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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25
TALES OF THE TROUPERS---
CIRCUS FROM THE INSIDE
Being the Relations Certain Ufounates Who the
Road" With the Red Wagons.

three vouchers for every ticket. People
thing press agent has tickets to burn.
Well, he don't. He's allowed so many
and II he steps over the limit the old man
Will want to know how about it. Proba-
bly, it'll be three towns later when he'll
say BY the way, Burt, what did you use
those extra tickets for at Punkville? or
whatever the name of the place may have
BEEN And you've got to do a whole lot
of thinking, and tell him, too.
well, you fix up the papers and get out
to the lot in time to stand on the front
door at the opening and greet the mem
| bers Of the press. Pretty soonll come
| along pair from the country and they'll
come under the ropes at the marquee and
| call for the press agent.
| I'm Hiram Hawkins, editor of the
| Umpty-Up Gazette. We printed a story
so long for you last week and 1 got two
tickets, but we want two more
| All right says, and that's the way
1T goes until the show opens.
Then back to the reserved seats and
the delegates from the press, and you have
to sit there and point out the features of
the performance that you know with YOUR
} eyes shut from the second week of the
! season.
"Probaly when the show is over the
press people II decide that they want to
stay to the concert, and may be after
that, just when you're figuring on duck
ing into the cookhouse and getting a
square meal they'll decide that they want
to see the horses, and by the time you've
gotten some cold soup and things in the
cook tent it's time for the evening per-
formance, and you do it all over again.
'And then a fellows a lobster if he
doesn't drink. Probably the fellows you
meet don't tear loose once year, and
that's circus day, and you've got to stay
with them. They don't think about your
having to go up against that every day
in the week.
''Well, about midnight you start down
to where you think the circus trains
ought to be and you stumble along the
tracks until you meet somebody with a
lantern.
where's the last section?' you say
last section?' says he. Why I guess
; the last section is a half mile up this
, track and he points in the direction
that's darkest. When you get there you
, find that the last sections been moved a
, mile and a half in the other direction
and you strike the sleeper steps about 1
: o'clock, only to find old Bob Stickney
waiting to tell you story about bach
/, in ST. Louis sometime or other.
20, it's cheerful life, the life of cir
Gus press agent. They don't last long
Charles Stowe is out of it, Charles H
Day is keeping cigar store in New Ha.
ven, Charles s-'Stuttering Davis,
with consumption; the Sells Forepaugl
show has had three press agents this sea
son, and 'Tody' Hamilton of the Barnun
show is the last of the old guard left.
''Nixy for me. I've seen the country
!. as they say, but this place looks prett,
good for me- and the meeting of tn
Society of ex-Troupers broke up.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25
Correspondence to The Journal.

Correspondence to The Journal.
Christiania Norway July 6.-Altho Satur-
day was the 127th anniversary Of our Inde-
pendence Day. it was. all the same. the first
cans in Norwayaby anything worthy the name
of celebration.
I am sure you will not think that it
amounted to much after all, when you have
heard the story, but were you ever mem
Der of an entertainment committee? II you
are Norwegian by biyth, and ever tried to
get up a 18th of May festival in an Ameri-
can city, where the number of Norwegians
was as small as that of the Americans in
Christiania, and you, double the trouble you
had and then multiply 1t by five, and you will
get somewhere near to the task which the
gentlemen who had charge of this the first
Fourth of July celebration in Norway, had
before them. tEps|
But you do not want me to tell you our
{ troubles, and you might even refer me to a
policeman; so will give you the result, with
out more ado The celebration was origin
ally intended to be held at Bygdonas, sum
mer resort near Christiania, but as the wealth
er seemed in rather uncertain mood about
Saturday noon, the place was changed and ID
banquet at the we'll known hotel boulevard in
this city was the substitute.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25

neat and pretty design, but, Of course,
only one Of many. In fact the fashionable
haberdashers are displaying a number OF
pointed end styles and it seems as If
there were a tendency to revert to the
shape in vogue several years ago. One
is a broad end bow to be tied in a small
knot much like the old bat-wing, and
another a very long pointed shape, much
like the tie illustrated but with sharp
ends.
Another sign of return to old fashions
is the use of dark blue and white figured
foulard as a material for ascot and four
finland cravats. The silk has been COM
paratively little used in recent years but
is much in evidence this season and may
be found in a great variety of designs,
one Of which is shown by the drawing &C
companying this article.
What the autumn will bring forth In
the way Of haberdashery it is still a bit
too early to determine, but from all indi-
cations it certainly seems as if the fash
ions were to be much like those of sever
al years ago. Indeed, fashion is largely
a repetition Of what has gone before.
There is rarely anything distinctly new
in every respect, but just about once in
turn up and prevent a degree of novelty
from having been almost forgotten.
Vogue
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25

