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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

feet. wide and 30 feet deep. An ef-
fective head Of IS feet is secured, and
is further increased by draught tubes
below the wheels.
The equipment Of the powerhouse is
most modern turnout. For the initial
development the water is carried thru
four penstocks, ii feet in diameter, to
four. 4,2OO-horsepower main horizontal
turbine wheel units, Victor type, di-
rectly connected to four $500 kilowat
Westinghouse alternating current gen
orators. Two 225-horsepower horizon
tai turbine waterwheel units are d.
rectly connected with two 100 kilowatt
Westinghouse excitor generators that
excite the large generators.
Current will be generated at 1900
volts and raised for transmission to
$4,000 volts, at which voltage it will
be received in the Minneapolis sub
station and transformed to lower vol
tage for commercial use. Twelve trans
formers are installed at the power
plant and nine at the substation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

Everything connected with the work
has been managed on a gigantic scale.
AS Tar as possible all material has been
handled in cars and spur tracks reach
the work 'front.' the 500 and Northern
Pacific lines. Sixty thousand barF1ls Of
Portland cement were used and Gfear
material in proportion. Much texpor-
airy work was necessary in the con-
struction of the dam, and power house
and is now ready for removal or has.
been removed. The developments has
been carried on and completed by the
Columbia Improvement company as con-
tractors under Stone & Webster, the
general engineers. The Columbia Inns
provement company has been repret
sented in the field by g. o. Muhlfeld
and has maintained offices both in Mini
neapolis and at st. Croix Falls, Wisl.
Much Of the special work for the del
velopment has been done in Minneapoy
lis or by Minneapolis firms and many
engineering students from the univers-
ity have been employed ON the work,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

manufacturing. The ultimate develop
ment will render available from $4,000
to 10000 horsepower. Minneapolis is
to be the electrical manufacturing city,
the clean manufacturing city, the city
of the chimneyless factory. The advent
OF electricity as the dominant power
opens. up great field for Minneapolis,
especially when economy favors its use.
The use Of electricity generated by
water power settles at once two great
problems, the fuel and the smoke prob
lens.
In the last two weeks parties of
prominent business men representing
the business interests of Minneapolis
have visited the Taylors Falls develop
ment as guests of the Minneapolis Gen
eral Electric company, and all have re-
turned filled with pride that an under
taking Of this magnitude has been un-
dertaken for Minneapolis. It is a
recognition Of the possibilities of the
city and makes possible rapid advance
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

One Of the most interesting features
OF the development is the transmission
line from the plant to the Minneapolis
station. A three-phase system Of trans
mission is used. For the construction
OF, the line 1000 Of the finest Idaho
poles and twenty-four steel towers for
long spans were used. The crossarms
that carry. the three heavy wires are
exceptionally strong and are fitted with
heavy porcelain insulators IA inches in
diameter and weighing twenty pounds
each, lifted on steel pins. The insula-
tors are tested to three times the vol
tage to be used. Three strands of
wire are used and their relative posi-
tions on the arms are changed from
time to time. The wire is the purest
copper, one.half inch in diameter. Over
half million pounds Of wire was re-
CURED: The line will be constantly
patrolled. It runs over private right
of-way from which all trees and brush
have been cleared, and takes an almost
direct course to the substitution. III -: :,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

on many lines, but particularly manu-
featuring.
Minneapolis may well point with
pride to the immense development, for
It is the equal Of anything in the coun-
try in point Of modern equipment if
not in size. The first steps Of The I'M
dertaking were taken over two years
ago, when Stone & Webster began to
Investigate the Taylors Falls power
with view to developing it for the
Minneapolis market. Over half mil
lion dollars was spent in securing flow
age rights. Twenty-one miles of shore
line on both sides of the river were
bought and to the ten miles Of back
water formed by the new development
may be added another eleven miles of
bondage back of the old Never dam
property, ten miles above the new work,
which was also secured.
Tho floods and washouts have de-
layed operations or destroyed work al
ready in, the DEVELOPMENT has been
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04
BAcK-sTAMPING Is DOOMED
Postmaster General Cortelyou Ex-
pected to Abolish the System.
By w. w. Jermane

