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With the Long Bow
Magnetic Man of Minnesota Who Attracts Stoves, Nails and
Other Iron Objects to His PersonVigorous Newspaper
Work Done by Some Stout Long Distance Liar, Who
Doesn't Care Who Knows It.
The Weather Map, ably edited by T. S. Outram, section
director of the climate, is now a beautiful sight. It is spotted
with "high" and "low," tho the suspicion is abroad that
Q'Appelle, Swift Current and Medicine Hat hold "Jack
and "the game." Meantime the cold deck has been doing
business at Winnipeg and shedding an influence southward
\p. a way that makes the thrills run up the back of the coal
man, while the chortle of the ice man is heard rising shrill
and clear by the lakeside.
A writer in an eastern paper mourns the passing of the
old red damask tablecloth. The old red tablecloth always
gave the impression of comfort and good cheer, while the
white cloth stands for coldness and formality, and is sug
gestive of the clothesline waving stiffly over a snowdrift.
Come again, old red table covering, with grandma pouring
the tea and seeing that us young ones got an extra large
wedge of the kind of pie that melted in your mouth! -A. J. R.
What the Market Affords
CORNED
beef, 10 cents a pound.
Dried sweet corn, 20 cents a pound.
Onions, red, 20 cents a "peck yellow, 30 cents white,
40 cents. Buckwheat pancake flour, 10 cents a package.
Evaporated cherries, 35 cents a pound.
Chocolate, 35 cents a pound.
The dried sweet corn will prove an agreeable change from
the canned variety. It should be soaked overnight before it
is cooked. Many people like the sweet corn parched in the
oven and then served as popcorn is offered.
Sweet potato fritters are delicious. Pare and cut in
halves the requisite number of sweet potatoes. Cook until
tender in boiling salted water. Dram, then pour o\er the
potato a little brandy or wine, a few teaspoonfuls of lemon
juice, and a generous sprinkling of salt. Let stand till ready
to cook, then dip in fritter batter, and fry in deep fat.
Serve as any sweet potatoes. Drain the potatoes on soft
paper as they are fried. Do not let the slices touch each
other while draining. Keep them hot in the oven until all
are cooked.
For an emergency or quick dessert Dresden chocolate
crumbs must take the lead. Mix one cup of stale bread
crumbs, one-half cup grated unsweetened chocolate, two
(tablespoons sugar, and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Put in a
pan and bake in a moderate oven until the chocolate is
melted and crumbs are thoroly heated. Fill individual paper
eases two-thirds with the mixture and top with whipped
cream sweetened and flavored with vanilla.
ORIGINAL JOE IN MANAYUNK.
the detective, was looking over the photographs in
the gallery. He came to the picture of a mid
dle-aged, solemn man of most respectable appearance,' and
laughed.
"That," he said, "i Original Joe. He is always up to
some new dodge. He is the cleverest of the clever.
Out in Manayunk a woman used to run a fine restaurant
on the main street.
"One day about noon a middle-aged man with two nice
little girls came in.
'Madam,' he said, *oneNof your 50-cent roast dinners
for me, and a plate of cream for the little ones.'
"The order was filled. The man finished, got up, and
said to the woman:
I have some business to see to. I'll leave my daugh
ters here till I come back.'
"H went away without paying, but that was all right/
since he had left the children as security. In fifteen or
twenty minutes, tho, the children got restless. They started
out.
'Guess we'll go now,' said the older'child.
|k 'But your father is coming back for you/ said the
|r jwoman.
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'Oh, no, he ain't,' said the girl. 'He ain't our .father,
||j |inyway. He's just a stranger what met us on the way home
j^ from school, and asked us if we'd have a plate of iee
eream.'"
|jg Leccoq laughed.
p|j "The stranger was our friend here, Original Joe," he
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"Eye aaturm's walks, shoot tolly as it iOos."
Minnesotans read in tile Chicago Chronfcle
last week incident that shows renewed activity on
the part of the Le Sueur liar or a close acquaintance of his.
