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7 cannot tell how the truth may be
amy the tale as 'twas said to me."
A VAIN REPENTANCE.
T. B. NEELY, the new head of the South Amer
ican Methodist church, was born in Philadelphia, and
I in Philadelphia most of his life has been passed.
Before Bishop Neely sailed for Colon, a resident of North
Broad street gave a dinner in his honor. Apropos of re-
i pentancej the distinguished clergyman told a story at this
dinner, a story about a thatcher and a side of bacon.
"To many of us,"-said Bishop Neely, "repent of our
sins as the thatcher repented, with a determination neither
to make restitution nor to accept punishment. All. such
repentances, of course, are vain.
"The thatcher, one day, was hired to repair the kitchen
roof of the village manse. There hung in the kitchen a
great quantity of fine rashers of bacon for the pastor, it
seems, was a famous hograiser, and he had only recently
killed and smoked the pick of his pens.
"Well, as I say, there must have been a hundred or
more rashers hanging in the kitchen, and, as the thatcher
worked in the frosty winter air, he grew hungrier and hun
grier. He could not help thinking of the delicious smell
and taste of crisp fried bacon. He could not help wishing that
he was able to afford such rare food. He was, you see, a
very poor man.
"Temptation conquered him as stopping time came. It
was dark in the kitchen, and the cook was upstairs asleep.
The thatcher crept in quietly, selected a large rasher, con
cealed it in his trouser leg, and departed home.
"But he could not eat the bacon. His conscience
troubled him. Never before had he stolen anything. A
week went by, and still the rasher hung in the thatcher's
cottage untouched, and still the man's conscience was an
unceasing torment.
"Finally, in a half-hearted way, he repented. He
wrapped the rasher up in a newspaper, and stalked off with
it to the pastor's house.
'Pastor,' he said, I am a thief. I robbed a man of
this rasher of bacon. My conscience troubles me now, and
I want you to tell me what to do to put it at rest.'
'Do you repent?' said the pastor.
'Most sincerely,' said the thatcher. I don't want the
bacon. I give it to you. Do what you please with it.'
'Oh,' said the pastor, 'you mustn't give it to me. I
don't want it. I won't have it. Take it to the owner and
give it to him.'
"The thatcher went away with the bacon, walked about
the streets for an hour, and then returned to the pastor's
again.
I offered it to the owner, sir, and he refused it,' he
said.
'Refused it, did he?' said the pastor. 'Doesn't need it,
I suppose. Has more bacon now than he knows what to do
with, eh? Well, in that case, my poor man, keep the bacon
yourself. Go home, and with a clear conscience eat it with
your family.'
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NOT TOO TRUSTWORTHY.
CHIEF" HUGH BONNER of New York ad
dresse recently the Woman's Municipal league on the
subject of fire peril.
At the end of his address, a woman told Mr. Bonner
"that she had been informed by an actor that every theater
in New York was absolutely fireproof.
"Am I to trust that man?" she asked.
Mr. Bonner laughed.
"He is about as trustworthy," he replied, "as the aver
age Alpine guide.
"Once, some years ago, a Swiss guide took an American
and his daughter on an excursion upon the Jungfrau.
"As they climbed, the guide, as usual, pointed out the
various objects of interest on the way. At the edge of a
horrible abyss he said:
'This is where Thorwaldsen, the celebrated Swedish
nountain climber, lost his life in 1897.'
"But the American, who had done the Jungfrau before,
said:
'Why, no, it isn't. This is not the place. Where
Thorwaldsen died is two miles further on.'
'Monsieur is quite right,' said the guide, 'but I thought
it was too far for the youn lady to travel.'
ONLY TOO REAL.
MANSFIELD, at a dinner in Philadelphia,
praised a brother actor for the realistic beauty of his
stage settings..
"His doors," said Mr. Mansfield, "are real doors, with
real knobs on them, real catches, and real locks. His grass
is real grass. His books are real books, his food is real
food, his wine is real wine, always. Sometimes, tho
Mr. Mansfield smiled.
"Sometimes, tho, he goes a little too far.
"Once, rehearsing a new play wherein bricks were
needed, he upbraided his property man on account of the
.bricks that had been supplied.
'Jenkins,' he bellowed, 'you disgust me.'
"And he pointed, with a great gesture of contempt, at
jthe brick lying on the stage before him.
'Jenkins, do you think,' he cried, 'that any sane audi
ence would be deceived by such a palpable imitation of a
brick as that?'
