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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
B Sixth Grade,
When blue BrookIets Ripple.

a place / like in town is the mill I
IKE 1t best in spring when the melting
trees are getting spring the
pue as sparkes and like
bridge and watch it. looks pretty rushing
stones like to go fishing
pick water lilies of
and pick flowers and gather it damp
the banks -111a Henke
Fhth trade StewartviIfe, MINI.
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AL JUNIOR MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA SATURDAY 1907

there the pleasant boat rides
evening fishing There woods
surrounding lake. many large fine place
could be the lake. and
Sundays holidays might people in their
riages walking parks, taking trips in
boats consider this best thing town,
because of Its beauty and the pleasure it affords.
II Williams
Seventh Grade Mora, MINI.
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THE JOURNAL Jul
swn accord But engine
this mighty black giant Al
though lfe it numbers Of from
need and gives town advantage having
This besides benehtng the people gives the more hus
ness-like air LISA Holden
Big o Prevention.
thing protection There
water tank that will hold thousand barrels of water
all windmill the tales in Cakes
The council holds its meetings the They
of hose five which
almost protection thing about
without the entire town might be swept away BY
Sixth Grade 49, Il $3.50. & Paul Husnpiller,
Riverdale Cakes, N. D.
Sweet
The interesting piece that know of is
outside spring water
through pipe to little place hills all
sides and trees bending over it. There is creek close by and
place. the road There paths
in the woods Con the sides of the buns paths On
the sides of these bluffs fruit and
Juicy This is the most interesting bit of scenery have yet
Seventh Grade. Renvlle. MINI.
......- An
The best Big which is about
thirty five miles long mile This makes the town
good summer resort. We have steamboats, and
number of aiboats In there great people
at the camp grounds One the lake warm day
and crowd in bathing There board
city Ortonvie
from the during the Often
the lake. the the fishing
good. The Chauauqua three this time
good opportunity of hearing fine speakers Our
lake used for shipping but it be
day. -Idse Martens,
Sixth Grade. Big Stone City, S. D.
and
me, thing little town is
the school, it helps
the people
ton The right parents will send their children to school, They
teachers, grown
they will be good Industrious good edu
cation always in life School much better
countries the people education and
the people Some them
even write or spell their names.
B.
Sixth Grade Halock, MINI.
mn An Boys.
The river the interesting thing
affords year
the winter time much pleasure by skating,
and in the summer time boat rides frequent
There beautiful places along pic
mic parties and pretty shells along
the shore Going back distance the shore
varieties of wild
Is which is rendezvous small animals
quos, frogs, which
and also for the who
petitions short distance from beautiful
the boys swim and to fish, There the
the bluffs from the bay which spring
beautiful. IN Miller
Eighth Grade Dundas MINI.
of City.
The best thing city good Coming
from the lake the city Duluth
along the lake city be see
Park Point which strip long
block this
the lake from the harbor
to the Wisconsin shore
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EVENING SHADOWS
BY Monona Heath, Grade School
and that by the Mortified high
boys 10 H. last OF school
both and
guns contest which drills
drills Then the
they parade morning before
parade they have their graduating exercises.
Fifth Grade, Arthur Flaa,
School. Farbault MINI.
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By Gustav HUM, B 9Th Grade, Blaine School
play grounds out Of town
the background Here play right town.
Richard Poppler
Eighth Grade Perham, MINI.
Fairy Silver
thing the 1t great pleas
country hills which
with They look much like hills Of cotton
with children sliding down numbers The fields look
like dotted with cattle and
running they
laden with pearls diamonds And the which
another look like bridges of silver by
aries while snowbirds hopping about and
singing happily. Willis Denhardt,
Sixth Grade. Hankinson N. D.
From he
thing the there
away
rowboats aboats gasolene launches the lake. and
find pleasant boatride in the evening
it still. Many the~band the
band stand which built in the center of the lake. and plays
couple of hours. the real winter.
When there skating especially
evening Sometimes seighng parties
the three important buildings the
hospital, the high school and the public library.
A. Reynolds
Washington School, Falls
Champion of State.
shattuck school the thing
the school drill be soldiers
cadets baseball football This had the
pion football team of the state outside the university They
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By the Great Stone Arch.

