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mr 1 With the Long Bow "Eye Natvrm'M walks, shoot folly am it flies." Report from tfte Sweet Pea Seeding of 1906Large Increase in the Acreage Over Last YearGov ernment Reports of Condition Notoriously Incor- rectNorthwestern Miller Raps Sweet Pea Crop Estimators. v-% EPOBTS from South.shows Minneapolise state that the fix a 8wee je Magee of Excelsior was quite indignant last summer, the stoiy is just leaking out now, to find several embalmed flies in his butter supply. Ho hurried it back to the store and "regretted to re- "port," etc. The grocer was not there and the new froy tried to make it all right by explaining in an tpologetic way: **I picked out all of them I could find.'* Robert Barrow of Macon, Mo., raised a crop of gldewhiskers and has received forty-seven press no tices, twenty-five telegrams and 1,017 personal in quiries. At last he published a card in the local "papers telling why he did it! His two reasons were: First, to see if he could and second, to see if the public would stand it. If you wish your friends to notice you pleasantly, one of the surest ways is fco start a pair of sidewheel whiskers. 730) The other day, when there were 127 on the Lake Minnetonka car wedged in like olives in a bottle, -A. 0. Long of Excelsior, who sometimes writes short hand so fast that he gets ahead of the speaker, tried to get the conductor to stop in front of Mr. Hield's flat while he got that official to come out and see what he was doing. But the conductor was unac commodating and refused to do it. A high medical authority in a recent work in sists that a man "should not hesitate to sing" bo- """eause he has "n voice." This scientist says by all means sing and acquire the habit of singing some every day, whether or not you are musically inclined. The reason for this recommendation is that sing ing develops the various passages and chambers of the respiratory tract fTom brow to diaphragm, and trains and practices in deep full breathing. En tirely apart, therefore, from all idea of making vocal ists singing should be practiced by all. This ad vise seems to be given with no regard whatever for Ihe feelings of others. A man naturally wishes to keep his respiratory tracts open, but he desires as well the good will of his neighbors and friends. There, are those varieties of vocal exercise that turn friends and acquaintances into enemies and sprinters from start to finish. The doctor, if he is a lover of his kind, ought to' accompany his advise with an argument for having the walls of our houses and flats deadened.'' Unfortunately, no method has yet been devised for having the voice operated on, taken out, sandpapered, tuned and put back. Singing is good but unless one is pretty sure of Ms ground he should retire to his music room for It&^adulgence. A. J. R. LITERATURE. !Fu get yourself a pen or twoj You also get some ink. And then there 'B nothing else to do Except to sit and think. Lamb stew, 5 cents a pound. New carrots, 5 cents a bunch, Strictly. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Tieadwell is the iuccessor of Margaret Haley as the ""head of the Chicago teacher's united l&ovement to win pure democracy for Ihe schools, and thereby to make better ftnd, nobler citizens of the boys and Tuesday^Evening,, Acreag a larg increase over II that of last year. The farmers got their seed fin early, and with the abundant rains the plant has tooled nicely and shows no signs of fly or rust, It is generally conceded that the government re fcort on the 10th of the month, showing for South piinneapolis an average of 8.4, against 9.2 last year, -Is entirely too low. There is a general feeling thar. the government ought to get nearer to the facts or iget out of the crop estimating business. Seeding of sweet peas 'on Western avenue was Checked by the rain and the farmers are not yet fable to get out on the land. Dry weather is needed prom now on in order to get the seed in. 1 The Northwestern Miller states that the crdp esti imators on the last pea crop we're ridiculously low, land insists that there were sweet peas enough raised ho have a bunch on every breakfast table, with two 'Slillion bunches for export. North Minneapolis reports a lafe spring, with no jsweet pea sui-plus left in farmers' hands beyond the tamount needed for seeding. J. J. Hill's Pure Seed Special train is now towing North Minneapolis, giv ing the people an object lesson in