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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
1.-THE Winter. OF
Our Discomfort
Many Man and Woman Will Have
Harsh Words for Winters
Blasts.

This Is the sort of weather that
chills the blood and makes the slug
gish man long for southern chimes
and orange groves. He shudders at
the very thought Of stepping out of a
warm room into the cold atmosphere
Of Minnesota winter. Winter seems
almost horror to this thin blooded
man. He hangs on patiently till
spring, and wears himself out in a
worry over colds, coughs, pneumonia
and frozen blood. This man is to be
pitied. He ought to be enjoying the
cold, bracing Minnesota weather; on
the contrary, he breads 1T.
How different with the man with
rich, warm blood in his system. He
really delights in the cold, bracing
winter days. He walks with springy
. steps to his office and braves the cold
! with relish. No fear for him. And
! why? Because his blood is in good
condition. His health is pretty nearly
4 perfection and he has no dread OF
: cold, healthful weather. His good
i blood has put his stomach in prime
condition and the ills Of flesh worry
4 him not
j What the sluggish blooded mar
i needs is good blood. He can get thai
y by taking the right kind of tonic
q for this sort of man than Walther'.
f Peptonized Port. This is not one o,
4 these nefarious, medicinal "dopes."
4 is composed only of pure, perfected
pepsin and rare old port. It is de-
7 lightful to take and Immediately be
B gins to put red in the blood ant
brace up the whole system. It is goot
for bad health and not bad for goot
health. 1t comes in bottles of two
sizes, soc and 81. 1t is on sale a
& either of yoege1i's two stores, corne
of Hennepin and Washington; corne
It Of Nicollet and Seventh street.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
see that to maintain the present rates
we must get the business
Calls 1t Hold-up.

NOW, isn't that nice ana simple!
This commodity rate proposition
amounts to a highway hold-up-with
the gun in the hands Of the big trans
continentals, and the victims are care
fully selected from among the smaller
lines. Putting UP some rates and
keeping others down is about the
easiest way to do it. There are 9TH
ers, but none better. Yet when the
Great Western cuts grain rates from
Omaha to Chicago, Burlington is very
righteously indignant. Anything
that looks like righteous Indignation
goes with the poole. If the Great
Western, after a month or two of the
new commodity robbery, cuts bust
ness between the twin cities and Chi
cago into shreds and carries freight
at Il dead loss, watch Burlington pose
as the outraged friend Of the people.
There is one very obvious lesson to
be learned from this state of affairs
II you happen to be railroad d.
rector or president, that Is to make
your railroad a thru trunk line from
some place to some place else a long
way off. It's the only thing that will
keep you from being sandbagged.
Some OF the Wise Ones.
Incidentally, let me point out that
some people are either very wise or
very lucky. When the Moores bought
Rock Island they either saw this very
thing coming or else somebody dealt
them four aces by accident. They
have taken a local line and made it
both a transcontinental and a Gulf
Chicago route. They can raise two
sets Of commodity rates if the game
gets fashionable. Three years ago
they couldn't raise one. Second-Yoa-
kun sold Frisco at just the right time.
AS part Of Rock Island it can do bust
ness on any kind Of a rate schedule.
Third-The 500 Line belongs to the
Canadian Pacific and has no particu-
lar need to worry. So long as it takes
business up there and dumps 1t on
| Canadian Pacific lines for transporta-
ton at the new rates, I don't suppose
the controlling interest will raise any
objections. Fourth-and greatest,
perhaps-Hill swallowed the Burling-
ton. The latter is now a full-fedged
| trunk line and would rather welcome
a chance to get after Milwaukee traf-
flc in the nice, gentlemanly way de-
scribed above.
''Finally-If some one does not
come along with another resource
the commodity-rate piracy will Ger.
tainly become the correct thing. That
is a nice prospect. There are other
resources. One of them is a contin.
uation of the industrial collapse. An.
other is a good sweeping crop failure
A third is a general rate war with
every line trying to slaughter every
other line. None of them looks very
probable and none of them would de
us any good. But you can easil,
enough see why 1 don't look forward
with perfect delight to the next two
years of railroad business in the coun
try. 1t looks a bit too strenuous
for me-"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
DESERTED TWICE
Left Army Without Leave and His Flance
Without Money.

