The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-25
THE NONpAREJL MAN

An Incident that Shows the Extreme
Value Of Keeping Your Harness
Trimmed and Burning.
AT the grain growers convention at
Fargo last week E. S. Delaney Of Valley
City told David Harum story on his
father that caught the convention hand
somely. 1t seems that Delaney, Sr.,
was particular about his harness and kept
the leather well oiled and the metal parts
well shined. One day he met neighbor-
Ing farmer whose eye was at once caught
by the gaudy cleanliness Of the Delaney
horses trappings. He offered Delaney
his harness and SO to boot on swap
Delaney, who took him up and made the
exchange right there, toted the harness
home; oiled at up and polished the metal
until it shone like a brass cent in the
box. g In week or two CO.
ing into town again he met the same
farmer with whom he had traded before
This mans eye was again dazzled by the
appearance of Delancey's har-
ness and the following dialogue occurred:
Stranger-Where'd you get that new
harness?
Delaney-Oh, that's one I've had for a
few days.
Stranger believe that's a better har-
ness than the one got Of you.
Delancey-It's a good harness
Stranger-IH tell you what I'll do IN
give you this harness got of you and a ,
dollarn half to boot for that riggin'.
W course, the deal was made and De-
lancey,- Sr., came out of the affair with
ms own harness and $3.50 in United States
currency; that always comes in handy ia
North Dakota.
Inc convention roared loud and long
over this story and Delaney. Jr when
ne went down into the crowd after his
talk, felt SO mellow and well pleased at
ms paipable hit that he inadvertently
paid back a dollar to a man of whom he
had borrowed it a few days before.
Doc Bixby IS visiting at Jackson. MINI.
to escape the cold weather at Lincoln.
Neb. 81
More than a million people, mostly wo-
men, have signed petitions to have Reed
Smoot expelled from the senate This
recalls to the Lincoln, Neb, Journal. a
story about an easy going gentleman who
was famed as a signer Of petitions. who
was, on a wager induced to sign one to
the governor to have himself hanged.
Buck Spencer, p North Dakota soil
ticker and grain grower, says that the
Journals Agricultural and Hotty- Cultural
edition was all right, but that he is OBJ:
posed to King Peter of Servia or Bull.
gar1a or some such place. We wired the
KING and received the following cablegram.
in reply:
IF Buck let's me alone. I'll let him
alone.''
Our national literateur Fra Elbridgs
Hubbard has just married the lady in the
case, whom he describes as woman ~as
tine mentally as Elizabeth Barrett Brown
Ing and as strong as George Eliot" Now
what will East Aurora "sassiety'' do?
IF we were police judge the man who
goes around the houses collecting a dol
lar for Annie" would get a sentence OF
five winters in Manitoba -...- 49,. -. .. =:
The lie Sueur News tells a good o,a
on a friend who prides himself on his
ABILITY as a fisherman. A new baby was
porn at his home not very long ago. OF
course they wanted to know how much
| 1t weighed, but the family scales could
not De found AS last resort the pair
OF scales used by the father on his fish
ing expeditions were brought forth and
the infant placed thereon-and the baby
! weighed exactly forty-eight pounds. And
1t was rather small child, too In the
dim past papa had seen those, scales
! first, but they gave him a weigh.
The Boston Globe has discovered the
original Hearst man Who? WHY.
Hearst He's just like all the rest Of us.
| New York and Philadelphia do not warm
their street cars. With the, mercury from
zero down for the last week or two there
has been quite deposit Of, sulphur along
the tracks.
Last year the American nation at the
circus and elsewhere shucked, and ats
100000 bushels Of peanuts. ~ ]
The Boston Transcript says that George
| Francis Trains Complaint, was mega
lomania, which is Bostonese for big
head" Train once gave lecture before
! the students of Harvard, in the course Of
which, to Illustrate his own isolation, he
drew huge pyramid. About the bottom
OF 1t, he. said, clustered ordinary people
such as Harvard professors and students.
ton, We're Plato, Shakspere, Goethe and
a few others. And here pointing i'm
pIessiyely at the very apex stands in
solitary splendor George Francis Train,
| OF course we all Of us have touches Of
this disease, but we, are bright enough
as rule, to keep the symptoms con-
cealed. Sit down with yourself some day
when you have little time and face
yourself up and see if you aren't really,
way down deep, just about as silly as
the people you laugh at It's a mental
exercise in charity.
4 Our old friend Anna Eva Fay. who has
been exposed so many times that it doesn't
even annoy her any more, is fooling the
people of Ohio towns with the old worn
out tablet tricks. Anna says she is go
! ing to India soon Ito study" Now what
do you think Of that!
On a slightly different plane is your
old South Dakota girl friend, Elizabeth
Towne, now In MASSACHUSETTS, running q
little cheap paper called the Nautilus.
South Dakota people were rather shocked
by the paper Elizabeth ran in their state,
and even the grand jury got little UNI
easy. They would probably suspect that
Lizzie's present paper should be called
the Naughtylus. Elizabeth's hubby is
called William A recent advertisement
says:
, If you want to experience a new thought or to
!, brighten up some old ones you want Elizabeth 5
paper. Yes, William Of Holyoke is allowed a
column in the Nautilus and his copy is all right.
or Elizabeth would never stand for it. ''How to
Concentrate" is booklet by Elizabeth and tells
how to use the wonderful forces of being TO
produce happy, harmonious and healthy life.
1t is bugIe call to those who sleep. -.
We rather suspect that when William
is asleep at 7:10 a. m. and Elizabeth
Concentrates on bugle call about the
; kitchen fire, that there Is some rupture
Of the happy, harmonious life in thp
: Towne family-unless William has read
{ Elizabeth's book and knows how to 'cona
! centrate'' a little tighter on sleep.
"A. J. r.
INCOME $40, ooo-DiED POOR