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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
It Was Altogether Too High Up
When the Rain Began.
(PriZe.)
HIS VENTURES DER

NX/HEN I was about years
w old, took a great fancy,
against my parents orders, to
climb up dark, steep stairway,
then up very unsafe ladder to
the roof. One day when mother
was downtown I carried two or
three chairs and a few pillows
up on the roof and, after many
failures, I succeeded in getting
a box of candy from one of the
sideboard drawers. just as I
was. scrambling upon the roof
for the last time, the ladder
gave away and fell. [ looked
down at it, but. thought that
after my festivities, I could sure
ly get down some way. After
about half an hour, I grew tired
of the roof, for all of the candy
was gone, and tried to find a way
of descent, but try as I would,
no way presented itself. After
a little, it began to rain and I
cried aloud for help, but as the
stair door was closed, my cries
were not heard. A little later
the wind rose and luckily one of
the chairs I had left near the
door in the roof fell thru with a
crash. In an incredibly short
time the whole household was in
the attic, looking and laughing
at little, wet, red-headed boy
peering anxiously thru the open
ing. After I had been rescued
and put to bed, mother called
me a regular little "Robinson
Crusoe. After that I never
yentured near the roof again.
Edwin r. Cooper,
= 1712 Nicollet- Avenue.
A 9Th Grade, Emerson School,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
HARDLY ENOUGH
A Breezy Little Picnic but No.
Decorations.

(Prize.)
OZONE over to see me to
~ morrow said my FRIEND
as she left me at my gate.
p eyes, if it is not raining,''
I called. The next day was Sat.
urday and [ knew mother would,
let me 60 if I wished to. The
day dawned and as I looked from
my window 7 saw great clovas
gathering in the west. g..
= "Oh, dear!' I sighed, III
guess I'll have to stay at home.'
During the morning my FRIEND
called me up over the telephone
"Please GOMEZ she said
"Father says. it will not rain,
1t is only cloudy I said, 81
will be there at g." In tho
afternoon I went to see my
friend and she had on her out
door wraps with a pail in hen
hand. ~.
"Mother is to give, a party for
aunt, Sne salu, anu am go
. ing to gather some flowers to
decorate the room and table.
Come on" Somewhat reluctantly
I followed her and when we
reached a large rock my friend
said, as she opened Ter pail,
"Before we begin picking, let 8
have some refreshments" where
upon she brought forth cookies,
doughnuts, cold meat, crackers
and various other dainties. The
wind blew fercely and we were
nearly frozen to death while try
ing to enjoy our feast. Finally,
my. friend exclaimed. 81 am 60
ing home. I am about frozen;
and look at those clouds!,'
:, sBut where are the flowers
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06

: : /
7 ~ don't know nor care just now, she answered,
thrusting her hands deeper into her pockets We de-
scended rapidly the wind blew and thunder capped
At the bottom Of the bluff noticed flower and
quickly picked it. great clap of thunder made run,
and just reached frends porch the rain began
to fall On entering the house my friend mother
to meet us. "Oh, girls!' she said, 81 worried.
Father telephoned and said going to have
rble storm. But where the flowers you going
to bring metz zs.
Here they are = answered, laughing, and handed
her one forlorn, withered little blossom
Eighth Grade Harriet Putnam, s.
..sa $50 =. e. q <sss#r Rushford, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06

manu- IS n1ade BY tne t0P1c dPoh
imagination, fifth and sixth
grades usually do the best work,
but the writing on this topic
proved an exception. The higher
grades showed the most original
ity and sent in some delightful
stories. q
HIS VENTURES DER
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
UNIQUELY STRANDED.
(Honorable Mention.)

-s-- (Honorable Mention) -
Oh! Oh! OH Was anyone at as Wass
didn It know where to begin, where to end where to
oh! anything The only good Friday had was the
dictionary, and stranded composition island.
Miss G., will you please read much as you have
written of your composition?' On, dear! know the
sound of the cannibals padding their up to the i'm
mortal Crusoe did brighten him half much the
words uttered by my most revered composition teacher
for this was my first high school composition
''I-why really, L that is mean-I haven't one
can't think of anything write'' finally managed to
stammer. And then, sudden thought came to the
subecttA Sreetcar Episode and began franticaly
to my hand at the fast disappearing sail of Miss
Blank s approval But, alas it too late! The hull
of the rescuer's ship passed over the horizon.
II fear you have lost your chance, Miss g.
in inspiring tones from the teacher and watched
with fearful the last hope Of disappeared and
down went "a zero @.> H.: Florence Gittelson, :
Tenth Grade, ~, .a~ 1407 Second Avenue S.
CentraGHigh School. ~ r. - -
TWO ODD HERMITS.
(Honorable MentiOn.) -<...- r. ~
I landed this beautiful isle of the sea, and
Continued Sixth Page) - -
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ONE GOLDEN FLOWER.
After the Vain Search the Sun1it Pond Seemed More
Tempting Than Ever
(Prize.)

