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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-25

.Gallinger and composed exclusively of
members of the two houses OF congress,
devoted a number of months to public
hearings, in all parts of the country.
1t went from the Atlantic to the Pa
chic, touching en- route the principal
inland cities. Citizens who were in
terested in the subsidy question, as
friends or foes, were heard, and finally
the hearings being ended, the commits
which was. printed Dec. 6, 1905.
"A bill, based on the report, had
meanwhile been prepared and intro
duced in the senate by Mr. Gallinger
and referred to the committee on com
merce, which reported it favorably. Be-
fore the adjournment Of the last session
of congress that bill was passed by the
senate, and it is now pending in the
house, which will be called to act on it
this winter. Strenuous efforts were
made during the last session of congress
to get the bill reported favorably from
the house committee on merchant ma
rine and fisheries, but they were un-
availing, Speaker Cannon being hostile
and the committee being safely dead
locked. =.
The president, altho committed to-
the subsidy proposition, took no hand
last spring in the effort to jar the SEN
ate bill loose from the house commit
tee, and for this inactivity on his part
there were probably two good reasons:
In the first place, he was then making
his historic fight for railroad rate legis-
lation, meat inspection and pure food
legislation, and no doubt had in hand
all that he could manage. In the next
place, notwithstanding his increased
amount Of, Information regarding the
need for subsidy legislation, he was
not u yet fully informed regarding the
South American situation.
Filled Missing Link.
. After the adjournment Of the last
session of congress came Secretary
Roots important trip to South America.
This trip gave the president the very
information that was needed to COM
plete his knowledge Of the situation.
He and, Secretary Root had numerous
conferences regarding the subsidy ques-
tion as it affected our relations with
South America, and it was finally ar
ranged that the secretary should accept
the invitation which had been rendered
him by the trans Mississippi congress,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-25

Bank Statement Shows that Ma
ton Across Border Is Roll
ing in Wealth.

Washington, Nov. 24-The depart
ment Of commerce has made the definite
discovery that the Dominion of Canada
is also enjoying wave Of prosperity.
It did it by taking a glance at the
banking industry of that country, and
when the totals were footed there re-.
manned not scrap of doubt that the
brethren across the international
boundary are rolling in wealth Ten
years ago the Canadian banks did not
amount to much compared with what
they are doing now, their total assets
in 1896 being only 100000, OO0,. while
in: this year of our. Lord they are $780,
100000. -
: Their liabilities ten: years ago were
$3.50, 100000, and to day they are not
less than $710,000,0oO. =,
The total deposits in 1896 were 1885,
0OO,0 900, while now they are at the
handsome total. of 1907 100000.
rsIn. 1896 their: loans and discounts
,were :$222,00O, 600, and, this year they
arss$665, 900 ,000. :. ..s...: - -, ~
A-5zI.enl ! ears ago the paid-up capital; ag-
gregated s$62 100000, with arrest or re-
serve fund OF 42s%:per cent of~-this
amount: At this time St the paia-up
capital is 500, 100000, and the reserve
fhnd is 70 per cent of this.
The Canadian banks held 100000
In specie and legal tender ten years ago
and now they hold SCI 100000
The circulation of bank notes has
also more than doubled in ten years.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-25

