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attended the reception In the evening and en-
joyed very pleasant time That success long
life and happiness may attend Mr.. and Mrs.
Chandler is the wish Of all their friends in the
u. g. 4.
j. r. Gordon, representing the Minnesota
Linseed Oil and Paint company, is out again
hustling for business after long siege of ILL.,
health. All the boys welcome his return to
active work.
George s. Montgomery, one Of the old-time
statesmen Of the northwest, made flying visit
to Minneapolis last week and was guest at
| the Hyser. He is now engaged in coal mining
at Edmonton Alberta. His mine is located in
a bluff the beautiful Saskatchewan river.
Steamers convey the coal from the mine s
mouth to the docks at Edmonton. He is very
enthusiastic about the Canadian northwest and
Alberta in particular.
o. s. Ryers and F. J. Aicher, both Of Min.
neapolis and members of No. 60, were among the
! guests at the hotels In San Francisco last week
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during the terrible calamity which overlook.
that city. No word has been received from
them and great anxiety is felt for their safety.
John w. Kramer. representing Swift & Co..
says the U. C. T. goat is small, weak. pulling
kid compared to his bewhiskered majesty that
does the butting act in the shrine. No use
talking, he says, a who thinks himself q
bronco buster had better not brag of his ability
| as rider until he has straddled the shrine
| goat. Then he'll know what bucking Is, and
| when he hits the floor will see more stars than
are in the whole canopy of heaven on cloud
less night.
| L. J. Templeton and wife have returned to
| Minneapolis from San Antonio Texas. where
| they have spent the winter.
James A. Grove senior counselor Of Albert
Lea council, whose portrait is published today,
| represents the Menthe-Jell company.
/ Messrs. Thingyan and Swart of No. 141 are
busy these days deyising new stunts for the
| degree team.
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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

worth to an interested audience Of one--a de-
defenceless, helpless customer who gave him an
order to get rid of him. George is an old timer
In the shoe line and few know 1t better and no
salesman has more extended acquaintance than
he. He is not only past grand counselor, but
is great and shining light in SANITY City
council, No. so.
c. S. Hasmer of Anoka, an old and valued
member of No. 49, has been laid up for several
weeks with rheumatism He is now rapidly i'm
proving and his friends hope soon to see him
out on the road again.
c.. A. Hass of the hustl1ng and popular
members Of No. So. has been confined to his
bed for ten days with pneumonia, but at this
writing is reported the road to improvement,
and hopes soon to be out pushing the 'plow'
as usual.
J. Z. Gable the hustling counselor Of No g.
is going thru the throes Of all rich men, He
Is wrestling win carpenters stonemasons, paint
ers etc, who are engaged in the construction of
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his new house in the hill district on the east
side OF the mighty Mississippi
C. A. Nimmick. with Wyman Partridge &
Co., living at Cedar Rapids. reports trade good
in the hawkeye state. He is about to transfer
from No. 63 to the Cedar Rapids council
81 B. j. Locker. the hustling representative of
Wemott Howard of st. Paul. and valued
member OF No. SO. left Friday for his western
trip covering Montana Idaho and Washington
Locker is an enthusiastic u @. T. man and
while hustling for orders, hustles also for APP
plicationss for membership in the order.
8. B, Leighton of Portland, Oregon represent
ing the North Star Shoe company on the Pacific
coast was In Minneapolis last week getting his
fall samples. He reports Mount Rainier as quiet
and harmless and trade No. in the great
west beyond the Rockies.
The officers OF No. 141 request full attend
ance at the next meeting Of the council and
wish that all the brothers reading this will
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER

Within a week. it is likely, pros
pectus will be issued for the CONNER
cial Man s Hotel Building association,
incorporated with capital stock of
100000. The hope Of it's projectors
is that the number of travelling men
taking stock will be so large that it
will not be necessary to sell the stock
in large blocks, or to men in other
lines of business. The stockholders
should be confined, not to members of
the U. G. T., but should include travel
ing men for grain, insurance, bond COM
panies and railroads, in order that the
hotel may be literally travelling men g
hotel. This is not altogether matter
of sentiment, but business sagacity, for
the more travelling men interested in
the success Of the hotel so much surel
is patronage. Of course there are
many who will take stock in the hotel
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Observation-Disclosures !t'AH Hs.t@hH tsA:s.SAEsAa
company from either patriotic motives,
or because they regard the investment
as a good one, but they will not be
called upon, at least until the PROPOSE
ton has been presented to the travel
ing men. The opportunity for a hotel
that will be a big-paying investment
could not be much better, and there is
a chance for the travelling men to do
something for themselves, their calling,
the firms they represent, the city, the
northwest, and the public-will they
do it7
Some impression has evidently been
made upon the railroads by the agita-
ton of the U. c. T. against the rail
roads system of selling irebate mileage,
books that ties up millions Of dollars Of
the commercial travellers money.
Some of this money is on deposit Tor a
year waiting for the 2,OOO-mile books
to be used up before the $3.50 rebate
can be claimed. No interest is al
lowed, and in Pennsylvania the travel
ing men have brought suit to find out
if this is legal. Now the Western
Passenger association is considering II
the amount of deposit should not be
reduced one-half, or to $40. A propo-
sition is now before the railroads to
sell a 2,OOO mileage DOCK IOf poo, ie-
turing $3.50 when the book is used
up. This will be a compromise and
the travelling men will not be satisfied
until there is fiat 2-cents-a-mile rate,
but it shows that the railroads are
sitting up and taking notice.
In Ohio, where the legislature has
passed law fixing railroad rates for
everybody at 2 cents mile, the
travelling men are buying trip tickets
and say they make something OF a
saving in their transportation accounts.
Where a certain amount Of mileage
was pulled for a given distance it is
found that the cash fare runs a few
cents less, which amounts to something
worth while in the years aggregate.
The hotel rates for fractional parts
of the day to travelling men is topic
that is being discussed in some Of the
eastern u. c. T. councils. = In the
smaller towns where the travelling man
stays only part of the day there is
considerable complaint. The land,
lords will tack on an extra meal
whether it is eaten or not. The con
clusion of these debates is that there is
no Justice in the overcharges, nor rea
son why they should be made other
than that the landlords need the
money and the travelling men vii
stand for it.
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"A TT G. r.. Ball Team.

All members of U. c. T. council No.
So, who can play ball, and all who think
they can and every one who IS inter,
to meet at the Bryn Mawr grounds
Tuesday, April "a at pm. -.
No. 63 has the material for crack
eriack Of team this year, and it's up
to the ball team to make good and make
good they will, but they expect the
moral support of all members of the
council
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Pushing the Hotel Scheme.

Representatives of the U. G. T. move
ment to build a $1,O0O,00O hotel, will
hold conference early in the week
with well-known business men, to whom
the plan of organization will be sub
mitted before the incorporation of the
Commercial Travellers Hotel Building
association.
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TRAVELLING MEMS CHAUTAUQUA

starkweather, N. D.. April 21.-Thee
Travelling Mems association has asked
for two days at the Chautauqua- Sat
urday and Sunday June so and July, l..
It is intended to make those dates
Travelling Mems day. The councils at
Fargo, Grand Forks, Mlnot, Crookst Ion
movement
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Wisconsin Travelling Men,

At the meeting of the Wisconsin
State Travellers Protective associa-
ton, held at Eau Claire, resolution
was passed asking President Roosevelt
to attend the national convention at
Buffalo next June. The candidacy of
John F. Johnson of Racine, for mem
bership on the board of directors at
New York was Endorsed. An amend
ment to the constitution providing that
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PERSONAL MENTION

George w. Rodgers, past grand counselor.
was seen out on the wind-swept prairies of
North Dakota In the vicinity of Minot with a
genuine leather shoe In his hand, extoling Its
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members of the national board of di-
rectors be paid an annual salary of
5000 was voted down, as was a resolu-
more than one term.
The next state convention will be
held at Madison in April, 1907. -~
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That the limit to which a travelling
man will 90 in praising his wares is
considerable is shown in the following
story told by stove salesman: ~
went to house to set up one of our
new fuel-saving stoves once. I was
smoking a cigar, and as the lady said
she objected to tobacco I threw it into
the frebox. In a few minutes the cook
thought of a brilliant plan to keep
breaddough from being exposed to the
air and placed the pan in the oven of
the stove. I finished setting up the
stove and just as I was about to leave
opened the oven door to see if every
thing was all right. Imagine my sur
prise to see that pan of bread all nice
1y Drowned and baked just from the
heat Of that part Of cigar!
-..' g. Ray e. Sherman.
Fort Dodge, Iowa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-16
Squirrel Robs the Mail.