Correspondence of The Journal.
New York, July 23.-No matter how
slight may be the changes Of fashion, the
shops seem always to have something
new to show in the way of haberdashery.
A material little out of the ordinary,
a noval design, or new shade of color
keep up the interest in the quiet summer
season ana serve to make the latest styles
in shirts, neckties, hosiery, etc., a bit diff
ferent in appearance from those that have
gone before. Indeed, upon these slight
changes depends all smartness Of dress,
for while one may be in perfectly good
style If wearing no other than plain white
shirts, plain black ties, etc. one can
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25

hardly expect to be In the least distinc-
tive or in the fashion.
Among the prettiest summer shirts that
have been displayed recently in the win
dows of the leading New York haber-
dashers is that shown by the Illustration,
a fine quality white linen with small
maltese cross figures in purple and dot
design in lavender. It may be added that
the same design is to be had In other
coors, for very few of these shirtings
are confined to one shade, but the COM
bination Of lavender and purple is espec-
tally attractive, besides being far less
| common than the pinks, blues, grays, etc.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25
Fine Guide to Twin Cities.

Don't fail to get copy of How to See
st. Paul and Minneapolis, just issued by
the North Western Line. Handiest, most
practical and most complete Guide ever
published Copies may be had free by
calling at City Ticket office Of North
Western Line, 3S2 Robert ST., st. Paul, or
500 Nicollet Ave-, Minneapolis, or mailed
for cents in stamps to T. w. Teasdale,
General Passenger Agent, st. Paul.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25
Small Price. Big Returns.

If you have anything you want to sell,
trade or rent, if you want a position, if
you want to make business deal of any
kind. in fact if you want anything, put
your want in the Journal and it will be
filed Only one cent a word, nothing less
than twenty cents.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25
SIMPLY FORCED ToIT.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

tive found out why Snobbore Is SO cons
ceited. He told me himself"
He did? Well, that's refreshing
eyes; he said he spent half his life try.
ing to make people think well Of him
without success. Then he decided that
the only way to get thing done Is to do
it yourself
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25
SHE CRUSHED HIM.

"Cassandra,'' signs our hero, there Ia
something within me that thrills me to the
innermost recesses of my soul. I must
tell you of the haunting heaviness, of the
doubt, the dread, the pain that fills me-
-
''Percival" filters our heroine, "have
you been eating green apples?"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25
VERY IMlLAR.

'That bathing suit is quite a creationS
isn't it?'
well, it's nearly creation-made out
of almost nothing"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25

Coming your way. You certainly will
say so If you have any occasion to adj
vertise and use the Journal Want Col
umns.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25
HOW 1T AFFECTS II

HOW 1T AFFECTS HIM.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mr.. Brownoviteh- understand youu
husband is seriously i'll.
Mrs. Smithinsky-Yes; he's too i'll to do
anything except make good resolutions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25

More than year has passed since th
first travelling commissioner for the Louis
The Frankfort roundabout., 1903-11-28
BEST LINIMENT ON EARTH.

|. NJ. McHany, Greenville, Tex,
writes, Nov. I'd, 1900: Il had
rheumatism last winter, was down
in bed six weeks, tried everything,
but got no relief, till Il friend gave
me Il part of Il bottle of Ballard's
Snow Liniment. | used it, and
got two more bottles. 1t cured
me and | haven't felt any rheum-
atism since. | can recommend
Snow Liniment to be the best lin
iment on earth for rheumatism. "
For rheumatic, sciatic or neural
gic pains, rub III Billiards. Snow
Liniment, you will not suffer
long, but will be gratified with a
speedy and effective cure. 25c,
SOC and ST.. 90 at Paul B. Weitzel's.
The Frankfort roundabout., 1903-11-28
STEPPED AGAINST A HOT
STOVE.

