The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-08
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Ebert 6ede, Son OF the Congressman,
"a Writes Short Essay on Father, Maxi
Ing Snap Shot Of Him at
Moment When He Was Serious, Very
serlous-A Painful Interview With the
Future Member Of Congress In the Plain,
oid-F Fashioned Woodshed of Our Youth.
Ebert Bede, son Of Congressman Bede.
is editor of the Warren, Mimi, Sheaf.
Gilbert says papa can be very serious on
occasion and he relates one Of the occa-
sions In which the congressman famed his
offspring with a lath. Mr. Bede, Jr,45in
mentioning this sorrowful event. says:
u. Adam Bede is accused of being a
funny man and a wit, but we assure you
he can be serious-very serious-upon oc-
casion. Way back in our memory there
floats vision of woodshed at the rear
OF the house-just a common, everyday
wood colored woodshed. Nothing very
funny about that. you say. No,
there was nothing funny about
lit to us. We were in that
woodshed, and so was J. Adam Bede-
getting inspiration to become a congress-
man. Every time the paddle came down.
that meant majority Of ten. Oh, the
congressman from the eighth can be very
serious upon occasion-and we assure YOU
there were no punches in the seat of our
trousers after our consultation with the
| future representative" =
! Knowing Mr.. Bede as we do for a very
earnest man we cannot doubt that it was
la matter Of conscience and Of stern duty
with him to let his unruly child know that
the motor at the end Of the clapboard
was not suffering from any inhibition of
| the nervous centers Or inciptent PARALYSIS
Eof the arm muscles.
4 Altho he may be strenuously unpleasant
at certain moments, a good stout father is
one Of the best possessions any kid can
have. .sf X
Having taken off our storm doors. we
1 breathe defiance to the Rev. Irl Hicks and
his killing frosts in the early part Of
April" Ho Avant, Hicks! Wottell!
hounds; likewise Oddsbodkins!
u Eddie Brooks is vainly trying to swap
off his Second Folio for house and lot.
Every real estate man who looks at the
book, breathes hard but refuses to trade.
:, So far Mr.. Hearst has Rhode Island,
South Dakota and the supreme court Of
J the United States
l A new danger has been discovered In
kissing. The New York Medical Journal
announces that to the danger from germs
:. sis superadded, in the case of the neu-
ropath, that Of a shock highly injurious
: to the nervous system" We should be
3 careful hereafter not to kiss a, neuropath.
AS for the ordinary "shock," we are able
to stand up against it all right.
The insistence Of Colonel Bryan upon
his ownership Of a mortgage on the demo.
cratic party recalls to some democrats the
answer to a request for information made
n by James II. Warde Of Arkansas who was
appointed night Waterman in the de-
:. partment when A. H. Garland OF Arkansas
was attorney general during the frs
, Cleveland administration. A telegram wal
y received late one night addressed to tn.
l. Department of Justice" which Ware
n, n opened and found that the sender of tn
l. message wanted to know whether Their
= was any statute that forbade the killing O
a man who was a common drunkard an,
10 |publio nuisance. Ward concluded that tn
10 |attorney general should not be disturbe
e at SO late an hour with this inquiry, and
n as AN immediate answer was requested
IN sent this reply:
l. "None that know Of" ..-
III Perhaps there was nothing in the oil
"a days that filled the childish soul wit
10 deeper disgust than the poem called Lit
~ tie Drops of Water" It was recalled t
20 mind the other day by dispatch in tn
- papers starting that its author, Mrs. JUL
ID A. Fletcher Carney, had just celebrate
her eighty first birthday at Galesburf
ILL., The poem, which was written in 1874
runs as follows: -
g. Little drops Of water, g."
Sc Little grains Of sand,
D. Make the mighty ocean
al And the pies SAINT land.
ne 49,, 90 the little moments.
re Humble tho they be,
IS Make the mighty ages
EVIL OF eternity.
" So our little errors -" ee
~ Lead the soul away ~
IS .. From the path of virtue,
lis Far In sin to stray.
q Little deeds of Kindness
Little words Of love,
Help to make earth happy
m. Like the heaven above.
or Mrs. Carney was a school teacher
lot Boston when she was guilty of the aboy
to Her object in writing the lines was
p- impress upon the minds Of her pupils Il
Importance Of little things. Several ge
erations Of children in those days h;
We them impressed on their minds until ;
Ice self-respecting little boys, when any O
he started in on Little Drops Of Water
,ch used to go out behind the barn and g
it darn it all so as to get even for t
to tn1iction by that awful profanity.
he Take small boy who has been caug
ted red handed smoking cigarettes-or yello
handed. The way to treat him is to sa
tho My son, you go ahead and smoke tho
the little nails If you want to- But c
let, show you right now that by the tt,
ing you are Is to IT years old YOU will wa
FUR I'm RI tha fact that Won h,ya 1,ao,
30. awful ass"
That has some influence on a boy, q
M you can prove 1t to him. But If Y
! is quote poetry to him and tell him that
err little errors will cause him ''far in
to- to stray" he says what of it2" q
ave smokes his little punk-stick when Y
ing aren't looking. Don't try to work
namby- pamby racket on your kid
is con- A, J. r
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