After the Vain Search the SunIt Pond Seemed More
60 Tempting Than Ever.
(Prize.)
seA URRAH!'' shouted Edwin running toward us boys
- one morning. 8 just what I've found, and
he held up pretty little 81 know where there
quite number of these flowers and if you promise
to tell any will go for them day. So we
planned to Wednesday after school It beautiful
day. The shone and there just enough wind to
make it pleasant. Five of US went. The bed
about three and one-half miles away in large grove
large pond We tempted to go in swimming, but we
thought of the pleasure would have in presenting tho
flowers to teacher next day, 80 went. But
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06

surprise and pushed her blossoms
up at the feet of busy Juniors
who were thinking of other
things, but were just as delighted
as could be to see the flowers, for
all that.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
FAIR Blu DIS BLOW
Northwestern Juniors Give Pen Pictures o..
Woodsy or Sunny Places Where Spring
Posies Blossom. - - s-."

Posies Blossom.

- - HAT faint exhilaratng spring feeling
! !
C-L1 easy to catch in the air but oh, so hard to
n TII hold at the pen point and work into the
l. ~ | 4 papers. 1t hard but nevertheless,
| ~ many Juniors did it delightfully."- There
| W. were often rough or muddy roads to travel,
Va the flower patches far away and
/ W spring winds very chill spring
III X rains found them out, then the search was
~ sometimes distressngly long before the
C-J shy blossoms found; but what did it
all matter since at last the dainty, beaut
full things there ready picks Every minor dis
comfort forgotten and Juniors we're fairly wild with
delight over bud, volets single butter
cup with which the early seekers sometimes had to be
content. Most Of the flowers secured after de-
liberate ining' long and thoro search, but spring
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
OF NEW CRU SOES
Minneapolis Juniors Had Variety of Adventures
at Times When They Were Exiles by Chance
~.


G----7 T WAS very hard to get away from the old
n | story of Robinson Crusoe and give new
B setting to experiences something like his
IL I'D Many Juniors evidently thought that
I%AkS1 desert island and shpwreck were indis
| H " il pensable in truly Crusoelike story. But
| lNs w few bright brains understood that time
II TX / and place not of so much Importance
II ~ in making Crusoe story hero
| - heroine with character like the
1-I nowned Robinson. 1t necessary, Of
: course, that the hero be put off somewhere
from people where he would have to rely entirely
his then he made good OF what was
at hand for his comfort necessity while waited
for fortunate chance to get him away he might be
called 'new Robinson Crusoe,' matter whether he
waited desert island housetop. Where de-
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
A Bermuda Lawn.

There is one luxury that the expert
ment station sets our farmers most
worthy example in having, and 1t is
the beautiful Bermuda lawn in front
0, the building, says the Southern Gull
tivator, Atlanta, Ga. This is what ev-
cry farm home should have; a sod
of 20 feet square in front of your
door will add greatly to the beauty
of your home, especially if you will
keep 1t trimmed. You should have
from this area up to an acre, accord.
ing to your means and the size Of
your farm. Do not be afraid of Ber-
muda. 1t is one of the greatest bless
ings you can havea on your lawn or
ii. your pasture and be sure to cut 1t
in botn No Industrious man need
fear it, and for the lazy man, it will
make more money in grazing and hay
than poorly titled land. Let Bermuda
work some, while you tend the other
better.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
Early Hatched Chicks.

