The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-23
THE NONPAREIL MAN

THE NONPAREJL MAN
A Minnesota Paper Makes Complaint Of
That Corn on the Public Toe, the Bore
Diplomatic Ways of Handling the Taika-
tive Man With the Wordy Glmiet Who
Wishes to Tell You All About 1t In Sew
eraI Different Ways.
The Adrian Democrat is having good
deal of trouble with bores who infest it's
nice, comfortable office and borrow the
exchanges. He says:
OF the two the with the great lung
auger, who bores you with it, is more endurable
than the man who has only strength enough to
use gimlet The big auger bore is familiar
to all. He meets you and his auger is big
that you can it and dodge before he makes
a hole in you, but the man with gimlet is less
of bore, and his weapon Is SO small that he
is apt to get that gimlet into you and begin
to make sawdust before you know what he is
up to. The with the big auger comes in
and spits and puts his feet on your table and
takes your paper and your stationery and
stamps and tells you big yarns. and consumes
your time. You can get rid Of him, you can
build against him and fence him out but this
nice with the gimet belongs to your union,
and he only wants to make little hole in you
He comes in SO nice and pleasant that you are
thrown off your guard, and before you know 1t
he has his gimlet in and is boring away.
The Democrat then goes on to show
how the man with the gimlet is the real
corn on the public toe and not the mali
with the anger. In other words look out
for the little bore and the big bore Will
take care of himself.
There is story Of a man who was pes
tered" with two bores but who finally sue
ceeded in getting them talking to each
other in another room. He then gently
closed the door. After two hours ses-
t1axy Mt and ocIo refer f3
| the other as 1.-The most interesting gentle
man he had met for years.
| The true diplomacy is not to offend your
bores but to play them off against each
other. It requires tact, but the results
are very good. Nobody is offended and the
| time MASTERS are gloriously satisfied.
| Senator Taliaferro pronounces his name t"Tol
liver 1t would be interesting to hear Sena
to Taliaferro pronounce 'Popocatepel. "-Bos-
| OF course he would have to pronounce
it 'pimple.'
| Professor Triggs was released from
/ the great university that a Canadian pa
per calls 'Harpers Bazaar not SO much
for what he said but for what dishonest
Tor mistaken reporters made him out as
saying. The public thinks that Professor
Iriggs stated that Rockefeller was as
great man as Shakspere. The idea that
Professor Triggs was trying to convey to
his students was that the great minds OF
to-day find their opportunities for mani
i festation in the commercial world rather
than in literary expression. The idea was a
brilliant one, but see what we yellow
paragraphers have done to poor Triggsy!
The "heart breaking farewells' to the
departing troops at ST. Petersburg show
that the Russian is not SO ferocious nor
so deadly as the George Kennans would
have us believe. Foreigners who spend
any length of time in Russia rarely return
without sincere affection for the Russian
people Upon acquaintance, writes Writ
Gerrare, an English traveller, all dread Of
the Russian vanishes and in its place
there arises genuine liking for him. In
the same way we have genuine hiking 1or
the quiet and brainy little Japs. Hence
people who are lkable to the same people
must be 1ikeable to each other. Yet they
, are out to get each other! Something
wrong somewhere!
Vice Admiral Whiskeroff has had 'em
trimmed.
Citywateritis is getting a grip on us.
From Cincinnati, Ohio, comes the latest
: development in social settlement work,
: the establishment by a philanthroplc
: clergyman the Rev. James u. White, OF
= a public sparkling parlor where young girls
: of the poorer classes may meet the1l
: young men friends and pass the afternoon
: in Quiet converse. The room will have a
large number aof coy corners and might
: properly be called a public sparkoTlum.
. The Gary Graphic man went off and
;, married the sweetest Of her sex last week
q This week the Graphic; says:
: ''You can hardly expect us to write edit
l, orials this week. The editor is too busy
a. Il 1,ar 70 rlsnI
= don't care continental whether Bot
: Dunn or Judge Collins is the best ma
) chinist.'
y The peach buds are said to have beer
: destroyed as usual by the cold weather.
g Our strenuous old friend the Rev. R. c
y Fillingham, ':the fighting vicar of Hex
, ton, Eng, who gave Bishop Potter anC
, some of the high church. people of New
York such jolt last fall for ''popish prac-
: tees even to the point of stirring the
> bishop to anger, is back in New Yorl
: again as he promised and is preparing t.
: wage a fierce war on 'idoatry'' in the
o Episcopal church 1t will be remembered
l. that the vicar spoke of the consecratet
: wafer as a "bun" and in many other way:
e shocked the sensibilties of our friends O.
IS ..the Anglican communion" The fightins
vicar is already out in one open lette
to the bishop in which he says:
You know that in the thirtyfrs article on,
common church declares masses to be .'blasphe
# NOUS fables and dangerous deceits.'' They are
h celebra ted openly in many churches in your do
( cese--actually in the Church of ST. Mary the
% Virgin and st. Ignatius in this city. And YOU
~ said to me, in spite of the solemn promise YOU
3 made in the name of God, that these proceed
~ ings have your sanction. Sir, YOU man
L Are you Christian? Can you go on betrayins
st your conscience and betraying yeur church?
= MIR. Fillingham is to be here five week
So and it is probable that they will be mos
/ strenuous ones The callous world, as {
IN rule looks on a row with more o
p less pleasure. and a religious row it re
IS CARDS not with panied surprise SO much a
10 with an unholy joy that indicates the I'm
regenerate heart. Hence our regret at tn
Rev Mr.. Fillingham's campaign irrespec
ce'I tive of the merits Of the controversy.
RI A. J. r.
)y Thanks from Iowa.
To the Editor of The Journal.
The friends of Governor Cummins thru
at out the territory in which your paper cir
IS cuates take great pleasure in noting tn
ne fairness of treatment which he receives 6
d your hands. In view Of the fact that tn
IN n attack made against the governor
tCI,;a OH ba ina IF tariff