very is the arch, the most interest
ing pretty place the two railroads It
is only quarter mile from the road there
Is very spring The it is
very pretty the species Of flowers be
large and through It small stream The
water very the stream
may almost point This is the interest
ing place walk out to it Sundays when
place alone watch the birds
pretty
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Beautiful Lake Como,

Como is very beautiful place,
places mat nave seen in ST. Paul. because contains
u lake. tall grand trees pretty smelling
thick green grass like the lake because may
pleasant boatride it. When the day
very refreshing This is the
IN the summer but in winter Frozen
very smooth and fine to skate like
winter because then lies in white beauty
the place of branches and
the place of the grass Christine Wondra
B Sixth Grade, 449 Vine st. St. Paul Mimi
Adams School,
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this when studying botany varieties
OF flowers and trees In the fall it beautiful
have turned red yellow. Nellie S. Hansen
Tenth Sank Center MINI
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A Network of Paths.

F off his.
There things like about city, like
bestzs the park It has bushes and
flowers in 1t during the Many
in when they walk often
plays there Two large it falls like
to the water rush them
that is in the lower
place when it is
the by park always
pretty and pleasant There number through
park from place to without walking
the green grass Howard Dressed
4 "A Sixth Grade, LIE Sueur, MINI.
Union School.
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The best thing city good Coming
from the lake the city of Duluth
along the lake shore he
Park Point which is strip of land long
block wide this point which harbor
the lake the habor
to the Wisconsin shore.
During the lake many
the harbor Surrounding the harbor
sawmi coal and lumber DOCKS ship building company
where of the boats the lakes
night during deepening
the harbor for the large boats The
the harbor and brings down sand with it, that why
dredges kept work.
The point used to be peninsula and connected with
Duluth but there
coming go to the
Superior canal On each side of the canal asphalt
and at the end Of each wall point
though rough the harbor will
be quiet. William McAuIey
Eighth Grade, 331 w Superior ST., Duluth MINI,
Washington School.
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Meant for Boys.
AS very large there not things
that interest boy thing that good about it that
it situated level prairie and there plots of dry
which the boys play These places to
have been for for they dry and just
large enough baseball football prisoners
base pullaway And here make all the noise
he wants to will interfere. In other towns the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22

"Queen he MidIands."
Our fair city as the Queen of the
aidands and rightly it has been
MONIES and We'll paved business
and better than our size Have
we not very beautiful Memorial almost
peted! Also orphans home built
oWa We point with pride
Where welcome is extended all.
street whose
10 the north OF But
IS that we have saloons staring
go up and down its streets The
the means OF bringing here
that their boys and might advantages of our
schools without coming in to found
IN cities where saloons permitted
A SIKH Grade, Nellie May Estraut
washington school, Mason City, Iowa.
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inspection engine shows that
power mighty black giant. Al
though engine le keeps numbers from
need gives advantage having sawml.
This benehtng people, the town husi
LISA Holden,
Ninth Grade. Ada MINI.
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Where Treasures
The most pleasant sand pit It is fun
go down there and make houses in the
pleasant to stand the banks and look
ests IN the BANKS Once when of
nere we found some white sand We put
don used It, There stones
enjoy hunting for the pretty many
down there in the time.
play IN the sand and hunt for pretty stones.
Helen Schaefer,
flIth drade Adrian, MINI.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
To the deep woods.
7The Flpp boYs devise another plot to {ool FatY.=

tY. &. n o
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-11-13
pvmrkin. and Muskrats.

Frank Berry, an old-time angler OF
Bohemian proclivities, states that ne
was at one time acting the genial
boniface'' over hostelry in western
New York village. A drain from the
cellar under the hotel connected with
= miniat ture lake some 200 yards DIS
tant. About 500 pounds of winter
souashes were stored in the cellar, ana
while the winter was yet young the
thrifty cook conceived theidea OF max
ing squash pie, but upon sampllng the
succulent vegetables it was found that
each member of the collection had been
punctured from it's neither surface anu
the contents as cleanly removed as
meat from the shin-bone in care OF the
family dog. This disclosure served as
the incentive to setting trap Tor the
mysterious burglars, with the result
that several muskrats were caught dur
ing the next few days. and new rec
ord of gastronomic achievements estao
lished for the rat-tailed family OF IT,
growers and StreaHa-
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A Venerable Wisconsin, Lady Re
stored to Health, by Peruna
After Twenty-Five Years
C.,f<ops1e Il
Suffering.
fsnecia, news from Evansville, wis.l

