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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-20
For saturday. July n:
"a STRAY LEAF"

"a STRAY LEAF"
You are to imagine that you have picked up stray
leaf torn from book and your work is to write
something that might be found such scrap It
be kind Of book novel, diary, history, scien-9
tic work, book of travel and adventure poetry etc,
and the matter may be serious or absurd The papers
must be in the hands of the editor Of The Journal
Junior
Not Later Than Saturday Evening. July 4,
at five o'clock. They must be strictly original written
in ink side only of the paper, not more than
800 words in length less than 100 with the
number Of words and each signed with the grade,
school, and address Of the writer, together with
the prize preferred from the list printed elsewhere
The papers must not be rolled.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-20
PICTURE PUZZLE.
(copyrighted.)
Can you find the children's father?.

prisoner have spent whole days
upon the lake from early to setting sun.
B Fifth Grade, Henry Fergestad,
Lyndale School. 5000 sColfax Avenue >.
A LOVE BONNET.
ST think darling Angelina needs new bonnet said
while vainly hunting for her dolly
bonnet afternoon.
Accordingly next morning this loving little
making bonnet for her neglected child
hunting needle thread and thmble were found
ragbag then brought to light i
this purple velvet and trim It
with some of yellow Here is ribbon
for strings. ''s8
Then she joyfuly set to work and how hard she did
worki by the voices of her playmates were
waited to in tempting Still
she would break and get in knots
the not her needle her
thimble. worked all day it was finished
AOh dear cit is too small She had not
thought Of trying dolly until it finished At
this Come supper reached her She
crying going to but she cofored
by saying WELL bonnes not the latest fashion
for dollies, anyway will my pennies for hat
And Angelina did have bonnet for her walk the
day. FRANKIE Chhten,s
r Seventh Grade, Morgan Avenue N. IS
School.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-20

scraps carefully gathed together and placed
the doll dress The whole wrapped
and slowed into the darkest corner OF
THAT shall never be fin
ished, But crying makes
dashed right and left and attempted to
regard joke With soothed spirits, my
play but finished the dress
carefully preserved in sack safe from
moths and dust.
forgot singing school, More was
result have attempted to make dress
for myself intend to do until
have confidence in powers My first attempt de-
stroyed ambition and it has never returned
& B Eleventh Grade Wanda l. Fra1ken,
South Side High School 3034 Sixteenth Az s
BROTHERS OPINION OF IT,
It in summer and the fragrance of june
filed the Betty small girl perhaps six years OF
sitting window holding large doll with rosy
doll belonged to her mother
she small, Betty thought great deal of it.
trying make dress for the doll with pieces OF
cloth which mother had from patterns She sewed
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-20
a NEW KIND OF TRAIN.

Most boys and girls have experience in dressnak
ing time going out Of the woodshed
nail hurried into the house
time to mend it before school, There f
minutes hurried around the house find needle
thread. placed coat knee and finished
ing about minutes. to another
clock felt something dragging be-
8 Sixth Grade Lewis Steinfeld,
Sheridan School. 1926 Sixth Street NE.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-20
THE COMFORT OF MUD PIES

When I was a very little girl was always
making dolls dresses. I would be started out
by mama, and if my effort ended in anything
at all it was ended by also. remem-
Der one day in particular Mama started me out.
had not been sewing long when stuck my
finger, and the thread caught on the edge of the
dress. 1t ended did all of my dresses. in
round ball with button on it. Mama found
many of these balls around the house and each
one was the proud possessor of the handsomest
button that 7 could find.
decided that I was making my dresses too
small; I would make dress for my big doll. I
was soon supplied with piece of cloth almost
large enough for tent. Not wanting to give
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-20
SAFE IN Is TAR-PAPER SACK.

SAFE IN A aTAR-PAPER SACK
afternoon in August found playmate and myselI
the woodshed sewing Ny friend was the Tor
doll pattern, and using 1t for
time had begged beautiful brown cloth from
my mother, which intended to make into dress for my
doll sun Ia holes in the roof but
unnfu Of the heat The skirt waist and sleeves
with this made, we submitted the
labor to mother. She glanced approvngly
heap until she noticed the sleeves fc
exclaimed with two funny little lines in both
corners me @.F1ave cloth?" she
My orlorn hope took wings when realized the
weight question. Not scrap answered,
wipng my with the Of clean
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-20
TOO PRECIOUS 70 GIVE AWAY.

