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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
BUNNY AND EXCITING.

Once there was little boy who wanted pony. After
ne had one he wanted goat When he had the goat he
thought riding it the greatest thing the world
me goat liked to have the boy ride him but it was diff
thing he tried to hitch him One day the boy
ted the goat to tree harnessed him and htched him to
small cart After he in the his brother united
the goat At first the goat decided balk but after
awhile ne ran He kept the road, however the boy
thought it was fine riding He turned the goat around and
started back Near the garden the goat saw something
but he fast thru ditch that the boy was thrown
out Of the cart But the boy still thinks that goat ride
was the greatest thing in the world 2 ---@.~s -.
Eighth Grade :, Raymond Boyle,
ssse.2<z Arlington Mimi
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
WHERE ONE WAS LITTLE.

Wander the wide world over, across mountains val.
legs and seas tho build homes Of fancy many lands
to none Of these does memory turn with such love as to
our childhood first home This spot surrounded with
halo Whether it was rich or plain matters not for it
was home The other places incidental life
At our chdhoods home passed those happy winters;
midsummer surrounded u.s. spring promises were fulfilled
the wavy and feathery asparagus formed back
ground for the lower-growing things. All the garden
plants were people to u.s. the cabbage plants sat
stupidity in rows like baldheaded old in rufed shirts
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA, MORNING. DECEMBER > 1905

under the trees where had been playing cried my
self to sleep and the first thing did in the morning
dearer to than ever and again did forget her.
The greatest trial of life when
and could not take Flo with but explained it all
not resent it. But fatal day. about years ago.
was decided that I was growing too old to play with
dolls nearly heart-broken at this verdict and it
was with many bitter tears that dressed all of my
dren in their best and laid them away until other
locked and Icould open it again Finally did take
out my very dearest doll and INDUCED in few hours of
stolen pleasure until found out and called baby
for playing with dolls Then she put away earnest
For a while inconsolable, but gradually have
with all my treasures except the BEST the dearest
Ninth Grade. Irene. Pelham
= Wadena, MIMI
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
EXPLORERS USE TT.
COLOR AND SONG ABROAD.

The best thing in the world is the summer time when
everything in life is beautiful; when the flowers are in
bloom and the birds twtter and sing from morning until
night In early spring plant my fowers sometimes as
many as twelve kinds. By June these are all in bloom
excepting the asters and they wait until September to
IS in June that the of all color red white yellow
Light and dark pink, and the little cinnamon roses are
also in bloom and the syrga bush is covered with white
flowers But these all IN the front yard Along the
northern side Of the garden plant the flowers which grow
from seeds The fouro clocks first and next to
them the basams with their flowers peeping out amid the
green leaves from the top Of the stalk to the ground
everywhere in the garden Bachelor buttons and
turtiums are here and there and the pansie blooming all
the time are given to the neighbor where they create
happiness Birds always flying among the trees and
the robins build their nests high limb where they
feel safe Little Dick always be heard singing in his
happy when he sees the flowers and hears the birds
Eighth Grade Helen Judd ,
-- Wykof MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
SURE ABOUT TT.

The greatest thing in the world is our summer vaca-
ton because then have three all to ourselves
sometimes feel lonesome and do not know what to do
and then Think But this is better than sitting in
schoolroom, and 60 fishing do something else It
seems to be just like long rest There nearly always
something to do in vacation when school begins AGAIN
wish it were not long till vacation again. And then
think, What kind of fellow would be if never
went to schoolf" Sometimes in school can not help
wishing that it was vacation but when it does come
ENJOY 1t all the more. Benjamin Amundgaard
seventh trade ..cs Argyle, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
Our Lives

Our lives are songs; God writes the words,
And we set them to music at pleasure;
Ana the song grows glad, Or sweet, or sad,
As we choose to fashion the measure.
We must write the music, whatever the soma.
Whatever its rhyme or metre;
And 1t 1t Is sad, can make It Glad,
Or IT sweet, we can make 1t sveeter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
OUT-OF.TOWN TOPICS
For Sunday, December 16:
IA LITTLE TOO MUCH. ,,

