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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04

makes. the first two. chapters of Miss
Banks book particularly interesting to
ST. Paul readers, These chapters treat
entirely of her experiences first as stem
ographer and later as a newspaper
girl in this city.
1t was in 1887 that a slight, auburn
haired young woman, not yet twenty,
left her home in a Wisconsin village
and came to st. Paul in quest of a, ca
reer and fame. Her ambition was to
do newspaper work, and she found her
first employment as a newspaper re-
porter on the st. Paul Globe, which was
then owned by Lewis Baker.
While stenographer to a st. Paul
wholesale grocer, Miss Banks one day
conceived the idea of writing up her
experience In the work. She did so and
sent the account to the paper which in
her AUTOBIOGRAPHY she calls ''The
Hustler The following Sunday morn
ing she found it printed on the first
page of the paper and decided that the
longed- for fame had arrived.
ION Mondag morning said to my en-
ployer, the Wholesale grocer" relates
Miss Banks in that first chapter of her
Autobiography L shall be leaving
you on Saturday night. 1 am going
to be a newspaper reporter"
She Was Misguided. n
Miss Banks acknowledges that the
only reason Sheshad for thus summar-
lily resigninge was that she had seen
her article in print and thought that
all she had toAdolwas to ask for situa-
ton and findifte ready to hand.
During the noon hour she goes on
to relate, 81 went to the man 1 had
heard referred to as the owner of the
paper His office was on the fifth floor
of the great newspaper building. To
my knock at his Office door he answered
come in and then | confronted an
elderly. white -Whiskered man with a
kind face.
n t"Do you own the paper?' I asked.
I'm inclined to think / do he an
swered, looking rather amused and sur
prised.
's'Then will you give me situation
on it? r had an article on the first page
yesterday went on. It was about
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful 1t Is In
Preserving Health and Beauty.

rev People KNOW ROW DSeful 1t Is In
Preserving Health and Beauty.
Nearly everybody knows that charcoal
is the safest and most efficient disinfect-
ant and purifier in nature, but few real
iZe it's value when taken into the human
system for the same cleansing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more Won
take Of 1t the better; it is not drug at
all, but simply absorbs the gases and i'm
purities always present in the stomach
and intestines, and carries them out of
the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating onions
and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and improves
the complexion, 1t WhitenS the teeth and
further acts as a~ natural and eminently
safe cathartic.
It absorbs the Injurious gases which COL
lect in the stomach and bowels it disin-
fects the stomach and bowels: it 5is ir-
fects the mouth and throat from The poi
son of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one form
or another, but probably the best char
coal and the most for the money is in
Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges; they are
composed Of the finest powdered Willow
charcoal and other harmless antiseptics
in tablet form or rather in the form of
large, pleasant tasting lozenges, the char
coal being mixed with honey.
The daily use Of these loZengeS will soon
tell in much improved condition of The
general health, better complexion sweet
er breath and purer blood. and the beauty
of it is that no possible harm can result
from their continued use. but on the con-
trary, great benefit.
Buffalo physician, In speaking Of the
benefits Of charcoal says: IT advise Stu
art y Absorbent LoZenges to all patients
suffering from gas in stomach and bow
els, and to clear the complexion and puri-
fy the breath, mouth and throat; I also
believe the liver is greatly benefited by
the daily use Of them; they cost but twen-
ty-fiye cents box at drug stores, and al
though IN some sense patent prepara-
ton yet | believe | get more and better
charcoal in Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges
than In any Of the ordinary charcoal tab
lets.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
her chosen profession.
Just an Experience.

"Shall ever forget" she asks, chow
I was once left on a hat rack in the
hall of an aspiring social leader while
l heard the lady say to the servant
"A reporter, did you say? Well. I sup
pose l must see her. She may be of
use to me-" Miss Banks goes on to
record how mad she went back to
the Office eager to do the lady up"
and how she received her first lesson
in the art Of returning good for evil in
the newspaper profession, for instead
of being allowed to do the st. Anthony
Hill lady up, she was instructed to
give her a good "send-off," her hus-
band being a large advertiser.
But the newspaper girl has a silver
lining for this gray cloud. She is sent
up on "the hill' to report a state ball
at the governors house and tells of the
courtesy of the governors wife and
how she finally enjoys a waltz with
the governors son.
Miss Banks paper was a morning pa
per. so her work frequently took her
out late at night. Frequently she
was kept until after the cars had stop
ped running, and then there was the
problem of how to get home. The
city editor finally decided that each re-
porter should take turns escorting her
home, but the newspaper girl one night
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04

