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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-05
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there, arranging his books and letters,
which, however, she did not read,
making new cushion for the chair he
liked best, and working pair Of slip
pers with initials Of her own hair.
She showed them to Mrs. Fry when
the latter called in one day to see her.
II want everything in order when
Mr.. Hamilton comes back" she said;
"his old slippers were quite shabby
and he will like these"
Sure enough. I guess he will.
Them letters on that crimson velvet
looks awful nice. s'pose you
haven't heard nothin' from him ?'
mot a word"
Beats all! but the mails amt what
they once was. A letter wrote to my
sister out west she never got. Wall
you'll hear fore long, but mebbe he'll
come to surprise you" j.
Mrs. Fry kept up the fiction, when
ever she talked with Mrs. Hamilton, OF
supposing Mr.. Hamilton to have been
delayed for a week or two by business
| tho she knew perfectly well the grave
charges against him, and daily felt a
giving away of her own once firm
convictions Of his innocence.
But who could tell her?' she said
to Dan that night after her return
home, "and she a-gettin' ready for
him all the time, and a-workin' slip
Ipers with her own hair. Shed
oughter know it. but hain't the heart
to tell her, poor thing, and she is git
tin as poor as crow, too, and holler-
eyed and peakid."
Mr.. Carter might let her know; it's
his place, mother"
az know it; but, poor man, you
know how he hates trouble or work OF
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Women are Deep he thought.
.'she wants me to- think, anyway, that
her confidence is untouched"
Constance" he said gravely, "has
it not occurred to you that your hus-
band may never return 2"
tell me that?" she cried in a sharp,
wild voice. clasping her hands and
looking at him with wide eyes and
terrified gaze.
''No, no, child. don't mean that,
but maybe. it is as bad"
AS bad! Nothing could be as bad
as to lose my husband, uncle. could
better lose all else besides. I have
thought about tia great deal since he
went away, and am convinced that to
lose Vane would kill me-
8. ooh, come now, Constance, I
wouldn't go on like that. Women's
husbands die every day and they don't
feel like that; the most of EN- get
married again. I only wish your hus-
"As we'll off as theirs-dead! What
do you mean, Uncle Carter said Cons
lance, rising with indignant face,
crimson where it was pallid before,
''ta sit here and tell me you wish my
husband was dead! Are you crazy?''
You will make me crazy, Constance
if you go on that way. Your husband
Il
it out and hopping his face energeti-
i cally. II meant to have broken it to
.you easy, but you wouldn't let me" he
said in a complaining tone. It was
hard enough, he thought, to pay bonds
and do Vane's work, without being
abused by Constance when he was
striving, SO hard, too, to spare her
feelings. But he was alarmed direct
1 ~ by Constance falling back in her
chair. Her hand dropped beside her
Eand an ashen hue covered her face,
i Her uncle thought she was dying. He
flew to her side, grasped a tumbler OF
water and was about to deluge her
with it, but she put up her hand and
said weakly:
No, not that, am SO cold She
was shivering now, and her teeth chat
4 tered audibIy.
What shall 7 get your" cried her
uncle.
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THE ROOSTER WAS A [
DETECTIVE.

''Why, Sam, haven't you heard about
the capen's roosters?''
No sab, answered the darky, II
hain't heerd nothing bout no rooster"
well, this rooster continued the
engineer, lis a kind of detective.
Whenever the cap'n's missed anything
about the house he calls everybody in
the house into one room, then he
points to them one after another.
When he points at the right one the
rooster crows, and then he knows who
stole the missing article"
8 This seemed to worry Sam a great
deal. .That>evening, just before knock
ing Off time, he went to the captain
and said:
"Marse Joe, yo amt got no rooster
detective, is YOU
| Eyes, Sam, I have" replied the cap
| tain.
well, yo' amt gwine to bring dat
rooster down here, is yo, cap'n? 2"
Eyes, I am. You see, I must have
my shoes, and that is the only way to
find out who has them,'' continued the
captain.
well, cap'n, for the Laws sake
don't bring dat rooster down here, TO-,
if 70, points at me, he's show gwine
to crow
The captain then told Sam if the
shoes We're returned he would not
bring the rooster down. The darky
agreed to this. The next morning the
captain received a small package ac-
companied by the Negroes resignation
as fireman Of the boat. %
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what folly is this, Constance" said

