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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
A BUSINESS VENTURE.

Dear me! 1 must go down town
this afternoon and get me a new
pair Of shoestrings," I excla lined. II
will not wear these another day. 1t
takes a half hour each morning to
lace UP my Shoes 4.
Accordingly that afternoon 1 sal
lied forth fully intent on purchas-
ing my shoe strings. 1t was a lovely
day so L did not make much haste,
but at, last arrived at the store
where I wished to. make my pur
chase. Entering the shoe department
I ordered q pair of shoe strings:
When the clerk brought them and I
asked the price; be replied that they
were given away; :.
Now I had come with q firm idea
that was to pay for the shoe strings
and naturally on hearing this sur
prising answer, thought 1 might
as well take more. than one, pair.
':.Then T will take two pairs" said
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
Variety in Stamps.

There varieties Of postage stamps in circulation
be identified by the postmasters
10000 different varieties issued
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
FIVE CENTS AHEAD.

at that moment the glue IOOsened
and the nickel remained in position.
At the end Of the day I was five
cents ahead, because I claimed the
nickel. The joke was on. the joker
instead Of on me.
--Maude Wendelken.
Elkton, S. D.
Eighth Grade. ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

trimmed with gold and silver lace and lined
with plush. a night bag laced with gold and silver
s235 other articles ordered for his
majesty watch in two gold and great silver
Hunting provided and the books
supplied 0 king eS2 17s.-Iondon Chronicle.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
A WHiFF OF PERFUME.

The first of April reminds of joke that was played
upon about three by aunt and which
ticulary remember because it caused tears.
in studying my lessons. when suddenly
heard someone call Down the stairs went like
a when entered the aunt had
pretty perfume hand She asked, ESTHER
would you not like to smell of the perfume have just
bought? Thinking something fragrant rushed
good Whit at it, but oh, such
like stream Of electricity
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

out for the spot which my friend had
described. Now the fact was that
she had had the same joke played
upon her and she wanted to make
UP again with me. So she thought
she would play it on. me, but I did
not know that. So after much run
ming l reached the spot and went
east as my friend had, told me: There
saw a board nailed upon stick
which had the sign upon it, April
fool" l felt very much distressed
and went back to the house very
much ashamed that l had forgotten
that it was the first Of April and also
that had forgotten that strawber-
ries did not grow in April. told
my story at the breakfast table and
everyone laughed and said that it
was certainly a good joke.
Leila Thompson, e
.'''' Lake Wilson, Mimi.
Sixth Grade.
Mihin School.
U .::aG.I-
NOT STARS, BUT DiPPERS.
When l was little girl of six
years I believed everything heard.
This was source of great amuse
ment to my Cousin Charlie who was
living with US. He was a boy OF
twelve years and of course I re-
garded his opinions as coming from
a person of experience. -
One morning Charles said, Lilly
did you ever sec stars in the. daytin
shine only at night" IF you will
show you some in the daytime" said
were soon ready to see the stars. I l
he placed a coat sleeve over my ey
look UP the sleeve and see the stars.
to my surprise there was something
top, Of the. sleeve. Before I could d
really star or not-spla,sh! came a
face. jumped up choking and sput
My anger at being imposed on was
appointment at not seeing the stars.
difficult to make me believe every
that my star would turn out to be
Ninth Grarde.
y ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
Darlington, n. D.
Ro scoStInchfleld

Book plate: design by Rosco. stinchfieid, A
10th Grade. North Side High School, Rob-
binsdaie. '-'
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
THE NEW KIND OF SYRUP.

