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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-19
5 500 Cine Christmas offers:

Boston, Mass, and return. $50. $40. 90
Buffalo, Ny, and return. .......:. So. 90
Montreal, Que, and return. ........ 81. 90
Portland, Me-, and return. ......... 100
Quebec, Que, and return. 1870
Toronto, Ont, and return. .s........ 5000
Albany, n. Y, and return. ......... 1000
Springfield, Mass, and return. 1000
and other points in proportion. Tickets
on sale Dec. u to o. Ask for new Christ
mas booklets at the ticket office, 119 Third
street S.
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A Swedish Submarine,

Plans for a submarine boat have been
prepared for the Swedish navy and they
are quite satisfactory to the authorities.
AS soon as the government has approved
the plans and provided the necessary
means, the navy department will begin
work at once on the construction, as
submarine vessel is deemed of the great
est Importance.
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a = =,
A Mouse and .. a Fire

A mouse is said to have been RESPONSE
BILE for the fire at Stalheim's hotel the
most famous tourist hotel. One Of the
maids was carrying. a lighted lamp I'M one
OF the rooms, when she espied a mouse
In her fright she dropped the lamp with
most disastrous results, i
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Holiday Excursions

Via the Northwestern Line on Dec. 1920
to Canadian points at one fare for the
round trip and on Dec. II to % special
low rates to Albany, Boston, Buffalo, Og-
densburg. Springfield. Syracuse, Water
town and many other Eastern and New
England points. Particulars, 600 Nicol-
let AVe>
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Remember the Old Folks.

Scandinavia Is getting some of the spare
cash in the United States. The Phila-
delphia, on her last sailing from New
York, carried 11,121 postal money orders
for Scandinavia to the aggregate amount
Of $126,9o2.S3, divided, as follows: For
Sweden. $S8, 242 95.s for i Norway $2S,
.994.36; for Denmark, SO, $685..
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Dane Becomes Scotch Provost.

Morten Fischer. ship broker and a
native of Denmark, has been elected pro-s
vost Of the city of Dallas Scotland., His
election has been much commented upon
from the fact that he is the first foreigner
to be elected mayor Of a Scotch city. In
England it has occurred but three times
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Wealth In Peat.

An engineer sent out by the Swedish
government to; investigate the peat boys
in Norrbotten, reports that there are
about $500, 900 hectares of bog land, of
which at least one fifth ought to furnish
peat. He estimates that the supply is
practically. inexhaustible and that two
tons Of peat are equal to one Of coal for
fuel. His recommendation is that plants
for converting peat into fuel be estab-
lished at once with a view of supplying
the railways and the mines.
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For His Fellow Men.

The late Carl Matsson. a landed pro-
prietor Of Lundby, 'Ostergotland, Sweden,
left his Whole estate 81 sc, 900 kr. to vari-
Gus charitable and educational institu-
tons, some Being, aotaf' aids tothers ma
tional.' His iwife..is,, hpweyedrito have an
income of 5000 kr, during her,life.
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Fishing In Norway.

Norways fisheries UP to about Dec. 1
had yielded 2S6.000 barrels as against
s175,000 barrels for last year. While the
Improvement is great it IS not satisfac-
tory. Last year was unusually poor. one
-of the worst years severs known, and while
the catch was much better thus far this
wear, it will not begin to equal one half
I the average annual catch. The prices are
fairly good, however, and have been
steady, so that there issa mea sure Of pros
perity along the coast. ~
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orpl1eus at "Jul.n

Orpheus Singing society is preparing to.
celebrate the glad "yuletide'' lin old fash
toned Swedish style Odd Fellows hall.
800 Nicollet avenue, has been engaged for
the afternoon and evening Of Dec. %. A
mixed program has been arranged. The
occasion will be a. farewell for Charles
SWei1son, the musical director, who leaves
for California on Dec: 80.
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Want Ads Are Little Agents Working All
- the lime.

