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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25

Miss Cornelius, Of the Wisconsin Oneida Tribe, Wouldn't
Be Anything Else than an Indian and She Wants to
Prevent Great Tragedy-Wrong Ideas Of White
People.

MTEW YORK, Feb. 24.--Miss Laura
IN M. Cornelius, full-blooded In
dian of the Wisconsin Oneida
tribe, has taught in the government
Indian Schools and now an intense de-
sire to help her people, whom she
loves, admires, believes in, has brought
her to New York to study law at Barn
ard college, where she was enrolled
Feb. l. ~. .. 49, .,..-..
Miss Cornelius is Enthusiastically In
dian in features and build, and II am
glad of it, she says. 80.
She is tall, 1.-THE, why of frame. Her
complexion is olive without color; her
abundant hair, worn parted and drawn
loosely. back from her face in heavy
coil behind, is glossy and black; her
eyes, very dark brown, are soft and
kindly, rather than beadlike and gilt
tering, after the popular notion of what
Indian eyes should be like.
AS with most persons who believe
they have mission to perform, Miss
Cornelius personality suggests indom-
liable courage and sincerity. Her
dress is Disappointing; the picturesque
touches one expects having been sacri-
feed to conventional fashion rules But
in most other respects she is faithful
to Indian traditions and characteris-
tics.
Not Weaned from Her People.
~ would not be anything but an In
DIAM she declares proudly. ~ am
not weaned from my people and never
will be. >-
"More schooling than usually falls to
the lot of an Indian woman and more
contact with the Caucasian artifciality
and insincerity have graduated me into
what might be called polite Indian,
and the process, sometimes think, has
taken a lot out of me.
"The sincerity and simplicity Of the
Indian nature are crushed back as soon
as, he or she must do as the rest of the
world does. The Indian living in res
ervation can't be anything but reser-
walton Indian-he can't be himself -
We'll, naturally, under such condi-
tions he hasn't much chance to swing
a tomahawk,' it was suggested.
''It is always like that returned
Miss Cornelius, YEARLY. "Those who
know little or nothing about the In
tl16n IculSlupoI Ou1y HIS uctuS VI FlO-
lence while on the warpath and forget
his magnanimity, his high sense of JUS
stice, his honesty, his sincerity. They
think of all Indians as nomadic PEG,
pie. They do not understand that we
have strong home ties and are loving
people.
"And they forget, too, that the toma.
hawk was the Indians one weapon of
warfare, just as guns are the approved
and much more deadly weapon of
other peoples, and that the tomahawk
was used in the way most suited to the
weapon.
- - Praises Her Father.
In answer to question, Miss Cor.
nelius continued:
II owe much to my father s ambi
lions. He, too, was ambitious to helI
his people; he himself struggled for al
education and couldn't get it.
"He went out and worked at manua
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25
February IS, 1906.
AN EXCITING RACE OF
A THOUSAND LEAGUES
Voyage Across the Atlantic May Be Reduced-A Sug-
gestion that Will Mean Millions to Somebody.
~ HE advent of the steam turbine
has given a new FLIP to the