"And lifting his foot, he gave the brick a tremendous
kick.
"Then he sat down suddenly, and took his foot in his
hand, moaning. For the brick he had kicked was a
^eal one."
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PORTRAIT OF BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
DRESS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
For the Reception of the Tax Assessor.
Jessie Bartlett Dams
and the Bad Check
^HE passing away of Jessie Bartlett Davis
brings to the minds of her friends a host
of anecdotes concerning that remarkable
woman, of whose private life and prominent
characteristics but little was known. Above
all, she was a woman of indomitable will
and with a stock of self-confidence born of a healthy out
door life. When not engaged in theatrical life her entire
time was devoted to outdoor pursuits. On her ranch in
California she tamed and rode bronchos, herded cattle and
sheep and attended to her chickens with equal facility. This
combined to make her a good business woman and with the
muscular activity to back it.
Not long ago Mrs. Davis was engaged to sing in a vaude
ville company in this city. The manager of the theater was
famous for his negligence in meeting demands of per
formers whom he had engaged, and, in fact, there were ugly
rumors about checks bearing his signature, being returned
from the bank with the ominous words *'No funds" written
across their face's.
At the conclusion of her week's engagement Mrs. Davis
received a check for her salary. That was
few minutes he would-pm RETREATED, A BIG
give her a check on
han
ACROSS THE BACNURSINGS OF HI HEAD.
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another bank which would be honored without fail.
But Mrs.- Davis was not accepting checks. She was to
leave for London the next morning, and nothing but the
hard, cold cash would satisfy her. The manager was ob-
durate* and Mrs. Davis politely insistent. Then it developed
into a wordy war, and Mrs. Davis arose with the cane in
hand. Handling it like a foil, she passed the ferrule lightly
thru the glass door of the manager's office. Another pass
and the ferrule broke one *f the window panes. The clatter
of glass brought a half-dozen employees to the spot. The
manager danced around as if on a hot stove and begged her
to desist. The scandal, he said, would ruin him. By way of
reply Mrs. Davis punctured another window.
One of the employees, who was a relative of the manager,
rushed forward to disarm her. The cane circled in the air
and the man retreated nursing a big welt across the back
of his head.
The audience was just entering the theater, and the
crashing of glass caused many to stop and conjecture the
cause. Mrs. Davis, smiling with' the utmost good nature,
moved to the other side of the-office and gazed critically
at the glass of a large picturethe manager's, favorite
possession.
"Stop," he almost shouted. "You shall have your
money.'' A messenger was dispatched to the box office with
an order. He returned in a few minutes with a huge roll
of bills, which Mrs. Davis carefully counted and stowed
away. Then, bidding the manager a smiling good-night, she
Swept out of the office and to her hotel, where the bad
check was redeemed and added to her collection of souvenirs
of her experiences on the stage. "r
NO ESCAPE.
The following telephone conversation is reported to have
been heard between a certain well-known young financier
and a society woman whose functions are considered some
what boring: .._-..--
"Is this Mr.
"Yes." "This is Mrs. Won't you give us the pleasure of
your company at dinner on Monday?"
"I'm so sorry, Mrs. .but I have an engagement for
Monday." YT
Can you come Tuesday, then 'i- V*VU ^''^ViF'^''
"Why, it is most unfortunate, but I have a-partial en-
gagement for Tuesday also.""' +&.MiH^smm^^^m-
"Well, how about Wednesday^" z~~"T-
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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOCWAL
THE
rSaturday
and it was an open secret to everybody that she had en-
gaged passage on a steamship leaving the following Wednes
day for Europe, where she had planned to take a long rest.
The proprietor of the Broadway hotel where she was stop
ping obligingly cashed the check. It was returned to him
Tuesday afternoon as worthless.
Mrs. Davis took back the repudiated paper and smiled
grimly. I will make it all right this evening," she said.
Armed with a stout
cane, she went io the
manager's office that
evening, the stick serv
ing as an excuse for a
limp due 'to a "slight
sprain," she an
nounced. The manager
received her with evi
dent embarrassment,
and listened to the
story of the check told
quietly and in moder
ate language."
"It was a mistake
on the part of his book
keeper," he explained.
The stupid fellow
should have known that
the manager's account
in that particular bank
bad been closed out
long ago. But if Mrs.
Davis would wait a
night,
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Curios and Oddities.
'tis passing strange!'
THE TOBACCO EXPERT.
pURE TOBACCO, absolutely pure? Well, here is some.