IA LITTLE TOO MUCH"
Stories of cooking, picnics and thunderstorms
barred.
The stories must be strictly original in plot and
compositions. They may be true or fiction.
The papers should be mailed so as to reach the
office of The Journal Junior -
Not Later Than Thursday Morning, December 6.
They must be written in ink on one side onlv of
the paper, not more than 300 words in length nor
less than 100, marked with the number Of words
and each paper signed with the grade, school, name
and address OF the writer The papers must not be
rolled. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
A HUNGRY HAWK.

y
Of all the great things Of this world Kindness it seems
me- IS the greatest because when all other powers fail
my brother out after berries and fond aroe
hawk that had broken it's wing He decided to take it
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
YOUR MOTHERS MANIA.

When 1 was years old, the gfeatest thing in the
world seemed to me to 60 to grandmother's When we
neared the house could grandmother standing in
the doorway. AS soon had taken off our wraps
grandmother always gave me piece of cake and went
out to play with the dog Then out in garden
and picked Of the best strawberries the world
When dinner time came rang the dnnerbel and after
mad eaten nice chicken dinner would 20 down to play
Al Inc well which had been flowing forty years.
uncle for the after which gathered eggs for grand
mother. Then we ate supper and went home
oeVenth Grade. Prank Brunkow
De]ano, MINI,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
For Sunday, December %:
"a CHRISTMAS SURPRISE. ,,

Z OF SUNDAY, December 70: -. :. -.
"a CHRISTMAS SURPRISE
Stories of presents are barred. r-..--... o..
The stories must be strictly original in plot and
composition They may be true or fiction
Recognition will 60 to the best told stories.
The papers should be mailed so as to reach the
office of The Journal Junior .- e
Not Later Than Thursday Morning, December 49,
They must be written in ink, on one side only Of
the paper, not more than 800 words in length, nor
less than 100, marked with the number Of words
and each paper signed with the. grade school,
name and address Of the writer. The papers must
not be rolled So
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
ASKED A WISE MAN.

ASKED WISE MAN.
One day asked what the greatest thing in the
world was She could not answer me, decided to ask
some man. L put on my coat and cap and uptown
thought OF Judge H. and decided his wisdom he
was considered very wise ''Wha is the greatest
thing in the worlds" said. He answered. tsWell nv
boy that is difficult question to answer but to me the
greatest thing in the world is kindness It is the trait
that moves the world in great good things If peo
PIE had no kind thoughts Of another there would be
continual fighting and there would be no in the
world agree with Judge r., don It youg
3 Sixth Grade. Grover Bogunrief,
East Grand Forks Mimi
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02

it people, animals and plants could not live The rain
makes our grain It is then cut next threshed and
the farmer takes it to the mill where it is ground into
Hour Our mothers buy it and make into bread for
to eat The ground would dry without rain and every
trees and grass would die and everything would look gay
and dull The birds in the treetops would not sing The
streams and rivers would all be dry and in the Of
time the big blue itself would dry up am sure
that If we thought day and night we could think Of
nothing greater in the whole world than rain.
Sixth Grade. Edith Conkey,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
A GRAND MACHINE.

The greatest thing in the world is the compexity Of
the human body the harmony with which all parts work
together No machine has many different parts work
ing together for the good Of part Of the body
fails to do it's work. all the other parts suffer- Every
minute part Of the body has its work to do Even the
tiny corpusces quite important larger parts
of the body. That is why think the building Of the
body is the greatest thing in the world.
Seventh Grade, Franklin Clement,
Central School. $40 West Park Avenue,
Albert Lea, MINI.
MOISTURE AND GOOD THINGS
Rain is the greatest thing in the world because without
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
IN A. HOUSEWIVES EYE.