It is the tale of a magnetic man," Jared Jewell, and he
lives in Minnesota. A year ago he was struck by lightning
while hoeing potatoes in his garden. He was not killed, nor
even seriously injured, but he was "charged." When he
was carried into the house by his friends "the Boe and rake
stuck to him as they would have done to a large magnet.'"
When, Mr. Jewell's unconscious form was brought into his
kitchen the stove immediately "got busy" and drew Mr.
Jewell to it. He stuck fast and "remained adhering firmly
there for nearly an hour and long after he had recovered
consciousness and until the stove was broken up and picked
off him piece by piece." The stove was cold, tho Mr. Jewell
might be excused for some heat.
We are told further that knives and forks stick to the
man's fingers that his watch was ruined, and that light
objects when he passes "spring up and attach themselves
to him." Children formed the habit of tossing nails and
pins in his direction as he passed along the street, and they
all "stuck." A few weeks ago "his trouble culminated
his sticking fast to an iron bench out in a secluded portion
of the park, and there he remained all night, unable to re--
lease himself and ashamed to exhibit his plight by calling
for help." This brought on pneumonia, from which he is
still suffering, tho it is thought he will recover.
Mr. Jewell must possess an iron constitution. Nothing
short of this would be so heavily charged. Some of us
harbor the possibly unjust suspicion that the correspondent
is chargedtho not with electricity or with soda water.
A farmer near Washburn, N. D., wouldn't dig his potatoes
last fall because he thought the price was too low. The fruit
is now selling there at 50 cents, and the farmer sometimes
stands behind the statt of the cross horse hoping to get
kicked for his folly.
As the editor of the Miller (S. D.) Sun stepped into the
mayor's office last week a stray dog that happened to be
there took, without warning, a small piece of the editorial
dark meat. The mayor threatened to shoot the offender, but
the editor returned goqd for evil, persuaded the mayor to
give the pup a chance to reform and expresses the hope that
the incident will not occur again. In these days of indig
nant dogs an affair like this is not a pleasant one.
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NO FAILURE HERE.
The kid crop comes right along in Minneapolis in spite of
frost, drought or bad weather.
Under the Mistletoe
The thin lips of the spinster twitched, but she was not
smiling.
"Won't you keep it yourself, LizzieV1
ing to move a book about half an *inch. "You may have
some use for it, you know." $?
Lizzie giggled. I V#^
"Oh, miss," she explained, "I've got another bit aown
in the kitchennot as I'm likely ter want it."^
I see. Then I'll keep this bit, Lizzie, if I may.
very kind of you to think of me."
The little servant glanced at the ledge over the door, then
at the gas bracket that hung over the table, then at the door
again. It was an awk
ward moment. She
knew well enough that
nobody ever called up
on Miss Reeves. At
the same time, she did
not want to show that
she knew it.
At last: "Where
shall I 'ang it, miss?"
she asked.
"Oh, anywhere will
do, Lizzie. I should
think you might tie it
to the gas bracket."
There was a queer
smile on the spinster's
face as she sat alone
in her dingy bed-sit
ting room, gazing at
that dangling sprig of
mistletoe. If Lizzie had
known all, she would
have brought her friend
any gift rather than
that.
The drab twilight
came down upon tffe
street. Miss Reeves low
ered the blind, lit one
Now she opened an old-fashioned, brass-bound desk.
Was the door safely locked? Yes. She returned to the desk
and took something from the innermost compartment.
Three four children in the street below began to sing,
very badly, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by
Night."
The spinster carried her treasure to the center of the
room. It was a small, rather yellow photograph. The bold,
merry eyes laughed into her own.
Leaning forward, she held the portiait under the mistle
toe. .Keble Howard, in London Mail.
mgmmmmmm
Tuesday Evening, THE IVnNNEAPOLM JOURNAL
HAT in the world have you got there,
Lizzie?"
