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With the Long Bow
-"Eye nature's walks, shoot tolly as It ilhs.'
Government Chemist Declares that a Million Babies Have
Been Slain in the Last Fifty Years by Quiet-Producing
MedicinesMothers Who Are Annoyed by Baby Should
Abandon the Child on Someone's Doorstep.
WLEY, government chemist, says that in the last
years more than a million babies have been killed
by soothing syrups. These quiet-producing drugs, as a rule,
contain laudanum, and, while baby's little holler is softened,
broken down and cheeked by the drug, the effect of the
laudanum on the child is such that his little riot is likely
to be heard shortly in the celestial fields. It may be laid
down as a rule, ''don't chloroform your baby." Of course,
if baby's emute begins at 3 a.m., and you are sleepy, some
thing must be done. Did you ever try leaving the child on
someone's doorstep?
A Philadelphia mother did even better than this. She
left her offspring in a Catholic church. Worshipers at St.
Peter's were startled by a sudden Polish riot in the empty
gallery. Women leaped to their feet and found up there in one
of the pews a 2-months-old girl baby that had just exhausted
a nursing bottle. From its dress, it seemed to be the child
of some well-to-do parent. It had on a long white coat,
trimmed with lace, knit underwear, pink and white socks,
a long slip, handsomely embroidered, and a white silk cap.
It was lonesome in the gallery, and baby was letting go
of a noise that shook the cathedral to its*foundations. The
child was taken to the priests'' house and will be cared for.
W claim that this is better than laudanum.
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John McCormick of Omaha was tempted and fell. Pass
ing by the South Tenth Street Methodist church daily,for
years, his attention A\as one day riveted to the bell. It
weighed 700 pounds, but Mr. McCormick thought to himself
what splendid junk it Avould make if broken up and sold to
an old metal dealer. The idea grew on him like a hypnotic
suggestion.
One clay when not feeling very well, Mr. McCormick de-
cided to take something for it. He took the bell.
The noi^e-producer was broken up and sold as per plan,
but Mr. McCormick was not satisfied. As he thought what a
mean trick he had played on his Methodist friends, his con-
science gnawed at his bosom and he wandered thru twenty
states trying to forget his crime. Finally he returned to
Omaha, confessed the crime and is now in jail. McCormick
said:
That bell has been in my mind day and night ever since
I stole it. Every night I have been awakened from my sleep
by its tolling. At times I have feared I was losing my reason.
I could neither sleep nor eat."
This shows the power of an idea. It is well to beware
what ideas you entertain. Sometimes one of them will do
you up.
The unconscious humor of the St. James A. M. E. church
war at St. Paul is that Sunday's fight occurred immediately
follow ing a sermon on Brotherly Love,'' by the pastor, Rev.
Mr. Seymour. A narrator in a morning paper says:
"Two of the trustees were knocked out. So furious was
the struggle that the Rondo street patrol wagon was called
and a squad of bluecoats hurried to the scene. The fight was
practically over when the patrolmen arrived, and no arrests
were made.
"Rev. Mr. Seymour chose as his text, 'Ye Are the Salt
of the Earth.' and dwelt particularly on'brotherly love and
cheerfulness. At the conclusion of the sermon the congrega
tion knelt in prayer, and the preacher then announced that
the collection would be taken."
It was this simple ceremony that precipitated the war in
which two of the salt of the earth were put hors de unpleas
antness. The account says^
"According to the general version, the minister sought
to take charge of the second box, whereupon Mr. Minor en-
tered an objection and the trouble Started Robert Lowe,
another of the trustees, then struck the pastor a blow behind
the ear. Harris attempted to rescue his pastor, but was
knocked down, and his son, who had rushed to the rescue,
piled on top of him. Things looked bad for the loyalists at
this juncture, but the women rushed in between the com
batants and in the excitement Rev. Mr. Seymour escaped
thru a rear door. Someone attracted by the shrieks of the
women, and under the impression that murder was being
done, telephoned for the police."
