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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18

the rural communities are brought to
know about things soon after they
happen. There are lines in some Of
the more advanced sections, where, in
the event Of any happening Of more
than ordinary Importance, every farmer
will receive advice Of it Is soon as the
news reaches the central exchange, for
by pre-arrangement all farm houses
connected will be called up and told the
news. -
The Northwestern and the Twin City
lines are going farther out all the time,
and are becoming more numerous. In
places telephone lines a mile apart may
be seen running parallel. The North
western Telephone Exchange company
alone operates from the Minneapolis
exchange 1900 miles Of toll lines, and
it will soon be possible, over the wires,
to talk to almost anyone in the north
west as the work Of extension con-
tinues. Sixty thousand telephones are
in use on the lines of this company in
| Minnesota and North and South Dakota
including the cities, and the manage
ment expects that within a time not
SO very many years ahead, the mum
Der will have grown to 100000.
With this wonderful means Of quick
communication the farmer is in posi-
tion to do many things he would not
have dreamed Of a few years back. He
sends many orders to>the city over the
wire, and at times of pressure for the
delivery of goods, as in the harvesting
season, when agricultural machinery o.
repairs may be needed at once, the ser
vice is invaluable.
But in no particular probably has thu
| telephone operated so successfully al
in keeping the farmer advised of tn,
doings in the business of handling tn
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18

great cereal which he produces so
largely. L
Thousands Of farmers never specu-
late. Many Of them give no heed to the
futures markets. They raise their
wheat, send it in, take the selling price
of the day, and think no more about it.
But there is growing class, especially
among the big farmers-holders Of
5OO-acre or 1,000-acre farms, or even
larger ones-who keep close to the
speculative end of the market. These
are the men upon whom the city ma
nlpulator was once prone to calculate as
the burden bearers of the eleventh hour.
When he had carried along his millions
of bushels for rise of 10 or Is cents,
to sell out would mean crash in prices,
try come ins If the country would only
come in, If the farmer would only catch
the idea that the wheat was worth a
big price and buy it, then there would
be food Of orders On the bull. side
and hard market. Then the city
manipulation Z. could let the farmer
have it.
But things have changed. and are
changing more and more every day.
The farmer Is becoming too shrewd.
That he ever would have-fathomed the
game to the depth, that he would refuse
to carry the burden, would not have
been believed few years back. That
he would reach the point of speculative
perfection where he could work the city
game upon the. city chaps themselves,
would, if predicted a year ago, have
been considered absurd. Yet the farm
er did it, and what is more, he is likely
to do it again, for he is shrewd old
fellow, this up-to-date farmer of the
northwest.
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Hbut I am now too old to make such
all entire change in my manner Of life
ais such a move would involve. Ten
years ago I might have accepted the
offer. Now I must be content to watch
the development of the institute from
here. 1t will, am sure, be very inter
esting and of very great value to music
and art in America.'' -
Interested in America.
Then he expressed his regret that he
had never been able to go to America
even for a holiday, but he could only
get away from Vienna in the summer,
when it would be altogether too hot
for him to think Of visiting the United
States.
In Americans and everything con-
nected with their country, Leschetizky
feels the greatest interest. A large
proportion Of his pupils come from there
and many of them have done him great
credit. Attic he has frequently com
planned that they are somewhat stiff
and mechanical in their playing when
they first come over, he gives them the
greatest praise for their eagerness and
k1OuS2J AOG
work. = For the latter word he alb
hors, declaring that it should not be
used or even mentioned in connection
with music. There is nc. work in
art, he says, but study And so
when an eager, bright, young American
comes for his lesson and tells the pro-
fessor how he has 'tworked hard0 for
five hours, he is frequently surprised
and disappointed not to receive warmer
commendatipn.
There is another Anglo-saxon point
of view in which Leschetizky also abso-
lute1y refuses to. share, viz: "Time is
money" No, it is not" he says,
8 not in art. It is a mistake to sup
pose that the time occupied in smoking
q cigaret, OF in looking out of the win
dow for ten minutes, is all lost. 1t is
nothing of the kind if the student has
meanwhile been thinking Of his art and
studies. Quite often the few minutes
$50 spent are much more valuable than
a whole hours drudgery>over the key
board.
! For the old master has q horror Of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18
Stomach Not indispensable