Roy your stockings, and trousers with
the seat ont of them said mother mother want
to go fishing been fishing this summer Hurry
and get that sewing and then may co. 'on,
go to-day. sszs$3
s + set to work very unwingly worked till had
one stocking the second one, about
an hour Mother have the stockings darned Now
may go? must mend those trousers sOh, do not
like them them to boy who needs them ~ gu
must Maybe the boy gave them to
would not to sew So went to work at them
had them O'clock in the afternoon did
not think it worth while give away after much
trouble. of did fishing
Sixth Grade, Roy Milton
Lake H~rriet School.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-20


much cloth told must not sew 50 fast but
dolly in while like real dressmaker.
Fitting for dolly nearly as large but
had it wrapped around her upside down,
side out other it did make differences
"dressnaker'' that hitting When that
wonderful dress done thought it beautiful To add
beauty irregular large buttons all
showed it to everybody But why did people Yes it is
pretty you make it?' and then when left the
laugh heartily? This dress went in the bottom
doys trunk back making mud pies. I de-
cded to leave dress1nalSing for and
B Eighth Grade, Ruth Wagner,
I4yndale School. Avenue S.
ONE. Still JUNE MORNING..
Last summer spent four weeks of vacation on the
Waded in the creek helped with the
work hunted but nearly found time to
enough When was all ready to
bore resemblance to city
shoes stockings the house
blue calico dress with sunbonnet to match But
seemed to have effect the fshs
always ready nibbe at the bait.
morning feed the ten little chickens be-
hind the house Everything seemed very quiet and the
stiffness broken only by the two kittens made
the door, The idea
that perhaps would bite well still morning
caught up and the garden dig bait
baking powder full of wrg-
Cling, squrning angleworms fshpole my
shoulder called the old dog but being answered only by
hooking of went alone the hill to the
time at all before had eight fish,
thought it best then not because tired of fishing,
thought eight enough for
believe that enjoyed the
that quiet morning -Maudes Oakins,
Eighth Grade, 1859 Central Avenue NE.
Sheridan School.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-20

THE COST OF A WINK OF SLEEP.
clock struck four and all Mother objected
begged requested children insisted
80 we started the evening before the air
had smell which enliyens We walked hur
redly on dancing along in front in their
easernes to fishing father telling all
sorts stories and promising the who caught
fish a duckng.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
TIE SUICIDE ORAZE.

Coroner Traeger, of Cook county
Illinois. reports that during the year
past 459 suicides have occurred in Chi
c. go. OF his number 239 were mar
ried people. Poison seems to have been
IN greater favor than any other death
route, as rs of the total number Sc
lected 1t. It seems surprising that so
many should select death by so painful
an agency as carbolic acid. but more
than half Of those who took poison
swallowed carbolic acid.
OF the twelve months September and
March claimed the greatest number of
self distractions. in the former month
IS occurring and in the latter A Per
haps these are the two most gloomy
months of the year in Chicago, for It
IS a we'll established fact that suicides
are often brought about through mel
ancholia fostered in periods of gloomy
weather
According to DR.. Traeger's report the
greatest number of deaths reported
from all causes We're of persons be-
tween the ages of 80 and 40 years.
Railroad accidents were a frequent
cause of death, the victims numbering
In the time covered. 359
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Mr.. Yeast leaves Columbus to make a
raise in St Louis.
Sedan is after municipal waterworks, or
most any other old kind
An apron from far off Korea was part
of a shower at Liberal.
Santa Claus closed the La Harpe schools
n dav ahead of the scarlet fever.
Close to 800 jack rabbits were extermi-
mated in a recent Graham county round
up
A Barton county barn is large enough
to allow six men to work upon it at a
time
The explosion of 80 gallons of nitro
glycerine at Peru was heard for ten miles
around.
Instead of taking to the woods, the
Wellington News editors made the other
fellows
The Winfield Courier has improved so
much lately that it looks like a new and
different paper.
Forgetful of Christmas and Lent, Hia-
watha is advertising monster Fourth OF
July celebration
Hutchinson butcher shops will close
hereafter on Sundays. That's a poor way
to make a stake-s
One lola man intimated to another that
wiJhStanding his abundant crop OF
Whiskers, he was q barefaced liar.
A plague of 'possum has come to Rush
Center. Until the past year or SO, such an
animal was unknown in the county.
1t would hardly seem that there were
200 wicked people in Nortonville. But a
revival has induced that many to join
the church.
The chicken Dickers in Arrnour's en-
ployment at Fort Scott have walked out
They could not feather their nests on the
present wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
roo MANY DoCToRs.