1 Try it." ^o.
And the tobacco" expert extended to his guest a jar of dry,
brownish stuff, a stuff that resembled rags and dust.
The guest filled a pipe, lighted up, blew a few vile
smelling clouds, coughed, and looked grave.
"Excuse me," he said, laying the pipe aside. "This
may be pure tobacco, but it looks like shoddy, and it tastes
like shoddy, too."
"It is pure tobacco, all the same,'' said the expert. "It
is the tobacco from which the best Russian cigarets are
made, the tobacco of the Caucasus. Properly adulterated, it
makes the most aromatic smoke in the world. But pure,
quite pure, it is as you see. And all tobaccos are like that.
Without adulteration they are worthless.
"Nitre must be added to smoking tobacco to make it burn
well. Certain harmless chemicals must be added to make it
keep well, since, otherwise, it would crumble into dust in a
few months. Tobacco intended for \lug is steeped in
licorice. Infinitesimal quantities of gum arabic are mixed
with cigaret tobacco to hold it.together, so that it won't
drop out in small particles from the cigaret's open ends.
Pipe tobaccos are often flavored with perfumes, with the
oils of verbena, rose, bergamot, citronelle, cassia, catechu.
Temperance people would be surprised if they knew that
rum is much used to flavor tobacco with. Rum, in fact, is
the base of nearly all tobacco-flavoring recipes. It is used,
tho, in very small quantities. I have never seen a tobacco
sufficiently rum-soaked to make a man drunk and I sup
pose it is better to employ rum that way than to drink it."
RARITIES.
STAMP was round. It bore the plain inscription,
"British Guiana 2 cents." There was no ornamenta
tion on it of any kind.
A thousand dollars," said the dealer. "The last one I
sold brought twenty more than that. If you want it you can
have it for a thousand. A bargain."
"Thanks," said the collectorj "I'm not looking for bar
gains today."
The dealer produced another stamp. "Hawaiian Postage.
Two Cents," it said, and in the middle, in a scrollwork
square, the figure "2" appeared.
I can put no value on this stamp," the dealer said.
"Only four copies of it are known to be in existence. To
*sa,y it- is worth its weight in gold would be nonsense. It
would be nonsense to say it is worth its weight in diamonds.
Nonsense even to say it is worth its weight in radium. It is
probably the most valuable stamp in the world."
He took down a New Haven stamp, attached to its orig
inal envelope.
"These New Havens," he said, "issued by the New
Haven postmaster before the government began to issue
postal stationery are very rare. I sold a New Haven last
year for $1,3001 WilPyou have this at the same figure?"
"Not today," said the collector.
"Perhaps you'd like these two Mauritius, the 'Post Office
Pair,' the penny and the two-penny stamp? No collection
is complete without the Mauritius 'Post Office Pair.' Their
market price is $3,900."
The collector shook his head.
"Then you'll excuse me, won't you?" said the dealer.
A red half-anna has just arrived from India, and an insur
ance agent is waiting in my office to insure it. He insures
all my stamps."-
'-\i A MUSK OAT.
i^'pHE STRANGEST animal phenomenon I know of,"
1 said a pet stock dealer, "concerns a cat that died
last month. This cat belonged to a rich woman, and when
ever it sneezed itHemitted a powerful odor of musk. Kept
in a closed room for a few hours, it. would give the room a
strong musk smell.
"It was a Persian cat, with bluish hair 7 inches long.
The woman brought it to me, and asked if I had ever seen
anything like it. I said I hadn't, and sent her to a learned
veterinarian. He said musk cats were rare, but not unknown.
He offered the woman $50 for hers. She refused, but on the
cat's death she' sent its body to the veterinarian for dis-
section, and he wrote a long article about the matter for a
medical magazine."
What the Market Affords.
bouillon, 50 cents.
Lime juice, 35 and 50 cents.
Lemons, 1ft to 20 cents.
This is the weather when one longs for iced bouillons,
iced tea, frappes, sherbets "and all kinds of cool drinks and
desserts. A novelty for a first course for luncheon or din
ner is clam-juice cocktail. If the fresh jaice is used it
should be simmered and skimmed and cooled, but the bottled
or canned article answers very well. The canned juice is
not more than, half as expensive as the bottled bouillon.
The clam liquor is seasoned with salt, pepper and lemon
juice and poured over cracked ice in glasses.
Gingerade makes a good drink and is compounded by
stewing any fruit with pulverized ginger, straining off the
juice and flavoring it with lemon juice. It is then sweetened
and diluted to taste with ice water.
