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The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-31

future or care for the present. They
are the professional vagrants driven
to the habitations of men by the in
clement elements. AS soon as the
spring arrives they vanish like the flies
in winter. Being held in the city only
by the necessity of physical comfort.
they depart as soon as they are able
to endure ride on blind baggage or
a brakebeam.
The obscurity of the cheap lodging
house in some cities proves a shelter
to the criminal classes. Swindlers.
thieves and other felons, during off sea-
sons, resort to the darkest shadows
and frequently remain hidden for
months.
In st. Paul the police keep a xigilant
outlook for suspicious characters, and
as soon as they are discovered they are
kept under surveillance. Should they
attempt to ply their trade here they
are Immediately picked up and are
given sentences or "foaters." BY means
of the watch kept over the transient
population by the police of the city,
ST. Paul is spared many of the depreda-
tions from which other large cities suf-
fer.
While the cheap lodging houses are
largely supported by a class that re-
mains In the city, a good portion of
their patrons are transients. In the
spring, when the men return from the
logging camps of the northern woods
the lodging houses are over-crowded.
and they remain well-filled during the
summer till the floating population Is
attracted to the harvest fields.
Lodging Houses Prosper.
The cheap lodging house is an in
stitution of great benefit to the class
,f,,lx ffNtc
from each patron are small the aggre-
gate is sufficient to provide a profit
able income for the landlord. The cheap
lodging houses of st. Paul are generally
Kept In sanitary condition by order
of the health department, though fire.
quently disease breaks out among the
patrons. In such cases prompt meas
ures are taken by the health inspectors
all inmates are quarantined and are
not allowed to depart till danger from
the disease is past.
Great improvements have been
mande in the cheap lodging houses re-
Gently. A few years ago one large
! room with rows Of cots was made to
serve the lodgers, but the luxury OF
private rooms was introduced and now
the man with fifteen cents or a quarter
insists upon being accommodated with
an individual apartment, even though
it is but eight by four with wooden
partitions extending but short dis
tance above his head.
1t is doubtful whether the old time
bull pen" with it's rows upon rows
of hunks, one above the other, would
be patronized at all today, so particu-
lar has the lodging public become OF
late
The man who lives in a cheap lodg-
ing house consoles himself with that
philosophical expression of Goldsmith
Man needs but little here below, nol
needs that little long" Like Goldsmith
who passed most of his time amidst
accommodations of no great preten-
sions, the average lodger accepts his
lot cheerfuly and, If he possess little
wealth.
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~ ANTUCKET, Mass, Jan. 3O.-The
l 5000 residents Of this quaint
island felt a great relief this week
when, on Tuesday. the wind shifted
and drove out to sea the vast fields of
ice that had for fourteen days cut off
communication by boat with the main
land and kept them practically prison.
ers at sea. The only solace they had
during all this time was the govern
ment cable and about all that came
over that during the Ice blockade was
the weather report from Washington.
While the reports were spread broad
cast on the mainland that the people
were threatened with starvation, there
was actually no suffering, and an ice
embargo of several months could have
been withstood by division of the pro-
visions and live stock. True, there was
great inconvenience occasioned by the
interrupted trips of the steamer which,
weather permitting, plies between this
harbor and Woods Hole, across the
sound thirty miles. the nearest port on
the mainland of Massachusetts, for the
good housewife missed her yeast cakes,
the supply having been exhausted. No
letters were received from friends and
no one had a newspaper to read. Then,
too there was no fruit and the supply
Of Western beef was exhausted after
six days of the embargo. But these
little things did not by any means
indicate that there was danger of star
vation. Far from it, for Nantucketers
can eat fish three times day the year
around and grow fat on it, and there
Is all the fish of the sea right at their
very hands for the mere trouble of
catching.
There would be no absolute want, so
far as food Is concerned, If there was
no steamboat communication for
months. There are at least fifty -four
ishing farms on the island, every one
of which supplies on the average
dozen head of CATTLE flock of sheep,
that goes to make up complete, up
to-date farm. And 1T is just at these
times that the farmer takes advantage
of the scarcity of Western beef and
kills off critter or two, dresses them,
cuts them up into steaks, roasts, soup
pieces, ETC., and goes into business for
himself in competition with the regu-
lar butcher by selling his product at
auction.
Many Meat Auctions Held.
During an embargo there are more
meat auctions than at any other time,
although throughout the winter the
farmer thus completes with the mer-
chant, a custom that has been handed
down from the days of 100, together
with the striking of ships time on the
old Spanish bell Of the town at specified
hours of the day. The farmer brings
his meat to town on the morning pre-
ceding the auction. The town crier is
employed early on the following day
and here is another custom of ye olden
time-and, with his bell in hand. starts
through the town, before, in fact. the
people are awake. At distance Of
about every 100 yards he stops, rings
his bell vigorously for about half a
minute, and then, through a hornlike
magaphone. announces:
Meat auction this morning at 10
o'clock, in front Of auctioneer's store.
Fresh-killed cattle from the farm of
Mr.. So-and-So will be offered in pieces
to suit the highest bidder. Come early
and avoid the rush.
And this was daily occurrence dur
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DESERTED VILLAGES ARE NOT
UNCOMMON DOWN SOUTH

