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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
work of F. Fiend, ESQ, Foiled.


Whlie grinding out poem on the Whang-
uooole Yesterday, this column was brought to
pause by hot yellow fire In the light we'll
next door. Having gone through several fires
IN the last ten years. nearly every newspaper
writer or setter in Minneapolis is prepared
10 crop suddenly and forcibly out of whatever
window may present itself and to stay outside
until the Fire Fiend has had it's game out.
There was the usual racket Of talk, type
writing machines and boys playing tag yes
terday, when a sudden silence all over the
building lasting about two seconds, followed
by rapid overturning of chairs and pattering
or feet attracted attention. An unattached,
uninterested voice said, There's a fire. y
That was enough and everybody moved, some
OF the boys putting on their cuffs, and others
unscreWing their typewriters. A calm and
collected genius turned on the iron shutters,
hut not before a glimpse into the light we'll
showed window full of flames roaring like
a high-priced tailor over last seasons bill
About this time several large, coarse fire.
men appeared, and with NO politics about it
whatever ruined the whole event from an art
istic point OF view by turning the Mississippi
cut. Er- ~ s-a,. ...
After that nothing was left but the talking,
the six or eight people who had discovered the
flames being free to mention that fact, and
the parties who had been burned out in the
Great Tribune Fire of 1889 easily obtaining
an audience when they told how they had
escaped by walking a telegraph wire, using
a paper file for balancing pole.
Fires look very simple and amusing after
they are out, but when they are in, the best
place to be is out, and that's where we in
aging editor. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

The Journal is on sale at the news
stands OF the following hotels:
Pittsburg, Pa.-Du Quesne.
Salt Lake City, Utah-The knutsford.
Omaha, Neb.-Paxton Hotel. -..-.
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Denver, Col.-Brown's Palace Hotel.
st. Louis. Mo.-Planters' Hotel, Southern
Hotel.
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Boston, Mass.-Young's Hotel, United
States, Touraine.
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House.
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Detroit, Mich,-Russell House, Cadillac.
Washington, d. C.-ArlnSton Hotel, Ra-
leigh.
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Northern. ID
New York City-Imperial, Holland. Murray
Hill, Waldorf.
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Portland, Oregon-Portland Hotel, Perkins
Hotel.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

Governor Van SAINT should, be very care
full to select the right sort of men for the
Minnesota commission at the St. Louis
exposition. They will have large amount
OF money to expend and a very important
service to perform. They should be men
who will view the choice of assistants
purely In the light of merit. The matter
or the choice of superintendent is es-
peclally important. Unless disinterested
commissioners are appointed the state
may not have the right man In this i'm
portant place. 1t should profit by past
experience. ,..-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26


HAD TO BORROW A NEIGHBOR'S
HORSE AND WAGON" 1872: XII
congratulated him. Instead Of being guyed
by the passers-by, as he worked in his fields
men climbed the fences to shake hands with
him and invite him to make investments
In the years past even the homeliest old
maids had declared that they would drown
themselves sooner than marry such poke
of a man. Things were different now. At
least half dozen old maids and three or four
widows began sending in custard pies and
jellies and currant wine and giving their
opinion that Mr.. Joseph Harper would show
Off with the best of them If he only had
wife to give him hints and suggestions Joe
did not come out Of his shell very far, but 1t
was afterWard remembered by a good many
that he had something like a twinkle in his
eye as he shook hands with his numerous
well-wishers. - ..ar
Unknown to any one but his doctor, Joseph
Harper had a weak heart, and one day he
overexerted himself and died at his own door,
So far as was known he had not spent dol
lar of his find and as he had no relatives,
there was much curiosity as, to whether he
had made will or not, and who would come
in for his money. A village lawyer soon
gratified curiosity as to a will One had
been made only. six, months before the old
bachelors death. More than that, it con-
cerned a score Of people, each one Of whom
was notified to appear on the day of the
funeral and hear the document read.
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Copyright, 1902, by the s. $. Mcclure COM
pany @
Joe Harper was an old bachelor He owned
and worked little farm and kept house for
himself and he had little desire for the COM
pany of others 1t was said of him that ne
never was known to laugh, and anything in
the way of joke flung at him as he plodded
his way to town or back home again was ut
terly thrown away or course everybody held
him up to contempt or ridicule.
He had been living thus for ten years when,
one day, in hollow tree on his own farm he
found a great heap of money. There was such
weight that he had to borrow a neighbours
horse and wagon to convey it to the bank in
the town. He tried to be very secret about
it, but the matter became the gossip Of the
county Neither Joe nor the banker would
tell what the sum was, but people who took
a look at the hollow three estimated it at
$780, COO Those who didn't take a look placed
the fgpres at $4,000 and also added lot of
jeWelry to the find.
1t was passing strange what a change took
place in public opinion The old bachelor had
callers by the score, and each caller warmly
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
THE LUCK OF A GREENHoRN
Boston Herald.