Washington, Nov. 3.-The postoffice
department seems very well pleased
with the result of its experiment doing
away with the back stamp on first class
mail matter, placed there originally for
the purpose of indicating the time Of
its arrival at the office Of destination.
The experiment is being made in most
OF the larger Offices Of the country, and
reports indicate that it is working sat-
isfactorily. Postmaster General Cor
telyou is expected to issue an order
doing away with the back stamp all
over the country.
One Of the troubles with this back
stamping has been that it takes time.
It happened not infrequently that mail
was Kept in the local office several
hours after arriving time merely that
this stamp might be added. It has also
happened that the clerks responsible for
the stamp were disinclined to do their
work honestly. For instance, the stamp
in certain cases was so fixed as to hide
several hours Of delay in the local of.
fee.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04
PARIS PUZZLES OVER THE EARS Il
OF THE FAIR CLEO DE MERODE,

haps, from the opera management to
royal Interestingly vacation and
went dancing in Faust, ?" three-act
ballet, at New York.
When she returned, however, the king
saw her again and was struck by some
thing in the spirit Of the girl, a clear
eyed. and fearless directness, a height
Of view, and a disdain for everything
subservient that struck a familiar
chord in his own royal heartstrings.
The kings interest in the Partisan
beauty has resulted in making them
business partners to certain extent
and the fair Cleo has not only made
money, but has exhibited, it is said,
sound business Judgment. -,
But the riddle Of her ears has not
yet beer solved. It is as much mys-
terry as the ears of Donatello, of
Hawthorne g famous HMarble Faun. -
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Ell WILL SEND TREMENDOUS

pushed and is now practically COM
pleted. The plant consists Of COM
pletely equipped modern power house
and dam, and in addition transmits
sion line 4o.67 miles in length, which
brings the current to the Minneapolis
substation in Northeast Minneapolis.
The dam is Of solid concrete 700 feet
long, so feet high, 40 feet thick at the
base and 10 feet wide at the top,
equipped with log sluices, fshway and
spillway. Il will last practically for
ever and will withstand anything that
can be brought against it. The dam
extends diagonally across the st. Croix
river from the town Of St. Croix Falls,
on the Wisconsin side, to a point above
Taylors Falls, on the Minnesota side.
The huge power house covering
ground space Of 100 by 200 feet, is also
Of solid concrete, and is erected on the
solid rock ledge at the ST. Croix Falls
side. The canal leading to the water
wheels is cut thru solid rock and is 1875
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04
BOY, ASLEEP, SLABS WOMAN
French Lad Nearly Kills His Mother;
Then Goes Back to Bed.

Special Cable to The Journal.
Paris, Nov. "a washerwoman, named
Nine. Cavet, has been nearly stabbed to
death by her 15-year-old son, CASTOR,
who Is believed to have committed the
deed in his sleep.
Nine. Cavet was awakened in the night
by terrible blow on her shoulder. On
starting up she saw her son bending over
her with knife in his hand. She called
for help, but the youth repeatedly
stabbed her and then walked quietly
back to his room and went back to bed.
Nine. Cavet staggered out of her
apartments for assistance, and was TAX
en- to the Saint-Louis hospital, where she
lies in a critical condition.
Il The boy when taxed with his crime de-
MED that he had done it or knew any
thing about it..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

a T the present time all business
~ interests in Minneapolis and
the prominent men whose &C.
tivities have brought the city to its
present station, agree that the future
greatness of the "Greatest City of the
Great Northwest depends on in
creased jobbing and manufacturing in
dustries and much attention is paid
especially to the latter. For this rea-
son special interest and Importance at
taches to the mammoth electrical pow
er development at Taylors Falls in the
st; Croix river, undertaken year and
a half ago by Stone & Webster Of Bos-
ton, general managers of the Minneapo-
lis General Electric company, for the
Minneapolis market. The develop
ment is now completed at cost of 49,
100000. Inside the next three weeks
the partial development amounting to
12,50O horsepower of electrical energy
will be available in Minnearolis ar
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

