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vhere.
With the Long Bow.
"By*nature's walk*, shoot folly as tiles."
are telling a pleasing story in St. Paul of a certain
semi-European "artist" who annoys the violin for a
business. When he came to this country a St. Paul woman,
anxious to be a patron of music and art, and to help the
musician to an acquaintance, gave a reception to introduce
him. He attended the affair, met everybody and fiddled once
or twice. The next day the astonished society leader re-
ceived a bill for $200 for his services at his introduction
to society.
She paid it.
Several Equitable policyholders were so mad last week
when some more facts leaked out that they died and got their
money out.
Mrs. Nation has just declared with vehemence that no
one but prohibitionists will go to heaven." We hope that
she is mistaken.
The people who preyed on the Equitable are requested to
put it back. The chances are that wifie is wearing it to
church and that it cannot be cashed in.
Levi ISIoi ton's daught er has sudden ly chang ed er
religion. You may not think this of much importance, bvit
,the New York papers do. It gets headlines. The Morton
'girls are great changers of religion, putting it off and on
like suits of clothes. Miss Helen Morton also changed
"her faith" once, becoming a Roman Catholic at the time
[of her marriage to Count Boson de Talleyrand Perigord.
[She has since abandoned that faith and reverted to that of
her parents in order to simplify and expedite the proceed
iings taken by the count's family for the ecclesiastical an-
mulment of his marriage by the Vatican. A person who can
I slip on and off like this should be known as a roaming
Catholic.
But girls nowadays are very facile. The Washington
Post tells of a quiet, timid-looking little woman in one of
the government departments in that city whose life romance
[reads like a small hot New York novel. At 16 she became
engaged to a young man, and jilted him for an English
man. The jilted young man blew out his brains, or at
least let fresh air into the place where his brains ought
to have been, and so died. The Englishman had a younger
[brother, who fell in love with the girlcall her Julia, be-
cause that is not her name. The elder brother, finding out
how matters stood, withdrew, whereupon Julia, instead of
marrying the younger brother, ran away with a seafaring
/man. The seafaring' man had unpleasant habits, so Julia
'divorced him.
A year later she decided to remarry him, but before she
could carry out his intention he was lost at sea. Within six
months she married an elderly man, and left him as soon as
she discovered that he had a wife and family out in Iowa.
She then engaged herself to a young man who died of fever
on he day set for the weddin g. After that she marri ed a
.Dane, divorced him, married a Richmond man, and sepa
rated from him after two years. All this, and she is not yet
33. One of her intimate friends told the writer all about
it, and when she had finished she sighed sympathetically.
"Poor Julia!" said she. "She always wanted to marry
and have a home, but fate was against her. She never
found anybody she could really love, and, goodness knows,
she's tried."
An Iowa town has some high-class fiddlers and singerinos
who give recitals. The local paper says:
The fingering, the pose and the bowing, the symphony, the
pathos of pianists and violinists betray traces of artistic skill
that touch the depths of the very soul.
In the criticism of the artists in a recent "event," the
Iowa journalist slushes around thus:
We must individualize. In the song, "Sing Me to Sleep,"
Nellie Pyatt brought out to perfection her beautiful soprano
voice. Her articulation is almost perfection, her natural pathos
mingles with her soprano in so admirably artistic a way that
it is impossible to detect the point at which one flows into the
other, while her native modesty precludes any suspicion of art.
But it was Florence Shelby and the way she handled her
face that caught the critic. He says:
In the characterization of the piece, "While Angels
[Watch," Florence Shelby impersonated the penitent. The part
was so well taken that her face betokened all the genuine
iwrithmgs of her sorrowful soul, all the anxious throbs of her
broken heart and while the tear of sorrow bedimmed her
lovely blue eyes a gleam of hope divine yet o'erspread her soft,
sweet countenance.
Flossie had them a-going, that is clear. Angels may
watch, but there are men we know intimately who would
freely pay 50 cents to avoid an occasion like this. Blind!
blind!! -A. J. R.
