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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-21
NEWS STORIES OF THE
WEEK FROM CHICAGO

bers Of the Chicago orchestra. On the
musical afternoons the orchestra will
play in the galleries, from to 4, and
at O'Clock will give concerts in the
hall.
: There are two special courses for
the remainder Of the year, one on
!" Greek Life and Art by DIR. Alfred
Emerson, late professor of classical
archaeology in the American School Of
Classical Studies at Athens, and an
other, six interpretative recitals, Illus
trations Of Ancient Classical Tragedy
by Professor Richard Moulton Green Of
the University Of Chicago.
There is another class of lectures,
largely given for, the benefit Of the
pupils Of the school, but this is also
open to members. In this list are The
History Of Architecture, course of
eighteen lectures by William T. Otis;
Antiquities, Textiles, Metals, illus
atrated from the collections Of the in
stitute, by James Williams Pattison,
and twelve lectures on Paintings and
Painters" by Charles Francis Browne.
The principal figure in the chief:
C entertainment now claiming
attention is Mrs. Frank Airport, for.
merly prominent:
Mrs. Airport a in Minneapolis so
cial circles. Mrs.
Leader Airport is chair
s q man ofsthe enter
in Charity Work. tainment commit
tee Of the Chill
dren g Hospital society, whose business
| it Is to raise funds for the work of ths
society. Mrs. Airport has with her on
her committee Mrs. Harry Pratt judi
son and Mrs. E. III. Center, formerly Of
Minneapolis. and Mrs. Burton Hanson,
who as Mrs. Fitz-Hugh Mcclure was
Ia Red Wing woman we'll known in
i Minneapolis.
i Mrs. Allport's committee is very
busy now with an entertainment. It has
taken the house at the .1tBabes in Toy
land performance, Jan. 20, and ex-
4 poets to realize a snug sum from it. All
of the desirable boxes were sold at a
4 fine premium and the lower floor seats
j also sold at large prices. The regular
sale does not begin until next week.
The Children's Hospital society has
no institution Of its. own, but works in
VIII all Inc J. InSJlIuJlOns
that care for children. The Chicago hos.
pitfalls are very crowded and tits diff.
cult for those able to pays5a moderate
sum to get in, and to get the benefit Of
q a free bed requires considerable dip
lomacy, strong pull or a very com
plete knowledge Of conditions. All OF
3 these requirements are met by this
society, which is differed by prominent
physicians and society women, the presi
II dent being DR.. Frank Billings who il
probably generally regarded as the
i head of his profession in Chicago. II
addition the society is prepared to pa,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-21

her art work except what she does for
her own pleasure. She keeps up her
and maintains closasspers relations
with her old assoc iafes. IS . = . :. 3,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-21

to the little "tacot" Of the year 1899
whose every part is loose and rafting,
and from the 60 horse power touring
cars 81 whole family to the electric
juggernauts of timid society ladies who
want to be protected BY weight in time
of collision.
No other city of the world permits
such speed. irresponsible hired ttchaufs'
feurs' scorch by recklesslys in empty
vehicles their master pays the damage.
The word has come: to sShave3 az bad
meaning; no gentleman running his
own auto calls himself a Is chauffeur =
nowadays; it has become the property
of those moustached domestics, those
Observation-Disclosures who terforize the
capital. The police can t stop them
when they go fast.
Hi Use the Side Streets.
Timid people nowadays, when going
in a cab from, say the Arch Of Triumph
to the center Of the city for their shop
ping, tell the driver to take a side
Street. You see the arch--in the up
per center of the panorama Of the
west? There are still tranquil ave
nues and side streets leading from it to
ward the river--ike the Avenue Mar
ceau. =, Only, if they go On to the river
they must cross the pandenlonium; OF
the Place de Palma, emptYing a thous-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-21

IS AS, was expecte Dean. Harry, Pratt
hudson sappoi nsssss acting president
of the. University Chicago by. the.
trustees, a post he "a s. been filling ably
for asyear and theIe:Iis quite a strong
feeling that he will never lay down the
duties Of the offce,sbut will in course
Of time formally succeed Dr.. Harper,
with whom he had been associated as
fellow worker and friend ever since
the: organization Of the university.
lgJ-.4
Paul Pierce lis manager Of the food
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
PATS CONTRACT.

