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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-03
CHEAP BUSINESS CORNER.
1119-N washington az Nj two.story
frame double store building; lot 44x166.
THORPE BROS,
Andrus Building.

o 0 o o o o
. LOTS. o
8 81, 9oO--ioxl26 That fine corner on list
o av and 25th ct; orth $500 easy. s
o 5000 each for five lots in Rosedale. Blais- o
O dell, near 42d st.
Q WALTER 4. BADGER, o
Q 300 Oneida Building. Q
IoTs-LYNDALE 70 PENN Av, BOTH 70 a4TH
p avs N, 500 up Some on monthly payments.
House, lands sale and exchange. Write me
what: you want. A. D. Eads, 419 Guaranty
building.
81, 400 ONLY FOR LOT, 25xl00, INSIDE OF
Grant ct, only one block from Nicollet av.
Large enough for city home, only 10 minutes
walk to Chamber OF Commerce, Scourthouse
First National bank. Surrounding property val.
& ued $125 to $50 foot. Xxx.
sPEoIAL-..1Io OFF OF THE PRICE OF LOTS
y sold until June 18th, on 11th av, between 9th
and 26th SITS, regular price only $500.
$7O0A5x127L5, Sd ay, near 9th ct.
4e 81, 500 buys one OF the dnest double corners
Linden Hills two short blocks to lake.
$3.50, two nice lots, Doth av s, near Bath at
a $500 fine lot on Aldrich av. Inside S7th st.
Only three Of those fine lots left on Lyndale
av, between seth and A0th sts, city water
shade trees, at 1925. Is nhurst lots very cheap
!. A. Dunsmoor, 610 Phoenix building.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-03
Unimproved.

Unimproved.
FOR sA1E-BEAuT1FyL LOT IN REDWOOD.
size bOx1bo; all improvements In See W. q.
French, care Security Bank.
eeII40 FEET. CORNER WASHINGTON AMI
9th av S. with Milwaukee trackage; only $12t
= per foot; about one-half price. Henry h. 5Htg
gins A16 Phoenix building.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
Just Laugh.

AS the pen is sometimes mightier
than the sword, so the laugh is on oc-
casion as powerful as in eloquence the
spoken word -
There are many different kinds of
conversational accomplishments" re-
marked man well up in the ways of
the world, 'and I have paid due atten-
ton to the cultivation of such as lie
within my range. Great is language
great, indeed-and beautiful withal
Next to my limited ability with words,
however, l rank my faculty of using
the smile or the laugh, as the case may
be.
Il don't mean pleasantly and mirth,
as domestic social graces, but as defen-
sive business artillery. OF course a
mans first impulse when another mis-
guided man makes palpable move to
do him up or asks some unreasonable
and preposterous business favor is to
enter on wordy opposition, strenuous
naturally and perhaps violent. This, /
have learned, is waste of nervous force
and allows argument on the part of the
unfriendly man who Is trying to make
the touch. The stronger weapon is to
laugh-just laugh. Utter not word,
no matter how much the other may
say, but just keep on laughing. I've
routed many deep laid, dishonest
schemes with good, hearty laugh. Try
it."-Detroit Free Press.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
Reading and Talking.

Books are no substitute for talk
They come out of talk and go back into
talk. We doubt if reading alone ever
made "a full man." 1t has been said
that reading is thinking with some one
else's head, but talking is thinking-if
we may borrow simile from the motor
car-with two head power. AS book
worm is to the man of the world, so is
the silent thinker to the talking think
er. The man who does not talk is a
stranger upon earth. He does not know
his fellows, and they do not know him.
and those we do not know we cannot
greatly like. Little do men perceive
what solitude is and how far it extend
eth, for a crowd is not company. and
faces are but a gallery of pictures and
talk but tinkling cymbal, where there
is no love-" Yet man may do heroic
deeds and never talk at all in our sense
of the word, and he may be a learned
man and never express an opinion on
any subject of the first consequence.
All the same, we agree with Bacon
that, inasmuch as he is shut up in him
self, "closeness doth impair and little
perish his understanding" p London
Spectator.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
Went Back ON His Authority.