Winona-The robbing of the United
States mail by squirrel was a most
unusual incident which occurred in
this city.
Martin Daszkowski, one Of the oldest
mail carriers in the city, was on his
regular rounds and had among his NAH
to be delivered an advertising card to
which was attached large walnut, in
side Of which was the matter adver-
tised. A little squirrel, of which there
are many in Winona, seeing the nut,
jumped upon Mr.. Daszkowski's Shout
der and running down his arm with
lightning speed took the nut and card
from his hand, and then climbed
nearby tree where 1t investigated the
contents of the nut.
Fortunately, upon discovering that
the nut was not the kind it wanted,
the squirrel dropped it and the card
without damaging either, and they
were later delivered to the proper ad-
dress. The squirrels of Winona are
tame and frequently climb upon pedes-
TRANS shoulders looking for nuts or
other food
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GOV. cUMMINs TOURING SOUTH
On Visit to BattlefieIds Where Monu-
ments Are to Be Unveiled.

Atlanta, Ca, Nov. 12-Gov. Albert
B. Cummins, of Iowa, accompanied by
Mrs. Cummins, members of his staff
and the Iowa monument committee,
left Des Moines on special train No
vember IL for tour of the southern
battlefields, where monuments are to
be unveiled to Iowa troops who fell In
battle during the war between the
states.
The first stop will be at Vicksburg,
Miss, on November 10. Anderson
vile, Ca, will be reached on Novem-
Der 16, where Maj. Gen. Granville H.
Dodge, representing the secretary of
war, will accept the monument on be-
half of the United States government
After the exercises at Andersonville
the party will leave for Chattanooga,
spending two days on the battlefelds
surrounding that city, going thence to
Shiloh.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-16
WHEN THE LIGHT WENT OUT.
Amusing Acts That Followed Period
of Darkness.

when the electric lights went out"
said man the other night, everyone
looked blank. Everything was blank.
In the theaters the curtain of darkness
descended before the bell CALL The
vaudeville girl changed from a gig
Cling thing to frightened, sober in
dividual
THE customer at the bar raised his
stein in brillian light and poured the
beer down his collar in utter dark
ness.
"A man buying a handkerchief.
Electricity out! He pockets the goods
and gets out.
"The street car is spinning around
the curves, and his eyes are follow
ing the graceful lines of the hand of
one who sits by his side. Would that
he could but touch it. He did.
"The old deacon is reading his Bible.
and, coming to the passage, cast into
hell fire. just as. the printed word
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Brief Notes.

Minneapolis-The committees repre-
senung the telegraph operators of the
Omaha and the Chicago Great Western
have come to c satisfactory settlement
with the officials of both companies in
regard to an increase in wages. The
minimum wages on both roads was in
creased from s47.50 to $3.50, and the
average wages of every telegraphe on
both roads was raised about 10 per
cent.
st. Paul-Gov. Johnson granted the
requisition Of Gov. O'Toole of Mon
tana for the return of F. E. Garside,
who is wanted there on a charge of
forgery. Garside fought the extradi-
ton on the ground that the requisition
and indictment was not in proper
form, but the assistant attorney gen.
eral ruled that the papers were prop
erly made out and upon his advice the
governor granted the requisition.
Duluth-Edward H. Oswald, Duluth.
aged Al and unmarried, committed sui
eide at the Metropole hotel, by taking
carbolic acid. He was a man of varied
occupations, but always an active
worker in the Democratic party here.
Mr. Oswald has a brother, Charles
here, and other relatives.
Loretta-The unknown man, who
was killed near here, was not stealing
ride on freight train, but had been
walking on the tracks, and was run
over by the Winnipeg Flyer.
St Paul-Lockjaw caused the death
of John Iofgren, thirty eight years
old, 1901 Marion street, EMPLOYED by
the ST. Paul Stone company.
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daily drive. the city Concord, N. H)
has been full of reporters.

