The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-17
THE KONPAREJL MAN

II
story OF a Young Lady Who Was Anxious
f to Bias Public Opinion and the Trials
She Endured In Running a Country
IS. Paper While the Editor Was at ST.
LOUISA Form Of Exercise That Proved
& Too Violent.
I A young lady in the southwest who
wa, was eager to break into journalism and
70 shape public opinion on the proper
bias was offered the great privilege of
running I g the local paper in a town
lew miles from her home while the editor
was Illustrating along the Pike in st.
Louis. She accepted the great boon glad
~ and joyously Afterward she wrote Of
her experience thus:
nave had just the aWfulest time you
left me without a dollar. guess he
thought he would need all he could rake
and scrape in doing the fair When the
patent inside came by express didn't
have cent with which to pay the
g. @ D. The paper was all up, but we
couldn't go to press without that paper
made out a lot Of bills and went around
TO collect enough to pay the bill. nearly
walked my legs off, but kept getting a
quarter here and a dollar there until had
enough to pay the expressman. But I
could not collect enough to pay myself
and discharge my board bill for the week
When 4 told my landlady on Saturday
night that she would have to wait until
MI ----9 came home she looked at me
50 KIND ~ OF p1tyingly and curiousy that 1
Went up to my room and had good CIV.
It looks to me like this paper is on it's
last legs. I am coming home as soon as
the edltor is able to pay me enough OF
my back wages to buy a railroad ticket.
think he might better pay his helm
t than go on pleasure trips over the coun-
try"
And yet this particular paper was
twenty years old and is said to be .'pros
porous There are some problems that
demand high order of craftsmanship.
among them Is the running of country
paper. 1t is probably the finest form of
exercise on the planet.
The president Of the senior class at
I u1ts college who was down for a COM
nencement Grafton came down with the
1numps. 1t was great blow to the vast
crowd waiting to find out all about it.
The Corinth (Miss) Corinthian saws.
Ihe Corinthian again asks correspond
ents TO conf1ne themselves to strictly
news items. And again we repeat that
the editor writes all the damphoolishness
that our readers should be called upon
to BEAR"
The dalai-lama, the boy under whose
name Tibet is governed and whom the
bIltlsh are trying to pry off of ''the roof
OF OF ene world IS now said by those in au-
thorlty to be not the real thing in lamas
1t is limited that there is another lama
hlgher in authority and sanction called
ne panchen lama, the incarnation of Ami
thaba, while the dalai lama is the incar
nation of Avalokita, a subordinate deity
JUST where Panchen Is seems to be some
thlng OF mystery. He is surrounded by
a wall of impenetrability in some re-
spects thicker than that which encom-
passes the, Lhasa boy 1t will be some
th1ng Of an annoyance to Colonel Young
husband to find that he is not after the
real wash goods, but with his present
small force almost anything in lamas
will be acceptable, providing he can rim i #
to ground. ~
e. 3. Wolf, in the Alton Democrat, com
plains bitterly Of the passing of the Wild
West, of Alkali Ike and Calamity lame
OF one-Eyed Riley and Indian Mol. He
says that he has just been out beyond
P1erre, S. D., helping feed a bunch of
tenoer1eet TO the land sharks and found
the romance of the west naught but a
scuffed-up memory with a few labeled
rehcs mere and there in the pigeonholes
Ana then some friends tried to sell him
rocky mountain for claim"
In the place of the old frontier stopping
place, where you climbed ladder to a
pea IN the loft and were killed in the
ern hotel with decollette chambermaids
and iron -jawed bedbugs and carpet on
the stairs. The romance Of the west was
gone. Mr.. VOLTS complaint is best told
IN MS own picturesque words:
we did not go out over the trail in
le-scarred stage coach and get sur
rounded by picturesque savages and
emerge without hair enough on our heads
Tor shampoo. Neither did a stampede
OF snorting buffaloes knock us over and
prance upon our frame, nor did the swirl
ing prairie ire leap up our trouser legs.
We didn't get held up by road agents
either, as they have all gone into the
land business. The nearest we saw to a
road agent was the skull of Arkansas Bill
in the museum.
Did you ever spend a night in a claim
shack with holes in it big enough for
woman to carry a stepadder thru? You
lie on a Wlsp of prairie hay with a
cactus here and there, and a blizzard
comes and you scrouge down in boots and
overcoat and cap and mittens and feel az
uncomfortable as dog in a wet sack or
SStAc1 WI
the inaugural ball. The shack is only
wide enough for six, and there are nine
sleeping in it, Maybe you are the outside
man and lie on a two-by-four sill, like
poisoned rat on a pantry Shelf with
your nose stuck out thru a knothole and
the bllzzard stacks a snowdrift on the
leeward side Of it and blows gravel up
your pant legs and you moan and suuirm
IKE sea nymph run over by a threshing
machine. and wish you Were home.
THE fellows l went out with all have
beautiful claims and they wanted me to
take one adjoining the bunch. There was
just one left and they explained to me
that while it was a little broken, it was
Just what was needed in ranch for shell
ter We climbed UP on it and sat straddla
and looked down both sides. They showed
me bones to prove that stock always
sought such land in preference to the
levels. If you wished to Craze steer on
1t you'd have to tie rope to his tail
and ease him down the side with wind
lass"
B So Mr.. Wolf didn't take the claim, after
all-but he saw lots of country.
With June well along by the 18th, the
shower season is past its zenith and the
worst is thought to be over, until Septem-
Der. Still, it is all right to give some
poor widow with eight small children and
a dog grocery shower right in the mid
die of the summer A Kansas sufferer has
also invited a flood shower and is figuring
on profiting on next years flood. He says
he will issue invitations to his eastern kin.
reading something like this "You are
cordially invited to be present at the flood
shower on my farm May 2s 1905, and
enjoy the spectacle of seeing my wood
pile, barn, crops and live stock washed