davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22

and when you get glimpse of him you
could understand why. He is anything
he wants to be, anywhere, any time.
That's MacGinniss.
This man. who looks like an eighteen
year-old boy, is just thirty-siX years old.
He was born on a farm near Homer,
Iowa, and there he lived and drove up
the cows and pulled burs out OF the
corn until he was six years old. His
father died in Iowa and the family moved
to Chicago. to PAT Ashland boulevard.
John MacGinnis went to school here,
graduated in 1885, and in 1886 became a
collector of canal tolls. He finally got
tired of the job and became reporter
on a Chicago paper He wasn't much or
a reporter, and when he got mixed up in
one lively strike he tossed aside his am
bition to be great journalist and sought
a more congenial and less hazardous po-'
sition as bookkeeper for just about as
much each week as would now pay for
those long, black panetellas he smokes.
1t wasn't long until he got little boost
in his salary, and was sent skirting around
the Western mining camps, selling min
ing machinery. Then, in 1890, Daily, of
Montana, picked him up at So, 600 year,
but it didn't hurt him. and 1t wasn't long
before he was running big part Of the
up in the lumber town site business and
made a stake. With this he bought his
way into the Montana Ore Purchasing
company, and soon all but owned the
company.
Hitched Up With HeinZe.
1t was in 1896 that MaeGinniss and
Heinze got their heads together and be-
gan developing the Rossland district in
British Columbia. MacGinnfss became an
officer in more companies than you could
count on your fingers and toes. He built
the first subsidized railroad in the prov
ince and then became a lobbyist in the
legislative halls of British Columbia, seek
ing further land subsidies. The Canadian
Pacific company finally bought him out
and made him doubly rich His work in
British Columbia brought him in contact
with moneyed men and taught him the
tricks of corporation financiering. 1t
wasn't long before the money was COM
ing to him faster than he could ship 1t
home SO he packed his town site maps
in his grip and returned to Butte. That
was in 1897. He soon wedged his way
into score of companies. He and Heinze
began fighting the great Amalgamated
company or, rather began defending
themselves against it's aggressiveness
That fight, lasting to the present time,
with prospects of lasting long time to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22

hamton and get all the facts in this case
without any trouble whatever.
Within few days there has occurred
the case of the fur circular 1t was the
property of the mistress of a private
school. During the usual fall house clean
ing and renovation 1t was put out on the
line In the yard, whence it disappeared
The owner made the customary hue
and cry without finding her circular, and
as almost always happens, suspicion fell
On one of the servants The police were
called in, but could do nothing. Then the
owner went to see the clairvoyant
The circular was stolen, was the YER
dict, but not by one of the servants, as
was suspected. 1t was taken by an ex-
tremely dark man, who carried it away.
The owner should go home and advertise
her loss, offering a reward. On the third
day of the advertisement the circular
would be returned.
The school mistress followed instruc-
tons. On the morning of the third day a
farmer drove, up to the house and inquired
for her When she saw him he began to
ask questions about the circular. He had
her describe it in minute detail and
when she had finished said:
Your circular is out in my wagon"
1t was, sure enough, the missing cir
cular When it had been delivered the
farmer said he supposed the lady would
like to know how it came in his possess
sion. She said she certainly would, and
he replied that on the day which she had
given as the date of the theft he had
bought the circular for 81 from an Ar
menian who had come to his house with
it.
The Armenian had said that his wife
had run away with another man. taking
everything they had except this circular.
1t was now no good to him, and he would
sell it for dollar
The farmer suspected that it had been
stolen and thought the owner would be
glad to pay a dollar to get it back. So he
bought it and waited for the advertise
ment
These are some of the more remark
able cases of this clairvoyant's skill in
recovering lost or stolen articles. A great
many more might be cited.
When it comes to the business of for
tune telling there is the same old plati-
tude that is the main stock in trade of
most of them, but there is enough of
solid fact in such cases as these to set
Binghamton people to wondering what
is the explanation
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22

