The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-20
THE NONPAREJL MAN
Hard Working South Dakota Pioneers
Who Have Put Comfortable Fortunes
into Or. Dowie's zIon-The Case Of
Mr.. Bills Of Miller and His Neat Little
Wad of $25, 900 Essay on the Pleasure

L A. e. Bills Of Miller. s. D., is working
ION salary in the real estate department
Fof Dowie's Zion. The Miller Sun says that
Mr.. Bills was a pioneer in that country,
starting with nothing, but by farming,
later by banking, then by real estate, he
accumulated fortune of $4,000. A year
and a half ago he sold out everything and
took his money and family to Zion. In
the letter he said that If Zion City be-
came bankrupt he would lose everything.
When a man has $4,000 In cold cash-or
in warm, either, for. that matter-he has
a little Zion of his own, and in the eyes
Of the world he is a peagreen, copper-toed
sea biscuit for investing it in another.
mans Zion. A fortune of SIS, 900 is enough
for anybody unless his son is cigaretting
his way thru college and committing car
bon dioxide.
The Miller Sun also reports another
Hand county (South Dakota) man who.
went to Zion about the same time and
built $4,000 residence, living there with
bert. and he is now reported in North
Dakota on a ranch. Well, the boys had
run for their money, anyhow. We'd
prefer little less run and a little more
| of the money, but tastes seem to differ.
! When a man makes his own cash he
/ has right to use it as he pleases. A
man wouldn't put his money into DR..
Dowie's Zion if he didn't enjoy doing 1t.
Joseph Jefferson in "Trip Van Wrinkle"
and Patti in a new series of farewells are
i now running neck and neck. II we could
| just see Maggie Mitchell in .Fanchon''
once more we would give loud SNORT
of joy.
Few people appreciate that Manchuria
is about the size of Germany and France
| together. Will Russia let go? Yes, when
/ our bull pup yields his bone to the yellow
| dog in the next block. IS
Charles F. Thwing. p. D., LII. D., presi-
dent of Western Reserve university, in
eTIarper's Weekly. asks: How Shall
Educate My Boy?" Why not send him
i to school?
R. w. Wood F. L.. P. s., whatever that
: may be-, professor of physics at Johns
Hopkins, has an article in Harper's Week
+ ly with the caption line, rs the Sun
i Hot or Cold?' Professor Wood might
i wet his finger and put 1t on the sun to
1 see ii it sizzled.
1 Monte Carlo cleaned up s7,oeo,ooo profits
i last year. The man who broke the bank
1 there awhile back evidently did not oper-
ate last year.
l The Fargo Forum tells an amusing
i court story that occurred during the prog
1 ress of the Scott trial in the district court.
4 Mrs. Berwitch, an old lady who runs a
i malt joint on lower Front street, where
j John Fisher met Scott, the negro, on the
4 night Of the tragedy, was called to tho
stand.
Describe the negro who entered your
place, Mrs. BerWitch," asked the attorney
for the defendant.
| 81 don't remember what he looked like"
4 replied the witness.
WAS he tall or short?''
IT don't know" said the old lady, who
is a little hard of hearing.
: did he have beard?
; The old lady heard this question, or
, thought she did. Rearing back on her
dignity, she replied with a display of as
sumed indignation:
mo, he didn't. I want you to UNDER
stand that only sell soft drinks
! The courtroom rose to the occasion. s
Joe Trigg Of the Rockford qowa) Regis
ter hits the nail on the head when he
says that the darby chef in the little clut-
tered-up kitchen of a Pullman dining car
will always serve you a daintily cooked
, meal, no matter what you order. Why
t should not housewives, with better facil-
) tiles, do as well? Because they do not
know how. Why do they not know? Be-
cause they have never been taught. The
girl must learn how to cuff the piano and
z do various kinds of fad work while the
, men are being educated to make a break
fast on cup Of poor coffee and chew
Z of tobacco. There ought to be a cook
ing department-not in every school-but
!. In every home, "A. J. r. -