In Berlin, the capital of the empire of
Wilhelm der Crosse, starvation is star
ing the members of the medical profess
sion in the face because so many have
taken up the practice of medicine that
there is not enough business to go
around. 1t has become too popular.
The situation may result in the gov
eminent taking charge of the entire
profession, issuing licenses to certain
members and compelling others to go
into other businesses or leave the coun-
try. From within the profession as also
from without the greatest exertions are
being made to keep young men from
entering it. This overcrowded condition
maintains all over Germany.
strike of physicians resulted last
summer from the maintenance of a sys-
tenn of free clinics by the state, because
the fees for services were minimized
to such an extent as to make the SER
vice wholly Improbable. In several Of
the more populous districts the doctors
organized and walked out" refusing
to render their services at the ''Kran-
kenkassen," as the free clinics are call
ed unless the remuneration was made
more substantial. The 'Krankenkas-
sem has proven to be a very popular
institution among the laboring classes
who patronize them although pecuni-
arily able to secure medical attendance
by their own means.
The struggling Esculapians of this
country may be interested to know that
of the 29, 200 doctors practicing in Ger
many 46 per cent do not earn incomes
of more than $3.50 a year. Perhaps a
quarter of these earn more than $3.50 a
year, while an eighth of the number
are in receipt of only doubtful incomes
and fully 5 per cent have no incomes
at all from their profession. The law
yers on the other hand are prosperous,
as less than fourth of the number
practicing make less than $500 an
nualIy,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
Ernest Thompson Seton's New
Book Is Out.
Title of the Work Is "TWC
Little Savages.'
BOYS IN THE FOREST
Their Experiences Are Enter.
tainingIy Told.
Illustrations by the Author Are
Excellent.

Ernest Thompson Seton's new book,
Two Little Savages,'' was published
by Doubleday, Page & Co. this week
1t is his longest and most ambitious
work addressed to children. 1t tells the
story of two youngsters, carried away
with the one grand passion of an Amer
lean lad up to his twelfth year-the
passion to become an Indian, or the
the next best thing to it. Mr.. Seton's
brace of young bucks are as interest
ing pair as you would wish to meet.
They live in the woods; they study AMI
mails and birds and they learn some of
the secrets of woodcraft in boys way.
A New York reviewer says: have
read more than 200 pages of the 542
and can vouch for the readableness of
those. There are 800 illustrations-all
by the author; dainty, original, each a
story in itself; or, if not a story WOrded
out, sketch which the imagination of
the reader easily amplifies. In days of
the growing popularity of marginal
drawings no one has done the thing
better than Mr.. Seton; and his designs
for 1.-TWO Little Savages" are instruc-
tive as we'll as amusing.
At Mr.. SetOn'S private estate and
wild animal preserve in Connecticut
there is rugged island in a wooded
lake" This he has turned into a camp
with real tepees, canoes and parapher-
MALTA. Boys who present themselves at
the gates with no other introduction
than that they are Seton Indians" are
taught to take care of themselves, to
light fires by rubbing dry sticks to-
gether and the ways of the woods by
the big chief who visits them daily.
Fifty bands of "Seton Indians" were
formed in various parts of the country
last summer. They sent Mr.. Seton a
thousand letters.
For a preface, or ''foreword," the
author has one strong, tempting SEN
tence: Because (and he capitalizes
that 1 have known the torment of
thirst 1 would dig a well where others
may drink" Is there not something
similar carved upon the marble basin
of famous fountain in Europe? But
what if there be? 1t is more to the
purpose of this scored to point out that
the book has no frontispiece. In the
absence of that immemorial adjunct OF
well regulated tones, the publishers are
moved to ask, rs this the passing OF
| the frontispiece?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.