Many do not know that strawberries may be used in a
delicious fruit vinegar, exactly like raspberry vinegar. Take
two quarts of either of these fruits, or blackberries, put into
a stone jar and pour over them one quart of good cider vine
gar. Cover and stand aside for two days, then drain off the
liquor without mashing the berries pour it over a quart? of
fresh fruit and let stand as before. Do this once more, the
last time straining thru a muslin bag. Add one pint of
sugar to every pint of the liquid boil slowly five minutes,
let stand fifteen minutes, bottle and seal.
What Women Want to Know.
MILLERS.^-Will you kindly tell me thru your
valued inquiry column how to rid a house of moth
millers? The house has become thoroly infested with them.
I should also like to know how to clean oil paintings?
Mrs. E. A. W. "v /_
As the mothsvare
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more acfive at night, place a lighted
candle in a basin of water in the room. The moths will be
attracted by the flame and will drop into the water. Sprinkle
turpentine liberally in the cracks of the floor and wood
work, but be careful about using the turpentine near a light
or fire.
To clean oil paintings, take as much sweet milk as will
be needed and make it lukewarm with warm water/ Dip a
sponge into the mixture and gently wash the canvas. I)ry
carefully.
are cleaned? Answer
QUESTIOrNs FORkTOMORROW Ul/
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a*-te
TO CLEAN A PANAMA HAT.-How can I clean a Panama
i|| hat without giving it that yellow appearance which is
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June 5, 1905.
BUM 1
98 Fifth avenue, New York. Cynthia West*
over Alden, founder and president general.
MINNESOTA HEADQVAKTEB8.
Soom 64, Loan and Trust building, S13 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 Mrs. Theodore Haynes.
INTERNATIONAL SUNSHINE SOCIETY
J* MINNESOTA
INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS.
Alfred Sunshine.
The dormitory plan at Alfred Univer
sity Is slowly but surely developing. The
ground has been given by the university,
.the roof by the Celadon Roof company of
Fifth avenue, New York, and bricks by
Mr. Merrill of the controller's depart
ment at Albany. The first room assured
as to furnishings is the Jersey room,
branch No. 1 taking charge. There are
to be at least twenty-Aye sleeping rooms.
Who will promise to furnish one and
thereby name it?
The Oliver Westover scholarship was a
two-years' course arranged by advertis
ing it in the Year-Book, and is paid in
full.
The Andrew J. Rugg scholarship is pro
vided for, and the Shredded Wheat schol
the Plainfleld scholarship, the Minnesota
scholarship. Augustus Owen scholarship is already
paid in full.
The scholarships that are arranged by
our board are as follows, and donations
are asked for each one. Every dollar is a
great help, and branches are being rap
idly formed where dimes and pennies are
used for this great educational work.
The Captain John Casey Memorial, the
George W. Tuttle Memorial, the Theo
dore. Seward Memorial, the Sarah Smith
Evans Memorial, the Rev. Seneca How
land scholarship, the Margaret Macdon
ald scholarship, the Frank Russell Green
scholarship, the Charles D. Larkins schol
arship, the Riverside scholarship branch,
the Minnesota scholarship.
Kindly address all communications for
scholarship work to Harriet I. Macdonald,
president of the scholarship work, and
make all checks to Mrs. Helen Hodges,
treasurer of the scholarship work.
Your Duty.
A special plea is made here for every
branch president to center her whole at
tention to raising $5 and subscribe for
ten Bulletins for ten invalids in whom the
branch is "interested. It is not at all fair
that those who are able to go out and at
tend the meetings, have pleasant times
and many happy hours thru such social
life should permit themselves to accept
all these good things without at least
thinking of one who is shut In and can
not be present. Send that one the Bul
letin. It will reach her the first of each
month and keep her well informed on
Sunshine work. Make it your first duty,
therefore, after reading this to arrange
an entertainment or a party of some kind
and collect pennies until you.get $5 for
your shut-in subscription list. Keep these
names and renew the subscriptions every
NAPAUTO
No Charge for Medical Treat
ment or Examinations.
Spectacles and Eye Glasses.
Insist on having
rescent reamery
Butter
on your table.
IT'S ABSOLUTELY PURE.
AWNINGS,
WINDOW
SHADES,
AN DTE NTS
A. D. Campbell, 211 Hennepin AT
Henry Bres' Bye House
The most reliable Dyers and
French Dry Cleaners in the
in the city. New location
or. 1st Av. S. & 7th St.
