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The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05
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BOYS .PlF'0(REsTALL SISTERS
UNIVERSITY SENIORS DEDICATE
sHEvlIIN llIN HALL WITH MID
NIGHT CEREMONIES Co-EDs
ARE ANGRY .r Ie..,5 .,a'-

:, As dozen men of the senior class at
the university of Minnesota stole Il
march on the women last night, and
executed the dedication ceremony of
Ance Shevlin hall, the new women is
building, before the date set.
= a word" in she ear Of the watchman,
last night. and the field was clear Thru
ne ne daik as, halls of the building roamed
the qulXotlc upperclassmen, inspecting
the rooms and equipment with mock
gravity. At the stroke of 12 they en-
tered the large reception-roOm, and,
clad In hitting costumes for the occa
SION, carried out the impressive dedi-
cation ceremonies which had been
planned by the authorities for Thursday
afternoon.
Mrs. Ladd, the matron who will take
charge of the building, was imperson-
ated by one of the prominent members
OF the senior class. She made a most
pleasing appearance in the costume bor-,
roWed from some landlady on the East
Side. Her speech was received with
enthusiasm. This was the closing SEN
tence: . will seen my duty and /
will done 1t. This building is for VIM
minis and no. man will ever come in its
sacred portals.'
Thomas II. Shevlin, donor of the
building, was present in the person Of
a member of the football squad, He
said: The wimmin made a howl for it.
Here it is J. T. Wyman, alias anoth-
er upperclassman, formally received the
gift on the part of the university, say
ing, u am not wimmin, but someone
has got to take it-please pass the
onion.''
Various other university dignitaries
were present, all of whom made
speeches. The ceremony concluded with
enthusiastic cheering for the women of
the university. "The womens is it,
echoed thru the halls of the new
building.
The co-eds were indignant when they
heard the news today Many of the
upperclassmen, who were at once fixed
only, cold mods from the girls in place
of the usual morning greetings.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05
PRICE is "A RECORD
Property on Tenth Street, Near Nicollet,
Sells for $16,5oO.

T'oPS'Iy VII ! SHCH olfSSI, wear NlCOlicI,
Sells for $16,5oO.
A new high value has been set on
Tenth street property in the purchase
of the Llewellyn Christian property at
5S Tenth street S, by Mrs. E. G. Gale
The price was $16,500, or $3.50 front
foot.
Mrs Gale bought the property to COM
plete the corner which she already owns,
and she now controls an 81" shaped
piece Of real estate extending to the alley
which runs from Nicollet to First ave-
nue. S.
The Gale purchase is fifty feet on
Tenth street and $50 feet deep, with an
old dwelling upon it. The corner prop
erty has a frontage of fifty-two feet on
Nicolet and a depth of 115 feet on
Tenth street. This gives a total Tenth
street frontage of 165 feet The ground
will be leased, or a building will be
erected in the near future.
1nasmuch as Mrs. Gales method of
handling property Is to put it in the best
possible condition, no fear is expressed
by adjoining property owners as to the
ultimate disposition of the corner. Mrs
Gale also owns the diagonal corner and
the hotel property at Twelfth street and
Nicollet avenue both of which are in
the best of condition.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05
SAND LAW SOUGHT
FOR SLIPPERY STREETS

Sanding slippery, sleet-sheathed
streets is a subject sufficiently serious
to set The. secretary and other officers
Of the Humane Society to seeking some
city statute settling safely the vexed
question of whose duty it is to see that
smooth-shod steeds are not subjected to
serious strains and sprains. "
Sleet began Falling at midnight, and
some asphalt pavements are almost i'm
passable for horses not sharpshod. Rob
ert McMullen, street commissioner for
the fourth ward, had Nicollet avenue
sanded, but the conditions on other
streets are serious. The Humane society
had an agent busy all day supplying
teamsters with sacking with which to
bind their horses feet to prevent slip
ping, but such relief is only temporary,
as the cloth is soon worn thru. Sand
seems to: be the only solution of the
problem. 1t is estimated that three
wagonloads would be sufficient to make
every asphalt pavement in the down.
town district safe for teams.
The Humane society has decided
that an ordinance providing for the
sanding Of, the streets in slippery
weather is necessary and will bring
the matter before the council.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05
GLEE CLUB IS READY
Varsity Concert at First Baptist Church
Rich In Promise.