HICAGO, Nov 21.-A human edi.
~ ton de luxe and very practical
looking blonde young man came face 10
face in the lobby of a Michigan avenue
hotel one day last week. -
.'Huh." grunted the edition de Iuxe III
surprise.
ssHuh." echoed the blonde young man.
81 see you are still running, added the
latter
ct see YOU are running some, too, SAID
the former. -
The one was John MacGinniss; the
other was Charley Clark, enemies-pohtl-
cal, social. financial, temperamental'
Both MacGinniss and Clark are staying
away from Butte, Mont, which Is a place
TO flee from when the people don't quite
understand YOU Clark has been running
for six months; MacGinniss has just got
under headWay. Clark has his eye on
points distant from the copper mines,
where his spending money comes 1rom'
MacGinniss will swing the circles and re-
turn to Butte.
Worked as Toll Collector.
This MacGlnniss is wonderful young
fellow A few years ago he was work
ing in Chicago for SO week; today he
is a millionaire and the dominating force
back Of more than $4,000, OOO He IS
the partner of August F. Heinze, and 1t
is his little 100 shares of stock in the
Amalgamated Copper company that
brought about the greatest mining war IN
the history of America, and resulted in
the suspension of ore working through
out the entire state of Montana.
And just a few years ago this young
fellow was making less than 81 day.
lust a little before that he was collecting
tolls on the Illinois and Michigan canal
at Bridgeport. His rise has been the
most remarkable of any young man in
the country.
John MaeGinniss is peculiar PROPOSE
ton. He is obstinate, yet he IS likely.
He is hard-headed. resolute, and firm;
yet he gets down into society and talks
the twaddle that society knows. He has
stood in the halls of the state legislature
of Montana and talked straightaway for
five hours; yet he bushes like school
boy when he has to say ten words to
some strange society belle.
MacGinniSs is Irish and he looks it.
He was born in Iowa, and he also looks
that. He was reared in Chicago, and
that sticks to him. He drove an ore
wagon out in Butte. and you wouldn't
doubt it when you see him. He is a sort
of a lion in a half-doZen New York clubs,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22

two hours air voyage causes an aston
ishing multiplication of the red cor
puseles in the blood, and that condition
persists for ten days after an aScen-
sion.
Five such excursions, he AYERS, are
more beneficial to an anaemic-that is,
a person whose blood is thin and wat
cry, or a consumptive-than soJourn
of three months in the mountains.
DR.. Naugier believes that the good
effect begins to be felt Immediately,
and that heightened stay in the up
per air is only detrimental in causing
nervous irritation.
The municipal council of Paris has
been asked to provide a large balloon
one capable of taking up in the upper
air daily fifty patients or children who
are too poor to afford a change of
climate.
DR.. Robin, DR.. Maurice Binet and DR..
Dupasquier recently made a report Of
observations made by them during a
balloon ascension.
From 1000 to $3.50 meters above the
sea level the pulse and respiration
quickened, and the absorption of oxy
gen and the formation of carbonic acid
increased in notable proportions.
The above results show that high
attitudes can be turned to account in
the treatment of diseases where it is
necessary to accelerate the consump-
ton of oxygen, and, on the other hand,
how harmful high attitudes may be to
persons and to the sick who already
| consume oxygen in an exaggerated
fashion.
DR.. Albert Robin and DR.. Maurice
Binet have at their disposal practical
means of diagnosing the insufficiency
or excess or organic combustion 1t can
therefore be determined in advance
and with certainty whether a patient
ought or ought not to be sent into a
climate of high altitude
This application of the exact sciences
to the uncertainty of medicine opens
new way for diagnoses and for the
treatment of the sick
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22
HOW DID SHE KNOW 1T? + +
Soothsayer Tells Things n Sooth and They Are True.

