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The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
ONE KIND OF SURPRISE.

Every year when make my New Year s resolutions
of them has always been to get up just
morning Every year I have failed, and
when made my New Years resolution last year every
one laughed, but said to myself, IT will get up when
called and surprise them.'' .,%
My teacher had only given US two lessons to get
during Christmas vacation but the day before school
began my lessons better than did the Fri
day afternoon left. When the clock struck ten
said "Come, to bed and get your lessons when
prise when went downstairs next morning the clock
striking eight had breakfast and worst of all
I my lessons I went into the dinngToom
and asked why had not been called and the folk said
that they trying to help me keep my resolution
OF everything went wrong at school but said
making of the resolution helped
great deal even if did not keep it over twenty
four hours. <-Bernice Armstrong,
Seventh Glide, 625 Second Avenue SE.
T'olmes School -
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
B Ninth Grade,
North Side High School.
TORN INTO LITTLE BITS.

It was the day before New Years Day and
sat by the freside reading book that had
received for Christmas. Suddenly it flashed into my mind
that [ would make New Year s resolutions.
piece of paper and pencil and began my list.
I wrote the following: -.
HDuring the last year I have not been pleased with
myself, and [ have resolved to turn leaf
of the book of life.
81 will try not to be to my brothers and sis
ters.
II will try to obey and please my parents.
II will practice my music at least one hour day.
ttI will try useful inside well outside Of
the house. will try to get S' in conduct in school,
~ will try to be friendly with everybody.
~ will 60 to church oftener
II will not be cross to the dog'
my list, pinned it the door in my
room. The first week went WE'LL but the second week!
All of my resolutions broken resolved to tear
the paper up Florence Finnberg,
Seventh Grade, 9l3 Twenty first Avenue S.
Monroe School.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
MORE THAN A GOOD MANY.
Honorable Mention.)

(Honorable Mention.)
My first resolution was not to eat candy but it
seemed impossible to stop eating it. kept spending
my for candy till day my teeth began to ache
the dentist and have teeth pulled, which panied
me very much. My parents had all the grocery stores
around, that knew of, stop selling candy, and they
kept all the money away from me they could. I
had candy after that for while until Christmas But
not very long after that acquainted with
stores than they could handle began again and have
stopped. Francis Barrett,
B Fifth Grade, GIT Sixth Avenue S.
Washington School
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
NOR, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA,
BETTER NOT ANYWAY.
(Honorable MentiOn,1

One day, when about six and one-half years
DID, mother went visiting and forgot to put away good
sized cake which she had just made. Immediately
ate much wanted (about half cake) and became
sick could hardly walk to Mother came
came down from my room went back double quick,
for mother had. The next New Year wrote reso-
luon trying to initiate fathers writing Here is part
of it: Resolved, wont cant better not eat half
cake at onct.' Another New Year found this reso-
luton looking like old umbrelafuu Of bad breaks
Sixth Grade, Peter Skurdalsvold
Monroe School 919 Twenty first Avenue g
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
NO MUSIC REQUIRED.
Honorable Mention.)

(HOnOrabIe Mention)
This year number of people will say, "Oh, dear!
have spoiled many of my leaves I afraid will
never be good.' And too afraid I have torn and
blotted my life book that could be mended
the marks erased. But fear I shall have to work
harder to tease little COUSINS for that is my fang
and began to think had better stop. had to go to
work harder for auntie for not good could
be. Then must not tumble down and not sing at the
top of my voice when I get up in the morning; most
every is asleep then and does not to be wax
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
BRAND NEW YEARS
Continued from First Page.)

in riding. How happy was, perched our Leautiful
bay Star Bright Oh, what fun people missed who did
not a But alas! Star Bright fond Of
the trees and went that there was no
for between him and the old oak; consequently
I seated upon the ground much to my discomfort
and displeasure. For strange have always
enjoyed walking since Lucille Jennison
3 Tenth Grade, 230S James Avenue.
North Side High School,
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
USED TO HARD (?)- STUDY.