- HE advent Of the steam turbine
has given new flip to the
race for the Atlantic record,
and steamers are now building that
will cut down the most important ocean
passage in the world by hours, if not
days, providing the calculations of en-
gineers who do not often err are ap-
proximately correct. Again and again
during the past twenty five years has
tho time between Europe and America
been reduced, until at present we, be-
gin to feel it has reached an irreduci-
BE minimum. To add oneI knot to the
top speed Of a crack liner costs about
$1,000 an hour, to add another Knot
would cost perhaps ten times that
amount, if it were possible to build a
boat to stand the strain.
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While all the thought and genius of
the worlds greatest living engineers is
being concentrated on the problem Of
driving a wedge Of steel over furlong
in length thru sea and weather at a
pace but little behind that of an av-
erage railroad train, it is strange that
fact has been almost entirely ignored
or set aside in favor of speculation.
It needs but a glance at the map Of the
world to show that, geographically,
Halifax is nearer Liverpool than is New
York by some hundreds Of miles. IT
the eve travels farther north along tho
coast line it must travel eastward also,
until the strait Of Belle Isle is reached,
and Newfoundland passed. To the av-
erage reader the very name of New
foundland conjures up not too allur-
ing picture of fog-bound isle; to
those who have made the ocean cross
ing by the st. Lawrence route in early
spring, memories of fog horns and ST.
rens and quarter speed easily rank first
in "reminiscences. Those who have
sailed by the Belle Isle route remem-
Der the glorious sunsets over the rocky
coast Of Anticorti, and think of Labra-
dor as about the most uninviting shore
that ever braved the fury Of the ocean e
waves. g III 80. -. .@s .. IT,
q 4 + X s
Away round the scarp of Cape
Charles, and some hundred odd miles
further to the northwest is the entrance
| to Hamilton Inlet, one Of the finest shar
| DOTS III the WOIlu. -Outll IeCouGiy l1CGle
was known Of the dependency Of Lab
rador, except that it belonged to New
foundland and was not of much &C
count except as providing a number OF
stations for whalers.
There is no road in and no road out
| Of Labrador except by sea- or the ever
more uncertain trails thru the woods
Nature has made splendid provision TO-
/ the people whom the future will bring
there, however, by, an endowment 0.
mighty rivers and resources that SHOULD
tempt the railroad kings. Hamilton
inlet is the natural harbor at the moutl
of the Hamilton river, and is capabl
Of sheltering the combined navies3 o
! the world, with room to spare. Blu
it's future does not lie in its value a
naval base, nor does the history o
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25

The libretto of Puccini s beautiful
.s'La Boheme,' to be sung here by the
Savage English Grand Opera company,
deals with life in the Quarter Latin
Of Paris and tells the story Of Mimi,
the fragile sweetheart of Rudolph, the
poor poet. Like La Dame aux
Camelias, she suffers from consump-
sion, and after a separation from the
man she loves, she comes back to the
old attic rooms to die.
This is the main incident, and the
climax is sentiment rather than trag-
edy. But there is interviewer into the
story rich and charming vein of
comedy that serves as a background
for the tender pathos of the drama
The story of four friends, living or
starving together in the Latin quarter
is an old one, but no one ever told the
tale so well as Du -Maurier in his
"Trilby.' It is high praise, there
fore, to say that the libretto of La
Boheme' preserves the quarter IS at
mosphere as fixed in a literary sense
by Du Maurier. Rudolph, the senti
mental poet; Marcel, the peevish
painter; Collins, the jovial philosopher
and Schaunard, the foppish musician
are the direct successors OF Tafy, the
Laird and Little Billee.
Treat Hard Life Lightly.
These t'Four Musketeers ~ can see
the humor in being cold and hungry
and forced visits to the pawnshop
They treat their misfortune as joke
and like little children pretend to have
all the Injuries of earth --
The most dramatic moment of the
opera is in the last act The com
panions are. romping about the studio
two Of them conducting a mock due
with the poker and tongs, whel
Musetta, the former coquette ant
artists model, comes and announce
that Mimi, the little wait and OLE
sweetheart of the poet, has come bacl
and that she is dying. The sympa
thetic and simple hearts of the stu
dents are touched with love and pit,
for the friend Of other days, and Will
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
Editorial Section.

