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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15
Losing Sight of the Target.

rs OUR modern education hitting the mark?
The question is being continually raised with
more less valid criticisms against the purpose
and method Of public school and college work. In
the field Of technical training "vocational' edu-
cation there is question about the efficacy Of
modern methods The professional and technical
schools of the United States the best equipped
and most effective in the world, and the success of
their graduates attests the soundness Of their
methods
All education, however, does not aim at given
callings After the elementary knowledge Of the
primary and grammar schools comes broader study
to awaken the taste Of pupils, to teach them to APP
preciate the best things. This cultural' education
is Of should be the main feature of high school and
college work The question uppermost is, do our
educators plan and give cultural courses with Gull
ture as their end and aim, do they lay too much
stress the letter which killeth, and smother the
spirit that maketh aive7
A strong arraignment Of current courses and
textbooks is made by Willard Giles Parsons in the
Atlantic He declares that educators have lost sight
entirely Of the aim Of cultural courses and do not
teach them in way to improve the taste of pupils.
Subjects such English literature and Latin are
taught by "scienti6c' methods which make them
odlous to students. Instead Of waking to love
for Shakspere by class reading and Illuminating
explanation they read little Shakspere and spend
great deal Of time examining with dry facts, which
kill their appreciation Of great literature. They are
ashamed not to like Shakspere, but cannot be ex-
pected to like him when presented in such way
The trouble as analysed by Mr. Parsons, lies in
the fact that in all subjects have been made
vocational. Latin and literature, when taught to
teachers should be taught by the vocational method
This form Of teaching has been forced down into the
high schools, and in the of grammar, even into
the grades Subjects which should be made interest
ing and should be taught for the sole purpose Of
awakening the pupils appreciation, are taught as
to specialist. The uniformed minds are preiudiced
in advance against the best things in literature fed
on doses of Milton and Chaucer when they should
be led upward thru the destinations Of Stevenson or
Defoe. Other topics handled in the same pc
dantic fashion. There are some teachers whose
Instinct leads them away from textbooks to make
the personal appeal but they are cramped and con-
fined by machine-like supervision. They should
multiply and grow strong. If culture is the aim of
most branches Of high school and college study that
aim should be consistently followed. If like Grad
grind we want "nothing but facts' then let Gull
tural subjects be dropped altogether.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15
Mount Vesuvius.

s NJ CUNT VESUVIUS links the modern with
B the ancient world, for the mountain is
/ doing today the very thing it did AID. 70, when
the younger Pliny wrote his account of the erup-
D ton. Tho the mountain has had many eruptons
4 since, not less than nine in the last century
: alone, the causes of volcanic action have never
been sufficiently explained. In early times it
I was natural to connect the phenomena with
4 the blacksmith work of the gods The people
of Italy today look upon the eruption as something
supernatural and when the king and queen visited
the Of the disaster the other day the people
hailed their arrival, evidently believing there
divinity hedging their majesties which would stop
the torrent of ashes which was pouring down upon
{ their devoted heads. -
Science knows nothing more about it than that
internal heat which increases toward the center Of
the earth seeks its outlet along the lines of least
resistance. It is notable that volcanoes seldom
known except in places where the earth's crust may
be expected to be the weakest in basins. Very
few volcanoes found far inland
The foreign matter which is covering she farms
and villages the slopes Of Vesuvius is silicate
rock, called lava. Where the lava escapes from the
vent intact it flows down the mountain side until it
coos and solidifes. But where the lava is imper-
fecty fused and where great quantities of steam
present it becomes filled with bubbles and at the
surface is torn apart by the steam and hurled high
in the air. These fragments are known as cinders
or ashes.
Vesuvius has long been of the show places
of the world. Its slopes are covered with vineyards
and pretty villages and lately tourists have been
accommodated with an electric railway which took
them to the summit and within $50 yards Of the
crater.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15
The CITY Man and His Garden.