81 will learn all my school lessons hereafter,
my first thought certain welremembered New
Year morning slowly descended the stairs toward
breakfast room. delighted with my Christmas
gifts and had two weeks Of vacation had for
gotten the pleasure of learning lessons thoroly ~
Next morning school began and I hurried off forget
ting all about my resolutions of the day before When
study period thought that would not
all the lesson it too long, but remembered
the resolution in time managed to get thru the morn
ing but that about all. aezz1zss.. ..-,. s,ers=
Oh that fateful resolution Of that miserable morn
ng'' thought wandered isessly home from school
that tWhy was it ever mades" studied les
thereafter but did always know them? did not
to break my resolution right away my friends
knew it all but what task it for mel ct is yet)
In that way became rather used to studying hard '
did not always know lessons in the time given
Seventh Grade, -@ Mary Folsom
Clinton School 2725 Stevens Avenue
DREAM OF SPoNGES.
Last New Years day I resolved to follow the doc
tors instructions and take cold shower every morning
The terrors Of such practice need describing to
who has been thru it There dreams of phantom
spongs rising from the foot Of the bed
and after hanging suspended in the air for moment
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
PICTURE PUZZLE
Copyri ghted.

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake bakers man, -.
Bake cake as fast as you
Pat it and prick it, and mark it with T,
And put n Tommy
(Where the baker and his dog?)
ened by my voice, for alarm clock
rooster around And when New Year g Day
will let all my badness with the wild ringing of
and bring a fresh book. I wish all may
have happy year. Mary Pratt
Fifth Grade 511 Third Avenue Sc
Holmes School.
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1902 First Avenue s.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
sofa, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1904

DECEMBER 81, 1904
mother much apprehension hest should grow up with
What is known as poor stomach did not share her
ears however and often in company with other LITTLE
,oys whose mothers felt the Same as mine no doubt
contributed pennies to general fund which supplied
IS our friend (a) the candyman could provide
One day, I believe it was New Years, four Of US
order to celebrate the day, and devourng it at
convenient street rapidly covering hands, faces
md best clothes with the sticky commodity was just
the act of sticking piece into my mouth
when who should turn the but mother herself in
with other ladies' h tt the S
candy and look clean. It too late; caught
expected see mother chastise in righteous
upon entering the house she burst into tears had
mother cry and in sympathy cried too At
asst succeeded in comforting her by promising that
would eat cheap grocery store candy On
while and that could invite the other culprts to
help eat it. Both promises were kept:
South Side High School. 1927 Fifteenth Av. s.
THE LAST ORDER FIRST.
"Resolved, and down the page written lists Of
iSses Pfzsts and npressve at the me Followed to
~ II, these resolves would have made model
II boys and girls, but with exception they went
II the way Of most impusive New Years resou-
te1s AT t ths last top orer Of my my
II Being sailor s granddaughter I had had it
presented to several times by this ilustra-
ii
II ''Supposing,'' said grandpa, "a ship was
quietly crossing the Pacific Say the captain
II should order the idle to splice ropes, and
II suddenly the ship should spring leak. Do you
Ill think they would calmly splice when the
Al command, All hands to the pumps,'' camea
II Rather, they would obey the last order first"
TaI Then morning the truth and force Of the
ID adage impressed upon The horse
III hitched and mama, seated in the buggy, called
I'll to to hurry and bring package left in the
I'll house On the way the washerWoman stopped
S1l me, and asked for soap. It the last order
Nj and I promptly obeyed it. Climbing into the
III buggy turned the horses head around, and
III ~ there, about minute g time ahead of just
III the time occupied by the last order
III away team dragging empty hayrack after it.
FL Dashing up the road, they thundered up the.
II hill of the bridge; swinging suddenly around
II the corner, too to admit two teams to
II pass, made a dash down the opposite hill, leav-
II ing the broken crosstree sticking into the cedar
II blocks and impeding travel Accompanying
II the queer feeling with which I viewed the wreck,
. and the thought Of escape was the
firm resolve to 'obey last order frst'' Thus
it happened I kept one New Year s resolution.
-AlVyda De Haven,
5000 Logan Avenue n.
Ninth Grade,
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
FUDGE ONCE IN A WHILE.

When I very small boy, like great many
older and wiser people, candy
great deal better than they liked ma Tins caused my
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
FIRST ST" INGREDIENTS
Honorable Mention.)

