of the picture which
tngs in the hall.
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SIDNEY PRATT
- Frances Potts, Reporter.
On Wednesday, November 20, the read g The
Ndeawake,' monthly magazine edited and issued by
he pupils Several piano solos and songs by the classes
we're nterspersed with the reading. The magazine
considered great success -. =. 49,.
The and rooms had special Thanksgiving
Uses on Wednesday, the G having several of the
up dressed Indians and Puritans and dressed
represent Indian corn. .......
One of the pupils of c room has lately found old
in the woods in which beautiful mourning
leaked butterfly. ~. >"
Miss Riedel the teacher of the first room has been
lex for two weeks and substitute has taken her place.
The front doors of the building have been lately
arnished by the janitor. They look very nice.
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WASHINGTON.

bessIe
The pupils of A elected the following officers:
lass president, Roy Tosma; vice president, Julia
kanse secretary Albert Swanson; treasurer Blanche
reeman. ":.-1 ,.">E
The pupils of are doing leather work for
hristmas The pupils of the intermediate grades
$50 making Christmas presents.
Miss McCusick, Lake Harriet school, visited
thursday, December T. Miss Allen, Sidney Pratt school,
isited room Thursday morning. December 7.
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NEWS FROM THE SCHOOLS
HARRISON,
Earl V. ShannesSy, Rep

The graduating class of 1906 met on Wednesday
afternoon at 3:45 On account Of the absence of both
president and vice president Earl v Shannessy took
chair The class motto is t'second Best None"
members of the class mean to prove It.
The Washington times., 1905-10-31
A HUNDRED YEARS TO COME.

Oh. where vii! be the birds that sing
a hundred years to come?
The flowers that now In beauty spring,
a hundred years to Gomez
The rosy lip. the lofty brow.
The heart that beats so gayly now?
Oh, where will be loves beaming eye,
Joys pleasant smile, and Sorrow 5 sigh
y hundred years TO come?
Who'll press for good this crowded
street,
A hundred years 10 come?
Who'll tread yon church with willing
feet,
A hundred years TO come?
Pale. trembling age and fiery youth
And childhood with its brow Of truth,
fhe rich and poor. on land and sea-
Where VIII the mighty millions be
A hundred years 10 come?
We all within our graves shall sleep,
A hundred years 10 come.
No living soul for us shall weep
A hundred years To come.
But other men our land will till.
And others then our streets shall ill.
While o-her birds shall sing as gay,
As bright the sunshine as today,
A hundred years to come.
William Goldsmith Brown in Phiiadel-
phia Ledger.
The Washington times., 1905-10-31
RuSsia's Magma Charter

The mind that in the expression OF
sincere aspiration toward peace as
sembled the nations of the world foI
the purpose of preventing war and
subsequently, abandoned all its high
principle AT the behest of princely
farc-!res and thieving placemen, has
now suecumbed to the superior force
of millions of humber natures, and is
sued charter of liberties to the peo-
pie Of the Russias. No event in the
life of this generation has been so
portentous, SO fraught with the pos
sibilty OF great good and heavy with
the possibility of great danger TO
mankind. 1t is the last great prog
ress which popular government had
yet to make among the white peoples
OF the earth.
In no other nation has the grant
OF freedom come so precipitously. In
England il was the barons, leaders
and themselves hereditary lords Of
the people, TO whom John yielded
the magma charta, and when later
parliament promulgated the bill
or rights it was 10 q people better fit
ted in education, understanding, and
experience 10 assume the obligations
of citizenship. The German fedora
tion grew out of coordinate states.
France emerged as ii republic after
sleeping her towns and cities in blood
and learning the lessons of order and
self-goverDment at the cost of dis
astrous internecine wars. America.
the fullest expression of the prin-
ciple of popular government, organiz-
ed, fought, and won her independence
in struggle that lasted a decade,
and until she freed an alien race re-
stricted the participation in her gov
ernment 10 such as were fitted in
dividualiy for the exercise of that
right
But in Russia ''inviolability of
person. freedom of conscience, speech,
union, and association, a real par
ticipation in the acts OF the authori-
ties and a complete control over
the laws of the land have now been
granted by single act to uncounted
millions of men unprepared by any
training, either that of education or
that Of experience. What these peo-,
pie are to do with such privileges,
intrusted with new and powerful
force, until today either led by anar-
chists or ridden into the dust by
missionaries. the only teaching Of
The Washington times., 1905-10-31
Graft and Gillette.

