The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-20

One of the boys came in the other day
with the dear old Hinky Dinky Phi pin
on. Do you remember when they were
after you to join? How they came around
and set UP the cigarettes and showed you
how the Hirlzy was the only frat. on earth
and all "our fellows" were kings and the
other men were Philistines? How we
took seven -eighths Of the college honors
and had two men on the crew?
BY and by we were pledged and then
they let UP on the good fellowship act a
little, but not much.
Finally came the initiation night. My.
but it was an important event! The goat
wasn't much but we were sworn on the
hilt Of an old tin sword, by all that was
great and awful, never, never TO tell some
thing. Just what it was I've forgotten
now. In fact, it never was very clear what
it was, At any rate, it was of no conse-
quence
/ That has been my experience with Sc
cret societies ever since. There really
isn't anything worth keeping secret-un-
less you are going to assass;nate some-
body. I have never Joined the Malta yet,
but in all the other societies, lodges, tents,
orders and what-nots, never discovered
a secret worth Csc. and the dues always
amounted to much more than that,
! Some of the rites Of initiation have
been thru, intended as they were to be
very serious and solemn, would have made
a cow, if she had had any sense Of hui
NOR at all, fall over sideways in a fit, Of
explosive laughter. ).
Z. I have joined the Royal aud Fraternal
Brotherhood Of Eastern Monarchs the
Holy: Hierophants Of the Universe pre-
sided over tby the Everlasting Grand and
Royal Dictator Of Eternal. Destiny and
other officers of like title, with. very little.
individual :beneft.sos far as Lean see
When the Grand Right Puissant Arbiter
Of the Royal. Maple Leaf lodge No 81
Il w RI n wi h
funny stogs on and the Grand ROYAL Hifa-
lutin Scribeeread the burial rites. Nobody
laughed eand all was serious and proper
but itfwass pretty bad. ss "a.
j We arezauot: joining, things very freely
now y5s'i$ -. f,:,gsc.z 49,,
Mrs. sDewie says that Elijah III. will vet
captnrgo Faris. What will he do with it
/ afterai hssgets it?- The thought of gay,
Paree turned into a Dowie Zion is some
/ what homogeneous.
! Thee overceat man, the. fuel dealer and
{ the pneumonia germ are keeping whole
I hilarious week: of, Thanksgiving.
I The Rochester Post Express proposes
4 fnEcases ofSferninine riot slike ztheF Goelet-
{ RoSburghe5 wedding Ito station policemen
Z atintervalstw eased nice. Ifsthe ladies
4 press too elesesa the mice are to be re-
leased. Then we.maysleolsfer several pur-
pie yells. Ss.Se.sss. ~ 90 se.. IS
j Whatever you do, don smoke the gan
: jah weed. 1T is a form of deviltry the Chi
! nese are: now introducing into New York
! and the weed is being cultivated by Chi
nese gardeners at Astoria: l.. l.. It is
used in India and the Orient by people
who desire to nerve themselves up to kill
somebody. The use of the weed is said
Invariably to give homieidal mania. Isn't
that nice?. ~ :;
d The Indians along the Chagres river in
\ Panama have a cure for badness. At
& least Major Fitz Hugh Edwards claims
they gave him a new shock OF hair. Ed
! wards was: as bald as. the American eagle.
Somewhere on thee Chagres river he met
a band of,Indians who laughed at him. He
remained There's nearly aE,year. and went
back to New. York with much better hair
than he was born with AS hair restorers
!. these Indians are certainly wonderful. BY
the time the. canal is dug. we expect to
toss back our wavy locks with careless
motion of the head. :.
4, The magazines. are looking for writers
and craftsmen with new ideas for Christ
mas. Pictorial turkeys. Santa Clauses,
holly wreaths, snow, sleigh and church
bells and other stock features are SO out
worn. that the magazine editor gags at
the sight of them A new and feasible
and a bits-of fame,
.ys The w. C. T.. u. has suggested that it
shall receive authority TO "be the judge of
! decency of any attractions. within. one
mile of the exposition grounds, It is not
so much the outside attractions that
need VIC. T. U.-ing as the regular expo
sition art gallery. We. have never done.
an art gallery. without blushing way UP
over our high forehead. Our American
manhood demands protection against the
5 foreign lady done in oils when there was
: apparently no dry goods store within a
J, million blocks of the artists studio. Ilav-
/ ing something of penchant for art, we do
! not care to be driven in confusion from the
y gallery Sat the first round. Let US as
' American men demand of the w. c. 7, q.
: protection and a rigid censorship of the art
= gallery. Whittier have we been drifting
t for the last three thousand years?
j "A j. r.