from London to all the countries Of
Europe, and the other tunnel for the
incoming trains by the "Chemin lie
Fer du Nord,'
The idea is to start boring from
both sides of the channel, the French
company doing one half and the Eng
lish the other. The two companies
have each bored an experimental gal
lery which stretches over mile under
the seas Of ~ the channel One great
drawback to the difficult operation of
piercing a long tunnel, as demon
strated by the Simplon, is that the in
terror of the excavation is extremely
hot, thus making the work very diff
cult, but the character of the subsoil
thru which the Channel tunnel would
be bored is altogether different from
that t! thru which VT the simPlon was
Guilty presents itself, j.: the question:
Would there be any, danger of sudden
lnrushes of water, considering the enor-
nous masses that would roll ceaselessly
overheadg One would imagine that
there would be grave danger but ex-
perts declare there would be very
little, and they confidently assert that
the lnfltratlon of water. would be very
nearly SO much as is often seengduring
NE s!nkIHg OI MINES, one OF the&great-
est difficulties that would be expe~.-
enced in making the tunnel would be
in tracing the line it should follow in
order. to, keep within the limits of the
ground thru which the water does not
penetrate: y This, of course, will be
extremely difficult, as the engineers en-
gagged on the work will have to- grope
their waySin the dark. III
L During the recentSvisit of the Lon:
don county council to the municipal
council Of Paris an examination was
made of a new. model which shows The
course of the proposed channel tunnel
across the Straits Ok Dover, and gives
the different geological strata { thru
which the boring would be made. This
wonderful model is the property of the
French Channel company, who have
met with more success than the com
panys acting in concert on this side of
the silver streak. a.. --..1"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-25

/ the southeastern part of that continent.
AT no time has there been any consid-
cradle admixture into this country of
blood from southwestern Europe, that
lberlan blood which settled South
America and has established there its
= 9! and customs, social, moral, po-
I ntlcal AND commercial. The United
States has therefore always been more
strongly draWn toward Europe than to-
ward South America, while South Amer
1ca has been just as strongly drawn to-
ward the same continent rather than to.
ward the United States.
While there has thus been no real
contact between the United States and
South America, our political relations
with that continent are of the highest
Importance to both, all of which was
speeches at Kansas City. Now is the
time, he thinks, to make our CONNER
clal and social relations what our po-
lltlcal relations have so long been, and
he proceeds to point out how this may
best be. done. At the head of his list
OF ways and means stands an adequate
merchant marine. Mr.. Root exposes in
fine style. the humiliating fact of the
poverty of our means of communication
with the exceeding richness Of the
America and Europe. Moreover, such
steamship lines as DO exist between
this country and South America are not
our own. He notes the humiliating fact
that no American, steampship runs to
any port beyond the Caribbean, and
says that this is ttbut part of the
general decline and feebleness Of the
American merchant marine.'
Perhaps the most important part of
d ,, lo4 'e IL
most important part as bearing upon
the fate of the bill i. now in the hands
of the house committee on merchant
marine and fisheries, was that part IN
which he discussed the fact that ours
| IS the only great power in the world
today which does not. employ the. sub
sidy to- build up foreign trade He
| rotest that we are living in IN an age of
subsidized competitions, not of natural
90 State aid to steamship lines is as
much a part of the commercial system
! of ourGday as state employment OF con-
suls to promote BUSINESS, he said.
The history of@the gigantic, merchant
marines Of Europe is history Of sub
sides, large and small, chiefly the for.
mer, and as Mr. Root well says. it is
no wonder that the American merchant
marine, which is not thus fostered, has
pIdCtlCdlly ulSdppSd1Vu rlIOu JIG seas
| If we are to compete successfully with
the rest of theArworld, more particu
larly in South America, where we now
are weakest, and thru such COMPETE
ton to continue to- increase in power
as a trading nation, Mr.. Root says that
we must provide ships for the carriage
Of our merchandise.
This is the crux Of, the message to
the country delivered at Kansas City
a message which President Roosevelt
| beforehand indorsed,' and to which the
attention of congress will be called
next month, since subsidies to Latin
| America and the far east, especially
the former, are now seen to be an es
! sential feature of the enlarged exclu
! sive policy proclaimed by Mr.. Root
The bill which passed the senate does
not mention subsidies for any of the
| Transatlantic lines, where it is general
ly understood they are not needed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-25

