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4^V Speaking of the Panama canal and looking forward hope ^'fully to the glorious Minnesota winter, reminds us that there are some advantages in living in a country where you do not break your neck dodging the yellow fever germ. Let old Rogers laugh. Lawson lost his voice in Kansas, but, by gee, there is no danger of pen paralysis. The Minneapolis Chronicle man states that he believes ,that our "two by twice farm" is a fake. Referring to North Minneapolis, he says: Come up where the good people live, and we'll show you a garden in which today there grows two weeds where yesterday there grew but one. Weed, huh! We have to use a stump-puller. Another "come-on letter" has been received from that whisky house that was so anxious to supply us with our riot water. The firm says: We regret that you did not allow us to send you the quart of ten-year-old Bourbon whisky, as mentioned in our letter of June 10. We also regret that you did not return to us the post card we enclosed with the letter. Of course, we realize that you may not have needed whisky at that time. We wanted to get our card back, signed or un signed, with or without order, therefore we aie taking the lib erty of writing you again today. We enclose you another stamped card all ready for mailing. Won't you order a quart today? Just think, a full quart of absolutely pure whisky direct from the distillery to you for $1.05, delivered free. The 1-cent stamps on the post cards sent us always come in handy. W are glad to get them. But we regret to say that we get all our rum by patronizing a firm that sends it to us free in return for a letter of recommendation, stating that since using Phelan's Malt Whisky we have grown kinky and feel about eighteen years younger. The Virginia, Minn., Virginian calls for the owners of dogs to put a soft pedal on their pups. I seems that the dogs give tongue all night long and don't care who hears it. Dog fanciers, however, state that this does not injure the dogs at all, as they can sleep in the daytime. CANTBLOUPES, 1 i& ft-av Eve "Bye nature's walks, nboot tolly aa MM.' iff A LL the confirmed fans, watching this year's ball games, $**l\ are in a chronic state of being about two weeps distant ,_from heart-break. Do you know the rapture of having a "pair of twins" in the neighborhood? Twins, boys of course, indicate that there is an absence of stagnation in a locality. Look out of the window at any time of day up to 9 p.m. and there is a twin going thru the air somewhere, either on his bicycle or falling out of a tree or off of the house or on a neighbor ing boy, always accompanied by a sojind of boy encourage ment and remonstrance. When the twins are around, life becomes one prolonged baseball game, with the home nine scoring and the St. Paul nine drawing hippopotamus eggs on the score card in every inning with agreeable regularity. "Huh! You can't hurt us, remarked a twin when asked if a recent fall out of a tree had done his brother any harm. But the time comes even for twins made out of horse hide and India rubber. The other day, while .preparing for a circus in Johnson's barn, George, the other twin, stepped into the second-story floor hole thru which the horse's breakfast food is thrown down. The twin came thru by fast freight without stopping, and lit on his brow on the cold, plank flooring of the horse's reception parlor. Tender hands bore his unconscious form to his family residence, and doctors hurried to be in at the autopsy, and the boys stood around and told with a chastened glee how the twin looked in midair, bow he alighted and the sound it made. That evening I asked a neighborhood boy how George was, and he said: "The doctor said it wasn't nothin' but concussion of de brain." After waiting a respectable time for the family agitation to subside, I took flowers and started to leave them at the twins' house and to inquire if there was any hope. As I approached the house, I heard fierce clamor and boy annoy ance. The twins were out in front, both of them, apparently as good as new and on the point of licking a bigger boy who had stoned their dog. I threw the flowers sadly over the fence and returned home. You cannot kill a twin. The air is now full of them again. K. J. R. What the Market Affords. 