Members of the University Glee and
Mandolin club have been spending much
of their time during the last few weeks
in rehearsing. Two rehearsals have been
held this week and a rousing round on
Thursday night will put on the touches
for their appearance before the public
on Friday night in the First Baptist
church.
Miss Frances Chamberlain has con-
sented to sing that beautiful lullaby,
Sing Me to Sleep,' with the mandolin
club accompaniment. It is wonderfully
adapted to this arrangement, and when
Miss Chamberlain gave it with the club
in Saltwater two weeks ago it proved the
most popular number on the program.
Jack e. Haynes, the director Of the
mandolin club, considers the descriptive
composition, IA Day in Arcadia," the
most appealing in the clubs repertory.
The Glee clubs favorite number is
"Landsighting," by Grieg. Mendelssohn
Jones, who has rich barytone voice,
will sing the ''Song of the Sword" from
'Tofana." Clifford c. Champine will play
one Of his noted mandolin solos. Mr.
Champine is one of the best mandolinists
in the state. and his work is a revelation
to all who hear him for the first time
University boys In evening dress will
usher Friday evening, and the whole af-
fair will have as much life and interest
as college men can give it.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05
CLUB VARIES PROGRAM

Adhering in their decision not to
present tn e usual comic opera, the di-
rectors Of the Minneapolis Roosevelt
club have announced plans for a 1906
entertainment which will introduce the
members of the club in both minstrel
sy and burlesque. Definite arrange
ments for the. place and time of the
entertainment have not been completed,
but it is probable that the 1907 offer,
ing will be presented in March.
The burlesque feature Of the enter
tainment will be prepared by members
Of the club, and in keeping with last
years policy, no outside talent will
be used either in the preparation of
the skits or in their production.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05
FOR PUBLICITY WORK.
PRESIDENT GARDNER OF THE
COMMERCIAL CLUB i. NAMES
PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.

President G. w. Gardner Of the
Commercial club presented his list Of
appointments and the committee to
which each is assigned, before the
meeting of the board Of directors to-
day. The public affairs committee is
not composed wholly of veterans or re-
cruits for the public affairs work, but
OF strong assortment of both. Prac-
tlcally every man on the committee
has at some time been connected with
the work in an active capacity.
that will have charge. of various de-
partments Of the public affairs work
will be announced later. President
Gardner is ex-officio a member Of the
committee. Wallace G. Nye, who has
acted as secretary of the committee
since It's organization, will continue
in the work. All places except one
have been filed. c. 7. Fuller, who was
offered the chairmanship of the new
industries committee. will not serve,
and the vacancy will be filled later.
strong by those who have seen it and
an active, vigorous campaign is ex-
pected.
The members Of the new public af-
fairs committee and the subcommit-
tees of which they are chairmen are as
follows:
President-C. W. Gardner.
Chairman-W. w. Heffelfnger. -..
Vice Char1nan-H. r. Yerxa. = -.
Finance-W. A. burst. -
Public Entertainment-A. E. Zonnc s.r.4.f.
City and County-E. G.. Potter. -
Jobbing Trade-F. W. Hurty. 50:
Railway-C. Fl. Gangelhoff
Legislative-J. D. Shearer. -,
alufacturing-F R. Salisbury. =.
Retail Trade-Thomas Voege1i. -
Real Estate-Walter L. Badger. .:
Public Health-Dr. G. A. McCollom z
Civic mprovements-George e. Bertrand
Educational-A. III. Bright.
Insurance-A. W. Armatage.
Taxation and Assessments-W. 8. Dwinnell.
Good Roads-G. A. Will.
Pubfcity-Will S. Jones.
Twin City-William P. Roberts.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05
sHEVLIN HALL COMPLETED
Women's Building Will Be Formally |
Dedicated Tomorrow Afternoon. |

Alice Shevlin Hall, the new women IS
building erected on the state univer-
sity campus during the summer by
Thomas II. Shevlin, will be formally
dedicated Thursday at 4 pm.
Mr.. Shevlin will make. the formal
dent of the board of regents of the
university, will accept it on behalf of
the university. Addresses will also be
made by Ada Comstotk,, instructor in
the English department; Mrs. Frances
Potter, another. Instructor in the uni
versity, and Miss Frances HilIman,
secretary of the university Young Wo-
men's s Christian association. About
fifty Of the goods will act as ushers to
escort the visitors thru the building.
The girls of the university held a
mass meeting today in the new build
ing to talk over plans for the govern
Ing of the building. Mrs. R. E. Ladd,
who will act. as matron Of the build
ing, and Josephine Schain, president of
the Women s league, addressed the
girls.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05
MISS sHONTs COMING
Noted Lecturer VIII Speak on Live
Sociological Problems.