choosing seed for ur colors. Government reports of acreage in North Minneapolis are notoriously off. m^- The Sheldon (N. D.) Progress, speaking of the gladsome springtime, when the lambkins are gam- jDoling in the meadows and daring blossoms of ^cerulean hues are on our brown Dakota prairies rife," knd song birds chant praises 'neath an azure sky, Itates that L. C. Mallory, until recently foreman of the Enderlin Independent, is now at Grand Forks and sang ''The Palms" in the Presbyterian church |here last Sunday. Palms are all right for early svegetables, and it is just like the King of the Com posing Boom to discover them growing out in the JBfoyth Dakota hedgerows on the 22d of March. 1 Shortly after the fire in Pembina a scarehead in the Grand Porks Herald stated that "Pembina Is Biasing Fresh from Its Asses." This the Sheldon Progress construed as an attempt on the part of ^Editor Hagen "to say something mean about Daddy Waidwell." What the Market Affords fresh eggs, 16 cents a dozen. Piccalli 1 5 cents a quart. Pearl barley, 15 cents a package. Cocoa shells, 10 cents a package. To make that popular dish, Scotch broth, wipe three pounds of lamb or mutton cut from the forequarter. Cut Eean meat in inch cubes, discarding the fat and skin. Put in a kettle, cover with three pints of cold water, bring jrnickly to the boiling point, skim, and add one-half cupful of barley which has -Jbeen soaked in cold water to cover over tight. Simmer two hours or until the *3fKff$g A meat is tender. Put the bones in a second kettle, cover with cold water, heat slowly to the boiling point, skim, and let boil one and one-half hours. Strain the stock from the bones and add it to the meat. Fry five minutes in two tablespoonfuls of butter, one fourth of a cupful each of carrot and turnip cut in half-inch dice, and half of an onion thinly sliced. Add these to the stew, with salt and pepper to taste, and cook until the vegetables are soft. Thicken with two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour cooked together. Just before serving add half a table spoonful of finely chopped parsley. girls of the city. For the past year she has ably served the Chicago Teach ers' association, having been elected president in April, 1905. Mrs. Tread well is a native of New York state and a graduate of the Oswego, N. Y. normal school. Her teaching career has ex tended over a long period and has in cluded all grades. She was married in 1897 to Dr. Charles Treadwell, but did not give up her professional work. Mrs. Treadwell is a specialist in chil dren's reading and has instituted a "Book Review Day in her school wisen teacher and pupils listen to re views and discuss the worth of a book and its writer. The right direction is tactfully given to children's reading. I never say to a boy: 'you shan't read this book,' or 'it's horrible to read dime novels' but rather, I suggest va rious good books, until at last he is spoiled for the improbable, the false, the vulgar and the vicious," she says. Mrs. Treadwell is deeply interested in all things that tend towards the ad vancement of women and is enlisted among the active workers for suffrage in the state of Illinois. Never use soap in cleaning sieves or saucepans. FLOWERS OF THE FLOUR CITY SISSICUS ROOSEFELTICUM. In full bloom in the Flour City at the present time Brings out latent talent from unexpected places Much appreciated by society in general. A String of Good Stories "I cannot tell how the troth may be I say the tale as 'twas told to the." THE WIDOW COMFORTED. ttHTHE late John A. McCall," said a broker, "had I at the end of his tongue a host of insurance stories. "Once, in urging a man to invest in a large pol icy, he told a story of a Pike county girl. "This girl married a young guide, and the day after the wedding the guide took out a policy for $1,500. Then, with his wife, he started for Porter's Lake with a party of sportsmen, the wife to cook and wash dishes, the man to clean fish and so on. "Now, unfortunately, the young guide was bit ten by a rattlesnake one morning, and a few days afterwards he died. "The widow notified her family and friends of his death in a note that said: 'Bill parst away yestidy. Loss fully covered by insurance.' GREAT MEN'S BROTHERS. N EDITOB was praising Max Beerbohm, the brother of the distinguished actor, Beerbohm Tree. I went to London to see Tree in 'Nero,' he said, "and at Prince's restaurant one evening I was introduced to Max Beerbohm. "He is a critic of the theatera brilliant critic and a brilliant talker. "He told us that he was at present engaged on a book entitled 'The Brothers of Great Men.' As he was praising this book, some one said: 'By the way, you are Beerbohm Tree's brother, are you not?' 