The little lodging house servant
blushed as she displayed her simple gift.
"It' on'y a sprig o' mistletoe, Miss
Reeves. The greengrocer give it me when
I went round to get the pertaters. I
was wonderin' if you'd like to 'ang it up
to make yer room look a bit Christ
massy.
she asked, turn-
"WHERE SHALL I 'ANG IT, MISS?"
SAND AS WRITING AND BLOTTING PAPER.
HAVE all seen sand usedjas blotting paper," said
VV a school director, "but in New England, last
month, I saw it used as writing paper. The scene carried
me back a hundred years.
Sand was the original blotting paper. White and clean,
it was kept in a cruet, like a salt cruet, and shaken out on
the wet writing thru the perforated top. It dried the ink,
and yet absorbed none of the ink itself. It was a miraculous
blotting paper that njeveT got dirty. You dried your writing
with it, and then you put it back in the cruet again for
future use.
"There are affected peoplethe kind of people who write
with quill penswho still use sand as a blotter. But until
last Month I thought that as a writing paper it had dis-
appeared forever.
"And then I visited a country school in New Hampshire.
On the master's desk sat a box, three feet square, filled with
sand. The children came, one at a time, to the box, and with
a pointed stick by way of pen they wrote. As each child fin-
ished, he smoothed out his writing, leaving the sand smooth
for the next comer.
"This odd scene carried me back to the"days when paper
was so scarce, when slates were so scarce, that sand was
used in the schools to write onthe days of my grandfather
and great-grandfather."
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IN WALL STREET. JV'^ l
N A WALL STREET crowd a CineinnatianJ thinking that
he recognized a stolen umbrella under*a fat man's arm,
shouted "Stop thief!" and instantly found the teeming
thorofare deserted and himself alone.
joy.
It was
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"I cannot tall bow tho truth may bo
1 $ay the tale as 'twas said to me."
SHE UNDERSTOOD.
WOOD SWIFT, president of the National Council
American Women, was praising servants.
"Servants get too much abuse, too little praise," she
said. "They have the worst hours and the unpleasantest
work in the world yet they are cheerful. They have too
marjy temptations and too many responsibilities, but they
try conscientiously to be equal to any task imposed on them.
"Consider, for example, the many scandalous quarrels
that servants hear. Suppose they told of these quarrels. But
servants, as a class, tell nothing."
Mrs. Swift paused. Then, smiling, she resumed:
A San Francisco woman had one morning, in a maid's
presence, a disgraceful squabble with her husband. Both
lost their tempeis completely. Thay shouted that they hated
one another. They said a number of things they didn't
really mean*
"All this, mind you, in the presence of a mild-mannered
maid of some 40 years.
"The lady, afterwards, was ashamed and frightened.
She wished to remove from the maid's mind the impression
that there had been a fa/nily quarrel. She called the young
woman to her and said:
I suppose you heard my husband and me conversing
rather earnestly this morning, Martha
"The maid blushed.
'Yes, madam,' she replied.
I hope you thought nothing unusual was going on'
nothing worth repeating or talking about?'
'Oh, madam, I wouldn't say a word,' the maid ex-
claimed earnestly. I once had a man myself, and I assure you,
never a day passed that the neighbors didn't believe one or the
other of us would be killed.'
REFORM'S THORNY PATH.
*1 DEFORMS are always difficult to. start with,"
I N Governor Folk. "New Year's resolutions
exception to the rule.
"Hence it is that so many resolutions and reforms fail
to be permanent. Men lose heart at the beginning. They
should persevere, for the first week of a reform, the first
week of a resolution, is harder always than the rest of it.
"At the beginning the reformer is sneered-at? Every
one tries to take advantage of him.
I know a young man who decided on New Year's day
that he was giving too many of his evenings to the club.
Accordingly he resolved that thruout 1906 he would go to
the club only twice a month. And that night he proceeded
to put the resolution in force.
