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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-01

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-01

There is an active inquiry for money
in connection with the opening Of
spring engagements in the business
ing season in the agricultural sections.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

ian grammar for che use OF The court ladies'. rs rs
Giovfn said: "No Spaniard was aceo1nte1 hOoie
who held science In indifference" Peter Martyr
gives amusing account of the enthusiasm on Ste
he was to give Introductory lecture on one OF W
Satrgs of JuVenal. for the hall was so cTOWdeO tit
ne had 20 be carried in on the shoulders OF tne
str Mathematics resumed ttelT ancleHt
iTnDOrtance as we'll as astronomy and geography
History had always been favOrste STUDY IN Seste,
hut now beyond mere chronicles IltTteis
and diplomas were consulted manuscripts cOlidttI
coins and Inscriptions deciphefeO, anu Ine PuDilC
archives were collected and stored at BuFgOs-
IT. as a girl Just emerging from childhood
Isabel was not a prodigy Of learning like some
of the Italian princesses Of her day. there was
one thing she had no doubts abOut-she knew
her own mind One of the most vivid passages
in this volume reveals her at sixteen. slender.
golden haired blue eyed. gentle and thoroughly
obstinate creature. facing with placid cOunte-
nance a warlilxe and exceedingly angry prelate'
the Archbishop of Toledo. CASTLE was torn by
civil war; and powerful faction sought 70 place
her upon the throne in opposition TO its hated
possessor, her half-brOther. Enrique. Would
she take the tempting offer? No. she would not
This little Isabel did not choose to be catSpaW.
On the contrary. she offered her mediation in
the interests Of peace. and the embassy retired
in disorder before the calm and inmOvable de-
cisiOn of an Infanta who looked little more than
n child as she stood before the group Of burly
MOBILES in her white convent garb- Her stout
wiz shielded her. too. in the matter of marriage
"a matter about which most royal maidens had
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

then little to say. King Enrique, when his sis
ter thirteen. tried to arrange mar
rage for her with the elderly King Alfonso of
Portugal, and little Isabel fatty refused to con-
sent-nOt easy thing for child without fam
lily backing to do. When she was fifteen
Enrique thinking to win over some of his re-
belliOus mobiles, resolved, with the narrow OBJ
stinacy of a weak man. to marry her to one of
them. u person of fierce temper and evil reputa-
tiOn. This time she was saved not by her own
persistent refusal-nOr by the dagger of her
favOrite maid OF honor. who threatened TO kill
the suitOr-bUt by strange turn Of fate. The
proposed bridegroom, fastening to his wedding
at Madrid. fell i'll on the way. and died in a few
days: and before an equally ineligible match
could be cOntrived the King and his mobiles went
to war again. and the Infanta ran away from
the court and sought refuge with her younger
brother. Another suitOr whom she was fOrtu-
nate il escaping was that being crooked in mind
and body. the Duke of Gloucester. who became
King Richard III of England He proposed TO
leave his OWE country and live in CASTLE if his
alliance were accepted. and England and the
House Of York were the worse for the failure
of his plan strange marriage would that
have been between the noble minded Castilian
girl and base CrOOk-back Richard.
AS princes went in those days. IsabeI's final
choice. Fernando of AragOn. was "a very proper
man." He had not much education. but he had
great natural intelligence, he was near her own
age and he not i'll looking. He was of
manly carriage. erect. hardy and active. He
had a good forehead which gained in height
from his being somewhat bald; his hair and
massive eyebrows were of bright chestnut hue
and his eyes We're piercing and animated His
mouth was well formed. showing small white
irregular teeth. and he had son. ~ hat ruddy
sunburnt complexion" Such was the proper
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