stomach, altho the loss of the gastric
secretion cannot altogether be compen-
stated. . Those who have lost it, says
one authority, have one weapon the
less in the struggle for existence. Il
has been shown that dogs may gain in
weight and remain in perfect health
after removal Of the entire stomach,
while the elaborate observations. made
on a patient prove that the same holds
good of human beings. These observa-
tions record that the absorption of al
bumen was unaffected, and no putre-
factive changes occurred in the intes-
tines, which shows that the absence of
the gastric juice does not lead to de-
composition in the intestines. Until
some other cure for cancer is discov-
cred, wide removal is the ideal opera
ton.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18
LEscHETIzkY,s HOME IN VIENNA
Alfalfa for Wild Animals

now comprises over 100. The animals
quickly lost all fear of human beings,
and are not even startled by the firing
of the evening gun within 100 yards of
them, but show much more interest i'll
the lowering of the flag from the staff
in the center of their feeding ground.
Mountain sheep, considered the Wild
est of western animals, also became
more friendly, and now number about
100 within the confines of the park.
These animals are rapidly disappearing
in the west, and this fact makes it the
more important to preserve those in the
park. Antelope, also, are becoming
rare. About 1900 of these little ami
mails make their home in the park and
seem to be increasing rapidly.
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: i J. i -ss :. ) . + :
No warnings could keep the farmer
out. He saw the possibilities for, max
ing money quick. Why should a man
work like the Old Nick and bother
with the small things of life, when
as any one with half an eye could see,
# he had bought wheat that time when
the papers said "Old Hutch" or some
other big speculator was about to run
it up, he would have made money.
And so the farmer began to speculate
more freely. He tried to follow the big
men. Alas, for his peace Of mind. That
was the hour Of his acquaintance with
q hard and fierce proposition. It took
a long time for him to learn that the
wheat pit is a hard place for the I'M
sophisticated; that the best of them
need all their wits to trade in it, and
that the plans Of the big men were like
the quotations subject to change at
any time without notice.
!. !.
The heaviest blow ever landed upon
the farmers Of the northwest by the
double back-action bludgeon Of the pit,
fell In the summer of 1900. That year
there was lack Of rain in the north
west, and drought had scared every one
and started wild speculation in Mime
high price forsthe time. Dollar Wheat
was the cry othing was heard but
dollar wheat. Meanwhile the big city
SPECTATORS we're long millions Of bushA
els that they had bought much lower
down. They were looking for the hard
est spot on which to ssunload. The
farmers, eleventh hour bulls almost to
man, cfylng1aoi Ii.1.. W1nIeat, ana near.
ing tne jingle e tnes money tney were
SO So, sure . ee1l eahe. y ana pougne'
Inc G npig pulls Ies t = anAYe nj
, nen y Ialhea 9 !ltsie; me .ia ~ e
let 60 on tne plunggln Sdeclines az tne
way ooWn. Nhen e! e. L nna1ly struck
not5om they were hcked. Ihey sac
l,s aS;. pa' my tnougns n a re e 'h =
crealt OF tnelr sporoain1g Dlooo, pc II
SAD, IneIe Was,neveaT5 1Wn1mper nea '
dhey naa seen !. tshletlEacrops going TO run
Tor iack OF ram Ihere was no doubt
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18

~ UTE, Mont-Raising alfalfa to
furnish winter feed for wild
animals is proving a great sue
cess in the Yellowstone national park,
according to Superintendent Pitcher in
a report just issued. One hundred tons
of fine hay were raised in the govern
ment field near the Gardiner arch and
stacked near the soldiers quarters.
Superintendent Pitcher says that
three years ago deer was seldom seen
in the vicinity of Mammoth hot springs
and as an experiment few bales of
alfalfa hay were scattered around near
the parade ground. The next day a
dozen blacktail deer made their appear
ance, the number steadily increased and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BY j. e. Neville.