The early Matched chicks, those that
are to be kept for next seasons lay
ers, are now nearly, or quite as large,
as the adult birds, and require az
much room, especially at night. Do
not allow them to crowd into some
small coop, where they sleep packed
like dates in a mat unless you are
counting dry tails, crooked backs and
disease. If there is no vacant space
in the poultry house in which they
may be placed, piano or dry goods
boxes may be used to good advantage,
and with a little labor may be made
into durable and serviceable roost-
ing coops or houses. One upright piano
box makes a good house that will &C
commodate from twelve to fifteen
grown chickens, it being six feet wide,
and three to three and one-half deep,
according to size of box. An open
'front.' can be used, with drop cur
tain of old sacks for stormy weather.
Ii should have a good floor in 1t and
be free from cracks, but with good
circulation of air overhead. Young
chickens will winter nicely in such q
house.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
WoIf,s Den Haven of Child.

S. Joseph, Minn.-After being lost
for two days, during which the entire
countryside turned out to join in a
hunt for her, four-year-old Margaret
Schweitzer, daughter of a well-to-do
farmer of Brockway township, was
found unframed in VOLTS den IN
the forest near here the other morn
inf. The child was well and apparent
" contented, but scolded her rescuers
for having driven away the nice lit
tie doggies" with which she had been
playing.
The child said she had discovered
the path leading into the thicket, and
had followed it, and that there was
four nice little doggies" in there, and
that she had not been cold or hungry.
as she had picked up quantity OF
nuts on the ground before she entered
the VOLTS den.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
THE STRAWBERRY PATCH.
The Plant Requires Mulatto Soil
Inclined to Clay.

Strawberries require mulatto Sol
Inclined to clay. They require deep
cultivation. The manure should be
Scrapings from rich lands. ashes and
ohosphates, with a small sprinkling al
salt and plaster. 1t is left to the taste
Of the cultivator whether he will have
MS strawberries near his house or
near a stream.
After the ground is thoroughly spad-
ed Or SUBSIDIZED, ploughed deep and
Ieveled, lay off the rows by small
mark four feet apart; plant each hill
from eighteen to twenty inches apart.
Cultivate level, and clean as you
would cotton. They may be either
mulched in the spring by straw, or
kept clean by cultivation, as the cul-
tivator may choose. One plat will an
swer the purpose. The second year
make a mark in the middle of the
row and spade it up deep, adding fresh
manures and vegetable matter. Late
In the fall, or early in the spring,
set out a row in the middle, and a.
The end of the bearing season the old
row may be hoed up. Every fall the
patch should be ploughed, SUBSIDIZED
and leveled, and a small quantity of
manure added. Repeat the operation
annually, as long as you wish to eat
strawberries, cream and sugar.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
FOLLOW LEAD OF ACTRESS.
Madame Rejane Sets Fashions in the
French Capital.

At Trouville Madame Rejane has
the largest and best following of all
actresses who are admired and copied.
It is a fad of hers to wear muslin and
lace in the evening and to throw over
It wonderful nantes embroidered
with gold and silver and trimmed with
lace and fur. 1t is she who also set
the fashion for wearing long fur coats
and even short fur jackets through
the summer in cool evenings over thin
summer gowns. This fancy is taken
ND by Parisiennes noted for refine
ment in dress. Fur trimmings, es-
pecially silver fox, on the lingerie and
lace blouses is one of this actress
fancies which is being enthusiastical-
ly taken to at the French summer re-
sorts. One of Rejane's coats is made
of silver lace embroidered with silver
and gold, the pelerine being fringed
with zibeline skins, not dressed, but
such as may be seen at the frrrier's
without being prepared at ALL The
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
Lynched for Foul Crime.

Thomas Crompton, negro, was
lynched near Centerville by posse OF
several hundred citizens, to whom he
confessed the murder of Eli Whitaker.
Mr.. Whitaker had some trouble with
the negro about rent cotton. The next
day Mr.. Whitaker had occasion to ride
through the negroes field and caught
him stealing corn. He attempted to
interfere, when the negro struck him,
knocking him down and then killed
him with a chunk of wood. After
killing him the negro dragged his body
out into the woods and hid it. That
night the negro went into the woods,
where he had the remains hidden, and
taking an AK and mule with him, cut of
both the dead mans legs, stuffed the
body in a sack and carried it off several
miles on the mule into the woods and
buried it in a sink hole, covering it up
and placing brush over the place.
Being suspected, the negro was placed
under examination and cross-ques-
toned. After some evidence was
found at his house he broke down and
confessed the whole crime, telling the
horrible story from beginning to end
and telling where the remains were
hidden.
The community was shocked and hor-
rifed as it was never before, and men
gathered from miles around. The me-
gro was quietly taken to the scene OF
his crime, where he was lynched by
several hundred determined men.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
November Weather.