and make detailed outline of the adj
mlnistration s subsidy and general
South American policy in two addresses
before that congress- Those addresses
were made this week. It was entirely
appropriate that this announcement
should be made at Kansas City. for the
trans. Mississippi congress for years has
sidy matters in this country, and has
done move in that direction than all
other. volunteer forces of the country
combined. ..
The subsidy question was FOR "a good
many years discredited thru the efforts
of selfish interests to dictate the char
acter Of legislation. These interests
every bill reported to either house of
congress. and their paid lobbyists were
nuisance in this city during the. time
congress was in session.. The advocacy
Of the president, however, and the
illuminating and disinterestel speeches
made by Secretary Root, will, it is be-
heved, have the effect of clearing the
atmosphere and putting the question on
different basis from that which it has
previously occupied.
The. Root addresses were of So much
Importance that a number Of the min
listers representing South American re-
publics in Washington also accepted in
| vitations to attend the meeting Of the
trans Mississippi congress at Kansas
City, and some of them made addresses
there. Their prime purpose in going
was to hear the Root speeches. They
were interested in knowing if what
ne would have. to say to his own coun-
trymen would square with what he had
said publicly during his southern trip.
1t did square perfectly, and it is said
hnr hot 4h@ 7 -
quite enthusiastic over the outlook for
| legislation.
|, Our relations with South America
! heretofore have been merely political,
and not commercial or social, which
| fact was strikingly brought out in the
Root address at Kansas City, and what
| is now needed is that the commercial
and social relations should be encour:
aged. While Mr.. Root was away he
say thousands of trading vessels carry
the world and not ON one Carr carrying a" the
I american. flag. Only seven American
ships put into the greatest port of
'outh America last year, and they were
I'll sailing vessels, and three of them
we're in distress. Into the same port
there went thousands Of trading YES
sells representing all the great nations
Of Europe. ~ zs:~ {. ..,.-=.'
: TO Urge It. in Message. So.
It is to overcome such condition,
and to foster closer relations with those
whose fate is bound up with ours polit-
ically that the subsidy is needed. The
president realizes this, and, he has in
.dorsed all that Mr.. Root said at Kan.
sas City. In addition, it is believed
that he will urge subsidy very strongly
in his coming message to congress, not
merely ACCIDENTALLY, but as an integral
| part Of our. South American policy. "
! The reason why our relations with
South America have been political and
not commercial or social is easy to be
found. This country was chiefly pop
uIated in it's early years by people from
/ the British isles, and later there came
a great influx Of people from centra.
/ and northern. Europe. AT present the
principal European immigration is from
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-25

The wheel today stands just as it was
originally built ,SWith the exception of a
few repairs of no great Importance.
'The big wheel made two and half
turns a minute and drove the entire
plant Of the Burden mandatory,
which turned out new things of a me-
chanical character famous the world
over. Burden is chiefly known as the
time ago Vas S proposea ie to demo Gms
the wheel, sand swork was actually com
menced, but there were many protests.
and an effort is now making to have
the wheel preserved as monument to
the builder who as an inventor won
national fame.NeW York Herald,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-25

s Engineers and sightseers in Troy,
N. y, are much interested in what; is
called. the biggest water wheel in the
world: It is sixty-six feet in diameter
and twenty-five feet wide. The mon
ster has thirty six buckets, each big
enough to hold a barrel Of Scotch high
balls.
They call little Burden wheel, and it.
Work was begun on the wheel away
back ins1849 The wheel was success
from the start and ran almost continue
sously until about ten years ago, when
the shop in which it turned the ma
sehinery was abandoned. ia
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29
PROFESSIONAL CARDS


PROFESSIONAL CARDS
OSCAR }. SMITH
Attorney -at.Law, Room 3, Smith BUTT
ing, Reno New. p. O. Box 597.
JAMES 6. SWEENEY,
.,ttorney.at-1aw. Attorney Generals
once. Capitol Building, Carson
City. Nevada
d.. w. u. cAvELL. o. .. 8.
Carson City Nevada. Once over
State Bank & Trust Co.
Or. n. w. GooDE, o. D. 8.
New Bank Building. Carson City. Nov.
Hours 9-12 and Is. Phone 60.
I. r. HoFER.
agent for Fire. Life and Accident
Policies, Office New Bank BULL
ing. Carson City, Nevada
DR.. ALBERT e. MERKLE.
Physician and Surgeon. Office owe:
Nye and ormsby County sa,,s.
Office Hours.-A. M. 10 to IL;
p. NJ. I to 8; p. M. 7 to 8.
DR.. CHAs. Won RADEskY,
Physician and Surgeon, once opposite
the State Capitol. Cor. King and
Carson Street. Residence, Judge
hawIey House.
once Hours-1 to and 70 3
p. N.
Or. w. L BERRY
Sn!ice and Residence Or.
Huffakers Home
vlNlre,, Iiours 1 to 9 anS 70
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29
TAKE CARE or YOUR STOMACH