1t is told that an Irishman took a
contract to dig we'll and that when
he had dug about twenty-five feet
down he came one morning and found
it had fallen in and that it was filled
to the top. Pat looked cautiously
around and saw that no person was
near, then took off his hat and coat
and hung them on the windlass,
crawled into some bushes and awaited
events. In short time the neigh
bors discovered that the well had
fallen in and seeing Pats hat and
coat on the windlass they supposed
he was at the bottom of the excava-
ton. Only a few hours of brisk
digging cleared the loose earth from
the well. Just as the excavators had
reached the bottom, and were Won
dering where the body was, Pat came
out of the bushes and goodnaturedly
thanked the diggers for releaving him
of a sorra job. Some of the tired
diggers were disgusted but the joke
was too good to allow anything more
than laugh, which followed prompt
1v by all.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
THE HUMAN RIBS.

A man who had been sick said he
was so thin he could count his ribs.
When I heard this statement / ask
ed, "How many did you count"
He was unable to answer. Several
friends were standing by, and the
query was put to them. Not a man
could tell the number of his ribs.
One bright chap said in all serious
ness that woman has one more rib
than a man, because man lost one in
the fashioning of woman. And; do
you know, this belief is common?
Suddenly spring the question on any
acquaintance you may happen to
meet in the days journeying. I'm
less he be a medical man he will in
all probability be unable to answer.
1t is an anatomical fact that man
has twelve pairs of ribs and woman
the same number. The four short
ribs, two on each side, are the free"
ribs, and in all probability Eve was
made of one of these. A man could
manage to struggle through life with
out his free ribs, and have no doubt
that ere long some corset manufacture
er will require woman to have hers
removed in order to lengthen her
waist and to reduce its girth. To
break few of the asternal ribs (ten
altogether) is nothing to break
some of the sternal fourteen in num-
ber) one is far more serious. .-WeaO
York Press.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
THE RED SQUIRREL.

In Maine-in fact, all over New
England-red squirrels do not put by
great boards of any kind for winter
use. When a Maine red squirrel has
filled itself with acorns and beech
nuts it will hide few here and there
under leaves, in hollow logs, in
cracks of rifted trees and among stone
heaps.
An average red squirrel. having
the run Of an oak grove in the fall of
the year, may in the course of two
weeks hide away from two to four
quarts of acorns, though they will be
in perhaps twenty different places,
and in no instance which we have
noted has any nut been shelled.
The squirrel which plans a hoard
of nuts and makes deliberate prepara-
tions for winter is the little chip
munk, or striped squirrel, which seeks
winter quarters soon after heavy frosts
and which remains in hiding all win
ter. The chipmunks often hide as
many as two quarts of shelled beech
nuts in one place. Their storehouses
are, as a rule, under the ground, in
sloping and sandy soil, the burrows
having been dug with true engineer
ing skill, so that no freshet can drown
them out.
It is believed that most observing
woodsmen will say that the red squir-
rels of this vicinity seldom make large
caches of provisions for winter con-
sumption and never shell the stored
nuts. In fact, the red species have
no need to pay much heed to such
matters, as they are abroad and ac-
tive in the coldest days of winter as
much as they are in midsummer, so
precautions for food are not demand
ed. AS the red squirrels subsist for
good part of the year upon the cones
of pines and spruces, which hang to
the limbs, they do not care how deep
or hard the snow may be, feeling Sc
cure in finding all the food they want
among the tree-tops.-Bangor MeaOs.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
A CREATIVE VOCATION.

