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20 Copyright 1902, by Robert Howard Russell. A BOY who had been fed on Home Influences for 20 years finally had to get out and finance his own Meai Ticket. Therefore he decided to tear for the Tall Buildings where all the large Fortunes are made. When it came time for him to take the Train, his Father handed him a little Book of Hunches. "In this Book you will find the most valuable Tips that have been doped out by the 32-Candle Powtr In- mcuTtitwj^^ Sect a Pin and Pick It Up— All That Day You'll Have Good Lack. ttellecte," said his Governor. "If you read this Book you can't go wrong. In fact I think you will Bat bet tor than 300 right from the Start." So the Young Fellow packed the Book in hig Tele- St. Paxil's Most Unique Settlement. It is the contrasts that make life pos- F:!)lr. if you are a victim of the "blue <3* vils" nnd inclined for a long walk let your outing take you down Fifth street below Robert, then down around the bi£ . -JaffßaßSßaQsfiSnßMHlßa^BßaßS^'ru.-, - TWO OF THE OLD RESIDENTS'. railroad offices, and out over a bridge until you reach a little settlement that lies at the foot of Dayton's bluff like sedi- ' ment in the b >ttom » f a big- pool. If you arc not too tender-hearted, a tour of ex lon (I.rough this tiny settlement must of necessity lighten your spirits so f> rtunate will your tot appear by con trast. If you are tender-hearted—well, you had better keep away from the tiny settlement. It was one day last week—one of those ■ spring days that made everybody lust to be alive—that the writer had occasion to take such a walk. J.he BKy was the brightest of blues. Beyond the smokestacks and the business blocks a glimpse could be had of stately Sum mit avenue residences, of peaceful church spires, of a distant river and low lying hills. Everything drew the eyes upward and if it had not been for the happy ts of some children the writer would not have glanced down, and if he hadn't glanced down he would never have seen ettlement. It was just a collection of tiny hats that lay in evident discour agement at the foot of wme sheer bluffs.. As if the bluffs themselves uid not pre-" sent a sufficient difficulty so far as any climbing up process was concerned the soft siulng- mud was spread like a treacherous carpet in front of the huta and behind the. huts and at all sides of the huts. Evidently, whoever had placed the huts had been governed by no uncom fortable sense of mathematical precision In the matter o£ street line or boulevard line. On the contrary, a happy reckless ness had led each builder to follow hi* own fancy with the result that front dorrs faced rear doors in blissful con fusion with just a foot or so of space be tween. Children Well and Happy. But those details were not taken in at n glance, for tnere were the little chil dren. A group of them had joined hands 4 —.^ __ — ■■ iim> ■■■ mi tit im ii^ 1 Sixth and Robert Sts., St. Paul Minn. 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The Modern) Fable of IHe fjrbgalstojj^^^ at Ike Wrong Fiace. scope with ths Military Brushes and the Sachet Bag and made his first long Jump. Having arrived in the City he began to answer the "Help Wanted" Ads. He found some very Fancy Openings for a Man with a little Capital which he was willing to let somebody else Mold for him. Biit the Business World was not exactly clamoring for a Gui tar-Player who had nothing to show except some Scarf- Pins and Military Brushes, not forgetting the Sachet Ba«. After he had drilled up and down the principal Streets without having a Lucrative Position forced on him, he consulted the Book and was told to 'Take up the Work nearest at Hand," so he got a Job shoveling Snow, with the Result that he froze his Ears and was landed by Pneumonia. After he got out of the Hospital he consulted the Book and learned that "All Things come to him who waits." So he sat around Hotel Offices, reading the Advertising Blotters and waiting for a Benefactor to discover him. Nobody except the House Fo'.icc-man sezm ed to pay any Attention to him. Finally he took another Peek at the Book of Wisdom and read as follows: "See a Pin and pick it up •"*;,, All that Day you'll have Good Luck." He went out looking for a Pin and finally located one at a Crossing. He stooped over to pick it up, when a Trolley came around Dead Man's Curve and caught him amidships. They separated him from the Fender and he got his Name in the Paper, showing that even an obscure Youth from the Country may now and then attract Attention in the bustling Metropolis. The Company compromised with him for $209, and now he had begun to earn a little Money he felt a re newed Confidence in the