daily drive, the city Concord, N. H.)
has been full Of reporters.
H. Cornell Wilson, Christian Science
press agent for New York and vicin-
ity, arrived Monday morning and stood
between the reporters and the house
hold at Pleasant View. Archibald
Mcclellan, editor of the official Chris
tian Science publications, came up
to help, and L. c. Strang, the local
man, also was on the job.
''The first reporters to arrive de-
manded an interview. Wilson stood
them off, declaring last night Mrs.
Eddy was busy and the story hadn't
yet been called to her attention. He
announced he might have something
important to say if the reporters would
meet him at noon to-day at the Eagle
hotel. At IL o'clock he appeared with
a list of reporters he proposed to adj
NIT. Four or five of those present
were not on the list.
We didn't like the tone of your
story yesterday said Mr.. Wilson to
one man. However, they fought 1t out
until all but two were let in on the
interview. The reporter for the paper
which published the original story
and a magazine man were not for
given.
"A woman reporter went up to
Pleasant View and had herself ap-
pointed spokesman. She came back
with three questions, which she
had agreed with the Scientists,
were to be asked of Mrs. Eddy.
In their conclave the reporters add ed
fourth. There were IL reporters al
together. Wilson lined them up in
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"G0D AZONE Is ny PNr5ICIqW

Christian Scientists are allowed
many privileges she said, so hope
you won't mind if I ask you to go
away
"Just before one o'clock there came
to Pleasant View belated newspaper
photographer. He wanted little. He
only wished Mrs. Leonard and Mrs.
Eddy to come out into the sunlight and
pose for him, so the world might see
how little they resembled each other.
Strang refused him. He added:
At one o'clock to-day the gates of
Pleasant View will close to the outer
world forever"
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THE NEWS in BRIEF.

