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From St. Paul and Minneapolis to Billings, Mont., $15 Helena, $20 Spokane, Wash.. $22.50 every day un til May 15,1905. Special $6 Settlers' Rates to princi pal Minnetota and N. Dak. points, every Tuesday dur ing March and April. Travel via. Northern Pacific Railway C. W. Mott, Gen'l Emigration Agent. St. Paul. Rates and information from G. F. Mc- Neill' City' Pass. Agt., 19 Nxcollet Block, Minneapolis Geo. D. Rogers. Cxty Pass. Agt.. Fifth and Robert Streets, St. Paul, or A. M. Cleland.Gen'l Pass. Agt., N. P. Ry., St. Paul. Yo Pay Nothing I treat all rectal diseases. Piles, Fistulae, Fissures, Itching Piles, Ulcerations, etc. I take your case on a i guarantee to cure you, and do not ask you to pay me one I cent until satisfied you are cured. I treat you without pain, chloroform or knife. Write today a full descrip tion of your case if you cannot call in person, and I will I send you my Free Book. Examination and Consultation Free. EDW. A. JOHNSON, M. D. I Rectal Specialist. 710 Globe Bide-. Minneapolis.Minn. Hours9 to 5. Sundays by appointment. I&&&"** WRSawWfC??^ Wednesday Evening, THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. 1' Some people, particularly the poets,' I believe, bejfin to rave about flowers and things of that sort, when winter breaks xxp ancl the verdant spring is upon us. Not so for me. When the robins begin to yodel in the 'tveetops aucl the heavy wagon wheels rumble on the good hara pavement, it's me whose, mind fixes itself on the good people of China who were of an inventive way some few centuries agoand I smeil firecrackers ancl not violets." So spake "Jack" Baymond, man ager of the Minneapolis Orpheum, as he raised thewindowof his office andsniffod the crisp April air. Anon he tilted his hat ribbon tie Slip A 3to5 UJG Boys' $2.00 box calf bluchers ir21s.to. Misses' tan calf lace l*1*Russia $1.45, andW said:W Klosives MANY ADVENTURES IN FOLLOWING THE FIRECRACKERS Being the Aggregated Reminiscences of a Manager Who Has "Trouped" With the Pyrotechnics and Seen Many Vicissitudes. "I I know thi hn,? P?w i Sv! L I. and not the prominent citizen, was thing about.weather^andjr have made themwhen up came a party a conscientious study of the subiect for fifteen summers, this is going to be a long, dry season, and I'll bet the boys down in the Chicago office are gathering every morning and making guesses on when the governor' is going to put the 'road show' out. "Ever travel with a fireworks show? There's nothing like it in the show business or out. 'Extra hazard- ous,' the insurance people would call it, and as for varietywell, in com parison to it a steady diet of cayenne pepper would be mild. Handling ex is uncertain enough in itself ut handling people and explosives, too. maketh the young to grow old ana passeth the time of day like a sky rocket covereth space. Excuse me for quoting scripture. If you've never traveled with a fireworks show, you've missed a strange phase of life. It is -just like a circus, only more so." And the manager as sumed an easy attitude, much affected by masculinity, lighted his pipe, and, while he rested his head on the back of his chair, blew great clouds of smoke at his heels and spun this plain tive yarn: "There is really only one big fire works company in the world, and only one company which puts out a big fire works road show every summer. One summer I was managing this concern's traveling pyrotechmcal spectacle, and we halted for two weeks at Philadel phia. "Perhaps you have noticed, at the state fair, for instance, that about an hour before it is time for the show to begin, several rockets are fired into the air. That is done to 'get the wind' and to determine just about where the skyrocket sticks are coming down. It's a small item to the unini tiated but each of these sticks is an inch and va people in Wichita but fortune did not lead us in their ways when we visited that beautiful Kansas city. Indeed, the uncharitable might insist that we fell Among thieves. "We had an open week between To peka and Fort Worth, Texas, and an enterprising citizen of Wichita wrote for the date, explaining that it would be a great race meet week and that the local public would be added to by many thousands of country neighbors. So our agent closed a contract, selling the show for $15,000 for the week. And thus we arrived. The contractor was to supplv every thing, including lot, advertising and band. The lot was an abandoned corn field, with soft loam miles deep. Every wagon stuck to the hubs and whatf was said bv the attaches of the show is not for publication nor remembrance. But we got the