ments-her ears! -. a.
They never saw the outline of them
underneath the famous bandeaux! !, 1872.
Once, in those days, a sporty old
Russian grand duke made bet with
another frequenter Of the ballet green
room that he would solve the mystery.
Three nights later a danseuse among the
s9rphees %en ba atG c kind Ga AgteHhs
air with her outstretched arms and
slightly disarranging Cleo's bandeaux;
but with the light grace Of trained
athlete, Cleo sidestepped, self-composed
and smiling.
On another occasion two girls of the
staff of opera supers actually tried to
hold her and examine what she might
have in the way of ears. She laid out
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

railways of the things that char
acterize the Northampton Of today with
its population Of 100000. And yet Mr..
his boyhood was lower, dirtier, more
vicious place from every point of view
than the hustling city Of the present.
The whole standard Of life was lower,
he says, and the comfort Of it incaIcus
lably less. The agricultural laborer oH
these times, too, he says, despite the
cutlery concerning the decadence Of agri-
culture and the destruction of rustic
simplicity is a great. Improvement on
the ignorant, coarse, county, pumpkin
OF seventy or eighty years ago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04
From Her Childhood to the Present Mo-
ment the Famous Dancer Has Always
Worn Bandeaux over Her Ears.

the late 'sos, Alfred Grevin designed
"Les Coulisses de- l'Opera'' for the
waxworks museum that still bears his
name, he put life-sized figure of
Diana Cleopatra there, in company with
other great ones of the time, witt with her her
ears concealed Theoretically.
Between these dates and the year
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04
BY Sterling HeiIia.
Correspondence of The Journal.

Correspondence Of The Journal.
Paris, Oct. 24.---Has a certain world
famed beauty lost an ears Was she
born without ears, or with deformed
ears; or did an accident mar one or
both her ears before her tenth year
from which tender age we have au-
shentic portraits, in all of which the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

When an Indian Territory pastor recently told
prospective bride and bridegroom to ioin
hands in order that he might continue the cere-
mony, the bridegroom seized his wife By the
hand and said: : PLEASED to meet ye.' He was
never married before.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

Beggs, OF Yale, Is the professor Of Greek, and
Anne Grace Witt Syracuse and Berlin and.
Dcrothea K Beggs Denver and Berlinl
are professors OF German. In the State Uniyers
au Of Wyomins several women are fuil pee
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

From an English paper: Sir Kesri singh, the
mahnrao of Strohi. lost his last Jaw tooth ON the
Sd Of July and bad Z diamond one PIT in Its
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
THE HERp-eoYs RICHES.
His Greatest Treasure Was a Con-
tented Heart.


German literature contains many
beautiful pieces. Here is one:
In a iiowery dell, a herd-boy kept
his sheep; and because his heart was
joyous he sang so loudly that the sur
rounding hills echoed back his song.
One morning the king, who was on q
hunting expedition, spoke to him and
said: why are you so happy, dear
little one?"
why shall | not be?" he answered.
Our king is not richer than l."
indeed" said the king; tell ma
OF your great possessions"
The lad answered; The sun in the
bright, blue sky shines as brightly
upon me as upon the king. The flow
ers upon the mountain and the grass
in the valley grow and bloom to glad
den my sight as well as his. / would
not a k a hundred thousand thalers
for my hands; my eyes are of more
value than all the precious stones in
the world; | have food and clothing,
too. Am | not, therefore, as rich as
the king?"
You are right" said the king, with
a laugh; hut your greatest treasure
is a contented heart. Keep it so, and
you will always be happy" I
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
Parts of the Blow Pipe.