THIS is the time of the man with the rake, not
= the muck rake which the exposers of the dime
magazines make Of so handily, but the garden
rake with which he is industrously bent upon clean
ing up his yard, removing the dead leaves of last
autumn and encouraging the grass to come out and
sing it's song without words.
The yearning to delve in the soil is something
which the farmer has no monopoly upon. While
he may turn to the city mans square feet
he does it with pride in the venture than
the perspiring office hero who has hurried home
from the city to burn, clear and plant.
Pity is due the who has no desire to plant
seeds and wait for them to sprout, who is not ready
to sacrifice ease leisure and even baseball games to
the enthusiasm Of gardening. What tho the return
be small, what tho his wife may buy earlier and
larger radishes in the market! They are not his
radishes. He did not watch and tend them, and
after all they have market flavor which is insipid
The homegrown radish represents devotion. It is
eaten in the excited glow of achievement. The
ket radish has no sentiment and frequently it is
hollow otherwise. VS. a<* .'~>- s-. ~.
Besides, the home garden counteracts the ten
dency to dyspepsia which makes it's appearance
periodically in mortals who devote themselves too
assiduously to the intoxicating pleasures Of the
office chair. It brings into being muscles of which
the VOTED not, and the perspiration that it
develops goes far to prove the physiological asser-
ton that man is composed of three buckets Of water
an assortment Of wires and capacity to compre-
bend his wife's directions. &-,,. ....,
Thomas Lowry once made the remark that no
ought to be permitted to land who was
not willing to do something with it. He meant not
merely to buy and SELL but to improve it. This ap-
plies to city lots well to farms Of vast extent
The forms Of Improvement Of land are many. One
of the most documentary is the act of clearing it up
This means too often merely the duty Of removing
from the face of the earth the distortions of nature
which the criminal instincts Of man have put there
namely, bottles, cans, ashes and discarded articles
of clothing Nature if given chance will do the
rest Even weeds have their beauty as compared
with the grosser litter scattered by They are
green and have certain shapeliness. The man who
clears his lot does something The man who does
not clear his should have something done to him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

It is intolerable that America should be allowed to
sit along side the European nations at the Moroccan
and The Hague conferences while shutting out Europe
from the meeting at Rio Janeiro.
Further than this, Die Post urgently insists that
Germany should send special diplomatic represen-
tative to the PanAmerican conference for the pur
pose Of watching and, if possible, thwartng North
American intrigues'' This is referred to Secretary
Root for considerations There is an annoying con
sistency about the argunasnt.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

Kansas is taking great interest in oiled roads,
especially where the roads sandy Professor Dick
ems Of the Agricultural college says that experiment.
at Hutchinson, KAN where sandy road oiled, is
proving great He has at the college sample
Of sand road which treated with oil in 1901 1t
looks q good deal like piece Of sandstone rock
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

Nurses in the Jackson sanatorium at New Or
leans went on strike because negro, employed
on railroad which had him, was ad-
mltted to one Of the wards. Noble devotion to
humanity! .E &./5s. :. ...r-s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

The open-all-nig bank in New York has started.
If recall, the bank at Monte Carlo run on this
principle, has been a great financial success.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

Some Of the ladies of the New York 400 had
exclusive prayer meeting at the st. Regis par
lors last week. This would be funny were it not
serious nvry r1,r -'~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal has discovered
the African in the Algeciras conference fuel It
quotes Die Post, mouthpece Of the German foreign
office thus:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

movement to erect monument to Wirz, the con-
federate officer who had charge Of Andersonvie
prison. makes veterans almost forget that we
have all forgotten the bad in the past and
berng the good only. III.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

The coal situation in Nebraska is easier Ne
braska has but one coal mine, and that mine en-
pl0ys miner He has gone back to work
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

The man who got among the curbstone brokers in
Philadelphia shut his eyes and prayed for the mob
sent to the asylum. The probate court felt that
a who would shut his eyes in that crowd was to
say the least, mentally unbalanced.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

Ten years ago this week Iowa passing a law
taxing bicycles which were SO thick on the streets
that they bothered the farmers. Now our sports OBJ
ject to working themselves to death.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

Connecticut law forbids person to catch more
than thirty brook trout in day. This compels
fishermen to count their strings and is real hardship
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