MY EARLY everything that enters
M into our material prosperity can
be traced back to the farm.
The farmer is the man who makes old
mother earth give up her treasure for
our benefit. He is a king in these days
of big crops and high prices.
The old-time farmer Of the west was
often a queer fellow. He had no such
intimate acquaintance with greenbacks
Of large denomination as has his sue
cessor Of today. Usually he came poor
into new country, with wagon load
of personal belongings, scarcely any
capital, and more often than not a
heavy encumbrance upon the land from
which he proposed to draw his susie
nance. He worked fourteen hours a
day, worried four hours, and slept six,
while his mortgage worked right thru
the twenty-four hours. When the sea-
sons were bad he found it pretty hard
financial shedding, but he rarely com
planned He was a man least under
stood by those who pretended to under
stand him best. ~
We read of him in books and find pen
pictures that do him. great injustice,
and we see him grossly ibeled upon
the stage. Indeed, the farmer who
comes on in vaudeville says "gosh all
hemlock,'' and ''by hickory" and acts
foolish in a general way, is as unlike
the real farmer as the stage sailor who
bitches his trousers and rolls around,
saying "shiver me timbers,' is unlike
any real sailor ever seen afoat or
ashore.
A simple manner and an honest heart
are with the farmer from his birth.
Once there was a rural following of
simple-minded folk, who were the butt
Of the humorist, and the prey of the
city sharper Those were the days
when father would come back to. the
old place after his tri p to the city, look
not to right or left, give butSa scant
word to mother and the boys, but hasten
to his room, where, with trembling
hands and many a furtive glance
around, he would open his carpet sack
take out a heavy brown paper parcel
and carefully unwraps the deceptive
gold brick. These were the days of the
lightning rod man. Really it was much
the same game-only the gold brick
man wore tall shiny silk hat and q
loud vest and big diamond, and
smoked fine cigar and waited for the
farmer to come to him, while the lght
nlng rod man wore handmedowns and
rhinestone, and smoked a pipe anc
went out after the farmer.
There were many such farmers once
upon time. There must have been
for history records among former occu
pations in the great ties-occupation'
not given in the directories but known
to the police-that Of the gold bricl
man, which was a highly remunerativ'
one. Those were the good old time
when the business Of ':>doing up'' thu
& simple rustic thrived and fourished, ant
became a great industry employing thu
talents Of many city "gent.'' But
alas for city industry, the farmer O.
today is a wise old party, and Che bust
ness of supplying rural communitie
with gold bricks has been on declin
for some time.
Years ago the northwest farmer hal
already graduated from the primar,
school Of get-rich-quick finance, if in
deed he ever quite belonged in tn
classification, and it had become n
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18