'Yes,' answered Mr. Beerbohm calmly. 'He will be in the book.' A PRETTY STORY. iinpHE late S. P. Langley was a great scientist 1 and a great aeronaut," said a congressman. "All who go in for flying must master Langley's Law, the law of the air, before they can hope to achieve anything. Professor Langley was regarded aB an aeronautical failure only by the uninformed. "This poor man wrote well and spoke well. I once induced him to speak to a party of children at an Easter celebration. "His topic was 'Love,' and he treated the topic beautifully. He told, for one thing, how, on a spring morning, he was walking in the country, when he saw a very little, pale, frail girl carrying a very big and robust baby. "As the little girl staggered by with her huge burden he couldn't resist saying: 'Isn't that baby very heavy?' "The little girl looked up in shocked surprise. 'Why, no she said. 'He's not heavy. He'a my bruvver.' fdi&it%.^a A MODISH STREET GOWN Few women realize how great a part lines play in the becomingness and style of a gown. But there is art in every thing beautiful and it cannot be over looked in the creation of feminine ap parel any more than in the arrangement of the hair. The tendency of the day is toward straight and slender effects and the gown which gives lengthening lines is a great aid to this result. The gown sketched here is one of the very charming new models. It is developed in the beautiful VigoureUx with chemi sette and deep cuffs of embroidered and tucked Swiss. Small buttons in Per- ripAmwWN(& THEf MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. -A^VW Feminine Theory vs. Practice ARTER entered the room quiet ly and sat down in a corner. It was the "reception room" of the boarding house, and the boarders were down, waiting for dinner to be an nounced. They had all been there for years and knew each other'B personal history, hab its and idiosyncrasies. Carter was the only new boarder. The man with the serious gray eyes was talking. I have never been able to understand why it is, he wes saying, "that the men whom other men re spect are the very ones that women seem to care the least for. I mean the steady-going quiet, dependable chaps. They may even be religious but if they are sincere, other men respect them on account of their sterling qualities and strong characters. They make valuable employees, for they are conscientious in their work and can be relied upon. But I notice that women pay no attention to them at all, and often shun being thrown into contact with them." "It is because they are not interesting," said the girl with the red ribbon round her throat. "You can't expect a woman who likes laughter and bright conversation to enjoy a talk with a man who has all the cheerfulness of an undertaker." "Yes, I know," said the man with the gray eyes. "But it does seem to me that when a woman gets tired of chasing *round in the lights and glitter of social affairs and wants to settle down she would pick out one of these steady fellows whose habits she knows are above reproach and whom she knows would make a devoted husband. But instead of that she is fas cinated with some slick-headed dude who can hold up his end of an inane conversation, or some fluffy-haired artist who can drum on the piano. It is a common thing for a really nice girl to marry some saphead, who has no thoughts above a game of poker and a cock- tail." "Well, a girl likes a man who has a little spice in him," returned the girl with the ribbon. "If he has just a little dash of wickedness in him, it lends him a kind of fascination and makes him interesting. He gives the girl a kind of sensation of playing with fire." 