+ IF you want to be contented and
happy, if you want to experience a
perpetual satisfaction as you go along,
choose creative vocation. A rou-
tine life where there is nothing new,
nothing special to be learned, is dis
couraging, paralyzing to ambition,
but creative work, which makes per-
petual call upon originality and in
dividuality, is a constant tonic.
Nothing gives greatest satisfaction
than the daily feeling that you have
brought something new into the
world from your brain-something
which has taxed your ingenuity and
which makes you feel that you have
added to the real wealth of the world /;
that you have not been merely work.
ing over what somebody else started
or created, but that you have brought
something out of the mysterious
realm of mind, made it tangible and
effective and started a new impulse
in the world.
We get closer to nature when we
are creating, whether in art, in litera-
ture, in invention or in working at
new and progressive ideas. We can
feel our mind reach out into infnity
and grasp and bring back something
fresh, new, something never seen on
this earth before. 1t is perpetual de-
light and consummate satisfaction.
This is why brain workers are
longer lived than other people. Gre
ations keep the creator always young,
since we are perpetually in contact
with the new, the youthful, when we
are creating. When we are stretch
ing the mind into the unknown and
calling out something new we seem
| to touch hands with the Creator him
self.
People who never think or do any
thing original-mere automatons,
cogs in the wheels of the great world S
machinery, the mere routinists, do not
know the exhilaration which comes
from the consciousness of creating
something new and fresh every day.
The creator feels that he is accom-
plishing something worth while; that
he is doing something which the
world needs, which will make it a
little better place to live in, and the
very newness. the novelty, the mys-
terry of creation, makes it the most
fascinating thing in the worlo.-Smc-
cess Magasiue,
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
how KANSAS BECAME A STATE.

The fight on Kansas entrance
into the Uuion was a prelude to the
Civil War, which it hastened. The
Kansas conflict may be said to have
been begun with the enactment Of
the territorial organization bill in
1854. Both North and South strove
for the possession of the territory, and
in the fight John Brown was evolved
and got the incentive which led him
to make his Harper's Ferry raid of
1889, that intensified the tension be-
tween the sections and made the Civil
War inevitable. If there had been
no Kansas conflict there would have
been no John Brown, the Whig party
would have remained on the scene a
few years longer to make its feeble
opposition to the Democracy the
advent Of the Republican party would
have been delayed there would have
been no Lecompton constitution fight
to cut off segment from the Demo-
cratic party; the Democratic split in
the Charleston convention of 1860
would have been postponed to 1864
or some other time, and it is possible
that the Civil War would not have
occurred yet, and that slavery would
still be in existence; though, of
course, its doom was certain, soon or
late.-.St. Louis 0be-Democyat.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02

the many beautiful wild birds which
haunt the region-the cardinal passes
him, a winged flame; the bluebird
trills out from background of green
trees and patches of skies less blue
than himself the wood-doves COO
mournfully, and the woodpecker taps
on the tree trying to drown the MINI
licking notes of the saucy catbird.
The historian CT the party, as he
trudges along, ponders over the dream
of Washington that this shallow
stream would suffice to carry on CON-
mercial and social intercourse with
all the western country that he be-
plieved we were able to control. Little
did Washington reck of the iron giant
fed by steam which was to make the
canal seem as primitive method of
transportation as is the ox-cart. When
the present canal was opened by John
Quincy Adams for the Chesapeake
and Ohio Company, in 1928, and the
building of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad was also begun, not even the
wise men of that day thought that
the railroad was its formidable rival,
for they argued that the canal would
always be used for heavy commodi-
ties, as the railroad was only capable
of handling light freight and passen-
gers. Now the canal plays but
small part in the world of commerce,
devoted mostly to bringing coal and
stone from the upper Potomac. The
historian with prophetic eye thinks
he can see the day when the old canal
will again be as dry as when its waters
were let out during the Civil War aud
the army wagons used its bed for a
wagon-road, and that in its place will
travel the putting train carrying on
rapid commercial intercourse with the
rich region lying west of the national
capital.
Conduit Road, charming high
way between Washington and the
falls, is one of the most favored drives
around Washington.
The inn at the falls, on the Mary
land side, is an unpretentious farm
house where good, healthful Mary
land meals are served without any
frills. 1t fronts on the canal, over
which one must pass in order to reach
the tow-path and the bridge leading
to the falls. This primitive bridge
consists of boards held together by
crosspieces and suspended by common
wire. 1t is doubtful whether there is
anyone who, crossing it for the first
time, did so without feeling that he
was tempting Providence. Its mo-
ton is combination of seesaw and
a swing, and at every downward dip
the timid feel sure that it will go on
to the rocks below. A modern sus
peusion bridge would add greatly to
the comfort of pilgrims to the Great
Falls of the Potomac. The Four
Track WezUS.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
ADVANTAGES OF SMALL FARMS.

