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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-31
81 Il; VIINNEAP 0LIS DRY GOODS co. E Il;
Fridays Special Opportunities Concisey Expressed
Curtain Dept

4 ;
Lace Curtains, 31a yards
long, full width, beautiful de-
sign, marked down for this sale
from 5000, to q
pair 80. -
Door Draperies, full line Of
colors in three lots that were
bought for a special sale, per
pair 1928, $1.98 and $1.19.
Dress Skirts
A lot Of a hundred Dress
Skirts made of bunting, chew.
lot and French Zibeline, made
IN best styles, handsomely
trimmed with bands Of peau de
sole or taffeta and fancy braid !.
cut in new faring shape ! reg
ular prices would be $3.50,
$3.50 and $1,000. O.
Special, Friday u. %
Umbrellas
Good, durable School UNI
brellas, with good covers and
natural wood 0n0
handles. Special -. ~OO
Two hundred Ladies' I'm
brellas Of fine piece-dyed taffeta
with fancy natural Ct
wood handles, choice ~,
Buttons
"a Ball Gilt Buttons, the
popular sizes, from 4 to 9 line.
For trimming suits and jack
cts, regular value from 12c to
Csc a dozen. Special a.
Friday, dozen ~
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no California

for $3.50. Tickets on sale during
March and April by the Minneapolis
e St. Louis Railroad, which operates
two through tourist cars each week.
Double berth, $6.75. This is your OPP
nortunity. j. g. Rickel, City Ticket
Agent, No. i Nico1let House. Minneap-,
oils.
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The Power of Truth.
PHILADELPHIA Ledger.

PH1IaueIpn1a@ Ledger.
It was at breakfast table In a
West Philadelphia home that the wife
said to her husband. You look as
tho you had raised Ned at your club
last night, my dear"
IT did," came the honest reply, "and
what is worse, he raised me back
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-31

The Japanese don't keep the laws,
they obey the police. But they are
law-abiding people, they don't go In
for having rights-they hadn't even
the right to live thirty years ago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-31
|CRUISER FINDS
CHASTITY RELICS
DISCOVERS SKELETON OF TRAP.
PER KILLED BY BEAR.

Llmberman Sees Sight Which Makes
His Hair Stand on ENID Colonel
Wheaton Recalls an Incident When
Tenderfoot Didn't Get Chewed Up
by Mother Bear.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-31
A SOLAR PLEXUS BLOW.

Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. Staylate-I was going to call
last evening, but I understood you
were out.
Miss Patience idea! I wish
you had called.
Mr.. staylate-Ah! you were really
at home. then?
g Miss Patience--No.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21
HE DISCUSSES MAXIWS
AND PROVERBS.