1t don't pay to keep articles YOU don't
want Now is the time to dispose of SUCH"
articles. The best and surest way. is to
insert a small adlet in the Classified Col
umns of The Journal and allow it to do
the work. Others have succeeded. so can
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road stocks as we'll The evidence that
the tide of grain and money at last has
turned from the west to the east has
caused many Wall street interests to
turn bulls on the stock market
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500 Line Local Holiday Rates
One fare for the round trip between all
local stations. Tickets on sale Dec. 81,
90. %. Cd, %, %, 20, 80 and 81, and JAM 1,
1908. Get particulars and Christmas book
lets at the ticket office, 119 Third street S.
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MOVEMENT OF COIN
1t Flows Towards the Seaboard
- Wall Street Pleased. ., :" =.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York. Dec. 19.-Wall streets in
formation from the west is that the move
ment of grain. especially corn, to the sea-
board has fairly begun. The cold weather
in the granger country has already made
q great deal of new corn grade up steam
er Inspection and hundreds Of thousands
of bushels which it was thought ten days
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1.-THE Golden state,'' "Under the Tur-
quoise Sky "Glimpses of Mexico" LOS
Angeles are the titles of some of the
elegant booklets which can be had at the
Rock Island ticket office, 1922 Nicollet av.
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500 Line Local Holiday Rates

One fare for the round trip between all
local stations: Ilckets on sale Dec: -,
1903. Get particulars and Christmas book
lets at the ticket office, 119 Third street S.
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RIILDING PERMITS.

| C. H. Hagemeyer, 3O17 Calhoun boulevard.
dwelling $3.90G. .1.-
| Four minor permits, $1,700
| Total, 81 700. -: ~.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-03-28
Milking "IIeIen'a Rahiesu Go

John Habberton, the author of "Hel-
ems Babies said to his publisher when
the novel WAS about ready to appear.
IF you want to save the cost of a
great deal of advertising, Just give me
800 copies of this book, and I'll guar
antee to distribute them so that well
have success without a cents worth
of advertising being needed" The
publisher, little reluctantly, took Mr..
Habberton at his word.
The author thereupon made a list of
all the important bookstores in the
United States and found out the name
of the head of the department of tic-
ton in each store. Now, the heads of
all book departments are all fiends in
the collection of autograph first edi-
tlons-that is, with the authors sigma
ture upon the imprint. There is scarce
ly an exception to this rule. Mr.. Hab-
berton, being wise in all that concerns
bookstores, accordingly sent to each
head Il copy of "Helen's Babies" that
contained not only his autograph, but
on the merit of the work The heads
were delighted. They instructed their
statesmen and saleSwomen in the book
department to boom "Helen's Babies"
to recommend it to every hesitating
customer. And thus the book succeed
ed, though it would have succeeded
anyway upon its merit.-Philadelphia
Record
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-03-28
Discinline Amnnr Ants

The region of the Amazon is overrun
by an Interesting species of an S known
as saubas They are represented as
the curse of the country because Of
their social and military organization.
Some observations upon the discipline
maintained by them were made by C.
Darlington Brown:
We were greatly amused by singu-
lar struggle going on between a soldier
ant and his working fellows at the
mouth of their underground nest. Some
eight or ten of the workers chung on to
his legs and antennn and tried to drag
him back as he endeavored to come out
of the hole.
Although he was furnished with
huge mandibles, he did not lose his
temper nor Try to bite them, and it
was evident that, although they de-
tanned him by force, they never nipped
him hard.
During the struggle they allowed two
or three other soldiers to Saunter out
past them and 20 roaming by them
selves. 1t appeared rs if this particu-
lar individual had behaved badly. was
under arrest and was now being pre-
vented from breaking barracks. The
end of the struggle was not witnessed
by us. and it will never he known who
gained the day but from all appear
ances it went against the soldier.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-03-28