Every beginner in agriculture
should estimate on the probable cost
of operating farm that he wishes to
purchase and should not expend too
much of his capital on the purchase,
but should retain sufficient to improve
the land to high degree of fertility.
The farm, by judicious expenditure
to the amount of its cost upon it, may
have its productiveness increased four
fold and its profits to an almost incal-
culable amount. IF, therefore, far
mer can produce from a given acre
twice the amount that he does from
another field of the same size, he in
creased the profits and reduces the
expenses accordingly.
A farmer must be able to expend a
large sum in addition to what he
does in paying on his land, if he ex-
poets to make money by the business.
But the common practice is to expend
all the additional capital which is
realized by farming by purchasing
more land. Instead of doing this it
would be much better for the farmer
to sell all that he cannot utilize and
thus obtain additional capital for
carrying on his farming opertions.
Formerly it was supposed that the
large farms secured greater advan-
tages by the use of agricultural i'm
plemeuts and machinery, but it is now
conceded that one of the main advan-
tages of the small farms is that labor
saving machinery can be very profit
able used on them, fer where such
can be employed the cost of labor is
greatly reduced. But notwithstand-
ing all advantages, there is not one
farmer in hundred who has not
more land than he can cultivate in the
possible manner and there are many
who have not sufficient additional
capital to carry on pro6tably all the
operations of the farm.
1t is to the small farms in every
country that one must look generally
for the best models, the finest taste,
the most pleasure and the largest prof
its upon the investment. Fifty acres
cultivated in the very best style of
modern improvements will yield more
profit than many farms of one hun
dred acres or more. It is an excel
lent rule never to take in hand more
ground than can be cultivated in the
best manner, for one cannot make up
the defects of culture by increasing
the quantity of ground thus defec-
lively titled. The products of farm
should not be confined to one or two
articles. The farmer should not be
principally cereal grower. nor
stockman, but should attend equally
to all the different branches. When
the business is thus varied too much
work does not occur at one time, nor
too little for the employment of the
hands at another. This variety of
business is also necessary to the inn
provement and enrichment of the
soil, to the production and applica.
ton of manure and to maintain
ing the benefits of the rotation Of
crops.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
THROAT EXERCISES.


The chronic sore throat is not infre
quently produced by the misuse oi
the vocal organs. Very often that
iinruly little member, tongue, is ac.
countable for the difficulty, as it is
TOR great many other troubles in
this transitory. life. Many people
have habit when talking of pushing
the tongue SO far back against the
delicate membranes that line the
throat that irritation more or less pain
ful is caused, and if it continues any
length of time ulcers will form, and
so will a doctors bill.
Control of the tongue is excellent
IN all senses of the word. Physically
this organ may be managed by de-
pressing it into a hollow at a point
three.quarters of an inch back of
where the tip of it comes when in a
natural position in the mouth and at
&c same time singing very light
head tones. This exercise requires
some patience at first, but the habit
of keeping the tongue down is soon
acquired. In speaking or singing it
shouldnot be allowed to hoop up and
fill themouth, thus interfering with
the free passage of the tones of the
voice from the throat to the front of
the mouth, where they should strike
and then escape clear as bell. This
hopping Of the tongue in the mouth
is the caua of much of the indistinct
and sloveny utterances to which we
are too oftea obliged to listen.
In many people we notice the line
from the point of the chin to the neck
is in the form of a right angle. In a
shapely throatthis line forms curve,
just as canary does when the small
yellow artist is varbling his carols.
To develop the throat and make
this angle a curve stand before a mir
ror so that you may watch the throat
swell out. Now thrust your tongue
out as far as it will go, then draw it
back quickly and forcible, at the
same time bringing it downward in
the mouth as far as you can. Place
your thumb and fore6nger against
the larynx Commonly called the
Adams apple), and ifyou are making
the right movement you will feel the
larynx pass downward. For a week
or two make the movements lightly.
After that time put as much force in
to it as you can. The exercise
should be practiced for a few minutes
several times day to insure rapid
and good results.
To fill up the hollows of the neck
stand correctly and then slowly fill
the lungs with air without elevating
your shoulders. As the air is forced
upward into the throat hold it there
few seconds and then expel slowly.
This exercise is best performed soon
after rising in the morning and be-
fore retiring at night.-NeaO York
Post.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
HOW he FOUND THE VEST.