lac what's the use Of being cautious?
Out of billion and half wise saws
you pick out one 80 jump EN-. Because
one is weak, all the rest must come
down I'm crash
There are plenty &C others, and the
way they refute each other is to me ii
constant source of delight" said the
Idiot. There's 'Procrastina; ion is the
thief OF time for instance. That's d
clear injunction TO youth TO get up and
hustle, and he starts in with al the
impuisivcncss OF youth, and tha first
thing he kuOws-bang. he runs slap
into Look before YOU leap or second
thoughts are best That last Is what
Samuel Johnson would have called "a
Beaut What superior claims the sec
oud thought mas over tho first or the
5venty- thought that il should
become aNiOIaatic I vow 7 can't sec. If
it's morality you're after I am dead
against the tcHchirgs Of that provcrb.
The second thought is the open door 10
dupliCity when it comes 70 "a question
OF mOrel= You ask "a small boy who
has been ia swimming when ID ought
To- 1oVe been 90 Sunday school why his
shirt is wet His first thought is nat
urallE 10 reply along the line CT fact
ard say why. because il fen into the
pond But second thought comes along
with visions of hard spanking and 81
supperIess tcd in store fer him. and
suggests the idea thar there was Il
leak IN tho sunday school roof right
over The place where / was sitting or
I sat down on the teachers glass Of
water That's The sort OF thing second
thought does in the matter Of morals"
How abcut business. demanded tho
BIbliomanjac
wen. 7 know from experience that
il was second thought that lead me to
buy Hot Air Preferred ii 81. when first
thought said Flee or you're "A
busted community said the Idiot.
II took second thoughts advice.
relying on that dear old proverb backed
up by John W Midas's opinion hat
Hot Air Preferred would go 10 par in
six months It's worth one-eighth of
1 per cent now, and my broker told
me the other day he thought he knew.
q man who'd take Il of my hands If
I'd pay him $50 and guarantee him
against an assessment for a year. 1
admit, of course that there are times
when second thoughts are better than
first ones-for instance If your first
thought is 10 name the baby Jimmie
and Jimmie turns cut to De- girl. il
Is better 10 obey your second thought
and caH her Gladys or Samantha-but
Il is not always 50. and I object to the
nerve Of the broad. general statement
lnat Il Is SO. Sometimes fifth thoughts
are best. IN science I guess youu ina
that the man who thinks the seven
hundred and ninety-seventh thought
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that you think they should be revised.
Exactly" said the idiot.
It's a splendid idea said Mr.. Brief
But, after all. you've got TO have
something to begin on. Possibly" he
added with a wink at the BibHomaniao
you have a few concrete examples TO
snow us what can be done.
"Certa My said the Idiot. "FTere Is
q list Of them"
And as he rose up to depart ne hand
ed MIR. Brief a paper on which he had
written as follows:
You never find the water till the
stock falls of twenty points"
a stitch in time saves nothing at All
at present tailors' rates"
You look after the pennies. Some
body else viii deposit the pounds.
It's a long heiress that knows no
yearning.'
1T is the weakest chain on the links
that is elected president of a trust con-
pany."
Put not your trust in compsuies.7
Never haIoo till you've sold your
stock
second thoughts are always sec
ond''
'Procrasunation is the theme OF Cos
sios.'
Never put off today what you can
put or day after tomorrow
Sufficient unto the day are the OBJ
legations Of last month"
All Is not Gould's that's Mo-gan's.'
tOne mans stock is another man
margins"
One good swat deserves another
BY Jove," said Mr.. Brief as he reai
them of. you can't go back Ga any of
EN- can <oug''
no" said the Bibliomanisc. that's
the great trouble with the Idiot Even
with all his idiocy he is not always a
perfect idiot"
Copyright. 1894. by John Russell Ia
wilson
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21

n GOD" cried the Idiot. from be
- 7 hind the voluminous folds of
the magazine section OF his
Sunday newspaper. Here's "a man
after my own heart. Professor Duff
OF Glasgow university has come out
with a public statement that the max
inns and proverbs of our forefathers
are largely hocUs pocus and bunc0mbe.
Pve always maintained Jhat myself
from the moment I had my first copy
book lesson i'm which I had 10 scrawl
the line IT'S a long zane that has no
turning twenty -four times And then
that other absurd statement a stitch
iu the side is worth two in the hand
or something Hike that forget just
how it goes. What tommyrot that is 70
We'll. I don't know about that. M
Idiot" said Air. Whitechoker. tapping
his fingers together redectively. Ger
tain great moral principles are instillcd
into the minds Of the young by the old
proverbs and maXims that remain with
them forever, and become a potent in
f1uence In the formation OF character. i
81 should like TO agree with YOU, but
7 can't" said the Idiot II don't be-
r
Of character was ever fostered by such
2 statement as that it's a long lane that
has no turning In The first place. il
isn't necessarily true. I know g lane
on ms Crandfather's farm that led
from the hen coop TO the barn. There
wasn't a turn nor q twist i'm it, and /
know 10y actual measurement that Il
wasn't sixty feet Ions. You've got just
as much right TO say 10 boy that 1t $
n long nose that has no twisting, or 2
long leg that has no pulling. o. long
courtshiD that has no kissing. There 3
infinitely more truth I'm those two last
than Sea the original model The leg
that's never pulled doesn't go short ia
stringent financial market, and a
c0urtship without "a kiss. even If =.
lasted only FIVE minutes. would be TOO
long for any respecting lover"
q never thought of il in that way.
said Mr.. Whtcchoker. Perhaps, after
all the idea is ill-eXDressed in the
original
Perfectly correct" said the idiot.
'.But even then. what? Suppose they
had put the thing right ia The begin
ninE and said. It's long lane that
has no ending What's the use OF
putting a thing like that in q copy
book a boy who didn't know that
without being told ought 20 be spanked
and put to bed. Why not tell him it
a iong well that has no bottom. or q
long dog that has no wagging, or Il
long railroad that has no terminal az
ciliries?
"Oh, well" interposed the Bibiioman-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21
BY John
Kendrick Bangs

