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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
California, Via Tourist, Over the Rock
- - Island Railway. =

l., In selecting a route to California. the
altitude and climate Of the country trav-
ersed should naturally be given considera-
ton The Rock Island system not only
has the shortest line to the Pacific coast,
but also passes through a territory Of the
lowest altitude and most genial tenn
perature. Beginning Wednesday, and
every wednesday thereafter, the Rock
Island Railway will run tourist car from
Minnea polls to Los Angeles without
change over the Rock Island-El Paso
Route, leaving the Milwaukee depot at
7:10 p. M. The car will be Of the latest
Pullman design and up-tc-date in every
respect, and you may be assured of a
most comfortable journey II you go this
way A double berth through costs but
Sc. and a nicer way to California cannot
be gone over Information and literature
on California can be had at the Rock
island ticket office. 322 Nicollet5 avenue.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
PARENTS DIDN'T KNOW
1t Was Their First Baby and WASH
PrODerlv Fed. ',.

The report that a 6-months- old baby
had died of starvation yesterday at o.
Fourth street S, directly opposite the
100000 courthouse and within few
doors of the stately new chamber of COM
rnerce, was unjust to Charles Blake, the
baby's father. and to Blake's young wife.
The parents have not been destitute. They
have provided enough food for this their
first child. But the 1S-year- old mother
did not know what kind of food her baby
should have.
The Blakes came to Minneapolis from
Albert Lea last summer. Their child was
born at the city hospital. yes, he was
a little thing said the mother this morn
ing, ''little and so thin. And he never
got much bigger Even at the hospital
his natural nourishment was Inadequate.
although no substitute was suggested by
the hospital physicians. Soon after the
child came home it was forced to live
upon an artificial food. -
! The father had fairly regular employ
ment. He bought what the inexperienced
mother thought best for the baby-con-
densed milk. On the advice of friends
she added to the milk crackers softened
| in water. But the nutritive defect at
| tributed by doctors to most kinds of con-
densed milk brought about result none
| too uncommon.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
DEATH RATE OF CHILDREN
It Has Decreased so Per Cent Accord
Ing to Health Department
Statistics,

The noteworthy feature of the vital sta
tistics table just issued by the health de-
partment, covering every year since the
organization Of the department in 1890.
is that the death rate among children
under years Of age has decreased in the
face Of the great increase in population.
The death rate among persons above 80
years, on the other hand, is much greater,
indicating increased longevity OF the popu-
'ation as a whole. ,,>. ID.
In 1890 the deaths of children num-
bered 1.275--a percentage OF SO. In 1895
this number had dropped to sra per
ccntage of 42:7S. Last year the total was
53S-a percentage Of 25.52. = - ::
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
The Savings Bank
Of Minneapolis

for the purpose of accommodating
that large class of customers who
wish to keep their money on call
and at the same time have no i'm
mediate use for it, issues a Certifi-
cate of Deposit, the chief features
of which follow:
Interest (at present> per cent. remit
ted list January.
Issued in sums of 500 or multiples
thereof only.
Must remain on deposit till list January
next or lose the interest.
Secured by collateral specially set apart
for their redemption.
Certificates do not need to he re,
newed.
The Bank also accepts deposits OF s..
and up on Pass Book Accounts Interest
per cent on sums left a full quarter.
Banking hours: Daily. 10 a. M till
p. m. Saturday, 9 a. m till noon. Extra {:
Monday evenings, till p. m.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
CALL FOR REV s. &. SMITH
ST.. Paul Pastor Said to BE choIc. q
- = - Westminster Chapel Of r. =:
-. .. : London, :,

Telegraphic reports say, that Rev. sam
uel G: smith, pastor OF the People 8
church. ST. Paul, has been called to West
minister chapel, the largest ConErega II
church in London situated about two
blocks from Z: Buckingham palace. DIR.
Smith said last night: -..s.- Il
*'''I# have received no word from any
church that would warrant me IL say
ing that have any idea Of quitting st.
Paul 1t is true that have preached in
the pulpit Of Westminster Congregations
church many times, over a period OF eight
Years It Is also true that i will visit
Europe this summer II my present plans
hold good ~-> =: ~ ~ - 81 s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
REV. P. A, MArTsoN ELECTED
He Is President Of Foreign Missionary Of
q..r Swedish Lutheran Churches.

