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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-04-17
Almost as Good as New!
Piano Rebuilding.

have opened q factory in the room
east OF Frszer's Drug Store, where
will be ready, by April IA, TO actually
rebuild or restring, or repair, in any
section, any old or worn out piano. l
PAY.
will use the best quality Of material,
and will have on hand, at all times.
all parts OF the internal mechanism
OF pianos. Come and see me and talk
with me.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
on The HILL
The Derry Sad Ending Of a
Bran d Ney Sled.
(Prize.)


w HEN I was quite small I en-
w joyed sliding as well as any
one. There was hill near our
house which was very convenient
In winter. My brother and I set
out one cold day to this hill. My
sled was broken, out I went never
theless. We arrived at the hill in
due time, but found that it had
been iced since we were there last,
and that it was a trif1e perilous
I could see that my brother was a
little backward in trying the hill. 1,
not having a sled and not having
the chance to go, did not see the
perilous part, and SO encouraged
him by saying, 20, would go if I
were you" At that, he decided to
go, and in another minute he was
flying down the hill. Oh, what was
that black thing in the way? He
tried to steer the sled away from it,
but it was too late. The next thing
saw was my small brother coming
up the hill, with a bruised face and
the remains of his new sled. Then
and there I decided never more to
preach without thinking how diff
cult it was to practice.
Clara Pauly,
b 9Th Grade, 1917 Goth AV. N.
Logan School.
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The Ueek's Roll of Honor

MINNEAPOLIS PRIZE WINNERS.
Clara Pauly, 9Th Grade, Logan schooi, 1917 Twen-
tieth Avenue N.
Agnes Petersen. 9th Grade. Seward School, so2
Twenty seventh Avenue s.
HONORABLE MENTION.
Edna Hasseberg, 7th Grade. Seward School, 21O1
Twenty-seve Avenue S.
Neva Johnson, sth Grade, Logan School. 1889
Twenty-second Avenue N.
NORTHWESTERN PRIZE WINNERS.
Jennie E. Simmons. A 7th Grade, Hawthorne School,
Fargo N. d.
Lorena Reeves 9Th Grade Central School. Red Wing,
HONORABLE MENTION.
Bessie Marvin, 18th Grade, Prairie du Chen wis
William A. Landis, Jr, 18th Grade, osakis, MINI.
Mabel McNee, 9th Grade. Spring Valley, MINI.
Hazel Forsythe. 9Th Grade. GAINESVILLE. MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
AS THEY s AID
Bsit What They Did Instead Forms the
Subject Matter OF Stories by MIN
neapolis Juniors. y x = Z
T0P1c-PRAcTIcING AND PREACHING
apolis Juniors. =

the editor had allowed such an important fact
to slip her mind the papers this week would
have reminded her that it was the first week of
school. A few schools were up and coming for
the work, but individual papers notice.
able for their absence and the stray papers sent
in were not up to the standard that the writer's
had set for themselves during the summer.
Several schools were so forehanded as to get
the work done on the topic announced for Sep
TENDER 10, so that the indications that in
week or two the editor will be about the busiest
person in this part of the country.
It was little hard to tell whether the stories
pic as announced better than the one,z pride
a fol ti,,ooa tIo- Iod
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
IN THE H4Y MOu
he First Choice of a One.
day Disitor.
(PriZe.)

SPENT a delightful day on a
farm this week. The weather
was perfect There was just enough
breeze to carry the sweet scent Of
newmown hay and the drowsy hum
Of the summer folk. The sun shed
his mellow radiance everywhere.
The goldenrod, the herald of au-
tumn, grew by the roadside with
the purple asters and the waving
grasses. At the place where I was
visiting. they had a fine, large barn,
and I climbed to the highest part
down, down into the soft hay.
hunted the eggs, exploring every
nook of the big tarn, and fed the
little calves and the colt that fol-
lowed me about whenever he
thought I had some oats for him.
But the best of all was when rode
horseback. I had very nice rid
ing horse and I rode two hours. I
galloped down the road, hat off, and
the breeze blowing my hair every
way, filled with the exhilaration
Of it all, or rode quietly among the
trees, listening to the sounds all
about me and then looked at the
fields dotted everywhere with the
shocks of grain stretching away
until met by the horizon and bor-
dered by the blue hills.
Near sunset hitched up Bird, the
horse 1 had been riding, and drove
to the village. The horse was right
ly named, for she liked to go. It
the rolling prairie and when I came
he kind friends for my own home I
spent and one to which I
with pleasure.
Jennie E. Simmons,
Fargo, N. D.
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oeo1 eOfo OI q 1tII III 1eICC o~S WeII
as a downfall for pride, and it is
an undecided question as yet, in
the EDITORS mind, which was the
more painful to the victims. One
may hurt the most in one way at
the time, but the memory of the
other kind lasts longer. AS to just
which is which, the Juniors them
selves will have to decide.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
pEEK.4.B0o LU17H THE PIGS
all Movements.

