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The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-08
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Specials for Saturday

ICES AND ICE CREAM. H
Our special combination for s
your Sunday dinner will B
= be FRENCH CARAMEL b
ICE CREAM and CA
TAWBA GRAPE ICE, qt.5Oc B
FROM OUR PASTRY KITCHEN
Our special cake will be b
CARAMEL LOAF, also 81
FRUIT LOAF with Choc- II
olate icing and FIG Lay E
Err, each ......... ..25C d
APPLE TURNovERs, doz. zoe \
BUTTER TWIST ROLLS, \
doz. ....................15c /
! ALMOND TOAST .........1Oo.
GERMAN STREISEL KU-
KEN ................. .lOc
COOKED MEATS, SALADS,
CROQUETTES, DEVIL E D
4 CRABS, BAKED BEANS, etc.
8 Try our SLICED BACON.
i FROM OUR CANDY KITCHEN
q CHOCOLATE CREAM BAR,
IA pound s.'' SOC
i BUTTER SCOTCH, real
home made, lb... .2Oo
CHAPMAN's CHOCOLATE
BRITTLE, box .........3Oc
3 MARsHMALLoWS, finest -
81 vanilla, reg. 40c, spl., ID. .25c
EGG PLANT, each. ....... SC
b TOMATOES, basket .......1Oc
b SWEET POTATOES, genu-
E inc Jerseys, lbs. ........25c
GRAPES, sweet Muscats, B.
"a lb basket, .45C
81 sALWAY PEACHES, H2- -
b bushel boxes .........$1.OO
q ELBERTA PEACHES, high
81 colored, ripe, freestone; we
n can recommend them, bas-
n ket .35c
M GRAPES, fancy Concords,
II basket ...25c
E OLIVE OIL, Blue Seal; - & .,
81 this oil Is made by, the
American Olive 90. Of 's-- -.
81 California; just think Of
it, a gallon can a full
quarts) Of strictly pure
81 oil with our guarantee
Il for ..................S2.75
SOAP, Proctor & Gam
e. ble's Lenox, box. .....$2.69
SOUP, Van Camps concen-
IA trated, all kinds, can &c;
dozen soc
s. SALMON STEAK, fiat cans,
zoe grade, 2. for. -25c
wALNUTs, fancy, Greno- 80
bles,, 1Sc; s.lbs. .25c
HONEY, genuine White Clo-
50 yer, frame. ............ ..l5C
PINEAPPLE CHEESE,
Robt. Norton's, 4Oc and 55c
GINGER ALE, Whale =.
brand, case Of dozen
E cease to be returned) 81 90
MACKEREL, fancy Nor
b way, breakfast, each. :. .15c
@ COCOA, Bakers Breakfast,
half-lb cans .18c
COFFEE, Chapman's Perfec-
tion, put up in 2-lb air
tight cans .............. .75C
We prepay express on all ship
ments to Minnetonka points.
/ CHAPMAN'S
9Th and MloO11ot.
Grocer. Baker and Confectionel
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-08
GERMANY BARS CONSUL.
Miller Will Get a Post Where He L
Not Disliked., --~-sg.
Jew York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service. .- s7
Washington, Sept. S.-Martin Miller,
the United States consul at AK la Cha
pelle, to whom the German government
refused to issue an exequateur, has had
a conference with Acting Secretary
Loomis. Miller will be given another
post.
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girls are called away in the middle OF
backing CRATES, sweeping, busting, max
ing beds and what-not. and obliged to
tidy themselves up and sit in misery,
thinking of all the things they ought to
be doing, until prayers are over"
1t had not occurred to me that our gen.
tle-mannered maids ever cursed and swore,
although l knew that they often had
opportunities of picking up an extensive
vocabulary from women of the smart "
society, who habitually season their wit
and relieve their feelings by the use of
language not considered becoming in an
officer and a gentleman.
So unaccustomed are our maids to
kindly consideration that they cannot
believe it genuine when they do receive
any. One girl who had just been engaged
by friend of mine went down to the
servants hall after the interview and
asked: "How long does the sweetness
last?" In that woman's case the sweet
ness" Il. e., politeness) is inexhaustible,
and she has certainly solved the Servant
Problem satisfactorily, as far as the COM
fort of her own household is concerned.