What folly is this, Constance" said
her uncle, sternly. Henderson and
I held out till we could do so no longer.
The proofs were overwhelming; the
account you have read is true
"Oh, uncle, you don't believe it.
You can't believe it. !"
MY poor girl. do; there IS nc
| choice but to do So"
But because he went away and does
| not return, is that criminal? He may
| be i'll somewhere. People frequently
have brain fever and cannot tell sc
much as their names"
but vane was well on the twenty
eighth Of May. He was at the bank
| the twenty-second. He got five thou.
sand dollars at the national bank ir
Boston on a note which he presented
himself"
'But hadn't he a right to when he
is the treasurer? p
4 .'He hadn't the right, Constance, te
alter the note, making the amount ter
times as much"
ooh, but it must have been some one
else.''
Low, Simon Low, the cashier, know:
him perfectly, my dear"
.I would sooner think Low changed
1 it himself and pocketed the rest after
giving vane the five hundred"
THAT is folly Constance: Low
/
there is nothing else to do but believe
the story. i stood out stOutly, and 81
did Henderson, till we heard Low
statement. That decided US"
You took the. word of stranger
against Vane, whom you have known
| for years
Listen, Constance" said her uncle
quite patiently, tho he inwardly won
dered that women could be so unrea
+. sonable. 1.-THE proofs were over
whelming before; they satisfied ever!
one else; sbut when Lows letteescam<
Ito the president of the bank, then {
Telegram stating details, we had to be.
llieYe. If more proof were needed, d
twas supplied afterwards. when another
altered note, this time altered from
1890 to $4.000,scame in. For a day OF
two it looked as If the bank must fail
The trustees issued a circular to the
| banks Of the country to send in any
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deposits. they might have of their pa
per, but there was no response; sosit
is likely no other notes were offered.
That is exactly as the matter stands,
Constance. I thought it wrong to leave
you in ignorance any longer. You
know how I hate unpleasantness or
trouble offany sort, and that | would
not have told you If it could have been
avoided"
It know Uncle Carter, you meant
to be kind" said Constance in low,
restrained voice. Il am sorry spoke
to you sharply, but was upset by hav-
ing the matter preached when I had
set it one side. I don't believe 1T now,
and I am sorry that you do. Vane
will be surprised, uncle, to see how
soon you could be made~to harbor sus-
picions against him. But no matter,
as he opened his mouth to speak,
you cannot help it, perhaps. You did
not know. him as did. 1 am sorry
about the money, but Vane will re1m-
burse you if he is living. Ifnot will
and Constance took up some sewing
and, selecting a needle already
threaded, took a few tremendous
stitches.
Her uncle went out the, door and
down to his Office Illuminating.
that, but she won't give way
to them. There are deeper
feelings at work in her heart
than her words show. Poor Constance!
What brave soul she has! And to
think he should desert her! A bank
defaulter and the deserter of woman
she like Constance! It is hard to be-
tlieve all this of Vane Hamilton
Hard, indeed, but how many In
stances like it are on record. Insti-
| tutions for savings have been proved
necessary. The most trustworthy
men, as they are supposed to be, are
placed nearest the money center. Re-
speHsible men, in most cases personal