The greatest thing in the world is broom. It may
seem rather foolish but remember time when we lost
our broom and which made think it so great. One
evening after supper going sweep the floor but
could not find the broom anywhere let the sweeping 20
till the next morning, thinking could find it then In
the morn broom was to be found we lived on
rain lasted until nearly dinner time and then went to
town for new broom. When came home thought
never had seen such kitchen went right to work and
swept 1t and have lost the broom since broom
is the greatest thing in the world if likes cleanliness
E'ghth Grade. Blanche E1dred,
- Dassel. MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
WHERE TEACHERS RULE.

0APtoAHou. Schools
should know how to figure and read and writea If We
did not know how to read and write could have news
books and calendarsf What would know
world II we could not have newspapers Only what our
nelghbors told and that would very about
the world, as we all know. If had education we
should have none of these things know
how to read paper if one Surely schools are
the greatest things in the world. Virgil Francis
a sixth GRADE Fairmont MINI.
BULLETS OF LEAD, LEAD, LEAD
= One Sunday this I was sitting at the vim
dow saw papa coming up the road Like all bows I
wanted gun, and thought in his hand Sure
enough he had but he had only rented SO he said
mat afternoon we went hunting and had the twenty
two and he had revolver We shot at the gophers but
that is no sign hit them Two days afterward Killed
blackbrd When told papa, he said, ssYou can kill
ducks with your gum eyes but it ism mine,' said
Then he told that he had bought for me- thought
1t was the greatest thing in the world for me- because
eoqtd 90 hunting: Clifford Hayes,
filth GRADE Williston, N. D.
EXPLORERS USE TT.
The greatest thing in the world is boat If we had
no boats could not to foreign our
country would not be inhabited by white people, train
is handy thing for people, it not so handy as
boat for cannot go all foreign countries by rail All
kinds OF things shipped to foreign and many
things are brought back from them. large boat can
hold much than train Many people think that
train useful than boat But in what did Colum-
bus discover America? Milton Heheisen
o1xtn trade Carver, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
BRIBED WITH DOLLS.

o1&Io1IU WIFI
When I was very little GIRL did not like school
and one spring could not be induced to co. I
small to know that go. One day my mother went
to town and bought small doll that she said might
have would go to school every day. Then at the end
or the term she promised to buy larger The
trst day went to school seemed very long, but when
came home mother had doll clothes OUT which
she let me make Every night for long time she had
something for make for the doll and at the end Of
the term she gave the big one. think this doll was
the greatest thing in the world because made me like
70 go to school. Mae E. Crandal,
seventh Grade. Sank Center, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
WHAT LITTLE TADs KNOW.

The baby was and half years old and had lust
begun to walk but could only say '<mama tpapa'
he went into the where sister Marie was and she
said to him. Baby will you please go in the kitchen and
the kitchen where was pulled at her skirt and said
" Mama! Manual All, ah!'' and pointed to the bedroom
Where Marie was. Mama went into the bedroom and
Marie asked if the baby told her that she wanted her
Mama said, eyes, he did.' think the greatest thing
in the world the way little babies understand and do
What we tell them, even when they cannot tell any
tnlng. Helena BUTLER,
ol3tn GRADE: ~. -s.r.., - Harris MINI.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

But the Sultan's Principal
Agent Believes There
Will Be a Row.

Algeciras, Spain. Jan. 17.-Delegates
of Moroccan conference today took a
day of leisure to enable the secre-
taries to get ready for their work and
indulged in private conversations
among themselves or spent the time
in preparing with their junior COL
leagues for discussion of the sur
veillance of contraband arms in
Morocco, the first question to be dis
cussed at the next meeting. Ambas-
sador White visited Gibraltar after he
and Minister Gummere had gone over
the present situation in Morocco re-
garding the illicit trade in arms.
When the conference shall have
agreed on regulations for the punish
ment of foreigners engaged in smuggl-
ing arms into Morocco, most of the
countries, including the United States,
will have to legislate out matter as
only Great Britain and Spain can, by
order of council, penalize their sub
,jects abroad. While the talk among
the ambassadors is all of conciliation
and harmony, Mohammed Ell Torres,
the Moroccan foreign minister and
head of the mission of Morocco and
Mokri, the sultans' principal agent,
does not believe the conference will
agree,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

