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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
Bargain Basement.
DOCTOR ARRESTED

Sequel of the Death of Miss Myrtle
Gale.
Special to The Journal.
Aurora, ILL.,, Jan. 31.-At the instance of
Coroner Charles B. Mead, DR.. Charles A.
Woodward of this city has been arrested
and lodged in jail, charged with the muir
der of Miss Myrtle Gale, student of
Northwestern university, Chicago, and a
resident of Rockford, III. Miss Gale died
here Jan. %, evidently as the result of a.
criminal operation. William Foster, of
Plano, made deposition that he had been
on intimate terms with Miss Gale. He is
confined to his bed with nervous prostra-
tion.
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The Oldest and Best.

S. s. S. is a combination of roots
and herbs OF great curative powers,
and when taken into the circulation
searches out and removes all manner
pf poisons from the blood, without
the least shock or harm to the system.
On the contrary, the general health
begins to improve from the first dose,
Sor S. SIS. is not only blood purifier,
but an excellent tonic, and strength
ems and builds up the constitution
while purging the blood of impuri-
ties. S. S. S. cures all diseases Of a
blood poison origin, Cancer, Scrofula,
Ulcers, Eczema, Psoriasis, Salt
Rheum, Herpes and similar troubles,
and is an infallible cure and the only
nntidote for that most horrible disease,
contagious Blood Poison.
A record of nearly fifty years OF
successful cures is a record to be proud
of. S. S. S. is more popular today
than ever. It numbers its friends by
the thousands. Our medical cores
pondence is larger than ever in the
history Of the medicine. Many write
to thank us for the great good S. S. S..
has done them, while others are seek
ing, advice about their cases. All
letters receive prompt and careful
attention. Our physicians have made
alife-1ong study of Blood and Skin Dis
eases, and better understand such cases
than the ordinary practitioner who
makes speciality OF no one disease.
SIS s: !; :; !; !; s;
you to write us if you have any blood
Or skin trouble. We make no charge
Mhstevcr for this service.
1HE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. al.
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FARMERS FORGED NOTES
Suits for Collection at Independence,
Nav BE DrODne6

SUITS Tor CO11ecfiOn at Independence
May BE Dropped.
Special to The Journal
Independence, Iowa, Jan. 81. w. F.
Lantz, the Chicago attorney who was
pushing the collection OF $4,000 worth of
forged notes against the farmers of this
county, has laid down his hand. He
writes the First National bank that he
has heard nothing more from his client,
but by indirect sources he learns that
another attorney has been retained. He
therefore will have no further connection
with the case and offers his advice and
services to the banks side of the affair.
1t is thought this will be the last of an
attempt at collection.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
MARSHAL VS.. MINISTER
They open a General Fight In 9
HOOsier Church.
Ne.o Hors sstas speoias servIo.

Neso YorA SEN Special ServIcs
Paris, Ind, Jan. 31.-Church differences
thave led to a fight between a minister
and town marshall here. REV. Oscar
Eddy, minister of the Reformed Methodist
church, has been conducting meetings and
secured Mrs. Emma Dugan of Chicago to
assist. While she was delivering SER
mon DR.. Eddy objected to her teachings
and undertook to stop the service. The
congregation was in sympathy with Mrs.
Dugan and called in Marshal Barber. DR..
Eddy told Barber he ought to repent and
pay his debts, whereupon Barber landed
lowed,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
LORD .DUFEERIN MORSE

Belfast, Jan. 31.-Sir William H. Broadbent,
physician in ordinary to the king, who is at
tending Lord Dufferin, the former governor
general Of Canada. issued this bulletin this
afternoon: ''Lord bufferin's condition is one
OF extreme gravity Weakness, cancellation
and anaemia have reached serious degree"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
May Forbid Football.

kalamazoo college is considering forbiddine
football playing President A. G. Slocum
says that strong movement has been started
in several colleges throughout the intercolle-
giate association to drop the game from state
college athletics on the. ground that it is
brutal. Kalamazoo college may be the first
to do this
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
Ice Yacht Race Postponed,

Special to The Journal. IDS 49,. -.
Madison, Wis.,, Jan. 31.-The interlake Ice
Monona, has been postponed owing to the fact
that the recent storms havescovered the ice
with several inches of snow. Boats are still
the time essential to a race. The date for the
event Will moth fixed until the Ice gets Into
condition again. asszss
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
N0RWALK PARTLY BURNED

Loss in Bushes Section of an Iowa
Town Is 100000.
Des Moines. Iowa, Jan. 31.-A disastrous
fire broke out in the village Of Norwalk,
twenty miles south of Des Moines, at an
early hour this morning, consuming the
greater portion of the business section.
H. S. Trusler's harness shop, the Norwalk
Journal, Wells drug store and Simon Cas-
adys bank were the principal losers. The
total loss will be $4,000, partly covered
by insurance.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
will Meet Fond du Lac.