An unusual thing happened not long
ago. A newspaper article was published
to the effect that the once thriving town
of Hamburg, In South Carolina, would be
declared dead and the unused streets sold
by the state. One is accustomed to read
such items as this: "Doodleville is a
prosperous and rapidly growing town.
situated on the banks of Fence Rail
creek, in the most progressive and en-
lightened section of the country" But
to read of a deserted village in so young
country as the United States is like
listening to a voice from the old world
lamenting the decline or a proud city or
thriving town.
Strange as it may seem, though, Ham
burg is not the only forsaken town in
the country. There is Cardiff, in Tennes-
see. 1t is situated on the Cincinnati
Southern railway. The tourist en- route
to Florida is astonished to behold about
daybreak on the morning following his
departure from Cincinnati a small-sized
city in the midst of a field of corn. There
is an enormous hotel building. depot
that would put the local Baltimore &
Ohio station to shame, several large brick
buildings and a belt line railroad. But
there is not soul in the place. The
train does not even whistle when passing
the station. from which the incandescent
globes have never been removed In
quiry as to the cause of all this will
bring ready replies from the conductor
Ten or twelve years ago there was a
wonderful boom in the coal and mining
region of the South. AS result town
sites were recklessly selected by land
sharks. and the honest ones who took too
rosy view of the future. Cardiff was
one of these.
Prior to 1892 Cardiff was a cornfield,
the property of an honest old Tennessee
farmer who was too conservative to be-
come excited over the boom. One fine
day, however, he was accoSted by a well
dressed stranger, who offered what to him
was small fortune for this field. Two
weeks before he would have sold 1t for
81 per acre. The trade was closed at
once, the field becoming the property of
an English American corporation, whose
of booming. Streets were laid off and
graded through the field and the land
cut up and numbered into lots. A belt
line and side tracks, hotel building, depot,
brick stores and a few dwellings were
erected. After much advertising sale
of lots was held, but the sale did not "pan
OUT quite as well as the promoters had
expected. The promoters of two neigh
boring towns contriVed to have a sale of
from the start because the two rival
towns were better situated. The result
1was that after an exciting life of eight
months the town dwindled One year
after the date of its founding it was
completely deserted The fine hotel the
handsome depot the brick buildings, the
side tracks and the belt line We're a COM
plete loss. and many of those who entered
Into the enterprise in the hope Of reaping
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CHEAP LODGING HOUSES
AND TYPES OF INMATES
of Human Naue-They Are Peoped by All Sorts
andCon of Men,