BINGHAMPTON, N. Y, Nov. I'll
This is Enthusiastically proper mid
die New York town, with the regula-
ton number of churches, banks,
schools, mills, mill sites and dam sites.
But, more than this, it has a title to
distinction that outweighs all other
considerations. 1t is the home of
Soothsayer, a real No. 1, first-chop,
topside sayer of soothing things, with
out any discount at all.
This oracular individual does not
confine herself to mystical illusions
and yelled prophecies of vague and
unnamed good fortune certain to come
some time in the future if you only
wait long enough. She deals in facts
SO hard and cold that they glitter, and
there is just sufficient admixture of
| past. present and future in them to
drive them home all the harder.
Almost anybody can tell some kinds
of facts from the past, but facts of
that sort this woman fails to mention.
She does business with the facts that
only two or three persons know. and
they usually have a vigorous desire to
keep them dark.
Her special stronghold is the recpv-
cry of stolen goods, or things that have
been lost, and the range of her opera
tons seems to have no particular limit.
For instance, there was the case the
other day of the doctors wife.
She had lost a valuable brooch As
usual in such cases, it was one to
which she was attached for particular
reasons, outside of it's intrinsic value
1t happened that she had not worn it
for several months, and supposed that
it was in the case with the rest Of her
jewels. When she had occasion to use
1t, 1t could not be found
There was commotion in the house.
An inventory of the jewels showed that
the brooch was the only article miss
ing. That seemed to dispose of the
theory that there had been a robbery,
at least by any one outside of the
house.
+ There was, of course, the usual sus-
pic1on that some one of the servants
had taken it. The house was searched
from top to bottom. Every nook and
Granny was ransacked. The brooch
could not be found.
Because it had been a gift from the
doctor, his wife was unwilling to tell
him that 1t had been lost, until every
possible means Of recovering it had
been exhausted. In this dilemma she
thought of the soothsayer. Straight
way she called on that remarkable per
son. and, without making herself or
her errand known, received an appoint
ment for the next morning
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-W. G. McAdoo,
president of the corporation which is tun-
neling under the Hudson river for direct
trolley car line from New Jersey into
New York, declared a few days ago in
very clean cut language that barring an
accident over which his company could
have no control it would be possible to
walk under the river from New York to
Jersey City early in 1904 At the present
rate of progress the north tube of the
double tunnel should be finished about
| the end of February. The south tube, it
| is believed, will be constructed with con-
| siderably greater rapidity than any part
| of the north tube, and, if the hopes of
! the company are realized, electric cars
! either singly or in trains will be running
| between New York and Jersey City in
about two years.
Incidentally, Mr. McAdoo gave a clear
and emphatic answer to the question as
to how and by whom the tunnel trans
portation is to be conducted-an answer
which seemingly sets at rest the rumors
about control by either the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western railroad or the
Erie, or by both together. In reply to
question as to the security of the founda-
tons of the tunnel he said plainly that
it was designed for light electric traction,
| and that no screw piling support was re-
quired, as 1T will be for the Pennsylvania
railroad tunnel, through which heavy
trains will be drawn by electric motors
| weighing a hundred tons more each.
| The traffic in the trolley car tubes would
he said, not exceed in weight that of the
| Manhattan Elevated railroad. and the
| margin of safety was a great many times
! larger The cars used, he declared, would
| be constructed of materials impossible
| to burn, and there would be no possibility
| of accidents. Travel will be far safer, he
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22

said. There is a great deal of it. 1t
is in bank
She went on with some more re-
marks of that sort and then got down
to the business of the cat. The ques-
TONER was told to go back 10 the bank
at once, and to go up three flights of
stairs to a vacant room at the rear Of
the building. There the kitten would
be found shut in.
Just as soon as the bankers daugh-
ter heard the clairvoyant's directions
she went to the bank building and
climbed the three flights of stairs
When she neared the vacant room she
distinctly heard the kitten meowing-
The door was opened and there was
the missing Angora, very thin and
hungry. 1t had been gone for about
week. Now, the banker says, How
the devil did that kitten get there, and
how did that woman know it was
there"
There is the case of the coloners
widows dog. 1t is a valuable setter. of
which she is very fond. One day it dis
appeared.
Mrs Colonel hunted everywhere she
could think of. She asked air her friends.
She advertised in all the papers offering
reward, with no questions asked, for the
return of her setter. No result. AS a last
resort she consulted the clairyoyant.
When the preliminaries of the trance
had been gone through with the seoth-
saver directed the colonefs widow to
take her carriage and drive seven miles
out on certain road which she indicat-
ed. At that distance there would be
house. which was carefully described, at
the right of the road.
Mrs Colonel was to stop there and ask
for her dog 1t would be denied that any
such dog was there. Mrs. Colonel was to
insist. and if necessary force her way
into the house. There she would find her
dog.
Mrs Colonel obeyed orders. She drove
the seven miles and found the house.
When she asked for her dog she was told
that there was no dog on the premises.
She 4 listed and made an excuse to get
into ,ne house.
The reluctance of the residents to ad
nit her only confirmed her suspicion. She
stuck to it and finally got inside. Then
she heard the whining of dog, but could
not locate it exactly.
She inquired where it was and was told
that it was something else that she heard.
BY this time her blood was up and she
would not be denied.
The whining kept up and grew louder.
She finally located 1t in the cellar and
demanded that she be taken there. The
people in the house evidently began to be
fearful of the results for they let her
go down.
There she found her dog, tied UP. She
released him and took him home. When
the Society for Psychological Research
has day CT two off it can come to Bing
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22
Strange MAGNETIC Rock.