The university basket ball team will meet
the Company E team, Of Fond du Lac, Wis,
at the university armory, tomorrow after
! noon. Fond du Lac has an unbroken series
of victories for the season, among it's victims
| being the strong Woodmap team of Red Wing.
! Fond du Lac tied the Ravenwood team for
first place in the national championship last
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
Nasturtium Out of Danger.

New York, jan 31-W G. Whitney's En-.
glish derby candidate, Nasturtium, which re-
Gently developed chills soon after having been
landed in England, is reported to have so far
recovered asytO be considered out Of danger.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
Carleton VS.. Farmers.

The Carleton college and the state agricul-
tural school basket ball teams will play a
game at the agricultural school tomorrow
evening at $3.50. An exhibition Of parallel
bar work will also be given.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
Gardner the FavOrite.

San Francisco, Jan. s1.-George Gardner, of
Lowell, Mass, who will meet Jack Root, of
Chicago, in a twenty-round contest tonight,
is 10 to Z favOrite in the betting. The men
will weigh in at 165 pounds at p. m. to-day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
FIRE INSURANCE


WesteTn Managers May Decide to
Advance Rates.
Chicago, Jan. 31.-A meeting Of western
fire insurance managers has been called in
this city for Monday to consider the
question of the western situation In
surance men say the situation in the
west las for long time been anything
but satisfactory, rates being low and
losses heavy The meeting may decide
to advance rates and inaugurate plans for
improving conditions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
No Louisville Encouragement.

Nov HoT1s Sun SpeosdL SeTpsos,
Louisville, KY, Jan. 31.--Louisville, gets
into the American Association without any
local encouragement, and Messrs. Buell., Tur-
ner and. Corcoran. of Milwaukee,, are acting
entirely on their own responsibility.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31
SPORTS.
RIVAL HOCKEY TEAMS

They Meet at the Fourth Avenue
Rink To-day.
The Minneapolis and st. Paul hockey
teams will meet this evening at the
Fourth avenue rink, Eleventh street and
Fourth avenue s. p D.. A. Mcdonald will
referee. The lineup:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-31

$l2 MEMS AND BOYS' UL-
z STEERS, .s$4-About Is well made
ulsters in blue and black chino illas and
Irish frieze. M lost of them are ser re lined
Regular $40 and $l2 garment r;n
to close quickly. ...,.:.. %
YOUNG MEMS SUITS 20 tyles
all wool goods, sizes II to 10 yrs. mr
81 50 values, at. ........s.. %O
YOUNG MEMS. SUITS-all wool
goods, sin gle breasted cut ~
coats, II TO 10 yrs. SIS val p0. ~
14a 4@ She =
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12


care for him as though he were my
very own. am called Baboushka,
and I keep my promises" i
Then Katoma, the moujik, died hap-
py, for he knew that sBaboushka Iwas
a friend to all little children, and when
she gathered Ossip close into her meth
erly arms when the end came the child
ceased weeping for his dead father;;5
When Baboushka and Ossip were
Well Oh their way to the old woman;s
home. in the next village, they heard
pitiful sound of weeping Somewhere
on the tree Swallowed side of&the road
The old woman stopped at the sound.
1--WE will so and see who is in trou-
BILE, Ossip. Our eyes and ears should
always be kept Well opened 50 that no
Sign Of distress may escape U.s."
Guided by the sound, they came to
4 stone where. wailing and shivering
in the darkness of the winter night,
they found little girl scarcely as
large as Ossip, who was not at all well
grown for his eight years.
Baboushka knelt down by the child
and, gathering her cold little feet inte
q warm clasp. muttered:
"Perhaps this is the child"
!! Then she said aloud, what IL TIL
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12
. THE I ! E TWO r \ ! {: !.
SOLDIERS IL
5sse?ssesessessosessea ssasssa2ssasseoSsssSsSsSS
Copyright. 1909, b. Eds0tn l.. Sabtn