cassionally a small looking glass COM
pletes the accommodations. Some of
the lodging houses are heated by steam,
but others depend for warmth upon
heating stove in the office at one end
Of the room. A long hall divides the
room, or building in two parts, there
being series of rooms on each side.
Into these rooms are assigned the
weary ones who seek rest in these
places. Most of them are so tired that
they pay little attention to the environ
ment and are Immediately lost in the
land of dreams, where anyone may be
a millionaire with palaces and yachts
at his disposal.
Boon to the Poor Young Man.
The cheap lodging house is a boon
to the poor young man striving for a
start in life The boy from the coun-
try without friends in the city where
he has sought his fortune, gravitates
to the cheap lodging house, where he
takes up his abode till prosperity en-
ables him to seek more comfortable
quarters. Such dodgers are found to
be desirable for they are regular In
their habits and never create distur-
Dances. They burn the midnight oil
and pass their evenings studiously
poring over books drawn from the
public library or picked up at cheap
prices from the secondhand book
stores about the city. Lodgers of this
class remain for q year or two years,
but at the end Of that time they are
sure to be able to move, possibly into
homes of their own.
OF an entirely different type Is the
man who had better home and who
has been reduced to accepting the ac-
commodations of the cheap lodging
house through his own carelessness and
shiftlessness. He drifts about and un-
able to succeed at anything, subsists
| In a precariouS manner from day to
day.
Men Of this kind may be seen loung-
| ing about today and working tomorrow.
When they take their rest they are
frequently joined by comrades like
| themselves If the weather is cold they
remain in the sitting room of the lodg-
, ing house and may be seen congregated
about the stove, splitting tobacco juice
| into the cuspidor or upon the floor while
telling vulgar stories.
How the Drunkard Manages.
| OF all the patrons of the cheap lodg-
/ ing house probably the one in the most
| pitiable condition is the habitual
drunkard. Working at one job till
he is discharged, he secures enough
| money to maintain his credit with his
| landlord and with the saloonkeeper.
If he escapes an interval in the work
| house he considers himself lucky, but
| he takes no heed Of the future. AS soon
| as his money is gone he drifts about
| the city looking for work, which he US
ually obtains. For a while he then
| devotes himself steadily to the duties
| of his employment but at regular in
tervals relapses into his old habit. He
| runs this pace till, broken down, he
| becomes a charge of charity.
| During the winter some queer speci-
mems of humanity may be seen about
| the lodging houses. Stunning work
they obtain the money with which they
! pay their expenses in some mysterious
manner. Unkempt, shabby or ragged
| their appearance indicates men without
an object in life, without hope for the
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M ANKIND in the rough. always
I'VE interesting to the studiously-in-
clined, can be observed nowhere to bet
ter advantage than in a cheap lodging
house of a big city. There are all types
of the underworld congregate and un-
| bosom themselves, fer they are at home.
There are revealed those characteristics
that make class peculiar to itself in
American society, and there may be
seen human nature, without the refining
influences of modern life.
A sojourn in cheap lodging house
brings one into contact with some queer
companions and bed d-fellows. There is
the hard working toiler down in his
| luck and striving to establish himself
| in the world again: there is the care
| less, happy lucky, knock about;
| there is the lazy man, working today
and idle tomorrow; there is the drunk
| ard, squandering his money and liv-
ing in filth and ignominy; there is the
| professional vagrant whom cold
weather has driven to shelter; there is
the thief lying low to escape the Off
GERS of the law; there is the traveller,
| intent upon economizing and willing
to put up with limited accommodations
In order to spare his purse.
The habitue of the cheap lodging
| house is essentially a man without q
| home in the ordinary acceptation of
| the word. Without the influences of
family life and without the attentive
care of mother or wife he becomes
negligent in dress and boorish in de-
| a fo, ~
little or nothing for friends or environ
ment.
Quarters Are Dingy and Squalid.
| And well for him that he is not par
ticular as to his surroundings. A trip
! through the cheap lodging houses
would be enough to strike gloom to
the heart Of sensitive person accus-
toned to a pleasant home life. To
view the barren, dingy halls, the
squalid, narrow cell-lize apartments,
and to lie in the rigid comfortless beds,
would make anyone not accustomed to
| them, instinctively recoil.
| Ihere is no pretenSe of decoration
in the cheapest of the cheap lodging
houses, for man who pays ten or
! fifteen cents for a nights rest is sup
posed to be content with the barest ac-
| commodations. Most of the cheap lodg-
ing houses are established in buildings
originally intended for other purposes.
A tour of the lodging houses on Third,
| jackson and Eighth streets shows
how remarkably similar they are in ap-
pointment. Most of them are oppres-
sively cheerless, and some are posi-
! lively squalid. A few are compara-
| lively pleasant.
The lodging house is laid out pri-
marily with the object Of economizing
space. Each room is made as small as
possible in order to secure the greatest
number. The rooms are divided off
with eight-foot partitions each being
about eight by four feet in diameter.
A small couch or bed with a mattress
and quilt or blanket, chair and oc-
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Savings deposits made on or before Jan. will rs
ceive three months interest on April |. Security
Trust Company, New York Life Building.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-31

Don't forget to look among "The
Globes Paying Wants" for what you
want.
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TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

Union Depot, SibIey Street.
Trains leave and arrive at st. Paul
as follows:
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Railway Figures
DEBTS CAUSE CONSIDER
ABLE COMMENT
Statistics Show That Bur-
den of Stock is S65.-
$50 a Mile.