You should take as much care in
drinking as you do in eating more.
A. Livingston, wholesaler, carries
a complete stock of the best wines
and liquors to be had. He is agent
for A. B. c. beer, the finest brewed
in America, and receives it in car
load lots so that he can fill orders at
prices the same as any other whole.
saler. In fact you save the freight
by buying from Livingston. Liquors,
WHISTLES, brandies, wines, cigars, any
thing can be supplied wholesale to the
trade or to families, either in the
city or country. Send your orders to
A. Livingston, Carson City, and it will
receive prompt attention. (No BARI
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29
OSCAR J. SMITH

Attorney at-Law, Room 8, Smith Butt
ing, Reno New. p. O. Box 597.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29
WAS IT lNCENoiARiSM

1t is claimed that the burning OF
McTanarhan's bridge was the work OF
an incendiary and the people of Doug
las couny are determined to find out
who did it. The loss Of the bridge
is a serious detriment to travel.
There is man on the San Fran.
cisco Examiner who writes doggerel
verse every day on some local event
or current topic. His stuff is quite
readable and full of good hits, but at
times he falls all over himself with
bad metre Even doggerel, to be ac-
ceptable, should be metrical. -
n - ss*x - -
A Missouri Judge has ruled that a
man who buys goods from company
which does business in defiance OF
the antitrust laws, need not pay for
the same The decision is on the
grounds that the company is acting
in defiance of the law and being an
unlawful combination, has no standing
in court This sounds almost too good
to be true.
90 ,.~,~ ssss
The editor of the Stockton Mail
complains that a Western Union dis
patch from New York was SO long
coming that it arrived one day later
thar if it had been mailed. The
editor of the Mail is getting very
much better treatment than many
people we know of who do not get
their Western Union dispatches at
all.
A contractor named Marshall dis
appeared from Birmingham, Ala, some
time ago. Now two bodies at the
morgue have been identified by the
family as his and the coroner is hav-
ing a dee think. Likewise the sher-
if and the insurance agents.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29

JAMES 6. SWEENEY,
Once. Capitol Building. Carson
City. Nevada
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29

d.. w. Il. CAvELL, o. .. 8.
Carson City Nevada. Once over
State Bank & Trust Co.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29
Or. N. w. GoODE, o. D. 8.
New BanL 5uilding, Carson City. Nov.
Hours 9-12 and Is. Phone 90.

agent for Fire. Life and Accident
Policies, Office New Bank BULL
ing, Carson City, Nevada
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29
SPECIAL 4th OF JULY RATE

On account OF Fourth OF July the
Southern Pacific Company will sell
special rate tickets en- July 3rd and
18th, good for return July 5th, as
follows:
Where the lowest first-class one-way
fare is $4.15 or less. the excursion
rate will be one fare and one-thir,.
for the round-trip but in 10 case more
than $500.
Where the lowest first-c,ass one-way
fare is $4.2O to 1920, the excursion
rate will be one fare and one-tifth for
the rounG-trlp. but in no case more
than 7.2O.
Where the lowest first-class one-way
fare is s7.20 to $1,000, the excursion
rate will be the lowest first class one
way fare for the roundtriD.
No excursion tickets will be sold be-
tween any two stations where the one
way rate is more than $1,000
Minimum rate for whole fare tickets
fifty cents; for half flare tickets:
twenty-five cents.
For particulars address any south
ern Pacific agent. or
ID. s. TAGGART. D. F. & 2. A.,
Reno, Nevada il
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29
PARTY PROBLEMS

