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Business at the Club. “Oh, yes, there are always plenty of things to talk about in our club meet- ings,” said Mrs. Jamsby, with a defi- ant toss of her head. “No doubt, no doubt,” replied Jams- by; “but I cannot approve of the dis- respectful way in which you refer to the neighbors, Mrs. Jamsby.” “To the neighbors? Why, what are you talking about? Nobody is re- ferring to the neighbors.” “When you speak of them. as ‘things,’ Mrs. Jamsby, your language ts altogether disrespectful. The neigh- bors are persons, Mrs. Jamsby, not things; bear that in mind when gos- siping about your gossipy old club.” PRIZES TO COOKS. $7,500.00 In Cash to Be Distributed. Between now and July ist, family cooks, whether employes or the mis- tress of the household, will be follow- ing, the plan iaid down for improve- ment in cooks in a contest for 735 cash prizes ranging from $200.00 to $5.00 offered by the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. The winners must show improve- ment in general cookery as clearly stated in the rules for the test. No one has to buy or pay anything whatever. It is simply an earnest ef- fort on the part of Mr. Post to stimu- late the household cook to more care- ful and skillful cookery. To have light, sweet bread and cakes instead of heavy, sour and in- digestible things. ‘To have no more greasy, burned or dried-out meats. To have properly made Coffee, Postum and tea. To have delicate and diges- tible, toothsome desserts and a table, clean, tasty and a pleasure to look upon. And so $7,500.00 in actual money will be spent to encourage the cooks of the country. to better effort. And you |housekeepers, please forever abandon the term “hired girl.” Teach your cook the dignity of her profession, call her the cook. Tf her duties include other services, well and good, but don’t detract from her professional title by calli: her the “hired girl.” That term doesn’t fit a good cook...A certificate. bearing the large seal of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., will go to each of the 735 winners in this contest. These cer- tificates or diplomas will be as yalu- able to the holders as a doctor’s sheep- skin is. to-bime oo ne A postal card to the Cookery Dept. No. 349 of the big pure food factories of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. at Battle Creek, Mich., will bring a sheet of plainly printed rules for the con- test. , DEFECTIVE PAGE New York without first trying it else : Sia il} Proceedings.of the Week in the, ... State. Law Mill... St. Paul, April 2—-The opening gun of the fourth board of control fight in ‘he house was fired yesterday by Rep- resentative Perley, who introduced a vill taking the state’ university and the normal schools away from the board of control and replacing them under the charge of the board of re- gents and the state normal board, re- spectively. A proposition to permit state banks to maintain savings departments took up most of the time of the house and it was recommended to pass. The house passed the Ferris bill providing for an injunction against the collection of taxes where county boards have levied more than the law permits. The house passed a resolution that paves the way for the abolition of the fee system of paying state and county officers in Minnesota. In the Senate. The senate held only a morning session yesterday. Ten bills were in- troduced and six were passed. Gen- eral orders were laid over until to- day. Band concerts in villages are ap- proved in two bills introduced by Senator Laugen. One measure au- thorizes village councils to pay for musical entertainment furnished in public parks. The other legalizes ex- penses which villages have thus in- curred. Senator. Rieke’s bill requiring own- ers of real estate in country districts to destroy noxious weeds in the roads adjoining their property was passed by the senate. Free text books for children may be furnished by school boards in cities of less than 10,000 inhabitants if a bill introduced by Senator Ferris becomes a law. : In the House. St. Paul, Apri 3.—The house went definitely on record against any rad- ical changes in the primary election law, and particularly against any amendment calculated to permit voters of one party to interfere with the nominations of another. Two bills were on general orders designed, according to their authors, to protect the voter from the necessity of de- claring his party affiliations as a prec- edent to taking part in the primary elections. There was no uncertainty about the temper of the house on the matter, for both bills were voted down j by a large majority. The house decided that farmers that lost their crops from hail or other storms during the summer of 1902 are deserving of public aid, and in com- mittee of the whole it recommended to pass the Block bill exempting the lands so visited by destruction from taxes for 1902. The house passed the bill recodify- ing and amplifying the state dairy and