If there is a man in the country
whom temperament and training fit-
ted him especially for the work of
probing filtration plant thefts in
philadelphia, he is Cassius E. Gill
lette. a major in the Corps of Engi-
neers, United States Army. The re-
port to Mayor Weaver, made by
Major Gillette and Mr.. Maclennan, of
this city, which lays hare the depth
and extent of this particular graft, is
Tedolent of the Gillette personality.
Incarnate duty is Major Gillette
cold. swift of thought and action. in
tolerant of low ideals, resolute and
ruthless in the pursuit of the guilty.
His brain convinced that public trust
has been betrayed, the man is stayed
by no obstacle that stands between
the outraged and defrauded people
and the betrayer.
So thinking, Major Gillette pub
fishes his findings in plain, blunt
words. Over six million dollars in
graft, diverted from the public treas
ury to the pockets of officials and
contractors. More than twelve thou
sand deaths, due to polluted water,
that could have been prevented by
prompt methods of conducting the
work! Evidences of deceit, chicanery,
anu fraud are scattered from one end
to the other of the great enterprise.
Two weeks ago Senator Boies Pen
rose, misled by the fact that the en-
gineers had made no report upon the
nltration plant and the methods of
Its building, in speech at a political
mass meeting, had this to say:
IL their report establishes the guilt
consideration of Justice demands that
the information should be made pub
hc. tnat the contractors should be ar
rested crimsnaily and sued ciyilly, as
matter of duty to the city.
Whether the report establishes the
guilt charged upon the contractors"
to the satisfaction of Senator PEN
rose and his fellow-leaders of the
Pennsylvania machine, may be open
to question, but that it has raised at
least strong presumption of their
guilt in the mind of the public gem
orally there can be no doubt. Under
such circumstances it is fortunate
such man as Gillette is in the saddle.
he has theory that the way to get
desired information from criminals,
to use his own phrase, is ito twist
their ID necks."
he applied this method. with great
success. at Savannah. If Mayor
Weaver Will permit, he will probably
be charmed to repeat the experiment
In Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1905-10-31

their former relations to their gov
ernment that authority is a means
OF extortion and oppression-this is
Russia's dreadful problem.
At this crisis Providence provides
the nation with strong man. Here
tofore her peoples have resisted
without leaders. Now they have a
leader OF proven personal strength.
Of thorough training in the practice
OF government, a man of their blood
and their life-M. Witte. To him is
given responsibility which no
American will covet. He must deal
on the one hand with weak and
Vaciiiating autocrat-an autocrat who
has abandoned the most important
OF his pretensions, but who is still as
great power in Russis as his cousin
is in Great Britain; and on the other
hand a disorganized and unframed
electorate. From the first attempt to
exercise the new rights there will be
appeals to prejudice, self-seeking, in
triSue and corruption heightened by
all the devices of a rotten court,
From the first only very small pro-
portion of the nations new citizen
body can possibly know how to use
the liberty which at last they have
wrung from their sovereign. 1t will
be impossible for many years fully
TO realize all the fruits of this mar
yeious revolution in practice.
The great struggle of the Russias
has, in fact, but begun. When peace
is restored, or when new disorders
plunge her cities again into violence
and rapine, the factions that have
yielded so much will very reasonably
attempt to recover the ground thew
nave lost The ordinary difficulties
OF popular government that here in
America weigh at times so heavily
on the shoulders of all good citizens
VIII in Muscovy weigh a hundred
times heavier. But in the progress
or the nations away from one-man
rule toward the rule of all men
equally, leaders have never been
lacking and the cause has never per-
manenuy lost ground. That this
may be true Of Russia is the hone of
all the freemen Of the world.
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A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.