'Spice,' 'playing with fire'pish!'' said the gray-eyed man dis gustedly. I am no Puritan and I don't ob ject to a man's having his good time occasion ally but I prefer that he have a little sense along with his ability to absorb. The trouble is, the average girl al ways gives the man with brains the goby for a dude that can cut a dash before the ladies.'' "Now, for all you know," said the berib boned girl, "she may have the best motive in marrying such a man. If he is wild, very often she sees some good points in him, and she thinks after marrying him she can bring them out." "Yesmarrying a man 6 reform himthat is one of the fondest delusions that the soul of woman cherishes," answered the gray-eyed man in cutting tones. "She thinks that with her sweetness of dispo sition, her heart-and-soul devotion, her loving ways, her charming blandishments, she can wean him from his folly. She firmly believes she can take a nincom poop with an empty head and mold him with her pink young fingers into a great, noble man, who will tower far above the common herd in the strength of his per sonality and massive brainslush!" "Well, I don't care what you say." answered the girl with the red ribbon. "It's no use to. try to have a sensible discussion with you men, anyway. You are so overbearing and opinionated that you can't toler ate any beliefs but your own. As for myself, I in tend to marry a man who has a little life in him. I would rather he stay out every night than to sit up in the evenings reading tracts. I admire the man who has a little warm blood and vigor in him. I don't want to live with a corpse that" Just then dinner was announced and the conver sation was quickly forgotten in the rush for the table. A week after this Carter was called away on a business trip to the west, and did not return for sev eral months. He arrived in the city late one afternoon and hastened to the boarding house for the evening meal. He received a hearty greeting as he walked into the dining room from what seemed to be the same old coterie of boarders. But one face was missing. "What has become of the girl who used to wear Where Feminine Fancy Lights serve as a modish trimming. The skirt is one of the new circular models and not difficult to construct. Cashmere, taffetas, chiffon broadcloth or one of the fashionable raw silks might fashion this gown. For the medium size yards of 36-inch material are needed. Two patterns: 6471sizes, 32 to 42 inches bust measurre 6472sizes, 20 to 30 inches waist measure. The price of these patterns is 20c, but either will be sent upon receipt of 10c. Name No Street Town State MeasurementWaist Bust. Age (If child's or miss' pattern) $ PATTBBN No. 04T1-6472. JJPON RECEIPT OF 10c. THE PATTERN DEPT. OF THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL will send the above-mentioned pattern, aa per directions given below. (Write the name carefully). CAUTIONBe careful to give correct number and size of pattern wanted. When the pattern is bust measure you need only mark 32, 84 or whatever It may be. When in waist measure, 22. 24, 26. or whatever it may be. When miss' or child's pattern write only the figure representing the age. It is toot necessary to write "inches" or "years."' sian colorings fasten the points and of the navy and daughter of Justice life in an architect's office. "^^^4***4r!8p^^ -$ COSTLY CHILDREN'S PARTIES It's bad enough, say women of mod erate means, when wealthier ones set a standard of extravagance in enter tainments for grown folk, but when they show similar foolish lavishness at parties for children, why, say the ob jectors, it's little short of criminal. One observant woman says an almost certain result of "splurges" in that line will be the end of the children's fancy ball in many cities. Washing ton offers eases in- point. There are two hostesses there who have spent from $10,000 to $20,000 annually in such pastimes. One is Mrs. Richard son Clover, wife of faommander Clover Xm I SHOULD KEEP IT TOHERSELF. MyrtillaI should just like to catch any man kiss ing me! MirandaI don't doubt it, but you shouldn't admit it. the red ribbon round her throat?" he inquired of the man who sat on his right. "Oh, she's left us for a home of her own," was the reply. "She married a Baptist minister. He was a widower with six children."New York Press. K. Jerome on Being Funny The English Humorist Is Quite Sure that American Jokesmiths Are Working OvertimeStrange Pop ularity of the Slap-Stick Artist with an Audience Betraying Evidence of Intelligence. N THE current Everybody's Jerome K. Jerome says: "There is a danger that the stage is coarsen ing humor. I went to one of the New York vaude ville theaters not long ago, and during the course of the performance an actor came ondoubtless a capable representative of his craftwho gave a very delicate recital, full of real humor and of witty points. This performer but mildly amused the audi ence he was merely tolerated. Following on his heels came a company who proceeded