The republicans OF Nevada are
studying several complicated party
problems. q
First. How much campaign money
came to Nevada from the national
committee?
Second. Where did it go to after
it got here?
Third Who started for the Reno
Gazette office with nine hundred dol
lars which strunk to four hundred on
the way? i
Fourth What extraordinary atmo-
spheric condition caused the shrink.
age?
Fifth. What are the 'tarriers'' in
the party going to do about it?
Z {
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29
DO YOU DO THIS

If a stranger comes to your town
tell him everything is overdone, and
predict a general crash in the near
future?
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29

SALESMEN-Sell our $40 Soda
Fountains; make SO on every sale;
collect own commissions; act quick:
write for particulars.
J. b. FOX 4 Co. La Sale ST.
Chicago.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-29
The Stale Bank & Trust Co
Carson City, Nevada
Capita Fully Paid Up 100000
Branches at Tonopah, Goldtield and Manhatta

Branches at Tonopah 6odhed and Manhattan Nevada.
LII ]. r. WOODBURY. MAPEs,
1ROUcHER. T. B. Hickey
Cashier; E. VANDERBILT Cushman,
] Il
C.. .4sst
sell
ceIeeon
andd q GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
DEPOSIT DEPARTMENTWih
the Bank These
$3.50 to $500 according
greater OsdeA
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-13
rhe wfld Goo.e Bean.

To the lumbermen of Maine are due
the discovery and production of the
now famouse goose bean. The real
name of the man who planted the first
crop of this vegetable is not known,
but there are two rivals for the honor,
and each has most plausible version
of his discovery of the bean, John
Goddard, afterward colonel In the civil
war, told this story of how the bean
was first found and grown by him:
He had charge of a gang of lumber
men during the spring of 1846 The
soft, slumpy snow made the roads i'm
passable for tote team" and the men
had been without fresh meat for more
than a week. Colonel Goddard gave
the cook orders to take his gun and go
out to see if he could get shot at the
wild geese which were flying north In
great hOcks. The cook was lucky
enough to bring back several birds for
supper When he was dressing them
he noticed from the lack of food In
their crops that they had been on short
rations during their journey north
ward. In the crop of one young gan
der were three beans, which Goddard
saved and planted In his garden that
summer. From these three beans he
harvested about two quarts of beans,
and from that first crop came the sup
ply which has since gladdened the
hearts of lumbermen throughout the
country.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-13
Lighting the Yule Log.

A custom at one time prevalent in
England and still observed in some of
the northern districts of the old coun-
try Is that of placing an immense log
of wood, sometimes the root of a great
tree, in the wide chimney place. This
log Is often called the Yule log, and It
was on Christmas eve that 1t was put
on the wide hearth. Around It would
gather the entire family, and their en-
trance was the occasion Of great deal
of ceremony. There was music and re-
joicing, while the one authorized to
light it was obliged to have clean
hands. 1t was always lighted with 4
brand left over from the log of the pre-
vious year, which had been carefully
preserved for that purpose. A poet
sings Of 1t in this way:
With the last yeere's brand
Light the new block, and
For good success in his spending
On your psaltries play,
That sweet luck may
Come while the log Is attending.
The Yule log was supposed to be q
protection against evil spirits, and 1t
was considered bad omen IL the FIRE
went vEt before the evening was over.
The family and guests used to seat
themselves in front Of the brightly
burning fire, and many a story and
merry jest went round the happy
group.
Grs2s .fc----= - -. q. r.=-
American hospital in Caesarea, Turkey.
was stirred by revival. She straight
way asked leave to visit a woman
whom she had injured and to whom she
had not spoken for ten years. When
she trudged through the snow three or
four miles to ask her "enemy's" for
giveness her relatives were sure she
had gone daft, but the next day, when
she came back to the hospital, she said.
I'VE made peace, and the stone in my
heart is gone"