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the Indian has been introduced, COM
spensate for these things has il COM
pensated?
Civilization Detrimental. en-
/" AS practiced in behalf Of the, In
dian, the higher civilization has been
detrimental to, his well being, you
think?'
II certainly do! In travelling across
the continent have had this end con-
stantly in view; to become thoroly ac-
quainted with every class of people
who make up America, to study how
you solve your industrial and social
problems and learn the fundamental
principles by which the country is gov
erned.
with the knowledge thus gained
combined with the legal knowledge
am here to get, want to frame and to
have put into actual practice a medium
Of statehood between the present In
dian reservation conditions and Ameri.
can citizenship. This medium must, OF
course, be established on an economic
basis, and / believe firmly 1t can be
done. The only way to resuscitate a
dying people is to bring life, industrial
life, into their homes.
s'And so fer you think they have
not experienced this industrial lief"
- mo, Between the rational system
and American citizenship is big gulf
which the Indian does not know how to
bridge, which he is not being taught
how to bridge. The hotbeds of educa.
tional institutions alone cannot prepare
the Indian for this change, nor teach
him how to take so long step.
*5HAnd I don't mean to say that un,
aided can do this work, but certain,
]y intend when my law course is fin
ished to make other persons do it OF
help me to do it,, whether they are In,
dams or whites. / shave attempted
nothing yet. ,5ss@
IT Want to Do
cat one time I had marvellous am.
bition to write; but the more live the
more I know that words, words, words
are futile. I want to do, not to preach
"There are about 100000 Indians in
the west, and ] can t bear to have them
little by little swallowed up by the
scum Of the American population. II
the Indian is to continue to amalga
mate with the whites, let it be at least
with his equals in sterllng traits OF
character and intelligence
Asked what, in her opinion, was the
greatest lack in reservation life, Miss
Cornelius answered.: ".
"Industry. There is no motive, nc
incentive, no reward In the nature Of
the reservation for tho man who vii
work. ,~-,.- 49, -. IT,. .....E. ..,,e,
"And you think this condition may
be changed2" c5. II =, s:.-...S-t .-.t
cit must be changed or we, viii
die.'' -:-<.5 .:. 'e.:.. IT, -. =
. When speaking of her prosperity,
course at Barnard college and her stay
in New York, Miss Cornelius. admitted
that she expected to enjoy both. r.. :,
! NJ have made brief visits to New
York twice before and I have severa
friends here to save me from home
sickness. I love study, and In additio,
ITO law may take up some = othe
branches Of study; for one Of my am
billions is before long to have hi.
school Of my own in the west for m.
own people. ,.~ ~
GAS to the desirabilty of New Yor]
as place Of residence I have mad
one discovery already: The life her
tends to crush out individuality -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25

| labor with the whites in order to get
money to educate himself and then aft
or all sent the money to help those at
>home. With his own earnings he
bought small farm in Wisconsin near
Green Bay, within the reservation, Of
course, and there I was born, my father
later moving to. the very borders Of
the reservation that I might attend II
white school, E
s'From the cradle up / was im-
pressed with one fact-I must get an
education. And that~I did get it was
not at all surprising. Most Indian
women, if they had the same oppor-
| tunities, would do exactly as l have
| DONE ..e js.....s #.%
cat the country school for white
children / won scholarship which
gave me course in an Episcopal sem
mary at Fond du Lac, and afterward /
studied short time at Stanford uni
versity. I have taught in the govern
ment Indian schools and travelled more
than once across the country in the in
terests of my people. -. -. ~ =.
emo, I am not an Episcopalian. |
DO not pin my allegiance to any partic"
ular denomination or creed. Ny irelig-
ion is this: believe in God, in mind
ing my own business and in hustling
for what one wants. .~.,s..- =,
| "What things do you want for your
people, and how do you expect,to turn
your legal knowledge when acquired, to
their assistance9" Miss Cornelius was
asked. A. ~. ...,s.. ~.
IL dread answering those questions, -
was the, hesitating reply. II can say
this much, however, that the cause
which makes me willing and happy to
undergo anything, if only it can be
advanced, is in itself so grand that it
pushes personal considerations to one
side. But unfortunately most people
have SO little understanding Of the In
dian situation that it is very difficult
to give in a few minutes talk cor
rect impression Of how I, an Indian
stand toward it, and how I mean to
work to assist it, how live for almost
no other purpose.
Americas Greatest Tragedy. -.
"To my mind the Indians are heroes
who are living today the greatest trag
edy ever known, and the transition OF
the Indian marks the grandest tragedy
America ever will know.
eve are a passing people. Never
again will the Indian be reinstated as
himself. What is more, the people who
have brought about these conditions
are unintelligent so far as a knowledge
Of the Indian temperament and char
acter 60. They don't know us; they
don't know what it means to be killed
alive.
IT am sick to death of the idea thai
because you feed the Indian and put
him in, clothes and send him to sehoo
the Indian problem is solved, when tn,
fact remains that thus far it is the In
dian alone of all the American peopl
who portrays forecast of extinction.
"The point is this: We have parte,
with-been obliged to part with-cer
tain things, many things. Will tn
higher civilization, so-calfed, to whicl
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25