EVANSVILLE VISA woman
cured of catarrh of twenty-five years
standing was the occasion OF Peruna be-
ing introduced to the Inhabitants OF
Evansville, Wis. From that time 10 this
there has been g great demand for Pc
runa in this vicinity and hundreds OF
cases have been cured.
1t j., in this manner that Pcruna
spreads from town to town and from
state to state. No sort OF advertising
could have given Peruna the reputation
it has. The secret OF its success Is that
it makes cures. 1t cures old cases OF
catarrh where other remedies have
failed. This ought to make any remedy
popular.
NJ. c.. Il. Harden, OF Evansville, Wis.,,
writes the following letter:
| Dear Doctor Hartinan-"1 wish to
| write to certify what Pcruna has done
| for me. read of Pcruna in the papers
| of what it would Go for catarrh, ano
sent for a bottle. This was the first bot
| tie Of Peruna that ever came to Evans
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-11-13

.,:sxa@:ex from shakespeare De:: Sc
cred Under the Belief That They
Were from the Bible.

In letter tP the Boston Transcript
en- the subject of Interpretations. acor-
respondent says: 81 have in my scrap
book three notable quotations from
tie Thanks giving proclamation OF The
governors of different states. Gov.
Bell. OF Texas. began his with Now is
tIe winter Of our discomfort made
Glorious summer in The words of Holy
Writ | once attended a funeral in the
country where the clergymans open
ing remark was. My bereaved friends.
ycu have loved and lost the demised.
II has been truly said: at is imp"> i
be TO solve the biography of death"
That is. my bereaved friends. the on ::
way for us to look at IT,. acquaint-
ance of mine tells me that Cyrus Bur
le;rh. one of the wel1-known writers ct
50 wears ago. told her that he had just
come from a Quaker meeting. where lie
saw woman speaker rise and Will
a Quaker tone say. '"A hoss. hosS
nv kingdom for hoss. Doubtless
nv friends, the inspired Psalmist
when he penned these words. meant
spiritual hosS.' That was all she sa'd
and she solemnly resumed her place 81
the high seats.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-11-13
TEACHING CHINESE CHILDREN
The MongOlian Young ldea fs"" "'
to Absorb Learning 0uickiy o'
he Rattanned.

So MANY of the residents OF thlna
town have raised little Acknowledged
families that not long since they found
it advisable to start school siiiAi''
TO those in Canton. After some tfo"-
hle a schoolmaster was Obtalheo, anu
the institution was opened in Mott
s+reet not far from Pell street, says
the New York Post. Here the young
Chinese idea is taught how to shoot
in the most approved native style. Ihe
system is very different from our OWL
and in some respects compares 1a'or-
! ablv with the latter. When the school
was opened each child was entered un-
| der the name of it's father and It's own
milk name, as the first aPpelia'loh oA
a youngster is termed. Ihereupon tue
] schoolmaster bestowed upon each the
| school name which will remain until It
/ ;s q. This is in itse1fa nigh comPIl-
/ ment because the milk name is gro
| tesoue or effeminate. Each child, on
| being named, kneels and kow-tows,
and thanks the schoolmaster Tor MS
courtesy. Kneeling and kow-towlne
are repeated every day on entering the
|
| EMPLOYED the first two years IN the
| Chinese school, a blackboard, slate, ol
! a piece of writing paper being the flrs1
educational instruments. The teach
ing is effected by putting facts into po
etic form, one generally if not UNI
versally employed being the rhyme'
couplet.a The schoolmaster recites
slowly once, then the children re re
peatit. After the third time, any chll'
who cannot repeat it is rattanned. II
the beginning, two or three eouplets
; day are formal lesson. The NUMBER
increased to five, 10 and 20 day, at
cording to the quickness of the scho
ars. The children recite in chorus
and at times the noise is deafening. |
our own civilization there are trace
of this ancient system Of teaching
which give good idea OF the eaneS
method
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-11-13
BUILDING FIRE IN SNOW.
HOW the Trick Is Done by an Old
Wooixman. Who Furnishes Other
Valuable Information.