A child of Mrs. Geo. II. Benson,
when getting his usual Saturday
night bath, stepped back against
hot stove which burned him Sc
verely. The child was in great
agony and his mother could do
nothing to pacify him. Remem-
bering Pain Balm in the house,
she thought she would try it. In
less than shalt an hour after APP
plying it the child was quiet and
asleep, and in less than two weeks
was well. Mrs. Benson is well
known resident of Kellar, Va.
Pain Balm is an antiseptic lini-
ment and especially valuable for
burns, cuts, bruises and sprains.
For sale by all druggists.
The Frankfort roundabout., 1903-11-28
LETTER LIST.

The following is q list of adver-
tised letters for the week ending
2S, 1903:
Anderson. elijah W.
Bush, Mrs. Lioo
Caldwell, Jim (Col.
Carch, Miss Marie
Check, Winlock
Croucher. Nicholas
Gaines. Harold
Cord, Miss Helen
Gray. Charley
Ham. Mrs. Lena
Hardin. Miss EStella
HardIman. II.
Harris, Mrs. NJ. =.
Harrison. j. NJ.
Harrod. Miss Monia
Holt. Mrs. Frank
Holt * Andrews
Hook. Miss Almietie or
Howard, Mrs. Euba
Jackson, Clay
Lacrosse Lumber Co.
Lee, B. n.
Lynch, Fl. ].
McClayin, Mr.. and Mrs.
McKissick. Andrew
Madden, Miss Addie
Merritt, John
Merritt. Miss Dora
Merriweather, Miss Mary
Riner, G. y.
Rice, Miss Mamie
Rowbottom, Mrs. Lille
Shoemate. j. f..
Smith. Miss Ida
Stephenson. S. F.
The Litsey Chemical Co.
Thomas, Miss Lizzie
Thomas. Miss Fannie
Wood, ID. f.
Persons calling for the above let
ters will please say they are "ad-
vertised."
f. NJ. DRANE, p. M.
The Frankfort roundabout., 1903-11-28
REMOVAL.
~. E. BAXTER,
d. ID. s., n. d.

D. d. S., n. D.,
eiaS removed his office TO rooms in the Baxter
Building, southeast cOrnOr 81. Clair and Broad
way, entrance on 81. Clair. Special attention
Hiven to the higher branches of Dental Surgery
and to diseases of the mouth. Nose and Throat
Both phones. New No. s. Old No Z29.
April Ill yr
The Frankfort roundabout., 1903-11-28
PERSONAL