Mark Twain is still i'll with an at
tack of broncEitis at his home in New
York.
Fire at Dundee, Ia, wiped out al
most the entire business district. The
loss is $4,000.
Fire in the lumber and coal yard dis
trict of Mobile, Ala, early caused a
loss of 100000.
Mrs. Russell Sage announces she
will give the $SO,O00,OO0 which her
husband left her largely to individuals.
The mother of Conrad Weiss, New
York fireman, committed suicide when
she learned her son was going to
marry.
Sporting goods valued at $4,000
were damaged or destroyed by fire in
the store of A. G. Spalding G Co. in
New York.
Hetty Green says there is going to
be a revolt over trust oppression in
this country and that the streets will
run with blood.
Fire destroyed the Rosenberg Broth
ers' packing house at San Jose, Cal.
Loss, $238,OO0, including prunes val
ued at $105.00O
Mrs. Edward Merritt, of Beloit, Wis,
was fatally burned and her five-year-
old son killed as the result of gaso-
line cook stove explosion.
Joseph Medill Patterson, the million
aire Socialist of Chicago, has enrolled
himself as student in agriculture at
the University of Wisconsin.
The French senate committee ap-
pointed to consider the matter by five
to three votes decided in favor of
transferring the ashes of Emile lola
to the Pantheon.
Five suspects have been arrested
in New Orleans in connection with the
stealing of $4,000 from two banks and
an attempt to swindle another institu-
ton out of $4,000.
Fifteen minutes after he had mar
ried Maria Einstein in Brooklyn, Au-
gustus Silvestro, 30 years old, was shot
and killed in his home, where he was
celebrating his wedding.
Ihe recovery or the bodies OF Fred
erick Collins, tile layer, and F. w.
Felker, a carpenter, from the ruins of
the collapsed Bixby hotel at Long
each, Cal, swelled the death list to
ten.
The grand jury at Boston returned a
mo bill' in the case of Shaun Kelley,
Of Harvard university, charged with
assaulting a policeman. Kelley was
with Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., at the
time Of the alleged assault.
Special Commissioner W. s. Flour
noy, appointed to take testimony in
the suit against eight ice companies at
Kansas City, Mo-, charged with form
ing an unlawful combination, reported
to the circuit court there that no trust
existed.
Officers of the Mississippi
Commercial Congress decided at Kan
sas City, Mo-, on the official pro-
pramme for the session which opens
there November 20. Among the
speakers will be William J. Bryan,
Elihu Root, Leslie M. Shaw and John
G. Carlisle.
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View. This opens from a main hall
by folding doors hung over with cur
tains. Members of Mrs. Eddy's house
hold, including Mrs. PAMELA Leonard,
were fringed about the wall There
came tap on the folding door.
"'She is here announced one of
the healers, dramatically.
Shows Evidences of Age.
'The folding doors slid back, the
curtains lifted-a stately figure in
white stood bowling at the door, stately
at first sight, but a feeble old woman
at second Her skin was dead white,
her cheeks sunken, every ounce of
spare fat gone from her face The
long, pointed chin, characteristic of
Mrs. Eddys face in youth, was as
beautiful as ever. So, indeed, were
the large eyes, and the long, finely-cut
nose. Over the face rose a mass of
perfectly white hair, crowned by a
white bonnet
'She was EMBODIED in huge black
velvet and ermine cloak She was
grasping the curtains with one hand;
Calvin Frye, her secretary, stood at
the other elbow Both hands were
shaking, her head and lower lip con-
stantly trembled a little, as with a
slight palsy. The spokeswoman be-
gan at once on the first question.
Are you in perfect health, Mrs.
Eddy?' she asked.
Mrs. Eddy bent toward her with a
slight movement of inquiry. The
spokeswoman repeated the question a
little louder.
Indeed am replied Mrs. Eddy.
"The effect Of her voice was start
ling. 1t had slight senile culver, but
it was deep and level. The combina-
ton gave it an unearthly quality. 1t
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assembled faithful Since then Mrs.
Eddy has been invisible save to Frye
and the members of his inner circle"
Continuing its charges of fraud and
deceit. the World stated that there
was ample ground for the widespread
belief that Mrs. Eddy is slowly dying
from cancer. 1t has been discovered,
says the World, that this dread dis
ease has afflicted others of the Baker
family: that two brothers and two SIS
tiers of Mrs. Eddy died from it; and
that an operation for the same malady
alone saved her fathers life.
There is positive evidence that
Mrs. Eddy has secretly employed reg
ular medical practition.~- for herself
and for certain favorite members of
her family. 1t is practically certain
a Boston cancer specialist, whose
name is known to the world. is now in
constant attendance at Pleasant View I"
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q sweeping gesture with her Olsen.
gagged hand and let 60 her hold On
the curtain.
"'Do you drive daily?
Yes.
"At that instant Frye caught her o.
bow and turned her toward the front
door. before which her carriage waited
to take her on her drive. Strang fell
in on the other side, and Mrs. Eddy
walked between them.
Have you the management of your
own affairs?' asked the spokeswoman.
THE question never was answered.
At the door Frye and Strang fell back.
Mrs. Eddy walked the width of the
piazza alone. Her gait had stately,
languid grace. hardly suggestive of
old age, but her hand shook badly as
Strang helped her to a seat in the
carriage.
when Mrs. Eddy had gone the re-
porters were shown over Pleasant
View house. When the reporters Of
the newspaper which printed the orig
inal story interviewed Mrs. Eddy last
week they saw, or thought they saw,
an electric battery and basin Of
blood stained water. The guide
showed the reporters in Mrs. Eddy's
study basin of clear water
Simply a finger bowl where she
washes her fingers after writing with
a pencil They said: And as for a
battery, they must have mistaken that
stand for electric BELLS
House Now Closed to World.
when the reporters returned to the
parlor woman of the household came
forward.
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Reporters See Mrs. Eddy.

Following these charges the New
York Sun printed the following ac-
count of an interview granted by Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy to a L;srty Of
newspaper representatives at her
home October go
Mary Baker Eddy is alive, but old
and feeble, and suffering from some
complaint like palsy which make. her
head and hands shake. She gave prob
ably the last interview of her life this
afternoon to IL reporters from Bos-
ton and New York, and now, in the
words of one of her household, the
gates of Pleasant View are closed
forever
''Since the publication of the story
to the effect that Mrs. Eddy was un-
der the control of her household and
that Mrs. PAMELA Leonard, a healer
of Brooklyn. was impersonating the
leader of Christian Science on her