The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-25


| Toxic holds over Minneapolis in one
important particular. It has 800 public
bathing houses. Here the boys have to go
4 into the public water supply.
Carrie Nation, now in Chicago, says she
| is in the hands of her friends as a vice
presidential candidate this year. Mrs. Ma
| ton said yesterday that she believed the
prohibition party would win the presi-
| Dental race this year, that she expected
to see General Miles head the ticket, and
while she did not care for the honor, she
would take the second place because she
felt it was her duty. A presidential ticket
Of Miles and Nation would be an interest
ing one, but it couldn't beat a carpet.
The New York Weekly made careful
| study Of the problem why widows were
more attractive to men than other girls.
1t came to the conclusion that it was be-
cause the widow was too wise to argue
with a man. She knows that arguments
are the crypts of friendship and the ever
lasting doom Of love. She understands
that when a man leaves his place Of bust
ness, he wishes to leave there all cares
and perpleXities. Consequently she does
not try to force her opinions on him: but If
he cares to talk of them she is capable
of understanding the problems he has in
mind.
In other words the widow is more willy.
The Atchison Globe notes that people
are beginning to understand that it is
the disreputable man who resorts to
abuse. When there IS truth back of q
charge, it requires very little publicity; il
Is the lie that has to be bolstered up.
/, Yes, and even when we have found oui
something unpleasant that is really sc
about the past Of some man or woman
why go and spread it far and wide? None
of us are any too good and If we had beer
put under the same circumstances We
might have done much worse. Let's
everybody start all over first.
1.-THE Rubaiyat of Lake Minnetonka,
called on it's title page "a Trivial Per.
Torrance" has been done into a book a,
the print shop of the, Minnetonka Record
at Excelsior, Mimi, and any man with {
quarter may bear it home to read.
VIII Dillman is the author, but h
thinks SO little Of the stray afflatus tina
he has put into the stanzas that he re
fuses to put his name to them. TIL,
, poem opens: h~
> Awake. For Spring has broke the winter night
On vernal breeze the cold is taking flight
And Wife has hung her carpet on the line,
Which you must pound and raise an appetite.
The poem then rambles along pleasant,
) on various rural and riparian subject
with touches of old history here an,
there, as
2 They say the turtle and the clam abide
2 Unhindered where the Belle of 'Tonka piled,
VI And City of St. Louis-the slow reeds
. Climb round her Prov and cling upon her side
8 The poet also tells of the charm of tn
wide strolls beside the waters of the lax
e and the rapture Of the open road. Blu
here he warns 'gainst the Terror:
Behind oak ensconced forward leaned
: 'TwXt and something cleaving the thi
airs;
1t passed me with hiss, and twas the fend.
u The wild Mad-Mullah, yengeance-breathing thin
y That you and me into the lake fling
q Demon, which, but let it pass this way
g An hundred sorrows in its wake twill bring.
Two things are safe from this Fiend's power
slay;
:, Creation else is periled. night and day;
q The crow that flaps thru heaven and the crab
q That meath the wave pursues its watery way.
And so on to the sorrowful. time whe
= you and to the lake have said our las
n good-by and another generation OF loI
/ ers and children will stroll beside il
e ever changing shores and throw orane
e peel and peanut detritus to float upon II
p glancing waters "A. r. r.