When you build fire in the snow
for your MONDAY lunch, always. my
dear tenderfoot. observe few simple
rules. In the first place get some nice
dry wood. Pine is best ("easy wood
Adam called iD. Split up sour pine
into fagots three or four feet long.
Make your fire by leaning your fagots
up against tree, which will serve as
a chimney to carry up the smoke.
Keep goodsized dry log for seat,
and when you sit down be sure to bury
your feet deep in the snow, clear up
to the knees, so that the heat OF the
fire will not melt the snow on your
shoes or stockings. If you allow the
fire 10 heat your foot-coverlng. ycn1
feet will get wet. The way to keep
your feet warm is, so to speak, to keeF
them always cold-that is to say, coid
so far as the exterior is concerned.
You must have on plenty OF wool sand
the warmth of the foot will 10 the rest.
says Forest and Stream.
''This stock which | am cutting,
said Adam as he hewed down a young
tree and cut pole about eight feet
| lok'waugan' Tor 'Chiplokuorgan). 1t
| means the fire stick or the 'tea-boll'
| ing stock You see we don't make
| fire and cook down on theeground the
way you Go in the west. We cant 'boh
a kettle in New Brunswick without
long stick to hang it on. You notice
| poke this stick into the snow. and the
| little end hangs out over the lire, ano
| hang the kettle on that end. so 1t car
not possibly spill, and it gets all the
| heat which comes up to the top OF the
| fire.
.sNow there is a funny thing about
this 'Chiplok 'waugan. After you nave
boiled the kettle you must always
throw the 'Chiplok' waugan' down, ans
never leave it standing up over TIT
fire. or by the fire. IT you do, that Il
bad luck. Just as sure as you are porn
No INDIAN and no guide who knows hl
business would ever think OF leav'n!
the ''waugan stick standing up by tn
fire. / was out with two CID trapPer
once. and we had gone about two mile
from where we had boiled the kettle
when all at cnce one of the trapper
i slammed his leg. and said that he ha
| left the ''waugan' stick standing owe
the fire. That settled IL He wake
, back two miles to throw it down. !"
+ didn't have very good luck at that, an
. he said he knew the reason.
; So much for some Of the wisdom c
: of ihe woods. l counsel you. my dea
: tenderfoot, follow very ~ciose'y '"ss
= rules for building fire and thrown
y down the "'waugan' stick"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-11-13

In the British steel pen-mnking trade
there are over 1000 women employed,
nearly ten times the number OF men
who work in this industry.
The Office of postmaster in Hobart,
Ind. has been held for four years ny
Miss Jennie Spray. Recently, when
some politicians put up male canui'
date to replace her, the town rose 10
protest and large delegation secure"
Miss Sprays rcappointmcnt.
AS a modeler of chiltiren's portrait
statuettes Mrs. Sarah Greene Wright
has earned an enviable reputation.
Mrs. Wright received her first inspira-
ton while watching some children who
were PLAYING in the Luxembourg gar
dcns. She has "a studio in New York
city and has the distinction of being
the only woman who makes children
por,rai, .,atuettes from life.
Miss Henrietta Aiken Kelly, OF
Charleston. has gone into silk culture
at her South Carolina home. She has
! studied silkwOrlns for years al various
places i'm Europe, especially on the
| estate of ,he due dt- l.it,a \iscontl'
| Aresc at Milan. italy. where silk cul'
| ture has been carried ON for about 0''
! wears. Her project has attracted iht
attention of the national depart me ~
of agriculture. for which Miss nelly
will nrcnare . manual for .-i.!.: C:s':'
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MANCHURIA A VAST LAND.
Contains Twenty Millions Oh IeopAe
and Is for the Most Part
Garden Spot.