show up, somehow. And then it rained. And on Tuesday night it rained. A fireworks show is not a howling success in a rainstorm, and there was no show on either night. The party with the $15,000 guaran tee began to get nervous. When I learned that his signature on a con tract wasn/t worth 15 cents, let alone $15,000, I also became nervous. "Wednesday night was fair and we had a good crowd. About a four thou sand dollar house. Mr. Guarantor said he wouldn't bother to count the tickets, but would take the money. I said him nay, and stowed it in the bottom of a trunk in my hotel room. Up to 6 o'clock Thursday evening the day wasmy ideal and the town jammed with peo ple in to see the race meet. I could count a $6,000 house without leaving the hotel office. And at 7 o'clock one of those Texas northers descended upon the place and blew the show all over the county. Mr. Guarantor turned a bright green that night. I still had the money. Friday night we did fairly well, and Saturday morning Mr. Guarantor wanted the money we had taken in. I reminded him of the $15,000 due u's, but he didn't care for that. He wanted an accounting right away, and as we hadn't taken in $15,000 and we still had another show night coming, I re fused. "That was the beginning of the end. "Mr. Guarantor threw up his hands and the public with bills against the show began to come in. First, it was the newspapers, and I naid those bills. Then came the band and I settled with y* theni. After that came an attachment from the guarantor, himself. That we escaped by legal means, that is, we gave a bond for future appearance. A this stage of tho game, others who had bills called and I continued the cheer ful role of furnishing the show, pay ing the bills and kissing my hand good by to the man with the name at the bot tom of the contract. "At about 11 o'clock I had paid all the bills I could think of, had sup pressed a small riot among 300 supers with the show, and was heaving a sigh of relieffor every man in town had boosted' the bills when he learned that with a claim for $700. "He was the president of the race meet association, it seemed, and the association had done about $700 worth of billposting for us. He referred me to the chief of police tor a certificate of character. I had gotten pretty well acquainted with the chief by this time. 'He's all right,' said' the chief, out loud. Then he whispered: 'Look out for him. He's the biggest grafter in the southwest.' With that advice under my hat, I began to talk it over with the lastest claimant while the show was being taken off the lot and onto the train. talked and he talked, and finally he jumped into a carriage and made for his lawyer's office to get out an attachment. I followed in an other carriage and halted him at the door. We had another of those cora- Fent quarter in diameter and eight feet long, and as they go about a thousand feet high they come down with considerable determination. The game, so far as the fireworks people are concerned, is to keep them from com ing down and spoiling some disinter ested party. Accordingly, we generally tiy to find an open lot, adjacent to the show grounds, where skyrocket sticks can alight without making too much of an impression on the public. The Episode of the Fire Sticks. "We arrived in Philadelphia behind hand and barely opened the show on time. Consequently we trusted to luck and let the skyrockets off at what looked like a safe angle. Then we went to bed. "When came down to the lot the next afternoon I beheld across the way a stately looking mansion surrounded by a beautiful expanse of .green lawn. There was something peculiar about the place. I looked again, and then lost most of my breath. The roof of that mansion, the roof of the stable and the surface of that beautiful lawn were profusely punctured with great, gaunt skyrocket sticks until the place looked like a pincushion. 'Why don't you send a man over and take those sticks out?' I demanded of the superintendent. 'Tried to. but the family's away and the watchman kept us off with a gun,' was the answer. 'That'll be nice,' thought I, see ing visions of two dozen shyster lawyers camping on our trail with million-dollar damage suits. 