: Miss Eva 'Shonts of Chicago, who is
the sister of Theodore Shonts, head of
the Panama canal enterprize, is to
speak in the First Methodist church.
on the East Side, Monday evening,
Dec: 10, on my Captured Flag
Miss Shonts has the, reputation of
being one of the finest orators in the
United States, and those who have
heard her on this theme say it is the
most effective of any of her many ex-
cellent efforts. 1t will deal with the
living questions of the day, especially
with the liquor traffic and the rela-
tion of the Christian citizen to that
business.
Miss Shonts is president of the Ma
tional Young People Christian Tenn
perance union, and has spoken in every
city of considerable size in the United
States. She visited this city in 1899,
when the national w. c. T. U. met in
st. Paul
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05

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The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05
FORTY TURNED TT DOWN
Good Roads Amendment Lost in Many
Rural Counties, but Cities HELPED It,

There were forty counties in the state
that failed to give majority for the
good roads amendment to the constitu-
tion, while the wide-open tax amend
ment failed to get more than half the
votes in sixteen counties.
The tax amendment lost in Blue Earth,
Brown, Clearwater, Cottonwood, Dako-
ia, Freeborn, Grant, Houston, Lincoln,
Meeker, Mile Lacs, Murray, Rice,
Scott, Waseca and Wilkin counties.
The good roads amendment lost in all
of these counties but Houston, Scott
and Wilkin, and also was defeated in
trami Bentoa, carver, chippeWa,' ngns' clay, lay
Douglas, Faribault, Fillmore, Goodhue,
Isanti, jackson, lie sueur, Lyon, Nc
Leod, Marshall, Mower, Mobiles, Nicol-
let, Polk, Sherburne, Stearns, Steele,
Wabasha, Wadena, Winona and Wright.
The third, or peddlers', amendment
carried every county in the state.
The three large counties gave ma
jorities to all the amendments. They
voted as follows:
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-05
Stop Drinking!
Orrine Will Destroy All Desire for
Whiskey or Beer,

A Michigan Druggist, H. G.. Coleman,
has made a thorough study of the va
rious cures for the liquor habit, and
tions: "Before taking the agency of
Orrine, went to considerable trouble
to learn about it and become confident
that it was a thoroughly honest prepara-
tion and put out by an reliable firm. -
Write for free book on the cure of
alcoholism to the Orrine Co., Washing
ton, D. G. Mailed sealed. Orrine costs
but 81 per box.
Orrine is sold and guaranteed by
Voegeli Bros Drug Co., corner WASH
ington and Hennepin avenues; corner
Seventh street and Nico1let avenue;
corner Fourth avenue S and TWENTY
second street; corner Lyndale and
Twentieth avenues N.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1906-05-09
TO RENEW OLD MISSION.
San Juan Capistrano Will Live Again
After Long Years of Silence.

All who have heard of the picturesque
old Franciscan Missions of California
will be interested to learn that San
Juan Capistrano, the most poetic of all
these ruined structures, which contrib
ute so much to the foreign look of "our
Italy," is soon again to be made the
centre of religious activity, and that
after nearly a century of neglect its
buildings are to be restored to their
original estate.
This mission is on the railway line
between Los Angeles and San Diego
and by reason of being visible from
the railroad is to Eastern travellers per-
haps the best known of all California
missions, except Santa Barbara and
San Gabriel, which are among the
regulation sights for visitors to South
ern California With the restoration
of San. Juan Capistrano and the re-
sumption of residence there by the
Franciscan Brotherhood, it, too, will
no doubt soon become tourist resort.
The first year of the American In
dependence saw work begun upon this
ancient edifice in what was then vast
wilderness, inhabited only by Indians.
The site is in a lovely, sequestered val
The Semi-weekly leader., 1906-05-09

SO many years He never once looked
back. For a few seconds Alaric King.
scote stood looking after him, then,
with strangely fierce gesture, the
young fellow flung off his rough tweed
coat, removed the Cardigan waistcoat
that covered the breadth of his chest,
and turned up the sleeves of his
coarse flannel shirt.
AT the foot of the oak lay the wood
mans huge axe that was to be the in
strument of death, that was to cut
short the growth of centuries.
Alarie Kingscote swung the great
weapon aloft, and the cold starlight
ran along the shining Steel Like
some Viking warrior of old-like the
re-embodiment of one of his Saxon
forebears, Alaric brought down the
tool of destruction with blow that
gashed deep into the corrugated skin
of the oak. The doom of the Kingscote
Oak had been proclaimed.
AS he stood braeed up for the second
stroke, the bulging sinews of his fore
arm responding to the generous rise
of chest and thigh muscles, curious
sound from behind him caused him
to swing round with faint cry Then
lowered the axe with amazing gen
tleness.
Another figure had appeared upon
the scene-the figure of woman, clad
in a cloak of fur that hid the contour
of her form.
''Damaris." The word fell from the
young mans lips like caress.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1906-05-09