them will simply load everything into
immigrant cars and come, selecting
their locations after they arrive.
Some of these people say they can
rent their farms in the older states
for three dollars cash and can make
as much in our part of North Dakota
as they could working their own land.
Land varies in price. Many of the
homesteaders who got their land for
what they consider nothing, would
hold SIS and $6 big price, while the
unbroken prairie is selling for SO to
SIS, and the land is no better. There
Is this advantage, though, that the
person buying it can file on home
stead near by and thus get double the
number of acres for the price. This
land Is thirty and more miles from the
railroads, and. many prefer to pur-,
chase the land nearer market at q
lower price and sacrifice the oppor-
tunity of securing a homestead. Land
values will increase with the rush OF
immigration.
We have one advantage over the
eastern part of the state because we
have abundance Of cheap fuel Our
Ignite is inexhaustible and is cheap,
many Of the land owners-in fact, the
mRjority-having their own supply.
The mills Of Dickinson are using It for
steaming purposes and they could not
be Induced to make q change. II can
BE- used for.any purpose except on
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
MICHELET OF WHITE
5-s EARTH MAY GET PLJJM.

Cass Lake. Mimi, Jan. 17.-There
appears to be lull in the rumors OF
appointment of a successor to the Of
flee of Indian agent at Onigum, the
Leech lake Indian agency. to succeed
Major Scott, resigned.
The latest rumor, which is supposed
to be fairly authentic, is to the effect
that Simon Michelet, who has acted as
agent at the White Earth agency for
several years, will be retained as agent
for White Earth, but will also be
given the charge of the Leech lake
agency and be removed from White
Earth to Onigum. This latter PROPOSE
ton hardly seems practicable, as there
Is enough work to fully occupy the
time of one agent, at Onigum, and the
additional work at White Earth would
entail more duties than any one person
coud probably attend to.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
THE GRAIN GROWERS HOLDING AN
INTERESTING SESSION IN FARGO
Yesterdays Meeting Was Enthusiastic One Which Several
Important Papers Were Read, Followed by Lively Discussions
By the Men Who Do Things in North Dakota
refused to attempt to decide which
11Ias sxrlai

refused to attempt to decide which
was durum and which was not.
President Worst told how in his
investigation he had written Consul
General Skinner of France for infor-
nation and that he had stated that
If the right kind of grain berry could
be produced, there would be a great
market In southern Europe for all that
could tesraised in America. President
Worst sent to France for some seed
of the variety that was being grown
there for the market and found it
much below the North Dakota pro-
ducts. President Worst believes that
the adoption of durum wheat as a
regular crop will increase the pro-
ducing capacity of the North Dakota
wheat lands from 25 to 30 per cent.
He also believes 1t should be special
lied along two lines: one the kind
that is used in the manufacture of
maccaroni, and the other for bread
purposes.
The subject of Professor Spillman's
afternoon discourse was Rotation of
Crops" and for more than an hour
and half he pictured conditions in
various parts of the country where
farm lands had been ruined because
OF the one crop method Of farming. He
spoke particularly of the Willamette
valley where he had been connected
with an experiment station for sew,
eral years. This valley was originally
rich in vegetable producing elements
and for forty years after its settle
ment 1t produced immense crops of
wheat. Then it began to fail, with
poor crops as the rule and an occas-
tonal good crop when the soil seemed
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

