The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-25
Casually Observed.

Beatrice Fairfax says she has her ideal
OF manly beauty, and it is this: q face
charming In its quiet strength and ear
nestness, the mouth firm but almost Wom-
anly In Its sweetness, the eyes steady and
true, the brow broad and benevolent, the
head shapely and well poised and voice
Of liquid gold, capable of every shade Of
feeling, from stern anger to melting
sweetness. Somebody has been telling
Beatrice all about us! Who has done
this?
The almanac says that autumn took a
Fall out OF the year yesterday.
"A Chicago man has just slipped comfort
ably into the penitentiary about a. yard
ahead Of three excited wives. He's safe
until he gets out.
1t Is related that when Emperor Francis
Joseph and Emperor William met the
other day. they kissed each other three
times These effete monarchs Of Europe
ought to catch up with the progress Of
American invention and hire a type
writer.
One of those men who is always bother
ing about problems that you cannot UNI
derstand, one Of the species that sits and
thinks over the top of chess board all
alone by himself for two mortal hours,
one Of the kind that reads books one look
at the title pages Of which gives you a
headache; one that takes the 5000 mathe-
NAUTICAL scholarship in college when the
rest Of the crowd is out on the diamond;
one of these chaps called on us the other
day at the office with the strange light
Of unreason in his eye.
"I've got an idea in my mind, =" said he,
earnestly.
Then all I can say is that it Is in a
mighty tight place.
And 1t is going to have a surprising
effect on the human race
"Good!'
well, I don't know whether it's good
or not. That's what bothers me. ISL
What is it?'' r@
You know these Investigations with
|radium and the notifications they have
brought about In our ideas of what mat
ter really is?'
''In a dim way know, from what have
seen in the papers,"
WELL that's it, that's it. If matter
isn't the hard and fast thing we've taken
it for, if-then, there's that fourth di-
mension idea-''
You are getting batty' again, boy"
very likely; I'll see you later
I did not think much more about this
conversation, for there were more prac-
tical things to take up the mind; but last
Saturday, at 500 p. M, the cat came
back; in other words, the gentleman with
the idea came into the office and dropped
lightly into a chair. His face was glow
ing with satisfaction and interest like
that Of the man who has just worked
out very difficult problem in calculus.
1--WE got it,
eff you had said them instead of 1t,
might believe YOU
"Well, it may look that way to yor
later, only you'll think YOU are the one
with them y
What is your gamer"
Il have mastered the art, or science, Of
while you laugh. III give you a practica
| Illustration
| I threw back my head to laugh, but
am sure presented a strange spectacle
for the laugh was suddenly stopped mid.
way in it's career. and I jumped as l.
! some one had struck at me. I had beer
looking straight at my old friend, sitting
wasn't there Ilooked around the room
and felt of the chair. Nothing in it
Nothing in the room! Where In the name
| Of all that was gracious
| I noticed a misty appearance in the
chair, and then a solid body again, an6
there the scoundrel sat, apparently dazec
a little, but smiling at me good tur edly
| Z
What do you mean by playing these
fool tricks on me? How did you do that
After had quieted down enough to be
sensible he said:
II can't exactly explain it, but it's
something like this. Matter in itself
being nothing but twist in the ether
so to speak, an electric charge, perhaps
our sense of its solidity is in fact a
sense only, or a testimony of the mind
of the senses not an actual reality OF
thing in itself. Now in fooling around
the metaphysical bases of the subject
in my mind, I found in some way or other
sort Of hit on it by a kind Of knack
expect, that matter being a sensuous
phenomenon the resolution Of matter back
into its native nothingness in itself, or
back into the ether il you prefer that,
was also a matter of changed relation
of the mind towards it. See?''
mo, don't"