Guide-Book. He opened it and read: "Boldness in Business is the first, second and third Thing." So he walked into the Office of a great Corporation and asked. "Do you need a good Vice-President?" , and in the midst of the mud and the [ refuse were playing, "ring around a rosy" j as contentedly and as happily as their j l.ttle sisters up on the aristocratic avenue, j They were pretty children, too, in spite j oi unkempt hair, dirty faces and tattered garments. One little mite whose pretty head was "sunning over with curls" wore but a single garment that originally, must I . "- i- nMiifei^iiiJiiiiriiifiiiiii "mi nM I*■ "^""^P^TI A TYPICAL DWELLING, CONNEMARA FLATS. have been a gingham apron. The chubby limbs weTe bare to the knee and were splashed with the mud in which the children played. A few of the children THIS ST. FAU& Gt,OB^;iSSUNDAr, MAKCH 16, 1902. Group of Quaint Irish Families at Foot of Dayton's Bluff. had more clothes on, but every garment was in tatters. In the doorway of one of the huts £at a small girl holding a baby nearly as big as herself. Four more children played near her. Somebody called from inside and the small mother staggered up with her burden and disap peared within the door. She reappeared without the baby, but with a tin pail swinging in one hand and began to make her way across the littla desert of mud that separated her from the one dry path in the settlement. The day was pleasant, so nearly all the doors were opened. In one of theee opened doorways sat an old man, smok ing a pipe. He was not clean, and like the children, he was ragged, but unlike the children, he did not run away When he was spoken to. Perhaps it was in difference, or It might have been curios ity. At any rate he removed his pipe from his mouth ana nodded civilly in re sponse to the "Good morning" that was given him. Beyond his bent shoulders a glimpse could be had of the single room that comprised the house. A bed, a cooking stove, chairs, a table and a number of live chickens and a lordly rooster occupied the room. The presence of the chickens disturbed the old man "hot a whit. Only when a nighty hen de liberately hopped on one ragged knee, in order that she might more easily gain access to the hut, did he give a mild "shoo," which did not, however, hasten in the least the leisurely hen. It was such a rich, Hibernian "shoo!" that the writer: remembering also the brogue of the little ones who played "ring around a rosy," asked if the neighborhood was entirely Irish, and in return she was re warded with its history, for it has a his tory, and an interesting one, too. The old man first explained, however, with a brogue so rich that at times it was dif ficult to catch his meaning at all, that he himself was not connected with that history, but that his presence in the set- tlement -was the result of a long train of misfortunes that had robbed him of health and a modest comlpetence, and made him a pensioner on trie bounty of a widowed daughter. According to~the old man, the writer had stumbled on the Connamara settlement or "patch,'r as he himself called It. Came From Emerald Isle. Early In the '80s there had come over from Ireland a little band of Irish peas- 1 HOUSES ON THE CONNEMARA FLATS. ants from the mountain districts. They came direct to Minnesota, part of them settling in Graceville and part In St. Paul at the foot of the bluffs. They had the usual illusions about the abundance of dollars that could be had almost for the asking in the big, "Western country, and ■when they found themselves strand ed, as it w«re, on the little patch of "Don't wait for the ElesAor," was the Reply. "Fall down the Shaft." ..-, . ** >^[ "Hold on!" said the Youth. "Perhaps I selected the wrong Hunch." * " ™ : He took another looW'at his trusty Volume and read: "Be Modest." Also, "Humble Beginnings make great Endings." S r _i A Trne Friend Gave Him a Tip. Come to think of it," he said, "I should be Tickled to get anything to do." They put him to licking Labels and answering the Phone at G Pesos -per Week. The Book told him to plant something every Pay- Day, no matter how thin his Envelope might be, so he lived on Elairs and Tea and wore Celluloid Collars. He 8k jijSrfflßte^ '^**S&*!r^K3Bmfcl, 'i:'' sßjgj jfTirrVirwgfiri-an MT^iiiijuilftLMiiiijjij_L_i_Mji_LJLi^^ ■iiniiiiMi YOUNG INHABITANTS OF CONNEMAKA FLATS. ground at the foot of the bluffs some-of them lost heart. Th« sturdiest, with the quickness and adaptability of their race, worked themselves up, triumphantly climbed th<* forbidding bluffs, and are now enjoying independence. By far the largest number was thus able to take advantage of the larger opportunities the new country afforded, but a little, handful has been left at the foot of the" bluffs, too indifferent or too dishearten-" ed to make the slightest attempt at climbing. They are practically by them selves, and the quaint Irish customs that their more fortunate countrymen have forgotten are retained in the little set tlement. In one little hut live two sis ters, one of whom makes the exquisite Irish point lace that Is the delight of the fashionable world. When asked how she had learfted it, she explained that she just picked it up; that she had made lace of that sort ever sine? she was a little girl. Yet she confessed that she could not read, and that she had never attend ed school f<.