Freeman, the historian, was natural
ly familiar in the spirit to readers Of
the Saturday Review. In the flesh Mr..
Leslie Stephens single meeting with
the historian was in the nature of a
collision
Il came in contact with him only
once, and at later period. He wrote
life of Alfred for the Dictionary of
National Biography under my editor
ship, but declined to do more because
we had difference of opinion as to
whether Athelstane should be spelled
with an "a That was, l confess, a
question to which l was culpably in
different, but 1 had taken competent
advice, and my system q forget what
it was) had been elsewhere sanctioned
by the great historian Stubbs. Now.
as Freeman was never tired of assert
ing the infallibility of Stubs, l inno-
Gently thought that 1 might take ref
uge behind so eminent an authority.
The result was that for once Freeman
blasphemed Stubbs and refused to CO.
operate any longer in an unscholarlikc
enterDriSe"
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
RarnstauIe Fair.

An annual fair at Barnstaple, Eng
land, has been held for hundreds of
years. 1t was originally held in July,
but the time was altered to September
by charter granted by Queen Mary.
Barnstaple fair Is inaugurated with ii
ceremony in the town hall, where a
special meeting of the town council is
held and spiced ale and toast OrSpared
in the council chamber by the Seadles
and mace bearers) are dispensed to all
who crowd the building. Appropriate
toasts are proposed and speeches made
by the local member of parliament and
others, after which the mayor proceeds
in procession to three points of the
town, at each of which is read his proc
lamation opening the fair and enjoin-
ing all concerned to keep the peace dur
ing its continuance. Not until this
ceremony has been performed can the
business and fun of the fair proceed.
On the Inauguration of the fair huge
stuffed white glove, adorned with flow
ers, is thrust on pole from one of the
upper windows of the town hall and
remains in evidence during the contin-
uance of the festival as the symbol of
open handed welcome.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
The valor of Private Howen.


During the Indian mutiny, says
London journal, 1t was sometimes i'm
battle almost impossible to tell our
loyal native allies from the revolted
enemy. At the relief Of Lucknow Pri-
vate Howell was near loyal native
regiment that had, through too great
impetuosity and misconception of or
ders, got to a position where it was
mistaken for the enemy, and the whole
advance of the British army, amid the
smoke, poured into it an awful fire,
killing great numbers of men. At this
moment Howell, who saw that the men
exposed were paralyzed with aston
ishment and fear, rushed forward some
thirty yards in advance of their line
and, throwing up his left hand warn
ingly, waved his helmet at the point
of his musket with his right. Hun
dreds of bullets from his own COM
rades whizzed past him, two of them
cutting his right arm, but the daring
deed served his purpose, for the Brit
ish officers saw what was intended.
No sooner had the cease firew sound
ed than the men, to be the moment aft
er again in the throes of battle, sent
up magnificent cheer for Howell.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
Jokes mt Sen.

There is no occasion which presents
such terrible advantage to the prac-
teal joker as that of a sea voyage,
and there is none on which his Jokes
become more unbearable The follow
ing incident embodies one of his most
ambitious efforts: When we were in
the middle of the gulf of ST. Lawrence
and the nearest coast was 200 miles
away Yankee quietly remarked:
"Waal, | guess we are quite close to
land now. 1t amt more'n three-qua
ters of mile away, nohow." Person
ally we took no interest in facts of this
nature and were content to sit and be-
lieve, but many excited travellers dash
ed out of the smoking room to have a
look at the long hoped for continent.
They presently came back in the worst
of tempers, saying that the charts and
all other authorities declared the land
to be at least 200 miles away and that
there was certainly none in sight.
WAL, didn't say the Shore" return
ed the champion joker. 81 guess
there's land right under us, not three
quarters of a mile away"
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
The Primitive Clock.

A naturalist, while visiting Great San
gir, one Of those islands of the Indian
ocean known as the Celebes or Spice
islands, found a curious time recorder
lodged at the house Of rajah. Two
bottles were firmly lashed together and
fixed in a wooden frame. A quantity
of black sand ran from one bottle into
the other in just half an hour, and
when the upper bottle was empty the
frame was reversed. Twelve short
sticks, marked with notches from one
to twelve, were hung upon string a
hook was placed between the stick
bearing the number of notches corre-
spending to the hour last struck and
the one to be struck next. The sentry
announced the time by striking the
hours on large gong.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
Macready's Quickness.

Brander Matthews in lecture on the
drama told of an incident showing the
rare presence of mind of William
Charles Macready, According to Mr..
Matthews, he got the story from an old
man who saw Macready far back in
the forties.
In a shipboard scene the actor paced
the deck while the canvas representing
the sea was kept in motion by the
walking beneath of men with half bent
bodies. The cloth had been worn to
thinness by dint Of much use. When
Macready came to the most impas-
stoned part of his monologue and the
waves were rising higher and higher
the audience was astounded to see
red head pop up through the crest of a
wave. The actor saw it, too, and for a
moment he looked as if he were dis
concerted, but it was only for mo-
ment. Raising his voice, he shouted:
"Man overboardP'
And this made the people cheer and
praise Macready all the more.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
Arctic and rranic Sunset.