Curios and Vddities.
'TIs passing strange!"
THE LIMELIGHT MAN.
HE limelight man, his trunk covered with gay foreign
labels, was waiting for the train to take him to Vermont
for his vacation.
"My tips," he said, lighting a cigar, "come to twice
what-my salary does. I work in a vaudeville house, and I
only get $12 per. But the tips tote up to $40 every week.
"Every fancy dancer, every sentimental soloist, every
classic tableau gent, everybody in vaudeville, you might say,
needs the limelight, needs it in a special way, and is ready
to pay the limelight man for any extra attention or polite
ness he may show.
I work hard. I strive to please. I get good tips."
"Suppose an artist shouldn't tip you? What then?"
"Well, the light would miss him every time. That's all.
He wouldn't seem ever to be able to get in it. He'd move
He'd move there. But he'd be always standing in
the dark. The flood of lovely limelight would always be
just a foot or two away."
A QUEER SENSE.
**1M OTHING- is more offensive, on a beautiful morning,
1 than the approach of a man who has been drink
ing. The odor of alcohol that emanates from him is a thing
the sense of smell will not pardon. Yet let us take our-
selves beforehand one little sip of alcohol, and we do not
get the tiniest whiff of the other man's aroma."
The speaker, who worked in a garbage converting plant,
lighted a cigar and resumed:
"Where I am employed we take crude garbage and con
yert it into soapr The smell of our converting mill, where
we boil the garbage and squeeze out the oil, is a very sweet,
licorice-like smell, and new hands can't stand it. They get
deathly sick. But after the first week they don't notice it
at all. It smells the same to them in the garbage mill as
out of doors.
"You know the odor of an onion-eater. Why is it that,
If you have eaten yourself a bit of onion, you can't detect
this odor in him?"
1'
i^fft -iT*K*$i$p g^i^^g^THE^MIJNJNEAFOLIS JOURNAL."
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COMING TO HIS CENSUS.
The Old Man Shows Johnny
ITTLE JOHNNY had a string that had be
come very much snarled, and Johnny's
temper was fast going to pieces in his
effort to untangle it. The old man looked
on with the indulgent and kindly sym
pathy born of age and experience and fell
to moralizing on the incident.
"That's the way of the world," mused the old man.
"We tackle the snarls in life and presently lose patience,
and then we snarl things up worse than before. The worst
tangles, even in the big affairs of men, are really a simple
case of snailed string, and the way to go about straighten
ing them out is simply to find the end of the string and
coolly trace it up, loosening it a bit here and a bit there,
until all at once the snarl disappears, and there you are.''
By this time Johnny was dancing rotmd on one foot and
yelling like an Indian, and biting at the string with his teeth,
and getting it into a hopeless state.
"There, there, Johnny!" crooned the old man, coming
out of his moralizing, "let pap show you how to straighten
it out."
Taking the string, pap set out quietly to reduce the snarl
by the painless method. Meanwhile he went on to Jjohnny
like this:
You see, Johnny, your temper was only making matters
worse. Later in life you will run up against this kind of
thing right along. Now, ^-^^a
you keep your eye on
dad and see how a
little patience will yank
the meanness out of
this string in no time."
There was a tem
porary hitch in the
proceedings at this
point, and dad merely
repeated his last words
several times, with
slight pauses, like this,
I nn otimea t
all." Pause. "Inno
timeatall." An
other pause. Then pap
hitched his chair a lit
tle closer to the light
and put his tongue out
and made a new start.
But things didn't seem
to be going right, and
Johnny shortly became
aware that dad was do
ing rather less talking and appeared to be concentrating
more on the work in hand. Then the talk resumedbut it
was different. Confound it! I thought I had it that time.'' And dad
made a gesture in the air with both arms, as if he had
jumped for a ball in center field and missed it. Then he
hitched still closer to the light. Johnny also got up closer,
so he could see just how the thing was being done. "Git
out o' my light!" yelled pap, not harshly, but with vigor
and decision.