ing thought remained with him, that,
however shrewd the smart alecks'
Of the city might be, wheat, old-fash-
toned, farm produced wheat, was a
proposition to throw even the best Of
them.
So many in the country kept in touch
with market affairs and asked that they
be advised Of changes that a food Of
letters went out to them. These the
farmer read and he began to have an
idea Of the various factors affecting
prices. The crop reports he read and
understood. But the mail is slow
medium for conveyance Of information
from center where conditions are so
uncertain from one minute to another,
that, when excitement is on and trans
actions run heavy a man with orders
to execute scarcely dare turn around to
spit, and so the telegraph began to.
carry information into the country over
leased wires. Now the farmer began
to get the full meaning of the game,
for in the principal country towns of
the northwest there were brokers ;
branch offices, where he could obtain
the latest information or market gossip
Of the day. Soon he began to learn a
little about manipulation.
[ Following fast upon the telegraph
came that, greater invention, the tele-
phone. Ere long the speculative farm
er had this double means of communi-
cation, and thus equipped he speedily
acquired knowledge Of market signs
and forewarnings. At times he came
to town and looked in upon the pit.
More often he followed the markets
from his country: town, always check
ing up anything he might see or hear,
by means Of the market page Of his
newspaper. AS the telephone COM
panies pushed their lines farther and
farther out from the big centets more
farmers were drawn into direct touch
| with the markets..
The telephone men tell many tales
Of the effect of the installation Of these
rural telephones, most Of which are on
party lines. When first the phones
came they were a decided novelty, and
| when Grand Forks, or Crookston, or
Fargo, or Larimore, would call up
Farmer Jones, d few miles out, every
phone on the line would send in it's
little click to tell the central operator
that all along the wire big wide-open
ears were listening It was little
dangerous to be a Speculation, unless one
was prepared to have the neighbors
know it. Yet speculation increased as
the telephones went in.
4 - :. @ i. + !. - -
knowledge Of the game from The
viewpoint Of the big manipulation was
slower IN coming to the Farmer, but
once he became acquainted with the
markets, from actual experience, he be-
gan to see that, while legitimate con.
ditions always make the price Of wheat
and while supply and demand controls
it as surely as the sun rises and sets
manipulation nevertheless carries it fa1
out Of line many times during a year
These men who bought and sold their
millions Of bushels he heard referred
to from time to time as Operators.
He learned that the little fellows who
hang around the pit and are always
7 trading, and are content with profit
Of an eight or quarter cent, were the
"scalpers, and he was warned by the
farmers who had been unsuccessful in
the game, that he had better look out
or they would get his scalp. M s>
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18

Special Correspondence Of The Journal.
~ JENNA, March 5.-Seventy-f
" years old last birthday, Theodore
Leschetizky, the most famous
pianoforte professor in the world, and
master Of Paderewski and some Of the
other Of the greatest Of pianists, is
working harder every day than >many
Of his colleagues twenty years younger.
With eyes undimmed and his wonderful
touch unimpaired the professor teaches
and studies and plays and composes with
unabated vigor, in his charming villa
in the cottage district Of Vienna.
In ordinary times most Of his day is
taken up with pupils, but just now he
is working in another direction. He is
going to Leipsic to play some pieces for
sort OF. mechanical piano said to be
much more wonderful than anything
now in general use. It is fitted with
cylinders somewhat on the principle Of
the phonograph, which are said to re-
produce in most wonderful manner
the exact performance Of the original
player. Leschetizky has been engaged
to play some Of his own compositions
and also some of the great classic works
for reproduction bys these cylinders,
and he is practising as hard every day
for this object as the most ambitious
young student could do.
Many Recent Compositions.
| In spite Of lessons and practices the
professor contrives to find time for COM
posing and has just now completed a
number of works which are in the hands
Of the publisher and will appear very
shortly. There is volume of scherzi,
another of nocturnes and a third of
twenty four preludes. All Of these are,
| of course, for the piaMoforte.
Were he only q few years younger
there is no doubt that Leschetizky
would go to the United States. Sew
eral months ago he received very fat
tering offer thru Mr.. Damrosch to join
the staff of the Carnegie Musical Con-
servatory in New York. The remunera-
tion suggested was very high, something
like $25, 900, it is said, but the professor
/ refused to entertain it.
4 should much have liked to have
gone to New York, he said to me,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18
HOW TT HAPPENED.
ChiCapO NEWS.