In prehistoric days Vesuvius was
probably twice as high, the top having
been blown off centuries before the
eruption that destroyed Pompeii. Since
the year 1851 Vesuvius has never been
wholly at rest. In that year $4,000 lives
were lost The clouds of steam that
came from the rush of water into the
hot mass below the surface condensed
and fell in a boiling rain that scorched
everything with which it came in con-
tact. The very sea drew back the skirts
of its dark blue robe and then swept
forward again far beyond it's old limits.
The last of the great commissions be-
fore the recent one occurred in 1872.
Then, like this one, there was a great
lava flow, together with throwing up of
burning rock and the fall of ashes upon
the surrounding country.
Vesuvius is one of a group of similar
mountains in the Mediterranean Sea,
its comrades being Etna, Stromboli
and Vultano, which last gave the name
to all mountains of this kind. That, in
turn, was called after Vulcan, the god
who made the armor for the fighting
deities of the ancient world and forged
the very thunderbolts of Jove himself.
His workshop was under Mount Atna
There the inhabitants of the hillsides
heard him shaping great masses of
iron with his terrible hammer stroke
while the nameless slaves of the forge,
dimly imagined creatures of that old
day, blew the gigantic bellows and held
great bars in place, while the master
worked. The Greeks with even their
learning. did not inquire into the scien-
tific reasons for the mighty utterings
of the mountain; they knew what the
awful roar of those volcanic mountains
meant. And our wise men, with their
figures and books, know little of what
is going on in the fiery caverns under
the earths thin crust
Nature soon heals her scars. AL
ready, we are told in dispatches, spots
of green have appeared on the black
ened sides of Mount Pelee, and it will
not be very long before the olive and
the vine and the clustering villages
will find their way back again to the
slopes of Vesuvius.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1906-05-09

given my infant son to my younger
brother James, who will bring up
my son as his own.
Thus it may come to pass that the
descendants of Nigel, my son, may be
passed over in the right of succession
by the descendants of Richard, the
eldest SON of my younger brother
James, who stands well in the eye of
Cromwell the regicide and renegade.
And that this be true, and that
Nigel, supposed younger son of James
Kingscote, of Kingscote Manor, be
really the eldest son of Nigel Kings
cote, eldest son of AIaric Kingscote,
father of Nigel and James and there
fore heir to the Manor of Kingscote,
its hereditaments, messuages, and all
that do thereto appertain, and his
seed hereafter him, if so be there
should be any, I do most solemnly
swear and protest in the presence of
witnesses. TO which I do set my
hand and seal this sixteenth day of
March, one thousand six hundred AMI
forty-seven.
Signed: Nigel Kingscote, in the
presence of Rupert Mainwaring,
knight Banneret of Mainwaring Hall,
in the County of Berkshire, and
Anselm Wolf, Priest"
The parchment fiuttered crisply
from the girls nerveless hands.
'Damaris," cried Alaric hoarsely-
''Damaris!" Coherent speech he could
not find.
The girl raised her head.
"It is true-It is true!" she said
brokenly. 1--WE, father and /. are the
usurpers! Kingscote Manor is yours,
and we are-paupers!"
''Not paupers, dearest, but partners" !"
| answered Alaric, and in his eyes there
was that which told her how Kingscote
love stood wind and weather as
| steadily as Kingscote Oak.
+ 4
Squire Kingscote now sleeps with
T, his fathers in the little Berkshire
| churchyard. But ere he died his de-
clining years were frightened by the
generous forgiveness of "the undesir-
able poor relation"
A young and sturdy sapling oak now
fourishes on the spot where stood
the ancient tree a true symbol of the
lasting power of Kingscote luck and
/ Kingscote love.-Answers.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1906-05-09
TO RENOVATE WICKER
CHAIRS.