The following editorial from the
Omaha Bee should interest Topeka peo-
PIE who believe in beautiful streets:
Why should Omaha not begin its mu-
nicipal ownership by the establishment
Of paving repair plant? The expert
ence of New York has fully demonstra-
ted that the city paving repairs can be
carried on more systematically and for
less money by the city than through
contractors. The report just made by
the New York commissioner of public
works shows that the American metrop-
oils has at the present time about 200
linear miles of asphalt pavement and
that by the end of 1904 a half million
square yards will revert to the care of
the city through the expiration of main
tenance contracts. It is found that as
a rule asphalt pavements revert to the
city in far from good condition. The
constant destruction of the pavemen Is
by the cutting of trenches, construction
and repair of street railway tracks and
digging the sewers renders any syste-
matte and durable replacement of as
phalt pavements through the contrac-
tors almost impossible. AS a result
much street pavement is in a dilapida-
ted condition.
What is true of New York is true OF
all cities that have to provide for the
maintenance and repair of public thor
oughfares paved with asphalt. A mu-
nicipal repair plant would enable the
city to use the very best material and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
NEW WHEAT mARKEr.

Kansas city is realizing that she IS
losing her prestige as a wheat market.
Reports show that there have been
marketed in Kansas City several thou
sand cars OF wheat less in the past six
months or since the movement of this
years wheat crop began, than in a cor
responding time six years ago with a
crop then only little more than half as
large as the one this year.
In 1897 Kansas raised 81, OPS 6o4 BUSH
els of wheat. From July to December
81 of that year there was marketed in
Kansas City 37.227 cars of wheat This
year the wheat crop was 94,041, 9O2 bush
els, and from July l to December 1
Kansas City received only %. III cars.
This is a little less than 5000 cars a
month. and if the receipts for Deem
Der are up to this average, the receipts
would still be 1900 cars under what
they We're in 1897, whereas Kansas City
could naturally have expected half as
many more, considering the size of the
crop.
Kansas City is laying the blame for
this condition of affairs to the rail-
roads. 1t is quite likely that they have
had something to do with diverting the
grain from the Kansas City market.
The Missouri Pacific would naturally
prefer to make sure of a longer haul
to st. Louis or New Orleans than the
short haul to Kansas City, and the
Santa Fe anG Rock Island would also
doubtless prefer the longer hauls to
Chicago. but the railroads are not en-
tireay RESPONSIBLE for the fact that
Kansas City is not getting as much
wheat as formerly. The development
of the milling interests all over Kan
sas has been an important factor in
bringing about this result.
And this is as it should be- It would
be far better for Kansas if. practically
the entire wheat crop were milled on
Kansas soil and sent out in the shape
of -four instead of wheat. This would
make work at home for thousands of
men, and manufacturing industries is
one thing that Kansas needs. Better
flour can be made from the wheat be-
fore it goes through the big mixing
elevators and the good wheat is mixed
with poorer, than afterwards, so better
flour can be made right in Kansas than
anywhere else from Kansas wheat, and
the world is finding it out. Kansas
flour is demanding recognition in Eu-
rope as never before, and there are to-
day dozens of Kansas mills which ex-
port car after car of flour, where a few
years ago only a few Kansas mills did
this sort of business.
1t would, of course, be impracticable
for Kansas to build sufficient mills to
grind ninety-four million bushels of
wheat, the. amount produced this year
because there will often be years when
Kansas will not produce that much
wheat. But it is not likely that at
present the mills of Kansas utilize
more than one-third of the wheat in
the state, while Kansas could probably
furnish sixty million bushels of wheat
to her home mills, nearly every year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26