was more conspicuous as a musician, poet and
a lover Of painting than an efficient ruler.
Her mother. Isabel of Portugal Juan'S second
wife appears to have been more or less a nOnen-
tity in youth, and madness seized her in her last
days. But steady, serene and clear was the in
tellect Of the little Infanta who was to become
a great queen. Outside the matter of religion
her education was slight She taught to
embrOider beautifully to paint a little. possibly
to dance. and she learned to speak and write
her own language we'll. In nothing perhaps, was
her character more truly shown than in her in
tellectual diligence after her marriage Her
occupations were many and important but she
nevertheless made time for exacting study.
Latin was then the language of diplomacy in
the European courts. and the plans of Isabel and
Fernando meant much communication with am
bassadors- To Latin. then, the Queen applied
herself and within year she attained "a good
knowledge of it. understanding without much
difficulty whatever was written or spoken in it.
She to it that her children had what she
had missed. that they thoroughly trained
by the most competent teachers: and she
founded. moreover. school for the children of
her mobiles. She collected precious manuscripts,
and when. in the first year of her reign. the art
of printing came into her country she heartily
encouraged printers and booksellers and herself
paid for the printing of divers books At the
Queens word. says the author. learning became
the fashion:
The son of the Duke of Alva taught in the Uni
Versity of Salamanca. where the future Grand Con
stable of CASTLE read lectures on Ovid and Pliny
ard another great noble was professor of Greek at
Alcah No age safe from the infection of
learning. for he Marquess of Denia, who was past
sixty, sat down eagerly TO study the Latin gram
mar. The Queens own special teacher of Latin
was n learned Lady, Den Beatriz de GalindO.
There other distinguished women some of
hiEh rank; who publicly leciured on the Latin
classics. rhetoric and other subjects 4 learned
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
ISABEL OF Castillo.
GHmpses of the Personality of a
Great Queen.

A QUEEN OF QUEENS. AND THE MAKING
OF SPAIN By Christopher Hare Illustrated
8vO pp '372 Charles Scribner's Sons.
This biography of great Queen is not a brill
liant piece of literature but it is carefully framed
and from the first page to the last it is enter
tanning. AS other semi-histOrical volumes have
shown. Christopher Hare has gift for easy
writing of the personal and picturesque sort
that makes easy reading The opening chapters,
in their brief accounts of the Moorish rule in
Spain and the rise of the Christian kingdoms,
provide a background as full Of color as OK
gloom for the majestic figure of Isabel. II we
do not join the author in his somewhat gushing
admiration of his heroine. neither do we fail in
appreciation of her high qualities. That she had
the defects of her qualities is certain. She was
remarkable both as woman and statesWOman.
but she harmed her country as much as she
benefited it.
Something of Isabers strength of character.
perhaps, came TO her from her English grand
mother, the daughter Of ''Old John of Gaunt.
time-honored Lancaster" IL so it skipped gen
Grafton, for her father. King Juan III of CASTLE.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

The English booksellers who complain Of a..-
times do not get much sympathy from y
Shorter. who tells them that Il this IS tne - -
il is because they have UndereStiTua,ed lAs -
lie intelligence and do not stock the best o'-
One OF the signs Of the times ia which hs - i,
the evidence of this public intelligence : =
enormous widening Of interest in the ~OlN
George BOTr0w-
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
TO THE MUSES..

BY WILLIAM BLAKE.
whether on Ida's shaded brow.
Or in the chambers of the East.
rlS chambers Of the sun, that now
From ancient melody have ceased:
Whether il, heaven ye wander fair.
OR the green corners of the earth,
q, the blue reg Ons of the air.
Where the inelodous winds have birth:
" neither on crystal rocks We rove,
Beneath the bosom of the sea,
Wandering in many a coral grove:
Fair Nine. forsaking poetry;
H0w have you left the ancient love
That bards of old eniOv'd in you.
SIe languid strings do scarcely move,
The sound is forced. the notes are few.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
Gbe NeAao'2po4-k Gribagoae.
SUNDAY. JULY Is, 1906.

How did Flaubert. master of the inevitable
word" differ from Mr.. Henry James, who has
also been a seeker for that word? lively Eng
lish eSSayist tells us that the Frenchman diff
fercd from the American lin that he published,
not his experiments with words, but only their
final result: and that result is certainly a
flawless piece of workmanship" The observer
of Mr.. James's latest groupings among words
cannot but acknowledge the force of the crii-
ciSm conveyed in the comparison. To wander
nowadays among the intricate COnvolutiOns OF
his phrases is really not worth while-the idea,
when one has ut last firmly grasped that timOr-
GUS and evanescent thing, is not valuable
enough to reward the painful effort TO tell
the truth, there is danger that the sincerest ad
mirers of u talent once so delicate and distin
guShed may grow. rs the author himself might
say, distinctly bored by it's new divagatiOns
No author on this round earth is great enough
to indulge with impunity in the production OF
formeSS wclters of words conveying thoughts
which, at their best, are not epoch making. MIR
James has spoiled his style by his devotion to
style. 10 write in lucid, pure and pithy English
is surely not unworthy of d man of taste.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15