On the first day of last January I opened my top
not going to be in any such condition." This my
first resolution It certainly sight, for most every
thing possessed that goes under the of Etruck
was in heap. When wanted anything, the first thing
the to stir the ingredients thoroy then
hnd y what wanted: Diligently that New Years
hands had DONE In few days the things which had been
put into their Places moved back to their former resi-
dences. Oh such luck! Nothing would stay in
its place. 1t always proved that everything
needed in that drawer So this very day my top r.
burea draw is in condition it was ii
last January first. --Myrtle Webster II
A Seventh Grade. 1910 22d Av. n. II
Lowell School. ii
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05

rents would give anything if they
would only scratch the hardwood
fioor-yes, and the piano, with those
loose feet.
The queer thing, however, is that
the children don't know that they are
enchanted. This is one of the unique
talents of the old sorcerer. He
changes and changes them and they
never notice it themselves, although
they can see very clearly how all
others are changing around them.
Now anu then there are some un-
lucky ones who notice that they are
being enchanted. These make a great
how dye do, and race off to some
rival a enchanter, who sells them a
black potion, that they rub on their
hair and boards. But this is not really
a. spell at all, and only makes every
body else laugh atethem.s ss.
! sl5 there IS one way to- fool even
this mighty sorcerery He can and will
make the. swiftest and thinnest child
big and fat aud pluck its hair out
until nothing is left excepta shiny bald
head, and. take the diamond dust out
OF. its eyes till. they get. SO dim that
the enchanted child has TO wear spec
tacles, and make its stomach so diff
ferent that it simply cannot eat candy
or pie--but he cannot make it really
old; no, not single year or even day
older than it was in the beginning, if
the child viii only remember Yung-
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05

land and all about it; its castles that
are in the air on every hand; its swans
that never become geese; its fairies
that live in every dew drop and ride
on the dream horses to and fro
through the still air; it's stories in
which little Hans always loves little
Gretel and never forgets her, and it's
dreamy, peaceful afternoons.
Alas! Only very few persons sue
ceed in doing this. The world calls
them poets and does not bother its
head much about them, except to cry
out over its shoulder at them that
they really must try to keep step with
Tick Tack! Otherwise the poets
are left very much to themselves.
They are mostly poor and do not
amount to much in the world; for
they could not manage bank for a
single day without mixing the ac-
counts all up; they could not cut a
steak right or cobble a shoe or COM
mand an army. They really are not
worth noticing
But such poet is curious crea-
ture He cannot get money for his
writing, as the world has to spend the
money in accordance with "Ticki
Tacki'' and poetry does not rhyme
with that at all Therefore the poet
writes for the mere pleasure of being
read. And as he is rarely read, he
writes anyway. SO now that we get
down to it, he writes for the same
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05
HOw Grandpa Trout LDds CAUGHT

Say, boys" said Jim Baldwin to the
rest one day, "you ought to see the
trout in the pool below the dam.
Say, he's the grandfather of all the
fish I bet that Captain Mat never
saw a bigger whale than that in the
Arctic Ocean"
All the boys of the village were ard
ent fishermen, and the news sent them
scurrying home for their tackle.
Stealthily as Indians they crept to the
high bank over the pool and peered
through the' overhanging branches
into the clear, black water. Sure
enough, there he lay, the grandfather
of all the trout, with mighty hooked
jaw that seemed to be in perpetual
savage grin, and a tail that was so
big that it seemed to make a whirl-
pool every time he famed it.
That was the beginning of a month
of hard thought, harder work and dis
appointment for the boys. They kept
the secret of the big trout to them
selves, and every day they tried him
with some new kind of bait.
Ed Burbridge borrowed his father
fly rod and tried all the feathers in the
tackle book, but without success.
Jim Baldwin tried worms and grass
hoppers and moths. Bill Andrews
spent hours in his fathers library
reading up about big trout, and as a
result the boys thought that he was
crazy, for he arrived at the pool one
morning with bunch of red fox hair
on hook. He trailed it up and down
through the pool, and told the boys
that this was how the Canadian
Indians caught big trout that would
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05