friends, are held as sureties under
heavy bonds. And yet what Is the re-
! suit? 1t can be read almost any day in
the newspapers in the records of bank
defaulters, in the history, OF men whose
honesty was slowly consumed by prox-
unity to temptation, the incident to
great trusts.
.(To be continued to-morrow.l
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her knees and stretched forth her
hands appealingly. Ladson held forth
his right hand toward Hubbard.
BLESS you, my children" said FL
bertus in dramatic style. Don't be
afraid Of me. I wanted to be the first
to congratulate YOU"
"And you will forgive me-" Sadie
cried.
Shake, pop" said the enthusiastic
Ladson, and it was the happiest trio
in New York. Then Ebert Hubbard,
Jr, the son of Fra, appeared, and al
tho the gossiDs of East Aurora say
this youth was Sweet on Sadie, he
added his blessing. He says it was
furthest from his mind to win the
maid and the tale to that effect Is f1c-
ton.
That night Fra Elbertus lectured on
"Ingersoll, the Iconoclast," in the Man
haitian theater. Ebert Jr., and the
Buffers sat in a box and led the ap-
plause.
After the lecture there was a recep-
ton, and the Master Roycrofter was
pathizers. Women with fshy eyes
and disheveled hair fairly fought for
grip of the Roycrofter's hand.
Hubbard said after the crowd had
got thru shaking his hand.
! ''Why, there was nothing to forgive.
Sadie was my adopted daughter, and
love her devotedly. But she was in
love, altho only IT. believe firmly
she knew her own mind. I really think
it is unfortunate that a girl should fall
in love so early in life.
"She is robbed Of woman's happiest
period-careless, = mirthful girlhood.
But she will be happy. She has mar
ried a clean-cut, honest fellow. BY the
way, it is absurd to think she was des-
tined for young Elbert's wife. No
father is SO fatuous as to select a wife
for his son, at least in enlightened
times. Who was Sadie? Well she is
me. The child is artistic to her finger
tips and can illuminate a book with
rare ability. I know little about her
antecedents. Suffice it she is my ward
Ladson is we'll able to care for her,
He comes of a fine family
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l
September not far from 5000 Of these
merchants will be here or will have been
and gone.
They come speaking with surprise that
there should be any impression in New
York that business is not very good else
where. They say that the trouble of Wall
street have produced apparently not the
slightest effect on general business else
where. In the northwest, If those who live
there and who are now in New York are
to be believed, general business has never
been surpassed.
The testimony is practically unanimous
and it is undoubtedly correct. But it Is
not true that men Of experience in New
York, the ADLER financiers and bankers,
look for any depression in business this
fall, or even early in the winter. In fact,
the common opinion here is that domestic
trade may be even Of greater volume this
fall than was that reported for the au-
tumn Of last year. What is feared is that
the reaction will begin to be felt in the
fall Of 1904.
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FULL DISCLOSURES
A. N. H. Savings Bank Suspended.
HAMILToN,s DOWNFALL.
Belief that the Grovedale Cashier is
in Canada.
A Suspected ENHANCEMENT with
Beautiful Woman with EN-
eraId Hair.
ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS

.Why!" gasped her uncle, 81 thought
you knew nothing about it,
IT did not until yesterday, and, /
would not believe it. The paper was
over a week old, and I thought that
| it related to the first suspicious, but
that since then all had been proved
right T.
do you really mean that you be-
lieyed all this in face Of such disclo-
sures as are given by this paper? %
7 did, and do" Constance was her
self now, and faced him fercely. DO
you suppose twenty Globes could make
me suspect my husband Of all that
dreadful wickedness 2" pointing. to the
newspaper with disdain. ct thought
by this time all was right at the bank,
and that people had found out their
mistake. y. -
Matters were set right at the bank
by his bondsmen paying the amount
that was missing, Constance -
You were one Of them, uncle"
.tYe s.'' y
We'll. when vane comes back he
will pay you. .
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HEATING POWER OF THE SUN


body is exposed to the direct action Of
the suns rays. Persons who are not
accustomed to exposure to the sun, and
individuals who have light hair and
light skins. should make the first ex-
posture to the sun Of short duration
10aor Is minutes. Longer exposures
are likely to produce sunburn. No
particular harm is done by sunburn
except the inconvenience occasioned by
1t. The fermentation of the skin In
duced by sunburn protects the skin
from further injury In this way.
The body may be exposed either in
the open air or before a window.
When the SUMS rays are SO intense
that the heat is depressing. the heat
rays may be filtered out by means of
blue-glass screen placed between the
patient and the SUM-
Every home should be provided
with convenient place for taking the
outdoor sun bath in summer time,
the sun bath indoors during the cold
season. Civilized human being suffer
greatly because of the seclusion from
the sun occasioned by modern modes
1
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CHASTITY ERROR

turned up at the downtown office at
noon of the next day. The anteroom
of the city editor was filled with stran-
gers in frock coats and the telephone
boy at the switchboard was busy pass
ing along connections from Harlem
and the Bronx. The reporter was Curl
Gus, but not directly interested, until
a roar from his chief at the city edi-
tors desk made him culver in his
tracks:
Here, you idiot, you've killed all the
undertakers in the Bronx and most of
'em are surging around the shop
swearing it amt so. How in perdition
did you do it? Chase out and talk to
a few of them. It's your funeral.
The dazed reporter faced an angry
swarm of undertakes, each flourish
ing a copy of the mornings paper.
and pointing at his name among the
deaths reported and prominently dis
played. There were clamorS for re-
traction, for damages to business, for
vengeance wide and sweeping. The
reporter grinned, because he could not
help it, even in the presence of his
own funeral multiplied amazingly.
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It Should be Utilized More Frequently
to Regain Health and Vigor.
Hygienic Gazette.

5D~HE rays of the I sun contain
heat and chemical rays az
well as light rays. The heat
rays act powerfully upon the
glands and vessels OF the skin.
while the chemical rays influence the
nervous system in remarkable way.
1t Is the chemical rays which cause
so-called sunburn.
The sun is the source Of energy to
the world. The marvellous energy
manifested in plant life is derived
from the sun acting upon the green
parts to organize and vitalize the tele-
ments Of the earth and air into living
substances. The same energy of the
sunlight is essential to animal life, in
MIGRATING and vitalizing the tissues
and quickening all the process Of slife.
The sun bath Is now a well recognized
and much-valued therapeutic agent.
In the form OF treatment the whole
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That Was the story Told to Kleptona-
MAC negro, and he returned
the Stolen Goods.{
Washington Times.

"a
n GOOD story is told of Captain
N Ross of the Alexandria ferry
4 = line. When Captain Ross was
plotting the ferry he had me-
gro fireman working on the boat, who
at times was affected with kleptoma-
MIA. He was a good-natured fellow,
but he would confiscate everything he
could lay his hands upon, and conse-
quently the pilot and engineered the
boat had to be careful about how they
left their property lying around. One
morning Captain Ross missed pair
of new shoes, which he. had. left. in
the pilothouse the evening before. He
asked the negro if he had seen the
shoes. mo, sah,'' said the negro, u
hain't seen yo' shoes" Notwithstand-
ing his denial, Captain Ross was con-
ddert that the fireman had the foot
wear. He called his engineer and they
laid a, trap for the negro. Thes next
morning, when Sam showed UP, he was
addressed by the engineer. ewho said:.s
well, Sam, the cap'ns goin' to bring
his rooster down here.
"Am dat so?" answered the darby,
"an' TO- de Lawd's sake, what's he
gywine to. bring his rooster. hyah TO %
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FRA. ELBERrUs SAYS "BLEss YOU, MY CHILDREN"

