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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
AN IMPROMPTU SPEECH.
(High School Credit.)

S.st (H1gh School Credlt)
things
rectly and neatly said my employer to one day.
NoWe here are fifty duns and also the number of
circulars to my best customers. I have not written
the names, but simply the amount due me, the
printed duns be careful to put them into the
envelopes in the exact order that have laid Them.
There to be ball game that afternoon, so I
was in hurry to be dun" with the dunnng slipped
the duns and circulars into the envelopes great
rush carried o postoffice
The next day the store was crowded never be-
fore; not with people planning to buy goods but
with angry, nearly blood thirsty people, all demand
ing explanation Of letter they had received When
the truth dawned employer, he stood me
cracker box and had to explain to the crowd about
my being careless George Cutting
Ninth Grade. Byron, Mimi
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
Giving Of Ourselves.

3 should impart to others our
courage, and not our de-
SPAR; our health and ease,
and not our disease
Thoreau.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
No MORE TEARS TO CONF.
(Honorable Mention.)

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have been careless times that I could
nev mt remember time ]
was careless when there need of It. It when
was a very small child, and said could have
few girls and they should bring their dolls. I
had little boy doll and girl doll. and thought
would have wedding.
The morning of the wedding was dressing my doll
in her white dress when my friend who dressing
the boy, said. It can stand him on his head without
getting his clothes soiled. That dare
do -oh, my said I, Il wouldn't let any one like
you beat me-" So was going to stand my doll on her
head, but when was turning her her head Knocked
against chair and broke. I cried good while that
morning. more tears to come.
But finally my friend frightened and said, 7
know what do. Well play that the bridegroom
in and finds that the bride is dead, and it Will
be turned into funeral" We did this and after we
arm, and the bridegroom married her
Sixth Grade. Mabel Schellbach,
Granite Falls MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
a BUNCH OF MISCHIEF,
(High School Credit

IHlgh school Creu1tJ
Once upon time, not very long papa told
me to go upstairs and get him a box of beans had
always help whenever could, but on this
especial day happened to be very busy making my
beloved dolly Dress according to the latest spring
fashion plate, rather slow about going But
at last I and went
When had my of beans and started toward the
stairway suddenly remembered book that wanted
back to get it. Hurry Matte, don't be al
day about it,! a warning voice up the stairs So
seized my beans and started for the stair
way. Just put my foot the first step turned
to look out of window, and by doing missed my
foot stairs 7 went, bumpity- bump clear to
the bottom there to land with final bump bigger than
all the rest put together Papa and my brother,
mischievous little bunch lived, sat there
laughing tho something funny had happened. AS
the proverbial March hare, did not stop
join in the n1errimen but set the unspilt beans
table myself off to confide grievance to
FOLLY. Matte Moshier,
Ninth Grade. Lake, Mimi
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
A PAILFUL, OF PUSHES.
(High School Credit.)

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big sister, need not CAN
careless, for to be careful is Of my virtues
had scarcely finished my speech when heard mothers
voice calling, Rob! Rob! Where did you put the
mornings milk? An involuntary movement brought
me 20 my blood surged 70 my
cheeks for I had set the pail Of milk down on the
Woodshed floor so could bring armful of wood
IT put it away" answered hastily, and sneaked out
the door and the house to the she'd The
had seized heart when heard motner's
call sank into insignfcance when my eyes fell upon
the scene being enacted the shed floor.
Sisters little kittens, Toby and Tyler, were in the
milk pail, struggling to get out Tho my Tear IN tue
coming events was almost inexpFeSsble, could not
help but notice the guilty Of those kittens
There they were the tame little pets vainy struggling
get out. But suddenly the kittens, pail and all went
hide their shame.
Let draw veil the following events, for
parents almost always give the same remedy to cure
Kind of mis- Shortly after looking
out of bedroom window wondering if we were going
to have visitors for there the porch both kit
tens washing themselves -Edw. Benson
Eleventh Grade. Prairie du Chen Ws
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
ONE DELIGHTFUL SNIFF
(Honorable Mention.l