ment, but to boldly declare his love in
the face of everybody and ask for Aunt
Milly's hand. Aunt Florence was in
clined to be neutral, and Susie had
nothing to say. So it came about that
the lovers pledged themselves, and the
marriage day was set for three months
ahead. Susies seeming Indifference
was annoying to the happy hearted old
maid. who wanted everybody to rejoice
with her, but the only explanation she
received was:
I'm doing lot of thinking just now.
and you wait till l get through, and I'll
congratulate you"
She had dim remembrance of hav
ing seen a photograph of the professor
before. She cudgeled her brains for n
week, and she still doubted as she took
the train for New York one morning.
On reaching the city she took a cab to
police headquarters, in Mulberry street,
and when finally ushered into the de-
tective department she astonished the
inspector in charge by asking to look
at the rogues' gallery.
"Any particular picture?" he queried.
Yes. sir: want to find the photo
graph of the man who is going to
marry my aunt if | don't stop him,
though it just occurs to me that you
can't have pictures of professors here"
"Oh. yes. we have. scores of them"
he replied. Here's Professor Mar.
shall. who delivered lectures on as
tronomy and robbed postofficcs the
same night: here's Professor Massarin,
who made study of plant life and
worked the gold brick racket at the
same time; here's Professor Du Bots.
the eminent student of geology. who
went about New Hampshire studying
rocks in the daytime and stealing
horses at night; here also
You needn't go any further" inter
rupted Susie as she turned away. Are
you looking for Professor Du Bois?"
I'D give $500 to see him on a little
matter of business"
Susie said nothing on her return
home. 1t was only when the newspa-
pcrs containing an account of the ar
rest of the professor arrived by post
that she took Aunt Milly out into the
orchard and handed them to her to
read and asked:
What are you going to do about it,"
"Why-why," answered the dazed
woman as she let the papers fall from
her haads and looked about her in a
pitiful way, II ought to faint away,
oughtn't II"
Yes think that would be the prop
er caper."
''Then | will"
And she did. and when she returned
to consciousness her romance was
ended.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-03-28
Forgot Their Sorrow.

In his autobiography, The Making
Of an American" Jacob A. Riis tells an
amusing story of a visit he once made
to the house of three sisters whose
brother had been drowned:
ut was very hot July day. and to
guard against sunstroke | had put
cabbage leaf in my hat. On the way
over | forgot all about it, and the leaf,
getting limp, settled down snugly on
my head. like a ridiculous green skull
cap. Knowing nothing Of this, was
wholly unprepared for the effect my
entrance, hatless, had upon the weep
ing family. The young ladies' ceased
crying. stared wildly and then. to my
utter bewilderment, broke into hyster-
ical laughter. For the moment |
thought they had gone mad. For some
years afterward the thought of it had
the same effect upon me that the cab
bage leaf produced so Unexpectedly in
that grief stricken home"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-03-28

I DON'T LlHE THE LOOKS OF THAT MAN"
use to try to deceive me, for you can't
do 1t. This giggling and simpering
around and writing for hair dyes and
complexion powders mean love. Who
is the MANI"
Aunt Milly blushed some more and
fenced some more and then owned up.
lt was relief to own up and have
somebody to share her joys and antici-
pations, and she was glad of the Cd.
portunity. Yes, she was in love. 1t
wasn't the wishy washy love of
young girl, but strong, deep feeling,
Rounded on respect, admiration and
!: friendship. She had been introduced to
professor while in Boston. Professor
doiden. He wasn't connected with
any college, but was processing" on
his own hook and delivering interest
ing lectures on physiology He hadn't
called her an angel and fallen in love
at first sight. On the contrary, it had
taken him five or six days to discover
that he had at last met his affinity. and
ne had skipped her face entirely in
summing up her graces. All this and
much more the bIushing aunt related
to the inquiring niece. and the latter
finally demanded:
Now show me this mans photo.
graph. ] know you've got it,"
!. Aunt NIilly almost lied about if. but
nnaily produced cabinet photograph.
IShe was Of course wearing it over her
heart 1t was the typical professor"
or rather more so, and after a long
look at the picture Susie handed it
back with the remark:
y Il don't like the looks of that man.
and I'm going to keep an eye on things.
III he Doesn't know more about corn
cures than physiology, then his photo
graph is way Off"
y Aunt Milly was shocked. upset and
angry, and her defense of the professor
was vigorous and decisive. They were
mot actually engaged as yet. she adj
'mitted, put he was coming on soon for
. visit and would then doubtless pr
pose for her hand. His letters were
t~e%8tAA4t, uO cOlllu rpDU
them without almost reverencing the
3Writer. She refused to exhibit them
put q few hours later Susie had the
Weanness to steal and read every one.
She saw that the professor had neg
ected photography and grammar in his
schooling, and the only beautiful thing
\. \ sue could discover about the epistles
d was MS statement that he sought for
'narte" to beat responsive to his own.
ut was no use to say anything further
Gto Aunt Milly. She was "sotv in the
y matter and loyal to the absent one A
week later Professor Holden arrived
he was distinguished looking man
AS Susie looked him over she believed
6<she could distinguish him from most
yfaklrs by the grease on his hair and the
Wet Of bis ready made coat. He was n
l|Falriy agreeable man Of big words and
leccentrie ways. He hadn't come to
aprQpose = secret marriage or an clone
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-03-28
Strange Things About Plants.