To renovate a shabby wicker chair
first cleanse the wicker thoroughly, us
ing scrubbing brush and plenty of
soap and water. When dry, the chair
can be vanished, or it can be greatly
improved with a coating or two of
green stain.
For the seat make cushion of green
linen or a pretty greenish cretonne.
Another cushion for the back may be
liked, and is easily made. Make it of
the same material as the seat cushion
and of bag shape, longer than wide.
1t may be fastened to the chair by
means of tapes sewed at the top and
bottom.
If a loose cushion be preferred, a
pretty yellow linen would look nice
and contrast well with the green.
Make the case slip fashion, so that it
can be easily washed. An unbleached
calico bag will be good enough for the
down with which the cushions are
filed.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1906-05-09

luck, the Kingscote Oak will be down" /"
The old fellow looked wistfully in
to the handsome face of his young
master.
Master Alaric," he said hoarsely.
'I've fifty-fve pun, three shillin' and
fi'pence 'apenny laid away in a hole
in the floor o'my cottage IL SO be as
that'll save the Kingscote Oak,
why
"Go home with you Zachary. Broke
in the young man roughly, though his
roughness hid an emotion almost too
deep for any wordssG0 home, and
God bless you, old friend"
Zachary thrust his roughened hand
across his eyes. Without another
word, a strangely pathetic, bowed old
figure, he turned and shambled of
across the field toward the stile into
the lane that led to the little thatched
cottage that had been his home for
The Semi-weekly leader., 1906-05-09

ley, which, beginning back, in the can
yons of the coast range, winds among
grassy knolls and great treeless hills
out to the Pacific, upon which it opens,
three miles west of the mission. With
the aid of the Indians, over whom the
padres exerted both temporal and spir-
itual dominion, the Franciscans estab-
lished here the most pretentious of all
the California mission churches. In
stead of being constructed of the GUS
tomary adobe brick of the country, It
was built of stone, laid out in the form
of a Latin cross, with a great, cloistered
quadrangle adjoining. Here, besides
administering to the spiritual welfare
of the Indians and gathering them into
the fold of the church, the fathers set
them to the care and the cultivation
Of the land, which yielded great wealth
of cattle, sheep, grain, grapes and
olives.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1906-05-09
THE LOVE OF ALARIC.

Beneath the outflung branches of a
mighty oak tree, giant who had
stood sentinel in that lonely dip on
the wolds for twice three hundred
years, two men were standing, their
figures made more or less distinct by
the rays of big, conical lantern of
antique pattern that the elder of the
two carried in his gnarled and blood
less fingers, figure strangely akin
to the giant tree beneath which he
stood.
An aged man was Zachary Doy, his
back bent by years of hard labor such
as few of the modern generation OF la
borers know; man who had been an
experienced farmland, while the man
beside him, his master, was still a
pulling infant.
The old fellow set down his lantern
on the iron-bound earth. His quaver-
ing voice stabbed the silence. ''Now,
do zee harken unto me, Master Alaric." :"
he said slowly "I've served zee faith
full, you and your feyther afore zee,
for nigh on fifty year, and l tell zee
master, that what zee do purpose for
to do is again all right and reason.
This yere oak tree-the Kingscote
Oak, as all the countryside do know
her for to be-ha' bin here as land
mark and a pride for longer than us
Door souls can reckon. To cut her
down do mean. as 1 be right well as
sured, that Kingscote luck will fail
wi 'un. If so be-
Alaric Kingscote broke in upon his
garrulity with a forced laugh.
"If Kingscote luck. could fall lower
than it has, Zachary" he said bitterly,
'you need have little fear that l
would touch bark with axe. Now, hear
me, old friend. This tree represents
the last thing upon the farm that can
bring in the money must have to
tide over the bad times in store. The
merchants have offered me two hun
dred pounds for the tree. There's only
one rotten limb upon it. They'll
come tomorrow with their carts and
take it away" He laid his hand upon
the old mans shoulder. "Get you
home to bed, Zachary" he added gent
ly. ''You can do nothing here. IT'S
o'clock now. By midnight, with
The Semi-weekly leader., 1906-05-09

for twenty-five years longer, no at
tempt seems to have been made by the
padres to restore the church edifce,
and it and its adjoining buildings and
cloisters have remained to this Gay an
imposing and beautiful ruin Touched
gently by Times hand, dignifed in out
line and rich in color, it is replete with
subjects for the artist and is the ad-
miration of every traveller. With the
restoration of the buildings the in
tention is to create here college for
the priesthood as at Santa Barbara,
and to make of San Juan Capistrano
an important factor in the work of the
Roman Catholic Church in Southern
California.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1906-05-09
Destroyed by an Earthquake

On the morning Of December s, 1912,
all without warning, came a great catas-
trophe. While the church was crowded
with kneeling worshipers a shock of
earthquake visited the valley and top
pied the great stone tower over upon
the roof, crashing through which it
buried the congregation beneath the
wreckage of beams, tiles and stones,
and upward of forty human beings
lost their lives in the twinkling of an
eye. This earthquake ranks in sever
ity with that of Charleston, in 1886.
So great was the disaster that, although
the mission continued to be conducted