It was Christmas morning and mother in the
kitchen preparing the turkey dinner. thought it
was a good chance to take sniff at the cranberry
sauce, which was stationed high shelf in the
pantry SO stepped chair and finding it not high
enough, put little top OF it. I climbed
cautiously because this was dangerous business
to undertake with mother in the next room. heard
the door Shut mother outdoors and was gone for
time.
grasped the opportunity and just
larder when, smash! went off the chair,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
Northeastern Topics.
For Saturday, March IL.
"a CHILDHOOD DELUsIoN."

IA CHILDHOOD DELUSION."
they to learn, little little great,
tracing like? OF funny idea
little. likely
brought you opporu
Sometimes decisions Just like
Again, small girl overhears remark by
older about stars and he takes it
meaning something entirely different from what really Is
and his deuson begins II know the foundation for
deluon tell It, for that win make all the better story
The be mailed the Office Of
Journal Junior
Not Later Than Thursday Morning, March s.
They strictly original, written IN ink side
length
100, marked words signed
with the grade school, and address Of the writer The
papers must not be rolled $500
For Saturday, March 10.
1.-THE GATEKEEPER TALKS"
gatekeepers of Of places
all kinds of stories should grist gate
generally ticket
of and children. IF you been
crowd, gone into park the
gates trains will city,
something the gatekeepr would
likely it be used in story. But you
write wholly Imaginary story providing It Is strictly
original The must be mailed
OF the Journal Junior
NOT LATER THAN THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 10.
They original written only
paper 800 length,
1OO marked paper signed
with grade school, and address Of the writer
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
LIKE A DISTRACTED HEN

g-aling-ling! went the telephone and I sprang
to answer. "Hello," said nervously, for had
been expecting something would happen, as I
had dropped spoons, dishcloths and numerous
other things which are signs Of luck Hello"
came from the other end, sis this Collar"
Eyes," replied, what do you want? This
is IneZ and you are invited to a picnic to-naor-
row. viii you come?'' Il think so,'' cried
delightedly, and went to tell mama, but she
said she was going to make jelly tomorrow
and wanted me to help her. So it was arranged
that if early, I could go, providing 1
prepared my lunch.
Next morning sprang from my bed and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

Went downstairs ana Iouno mama getlng ready
for the making Of jelly. I flew around like dis
hen, making things worse than they
First I broke jelly glass and had to go
down cellar for another and wash it. In
throwing the water spilled good deal Of it
the floor and out rushed for the mop By 10 o'clock
the jelly and set in the pantry to cool Ten
oclock! exclaimed "and at half past 10 start Oh
dear, what shall do?" No basket; just my luck
Catching my hat down town to get and
came home trumphantly carrying much too large
to the pantry and surveyed the high shelves be-
fore me, and there the highest one the cake
going take. Instead getting chair, stood
bottom shelf and carefully took the cake
slipped, crash, startled cry, and surveyed ruin
around Glass, china, jelly, cake and frosing in
a great mass at my feet.
rest for the picnic minus
one, very careless GIRL Cola Anderson,
Seventh Grade. Preston, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
A SURPRISE FOR PAPA.

I have never been ashamed of myself
about three years ago. If it my care
lessness everything would have been all right.
Mama had been sewing, and the sitting looked
if cyclone had swept across it. She suddenly
will, BE and pick the room
DEAR" she left practieed while the piano, and
leaving my music on the floor, went to chum's
house. After T home decided to make some
candy. After putting it the stove to boil, sat
with a very interesting book to wait became
interested in my book that did not watch the
candy. In a few minutes it all the stove.
tried to find holder to take it up WITH but could
quickly snatched up my skirt and vigorously took
hold of the pan and burned hole in my and
burned my hand OF the whole house was full
of that burned odor and in a few minutes papa
home to with a travelling He ushered
aim sitting and what sight met his
eyes! was SO ashamed to think that just my care
lessness caused all the trouble
Seventh Grade Helen Andrews
. A do
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21
Many Items of Intense Interest
 ' are Mentioned Herewith.

