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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

H g. McMasters of Minneapolis,
mail clerk who usually occupied the
about to drop from exhaustion.
Olaf OIdorf climbed downward
from floor to floor by means of the
iron shutters before the flames had
begun to break through the rear Win
dows. R. c. Hamilton, while cropping
for the fire escape entered room
where a man was kneeling in prayer.
He disregarded the mans admonitlOn
to give up hope, but continued his
search for the fire escape and saved
himself. H E. Jett of st. Paul was
awakened by the screams of a woman
and, with four other half-clad men
ran into the street and was given ref
uge in a saloon The same screams
aWoke Edward Davenport and j. n.
Westerland of Chicago. They were
members of the party that was saved
by jumping to the roof Of the restaur-
ant
John w. Higgs of Lansing, Mich,
escaped from the upper floor with the
| loss of only his coat and vest and
collar.
IF it had not been for the shouts
of those who had already found the
stairs, l would never have gotten out
alive" he said. The building was in
absolute darkness, so dense that a
persear could see nothing. To add to
this the smoke was so thick that
breathing was almost impossible and
the screaming and confusion Of per-
sons running wildly back and forth in
the hall made it impossible for anyone
to keep his senses.
The smell of smoke was strong in
my room when the noise awoke me.
| 1t must have been filtering through
the cracks of the door, for some time.
| | was partly dressed and attempted to
! find the electric light bulb. 1t had
| seemed just over my head when
went to bed in the evening, but in my
! excitement it might as well have been
! in the clouds. l made a frantic
plunge for the door, which l remem-
| bered that 1 had boIted. I could not
! find the bolt, and in the darkness
and excitement imagined that my end
had surely come. Then 1 tried again
| for the electric light. I gave a gasp
of relief as my hand struck it. The
current was still on at that time, and
l found the bolt which held me a
prisoner in my room.
LAS I opened the door a binding
cloud of smoke rolled into the room
The narrow hallway seemed to be full
of shouting and struggling men. 1t
was impossible to distinguish them
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
Eccentric Millionaire.

Among the many human curios to
be seen at Monte Carlo this season
none attracts more attention than NJ
Yturbide, an eccentric millionaire, who
shuns daylight as he would a plague
In his splendid villa he has placed an
enormous elevator, into which his
curtained and shattered carriage is
driven and raised to his heavily draped
apartment when he wishes to take a
drive His rooms are always kept al
a Turkish bath temperature, and as
conditions in the gambling rooms OF
the Casino are about the same he
sometimes ventures there in the even
ing.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

LAS each man found the stairs he
would give shout of encouragement
to those further down the hall and
trying to follow him. The smoke was
rapidly becoming heavier and more
sitting. Below us could be heard the
roar of the flames from the rear. No
one fingered longer than necessary
after finding the way to possible
safety"
Meantime the firemen and several
patrOlmen had again started to climb
the stairs in the hope of reaching the
upper floors. Detective Sergeants An
derson and Ellsworth managed to
reach the top of the building. In a
corner near the head of the stairway
they found Mrs. Nina Belder, her II
year-old daughter Cora, and Mrs. Geo.
Cleft and her 9-year-old son. RemOv-
ing their overcoats, which they threw
over the shivering women, the two de-
tectives carried them down the stairs
to a place of safety in an adjoining
building.
Mrs. June Shepherd of Cairo, H.,
who was occupying a room on the
fourth floor with her 10-year-old son
Fred, was awakened by the smoke.
Rushing to the door, she opened it,
only to find the hallway filled with
flames. Screaming, she slammed the
door and started toward the window,
Her son grasped her clothing and
chung fast until the two were rescued
| by the f1remen.
Mrs Shepherds screams awakened
| several persons in the rooms adjoining
her own, and doubtless saved their
| lives.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