only a temporary furry, and the lesson
they should teach is quickly forgotten
In fact, people can't be careful enough
under existing conditions. There is not
time to be careful enough. 1t would re-
quire so much time being careful that
little would be left for anything else.
A stove and fire is unsafe in itself,
and probably can't be made safe. Case
line is dangerous but when care is ex-
ercised it is little more so than other
fuel. The best people can do is to be as
careful as they can, and trust to luck
for the rest. But some people are
naturally more careful than others, and
some are less likely to make mistakes.
Such men and women have a better
chance to go through life without acct
dent, but even they are human, and
are likely to forget, just once.
It is possible to have a few good rules,
and enforce them strictly both as to
your own conduct and the conduct OF
all others in your house. One is never
to leave children alone in a house with
either fire or matches in reach. Another
is to never bring gasoline into the
house, except in a tightly closed can for
the purpose of filling that unsafe kind
of a gasoline tank which cannot be re-
moved from the stove. The only gaso-
line stove which is even moderately safe
is the kind with tank which can be
taken out doors to be filled. Gasoline
should never, under any conditions, be
brought into the house for cleaning.
Do your cleaning out of doors, or send
it to a professional cleaner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
DANCER FRoM FIRE.

It is hard to conceive of a more ter
rible death than that by fire. Topeka
has had the<peculiar misfortune of be-
ing twice visited by this catastrophe
within the past few days. In one case
it was a mature woman, who was
known to be an unusually careful one
in the management of gasoline. Yet
her one mistake, her one lapse of
thoughtfulness, cost her her life. The
other was a baby girl, only six years
old, left alone in a house for a few
minutes, as children often are. The
chiId's dress caught fire from a stove,
and the sad result followed.
Perhaps ii is useless to hope that
such accidents will ever cease. until
some new method of using fire for
cooking, heating and lighting Is brought
into general use Fire is dangerous,
and the fact that it is in such common
use makes it still more dangerous.
Using fire and infammable materials
every day, SO easily and so commonly,
makes people forget the danger. Even
such frightful accidents as befeu Mrs.
Hazen and little Lellis Law produce
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFronn the Atchison Globe. ]


Carry a lug along the street, and you
win inspire lot of Jokes
Has it ever occurred to you that the
song known as 1.-The Holy City needs
a rest?
There are lots of women who can't
traction.
Give a boy a nickel. and he will ter
riblv shock his mother by not saying
thank you.
Not one person in a thousand can
become familiar with another WITHOUT
showing impudence-
general store in a small town be-
comes department store when the
town has stretched out little.
About three weeks after a girl has
taken her first singing lessons she be-
gins to look around for high notes.
Whan the wife of candidate notes
how genial he is to the men, she must
regret worse than ever that she Is not
q voter
When a man is seen walking along
the streets with. game over his snoul-
der. the women always wonder IL ne
makes his wife clean it.
Any man or woman who believes
that John Alexander DoWle can cure
disease by prayer. or by wishing, is
fool That's all there is to It.
When man shows .'fatherly inter
est in you. girls, note two facts his
own daughters need it. and your own
father can supply all you need
After a man has married. he is re-
minded often by the manner in which
his wife addresses him Of the school
teacher he feared most when he was
a boy
The average husband is SO subdued
that every time his mother visits him
she remarks to herself We'll. he
wouldn't have eaten that truck at
Home
1,.vya- tn corresnondeut. Martha
Yes. we will accent the slippers for
Christmas although we have an old
ana comfortable pair that we hate to
discard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
PoINTEp PARAeRAPHs.
IFrorn the Chicago News-1

IF'roTu the Chicago NeWS-1
Some girls are like cheap music boxes
full of tiresome airs.
If a penniless man has nowhere else
to go he should go to work.
A widow is like gardener when she
tries to get rid of her weeds.
Even though cable news does have to
come through salt water it's mostly
fresh.
The meaning of the three balls in
front of a pawnbroker's shop is that
it's two to one the proprietor wins.
Some men can't because they think
they can't, and some others can be-
cause they are in the canning Dusl-
ness.
The humcr Of the average man is so
dry that he has to pay for the drinks
in order to get others to listen to it.
How shall 1 dress tomorrow ?" is the
all-important question that fills the
mind of a woman in a sleeping car
for the srst time.