Without Money.
New York Sun Special Service.
Amesbury, Mass, Jan. 11.-Percy Mars
tiers, an assistant pay officer in the Brit
ish army, engaged to Miss Eta Brown of
St. Georges. Bermuda, is missing. Mar
ster's claimed to be member Of the royal
artillery with a Victorian medal for merit
were to be married but Marsters asked for
were to be married but Masters asked for
postponement, as he was here without the
knowledge of his superior officer.
Arrangements were. perfected to go tt
Halifax, and after boarding train at Bos-
ton last Tuesday Marsters left the car tc
procure a paper. This was the last she
saw of him.
Before leaving Boston Miss Brown gave
Marsters her money for safe keeping ant
she was without ticket or money. A dis
patch from Halifax says Marsters ha
been posted as O. deserter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
A New Explosive.

A new explosive, called mangenite,
has recently been invented which,, if
the claims made for it by it's inventors
Mantle. tits said to be stronger, safer
and cheaper than dynamite and free
from all poisonous fumes. The claims
made for golden grain belt beer are
substantiated by thousands of patrons.
and its ever growing popularity. Test
to-day. 80 ssl.ss h.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
Spend Your Winter in Florida or New
Orleans.

Winter tourist tickets on sale via
Queen & Crescent Route, Southern
Railway and connecting lines to points
south, southeast and southwest.
Through Pullman service from Chi
cago to st. Augustine daily.
Variable route tickets on sale GO
ing via Lookout Mountain and Allan
ta and returning via Asheville and
the Land Of the Sky. Beautiful illus
trated folder on Florida sent on APP
plication to w. A. Becker, N. P. A.,
113 Adams street. Chicago, Ill.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11

Cory. Pa-Pearl Startling, IS years old. while
PLAYING soldier with brother and two sisters.
discharged a shotgun In their faces killing two.
Knoxville, Tenn.-Mrs. Dinah Shoun was shot
and killed BY her son while protecting young
woman from his assault.
hiladclphia-Eighty-fo horses were burned
the stables Of the Peoples Brothers, contractors,
in West PhiladelDhia.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
A New Road In Iowa.
Snenial fn Tha journal -

Dubuque, Iowa, Jan. 1.-THE Chicago,
Anamosa & Northwestern Railway COM
pany has filed articles of incorporation.
The capital stock is 100000. Peter Kiene
of Dubuque is president. Anamosa is in
Jones county and the line may be extended
from that point to Delaware county. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11

stration in the streets against the United States.
Buenos Aires-A strike of dock laborers and
other laborers is causing serious damage to the
commerce Of the port.
Brussels-The Express, daily paper of
Belege, must pay Cardinal Nanuteili $2,oooO Tor
libel. s. g4.3y4 -.
stuttgart--Tbe body of Herr Agster, former
social democratic member Of the relchstas mas
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
FOREIGN FLASHES

Rome-Pius X. has been left estate worth
81 ,OOO, 900 by Corsican woman.
Rome-The pope will not see President Loubet
upon his Forthcoming visit here.
Paris-A number of San DOMINICAN and Hay tan
students have been arrested for making demon
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
TOLD IN A LINE

New York-Ocean steamers arriving here re-
port terrific gales which did considerable minor
damage.
Winnipes-Private dispatches tell OF an ex.
Pass company's mine at Michel, B. c.. which
killed six mel. rs
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
APPEAL TO GARIBALDI

