The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18

Satisfactory COuclusion
One of the peculiar things about this funny, foot
baling old universe Of ours is that gets what
is coming to him. 1t is Emerson John Burroughs,
I haven't time to look it up but, if you know
which, you will have that superior feeling which is
SO very pleasant, who writes about the thing which
belongs to you and tells how it
sswill rive the earth and swim the sea
And like thy shadow follow thee
Just why this is DIS it is is something of puzzle
but things act sometimes if they really were
thoughts and if the frame Of things mental
rather than material and all things governed by
spiritual attraction An architect speaking of artistic
houses, once told the writer that he couldn't build
the houses he wanted to- because people got just
what they deserved-in houses in other things
Enter. the Old Chair.
All this is apropos of certain who
old chair in secondhand furniture shop. He
looked at that chair and his soul used nightly after
it. It delapidated and had those nails driven
into it to hold it together. But it had the lines.
The Man Hesitates.
q Now this did not go in and buy this chair,
because when he took home those things that did not
60 with the decorations" his wife threw up both
hands and made those conversations So he passed
and said
tLo, I will forget it,
. The Man Hodeth It in Mind.
from his mind he allowed it to dwell there and he
saw it glorifed and spirtualized in the light of
thought until it became the chair in all the world
that necessary to his existence and that could
make him happy. So he again walked by the window
Of the junkshop. And the chair was there. Then he
said to himself: s,:-.
The Man Argueth with Himself.
~ to put good money into that rickety
old contrapton but will go in and price it, and if
those old furniture than So for that
chair won't buy it, So he in and said
lessy: - -- @---
The Man Falleth Down. ~"
"What do you want for that DID, punk CHART"
And the furniture said: ..5s
''Ten cents - ,.s- 1885
Then the other man turned and walked out If 1t
wasn't worth but3 10 cents he didn't want it.
But the chair remained in his mind like sandbur
,ingng to the lower extremity of the pantaloons of
poverty. So the next day he looked into the old fur
uture shop again and the chair was there. He said:
The Chair Flee-eth Him. 81,
I'VE" ..zvs guess III take that chair" sslAk
''The deuce it is!'
.sWhat is there about that chair that everybody
wants it9''
81 don't know. But it kept after till
back for it. p, -z..r s.a->.. .=-. -=s
ssWer if the other felow.4doesn t came after it
by O'clock yos may have it, az@:-5 : sz- = z5a
At exactly 4:10 the man who wanted the chair was
after it, buyer carried away and the old
= furniture man didn It know who he was. 90, -
s~.-ss-- es@ The Man sorroweth.s 81
Then the felt mighty sorrow well up in his
heart and gnaw at the very foundations of his being
But he addressed his inner being and said:
90 Down, down, hysterico passio, down. But
will not forget that chair while have my being. And
if it belongs to it WILL somehow other, to
be deprived of that chair if it is really
mine and if it ism t NINE of course ought not to
have it. ...t "a.
But in the watches of the night when he unused
and the burned good 1915 coal in the furnace be-
! low, he thought with affection of the chair.
-. Time Passes.
Time up to it's usual tricks passed. Just three
weeks in fact, sped by and the heard of another
man who lived somewhere way down in the south
eastern part of the city and who "fnisher'' of
old furniture.
Lo, the Chair. ...
So one day., having nothing to do the party of the
first part took the southeast to point somewhere
near the university to look this nisher's work
As stepped into his shop, his soul grew dizzy and
faint, for there, hanging the WALL suspended by
wooden pin and about ten feet up was the same old
chair And he said family
"What do you want for that chair?''
Love Cannot Be Deprived of It's Own.
And the finisher, either with soul above COM
mercialism and perhaps impelled by hidden knowl
edge that the chair had met its owner, said
s.What, that chairs o, III give that to your 81
The End.
Now these are the exact facts in the This il
a true story. How do you account for it9
"A. j. r.
GIVE OUT YOUR BEST
There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave,
There souls that are pure and true,
Then give to the world the best you have
And the best shall come back to you. ~
For life is the mirror of king and slave, L
TITS Just what you to do;
Then give to the world the best you have, 8
And the best will come back to you.
Madeline Bridges.
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