-r one day in her life. Evi dently she dia not realize the value of her own skillful handiwork, for she said that she and her sister supported them selves by washing and Ecrujblng when they could get employment. The evident pride of the settlement is a 'haunted "bouse; The old man pointed it out, ■ and he tol^ its- story in a hushed voice that betrayed his awe of the su pernatural, but which could not conceal his evident delight: in ; its manifestations. The haunted house is different from its neighbors in that it Is whitewashed. It stands a little apart," .at the head of the settlement, and guiltless of windows. When asked why ths people thought it was haunted, the. old.man explained that strange"" noises Wf re iuard there at night and that no one 1 in the settlement cared to go near*it aft*- da.r.k. The shanty, ac cording to the ol| man, had been built by a man who waS not one of the Conha mara Irish, but <| vyifde. He was a her mit, living entirely by himself and cook ing his own meAls. jHe had s nothing to do with the peop&e of the settlement, nor was he ever visited by any of his own people. He .worked at odd JOB 3 and evi dently earned enough to support himself. Apparently he never touched intoxicat ing liquor, for nobody ever saw him drunk or buying liquor. One "day the Swede was not seen around at all, nor for three days following. Finally some of the children had the courage to go up to the shanty and pe^r through tha window, and the body of the man was discovered lying on the floor. He had died from natural causes, apparently, for there were no marks of violence on his body. He was buried at the county's ex pense. •■■.-:. ..V'" ."; - <••* * ■ Found It Was Haunted. Because of the superior location of the hut—it is higher up, and hence the ground about is comparatively dry—an Irish family decided to move into the va cated building. There was no lease sign ing formality to go through, no vans to be engaged. Only one day seven chil dren of various ages marched across the vacant stretch, each carrying some household article. The parents c'.t^d up the rear, carrying t'.x coking stove. The grew Paler day by day and had about as much Gimp as a City Employe. The Book told him thS* "A Penny saved is a Penny Earned," so he was a Tight Wad and very unpopular around the Shop. Acting on the Advice found in the Book he rode on the High Seat of the Sprinkling Cart, but oire day he read that "All Work and no Play makes Jack a Dull Boy;" likewise, "Eat, Drink and be Merry, for tomor row we Die." Next day he dropped his Whip. He alighted to pick it up and when he turned around, the Water Wagon was a Mile away. He did not catch up with it for a Week. When he was offered a better Job with another House, his little Manual told him that a Rolling Stone gathered no Moss and that Contentment was a Jewel. So he stuck to the Starvation Pay for he read it right in the Book that True Merit always comes in for a Re ward. He knew that as soon as he was worth more Money, the Company would come around and put it in his Pocket. Once he got to Fussing Around with a Young Lady who looked Fine to him and he decided to Tag her, if possible. His old Stand-By warned him against Pro crastination and told him that Faint Heart never grabbed off Fair Lady, so he tackled her on a Corner after he had known her for two Weeks and made a Flat Proposition, with the Result that he got the Har poon in three different Places. After four Tears he had saved up a .small Roll of the Needful. A True Friend gave him a Tip on the Stock Market. It was one of those Tips that come in a round about Way from J. Pierpont Morgan. It was a Wire less Special. The True Friend took him up an Alley and whispered it to him for fear that a Newsboy might hear them and get his Money down first. Our Hero was Leery, but the Book said: "Nothing venture, noth ing Gain," so he margined 100 Shares of Amalgamated Bronze and told them to close it out as soon as it touched ISO. family was* settled Chat afternoon. The next day they moved out. 