The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-17
THE NONPAREII, MAN

Sunshine as it happens to feel at the
time.
On the other hand. let lady weighing
from IS to los get on the scales and it
puts her down to IS while the phonograph !
yells TRY Dobb's anti-fat It cured
others; It will cure you,'' or something
equally inane. People are found who are
said to consider these things worthy OF
laughter.
I'm South Orange. N T., large tracts
of marsh land have been flooded to pro-
tect the town from mosquitoes. Tall grass
and fern have grown up around the VII
lage, and behind these the deadly insects
Turk and rush out upon the unarmed
traveller. 1t is unsafe for elderly and
feeble people to appear out after dark
This is the story that an eastern paper
brings. The New Jersey mosquito has
been considered something of joke, but
it is all too evident that he is not in the
octopus state entirely for the climate
In Worcester, Mass. typewriters'
union has been started ito embrace all
operators except those who conduct bust
ness OF their own" 1t may be all right
for the union to embrace the typewriters.
Mary MacLane has a new book coming
out. After drawing $4,000 or so from
her first effort. Miss MacLane is justified
in thinking once more.
The Little Fork Guardian editor, while
acknowledging that the Little Fork VAL
ley is not more than fifteen minutes ride
from Paradise, is still willing to confess
that the mosquitoes of the valley are each
one as big around as a lead pencil and
are charged fuller of poison than Colo
RADIO rattlesnake Very few people will
no fn11r,1 y1,n will hot
county mosquito is a, bird. He can hard
| ly be called an insect without doing vio-
| lence to the term. It is evident from the
| last number Of the Guardian that one Of
these marsh eagles has recently taken
throw at the editor, for the Guardian
| says, feelingly:
! 1t is our ambition to get rich enough to spend
our summers in Duluth, that beautiful city by
the hillside. The hills are high. and the air is
pure There are no mosquitoes there to drive
a person insane and no fools to make you believe
| they are the only thing earth.
| The Guardian then returns to the value
of the land in the Little. Fork valley. It
| says:
| This valley and the Big Fork are the only
| places of Importance in the state where best
land and timber can be had under the free home.
| stead act. We have disposition to mislead
any one. There would be money in it for us.
/ directly indirectly, and there is glory in
being liar. Good honesteads can be had. but
and next year people must go still farther. a
person weak of heart has no business homestead
! ing. He must have courage and sinew. A
man must trust in his and gun he has no
business homestead in this valley. He must
not pay attention to shadows Fullerton. He
/ can't be dude nor vag. Since we are not in
the locating business we just tell the
| truth. Any coming here for homestead
may expect hard tramp in the forest. lasting
perhaps three or four days, depending upon the
kind of claim. wanted
4 Locating companies have been in the habit Of
locat ting people near the townsite for the past
three years and are still at it, altho every claim
! near by is long since been taken. Farther of are
claims just as good around here but they
cannot be gotten to in buggy. People car
get good claims here, but when coming to hunt
for them they should leave at home bicycles and
that tired feeling.
This is rather discourag ing to the pale
pills we read about in the patent medi-
] cine adds. Doubtless it is safer for some
of us to take up our claims in the Wilds
, about two miles north of Excelsior, MINI