The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-02
EpistIes to St. Paul.

That's pretty warm necktie," said
casual acquaintance to the Philistine yester-
day
'Oh, l don't know" he replied, that shirt
you have on would not freeze any ice."
That shirt" continued the c. A., "repre
sents $500 in cash"
1T does not look it, at that. How was
it2"
well, our family has a little money in
the pater's name, and a short time ago he
induced to invest $500 in shirt manu-
featuring project with young man who was
to furnish the experience to supplement the
three centuries. The young man took his
horse on the southern circuit and dad had
to take the shirt outfit. which consisted of
sewing machine and about two dozen sample
shirts. This was the only one that would fit
any of the family"
(Which reminds me-" said an out-of-town
bystander, ''of the con game that was worked
in the sale Of a North Dakota farm. 1t
would not be fair to give the fellows name
or the exact locality of the tract In question,
but the owner had had hard time making
ends meet with it, Finally he got a chance
to sell eighty acres Of 1t to a new conner
The consideration was not much, and the new
man thought he had good bargain. The
"A X
planned to friend:
" The fellow couldn't read or write so
made the deed for the whole 100 acres"
1t would not be without the range Of human
probabilities if Sam Fullerton should become
editor after he gets through being game
and fish commissioner when the Democrats
get into power. Sam has demanded a retrac-
tion from the Fargo Forum, which recently
published the statement that Fullerton had
been arrested at Cayuga. Maj. Edwards did
not write back:
''It was mistake-the types did 1.-THE
words ought to- were left out-an apology
appears in the accompanying sample copy
terms, 81 a year.
The major just wrote that it was clipped
from a usually reliable rural exchange and
full correction had been made
Still Fullerton wants to sue and get the
paper anyway.
The ties of religion. the relationship of
blood, the congeniality that is begot of good
fellowship, all of those bonds that go to
bind man to man and brother to brother are
as nothing to the bonds that bind the hay
fever sufferer to the sufferer from hay
fever. Did you ever notice It? 1t isn't q
disease, this hay fever, It's q secret society.
Did you ever talk to hay fever patient in
that delightful year when he is revealing in
his disease. 1t would be worth your while
He knows every other hay fever infected
party within four miles, knows the individual
manifestations of the disease in most of
them, knows just the hour so and so may
look for the elimination of his attack and
exactly the location the side hill at Du-
Iuth when his hay fever leaves him. It's
the oldest thing in medicine John Tallman
may never think of George Markham from
the 1st of September to the LIST of the follow
ing August. But let them meet about the
middle of August and they'll fall on each
others neck.
Let's see, you're due on the 10Th, amt
YOU" one will say
eyes, and you come along on the 21st
How do you feelT
Then they go into the pathology Of hay
fever IN a manner that would make the
ordinary doctor feel that he didn't know any
thing about it. Listen to them sometime,
There was pause In the hum of the
voices, and the faces looked up from their