He was city editor who spoke rapid-
Iy and not always very distinctly
Ihe reporter was cub" fresh from
college and unacquainted with almost
everything in New York except Broad
way and the Tende-loin.
The board of estimate and apportion-
ment was in session, and the new man
got the assignment TO cover it III.
was upon the point of asking his chief
what queer place he wanted him 10
visit. because he was able to distinguish
only one word in the series which were
spouted at him. but he didn't want To
appear ignorant or hard of hearing.
He trGdged across City Hall Park try
lug to arrange the jumble of talk.
Estyman and Partisans.' he mutter-
ed. That wouldn't do. Other arrange
ments were even less satisfactory
Suddenly he smiled and walked con-
fidcntly up the sseps of the hall An
alderman was talking to some friends
in the corridor
Excuse me. sir. said the cub, Z"
but can you tell me where the vestry-
men and parsons meet?'-NeW York
Globe.
The Washington times., 1905-10-31
MANY NUN" ADMIRERS
VISIT PRETTY DISPLAY
Second Day of Exhibition Attracts
Scores to the Well-Eqripped
Greenhouse.

The second day of the annual ehrysan-
themunl show of the Department of Ag-
riculture is IL fusl swing at the green
houses on the Mall.
When the show opened this morning
there were hosts OF women ami children
waiting 10 inspect the gardens where
the 2.ea9 chrysanthenums are on dis
play.
The flowers present 4 beautiful scene.
Banked closely together and arranged
according 10 height. with a BACKGROUND
on either aisle OF seedlings that are be-
ing grown for next years budding the
display elicits much comment from the
observers.
greet the eve is the plant bearing TWEEN
ty-five varieties OF chryanthenurns. This
unique experiment or DR. Galloway.
chief Of the Bureau of Plant Industry.
under whose personal direction the show
Is beng given, causes some wonder.
Many other exhibits of equally i'm
portant experiments are seen. especially
Is this true of the dwarf SDeciments
which seem to be particularly favored
by the children and younger women.
The show opened Yesterday at 10
All Gay by siShtseers. Last night The
show probably was AT its best. and many
people who could not avail themselves
OF visit during the day We're there
ing the greenhouses at night when the
snow is going on brings -out. to the
Intnutest detail. every shade OF color of
this great array of plants
The guides experience a great deal OF
trouble in keeping the little children
from pinching off a bouquet" and in
many instances they are besieged by
grown people with requests to be allowed
10 carry a bunch OF those exquisite low
ers home.
The show viii be in vogue all week,
from 1e O'Clock in the forenoon until
4:30 in the afternoon and from to 10
O'Clock during the evenings During the
day the entire greenhouses are opened
Tor inspection.
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ALWAYS IN SEASON.

The druggist was furnishing up the
shop for the fail trade.
Walter. what is that?" he said TO
his assistant. pointing toward stack
OF wooden boxes.
,sunburn salve,'' the young man an
Swered.
Much left of tt
Lots of It.
The druggist bit his lip with vexatIon.
He stood and regarded the stack of
boxes with frowning intentness. Then
an Idea struck him, and he smiled.
Walter. he said, destroy those SUM-
ones on the hektogrsSph. Put on them.
'Chappo. the nature cure-instant re-
lief for chapped hands and faces IJn-
Ger the name at the first frost. this
St. Louis Globe-Democtak
The Washington times., 1905-10-31
MRS. COOPER RETAINED
is SEVERELY REPR|MANDEO
Holds Position as Principal of NJ Street
High School-Board Files
Opinion.