'xrmo families in succession followed their example, moving in and out. The house, was haunt ed, each tenant declared. When pressed for particulars they explained vaguely that they heard noises; that they could not sleep, so finally the hut was left severely alone. Whitewashed and win dowless, it is not surprising that the peo ple who live below it have come to en dow it with ghostlike qualities, for it looked spectral even in the sunlight. As the writer carefully picked his way through the mud, he met the little girl who had started out with the empty pail. It'was no longer empty, but the thi<^?" rTSv v ■ ■ Jig mm \fjgFjjjt I ) BBS * -y v BBS; ri-^^ Wt • THEIE FIEST PICTURE. foam mutely but eloquently explained the reason why not all of the first dwell ers in that little settlement had been able to climb the bluff whose summit m<iant prosperity. It explained, too, why the little children were compelled to play their '"ring around a rosy" game in filth and rags, instead of up on the sum mit, in cleanliness and pure air. LENGTH OF DREAMS. Three physicians were discussing the matter of the length of dreams a day or two ago, when one of them related a strange experience. "Yesterday afternoon," he said, "I call ed to see a patient, and, much to my sat isfaction, I found him sleeping .soundly. I .sac by his bed. felt of his pulse with out disturbing him ajid waited for him to awaken. After a few minutes a junk dealer's cart with discordant ringing- bells turned into th* street, and as their first tones reached us my patient opened his ■eyes. " 'Doctor.' he said, 'I'm glarl to sr-e you and awfully glad that you woke me, for I hove been tortured by a most dis tressing dream ihat must have lasted several hours. I dreamed that I was sick, as^l am, and that my boy came into the room with a string of most hor ribly sounding- sleigh bells and rang them in my ears, while I hadn't power to move or siK>ak to him. I suffered tortures fo^ what appeared to be an interminable time. I'm so glad you woke me.' "The ringing of those bells for one sec ond had caused all of that dream and just at the waking moment."—New York Herald. Wary Politician. "Why don't yon try to destroy voup enemies by making them your friends?" said the man f>f noble inspirations. "I wouldn't dare try It," answered Sen ator Sorghum. "As soon as I made any overtures of friendship, they would think they had me down, and they would be gin 10 try to jump on me."—Washington Star. Taking It Easy Farmer Skjnem—Doin' y«r spring ploughin' yit? Farmer Wiserube—Yep. Hired the oat field to a feller to practice golf.—Denver News. $32.00 to California. Tickets on sale every day during March and April with choice cf three through tourist sleeping cars via Chicago Great Western Railway. For information apply J. N. Storr, city ticket ajft, cor. sth and Robert sts.. St. PauL In a few Days he received a Business Letter , as follows: "You Lose." Once more his Visible Assets consisted of th« Mill tary Brushes and the Sachet Bag. He headed for Home and as he walked in he <=aiii "Folks, I've come back to Eat." "Have you got it in Large Bills or do you carry i New York Draft?" asked his Father. That was a bummy Chart you gave me." replied the Boy. "It had me steering in all Directions 1 wish you'd take back your Proverbs and give me a Rectoe for cocking up a few Practical Schemes." MORAL: No matter what the Play,' there is in old time Proverb to back it up. FINNS TO EMIGRATE MAY FORM NEW ELEMENT AM(>\<; SETTLERS IK OUR NORTH. WEST LATEST MOVE BY RUSSIA Crushes Rational Life by Abolishing Finnish Army, and Yonn^'Men Leave Home to Avoid Conscription. Special to The Ulolic. HEL3INGFORS, March 15.—A large in flux of Finlani'ei-s into the United States may be expected during the coming sum mer. The reason of this is the arbitrary ac tion of P.ussia in reference to the control of the Finnish army. The recent d ion that every male Finn of a certain age must serve for five years with the Rus sian colors under Russian commissioned and non-commiasioned officers, has given the death blow to Finnish aspirations. Formerly botli the Finnish army and navy have been separate from the Rus sian, and officered by their own people. The new regulations are unendurable to the young Finlanders, and many have already em'grated to Sweden and Canada. Fcrme"Hy the native regiments practically controlled themselves under the tutelage of a bureau of Finnish officers, in turn under the commanding power of the Rus sian, minister of war. The new regulations do not recognize the existence wi any Finnish army. Con scripts from the Finnish provinces are now to be enrolled directly into Russian regiments, being liable to serve in any part of Russia and abroad. There is no