He Is Asked to Lead Macedonians in
Fight for independence.
Rome, Jan. 11.-Boris Sarafoff, the Ma
cedonian revolutionary leader, is here to
induce General Riccioti Garibaldi to lead
an expedition having for its object the
liberation Of Macedonia from Turkish rule,
similar to the expedition which Garibaldi
headed at the time Of the Greco-Turkish
war.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11

been found hanging to tree in Degerlich forest,
Agster attempted suicide i'll the reichstag some
time ago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11

Chicago. Jan. 4 Julius Edelweiss and Elias
Rakaas disagreed YER the Russo Japanese situa-
ton. Elias Raka Ills said to have beaten Edel-
weiss with a les a,er and is a prisoner in the
county hospital. dSeth are Russians.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24
LITERARY NOTES.

Regular readers Of the Youths Com
panion will be glad to know that
new two-part "school-days" story. by
Arthur Stanwood Pier, begins in the
issue of April 81. The scene is again
st. Timothy's School, and the title is
THE Last Night" The fellows in
these stories are made of the same
human stuff as Tom Hughes Rugby
boys, and they are a good lot to know
Spain is to show her appreciation of
Cervantes by an adequate celebration
in the spring of 1905 by the tercente-
nary of the first publication of Don
Quixote." A special commemoration
will be held in Madrid, but the occa-
sion will be made national in charac-
ter. Statues are to be erected in
honor of Cervantes in all the cities
and towns in which he resided; his
bust is to be placed in every school
in the country, and a national edition
of Don Quoxite" is to be published
There will also be special fetes, pro-
cessions, theatrical performances and
bull fight.
THE Child's Spelling Book: Calcu-
lated to Render Reading Completely
Easy to Little Children; Compiled by
a printer Hartford 179s," contains
such lively observations and admoni-
tions as the following:
Do not spit on the floor. Spit in the
corner.
Wipe your mouth before you drink.
Do not cough in the cup.
Will Give Charles
beer? Yes, Charles shall have some
| beer.
Yes, Rachel shall have a penny. No,
pennies are out of date. She shall have
a cent.
THE Youths Primer" by Jonathan
Fisher, minister of the gospel at Blue
hill, Me-, 1917, contained, in addition
! to the catechism, "a series of short
verses in alphabetical order each fol-
lowed by religious, moral, or historical
| observations" Some of the "observa-
tions" were hardly calculated to cheer
the childish mind. For example, the
author says: There is very pretty
little hymn, and true one, which par
ents often teach their children, and
that very fifty; 1 will here insert it:
II in the burying place may see
Graves shorter there than 1;
From deaths arrest no age is free,
Young children, too, may die.
My God, may such an awful sight
Awakening be to me!
| Oh! that by early grace might
For death prepared be!'
A unique text book was THE History
og Genesis 170S, the purpose of which
is partially explained by the following
| extract from the preface:
This Book of Genesis (the antientist
Writing now extant) is justly stiled
the Epitome of all Divinity. It is in
deed a great Blessing of God. That
Children in England have liberty to
read the holy Scriptures, when Others
! abroad are denied it. And yet, alas!
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

regular morning service will be held
at II a. m. Subject of the lesson will
be: Everlasting Punishment" Golden
text, Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts:
and let him return unto the Lord, and
he will have mercy upon him; and to
our God. for he will abundantly par
dom" Isaiah 55:7. Sunday-School at
II o'clock. The Wednesday evening
testimony meeting at $50 o'clock. All
services held in the Metropolitan Hall,
President street, opposite postoffice.
The free reading room, located at Is
Oglethorpe avenue, east, is open daily
from to 6 p. m. The public is cor
daily welcome to services and reading
room.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24
the War in a Nutshell.