The most populous province OF
Manchuria is that of Laotung, Wh1cn
is nenetrated by the branch railway
from Harbin to Port Arthur. For
a distance of 400 miles, extending
from the Sungari river to New
Chwanc. the railroad passes through
q level. well-watered region. denselS
crowded with population and under
the highest state Of cultivation, says
q London paper.
The total population OF Man
chtffia is various!y estimated from
,10. 1000, 900 to 25,Ooo.ooo. but there
seems little doubt that Laotung also
has a population OF as much as ~
OOO. 900. and that the total cannot oe
much less than 2o,CoG-00o. These. now
ever, are largely Chinese
The Manchus are fading race
their success in arms having. as Is
often the case. led to their ultimate
decav. for ever since the ESTABLISH
ment of the Manchn dynasty a
Peking. in 1914, they have beer
drawn in large numbers to Pekint
and to the garrisons stationed IN al
the principal Chinese towns. Here
| living comparatively Idle life an'
depending largely upon pension
from the general government 10
their support. they have 2ecom
enervated, while the quality OF thos
left behind in Manchuria has depre
! c;ated in character. The Chinese, o.
! the other hand, have gradually III
/ vaGed Manchuria till they carry o
! nearly all OF its business and swarr
in ali the centers of population
Gradually they are bringing unde
cultivation the vast areas OF fertil
land which under the Manchus ha
heen devoted to pasture or left t
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-11-13
VOL XVIII New Sries-Vol S SCOTLAND NECK,
WIT AND WISDOM.

Diamonds.-Diamond are worth
$300,0oO,000 a ton. Remember this
and don't pay a cent more.-Philadel-
phia Record.
In climbing up life's ladder, the
rung that we can't reach is always
the one where we would be the most
comfortable.-Ind News.
First Chicago Man-'I've been busy
showing the sights to two friends
from the country" Second Chicago
Man-"Where were they from-St.
Louis or New York. Town Topics.
Mother-''Fm afraid, Tommy, you
are not much of favorite with your
teacher" Tommy-"Oh, yes, L am,
| mamma: she makes me stay after
echool every day, just to keep her
company.''-Boston Transcript.
The villain in a play never has any
| tact; everybody hates him. his work
is so course. But in real life the vii
lain is so very smooth that he has
manv friends; indeed, many claim
that he is better than the hero
Atchison Globe.
The Honest Mani could have
told YOU that was a mistake, ex
claimed the honest man, WIFI
thougntless exultation. 'When conlt
YOU have told me?" demanded ~ths
other. Now the honest man o1dn
| exDect to be driven into corner
like this. Still, he was an homes
man. and so after momentaf.
struggle with his consc 'ence he re
pied honestly: Il could have toi'
you," ne said, ''just about the tim
YOU found it out yourself. .''ICi icag'
| Post
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ITEMS.

When the motorman of the street
ear that crashed into the presidents
carriage near LenoX, Mass, injuring
Mr.. Roosevelt and his companions
and killing two men, was asked why
he was running so rapidly. he is re-
ported to have replied: Because
had the right of way This is the
excuse of the saloon keeper; it eN-
nlains many deaths, but it will not be
acceDted as sufficient.-United Pres
byterian.
Acting on suggestion from the
London county council (England)
several of the metropolitan bur
roughs have added whisky and gin
to the list of things for public anal
rsis. The council has drawn thei1
attention to the fact that minera
acids are sometimes used to give
a special flavor to cheap spirits, ant
that sulphuric acid is OCCASIONAL.
added as an s'improyer' of whisk,
and gin.
The Total Abstinence society II
Vienna, organized some two year
| md a half ago, numbers 300 mem
hers. and is making much prcgres
along the line of temperance reform. l
| has undertaken to supply for tn
temperance work of German cour
tries what is still lack among Eng
disappearing temperance workers,
temperance paper edited from tn
| standpoint of organized labor. 1t
a monthly called Der Abstinent, e'
pecially well edited by DIR. r. Wla'
sak whose scientific training an
journalistic skill are of high ranl
while the paper is to-be devoted I
the organization of the total a
stinence movement it will WELDON
every provision that will reduce e:
cess in drinking, such as lnebrla'
ssy1ums, reforms in legislation al
She establishment Of temperance re
tausAnto.
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Sfa~f:;ne Statements from Kentucky Illinois and
ReCOVerIeS

I WILLARD, Ky.-The news of the
recovery Of Mrs. Elizabeth Prater is 4
very striking instance OF the wonderful
curative powers Of Peruna. This csti-
mable lady had been an invalid from
catarrh of the stomach and bowels for
twenty years. No wonder her many
friends are enthusiastic over her fecoF-
cry. She writes: alt is through the
mercies Of God and your medicine that l
am permitted to write you this letter.
have been g constant sufferer from
bowel and stomach trouble for about
twenty-five years, and could never find
relief until began the use Of Peruna. l
think it is Gcd-send to poor suffering
humanity. Mrs. Elizabeth Prater.