Johnny went round to the other side. The work of
straightening the string went on.
"Thunderation and polecats! what in time 's the matter
with the infernal thing?" was pap's next observation. Then
he bent to his task with a nervous intensity that was telling
on his constitution.
Johnny backed off discreetly.
"Jerusalem and golden candlesticks!" was dad's next
remark after a few moments of earnest application.
"That's the way I was doing it," ventured Johnny.
"Doing it!" yelled the old man. I should say you
were doing it! Why in blazes didn't you let it alone? No
living mortal could get this thing out of the mess you've
got it into*."
At this point Johnny slipped quietly upstairs and said to
mother: I guess I'll play up here a while. I believe pap
is worried about something."
Did the old man unsnarl the string? He did. With the
aid of a pair of shears that string was untangled, but it
would be folly to refer to it further as a string.Perkin
Warbeek, in Judge. N
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'CONFOUND IT' I
THAT
THOUGHT TIME
What Women Want to Know.
AIR ORNAMENTS.Will you please inform me thru
your paper if you know of any place one can have a
watch chain made out of hair, and about how much it
would cost? Also if the engagement ring is necessarily a
set ring?E. M.
I cannot give business addresses thru this column, but
if you will send a self-addressed, stamped envelope I will
mail you the address of-a worker in hair. The chain will
cost you about $3.25.
There is no rule in regard to an engagement ring, and
it may be a plain gold band or set with a stone, just as
suits the taste and purse of the young man who buys it.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW.
GILDING FLUIDS.What is the volatile oil used in making
the liquid gilding fluids, gold paints, etc., popularly sold
.1 on the market ?Subscriber,-
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LEVI
AN
I HAD IT
A String of Good Stories.
cannot tell how the truth may be
I say the tale as 'twas said to me."
CAME WITHOUT CALLING.
CINCINNATI man was describing the dinner in London
that admitted Joseph H. Choate to the society of the
Old Benchers of the Inner Temple.
"Mr. Choate was in his best mood," he said. "With
epigrams, witticisms and anecdotes he kept the table in a
continuous roar.
"Perhaps he made his most telling impression with a
story about an impoverished young Irish gentleman, the
Honorable Denis Bellew.
N
"He said that Mr. Bellew, driven forth by poverty from
his father's estate, went to London to seek his fortune. He
seemed to be buried in. Londo n. Nothing -was heard of him
for several years.
"He had been a gay, convivial blade, and in the little
home village he was missed. There was not a poacher nor
a roysterer^ within en mil es th at hadn't a soft spot for
Denis in his heart.
"Word one day passed about that up at the castle news
had been received of Denis. The village at once became
excited, and a deputation of a half-dozen or so was soon
on its way to see the old lord.
'My lord,' said the spokesman, 4s it true ye've gotten
news yer son, Mr. Denis?'
'Aye, true enough. News at last, boys,' said his lord
ship.
'Faith, then, an' phwat might the bhoy be doin' up
in London?' was the next question.
'He has been called to the bar,' the lord answered
proudly.
"The deputation looked at one another, for the phrase
was new to them. Finally, in a loud whisper, one said:
'Oi don't know what thot manes but from what Oi
remember of the bhoy, he didn't want no callin'."
THE BIRD FAKER OR, WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK.
P. MORTON is the president of the New York*
Zoological society, and has a knowledge of natural
history that would not be contemptible in a naturalist.
Mr. Morton was talking one day about the various cheats
who try to impose on "zoos" and on private collectors with
fakes of all kinds.
"Even birds," said Mr. Morton, "will be faked. Yes,
even birds. With various paints and dyestuffs and a pair of
sharp scissors one of these men will turn a sparrow into
almost anything you could mention."
He smiled.
A keeper of birds in a zoo," he said, "once told me of
a conversation that he overheard in the birdhouse between
two men from whom he occasionally bought stock.
'To think o' swindlin' a poor, hard-working chap like
that,' said the first man.