Statistics bearing ont he assertion
that the 2)6S76 miles OF railroads h
The United Statcs carry a bond and
stock indebtedness Of SG5.3S0 a nile
have caused considerable spe, ulation
in traffic circles as to The limit TO
which a railroad can bear burdens OF
this kind ami the proportion Of the
fixed charges which they can qay to
their Indebtedness
The following estimates. based upon
he annual reports Of railroads. Sc
lected at random. yes which in a meas
ure illustrate the possibilities Of lines
in different sections Of the country.
llay be Ut interest:
The baltimore and Ohio. according
to it's last report with a main track
mileage Of 44o9. earned frou opera
ton m gross, sl2.4SS a nnle. ard a net
Of s4.S63 a mile.
The Union Tacifc. with o main
track mileaae Of 5137, made gross
earnings nf s1f,76c a mile, and net
earnings Of s4.7i3 a mile.
The Chyago. burlington and Quin-
CIV with a ,otal mileage OF SAL. made
gross earnings Of $7727 a mile, and
net earnings of s2.4i6 a mile
The Atlantic CCast Line with a mile
age OF i.22g, made gross earnings of
81 SIS a nile ard s1,S2l mile net
earnings
Crossing from the Atlantic to Texas.
the records of the Texas railroads
& now that With a total mileage Of II,
537 in that state the railroads earnel
in gross receipts S5.6iS a mile and 81,
20 mile IL net earnings.
Tho Chicago and Alton earned on it's
main track mileage Of 915 miles sl1,
GOO gross mile aud $3.761 net a mile
The Southern Railway company
with a given mileage Of 712g, pre-
selts a total gross earnings of s5,9i7
a mile and net earnings Of 1884 a
mile
Th. Ftisco system. with a mileage
of zoe presents grnss eatninYs of ST..
t09 a rifle.
While these ngnres do not inclu 10
the fixed charges on each milo sriT
they will give a fair idea of wnat
bonded Indebtedness eaca road may
unter the present conditions assume
and what fixed charges they eau NEE;
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Professional ana Business
Education Co

A young nan lnsy take a course OF
study in a medical college and his
time. labor and money may lie in
measure wasted. because he is not cut
out for doctor. he may graduate in
a theological school. ana prove fail
ire as PREACHER; he may &C TO Al
agricultural college ana rever work
IN farm A young man MAY 90
through life without praclicine medl.
.ine. preachiag a sermon or Going a
lays work on the farm, hut not with
)ut having business relations with his
fellowman lie must buy and sell
something or he can not live. Hence.
while a professional ed'cation NAV OF
may rot he utilized. business eduea
ion must be-"
The professions are crowded till
good boctkeepers aad stenogTaphers
get more For their work than the
teacher LAWYER or doctor and have
no starviug time at the eginning II
has cost the one 81 .O00 to 81 000 and
three or four yoars to prepare. II has
cost the ether slai 70 5000 and orly a
few mon.hs.
ANY Of orr yOIrg people thinking
Of going away TO school ought TO re-
read the above and write TO The Cap.
ital City Business college Guthrie.
Oklahoma FOR catalogue before de.
eid'ng fully as this is the largest and
best equiprei commercial and short
hand school =, the sonth-stucents can
enter there any time.
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staLe d ohIo. oltv d ToIedo. Luea

State Of Ohio. CITY Of Toledo. Lucas
County S.
Frank J. Chenty makes oath that he
Is senior partner Of the firm Of F. J..
Cheney s Co.. doing business in the
City OF Toledo County .and State
aforesaid. and that said frsa viii pay
the sum Of ONE HUNDRED oGlr
LARS for each and every case of Ca
tarrh that cannot be cured by the use
of Halls Catarrh Cure
FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn 70 before me and subscribed
in my presence this 9Th day Of De
cember, A D.. 1885
A. w. GLEASON
(seal) Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure IS taken inter
nally. ant acts directly On the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system
seud for testimonials free.
F. ]. ClIENEY & co. Toledo, o
Sold by all Drugelsts. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constl
| patton.
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FAST FLYING VIReINlAN.