LApsoN AND SADIE BuTLER-BoTH FOR.
given; have not lost daughter, but gained q
evening. Fra Elbertus
+. Over THEM coffee yesterday morn
ing .Ladson and Sadie read the good
news. Sadie is a, beauty Of II and
Ladson has just turned his majority.
Hubbard says Ladson is a rich young
man., and his father died eleven years
ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Butler promptly
telephoned to Fra Elbert's hotel when
they read his pretty sentiments about
gaining a son. Gilbert went directly
to the Buffers and he was ushered
into their suite. Ladson is living in
fine style. and these conditions, too,
tended to alleviate Fra Hubbard's dis
appointment. When the brides bene-
factor appeared in the doorway there
was pretty scene. Sadie sank on
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Nothing. I shall be better soon
am better. You were saying, un-
OLE she said feebly.
'.No matter what I said. Folks get
mistaken. Forget it all, would. DOM
bother your head about it,
She motioned to her work basket
Get that paper" she said.
He looked and saw a neatly folded
newspaper, the. Boston Globe, contain.
ing, as Mr.. Carter saw directly, a full
account of the bank examination un.
der headlines like these:
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New York Press.

In true .Roycroft fashion Gilbert
Hubbard forgave his clipping daugh-
ter by adoption and the handsome
young southerner who Is now Miss
Hubbard's husband. The reconcilia-
ton took place in the Murray Hill no
tel, and after a little speech Fra Ell
bertus kissed the young husband, Lad
son Butler, on, both cheeks and lifted
the weeping Sadie from her kneeling
posture. It was all dramatic, effective
and artistic, as Elbertus would have
a reconciliation" Of this sort. But the
clippers led the founder of the East
Aurora art shops merry chase and
lived quietly at the Murray Hill for
three days before Hubbard found them
The chief Roycrofter put this "per-
sonap' in a morning paper. ~
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THRONGs OF BUYERS
Are Surprised to Find that Any One
Thinks Hard Times.
' r

It Is a. coincidence that there should
have come to New York this week many
hundred merchants from other parts Of
the country especially from the southwest
and those parts Of the west where the
harvests are already practically secured.
They are here to buy merchandise, ex-
pecting that the money which these har-
vests will place in the hands of farmers
will cause fine demand for goods of all
kinds during the fall and winter.
It is no longer necessary to make an es-
innate Of the number Of merchants who
visit New York In the buying season since
an organization has been SO we'll syste-
matized that it is possible to register with
1t almost every merchant or buyer who
comes to New York in the buying season.
The indications are that by the first Of
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He Killed Nearly Every Undertaken in
the City Of New York.
Golfers Weekly.

YOUNG reporter. on the StdII VI
"a a New York morning newspa-
K "A per plodded along for three
months without attracting
the marked attention of the city editor
and then fame fell upon him like
landslide. He did not lose his position,
but it strained his relations with it.
1t was a new field in his limited, ex-
perience when he was sent one day
to the Harlem office, with instructions
to help "cover" the routine news. This
included a trip to the borough of
daily list of deaths for the obituary
column. He found the records, and
copied the mournful list with pains
taking industry. It happened that the
Official form records the name of the
deceased in one column and that of
the officiating undertaken in another.
BY some twist of absent-minded
vision, the reporter overlooked this
distinction, copied the wrong list and
did not know of his mistake until he
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When Judge w. H. Taft assumes the war de-
parement portfolio he will sit at the same desk
which his father, Alphonso Taft occupied while
holding the same office under President Grant.
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POEMS YOU OUGHT TO READ

Whatever occupation may however crowded
hours with AFFAIRS do fail
getting inspiration for the affairs Of every life from bit Of
poetry #sesSsS
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Help Build Up The West.

The low rates from the east to the
west and the northwest, FEBRUARY 10 to
April 30, will undoubtedly bring out
thousands OF settlers. Where they will
20 is largely a question Of inducement.
II you are interested in securing any
eastern people for your section Of the
west, send their names and addresses
to the undersigned. All the facts
and figures about the trip will
be promptly sent them. II. 6.
Rowe, General Agent, Chicago, Mil.
waukee 4 81. Paul Railway, 1874 Third
Street, Portland, Ore.