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 Limited quantity to a customer.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21
The Sunshine Bulletin.

Mrs. Sangster writes of books "A llt- tie time for reading fiction should be taken every day. It is as proper and nec- essary to give the mind something to do as to employ the body. and in order to keep up with current literature, one must read. subscription to a library is a legitimate expenditure.
 Apart from this, every one who has home should. if possible, have in it store of books. This gay grow one by one, as book Is occasionally purchased. A young lad the other day, having saved q small sum. said to his mother: I think I will buy such and such a book oh, mo- she said with horror. you will not throw your money away in that way, I hope.'"
 There is still much of this spirit in many homes. Many a housekeeper keeps books. papers, magazines as wholly out of sight as she does cooking utensils. An open book left on a window still, or ! fresh magazine on a table Is such a wo- mans idea of the acme of untidiness Nor will such ideas ever be eradicated from the head of such a woman. It Is the school and the club that must SOW tho
 seed of culture in the children of sucl households.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG
ss@ss&@<Fss Fsss=sSsSs

The pen picture of Richard Heart Chad's rival in devotion to Margaret is one that conforms in outline to that of many of the brave young leaders in war who have in peace upbuilded the mighty, beautiful structure of our New South from the ruins of the olds Here was a man who knew no fight but to the finish, who would die as gamely in drawing room as on a battlefield. To think of him "a brigadier general at 27, as undaunted, as unbeaten as when he heard the first bullet of the war whistle, and, at that mo- ment. as good an American as Chadwick Buford or any Unionist who had given his life for the cause!
 The stories of the guerilla warfare that devastated the border States are told in all their fearful truth.
 Through all the relation of war and in- vasion, battle and Imprisonment the strength of love, the beauty of devotion, the lightsomeness of hope rises so that spirit of gladness and courage shines from every page of the book.
 Incidentally the book tells as good a dog story as any of the nightly successful animal tales that have had their vast sales Jack the best shepherd dog in Kentucky. is fit hero for any story. His first and last fight with mongrel whezzer, HIS tTidi, Itke a man tFldt Wltn JuQge ana jury under the brush-wood tent on the mountain, his rounding up of the stam- peded sheep on Kingdom Come, are sto- ries that will win any boys heart.
 Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. John Fox. Charles Scribners' Sons, New York $1.50.
 Industries of Today-A book in which young people learn of the different indus tries that bring life and living by labor to the different sections of our country.
 Alice Brown writes of the cranberry bogs and pickings of Cape Cod. George B. Spear tells of the peanut crops of Vir- ginia and Georgia from the planting to the markets of our cities. Helen Hunt Judson, who knows her West, tells the young people of ranch life. Harold Fred eric gives a picture of the labors of the editor of a morning paper in one busy day with all days just so busy. Other ar ticles are on Ice Harvesting, Maple Sugar Camps. Among the Pines, of the Making of Matches, Soap and Pins, of making Fireworks, of the use of Natural Gas. These are the books that banish igno- rance with swiftness and the pleasure ableness of magic. the waving of a fairy wand. Even the little readers know the journey upon which they are started, they have been transported from the barren ways of ignorance 10 the fiower-strewn paths of wisdonis ways.
 Industries of Today, edited by M. A. L. Lane. Ginn & Company, Boston.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21
The Photo Era.