5 to 10 cents. Tomatoes, 25 to 30 eents a basket, Guava chutney, 45 cents. Major Gray's chutney. Cream cheese, 10 and 20 cents. Watercress, 5 cents. Boiled ham, 25 and 30 cents a pound. Practically every viand known to the oook is in the mar ket now, at a reasonable price and of fine quality. The choice is embarrassing, and it is largely dictated by the season, for, altho the weather is-cool, the cook has a tradi tional summertime aversion to spending her time largely in the kitchen. For that reason things quickly cooked are preferred. Delineator this month has the following recipes for attractive hot-weather dishes: Cheese and Currant Salad.Press two cream cheeses thru a sieve, form into flower petals fill center with bar le due currants garnish with watercress. If bar le due cur rants cannot be had use rich currant preserve. Deviled Wafers.Mix to a paste two teaspoonfuls of mustaid with Worcestershire sauce two drops of tabasco add to three tablespoonfuls butter creamed spread on saltines,-with minced pecan nuts brown in oven. Aspic Ham.-Cut boiled lean ham into slices arrange boiled egg whites in a layer of aspic when partially set, put alternate layers of ham, watercress and aspic in mold set on ice unmold on bed of watercress by dipping the mold in warm water for a few moments. W* Fruit Loaf.Make custard of four eggs, one pint of milk, ilne cupful of sugar add fresh fruit pressed thru a sieve line a three-pint mold with beaten whites of two eggs fill center with custard, cover with rice cook for thirty min utes in hot water serve cold. H Fruit Dumplings.Mix hot boiled rice with beaten egg mold into balls make hole in center and fill with cherries, currants or berries sweetened steam half an hour serve cold with custard sauce. MOTHER WAS THERE. WENTY-FIVE or thirty years ago the Rev. Charles G. Finney, former president of Oberlin college, was carry ing on a series of revival meetings in Boston. One day a gentleman called to see him on business, and was admitted by Mi*. Finney's daughter, perhaps 5 years old. r^- "Is your father in?" asked the stranger. "V^*- "No," replied the demure maiden, "but walk in, poor, dying sinner! Mother can pray for you." i?,riifinJB 2*-* -_j[!frd&&. $%$&- tag A SENATOR DJJ.recited The UmbrellaYes, thanks, my rheumatism is better. A String of Good Stories. 7 cannot tell how the troth may be I say the tale aa 'twas said to me." THE ABHORRED WIDOWER, CHICAGOAN, who had the honor, while in India, of visiting Lord Curzon of Kedleston, has come home with a number of stories of the young viceroy's humor. I heard Lord Curzon talking about widowers," he said the other day. "He said that a widower was more despised and ab horred than any other human type. In a widow, he pointed out, we all find something seductive. But a widower is as uninviting to us as a toad. 'What young maid, in her dreams of life,' said Baron Curzon, 'ever imagines herself being wooed and won bya widower? 'There was once a widower who proposed to a young woman, and, being rejected, tried to bring her to look favor ably on his suit by praising his children. 'He said he had four children, and each was beautiful, and clever, and good. 'But the young woman sneered and retorted that chil dren were like toothbrusheswe take no interest in any but our own.' NOT THE PROPER SPIRIT. DEPEW was condemning an- elderly millionr aire who, having lost a lawsuit, had declared heatedly that the courts were unjust, and the entire government rotten to the core. "He is not taking his defeat very gracefully, is he!" said the senator. **He is like the old baehelor whom the widow refused. "There was an old bachelor who, after a brief courtship, proposed to a widow. But the widow very positively and coldly declined his offer. I can never,' she said, 'be more than a sister to you.' "The bachelor dropped her hand in a huff. "'Ah, madam, indeed you can,' he murmured in a strange voice. 'No, I cannot,' said she. 'But you have daughters,' said the bachelor. 'You may yet be my mother-in-law.' LINCOLN'S ^ON-SEQUITUR, HE late Charles W. Slack told the following of Peter Harvey, the friend and biographer of Daniel Webster: Mr. Harvey was a large man, with a small voice and that pomposity of manner that many very diffident men possess. Above everything he valued and prided himself upon his friendship with the "great expounder." The first year of the war of the rebellion he went to Washington, and on his return was asked how he liked President Lincoln. "Well," he said, "Mr. Lincoln is a very singular man. I went on to see him, and told him that I had been an inti mate personal friend of Daniel Wbster that I had talked with him so much on the affairs of the country that I felt perfectly confident I could tell him exactly what Mr. Webster would advise in the present crisis* and thereupon I talked to Lincoln for two solid hours, telling him just what he should do and what he should not do and, will you believe it, sir, when I