The annual meeting Of the Foreign Mis-
sonary society Of the Swedish Lutheran
churches Of this district. which was held
yesterday at the Bethlehem church,
Bloomington avenue and Twenty fifth
streets, was we'll attended. The election
Of officers resulted as follows: Rev. P.
A. Mattson president; Rev. G. j. Carlson,
vice president: Rev. J. G.. Hultkrans, sec
rotary; Rev. F.. O. Stone and Rev. J. A.
Frost. members of. mission committee;
G.. j.. Collin. G. W.. Olson and August Pc
terson, turstees. ,5r.
At the opening of the meeting Rev.
J. A. Gustafson of Marine Mills spoke
Of the work of the great missionary Paul,
and deplored the scarcity Of workers in
the missionary field. Other speakers were
Dr., J. Telleen, English missionary in the
twin cities: Rev. A.. F. Almen, chairman
of the board of trustees, and others. In
the evening Rev. c. A. Hultkrans deliv-
cred an address on foreign missions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
GOOD SHOW At the Dewey TIL. week.
business Opportunities. for. All.

Locations in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota
and Missouri on the Chicago Great West
ern railway; the very best agricultural
sections Of the United States, where farm
ers are prosperous and business men sue
cessful: We have demand for compe-
tent men with the necessary capital for
opportunities for creamery men and mill
ers. Good locations for general mer-
chandise. hardware, harness. hotels, banks
and stock buyers. Correspondence solic-
tied. Write for maps and Maple Leaflets
Nv. j.. Reed, Industrial Agent 6o4 Endi-
colt building, St. Paul, MINI. #g$
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
WHO WAS THE DENTIST?

Man Who Pulled Teeth Of c. w. Dallas,
Who Bled to Death, Can't
Be Found.
Mrs. C. w. Dallas of Franklin, Pa.
whose husband died at ST. Luke's> hospital
in st. Paul. as result of having two
teeth extraced. arrived. in st. Paul yes
terday. Every effort to find the dentist
who extracted the teeth has been in vain
Mr.. Dallas will be buried in Forest GENE
terry.
"Good Show at the Dewey This Week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
To Hot Springs, Ark.

Reduced rate tickets on sale daily. The
North Star Limited is the only up-to-
date train to the south. W. J.. Hatha :
way. city Ticket Agent, No. Washing
ton Nv s. &. 5 SO
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24

There are all sorts of chances to buy,
Isell = or exchange anything YOU; have or
haven't published daily ii The j journals
classified columns. 5sSSts - Il 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24

p r G follow town talk "
-7s-h-N-k-7s : t-*. - =
"ThIs IS the ght So for 81 shtrts!'''
$3.50 for 75c. Hoffman's Toggery Shop
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
ADAM HANNA.

treasurer.
1o7 Fourth street S. Bank Of Commerce
building.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24

!, -. ,:..~. It's So Easy Now &
to stop, Heada che. Neuralgia. all pain,
colds, Grip with Orangeine Powders.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24

Doerr's Banner sc cigar Is a peach. Peo
pie who have smoked them praise the
quality. Doerr's Factory ESQ.,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24

Piso's Cure-4O years in the market and still
the best for coughs and colds. 25c per bottle.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24

"Good Show at the Dewey This Week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24

MAKE your own TERMS.
HENS AND HORSES.