After "Senetah Jeff Davis of Arkansaw, be gad
sah' rubs up against the gentlemanly Allison few
times he may begin to the difference and pos
sibly Arkansaw may take tumble after while, too
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

There is much in phraze. You may call it get
ting mad but Dr. Dowie doubtless referred to it as
8 srighteous wrath
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

Carnegie said that millionaires rarely smiled Yet
did you sweeter smile than the one you met
the day you paid that coal bill9
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

The rivalry between Seattle and Tacoma to
which will be Pompeiied by Mount Ranier-Tacoma
first is very keen.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

Lady red upon the hill
Her annual secret keeps;
A lady white within the field
In placid lily sleeps
Tho tidy breezes with their brooms
Sweep vale, and hill, and treel
Prithee, my pretty housewifei
Who may expected beq
The neighbors do not yet suspect!
The woods exchange smile
Orchard, and buttercup, and bird
In such little while
And yet how still the landscape stands,
How nonchalant the wood,
As if the resurrection
We're nothing very oddi
SIS Emily Dickinson
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15
Grain and Flour Export.

a INTERESTING and suggestive chapter in
the history Of the grain and flour export
trade is furnished today by that careful and intel
gent student Of commercial conditions, Rollin E.
Smith, In the fourth of his series of letters to
Journ a from European market centers In this
letter he discusses the food supply Of the United
Kingdom, its source and the comparatively recent
remarkable rise of the milling industry in Great
Britain.
He calls attention also to the development Of
wheat fields in larger and greater productive
ness outside OF the United States and to the effect Of
this development upon American grain export and
upon the market for our flour abroad. While it ap-
pears that Canada and the Argentine and India are
supplying to the British miller larger amount Of
wheat OF better variety than heretofore out of
which the British miller has learned to produce a
high grade Of flour and is becoming dangerous
competitor to the American miller in the British
market, it will be borne in mind that the American
flour industry is enjoying constantly increasing
home demand and consumption which promises be-
fore very long to make the domestic manufacturer
independent Of foreign markets.
How easy it is to arrive at the condition where
foreign markets is matter Of little concern may be
appreciated by recalling the conditions of two years
ago. when, thru partial failure Of the wheat CROP
the United States became an importer Of wheat to
some extent and the American -four demand pretty
nearly equaled the home production. It will be
years, no doubt, before America will cease to be
heavy exporter of wheat and flour, but the American
demand is increasing at very rapid pace and the
export trade is becoming relatively less important
every year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

The Texas tornado that swooped down on the
ball park was after the umpire, Of course. ----+-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

These are busy days for the smoke inspector
of Naples.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15
THE WAKING YEAR

A trough house spring cleaning.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

Friday the 18th passed and here we all are alive
still yet!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15

Newspaper correspondents who have FASTENED to
the scene will have difficulty in surprising Lord
Macaulays description Of Vesuvus in his poem called
g Pompei' ::
Saw We how wild, how red, how broad light
Burst on the darkness of that midday night,
AS fierce Vesuyius scatter ID Ter the vale
His drifted flames and sheets Of burning hail
Shook hell e wan lightnings from his blazing cone,
And gded heaven with meteors not its owns
La Junta tribune., 1906-02-17
% TX Is
GREAT MONEY : RAISING
SALE
ENTIRE STOCK TO BE SACRIFICED

Dry Goods Shoes. Ladies Skirts, Underwear -nothir
reserved all to go quickly. Sale commences Thursda
February 22d and will last days only. 1t will be II
greatest sale of dry goods shoes, ETC., given in II
State of Colorado Mark the opening day and prepare
cordingy. The entire stock is be sold rapidly
to go at less than actual cost of raw material
STORE NOW CLOSED
Marking down every article in order dispose of the soC
quickly. Sale opens Thursday February 22d. Be on har
early. Let nothing keep you away.
La Junta tribune., 1906-02-17
$4,000 WORTH OF