settlement of the country as long as it
was possible to do SO, we bowed to
the inevitable and quit claiming that
1t would never be farming country.
"Just to show you what the ranchers
thought of the country, one large
ranching concern, when the realized
that the time was at hand for the
opening of the country, purchased
large tracts of land at low prices and
have already sold out all of it in small
farms except what they want for them
selves. and of course this is the rich
est part of the purchase.
But the cereals are not the only
resources of the country Last year
there were one and a. half million
pounds Of wool marketed at Dickin-
son, and the live stock shipments >are
heavy. One of the Dickinson banks is
ranked among the strongest in the
state, and this despite the fact that
every little nearby town has a state
bank doing a good business.
There is an enormous tide of immi-
grafton to that part Of the state. I
am not able to give positive figures,
but the Dickinson land once had
something like thirty filings during
4 December. and crowd of land buy
ers who had been through that terri
tory told me AZ they were leaving that,
they believed there would be 1000
farmers from their Joint states who
would como out this spring. Many OF,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
eminent MEN ARE
LINED UP
They Will Join Him in Demand
For Publicity in
Elections.

Washington, D. c. Jan. 17.-Perry
Belmont's organization committee of
the movement for publicity in cam
paign contributions held it's initial
meeting at the New Willard today. The
members of the committee, number
of whom were present in person while
others sent letters embodying their
views on the subject, include besides
the governors of numerous states,
Hoke Smith of Georgia, Judge P. S.
Grosscup of Chicago. Judge Jenkins of
Milwaukee, members and officers of
the national committees of both politi-
cal parties. presidents of colleges and
universities and the neads OF national
labor organizations. Today's meeting,
following formal organization, out
lined preliminary program for per-
sistent and systematic work in urging
upon the attention of congress the de-
STABILITY of enacting a law governing
publicity in connection with presi-
Dental and congressional elections.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

a Special Train Leaves New
York Bearing the Remains Of
the Disting guished Chicago
Merchant Stores Will Close

New York, Jan. 17.-A special train
'beAring the body of Marshall Field to
Chicago left at IL o'clock over the
New York Central and Lake Shore
railroad. 1t Is expected that the party
will arrive In Chicago about noon to-
morrow. The special train consists of
five cars, baggage car, two sleepers,
dining car and observation car. DR..
Frank Billings, Mr.. Fields family
physician, who Is one of the party re-
turning to Chicago on the special
train, said today that all the members
of Mr.. Fields family were. in good
health; that they had borne we'll the
strain of watching at his bed side
during his illness. 1t was announced
today that Mr.. Field would be buried
in Graceland cemetery. It is still un-
decided, whether the funeral will be
held from his residence at 1900
Prairie avenue or from the First
Presbyterian church.
Chicago, Jan. 17.-Out of respect to
the memory of Marshall Field, who
died yesterday in New York, the Field
wholesale and retail establishments in
Chicago were closed today and will
remain shut until Saturday. All
stores on State street, and probably
the larger establishments, elsewhere
In the business district will be closed
two hours Friday. ssssst ri
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

Fargo, N. D., Jan. f7.-special.-
The first day of the Tri-State grain
growers convention was devoted ex-
clusively to the discussion of agri-
cultural matters, and the papers read
and the discussions had were especi-
ally strong. The keynote of all the
speeches and papers was the advant-
age of crop rotation, and the saving
of the present richness Of the soil by
means of clover or some other crop
that will put large quantities of
bumic back into the land.
A splendid paper on maccarOni
wheat which was prepared by Samuel
Glover, was read by President Worst
In the absence of the writer. The dis.
cussion of this paper was opened by
l.. 0. Ueland of Edgeley, who gave
strong practical talk on the advan-
tages of this wheat over both blue
stem and Scotch fife The yield is
much larger than either of the other
varieties. This year there were, T.
792,250 bushels of durum, wheat pur-
chased in Duluth, and of this 1892
900 bushels were exported. Duluth
parkets only had a range of light
cuts between number one northern
and durum this year, against a mar
gin of 20 cents last year.
Professor Spillman, who Is chief of
the bureau of farm management Of the
department of, agriculture, in prefac-
ing his own speech of the afternoon,
told of how the Miller's Journal had
fought the Introduction Of this wheat
and how when two loaves of bread,
one from durum and the other from
ordinary spring wheat, were sent to
the editor of one of these journals he