to engage them selves simply in 'knock-about business.' One man sat down on a bandbox and wiped his face with a feather boa, or a hat, I forget which, and tipped up against a sideboard and brought down a lot of crockery, and so on. "This went on for about twenty minutes, and the whole of the audience was delighted. Prom all appearances they were intelligent, educated people. It was undoubtedly a first-class theaterif I may so assume from the fact that I was sitting in a dollar seat. The audience was composed of professional peo plewell-to-do tradesmen and business men. But they did not seem to enjoy the humor of the preceding actor, which was real humor. They preferred the 'knock-about business.' They roared ever it. They doubled themselves up with laughter. I think the American indulges too much in humor. He really absorbs too much humor. It is like a man who has come to drink champagne for every meal. "Even assuming that humor is the salt of life, we don't want to eat salt with a spoon. But here in America everything seems to be sacrificed to humor. Your politics have to be made humorous. Your courts of justice have to amuse. Before a great time has gone by you will be having funnv sermons. We shall hear that Bev. So-and-So's Sun day morning's sermon was a real screamer1that was received with roars of laughter. "Then the church service will be considered bit too slow, and will have to be rewritten by son: bright young humorist from a newspaper office. Your very murder cases will have to be made 'bright.' It is a foregone conclusion that domestic tragedies shall be side-splitting. I really am not sure that in time America will not get to a comical funeral ser vice, with a low-comedy undertaker." INCIDENT VS. ISSUE. Harper's Weekly. Many a budding statesman loses by mistaking an incident for an issue. Miller of California the other, Mrs. William F. Draper, wife of the former ambassador to Rome. Mrs. Clover once had costly electric apparatus installed in her home to illuminate devices for the children. A flery dragon opened its mouth and a troupe of tiny fairies scampered around at the touching of a button. Mrs. Draper planned equally costly effects. In consequence, parents who didn't have millions found them selves unable to keep up with such a pace. So they frowned on the ex travagant affairs and many invitations were not accepted. Mrs. Roosevelt let her three small children attend only one fancy ball of Mrs. Clover's. Af ter that they were represented by "re- grets. DON'T HAVE TOO MANY CLOTHES It is a great mistake to have too many garments at one time. People who dress well at a moderate expense never do this. They have what they need, bestow good care upon their belongings, and mend them when necessary when their clothes wear out they buy new ones, but they never care to have relays of garments. One sometimes reads of wealthy brides having enormous trous seaux, fashionable hats, bonnets and dresses by the- score. Such people are not to be envied. They only possess what they do not know what to do with. They cannot -wear cut their own fin ery, and in the long run other persons their maids or second-hand clothes deal ersare certain to get the reversion thereof. Fashionable garments very soon get out of date, and the more "stylish" they were when new, the more remarkable they seem when the mode has altered. i i Thomas Hardy, the novelist, spent his early Defective Page SMILING it PEERING LONG BLACK SILK MOVES Also Long Lisle and LAce Gloves. Elbow Length Gloves in Silk. Suede and Glace Kid, in all colors. 610 NICOLLET Half a Store of Gloves, the other half Umbrellas. 6AK0SSI GLOVE CO. No. 20 St. Paul Tent & Awning Co. MAKERS OF TENTS, AWNINGS SHADES, FUGS AND COVERS of every description. ROLLER AWNINGS a Specialty. Writefor atalogue and Prices. 