style TO write in lucid, pure and pithy English
is surely not unworthy of man of taste.
The escayist of "The Academy" whom we
have quoted above, is whOlesOmely heretical in
his treatment OF this question of style. He does
not find the extreme of literary dandyism any
more admirable than it's reverse of literary
slOvenliness. The literary Clothes" he de
clares, however elegant VIII go out of fash
ion 1t is the thought tricked out in them that
will remain to be tried in the balance. 1t is an
arguable belief that the works of Robert Louis
Stevenson will presently, for that reason, go
the way of the works of John Lyly." However
we may differ the point of StevensOn's pre-
ciosity in prose, may agree with the critic
that the stylist whose work lasts is the stylist
WlO like GibbOn, has something to say-and in
the case of Gibbon, he reminds u.s. the style was
by no means the man. Let us quote for the
amusement of those who have observed the
School of Henley our essayists note on the
origin of much that fearful and wonderful
therein:
w E. Henley, for example, thrust style upon
his disciples He was a strong with fixed
ideas about the of the English language.
His contributors fell in with his VieWS-pre
Sumaby the principle of anything for a
quiet life Thus arose a school of writer's who
with their noses in the air. That upward growth
not, however, natural and spontaneous.
Their noses had been tilted for them by the ed-
tOrial arbiter of their eleSances. They really
differed widely from each other though the diff
feTUnces had been temporarily ObScured by the
Compulsion OF a common style. The style in
this case was not the man himself, at any rate
not the whole man.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

The novel-reader who fondy believes that his
favOrite "refreShers" are OF imagination all
compact is much deceived. The novelist of
than is the lesser writer who turns off stories
'in the way o: trade BalZac his sister has
told U.S. wherever he went studied what he saw
setting down everything which revealed a char
acter or painted a situation. His "meat-safe
was the odd maine he gave to the book which
held these notes. Dickens recorded diligently
his observations Of pPculiarity in persons rs
we'll strange incidents, suggestive names
available scenery and the like. Even one so
little given to realism" in the modern sense as
Hawt horne had an ample store of useful notes.
Wilkie Collins is quoted by an old acquaintance
in the c.;rYcnt nulAber of "Chambe.s's Journal"
as declaring that he founded nearly all his plots
on facts incidents he had heard of or read,
Or On 4 desire to expose correct some abuse
of his time. Great was his wrath when he was
accused of introducing sensational and imprOb
able episodes in his book, The Woman in
White" lie knew, he said, of very few in
stances in which fiction cXCeeued the prOba
ability of reality and then he revealed the
source of many of his plots III the shape of Il
dilaridatcsl collection of records of French
crime picked Up Oh an old bCpkStall in Paris
''IIcre is a prize" he exclaimed. and it turneJ
out 10 be. ''Ihe Woman in White" derived
from those mouidering records. The plot of
tIlat." said Collins, has been called outrageous:
the substitution aad burial of the mad girl for
Lady CLYDE. and the incarceration of Lady
Clyde as the mad girl. 1t true, and il was
from the trial of the villain of the POt-COunt
FoscO of the novel; got my story
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

A QUEEN OF QUEENS. AND THE MAKING
OF SPAIN By Christopher Hare Illustrated.
SvO DID. -372 Charles ScFibner's Sons.
Evening journal., 1906-08-02
DELAWARE NEWS NOTES

The J. S. deOvies Company was
Incorporated at Dover to engage in a
general construction business. to act
as builders Of public works. buildings.
docks and wharves The incorporators
are Of Pittsburg, Pa, and the capital
stock is $4,000.
"A child entered the home of Loomis
Odel, at Dover. while the family were
seated on the porch, and discovered
that the house was on FIRE. A breeze
had carried the curtain ends against
lighted lamp and caused the blaze.
Taking the view that is not un-
lawful to sell lemonade on Sunday,
when nothing else but impure water
can be obtained by campmeeting
patrons. two merchants were dismiss
ed by Magistrate Wood.
The menhaden oil fishing people
at Lewes are complaining about the
exceptionally poor fishing this season.
The manufacturers do not get sufi-
cient fish to keep one of the mills go-
ing. Early this past month they had
II steamers fishing Off from the break
water. but the number has since been
reduced to eight
Evening journal., 1906-08-02
his Stock Advances Is to so Per Cent
Midnight, Saturday, August | |, 9Of