of cloth as shown in 81" This will
act to prevent the tube from breaking.
Get a piece of cane, such as fish poles
are made from. and enlarge the cen
ter with a red-hot poker until you can
slip the tube inside of It. Now, cut
the cane off to the right length and
secure tube inside with putty. Your
blow gun will now be complete as
shown in 20" but you have no bullets.
For these you can use either peas,
clay, tacks or arrows. An arrow can
be made from a pin with the head
filed of and some cotton bound on the
back end so 1t will fit tight in the
gun, as shown in 49," or you can take
a tack (see "4"), and bind worsted
around it just below the head and
melt some wax on It.. Shoemakers'
wax rubbed on Is best. This will fly
straight and is a first-class missile.
If a clay pellet is used you can stun
small birds, but no otherwise injure
them, so that, II they are picked up
at once. you can often capture them
alive.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
The EaQie,s Eve.

The eye of the eagle and Of other
birds OF prey, is different from the hui
man eye in several respects. We can
not look at the sun without da- ser OF
running our sight. but the eagle can
look at it. not only without danger.
but without pain. Nature has provided
the birds eyes with a thin skin, or
membrane. inside the lids. which It
can draw down at will. thus protecting
the eyeball. while not interfering Sc
riously with vision. The eagle has
also the power OF adjusting the focus
of its eyes so that 1t car see as well as
a great distance as II can near the OBJ
ject. 1t can see it's prey as distinctly
from the height OF a mile above the
earth as 1t can only a few rods away.
All this is merely a part OF the great
scheme OF self-protection that nature
has arranged for her creatures.-Chi-
cage Daily News.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
The Rooster Team and Their Youthful Driver.

Who wants to race? Frank Robin
son has issued a challenge to all chick
en- fanciers and is ready to match his
team of ROSTERS against all comers.
Frank drives his ROSTERS tandem, at
tached to a homemade wagon, and
guides them with reins. They do not
wear bits. but the forward ends of
the reins are tied about the lower
beaks OF the birds. Progress with this
unique team is not rapid, but the
astonishing thing about it is hat there
should be any progress at all, Frank
is only two years old. and he can con
troll his unique tandem better than
anyone else.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
HOME HER SPHERE.
BEAUTIFUL ARE THE VIRTUES OF
THE DOMESTIC GIRL.
LEANING TOWARD HOUSEWORK
Never Discouraged by Early Failures
She Goes Boldly Forward to the
Very Highest Pinnacle Of the
Success She Desires.

1t is only hat rare treasure. the do
nestle girl, who keeps house nova
days. She does it because she likes it,
which is certainly a remarkable phe-
nomenon in a of the present
day, says Phoebe Forrest.
The domestic girl has always had a
leaning towards housework ever since
she was "a baby. AS a little tot, she
has begged her mother to let her run
the sweeper over the floor; she has
taken great delight in making clothes
for her doll, and she has hung around
the kitchen poking her nose into mys.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11

FERROUS dishes and pleading with cook
to let her taste the cake, at various
stages of it's development,
She has worried her mother 20 death
by experimenting with the sewing ma
chine, and unmindful of various in.
functions to be careful of the machine
she has kept at it until she learned
how to run it.
Then she buys material for a waist.
Her mother want to give it out to a
dressmaker, but she stoutly declares
she is going to make it herself. Her
mother fiutters a~nxiously around her
during the whole operation, imploring
her not to botch it, or to spoil the
material. Neither of these things do
happen, and finally after a week of
hard work and racked nerves the waist
is successfully finished.
Her next venture is to the kitchen.
There she pores over the cook book
to the neglect of her Caesar, and asks
endless questions about the range and
the capacity of the oven
Then one day she turns out a pie.
Extremely proud of herself she places
II o~stentatiously on the table in front
of her mother. Then what Is her hor-
ror to hear mother call for the
Ratchet!
She is not discouraged, however, but
resolves not to be so ambitious for
awhile. She keeps at it, in spite OF
many inevitable failures, until finally
father pronounces her the best cool
they have ever had.
At that she begs him to discharge
| the cook, and to let her give up school
and do the cooking.
Her mother is naturally Mortified
and declares hat IL would be a sin Il
take her from school. But father ST
lences her by saying that school
doesn't do women any good anyhow;
that Caesar won't help her to keep
house, and finally, that il his little
| girl wants to stay at home and do the
cooking, why, she can.
With this event a new era in heI
life begins. Little by little, the house
hold affairs are given over into heI
hands entirely.
Her father says that he hopes she
will never marry, because he doesn't
know what he should do without her
But he realizes that the chances fol
the fulhllment Of his desire are very
slim indeed.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
Ready for the Trick.