houn, was visitor here this week.
Mr.. ID. G.. Edwards, of London.
was in the city. Monday.
Miss Ida Kennedy is visiting
friends in Louisville.
Mr. J. b. Lewis. of this Office,
spent Sunday III Versailles.
Col. a. ID. Martin. wife and chill
1ren have gone To Chicago. Ills.
Mrs. r. c. Tinsley went to Gin
cinnati on Tuesday.
Mrs. w. H. Kidd left Wedne 'day
for IA visit to friends in Lexington.
Editor John b. Dryden Sr.. went
70 Cincinnati, Ohio, yesterday.
Capt, |. Il. West returned from
Eastern Kentucky Thursday night.
Mr.. Ed. Jouett and wife, of Swift
ger, visited here Thursday.
Mr.. W. W. Edwards and wife, of
Harrodsburg. are visiting his uncle.
Capt. G.. &. Furr, Third street, this
week.
Messrs. James and Wickliffe Sta
ten, of Shelby county, were visit
ors here this week.
State Inspector of Mines G.. J.
Norwood, of Lexington, was in the
city Tuesday.
Mrs. Johnston Barrett. of Cincin-
natl, was the guest of relatives
here this week.
Mrs. d. B. Walcutt, Of Louisville,
was the guest of Mrs. Robert Boyd
Robertson, Third street, this week.
Mr.. w. H. Posey and wife are
visiting relatives in Washington
City.
Judge B. l.. ID. Guffy, of Morgan
town, Representative elect from
Butler county, was here this week.
Miss Irene Metts. of Forks of
Elkhorn. is the guest of her sister.
Mrs. Nora Deakins, of Louisville.
Mrs, r. A. Bohannan and son. of
Jackson. visited relatives here this
week.
Mr.. Sol Harris, of Pittsburg.
Penn, was in the city on Tuesday.
Mr. r. Emmitt Noonan and bride
returned Tuesday night from their
wedding trip.
Messrs. Harry and J. w. Jeffers
visited relatives in Lexington, this
week.
Hon. Geo. H. Alexander. of Lou
iSville, was in attendance upon the
Court of Appeals this week.
Judge Jere r. Morton. of LeXing-
ton, WAS in attendance upon the
Court of Appeals this week.
Miss Edith Posey, who has been
visiting friends in Louisville, has
returned home.
Mrs. Joseph Breckinridge and
rcon City, visited here this week.
Mr.. F.. p. Jouett, of Winchester
was in attendance upon the Court
of Appeals this week.
Col. W. Preston KimbalI, of Lcx-
3ngton. was in attendance upon the
Court of Appeals this week.
Col. Thos. NJ. Porter and wife, of
,Covington, were visitors here this
week.
Dr- r. Il. Welch, of Nicholasville,
was called here on Tuesday night
80 attend Mrs. Jos. r. Newton.
MI Oscar Farmer. of Louisville,
",wasNtia guest of his cousin, Mr.. W.
). Farmer, this week.
Mr.. J. p. Lewis, Of this office,
spent Thanksgiving Day in Yer
Sailles.
Capt. Joe A. Black, of Kansas
City, Mo-. was the guest of his Sis
Ter. Mrs. Helen Mcclure this week.
Miss Nellie Murphy. of this office,
: visited friends in Lexington
Thanksgiving Day.
JudgeC. X, Booze. wife, daughter
auS son went to Flemingsburg to
spend Thanksgiving Day.
Mr. /. Davis visited his son, DR..
Maurice S. Davis, in Lexington, on
Wednesday.
DR.. John Jouett and wife, of En-
'inence. were guests of relatives
There on Thursday.
DIR. f. Carl Roemelee, W. .e and
daughter, of Owen cou s., were
guests of relatives here Thursday.
Mr.. John S. Morris was the guest
rof his sister, Mrs. G. w. Satfell,
Second street, this week.
The Frankfort roundabout., 1903-11-28
FOR SALE.

A surrey. Almost new. Apply
10
JAS. w. WHITEHOUSE.
! l2-tf.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-07-22
How French Creek Was christened.

The earliest explorers in what is
now Northwestern Pennsylvania dis
covered a full-flowing and very pretty
stream with its headwaters near Lake
Erie, but running down the southern
slope of height of land and finding
river. 1t was an Indian waterway of
considerable importance, and was
adopted as a highway by the white
pioneers. The Indian names for it
were soon cast aside by the invading
race and have been lost to popular
memory. About 1850 the French came
down along Lake Erie in pursuance
of their au1acious scheme of running
line of forts from Canada to Louisi-
ana down the Ohio valley thus
penning the English colonies within
the wall of he Allegheny mountains.
They landed at Presque Isle, now Erie
cut a road across to this stream and
built there a fort. Then they began
the use of this stream and the river
into which it flows as a highway to
the Ohio country.
The presence of herds of buffalo
in the vicinity led them to give it the
name of Riviere aux Boeufs, the River
of Beeves, or Beef river. So it re-
mained in their tongue, and so it is
found marked on all their old maps
and in all their colonial records. But
in the winter of 1884 there came on
the scene .oung man who gave the
Riviere aux Boeufs a new name,
which turned out to be only the first
of great number of changes which
he wrought in the world. This young
man was George Washington, just of
age, a major in the military service
of Virginia, only recently made a
Master Mason. He came, with his
guide, interpreters and Indians, from
Virginia to demand of the French in
truders an explanation of their armed
settlements in English territory. AS
the youthful ambassador journeyed
through the wintry forests he kept n
udlly JOul l1ls w lCu uC Cdlut W INC
Beef river he set it down in his jour
nal as French creek, and satisfied
With this christening, let it go at that,
Just as if such had been its name for
all time. On Washington's return to
Virginia Governor Dinwiddie sent the
journal to london. 1t was there pub
lished as an important document, as
Indeed it was, and from that day to
this the name Riviere aux Boeufs has
been forgotten and the stream known
only as French creek Were this
creek, which is really a goodly river,
able to think. it might well overflow
its banks in the swelings of its pride
because Washington was its god
,ather. G. L. SMITH.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-07-22
UnmukicaI Wolves.