L. L. DEMARS
Optician
Eyes Examined, Spectacles Fitted.
I guarantee accurate, careful work.
Optical Parlors, 609 2nd Av. S.
Instructor In Optica.
DIVISION!
Waterproof
and
Greaseproof
Auto
Gauntlet.
Auto Gauntlet on the market. Made
of Napa Tan Buck, light weight and
tough, waterproof and greaBe (CO AA
proofpair. SI.60 and.... IP*"VV
100 Other Styles.
610 NICOLLET.
Gamossi Glove Co., No. 20
Dr.Benjamin
Boasberg,
Gat RateOptician
,j 13 So. 7th St.
Near Orpheum
Theater.
^Sl- "**& Everybody is talking about it. They do the
?S& best work in town and deliver promptly, k^"*
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STATE OFTIOEES. _
President, Mrs. Noble Barrow, 816 Twenty.***
end avenue S, Minneapolis.
First Vice PresidentMrs. Grace W. Tubbs.
Second Vice PresidentMrs. A A. Brant.
Third Vice PresidentMrs. N. A. Spron*.
Fourth Vice PresidentMrs. 3. F. Wilson.
Fifth Vice PresidentMrs. E. W. XinrsleT. 45
Sixth Vice PresidentMrs. 0. H. Fleming. "W
SecretarayMiss Corinne De Laittre.
Treasurer, Miss Eva BUnchard.
Corresponding SecretaryMrs A. A. Belstfc
TSJf
OrganizerMiss Lillian M. Ellis. *p
year, or change them as
thinks wise.
your branch
Happy Be Each Day.
Smiling is not costly
Cheerfulness not dear,
Kind words never frosty.
Good deeds cause no fear.
Bring along some brightness,
Take away the rain,
Fill yourself with gladness,
Laugh and shout again.
Fleeting, then, is sorrow.
Sadness won't appeal.
Gloom you need not borrow.
Life's path ne'er be drear*
Buoyant be your .spirit.
Sighs wiU pass away.
Tears, they have no merit,
Happy be each iy.
John G. Quiniua.
Little and Much.
Life is made up first of one little thins
and then another, and all these flttle things
make a great aggregate and let us re
member that one who Is faithful in that
which is least will be faithful also in
much.Margaret E. Sangster.
Forget About Yourself,
more completely you are able to
about yourself, your own aches
and pains, your own worries and per
plexlties, your own" desires for pleasure,
the more you will be able to do to others.
Those who are determined to stand first-'
in their own thoughts seldom do much'
for any one else.
The
forget
Cheering Up Business.
What are the men and women to do
who have not happy temperaments? Give
up and say: "It is all very well for men
born glad to be glad we would have been
born so, too, had we been consulted."
There is better to do than that. W can
at least watch the glad-faced people and
see if we can catch any secret from
thema secret, perhaps, unknown to
themselves. I am sure there is some
thing more than temperament in this
business of good cheer. There are four
secrets, at least, which seen to go to the
making of cheer, when the cheer Is ha
bitual and can stand strain four stable
rules that train the eye and the heart to
see the beauty of roadsides and make us
go laughing along the life path. For
easy remembrance, let us-put the recipe
into a rhyme, and makes, the rules jinglet
A task to do,
And a clear inside
A friend to help
And the sunny side.
William B. Gonnett
DIAMONDS
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G. Winter Jewelry Co.
327 Nicollet Ave.
Pure Water
Pure Ice
2 GALLONS DAILY,
$1.76 P&B MONTH.
Hftndsoftie Clean Coolers Furnished
WltboAt Extra Charge.
Two gallons of water per day
enough to supply the whols family
with all they need for drinking pur
poses. Tfciqk how little it oorts
less than six oents per day. There is
hardly a family hut what some mem
ber of it spends a nickel or more at
day for some trivial thing that they
don't need, and then all of the fam
ily combine and risk health and even
life by drinking any kind of water
in order to save six pennies eaoh day.
There is such a thing as being
"penny-wise and pound-foolish."
The CUenwood^Ingiewood Co,
318 Hennepin Ave.
**2I WA80N S W
All marked M. I*. O. and numbered
from 1 to 21. We thus have enough
wagons to take care of any rush.
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JUNE GIFTS
For June Gifts we have a
beautiful assortment of arti
cles appropriate for Brides,
for Anniversary Presents,
for those whbse birthdays fall
in Junefor Graduationfor
all gift occasions of the month.
Prices Guaranteed the Lowest.