When engaging a servant, she uses one
invariab1e formula:
please understand" she says, that
this is a business arrangement. You
undertake to do certain duties, and |
undertake to pay you a certain sum for
doing them. l give you good wages, and
you must earn them by good work. l also
expect your conduct to be exemplary.
There is no reason why you should not
be as much lady in the servants hall
as am in the drawing-room. -" And
about going out, ma am? "-"Oh, that
you must arrange with the other servants.
l like you to get out as much as you
can; it is good for you. When one of
you goes out, another answers for her.
l only stipulate that you shall keep early
hours; but your own self-respect will
make you do that, | hope. Once your
duty is done, your time is your own, as
it would be in any other occupation"
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE for DECEMBER 81. 1905

Sometimes when out driving in the
afternoon this woman meets her cook
miles away from home, bicycling; but
dinner is always punctually served, and
all the better done, doubtless, for the
flip from the fresh air and change of
scene the cook has enjoyed on her bike"
In the matter of having one manner
for the rich and another for the poor,
mistresses of households are perhaps
the greatest sinners. A woman who is all
smiles and affability to her friends is
often habitually rude to her servants.
1--WE don't want to be 'deared,
respectable housekeeper once said; I'VE
only ask for reasonable politeness. But
we're shouted at for nothing at all,
abused like pickpockets for the most
trifing mistake, and get no credit for
it when we are doing our best A mis-
tress who is 1adylike all over the house
as well as in the drawing-room doesn't
generally have anything to complain Of"
Servants certainly take on the character
of the household in which they find them
selves, and give back as good as they get"
We hear constantly from women about
the trouble they have to get servants,
and the trouble they have to keep them
when they do get them. The present
conditions of domestic service make this
inevitable, and if there is no change for
the better, matters must go from bad
to worse, until only the lowest and least
intelligent girls will accept the position.
Mistresses themselves are lowering the
standard every day by requiring obedi-
ence of their servants instead of sense of
duty. Obedience induces servility and
incompetence; sense of duty develops
the intelligence and self-respect of the
worker, and results in proper apprecia-
ton of her responsibilities. Domestic SER
vice should be considered one of the high
est callings for women workers, as it GER
tainly is one of the most important; and
until it is so considered, and the attitude of
only servant stamped out, the best
class of women will not go into service.
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Fighting Joe Hooker; and we were
ordered to capture Lookout Mountain
1t was an awful task to climb that noun
tain. 1t would have been a task even
as a picnic; but when we were climbing
up in the midst of showers of bullets,
cannon-balls and shells, you may imagine
it was hot work We soon lost our
Colonel. As we were halfway up, we
lost our Lieutenant-C Colonel. We kept on.
Our comrades were falling all around u.s.
We lost six color-bearers, and as we
mounted the crest the seventh color
bearer fell
Major Griffin was then in command,
and he took up the colors and went on
ahead of us. Although out of breath
almost, we cheered when we saw Major
Griffin leading us, with sword in one hand
and the colors held aloft with the other.
l sew him going right in between the
laundering guns, which belched forth
flame and smoke, and which | am told
deafened him; and then a Mimic ball
shot out both of my eyes. The last
sight they ever witnessed was that glori-
Gus scene of Major Griffin carrying the
colors and leading the regiment right
through and past the batteries of the
enemy. God bless Major Griffin"
And Major Griffin was renominated by
reclamation.
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BREVITY THE SOUL OF GHOSTS

II RE'S the shortest ghost-story in the
world said the red-nosed man, who
now, with the coffee broke silence for the
first time at the dinner.
Two men were travelling from Boston to
New-York; strangers, but sharing between
them the smoking compartment. After a
bit, one laid by his magazine and said Seems
a bit jolly right here.'-'Yes. replied the
other; i was killed just here three years
ago.
Shortest in the world, did you say?" re-
marked some one at the other end of the table
But here's a shorter. A lonely old bachelor
waking up late at night, reached out his hand
for the matches, and they were handed to
him. !"
Then the host nodded to the butler
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GRIFFIN'S rem OMINATION
By Smith d. Fry

HNE of the most thrilling as well as
~ most effective political speeches
ever delivered in any convention was
uttered in quiet conversational tone by
a sightless soldier in Detroit in the
spring of 1904.
