The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-31
THE MIlJNEAPO I,IS OURNAL.

article upon Industrial Securities as m
vestments," by Charles "A. Conant, treas
urer of the Morton Trust company.
Jesse w. Weik has an able paper upon
the independent telephone movement.
There IS an interesting summary Of the
important events of the year In a letter
from Mexico by Frederic r. Guernsey
editor of the Mexican Herald Among
the literary and historical papers espe-
scially notable are the first Of Andrew d.
Whites remarkable historical studies Of
the craftsmanship of Turgot; "Pianists
Now and Then by w. j. Henderson;
and "Eliana, the --latest Windfall," by
W. G. Hazlitt, which contains an inter-.
esting set of letters of Charles Lamb
which have never before been in print.
There are some excellent storis by such
writer's as Maarten Martens, Lattat
Gr1sWold and Henry A. Beers, and
poetry by Henry van Dyke and Fannie
S. Davis.
What an Insurance Law Could Do
Certain changes in the law can help make
life insurance what it should be, tho
wider public knowledge must be the
basis both for the law and for the i'm
| provements. says 20 p" in The Worlds
Work for February The law can make
| it easier to understand what one pays for
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to prevent his being swtndled by false
representa- tions
| Inc law can offer only part Of the rem
| edy, but it can do this:
FORBID life Insurance company from
| selling anything except pure life sinsur-
| ance policies; prescribe a standard policy,
4 simple and intelligible; require every pol
4 Icy to state on its face both the total
/ premium and the items which go to make
up that totalEthe mortality charge, the
4 reserve and the amount added to meet
4 the expenses; require that all savings in
| mortality, collections and interest on the
i reserve assets be credited annually on
the next premium that will fall due: an
ply the savings bank law to the invest
4 ment of life insurance assets: stop the
4 robbery Of unfortunate policy holders In
4 surrender values and make life insuranc &c
Il 1rrevocable.
4 What Shall HaytPs Future Be?, b,
Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. 'Marvels of Photog.
raphy," by Henry W. Lanier: "F ysu pl
4 Damrosch and Great School Of Music
4 py ~ N. Vallandigham: 'The Diplomatic
Masters Of Europe; "A City's Fight 70,
Beauty" by Henry schott; .'The senatf
Special Interests" by Henry Beach Need
s. ham-these and other things make g
number Of high standard. -
81 me Outing magazine. for February Il
Pacific coast number. It has a dis
tinctively western flavor from the start
The cover design is a miner panning golt
and the frontispiece a prospector follow
Ing his packed burro down the 1nountai II
trail Both are by j. N. Marcland ant
are in color Other illustrations IN colo
|: are reproductions of two Of Ferdinan,
Lungren's best paintings Of the noun
ta1ns, and deserts of the great west. :
Among the articles especially, devote,
to the Pacific coast are the following
!; ''The Twentieth Century Argonauts, b,
Ralph D. Paine; : Into the Serene Vale,
(Yosemite)," -. by Gouverneur > Morris
''The- Northwest Gateway of Our Com
: merce,' by Francis: A.: Cushman; 9TH
! California Vintage" by Charles F. Hold
y er; where Rolls the. Oregon, by FIar
3 ris Lloyd; 1.-THE Americanism Of the Las
4 West" by D. Fl. Brock. and '"The Fol-
I. Of the Puget Country, by Day ALA
i Wiley. Many: of these articles are bril-
! liantly illustrated from photographs q
the human interest kind.