H/ISIT THE Poultry Exhibit,
y and Horse Show, Mime
apolis, January 26th February
3rd. Reduced rates on all
railroads. -.
The daily sentinel., 1903-11-11

Ye BOOKIAN'S business is 10 supply people
. aoih the best books waste no time reading Ual-
ate1ess books. Kno,O fer books aoeH rather than
4 many books indiFeremty Big fish saoim IN deep
arater Ye Bookman has books 10 please The eye
l and instruct the mind Prices Poe to $500 the
POL To eramine these books as your pleasure
1 You may call at the ''Deat' or Ye BOOKMAN
! lciH call at your home office and show yom
1 of his good stuff. 4 postal toiH do it,
Ye BOOKMAN.
George ~ Falconer. "re
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-19

It was Maj. Sheldon, OF Gen.
Woods staff, my old friend of the
stocking incident.
That night we slept together on
the summit of the Ridge on which
the enemy had been encamped the
night before, and he told me he was
a married man.
In answer to my question as to the
fair charmer, he said:
MY heart never got over the flut-
ter that note found in the stocking
gave it. When l got able to leave the
hospital at Cincinnati L went to
Nenia, and after a long search L
found that the initials stood for
Louisa L. Nevins,' one of the bright
est, prettiest and noblest girls that
ever lived. 1t was case of love at
first sight. and, after satisfying her
family as to my character, she took
me, one arm and all, God bless herl"
And l fervently echoed, as / laid
my hand on his empty sleeve: God
bless the fair lnitter whose home is
in your heart, dear Sheldon"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-19
FLAG ON EACH GRAVE.
Old Glory's Oo1ors Kept Constantly
Waving in n Cemetery in
Illinois.

Old Glory is kept constantly waving
over the graves of soldiers dead at
Stillman Valley, ILL., The people of
that town have singular and unusual
way of keeping alive the memory OF
the brave. a small American flag is
kept waving at each grave during the
entire year. When the colors fade, or
the flag is frayed, or the staff broken,
new flag is substituted, and thus each
headstone bears the colors from one
years end to that of another, SAYS the
Chicago Tribune.
This not only applies to the dead of
the civil war but to the resting place
of the nine men who fell on the field at
Stillman Run in the battle with Black
hawk and his warriors.
There is a local post of the Grand
Army of the Republic in the town, but
there are only Is members left. This
little band OF veterans decorates the
graves of soldiers at no less than three
different cemeteries on each Decora-
ton day. The soldiers in the local
cemetery are first attended to, then
the men who sleep in little country
burying plat four miles from the valley
are visited and their graves strewn
with flowers. Then the vets. march
back over the hills and hold services ON
the knoll where the Blackhawk VIC
tins lie buried. At the head of each
one of these gravesis the regular metal
flag holder designed by the grand
army. The holder is cast with socket
into Nybinb tho Nyop6a, ctam Of 40
neatly and securely slips. From a dis
tance as far away as the eye may
reach them nine flags are seen flutter-
ing in the breeze every day in the year.
If the wind breaks one off it is imme-
diately replaced.
This spot is now marked by a mag
niticent monument purchased by
money appropriated by the legislature,
but the people of the town bought the
a cent. The citizens were not reim-
bursed by the appropriation. The
money was raised by the Stillman VAL
ley Battlefield Memorial association,
which received perpetual charter
from the state and which is as new to-
day as when it was formed. The asso-
citation is taking excellent care of the
place. 1t has been inclosed by four
rows of young trees and cement walks
are laid around the entire square.
The association is holding out that
this monument has more than paid the
state of Illinois for all that it cost. 1t
marks the only battlefield on Illinois
soil. 1t is seen by larger number of
people daily than perhaps any other
monument in the state and for long
er distance may it be viewed. 1t is To-
Gated on one of the leading steel high
ways between Chicago and the north
west. Passengers at the windows of
Chicago Great Western train make
out the figure of the militiaman that
surmounts the shaft while the train is
miles away, and the trainmen have or
ders to tell the passengers what the
monument stands for and that the
great state of Illinois has thus marked
its one battlefield and the graves of
the men who shed their blood there 65
years ago.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-19
GOOD SPRAYING PAYS.
Everything Depends on the Thorough
and Equal Distribution of the
Poisonous Mixture.