typewriter girls. Now that I know
can write well enough to be published,
I would like regular salaried posi-
ton
." I read your article ne said, and I
thought the editor was giving too much
prominence to the first effort of a be-
ginner.'"
Miss Banks tells Of the chagrin she
felt at this heartless criticism, and
also at the advice the owner gave her
to go back to her typewriting and let
newspaper work alone. But he re-
Tents, and gives her a position in his
office as stenOgrapher and also an OPP
portunity to do some newspaper work.
Finally she graduates to the top floor"
and becomes a real newspaper girl.
But the aspiring journalist soon begins
to tread some of the rough places in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
Rise OF Elizabeth Banks OF ST. Paul

$50 1 graduated to the top floor of
the newspaper building and was turn
ed over to what proved to be the very
tender mercies of the managing editor
and his assistants. In the pursuit
of news 1 fitted hither and thither
among the leaders and would be lead
ers of fashion, taking notes of how
Mrs. Brown was giving a pink tea and
how Mrs. Green was going to pay a
thousand dollars for a dress to be worn
at BALI relates Miss Elizabeth
topography of a Newspaper Girl
That newspaper building happened
to be st. Paul building; that the
managing editor happened to be a st.
Paul managing editor, and that Mrs.
Brown of the pink. tea and Mrs. Green
of the thousand dollar gown were both
residents Of the SANITY city is what
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
WINTER WHEAT STANDS
WINTER WEATHER WELL
Not Much Damage Came From Low
temperature b rs

WASHINGTON, D. c., jan 81
The weather bureaus monthly sum-
mary of crop conditions is as follows:
In the principal winter wheat states
the month averaged cold with more
than the usual amount of precipitation
The temperature conditions were not
unfavorable to winter wheat until the
last of December. when the upper Mis-
sissippi and Missouri valleys experience
ed temperatures ranging from zero to
% degrees below. During this period
the Ohio valley states were generally
well protected with snow covering, but
in the central Mississippi and lower
Missouri valleys the crop was exposed.
Only slight damage, however, SENS to
have resulted, and at the close of the
month the crop appears to be very
promising. Complaints of injury by fly
are not extensive and are largely con-
fined to the Ohio valley.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04

twenty-one pounds, but when this big
piece came in the news so as
everybody that cablegrams were sent all
over the world, and the result was that
the price dropped Some went to London.
but as for my share took it in bulk and
carried 1t home with me. / wasn't in a
hurry to sell it, but thought by waiting
the market. for it would rise. I got SIS
an ounce for the gray and So for the
pIack, while in London it had only
was sold in 1891. remained with this
company until 1885, when 1 went home. I
have taken more than a thousand sperm
whales since them and have never found
in any of them a piece of ambergris, -
Pacific Observation-Disclosures
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
THE DIPLOMATS IN VENEZUELA,

The minister of Britain
He spake to Bowen thus:
I'm leaving in a hurry, isf
l wish to have no fuss, ~
SO kindly run my Office
While keep out of sight
Now, do say-aw, really
And Bowen said: 'AlI right!'
Then came the noble German
And called on Bowen, too.
He said: II have a somdings
To speak about NIT you!
I'm leaving in confusion,
Dere'S going to be a fight
Just tend the counter for me-
And Bowen said: "All right"
The gentleman from Holland n
He also spoke as such:
He's having his vacation
While Bowen runs the Dutch:
And loi the proud Italian
Has now remarked: ITO fight!
You sella de bananasW
And Bowen says: t'AI right"
New York Sun.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
VIII Keen Open NIahts.

Beginning January 5th, the Office Of the
Doyle Air Burner Company, Of Sc East
Fifth street. will be kept open each even
stock Of this company Is selling rapidly
at the present price OF $500 per share,
and, as previously announced, It will be
advanced to it's par value Of $1,000 per
share on the 18th inst. The office will be
kept open evening for the convenience Of
those who have already signifed their in
tention Of buying, but stock will be sold
to the general public at $500 per share
until January 18th, after which none will
be sold for less than $1,000 per share.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
Conner in 1902.