'Amy,' he said to his wife at dinner, I know that sinee
our marriage I have been too constant a frequenter of the
club, and I am aware that this has caused you a deal of
silent wretchedness. My dear, I am sorry. I am going to
turn over a new leaf. And I will begin tonight.'
"The young woman's eyes shone. Her face lighted with
'Oh, Harold,' she cried, 'how happy you have made
me. Uncle Jim wants me to go to the theater with him to-
night, and you ean stay home and mind the baby.*
TAKING DOWN A DUKE.
PUBLISHER said of Oscar Wilde, whose posthumous
volume, "De Profundis," has made a deep impression
not only in England and America, but in France, Germany
and Italy as-well (the work has already been translated
int six. languages):
"Poor Wilde! His road was an up-hill one till he began
to write frtaysl* Up to the time of the production of 'Lady
Windermere's Fan,' he found it difficult to earn a decent
living. Afterwards, as 'A Woman of No Importance,' 'The
Importance of Being Earnest' and his other sparkling, grace
ful comedies appeared, Wilde made $40,000 a year. But
before that he was often very poor.
"No matter how poor he was, tho, he never lost a cer-
tain disdainful, supercilious, patronizing humor. This
humor was very distasteful to some people. It was exercised
once upon a duke, and cost Wilde a rather lucrative post.
"The duke wanted a tutor for his two sons, and Wilde
was recommended. He called, the duke examined him, and
seemed favorably impressed. i
"But he was a very great duke, with a very high opinion
of himself, and his manner grated on Wilde.
"The last question he asked the young man was:
'And would youahwould you expect to eat with
the family?'
-"'That,' Wilde answered, 'would depend altogether on
how the family behaved at meals.'
THE OCTOPUS' SPIRIT.
GOMPERS, the re-elected chief of the Ameri-
car%.!Ifederation of Labor, said in a recent address.
"The rich and powerful man is too apt to treat the poor
and helpless man as the bully treated the little boy.
'"'A little boy was peaceably making a snow man one
winter morning when a tall, strong lad, a bully, rushed up,
kicked down the snow man, and gave the little fellow a
thump on the head.
A benevolent gentleman saw this outrageous bullying
from a distance. He drew near, shook his fist at the big
boy, and gave the little one a dime to comfort him.
'There, there/ he said. 'Here is a dime for you. Now
dry your eyes.'
"Then he departed.
"But he was no sooner gone than the bully came up and
demanded half the money.
'I'll be satisfied with half,' he said virtuously, 'but I
ought to have all by rights, for if I hadn't walloped ye, ye
wouldn't have gotten a cent.'
ON THE BUN.
Rev. Kong Yin Teb of Honolulu was describing in
Philadelphia the horrors of leprosy.
"An American, a tounst, I suppose, is almost afraid to
look at a leper, isn't he?" a-Baptist minister asked.
"Indeed he is afraid," said Mr. Yin Teb, smiling.
"Does he run away?"
"Well," Mr. Teb replied, I wouldn't quite like to say
he runs away. But he retreats pretty briskly. If you saw
him going for a doctor at that speed, you would be alto
gether warranted in thinking that somebody was dreadfully
sick.''
IT PAYS TO TIP.
EAN TrERARDY, the well-known cellist, at a dinner in
Philadelphia, praised American wit.
"You are all witty," he said. "From your millionaire
down to your gamin you are quick, nimble and sparkling in
letoit.
"Your gamins' wit is sometimes cruel. It caused a friend
of mine to flush and mutter an evil oath one day last week
in New York. a
/'M friend, in a hurry to catch a train, ran out of his
hotel towards acab and a ragged little boy opened the cab
door for him and handed in his valise. nV
''"He gave the boy nothing. In his hurry, you see, he
t.
"The disappointed 'urchin Smiled sbtirly, and Called this
order to the driver:
'Nearest poorhouse, cabby.' f*
Town Topics Owner Lets Rich
Men Have 'Fads and Fancies'
at Princely Prices.