Imprisoned in fire-trap hotel,
fourteen men were suffocated at day
break on the morning of December 4
at Chicago. Only twenty minutes
elapsed after the alarm was sounded
until the flames we're extinguished.
but in that time fourteen guests of
the overcrowded Lincoln hotel, 176
Madison street, blindly cropping in the
dense smoke, had persisted in the mar
row hallway and closet-like bedrooms
of the top floor.
In the sixty diminutive rooms of
the hotel 125 persons were crowded
when the flames broke out. Only
fourteen of them were residents OF
Chicago. The others were stockmen
and farmers attracted here by the
live stock show or railway mail clerks
and travelling men who could not Sc
cure accommodations at other hotels.
All the space possible was utilized.
Even the hallway closets contained
cots on which men were asleep,
though there was not enough room in
these improvised bedrooms for
chair in addition to the cot. In one
room on the top floor the window of
which opened to the only fire escape
on the building, was a bed and a cot
ali effective barrier, in the darkness
and smoke, to this means of escape.
With almost the first burst of flame
the fuses on the electric switchboards
burned out, stopping the elevators
and leaving the building in total dark
ness.
Before the fire department could ar
rive, in response to the alarm were
flames roaring from the rear windows
of the building. Faces, white with ter
ror, were appearing at the front win
dows of the upper story. From the
sides of the Inflated building men
and women, shivering and half clad,
were leaping or sliding to the roofs
Of the adjoining buildings.
The cries of the men imprisoned
on the top floors could be heard above
the clatter of the fire engines and the
rear of the flames. The proprietor, of
the hotel asserts that he started to
mount to the endangered men and
| lead them to the windows where
they could safely reach the roofs on
either side of the hotel, but that he
was stopped by the firemen. At that
time, he declares, all could have been
saved if some one familiar with the
upper floor had been allowed to show
| them the way to the windows. The
| firemen contradict this, and say no
one could have reached the fourth
floor through the rapidly increasing
volumes OF smoke. When fire-insur-
ance patrol, No. 6, arrived, its mem
bers started up the stairs from the
Mother and Son Saved from Fire.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

Fred Shepard. Mrs. ]. Shepard.
Office to the third floor to rescue the
men, whose cries were rapidly becom-
ing weaker, but their captain refused
to permit them to face almost certain
suffocation, and ordered them to re-
turn.
The escapes of some of the occu-
pants of the rooms were little short
of miraculous. Six men, woman
and a little boy, saved themselves by
jumping to the roof of a restaurant,
adjoining the hotel on the west Four
mail clerks, who said they had a pre-
mOnition OF danger, arose at 4:30
o'clock, dressed, and left the hotel.
C. H. Foster, another mail clerk, who
occupied the room with Corey and
Ewing, both of whom are dead, re.
ceived a telegram early in the even
ing that his wife was i'll and hurried
away from the hotel to her bedside,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
No clandestine Marriages.

DR.. George C. Houghton, rector of
the famous little church around the
corner" in New York, announces that
in future he will refuse to marry per-
sons unknown to him unless they have
reliable vouchers and acceptable wit
nesses. This parish is widely known
for its charitable disposition says
the doctor, but there is limit to the
Interpretation of charity, and l limit
secret marriages and marriages I'M
supported by family recognition
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
Fifty Dollars 10 Sit Down.

Carmel, Ind, Dec. 15th,-Mr. Jo-
seph L. Duffy relates an experience
that has aroused considerable inter
est in this locality. 1t is best given
in his own words:
When I was working in the
fields" says Mr.. Duffy, Il would be
ready to quit, but 1 could not get to
the house l was SO weak. 1t was
worth fifty dollars to get to sit
down.
Il had no strength and a person
without strength is not much use.
But bless the Lord I took four
boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and they
gave me health, strength and appe7l
tite
81 might say l am cured, but will
keep on taking Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Yes, I'll get them if it takes the last
thing on the farm
Dodds Kidney Pills have effected
quite a number of other cures here
and it seems safe to say they are an
effective and permanent cure for all
diseases arising from the Kidneys.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

As I stepped from my room the light
behind me f1ickered a moment and
disappeared. 1 suppose it was wher
the fuses burned out. My room was
at the head of the stairway. or
would never have found it. 1 heard
some one shout, Here they are!' I'm
mediately there was despairing
chorus from all sides of Where:
Where. Those of us that could
CROPPED in the direction from which
had come the cry of hope.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
CHICAGO HOTEL
DIED In SMOKE AND FLAMES
HOW GUESTS OF

leaving his valise with his fellow
clerks.
room with Corey and Ewing, was
nearly an hour late in arriving in
Chicago that morning and slept in his
mail car. Philip Koch of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, saved himself by sliding to the
ground by means of a rope made from
strips of his bed sheet. w. ]. Thorn
as. another mail clerk, climbed to a
window on the fourth floor and was
rescued by firemen just as he was
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
Saw inooIn Assassinated.

w. J. Chapelle, who died recently in
Leavenworth Kan. was manager of
.Ford's theater at Washington when
President Lincoln was assassinated,
and was one of the first to reach the
side of the wounded president. He
was 20 years old and had been IN the
show business for fifty years. He was
buried at Great Bend, Pa, where his
daughter resides.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
Electrical Roads in Berlin.

plan has been laid before the Der
lin municipal council for an under
ground electric railroad from the ex
IRENE north of Berlin to the HiIlisches
Gates, ending at the suburb of Schoen
berg. a distance of seven miles. -Four
years will be required for the con.
struction Of the road. and it's cost
is estimated at s14,000,0O0, to b.
covered by loan. It is reported that
the underground and other municipal
undertakings will render a $50, OOO, 0OC
loan necessary.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
Little panosr Of Rurial AIive

More than century ago the fear OF
being buried alive led to the establish.
ment in German cities of mortuary
chambers in which bellrope is placed
in the hands of each corpse. In his
recent volume on Death and Sudden
Death" Prof. BrouardeI declares thai
there is no case On record of that bel;
having ever been rung anywhere.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
To Guard Against Infection.

