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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

by delegates from every European coun-
try that has enough milling to call 1t an
industry. The association has as mem
bers all the important commercial
mills, and it is governed by commit
tee Of 1872, representing all departments
of France.
The Bourse de Commerce, Paris.
The grain market of Paris Is at the
Bourse de Commerce, where there are
also other markets, chief among which
are sugar and spirits, not bad mix
/ ture. 7HThe Bourse,'' Stock Exchange,
occupies large building Of its own
some blocks away.
The Bourse de Commerce is a pecu-
liarly constructed building, of circular
! form. The exchange room has a great
height, extending from the ground floor
to a dome some four stories above. The
tspot grain market and the sugar
market are in the exchange room, the
latter having a roofless canvas en-
closure. The sugar market is a very
important one. The spirits market and
joining room. There are no pits, as in
!, American exchanges, but the traders
form in two groups, one for each mar
4 ket much the same as in the American
1 exchanges The two markets are about
equally active at times. When saw
4 them the trading was similar to the
. Minneapolis pit on quiet day.
i A feature of the grain future mar.
/ ket is the establishment of prices
s at 8 o'clock. The official length of
I the session is from ] to clock. At
the latter hour the traders and brokers,
100 to 200 in number, form in large
circle while an official calls for bids
4 and offers on the different grains and
grades. In this way official prices are
Established. Trading may continue I'm.
officially the remainder of the after
noon. A large part of the grain bust
ness is done outside the bourse. The
:. bourse has direct telephone connections
1 with London, Antwerp and Berlin
Paris is not a great grain market, mol
s are there any in France. At times il
is a speculative market of some impor
/ lance There are no extensive lines OF
! elevators, as in America, nor big ter
minal houses. The widely scatterei
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

mills, covering the whole of France,
and the absence of an export trade,
have the effect of keeping the wheat
from flowing toward centers, as it does
in America toward Minneapolis, Du-
luth, Kansas City, st. Louis and the
export ports
Relative Importance of France.
Among the wheat exporting. and
wheat importing countries and in the
markets of the world, the position Of
France is less important than some
countries raising less than half the
amount of wheat. The crops, the grain
trade and the milling business-of the
first Importance to France-are shut off
from other countries by a tariff wall
as substantial as the wonderful ma
scnry structure around the city of
Paris. 1t is only when there is a short
crop that France has an important out
side influence. Then the tariff comes
down and prices in all other countries
advance; and when France has alb
sorbed sufficient supplies to make up
its deficiency, like the shells of clam
it closes up again and shuts out the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
Copyrighted by Rollin E. Smith.

NJ ARTS, April los America pay,
ing too much for it's breadY
This question forces itself upon
the traveller in France.
The breadstuff supply OF. France IS,
from crop to crop, nicely balanced with
the requirements; and the governing
factor is the tariff. A prohibition inn
port duty, 371a cents bushel on wheat,
and $1S8 a barrel on flour, protects
farmer and miller, respectively. The
crop Of France is just about sufficient
for home requirements, but when it is
short, the tariff is reduced to admit
enough foreign wheat to meet the do
nestle needs. AS this occurs but in
frequently, the price Of wheat in
France is continuously very much high
er than the Liverpool price. In March,
1906, the price of wheat in Paris was
24.O5 francs per 100 kilos, or $1.29 a
bushel. This is approximately the Liv-
elpool price. about 90 cents, with the
duty added. At the same time. No. ]
northern wheat at Minneapolis was be-
tween IS and 80 cents.
Under such conditions one would nat.
urally expect bread to be dear in
France, cheaper in Liverpool and cheap
in Minneapolis. Bread is sold by weight
in Paris. the loaves varying. greatly II
size. The average price is about
cents a pound (72 eentimes for 2 kilos)
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

