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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21

ing for hint is that horrid Clara Mack.
who told me only yesterday that she thought
she'd marry him. and he doesn't even look
at her, though she's waving her handkerchief
Here, Friday! Go quick! Fetch him; good
tdog!" AS she pointed shoreward the sagaci-
Gus animal, with pricking ears. bounded Off.
Hill heard the dogs view halloo, but did not
turn. Friday painted alongside, whining and
wliggling excitedly, but Hill quickened his
pace The steamer was rounding the point.
Then sFridav grew more earnest II Mis-
tress Kate wanted this man now. whom she
didn't want a few moments ago, she must
have him at all costs. Her cousin cavalier
believed implicitly in the divine right of
queens He took desperate measures. and
Hill suddenly felt the dogs teeth in his
sleeve, while more glazing mud silhouettes
were being planted on his back to match the
ones in front.
1sOh, it's me you want is it?'' Hill under
stood now, and a light came into his face. He
did not need the eager assistance of the four
footed Mercury who wished to drag him bod
| lily back to where a very rosy faced divinity
was digging her parasol in the sand
"Here he ISL barked FRIDAY. sure now Of
his well-earned pardon:
'.You look like the ten of SPADES Tho
girls denlure eyes were raised to Hills face,
I sparkling with mschief-and something else.
The man looked into them. and a cloud Of
1 pain swept over his face like shadow. He
! could not read the sweet cipher in her eyes.
Before he met Katherine no code had been
needed to rad the books in women's looks
! Their glances were messages of unalloyed
Invitation to the son of old Samuel Hill, the
millionaire.
Don't play with me now, Katherine he
/ pleaded. did you really send Friday for
me?"
She was screening her face with the rufaed
sunshade and appeared not to hear.
| foro no nj
Clothes she unused judcialiy. though when
there are SO many poor people in the world,
| cold and ragged
| were bought he Interrupted THE papers
| got it twisted. The suits weren't tailor made
| for me, but just good, warm hand-me- downs
for needy convalescents at the hospital.
though the papers didn't get that side of it.
You see, I sent OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES be-
cause-we1l, hate publicity in that sort Of
thing" he blurted out as shamefacedly al
| though confessng crime
Katharine felt quick rush OF something
1 stirring in her heart, sweet something that
i softened her bright eyes to tenderness. She
lowered her tent of chiffon, lest he should see
and brought up the other reason-the real
one.
But can't forgive your making love to
"1 couldn't help it, He apolosized for
that crime imoenitently.
/ when YOU are engaged to Clara Mack,
she finished.
"I'm not engaged to anybody" he denied
Indignantly. and if you'll only be engaged
to me. CARING
4 There were two under the chiffon tent now,
an1-but no one saw the rest. not even Fri.
= day, their canine Cupid, for a ruf11ed sun
shade covers a multitude of things.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21

Frank R. Stockton novelist and humor
st, who died in Washington yesterday at
the age of 6S, has right, up to. the last
been giving us writings as fresh and
vivacious and cheerful as those of his
earliest years. Many great corporations
now refuse to employ man who has
passed IS. If the publishing houses had
refused to accept Mr.. Stockton's manu-
scripts after he was As, the world would
have been deprived of twenty four years
of his best work. Isn't the young man
getting more than his share Of modern
life?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
The Nonp areil Man
socinI MeIange.

/ Mr.. Jaymes, Gantney will entertain at a.
coal shoWer5sto be given at his home, 1900
columbus avenue, Monday evening for Mr.:
Fraynk Hynes vino is to be married next
week is
Tuesday evening Mr.. Chahles Johnson will
give lumber shower for Joseph Martyr on
Mr.. Martyn's lot on Portland avenue, where
he expects to build soon g s Se
Wednesday MI, Wyll Henley will entertain
at a garden tool shower tor $aaryld Blan-
kinson ~ veg
Thursday night a tobacco shower will be
given tolMr. Hehnrae jackson of South Wash
ington avenue. 41t'S = 70 -+s
A parcel shower for Mr.. Aedward Jones
will be given at the home OF Joehn% Joe Thurs
day evening. Mr. Jones' was the recipient OF
silver7mounted rake, yester day from wealthy
relatives in Caifornia.#tThe, wedding occurs
o-night MIR. Jones going away trousers are
black. 49, =. /. 81. - 80.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
VAR TRIES THE NERVE
by "a Lima1haa.

