The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
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Did you ever spend day browsing
thru the attic among the treasures OF
musty books and defaced magazinesi
+ ,iss an exhilarating employment.
there ID an election, that there are
bills to be paid or that the weather
threatens to be changeable. Some peo-
pie arrange their. attics, putting the
broken toys on one side and the decom-
posing furniture on the other, while the
old books and magazines are actually
aTangea IN rows and piles aeg,d in TIE mid mid
shelves around the caves and catalog
the ancient treasures. This is great
mistake, but happily it is not one which
makes any difference, since the things
are never in their places in a true attic.
What you think you want is always in
the farthest and darkest corner under
portion Of the roof thru which nails
point their protesting spines. They
5ab you in the head, pull your coat off
terpose fierce resistance to your, cam
paign. This is an attic as it should be.
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The Doctors wife was recently lost
for twelve hours. She did not come, to-
meals She was not visible when the
chickens went to roost nor did she
join the family circle at dinner. Curl
osity as to her whereabouts rose to the
pitch Of anxious interest and the doctor
was about to set out and tell the deaz
cons about it, when she appeared radi-
ont In, 1Yot ond 1obunha her face ILL.,.
Illuminated by q smile which spoke Of
hours free from the terrible present.
In her arms she carried d bundle of
ancient magazines. They were of the
vintage Of 1856. Forty trains of
laden years had rumbled thru time since =.
those magazines had offered their gifts
to the world. They were worn, thumbed
copies Of the Ladies', Repository. =
Does anyone remember the. Ladies Re
since earned he'epitaph SDiscontin.
ued = and the good old man who edited
It, Bishop Wiley sleeps in the soil OF
China, to awaken at the last trump
with some OF the first converts to
Methodism in the Flowery Kingdom.
But whether you know anything. about
the Repository or not, you would like
pages of advertising and there is not
"a line of undertaking in it, tho it con.
tains some Of the jokes we. are using
today.
We open the copy for August 1866
Curionsly enough, the first article is
entitled Minnesota. It was written
by Mary Landon, who says that to
escape the heat and dust Of the city
she took the train from New York and
afser rs eeys mea dayevadentlXz th9re
Crosse, Wis, where she exchanged the
close car for the commodius cabin Of
a. MISSISSIPPI steamer and at length
rseached Lake, ePepln and he'd Wing
tnen the site OF Hamllne university
"a school where learning is united tx
religion. In due course the steamer
reached st. Paul, which is described a.
"a CITY set on q hill. -! The party il
which she Travelled remained one nigh
n ot. Paul, and OF course took: thu
early train for Minneapolis, "a tow
on the western bank of the Mississippi
az me faiis OF ST. Anthony
Est s. here, the letter continues, :. W
ferUssss the river on. "a light bridge O
wire, IA miniature Niagara bridge. which
rocks I and s4uiVers suspiciously. TIL
4 Ialis are now reduced by the crumblin,
q Ine. Jocks M, TO .raplds, roaring an
Lumulsaons; Inc e immense i,A water powe
III q q u - go 49, app opl'
;saseas ,Ehls greatly, 1mpairs the beaut
Il oh lhe. seenet litho m ea plea littl
4 nfpoetss Wl1han nearing or the falls invite
y s4lQ ile e. WISH! OF Inc tOur1sts - -.
4 M aIys. Landon appears to have com
& TO minnesota INN Tor her health, for .sh
! records that she padAedi on the lakes
a Ioatsred#at ssMslnnehahas rode over til
PTa1r,es,. every day feeling stronger. s.
She decided to prolong her stay thr
the winter. Perhaps some old settle
remembers Mary Landon. She Gel
taslnly was partial to Minnesota.
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|. The noise of the: captains and til
shouting is so deafeping. the conglon
Grafton Of sounds made by the. candj
dates Is SO confusing and the impossj
bility ofsone making enough more nois
attention to. himself SO apparent that
have been wondering if some candidat
would not think Of absolute silence a
q means of becoming eminent. :,
I Lives Of some great mon renoind NO
II we would to greatness l rise, -
Wed put modesty behind us,
| And shout and howl and advertise
This is an advertising age. but let II
J mot overlook the fact. that the sphin
made very considerable repifatio
which survived much longer than ca
sheriff or county commissions e b b
hopping onto DeoD]e who tailed Nd