The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-17
AS we read his strange and yet simple
Verse, we marvel

When the forcite works exploded at
skenville, N. j., the other day there was
a large tomcat on the roof. Tommy
went up with the rest of the property,
including several buildings and all the
machinery, and was found, still alive and
ifeebly mewing, in tree where he had
landed at Ledgerwood, N. j., three-quar-
tiers or mile away. He was recognized
by the collar which the employees at the
forclte works put on him three weeks
ago, When ne left his former master,
Frank O'Neil, and came to make his
home at the mills. The men at the mill
were kind to him, because they had read
Of attempts of Mr.. ONeill to kill the cat
by five different methods, including shot
gun. pitchfork, drowning and chloroform,
all failures.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Siegle of Ledger
wood were so impressed by the cats hold
on life that they extracted him from the
tree and gave him a comfortable berth
and saucer of warm milk by the side Of
their hearth, where his wall was. soon
changed to a grateful purr.
After one nights rest that cat went
out on the approach of the second night
and INDUCED in a catfght that was with.
out precedent in the annals Of New Jer-
sey. Strong men hearing it Wept, and
peaceful men were out in every direction
trying to borrow shotguns and a few
handfuls of marbles to use as bird shot.
NIL ana MIS-. SoleSle, however, StdnQ Dy
the cat and say that it has earned right
to enjoy little excitement because Of
the perils it has passed thru.
AS representative of the National In.
| telligencer was invited by General Wash
ington to attend the memorable cabinet
meeting of July Is, 1889; not that the
president wished to have the matter re-
| ported-that was farthest from his
| fhnnCbt-hIf &c ind Nf he ah
solute confidence he reposed in my dis
! erection. I was very close to the president
| at that time as he made no move what
| ever without consulting me in the mat
ter and getting my opinion Of its effect
| upon the country. p
| General Washington has been called q
statesman and SO he was. No one would
| think Of calling him politician. In
speaking Of this matter to me one day
as we sat on the lawn under the great
trees he remarked shreWdy:
my boy a politician is statesman
who has been unwise enough to run coun-
| ter to public opinion. Let us walk softly
and keep in the shade. We must not ruin
our compilations at this stage of the
game r.. 1855
s'Tom Reed says something of that kind.
your excellency," Ireplied Thomas says
that statesman is a politician who Is
| dead +--'--
Bright man, that Reed. replied the
president, but some thing too witty for
success. The epigranlmatic art is a cost
ly possession, for the man in public life.
A certain ponderous dullness should be
sought rather. Itsthas been called dig
nifty Now take Webster-Daniel you
know. OF course, Daniel would like to
relax and play with. 4 the typewriter or
gossip a little with Central over the wire.
But, my goodness! It would never do.
Il A man in our station of life must hold
his front How would it look for the
minister plenipotentiary and envoy ex-
traordinary from the court of ST. James
to come in and find me tee-hee-ing with
the, typewriter fairy? He'd tell it all
around and wouldn't last fifteen minutes
when the federalist national convention
met. No, no, it won't do. Us statesmen
, are handicapped that way 81. ~. =
, At this point Madison and Jefferson
StrOlled in arm in arm, and, shortly. after.
| Aaron Burr and Albert Gallatin. Then
came Alexander Hamilton, the brilliant
secretary Of the treasury.
Hamilton said the president, easily.
as the statesmen drew up to the table,
'how much pewter have you in the treas
5 ury now, suppos1ng, that we should desire
to purchase Louisiana this week?"
Your eXceliency,' replied the brilliant
5 young fnancier as he placed one hand in
his waistcoat and rested the other heavily
upon the table, as if posing for an oil
painting, I'VE have to date 28 cents and
several overdue bills for about a billion
: dollars acquired in the late argument with
England.
Washington frowned. ~. AZ.
1--WE will have to let the French keep
their territory a little longer said JEFF
| ferson.
"Our credit is, none too good in Europe
now replied Washington, "and an at
! tempt to buy about a million miles Of land
with a treasury in the condition ours is
would make us look like a pumpkin in
the eyes of Talleyrand and Louis XIV.
No, Louisiana is there and is going to
stay there It can wait and SO can We.
But call the attention Of you gentlemen
to the fact that it is my policy and not
Jefferson's to secure Louisiana I suS-
gested it first
!; 1t was plain that Jefferson was not
pleased at this remark, but he said MOTH
ing until the meeting broke up, when he
[ beckoned me aside and whispered:
did you notice the bristles standing
out on the president? Trying to hog my
Louisiana policy, wasn't he? Why, I've
+ stood for that policy ever since the war,
and you gentlemen Of the press know it -
!, expressed acquiescence and tried to
l quiet the brilliant Virginian, but he was
: very much stirred, as the incident figured
in the next federalist national convention.
$ losing Washington the third term nomina-
ton. But this is inside history, of which
!. more anon. "A. j. r.