The following data covering period
of eighteen years have been compiled
from the Weather Bureau records at
sixty observation stations in Missis-
sippi. They are issued to show the
conditions that have prevailed in the
State during November for the above
period of years, but must not be con-
strued as forecast of weather condi-
tiOns for the month:
Mean or normal temperature, 81.
The warmest month was that of 1902
with an average of go.
The coolest month was that of 1899,
with an average of 81.
Some of the highest temperatures re-
corded were as follows: 80 at Columbus
in 1900 and 50 at Edwards in 1902.
Some of the lowest temperatures re-
corded were as follows: 10 at Shoccoe,
and IL at Nittayuma and Tupelo in 1903.
The average date of the first killing
frost in autumn over the northern half
of the State is October 81, over the
southern half, exclusive of the counties
bordering on the gulf, is November 6,
and over the gulf counties, November 7.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
Swear Words Left Out.

Berkeley, Cal.-Prof. S. H. Frazier.
of Stanford university, announces
that he has completed new universal
language, complete in every respect
save that it has no swear words.
The professors achievement is the
result of several years labor, and he
is confident that it will replace VIOLA
puk and Esperanto.
DIR. Frazier contends that the finest
shade of thought can be expressed in
his new language, and that the rough
er expressions are merely barnacles
on conversation There is no syno.
nym for fudge" and the word "slush''
can be used only literally.
The doctor says that in cases of ex-
IRENE necessity one could say Dear
mel" in his new language. Even with
this concession it is feared by con-
sentative men that the tongue will
not become popular on golf courses.
English and Greek are used to
make the new language,
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
A Letter from Florida.

We are now prepared to ship the
loveliest eggplants, green peppers and
okra, while the oranges are trying to
turn yellow; also the grape fruit and
lemons, while the guavas are still to
be had in abundance. The Bliss Tri-
umph potatoes are just up nicely and
will be ready by January and Febru-
airy for digging, and in January we
plant the spring crop, which is ready
for use in the early days of April
This country needs more people and
some capital to make it the winter
garden of the United States, and to
those who do not care to grow fruits
or follow trucking as specially they
may grow tobacco, plant sugar cane,
sweet potatoes, chufas; for hog, raise
crab grass and peavine hay.-W. E.
Embry, Dade City, Fla.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
MaI<ino Good Use of Cinders.

The street railway operating plant
of Portland, Ore, which employs
sawmill refuse as fuel, has adopted a
cinder-separating plant with great
success. A powerful draft from a
steel fan forces the furnace smoke
through a steel plate flue int a YER
teal steel cylinder 80 feet in diane
ter. The bottom is a cone-shaped
hopper for receiving the cinders, while
the smoke, after losing it's velocity,
slowly energies through an aperture
at the top. AS the gases lose velocity
the cinders, being heavier, drop into
the hopper, whence they are conveyed
back to the furnaces to be completely
burned Besides abating the nuisance
the boiler economy is increased.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
FARMER AND PLANTER
KEEPING SWEET POTATOES.
Eaoy to Make, but Few Can Store
successfully.

We all can make sweet potatoes,
but only few can store them sue
cessfully. We think we are safe in
saying that 80 per cent of our loss
results from two things-either we
cover them up too tight before they
undergo their sweat and dry out prop
erly, or we allow leaks to wet them
during the winter rains. There are
several ways to keep potatoes success
fully, says the editor of the South
ern Cultivator, but they all depend
upon keeping the potatoes ventilated
or isolated and to keep them dry and
at even temperature. Any plan that
will accomplish this will keep your
potatoes until they come i. again.
l. All are familiar with the old
style of banking with straw, corn
stalks and dirt. There is no better
way, if you will only take pains to
build a good rainproof shelter over
these banks Nearly all the heating
and rotting Is started by the potatoes
becoming wet sometimes during the
winter.
2. We have been most successful
by having a house with dirt floor and
banking our potatoes in this house,
leaving the top Oh the hills open until
about the Goth of December. This
allows them plenty of time to go
through their sweats and become per-
fectly dry. Many people obtain good
results from putting ventilation up
through the center of the hill. This
is done by taking three or four planks
and mailing together, and boring holes
along in them and putting in the cen
ter and piling your potatoes around
it. Where the potatoes are dug when
land is wet or damp. this is very ben
eficial.
3. The plan of having bins and
storing them in a house and in dry
sand, Is a good one, provided you Sc
cure your sand when it is dry. We
heard of a gentlemen in Fayette coun-
ty, who moved from Pike and hecar-
ried his dry sand for his potatoes with
aim, hauling it over sixteen miles.
a. Some few have built regular po-
tato houses, with apartments and
hues. These are expensive and are
needed only by extensive growers.
The potato crop has always been an
important one in the south, but now
with the impetus given by the canning
Of them and selling in northern mar
xets, it will become more and more SO
each year. Hundreds of dollars are
wasted each year, on account Of al
owing the vines to waste. They
should be fed to horses, cows and
nogs. Just before you get ready to
dig them, begin to feed to all your
stock, and when you dig, have up
hese vines and feed them. There
one word we farmers need to
stress now more than any other, it
s-utilize. Waste nothing. Utilize
everything should be our motto.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
"BoYs, OUR TIME HAS COME"
A Georgian Who May Have the
Right Idea.