Down on the Wenham golf course, a few
weeks ago. new member was playing around
the links for the first time. It, was really his
first serious effort to play golf. He made q
pretty good strike-off from elevated tee
across valley to the top Of "a hill about
seventy-1ve yards beyond. Thinking to have
a little practice across the valley. he struck
his ball back toward the green beside the tee
whence he had previously struck off The
ball sailed gracefully over the hill, and, to
his inexpressible surprise, the player heard it
go .'kerchunk'' into the hole on the green.
He had struck ball seventy-fve yards and
landed it in the hole Probably few players
ever did such thing, and this player says
he does not expect ever to do it again If he
plays golf for quarter of q century. 1t
was "the luck of a greenhorn. = s
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The suit of John H. Parks against John
W. Gates for share in Gates profits Ie-
sult1ng from the organization of the Alnerf-
can Steel and Wire company of Illinois and
New Jersey has reached the arguments Of
counsel before Justice Traux in the supreme
court. -..--.|
Counsel for Parks Austin &. Fox, said that
he rad intended to introduce testimony from
William Nelson Cromwell but that Mr..
Cromwell was busy in Washington and his
testimony would probably be ruled out any
way. He therefore intended to ask for an
interlocutory decree and that under such
decree he would seek 10 introduce the evil
dence of Mr.. Straus Of Selignian & Co., and
Others who would tell how much of the
profits of the steal AMI wire deal YVES de-
vided among the promoters
Mr.. Guthrie, after slight objections. said
that he would let the request foc an inter-
locutory decree go without objection. He in
timated that he did not how Parks could
get any sort Of a decrec.
Mr.. Gutherfe said that it was absurd TO
contend that because Mr.. Gates and Mr.
Parks had been partners in an enter
prise which had resulted in no promoters
profits" Mr. Parks should all through the
rest of Mr.. Gates life have a right to claim
a share in every profitable investment which
Mr.. Gates made. He asked for dismissal
of the complaint with costs.
Austin Fox, attorney for Mr. Parks said
that be was satisfied thai there hal beer
rakeoE Of 81 ,0000. 900 somewhere and that no
small part of it had been turned over to the
friends ard associates Of John W. Gates as
the share of the .iasns' crowd in the pro
motors profits. Mr.. Fox read numtcr &C
messages passing between Gates and Parks
and held, that they showed that Parks was
understood to be working all the time in
Gates interest.
Justice Truax took the papers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
The Nonpareil Man

Children's Verse, No. 2-The. Gideon
GObulin.
It was a. Gideous Gobulin!
He climbed the Gumbo Tree
And made the Hideous Faces
At Katherine and Me.
He tucked his Mouth behind his ear
And pulled his nose awry
His other ear hung limp and loose
And Katherine said, 20, N.Y.
And then he tried to brighten us
By loudly saying ''Boon' 9
But Katherine bravely looked at him
And sternly said, 20, you'll
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

valuable resources of the islands as soon
as franchises can be obtained. and our
government will set another example OF
good faith in keeping it's promises made
in December 1898, to give to the Filipinos
good government and protection of the
liberties and property Of the people and
promoting their welfare in every way.
This 1t is doing.
Meantime the democratic proceedings on
Friday night will be of interest, no
doubt. 49, .t
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
SATISFACTORY EXCUSES

A girl absent from school for half a day
brought the following satisfactory excuse:
Miss teecher-My dotter's absents yesterday
was unavoidable. Her shoes had to be half
soled and she had a sore throte. Her konsti-
tushun is delikit and If she is absent any
more you can knew that it is en- account of
unavodabel sickness or something else" A
boy absent for half day laid the following
explanation on his masters desk: Dear sir,
please excuse Henry. He went to grandpapa' s
funeral with me this forenoon. ! have been
promising him for several weeks that he
might If he was good, and he has been very
good SO I kept my word
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
A TRADE WORTH CULTIVAHING

Those St. Paul manufacturers who are
arranging to establish a permanent ex-
hibit Of their goods in Winnipeg, largely
with the purpose of keeping in touch with
the large American element that is now
their generation and their Minneapolis
competitors would do we'll to take SINH
lar step. The extent of the American
movement into western Canada is not APP
preciated by our people, neither is its
profound significance understood The
following official Canadian figures show
how large a part Of the total immigration
into that section is American and how
rapidly it's proportion of the whole move
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

