The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-24

How a'Youne Fellow Threw His Earth
ly All Into the Great Maelstronn That
RACES About the Corner OF Fourth
Street and Fourth Avenue San Awful
Lesson.
A sad story came to hand yesterday
dealing with the monstrous evils Of spec
ulation as they are seen in all our great
exchanges during the sudden rise In some
commodity like cotton or wheat. The
story as told is familiar one. 1t deals
with the recent bulge in wheat and with |
the pernicious influences that surround
the widespread gambling that takes place
on such occasions.
The tale is of a young fellow who works
In one of our well-known commercial
houses, Since entering the employ of this
firm ne has twice been advanced In po-
sitlon, with raise Of salary, for he has
done his work faithfully and well. In the
course Of three years he had managed
to lay aside $500 In the savings bank,
besides assisting in the support of a
widowed mother.
But during the early part Of the recent
rise In the price of; wheat the gambling
spirit got possession Of him and he yielded
to the temptation! He drew out his little
hard earned savings and threw it into the
great maelstrom that RACES and eddies
about the corner Of Fourth street and
Fourth avenue s. AS he knew little about
markets or about the laws Of trade, you
may well ask what business he had to
dabble in dangers unknown. But dabble
he did.
AS we said, his whole fortune of $500
was thrown into this great sinkhole And
80 he must begin collecting all over again.
you say? Well, not exactly He seemed
to know intuitively that it was all right
TO keep doubling up and to pull out when
September wheat was around Sill. This
he did, and with his $500 he jerked out
100000 more He seemed to have hit it
about right. He sent $1,000 to his wild
owed mother and gave $3.50 to help lift
the debt on his favorite church. 1t lifted
quite corner of; 1t, and the pastor is
much encouraged
This young Napoleon still occupies his
position in the large retail house as be-
fore-and expects to continue to do so.
he says he isn't going to speculate any
more. Perhaps he isn't, but If the Dit
does not swallow up a little of that 500
600 before he gets wise to the fact that
Napoleons are unmade as we'll as made in
single battle, we are hideously mistaken
In our dog-noses of the case in hand
Can a young fellow. without much
knowledge of business or the world, keen
900 If he should get it all in q bunch?
Well, 1t is problem we would like to
struggle with. Hand us over 100000 if
you want to>s some grand and lofty
struggling to stay by it.
| Editor Kroshus of the Glenwood Herald
has been In hiding. He reported a birth in
the wrong family and there was no end Of
surprise, trouble and argument All right
now, but these mistakes are annoying.
How y, to be beautiful? Many large pa
pers In the east now employ ''beauty ex-
perts,' telling their lady readers how to
iron out wrinkles and Ak themselves up
so that people will like 5to look at them.
A Chicago Chronicle writer comes nearer
to getting at the basis Of beauty by claim
Ing that you should beautify the. face by
beautifying the mind Evil passions are
quickly shown In the lines of the face,
and he maintains the converse is equally
true; that the silent songs one sings, the
undercurrents Of thought and emotion, the
dreams, the 1ongings the prayers and as
pirations. all leave their impress on the
face for good or ILL., and that one should
be mindful of the trend of her thought if
she has any regard for her physical
beauty. - 2@1
The. Kansas City Star claims that there
Is no legitimate reason why man should
be allowed to dishgureSa town block with
an old shack when he would not be per-
mitted to maintain a glue factory there.
s.
Isn't thing that Jocks bad as bad as a
thing that smells Bad eiiaa iA<'-
1t would have been milk in little Alexis
Romanoff's bottle if he had been born a
girl. <s e .sg
A poet at souris, N. D., gives the wheat
experts the laugh He declares that a lit
tie later the farmers will be delivering
the goods" He says IN conclusion:
Away to the north, east, south and west,
AS far as the eye can at its best
An ocean of golden grain waves in the heat
And the binders are singing the song of the
wheat !
Let us hope so. b:sss y
It was announced not long since that
James Whitcomb Riley was investing a
part of his fortune in large apartment
house In indianapolis, With this alleged
poet began to ask "how about it?" Would
Mr.. Riley allow children in his fat? The
writer said:
Tho he's rich, the world still owes him more than
1t can ever pay,
For the good that he has done it and the gloom
hes drove away,
With his lovin songs of childhood he has made
| kinder men,
Made us often turn from trouble to be young
ourselves again;
He has come and took gently by the hands
and led down
Thru the fields to old Aunt Mary's led us out
away from town
To the streams that still are fowin' past the
| places where we sat
Say, Jim, how about the children? Can folks
have EN- in your fiat?
!: An indianapolis paper sent the poem tc
Mr.. Riley. who read it and wrote as fol.
lows:
This is good poem. It is a poem thai
appeals to me- There is, however, one SCI
rlous thing wrong with it. I am not build
Ing fiat. Do not understand me as desir.
ing to hold poets down to facts. 1 believe
there should be imagination in poetry, anc
as far as imagination is permitted to ex.
h1btt itself in this poem it is all right Still
l consider it my duty to explain that I an
not building a fiat and never have bull
one But perhaps this is a matter of nj
consequence, anyway
No, it isn't. Still, we must believe a
flat owned by Riley would be located ou
III the country somewhere, wit, nurcr.
Gus swings in the lanes and several adj
jacent swimming holes always occupied
And as to children, why there would bt
from six to ten in each family.
"A. J. r.
MARCHING THRU. GEORGIA"