'I'll look around a bit,' said 1 to myself. "I'd look around and the first native I queried about the ownership of the place replied: "That? Why, that's Cassatt's place. He's only one of the main pipes of the Pennsylvania sys tem. "In the course of the day we made arrangements with the watchman to re move the sticksbut the manner of our making this arrangement is a profes sional secret. Now this professional secret is a valuable one to fireworks people, for a fireworks show is always dodging damage suits. Some claims are j'ust, but |ome of them arise in the imagination of the cheap damage suit lawyer, to whom a traveling aggrega tion is like a lamb delivered for the slaughter. Which brings us down to our celebrated escape from Wichita. The Escape fromsWichita. "There are doubtless many excellent romise talks, I giving in to the ex of $25 every ten minutes. Then the clock struck 12it was Sunday and that was the end of his attachment talk. "At the train I met a poor unfor tunate who had two carloads of racing horses, but no money, and he and his outfit had to be in' Forth Worth for the next week's racing. 'Where's your money?' I de manded. 'It' all in the horses,' he an swered. 'I won $1,100 in purses this week but the president of the meet has the money and I can't find him. He just did me for $1,100, that's all.' "'Come with me, friend,' said I. 'I, too, have met the president. We shall journey into Texas together.' So we hooked his horse cars onto our train, put his party aboard our sleeping cars and thus we escaped from Wichita. Traveling Show a "Mark." "Yoti see, I mention this little ex perience in Wichita because it is typ ical of a season with the firecrackers. A traveling show is the mark for every high-class crook in every community it visits. Talk about a show taking so much money out of a town! It's gen erally a case of a town taking so much money out of a show. And the town knows that it has the show at its mercv, because the show has to move and the town needn't. It's only because in every town, no matter how bad, there are a few in authority who still be lieve in fair play that it is possible for an honest show to stay out a season. "Now, for instance. From Fort Worth we went into Dallas, and from Dallas to San Antone. We were to stay a week, and on the opening we had some trouble. Somebody tried to shake us down' and we Wouldn't stand for it. It was the poliee, I think. At any rate, one of the boys came down to the hotel early Wednesday morning tnd said: 'Trouble out to the lot about twenty of the fellows been locked up for something or other.' "Inquiry at the lot showed that along in the night the police had gone thru the sleeping-tents and hauled out about twenty or the men and locked them up, some on the charge of drunk enness and the others on the charge of highway robbery. Now, highway robbery in Texas means twenty years on the stone pile, and those boys were the sorriest looking lot you ever saw behind the bars. "That night the San Antone chief of police came into the show, and I spotted him by his cap. Luckily I had a letter to him from my friend, the Wichita chief, so I presented it and my case at the same time. 'Come down in the morning, when' the cases are called and we will see what can be done,' was all he said but I was on hand. The courtroom was in the basement and was presided over by a comic opera character who simply couldn't help being funny, only my men were facing twenty-year sentencesand there is small sympathy for a circus man in a strange town. A Friend at Court. "When their cases were called they all began to protest their innocence. The chief said to the judge: 'Just pass those cases a minute.' Then he beck oned to mehe hadn't noticed I was on earth beforeand whispered: 'Tell them all to plead guilty.' With that he took the 'blotter' on his knees and began working with it. "When the court had sentenced a score of colored folk charged with all manner of offenses he came to my partv again. And that's where the surprise case in. Every man was down on theimaginarv book for 'drunkenness,' which meant $10 fineand the haste with which they pleaded guilty was good to see. That's all it cost u's to get out of that the $10 per, and a box of cigars for the chief but it shows how good it is to have a friend at court. "Of course, it isn't all sorrow and tribulation with a fireworks show. But we get our share. Everything will be running smooth, and a mortar will ex plode and kill eight or nine persons, as it did in New York. Or something will go wrong with the apparatus, and a saucisson will go sizzling into the crowd and put an eye out or disfigure a girl a skyrocket stick will come down and fracture a skull, or the supers will stampede when the bombs go off, and hurt themselves on the scenery. Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot? In the several summers I have piloted fireworks shows about the coun try have seen broken heads and burned faces brought to me for that money which mendeth many ills. I have seen the canvasmen hang colored men who tried to follow the show. I've seen it rain and I've seen it blowand I've encountered more kinds of sharp practice lawyers than fall to the lot of most men, and I've had troubles of own. "Seventh street, Minneapolis, looks pretty good to me." Saying which, the erstwhile guide and mentor of The Last Days of Pompeii," ''Sebastopol," "Santiago" and the like, resumed an upright position, knocked the ashes out of his pipe and started down stairs to watch the window sale. "But I can smell firecrackers, just the same,'{ he sighed, as'he disappeared in the gloom of the office passageway. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind Yoo Have Always Boogbt Bears the Signature of Defective Page i Thousands of women of every age and condition break down and are brought to tho very verge of utter col lapse because tbev have kidney trouble and do not know it. It saps vitality shatters nervesmakes work or rest or sleep impossible. Many a sufferer takes medicine for "female complaints" until she is utterlv discouraged and much worse, i^nd yet it is so easy to tell when tho lJunevs are sick, and so easy to cure them with the right sort of treat ment. Prolonged neglect means diabetes or Bright's Disease. How many apparently healthv women there aie who begin to find household work a burden who are constantly "all- tired-oiit," irritable and depressed, and who suffer citen from sick, dizzy head aches, pain in the back and sides, rheu matism and irregular flow of the urine. They are always ailing, but not sick enough to go to bed, and they wait for the spells to pass away. But -he cause is still there. The kid neys are siik, and work only aggravates the trouble. The kidneys have in some way become congested, irritated, or inflamed, and are failing to leinove the uric acid and I DOAN'S S For Sale by all Dealers. Price 50c Ten fonts 680 April 26, 1905. Harry Mitchell's Editorial I took careful notice of the heavy trade Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, and observed that we sold, and took the measure of twenty-four men of every twenty-five who came to look at the materials in that fine Anglo-American stock I am selling to order at $15 and $20. I questioned a good many of the buyers with interesting results. Some came in because of the advertised bargains. Some felt that my guarantee is about the safest thing for men to rely on. Some liked the idea of a tailor made suit at ready- made prices. Many were customers I had made clothes for last season. I am interested to know why YOU haven't been in to let me make YOUR summer suit. Where is the loose screw in my offer. I would sincerely like to have YOU LOOK at this special $15 and $20 stock. I would like to have YOU feel the texture of the materials, pnll a sample to pieces and see that it is PURE WOOL, read some of the unasked letters from custom- ers telling me that my $15 suits are really SUPERIOR to other tailors' $30 outfits, see our measuring system, see our cutters at work, and then keep in mind my show down guaranty, "Satisfaction or no pay.'' I put this tip to you PERSONALLY. You must be pleased or we won't take your money. We show you ten times the se- lection of any tailor in town. We do and will make you for $15 and $20 a suit worth $30 or $40. Won't you come in tomorrow while we are selling the Anglo-American pure woolen stock and see what there is in it? Yours truly, HARRY MITCHELL, The Scotland Woolen Mills Store, 310 Nicollet. other poisons from the blood. These poisons are attacking the nerves, muscles, am' vital organs. Get at tho root of the trouble and cure the kidneys. "Use a medicine intended for the Lidt.eys onlyDoan's Kidnev Pills. 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Try it to-day and see if your sleep is not sound and refresh-lj^ ing, and the morrow brighter A and more hopeful. --J i "I am glad to announce that I have reccnered my health, as far as my advanced age will permit, as I am 82 years old. My case was very bad my nerves were all shattered. I suf fered much pain and coldness was so -weak and felt so sad and lonely and heart-broken. When I commenced taking Pr. Miles' Remedies I was com pletely prostrated. I have taken the Restorative Nervine. Heart Cure and Nerve and Liver Pills, and they cured me." MRS. E. BAWLBT, Waterloo, Ind. Dr. Miles' Nervine Is sold by your THE RUB IT IN. i r. druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If It fails, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind North American "The good of the old, the Best of the new methods." i CONNECTION WITH THE Postal Telegraph-Gable Co. A QOOD THING LTMAN-ELIEL DRUG COMPAJflJ Mlnneapoua. Minn. 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