stupid reason that makes the birds
slng-because they look at the sky
and kiss the wind, and then they
can't help it; SO they will sing even
though their song attracts boys with
stones who will soon end the throb-
bing i'll the little throats.
The tall child with axbeard that we
started to tell about-do you remem-
ber? 1t was away and away long ago
in the very beginning-was not a
poet. Indeed, he was anything but a
poet. He had been enchanted into
a merchant prince, who could buy all
the poets in the world and never
know that he had spent the money.
He was so rich that he had absolutely
no time for himself; he had to devote
it all TO making more money so that
his other money would make more
money so that the new money he
made would make-but no! Why
should we take his troubles on our
selves? Even repeating them gives a
healthy person headache
Still. one day he had to fall out of
that military goose-step. This both
cred him dreadfully, for he was a
corporal, and there was none who was
fiercer than he about making the rank
and file go Right foot! Left footw
in exact time with Tick! Tack! Tick!
Tack"
The old sorcerer had made little
in his stomach over night,
and where he could eat bread and
milk the day before with comparative
comfort, now he could eat only milk.
He did not discover this until the
bread began to kick the walls of his
stomach, crying angrily:
Wheat! Wheat! Let me outp
So the tall child with the beard lay
on its enchanted back, grieving about
its enchanted stomach and wondering
why all its gold and silver and cop
per and ships and railroads and banks
were not sufficient to buy stomach
that would digest bit of dough no
bigger than lemon.
To pass away the time, the poor
thing picked up a book-a foolish,
foolish book, written by one Of those
poets. He had starved to death some
time before and had been buried in
Potter's Field, which, however, made
quite as comfortable a grave as the
finest marble cemetery in the country
"The grass is just the same kind
here" said the poets corpse, "and the
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05
LLhen Father Makes the Garden

When Father makes the garden he a awful row,
He well, goodness gracious 1t like anyhow
You might left the rake an spade shovel the
In the place where JUS left EN- day ago."
Then Mother why Papa did
An Father says, 81 guess know; left jus right
Behne the where find when, by gosh
go an rake the beds for squash
An turnips, an tomatoes, an radushes, an corn
An 1 tell you, if you've lost you born
You won't have any veggytubbes any time this fall,
Exceptun that you buy em--they won't be ALL
Unless you hustle round find the spade
left right here behine the little spell ago."
Then jus her chair an at me-
An Why Papa, don't thinkwhy gaciouset see
Away in the stablep An Father says That's sol
guess was; think an spade
Is there in the closet, the that Billy made
For the harnessp An then Mother begins
About bug somethin that happens every spring.
Then Father goes finds the shovel an the spade
Right there the stable, the closet Billy made
An he goes in the garden an fuses round while,
An Mother she JUS watches-then she begins smile
An says "Now, Walter, darling wisht you'd go
What's the with Father it kind of to
That he's feein' of tired like. So wait spell
An watch Father hoein, an then he "Oh, wel
This here a-makn garden amt what it's said to be-
guess I'll for Hidreth." An then he calls
An sends off for Hidreth, an Hildreth says
always make his garden, guess get Conner
An when tell my Mother she jus begins sing
About bug somethin' that happens every spring.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05

Nothing is too big or too little for
the old sorcerer He sat down once
upon time and slowly changed the
Mesopotamian valley from a wilder
ness into a garden Then he built
Babylon in the midst of the garden
and made it all golden, so that it
shOne hike sunset in the heart of
the hills. And after it was splendid
and filled with armed men and neigh
ing horses and beautiful women and
the treasures from the north and east
and south and west, he piled the sands
OF the deserts all around it-piled
them, and piled them, patiently, till
Babylon sank away. He piled the
sand over every little blade of grass,
so small that even the sharp-eyed
| graSshoppers had not been able to
find it. He piled the sand with his un-
hurried hands over the mighty cedars,
so tall that one single. tree made a
Warship TO hold four hundred men.
So patient was he that he laid each
grain of sand down separately and
fitted it just so.
And with. those same hands he
would loose floods at other times that
would burst through mountain wall
and wash away in an hour all that
had been built in a thousand years.
Sometimes he would build an island
out of the deep sea by laying tiny
creatures no bigger than flies, one. by
one, on each other; and then impatient
all at once, he would stir the bottom
of the sea- somewhere else. till it boiled
and spouted, and 10! anSiSland would.
be born in an hour.
Ot course onlyga very. experienced
sorcerer with an iffborn talent for the
business could, do. all this. And the
worst of it is that nothing ever seems
to become too much for him. Even
to-day, if you toss an old tenpenny-
NALL for. instance, into the ash barrel,
he begins to,change it before it leaves
your hand; yet at the same time, if
you were to clasp lid lover the bar.
rel and say to yourself Hal" think
ing you had trapped. him, you would
be quite wrong; for while he is
crouching in the ashes, changing the
nail and the ashes and even the bar
rel, he is also building a city some
where and tearing a big slice off a.
continent and cutting an iceberg up
into shredded ice somewhere else, and
making new and splendid berg still
elsewhere.
But the worst part Of it all is his
work in Yungfand. All the changes
that he makes in tenpenny nails and
elephants and cities and caterpillars
are nothing compared with what he
does to the children, Of Yung1and.
One minute they are. lying in their
cradles, with their little mouths pout-
ing and their faces flushed just the
tiniest bit, like the flush that you can
see over a silky apple blossom bud if
you creep on it through the dew just
as the first sunbeam settles on it. And
the next minute they are long and
lean and lanky, with harsh voices and
loose feet that scratch the hardwood
floors, and, in some mysterious man
ner, even the top of the mahogany
piano.
Then their mothers and fathers, who
are also enchanted, wish that their
children were little pouting, blossom
faced babies once more But later
on, when they are changed again, and
are tall and beginning to suspect
that they ought to shave and smoke
cigars, those foolish enchanted pa
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05