Dry Goods, Shoes, Cloaks, Suits Skirts,
Underwear Etc. to be distributed into the
homes of the people at less than actual whole
sale cost We must raise large sum of
money quickly, hence the great sacrifice sale.
The entire stock will go rapidly nothing re-
served Such great sacrifice was never
made before, and will never be made again.
1t is an opportunity of a lifetime to outfit in
wearing apparel at a trifing cost. Be on hand
early so you can get your full share of these
great bargains at this great sacrifice sale.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-13
WARREN
Warren Artillery Put Through
the inspection Drill. ..-0ther
Notes Of Interest

Captain Charles Bosworth, instructed
the members of the Warren Artillery In
the inspection drill LAeutenants Dickin-
son and Martin gave the men instruction
in marching movements and the manual
OF arms The command will participate
in the Fourth OF July parade and will be
assigned TO the right of line. II will ap-
pear In fatigue uniform on this occasion.
Tobn post, G.. A. r., met at Grand
Army hall, State street. last night. Rou-
tine business was transacted. followed by
social exercises.
The board OF trustees OF the Methodist
church held a meeting in the vestry last
night, when important business matters
were disposed OF. Nearly all OF the
members or the board were present. and
considerable work wag accomplished The
Fourth Of July committee is engaged in
preparing the program for the celebration
OF the day. The usual morning parade
will be held and the line will have two
divisions. which will be headed by Stones
Continental band OF Providence and the
Warren Harmony band. A large number
OF local military and civic organizations
have accepted invitations to participate.
The band concerts will be given In front
program for the remainder OF the day
has not been officially announced as yet,
but IL is generally understood that pro-
ject is being worked up for the presenta-
tion Of trades procession combined with
an antique and horribles division The
Warren Artillery will fire national sa-
lutes a morning. noon and night.
Nawagansett Fire Co, No 3. held a
special meeting in the hall on Baker
street last night. when the invitation 10
participate in the Independence day pa
rade was acted upon. A committee was
appointed to make preparations for the
day
Mechanics Tribe, No. 2. and Rough and
Ready Co, No 5, will also participate I'M
the parade All Of the fire-hghting appar.
atus will be In line
The regular weekly meeting OF Amity
lodge l. O. Q. F., was held in odd Eel
lows hall last night with large num-
ber of the members present Degree
work was held after which a social sea-
son was enjoyed.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-13
EAST PROVIDENCE
Annual Meeting and Banquet Of
Mems League Last Night
Conductor Gets Half Dollar He
Thinks is Of Special Value

The Mems league or the Second Bap-
list church held its annual banquet and
election in the vestry OF the church last
evening. The meeting was called to
order at 7.3o and the first thing in order
was the banquet, which was an elaborate
one Then came the election OF officers,
which resulted as follows: President, c.
A. Nelson; vice president, r. A. Burlin-
game; secretary, W. w. Blake; social
committee, w. w. Blake. II. A. Dunbar,
G. A. Hicks; junior work committee. f.
r. Medbury. F. r. vickery. f. II. Lyle.
The officers OF the league then made
their annual reports. all OF which were
OF an encouraging nature. +. r. Medbury
was chosen POSTMASTER and after short
address he called upon Z. II. Lyle. who
spoke upon the athletic aspect OF the
league. Howard S. Munroe spoke upon
musical AFFAIRS A, p. Johnson OF the
welfare and John X. Munroe. who has
not been able 10 be present at any OF
the meetings OF the league for the past
two years responded to the toast OF Alb
sent Members" IL WAS a little after IL
o'clock when the happy party dispersed
The pleasant affair was under the man
agement OF Messrs T. r. Medbury, +. l..
vickery and II. E. Johnson.
WANTS TO KNOW ITS VALUE.
z. z. Payne. conductor on the Crescent
Park electric route, while collecting fares
this morning was handed silver half
dollar bearing the date OF 1895. Now he
Is anxious TO know whether or not II is
OF any special value, for he has quite a
collection of odd coins he has picked up
during his long service as conductor.
MINOR MENTION.
So far as known Stephen F. Munroe OF
Central avenue has the honor OF bringing
into market the first load OF Rhode Island
peas.
AT the meeting OF Reliance lodge OF Odd
Fellows last evening 1t was practically
decided not to hold memorial service,
as no deaths have occurred during the
year.
Sergeant Harrigan was taken sick while
on duty last evening and went TO his
home on Water street.
Howard lodge, Knights OF Pythias, will
meet this evening. The rank OF esquire
will be conferred upon one candidate.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-13
LONG-NAME SOCIETY DID
MUCH GOOD WORK IN MAY