'Wot's wrong now?' asked the second.
'Why,' the other answered, 'here I worked all mornin'
paintin' and trimmin' up a sparrer into a redheaded Belgian
canary, and blest if the rascal I sold it to didn't give me a
bad $2 bill or it
THE HARD-HEARTED COUNT.
ELFISHNESS, a ruthless selfishness, consideration for
O none but themselves, is the great trouble with many
of our captains of industry," said William Jennings Bryan,
at a dinner in Milwaukee. "If the thing keeps on, we shall
develop an aristocracy as hard and unsympathetic and
cruel as that which a certain count once typified."
Mr,/Bryan paused and smiled. Then he went on:
"This count traveled by the train de luxe from Paris
to Monte Carlo, and on his arrival at the gayest and most
beautiful of the Riviera towns, he sent for his valet.
"The valet, it seems, had preceded him on the journey,
but the train had been wrecked, and the poor fellow killed.
This was explained to the count by his courier, who ended
the sad tale with the words:
'Alas, sir, I looked my last upon poor Francois two
hours ago. His corpse lies on the outskirts of Mentone, cut
in a hundred pieces.'
'Oh, very well,', said the count. 'Just go back and
fetch me the fragment that contains my trunk keys.'
LOOSE BUSINESS MORALS.
ARCTIC explorer was praising the late William
Ziegler, whose great wealth went in the past to fit out
so many expeditions of discovery in the white north.
"He was a man of the alertest wit," the explorer said.
I never saw his equal in the hitting off of a person's
character with an apposite story. Once, I remember, he was
describing a flour manufacturer of loose business morals.
"Mr. Ziegler said this manufacturer was like a certain
grocer who called his clerk up before him one day and said:
'That lady who just went outdidn't I hear her ask
you for fresh-laid eggs?'
'Yes, sir,' the clerk answered.
'And you said we hadn't any?'
'Yes, sir that is correct.'
"The grocer, purple with rage, yelled:
'Didn't you see me lay those eggs, myself, on the
counter not ten minutes ago? CXou are discharged, you
mendacious scoundrel, and see that you don't look to me
for a reference, either.'
What the Market Affords.
WATERMELONS,155cents.
3 cents.
Canteloupes,
Peaches, 30 cents a basket.
Apricots, 25 to 30 cents.
Strawberries, 10 cents a quart $2.25 for twenty-four
quart case.
Gooseberries, 12y2 cents a quart $2.75 a case.
Milk lamb, chops, 25 cents leg, 20 cents.
Boned ham, boiled, 25 and 30 cents.
Dried beef, 30 cents.
The finest apricots of the year appeared dn the market
this week and sold today as a special for 25 cents a basket.
The fruit is smooth-skinned and as large as good-sized
peaches. The plums are also large and fine, and the red
Japanese, the prune and yellow are the varieties. Both
apricots and plums make excellent winter fruit stores,
canned, preserved, dried, in jam, marmalade, or jelly. For
apricot jam peel the fruit by scalding and half, three pounds,
taking out the stones. Place in a deep dish and strew over
them half their weight of finely sifted sugar let stand over
night. Put fruit and juice in a preserving kettle, adding
a few blanched and sliced kernels, and boil very gently half
an hour, stirring constantly. Put into glasses or cans and
cover closely. Gooseberry makes delicious jam, especially
with half a pint of currant juice added to six pounds of
fruit. Plum jam is made in the proportion of three-quarters
sugar to one of fruit. The stoned and halved fruit is spread
on broad dishes and allowed to stand for a day, sprinkled
with sugar. It is then simmered gently half an hour and
boiled rapidly. Keep the scum removed and stir constantly.
A few kernels added just before taking from the fire im-
proves the flavor. J3ome plums do not require so much
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from which my natural character most
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Charles.
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We are too fond or our own will. We
want to be doing what we fancy mighty
things, but the great point is to do small
things, -when called to them, a. right
spirit.R. Cecil.
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