Yesterday the first abandoned lands
were certified to the state forestry board
as unfit for agricultural purposes and
suitable for forestry administration. The
lands are situated in Cook county and the
former owners have not seen fit to pay
taxes on them. This IS but feeble be-
ginning for state forestry system, but
great things may grow out OF It,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
DISAPPOINTED
Baltimore Sun.

little girl had a quarrel at school with a
little Jewish girl and, when she got home,
she denounced the Jews. Her mother said,
reprovingly: my dear, you must NOT talk in
that way The Jews were Gods chosen peo-
pie Our Lord himself was Jew" After a
deep thought the child replied. in a
tone OF horror and regret: oh, mama. i
didn't know that I'm SO sorry. I always
thought he was an Eptscopalian.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
COMPLAINTS

Subscribers will please notify the
office in every case where their pa
pers are not Delivered Promptly,
when the collections are not
promptly made.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
An Insolvent Company.

Attorney General Davies has brought a
suit to wind up as insolvent the German
American Real Estate Title Guarantee COM
pany of It's Broadway, and Justice Glider
sleeve has appointed John Henry Hammond
temporary receiver. The state insurance de-
partment, which recently made an investi-.
CATION OF the affairs Of the company, reported
that dts capital of 100000 had been impaired
s40S 44s, or s1.96 per cent within a year. The
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
WHEAT ELEVATORS

Castles or Titans' houses, or huge fanes
OF ancient gods that yet compel mems
fear
What powers, what pomps, do these betoken
here,
Looming aloft upon the plow- scanned plains?
Souls of ripe seasons and spirits Of sweet
rains
Flock hither. and the sinewy, yellow year
Heaps their high chambers with Pactolian
More precious than those golden Lydian
grains.
No fortresses, nor iemigods' abodes.
These are upraia d to well-feared deities
Whose will is iron. and whose splendid
sway
Is undisputed now as when great Rhodes.
And Tyre. and Carthage, hourished serving
these.
Or Joseph stored Egyptian corn away.
Arthur Epson.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

One of the later dime novel heroes is Fred
Fearnot, who has run through series of
lbI DOCKS meeting with adventures that
astound and embarrass the mind. When "the
KID is keeping quiet it is safe guess that
ne IS following the bloody career Of F. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
Daily New York Letter

last annual report of the company put the
assets at 81, $685. 900 and the liabilities at ST. 371
600. Since this annual report the item OF
borrowed money has been liquidated by a
transfer of all the equities in real estate
owned in fee to, the creditor advancing the
moneys represented by the item This credi-
tor is Russell Sage.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
AFTERMATH

He who for love has undergone
The worse that can befall
Is happier thousand fold than one
Who never loved at all.
) A grace within his soul has reigned
Which nothing else can bring.
Thank God for all that I have gained
BY that high suffering!
Lord Houghton.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

HOLSTERS Have Met" M. Champney
McChampney; Bill & McSuorter; $l.75. This
handbook of society in New York city is in
valuable to all who are nerving themselves
to get into our set.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

The official estimate for 1902 is from
$4,000 to $4,000 from the United States.
The former figure is probably nearer the
truth, but, at any rate, this year more
people are. going into western Canada
from the United States than from any 9TH
er country or region.
The native Canadian naturally has a
certain prejudice in favor OF Canadian
made goods, other things being equal, but
this new American population will have
distinct prejudice in favor of American
goods. The Canadian tariff is not so
high as to make it out of the question
for Minneapolis manufacturers and job
bers to go after this trade. On some ar
ticles, it Is true, the tariff is practically
prohibitory, but the success Of American
manufacturers of agricultural machinery
points the way for others to establish a
good trade with the new country.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
CONTINUED

All papers are continued until an ex-
plicit order is received for discontinuance,
and until all arrearages are paid.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
Mr., yanderbilt.s Pictures.

1t is expected an unusually attractive fea-
ture Of the spring opening of the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art, early in May; Will be an ex-
hibition of the collection of paintings owned
by the late William H. Vanderbilt and now
at the home of George w. Vanderbilt Fifty
first street and Fifth avenue. 1t is said the
PAINTINGS will be loaned to the museum for
a year during the absence of George w. Van
derbilt, who, with his wife, sailed to-day on
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. There are
several hundred pictures in this famous COLI
lection, and it has never been publicly ex-
hibited
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

chicago boasts a parrot who uses golf
language, causing the neighbors to pull down
the open windows . =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

wen, anyhow, Poultney Bigelow has a
warm friend in the German emperor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
CasuaIly Obseryed.,

The war department would like to retire
General Miles to a padded cell on. the army
ration, did not the democratic party need a
new Moses so badly.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

revivalist who combines religious wor],
with the selling Of oil lands is exciting the
disgust OF the Congregationalist published in
Boston. ..-a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
KukeliI< Sails for England,