-. s
% was q brilliant holiday store,
the windows and the shelves and
the cases ablaze with filigree
and thronged with dolls and
= dishes and engines and: trains and
skates and ":sleds, and hobbyhorses
that galloped, and cows that mooed,
and mice that ran, and-and every
thing, absolutely everything, that ever
enters the most rapturous Christmas
dream.
! In the center Of the large show win
:dows, fronting upon the gay street,
stood two soldiers. They were by all
odds the finest soldiers in the store,
much superior to the personnel COM
posing the different troops and regi-
ments and companies stationed here
and there along the ais}es, The pair
were made Of tin, to be sure; but they
were of heroic stature, eight inches
tall. richly uniformed in black and
yellow, and could be wound up so that
they would present arms several times
in succession.
The other soldiers, poor things, were
compelled to remain the whole time at
a ''carry" or a fright shoulder with
out relief.
Naturally these two soldiers were
proud and of aspirations reaching be-
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oh, TO GET AWAY FROM THIS ETERNAL
GUARD MOUNT"
yond their present narrow quarters
They pinned for Il wider sphere. AS
they stood and stared with stern, fixed
gaze through the plate glass into the
gay street they talked together in toy
language, and none, not even the most
versatile linguists among the people
passing and repassing, knew that they
talked.
'Oh, to get away from this eternal
guard mount over a lot of frippery"
sighed the one.
with all my heart"' agreed the
other. 'The mOnotOny is frightful.''
I'D give half my solder to receive
orders to report to some little boy"
continued the first. ooh, for change!"
"But the majority Of little boys are
so rough and careless" responded the
second. Il understand they scratch
you and bend you and otherwise NAL
treat you without cause, and soon
you're done for. I prefer duty of a
more quiet, instructive nature, where
I may teach by means of my deport-
ment rather than by violent action
''Well, I should enjoy a hard drill
and tussle, I believe" asserted the
first.
"Our organism is too fine for such
active service, my lad" indulgently
corrected the second. neutrality-suspicious.
and dents? No. no. Give me post Of
more elegance, where my uniform will
be treated as j. deserves"
Christmas day had been over and
gone a month when after their separa-
ton: the two soldiers again encounter
| ed: one. another, but this time in a great
heap Of. rubbish At the: city dump,
where. the dump man had :unwittfnely
thrown them out. -. ..::I ,>s..., 81
t':Hnrrah!. Hello, old chap. exclaim,
ed the first soldier delightedly. E 52 J,
y "Hellew. returned the second, With
rather more reserve. Goodness! Been
through the: Seven Years war; "a.
Well might, he put this query. The
other soldier was l perfect wreck: Ho
had. lost an: arm and q. foot, his head
was sharply inclined forward upon his
chest, he had only one eye, his body
was twisted askew, his gun was bro
ken, his cap was missing, his features
were battered and distorted; and as for
his uniform Of black and yellow-there
was hardly spot Of paint on him!
"I--I'ye been having my tussle," an
nounced the first, with cracked laugh.
But you-why, you evidently found
just what you were looking. for ~.
Yes explained the second, Il fell
TO Israsathe
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hands Of a little boy, sure enough, but
he wasn't allowed to hurt me. See, I
haven't a mark on me-" And he ex-
hibited himself proudly. p, 49,,
True, he was still in dress parade
condition.
Thunder and Marsr' chuckled the
FIRST. "And look at me! Do you. mean
to say that you never were stepped
on?' ~
"Oh, no." replied the second. 81
didn't lie around on the floor. i was
put away just as soon as he was done
playing with me. His mother had
made him very orderly little boy"
$50 you never stayed out all night
in the hall or in the middle of the sit
ting room?"
Never" said the spick and span SOL
der.
"And did he shoot at you with his
rubber gun ever?'
"Never," said the spick and span SOL
dier.
"And he didn't bite you to see how
soft you were?"
"Never," said the spick and span SOL
der.
"Or drag you about among the chairs
with string?' =.
Never said the spick and span SOL
der. #
Cor sick the terrier on your
"Ncver."
roll on you?'
'Never. I was always placed on the
shelf in the closet"
y "Or kick you or whack you or throw
syou?'
Never Watch-I can present arms
as well as ever.'
"0r kiss you and hug you with all
his might and cry for you when he
was sick through eating too much
candy ~ 49,. :. - .,.>
Never. used TO forget me. en-.
tirely for daJisI ! lsl. Did your.
/ boy really do all that to- you? p :@:
~ :''Yes, all that and MORE" answered
the battered soldier softly.
"And did he kiss you, you say?"
asked the spick and span soldier a bit
wistfulfy.
eyes; he kicked me and he kissed
me-" laughed the first.
"And did you enjoy it," pursued the
second curiously.
Il had the time of my life," declared
the other. How did you find things
up to your expectations"
The spick and span soldier hesitated;
then he replied:
POSSIBLY. can't complain. But
but somehow I grew dreadfully en-
nuied. 1 almost longed at times for
more excitement, more energy. We
got tired Of one another. After day
or so we exhausted all our programme
Of proper exercises, and he was so eau
tious of wearing me out that I was
laid aside, and-and, finally, here 1
am. I don't suppose he aren knows
| that I'm gone"
"Dear me!' unused the other. I'm
gle1. 1y little boy was not like yours.
! OF course there are the knocks; but,
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and having seen. Dorothy
on a. previous trip he
had, remembering anoth-
er little girl who was. very
happy on Christmas eve;
brought down a Christ
mas box for Dorothy and
SO strOlled along with her
father as he started home
ward, that he might give
it. into the hands Of. the
little maiden herself. But
when they reached the
brown hut Dorothy was
not there. and when re-
peated calls brought no
answer the two men,
alarmed, started in oppo-
site directions to seek her,
Mr.: Golden following the
almost obliterated path
up the mountain side,
where, a mile beyond, he
found the little one al
most buried in the falling
snow, and as he stopped
to lift her in his arms she
murmured dr0wsily, see
ing the kind face bending
over her:
nj Mr. Santa Clans. I
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12
Plight was falling fast, and
the snow was piled high
against the outer walls of
the howell where moor mon.