An incident just reported from Sivas
Turkey, seems to prove that the feel
ing which music awakens in wolves Is
fright. Two musicians-a drummer
and piper-returning TO their village
from a wedding party were overtaken
by a snowstorm and sought refuge in
a deserted mill. They lit fire with
some wood they found in the place
and were warming themselves when
they saw wolf emerge from a dark
corner Of the building. They jumped
up on a shelf and, TO their dismay,
saw several more wolves join the first.
The animals rushed in their direction,
and the drummer, at loss for a mode
of defense, set to beating his drum,
whereupon his companion instinctively
played his pipe. The effect was mar
velous. The music so terrified the
wolves that they attempted TO run
away, and as the door was closed, they
began fighting, and several Of them
were torn to pieces, the survivors
eventually escaping through hole in
the wall. This incident is vouched for
by the Government Gazette of Sivas.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-07-22
Political DurRInries.

1t was through n stolen document
openly seized by the British ambas-
sador in Berlin, that the British gov
ernment first learned of the recogni-
ton of the independence of America
by France. The British minister was
Hugh Elliot, and he had the desk Of
the French minister forced open to
obtain the copy of the treaty he want
ed. In 1850 q sensation was created
by the discovery of plan by which
secret documents were Systematically
distracted from the Russian embassy
in Berlin, being copied at night in the
interests of another nation and re-
placed in the drawer at the embassy
in the morning. The burglaries had
been taking place for two years before
they were discovered.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-07-22
AN OHIO PocAHoNTAs.
Victim Saved from Torture by Dusky
Belle Of the Forest.

Captain John Smith, of Virginia
fame. was not the only American
pioneer who won the heart OF an In
dian maiden and was by her saved
from a horrible death. The same thing
happened to young man on the Ohio
frontier in 1891, but he never wrote
an account of his adventures, and so
the story IS found only by an occa-
sional deliver into the musty records
of the old frontier.
In the year mentioned General Ar
thur st. Clair set out from Fort Wash
irgton, now Cincinnati, to retrieve the
fortunes of the Americans after Har'
mars terrible defeat of the previous
year Though cautioned repeatedly
by Washington to avoid certain fatal
blunders, somehow this army succeed
ed in committing some of them, and
suffered a disastrous rout. Two of
st. Clairs soldiers, young men from
the Ohio frontier, were captured and
carried by the Indians clear from the
southwest corner of Ohio to the north
east corner, to the spot where after
wards was founded the settlement
now known as Conneaut. There they
we're compelled to run the gauntlet,
receiving severe punishment. This
cruelty did not satisfy the savagery
of their caDtors. A council was held,
which decided that the captive named
Fitz Gibbon should be adopted into
the tribe, while the other unfortunate,
whose name the legends do not pre-
serve, should be burned to death. The
reason for this distinction does not
now appear in any record, but 1t
seemed good to the redskins. They
set up a stake, tied the victim to it,
and piled the wood about him. Just
as the fire was about to be kindled a
young squaw, in whose eyes the white
prisoner had found favor, interposed
in his behalf Her love made her bold
to face the decision Of the solemn
tribal council. She pleaded her cause
with such eloquence that she obtained
a respectful hearing. She pressed her
advantage, and offered as a ransom
several valuable packages of furs and
a sum Of money. After many eXpostu
lations this brave girl won her point
paid the ransom and carried off her
captive in noble triumph Sad it is
that her name, and that of the object
of her affections, are lost to history.
And equally so that the last acts OF
the drama have never been recorded.
One can at least hope that such sacri-
fcing devotion as hers was properly
appreciated, and that this nameleSs
Pocahontas was never made to suffer
the pangs of ingratitude She is
worthy of as great fame as her Vir-
ginia sister. c. L. SMITH.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-07-22
The Latin Quarter of Today.

The Latin quarter of today is as full
of individual character as the same
ground in the middle ages. One writer
says Paris only possesses two really
marked individualities, the student
and the grisette Not but that student
life is always changing its outward
sembance, just rs the university
structures themselves are changing
theirs.
Since the days of Abelard Paris has
grown from a town of 10000 inhab-
itants clustering around a little island
to one of 100000 covering almost a
whole province, but the students are
still the soul Of the city. When Paris
makes merry or mourns, the students
lead the way. 1t is the Latin quarter
which sets the fashion in ideas, as the
Champs Elysees in dress.-Scribners
Magazine.