Major Griffin represented the Detroit
district in the national House of
Representatives, and he was diligent,
faithful Congressman; but his hearing
was defective, growing worse, so that
he was almost wholly deaf. He had
no enemies; but he had rivals, and one
of them who was anxious to go to Con-
gress started the story that Major
Griffin's deafness incapacitated him for
public life, and spread the fa1sehood
that the Speaker of the House could not
do anything for Major Griffin nor for his
constituency, on account of his infr1nity.
So diligently was this scheme worked,
while other games were being quietly
played, that when convention-time came
it was practically settled that Major
Griffin would be defeated.
The momentous day came, the pre-
liminary convention work was all done,
and nominating speeches were in order.
Before they were made, however, there
arose an cutlery from convention floor
and galleries for Thomas J. Giddey,
blind veteran of the Civil War. He came
upon the platform, guided by another
veteran on crutches. Facing the audi
ence, the blind man said: Il know that
this is political convention; but | am
not a politician, and l don't know why
l am called upon. Tell me"
Tell us how you lost your eyesight, 4"
came from every part of the house.
"All of my friends know the story"
said the sightless one. at is a short
story. We Michigan boys had been with
Grant for two years, and in November,
1868, we were at Chattanooga when
battle called the Battle of Missionary
Ridge began. 1t was big battle, and
we were in it, although many miles from
the Ridge. We were brigaded with the
Twentieth Corps, under command of
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niture from one house to another, re-
marked when he came to the servants
bedrooms: ''This lady keeps her SER
wants, I'll be bound!" When asked why
he thought so, he replied: Because
of the pretty furniture and the nice,
clean, comfortable beds. l go all over
the country for my firm, and often in
the best houses the discomfort of the
servants rooms is disgrace"
l have talked to numbers of intelligent,
nice minded women about their expert
ences in service, and have heard many
pathetic stories of what they have had
to suffer from the want of consideration,
the heartless selfishness, the injustice,
and even the frauds, of the women they
have had to serve. But what causes the
most general resentment is the sacrifice
of their liberty, the state of Imprisonment
in which they alone of all respectable
working women are kept. One elderly
cook who had faithfully served in the
family of a country gentleman for many
years. complained bitterly that she always
had to go like child to ask leave of
her mistress and give reason if she
wanted to go out for half an hour; and
rather than suffer the repeated hunilia
ton, she stayed indoors. 1t would have
been better for her employers, as well
as for herself, if it had been an understood
thing that she should go out as often as
possible to recruit in the fresh air after
the heat and fatigue of her duties, for
eventually she broke down; but even
this consideration did not occur to them.
II,
stood and expatiated much on the value
of fresh air as a restorative, but they
seem to have thought that only their own
idleness had right to it.
A young girl, sister of one of my maids,
came from the first place to stay with US,
an utter wreck She had been only four
months in the place, but during that
time she had never once been allowed
to go out. Women sitting on their
cushioned seats in church, when they
hear the prayer for the desolate and the
oppressed, would do well to think of all
the lonely little maids in the house, fresh
from home, pining for their mothers,
anxious to give satisfaction" but filled
with apprehension by the harshness
visited upon them for the slightest mis-
take, seldom, if ever, out in the sunshine,
or allowed any playtine, often left alone
in their prisons for hours, frightened and
depressed; but for the most part doing
their duty to the best of their ability.
A clever lady s-maid of mine once
startled me by remarking casually: The
thing that causes most cursing and swear
ing among servants in gentlemen's houses
is morning prayers. Mistresses have no
mercy on the housemaids. The rooms
have to be done to the moment, but the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-02-09


L organic compounds Certain organic compounds made
by nature they could not be made by human beings These
compounds together in manner and the result
lite
There two facts which PRACTICALLY ASSURE us of
the ultimate artificial formation of living matter.
These that LIVING every onen formed from
LlFEESS matter in ourselves and all about and living
matter have begun exist definite ears
history and then either have originated SPONTANEOUSLY
have from space
As there is evidence that life exists anywhere the universe
but our ear and there Why seed from space
reached the earth the past might do NEW
BEINGS constantly appear without earthly parents which boo
gst believes probable that living originated pon
taneousy from ifeless matter.
Fortunately there have been other lines of which
have modified this pangenetc hypothesis Many different
have contributed understanding of vital processes
To make living matter shall first have to make living
substance for has been shown such substance probably exists
but shall have duplicate which possibly several
substances concerned.
