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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-08
THE MARROW ESCAPE.

Ny, brother is a dangerous boy
When playing on the floor; -,
He runs his train Of cars SO fast, -.
With such rush and roar! -.
He cries: "Chee choo! Keep off the track!
And doesn t wait to see
I IN in the way. But nurse just laughs, ;,
And comes to rescue me.
Then when the lamp is shining bright
And playthings all about, -
Nurse says, ''It's safer, dear, upstairs,
The danger signal out.
So jump fast across the mat,
Tho I'm not scared speck.
We run away to Bedland homo
Before there is wreck.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-08
A PLEA OF THE BOOK.

Little child, I pray you look
Upon me, your friend, the Book!
am wonderfully made; l. ....
Leaves of paper smoothly laid,
Each one printed bright and new,
Telling something good to you; ~
An together sewed and bound,
Neat and tidy, strong and sound.
Do not throw me- here and there;
"Dog scar" not my corners fairi
Do not wet your thumb to turn
Pages; so the careless learn!
Keep me neat and bright and clean,
As you would yourself be seen.
So you'll meet pleasant look
Always from your friend, the Book!
The Youth g c
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-08

II in terror7 sighed poor Mrs Goodmother. '4Evey
time hear the bell ring know III hear something dreadful
about Jack. I'm he's been in awful mischief
ttWhat makes you think so9'' asked her husband
Oh straight school this afternoon
studied his lesson
has been good angel
that boy been up to? I should like to Know
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-08
TURTLE FERRY IN BUGvuLE.
SAVING BoBBIE's TEARS.

NEE there little boy and he cried easily easily
that it troubled his mother and yet nothing she
did made Bobbie Drawer about being hurt frightened
When Auny Lou visit Bobbie delighted
him Bobbie
ing and calling 'Mama Aunty Loul Mama!" ~:~..-.
Both quickly and he sobbed I've lost cap know
I have!'' =. = --.. hi. = #=-,
Mama started comfort him. but Aunty laughed mey
and sad Don't waste another Bobbie Save them
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-08
A SUMMER FANCY.

I an, 50 glad the country's green
It would be bad, think,
To have it blue, or maybe red;
How it would make us shrink!
And what if it were yellow-oh,
How dreadful it would be
To see the blazing sunshine on
A yellow lawn or tree!
We think that green was made for us,
It really seems most fit;
Or, possibly, the other way.
IT is we were made for It'll
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-08

Mrs Popley-For goodness sake! What's the
Chareyi s#
Popey (from the bathroom)-ol he the earth.
Mrs Popley--Wants the earthf
Mr. PopeyYes; at least that portion Of it that I'm tryn
to wash off nd
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-08
WHEN A BOY Is GOOD.

- = The Youths Companion.
The Washington times., 1906-01-21

them and we had peace until. the hour
for the ball. / wore q white dressing
gown. and nay husband something
equally ball-like-
our guests came rushing in, none Of
them saying. How'd you do?" They
just squatted down all around and be
gan 10 chew betef nut and stare at us.
They offered me some. and, Of course,
/ accepted. and We chewed sOlemnly
opposite each other till / found an Op-
portunity 10 throw mine away without
hurting their feelings. l think the sight
Of white woman formed an epoch In
their lives from which everything be
fore or after would date.
To vary the mo-otony we told one Of
our Dyak policemen that the people
might dance. but they didn't seem the
least interested when Ee explained 10
them what We had s2id. They neither
spoke nor moved. and for q long time
their eyes were fixed on me We were
glad when they asked Us 20 come and
start the pengasI drinking. It was In
huge stone jar, and our glasses We're
joints of large bamboo II was ve-y
good. and the more YOU drank the
urander you were supposed 70 feel.
EnuL sun A4D AdiAAai-Es - f'N-N ''a
derins what on earth 10 do next. when
an old man. without u;ter-ng sound.
suddenly. got up and began pacing
slowly around in q circle; then an
other man io.-cd Rim. ald another.
tiu there were one hundred Cr more
men following each oths-- In grave 81
Ience Then the women Joined in. one
al q time. too. but the moment the
first woman arrived they turned
around and starting 4 weird chant.
took each others arms. forming
great ring-a ring thcv never broke.
exceUt 10 let d single person IN OF out.
until O'Clock the next morning. Their
dance was "a kind Of see-saw goose
step backward and forward. and those
looking on. as well as the dancers
themselves accompanied the rOnot-
onouS swtrg Of their bodies with
long drawn-out. wailing funeral dirge.
broken occasionally by a fioCIisailg
cry from some woman, but the men
never varied their d-One the whole
night through. Ny husband and 1
Joined them for a few minutes. which
pleased them greatly.
After a few hours We were so WeEried
and our guests seemed SO . thoroughly
satisfied that we made the DyakS re-
soonsible and went TO be-. ! can't say
that we slept much. and when We
came back At O'Clock IN the morning.
the same dance and the same dronins
were still going on. but ! never saw
such a wreck OF = feast. At about
$50 o'clock the dance broke up and
our guests departed heIter-skelter, but
three or four OF the whole company
thinking il necessary to say good-by.
The Washington times., 1906-01-21
BY DOROTHY GATOR.