When about eight years old mama went TO churc1
early morning leaving brother and me at nome
to get have griddle cakes. WHeh
placed the table we found tnat the
maple syrup Jug empty and undertook to ma
syrup long hunt we found an olo maple
syrup can with something it, We filled the syrup jug
cakes. took the hrst plte anu
made a wry face next brother took bite and he sput
had been eating soap we then maze
of out OF maple syrup
cam When mama returned that had been eat
ing l smile when think now tnat
tasted such odor that
IT. was weeks before mama get of the syrup
jug. -Elzaoeth wal1e, al
a sava,th Crada Falls, Mnn
School,
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

steve Being fond of thinking that
it April anxious to it. Mama
told that could not it until dressed. She
helped get disgust
there puppy in sight then remembered that it
April foOl-day. Alice Wing,
Darlington, n. D.
. FIVE CENTS AHEAD.
Perhaps remember that few the first Of
April Sunday. 1t this particular Sunday
that uncle tried to play joke me- the outcome
which proved to be satisfactory to sit
ting reading and had not heard uncle and
plan joke My uncle had glued thread nickel
and laid tho nickel down the while he held the
other the thread: Then l asked to pick
toothpck thrown down the nickel. Just
they expected when picked the toothpck the
nickel idea that when stopped to pick the
nickel with the invisible thread but
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

learned determined take stringent measures to preak me
of this Immediately after dinner got my
gam, skipping thought might avoid dsn"asnns'
step and just one bite into my dell
cious gunl-but awful! had bitten into dose or
quinine for time was laueheo
and then and there resolved
to stop the habit. lima ". 'Nle1i,
1enth Grade Prairie Chen, Wis.
THE GHoSTLY VALENTINE
children lived IN our olocA
decided give away their valentines until evening"
several valentines, the bell rang very
loudly suspecting trick went to the door, nat
pasteboard box lay the porch MY
leaped at the thought that was 10 receive
such large valentine as supposed lay IN tnat ooA'
to it suddenly vanished In a min
the heartless laughter OF boys ana tneh
they swarmng both sides OF the mousse Was
much to had lost large Vaen-
tine had pictured in mind, but MANAGED 10 s"he
a. if did Alice Is. Fletcnei'
1850 w TWenty-thlrd street,
Rosadae school > Angeles, Cal
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

anu DIOuSHt t1Ie teet1S 90 my cFCo'
What do you suppose it was? Moth
ing but ammonia, but it did not
make me sick.
Esther F. lie Vine,
Cokato, MINI.
Sixth Grade
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
A MARTYR TO PRINCIPLE.

A MARTYR PRINCIPLE.
Just wait till if do play the best
trick you said friend walked home from school
of March. You won't because won't take
candy anything from YOU, said l. 1--WE will see she
answered. The morning when going school
into the bought Just
taking seats she handed and said
n school, So while reading
a piece and began to it.
found there red in it but had already
1 O teacher
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

the abezset Then went out the porch 10 get COOL
Whom should meet there but all alone asked her
where Aunt ELY and all the rest 'At New York,
suppose said. found that it had been at
Rose, chum OF mine who wanted play
But that joke dollar and fifty cents
of bark. Charlotte Paulson.
Seventh Grade. Two BarbOrS, Mnn
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
Ninth Grarde.
ON SECOND THOUGHT.

On Apri-foo day, when was about six years Old
was hearing brother calling He told
had brought home little puppy and that it
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20

that the race Is persecuted? It has been asserted-it Is asserted every hour of the day-that there is a prejudice against the negro The so-cailed leaders or the blacks voeiferate from stump and rostrum and load the columns of the newspapers with their eternal agitation. An illiterate and worthless negro is disfranchised in some Southern States, and 10! the race is outraged and insulted. An ill-behaved black rowdy Is refused admission to a theatre or restaurant, or railway coach, race have ben assailed A few nights ago, in Washington, a negro robbed an eating house cashier at the muzzle of his revolver. He was pursued, and in his efforts to escape with the plunder he shot two policemen and threatened the lives or others. At last they captured and sub dued him-necessarily with some at- tendant severity. What followed? Every negro in the crowd that gathered in- stantly took the part of the criminal. Every one ranged himself against the
 It is all very we'll to prate about race hatred and race prejudice. and in the rest of the mischievous and foolish non- sense, but who is at the bottom of it If not the negro himself? Our Boston writer declares that the obtrusive. lll-mannered, and objectionable negro is offensive to the intelligent negro. If that be true. why does not the intelligent negro assert him. sci; why does he forever take the part of the rowdy and the criminal. and de- nounce as cruelty the punishment inflicted on them? The whites do not Identify themseves with crime and criminals. The negroes do. There Is your race issue. MT. Boston man-what are you going to do about it?'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
A LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT.
The choctaw Advocate recently publish ed the following:

The choctaw Advocate recently publish ed the following:
 We would like for The Montgomery Advertiser to throw some light upon the following; relative to resistratton in Aia, provides:
 ''That the Legislature shall pass laws, etc., and shall provide general registra- tion laws not inconsistent with the pro- visions of this article, for the registra- ton of all qualified electors from and after the first day of January. nineteen hundred and three"
 The Legislature In fact has provided for registration to commence in July 1904, thus debarring many from participating in the primaries next spring who are en- titled to that privilege under the Con stitution: We would l be ;n,dr glad if The he whether or not those who failed to register under the temporary plan and those who have become of age since the last io ean nd s sbs h Cone ene stitution does not really confer that privilege.
 In providing for registration to begin on the 1st of July. 1904. the Legislature un- doubtedly limits the right to vote in pri- maries or elections held prior to that time to those who are now on the regis tration lists There are about 1sooOO white registered voters and 70 per cent of these being those over 45 years of age are entitled to vote. while of the other 60 per cent only those can vote in the pri- maries who will have paid their poll tax by the 1st of February next. If there is a primary held before July 1st at least 6o,oO0 white men who failed to register when the books were open under the provisions of the new Constitution or who have become of age since the books closed will be debarred the privi- lege of participating in the primaries. The Legislature ought to have provided for registration at an earlier date than it did. The primaries for Judges, Presi- dential electors, Congressmen and county officers can, however, be held after July 1st and give all a chance to register. The question of delegates to the National Democratic Convention is the only one that must be decided before registration begins.
 Let all subject to poll tax, and who desire to participate in the primaries re- member that all the poll tax they owe must be paid before the 1st day of Feb- ruary next.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
oLr FASHION REVIVED.
Emitting Is Again Fad and Nimble
 Fingers Ply the Needle.

Knitting has come into fashion again, At every summer resort during the warm months the flashing of needles. accompa nied by low-and sometimes not so low -murmur of conversation, on the hotel piazzas was noticeable
 One of the articles upon which much energy was expended was the sweater" for women. Sweaters for men and chil- dren were also made, but not in as great quantities as those for the feminines.
 The sweater is really merely a knit ted jacket which is as warm as toast. It will be put carefully away to be worn when the knitter goes a-skating or a-sleighing. Also, 1t will be put carefully away to be worn on shipboard when she goes to the other side next summer. For shipboard wear it is unexcelled. It Is warm and close-fitting and better than q dozen golf capes.
 Knitting is pretty work. It shows off white fingers to advantage and handsome r'J1gs; 1t is also useful and therefore 1t is respectfully recommended to the read CTS of this page for winters fancy work.
 The very newest and daintiest of bed room slippers are made on the needles and are of two colors. generally white and red or white and blue. The white pieces turn over and are marked with black dashes to initiate ermine in a very attractive way, but one quite impossible for the writer to describe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
Gossip of men
 and n1atterS
Montgomery's Railway Station.

14oAIeoAucEy 1sd1AWdy SIoSAStA' ,
 The last time I visited Montgomery said a traveler yesterday, you had an old dingy depot that was really woIse than the one at Mobile. l remember the old shanty well, and I also remember that as many people who were passing through did not have time to come up town they formed a bad impression or your then beautiful city, for at that time the buildings on both sides of Commerce Street. i:. the blocks next the depot, were olo and unattractive, and what couIo De seen only added to the poor opinion.
 Now all this is changed" he con tinued Montgomery has one of the nm est depots in all the South, and certainty the most imposing on the line of the Lou isville and Nashville Railroad between Louisville and New Orleans. Attractive and busines5-like structures line botn sides of the street next to the depot. and the visitor who steps from one train to another and has only time to walk about and get a view from the depot, Is able to form some adequate idea of what wide-awake, progressive city you really have. The new depot has done much Tor Montgomery and the largely increased travel has well justified the outlay"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
TT IS GOOD DOCTRINE.