Jan Kubelik has sailed for England on
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse and will APP
pear in London soon after his arrival there
He will return afterward to Prague to see
his mother. The American season of the
Youthful Vioinist might have been EXTENDED
but he was anxious to keep his London
engagements and Mr.. Frohman agreed to give
up the concerts contemplated here. No ar
rangcments have AS yet been made for Kute-
iik's return to this country, but it is prac-
tically settled that he will come back and
spend the greater part OF next winter here.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

Wheat is down to 70, but lot of farmers
are so prosperous and we'll liked this year
that they can easily afford to wait until it
IS in the fifties before selling their last years
crop. .-v..-.. -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

Or. Bixby is making personally conducted
tour or Nebraska and finds much to stand up
FOR He refuses, however, to stand for the
celluloid doughnut and India rubber pie at
the Nebraska hotel.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
ADJUSTMENTS
FOyer Chat.

Marguerite Sylvia, supported by Nixon and
Zimmerman's big company of comedians and
singers, will give the last performance Of
Miss Bob White" at the Metropolitan to-
night.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

Miss Daphne Pollard, little 7-year-old
comedienne, will play Corporal Lance in "a
Gallety Grip at the Metropolitan o-morrow
night, by the Pollard Juvenile Opera compa-
ny. From criticisms of this company's per-
formances in other cities it is gathered that
Miss Daphne is a whole show by herself.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

The enormous success that Viola Allen has
achieved during the past three years, first as
Glory Quayle in The Christian" and during
the past year as Dolores de Mendoza in :'In
the Palace of the King" has been wonderful
Miss Aliens stellar honors have been fairly
won. Her appearance here the first half of
season. 40. '.[ s... +.
Two new songs which Andrew Mack has
written for his new play, tom Moore will
prove a source of interest to the many admir-
ers of the sweet-voiced comedian. One of the
most promising is number entitled "Sweet
Love- of which great thingns are expected.
1t will he heard at the Metropolitan for the
first time the latter part Of next week.
care You Buffalo?" attracted a large au-
dience last evening at the Bijou.
AL H. Wilson, the golden voiced singer,
will be the attraction at the Bijou next week.
presenting 1.-THE Watch on the Rhine ro-
mantle comedy-drama by Sidney R. Ellis.
The play is produced with a full complement
of beautiful scenery, showing pictures of ia
nous points on the Rhine. the Schloss of
Heidelberg and other places famed in song
and story. During the action Mr.. Wilson will
sing six new songs, each a gem of exquisite
melody and sure to become popular. They
are entitled Love Is All in All, . My Little
Fraulein," "In Tyrol," "The Tea Kettle
Song" "Wlen Parading" and "A Song Of
Home The company in support of Mr..
Wilson Is claimed to- be above the average
and thoroughly capable and satisfactory.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26
New Devices for the Astor.

Work upon the Hotel Astor, which will oc-
cupy an entire block, and which will repre-
sent an outlay of $5,0O0,O0o, has begun. When
completed, the hotel will take rank as one
of the most imposing structures Of the city
The building will be ten stories above the
sidewalk and two below Brand new devices
will figure in almost every department of the
great hotel. One of them will he auto
matte dish-remover. Walters at the Hotel
Astor will waste no time in carrying dishes
from the tables. They will simply transfer
the dishes from the tables to the remover
and, presto the soiled china will be whisked
automatically to the washing-rcom The no.
tel will be absolutely freproof, but in every
room there will be automatic fire alarm.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

The Wilmar Republican Gazette says:
:. State Senator Miller, Of Luverne, has many
friends who would like to see him named as
the republican candidate to succeed Governor
Smith who is not candidate for reelection
it Is said The senator is brainy man.
and as honest as the day, and enjoys an en-
yiable reputation as a friend of the people
They say the second district is going to
support Colonel Everett of Fairmont for clerk
of the supreme court. All that is said of
Senator Miller is true, but he. is not a
candidate. s6 az
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

Reports from the Todd, Wadena and HUB
bard district indicate that rival combina-
ton is after the scalps, of Senator Jones and
Representatives Babcock and ONeil. Colonel
E. B.~Wood of Long Prairie is the candi-
date for this combination for the senate, while
Colonel G. A. Whitney of Wadena and Ed
Hines of Park, Rapids have joined forces as
candidates for the house. Senator Jones may
not desire q rem nomination. owing to i'll health.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-26

L. A. Rosng, private secretary. to Governor
Lind is willing to be his heir apparent
While democratic leaders are still talking
Linl for governor Rosing's name has been
mentioned III some quarters, and apparently it
is not distasteful to the chairman of the state
committee. 81