At the recent international confer
ence on tuberculosis at Berlin. DIR.
Obertuschen suggested that teachers
suffering from consumption ought to
receive sanatorium treatment, and per
mission to return to DUTY ought to be
withheld till all danger of Infection
had passed away; they should re-
ceive their salaries during their i'll
ness
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
Antipodean Pearl Fishinu.

The pearl fisheries of West Austria
liza employ 2,505 men. of whom no are
Englishmen. The average yield per
boat per season is placed at $625 for
pearls and $S,375 for pearl shell. At
last years prices the average revenue
per boat was $4,000, the average ex-
penditure $4,000, making the average
net profit 81 600.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
AltitudInous Luncheon.

Recently a company of fifty Phila-
delphians had the novel experience of
eating luncheon at the top OF d brick
chimney 275 feet high. The stack had
just been completed and the luncheon
was in celebration of that fact An
improvised elevator took the guests
up the shaft of the chimney, which is
eighteen feet in diameter and five feet
from the top a platform was built on
which the tables were placed.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
Prevents Aud and Dust.

French journals speak of sub
stance which, when placed upon the
roads, does away with mud and dust
The composition consists of a mixture
of scoria from blast furnace and tar.
The preparation, carefully pressed,
renders the surface Of the road i'm
perYious to water.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
chaneeIIor opposes FootbaII.

Chancellor Day of Syracuse univer-
sity gives notice that unless the pres
ent dangers to life and limb are re-
formed out of football his conscience
will force him to declare war upon the
game and to ask the executive board
to restrain the young Syracusans from
engaging in it.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
STATE OF ONO. CITY OF TOLEDO, tss.

AOA1LAOI
LUCAS COUNTY,
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he Is the
senior partner of the firm of +. j. Cheney & CO.,
doing business in the City of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid. and that said firm viii pay
the sum Of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of Hall Catarrh Cure
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. D. 1885,
A. W. GLEASON,
lSEAL-I Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials free
F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo u
Sold by Druggists, 15c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

seYou have accepted George! Why.
YOU know very well that l don't ap-
prove of him." That's all right.
mamma. Neither does he approve of
Life
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

Storekeepers report that the extra
quantity, together with the superior
quality, of Defiance Starch makes 1t
next to impossible to sell any other
brand.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
SENSIBLE HoUsEKEEPERs

will have Defiance Starch, not alone
because they get one-third more for
the same money, but also because OF
superior quality.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

There is a good bit of similarity be-
tween Il lazy man and his theories.
They won't work.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
Heavy SNOW in Canada.

On the railroads in Canada it is
necessary to keep over soc snow plows
in operation every winter.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders Tor Children
Successfully used by Mother Gray,
nurse in the Children's Home in New
York. Cures Feverishness, Bad Stom-
ach, Teething Disorders, move and
regulate the Bowels and Destroy
Worms Over 80, 600 testimonials. At
all druggists, CSC. Sample FREE. Adj
dress Allen 5. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. Y.
Natives of Greenland are cold and
distant people.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

The annual output of the gold and
silver mines of Japan amounts Is
aboa. $2,5O0.00
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERs
Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. All grocers.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

The budding genius sometimes Guilt
Yates a blossom on the nose.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
Manv HOLIDAYS in Canada.

Canada has most holidays of any
British colony. Including Sundays,
Canadians have ninety-fye holidays
YEARLY
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

Ants Construct Long Tunnel
The ants of South America have
been known to construct a tunnel
three miles in length.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Chlldrer

All the worlds a stage and all the
women thereon want speaking parts.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

You can never tell what woman :
love, or balky horse will do nexs.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

FREE MEDICAL ADVICE
Every working girl who is NOT
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Only sixty-Hve Years Ago.

Sixty-flve years ago Paris had only
one postohice
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26
"A BUTTERFLY FARM.