The Suffolk (Va.) Herald has something to say which is applicable to Alabama as we'll as to Virginia, and we quote a DOT tion of its editorial:
 If you have fair and honest general elections. 1t will be only short while before you have fair primaries? Do we the conditions in some of our cities and counties we almost doubt it. It seems that party machinery Is used to further the interests of factions controlling the other factions. People who profess to favor good government proceed to con duct primary that has every appearance of fraud to an outsider. give their op- ponents no representation at the polls, and then say they believe in honest gov ernment and honest elections.
 That we repeat, applies with as much force to Alabama as to the Old Dominion. The primary for the selection of all elec- tive officers is going to be the universal method in this State in our Judgment. A nomination through a primary is equivalent to an election unless there should be such gross frauds that the peo- pie would refuse to be governed by 1t. That being true, there can be no defence for failure to conduct it with perfect fairness and honesty. Fraud may re- suit in temporary advantage to certain individuals. but 1t brings reproach on the Party practising it, lowers the standard of political honesty and breeds lack of confidence on the part of the people
 The Advertiser is committed to the pri- mary plan, at least until 1t has been given a thorough and absolutely fair trial. We want to see all the requirements and safeguards used in the general election made applicable to the primary, and we want 1t held to be as morally and legally culpable to commit wrong or fraud in one as 1t is in the other. There is no moral defence for fraud in elections and the time has arrived when the plea of necessity and expediency will be no excuse. Let us all settle to the doctrine that man cannot be habitually dishonest in politics and reman thoroughly honest in all other matters. The way to have honest elections is to make them so, be- ginning with the primaries.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
City Beset With Misfortunes.

Here is another misfortune for us" sighed a Montgomery official at the City Hall. discussing the burning of the Her. ron Street School building. Tt seems that Mayor Carr's administration is to be beset with vexing propositions. First we got in a tangle on the Police Com mission act. Then came an attack on tine validity of the law extending the corpor- ate limits and a consequent discussion of the validity of our school bonds. This was followed by the recently proposed contest of the charter under which the city is operating. Now we have a big fire with 3S5 pupils thrown out of one of our schools"
 Ut requires courage to meet these ad- verse conditions" added this official, "and Mayor Carr has the right sort of cour- age. l hope bad beginning of his ad- ministration will mean a good ending"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
Montgomery l.eal Estate.

'Montgomerys real estate has held it's own better than any city or town in Ala bama," said real estate dealer. ''I have often heard it said by those who were prospecting that prices here were out of all reason compared with other Alabama towns. but after a little investigation they changed their minds and have been heard to say that real estate here was well worth every cent paid for it, and that is the judgment of every man who has put any money in Montgomery dirt. Some of these men who were complain ing of high prices five years ago are say ing now that they can see their folly every day in having failed to buy then. No money put in real estate here has failed to pay fair interest on the invest ment ''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20

Orleans have nominated four candidates for the Legislature. If The Journal isn't short of memory it may call to mind a number of instances in which the south's solidarity was to be shattered by the much-heralded advent of some new party. But all such efforts have failed, and the South has practically gone on in its old time Democratic way. We do not ap- will obtain much foothold in this section, or that such a belief will pave the way for Republicans to capture any Southern State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
COMPASS NOT TRUE TO POLE.
Belief iii Its Constancy to Magnetic
 North Erroneous,

Although the belief is general that the magnetic compass is constant in it's obc- dience to the influence of the North Pole, it is belief that has not the least foun- dation in fact. On the contrary, the evi- dence is that at every different place on the globe the compass points in differ ent direction, and only one or two of them are due north. Besides, it is always changing. In London. for instance. it points to a place about 17 degrees west of north.
 Seventy-six years ago it was still fur ther away being then 24 1-2 degrees. or a quarter of the way around to the west. In the year 1880 it pointed Il degrees east. Then it began to move north till 1bJ9, when it pointed due north. But 1t re- mained thus only for a moment passing around to it's greatest defiection in 16O years.
 Again it turned in 1920 and is still mov- ing nearer the north. It will not reach half and so it will go on backward and forward forever.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
Alabama River Very Low.