The sacred text admonishes us to let brotherly love con-
tinue, but it assumes that it is already established. In case
of St. James this does seem to be the case.
The North Dakota Kernels' man tells 'of a bunco game
at Fargo in this succinct fashion:
"There was a 'possum supper at Williston. The south
erners in Fargo got up one a few years ago, and Doc Man
ning rung in a cat for a 'possum, and the gang all pronounced
it goodtill they found out how they had been buncoed."
A Le Sueur, Minn., correspondent, who has regained health
and strength from sleeping out of doors during a Minnesota
winter, takes exception to a statement in this column last
week, that the season for outdoor sleeping in Minnesota be-
gins May 1. In a letter to the editor, he says:
I came to Minnesota Sept. 17, from Colorado, and the
first thing I did was to arrange my bed on a screened porch.
This porch is about six feet wide. I have a suit of blanket
pajamas, and sleep under two blankets, two "comforters,"
and a canvas spread when it snows or rains. My pajamas
are provided with heavy sox, made of blanket, and the coaf
has an Eskimo cap that exposes only my eyes, nose, mouth
and a small portion of each cheek. I have slept out in my
open-air bedroom every night this winter. Twenty degrees
below zero has no terrors for me. In fact, the colder the
weather, the more restful my sleep.
I am an advocate of this life. Ill or well, I believe the
open-air bed is the one for any person. Wte one finally
wakes up in the morning there is no feeling of lassitude.
You are wideawake. I say 'finally wakes up' because I can,
and frequently do, sleep twelve to fourteen hours at night.
"Colorado naay be all right, but I'll take mine in Minne
sota. So long as I can dress and undress in the house, mak
ing my ingress and egress to and from bed thru a door or
window, I prefer Minnesota."
Minnesota is the best all-around state in the union. It is
doubtful if anyone could do this outdoor stunt in Nebraska,
where the climate shifts on you suddenly. A. J. R.
"VpTHY MEN WEAR EARRINGS.
E red-eyed sailor had small gold rings in his brown ears.
"Why do you wear earrings?", a young woman asked.
"For the eyes, ma'am," the sailor answered. "My eyes,
you see, is red as it is. Well, I'd 'a' been blind if I hadn't
been wearing earrings for the past seventeen years.
"All over the world, especially among sailors, ma'am,
it's a well-known fack that earrings cures sore eyes. They
will also cure wens on the eyelids.
"Watch the men you see wearrng earrings, ma'am, and
you'll find that
FA
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WHO CAN THE ARTIST BE?
Some word-painter at work in Minneapolis.
His Honor Secured a Lawyer
E Chicago drummer who was arrested
for assaulting the landlord of a South
Dakota hotel found that there was only
one lawyer in the village, and that he
had already been retained by the plain
tiff. In this emergency he demurred to
being tried, as he was not lawyer enough
to plead his own case, but the justice of
the peace calmly replied:
"This court will see that you have
all your rights. Anybody seen Jim
Peters around here?"
"He's outdoors," answered some
one.
"Then call him in."
Jim turned out to be a long and lathy farmer's hired
and not at all bright-looking, and as
man room his honor queried:
"Jim, which end of the
cow gets up first?"
"The hinder end, sir."
"AndU horse?"
"The fronter end."
"All right. This drum
mer has given Joe Harris
a black eye and wants a
Jawyer to prove that Joe
ran ag'in the door casing
and blaeked it himsell.
I'll app'int you as his
counsel.''
"But I'm no lawyer."
"But you've got com
mon sense, as you've
just proved, and that's
better yet. Go right
ahead."
Jim went ahead, and in
ten minutes he had the
other side so tangled up
that his honor laid his
spectacles aside and said:
"No use to go any fur
ther. There may have
been a row, and probably
there was a row, but Jim
is getting ready to prove
"JIM, WHICH END OF A COW GETS UP
FIRST!"
that the landlord was out in the
barn and the drummer across the street, and there's no use
taking up the time of" this court. I'll divide the costs, and
the parties had, better shake hands, while, as for Jim Peters,
he's a rising star that will continue to rise until it won't be
considered" no crime around here to jump another
claim."Fargo Forum.
