The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-02

Literary Start on the Yellow Parts OF
the Newspapers.
One of the boys came in yesterday to tell
how Little Brother had learned to read.
1t seems that the family autocrat took no
interest in literature whatever until tile
football excitement came up OF course,
he was carried away with that. When he
found that one of the pages of the daily
paper was devoted to this gentle art of
breaking your fellow mans back Little
Brother just had to read the accounts or
bust. So he buckied to and learned it in
no time.
In recent newspaper symposium on the
adyisibility Of the study of current events
a school principal. A. Withstand Newman
of Grove City. Mimi. figured out that
even the yellow paper wasn't SO bad. He
said:
Many boy has gotten his start in
education from the reading Of we say,
murderous stories. 1t cultivates a taste
for reading in general, more SO than any
method | know Of
The writer recalls that he learned to
read for the simple pleasure of perusing
''Moccasin Nose and other dime novel
literature of that class. From that he
worked into Cooper and then made the
jump to Dickens without any trouble at
all.
All of which, only goes to show that
people have to be taken on the pane
where they are if you want to interest
Minnea polls has 3S,1fS school children.
We remember seeing them run over our
| lawn one day last summer.
The history of the Panama istfrnus
shows that We We're fooling around there
| and talking canal as far back as 1926 about
| the date when Ed Bromley discovered tha
western bank Of the Mississippi river.
| Only nineteen killed at football this fall
| Seems If a good deal of unnecessary fuss
was being made of a little thing.
An eastern genius has invented a fly
| ing machine that scars over a fence To
| read about it in the Sunday Illustrated
! papers you would think that it had to be
| ordered out of the sky at night SO as to
! give the moon chance to get by.
/ The lumber cut in Minneapolis this year
1 was over 100000. 900 feet. We trust the
lumber barons had bucksaws sharper than
our old notched barrel hoop.
!. "A Missouri statesman is advocating the
doctrine that the tramps should build the
roads. Weary will he too strong to be
4 found in the vicinity where road building
is going on.
Our spicy contemporary, the Congress
slonal Record. is running Senator Nor
gan's canal speech To- be- continued
incur next. Why not give us something
Juicy?
Il Query-Can we honora bly, stand ssjda
for paltry $4,000, 900 and see Panama .
face stamped on by her wicked old stem
mother, Colombia?
New York doctor gives a formula for
a paste that dissolves the hair on a. mans
face and gives him e, shave without a
+ razor Some fear is felt that it may take
. the face, too, but what does a. man care
for that who has tried to shave with an
old razor that would draw tears from a
! face of stone?
This country is slowly getting mad at
the CRATER. Before long every CRATER
that shows his head will stand slight
| chance of going to the rockpile.
Black il its darksome hin
Silent it lies,
Deaf to the north winds trunp
Blown thru the skies; -as'
enly one sound mar
II Its slulnber long. .a..-
. What is that sound? you ask;
Il Coal shovel's song.
Goodness. how fast it flies
Winters stored coal-
! Can those few shorelfulls make
That mighty hole:
Where has that black stuff gone,
What tnief was there? .
See the coal dealer smile,
He doesn't care
The Citizen, published for the benefit o.
the West End and incidentally of tht
editor. makes a big outery because the
state chemist finds so many of the 'bit
ters' and patent medicines now offered
! for sale poisonous and deeterious tc
! health. and then refuses to tell which ones
are poisonous. All medicines of that char
acter look alike to us, from Pink PUNK.
for Pale Pills to DIR. Dobson's famous
Heart Destroyer A J. f.