through doubled. The trick Is TO
bring the two rings on one loop, with
out untying the knots.
Take the center loop and pull 1t as
long as possible, stick 1t through the
hole on n end of the strip and slip II
over the knot OF the string. After let.
ting 1t slip over the bead on this one
end, repeat the same movement on
the other end. Now, directs the
Washington Star, the loop may be
pulled through the opening in the cen
ter Of this strip. Both beads or rings
are thus brought together and the
loop is arranged again the same as it
was before.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11

The training of the ROSTERS to this.
to them, unique task took a great deal
of time and patience, says the N. Y.
World. II may be said that impa-
thence of any sort of restraint is the
dominant characteristic of his lord
ship of the barnyard. Like the pig OF
tradition and experience, he is always
r~ection but the right one. However,
in this case he has SO far given into
the will OF man hat he stood pa
tiently for his picture and then trotted
off with every apparent willingness to
go where he was wanted to.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
ACES Of Birds.

The average ages recorded OF some
Of the best known birds are given in
the following: Blackbird lives IL
years; blackcap Is, canary "a. crane
"a, crow 100. eagle 100, fowl, common
10, ~goldinch Is, geese so. heron SO,
lark 10, linnet %, nightingale IS, par
rot GO, partridge Is, peacock "a, peli-
can SO, pheasant As, pigeon 20, raven
100, robin IL. skylark 80, sparrowhawk
40, swan 100. thrush ten. and wren
three years.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
A MAGIC TOY.
Trick Which II viii Puzzle Your
Friends to Do.

board about four inches long by three
quarters OF an inch wide and bore
three holes through 1t, n in the cen
ter, the two others on the ends OF
the strip. Our illustration shows how
a piece of string is pulled through the
holes and two beads or rings are sus-
pended from it. The holes must be
large enough to let the string go
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
In Praise of MantiIIa.

Can you imagine anything more
graceful than the mantilla-an adorn-
ment more esthetic. | find this fash
ion OF covering the dark or golden
hair with lace ideal; 1t shows on pref
ty faces to advantage. 1t adds 70 the
beauty of a fine profile and follows
exquisitely the lines of a proud neck
and marble shoulders.-Le Petit Pa
risien.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
A Puzzler.

Not long ago Lydia had a birthday,
and discovered that she is the young,
est member of her class at school.
How does II come" she asked her
grandmother that evening. that all
the other little girls Of my age are
nine or ten and I'm only eighth"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
Car You Guess?

Which is the most religious state?
-(Mass.)
Which is the clearly state?
-(Wash.)
Which is the most egotistical state?
-(Me.)
Which is the sickliest state?
lilly
Which is the medical state?
INDY
Which is the Oldest state?
-(Ark.)
Which is the most maldenly stater
MISSY
Which is the most paternal state?
-(Pa-)
Which is the mining state.
-(ore.)
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
A City Maid.

She came up to the country
But a week or so ago,
This city maid who ne'er a seen
The fields where wild flowers grow.
And when she saw the cat-tails,
She cried: "Oh, do look, quick!
Who ever heard OF sausages
A-growing on a Stick"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11
THE BLOW GUN.
How to Make 1t So 1t viii Not Break.

! want to tell the boys how they can
make a blow gun which a be
used TO shoot small birds with, says
a writer in the Elmira Telegram. Get
a glass tube about four feet long at
any drug store. Wrap Il with strips
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-10-11

Mother. Ito Bobby. who doesn't want
to go to bed)--But, dear. remember
that the little chickens go to bed
early.
Bobty-Yes; but the old hen goes
with them.