356-8 JACKSON ST. ST. PAUL. MINN. Curios and Oddities Tit Passing Strange!' EGOS AND EASTER. HE egg from time immemorial has been associated. with Easter. The egg has typified life always. Jg^ In the middle ages it was forbidden to eat eggaX^ during Lent. xHence, ANTIQUITY OF FOUNTAIN PENS. A NEW idea in a fountain pen," said the anti quary. A self-filler. Without bothering with a glass dropper, you just dip the pen itself in an ink stand, press this small spring and, in a jiffy, the pen contains enough ink to last a week. "We are accustomed, by the way," the old man con tinued, "to think the fountain pen a comparatively new invention. I discovered today that it is 120 years old at least120 years old." He took down an old book from the mahogany shelf, Samuel Taylor's "Universal System of Short hand Writing," published in 1786, and from the work he read the following proof of the fountain pen's great age: I have nothing more to add," wrote Samuel Tay- IOT, "for the use or instruction of the practitioner, ex cept a few words concerning the kind of pen proper to be used for writing shorthand. For expeditious writing^ some use what are called fountain pens, into which your ink is put, which gradually flows when writing, from thence into a smaller pen cut short to fit the smaller end of this instrument but it is a hard matter to meet with a good one of this kind. A NEED FILLED. a little, the stationer took out a large en graved card, like a wedding invitation. Something new,'' he said. An importation from Paris. Notwithstanding our divorce congresses, this fills a crying need." The card read: "Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Smith-Harrison Beg to Announce the Dissolution of their Marriage Thursday, April 2, 1006. There is no change in Mr. Harrison's address. Mrs. Harrison will reside at The Bartram Flats. At Home Thursdays After Oct. 1. POOR OHAF. handed,to the lean, pale convict a tract and a crocus. "What brought you here, my good manf" she said gently. The soft, kind voice drew tears to the poor fellow's eyes, and, choking back a sob, he answered tremu lously. "Trying, madam, to keep a twenty-horse power automobile in repair on a ten-horse power salary." -r- for forty days, eggs accumulated. In ordervto gat them eaten, they were boiled hard, dyed bright-junk, or blue, or yellow, and given to the children on B&ster morning. This is one of a dozen explanations of the. dyed Easter egg. In Prance, at Easter, in the district of Brisse, 100 eggs are placed in a levej field and covered with sand. Then the lads and lasses, two by two, dance over them together. Of those who break^no eggs in dancing and few break anyit is prophesied thai they will marry before the year is out. In Russia, at Easter, the lowest mujhik has the right to kiss any lady in the land, provided that he presents her with an egg beforehand. Egg-picking is the striking of two eggs together," |f first butt to butt, then point to point, the winner con fiscating the broken egg. This custom prevails all over America, but in Manayunk it is especially popu lar. The Manayunk boys, weeks before Easter be gins, mav be heard shouting in stentorian tones: Got^'n egg! Got'n egg!'' The word "Easter" is derived from the name of the Saxon goddess, Eostre, whom tfhe Saxons wor shipped in April. THE BEAST MEN. nTHE beast men live in the saddest place in the world, in Terra del Fuego, back of Cape Horn," said a sea captain. "They walk like apes, with their hands hanging before their knees, and in the bitter winds and snows of the cape they wear nothing but a strip of hide across their bony shoulders. "They live by fishing and hunting. They hunt with bows and arrows, and their dogs help them mar velously in beating^ up the game. In their fishing, too, the dogs area great help, swimming like seals, herding the fish into the nets as sheep dogs-round up sheep. "The beast men and their dogs, you see, are on pretty much the same level. That is why, perhaps, the beast men can train dogs better than we. I have seen one of these dogs, at a word from his master, plunge into the cold sea and bring up a live fish in his mouth. "These people, in their angling, bite a piece out of the stomach of every fish that is landed. They do this to kill the fish, and also to satisfy their own hun ger. "They like to wander on the mud flats at low tide in search of shellfish. They crack the shellfish and eat them as they find them. And they eat every thingsea-spiders, sea-anemones, starfish, jellyfish. They are beasts, not men. I saw a group of them one evening on those deso late beaches. The cold was bitter. It was snowing. And they, naked, silent, crouching, waded in the grey, cold water, and ate the shellfish and the sea-anemones and the starfish that they found in the half-frozen slime and ooze." thru the bars into a gloomy cell, she SEE THE SOFT HATS At $3.00 All colors, all APPROVED shapes, all NOBBY, all NEW. SEE OUR WINDOW Showing the NEW pleated coat shirts for spring, in color designs you will be glad fashion approves of. WE SELL THE THINGS MEN LIKE BEST. W. V. WHIPPLE 426 NICOLLET AVENUE. 'I 1 i I