4 y Il
To-day a. man may die as soon - tlb,
enemy.s long guns, hidden away in the dis
tant, cloud topped mountains! seven miles
away, begin 0to talk And over that seven.
miles he must walk with caution, with a.
wide interval between him and his pals on
either hand: 4 he must lie down atSevery short
halt and scratch the ground hurriedly with
his little spade at every long one, for the
great shells are sailing toward him, and he
sees by his officers eye and hears by his
commands that it is considered that he may
perish at any moment, and that precautions
are necessary to- preserve him. He sees,
moreover, how futile those precautions must
be if one Of those monsters bowling over
head should land as near to him as the last
one did to that blasted tree, for instance,
with it's scorched, dangling limbs and the
huge, charred :fissure in its stout trunk, or
as the one before did to the team of mules
in the ambulance, wagon, now a screaming.
struggling tumble Of harness and bloody
flesh.
All this is dispiriting and appears unneces-
sary. The country on all sides is as peace
full as his native dale, not a sign OF an
enemy. Even the great blue hill ahead, or
which he is told the enemy's long guns are
posted, looks as quiet as the mountain on
a Christmas card. Yet for two miles he
walks through death, thinking only Of it be:
cause there is nothing else to- think Of anc
then, as twilight falls, ebiyouacs in EXTENDED
line, sees his friends run for their tea be,
tween the fall of the shells, notices one o.
them time his run; back badly and meet
projectile"in full career, to part from 1t ar
awful and disgusting offense, and then liel
down in the darkness with shaking nerves
and the thought that five worse miles still
intervene between him and the guns he know
he is intended to take.
Next morning he is awakened by shell
is marched with infinite caution for TIVE
more miles, sheled the whole way, is shellet
even in his bivouac by the light of the moon
and as he watches the projectiles BURSTING
like waterspouts of fire along his hillside i
glad when he is told that to morrow will b.
the battle, after which if he wins and II h
lives he may be able to walk and sleep II
peace for a space.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
"THE WHEAT. TRILOGY"
New York Sun.

Frank Norris is hard at work on the second
volume Of his wheat trilogy. THE Octopus"
Just missed being a great book; but the au-
thor has, at least, courage lacking in his.
.confreres and dares to grapple with giant
problems.
1.-THE PITT is to deal with wheat distribu
ton as THE Octopus dealt with wheat pro-
duction Later "The Wolf will tackle the
problem of wheat consumption.
Mr.. Norris has spent several months IN.
Chicago, haunting the wheat pit and studying
the market and it's phenomena. Later ne
followed the same course here in New York,
and now he has employed an experienced and
canny brokers clerk, who spends his evenings
with the author and acts as court of appeal
il all puzzling technical problems.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
To THE SUPREME BEING

The prayers I make will then be sweet in
deed.
II Thou the spirit give. by which pray
My unassisted heart is barren clay,
That of it's native self can nothing feed;
OF good and pious works thou art the seed,
That quickens only where thou sayest It may
Unless Thou show to us Thine own true wa.
No man can find it; Father! Thou must lead
Do Thou, then, breathe those thoughts int
my mind
BY which such virtue may IN me be bred, q
That in Thy holy footsteps | may tread; s
The letters of my tongue do Thou unbind. s.
That may have the power to sing to Thee,
And sound Thy praises eyerlastip gly. ts,s.
81 wv illiam Wordsworth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
A MAGNETIC CANNON

Professor Birkelands electric magnetic cam
non has recently been given severe tests at
Christiania. The gun works magnetically, the
shell being drawn out OF the bore and not
impelled as by gunpowder. The professor
claims that, by the use of magnetism as
motive power a 1O0o-pound shell can be given
greater range than by any Of the established
methods. The firing of the gun causes neither
smoke nor sound
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
..THE COST OF IT ALL"
New York Times.