not take bait.
But this particular trout was not
Canadian, and he would not even look
at the hook. Then Bill looked through
the books again and found that these
big fish sometimes take a mouse; so
he caught a mouse, chloroformed it
and tied. it to a hook which was
dropped almost in front Of the trout.
But he wouldn't touch it.
Yet all through that month the
trout not only remained in the pool,
as if to drive the boys frantic, but
he also added insult by rising at
midges and worms and caterpillars
as fast as they dropped into the water
always providing there was no hook
in them.
At last Jim Baldwin got an idea.
He sneaked to the pool one cloudy
morning with the finest line he could
get. The hook was attached to it with
a horsehair snood He baited it care
fully with grasshopper But he
didn't drop tie bait into the water as
usual. Instead, he, tossed it carefully
SO that it fell on top of a leaf that
hung over the water.
Keeping out of sight, he see-sawed
the line until the leaf broke off and
futtered slowly to the water, bearing
the grasshopper with it. AS soon as
it alighted Jim softly tugged his line
and the grasshopper, with the hook
concealed in him, rolled off the float
ing leaf and slipped gently into the
water. The next moment there was a
tremendous splash and the great trout
was hooked!
He was landed, too; and he
weighed three and one-quarter pounds
on the grocer's scales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23
SCHOONER BLOWS UP.
Vessel Floats Down the Bay a Mass
of Flames.

San Francisco. Cal. May 23.-The
tnree masted schooner Fanny Adele.
laden with oil and merchandise for
cape Nome, was set on fire today by
an explosion. which occurred while she
was lying at the Sixteenth street
wharf The blaze spread to the wharf
ana threatened It's destruction. but
soon was got under control by the FIRE
department. The vessel was cut loose
from her moorings and drlfted down
the bay n mass OF flames.
few moments before the explosion
Captain FelSher left the schooner, with
four men on board, Seamen Joseph and
Clussen being on deck. and Joseph
Name and J. Krutkrizer in the cabin.
Suddenly an explosion, from some un-
known cause, occurred in the hold All
of the men were blown into the wa
ter, those in the cabin being lifted in
to the air through the open companion
way.
The men tried in vai- to reach the
vessel, being driven back by the
flames which shot up into the air for
nearly a hundred feet. Name and
Krutkrizer were picked up by boat
as the former was about to sink he
was terribly burned and was taken to
the Potredo hospital in a precarious
condition. Joseph struck out and
could not swim, chung to the anchor
chains He lost his hold and was
drowning when a man named Mckay
jumped from the dock and placed
line about his body.
The schooner's line soon parted and
she drifted out into the bay The fire
tug Governor Markham followed, but
was unable to approach her owing to
frequent explosions on the derelict.
However, at every opportunity
stream of water was thrown over the
burning craft, which made its way
toward the Golden Gate without com
ing into collision with any vessel.
The schooner was burned to the wa
ter's edge and is total loss 1t was
owned principally by G. ]. Hendrys
Sons of this city, Sutton and Christian
sen, by whom IT was managed having
small interest. The cargo was chief
ly the property of the Standard OIL
company.
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