New York, Jan. 23.Colonel W. B.ter
Mann of "Town Topics" testified
the Hapgood criminal libel trial that
he had borrowed nearly $200,000 from
J. P. Morgan, James B. Keene, W. K.
Vanderbilt, William C. Whitney and
other prominent financiers. Many of
these loans never were repaid, so far as
Colonel Mann could recall, and others
were repaid in the stock of the "Town
Topics" company at $1,000 a share.
Among others named by Colonel Mann
from whom he had borrowed large
sums were .C. P. Huntington and
Charles M. Schwab.
From R. P. Flower, the witness said
he had borrowed $2,000 or $3,000.
Colonel Mann said, that there were
perhaps three or four persons who paid
$1,500 apiece for the book called "Fads
and Fancies," whose names did not ap
pear therein. They did not care to be
mentioned in the book, he said.
The witness said that for $10,000 he
gave "Mrs. Collis P. Huntington two
copies of the book, "Fads and Fan
cies.
Here Mr. Osborne rested the defense
of Mr. Hapgood's case.
After recess District Attorney Jer
ome lecalled Colonel Mann. Colonel
Mann Jtestified that many years ago he
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We have some splendid bargains in second hand and shop worn engines
that will be of interest to those who are looking for a good engine at a
moderate price
One 3J H.P. Fuller (So Johnson, nearly new. One 12 H.P. Weber, new.
Four 6 H.P. Weber, new. One lO H.P. Fairbanks Engine, slightly used.
Five 2& H.P. Weber Engines, new ($85.00).
The Foos Gas Engine Co.,
MANN'S BOOK AT
$5,000 A COPY
1 The Largest In the WestThe Finest Anywhere.
310 Third Av.
South.
sold Mr. Belmont some stock. Of the
$90,000 which he borrowed from James i
E Keene, Colonel Mann said that he
had paid back all except $46,000 and
that ,for this amount he gave Mr.
Keene a second mortgage on property
worth $108,000.
The stockholders of Town Tomes,
Colonel Mann testified, are W. K. van
derbilt, 25 shares John W. Gates, 20
Howard Gould, 20 Dr. Seward Webb,
20 and the balance of the shares are
owned by Justice Joseph M. Deuel,
Colonel Mann and his wire and daugh
ter. Colonel Mann said that he him- a
self owned but one share of the stocl|.
In accounting for Justice Deuel's con- I
nection with Town Topics, he said:
He has been kind to us, my daugh- i
and myself, and we felt that when
we could repay him we should and we
did by gi\ mg him shares of our own &
stock."
Just before leaving the stand Colonel
Mann said: 1 forgot to say that W.
K. Vanderbilt sen tme back my notes
and later returned me the stock."
The witness had previously testified
that he repaid a $25,000 loan from W.
K. Vanderbilt by giving him twenty
five shares in the Town Topics stock,
Here the prosecution announced that|".
it rested its -case and Mr. Osborne
began summing up for the defense on
the evidence ot the prosecution.
BOYS FIGHT FIRE
Students from Indian School Stop Dan
gerous Blaze.
RAPID CITY, S The boys from the Indian
school saved the town from a serious and per
haps destructive conflagration. Sparks from a^-
rallioad loccmotive set fire to hay west of ~r
town near the railroad tracks Theflamesspread ff
lapidly to the eemete-y. c'ose to which more JT
hay was stacked and the matter soon bejua tor*
look serious, as the wind was in the right direc i
tion to bring the fire to the town. Superteten gj.
dent House of the Indian schco' sent oat abu
seventv Ave of his boys w'th water and gunny
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is not a simple
cough syrup. It is a strong medicine, a
doctor's medicine. It cures hard cases,
severe and desperate cases. Especially
good in bronchitis, pleurisy, consump
tion. Ask your doctor all about this.
We hare secrets1 We pabilsfc c. AyerCo.,
the formal** of all oar medicines. Trowel! Maaa.
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