NEW
A glimpse of the late Cecil Rhodes is had
in letter written from Kimberley soon after
the British occupation Of the city.
Even dreamer, his mind filled with visions
of empire, Rhodes ore day in Kimberley was
picturing the grandeur of British South Africa
when the rich lands should be developed
under the British flag and the great colony
should be tied to England by lines of fast
express steamers and by a railroad to Cairo.
Just then litter was borne by. Rhodes
face was illumined by enthusiasm. He had
just said: "The cost of the struggle is as
nothing to the fruits that are to be reaped. F"
) The litter bearers paused to change their
hold The fairsface Of an English soldier
lad was turned toward Rhodes, and the
wounded boys pain drawn lips moved,
Sympathy changed the expression OF
Rhodes face as he stepped down to the dying
soldier.
81 am not afraid to die gasped the boy,
bravely, ''but there is no one to take care OF
mother
81 will provide for her, said Rhodes, SIM
ply, as he made note of the mothers name
and address, and he strobe quickly into the
house. with tears in his eyes. muttering:
"Oh, the cost of it; the. cost OF it ALL
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
A BUNCH OF CHAuNCEY.s JOKES

Prominet men receive all sorts Of things by
mail, but letter found in Senator Depew,s
mail last week will match the most Of them.
1t is from a small town in southern Indiana.
Dear Mr.. Depew," it said, 1--WE are getting
UP a negro minstrel show for the purpose
of buying a sett of colored dishes for the Bap-
list church. We are to have four end men,
two Of, whom are women, and one interlo-
YOU know VINO mean Il can't spell it,, who
sits in the middle. We need lot Of new
end decent jokes, so as not to shock. There
are lots Of old women In our church. Won't
you sit down and write us about fifty good
new jokes; some things that have never been
used before? Make them 'spitters as this
show is for now sett of dishes for the Bap-
fist church Please grind them out as soon
as possible and send them to me- P. S-We
will put on the programme: All these origi.
nal jokes were made up by Chauncey De-
pew That will pay you for the work. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
WORK OF "BUsTLING AMERICANS"

Pierpont Morgan is still in front of the
stage. What he cannot buy in the world is
not, apparently, worth buying. But trib-
ute must he paid to the magnificent talent
with which the Morgan syndicate and other
American combinations and moneyed persons
succeed in impressing themselves upon the
worlds attention. If they accomplish even
one-quarter of the projects with which they
are connected by rumor and announcement.
the world. will shortly be SO Americanized
that nothing will remain but to. adopt the
Stars and Stripes as the common flag for tho
great powers. One thing the bustling Amer
leans certainly are effeetng: they are stir
ring up many dormant energies and ambitions
in Europe aud provoking spirit OF competi.
ton and emulation which cannot fail to be
beneficial, and to no country more than 70
Britain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21

1t is to be hoped that the latest Black
Hills-Twin City railway scheme has more
substance to it than it's predecessors.
These cities ought to be aggressively in
favor of and helpful to any scheme that
has fair promise, of direct railway .connec-
ton with such rich and hourishing re-
gion as the Black Hills. .-..,' -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
THIS IS GENE WARES WORST

father said unto his hopeful son:
"Who was Leonidas, my cherished one?'
The boy replied, with words of ardent nature:
Gle was member of the Legislature.
'How?" asked the parent; then the young
ster saith:
.He got a pass and held her like grim death y
.Whose pass? What pass?' the anxious
father cried:
g Twas Their monopoly the boy replied.
In Difference to the public we must state
That boy has been an orphan since that date.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
WHAT IS A SAINT:

Life of Joan Of Arc, by l.. Petit de julie
Vile.
What is the essential, inVariable sign Sof
-saintlness? Is it not the ardent and unre-
hitting desire Of a human soul to accomplish
within itself the divine will?s That man is
saint who honestly and with all his soul
and power seeks to learn what is Gods will
in regard to him., and who, When he has
learned it, has only one desire and thought
DEATH
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
STRICTLY ACCURATE IN DETAILS

STRICTLY ACCURATE IN DETAILS
Professor Gallaudet, who has done SO much
toward educating deaf mutes, tells this story:
One of the professors favorite pupils, an
unusually precocious child, was asked by
his teacher if he knew the story of George
Washington and the cherry tree. With his
fingers the youngster repeated the tale with
out a break, until he came to the point where
the elder Washington questions his son.
when Georges father asked him who hacked
his favorite cherry tree. con tinued the child,
moving his signaling fingers almost as rapidly
as some persons move their tongues, George
put his Ratchet in his left hand" Wait
a moment" said the professor; how do you
know that he took the Ratchet in his left
hand?" Because answered the boy, "he
needed his right to tell his father that he had
chopped the tree
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21