NEW YORK. Jan. 3.-According to
report compiled by the New York
metal exchange, there has been an in
crease in the production Of copper for
the year just closed. The figures are
293,83O tons, as compared with 1885,
tons in 1901. Adding the net importa-
tons of foreign copper, the total for
1902 is 368,757 tons, as compared with
32S,002 in 1901. The expectations,
however, have been nearly doubled.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
Infatuation.

DR.: P. Mum reported the other day
an alleged inquiry on the part of a guile
less Rochester young man who was visit
ing the house of the object of his admiral
ton and who asked her young brother:
Has your sister said anything about
me recently?"
Yes replied the youngster; ct heard
her tell ma you would never set the
Genesee river on fire"
What beautiful confidence" respond
ed the young man.-NeW York Times
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
He Works..

What is your occupation?"
II haven't any"
What! You mean to tell me a big fell
low like you doesn't work?''
'Oh, yes, sir; l work in box factory"
Well. don't you call that an occupa-
mo, sir: only get 50 a week; that's
no occupation. that's a job '-Baltimore
American.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
Hindoo Teacher Touring.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 3.-Swa--
ma Trigunaita, distinguished Hindoo
savant. has arrived here direct from
the Rama Krishna monastery in Call
cutta, India, to make a pilgrimage
around the world. He viii remain in
San Francisco for some weeks teaching
the philosophy of the Vendetta to fol-
lowers of the cult.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
r. r ! ! R;
For INTERNAL and EXTERNAL USE.
CURES AND PREVENTS. -,

For INTERNAL and EXTERNAL. USE.
CURES AND PREVENTS,
Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, influenza,
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, SWELLING Of the
Joints. Lumbaao, Inflammation, Rheu-
matlsn' Neuralgia, Headache, Tooth.
ache. Asthma, Difficult BREATHING, Rad
ways Ready Relief Is a Sure Cure for
Every Pain, Strains, Bruises, Pains In
the Back, Chest or Limbs. 1t was the
first, and Is the only Pain Remedy.
That instantly stops the most excruci-
at1ng pains, allays Inflammation, and
cures COMPOSITIONS. whether Of the Lungs.
Stomach, Bowels. or other glands or or
gans, by one application
A half a teaspoonful in half a t11m-
bier Of water will in few minutes cure
Cramps. Spasms, Sour Stomachs, Heart
burn. Nervousness. Sleeplessness. Sick
Headache. Diarrhoea, Dysentery. Collie,
Flatulency, and all Internal pains
There Is not a remedial agent in fha
world that win cure Fever and Ague and
all other malarious. Bilious and other
Fevers, aided by RAILWAYS PILLS 80
quickly as RAILWAYS READY RELIEF
FIFTY CENTS PER BOTTLE, SOLD
BY DRUGGISTS.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
He Needs the Money

Uncle Russell Sage has resumed friendly
relations with the call loan department Of
the New York stock exchange. Somebody
Will have to pay for his turkey.-St Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
Realns TO Need IL.

Senator Depew's bill to authorize the is
suance of emergency currency Shows
what happens to man when he is we'd
Houston Post.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
BLOW UP AN ILLINOIS
BANK AT THEIR LEISURE
Five Men Engaged and Two of the
Number Captured.

Number Captured.
GALESBURG, ILL.,, Jan. 3.-Five men
entered the First National bank of Alb
ingdon early this morning, bound and
gagged the night Waterman and leis-
urely blew open the vault, securing
$4,000. Thirteen charges of dynamite
were exploded before the cash was
reached. The robbers escaped. .7ena
QUINCY, ILL.,, Jan. 3.-Two of the
five Abingdon bank robbers were ar
rested here on the arrival of the fast
mail on the Burlington from Gales
burg. Both men carried enormous pis-
tolls and tried to draw them en- the Off
GERS who made the arrest, but were
overpOWered and disarmed. officers
were on the lookout for the men. The
latter gave the names of Edward Ray
mOnd and j. A. Haines. Raymond had
card bearing the name of r. A.
Vance, of the government secret ser
vice. He admitted that he himself
had been in the secret service depart
ment. Haines had the name of Quinn
on his shirt, and also a matchbox with
%" on it. Each man had a grip filled
with loose money and also burglar
tools and explosives. The money
amounted to $1,752
The Washington times., 1903-08-23
Man a Nuisance