jik (peasant) named Kat0-
ma lay dying in little village in far
away Russia.
Katoma. knew that he was going to
die. 1t was Christmas eve, but there
was no gladness in the season for him.
His wife, whom he had loved very
dearly, was already gone. For three
consecutive years now his crops had
failed. A few weeks before the wolves
had devoured his last COW. If he had
been entirely alone in the world he
would have said to death. "Come; thou
art welcome!'
But there was one other, his boy
Ossip. The idea of death became ter
rible when he thought Of leaving his
boy all alone with not a copeck to bless
himself with.
When l tell you that it takes 100
copecks to make ruble and that
ruble is less than 60 cents, you will
understand how dreadfully poor Ea-
toma was.
He could not die peacefully for think
ing of Ossip's future His dim eyes
turned fondly toward the pillow by his
side, which the boys thick black hair
almost covered. Ossip lay motionless
in sleep. The sick man put one feeble
hand upon his boys smooth forehead
and silently commended him to heav-
ems care.
The house was very still. The hour
was late. Ossip's healthy, regular
breathing was the only audible sound
If only kind heaven would raise up one
friend for his boy out of the millions
Of good people this big world swarmed
with, Katoma felt that he should not
mind how soon he was laid away un-
der the frozen sods.
While his hand rested on Ossip's
head and his heart was filed with
these anxious thoughts the door Of the
howell opened softly. The moujik
turned wondering eyes in that direc-
ton, and there, coming noiselessly to-
ward him across the beaten earthen
floor, was tall woman with soft
brown eyes full of plying tenderness.
She came close to the bed, on Ossip's
side Of it, and, looking down upon the
sleeping child, she muttered:
''Perhaps this is the one at last"
KatOma looked at her anxiously.
"Whence came you, good mother,
and what seek your
Across the sleeping boy she an
swered softly:
Il have come for Ossip. They told
me in the village that thy days were
numbered, and l knew that Ossip
would need friend. I will love and
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SHE TOOK THE CRIPPLED BOY IN HER AIMS
not been able to find her way back to
the camp, and how she feared the
wolves would devour her before any
one should come to look for her. Then
abe told Baboushka that her name Wa
Vasalissa. ? s = - -, ,-:ss:ss
Baboushka clasped the little wander
er to her great motherly heart, >,
'"That, indeed, the wolves shall not,
my dear little Vasalissa. I cannot give
thee back to thy aunt. for know no
better than thou dost where this great
company of men and women may be
camping for the night But thou shalt
go home with Ossip and me. Thou
shalt share our fire and our porridge,
and all that is mine thou shalt share
with Ossip I can keep the wolves Of
hunger and cold away, and if thy aunt
comes to claim thee she shall find thee
rosy and happy"
Then Vasalissa quickly dried her
tears, and with her hand clasped in
Baboushka's she trudged cheerfully
forward until they came to tiny little
cottage set back from the road a short
distance. In its one window a lamp
was burning brightly.
The window and the lamp belonged
to Baboushka's cottage. She pushed
it's unlocked door open, and the chill
dren entered with her into a clean
swept, we'll warmed room.
A large chair was drawn close up to
the hearth. AS Baboushka entered she
glanced eagerly at this chair, and again
she muttered under her breath:
II had hoped he might have come
while was OUT
'Good mother" Ossip asked, "why
do you leave lighted lamp in the Win
dow when you go away"
$50 that" she answered, SHOULD any
one go astray in the cold and the dark
he might find his way to my poor
cottage. And now let us see if the bean
broth has kept warm all this time. l
made it before I left home in the early
morning hours so that if any wander
ers found their way hither they might
not leave my roof hungered."
The bean broth had kept warm. She
babe Ossip throw few more fagots
under the pot and set .Vasalissa Oh a
stool in the warmest nook. Then Ishe
brought three bowls. filled them with
the bean broth and put them on 1.-THE
table. Over them she asked a blessing.
Before her own wooden spoon had
made two journeys from bowl to- lip
she heard a timid knock at the door.
She rain quickly to answer it. A tall,
pale lad stood outside. In his arms he
carried small mite of q: boy, about
whose shoulders was wrapped worn
and soiled woman's shawl, -: , -.
The tall, pale lad looked into the fire
lighted nom with longing eyes. His
teeth chartered with the cold as he
asked: ''Good mother, may we ask
shelter for the night? The cold bites
bitter hard. and my little brother Pc
trusha is but a sickly cripple"
Then Baboushka opened wide her
door with an eager hand and fast beat.
ing heart. Perhaps. at last, this was
the child. What she said aloud was:
''That indeed thou mayest. But why
| art thou abroad on such a bitter night
with the little one?" es.. -.,.:, 49,.
She took the crippled boy in i her
strong, loving arms M car1at hiD
- >, - -
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name, little one, and what doest thou
here alone in the bitter nighttime?"
At which the child's tears flowed
afresh, and between her sobs she told
the kind, soft eyed woman how she
had been travelling with great corh-
pany Of men and women who were
leaving their own village to seek a bet
ter land across the seas our own
blessed America, I make no doubt =
and how, when they had encamped for
the night, her aunt, who was the only
relative she had in the world, had sent
her into the woods to gather fagots to
put under their soup kettle. and how
she had wandered so far th:S she had
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12