"Weu.'' said the Idiot there's one,
and it's the nerviest of EN- all. Water
never runs up hull Ask any man in
Wall street how high the water has run
up in the last five years and see what
he tells you. And. then, You may drive
a horse TO water but YOU cannot make
him drink is another choice specimen
of che Waterbury School Of Philosophy.
I know a lot of human horses who have
been driven TO water lately. and such
drinkers they have become, Its re-
ally awful. If 7 knew the name Of
that particular Maximilian. who in
vented those water proverbs I'd do my
best to have him indicted for doing
business without a license.
It's very unfortunate said Mr.
WhitcChoker. that modern conditions
should so have upset the wisdom of the
aucients
1T is too bad" said the Idiot. And
7 am Just as sorry about it As you are;
but. after all the wisdom of the an
clients. wise aud wisdomatic as it was
should not be permitted to put at
naught all modern thought Why not
adopt the wisdom of the ancients to
modern conditions GU can't begin too
soon, for new generations are con-
stantly springiug up, and l know Of
no better outlet FOR reform than in
these seIfsame Spencerian proverbs
which the poor kids have TO copy. copy
copy. until they are sick and tired OF
them. Now. III writing lessons why
not adopt your means TO your ends ?
Why make a beginner in penmanship
write over and over again a bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush p
which il isn't. by the way, to a man
who is good shot-when you can bear
In on his mind that A dot on the 7 is
worth two ON the T.; or, for the in
struCtiOn of your school teachers. why
don't you get up d proyerb like. It's
ii long lesson that has 10 learning: or.
if YOU are interested in having your
boy brought up 10 the strenuous life.
Why don't you have him make sixty
copies of the aphorism. A punch I'm
the Solar is worth six on the Nose =
You tell your children never TO whistle
until they are out Of the woods. Now,
where in the name of all that's lovely
should a boy whistle If not in the
woods? That's where birds whistle.
That's where the winds whistle. Il
nature whistles anywhere it is in the
woods Woods were made for wills
Ting. and any man VINO ever sat over
a big log fire in camp or in library who
has not noticed that the logs them
selves whistle c0nstantIy-well he is a
pachvdesm.t
Well, as far as 1 can reach conclu-
sion from All that Won have said" put
il Air. WhitsehVker the point seems
10 be thar the proverb of the aucients
IS Tot suited 10 modern conditions. and
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along certain lines has got the lass and
best end of it. And so it gOes-Cut OF
the infinitesimdI number Cf numbers
every mothers son of 'em may al the
psychological moment have a claim to
the supremacy bat YOUR self suficient
old DToVeTb maker fails back behind
the impeneUdble wall of his own con-
ceit and announces that because he
has nothing but second hand thoughts,
therefore the second thought it best.
and we. ike a flock of sheep follow
this leader and so batting that senti-
meut down through Jhe ages as if IL
proved beyond peradventure by the
sam total IF human experience.
Wen. you needn't get mad about it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21
By Charles ". crewdsOn

the major assured me. Guess weU
take the clouds today; they are hang
ing about right" And we didn't make
the photo Of a single redskin that day.
On the edge Of the camp near a tepee-
the lonely outpost Of dying race
stood an old sGuaw with a child. As
we focused on the scene, away she
turned taking the little chap.
Expect we'd better try 'em tOmOr-
row; they must first get used to see
ing the tripods.
/ confess that I felt impatient, but
/ knew that the major was an old
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21

said The Lawyer. Il never said it-s6
you can't blame me-"
Stiii. there are some proverbs" safda
Mr.. Whijechoker blandly, that we
may not 50 summarily dismiss. Take
Tor instance. You never miss the
water tiIl Che well runs dry"
One Of the worst of the lot. Mr..
WhitechOker, said fhe idiot 1--WE
missed the water lots az times when
the wei was Iull as evers You mics
the water when the pipes freeze up.
dou't you? Nou-oT. rather II some
times MSS the water like time at >
O'Clock ia the morning after n pleas
ann evenine with souc io7ial friends.
when there's no end of Il IN she well.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21