The way to keep in touch with the
great events in the Far East is to get
the new and latest War Atlas just is
sued and offered by the Morning News.
1.-THE Rand McNally & Co.'S Russo
Japanese War Atlas" showing Russia
in-Europe and Russia-in-Asia, Japan
Korea, Manchuria and China, and the
entire operations in the Far Eastern
conflict. It contains seven double
mage maps in colors. with index and
nuick-finding scale for each map; a
list of all the chief cities, with popula-
ton; fighting strength and reserves of
Russia and Japan. Sent by mail any
where on receipts of Is cents.
The Daily and Sunday Morning
News ! year and the War At
las .......s..s... 10. ~
The Weekly News / year and War
AtIds -. $500 4'VV
Savannah Morning News, Savannah,
Ga.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24
Church Notes.

The finest city and village churches
are painted with the Longman e.
Martinez Paints, and we want every
church to accept our donation when
ever they paint.
8 & make Il, therefore when Won
want fourteen gallons of paint, buy
only eight of L. & NJ. and mix six gal
Ions of pure Linseed oil with it, maxi
ing actual cost of paint about $3.50
per gallon.
Don't pay $3.50 a gallon for Lin
seed oil (worth so cents) which you
do when you buy other paints in a can
with paint label on it.
Many houses are we'll painted with
four gallons Of L. & NJ and three gall
Ions of Linseed oil mixed Herewith.
Wears and covers like gold.
These celebrated paints are sold by
Edward LovelPs Sons.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

school at West End. The sermon at
IL a m. will be the first of a series
of sermons on popular agnosticism.
South Side Baptist Church, Thirty
fifth and Barnard streets. Preaching
ii a. m. and .. m. Baptist Young
Peoples Union meets after the morn
ing service SabDath-s school. 4 D. m;
prayer meeting, Wednesday, s p. m.
Presbyterian.
The services of the Westminster
bet, pastor, will he held at II a. m.
and $50 y. m. in Lawton Memorial.
Sabbath School. 4:30 D. M: prayer
meeting, Wednesday, $50 p. m.
SwedenbOrEian.
Park New Church, Drayton and
Huntingdon streets, Rev. Alexander
Henry pastor. There will be the reg
ular morning service at II o'clock and
Sunday-school at 10 a. m.
Christian.
The Christian Church, Bolton
and Howard streets, Rev. A
r. Miller, pastor. Bible School,
munion at II o'clock a. m. Subject
Of discourse, Cleansing the Temple"
Evening services, $3.50 o'clock, subject
"Ishmael and Isaac"
Christian Science.
First Church of Christ, Scientist. The
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

THE Greatest Success" will be the
subject of the third of the series of
addresses to be delivered by Rev. A.
r. Miller at the Young Mems Chris
tian Association this afternoon at 5
o'clock. Mr.. Miller has delighted all
who have heard him and his address
this afternoon should be heard by a
large audience of men. The solo for
the evening will be sung by Mr.. John
S. Banks who possesses a sweet tenor
voice. Men, whether members of the
association or not, will be welcome.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24