Now If the house of representatives will
adopt the Crumpacker idea and put the
speaker out of the rule making commit
tee, the other members will count for
something
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21

THE lou r. N A l. is published
every evening, except sunday, at
4SA40 Fourth Street South, journal
Building, minneapolis, Mimi.
c. j. Billson, Manager Foreign Adver-
Using Department.
NEW YORK OFFICE-vS6. 81, SO Tribune
building.
CHICAGO OFFICE-3o7, 3os Stock Ex-
change building.
WASHINGTON OFFICES Post build
Ing. w. w. Jermane.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21

OF three pieces. OF band, saw with DuttOnhOleS
in them, in place of:the. collars sent in.
Jim hickey, in the Chicago News, COM
plains of his top-story fiat, but admits that
it has one advantage. 1t is so high up that
he gets his cream from the Milky Way. Still
the airship dumps ashes and old bottles on
his roof parlor.
The Omaha World Heraldlis alarmed over
Cecil Rhodes bllionaire trust to buy UP all
the available peace. We do not care If the
peace is cornered; it isJthe antics in meat
and coal that annoy us.
There is a poet on the Denver News who,
notwithstanding appearances and the price OF
meat, is daily letting out smooth and Tyr
zeal chirp about the millennium, which is pie
tured las now coming down the pike at a
rapid pace, bringing in the dawn of brother
ly love, prosperity and equality. The note
that the poet strikes is so optimistic that it
CRATES on the jaded soul Of DR.. Bixby of Ne
braska, whose muse sees too much Morgan
and Rockefeller. In a neat little poem the
doctor calls on them to get off the highway
and let the chariot of hrotherly love pass by.
At last accounts Morgan, Rockefeller and the
rest were still holding the1very middle of the
road in a most selfish manner
Considerable real estate moved yesterday,
much of it sitting in at the cracks in the win
dows and doors. sSEAs q
Hicks does not fear drought. but he says
that inject life'' will alight on our agricul-
tursts this summer. **s:f Prs
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
COMPLAINTS

u Subscribers will please notify the
Office in every case where their pa
pers are not Delivered Promptly,
or when the collections are not
promptly made.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
Notes From the Field.


There is great rivalry between Main street
and IaBree avenue in Thief River Falls over
the baseball championship of the town.
Main street challenged the LaBrees for a
game in a sassy manner and got the follow
ing answer from Manager Mason,
In last weeks issue of your family journal
there appeared a challenge from an ,aggrega-
ton of rooters horn hooters, printers devils,
ex-wrestlers, old-time sluggers, illegally i'm
ported Cinnamon, ex-real estate men and bro
ken down sports of Main avenue, for. a game
of baseball with business men. clerks. JAM
tors, dray1nen (havng single out), saloon
keepers and judges, who may be picked up on
La Bree avenue. Therefore be it known by
these presents that the above challenge is
accepted with much pleasure: NO..
No bloodshed Is expected but a game hot
enough to scorch the diamond is promised.
The Harmony, MINI, News tells Of genius
who can make everything except living.
There is Sone@in almostCefery family.
The Owatonna PEOPLES Press. describes a
lecture by the Rev. C.: L., NORTH, candidate
for mayor of Minneapolis, as follows:
IN Il most charming manner. he took his
hearers ove1 the route he had travelled and
in brilliant language introduced them to
events of interest. At times the clergyman
was in evidence but the lecture was long
way from a sermon. r
Aalecture by DR.. Morrill, without the doctor
sin evidence" would have been indeed a
preacherfne. - -. -.
DR.. H. D. Jeneks, health officer of Pipe
stone, has sued the city for $500 for services
during three months Of. smallpox His bill
was turned down by the council. He says he
ought to have made it $4,000, but that he
is going to collect $500 or lose limb in the
| endeavoT e! -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21

paigning in Samar is not. a pleasure trip.
The natives agree with General Smith.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21

1t is too bad that there is not as much
uncertainty as to whether meat is up as
there is as to why it is up.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
WHO WROTE sHAlxsPERE:

S. T. James of Leeds, England, has entered
the Bacon Shakspere lists, with the discovery
Of what he regards as conclusive evidence
that neither Bacon, nor the bard of Avon
wrote the plays attributed to the latter The
real author, he says, was Bernard Shaw, and
he proves it by pointing tosthe fourth letter
from the end Of the titles Of eleven Of the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
CONTINUED

All papers are continued until an ex-
plict order Is received for discontinuance,
and until all arrearages are paid.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21

have their employers we'll instructed in
finance.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
.ntOny anu CIeup
Ills Neil That Ends

Mr. Shaw, however, is not pleased with this
discovery" because tits an insinuation that
his work is no better than Shaksperes after
all
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
CASUALLY Observed.