got thru, all Mr. Lincoln said was, as he clapped his hand on my leg: 'Mr. Harvey, what a tremendous great calf you have got!' A CRAFTY FATHER. ikl lit HAVE to run down town tomorrow afternoon to 1 do some shopping," sighed Mrs. Squiggins, "and I hate to leave Freddy out to play without keeping my eye on him. I'm sure that he's only waiting for a chance to run off and go swimming in the river." "Don't worry, my dear," said Squiggins, looking up from his paper with a crafty smile. "Just call Freddy in here and let me have a talk with him." "Now, Freddy," said the father, when his scion appeared, "your mother is going to leave you to yourself tomorrow and you will have to go in swimming." The boy looked incredulous. "Don't try to get out of it, now you simply must! The doctor has ordered that you go swimming and take lots of hard work like that for your health.^ He says it's just the same as medicine And as Freddy ran out of the room crying and protest ing against this new medicine, Squiggins smiled exultantly at his knowledge of small boy nature. -t *V AN ODD PRESCRIPTION. WILLIAM OSLER, in one of his Baltimore lectures, a quaint old cure for the gouta cure, from a seventeenth century medical work} that was designed to show gout's hopelessness. "First pick," said this odd cure, a handkerchief from the pocket of a spinster of 35, who never wished to wed second, wash the handkerchief in an honest miller's pond third, dry it on the hedge of a parson who never was covetous fourth, send it to the shop of a physician who never killed a patient fifth, mark it with a lawyer's ink" who never cheated a client and, sixth, apply it, hot, to the i gout-tormented part. A speedy cure must follow." TH E MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. Mr -*-+r T/ Revelations of a Shirt Cuff. -^t^"T HEN Adolphus Fitz Brown stepped one 7W W I morning into -a convenient omnibus, he had iJLwJ not the slightest idea that he was absolute ly unable to meet the modest requirement of the conductor. Yet such, indeed, was the case. Mr. Fitz Brown was becoming very ner vous and the conductofwas waiting in stony silence to be paid, when a good-natured in dividual, observing the stranger's dilemma, said heartily: "Come off without your money, eh? Do it myself sometimes. Let me pay it for you, sir," and as he spoke the modern good Samaritan handed the conductor twopence. Adolphus thanked the gentlemen and insisted upon taking his name and address, which he wrote upon his shirt cuff, "M Fortescue, 106 North Bank street, St. John's Wood." Arriving at his publishers', he was politely informed that the member of the firm whom he wished to see had been compelled to go out of town. "Would Mr. Fitz Brown kindly call at 4 on the next Wednesday?" Certainly he would and could. And down went another note on his cuff. Walking thence to his banker's hardby, he paid in checks to the amount of some 50 and drew out a 5 note for petty cash. But as he was about to retire, a faultlessly attired individual emerged from some inner sanctum and reminded him that his account was overdrawn to the extent of 100. "Gracious," said Adolphus, I have just paid in 50 and I will certainly pay in 25 more on Thursday without fail." He registered the vow in his usual way and then repaired to bis club for dinner. In the smoking room he encountered his old friend Stebbins, a man he had not seen for years and who informed him that his eldest daughter was to be married on Saturday. After a dish of turtle soup and a large glass of punch, Adolphus decided that the young lady ought certainly to receive a present. What should it be? A diamond ring, of course! And he straightway booked the order, as it were, on himself. Then he went home and began to reread the manuscript of a novel which he had been about to submit to his publishers that very day. "How lucky!" he presently exclaimed as he laid down one of the sheets. "M heroine has too many children. One at least must be sacrificed if they are all to be wealthy at the conclusion, but how can I do it unless I rewrite the whole book? I must make a note of it. It needs consideration." He had barely time to jot it down upon his cuff when the maid came in with two letters. The first was from Major Stegal to ask the great author to shoot with him I must see about my gun," solil oquized Adolphus) and the second conveyed the intelligence that the cele brated, detective, Sluskey Hurn^s, had acceded to his long-standing request to .show him pver an opium den, and that he would await him on TowerHill at 9:15 ,o the following Monday. Adolphus was writing this on his now much-soiled cuff, when