n LordIy Porker. IN the Orchard That GOVERNED
all Movements
(Fifth Sixth Grade Prize.)
WI HEN small lived large farm in Illinois. One
Wv day my visit 1
going to good time for whenever children
liked to them enjoy themselves.
had threshed before this settled
well, in the woods the stack
the first thing played there for long time but finally
tired of it, and then thought would down into the
orchard climb the fruit trees This when the
peaches pears other fruit ripe,
imagined that had good time in the orchard.
morning papa turned hogs into the
they could the fruit had fallen the
ground There pig that I afraid of, when
climbed tree had to watch him and only when
he enough away could get down and go to
other tree afternoon in the woods and
played until friends
and supper in the woods
Sixth Grade, 5-iorena Reeves,
Central School, Red Wing Mimi
CONTINUED Second Page
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
ROLLING HOOPS
One Urong Thing Starts a
Train of Others.

CFifth and Sixth Grade Prtze)
SsrO ONE let's roll hoops' -@E>
~ said friend "Oh, no."
said I, sit is only boys that
hoops, and people will do So and then
beside you will fall get hurt"
My friend did as advised. and in the
back yard to play house We had everything ready
play when thought of the hoop. took began
It down the sidewalk It went well for little WHILE
then it after it, but getting it
fell into pool of water But after the again.
did not how looked. After the hoop
bounced and hit in the face Oh dear
thing it starts everything, home
thinking this had taught good lesson not to tell a
person not to do thing then few minutes
it myself. Agnes Petersen
B Sixth Grade, 90z Twenty seventh Ay s.
Seward School.
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every breath one of delight. Many
a Junior went home at night more
rs to clothes or skin. Hardly one
could claim to have returned home
in quite as good order as to things
destructible as. he had left it, for
the spirits were high, and the
for such disasters.
There were number Of high
school papers this week, but no
credits were awarded because the
conditions as to the number of pa
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
THE WELL IN THE CREEK.
Honorable Mention.)

n NE day last summer cousin playing,
~ when she said, Come let's wadng
1T will be fun told her that could not
but that she could and would walk along the She
sald AL right So we started and after had
little way she said, Come on it hurt YOU
would not do It, as much
did not like to show it. In few moments
place which looked deep She sad "Shal around?
sald GO on, it doesn't look Deep would if
you. SO she went but had only got about half
when she slipped fell. I and MY VIII
was working near, and got her Then told
never to there again. there
creek. frightened to
-Neva Johnson
Is Eighth Grade, 1889 Twenty
School,
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Continued on Second Page
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
AN iNvIeoRATlNG PASSENGER.

T was in the summer time. and friend of mine
were walking, needing how ap-
preaching edid not to be out night
team approaching, and it knew,
sa1d If were YOU would get in and ride, will
reach home sooner dreaming that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
THE FALL OF THE GUM cHEwER.
Honorable Mention.)

HIS little incident happened about
friend Of mine from the country. about
and onenaf senior trying preach
to her. She was chewing and said
10 that if you" why wouldn't your she asked
Because it Injuries the mouth and teeth,
She did not answer me and we walked home in silence
afterwards errand for nv
mother The grocery man asked il did
gum. had not had any for long time
After having paid for it home,
friend What have you in MOUTH" Cum
I said, and then remembered. 7 house.
ashamed because practiced had preached
B Seventh Grade, Edna Hasselberg
Seward School, 2101 TWenty-seventh Az. s.
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fitted the topic better than
goeth before fall to sto
and think which it In cases of ten the
The independent., 1903-07-02
SPECIAL MARKET LETTER
FROM NYE & BUCHANAN CO, LIVE
STOCK COMMISSION MER-
CHANTS, SO. OMAHA,
NEB.