oh, our companionship was sweet! I
: bet he's crying for me-: at this instant.
poor chum! Still. it is as well that I.
am carteu to the dump. LAM old and
dishgirdd and back number, and I
wanted to go before he would cease to
miss me-" - ....'$
The spick and span soldier was 81
lent. t>.*-@.-,<
Hi, yiv' soliloquized the veteran.
with sigh and with chuckle, stifly
rolling over on his back. .I'm past re-
pairs, but it was sweet-aye, it was
worth it! I-have-had-the -time-of
-my-life" -, ILL.,. - n.
And with his one eye. he gazed
through a chink II the debris up ut the
stars -. S: ,.4i.; ; ,..,;::
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The snow was falling on the noun
tafps, hiding their tops in a misty veil,
andthe air was full q whirling fakes,
which were rapidly covering the brown
earth with a carpet of white and oblit-
erating the trail up the mountain side
where trudged, OF, rather. stumbled,
aiding srotesque childish figure in a
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Dear, good murnurad drowsilv soe-
Mr.. Santa IT, 49, ,-,,a e. 40 h.,a:,,..
Claus"
over her:
Dear, good Mr.. Santa Claus,
want'-@
When she opened her wistful, dark
eyes again, the same kind face was
bending over her as she lay on her cot
in the little brown house, her father
holding her in mis- arms, while beside
her was the most beautiful doll of
which she had ever dreamed, and,
clasping it close to her heart, little
Dorothy asked with reverent joy, the
dark eyes filed to overlooking:
''Dear Mr.. Santa Claus. is you God
t0o?''
CALLIE BONNEY MARBLE.