very long shed, as IL was built upon
piles ten or twelve feet from the
ground, and had no walls. only floor
made Of split bamboos laid an inch or
two apart. very convenient for dislCdE
ing the dust and for throwing down
any odds and ends you might want TO
get rid Of This shed had a very nigh
palm leaf roof. which slan;ed r.gh,
down below the foo, and so. unless
YOU were underneath. entirely hid the
fact of there being one
When We arrived among the MuTats
We were welcomed with great courtesy
by the chief and given the farther
end of his village, OF rather house.
"a live and sleep in; and as We stood
al the top looking down, a sea OF faces
met my eyes-mcn. women and chill
dren gazing with bulging eyes on the
first white woman they had ever seen.
They had heard of white men, and
some few of them had seen them. and
they certainly were extraordinary
enough: but a white woman, words
evidently failed them. as their wide
open mouths and vacant faces testi
fed. Except from our own voices not
a sound broke the dead silence with
which those hundreds of eyes watched
our every movement. From then un-
til the day We left We had absolutely
no privacy. Their various works for
tunately called them away sometimes,
but they were determined 10 lose moth
ing and / was never without an au-
dience
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I was constant source or excite
ment 10 them. and one day when I
was sitting i'm the house a very old
woman could not longer bear the sus-
pense of not knowing whether white
people felt the same as black. so she
summoned up All her courage and bore
down on me The other head-hunters
were delighted with her pluck, and
thrilled 10 know the result of her in
Vestigation. She came nearer and near
or in a creepy, squirming way, as If
she was treading on hot Goals. and
when she was quite close she suddenly
put out a skinny finger and touched
my hand. and then drew back very
quickly as if l had burned her.
| laughed. and my audience all join
ed in, delighted.
We went to bed about 9 o'clock, our
heads on our pillows and loaded re
volvers under our pillows. but we
never saw any sign of unfriendliness.
If there had been, they had US en-
tirely at their mercy. and We should
have been dead and buried some
weeks before any one could even have
suspected there was anything wrong.
At night we all slept in one serried
row. packed like sardnes the whole way
down this hugely long house. l slept
at the top. then my husband, then all
the other men quite close up to US,
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Looking for Amusement.

Instead OF completing the work i'm
mediately a spirit Of deviltry possessed
the young man TO have little amuse-
ment NJ the end Of his hard work He
handed his end of the wire 10 the In
dian. vino took il. retaining hold of the
other end. and thus completing the cir
cuit with his body as the receptacle for
the current. There was one long, terri
fed whoop from the Door redskins who
dropped to the ground with thud that
left a deep impression III the sand. The
next instant the Indian had leaped to
mis- feet and with q bound was astride
OF his pony. In the passing OF breath
the operator saw his unpaid assistant
disappearing over the top of the next
hfll his feet beating a terrified tattaa
on the pony's sides. After six hours
hard labor. during which he had ample
opportunity % repent his appetite for
practical JOKING. the operator succeeded
in getting the ends OF the Wire toget"
and returned TO his office sadder and
a wiser man
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hunters for some time and had got 10
be very friendly with them We save a
ball. The preparations were very sim
pie. as. except pengasi-a strong native
spirit made of Tice-We had nothing to
get ready but bananas, rice, sweet pO-
tatoes, and plenty of coarse tobacco.
The day came, but the guests. who
had been invited to appear at g O'Clock
at night. began to arrive from all parts
OF the country at , O'Clock in the after
noon. They came swarming up tie
hill and into the room where [ was
resting exactly six hours before We eX-
pected them. Ny husband got rid OF
The Washington times., 1906-01-21