Our cattle market is again up to the
Ligh point. Receipts so far this week
have been moderate. The demand Is
good and prospects for better market
ii receipts will continue light. Many
are holding till after the Fourth, and
may glut the market next week.
We quote choice beef steers $490
to $3.50, good $3.50 to $4.85, warmed
ur $500 to $4.35, Gamers and cutters
s2.25 to $3.25, choice cows and heifers
$3.35 to $40. Good light stockers
and feeders are selling at $4.00 to
S4.25, fair S3.75 to $3.50, stock heif-
ers $3.50 to $500. Bulls $3.50 to $500,
veal $500 to $500
Hog receipts heavy. Market has
been declining. Range $3.50 to $57O.
Sheep market dull.
The independent., 1903-07-02

does not matter whether that gift was
IL the form of lucrative situation,
money, tangible property or passes.
THESE two men, John Mitchell and At
torney Foln, have been offered gifts
in all these forms. They have stood
the test which SO many thousands havs
been unable to stand, and have refused
them all.
&&SS$&SS
Carter Harrison says that the po-
licemen of Chicago when detailed to
keep order in great crowds on public
occasions always keep their clubs a
their belts and that order is great
deal easier maintained than when they
were in the habit Of swinging them in
front of the people. There is great
principle underlying that. The peo-
rle have never yet betrayed trust re-
posed in them. The populist motto has
always BEEN Trust the people Chi
cago's mayor also said that Prince
Henry told him that one Chicago po-
liceman with his cl b in his belt could
do more in keeping order in grelt
crowd than twenty soldiers could In
Germany.
The independent., 1903-07-02
EXAMINE THESE FALL WHEAT
BARGAINS. THE CROPS GO WITH
THE FARM. THIS is THE LAST
TINE THEY WILL BE OFFERED.

No. 100-Red Willow county, Neb.;
76O acres decided land, two sets of i'm
provements; 200 acres OF alfalfa land,
45 acres now growing, 1S0 acres fall
wheat; all fenced; hog pasture; 80
acres with woven wire; one of the
best improved farms In the county;
convenient to school. Price, $12 per
acre.
No. 101-Farm Of 400 acres, miles
from town; house, stable, sheds, cribs,
granaries and corrals; acres of al
falfa, so acres fall wheat, pastures
Of 100 acres each, plenty OF small
fruit; well and wind mill. Price,
$1,000
No. 102-Farm, 160 acres, 21-2
miles from railroad town, school
close, good improvements, 80 acres
in cultivation, 80 acres in fail wheat,
g acres of alfalfa fenced hog tight;
plenty of small fruit. Price, 81 $50.
No. 2i4-540 acres 12 miles from
Bassett, near Mclean bridge. This
land is on the Niohrara river, most
ly fine bottom land and highly i'm
proved. All fenced. Will cut ESQ
tOno VI nay. ICuIJ VI 6OJu lillrDCi,
water and everything necessary on
first class farm and stock ranch. Also
a 5-year lease on 800 acres. The crop
this year is worth $500. If sold before
crop is harvested the crop goes with
place. Price, $4,000. Time on part.
No. 101E-Farm and ranch, 760
acres, s miles from town, on Long
Branch; mile running water with
timber: 440 acres fenced with and
wires; 20 acres hog pasture; 60 acres
Of alfalfa; 2 feed lots. barn 32x32,
/ barn 16x20, granaries corn cribs
32x32, house 24x26; 2 story; other
good buildings; 220 acres of wheat, Is
acres of rye; convenient to school.
Price, $40 per acre.
NEBRASKA REAL ESTATE co.
BY J. H. EDMISTEN, Pres
1912 0 ST., Lincoln, Neb.
The independent., 1903-07-02

Karl Marx Edition, matter all con.
tributed by socialists, July %. 1867.
Keep within a thousand words il pos
sible.
The independent., 1903-07-02

The social democratic party in Ger
many made great gains in the recent
election, but readers of The Indepen-
dent must not be deceived into the
belief that the social democrats of
Germany are advocating the doctrines
of the socialists of this country. A
recent letter from Berlin gave the
The independent., 1903-07-02

on the Columbia river, but per cent
of the voters could not be induced to
sign petition for a referendum al
though some OF the corporations hired
men by the day to go out and get sig
natures to refer the state railroad act
back TO the people. The fact that a
referendum exists seems to be effec-
tive in preventing Doodle legislation
without sending any act back TO the
people.
The independent., 1903-07-02

