The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

Carrie Nation is arranging visit to the
White House. If there is anybody who
can tell the president exactly what he
ought to do, Carrie is that lady. -.
They are trying to figure out whether
the steel trust owes $500 0O0, 900 or $780,
000, 900. Morg. and Schwab do not seem
to care which it is. It looks at this dis
tance as tho even Elijah the Restorer
couldn't restore confidence in this corr
poration. -.
The severity Of justice sometimes saves
q man from worse fate. A Chicago bfga-
mist named Mills had five angry wives
each waiting to grab him by the neck
when the judge gave him five years for
matrimonial redundancy and he went UP
with sigh of relief.
A number of poems regarding October
have been received Of late but as they
travel over ground that has been poeted
before and rhyned over for years, sober,
October, September, remember and ember
you know, place could not be found for
them in these teeming columns. But the
other day a ''little thing in verse came in
on the cat which started out with some
promise. It began:
-. O, the kitty cat
And all that! .-
How she loves to warble when evening bats its
eye!
So wildly rich and choice
Is her voice
Which assai1s the vast and bluey deeps of sky.
. The other stanzas were not SO well done
but were taken up with father ION the
run, with his gum etc. We love the gen.
tie household pet who arches her back and
rubs against your leg Owe refer to the
catnot to the father), but the night prowler
well there is one thing about the cat-of-
war that we like-.it is her absence and
the more of it we get the happier we are.
There is a lady on Lowry Hill who has
a positive genius for making remarks that
may be taken in two ways. She doesn't
mean to do it, in fact is broken right
down whenever it occurs. The other night
while walking along the street with a gen.
tlenan. they came to a dark stretch OF
sidewalk and she remarked innocently:
Wouldn't this be a nice place for q
hold-up?"- Sl-. -.
I When he took her at her word and at
tempted to hold her up little, scene OF
some excitement ensued. After this had
| quieted down little, she tried to turn the
subject to the weather by saying: -
q II wish we might have two months OF
this!" -. = = p.
~"Of this walk?' he said, $50 do II
And then she, demanded to be taken
| straight home. - = - ~ . * ~.
| AS a rule men and women want to do
! the square thing SO far as the present So
! cial status will permit It, but here and
! there you meet a man SO mean that his
| presence seems to be full and fair ex-
cuse for breaking the peace. Mr.. and Mrs.
| Perry Cox were married in North Carolina
| in 1882. They lived happily until 1901.
| Then Mrs. Cox became broken in health
| She was no longer the possessor Of the
| bloom Of youth. She went to a hospital
! in a shattered condition and submitted to
| inr7
| out she found that her husband had de-
| serted her She went to Kansas and lived
| near lola with a brother. In the open air
she regained her health and beauty. The
Iowa Register declares that to-day she IS
| q handsome woman To her credit be II
said, Mrs Cox did not go around hunting
| for the man who deserted her in her ex-
| trenlity. She got a divorce. She d1dn't {
| want to marry anyone else, she simply
wanted to get rid of the name Of the
| scoundrel who ran away when she needed
! him most. .--
We do not want to say anything severe
| about Brother Cox but we believe that the
Old Man Fate is camping on his trail. We
believe Old Fate is expectorating on his
| hands and trying his muscle when he
thinks of Cox. Some day he will catch
up with him and Mr.. Cox is going to have
the time of his life.
| You may remember that David the
poet. was somewhat annoyed at one time
| over the apparent ease with which the
| wicked flourished around and played tag
! with the laws Of decency, but you VIII
also recall that when the poet entered
little further into. the counsels OF ProVl-
dence, he says that he detected the finish
1 of the bad man and found that 1t was
not pleasant
i We foresee trouble for Mr.. Cox
4 If YOU want to see something in the line
/ of weather so gorgeous that 1t Will make
your hair curl, you want to get up at
$3.50 or s a. m. The thing has been done
4 again and again. 1t is by no means an
i impossibility. There is an exhilarating
i chill in the air, a light mist clings about
| the landscape the great trees hang out
I bright pictures in yellows and reds, the
i sky is a dream and the ashes are waiting
to be sifted.
| A light smoke rises straight UP from the
! chimneys in the neighboring houses; there
is in the air an odor, almost impercepti-
| ble like the last incense of the flowers, an
| aromatic, Ieafy smell that makes you feel
like paving the earth with your front foot
and snorting coltishly. A light yellow car
l pet Of ripe leaves cover the ground under
! each tree, the atmosphere is cool and re-
freshing the sun is beginning to tint the
! east with red and gold and there ara
i veins OF silver and purple cloud In the
1 west.
Il Ha. Ihe Wh6eIDarrOW anu the dSiie"'N
4 You prance cheerfully down to the bottom
/ of the garden with the unicycle ana tne
4 rattle and clatter tells that the battie
i Of Coalman's Woe is on once more. A
i soft filny cloud of ashes arises into the
i invigorant air and drifts slowly 10 the
4 north The wind Is south again. Another
/ warm, melting, tender. dangerous day, YET
i bracing and scntillant from the approach
of the cold is written down for M1nne-
i sofa.
4 And yet they talk about the Mlnnesosa
i climatei They go to California. Hideous
human freaks in other sections run down
our gorgeous and unparalleled out-o1-
4 doors! People whose heart actits1 IS re-
duced or stimulated by drugs or by strong
I coffee, people who dwell in an unnatural
word of superheated houses and Indiana
i historical novels cry out on our magnt-
81 ficent climate. We take day or ana
s blush for them. Give us all the out-of-
4 doors Minnesota can furnish, pile 1t up
! in our front yard shovel 1t out In the
Il street in front of our house and We'll get
81 down and wallow in 1t. Bring on all the
sea sons there are. Spring summer, aut-
umn winter, especially our grand old win
+ ter: If this isn't seasoning enough slap in
salt, pepper. sage and onions. We take
q the bunch and holler for more.
People who live here but who haven't
tried this climate ought to get out and
sniff of It once and find out what is just
going to waste all around US.