We have some of the best farm
lands of the state and some Of the
sorriest labor. The time is changing
mighty fast here; it was ten or fifteen
years ago the negro and mule, white
man and dog, now 1t Is the negro and
politics, the sorry white man and a
loafer. Boys, our time has come; let's
get back to the farms, fill up the gulf
les and cut the bushes out what we
can tend and let the other go. ! guess
they have got to eat and wear clothes.
We can perish them out II the good.
able-bodied young men would gather
up energy and say, Il am man" and
come and take hold. The man that
Is willing to work is the one l am
talking to. This labor problem doesn't
hurt them; it is only in our favor, for
we get more for what we make. Show
me a young man that howls over la
Dor and / can show you lazy, sorry
fellow. The first bale Of cotton l sold
l got 3A cents per pound; 1t brought
$13 and some few cents, and labor
then was cheap and sorry; now it
does not compare with the rise in
produce to what it was then. l don't
say but what 1t hurt some. The ranch
ers and large farmers are and will
be cut out, but the one, two and three
horse farmers are helped if the pluck
and brains are there and they will
read good farm papers. The cheap
est labor we have now is we'll i'm
proved tools to- work with. Who is
responsible for the condition labor
is in? l can tell you. 1t is the man
that is howling; he posted them in
politics to carry his point and it
wasn't long before they got in the
lead there; then the bowler would
not let his idle hands work for his
neighbor without higher wages, and he
soon got to wanting higher wages at
home, but could not get them, for the
price of production would not pay
for it; SO they went to railroads and
other public works and won't return
because he can live on one-half time
and talk lodge meetings and politics
the other half Again l say the world
has got to be fed and clothed; we
can now sell anything we make, and
the farther labor drhls from us the
higher the price will be.-P. A. j.,
Cairo, Grady County, Georgia.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
Shorter Grow Skirts.

Skirts are going up, not in price. but
in length. Where the skirts which
came to the ankle were not only sem
sible but becoming, the length at
which the young women at Newport
are wearing their skirts this season
can be called only sensible, for it is
an absurd and unbecoming length.
They are worn between four and six
inches above the ankle, and make the
petite small girls look like mature
children of IL and Is, and the taller
girls like overgrown children of the
same age. All the morning gowns of
the debutantes are made of this awk-
ward length, and with the large lin
gerie hats above the effect is of being
topheavy. When these short-skirted
young women have pretty feet and
slender ankles they look good deal
better than their less fortunate sis
tiers with large feet and thick ankles
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-02
Alfalfa and Pigs.

A ration three-fourths corn and one
fourth alfalfa produces greater gains
than when one-half alfalfa is fed.
Where alfalfa is raised on the farm,
and when there is no particular need
to hasten growth in the pigs, a ration
one-half alfalfa hay and one-haf corn
may give cheaper gains than when
a heavier corn ration is fed. Hogs
which have been raised largely on al
falfa pasture will learn to eat the
hay in winter without cutting with a
machine and to depend largely upon
it where only limited grain ration
is fed, but ration wholly alfalfa does
not seem to give economical results.
Paralysis in pigs is due to weak
bones and muscles that come from
pampered parents that have been fat
tened on corn, etc. Change the food
to a slop Of milk, middlings, dried
blood meal, etc. Allow free range.