plete the great work TO where
The Income on Oil Sales Will Total
$4,000 Daily.
You must remember that this Uncle
sam Company Is a strong manufacturing
enterprise right now. oil is a necessity.
Larger fortunes have been made I'm renn-
ing oil than any other two leading in
dustries In the world. Millions OF dollars
can be made honestly In the producing
and refining business. II you have money
10 invest and most everyone has you
better accept this opportunity TO invest
In about the only real live oil enterprise
IN the West by sending your check or
draft for from SO for fifty shares TO
s. 600 for 10000 shares by return mail, for
in ten days time YOU win iether have to
pay whole lot more for the same stock.
and may not be able to get it at all, for
when the stock once gets into the hands
of scattered investors IL will soon go to
20 cents or $l.00 per share.
Win Have a5o Miles Main Trunk Pipe
Line.
This company has secured Q3O one
hundred and thirty-five miles OF main
trunk pipe line during the past fourteen
months and in due time win secure the
balance Of go miles necessary toreach
the banks OF navigation when the COM
pany can barge the oil to the markets
OF the world free from OH trust; railroad
rebate conspiracies or the double burden
heretofore heaped on independent organ
izations by the world known and desplaed
criminal trust In other words this COM
pany win be Independent ana free and
when you join our band. now nearly
eight thousand strong. with nearly mil
lion dollars cash back OF H. you secure
an interest In a great cnterprise-one
capable TO protect the interest OF the
smallest stockholder A chain OF three
great rehnO-ies and main trunk pipe
line 20 miles long with barges on the
Missouri river and TWO HUNDRED
main distributing stations In the Central
Western states is the coming enterprise
you are casting your lot with when you
Join Uncle Sam. II takes time to do all
this great work. but you will see this
until the highest pinnacle OF success Is
attained We are in the fight 10 win
and you will win with US and place your
investment where IL win help a worthy
cause and secure you great profits az the
same time. 500 will buy one thousand
shares, while the same stock in a very
Few days Will cost you $3.50 or $500. Now
Is certainly a pretty good time for you to
crowding Work on Main Trunk Pipe Line
In a very few days Uncle sam Com
pany will be able to pump oil towards
navigation over Q4O one hundred and
forty miles. This will deliver the oil
from eleven hundred acre lot AZ, north
70 the Kansas state line by Caney, Kas.
then by Tyro, Wayside Bolton then east
by independence and on east TO within
20 the Cherryvale refinery, Uncle Sam
No. J. Then straight north through
Cherryvale field. by Thayer Chanute
Humboldt, Neosho Falls and Leroy, and
then straight east TO Colony, on the main
line or the Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific
railroads, From Colony Uncle Sam viii
temporarily tank car the oil to the big
Evening journal., 1906-08-02
MARYLAND NEWS NOTES

Philadelphia parties have paid
General Joseph B. Seth, of Talbot
county, the sum Of $4,000 for his 25O-
acre farm, near Easton. The price is
said TO be the largest paid for a single
farm in that section for many years.
Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Johns of Zion.
Cecil county, widow Of the late Rev,
John Henry Johns, died at the home Of
her daughter in Trenton. where she
went few days ago on a visit.
Deceased was so years Of age. and is
survived by one daughter. Her funeral
will take place Friday afternoon from
Zion Presbyterian Church.
arrangements have been completed
for the location Of a Catholic seminary
at Hog Hill, three miles south OF
Elkton.
Run over by a hay wagon on the
farm of Alfred Cameron, near Zion,
George Swift had one arm broken and
his head badly injured.
Evening journal., 1906-08-02