 The prize Landscape by J. H. Field The Edge of the Pond is an exquisite pieces in sepia. The Children's Portraits in the number are all winning, those little Dutch looking girls in Do You Want a Bite and the Oracle are dear and crisp: Orange Blossoms and Cher ries.
 Of the great field for photographers in Book Illustration we read:
 Today the half tone plate has super seded all these processes. and almost all modern illustration is now pro- duced in this way. The use of wood engraving, is the exception not the rule, and 1t only serves when used to keep alive the memory of an art that Is dead. A glance at the pages of these books Illustrated by photography will show that great skill and inconceiv- able pains are devoted to the making of these half tone plates-the value of pho tography in book illustration lies in the fact that it simplifies the process amaz- ingly The original is reproduced with fidelity and accuracy, and sometimNs the engraved proof, thanks to the finisher, Is even better than the original What a world of possibilities it opens up for the photographer of today. And how many will be equal to the opportunity of fig uring in Illustrated literature and pie torial periodicals during the year to come?''
 Not only is photography replacing wood engraving but often the photographer takes the place of the artist. and such illustrations are uniquely satisfactory if an artist is behind the canvas.
 A great field is readily to hand for the Southern artist. Every element of pie turesqueness Is in the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21
The Island Battle.

This poem was read by the author on seoruary at the 250th anniversary of ths first church built on on Long Island which @ stood at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Church Street. Brooklyn. In the bat. tie of Long Long Island the church was used versary ceremoniee, which were given un- der the auspices of the Daughters of the Revolution. tablets commemorating the bravery of the soldiers killed inFthe battle l were unveiled; S- Not far. from where the ocean rides Its pale steeds to our countrys door, Not far from where the sullen tides
 Keep conflict with the wealth-fringed
 shore. Within a tiny forest lay A fair and peaceful village; And round 1t ripened, day by day,
 The fruits of thrifty tillage MI Mid suit sultry hours, the farmer pressed And, safe beyond the winter gloom, Ott sang the happy wheel and loom. Not far from where white cloudlets raise Their peaceful folds on high, A ehurch-spire grew from prayer and praise.
 And clambered toward the sky. Here many a Sabbath-gathered band
 The hYmns of olden days were singing; Here memories of a fatherland
 Around the homesick heart were sling Here orange blossoma. perfume shed Around the newly-wed; Here funeral crape its shadows threw Upon the vacant pew.
 sylvan shrine! O sacred Till
 From fountains that should never cease! O gate of Heaven! why could not still
 Your golden hinges turn in peace? Why should the feuds of court or king Why should the patriots pleading This rustic temple havoc bring,
 'Gainst angels interceding? Why should this cnurch-bell that above Has voiced the thoughts of peace and
 love.
 Now fling upon the morn afar, The loud alarum-notes of war? Through mists of night our soldiers
 sweep
 Across the rivers friendly ways, But from their muffled oars, there creep
 True prophecies of future days. You. Hessians. yet will gild the fame
 Of this days tall defender; You, proud Cornwallis, vince at shame
 Of World-renowned surrender; You, court and king will wonder why You fought this battle. by-and-by: You. England will some day love best This newborn nation of the West!'
 Win Carleton. in Harper's Weekly.
 If you want to go to a publishing house that is all life and leisure. seemingly things are never, hardly ever. as they
 (Continued on Page Severteen.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21