Little David had always been re-
garded by his doting relatives as
particularly clever. Still he rather
outdid himself when rough looking
tramp invaded the yard one afternoon
and asked where his father kept his
money. :.
cts in his vest in the Kitchen"
replied David.
A few minutes later the tramp
came through the kitchen doorway in
a hurry, much battered and torn.
"Smart kid, dat ~ he muttered.
"Never said word about de old man
bein' inside de vest. "-Philadelblia
Public Ledger.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
RECALLED THE NAME AT LAST.

The stage coach that carries the
mail between Kent's Hill and Read
field station in Main drew up along
the roadside and the driver accosted a
little old man working in field.
"Do you know who Mrs. Abby B.
Brown is and where she lives?'
The old man considered. Brown,
Abby B. Brown He repeated. "You
don't mean Mrs. Polly Brown, do
your"
"No, Mrs. Abby B. Brown; we've
got letter for her."
"B. you say the middle letter is B.
do you? 1 know a whole lot of
Browns that live on the other side of
the road, but there amt any Abby
B. among them. You don't mean
Abby B. Smith, do you? She lives
over"
"No, it's Abby B. Brown. Well
find her somehow. Thanks"
The stage driver started his horses,
but before the corner was reached a
faint "Hello" caused the passengers
to turn around. The old man, hoe
in hand was pursuing the stage.
Brown, Mrs. Abby B. Brown,
did you say? Why, I know her.
She's my wife" I"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02

BALTIMORE. May 18th, 1906.
Messrs. Editors Baltimore County Union Gentle
men Herewith enclosed please find a poetica
gem of purest quality, that I have saved and
copied for THE UNION. 1t is deserving of being
cut out and pasted In every scrap book. 1t is BY
Bishop Doane, of Burlington, N. j., born 1799
died 1859. 1t is never seen in newspaper and
rarely elsewhere, but is and truly "a thing OF
beauty and joy forever" to young and old.
Yours cordially,
A. r. MUssELMAN, Attorney,
liz e. Lexington street.
Stand as an Anvil when it is beaten upon, for
1t Is fastened that 1t should not be moved
dsaiah. 4lst chapter, 7th verse)
"Stand like an Anvil" when the stroke
OF etalwart men falls fierce and fast:
Storms but more deeply root the oak,
Whose brawny arms embrace the blast.
"Stand like an Anvil" when the sparks
Fly far and wide, fiery shower:
Virtue and truth must still be marks.
Where malice proves its want of power.
''Stand like an Anvil" when the bar
Lies. red and glowing on its breast:
Duty shall be life's leading star.
And conscious innocence its rest.
''Stand like an Anvil" when the sound
OF pOnderOus hammers pain the ear:
Thine but the still and stern rebound
OF the great heart that cannot fear.
''Stand like an Anvil, :" noise and heat
Are born of earth and die with time,
The soul, like God, it's source and seat,
Is solemn, still, serene, sublime.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
BIRDS AS WORKERS.

Birds can and do work far harder
than human beings. A pair of house
martins when nesting will feed their
young on an average once in twenty
seconds-that is, each bird, male and
female, makes ninety journeys to and
fro in an hour, or perhaps, 900 day.
1t must be remembered that on each
journey the bird has the added work
of catching an insect. Even so tiny a
bird as the wren has been counted to
make no trips to and from its nest
within 43o minutes, and the prey it
carried home consisted ofinsects much
larger, heavier and harder to find than
were caught by the swallows.-L0n-
dom Mail.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02

"LITrLE boy" said the stern
clergyman, 'you should not be work
ing on Sunday. What would your
father say? 20
why, pas working too !"
"What is he doing?"
"Playin' the organ in yer church
choir"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02

MEEK-I say, old chap, I'm in
shocking bad luck. / want money
badly, and 1 haven't the least idea
where / can get it.
Beek-Wcll, I'm glad to hear that.
I thought perhaps you had an idea
YOU could borrow from me.