Samuel Jackson Barnett. assistant
professor physics, has returned after
spending several months in survey
work along the Alaskan coast The
party made a special investigation in
the peculiar magnetic disturbances
which have made navigation difficult
in certain localities. Near Skagway
the disturbances are severe, the de-
Election of the needle being so great
that the compass is rendered almost
useless.
1t was found that the strange state
of affairs was due to the abundance of
magnetic rock in that locality. This
rock is present in immense quantities
on Douglass island, on the mainland
and near Skagway. Prof. Barnett says
that there is almost perfect magnetic
pole at this point.-New York World.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22

my time. Once I was over on the rim of
the canyon looking for mountain sheep.
l had learned from my school books that
a mountain sheep can jump a thousand
feet. land upon his horns, and make a
quick getaway .uninjured. l never be-
lieved that, but 1 wanted to see for my
self. 1 was riding an old cayuse and car
rying lariat. Finally I saw a mountain
sheep standing on a point hundred
yards away. 1 stuck my spurs into the
cayuse's Sides and with a whoop made
straight for the sheep. Well, that sheep
doubled up and leaped out into the air,
and then started to sink into the canyon.
I was so surprised that 1 never thought
about myself or the cayuse. The beast
kept right on running until all at once
realized I was within ten feet of the
brink
Ordinarily I could set that cayuse in
a dead run and wheel him around on
newspaper, but this time he had his eyes
shut and was making straight toward de-
struction. l yanked on the bit, but the
cayuse gave one great jump and shot over
the brink. Then we began to go down
through that thousand feet of rare at
mosphere. There was nothing but rocks
and a dead mountain sheep below. 1 was
glad for just one thing: that had learned
that a sheep could not do what the geog
raphies said he could
'Well, as I sank 1 knew 1 must act
quickly. The cayuse still had his eyes
shut and was still running through the
air. He had not noticed he was a thou
sand feet in the air but knew he was a
goner I thought of the lariat. l hooked
the moose over the pommel of the saddle
and uncoiled the rope. I dismounted while
we were dropping through space and
climbed down to the end of the rope.
When the cayuse had fallen to within a
few feet of the ground 1 let go and drop
ped lightly to the ground. You see,
only dropped about six feet from the end
of the rope, and escaped unhurt The
cayuse which had dropped all the way
from the top of the chasm, was instantly
killed. I have never ridden a cayuse
since, and l never will again."
Butte Has an Opera House.
Butte has an opera house 1t was form
erly run by Jim MacGuire. one of the
odd characters of the West. 1t was Jim
MacGuire who always ordered a case of
champagne set out whenever he saw
Charley Clark enter a barroom. He wasn't
particularly fond of young Clark, but it
was his way of expressing what he
thought of the appetite of the father of
the millionaire dollar baby.
MacGinnis was formerly MacGuires
hacker, and through his influence Butte
was raised from one-night stand town
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-31
The Lesson of 1t.