his wife called him for dinner. A week later Mr. Fitz Brown was standing on Tower Hill awaiting Humes, when a well-known voice struck upon his ear. It was the same voice that had bidden him dress for dinner only seven days ago. "What, you here, Edith?" said the astonished novelist. "What can this mean?" "It means," said she, as she led her husband away, "that I have, under Providence, been the means of prevent ing a great crime. I am, I know, too late to prevent a great wrong." "Explain yourself, Edith," expostulated Adolphus, I am here on business." I do not doubt," replied his wife, bitterly, "that you may seek in opium an anodyne for your corroded conscience, but that shall not prevent me from doing my duty and saving the lives of my innocent children." I really do not understand you," said Adolphus, simply. I have just come from North Bankfrom a Mrs. For tescue," Mrs. Brown replied, with haughty fervor, "but she was out. Gone out with her husband, they said. Husband indeed!" For an instant the novelist was dazed. Then he remem bered. Fortescue! Of course, the man in the omnibus. He began to laugh, as he explained the only personal knowledge he had of anyone named Fortescue. "Why then go on Wednesday at 4 o'clock?" cried his wife. I didn't," said Adolphus. "Doubtless, tho you found the 25 by-Thursday for her, and the diamond ring by Friday?" pursued the lady re lentlessly. The wits of Adolphus were returning to him. He had been nearly shaken out of them. Again he laughed, and the lady seemed maddened by his brutal demeanor. "Brute tho you may be, so far as I am concerned, why should you also be a murderer?" she cried. "What have your children ever done that you should hate them?" The poor woman burst into a fit of passionate weeping, and Adolphus, murmuring, "There, there, Edith, it is all right," hailed a passing cab. Shortly after the pair reached home matters were adjust ed with many tears and smiles, but not until the previous Monday's shirt had been exhibited and Adolphus had ex plained the notes upon the cuff, which read as follows: "M. Fortescue, 106 North Bank, St. John's Wood. "Wednesday, 4 p.m. sharp. "Find twenty-five pounds Thursday, without fail. "Diamond ring not later than Friday. "Must kill one of Edith's children. "Get gun before 26th. (Opium den) Tower Hill, Monday, 9:15."Boston Her ald. What Womefi Want to Know. *$r-&CLEAN A MAN'S HAT.Please explain in your question department the best way to clean a man's soiled,stiff hat?-W. R. D. bSAj, The vejry best way to have a stiff hat cleaned is to send it to the cleaners* |Hf you want to try it at home, use gasolene. *J% *P QUESTION FOR TOMORROW. TO *R1EM0VE MILDEW.-Can you tell me thru Thfe Journal a simple yet positive way to remove mildew from muslin?V. M. McE. *& 'T^ 32 INTERNATIONAL SUNSHINE SOCIETY MINNESOTA DIVIS ION INTERNATIONAL HEADftUAHTEKS. 06 Fifth avenue. New York, Cynthia West over Alden, founder and president general. MINNESOTA HEADQUARTERS. Room 64, Loan and Trust building, 313 Nicol let avenue, Minneapolis. Telephone, N. W. Main 1225 All Sunshine news for publication In the Sun shine department of The Minneapolis Journal should be addressed to Miss Eva Blanchard, 139 Fifteenth street. Crawford Branch Meeting. The regular monthly meeting of thewomen Crawford branch was held July 3, at the home of Mrs. Addie Thompson, 1322 Fifth street SK. Mrs. Edna Fuller Kirk, the president, presided. The roll was called, each member responding with a quotation. The secretary's and treasurer's reports were read and approved. Eight members were present, and the report for the l?ast month was forty-one calls made, sixteen magazines distributed, six letters written and over two dozen ar ticles of wearing apparel given to needy ones. Flowers and delicacies were taken to three shut-ins The next meeting will be held the first Monday in August. Mary Crawford, Secretary. Officers of Easter Lily Branch. One of the flourishing branches is the Easter Lily branch, the members of which are all children averaging from 11 to 13 years of age They have taken up the work with all the enthusiasm of youth and many a sick and lonely one has cause to bless the little members. The following officers were elected for the coming years Miss Katherine Rollins, president, Miss Daisy Dunn, secretary Miss Blanche Simmons, treasurer. The Financial Side. That Sunshine work has taken a strong hold in the hearts of the people is shown in the financial report of the Internation al headquarters in New Tork for May.are The revenue from all sources was $2,872 88, and disbursements $2,140 47. To have charge of this money and see that