Morse code leads often 10 amusing and
occasionally TO disastrous blunders- II
is not only the plug who IS guilty or
these. In the Morse code the letters
=. C. T. for instance are all made DY
three dots The code, as is generally
known consists of dots and dashes. The
letter is formed by three dots with
ont intervals The letter C is made by
two dots p brief-almost impercepuble
to any but the trained ear-inJerNdl and
then another dot. me letter Is IoFnlJd
by one dot. an interval or dash. fol-
lowed BY two more dots. Other SINH
Iarities in letters make acute hearing q
necessity for telegrIpherS- The trained
operator comes in time to distinguish
each separate letter as readily by dots
and daSheS as the ordinary person rec
ognizes it when he sees ii in print or
MANY tragedies are told lver the
humming wires. Many also are enact
ed at either end. Last year when the
city of St. Paul was partially destroyed
bv a cyclone a telegraph operator in
the sanity city was operating a
through wire from an office in q high
building direct into the telegraph-rOom
of a Chicago morning newspaper. Sud
denly he broke off in the story he was
sending and the key ticked out TO the
astounded Chicago operator: There 5
n cyclone coming down the street. 1
can see the buildings falling. It's com
ing fast-its here" Just at that point
the cyclone struck. the wire snapped.
and the earthly career of an obserVant,
cool-headed operator ended without the
customary "G F."
Recently in a Pennsylvania town an
operator was working the wire to Pitts
burg lie had just finished bis message,
The Washington times., 1906-01-21

only divided by a mosquito curtain and
q shallow step, and our only means OF
going in and out was by more or less
swaTming d very thin, nearly peTpen-
oieular, trunk of tree with notches
cut in it. This was stuck up at the
end of the house, right away
from US. and / shall never forget it, as
l was very i'll once up there, and the
pick ng my way in a half-fainting con-
ditiln at night over all those sleeping
men whenever / wanted to get into the
air and the swarming. backward and
forward al the other end, is still al
most like a nightmare to me.
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Wife Dragged Body to Table.

While the key fairly screamed its
objurgations at the dead sender the wife
dragged the body TO a convenient table
and tried to discover signs of life. She
summoned a doctor by telephone and
after he had arrived she turned 10 the
key. which by that time was sizzling the
hottest kind of messages. Placing her
finger on the key, she broke into the
tirade OF signals and said in the code;
My husband has dropped dead lie
can't answer his signal"
The Pittsburg operator had clammy
=. 1ich he had -1e~FtV consigned
man who had died with his fingers
on the key.
Stories o. horrible catastrophes occa-
stoned by blunders of telegcaphers are
of frequent occurrence. Old operators
have strong feeling of sympathy for
a brother, ne matter how incompetent
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Lille Wild Beasts.

They had food twice In the day. in
the middle Of the morning and at sun
set. The first time I saw il arrive
WAS dTeadfully startled, as suddenly
when we We're all very quiet. there
was the most awful rush and scram-
ble from every corner Of the house.
and 7 discovered two women had just
arrived from the kitchen with enOr-
nous calabashes full of sweet pota-
toes and tapioca root, and every man
at the same moment spTang al the
dish and grabbed a root. They were
really just. like a pack Of ravenous
dogs after a bone, though there was
plenty for every one. and The moment
The rush was over they retired at once
10 their different corners as friendly
and quiet as ever.
The Dyeks. who. with the Sikhs,
form the fighting force of Borneo. are
a splendid race. strDng, well built.
with bright intelligent faces. Held
by an iron hand they are very valu-
able. but the. sight OF blood intOxi-
Gates them, and when they are unre-
strained they are worse than wild
beasts.
Their one weapon is a long. sheathed
knife. the handle of which is often
most beautifully carved. and then
decorated with the hair OF their VIC
Tins They show these scalps with
the greatest pride, especially TO the
girls they hope TO make their wives,
as, unless they have some proof OF
their valor. the chances are that they
are unctTemOniOusly refused. Just as
looking AT some fOxs brush reminds
Of
and We run with pleasure over the
different incidents Of the day, they,
looking at their scalps, recall with JOY
every detail of their lighting aud-in
case Of women-butcheTy. thrilling
while il lasted, but far too quickly
over They feel no TemOrse. only long
ing for another opportunity OF so dis
tinguishing themselves.
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If peace is proclaimed, q piece OF rat
tan. similarly khotted. is sent
They take the nails as well as the
heads of their enemies as war trophies,
and beautify their houses with them
One day I was cropping my way along
one Of their houses. which was very
dark. when ! kr7eked against a lot
OF heads OF men and women al hang
ing W together. II wasn't at all nice.
But there IL nothing revolving in their
head hunting. They fight fairly. II is
their chance of Winning Tcnown and
showing what they are made OF. The
only low part OF il Is that 2 woman's
head. owing to her longer hair, IS
priced even higher than that OF a
mans. The whole thing Is q thrilling
game 70 them. full OF excitement and
danger. There IS nothing unfair in
their warfare; both sides are doing the
same. and man after man wins his
spurs in feats of pluck and daring.
They al gave a war dance one night
for our benefit Lit up By torches. It
was most weird ard realistic. You
could sec by every movement OF their
bodies and every thrust Of their spears
that they were in imagination SloaUng
over fallen foe. IT was their usual
song OF triumph after a fight and am
afraid II must have made them yearn
10 be on the waT3ath again.
The Washington times., 1906-01-21