William Dean Howells has fallen into
the hands of the English interviewers
in London, and has delivered himself
on the present state of notion III
America. There is no such thing as
a great American novel or never VIII
be-" he said. Novels 1 hope will be
plenty, and 1 hope to write one my
self. But no American novel is pos
sible. AS a people we are absolutely
decentralized. Our people can never
fuse into anything that could be called
a composite American type" On the
general subject Mr.. Howells said:
There are some very bad signs, but
in spite of them l see great reason
for qualification. The most obvious
thing with us is the immense amount
of trashy fiction being manufactured,
a glorification of the dime novel. Take
the ordinary dime novel and sell it for
$3.50, and there you have the bulk OF
the fiction read in America to-day. But
what is satisfactory is that the sue
cess of the bad novels does not inter-
fere with that Of the good ones.
The results of the opening of the LII
brary of Congress on Sundays have
more than exceeded the expectations of
the advocates of the change. Although
the library is open only eight hours on
the first day of the week, as against
thirteen on secular days, the average
attendance is greater on Sundays by
112, more books are issued and the
character of the books called for in
dicates a larger proportion OF stu
dents engaged in serious research.
A controversy is raging in literary
and historical circles in London as to
whether DR.. johnson was really ever
known to frequent the Cheshire Cheese
Tavern, a famous hosiery to which
many Americans have made pious pill
grinages because of the belief that it
was a haunt of the famous leXoco-
grapher. One Johnsonian has chal-
lenged any one to produce evidence
from contemporary records that he
ever saw a Cheshire cheese. Many 9TH
er taverns are mentioned, but never
the Cheshire Cheese.
A writer in the April number of the
Book Lover has made a collection of
quaint manuscript inscriptions found
on the fly leaves of old books-mostly
admonitions or threats to the borrow
err Some of them are centuries old,
and so numerous are the variants that
it would be next to impossible to make
the record complete. Here is one
found in a black-letter folio and GER
tainly as old as Shakespeare:
Don't steale this Booke, my little
Friend.
For feare the Gallowes will be your
end:
If you don't believe this Booke is
mine.
Just turn to Page number ninety
nine"
What schoolboy of the last genera
ton is not familiar with this form:
steal not this book, my honest friend
For fear the gallows be your end
For when you die the Lord will say
Where is that book you stole away%"
Irreverant youngsters would often
add to the above:
"And If you say you do not know,
The Lord will put you down below;
And If you say you do not care,
The Lord will pun out all your hair"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

how often do we see Parents prefer
Tom Thumb, Guy of Warwick or some
such foolish Book, before the Book of
Life! Let not your children head these
vain Books, profane Ballads, and filthy
Songs. Throw away all fond and am
orous Romances, and fabulous Histo-
ries of Giants, the bombast Achieve
ments of Knight Errantry, and the
like; for these fill the Heads of Chill
dren with vain, silly, and idle imagl-
nations.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24
Quickest Line BY 2 Hours and is
Minutes to New York.

Indian Limited, carrying through Pull
man drawing room sleepers and dining
car, leaves Savannah daily at 2:15 p.
m. Getty time), arrive Washington, 1854
a. M, New York, p. m. following
day. Space may be reserved at De
Soto Hotel ticket Office. Both phones
No, 73,-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

man should fear to venture an opinion
lest some sufferer be led astray.
Guilty. The MagaZine-Gun Tragedy.
BY Roy e. Norton and William c.
Hallowel Illustrated. Chicago
Laird e. Lee.
Readers who like Observation-Disclosures
stories from real life should be pleased
with this book. 1t deals with the Chi
cago car barn" hold-up and murder
and the careers of Van Dine, Neider-
mier and Marx. three of as desperate
outlaws as even fecund Chicago has
ever produced. The story is well told,
from the records. and draws a strong
moral.
Botany Note Book. To accompany
Bergen's Text Books on Botany. By
Joseph Y. Bergen. Cloth; square
quarto; PIP. 144. New York: CHM
& Co. Price, IS cents; by mail, so
cents.
Bergen's Notebook was prepared with
the particular view of minimizing the
amount of routine dictation for both
teacher and pupil without doing any
of the latter's thinking for him. Not
only will it save time and trouble, but
it will also lead the pupil to perform
neat and accurate work.
Spelling by Grades. Words from Bald
wins Readers. New York: The
American Book Company.
In this book. in 1913 pages, we find
condensed eight years work for the
pupil in spelling. 1t is scientifically
prepared and we'll calculated to give
best results.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24
PROPOSALS WANTED.

For Fremont. S. c.. April Fl.
1904. Sealed proposals, in triplicate,
will be received until $3.50 a. m, May
20, 1904, for constructing frame Post
Exchange building here. Information
furnished on application. U. $. re-
serves right to reject or accept any
or all proposals, or any part thereof.
Envelopes containing proposals should
be marked Proposals for Post Ex-
change" addressed 0uarter1nasteT.