Sunsets in the tropics as / have wit
messed them, although full of rich col
orings, cannot vie with the color har-
monies of the poles. Even the nights
OF the tropics, full as they are of beau
ty and richness of color, are not COM
parable with those of the arctic night,
when the moon is of brilliance incon-
ceivable to southern eyes, and the sun,
although hidden during the long night,
makes its presence felt by an orange
radiance at the southern horizon at
noon, and on starlit nights the snow
crystals give out shimmering glow.
The tropical blue sea has charm
which the green of the south Atlantic
lacks entirely.-Frank Wilbert Stokes
in Century.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
smelling Ont Bank Ri11..

If bill must be sent In letter the
safest plan is to roll it tightly into the
shape Of lamp lighter and lay it in
the fold of the sheet inclosed. Ar
ranged in that fashion, the fact that
1t Is money cannot well be distinguish
ed by the "feel." A thread with knot
at the end will not be so likely to fetch
a telltale fragment of the fiber paper
when drawn by means of needle
through the envelope, and the smell of
1t will be less perceptible. So peculiar
is the effiuvium belonging to bank or
treasury notes that experts at the bu-
reau of engraving say that they can
distinguish them when sealed in envel-
opes by the nose every time. A thief
once showed to government detectives
who had caught him that he could pick
out while blindfolded from a pile of
400 letters every one of seven which
contained paper cash merely by scent.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
A Round of Pleasure.

The philanthropic lady sat in the
midst of the McFadden family, expos
tulating with them in a panied voice
on the frequency with which they
chased the festive cam around the
corner to the nearest liquor saloon.
"You ought to provide some kind Of
wholesome amusement for your fam
ily," said the philanthropic lady stern
ly to the abashed McFadden. ''You
should do something to tighten the
burden of living. Every life needs a
little sunshine in it."
"Oh, missus," spoke up Miss McFad-
den, aged. thirteen, eagerly, I'VE has
plenty of fun. There's always a fight
or somethin entertainin' goin' on in
the tinimint. Why, oney last week a
gentleman cut lady's throat and drug
her past our door" r."-Lippincott's Maga-
zine.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
The Druggist Lost In Ihscn

Some one in Scandinavia unearthed
the report of the examiners ON Dr. Ib-
sens papers at his examination for the
degree of bachelor. 1t runs as follows:
Norwegian, good; Latin prose, good;
Latin essay, fairly good; Latin conver-
sation, moderate; Greek, bad; arithme-
tic, bad; German, very good; French,
good; religious knowledge, good; histo-
ry and geography, good; Hebrew, good;
geometry, good. General remarks: A
young man not to be. despised.
In spite of many goods" however,
Ibsen was plowed owing to his deficien-
cieS in Greek and arithmetic. He as
pired in those days to be pharmaceu-
tical chemist and, failing to satisfy the
examiners, had to seek some other open
ing in life.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
HI;{S;NyNS
AVON Eyz6sMUN
@yWlIlzailSL0

The first lesson that the young girl has
of womanhood is usually a painful one.
She learns to know what headache means,
and backache, and sometimes is sadly
borne down by this new experience of life.
All the pain and misery which young
girls commonly experience at such time
may, in almost every instance, be entirely
prevented or cured by the use of Doctor
Fierce's Favorite Prescription. 1t estab-
fishes regularity. It tones up the general
health, and cures headache, backache,
nervousness and other consequences of
womanly weakness or disease.
The anxious mother of the family often
times carries the whole burden of response
bility so far as the home medication of
common ailments of the girls or boys are
concerned. The cost of the DOCTORS visits
is very often much too great. At such
times the mother is invited to write to DR..
R. v. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, for medical
advice, which is given free. Correspond
ence is held strictly confidential.
Backed up by over third of a century
of remarkable and uniform cures, record
such as no other remedy for the diseases
and weaknesses peculiar to women ever
attained, the proprietors and makers of DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel
fully warranted in offering to pay $500 in
legal money of the United States for any
case of Ieucorrhea, Female Weakness, Pro-
lapsus, or Falling of Womb, which they
cannot cure. All the Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Proprietors, of Buff
falo, N. Y, ask is fair and reasonable
trial of their means of cure.
uYour wonderful medicine, 'Favorite Prescrip-
tion,' has helped me greatly in time of suffer
ing,n writes Mrs. Minta Wright of Edwards,
Ind. cLast winter I was unable to do my work,
to be confined in February, and lady IN
Illinois wrote and told me about your medicine.
used three bottles of Favorite Prescription
and will say had the easiest and quickest con-
fnernent ever had. Had three children Pc
six hours before birth, but this time only two
hours Have fine baby girl and she IS the
most healthy one of all. I am still using tnS
'Favorite Prescription as tonich
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11