it's one for1orn trading port Of Rigolet,
established centuries ago by the Hud-
son s Bay company, give it either glory
or Importance in the present. When
the bed Of the Atlantic was scooped
out by the mighty, hand Of nature,
Hamilton Inlet was pre-ordained as a
great seaport.
1t is over twelve hundred miles near
er to Liverpool than New York is, and
what this means may be understood
from the proposal already under con-
sideration by big steamship companies
to expend million dollars oraso in es-
tablishing an ocean port on the north
end Of Long Island, to gain about forty
miles.
Contrary to the general belief, tho
Inlet does not freeze up earlier than
Quebec or. Montreal, and as a rule, it's
period Of ice-bound isolation is less
than that Of either Of the st, Lawrence
ports. But, most Important Of all, the
route from the Inlet to Liverpool, over
a Great Circle, is almost entirely free
from icebergs all the year round, with
perhaps about thirty days. exception,
Fog, also, on this course, is very rare,
and even in thick weather, there is no
Cape Race to avoid, there are no
"banks' to shun, there is no "dev-
IFS punch bowl" to cause discomfort
to sea-sick passengers. A fast steamer
could easily make the trip across the
ocean in three days, from Hamilton In
let to Glasgow or Liverpool, and as a
summer route, this voyage would at
tract a goodly patronage.
From New York to Quebec is about
500 miles. From Quebec to Hamilton
Inlet Is only 700 miles more, and there
is no grade worth speaking of, so that
railroad could be built at much less
cost than many a 700 miles that have
been constructed. With the gro, th of
Canada, east as well as west, with Lab.
rador's wealth of resource, known to
but few at present, this suggested new
route should appeal to American invest
| igators. There is not single argument
against it that the map cannot refute
and the map is we'll seconded by mete
geological and astronomical records, OF
| which the most valuable are to be OBJ
tanned in London. II,
| !. !. ~
Sydney, the Australians say, is thu
finest harbor on earth. Rio, the Brazil
ians claim, is its superior. Hamilton
Inlet has no champion as yet, but fol
eight months Of the year it needs none
for 1t has a thousand miles start in
race Of a thousand leagues.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25

It has been suggested that African
and Asiatic elephants be imported into
South and Central America, in the vast
forests Of which they would multiply
and provide future source of ivory.
Miss Edith Wetmore, daughter of
the wealthy Rhode Island senator, is
one of the most consistent music lovers
among fashionable folk, and has been
an earnest worker in the effort to es'
tablish national conservatory in
Washington.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25
DR.. Miles
Anti-Pain Pills

prevent, and also cure. all pains Of every
nature, and are absolutely harmless
Their soothing influence upon the
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conditions, and remove the cause Of pain.
'.Dr Miles, Anti-Pain Pills always
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must work sick or well. Headaches
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25
TORPEDO school. i. Il. +:
:. BUT NO. HAZ|hG
-,.,a - - =, H.. ;
SEAMEN ARE TAUGHT USE OF
WARS DESTRUCTIVE ENGINE.
Institution on Goat Island, in Maria
gallsett Bay. Carefully Guarded from
Foreign pies-Course Of Study Ex-
misunderstanding Absolutely Secret.
Correspondence Of The journal.