What the Market Affords
OY
STER S, 40, 50 and 60 cents a quart.
Patty shells, 25 cents a dozen.
Strictly fresh eggs, 20 cents a dozen.
Sweet potatoes, six pounds for 25 cents.
Lemons, 15 and 20 cents a dozen.
Curry powder, 25 cents a bottle.
Carrots, 15 cents a peck.
Indian oyster patties are something new for those who
are fond of the toothsome bits of puff paste. To make the
filling for the patties) blanch a dozen oysters, remove the
beards only, not the muscle part, and lay in cold water. Melt
one and a half ounces of butter, add a chopped shallot, a
teaspoonful of flour, the same quantity of curry powder, the
liquor from the oysters, cayenne pepper and lemon juice.
When this is all blended over the fire, add a cooked carrot
cut into dice, and half a gill of cream. Fill the cases with
this mixture, put an oyster on the top and serve.
To make carrot croquettes, wash and scrape the carrots
and boil until tender, then drain and mash them. To each
cupful of the mashed ca"rrots add salt and,pepper, a tea-
spoonful of melted butter, the yolks of two raw eggs and
a pinch of mace. Mix well and set away until cold and stiff.
Form into very small croquettes, roll in cracker dust, then
in the yolk of an egg, then again in cracker dust, and set on
the ice for an hour before frying in deep, boiling lard,
WILLIE'S HOROSCOPE.
THER (after three months' absence)And the chil
dren?
MotherAll flourishing but Willie." I don't know what
to make of him. never plays. never laughs. is
continually to be found sneaking in and out of the pantry.
his pockets stuffed with jam-pots, pie and cake and at other
times, you are sure to find him in the nursery, trying to
pennies out of his sisters' savings banks.
Father (joyfully)A born financier, by jingo! JTfiis fam
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CHAMPAGNE SOARS.
E Frenchman'sD facW waO hacke an notched iX.UI Hs UULUIieU.. %jf
"Have you been a duelist?" one asked.
"No, no," the man replied. I have been a champagne*
maker." touched his face. "These honorable nicks,",
he said, "are champagne scars.
"Champagne scars," he went on, "decora te the visages of
all the workers in the underground champagne mills of
Rheims. They are caused by the bursting of the bottles.
About? one bottle of champagne in every ten bursts.
"There are miles and miles of champagne caves in
Rheims, caves cut in the solid limestone rock, where, in a
constant temperature of 45 degrees, millions of bottles of
wine refine and ripen.
"The workers down there smell nothing but champagne"
all day long, champagne escaping from burst bottles. And
as the turners move along the rackseach turns 35,000 bot-
tles dailythey are continually saluted with explosions.
Bang! And the glass splinters fly, and a little fountain of
champagne perfumes the damp air.
"Day after day each bottle must be turned, turned fifty
times altogether, till the sediment in it has all mounted up
and concentrated itself about the cork. Then the corkers
remove the corks, let the sediment-thickened wine in the
neck of the bottle blow off, and skilfully replace the cork
again.
"The corkers' and turners' work is dangerous. These
men are nearly all scarred like me."
QUAY HAIR WANTED.
E hairdresser, as he bent the young woman's lank hair
into the S-shaped curl that is called the Marcel wave,
talked.
"Of all the American ladies," he said, "who wear false
fronts of gray, not one in a hundred has a front of real
human gray hair. Why? Because real gray hair for fringes
and wigs is as rare a thing as a .Velasquez cartoon or a
Benvenuto Cellini silver mirror.
"For one gramme of gold you will pay 3 francs, or 60
cents. For one gramme of real gray hair that is naturally
curly, you will pay 15 francs, or $3. The best gray hair is
worth five times its weight in gold.