home requirements, the price might
never fall below 90 cents at Chicago,
and the upward range would be to
$1.25. The import duty of 25 cents
would then be added to the price.
The yield of wheat per acre is large
in France, tho smaller than in England.
In 1904, short crop year, the average
yield was 1874 bushels an acre; in 1908,
225 bushels, and for the seven preced-
ing years 20 bushels.
The crop is chiefly winter wheat and
the standard grade No. 2 red The
bread from it is Of really excellent
favor.
How the Tariff Helps the Exporter.
To export -four from France, made
from the highest-priced wheat in the
world, would, obviously, be an impos-
sibility without bounty or tariff
concession The government, in con-
trast with the rulings of our own treas
ury department in the short-crop year
of 1904, encourages the export flour
| business.
In lieu of bounty, the French miller
is permitted to import as much wheat
as he may export -four, free of duty.
/ Nor need it be flour from the Identical
wheat, as In America. Inc miller may
| import Russian or American wheat and
export -four from native wheat. In
fact, this is what is usually done; prac-
tically all the -four exported is from
i native wheat.
The manufacture of macaroni is q
great industry in southern France. Al
the wheat used is imported, as no native
!. macaroni wheat is grown. A draw
! back (of the duty) is allowed the
manufacturer on all the macaroni ex
4 ported.
The Mills Of France.
1 It is beyond comprehension that Their,
4 should be 10000 mills in France; We
this II Is REGARDED as 1oW estimate; o !,
4 would probably include everything tina
q could be called fourmill.
q Yet the milling situation over her
grows more interesting when it j
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learned that the number of the COM
mercial mills is only 2,337, and that
several hundred Of these are only OF
twelve to fifty barrels daily capacity:
There is one mill in France of 1900.
barrels actual daily capacity; l Of 2, 100
500, SO of 22O to 800, $50 Of 100 to 900,
the number increasing rapidly as the
capacity decreases:
These 1887 mills have a total daily
actual capacity of 100000 sacks of 100
kilos, or approximately 225,000 barrels
This gives the very low average Of less
than one hundred barrels daily capacity
for the commercial mills Of France. For
the figures relating to the mills, in the
foregoing paragraphs, | am indebted to
Louis Cornu, secretary Of the National
Millers' association Of France. Coming
from this source, they may be regarded
as absolutely authentic.
There are no great milling centers in
France. Marseilles has the most mills,
tho the largest mill is near Paris. The
very large number Of small mills in the
country can, Of course, do only small
! local and exchange business with the
! farmers. This class of mill no longer
exists in the United States, except in
aggressiveness Of the larger mills has
practically wiped them out of existence.
In France these little mills are com
petitors Of the commercial mills to the
extent that they supply -four to the To-
cal communities. On the whole, there
fore, the milling business is largely
overdone. Competition is keenly felt
! by the commercial mills. The grind
ing Of the wheat cannot be SO evenly
distributed as the raising Of it.
The Miliers' Association.
Until the National Millers association
4 Of France was formed in 1886, milling
was in rather chaotic state. The as
i ISOLATION has done much to develop i
/. and put it among the frst-class indus
i tries Of the country. An association
i may follow trust methods here more
i closely than in some countries withon
fear of consequences.
The association succeeded last fall il
4 having an international millers con
{ gress held in Paris, which was attende,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
GEORGE ABE IN CAIRO
His Characteristic Style Various Phases of Egypoogy,
Active Explains Peasleys Show Wisdom

ord. All three talk necessarily, each
telling the others what to do and find
ing fault because they don't do it his
way. One seems to be superintendent,
the second is foreman and the third is,
boss.
Endless disputes of most vivid
character rage among the donkey boys
and peddlers who assemble near the
hotels and lie in wait for victims.
What do they find to talk aboutq'
is the question that comes to one every
time he hears the babel Of excited
voices. And while we are smiling at
their childish tantrums they are split
ing to that strange being from the
antipodes, the barbarian with the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

that apparently one was describing to
the other some very thrilling experience.
He waved his arms. struck at imagin-
with his fingers and carried on generally
in most hysterical manner. Mr..
Peasley, all worked up, beckoned the
head waiter, who had been talking to us
in English.
seLook here,o he said, confdentially,
Il want you to listen and tell me what
those fellows are talking about. /
can t catch word they say, but as near
as I can make out from the way they
act that fellow with the goatee is de-
It goes thru the water at about thirty
miles an hour, having three or four
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

enters into the land Of talk. The
French are conversational and AMI
show the real Oriental luxuriance Of
CAB. A. Neapolitan trying to sell 3
cents worth Of fish will make more
noise than whole Wanamaker estab-
ishment. The most commonplace and
everyday form of dialog calls for fash
ing eyes, swaying body and frantic
gesticulations.s
: In front Of a cafe in Naples Mr..
Peasley became deeply interested in a
conversation between two well-dressed
men at a table near ours. At first we
thought they were. going to aclinch !,
there was 40 real anger exhibited, but
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