"The Alabama River is distrcssingly low remarked a business man yester- day, and it has been several months since there was a boat at the wharf. This is a great hardship to many people be- tween here and Selma. who are almost entirely dependent upon the boats for their supplies Now that winter weather is coming on. it will be greater. as the roads will soon be impossible. Howevtr, there is one good thing about it: that is. that the rains that make the roads bad will fill the river and the boats will come again. Verify it is true if trite say- ing that it is an i'll wind that blows nobody good -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20

I. Oh, cotton gone to ruination- 'Possum pie for de whole plantation,
 Look away,
 Look away It's 'possum time in Dixie! De cool wave come, en de 'possum shiver, But l shine his eye 'fo' he crawl to kiver-
 Look away,
 I say It's 'possum time in Dixie! He aint sarve up by hotel walters Sop him round in a dish of taters,
 Look away,
 say It's 'possum time in Dixie! Frank l.. Stanton in Atlanta Consti- tuition,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
About as Much.

Birmingham News. -
 From Dowie to dogs is short step With Madison Square Garden-there is ca. nine show on there at present.-Mobile Register.
 And there is just about as much real religion in 1t as there was in the Dowle pow-wow It will ever remain a mystery how that colossal faker couid fool so many people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
Good For Talladega.

Our Mountain Home.
 The Home learns that a greater area of wheat is now being sown by the farmers than usual. This Is eminently proper. In former days Talladega County never im- ported a sack of flour. On the contrary, her millers exported thousands of sacks annually to the counties of South Ala bama. The farmers should now SOW wheat enough for home consumption.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
PoPULISM NO MORE.

Dead Even in the Sand Hill District
 of Nebraska.
 Omaha Special.
 J. H. Edminsten who during the palmy days of Populism in this State was chair man of the Populist State Committee, and practically controlled the party in Ne braska, was q candidate for country sur veyOr of Thomas County at the last cleo tton. Thomas is one of the small counties in the sand hill section and does not con- tain over 250 voters all told, and when Populism was rampant was practically solid for that party. With the changed conditions the politics of the voters has changed and Edmisten was defeated in his ambition to hold an office which prob ably pays about $I5 per year in fees.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
Speaking of Problems.

Boston Evening News.
 The hunter saw the squirrel peeping from The opposite side of the tree. The hunter started around the tree; the squir- rel moved with him in the same direc- tion, keeping the tree always between them. The hunter made a complete cir cult of the tree So did the squirrel. Did the hunter go around the squirrel?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
BRAVED DANGER.
Woman Penetrates Forbidden Land
 in Company of Husband.

in Company Of Husband. Paris Cablegram.
 Rather than endure at home the sus- pense and fear that her absent husband might be in peril, Mme Gervaise c UT tellement chose to accompany him on an expedition to the inaccessible Thibet coun- try.
 Charged by the French. government with a mission in Upper Yunnan, on the Thib- A portion of the country where not only flo woman but few men explorers have ever gone. They found the people very strange and only semi-oivilize1 wearing the skins of animals for clothing and decking themselves with enormous tuI- quoises Their currency Is salt.
 The Courtollements visited Algeria, Tu- his. Egypt Syria. Polestine China. Ja- pan. Ind China and Madagascar.
 Mime. Courteliement says she is thor oug1ly repad for the dangers of h,r Journey by her harvest of souvenirs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20

The Hartford Times notes one of those bulls which even the best newspapers get off at times. It was in The New York Herald. which. referring to a meeting in Hartford of nineteen farmers of the last Legislature said: Their combined popu- lation amounted to less than 3O.00o." No one can tell whether the number given represented the descendants or constitu- ents of the nineteen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-20
Who Raises Itp

Washington Post
 "Who raises this question of race and color? If a Caucasian writes a poem of real worth, do the whites rise up in body and call heaven to witness the glory and the greatness of the race? If a Caucasian commits a fiendish crime and Is punished in an equally fiendish way. do the whites rush together in welkin ring with passionate complaint