WHILE, THEREFORE,, ITS ARTIFICIAL
LONG DELAYED, THINK, PROGRESS WE HAVE
EVERY REASON FEEL ENCOURAGED TO LOOK FORWARD
WITH CONFIDENCE TO THE ARTIFICIAL FORMATION LIFE.
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RAFO
By FRANK H. SWEET
Copyright, 1904, by Frank H. Sweet
By FRANK II. SWEE

long line of bending figures passed
up the gang plank into the hold of the
vessel, then back by another plank to
the wharf, where they again connected
with the line, forming an endless
chain. Each link was Il woman. and
upon every sloping back was a bunch
of bananas.
At the wharf end of the gang plank
man gave a glance at the number Of
clusters, or hands" upon the punches
as they passed and then called out their
sizes in singsong "one-half bunch"
zone bunch" two and half" two"
''Ore and a half" zone" zone" two"
and another man with a book upon a
board placed across a barrel marked
them down.
In the hold two men directed the wo-
men where to place the fruit Both of
these were ''cOnchs," one rough. bru-
tai looking fellow, who merely nodded
directions and scowled and the other a
laughing, testing youngster who gave
his orders by springing forward and
helping each woman to deposit her
bunch in its proper place.
Usually the women thanked him with
looks or words, some of them adding.
You good boy, Rafo." or, "Ev'body
goin' smile on you if you keep on like
dis
But one link of the human chain
there was that did not thank him with
looks or words either She was old
and shrunken, with covetOus. suspi-
cious eyes, and when Rafo sprang for
ward she always met him with angry
snarlings and would never allow him
to touch her bunch. But not whit
difference did it make to Rafo. His
song or laugh went on just as light
heartedly as ever, and when her por-
ton of the chain came round again he
was waiting, as usual, with his ready
offer Of help, his ready laugh and his
friendly eyes.
Just behind the old woman circled
young girl, as young as Rafo. and beau
tiful in spite of her dark face and bare
feet and tattered garments, in spite of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-02-09
Painful PhOtORraDhy.

A resolute young lady of five years
found herself before the photogra-
piers camera for the first time, says the
Philadelphia Record. She had been
posed along with the other members
of the family and sat as rigid as a
flagstaff, her big black eyes fixed with
eagle gaze upon the camera. After the
exposure had been made the others
moved away. while she sat as still as
a mouse and as brave as lion, with
every muscle at highest tension, her
legs like two sticks, her hands tightly
crossed, her chest up, the veins in her
neck fairly bursting. She was so
straight as to almost bend the other
way. Fearing TO hurt her feelings by
laughing at the uncompromising ri
gidity of her pose and her searching
stare into the camera, her mamma at
length said, Come, dear, with mann
ma"
The anxious child replied through
her teeth so as not to interfere with
her pose "No; l amt taken yet"
1t was some moments before she could
be induced to bulge, as she had a firm
conviction that there would be some
visible, tangible sign of the taking"
Great was her surprise a few days
later when the proof arrived. She had
been taken without so much as feel
ing or even knowing il.
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her bare shoulders with their burden of
bananas. She was always the link in
the chain behind old Tamasa, her moth
er, and Rafo never had time for more
than one swift glance into her eyes be-
fore Tamasa had deposited her bunch
and whirled upon them with her hawk
like eyes.
1t was just the same on shore at the
Tamasa hut-the two links We're al
ways together Tamasa loved but one
thing in the world, her daughter Fana
Nothing was too good for Fana, moth
ing too high to be hoped for her. So
Tamasa's keen eyes studied the youth
whose gaze followed the link behind
her in the Greetings of the endless chain
and the result of the study was made
apparent in open encouragement or
harsh reputation.
At the gang plank Tamasa's eyes
were almost kindly, for Miguel, the
scrutiniZer of fruit, received IS cents
day. But Fana's gaze at that point
dropped resolutely to her feet, for Mi
gueI was i'll favored and morose.
ture changed to black looks, while Fa-
mas gaze rose swiftly and sweetly and
happily. Rafo received but 10 cents a
day, but he was handsome and blithe
hearted and straightforward
Round and round circled the endless
chain, bearing its stream of bananas
from the wharf TO the hold, and like
alternating belts of sunshine and cloud
changed the faces of old Tamasa and
youthful Fana as they went from gang
plank to hold and hold to gang plank
Under ordinary circumstances the
gang plank was amply wide for the
loaded chain, but Rafos unchanging
politeness in the hold and Fanas per-
sistent coldness ut the plank had dark
ened more and more the tempestuous
countenance of Tamasa until at last,
just after they had passed the sullen
Miguel, her resentment got the better
of her tenderness, and she turned with
a sharp reprimand.