The route Of the Chesapeake g. OHIO
lies through one of the most pictures
lue portions Of the United States.
From where It enters the mountains In
the southwestern corner or West Vir-
ginia to the eastern slope of the Blue
Ridge its course is by the side Of a
number OF the most beautiful streams
that find their way from the mountains
to the sea. The Kanawha, the Gauley.
the New River and the Greenhrier are
among the most famous Of these wa
ter courses
The +. + " Limited is one of tho
finest trains hauled over any railway
track in America 1t runs solid be-
tween Cincinnati and New York, the
route from Washington being over
the Pennsylvania system, It has ev.
cry mcd srn convenience ana appliance
and the dining car service has no su-
perior il it has an equal The roadbed
is literally hewed ouj or the eternal
, rocks 1t is balIasted with stone from
, one end to the other the greater pOr-
tion is laid with one.hundred pound
steel rails. and although curves are
numerous in the mountain section, the
ride is as smooth as over a western
prairie
One Of the MOST delightful rides in
al the route is that through the New
River valley. The mountains are just
low enough to be clad with verdure to
the very top, aud in the early spring
every variety of gIeen known to the
mixer of colors. can he seen. while the
tones in autumn take on all the rance
from brown 10 'sWiet.
These facts should be borne in mind
hy the traveller he:ween the eass AMI
| the west
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(First Published in Daily Leader,
Dec. 10. l904)
Application for Liquor License.
Territory of Oklahoma, Logan Coun
~, IS.
Notice Is hereby given that
Howe 4 DJty.
has this day filed in the offlce of the
County Clerk, in and tor said County.
rheir petition. asking that a license be
granted them 10 sell at retail malt
spirituous and vinous liquors on
Lot l6 Blk 40 Second ward, Gith-
re. IA said County and Territory
II no protest be filed on OF before
DeCember rs. 1904.
their petition viii be granted and
license issued
Witness my hand and the seal OF
said County hereto affixed this
lith day or Dec. 1904
(sEAL.l
N. J. c. Johnson,
County Clerk
BY J. n PIpett Deputy
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CFirst published in the Daily LeAdss
December IL. 1901

First published in the Daily LeAdsR
December IL. 1qO4)
Application for Liquor License.
Territory of Oklahoma. Logan county.
IS.
Notice is hereby given that
A. T. Mcmillan
has this day filed n the Office OF the
county clerk. In and for said county q
Logan. petition asking that license be
granted him to sell at retail. malt.
spirituous and vinous liqpors on
Lot 10, block ~. Mulnall, o T.. in
said County and Territory.
II no protest be filed on or before
December %. 1904,
his petition will be granted ans
license issued
Witness my hand ard the seal q
said county hereto affixed this
i0th day Of December. 1904.
(sEAL.)
N. J. c. Johnson,
County cIssV
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Deputy Stoneman was scrt after
him and soon had him before Judge
Phelps The charge against him Nas
shooting With intent "a kin and his
case was set Tor nine oclocS ihis
morning
The t-Oibic for which Hurd was
irres,cd occurred early in No ember.
1urd claims that some aegro soldiers
tried TO carve him up and he cleared
the dance hall with shotgun nnd then
made his get way Thinking ;ha'
the trouble might have blown over he
gentured hack and must now tell h's
troubles to the court
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a MYSTERIOUS CASE
Man Arrested at Ei Reno With Dla-
mords in His Possession.
N. J. c. Johnson,
County cIaw

Special to Daily Leader
FL Re,o. Okla Dec. 15.-The police
have a mysterious case on hnad ana
che that is giving them considerable
worry. They were called to notcl
rear the Rock Island depot where they
arrested q man giy.1s he name Of
Hannah ~ a raneless charge and che
for which there is no city ordinance.
The defendant asked the ofllcer 20 k'l
him ard hat would sertle IL ;Ie was
relsazed 10 appear today having put
up a pocket book containing dia-
Inond ring an1 stud and some morcy.
lie carried the card Of one of the hsst
lodges in the country. Ills grin al The
hotel bore the name Of c. J. Nichol-
son. and a search Of IL many letters
were found addressed 10 Hannah The
cas- is being inysstigated. neiehbor-
ing towns beins notified. A .ew,;er
infcrme0 the pollce that ibe dlalonds
@ere worth considerable money