Prof. E. M. Webster says: eve have
somehow got the idea that anybody
can spray, and we send the hired men
out to do this work and flatter our
selves that we have done all that can
be done. We have sprayed! 1t is sim
ply amazing to see the inefficient
spraying that is done every year, not
always by the hired men, but often
by those who have not only the best
of intentions, but are thoroughly hon
est and earnest, and l may add, fully
believe that they have done the best
that can be done. Now, do not do
your spraying yourself, and do not
send inexperienced men to do it, but
go yourself and take your men with
you. Do not take two men to hold the
nozzles, and you do the pumping. or
you hold nozzle and let one of them
pump. Have a man to drive and
pump, and a man for each line of
hose, and you yourself get right down
among the men at the nozzles. Watch
every movement, and see that not a
limb or twig fails to be reached by the
spray. No man can do this as you
Sdi' anu Sou cdhhoI II you are TO
handle a line of hose. You must see
and direct the work, which is all that
one ought to do, and if done right
this will prove the most important
and profitable part. You can save
material by looking to it that the
spray is evenly and thoroughly dis
tributed, and not part of the tree
drenched and the other part un-
touched. Trees should never drip, or
the mixture run down the trunk and
collect in puddles about the base. The
result will depend less on the amount
of material used than on the thorough
and equal distribution of it.-Farmers'
Review.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-19

cred, and everything but disheart-
ened.
AS the quartermaster's supplies
were not at hand, even the officers
were glad and grateful for the stock
ings and underclothes which the san
itary commission agents, like minis
ters of mercy, hurried down to the
suffering army.
Sheldon got a fine pair of lambs
wool stockings. l was present when
he drew them on, and pulled off one
again to find out what the little lump
in the toe meant. The little lump
was a dainty note, written in a
dainty hand, and dated at Xenia, o.
1t read as follows:
"My Brother-For every brave man
fighting for the dear flag of our
country is my brother-this is the
forty-seventh pair of stockings
have knit with my own hands and
sent to the front.
"Would that l coald give my life
for the cause to which you are so
ready to give yours; but being only
woman, and a very young one at
that, / can only work, and watch,
and pray that the God of battles may
crown your efforts with success, and
restore you in health to your dear
ones when the cruel war is over and
the authority of the flag acknowl-
edged in every state. Periodically,
your sister, L. L. N"
"By Jove!" exclaimed the lieuten-
ant, "that girl is an angel, She has
eased my feet greatly, but that dear
little note has set my heart in a flut-
ter"
l laughed at his susceptibility, and
soon after the stirring scenes of war
banished the pleasant little episode
from my mind, at least.
A few weeks after this Lieut.. Shell
don was shot down by my side in the
bloody fight at Perryville, where,
after hundreds of miles of marching,
Braggs and Buell's armies came face
to face.
In the pursuit that followed L lost
sight of Sheldon, but 1 heard, with
regret, that the poor fellow had lost
his left arm, and so l never expected
to see him again.
One year afterward, / was stand
ing on the crest of Missionary Ridge,
from which Bragg's army had just
been driven, and listening to the roar
of the retreat, when man, wearing
a majors shoulder straps and the
velvet facings of staff officer,
touched me on the shoulder. 1 turned
to find heavily bearded man, with
an empty left sleeve pinned across
his breast.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-19
MORGAN'S DOG-MEAT.
Foxy FOrasers Saved Their BOOTY
and Played Joke ON
the General.
years ago.

