The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-04

young lady insAiinnesota put her arms around
the young man who was driving In sleighing
of heart failure. Young ladies should be careful
how they set the hearts OF young men to pump
ing that way. The Minnesota case is a dreadful
warnfng.-Salt Lake Tribune. @
This wasn't any warning to US. We
prefer a heart that circulates the blood
more than once In twel1ty-four hours to
piece of tripe or an old overshoe of a
heart that doesn't know the difference
between pretty girl and a Sunday school
superintendent We may be wrong. but
bring on your heart failure!
/: Speaking of heart failure story comes
from Ohio of a boy who suffered from It
and died while he was undergoing per-
fectly just and well -merited spanking at
the hands of a parent Every boy should
cut out this deplorable story of parental
atrocity and paste it on the visor Of his
little cap. S& - -
Kentucky has 11s counties and OF these
forty seven have complete prohibition, /.
e. so far as appears on the surface The
Kentucky voter is learning that you can
not stop these deadly feuds so long as
q majority of the male population Of vot-
ing age is going around with four fingers
OF LIQUID manslaughter tucked in under
its vest. s..
The wife Of an itinerant Methodist
preacher. Rev J. w. Prickett Of Fenton.
Mo-, is heiress to a 100000 estate thru the
death Of Mrs. Charlotte Y. s. Miller, in the
island OF Jamaica, last week. Rev, Mr..
Prickett and Mrs. Prickett were, notified
Of Mrs. ,Miller's death by long distance
telephone. When t6aa 1hat she chad left
them $500, 900 Mr. Prickstt merely re-
marked Amen yslyand vasitsons about his
work. The Missouri papers who did not
follow Mrs Prfckett's career wftk en-
| thusiasm while she was the wife Of a poor
minister are now discovering that she is
| talented linguist, writer and artist "
| Berlin medical journals report some re-
! markable cures Of mild cases Of appendi-
citis by 4 new method OF treating the dis
ease before it reaches the condition where
you are boloed for it. r".a
| This method of cure is nothing less than
to require the patient to walk on all-fours
for twenty minutes four times day. 1t
Is claimed that certain muscles around
| the vermiform appendix unused when a
biped walks erect are brought into play
and strengthened by this quadrupeda; cure
Others are relaxed and the localized in
famrnation has opportunity to subside. A
well-known diplomat at the German cap
ital, celebrated for haughtiness and pune
tll1ousness, wa cured of appendicitis by
this method lately His associates are
laughing In their sleeves when their mag
! nations conjure up his proud excellency's
posture while undergoing treatment. The
four-footed pose is commended in dys-
pepsia too.
Even if it is not good for appendicitis
the four-iooted posture may be good for
the soul. teaching humility and tractable.
ness. We would like to see a few alder
men. pastor or two, a railroad president
and a half-dozen captains of industry com
ing down Park avenue on s'all tours -
And we may see it yet if it is going to be
a popular "cure.'' AS Doc Bixby said
when asked to debate with Carrie alton
that he would do almost anything for $40
so a man will do almost anything to side
step appendicitis before it reaches the
bolo stage. A. J.R.