A young eastern candidate for the minis
try has denied Adam. Adam is rapidly TAX
ing Jonah s place as the theological Mrs.
Harris.
Meat is now. at a point where, fried horn is
a luxury. 800 = p
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21

The laundry combine is now returning two
OF three pieces of band saw with buttonholes
in them, in place Of the collars sent in.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
Form Of Services for Methodist..

At a recent, Methodist conference the desire
was expressed by one of the clergymen Tor
prescribed form of service and prayers in
that church. At recent Presbyterian meet
ing an eminent minister advocated the OBJ
servance in that denomination of the Holy
days, such as Ash Wednesday, Good Friday
and the like. A Baptist church in Harlem has
Just introduced a srrpliced choir and pre-
cessonal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
To Boycott. Meat.

The Central Federated Union spent great
part of it's session to-day in discussing the
feasibility of the members of its affiliated
unions abstainins from beef and mutton for
a month as one means of inducing the beef
trust to lower their prices of beef and mutton
AS a rule the thin delegates favored the anti
meat idea. The fat men of the Central Fed
Grated Union declared that it was ridiculous
and impracticable.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-05-20
STUMPIOwN COMPANY
Met Yesterday-WIN Probably
Drill Gasser Deeper.

The members of the &ursptown
Oil and Gas Company met yesterday
afternoon for the porpose of transact.
Mg business. Outside of routine work
nothing WAS done except the coming
TO the conclusion to have the recently
struck gasser at Stumptown drilled
though the sand in which the pay
was found a few days ago.
1t was thought by some of the mem
bers that such step is almost impos
sible as the force OF the gas is such
that tools cannot be kept in the vel
long enough to sink it though III,
strata, the top of which was reache
when the drilling was stopped by tn,
arising conditions. The meeting
was adorned and the business will be
concluded next Monday afternoon In
Attorney V. b. Archerfs office on
Juliana Street. Sentinel, May IA
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-05-20
BrOOksville.

Editor:
Mt seeing any thing in your val
liable little paper from this place tor
quito awhile, / thought would pen
you few Of the doings OF our people
in general.
Strangers have been very numer-
GUS within our gate for the past week
or two.
7. NJ. Cox, formerly of this place
but now of st. Marys, was a pIessa n t
caller in town last week.
The famous law suit between l. c..
White and Benz. Taylor was decided
last week III favor ofthe plainti8.
On last Saturday evening the
Death Angel visited the home of Mr..
and Mrs. James w. Rogers aud took
from their fond embrace their four
year old boy, after short illness of
brain fever. The remains were in
tered in the home cemetery on Sun.
day. The bereayed parents have our
heartfelt sympathy.
Attorney j. M. Wolvertor, of
Grantsville, was professionally en-
gagged here last Saturday.
Madam Rumor, in her fiattering
way, tells us that lheae will be a we'd
ding in town in the near future.
There Mas 6shing club organized
here last week who chartered II. S.
KING hts gasolene boat the Hurricane
and proceeded down the river Old an
excursion: to be gone about two weeks
Luck to you, boys.
Capt. II. A. Ferrell, Of Freed, was
pleasant caller ia our town las. Sat.
urday and Sunday.
Mrs. Lydia Terrell, of this place,
made a flying trip to Graptsville last
week.
Quite a number of town folks at
tended the funeral service of Mrs. Ed.
Davis, which was preached at the
Big Bend church last Sun day.
There is quite lively fight over
the post office at this place, caused by
the resignation Of n. B. Ferrell
r. F. Hickman is treating his res.
idence in town to q nice coat OF
paint, which adds greatly to its APP
pesrance.
Frank Devore, Of the finn Of De.
wore Bros, who has some very val
liable holdings in the Metz oil field,
and who has = we'll going down on
their DePue lease. has bsen here for
the past week booking after their in.
terests.
RANGER