The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-05
The NONPAREJL MAN

1 o. 4 & 4
! -Avarice-Get a Second Rate CIaIryoyant
to diagnose" Mine for You and Then
Dig for About Eight Years--story of a
North Dakota Man Who Dug Out s
Mrs. Mary Griggs of Grand Forks has
peeh taken to the asylum About q year
ago one OF them clairvoyants' struck
town and advised Mrs. GriggS husband
to dig for hidden treas sure. somewhere in
minnesota. He at once departed and may
De digging still for all any one knows
or ne may have dug out. AT any rate,
ne never came back. The poor woman
prooded over the matter with the above
unhappy result
Did you ever hear of real second
class cla1rvoyant who didn't advise some
good stout man who has a shovel at home
to dig somewhere for hidden treasure :?
II IS SAFE to say that there are at present
| thousands or honest, Woodworking men
VINO are digging somewhere because a
woman with her eyes shut told them to
90 so. The whole country is literally
pock-marked with holes dug by parties
VINO We're put wise to immense treasure
buried by Indians or pirates-or some
thlng equally as bum. If anything is ever
uneartned' the parties keep remarkably
any clairvoyant- directed treasure digger
unearth1ng that which made him wealthy
| beyond the dreams of avarice.
| Lie writer once went to a clairvOyant
Tor sitting and couldn't obtain it,
because Whole mining company who
Vaoa or Alaska, were having it diagnosed
oy the clalrvoyant. Yes, sir, the whole
earned mining company was there! All
| the directors and the president and secre-
tary: There they sat In silent suspense
waiting to have that far-distant hole in
the ground dog-nozed!
l waited a long time outside to SEQ
tnem come out. They looked like pretty
good business men, too. Yet, they were
there having the pulse of that distant
mole felt by lady with a silk dress on
and her eyes shut. One Of the parties
toid me that she got in touch with the
hole and saw vast quantities of gold a
little to the right of where thew were
tnen digging. I asked him if he thought
OF digging where she spointed out and he
said that they might as we'll u1g there
as anywhere. ?. agreed with him. None
OF the company has yet become immense
~ Wealthv-not even the stockholders.
who shrewdly managed to get in on the
ground floor a little later.
one or the troubles with this matter Of
clalrVoyantly-seen mines is the little
understood law of suggestion" The party
or parties go to the clairvoyant with
thelr mine strongly in mind and with
n.
The lady perhaps sees this idea-or per
maps she doesn't-at any rate, she tells
ABOUT vast quantities of the precious met
al somewhere in the earth and they all
leap out and order it dug for Doubtless
the stun is there, but it may be a million
t 1lnes TURNER down and eighteen miles to
the lett and digging costs money.
NO wonder some of aus or our friends
get disappointed and we or they go to
what the Irish lady very properly re-
ielreu 10 as the insane ass-sy-lum," with
the accent on the first syllable. If we are
gong to dig, let us dig in the back yard.
where our wives can keep an eve on lis.
Alex s. Capehart of Fargo, also known
IN Minneapolis, had some correspondence
Win a dealer down in Ohio, relative to
the purchase of valuable hunting dog,
and the man sent him two and asked him
to take his pick between them for 5000
When the dogs arrived at Bismarck,
captain Capehart picked out the one he
wanted, sent the dealer a draft for the
$500 and then looked over his instructions
as to what should be done with the other
dog. and not finding any: reference to the
course to pursue, he wrote the man for
instructions. The reply came back, ~"Turn
him loose" The Forum says, Cape af-
forwards wished he had turned the other
pup loose, too.
A dozen pretty Georgia girls at Lex
1ngtonT nave formed a society with. this
constitutions:
Each member shall sign the following n1sdoa
with her own blood, secured from her own Inns:
pleose myself to never kiss anyone excent
rather mother, brothers, sisters, husband and
children. = u anu
pledge myself Furthermore to never kiss NV
betrothed until I become his wife,
ny strict construction Of the consti-
tuition, it may be possible to allow IAN
other' to kiss you. The girls are fairly
safe.
Up in North Dakota they are rather
throwing it into United States Marshal
John E. Haggart, because he was a dele
gate to the irrigation congress at Man.
Dan, While he is always having too much
water on his farm at the first crossing of
the Sheyenne river. The fact is that what
Marshal Haggert personally needs is
dreenage,' but he knows that the fell
lows out west need more water and he
is willing to work to give it to them Mr.
Haggart says:
There is no question but we need a
more complete system Of drainage in the
eastern part of the state, while in the
western central portion Of North Dako-
ia 1t is just and proper that all protec-
ton be given the settlers where the rain
1all IS deficient. We need an educational
campaign on the. subject of using every
gallon Of water which now flows to waste.
to practically insure the crops in the west !
ern part of the state-and then we may
nope to secure the drainage we need in
the eastern portion of North Dakota"
1t takes altruism for q farmer to boiler
Tor irrigation for the other party when his
own farm is about eight feet under the
Sheyenne and wetter than a shaggy dog
swimming after stick. A. 7. R.