The Independent is being Favored"
with copies of the Saturday Evening
Criterion, Haverhill, Mass, a repub-
lican paper devoting much space to
attacks on socialism. Under a head
of Important to Editors" we are
given "liberty to reprint any article
-. with or without credit" No.
thank you The Independent will make
its own criticisms. 1t takes but 1t
tie stock in this National Economic
league method of side-tracking pop
ulism by sham attack on socialism
What these plutocrats want is to get
the people to forget about government
money and government railroads AMI
get them aroused over discussions Of
socialism, but it won't work.
The independent., 1903-07-02

The governor of Oregon, where the
referendum was recently adopted,
says "The referendum stands as
safeguard in the peoples hands
against the pernicious acts of an un-
worthy legislature and conniving
governor" The session of the Oregon
legislature held since the act went
into effect was without scandals Of
any kind and no charge of corruption
was made against it in the press of
either party. One or two of the acts
were opposed by some of the people,
especially the one appropriating $780,
COO for the Lewis and Clark exposition
and the one appropriating $165,000 foc
a state portage railway at the Dalles
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

orunkard will be deemed as vulgar as
Is the whisky inebriate. But this is
another question. What is our young
friend, Tom Jones, to do with his SO
easily acquired million?"
he says he is going into business -
answered Postmaster Jenkins. HE is
gong to New York next week to look
around and decide what to
DO. Think of what a chance he hast
He is only 81 years old. Armour at
ms age had nothing, and look at what
he had when he died"
MI Armour did not go to New
YORK and look around when he was a.
youngster," said Col. Monroe. HE
struck out for the undeveloped West.
Like myself. he found a thousand OPP.
portunities lying across his path. A
virgin empire was at his feet Chi
cago was village when he began his
career. He had no capital but good
health, energy and a brain to perceive
the possibilities of the then unex-
plotted meat trade. A thousand Of
the young men who headed for the
west at about the same time have
since amassed their millions Some of
these grasped wealth, others had
wealth thrust upon them. But in that
process, what became of the undevel-
oped West? 1t has vanished. There
are those who say that there are as
many chances to rapidly acquire
wealth to-day as there were when the
first great waves of immigration swept
from the Ohio to the Rocky Noun
tains. Such statements are not true
l purchased a thousand acres of land
near Lincolnville for less than a thous-
and dollars. Where can a young man
go to-day in this country and secure
a title at such a figure? Lincolnville
sprang into existence and without lift
ing hand my property enhanced in
value a hundred times. Thousands
upon thousands have had the same
experience. Where upon the map of
the globe is an undeveloped country
which in fifty years from now will con-
tain a popular of 10000, 900 of people,
with fifteen cities ranging in popula-
tion from 100000 to 1000, 900? Are there
any continents yet undiscovered"
Il presume there are none" said
Judge Sawyer, but that fact does not
prove that the young man of to-day
does not have as good chance as
you and had forty or fifty years ago.
Pittsburg was an established COM
munity when Andrew Carnegie reached
there as a poor Scotch lad but that
did not prevent his amassing his two
or three hundred millions. He says he
could do the same thing again."
He is reported to have made such
statement, but l do not believe he
did So" returned the colonel. "Mr.
Carnegie is too modest to advance such
claim, and has too many admirers to
y'e9ke it necessary, even if he thinks so,
.-nich doubt. When Mr.. Carnegie was
ooy every industry in this country was
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
Colonel Monroe Explains
What Cannot Be Done
With a Million Dollars.
BY FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS.
Copyright, 1908, by Frederick Upham
Adams.

By FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS.
Copyright, 1908, by Frederick Upham
Adams.
tom Jones has inherited a million
dollars!" exclaimed Postmaster Jen-
kins. He had closed Lincolnville's
postoffice for the night and moved a
chair nearer the stove. "A million
dollars!" and the words fingered
lovingly ON his lips.
His uncle in New York died and
left all of his money to Tom" added
Mr.. Jenkins, though the colonel, the
Judge, and everybody in Lincolnville
knew all the details. well, Tom de-
serves it. He's a good boy and 1 wish
him all kinds of luck"
81 don't exactly see what Tom has
done to deserve a million dollars more
than have a hundred young men in
Lincolnville I might name" remarked
the colonel. He happened to be the
only heir and this money comes to
him. No one knew that Samuel Jones
was worth more than a thousand dol
lars and Tom never dreamed of get
ting dollar from the old man. Tom
Us a good boy, as you say, but what
has he done 10 deserve more money
than he could earn as a clerk in Ben
sons drug store if he lived and work
ed two thousand years? If he had
been struck by lightning instead of
million, would you say he deserved
at?"
WELL l wish 1 had it," said Jen-
kins with sigh. "A million dollars!
/. "A million dollars!"
wishes are cheap and you might be
more extravagant while you are wish
ing" observed Col. Monroe dryly.
''You might initiate the man mention
ed by Rabelais, who wished our
Lady's church 5rimfull of steel needles
from the flossf to the top of the roof.
and to h976 as many bags as might be
sewed with each and every one of
these needles till they were all either
broken at the point or the eye. That
IS quite prodigious wish, and yet, 1
relieve there are men in this country
who would resharpen the points and
weld new eyes on the broken and
worn out needles. confess an abso-
lutte inability to understand why a
man should long for a hundred million
or even million of dollars, any more
than he should long for a thousand
dishes of ice cream at a church festi-
val. The craving for inordinate
wealth is as much Of a disease as is
the craving for liquor or opium. Our
age does not recognize this as a truth,
but time will come when the money
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

{ NCopyright, 1903, by Charles r. Gar
rison.)
! When those well-known Irish au-
4hors, George Moore and w. B. Yeats.
lproduced their play, "Granian and OAR
hin Dublin a few years ago, they hest
ktated for a long time whether it should
! be played in English or Gaelic.
1t was founded on an old Gaelic
- legend and was Gaelic in spirit and
construction. AS artistisc, they fell
But could Dublin supply an audience
kEat understood Gaelic? They de-
cided it could not, and turned the
play into English.
more people in this city" said Mr..
Moore, would understand Greek than
Gaelic"
Within a few months he had to take
back his words. Other plays were
produced in Gaelic at the same thea
ter, and were applauded by large audi
ences who understood them. Gaelic
songs and Gaelic books became fash
ionabIe, and teachers of the ancient
tongue in Dublin soon outnumbered
all the professors of French, German,
Latin and Greek put together
THE common use of the Gaelic
tongue, which will awaken old GUS
toms and industries. and tenant own
ership," said an Irish Catholic bishop
a short time before the revival of
Gaelic, 'are the two things we now
need to make a new Ireland"
The Irish land bill, now before Par
lament, which has for it's object the
1oaning of $500, 900 to the Irish
tenants for the purpose of buying out
their landlords, promises one of the
two things named by the Bishop as
essential to the creation of a new
and better Ireland.
What the Gaelic Revival Has Done.
The second factor, the Gaelic re-
vival, is one of the most remarkable
feature of Irish life. Never before
has the dying tongue of a people been
resuscitated so quickly. The desire
to learn Gaelic has attacked every
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
Cattle Market
held Monthly =.

Irish who settle in America do not for
get their old homes and the families
they left behind them. 1t would he in
StructlVe, were 1t possible, to ascertain
how much money is sent to Ireland
from this country every year by Irish
Americans. Millions of dollars are sent
in the form of Christmas presents alone
The postofice returns, big as they are
give only an inadequate idea of the
total amount, for many remittances
are made in the form of dollar bills or
bank drafts.
There is hardly an Irishman in
America who does not send. money
home to his people. There is hardly A
family among the peasantry of Con-
naught and Munster which has not a
son or daughter in the United States.
whose remittances make life happier
and more comfortable.
In place of the mud novels, with
floors of stamped earth, which used to
be the common dwellings of the peo-
pie, neat, substantial cottages of brick
or stone, with well-laid cement floors
are seen everywhere. This change has
come about, in some degree, because
the landlords, inspired by the Gaelic
revival, have come to realize their duty
towards their tenants; in a greater de-
gree, because the authorities have built
model dwellings; but most of all be-
cause Irishmen in America have sent
money across the water to rebuild the
old home and help the old people.
In the typical case, it will also be
found that not only has the house been
rebuilt out of the remittances, but a
holding has beeen purchased. Pigs,
sheep and COWS have been bought, the
boys have been taught trades, the girls
have been educated and provided with
small dowries-all out of the money
from America.
Not few poor Irish boys have be-
come wealthy in America, and gone
back to their native land to buy estates
and develop industries which have
given employment to thousands. Much
good has been done in this way, but it
is a drop in the bucket when compared
with the small but steady remittances
of hundreds of thousands of hardwork-
ing, unknown Irishmen and Ir1shwomen
scattered all over the United States.