food laws. In the Senate. Senator Wilson’s bill, which takes the first steps toward establishing a state reformatory for women, was passed by the senate by a vote of 36 to 17. The senate passed the bill increas- ing the bounty for arresting horse thieves from $50 to $200. The house military committee’s measure appropriating $40,000 for the erection, of monuments and tablets in the Vicksburg national park in honor of the Minnesota troops that fought at the battle of Vicksburg was passed by the senate. The senate passed under suspension of the rules the house judiciary com- mittee’s measure appropriating an additional $50,000 to enable the stat- ute revision commission to complete the compilation of the general laws. Senator Harrington’s measure pro- hibiting the use of adulterants in foods, drinks or condiments was rec- | ommended to pass by the senate in committee of the whole. In the Senate. Peterson’s bill appropriating $18,000 | to place the Minnesota farmers’ insti- tutes on a sound basis was recom- mended to pass yesterday: by the sen. ate committee of the whole. $50,000 for a new schooi institution for the propriating building at the deaf at Faribault. | The senate refused to concur in the hoase resolution calling for a joint committee to draft a bill placing coun- ty and state offices on a salary basis. Senator Johnson’s measure to’ pro- hibit teachers from breaking con- tracts with school.boards was recom- mended for passage yesterday by the senate in committee of the whole, af- ter an animated discussion. In the House. A. L. Cole of Cass county succeeded in getting through the house his bill to tax logs in the county in which they are cut. The house passed the bill by J. R. Morley creating a state trol dangerous, contagious and in- fectious diseases of domestic animals. The ~house in. committee of the whole.recommended to pass the sen- ate bill raising the state allowance to high schools from $1,200 to $1,600 each. 5 ~ Wives are made competent wit- nesses againgt their husbands in cases of abandonment. by a bill by Senator Wilson, which the house recommend- ed to pass. The house killed the senate prop- osition to make the counties pay half the keep of inszze patients. St. Paul, April 4. — Representative | Senator Buck introduced a Dill ap- | livestock | sanitary board to. suppress and con- | { » provides | ternoon and only escaped by: shooting In the House. F - April 6.—The house Satur- day ‘passed bills increasing the amount the state's contributions to -of public schools. - After raising it to the calendar Fri- day, house defeated the non-parti- san judge bill by Mr. Dowling. The'house passed a bill that will permit the prosecution of lumbermen that aec railroad fare on a promise to go to work and then refuse to enlist in the work of clearing off the forests when they have taken their ride. . In the Senate. The Dorsey bill allowing the Min- nesota Sugar company to sue the state to test the constitutionality of the sugar bounty law passed in 1895, and to compel the state, if possible, to pay $20,000 bounty, was recommended to pass by ‘the senate in committee of the whole. The senate passed the library com- mittee’s bill providing for the estab- lishment and, maintenance of public Jibraries and reading rooms, and pre- scribing the powers and duties of boards of library directors. In the Senate. St. Paul, April 7—Senator Pugh’s measure creating a civil service com- mission to select grain inspectors, as amended by the committee on grain and warehouse, was recommended for passage by the senate in committee of the whole. ~ s Representative Tighe’s home rule charter bill was recommended to pass yesterday by the senate in committee of the whole. The bill authorizes the judge of the district court to appoint a board of fifteen to draft a charter, which, to become operative, must be ratified by a four-sevenths vote of the electors of the city or village, provided that in cities having established patrol limits, the charter shall require a three-fourths vote. The senate refused, by a tie vote, to place on general orders Representa- tive Soule’s bill which reduces the ex- emption in garnishment proceedings from $25 to $8 a week. The senate committee of the whole recommended to pass Representative Ofsthun’s measure appropriating $20,- 000 for a second state fish hatchery at Glenwood. In the House. B. S. Bennett of Polk county yester- day secured a recommendation from the house committee of the whole for his bill providing that when new coun- ties are organized a temporary county seat shall be selected. No fee for becoming a candidate for an office which carries no salary is the effect of a bill which the house in com- mittee of the whole recommended to pass. A criminal law, putting part of the burden of proof on the defendant in- stead of on the state, was recom- mended for passage by the house yes* terday in committee of the whole. It punishment for pilfering grain.from railroad cars or sweeping ears that have held grain. In