The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-20

might be dubbed to death daily as proof
reader, they came along and paved Fourth
street with wooden blocks and it was con-
sidered a fine thing. That was about
1861, do not want to remember the
exact date, because it isn't well to begin
to take note of dates like that.
1 remember that the cheap restaurants
were all very poor. One day, the w. C.
T. U. conceived the idea Of opening a
highly moral eating place in the old white
house that sat back from the street next
to the Tribune building on the lot where
the Swedish National bank now stands.
On the opening day they had the kind
of food that mother used to make. The
printing house gang very soon found this
out and editor, printer, reporter, proof
reader and the rest all fell on that food
like hoard of hungry rats. In few
moments there wasn't a thing left in 4
the house. I remember the excitement
caused in the breasts of several ladies
with nicely crfmped hair who had started
the scheme. It's sudden success was al
most too much for them. After that the
quality Of food deteriorated. You can't
provide mothers kind of food wholesale.
| shall never forget that Tribune build
ing and It's elevator. The Journal COM
posing room was on the cloth floor when
the elevator broke down, which it did
with wonderful regularity. Two billion
Ecockroaches lived in the building and the
boys who carried their lunches had to
suspend them from the gas pipes by
| strings. I have seen dozen cockroaches
| go and get a spider and make him spin
a double web SO they could walk across
and get at the food Printers talked
| worse then than they do now. Their
language when they found cockroaches in
| their lunch boxes was painful and free.
More men borrowed money and tobacco
then than they do now-or else 1 was
an eli or rlx And fhau ary
| fully sore when you tried to get it back.
/ Notice say tried" One day decided
not to use any more tobacco at all unless
lit was borrowed. The scheme worked
well. To all young fellows trying to make
4 their way in the world against adverse
circumstances I would say, ALWAYS bor-
Erow your tobacco. Never have it about
9tyour clothes"
+ To borrowing money without the in
+ tention of returning it I could never get
t hardened. I had those primitive and dis
bearded ideas about. its being stealing.
Those old Puritan taints are hard to
eradicate OF course, as everybody knows,
it is different with tobacco. I was al
ways a consistent borrower of tobacco
/, until stopped the use Of the darned stuff
altogether. l am prepared to give good
advice on the tobacco question at an In
stant's notice.
i One by one the old houses and shacks
disappeared from Fourth street. They
are gone. All gone. But l can shut my
eyes and look down the Fourth street OF
, | 1886 and see every single and clapboard
; in it. It was a good street-and is.
The Omar Khayyam controversy is still
: raging in the east and in London, where
. the attempt is being made to show that
Omar did not refer to booze" In his
q glorious song, but did refer to inspiration,
!, 1.-THE wine Of the spirit the subliminal
! uprush or something Of that kind. A
. writer in the proceedings Of the Royal
= Asiatic society quotes the "last words
n Of Omar as a proof of the latter theory.
: Substantially they were these: az