A few years ago Borneo was believ-
ed TO have d brilliant future before it.
and Dick was supposed 10 have done
very well for himself when he went
out there Is government representa-
tive. He did not at once find dia-
mond mines outside his door, which
was disappointing. but at the expira-
tton OF three years he returned home
ION urgent private business" 10 fetch
me.
We were married in London. and left
England the same day for Borneo. Al
though il was 10 be our wedding trip, I
must confess. with all respect to Dick.
il was the most miserable day of my
life. l had heard many remarkable ac-
counts OF the headhunters of BorneO,
and As Dick assured me that / was to
be the first white woman ever I'd set
foot in their country, / had misgivings
from the very commencement of our
honeymoon.
The most interesting part Of our life
IN BOrneo was spent right up in the
interior, in the country OF the head
hunters. Our way lay up the great
Kinabatangan river, and the dugout ma
tive boat We used had a nasty way of
LliAAliS 4ltiA hNFtr " liltlls III a river run
of cTocodiles thirsting for your blood.
was not particularly pleasant pros
pect.
One experience We had while going
up the river nearly cost me my life. We
had rapids TO row through. some OF
which were anything but easy, and in
ore place We suddenly swamped- The
Dyaks. our guides and rowers. kept
their heads and. almost before / realiz~
ed what had happened, hauled me up
on a rock which was sticking out OF
the water near by. We were all, of
course, soaked through. but the men
wore too little clothing for that To
make much difference, The whole thing
was over so quickly that my husband
and his men had no idea We had cap
sized until We stopped later in the day
and told them of my first adventure in
BorneO.
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Threatened by Crocodile.

one night We came TO a place in the
river where the sandy banks made
bathing very inviting. AS the people
told US no crooodiles ever came up
that far in We dived. We were hav-
ing a splendid swim when my husband
saw n teiltale ripple on the smooth
surface OF the river near by. He began
TO shout and splash with all his might
as lie swan toward me. and he dragged
me ashore Just as the ugly snout and
gaping jaws of a huge crocodile ap-
peared in the river not two feet from
whe:C / had been.
The native settlement where We were
10 spend our honeymoon consisted OF
three villa ges, each village. with all its
different families. living for safety in
one very long house. to the chief of
which We were taken. 1t looked like 3
The Washington times., 1906-01-21
Denounced Uncle Sam.

An hour later the Canadian official
was i'm the Toronto office, white faced
breathing denunciation of Uncle Sam s
Government, officials. and people An
excited manager was wildly entreating
the Buffalo telegraph officials TO secure
repetition from Washington of a mes
sage to the Canadian weather chief.
which. as a request couchcd in moder-
ate and polite terms. ended up with the
words: Now get a move on you. you
ham, or you will be fired"
The ambitious youth was not able to
read the signature to the message on
its first transmission, but. wonderful to
relate. he could translate every word OF
the sender's objurgatiOn and wrote il
down as part of the message.
Tie similarity of many letters Of the
The Washington times., 1906-01-21

This all living together, in civilized
would mean endless rows, but
all the time we were living with these
head hunters we were struck with their
gentieneSs and the extraordinary peace
fuluess OF their home life. Countries
outside the pale of civilization certainly
teach as a great deal. In their home
life love and contentment reign. They
are StU menlightened enough to be
moral All the time l vas there
never heard one ungentle word in the
whole house. nor saw 3 cross look
among the children or grown-ups.
After We had lived with the head
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On the Frontier.