l Mrs Mary S. Lockwood's Pen Pictures or Past Generation are the pages to "hich the readers of Sunshine Bulletin turn eagerly. This month she writes of the sad life of John Howard Payne. Of the charm of Mrs. Priscilla Cooper Tyler.
 Mrs Cynthia Westover Alden has found-' ca Sunshine Lodge at Livingston Manor New York, for home for children, summer fresh air home now, later to grow into an industrial school Little Marjorie Sanders of Richmond Hill won the five dollars offered for the best story Of how she madc money for Sunshine. first for the sick babies ice fund by hav- ing cakes sales in her front yard Then for the fresh air home fund by cutting and dressing paper dolls, lady dolls and Buster Brown" dolls
 The Key Stone under heading, Leading Club Women in South Carolina, gives the following sketch of Mrs. Moore, who was the beautiful Vivian May of Ala bama:
 Mrs. Andrew c. Moore of Columbia, s. C., corresponding secretary of the South Carolina Federation of Womens Clubs was born on her fathers (Milton M May) plantation in the black belt of Alabama, Of native Alabama parents.
 At an early age Mrs. Moore was placed at school with Miss Julia S. Tutwiler, af- ter whom the annex of the University of Alabama is named. Miss Tutwiler, be- sides being we'll known educator of girls In Alabama, is also responsible for impor- tant prison reforms in her native State. After leaving Miss Tutwiler's Mrs. Moore attended the Peabody Normal School at Nashville on scholarship on Miss Tut wiler's recommendation. After taking the degree or hcentiate of instruction, she taught one year in Talladega, Ala, and five fp special request of the Superintendent of the State Institute for the Deaf at Tal- iadega she returned there and touched With sympathy for those bright, eager deaf children, she taught in this institute for five years While teaching in Talla- dega, during two vacations, she studied at the University of Chicago, her special work being English.
 While in Talladega. Mrs Moore was president of a Reading Circle and a mem Der of the Argus Club, both at that time unfederated with the State Federation.
 In 1900 Mrs Moore was married to Mir Andrew c. Moore, a native of Spartan burg, N. C., and on his being appointed to the associate profBsorship of biology and geology at the South Carolina College they came directly to Columbia, s. c. Having no children, Mrs. Moore has leis- ure for cooperation in many associations. She was one of the organizers of the New Century Club of Columbia in 1901 and was it's vice president in 1902. She has been secretary of the Columbia Free Kinder garten Association for three years. and is also the vice president of the Associated Charities of Columbia.
 Personal and Pertinent.
 What an idea is worth and who gets the pay for 1t, is an interesting question to many a thinker.
 Sometimes 1t seems that thinking, likc virtue. must be its own reward.
 A few days ago the manager of an art concern said: We bought an idea a sea- son ago out of which our house has made thousands and Is still making. We paid for that idea ten dollars"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21

their efforts to preventing the spread of the fire to adjacent property. consisting of tenement houses. Over 100 families were evicted from the tenements and given temporary refuge by neighboFs. There was no loss of life It is believed the loss will be between si00,000 and S500.- 900, on which there is said to be S2t0,0& insurance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21
Half A Million Loss by Fire.

New York. Feb. 19.-A destructive fire broke out tonight in the extensive paint works of F. W. Devoe and c. T. Rey- holds Company, in Brooklyn. Owing to fine highly infiammable character of the contents of the buildings, the works were soon destroyed. The firemen directed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21
MAGAZINE NOTES.
Scribrer's Magazine.

 The letters from Mrs. George Bancroft from England in 1S46-49 are valuable as giving intimate pictures of the life at the court of St. James, of the social functions of London, of the notable peo- pie of that day.
 Mrs. Bancroft gives charming pen pie lures of Macauley, of Carlyle, of Lord and Lady Palmerston, Lord and Lady Holland, of the youthful Bonaparte of that day Louis Bonaparte. mot long free from the fortress of Ham," and Napo- son of Jerome Bonaparte. The series of letters will be illustrated from DOT traits collected from English private gall leries.
 Certainly the most delightful way to get at the history of period Is through reading letters of the times. autobiogra- phies, or memoirs. It is like learning to love a land, new to us, by becoming &C., quainted with It's flora before analysing it's soil.
 The letters are glowing with intelli- gence. sparkling with veracity. acute with observation. They show a soul well poised. noble and a nature loftily free from all blemish or affectation.
 Small wonder she was proud of her Puritan ancestry as of Norman lineage since its product was such perfection of womanhood. These true heroines that unconsciously show us their character istics do after all hold interest more firmly than the heroines whose charac- teristics are consciously shown us by flc- ton makers.
 Mrs. Helena Rutherford Ely, whose garden books of last season was so marked success. writes of some Gar dens in Spain.
 l,,ko IoIa Ny,, of 1872 by Captain A. T. Mahan; Salvini, by Norman Hapgood; Charles Keene as an Etcher.
 Eleanor H. Porter writes a good Cat Story and E. M. Ashes illustrations are always spirited.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21

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