4 LEADING club woman who has
n had considerable experience
with men-for. not satisfied with
one trial she has had three husbands
has very poor opinion Of the sterner
sex Il weigh mans moral carat on the
scale OF his personal habits" she saws.
= man. when he is perfectly nice and
clean. tastefully dressed and not noisy.
Is bad enough, but man who wears his
hair in his eyes and over his collar
manicures outside his own room. leans
around. sits with his feet higher than
his head and all that is unbearable. II
| married one Of the beasts inadvertent
ly Id break him TO decency or I'd kin
him with indigestion. What's the good
o. a husband. anyway He has never
been more OF less than a pet or provider.
That is all right; it simply makes him
twice pet. Now, having reduced him
TO his lowest terms, since It, was only
question of a pet. why not be satisfied
with bird, a cat a dog, a monkey. a
phrrot-anything? Such pets do not
smoke. get drunk. nor bring mud into
the house They never talk back. They
come when they are called and they do
not try TO run things"
The Washington times., 1903-08-23

mination to be calm will Invariably hav.
| just the opposite result Il did on YOU
You are in this morbid, nervously irri.
table state largely because you have
/ been breathing dead air for the last
/ fortnight and thinking about yourself a
great deal more than was good for you
Now, am not going TO consider you
a sick woman, in spite of all the dis
tressing symptoms you have been tell
ing me You're the sixth woman I've
been called to this week who was suf-
fering from summer nerves. and nothing
you have said has surprised me in the
least
What l want you to do is to begin a
course of air baths, water baths and
open air living. l sha'n't give you any
medicine. except these three powders,
which ! hope will give you a good
nights rest for three nights. thus
breaking up the habit OF sleepIessness
you have formed. 1 shan't tell you
what they are, or give you a prescrip-
tion. so three are all you can have As
you have a roof which none OF your
neighbors can overlook. ] want you to
go up there every morning at O'Clock
and take an air bath. Remove your
dressing gown, and let the fresh air and
sunlight play around your body freely
Don't try to do anything or think of
anything. Just relax. give up. Try TO
be Oriental and languorous I'm sure
you have seen pictures of Eastern beau
ties reclining on divans or being famed
by their women attendants See how IL
feels TO be an Eastern beauty yourself.
Being rich woman. you can easily
have your indoors man carry a couch
and rug up to the roof for your com
fort. II you drop off to sleep. so much
the better. After half an hour or so. or
when you wake up. get on your things.
go downstairs and take a shower bath.
First tepid. then warm. then hot. then
cold. Have the hot water as hot as you
can bear il quite comfortably. After
three minutes turn the hot water of
short and the cold water on full, as coll
as you can get IL. for three minutes
more. Then give yourself good rub
down with coarse Turkish towel. No.
want you TO do it for yourself. Your
The Washington times., 1903-08-23

q, maid can help you into your clothe
| afterward. II you want her TO.
/ You will fee! ready for breakfast b.
$50 o'clock. and see no reason VIII!
I you should not eat il with your hus
band and son. You are not an invalid
remember, only a worn out. nervous ir-
ritable woman, bored. blue and cross
Make your breakfast nutritious, but
light, and eat all you want. l should
think half a muskmelon, a Graham
muffin. an egg and as much cold milk
typical breakfast"
The woman raised her head weakly
from the pillow in protest But. doc
tor. she said. in a pleading tone. J
can't get along without my cup OF
coffee in the morning | always have
coffee brought to me in bed could
simply not dress without it-and then
l positively must have it with my
breakfast"
Just as supposed, +" rejoined the man
Of medicine. You have been whipping
Up your jaded nerves with coffee until
they simply refuse to carry you another
step. Not drop of coffee or tea shall
l allow you until you have crawIed out
OF this hole into which you have dropped.
/ know perfectly well how it would be
II | told you you could have a small CUP
Of weak coffee with your breakfast. Just
Tor little taste. in a week l should find
you taking two fulI-sized coffee cups
OF strong coffee in the morning. and as
much more in the course of the day. In
your present state tea and coffee are
simply poison-rank poison.
Il want you TO spend the remainder Of
your day outdoors. Lie down as much as
you want. sleep all you can. read an hour
OF two. but not in a recumbent position
sew or do fancy work. but do everything
In the open. Air and sunlight have
" wonderful effect on the nerves. Trv
every little while to take deep. fun
breaths- Be in bed by .. Before retIr
Ing take a tepid bath-that is. have tn.
water 90 degrees-and stay in 1t, the
body completely submerged, for fifteen
minutes. Keep this treatment up for a
week. and I think the next time I see
you shall ind different kind OF wo
man.
The Washington times., 1903-08-23