it is used to do the most good is alone a heavy tax of time and strength, yet the work of the headquarters with all Its HOT PLASHES AND SimffG SPELLS CONQUERED AT LAST. Mrs. Murphy Tells Her Fellow-Sufferers Bow She Got Bid of Serious Troubles by Simple Home Treatment. I had been bothered for several years," said Mrs. Murphy, "by stomach disorder, and finally I became very weak and nervous. Flashes of heat would pass over me, and I would feel as if I was sinking down. At such times I could not do any household work, but would have to lie down, and afterwards I would have very trying nervous spells." Didn't you have a doctor she was asked. Yes, I consulted several doctors but my health did not improve. One day a friend asked me why I did not try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. She assured me that they had proved of the greatest ben efit in the case of her daughter. In fact, she praised them so enthusiastically that my husband got me a box." "And what was the result?" Before I had taken half of the first box my condition was greatly improved. The quickness with which they reached and relieved all my troubles was really surprising. After I had used only three boxes I had no more heat-flashes or weak spells. Thanks to them, I have become a well woman." Mrs. Mary D. Murphy lives at No, 1908 Force street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, the remedy which she found so satisfactory, furnish directly to the blood the elements that give vigor to every tissue of the body. They can be depended on to revive fail ing strength, and to banish nervous ness. Their tonic properties are abso lutely unsurpassed. As soonas there is drag, or dizziness, or pallor, or poor circulation, or disordered digestion, or restlessness, or pains, or ir regularities of any kind these famous pills should be used. They have cured the most obstinate cases of anaemia, dys pepsia, rheumatism, neuralgia, nervous prostration and even partial paralysis. If you desire information specially suited to your own casewrite directly to the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N.T. Everywoman should have a copy of Dr. Williams' Plain Talks to.Women,"which will be mailed free to any address on request. Any druggist can supply the pills. STATE OFFICERS. President, Mrs. Noble Darrow, 816 Twenty-***, ond avenue S, Minneapolis. Telephone T. OU 1402. First Vice PresidentMrs Grace W. Tobbfc Second Vice PresidentMrs. J. A Brant Third Vice PresidentMrs N A. Sprong Fourth Vice PresidentMrs. F. Wilson. Fifth Vice PresidentMrs W Klngsley. Sixth Vice President-Mrs. H. Fleming. SecretaryMiss Corlnne De Laiitre. TreasurerMiss Eva Blanchard. Corresponding SecretaryMrs. A. A. SelacC. OrganizerMiss Lillian M. Ellis. manifold and various duties is done by who receive nothing whatever by way of financial returns. The growth of the work is plainly shown in the report of the treasurer-general, Mrs. Edwin Knowles, for the Mays of six years, aa follows Revenue, May. 1900, $559 23j May, 1901, $1,005 55, May, 1902, $770 6Tj May, 1903, $1,11195, May, 1904, $1030.69 May 1905 $2872 87. A Request. The Sunshine department has had request that Susan Coolidge's poem "Every Day Is a Fresh Beginning," b published in full. Will some member who may have the poem kindly send it to the editor of the department? Th writer states for years the poem has been to her the very essence of help and chew. In Life, Not Death. In lifenot death Hearts need fond^rords to help them on their way Need tender thoughts and gentle sympathy. Caresses, pleasant looks, to cheer each passing day Then hoard them not until they useless be In lifenot death, Speak kindly, living hearts need sympathy. J. R. Miller. London Sunshine. Mrs J. Mllholland, the Sunshine presi dent fort London, writes that a cripple is being cared for and the efforts of the Sunshiners of Mrs Milholland's brancu centered on trying to raise money to buy a typewriter to aid this invalid. Another case Is of a young girl, an in valid, and of whom hopes are held that she may be cured The members will take her to a nursing home in London, where she will receive skilful treatment. NEUMANN'S 411 NICOLLET AVE. $2.00 Hats Are Good Enough For those who don't have to care what they pay. They ought to be good enough for those who do. SPECTACLES AND EYE GLASSES PHOTO SUPPLIES. lajOTEIgANJD^RBSO^TS^^ Washington Island House ISLE R0YALE Lake Superior Good flshittr. boating-, bowling and other sports No Mahogany. No fall dress. Thl is Restfnl Place. Steamers leave Duluth Sundays, Mondayv Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.H. TOJ* i 1 I -\r W. SINQB