ttvUlttl4 Bulls ANonba Stf.t
i suppose. said Representative Hughes
Of New Jersey. that they pointed out 20
me the meanest man in the United States
last time l was over IN WilkesbarTe.
He IS a merchant there, and his reDu-
tation for stinginess is so universal that
when il was announced that he intended
to do something handsome on the boy s
twelfth birthday q delegation Of men who
knew him called around to see what had
happened, and if he had really loosened
up.
hear you did something fine for
your son. said one Of the visitors.
g Yes. said the stingy man, ] treated
him pretty weiL'
'tVhat did you do2 asked another.
Wen. he said I was gOilsZ 10 let
him have his hair cut as birthday treat.
but as IL turned 50 cold. I took a pail OF
water and made slide iof him in the
back yard. "
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these ne hung the pictured head OF his
totem, the bumalO Shining silver bands
Re put around his wrists and arms, and,
as a lasg touch to his savage toilet,
ed star
Himself dressed. Tow-a-toi spread
blanket ana placed behind it, leaning
against a tepee pole. his chieftain wand
OF eagle feathers. BE hung up and
spread out his rTappings ali over that
side of the wigwam, and IS The final
mark of8readiness took his bedecked
fox skin and sat down on the blanket.
The Indian Home -Sr
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but not a drop within reach of my
fevered hand. and / haven't the energy
TO crope my way downstairs to the iee
pitcher. There's more water in that
proverb than tangible assets. From
the standpoint of yeTacity that's one
of the most immoral proverbs of the
lot-and if YOU came to apply it TO the
business World-Ob. Lud. As a rule
these days You never find the water
till the well HIS been pumped dry and
put in the hands Of a receiver for the
benefit OF the bondhoIders. Fact is all
these water proverbs are to be re-
gardcd with suspicion"
= cont recall amy other" said Mr..
Whitechokeg.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21

You here" said Tou-a-toi to me
pointing TO 2 place beside him on the
blanket. I had not intended getting
in the picture but ] had TO obey. The
major meantime had got his COmera
ready. Click went the shutter.
7 got up and said: Now. Tow-a-toi.
NoC-hoase Will make you by yourself
Won't you. MAJOR
That's ALL" said the Indian, and
could not i'm any way get him to sit
again. nor would he allow that we pho
tograph his pretty young sister who
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21

Indian picture making sometimes Is.
In the afternoon the major came out
and found me in Tow-a-toi's tepee.
The camera at hand, I said TO the
young Cayuse chief: Now, Tow-a-toi,
have been here in your village Your
people be good TO me. I have been
here in your tepee. You and me smoke
cigarette. Pretty soon I go away.
want see your face many times ]
send you picture. Let Moorehouse
make your picture I take him back
my home with me-"
Tow-a-toi moved slowly 10 one side
Loneiy OUTPOST of Dying Race
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sat watching US. I am therefore COM
PEELED in Illustrating this story to offer
q photograph of my own ugly mug III
order that you may see the splendid
features Of the Cayuse chief, We had
taken up an entire afternoon making
=5s- one exposure.
wow You understand, said the ma
jors smiling.
Distrust is one thing that makes the
Indian 10th TO have his picture taken.
When ne believes in you he is easier
10 handle. JUST before I quit the vii
lage, after having been in it several
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a collar Of beads-an Of his barbaric
hnery.
Hes going to let US make it. said
the major. I guess III go water the
horses"
Don't you think perhaps. you'd bet
Ter remain here2' said I. with a bit Of
anxiety.
"Ob, Lord. no. I'll be back and have
time enough to take a nap before he
gets ready. You don't know Indians
like I do And away went the ma
joI.
1 was afraid to speak lest I should
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days, I went TO bid Chief No-Shirt
goodbye. and because I took real in
terest in seeing that his people should
be forced to keep their land. he grew
very friendly. / promised MIN that 1
would help him. Then I said:
But. NO-Shirt, you know man can
lie With his tongue: hs can lie when
lie write; but Moorhousa picture box
10 lie. Now let me write; let me put
him picture by write: white man see
] talk straight"
This seemed all right to the chief. He
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timer at this sort of thing. so ! cooled
down and came out with him the fol-
lowing day. Not one picture did we
make.
That night J stayed in the tepee Of
the Medicine Man of the tribe. With
my host 1 visited several tepees,
smoked cigarettes with the Indians and
gave some of them bright silk neck
ties. At the dance that night many of
them We're friendly and I hoped for
better results on the morrow. Now
just want to show you how slow this
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Of his tepee and, opening his trunk,
got out a small bunch of faded photo
graphs of relatives and friends and
tcCk a fun half hour to show them to
me / was at least glad that he In one
way or another was in the picture hui
NOR: but I did not dare to again ask
him to let his be taken. nor did I know
whether he would do SO or not. He
had not said yes.
But he finally put the pictures in
the trunk and began taking out other
things, a beaded star, a white plume,
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The indian Home Winter.
spoil things, and about the only words
l said to Tow-a-toi for full hour
were when he had smoked up cigar
cite, Have another"
With provoking slowuess he changed
his shirt. his breaches. his mecca sins.
Then he combe1 and plaited his long
black hair and wrapped the queues
vita strips of beav,c skins. Around
his neck he fastened the collar OF
beads. on his SHOULDER ns Dinned the
white plume. His breast he adorned
with strings Of small bones and oveE
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The indian Home Spring,
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Copyright. 1s04. by John Russell "a
vidsOn.)
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
Taft Makes Report.