| THAT accounts for two week-euds. I
don't suppose you would care to hear
OF all the places I've been TO since
| them ?"
''Ch. yes. we would" exclaimed her
| friends in a chorus.
| "All right. then. One week We troll
! leyed through the Orange Mountains
and put up In a funny little country inn
in dear place that I've forgotten the
name Of We didn't know where to
spend Sunday when we happened TO pass
this hotel. all holIyhocks and climbing
rosebushes. and / called 20 the con
ductor. Here. let US of. This is the
place
"One week we went to Tomkins Cove.
on the Hudson. below West Point-such
a queer. rambling little place. all uphill
and down dale There is a Teachers
Rest there. where they sometimes take
people who aren't teachers. and where
they made US very comfortable. We
went trolleying to Rye. and we troll
Ieyed a lot in Long Island. where the
riding is mostly through green fields
and farmsteads-very restful and quiet.
And so on. I can't remember them all.
But that's a sample.
You'll have noticed that II was all
inexpensive pleasuriDg. We meant II
should be. 7 tried to get away from
people-particularly people ! knew. who
would expect me to be agreeable and
'bright'-and tried to have the outings
brace me for the coming week. I went
with a definite desire to better myself
as If the trip had been a dose OF medi-
cine. So n you think ! look we'll. the
only way I can account for IL is by
my 'week-ends.' which I have kept up
ali summer, even though I do expect a
solid fortnight OF rest
When the teacups had been repler-
ished. and the hearts and rounds and
petits fours had been passed. Gertrude.
the kindergartner. said:
4 should think you could havo rested
rather better in your own home. All
that trolleying would have tired me.
At home you could have lain down all
day in a dark room and had just what
you wanted TO eat
But il was change of air and scene
she needed especially" answered very
tall young woman. who earns her living
teaching bridge. "and she couldn't get
those in her own home or even in New
York
Il didn't want to go into a hospital"
replied the girl OF the '.week-ends."
What I needed was return to life. A
single woman gets so sort OF inhuman
Or unhuman if she sticks relentlessly TO
business l needed to get back 70 na-
lure. TO forget"
The Washington times., 1903-08-23

IS m afraid can't do much for yol
while YOU persist in sitting il
this half-closed ROOM" said ar
old physician TO a woman patient no,
long ago. The woman sat in darkened
room reeking OF aromatic vinegar and
violet smelling salts, her forehead
swathed in ice water bandages. :. long
Of acute discomfort on her face.
Here you sit day after day. breathing
pretty much the same old air over ami
over again, because to admit the sun or
n-warmed air would heat the room.
you say. And you are so nervously
wrought up you say you could not bear
to go outdoors.
don't know whether you know
don't suppose you do-that fresh air is
the finest preservative of sound nerves
and good temper there is. Irritation
which amounts to a positive disease
with a great many people, and nerves.
~ Ne'J WI SNi OF eAuduSICl
nerves-are two conditions which YOU
can actually see being produced in peo-
pie by bad air. The snappishness and
shortness so often seen in business Of
fees. the surliness of elevator boys. and
the bad manners of people generally are
not to be wondered at when one sees
the places where they work and
samples the air they breathe.
"You, for instance, are suffering from
an attack of summer nerves You were
already nervously exhausted when the
warm weather first set in, and few
not. sleepless nights increased vour
restless state Instead Of finding or
occupations that would keen YOU
out of doors, you shut yourself up in a
narkened room, excluded as much of the
outer air as you conveniently could in an
enort to keep cool. and made a desperate
effort to calm yourself.
Now, nobody ever calmed his or her
nerves by resolving to be calm. We can
resolve 10 do things that will have a /
calming effect on them, but the deter, !