chance of promotion for them any more than there is in the old Finnish regiments to which Russian officers are appointed. The drafts are to depend, so far as numbers are concerned, entirely with the Russian minister of war, so that the last vestige of Finnish independence is for tver sweat aside. The recent riots here, on the anniver sary of the publication of the Russian manifestos of 1899, only give a faint idea of the actual state of indignation among the Finns throughout the country. The people are even turning for sympathy to their old enemy, the Swedes, with whom for centuries they were in conflict, and who subdu>d them so far as to force their language upon them. Sweden, however, is powerless to help them against such a great power as Russia, and their only hope now lies in expatriation. Finland occupies toward Russia, in a TO MUSIC LOVERS An Innovation Inaugurated by the International Husic Correspondence Company. 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With a pop utatlon about half that of the X, isle it Is a country more tahoapii and scarcely more fertile. \i, ■ summer or six weeks' duration. a rainy season, form the only break in the monotony of an almost eternal win- The climate of FinlanJ seems i colder, and wher. was formerly called the den from its plentiful harvests of barley and rye, agriculture has for gome time been .steadily declining. The Pinna now chi. Hy depend upon cattle raisins f OJ tenance and upon the pr once magnifies nt forests In thi timber, pitch, potash, tar and ro-i n the hardiest bi rrles no* ripen theri in the extreme north vegetation Is fined to mosses and liverworts ! nately there is plenty oi ri the Russian nobles not yet having pr« -einpted the forest preserves. Reindeer, elks vers, wolves and foxes furnish and food supplies for the long months of winter. The people were formerly nomad? and pirates, belonging to the n ranch ■ LJgrariai gists claim to have been of ; i golian descent, and the Finns are In that way akin to the Magyars of Hui They differ from all European natioi cept the Laplanders. Owing to their aggressive tactics they were attacked bj Eric of Swedi .1 In the twelfth century and compelled to civilization. They are a bravi and hardy race and make pood citizens when allowed what they regard a< proper lib are a class of people who <!■ for city existence, preferring pastoral pursuits and a hunting In. imenl tiea of Bupercivinzatkm. The Bwedea and the Finns fought Incessantly for many years—until R.is-si.-i b\ territory inch by inch finally suci jn obtaining rontrr.] and established .t. grand dnehy in place, or over the native government. IMir.TTY OI.I) IIOV. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, v. ty-six years old, was engaged In an earnest argument with Senator B of Georgia, over Mr. Hoar's bill foi protection of the president of the United States. The senate was very quii the other members wen the contest between what are termed tii> two most stubborn rm-n in that • Mr. 1! midst of 1 arguments when Senator Depew sn< The ven< rable Mast fore' d to step > a time with a Berio-comlc buz-/, and ends v.-iih an explosion which would n god think the villain was gefti - gunpowder stunt. Mr. Hoar fai ■and looked sternly at the Interrupt* 1 ator Depew's eyes Riled with ti 1 vine tears—and he buried his face ■ handkerchief. All the rest of the tors laughed at the scene except tl>.' ticipantp. 5Tr. Hoar had to wail foi before he proceeded. After the session Mr. Depew, who is six ty-eight years old, went up to the defend- er of the traditions and dignity of tho senate to express his regret thai tho sneeze had arrived at such an Inonpor tuni' time, but Mr. Hoar received tho apology coldly. "You know, Deoew," Mr. Hoar paid, se verely, "that I disapprove of such boyish pranks on the senate floor and I am great ly displeased."— Bee. Those Harmles* Solili<'r«. Recently a soldier was discussing poli tics in a tobacconist's shop with two red hot anarchists. "Tell us," they asked him. "if ono day the downtrodden workingmtn were to re volt, would you be one to fire on them?" "I? Never!" "Bravo! You are a true comrade! Here, master, bring us some of your bcf=t ci gars; we must make our gallant sympa thizer a present." A box was brought, and at th ir rcew-si Tommy filled his pockets with choke Havanas. Then one of the anarchists put anoth< r question to.-the.. brave soldier, th" friend of the people.' -■*:*? :'*.''•> '*How many rhnn, "Bntire fellows like yourself, can we count on in th-: bar racks?" he was-' i*skel. "All the band—they will act lik* my self. I play on the big drum, you know," he casually remarked, an blowing a iiig cloud of smoke into the air, he wakd out.—Answers.