There are many men, some OF them
now in other walks of life and some
of them lingering the keys with supple
wrists. who begae their careers in the
Government service and spent several
years of their lives on the frontier
Probably not one of these men has not
had enough experience TO make an IN
teTesting book
one such man is now connected Win d
Chicago newspaper in an editorial capa-
city. When he was seventeen years ola
he worked i'm a relay station in Arizona.
which handled the Government business
for most of the States and Territories OF
fbts extreme Southwest as wen as the
commercial business, transmitting iu 10
the East 4 severe storm blew down a
number of roles along the line running
Though section having scarcely set
rie- Wires were broken and the connec-
tio. was efTectually destroyed until the
lines should be sphced. The operator had
no one TO do the work so taking his
..cavuse" he started out along the line.
Far from any haDitation he struck a
broken spot that was almost impossi
BILE to splice with the limited amount
OF wire ne had with him. In such an
emergency the only thing 10 be done
was TO pick IN the slack IN the wire
and make the splice by use of the wire
itself Single-handed this was almost an
Impossible feat. Just at ths s juucture
one of the wards of the. Government. q
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but had not given his sig" The Pitts
burg operator pounded his key francu-
lily TO get the release for the wire,
but no answer came. The operator IN
the city grew frantic and Sulphurous
sparks few from the wires as he eX-
pressed himself in a manner known only
10 operators, printers. and teamsters.
About half ar hour later the wife of
an operator in the small town, herself
an operator. heard from her apartments
above the telegraph station the repeated
and fTenzied calls of the operator at
Pittsburg fastening 20 the office below
she found her husband dead. his hand
stretched out at the side Of the key,
where it had dropped as his heart ceased
beating.
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Continued from Page 81

Glance to demonstrate his ability that
could not be overlooked, and he ESQ
lutely prepared to receive the message.
laboriously and ncrvously announcing 10
the sender that he must ''go SLOW
Ordinarily such a request would have
resulted in a demand that the maker
chase himself, but there was al emcr-
gency and the message was slowly and
carefully transmitted. When the sigma
ture was completed and no breaks re-
ceived. the sender. to expedite matters.
used strong language GS to the Necessity
for immediate delivery of the lmDO~t3pt
message. This was net with i reClie st
TO go ahead sig The signature was
repeated more slowly and elected q con-
fident 20 X.
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Heads as Decorations.

don't want TO stand uo for head
hunters. II isn't nice. We civilized
nations call IT murder. and it is Tnur-
der
If gathering Of the tribes Is needed
IN make war. a stick of wood. with as
many knots as days TO ela9se before
the rising is sent around TO all the
head men: and. on the other hand,
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Real TRAGEDIES Of Telegraph That Discount Weird Tales OF Fiction

dried-up old Indian, came in sight over
a sand. hill on the desert.
Tire operator hailed him and. making
the most OF his government position.
sought to, secure the helD of Lo. The
dried-uD Indian denurred. but finally the
persuasive powers of a big round silver
dollar conquered his indispositiOn 10
work and MS fear of the mysterious
wire. He took hold of one end OF the
wire aid the operator tugged at the
other until the ends had been brought
together sufficiently 10 make the splice.
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ne may have proved 10 have been,
whenever such a calamity occurs. Few
OF those who have been in the business
any great length of time have not had
their own hairbreadth escapes.
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4
wedding English
the wfds Boeo honeymoon
Eeadhuntas called because they o
their
children.
the
Irs Dorothy Gator
graph learned all this interesting
the headhunter while spending
the white these of
wishing
sDect closely TO
Instead being anxious surroundings,
Gator actually
learning their language
trip it was the most novel and delightful imaginable
Mrs Gator has
stTuctive her
Among The Headhunter which
Iongmans & o
esting portions Mrs Gators honeymoon
this
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The Brave Young Bride Of an English Army
Officer Tells How Her Wedding Trip Was
Spent Among Savage Tribes Who Had
Never Before Seen a White Woman.

r IMAGINE. if you can, the misgivings of an
well-bred young society woman whirled av
4 ately after he: wedding to an English arr
to the dense wilds OF Borneo i spend he
headhUnte-S