Strange things are found among the
plants and vegetables. A well known
student of nature once tried the grow
ing forces Of squash. When it was
eighteen days old and measured seven
teen inches in circumference, he fixed
a sort of harness around it, with long
lever attached. The power of the
squash was measured by the weight it
lifted, the weight being fixed to the
lever When 1t was twenty days old,
two days after the harness was fixed
on it, it lifted sixty pounds. On the
nineteenth day it lifted 5000 pounds.
The seed Of the globe turnip is about
the twentieth part of an inch in diam
eter, and yet in the course of a few
months this seed will be enlarged by
the soil and the air into 27,000,000
times its original bulk, and this in ad-
dition to a bunch of leaves. 1t has
been found by experiment that a turnip
seed will under fair conditions increase
its own weight fifteen times in a min
ute. Turnips growing in peat ground
have been found to increase more than
$1,000 times the weight of their seed
in day.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-03-28

When nature wants something DONE
she is apt to inveigle an animal into
doing it. The mole is bent only on
catching earthworms. He makes his
long burrow near the surface and then.
travelling up and down its length, he
picks up all the worms that stumble
into his way. his slender nose serving
as an effective instrument for with
drawing them from their burrows.
think. too. he eats the beetles and cut
worms that lie in his path.
But while he is intent on his own
work he is at the same time loosening
up the soil and letting the air through
it and mixing up the leaf mold with
the earth, thus enriching the land. 1t
is aggravating to see the ridges that
mar the surface of our lawns and gar
dens. but we must put up with thar
for the sake of the good of the soil
Besides | suspect his claim 20 the land
is an earlier one than ours-Ladies'
Home Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-03-28

a roar and crash of thunder. and the
gale was upon them, driving resistless-
~, steadily, from the east. They were
on time now and soon would he ahead
of the schedule.
Donohue, remembering the words Of
the yardmaster. rose to shut off some
steam. They skinned over a bridge
and Will felt it sway beneath them
BY the lightning he had caught a
glimpse of swirling waters and realiz-
ed that in another five minutes that
bridge would be down. Were there
others like it? His fireman touched
his arm.
For Gods sake" he shouted. shut
OIL, Bill! Waverly trestle's just a mile
ahead. and heaven knows whether
she there YETI
Donohue nodded and turned to shove
the throttle in. 1t would not bulge,
lie took both hands to the task and
failed. Again and again he threw his
whole weight on it. Suddenly it went
home, and he fell to the floor of the
cab. In an instant he was on his feet.
and flash of lightning showed the
trestle hanging in midair some dis.
lance ahead. They were running nine
ty miles an hour, with gale to push
them forward, slippery rails and wet
wheels for the brakes and an engine
which needed plenty Of room in which
to stop!
On the instant that Donohue rose
from his fall the brakes flew TO the
wheels and sand poured on the steel
a stream of fire fell from the drivers
and from every wheel on the train.
with struggle the engineer reversed
the engine. She Shuddered as il in the
clutch of death; she reared and shook:
she seemed trying to tear herself to
pieces, but her speed went lower and
lower. The brakes gripped the burn
ing wheel treads with grasp of iron.
AS she ground along her flanges some
how mounted the steel, and with n
struggle, last terrible leap, she tore
herself loose from the rest of the train
and plunged over the embankment.
Mcdonald had jumped long ago, but
Will?
With a cry he felt the engine that
had won his heart from the start, his
love of a single night. crash off the
ties. He reached for the throttle and
grasped it. When they found him,
buried beneath the ruins of his engine
he still clutchpl the chOker i'm his cold
lifeless hands. He had gone down to
his death with $50, but the train was
saved.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-03-28

