The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-23
THE NONPAREIL MAN
CASUALLY Observed.

Casually Observed.
Real Admiral Evans is going to take our
Asiatlc fleet up to the two Manchurian
ports opened to us by special treaty. We
trustsno one will5try to stop MIR. Evans.
+ If there is a Russo-Japanese war on.
we look Ito see General Funston swimming
the Boring strait.
Some people act as If the noxious stencil
arising. from the cigarette gives them
peace Of mind.
i Central doesn't like the man who hol-
lers into the telephone as if it had a tin
ear Talk gently or if you must holler
send around a willie douX.
In dealing with New York, DR.. Dowie la.
bors under the impression that he is
driving mules. ~ Z
Indiana, and Ohio oil now brings s121, the
| highest price ever paid. If you have a
little oil stock in some unknown field now
| is the time to take a gimlet and go, out
and bore for, the stuff. ..r
| The Detroit Free Press chronicles the
sale for a million dollars of a well known
mineral spring. But the genius who ran
the gas pipe under it and gave the waters
critics died in poverty and neglect.
t Doc Bixby said that Dan Patch was
| something of has-been but he recanted
I later He better! There is nothing in
Nebraska except an express train that
PAGES Ill Mr.. Patch class.
| An eastern musician who has made the
calculation says that "to play Chopin re-
| rt,1ir VIII TONS
of force per hour. have proved this. and
IL should imagine that to play certain
parts of Wagner on the piano would re-
quire tonnage per hour of at least so.
That, tho. I have not proved. To strike
certain notes most powerfully-to strike
them ortissimo-requires an exertion
equal to the lifting !. Of six pounds"
. Judging by the sound some ,pianists throw
in a good many million pounds" that
, might better be utilized in throwing coal
) into the cellar Of the widow and the faith
; erless. .s*c'-.r,s 2. :. -, : .-..~
) Farmer Ben in his Austin Transcript
t chronicles: the failure of another ''of them
2 get-richquick Texas Oil schemes, IN
: which a large bunch of Iowa and southern
Minnesota people had placed mint of
= hard yellow money. Ben says that people
= sin towns pretty close in to Austin on all
sides are caught in this oil stock up into
= the thousands and tens of thousands. 1t
= was such a sure thing that nobody could
r fail to double their money every six
! months and now the crash has come and
s the .innocents are watchin' at the hole for
d the money to come out and it never will. y
t.. Oil is SO quick when it comes that PEG
n pie are very likely to buy stock In places
d where somebody has seen little greasy
e streak on the surface water or where
r somebody boring for water has heard the
e oil gurgling around in the bottom OF the
o we'll / knew a man once that got rich
S on an investment in mines but he's dead
/: now. never happened to know person
ally man who got rich in oil. OF course
i there are such. And there's oil some
Is where. But how to get stock in the places
= where the oil Is and then how to get the
h oil out, those are difficult matters.
If Personally we do not feel like buckins
t. John Rockefeller in the oil business join
: has had much experience and seems tt
1T know how to do it pretty well. He is &
le hard man to beat We intend to let ths
N oil business alone. 80! = .-.s
n Constance told us xss other night a
II prayer-meetin' how sleepy she was be
l. cause she had been up late the night be
49, fore attending a piano recital.
Y -IIa.-A-s piano reeitalt~@Ne recalled ~l7e~
I. in the DIM dead days beyond recall vi
! had attended a piano worry in a repor
n torial capacity and how we had requisite
Ia the city editor the next day to jasslg
o. us to the police run and to cut out tn
n piano annoyances thereafter. When h
e. read the criticism, he fell in with thl
% view.
of A reporter just out of college who ha
TO acquired the word Technique somewher
All in his reading thinks he Is competent t
We attend a Piano recital in the capacity Q
critic. That's where we fell down. W
knew. as much about piano manipulate
n as a Pawnee Indian full of reservatio
or beef and wood alcohol knows of quater
u Mons but we had firm grasp on tina
'cI word "technique.'
e There were nine numbers on the pre-
" gram. then an intermission, then min
use more numbers. The audience all nel
e's complimentary tickets and wanted I
a make the professor feel good SO they en-
lc- cored the first nine numbers, thus CIV
as ing the professor eighteen Whacks at IN
Of instrument of torture before the intel
he mission. Each number was about an hot
is long or it seemed that way. At the inter
on mission strong, willing hands carried
tenderly to the nearest saloon where ru1
was sold and we revived a little and wro'
+oa up the criticism, using the word tecf
:eu nioue'' freely and not telling anythir
~, ~ about the reviving influences Of the intel
70. mission. "a
TO- The next day we interviewed, not pr
-, fessionally but just as a matter OF cur
IN osity. eighteen prominent musicians VINO
re. we had noticed at the recital and aske
has - .4 as+l;- NOT for publicatio
ing a,,t 80 ~ satisfy MS if they had enjoyt
pei that piano recital. Every mothers 81
OF of them hemmed and hawed and w1ggl'
around and hedged and parted al
18th dodaad The question,
ble Tben whv do people go? Becaus
asst daorie rs the thing to do. You are {
ats right when you're at piano recital al
ion To other folks see you there and mott
rly, vour begloyed appreciation. You're
the embodied expression of the culture in Q
Gus midst Then shouldn't you go? Certai
nds lyyou should. dearie, 1t Is expected
ges YOU and if we want to be a great m
Mr.. Steal center we must support the ordi
hey ances made and provided You are ooi
,ere eminently the right thing and perse
nan I say a person, who Will write an artt
ght like this ought to De asnaHeo Oh IL d
to doubtless Is. He Is phlls1he.