"Real gray hair is not on the market. You can only buy
it now and then. There is never enough of it to keep the
coiffeurs in stock.
I go to Italy every year or two, and pay all my expenses,
plus a profit, by buying Italian gray hair.
"Gray hair is less rare in Italy than in other countries
on accqunt of the convents. The inmates of convents have
their heads shaved, and all that beautiful shorn hair is sold.
Some of it*is gray. That I buy.
"When, madam, you see an old lady with a fringe of real
gray hair, be sure she must be rich. Be sure that, in the
crude state, that fringe cost about $3 a gramme, and be sure
that it came from Italy, from the head of a good woman."
VIOLET-TIPPED OIGARETS.
[I cigaret was tipped with violet petals. When he opened
golcl ease, there emanated a delicate and sweet
odor of violets that the aromatic Egyptian tobacco could not
overpower.
'"Ehese cigarets," he said frankly, "cost $10 a hundred.
They
are imported from Cairo, and after their arrival my
tobacconist tips them with flowers. The idea is stolen from
a member of Prince Louis' suite.
I ljfce violet tips best. The perfume is jolly, isn't it?
Wi th .a lavender shirt and handkerchief the violet looks
awfully well, too.
"Sometimes I have tips of rose petals. Red and pink and
white roses are used. The white rose tips are for the eve-
ning. The pink are for the morning. The red are for gay,
feverish functionsPittsburg swimming parties and so on."
A BANQUET I N CHINATOWN.
DEALER in carved teakwood gave in New York's China
town a Valentine day banquet to three women journal-
ists.
Raucous music accompanied the repast. The decorations
were little blue flowersChinese immortelles. The red and
white wines were served in small cups of pink porcelain with
out handles. This was the menu:
Shark's Fins, with Crab Sauce.
Pigeon Eggs, Stewed, with Mushrooms.
Sliced Sea-slugs, with Quince Jam.
Wild Ihick and Shan-Tung Cabbage.
Fish Fried in Peanut Oil. Pork Fried in Rice Flour.
Stewed Lily Root. Chicken Mashed with Ham.
Stewed Bamboo. Stewed Mussels.
Fried Pheasant. Mushroom Broth.
Fried Puddings, One Sweet and One Salt, Stewed Puddings,
Sweet and Salt, with Sauce and Almond Gruel.
Duck Fried in Sugar, with Peach Sauce.
Boned Chicken, Fried in Oil.
Boiled Fish. Mutton Fried in Pork Fat.
THE SAHARA'S POPULARITY.
E Sahara desert has become popular as a winter resort.
In the oases of palms nearest to the Mediterranean
coast a number of palatial hotels have arisen. I is now
possible to winter in the Sahara as luxuriously as at Ormond.
The desert's popularity is in great part due to Robert
Hichens' novel, "The Garden of Allah." I this novel Mr.
Hichens beautifully describes the Sahara's charm in winter.
Many persons, awakened by him to the beauty of the great
waste of yellow sand, now seek the Sahara as they once
sought Monte Carlo.
A New York man wrote to Mr. Hichens, and asked him
just where the scene of ".The Garden of Allah" was laid.
Mr. Hichens repliedfrom Taormina, in Sicily
"My town of Beni-Mora is drawn from Biskra, and there
you will find a garden like Count Anteoni'salso Arabs
much like Larbi, Batouch and Hadj."
TO REMEMBER YOUR UMBRELLA-
UT OST umbrellas, forgotten umbrellas," said the lost-and
found clerk, "pay my salary. W sell all that are
unclaimed, you know, deriving from this odd source $100 a
month.
"Nearly all lost umbrellas are left in trains. There is a
thing to do with an umbrella on entering a train that will
assure you of not leaving it. I'll tell you what that thing is.
"When you sit down in the car, place the umbrella on the
outside, between yourself and the aisle. Thus the umbrella
is a fence. It bars you in. When you jump up hastily to
get off at your station, you fall over it. You can't forget it,
whether you would or not.