For the past five months Uncle Sam
stock has been selling at 20 cents per
share. During that time the big river
refinery. Uncle Sam No. 2, has been built
Rt Atciison, Kas., on the bank Of navi-
CATION. Also nearly 100 miles of main
'runk and lateral pipe lines have been
.ecured, also numerous distributing sta
tions have been established and Tulsa
refinery Uncle Sam No. 3. on the banks
of the Arkansas river at Tulsa, l. t.
nearly half constructed, also eight of the
greatset oil producers yet discovered in.
the West have been developed. on l. 100
acre Lot 43 and other important develop
ments, including the doubling the capac-
ity OF Cherryvale Refinery, Uncle Sam,
No. 1. During the past hve months the
stock has grown IN demand Until during
the past six weeks remittances have to-
tailed for several different days over g.
OO0.OO six thousand dollars daily.
May Strike Main Oil Pool Before Time
Limit.
Now this company Is not a stock-selling
scheme but In good faith has solicited
and received heavy subscriptions from
the common people from all over the
United states and Canada ana has
finances would permit, and while the
stock should have been bringing at least
IS to 20 cents per share for the past three
months, has let the old price remain In
order 10 make the investment attractive
and to secure large sums OF money neces-
sary to push the great work rapidly.
However, the old price will not remain
much longer and as you will notice from
the headline OF this announcement at
midnight, Saturday. August II. 1906, this
stock will advance from 25 to 50 per cent.
We do not promise that II will remain at
the old price that long. Down on Eleven
Hundred acre lot 43 Uncle Sam drillers
were at the depth Of l,2S0 feet I'm we'll
NO. II Saturday afternoon and over !, 100
feet IN well No. is. Both of the lOca-
tions are within one location Of the big
No. IL we'll completed by this company
Rbout one month ago, which is conceded
by oil men 10 be one OF the very largest
oil producers yet discovered in the north
part of the Usage nation. Either one OF
these wells may discover the main pool
OF the Usage nation At any rate they
Evening journal., 1906-08-02
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ing his parents. at No. 1921 Lancaster
avenue He win also spend a few
days at Atlantic City, n. j., before
returning home.
The Rev. Thomas A. McCurdy,
pastor Of Central Presbyterian ChurdA
left to-day for the East where he will
spend a months vacation.
Mr.. William Mckay Of Chincoteague
Island, Va, has been visiting his sis
ter Mrs. /. G. Mckay. No. 42O East
Fifth street.
G. II. Scott left to-day for an ex-
tended visit to North Carolina. Upon
his return he viii spend a few days
with the Rev. r. H. Adams. at POGO
moke City.
Colonel Lewis B. Morrow and Mrs.
Morrow sailed yesterday on the Allan
Line steamship City of Bombay from
Philadelphia for St. Johns, n. f., and
Glasgow.
Evening journal., 1906-08-02

river refinery and under the protection
OF the just Kansas maximum freight rate
son refinery, Uncle Sam No. p for %
cents per barrel.
Saving Of ~ Cents Per Barrel.
over this pipe line the company will
not only save q cents per barrel. hut
will insure prompt delivery OF their oil.
A train load OF oil can be run from Col
ony In about helf the time that Il could
be from Bartlesville. Furthermore
start like this on the main trunk pipe
line insurcs its final completion.
Oil Trust Knockers Said We Would
Never Build a Mile of Pipe Line
or Refine a Gallon Of Oil.
When this company started to work
certain railroad oil trust sheets which
are continually lying about the Uncle
Sam OH Company fooled a great many
Investors by misleading and malicious
statements along the lines OF Never
would refine a gallon OF OIL" Never
would build mile OF pipe line" with
the oil TRUST gang could throw IN the
way OF this Uncle Sam Company Just
the same It's flag is steadily and safely
advancing and the time is not far distant
until Il viii secure and maintain the OH
trade OF the West, and II you want TO
advance with it and secure part of the
great profits your time is limited in
which to join this company. 500 viii Sc
cure 500 shares now. while in ten days
It viii cost you Sl25 OF $50 to secure the
same stock. Join a winner by sending
your draft or check to-day.
From Corner to Corner Of Montgomery
County.
Uncle Sam Company Will soon have
over forty-flve miles OF main trunk pipe
lines and two main trunk pipe line pump
Mg stations IN Montgomery county. BE-
sides this, when fully completed win hive
over seventy-five miles OF lateral pipe
lines I'm Montgomery county alone. aud
Will also run lateral pipe line into
ChautauQua county and then with "A few
miles OF lateral lines either way as the
main pipe line comes north. can reach
80 per cent OF the Kansas oil fields
Will Start Pipe Gang No. ?.
During the past week Uncle Sam pipe
line men have been crowding work with
all possible haste and coming through
the bottoms on the Caney river south
Of Caney IN the Cherokee nation This
IS a difficult stretch OF country 10 work
through. men al times working knee deep
In mud. water and oil, but are making
headway every hour and another pipe
line gang VIII be started at Chcrryvalc
in a few days and the entire l35 miles
Of main trunk line soon completed.
Cheap Fuel for Kansas.
The completion OF this pipe line and
users Of Kansas and that includes about
every household in the state. Uncle Sam
Company has a fuel oil domestic burner
and as soon as a pipe line Is screwed
together and enough light oil pumped
TO Cherryvale Uncle Sam VIII have
ready for shipment over (600l six hundred
carloads Of fuel oil and VIII keep up