travelling in the opposite direction. and
when reached this very spot 1 heard
a terrific whistling of an engine and
saw the headlight there, down toward
East Far Hills''-
He stopped suddenly, for suddenly
upon the still night air he heard the
terrific whtstling of an engine, and he
saw headlight down toward East Far
Hills. Another train was running them
down. Raskins looked wildly around
them for place of shelter. There was
none. He knew then that there was
but one thing to do. Grasping his bride
In his arms he half slid, half lowered
himself and her down between the ties.
1t was hard work, for he had grown
into a man, while the space between
the ties had held its own. One thing
was lucky-Haskins' bride was small
and slight He directed her briefly to
cling to him with both hands round his
neck. She did so. With his two hands
lie elung to the ties above. They had
baiely adjusted themselves when the
train was upon them. Haskins whis-
pered to his bride that it would soon
be over, and they would again be safe.
But Haskins had reckoned without his
host for the train was a freighter and
was moving with the rapidity of a
snail. Besides, it had to wait till the
passenger train ahead had moved
along. Car after car bumped slowly
over the ties, and Haslzins held on till
his arms. with double weight upon
them, seemed starting from the sockets.
Suddenly he breathed a sigh of relief,
for his trained ear acquainted him
with the fact that the last car was ap-
preaching. 1t did approach, but it did
not reach them, for suddenly the train
began to back toward East Far Hills
more slowly than it had proceeded.
Haskins groaned. The strain was be-
coming unbearable. -'T can't stand it
much longer" he muttered, gritting his
teeth. He shut his eyes and held on
tight.
And then the train stopped. Has
kins yelled for aid The whistle
drowned his voice. Then the freight
began to move again, and this time it
moved forward
Kitty" exclaimed Haskins wildly,
kiss me for the last time! I-we've
got to drop. ] can't hold on-I can't
do anything. Goodby until"-
And then they dropped. They didn't
drop very far. They dropped about
foot or so, not more. For in the long
ten years that Haskins Was away the
road had filed up the old gully, and
they had been hanging in the dark for
nothing. Later they reached the house
of Haskins' parents. AS they stepped
into the light his bride gave a strange
start. Then she smiled. "Your gray
hair" she whisper.I . Haskins, sis an
ON the red.''
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
Sweetheart Abbey.

There is in Galloway, Scotland, an
ancient ruin known as Sweetheart abb
bey. Within its ivy covered, storm
battered walls lies buried the affec-
tonate and devoted Dervorgill, with
the heart of her husband, John Baliol,
embalmed upon her breast. Lovely in
their lives, in death they are not divid-
ed. The crumbling masonry is still
and must ever be romance in its
symbols Of death and decay, telling ev
cry day, as it has for 600 years, the
thrilling story Of woman's tender
love and devotion.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
A Bit of browning sntire.

A medley of young literary men were
once gathered to meet Robert Brown
ing. Themost aggressively literary of the
group was first introduced and at once
began to pour out his personal delight
and admiration with so unceasing
flow that the other ihtroductions were
being held in allegiance, and the other
literary young men starved. Browning
endured it with great good humor for
some time. At last he put his hand al
most affectionately on the egotist's
shoulder and said, "But 1 am monopo-
lizing you"
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
My salad days,
When 1 was green in Judgment.

Another and very different derivation
links the expression with sale, or sad
die, the block upon which in olden days
schoolboys were birched. In this form
the words are allied to the "pen'orth Of
salad oil,' for which, on All Fools
days, boys were sent ito the saddler's
shop, where they often met with
warm reception.
1t is just possible that the term had
some reference to the "Saladine-tenth,
a tax imposed by Pope Innocent Ill to
provide funds from England and
France for the crusade led by Richard
l., but this seems needlessly farfetched.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
The sudanese Baby.