But Fana had not yet raised her eyes
from her feet, and the consequence of
Tamasa's checking the regular motion
of the chain brought them together
and swayed the bunch of bananas from
its delicate balance. Faaa tried to
right herself, but in vain. A moment
later there was loud splash in the
water twenty feet below, accompanied
by scream from Tamasa, who was
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weary looking young man dropped
into an armchair in a downtown bar
Der shop the other day and said sadly,
shave"
Yes, SIR replied the knight of the
brush and blade, and he began to
anoint the young mans face with
lather. After a moments reflection the
barber asked, "Will you be offended,
sir, if l were to tell you your occupa-
ton and popularity of yourself?"
why, no. replied the wondering
customer. Lets hear it."
"Well, you are bookkeeper by pro-
fession, and you are left handed"
The young man gasped in astonish-
ment and asked the barber how he
knew these facts.
For awhile the barber refused to tell
the secret of his power, but he was
finally induced to clear up the mys-
terry.
Il know you are a bookkeeper," he
said, because your hair is stained with
red and black ink back of your ear,
where you have been in the habit of
placing your pen. The fact that the
marks are back of the left ear show
that you are left handed, and the fact
that you use red and black ink shows
you to be bookkeeper and not clerk
or a literary man.
The customer left the place marvel
ing much at the simplicity of the meth
DDS of Sherlock Holmes-Baltimor
Sun.
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itering down with wild. frightened
Eyes.
Miguel was not ten feet away. but
his face was sullen with resentment
and anger. and he made no move. Then
there were a swift rush from the hold
and second splash, and Rafo's head
rose TO the surface with Il merry shout
of encouragement.
A rope was dropped from the YES
sci, and even as Rafos left arm en-
circled the girl his right hand shot
up and caught it. Then he whispered
something to her. and. with quick
intuition and courage equal to his
own. she placed her arms over his
shoulders so as not to impede his
movements, and then, hand over hand,
he went up the rope until he could
swing himself across the gang plank.
1t was a rare exhibition of nerve and
muscle, and the spectators sent up an
involuntary shout of appreciation-all
except Miguel and Tamasa.
The old woman's face was drawn
and tremulous, but the look she cast
upon Rafo was as black as ever
Come, Fana," she whispered hoarse-
ly, we will not work any more today.
We will go home and rest"
But Fana was leaning against Rafo,
smiling happily. Instead of recover
ing from fright she was perfectly
calm. Those few moments coming up
the rope, borne by the strong, confident
Rafo, had been the happiest of her life.
And now, upheld by his encircling arm.
she did not care if the whole world
and her mother, too-were looking
*Fana.' sharply. You must not
stand like that. 1t is not proper
will'-
LET the little one rest" interrupted
Rafo pleasantly. Don't you see how
weak she is. And like it,
''You-like it, screamed Tamasa.
losing control of herself entirely. You
you nineteen cent man. You grinner
and jester! Oh, Miguel, come here!'
But, instead of Miguel, another man,
brisk young Englishman, pushed his
way across the gang plank toward
them.
''Rafo,' he called imperiously. Here
quick. | want to see you. I'm in Il
hurry. Oh, there you are" as he saw
the group. well, I'm sorry to disturb
you, but every second is precious to me
now. l have an imperative summons
to England to settle up an estate and
will have to be gone two years or more
| want you to take care of my finca
until | return. I've had you work for
me, Rafo, and know you are perfectly
honest and trustworthy What do you
say? Quick. [ must get my things
ready and take this boat back. You
will know how TO cut and ship the
bananas, and | will give you $50
month and pay all the expenses And.
oh, yes'-aS he noticed for the first
time the figure encircled by Rafo's
arm-'this will be good time for you
to get married. There is a comfortable
house on the plantation you can live il.
What do you say
Rafo made him low bow. show
ing his teeth. Isl. senor.'' he answer
ed. I'VE will be married in twenty
minutes, and you can leave i'll thirty
as soon as you have kissed the bride"
And then his merry, infectious laugh
rang out SO heartily that all had to
join in, even Tamasa.