Correspondence OF The journal.
: Newport, R. l., Feb. 21.-Most care
fully guarded of all government depart
ments at the Newport, R: l., naval sta
forbidden ground to the general public
and to all but those having business
there-and the nature Of that business
is pretty thoroly investigated before
the stranger is permitted on the launch
running between the government land
ing at Newport and the station. >.
At the side nearest Long wharf are
docks between which low, lean-looking,
black torpedo boats lie, their very APP
pearance suggesting energy in repose;
on the shore behind them are 10 wbrick
buildings, easily recognized from the
material outside them as workshops.
At the torpedo station from March to
December are assembled men from ships
of our navy for instruction in one Of the
most interesting schools maintained by
the governments school where the
course IS on torpedoes, air compressoys,
electricity, mines, explosives and div
ing. The course may be taken by any
enlisted man recommended. by his com
handing officer as competent, be he
naval apprentice, seaman, landsman or
marine, and is even taken at time by
commissioned officers and midshipmen
from Annapolis. -
Entitled to Extra Pay. :.
At the end Of the course the men are
sent to ships at the different stations,
where each is entitled, by reason of his
torpedo training. to an increase of So
a month in his pay, or $26 in all. He
! is called a seaman gunner, a name which
is a relic of the early DAISY of the tor
| pedo station and at present somewhat a
misnomer, and is in the way of promo
! tion to gunner, where he will get $3.50
a month and found. AS gunner he can
wear a uniform that the man on the
street cannot distinguish from that of
an officer
New classes start every three months
at the torpedo station, an arrangement
made possible by the concurrent work
of a part Of the class at Washington.
| The classes are often large, that of last
year numbering 1875 men The class is
divided into smaller classes, each of
which is set at some part Of the work.
/ AS a whole the class gets ten weeks
on torpedoes, two weeks on air compress
sors, three weeks on electricity, three
on mines, one on explosives, two or
diving and three in reviews. The class
I | is in charge of "a gunner, at presentI
Gunner Leonard Roll, and five chief
gunners mates as instructors.
Course on Mines.
Il Each man is given a set Of books or
j torpedoes and mines, which he keeps
after he finishes his course and is ex
/ amined on the lectures he hears. Thes,
lectures are given in large hall on thu
second floor Of one of the buildings, {
place admirabl aapted for the pur
pose. .
z To begin with the course on mines
The first week is devoted to a study O.
} the parts, assembled and disassembled
of the naval defense mines. counter
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25
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who use Dr.. Miles Anti-Pain Pills.
They simply simply take q tablet when
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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-26

$500 Lawn Mowers $500 today al,
Ransone Hardware Co. 9-2G-lt.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-26
Rogers and Frick Gel Control Of
The Property.
OIL INTERESTS BUY THE RAILROAD
Pennsylvania Holdings Transferred
to New company-Route From
Great Lakes to Hampton Roads
Will Soon be Completed.


NEW YORK, SEPT. 25.-lt is under
stood in financial quarters that the
10000 shares of Norfolk and Western
railway stock recently held by the
Pennsylvania railroad and sold by
that company to Kuhn, Loeb G. Co.
have passed to the hands of II. II.
Rogers and II. C. Fricli in the interest
OF the new Deep Water and Iidewa-
ter Railroad Company which is being
constructed from the New River and
Pocahontas coal fields of West Viz
sinia 10 Norfolk.
III. ii. Rogers, of the Standard Oil
Company, is head and front of this
company and he intends 10 evolve a
system of railways destined to con
meet the great lakes and the Virginia
seaboard by way Of the coal regions
of West Virginia.
This new system is practically I'M
der contract for 500 miles. From Il
point along the line an offshoot will
be made headed for point on the
great lakes, and the outcome will be
the first tidewater road from the
West to the East.
The purchase of this stock by Rog
ers and Prick gives them control Of
the Norfolk and Western Company
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-26
Negro Prisoners Defy Peniten|lary
Officials.
hose TURNED ON THE CQkVIcTs
After Reading Accounts of the Race
Riots in Atlanta They Refuse to
Enter Their ceIIs-Waroens Are
Cut by the Criminals.
Gy Associated Press.

KNOXVILLE, TENN, Sept. %
Ihirty-fivc negro prisoners, including
eighteen murdcrers. two Of whom arc
sentenced to die. rebclled against the
Jailer at the Knox county Jail last
night. refusing TO 50 from the CORR,
dor into their cells.
For two hours they kept the off.
GERS at bay. although enclosed behind
Iiars. Four of the officers were cut
with bottles thrown by the prisoners.
The jailer turned the hose on them.
hut this frcnZicd them. Tho negroes
iinhlly captured the hose and turned
1t on the officers. ana then attacked
the latter with bottles, plates. cups
and sauccrs. also broom handles. ON
the ends of which open knives were
used.
Three of the officers were hcmmc,l
IN by negroes, ana had to yet ont of
range of the bottles The sheriff fin.
ally nnellcd the negroes, but only af-
ter the police had been called.
The trouble resulted from tho no.
Sroes reading an account of the AT.
lanta race riot.