The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-05
tn@W hlchsSthe Terrible Menace Hanging
~ sovse thssc Country Because OF the Gold
Headed Can Craze Of the Last Gem
fury Is Pointed out-A Possibility
That Threatens Cred lit and May Tam
feSfper with the Money standard.

set1nliy the 1ouftn preclnstaiOY. the eighth
ward gold headed-caned Shim Let our
and shes Wassy on his departure, presented
.ss4 q s sax h c. as "a token .of esteem .
sWlhsn The Hon. F. *. Malo1aey,~ who kept
't enn1e iotd Brick saloon, set. uR, the first
lunch feyer known on lower Wash
lngton avenue, "a delighted constituency
forced on him gold headed ycane and
beer flowed like water for half a day or
so. When father celebrated his sixtieth
birthday the childtenisgave him a cane
with an auriferous capital extremity. In
fact, it was universally recognized as the
proper thing. G. h.scane manufacturers
became immensely WEALTHY and took their
families. to Europe 81 The shortage in the
gold, supply was so marsssf1thaa the gov
eminent became troubled and AEcommis-
sion wassAppointed to@investigafe the dis
appearance Of the gold supply.
|, AS TING went on the craze for giving
somebody a gold-headed cane died down
and the. gold supply came 'up to normal
again.
Now. what we wish to inquire Is: What
has become of all these gold-headed
canes? And what would happen should
this gold be melted UP and be again
thrown into the channels of trade? The
thought IS. an appalling one.' Our money
standard would fuctlate, possibly gold
might again GOMEZ down to l6,stot; L., and
credit would be seriously shaken.
Let the families WHO have gold-headed
canes act togetherAand they might pre-
cipitate a. panic suehsas this country has
never seen. The prospect is indeed APP
palling, Sand one that calls for serious
thought on the part of our fnanciers and
statesmen. .f..
Alfred Austin, of the Authors club, has
ia poem published entitled -eMoviiag On
1,i1h 11os
a defiance to Russia and In which we
thought we detected! bad break. / Mr..
Austin says:
All things always the same, unchanged I'M
changeable, ALL save we,
Who come like clouds, Like clouds disappear,
- form and fail like wave of the sea;
Message and: meeting of, severed friends, Yule
carol, New Year chime,
And eternity moving on and on, son the passion
VS. '@'N0 ~ u, NC x>:tsys2t:E
This column vas Rrepaf ring, to leap
he used bad English in saying,
{:"All@ saye: We,"' ~ s's&aS. ysa&s
'i TAI. Az 81 save u.s." ,at 2gs So, -s,,:G
i.save'' being, Jas we ssipposed a prepo-
sition used in place of EXCEPT" and TAX
ing, Of course, the objective case; but
along came the gramrnarian of the office,
VINO u0C1dT6u,f EildI Save WdS d COIl"
junction and that "we'n, was correct He
pointed 2 out Several Similar ~usages in
Shakespeare, and we baaRa out, not caring
to join. issue with Shakespeare on the Ian
guage: Still, we we're tot fully convinced.
Will somebody who knows all about this
please <straighten US sout?
The president IS getting 50 weary Of be-
b dHtv pentsd eat e S hat Some day
or other a ner.vsy,;fat bdyf&who goes Gown
to WALTON the nation c4ief executives and
to call him a financial ltsewee IS going to
see about two quarts Of teeth displayed.
~~'A fire took the lid off the Franklin Ave-
nue. church. F.. Fiend, Esq, was Thought
full enough in this case to wait until the
people were all outsideS beforeR7he. ran
amuck. g. IT. -
An sextraordinary~ incident, alleged to
ihavefoceurts dsm Friday, has caused an i'm
mense sensa ton in Wales. On that day,
while a, Woinan. was washing her three
months old child, so the story goes, she
was thunderstruck to hear the baby say,
"Blwyddyn Of nadwy fydd flwyddyn ne
sat- man, which,. roughly translated,
means II ext, year will be a terrible year,
mother" We have often heard babies
say something that sounded much like the
w
as nearing sbottfe of warm baby food
and have it quick.',, v'sy<t ,gsas sE.%%
The asbestos theater curtain industry
Isl having a: tremendous boom. It Is hoped
that the factory will not catch fire just
now and all the curtains tbe consumed.
A fireproof theater-one that the fire
cannot get out of, nor the audience either.
It is now too cold for Russia to get out
iof Manchuria. In the summer it is too
hot. s:z
The average Russian peasant has a vo-
Acabulary, ofc only, no. It Is tsurpris-
throat In 10 different ways.
Is ATgood $words ought, to be said for the
audience at the Irouuois ytheater in Chi
cago. The people have been charged with
foolishness in creating panic and have
been lectured on all sides. One authority
went so far as to suggest that the first
people -whozstarteds#eago out should have
been shot down. The facts seem to be
THAT the audience sat quietly in the
seats with but few exceptions while the
blazing bits Of scenery We're falling on the
stage, while Eddie Foy was speaking and
while attempts were being made to lower
the: asbestos curtain. One woman from
Minneapolis who was in the theater states
that the audience as a whole sat until the
great rush of flame from under the curtain
swept UP fover; the balconies, killing @peo-
pie where they sat. After this. one could
hardly ask an audience to remain seated.
Ut would have been foolish not to have. run.
i No man can tell what he is going to do
under circumstances such as those Of last
Wednesday. =. More or less everyone is
governed by the mind of the crowd he is
with: He may think the thing, all out
afterwards in a rational way, but in mo-
ments Of stress.lilse that he acts almost
a1nconsciously. rs Let US: not hastily con-
demn the. .Lroquois - theater audience.