The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-05

A very mean but quite harmless prac-
teal joke convulsed Valley Springs last
week. A wag in that quiet but lively
town hired the printer to print a nice card
reading Here's Chance to Get a Sweet
heart This. he tackled in front of the
millinery store The sign was in the win
dow, and just behind it during the fore
noon handsome young woman occupied
chair unconscious Of, the fact that the
sign was there. Occasionally a young man
would walk by the window, view the sign,
and then with an adrnirilg look at the
young woman walk on down the street
with great joy in his bosom. About all
the young men in town filed by the store.
looked in at the millinery, grinned winked
at the crowd across the street and
strolled on. The lady inside could not
understand the situation until ONE of her
friends walked by and asked her to come
out and look at the sign. She did SO, and
it is useless to say that the sign came
down quick, while she blushed so hard
that it threw a red reflection on the store
fronts across the street.
She is now looking for the young scoun-
drel who put the sign up. If she rdiscov-
ers him he is going to get the Icy look.
Won't that be just awful!
Out in Nebraska where the bleak winds
sweep across the prairies the peoples fuel
supply Is just as essential to life and
happiness as their air supply. But it
has this difference. The fuel supply can
be CONTROLLED but the air supply can
not. Out of every ton of coal sold, to the
consumer the boys who control the peo-
pies fuel supply skim Off a goodly num-
Der of bucketsful and put them in their
bank. Is this right? According to one
high coal authority 1t is a divine right"
This is very difficult to understand. But
we bowed to the rod and put in our coal
last April. - '..
- W.~P. Hurlburt, an honest man, returned
to Duluth last week and settled up 500
900 indebtedness incurred during the crash
of 1898 A1tho his former creditors had no
claim on him he has settled dollar for
dollar. This came to the creditors as
something in the nature of glad surprise.
After hard struggle at Duluth follow
ing 1898 Mr.. Hurlburt went thru bank
ruptcy proceedings at the request Of those
whom he owed, and then left for Lewis
ton, Idaho, to begin life anew. His eff
forts there met with success and he has
built up fortune of s250,OO0 during the
last five years.
It is a great joy to chronicle such
case of financial decency as this. "
Carlisle shoe company advertises for
men and adds: -
mo person addicted to the Cigarette
of the company says: -..-
1--WE have had enough dope fiends. We
| find that cigarette fiends are mentally and
physically unsound." >..
Anyone who enjoys that variety of
smell must be a bit unsound somewhere.
| Patrick Murphy, a transient guest, Of
Owatonna, did a retreat on Hardin the
other day that puzzled Owatonna authori-
| ties not "a little. Mr.. Murphy appeared
on the streets out of work and downcast.
To dissipate this gloom, he looked upon
| the firewater when it was red and came
up before Judge Hood, who sized him up
| for ten days in the city gravel pit. Mr..
Murphy bowed graciously to the judge,
accepted the situation and went to work
at once. When the policeman took him
| his dinner at noon a grateful smile lllu-
minated his red, wrinkle6 face. He looked
4 about him for a place to enjoy his dinner
and decided to climb to the grassy bank
| just above the crawl pit. He sat down
there but burst out Of the place like a
shell exploding and was seen speeding
| away as fast as his short legs could carry
| him. His dinner pail had been carelessly
hurled away in the debacle. The other
workmen thought perhaps he was disap-
! pointed because there was not a bottle Of
i champagne in the pail. but they soon
i learned that he had sat on a bees nest.
The police have not seen him since. The
4 bees had gotten around his right flank2
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