The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-14
A String of Good Stories
al cannot tell how the truth may be:
II say the tale as twas told to me-"
A REMARKABLY STORY.

A REMARKABLE STORY.
p UsTAvE BECKER the chef of the Holland House
NJ in New York, recently bought apartment house
worth $3OO0oO
In a discussion Of this purchase Mr. Becker said:
ST am one of the of the Holland House,
and for number of years have been interested in
real estate. Chefs in America get am happy to
say good salaries but to state that they get salaries
big enough to allow them, every little while, to invest
their surplus savings in 5000 900 apartment houses
well, that is an exaggeratlon, like the pie story OF
the Breton farmer. ..~
There was farmer in Brittany who wished to tell
visitor how his farm had been overrun with pies
Pies, you know large birds, black and white
with long tails-a kind of
g The farmer said the pies devastated his fields
horribly. If he put up scarecrows the birds tore
them down. One day his young son ran into the
granite farmhouse and shouted:
go Oh, father, hundreds and hundreds of birds The
wheat is being all eaten up!'
- The farmer loaded his gun. But where was the
shots It couldn It be found He put in few hand
fuls of tacks instead. Then he out.
81 The wheat field black and white, like
checker board, with pies. The farmer gave loud
yell, and the birds all few up into tall poplar. He
'tThey nailed fast. Their tapping wings
filed the air with loud whirr The farmer, amazed,
stood watching them Then strange thing happened:
5 3fThe Birds with grand, united effort, pulled
up the huge tree and flew away with it,
PROVING A FORGERY.
A LEADER Of the Lincoln party told the other day
q in Philadelphia story Of the astuteness Of Lin
coin as lawyer.
had involving disputed will. The opposition
claimed that the will genuine, and for several
hours adduced proof Of this For Lincoln, who had
50 prove the will forgery, things looked black
Lincoln, however, only called witness, a retired
paper manufacturer renowned the country for his
wealth and probity.
him the disputed % please W hod that pe up g
the light and tell us what is the watermark it,
sF'f The watermark of my firm, Blank Co.,, the
witness answered.
* When did your firm begin to manufacture papera'
f%#1ts In 1S41.'
sssAnd what's the date Of the document in your
handsq'
August II, 1885, ..-.
&c THAT is enough. Gentlemen of the jury, our case
Is closed.'"
A GRACIOUS ACT OF KINDNESS
ssT ATTENDED reception in London on the
Il Fourth,'' said Chicagoan, 'and Miss Carolyn
Wells, the humorous writer, there. A duke
the left told story about gracious act of Kindness
and Miss Wells told another.
Miss Wels's story about the ex-Empress
Eugenie She said that, at dejeuner morning, a
general related to the emperor sad account of a
brave officer who, because he had not 10000 francs
Wherewith to meet certain debts, must resign in dis
honor. ::
''The empress listened attentively At the end she
rose from her chair and hastened from the room
When she returned she had in her white hand packet
of banknotes These she extended to the general
There tears in her eys.
q Take them for him, general, she said and never
tell me his name''
AXIOM FOR SUCCESS SEEKERS.
ssI HAD the honor to meet John D. Rockefeller in
Compiegne while touring France in my
motor this SUMNER said Pittsburg millionaire
Mr. Rockefeller is gifted with superb sense of
lumor. In his quiet serious way he makes you laugh
again and again He talked about economy in Com
piegne, praising the economy of the French and in
his talk humor and wisdom walked hand in hand.
'Apropos Of economy, Mr.. Rockefeller told story
about the Scottish millonaires Of Manchester,
"a hundred years ago, a number of poor
Scottish lads came to Manchester took up spin
ming there, and, by the hardest work and strctest
economy, became in the end, every mothers of
them, millionaires.
- One of these young only paid, in his early
days, shilling and sixpence a week for his ROOM
His landlady decided that this too little, and
determined to put up his rent from one and six to
one and eightpence. q
But this increase the young Scot stoutly resisted