the Senate. St. Paul, April 8—The house amend- ments to Senator Thompson’s bill in- creasing the state aid to high schools were concurred in by the senate. The amendments increase the high school aid from $1,000 to $15,000 instead of to $1,600, and provide also for greater aid for graded semi-graded and rural schools. Senator Ferris’ measure providing for free text books for school children in cities of less than 10,000 inhabitants was recommended to pass by the sen- ate in committee of the whole. The senate, without debate, recoin- mended for passage the bill which makes it unlawful for boards of health to require the vaccination of sclfool children. Representative Peterson’s measure appropriating $18,000 to place the farmers’ institute on a sound basis was passed by the senate. The senate passed twenty-three bills yesterday and recommended to pass twenty-two. One bill was introduced. In the House. The house killed the bill requiring the state board of control to keep books where the public may see who the bidders on all state contracts are and the amount of their bids, which are at present withheld. The bill of W. I. Nolan providing for the isolation of juvenile criminals was recommended to pass by the house. P. E. Dowling of Eveleth had his non-partisan judiciary bill reconsid- ered and it will go back on general orders for the further consideration of the house. It was killed Saturday, and yesterday Mr. Dowling moved a reconsideration of the vote by which it ‘was lost. The motion prevailed— 56 to 25. é The house acted on a calendar of twenty-two bills, passing nineteen, and | in the afternoon took up general or- ders and advanced a long list of bills to the calendar. FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT: Kentucky Man With a Bullet Through the Heart. Somerset, Ky., April 9. — A special from Barren Work, in this county, states that while a crowd of men were sitting in a saloon kept by William Siddings, four miles from that place, a free-for-all fight occurred. John Gore was mortally wounded, dying later from the effects of his injuries. A man named Hyden did the shooting. MAN-KILLING STALLION. Is Shotin Desperate Fight With a Farmer. La Crosse, Wis., April 9. — William Markle, a farmer, had a fight for his, life with a mad stallion yesterday af- Animal the animal, Markle’s clothes were torn to shreds and his flesh was badly lacerated. Saturday the horse bit off a man’s ear, and previous to this he had killed two men. Iwas married I was for: five years! a ported her marriage. Miss Avondale—Did it all and’, . , A. D. Si presence, this 6th day of Decem| a {Seat} ‘A.W. GLEA: IN. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is teken: and acts directly on the and mucous si es of the system. Send for testimonials free. sight & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. An Honest Answer. Nathan, when a small boy, once drifted into a Sunday school, or was dragged there—accounts differ—and when asked concerning the chief end of man merely shook his head. The question. was not clear. Trying again, the teacher sought to get from him some iaea of moral responsibility. There was no reply. A third effort was made by, gradually approaching the subject, the!teacher asking him what he best liked to do. “Shirk work,” was the prompt reply. —Dr. C. C. Abbott, in Lippincott’s. Aujustible Convictions. At the recent dinner of the Holland society William McElroy told the story of a congressional candidate in Montana wno; with great fervor and earnestness, made a speech lasting an hour and a half, and concluded’ by saying: “These, gentlemen, are 'my convictions, but if they don’t suit they can be changed.”—-New York Times. In Little Old New York. First Moth—vVariable climate, isn’t it? Second Moth—Oh, dreadful! I don’t know which kind of clothes to eat up first.”—Judge. A Farmer's Good Story. Velpen, Ind.. April 6th—Wm O’B. 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One of little Paul’s sisters had been married only a few weeks when he | was asked by a workman to whom he | had been talking for a long time: “How many sisters have you?” “One married and two alive,” was the amusing answer.—Little Chron- icle. Unavailable. Close Merchant—Yes, sir, I want a new bookkkeper, but you won’t do. Applicant—May I ask why? Close Merchant—You are as bald as a billiard ball, sir. A man with no hair to wipe his pen on will rust out a whole box every week.—New York Weekly. BOY WAS NOT GUILTY. It Was His Milk That Made the Un- pleasant Noise. Four-year-old Messic always had a | cup of milk for supper. One evening { he was so thirsty that the moment | grace was said he seized his cup and | drank his milk so hurriedly that it produced a gurgling sound in his | Miss Clifton—Indirectly. It stated that Miss Olde and Mr. Yale were mar- ried, the latter being a well-known col- lector of antiquities——Saxby’s Maga- zine. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. 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