At yesterday afternoons meeting OF the
S. p. G. A. executive committee. Preei-
dent Samuel S. Durfee occupied the chair
The following were elected members of
the board of trustee: John w Angel
for three years; James B. Paine. for two
years, stephen Brownell,, for one year
Charles r.. Capwell and William f.
Waterman or this city and John A.
Hazard of Newport were appointed spe-
cial agents and chief or Police Edward ].
Macomber OF Warren a local prosecuting
officer.
The monthly report OF Secretary Smith
showed that during May the following
cases were investigated: For cruelty beat
ing animals Z. overlooking 1. overdriving
3. depriving OF food 3. depriving OF water
/. depriving OF shelter l. working when
unnt for labor 81. taken from work IA
working when diseased T. glandered and
tuberculosis cases 3, cases OF cruelty 20
horses 49, 10 dogs l. 10 swine l. TO cattle 3.
10 cats /. 10 sheep l.
A total OF S animals we're killed during
the month OF May. including 4 horses. 3
dogs, 81 cats. Forty-two persons were ad-
moniehed for various offences The total
number OF animals involved In the report
was l5. namely - horses. 4 dogs. cows.
"a cats. 81 swine and IS sheep Eight
cases were prosecuted. two IN the First
district t~rt-if4-the- Sixth -t44~+-ir---
court and three In the Eighth district
court
Tho total amount OF fines imposed
was SOS
The total expenditures amounted 10
A1i.s2. and the receipts az the office on
Exchange street were t77 including $50
from contributions and donations. and IS
from killing animals
No further meetings Of the executive
committee will be held until Tuesday.
Ecnf IL
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-13
G|LMART|N LIT
ON SAbLE-HUE
CHANGE GENTRY

Some of the gamblers. most OF whom
during the past day or two have been Of
fering TO wager odds that Chief Matthews
would not be fired" by the police COM
mission and that things would again be
easy" have been a little bold lately:
but Lieut.. Gilmartln and Sergt. Muldoon
OF the Fifth station. aided by Officers T.
NJ. Cannon and A. +. wixon last night
got after some OF the chance gentry" OF
sable hue.
They raided an alleged gambling Joint
I'm the rear os 372 Weybosset street. and
surprised ten colored men at a game OF
cards
Henry Aiken. colored was arrested as
the proprietor OF the place. and with him
nthe patrol wagon considerable gam
bling paraphernalia was taken 10 the sta
tion.
Aiken waived examination In tho Sixth
district court this morning on charges OF
keeping a g,og shop. Illegal sales and
keeping for sale. and of maintaining a
gambling resort lie was bound over TO
the grand jury under 1900 bonds.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-13
HENRY'S IDEAS
TENDED TOWARD
HOUSEKEEPING

Henry King. who has been transient
guest at the Montreal house, 1913 Rich
mond street. was fined SIS and costs IN
the Sixth district court this morning
His offence was the stealing OF sheets
and quilts from rooms in the Montreal
house; and. according TO Proprietor
Adolph selingut. 15 sheets and Ave quits
had been stolen.
In addition to this loss, the proprietor
says that ne has had to bear the piuht
OF patrons who kicked at waking up ana
finding their beds quiltless and shee'iess
King claims that he came from New
Bedford FIVE months ago. and adopted MS
present style Of thieving on the theory
that IL would be less likely 10 come 10 the
attention OF the police because OF us
novelty.
He denied the IS. but agreed TO plead
guilty 10 stealing FIVE sheets.
II was Detective Tidd OF the Firth sta
tion who cleared up the Montreal house
sheet mystery.