Rememberthe umbrella on the outside, between you
and the aisle. Then it will never be left behind."
WHERE THEY BEAT US.
E Norwegians are the best fish cooks.
The Germans are the strongest-voiced nation.
The English school of water-color painting is the besifin
the world.
The Hawaiians are the world's best swimmers.
The Russians have the best teethart- excellence which
they impute to the regular chewing of sunflower seed.
i*v*y
In Spain a physician gets 5 cents a visit from a working
man, and 20 cents a visit from an aristocrat. He is sup-
posed to tend the poor for nothing* 4
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NO WONDER THEY LOOK!
(From the Bubberer's First Reader.)
Cleaning-up Sale
Gamossi
WAtfM GLOVES, MITTENS
FURS
Depot, Washington and Fourth
Aves. No.
J. 8. RIGKEL,
City Ticket Agent.
424 Nicollet Avenne,
MINNEAPOLIS,
Por ticket*aad berth reservation
catloo
J. 0. RIGKEL,
1 City Ticket Agent.
424 Nioollet Avenne,
See the pret-ty la-dies. Can the pret-ty la-dies lookf You bet they can
look. What are they looking at? Can you not guess? I can. They are looking
at a young man and a young woman who are going to be married. You do not
see anything ex-tra-or-di-nary about that? A-a-a-a-h! But wait till I tell you!
The young woman is the daugh-ter of the Pres-i-dent of these TJ-ni-ted States
and she is buying a brocade satin wed-ding gown and a going-away gown and
a coming-back-again gown and morning, noon and evening frocks, house gowns
and silk mull, white tulle, slippers, garden dresses, parasols, gloves and chiffon3,
Milan braid, embroidered roses, tiaras and real lace and shoes andOh! Lots
of pretty thingsand the Crowned Heads of Eu-rope, A-sia, In-dia and O-hi-o are
aching right now over what to send for wed-ding pres-entsand nobody knows
where they are going to spend their Honey-moon, because they won't tell*
andAh! NOW you see why the pretty ladies look, do you? All right.
New York Press.
15c
39c 19c
25c to 60c Quality
Wool Gloves, pair.
Boys' Fur Back Gloves
and Mittens, pair,
Men's Muleskin work
ing mittens 85c kind
Fur Lined Gloves and Mit
tens at less than cost.
610 Nicollet.
May Flower
MandolinsandGuitars
ABE THE BEST ON EARTH.
Catalogue for the asking.
Expert repairing.
1^^X_?T^ Met- Music Co.
MUNZER'S
SPECIAL SALE O
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
An Attractive Large
REGINA
One Dollar
A WEEK.
Minnesota Mi ia Co.
329 Hennepin Av.
Pretty Display Rooms,
Second Floor.
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Over
Voegeli's
Examined
OPTICIAN
Glasses Fitted.
GEO. J. PRESTON
Chicago and Return, $8
St. Louis and Return, $20
The ShortMINN. Line to Ho Springs, Ark.
Through Special Train
620^ Nio. AT*.
Suite 204-5.
Tickets on Sale February 1?
and 18, Limited Ten Days.
The "North Star Limited" is the
finest train running to Chicago.
Brand new electric-lighted compart
ment and open section sleepers re
ceived this week from Pullman
shops, buffet library car, elegant
new dining car and free reclining
chair car.
Arrange early
and berths.
for your tickets
Tuesday, February 20th
Tickets will allow two weeks on the
Island of Cuba. Bates, including mealsd
and berth on boat, $54.00
There is an art In writing a Journal want ad for a servant. Many servants
4 are already employed but are looking for better positions. State the advan-
tages of the position you offer when you advertise.
an
$69.00' according to steamer accommo
dations. $84.60 for tickets good for six
months.
This through special train will he per
sonally conducted by our own representa
tive, and every detail for the comfort of
the party will he provided.
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