The following sensible editorial
appeared in the Commercial Appeal
Sunday:
The lesson taught by the execu.
ton of two mere boys in Kentucky,
one of whom was reared in Mem.
phis, and the fate OF the gang OF
young scoundrels who operated in
this city until broken up ought not
to go unheeded.
These boys were the product of
their environment, and their en-
vironment was made for them by
their elders, by society. Heredity
may exercise some influence, but
heredity is passive and merely po-
tential. Environment is the active
factor, the moving and working
dynamic.
Moral VACATIONS and obliquities
are encouraged and made possible if
not inevitable by idleness and in
diligence permitted by fond mothers
and fool fathers. The boy who is
too nice and tender to engage in
some useful employment, but who
must be allowed to roam about the
alleys and purlieus soon falls in
with bad company, and soon be-
comes quite as bad as any company
he can fall in with. He soon gets
beyond the control of his parents
who may admit that he is a little
"wild" or "thoughtless," but not
"bad," and would never do anything
wrong but for the evil influence of
other boys who are chad"
Far better for a boy who has an
exhuberant spirit and plenty of the
animal in himto be put to work
twelve hours day in a Pennsyl-
vania silk mill or In a Carolina cot
ton factory. IF the devil is in him
as heritage this will keep it
smotbered. Again, as society pre-
pares the environment that converts
boys into criminals, society should
provide an antidote by furnishing
an industrial school whereat the
morally deformed may be reformed.
1t is only pity that the reforming
could not begin with the parents.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-31
Brutally Tortured.

A case came to light that for per.
sistent and unmerciful torture has
perhaps never been equaled. Joe
Golobick of Colusa, Calf, writes:
"For 5 years l endured insufferable
pain from Rheumatism and nothing
relieved me though I tried every
thing known. l came across Elec-
trio Bitters and it's the greatest
medicine on earth for that trouble.
A few bottles Of it completely cured
me-" Just as good for Liver and
Kidney troubles and general de-
bility. Only soc. Satisfaction
guaranteed by Cox& Co., Druggists.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-31

Active work is being done by all
of the candidates.
The most interesting passage at
arms, politically, comes from the
comptroller's fight. Frank NJ.
Thompson, chairman of the State
committee, is slated for this Llace,
and it is generally believed that he
will be the favorite candidate of the
governor. He is not acceptable to
half of the governors friends, who
are making war on him, and is very
dear to the other half, who are
working for his interests. Frank
Dibbrell of Sparta is out for the
appointment. He was a candidate
for the place before the last legisla-
ture. Then there is Leon Trous-
dale, who has been in the comp
troller's Office so long that he is a
fixture. He wants to come under
the wire as a winner and is having
things done for him. Several
others are in prospect.
Wise politicians say that Thomp-
son is the man who will get the
plum.
E. B. Craig, former State treas
urer, and president of the new in
surance company to which comp
troller King is going, is in the city
and some interesting political mat
ters are being discussed. He will
no doubt take a hand in carrying
out whatever plans Mr.. King may
have in the premises. Memphis
News.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-31
The Boss Worm Medicine.

H. P. Kumpe, Druggist, Leigh
ton, Ala, writes: Zone Of my
customers had a child, which was
sick, aud threw up all food, could
retain nothing on its stomach. He
bought one bottle Whites Cream
Vermifuge, aud it brought up 119
worms from the child. It's the
boss worm medicine in the world
Whites Cream Vermifuge, is also
the children's tonic. 1t improves
their digestion and assimilation of
food, strengthens their nervous
system and restores them to the
health, vigor and elasticity of spirits
natural to childhood. Csc at Cox &
Cos.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-31
NIGHT WAS Her Terror.

81 would cough nearly all night
long" writes Mrs. Chas. Apologize,
of Alexandria, Ind, "and could
hardly get any sleep. l had con
sumption so bad that if l walked a
block l would cough frightfully and
spit blood, but, when all other
medicines failed, three 81. 90 bottles
of DR.. Kings New Discovery
wholly cured me and l gained %
pounds" It's absolutely guaranteed
to cure Coughs, Colds. LaGrippe,
Bronchitis and all Throat and Lung
Troubles. Price soc and S1.OO.
Trial bottles free at Cox 81 Co.'S
Drug Store.