I'M TIE By
IN ILL E. M.
DOCI|ES Hastings
sGALLE RY...
d o o
1902, by A. S. Richardson


when Aunt Milly returned from her
visit to Boston. she was changed Wo.
man She lad gone away Il stalu old
maid of thirty-seven, with never a OIL
Of nonsense about her. and she had re-
turned flustrated-that is, she slmpered
and giggled and acted "glrly she
took 70 wearing bows and jewelry, and
she was anxious about her eyebrows
and the mole on her chin. Her sister
FIorence. n widow and the head of the
house, noticed these things with some
thing like establishment, but reserved
comment. She argued that they were
the legitimate results of a woman get
ting away from the sober influences
of her country home and that they
world soon wear off. Her daughter,
Susie Warden, was the third member
Of the household. Susie had been de-
nounced as worldly by the old maid.
She had also been charged with CO.
ouetrv. 1t had even been limited that
she was heartless. All this because she
cared more about her horses than for
the Young men who bowed to her good
looks and her future financial pros
meets and because she preferred a walk
through the woods with Il gun in her
hands and a dog at her heels to sitting
on a rustic bench and flirting with
callow youth.
Susie had never been in love or any
where near it, but Aunt Milly's symp-
toms did not escape or deceive her
She Judged them to be symptoms of
love, and her curiosity was aroused.
What manner of man could have touch
ed this old maids heart? All sorts Of
men might fall in love with a girl; but.
according to Susie's reasoning. only
one or two sorts would fall in love with
an old maid, and especially Il homely
one. She thought things over until she
felt In Il measure responsible for the
aunt who knew nothing of the pitfalls
of the world. and then she tackled her
one day with:
Look here. Aunt Milly, you are in
love, and want to know all about it,"
"My dear child. but what can you
mean?' gasped the aunt as she blush
ed as hard us she could and bit her fin
ger nails.
Il mean that you fell in with some
man in Boston who talked soft to you
and that you are getting two letters
week from him and answering them
with exceeding promptness. 1t is no
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-03-28
Z OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
!, HOW NO. 5
I'LL WAS SAVED
BY A. p. PAYSON
Copyright, 1902, by A. p. Payson {
'oooocoooooo0ooooo0o0oooS
BY A. P. PAYSON

The enginemen had struck. They
had gone out in body, and they had
gone out to stay, but in spite of their
unity the road was by no means tied
up. True, the crews were forced to
double, and some of them came from
the offices. but nevertheless traffic was
not greatly interfered with.
No. 3, the westbound mail. was sched-
uled to leave at s p. m. and to run the
lO1 miles in two hours and three min
utes. The engineer selected to take
her out was one who had been en-
ployed for that day only, but he had
shown. even in that short time, a will
ingness to do things square"
AT 7:20 he went down to the round
house. His fireman. John Mcdonald,
had just put the finest engine in the
service, No. $50, on the turntable. and
she was swinging slowly around to her
track.
As the engineer stepped near she
gave slight 'phut" and moved slowly
off to the solid ground. She looked