81 can get you gross if you want /
them, - he replied.
.'What would man do with gross
of mummies9o
You can give them away, They
are very ornamental. Formerly my +
seums. Now I am selling to people who |
put them in private residences.
Nothing sets off an Oriental apartment |
to better effect, or gives it more color |
and atmosphere, as you might say, than
decorated mummy case.
I told him I would not object to the
"color,'' but would draw the line at
after few thousand years the mort
uary remains become as dry as Lon
don newspaper and as odorless as
congressional investigation
| followed him into large back room
! and saw two beautifully preserved spec
linens in their rigid overcoats being
packed away for shipment to America,
while others leaned against the wall in
careless attitudes.
| What grisly reflection! Here was
local potentate, let us say Ipekak II. of
| Hewag-ruler Of province, boss of his
party, proud owner of broad fields and
grazing herds. When he died, 400
B. c., and was escorted to his rock tomb
by all the local secret societies, the
| military company ana DanQ or music,
his friends lowered his embalmed re-
mains into deep pit and then put in q
rock filing and cut hieroglyphics all
over the place, telling Of his wealth.
and social Importance and begging all
future generations to regard the prem
Uses as sacred. - >-
: Some 1000 years later along comes a
vandal in cheap store suit and a cork
helmet, engages Ipekak' IS own descend
ents to pry open the tomb and heave
out the rock at Is cents day, .hauls
the mummy into the daylight and ships
it by luggage van to Cairo, where it is
sold to a St. Paul man for $125!
(--. .. J~.. 1. !. !. -. =
Until I talked to the dealer I had no
idea that mummiesS were 50 plentiful.
and dig them up just as they would dig
potatoes. The prices vary greatly, some
what depending upon the state Of pres
ervation of the party Of the first part
and the character of the decorations on
= the case, but more particularly on &C
; count of the title or historical import
ance Of the once lamented. For in
stance, Rameses or Ptolemy cannot
be touched for less than $1,000. A
prince, trust 1nagnate or a military
commander brings $3.50, the governor
of a city or the" president of theo
, logical seminary anywhere from $50 to
; sis. Within the last three years per
/ feet specimens Of humor1st have been
! offered for as low as $18, and the deale,
showed me one for $7.50-probably q
tourist ''~@,-.r-~..s '-.s. r. 80
At Naples, proceeding eastward, one
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
TEXAS CELEBRATES SAN JAcINTo
Special to The journal.

San Antonio. Tex, April 21.-Ths
San Antonio spring carnival came to
glorious close today with a monster
celebration of the anniversary of the
battle of San Jacinto, by which Texas
achieved her independence. The entire
city was CARRIED in rainbow colors and
thousands of visitors thronged the
streets. Patriotic exercises, with adj
dresses by noted speakers were held at
Milan Square park. The tomb of Ben
Milan, one of the illustrious heroes Of
the war of independence. was decorated
with magnificent floral tributes by the
school children Of San Antonio.
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rest Of the agricultural and CONNER
cial world.
The winter of 1866 was wet one
in France, and the spring also, cohdi-
tions inimical to good crops. France
may have to open it's shell for foreign
wheat before another crop year comes
around. -Rollin E. Smith.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

Peasley uses the word, when he can
think of it. If his memory fails him
he falls back on the American equiva-
lent.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

By the way, when pious Englishman
over here, say bishop On a vacation,
wishes to relieve his feelings without
"Assouan! If he falls off his
donkey, "Assouan!' If his tea is
served to him at less than PIP degrees
Fahrenheit, "Assouan!
"Assouan means the superlative of
all dams, the biggest dam in the world.
It takes the place of whole row Of
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NJ ARTS, April 1o.-Is America pay,
ing too much for its breadf
a. This question forces itself upon
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-27
RICHES IN JE JEWELERS. SWEEPINGS

fcient gold to pay for a new one.
The ~sweepings are sent to the re1ner
for the gold to be extracted.
The process of extracting the gol~
from these s~weepings is simple. They
are burnt, and the ashes g.. carefully
collected. The buyer selects samples
here and there, taking a portion from
every part of the heap. These he
weighs, puts through a grinder and
sieve, then thoroughly mixes the prod.
uct, takes a sample Of it, weighs 1t,
lefines it, and calculates how much
gold there is in the whole quantity Of
ashes. From this he forms an esti.
mate of the value and pays accord.
ingly.
Even the water in which gold is
washed when a ring or other article
OF jewelry is cleaned Is preserved
until there is a sufficient quantity to
make it worth while to separate the
gold from it.
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are numerous. One eligible was
bright, but %slovenly. He would not
keep his face shaved and his linen
clean. Another had the other. qualifl.
cations, but he had sporting proclivi-
ties which made him unreliable and
Objectionable to a certain class Of
people with whom he would have to
deal. Another had many qualifica-
tons except the ambition. He was
rot a pusher. A fourth was an honest
worker, Lut did not have the address.
He would be unable to present hh
case well. And so the whole gamut OF
human failings was gone through. Tho
all-around man, who lives up to his
opportunities and Is broad gauge, Is
hard to find. Or, II he is found, he
stands in his own light by neglect Of
the conventionalities and the things
which are tremendous aids to sue.
cess.-Cleveland Leader.
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dams he traded his humble supplies,
except the provisions which he actu.
ally needed to sustain his own exist.
ence until spring.
The visits Of the Indians were few
and far between. The solitary trader
was often homesick as he sat through
the almost perpetual darkness OF the
arctic winter. In the short hours OF
glimmering daylight he gathered his
little stores of frewood, draggiL~
them through the snow. and then sa'
through the long night counting o
the days on the calendar until sprin"
His nearest white neighbors were a.
Anvik, 200 miles down the Yukon, az
at Weare, 240 miles up the strear
He never saw q white face until nea g.
ly a year after his arrival at Nulato
When spring broke upon the lionel
hermit life assumed a nor cheerfl
aspect. The fame of the new whit
trader had spread far through the In
dian settlements, and the natives be-
gan calling regularly at the post witt
their stock of furs. They came fror
Koyokuk, from Innoko and from Kus
hokwin, some of them travelling near
ly 500 miles.-Seattle Times.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-27