Cognizant Of the earnest desires of the
Colored population of the District OF
Columbia for the vindication of Mrs.
Anna J. Cooper. the Board of Educa-
ton, at a special meeting last night. re-
tanned her as principal of the NJ Street
High School.
The board. in its resolutions. spoke
highly OF Mrs. Coopers intellectual at
tainments, but reprimanded her severely
for the disregard shown in following
the orders of the director of high
schools and for introducing text books
of her own liking. and for allowing
sympathy TO enter into her admins
tration of the schools affairs.
The charges of allowing intoxicated"
pupils in the school and not reporting
the fact to the schooi authorities were
not proved.
The report did not mention Mrs.
Cooper's name in a single instance. The
beard confined its resolution to gen.
eral plan of dealing with school affairs
Like precedents. the lengthy documents s
aim was to fully satisfy the best inter
ests of the case and 10 insure harmony
in the school hereafter.
In part. the report adopted was:
1T has been the steadfast policy of
the board to regard the school system
as n unit for all purposes, and ac-
-
Of study. and all official acts have ap-
piled without favor or preference 70 the
entire body of teachers and TO all the
pupils without regard TO their color,
nationality. or social position.
The board believes that this equality
of participation in the advantages OF
free education should carry with IL an
equality of obligation, and that no in
dividual or class of pupils should expect
the rewards of scholarly endeavor with
out fully measuring up to the standard
of attainment set for all
In conclusion the report said:
In view of all the facts and con-
clusions and the very strong desire of
a large proportion OF the colored race
I'm this District to have the principal
retained, we recommend her re-
tention, with the express direction
however that the standards of work.
the grading of students, and the recon-
mendation of students for graduation be
conducted strictly III accordance with
the policy of the Board OF Education.
and that IN her official conduct sAe shall
recognize the authority of her superior
officer. the director Of high schools. and
conform her official conduct in ALI re-
spects TO rules of the board
The Washington times., 1905-10-31
CONSTITUTIONS DEFENSE.

The history of the country shows
that seldom does the Senate yield to the
cry and clamor OF the azitators, and It's
good thing for the people that such Is
the case" remarked Judge A B. Wat
son. of Kentucky, In the lobby OF the
Riggs House This apparent universal
demand for railroad rate legislation Is
an agitation that threatens the SOW
ereignty Of the States The House. 1
take it. will pass some sort of measure
to take from the States the right to con-
troll the railroads. and IL will be rushed
through without thought or deliberation-
But when it reaches the Senate, the
Senators win carefully dissect Il and
make clear the unconstitutional features
OF the bill Then the sentiment viii
change II the Government can regulate
and arbitrarily fix rates, no matter.
whether high or low, on the ground that
ii is interstate commerce.. then it can
step IN and regulate every corporation in
State that does business outside the
State in which the corporation has its
headquarters It's swift step toward
centralizing the power OF the Govern
ment. and II the entering wedge is once
driven in there is no telling where IT Will
stop The Senate is the bu1wark of our
Constitution, and II l know the temper
OF that body IL will not yield to the
clamor of the agitators-"
The Washington times., 1905-10-31
SHAW WILL NOT PREDICT
RESULT OF OHIO ELECTION

Secretary Shaw returned from speak
ing tour in Ohio yesterday and left last
night for Virginia, where he will make
several political speeches He will tell
the voters in Alexandria tonight why
they should vote for Judge Lewis. the
Republican candidate for governor
Secretary Shaw expressed himself as
well pleased with the receptions given
him al Portsmouth and Georgetown,
Ohio.
Personally. Secretary Shaw said. Il
was impossible for him 70 predict the
outcome of Ohio's coming election; but
Senator Dick, who Is managing the can
paign. assured him that Governor Her
rick would be elected.
And" said Secretary Shaw. "Sena-
tor Dick should know what he is talking
about. for he is familiar with the con-
ditions in Ohio"