Cn1CapO NEWS.
"Where' the little girlsD
you just see her dodge an automobile?',
" Where's the little boy9'
Out on the back lot throwing
stones at the neighbors' cats.
.Where' s the baby20
ssDown in the basement playing with
a box of matches.
q Great Scott! Where is the moth
err
Over to Mrs. AS helping her to
write an article for a mothers maya
zine entitled, How to Raise Chill
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THO the stomach is a valuable

q THO the stomach is a valuable
IN organ it is perfectly possible to
get along without it, as was set
forth recently by Professor H. J. Pater-
son, F.R.C.S., in a lecture delivered at
the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng
land, at London. During the course
of his remarks the lecturer discussed
the removal Of the whole stomach as a
radical cure for malignant disease. The
lecturer observed, says the London
Standard, that while the value Of a
good stomach is undoubted, fortunately
nature is able to dispense with this or
gan, as most Of its functions can be per
formed vicariously by, other portions of
the alimentary canal.
Nature has duplicated three of the
fo.r functions performed by the
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The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-11
W. S. CLAYTON A SUICIDE
FOUND HANGING I'M BARN.
Deceased Was One of Best Known
Men in Prehle County Ohio and
Was Recently Elected a Commits
sioner-Wife Survives.

Eaton, O., Dec. 10, tSpl.1-Appar-
emily respondent because of the dut-
les that would develope upon him
when he should become a commits
sioner of Preble County, W. s. Clay
ton, aged about fifty years, yesterday
morning, early went TO the barn in
the rear of his home, just east of Ea-
ton, and hanged himself with a rope
to cross beam. Mrs. Clayton had
for some time observed hY hus-
bands depression and was keeping
close watch on him for fear he would
take his life. When she awoke just
before five o'clock and missed her
husband she instituted hurried
search and discovered his body hang
ing lifeless at the barn. She set up
an alarm and others soon appeared
on the scene and the body was taken
down.
Mr.. Clayton was one of the best
known and most highly respected res
idents of PrebIe county, and his un-
timely death caused profound
shock. He leaves a wife and three
children, Carl, of Chicago. Miss Alma
Clayton, and Mrs. Henry C. Heistand
both of Eaton.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-11
STANDARD FIGHTS
OVER A DEMURRER
SkiIfuI Lawyers of Great Com
bine try to Defeat Justice
at Chicago.
LEGAL BATTLE Is NOW en-.
CLAIM EUkINS LAW
WAS REPEALED WHILE Gov
EMINENT CLAIMS THAI 1T WAS
NOT.
Publishers Press.l

Chicago, - -o.-Ine hight of the
Standard Oil company against the 10
indictments against the Standard Oil
company of Indiana, which were re-
turned Aug. 30, was commenced in the
United States district court before
Judge Lands. The indictments con-
tain 6,42S counts, to which the Stand
ard Oil company entered a demurrer,
on which the proceedings are based.
Attorneys for the Standard Oil COM
pany contend in support of their de-
murrer that section 10 of the rate law
passed by congress June % repeats
the Elkins law, under which the gov
eminent is bringing the action against
the company. and that the indictments
are. not sufficiently specific, because
they do not comprehend all the ele-
ments in the case.
In reply to the contention of the
Standard Oil company's attorneys that
the Elkins law is repealed by the rate
law, and that offenses can not be
therefore punished under the former
act. was contradicted by the United
States district attorney, who declared
that section Is of the revised statutes
covered the case in that it states that
the repeal of an old statute does not
condone prior offenses unless the re-
pealing act so specifies in particular.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-11
WARDE COMING
WILL APPEAR AT GEMNETT.
pearean Recital Monday Evening
Was Formerly With Booth, Barrett
and Others.

Frederick Warde, the celebrated ac-
tor, who will appear at the Gennett
next Monday evening in a Shakes
pearean recital, for many years play
ed leading roles with Booth. Barrett
and other noted actors and is known
to the theatre going public of this
country as one of the greatest ex-
ponents Of Shakespeare on the con-
temporaneous stage. His appearance
here in dramatic recital will be
notable event, his appearance in dra-
matte recital for the past two seasons
in all the leading cities and great uni
verSities of the country, having been
immensely successful. His first lee.
ture at the University of California
created great enthusiasm the students
crowding the hall where the recital
was given, large numbers being I'M
able to find standing room. His re-
cent engagement in indianapolis,
wher he delivered a series of lectures
and recitals, attracted widespread at
tention.