An old soldier of the Thirty-fourth
Illinois tells an interesting reminis-
cence of the Fourteenth Army corps,
which occurred during its race after
Hood, says the American Tribune.
Gen. Morgan had given orders one
night no one should leave camp; but,
as the boys were hungry, they sneaked
off on foraging expedition. They sue
ceeded in finding a large number of
chickens, turkeys, ETC., and, knowing
that trouble would follow their return
to camp, one of them caught dog,
which he dressed nicely. Meanwhile
the absence of the men was noted, and
Gen. Morgan ordered their arrest.
When they were brought to camp un-
der guard, they were made TO pile up
their booty in front of the generals
tent. The dog attracted his eye (he
thought it was mutton), and ordered
his cook to prepare it for him.
When the march was again taken
up, the general rode out, and looked
as slick and happy as you please. The
boys could even imagine that he was
licking his chops over that mutton.
Suddenly some one yelled dog meat!"
Instantly the word was taken up along
the line. The general endeayored to
hunt up the offenders, but it was of no
use, and "dog meat" came to be the one
thorn that was constantly irritating
the general. 1t was by-word of the
Fourteenth corps, and it was not long
before Morgan understood the jokes
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-19
CANKER ROT OF
CANKER ROT OF APPLES.
"a Cankered Limb with Diseased Apple
Beneath It)

Beneath Ito
watery. Great numbers of very small
pustules cover all but the outer bor-
der of the discolored spot, and give its
surface a roughened appearance. The
final result of this disease may be the
running together of these various
spots so as to form an irregular, de,
pressed patch. The whole fruit al
length becomes shriveled into an ir,
regular hard body, and does not fur
ther decay.
The pinllish or red material which
comes from the spots in the fruit is
composed of spores. These are only,
distributed by rain-water or by insects,
over winter in the dried fruit and in
the wound-like infected spots, called
bitter-rot cankers. on the limbs of this
trees. In May fresh crop of spores
may be produced from the mummies,
and from the canker on the branches.
1t seems probable the first-infection
of the season comes from the cankers,
and it can be traced where it has
spread to the young apples lying below
have been carried by the rain.
Where diseased apples are found on
the trees early in the season it will
probably be found that just above
them is mummy or a canker-spot. 1t
is important to remove the canker and
the infected fruits, as very small
cankered spot may prove a source of
infection for large area.
The best treatment for this disease
is probably to spray the trees, includ-
ing especially the mummies and can
kers, with strong copper-sulphate
solution. The disease can be kept in
check during, the summer by repeated
applications of Bordeaux MIXTURE
From Bulletin No. II of the Illinois
Experiment Station.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-19
A STORY OF STOCKINGS.
Pretty Little Romance of the Civil
War Tint Began with n Pair
of Homemade Ones.

The ladies in every town, village
and hamlet of the north formed
themselves into societies connected
with the sanitary or Christian com
missions, and for four years they
worked, knitting stockings, scraping
lint, rolling bandages and sending
luXuries to the thousands of sick and
wounded in the hundreds of hos
pitfalls throughout the land, says the
American Tribune.
1t was a custom, particularly
among the younger ladies, to inclose
notes in the stockings or other ar
ticles made by their own hands and
sent to the front. The letters were
unsigned, and some of them took a
poetical turn, like the following:
Brave sentry, on your lonely beat,
May these blue stockings warm your feet !;
And when from war and camps you part,
May some fair knitter warm your heart" !"
l recall a little romance in connec-
tion with these same stockings, or
rather the note contained in one par
ticular pair. 1t has been my pur-
pose to record only actual names and
instances, but as the parties of whom
1 speak are still living and happy,
with a large family growing up
about them, / shall use in this case
fictitious names.
Lieut.. Sheldon, like myself, be-
longed to the army under Buell.,
which, in August, 1862, marched day
and night to head off Bragg. who
with strong force, had entered
Kentucky with the ostensible object
of seizing Louisville and Cincinnati,
and carrying the war to the north
of the Ohio river, That, indeed, was
a terrible march, lasting for two
weeks, and when the union troops
forged ahead and reached the river
IN advance of the southern veterans,
they were ragged, shoeless, dust-coy-