The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-17
"A String of Good Stories
"Jcauuot ten how the truth may DO;
say tho tale as twas said to me. I"

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THE ABLE DEALER
G TATE BIOLOGIST KUMMEI Of New Jersey, was talk
ing about forestry which can he claims be made yey
profitable in the little state Of white sand and scrub
What is needed he said ''is intelligence, business
head the samessor Of ability which, tho often msapplied
still makes John Madment's store the most popular and
successful one in a ffty-mile radius
"John Maidment sells everything. Let give you
example Of his talent.
"a woman, warm and furious, got out Of dearborn
wagon the other day. and entered Madmens big cool
Look here, she said, that rockingchair you sold
yesterday no good = i H. - ..rs. s..
"'How so, MADAME Maidment asked.
"'Why said the woman, the rockers not even. AS
you rock the goodfornothing chair keeps sliding side
ways all the ROOM
"Maidment threw up his hands.
tstBy jingo' he said Il made mistake and sent you
Of patent rockers warranted not to out
the carpet all place. That style costs two dollars
more than ,.5.- - =. .--.@ mi
sBut the woman had turned already Of the
..sMstake or no mistake she said, II won't pay the
extra dollars, and won't return the chair there
OTHER nPERFEcr1oNs
GEORGE W. PERKINS had been testifyng before the
" insurance investigating committee.
hope that >aken literally, he said, smiling
he put his hat II desire to be taken literally always
7 not like the poet
"The poet?" ..-..s~.4 ..e%.
ayes. Poets, you know to be taken fguratively
farmer west Of Chicago Of this He
in to town day in my boyhood to buy horse He
sought dealer and haggled with the for several
hours.
WELL said the dealer finally rather out, take
him. There he is with all his iperfeotons
his head, the poet says
tits plain be your friend the poet can't have
looked at his legs rejoined the literal old farmer
THE DEMONSTRATION.
lVl at dinner given by A. J. Drexel-Bdde In the
course Of the dinner the reform mayor said:
This great cleansing movement at work in
city will only succeed by being persistenty kept up We
grow weary in Welldoing Our enthusiasm must
not COOL Above ALL must not expect friends to do
| the work. We must do the work ourselves.
IA wise old man said wisely to yesterday:
g TOO many Of the reforms that have remind me
of the way father used to weed the kitchen garden
" Father would rush out into the garden with him,
| and weed like a mailman for about two minutes.
g There he would say; NOW you how easy it is
Then he would off and sit down in the shade with
his pipe and the weekly paper and leave keep it
all the afternoon ("
A HEAVY CONSUMER.
ELSON NORRIS the Chicago beef packer has bought
thru Marie Corell John Harvard's house Stratford
onAvon The house is to be turned into Shakspere club
/ for American tourists
Mr. Morris complimented recently the wisdom Of
this purchase and on his great success in business
! He said, smiling:
Mine is an easy business,
coed in satisfy hunger and hungry three times
day. Three times day they to
"A asked to give him job because he ate
much. He said he the kind Of chap who always
said to the carver Of a roast Of beef:
g Cut mine SO it won't bend
~ recognized this claim to consideration, and put the
man my payroll
REsoURcEFUI.
HE contributor, with respectful timidity unrolled
I huge diagram.
escaades upbn Port Arthur, showing--''
But the editor Of Home Sweet Home scowled black as
i thunder cloud.
1--WE print stuff, he said This paper is
devoted to omen's fashions exclusively
Then cried the contributor with enthusiasm, ssyou
this map for skirt pattern The dotted lines run
ming from Seven Metre Hill the finest design for
eightgore fall skirt that has yet appeared side
Il Of the Atlantic