With Alaska furs valued at SOS, 900
from Nulato, on the Lower Yukan,
Garrett Busch has arrived in Seattle
after eight years spent in traficking
with the Indians in the wilderness
which he was the first white man to
penetrate as a trader. When Mr..
Busch reached Nulato, Aug. II, 1897,
with a miners outfit as his sole pos
session, he foresaw in that gloomy
solitude a trade in the furs which pro-
tect animal life from arctic winters
which would exceed In returns the
reasonable possibilities of mining ven
lures.
Mr.. Busch settled down at the place
where the little town of Nulato nov
stands. He built a ~one-story cabin
with lumber which he sawed from the
native timber and began to trade his
miners supplies to the natives for the
furs which they knew so we'll how to
trap, but of whose value they had no
conception. Through the first win
ter he lived alone, except when an &C.
cosional squad Of Indian trappers
came by and stopped in curiosity to
learn what manner of man had set
tied in so lonely a spot. To these In
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-27

among the flaming corsets to recover
the rest of the despised curl papers.
but he succeeded in saving only a few.
The rest were destroyed. So he called
a servant, had the dust and debris
swept up and the whole carted off by
scavengers. He had managed to scrape
up only a few hundred dollars from
the estate, where he had expected
more than that number of thousands.
He could not understand 1t; but there
the matter stood for some days.
Then he came across an old woman
who had previously been in the serv-
ice of his aunt. He told her of his
mystifcation at being unable to find
any of the diamonds. why, yes, sir"
was the response. 81 knows misses
always had a lot Of diamonds. She
stitched EN- all into her old corsets
and put 'em away In a box"
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-27

The waste of gold in a manufacture.
ing jewelers. premises is likely to be
so considerable that the most strin-
gent measures have to be taken to
av,id loss by reason of the gold dust
falling to the floor, getting caught in
the workers clothes, getting washed
off his hands, and in many other ways.
Some time ago a gold and silver
manufacturing firm had occasion to
put in a new floor in its working room
and the man who made the change
took the old floor in payment of his
work, and was well paid.
In the process of manufacture 1t Is
impossible to avoid small particles of
the precious metal flying upon the
floor, where they are trodden into
the crevices until the floor is satu-
rated with them. The floor In a
manufacturing jewelers. workshop
which has become SO worn that 1t
must be replaced contains fully sui.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-27
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The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-27

There are some good jobs on the
railroads which the going begging
today because there Is no one to fiji
them. In this territory several posi-
tons as passenger and freight solicit
tors are open and men are wanted.
The roads upon which the vacancies
exist are searching every corner to
find the proper a The old story
that the sons, cousins, nephews,
brothers.in-law and what not of the
general manager are given preference
does not seem to hold good here. Per-
haps all of the preferred relatives
Rave been provided for. But the fact
is that good men are scarce and are
wanted. Out of the thousands en-
ployed 1t seemed peculiar that but
few were really eligible to promotion.
An old railroader explained 1t.
The present day demands upon
those who have to meet the public
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-27

Some years ago a nan in England
had an aged aunt who died, leaving
him sole legatee of all her personal
estate. When he came to examine
into her effects there was nothing
worth carrying away. OF the diamonds
and money which she had possessed
in abundance nothing could be found.
In an attic was an old chest, filled
with ancient, WORKOUT corsets, and,
worse still, old curl papers. In his
anger and disappointment he had this
carried down into the garden and a
bonfire made of the whole. AS the fire
burned he savagely thrust in his stick
and turned over one of the discolered
curl-papers. 1t unrolled and discov-
cred itself as a banknote Of large de-
nomination.
Frantically no dashed his hands