washington, Dec. 4.-The report OF
Secretary Taft, special envoy of the
United States to Panama, of his nego-
tiations with that government has
been received here. It may be stated
with authority that after careful con.
sideration the president has given his
entire approval to the same and has
advised Secretary Taft by cable to
this effect.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
Wreck in California.

Redding, CAL, Dec. "A north.
bound and a southbound freight train
were wrecked yesterday afternoon be-
tween Siskiyou and Ashland. Two
cars were ditched and two tramps rid
ing on the cars were killed. The
cause of the accident is unknown.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
FoRTY-FlvE PERSONS INJUREDs]
IN THE WRECK.
PULLMAN COACH IN CREEK
Some Of the Passengers Rescued BY
Cutting Hole in the Roof Of
the Coach.

Holden, Mo-, Dec. 4.-MissOuri Pa
cifisc passenger train No. 1, bound
from st. Louis to Kansas City, due
here at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoons
was wrecked at the water works
bridge, two miles east of here, results
ing in the injury Of As passengers, 10
OF whom are seriously injured. The
accident was caused by broken rail,
which projected from the track, catch
ing the first coacn behind the mail
car, throwing it from the track down
two other coaches, a Pullman and II
diner, to follow it.
The broken rail was on the bridget
and the rear Pullman rolled off thalI
bridge into the creek below and thasj
passengers inside were all severely in
jured. Two old ladies imprisoned in
the car were taken out at the top
after holes had been made with axes. |
The engine, two baggage cars and the |
mail car passed the bridge in safety|
and remained on the track, but all the
remainder OF the train was deralled.
List Of Injured.
The injured are: L. H. Hickman,l
state building and loan commissioners,
OF Warrensburg, Mo-, back hurt; Wal
lace Croosley, representatiye-elect|
from Johnson county, Mo-, badly hurt;
|P, l.. Fergus, county treasurer, Hoo
den, Mo-, head cut; G. E. Mcdonald,
Warrensburg, badly. hurt; Mrs. C.I
Trause, Tremlin. Okla, confusion onI
head; Helen Trause, confusion onI
head; John Fowler, Clarkeburg, Mo,
knee sprained; H. Claxton, St. Louis,
(colored), will die; Mr.. Eddy, Lin
coin, Neb, hip sprained; e. d. Smith,
st. Louis, head and face hurt; Mrs.
Max Wolf, Kansas City, eye hurt andI
neck badly bruised; Mrs. John Eber-
hart, Kansas City, shoulder and handI
crushed; Mrs. M. q. Peirce and baby,
hurt about head; w. H. Peirce, wif9I
and daughter, Pueblo, Colo, bruised.
and Mrs. Pierce's hip seriously In
jured; Mrs. Tom Oates, Warrensburg,
head hurt; Miss Ora McCord, Denver,
head lacerated; F. B. Priest, Warrens-
burg, neck wrenched and body
bruiesd; Tom Barrett Barrett, KAN.
head hurt; G. A. Landes, Warrens-
burg, head cut and bruised; Mrs. j. r.
Eubesky, Pueblo, and four small sons,
all bruised about heads and bodies;
Mrs. Gillett, New York, aged 70 years.
badly hurt; Miss Minnie Gillett, New.
York, body bruised; H. A. Mosher
Butler, Holden, leg injured; John
Ross, Jefferson City, Mo-, head cut:
Mrs. George Wells, Salt Lake City,
leg hurt; William Jamiason, Trinidad
Colo, head injured; w. A. Mcbride
Warrensburg, Mo-, leg sprained: AZ
bert Thomas, st. Louis, serious: NJ
j. Payne, st. Louis, Pullman conduc
tor, ribs broken, knee fractured Mrs
William Jamiason, Trinidad, Colo, col
lar bone broken; Miss Lorena Dol
lique, Wichita, eye destroyed; II
Frankel, Kansas City, head badly cut;
IA. E. Cartwright, Louisville, Ky.
limbs badly cut; George Austin, War
rensburg, shoulder broken.
| There were 30 members of the War
rensburg lodge Knights of Pythias on
the wrecked train and few of them
escaped injury