A Sudanese baby when dressed up in
its best clothes is probably the most
uncomfortable infant in the world. The
coat or outer garment which fashion
dictates should be worn reaches to its
very heels. 1t is Of heavy velvet, hang
ing in many folds. This in turn is
adorned with countless buttons and
bangles of brass, considerably adding
to its weight. Its cap In turn is of the
same material, similarly decorated and
doubtless equally uncomfortable.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
Rebuked.

Hoffman,, the German physicist, ar
rived in Glasgow late one Saturday
night and on Sunday morning went to
call on Lord Kelvin.
The doorbell was answered by wo-
man servant, whom Hoffman, asked
If Sir William was at home.
The servant answered, "Sir, he most
certainly is not"
Hoffman, then asked, could you tell
me where 1 could find him?"
Sir she answered, you will find
him at church, where you ought to ber'
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
pEPARTMENT or THE INTERIOR.

Land ONCE at Sacramento Cal, Dec 1, 1903.
NJ Office is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN following named settler has filed notice of
his intention to make final proof in support of
his claim, and that said proof will be made
before R. Webb, u. S. Commissioner, at
jackson, Cal, on Saturday. January 9th, 1904,
viz: John Tonzi, of Amador Co., Cal upon II.
A. No. 6784 for the So of SEA, SEA of SWA of
section IL, and NE1g of NWA of section l3, Il.
8 N, r. IA E., NJ. d. NJ.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz: ChaS. Henderson, of lone,
Edward Greilich, OF Drytown, Cal, P. O.. Henry
Greilich, of Drytown, Cal, P. o.
d-4-6t JOHN F, ARMSTRONG, RegfsteE
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
Vain Man

Mr.. Hayseed-There amt nothin' thet
81 Peters loves more'n newspaper no.
toriety.
Mrs. Hayseed-What's he bin a-doin'
now?
Mr.. Hayseed-Paintin his barn ag'in.
an there amt no occasion fur it 'cept
tew git his name in the paper.-Phila.
delphia Press.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

Land Office at Sacramento, Cal, Dec. l. 1903
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ following g-named settler has filed notice of
his intention to make final proof in support of
his claim, and that said proof will be made be-
fore r. Webb, U. S. Commissioner, at
Jackson, Amador Co., California, on Saturday,
January 10th, 1904, viz: Giovanni RoSsi, of
Amador Co., Cal, upon H. A. No. 704l for the
E12 of NW4 and VIZ of NE4 of Section 10, II.
z NJ, R. 13 E., NJ. ID. NJ
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz: Guiliermo Depauli, of Vol
cano, Cal, p. o.; Severino Juliani, of Volcano,
Cal, P. o.. Paulo Scapula, of Volcano, Cal,
P. o.; Giovanni Deluchi, of Volcano, Cal. P. o.
d-4dt JOHN F. ARMSTRONG, Register
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
An English election Experience.

An Englishman relates the following
election experience: 81 was taking part
in canvassing constituency without
a representative. was announced
as speaker at mass meeting held
in large field within shadow distance
of famous cathedral. One of the
other orators delivered the most i'm
pressive speech 1 have ever heard. He
spoke of the struggle of the poor, how
they had to bear their burden. He
made me almost cry by his eloquence.
He talked about his own little home,
which he only just managed to keep
together by the sweat oS his brow
Who is her 1 asked. 'Wen,' replied
my friend, the candidate, he is known
in his own town as "Popshop Dick"
because he is a prosperous pawn
broker"
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
DEPARTMENT. or THE INTERIOR.

Land Office at Sacramento Cal. Dec. 1. 1903.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
his intention to maize final proof in support of
his claim, and that said proof will be made be-
fore R. Webb, U. S. Commissioner at
Jackson, California, on Saturday, January 9th
1904, viz: John W. Kirk of Amador Co., Cal.
upon H. A. No. 1852 for the NE14 of Section IA,
Il. s. N, r. II E., M. d. NJ.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land viz. J. w. Joses, of lone, Cal,
p. O.; G. H. Henderson, of Ione Cal, P. Q.
Joseph Dufrene. of Ranlett, Cal, P. o.; John
Toni, of lone, Cal, P. ..
JOHN F. ARMSTRONG. {.
dec4-6t Register
Amador ledger., 1903-12-11
The Cradle

Peter Cooper had fifN-five years of
domestic happiness and morning fire
building. Mr.. Cooper was an ingen-
ious man. When cradle became nee
essary In his home, as was sometimes
the case years ago, Peter rigged self
rocking cradle, with a fan attachment.
Afterward he patented the device and
sold the patent. There were many op-
portunities 'fn those days"