Margaret E. Sangster in Our Little Men"
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26
For Junior
Artists and
Designers

One dollar each is offered by the PALACE CLOTHING
COMPANY for advertisements dealers in fine clothing
Each advertisement must contain the of the firm,
FaIace clothing Co., the words minneapolis and St. Paul.
and Money cheerully refunded Anything added
that will make clear the that dealers fine
clothing for and
The designs may contain drawings, photographs catch
phrases poems anything fact that will attract attention
to the fact that the Palace Clothing clothing
sale. -:
There s expense attached to the work
All drawings must be in black and white only India ink
should be used Avoid all colored inks, blue black
greenish
These designs in the the editor OF The
Journal Junior ....- ~.
At O'Clock They must be strictly original and each must
be signed with grade school, and address of the
designer.
WHITE & McNAUGHT, JEWELERS., 407 Nicollet
All advertisements must contain the of the frm
white & McNaught, to Charles D. White & Co.,
the words popular Jewelers. and the address 0 Ncolle
avenue" .-..\
The designs contain drawings, photographs catch
phrases anything fact that will attract attention
and advertise the fact that White Mcknight popular
jewelers. . .::%'.' ...- -,, 49,. 1....
There is no expense attached to the work :. -.z =.
All drawings must be in black white only India ink
should be used Avoid all colored inks blue black
greenish black ink
designs must be in the hands of the editor
Journal Junior ..-.... .......
NOT LATER THAN MONDAY EVENING AUGUST 4,
At o'clock They must be strictly original each must
be signed with the grade school, and address of the
designer.
PRIZE WINNERS IN S. JACOBS co. CONTEST.
Villa Andrews Sth Grade Emerson School, 1872 Lin
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Avenue S.
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Eighth Street S.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26

Cross" has taken up the Fourth Crusade,
which the Venetians played such prominent part which
full the pomp with which the ancient
Veneans loved to all of their public acts which
assault the Jerusalem
siege Constantinope, the making and unmakng
and sharp and glorious fighting Unfortunately
written attractive style
young people, then is there bit OF
glowing description books for older people, Really
nearly all the old histories ought be rewritten to make
attractive readers Of to-day. There is
ambitious Junior writer's to handle
among the subjects already treated. ---.- -
s..-. THE EDITOR
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26

Echoes Of the Sampson trouble keep cropping up
unexpected. The latest passed by unanimous
vote of the legislature the
in the public schools OF of any histories which
give Admiral schey victory at San
tiago. The public in this is placed
who electricity and cannot
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26
LONG HoRsE-pRAWN RAILWAY.

LONG HORSE-DRAWN RAILWAY. 5zazzs j
drawn railway in the world
Buenos to the town of San Mart distance
miles Thirteen hours allowed for the distance
every hour.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26

Near Scarborough farm exists rearing moths and
Half land planted with
shrubs for the In their the stock OF
caerpars 30 10000 preserved
in that butterflies and moths
piled irrespective OF the time of year. :ss&zZ
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26
CLOCK MADE OF BREAD.

Milan has curiosity In clock which is made entirely
The maker is native of india and has devoted
years Of his life the construction this curiosity
The clock is Of good size and goes we'll.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26
A Gentleman.

I knew him for a gentleman
BY signs that never fail;
His coat was rough and rather worn,
His cheeks we're thin and pale
A lad who had his way to make,
X. With little time for play;
/ knew him for gentleman
By certain signs to-day.
He met his mother on the street;
'- OF came his little hat.
My door was shut; he waited there
-. Until heard him rap.
He took the bundle from my hand,
And when dropped my pen,
He sprang to pick it up for me-
This gentleman OF ten. -.
r He does not push and crowd along;
His voice is gently pitched;
He does not fling his books about
AS If he were bewitched.
He stands aside to let you pass;
He always shuts the door;
He runs on errands willingly
- To forge and mill and store. ,
He thinks of you before himself, .--
He serves you if he can; .-
For, in whatever company, 81 -.
The manners make the man.
= At ten OF forty, it's the same; :.
The manner tells the tale, -.
And I discern the gentleman ~.
By signs that never fail.
Margaret E. Sangster in "Ou
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26
JUNIOR.
'.f
Mae Harris Ansors

The Journal Junior published by The Minneapolis Journal for
children Northwest the fifth
grade devoted principally their writings There is
attached and all welcomed competitors The editor
wishes suggestions
All correspondence should addressed the Editor Journal Junior
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26
let It would like to drop the subject but cannot since
the verdict not popular with the majority. s

There has been Hawaiian islands
over the of snakes American transports bound
home from Manila These islands happen
to be almost reptiles Ireland really
would be shame for returning popuating
the island with merely
the United States wants Specimens out
from the authorities at Washington that
to be brought home the transports.
Since the woefu campanile at Venice
hortes in charge of other antiquities
bestr themselves to look after the
Erechtheum at Athens
more or less They do not favor complete
its former shape but those steps which
to strengthen the building replace fragments
lying about it.
Think of living in city where the authorities have
taken it themselves interfere serving
drinks In Berlin anything
with lower temperature than degrees Fahrenheit the
average ice soda is close 80 degrees
derstood just what howl of indignation go up
an American community under similar circumstances.
Why is it that fathers mothers using
same old names? There Chareses Marys
and Georges without end nothing
by the thousand In Berlin it has been found only
used for the every year.
It certainly shows wofu ingenuity people
cannot think of more names than that