The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-12
THE NONpARElL MAN

THE NONP ARIEL MAN
A Special Correspondent Of The Journal
at Panama Tells How the New World
Power, by Master Stroke of States
manshIp, Was Placed on Safe Flnan.
cial Basis.
Panama. Nov. 11-"Cameraderos, Ami
gos," said General Sandoyal Herara
Maria Reyes, as he drew his sword and
addressed the cheering patriot army at the
close of fifteen minutes of successful
revolutionizing in which the yoke OF the
hated Colombian was cast off, I'VE are
how entering on successful career as
one of the great powers of the earth. Oe-
risiye laughter from a Colombian spy, who
was at once shot) Let us see to it that
no untoward act stain the historic folds of
our national banner. (Cheers0 Let every.
man take upon himself the burden Of the
national honor. Great cheers.)
rs any patriot in our army of liberation
the owner Of a printing press?,
A gringo from Cauca acknowledged that
he was the possessor of this instrument
of civilization, but offered to burn it If
requested.
Burn it! Never. I will now detail
file Of twenty patriots to strike off the
national currency" mighty cheers.)
The country was at last on a safe finan-
cial basis.
The Nonpariel Column of the Congress
sional Record this fall is dry as a prohibi-
ton ticket in the Mojave desert.
In the canal divvy the Colombians will
be in the position Of the burglar who broke
into the rummage sale room
A few mild ones are trying to run Mr.
German for president. The attempt OF
that willy one to get the negro question
| into politics and to make an issue of the
Booker Washington dinner shows that
! German is about the size of a fly speclS
looked at thru the big end of the opera
glass.
'I've got 'em going for six months,
ashes or no ashes,'' remarked the coal man
as he shifted the Manitoba chill on its
way southwark.
/ An eastern millionaire gave several OF
his friends presents of houses and lots the
other day. 1t is well to keep one GOOD
millionaire on your visiting list.
Madam Patti is dragging about by
string bona fide baron eyeglass, aristo.
cratic air and all the rest. His opinion OF
the voice is not on record but when 1t says
SO, he may be trusted to get into line.
In Chicago there is a graft game known
as "skinning Sidewalks The city ordf-
nance calls for a certain thickness OF ce-
Ement. The contractor sees that the city
doesn't get it.
A Missouri prophet forecasts mild
winter because the wind on Sept 10, 20
and 81 was from the south. The vino
on those days in September, ne says
governs the winds Of the succeeding SIX
months 1t may whip around now anu
then, but the prevailing direction will be
south.
"The poor Dude Of Roxburghe,' says
tho London Mail. .lacks even the reas-
/ surfing consciousness Of antenuptial set
tlement.'' So also, probably, do the duke
creditors.
We have received the following letter
/ from an "admirer:
To the Editor of the Nonpareil Man: What
becomes of the ashes If they tire noncombustloie.
| as is insisted, and IT, as you claim. you are not
An Admirer.
Answer-There is a story OF chap.
, lain of a civil war regiment VINO nao
I charge of the boys mail. One day, being
annnyed by the constant inquiries Of the
soldiers as to when the mail would be In
he put up this notice:
i "The chaplain does, not know when the
mail will arrive" as.,zsas.
|; To which some wag, shortly AFTER adoee
: this phrase: Neither does he care
damn!'
This is our position regarding the ashes
We do not know where the ashes go to
neither do we care at all. we shaH no
attempt to hunt them up. If they ar
found however. they will be chucked lnt'
the furnace, at least as long as the Weatne
is mild.
The dream story told yesterday in tn,
| column attracted much interest People
are always interested in dreaming true
1t sometimes happens. How? You ma
search us for an explanation
. Another dream story collected by th
Society of Psychical Research makes IN
;, teresting reading. 1t was contributed D!
a clergyman, so of course must be true.
An old lady in London had been In tn
habit of keeping all her letters. Wne'
she died her executors found five enor
nous secretaries cramn1ed with yelloS
| manuscript They spent week on tn
!. ia six of going thru those letters, and founs
= at the end Of that time that they ha'
hardly made an impression upon them
; any case, there seemed nothing OF value
= so. after consultation, they decided Z
burn the lot That night one OF the wv
, lexecutors-a country clergyman-siep
+,
asleep and dreamed that the old iady-hi
aunt, she had been-came to him AM
warned him not to burn the contents Q
. the rosewood cabinet Three times tn
: dream came to him, and in the morning
= at breakfast he told his co-executor Tn
;, latter laughed, but the clergyman sal
"a that he would take upon himself the tas
: of looking thru the rosewood cabinet
: contents 1t was lucky that he did So
= After three days work he came upo
y a memorandum concerning $4,000 wort
: of uncut Burmese rubies which had bee
g given to his aunt's husband In India, an
: by her placed in a safe deposit. In ne
will there had been no mention OF Their
: at all. The clergyman, being the neares
9 relative, benefited considerably by the find
What or who warned him not to bur
the letters? His "subliminal self, per
haps. What is the subliminal self? Agar
YOU may search US. We have never see
one,
!. They used to say in the Bible an
>. being warned of God in dream, he oil
: so-and-so. Perhaps this explanation I
as good as any. At least, it has the meri
is of simplicity. "A. D. n.
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