The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-25
THE HONPAREJL MAN
On Grade Crossing accidents and Other
Accidents" Which We Educate Our.
Children to Bring About SO That the
Results May Be the Loss Of as Many
Lives as Possible In the Most Horrible
Manner. i.

Children to Bring About So That the
Results May Be the Loss OF as Many
Lives as Possible In the Most Horrible
Manner.
It is just as well to cross your fingers in
q street car when passing grade crossings
whether In Southeast Minneapolis or else
where. It may not do any good, but It
certainly can do no harm. II you have
ever seen railroad employee unloading
your new trunk by utilizing the force
Of gravttation, you know that the rail-
roads sometimes employ careless and
callous men. A set Of men who will un-
load trunks in that way are almost GER
tain, some day, to make street car or
two hit the sky. And OF course you may
be in the car.
Then there's that rather bad approach
to the Washington avenue bridge. Now
we all know that the bridge has been
strengthened and there is no danger what
ever. Nevertheless, some tinid people,
when crossing it, put their hands on the
street car seats and bear down 50 as to
take their weight off the car. You feel
a little better IL you are doing soma thing.
And the railing on the bridge is rather
fragile, too. Yet there is not a particle
Of danger. All that 1t is necessary to do
is to keep cool and keep your head about
you.
But we will risk the bridge every time,
compared with a grade crossing. We have
often been annoyed when in a hurry to
get back from ST. Paul, to note the ex-
IRENE care used by the street car en-
ployees at these grade crossings They
seemed to waste SO much time and to be
so particular not to dispute the crossing
with the railroad company. You would
think after making the crossing about a
million times that the street car en-
ployees would get careless, but they never
seem to.
And yet! If there's a grade crossing,
tho an angel from heaven let down and
pulled up the gates, sooner or later.
| Bang!
And the street car company has car
in the repair shop if the kindling wood
man doesn't see 1t first.
| Of course if there are people careless
enough to be inside Of the car, why they
are likely to get what for lack Of a better
| term our medical friends have called
nervous shock "Nervous shock
sounds easy, but if you never had it, do
not go out and try to take it on. It fools
around in your subconscious vicinity
sometimes for years afterwards, appearing
in dreams or even when you are awake
| and thinking Of something else.
| But there is another view Of the case.
Five or six people, are, killed in street
car accident and we are tremendously
startled and Mortified. But over there in
people who are planning and schening in
the most "scientifc''way for an accident
that is likely to result in the violent and
4 horrible deaths of $4,000 men, the picked
men Of two great kingdoms, their brains
bones and flesh pounded as in MORTAR
as War Correspondent Archibald Forbes
wrote during q battle in the Franco-P rus-
sian war. OF that affair we read with in
terest as tho 1t were a great chess game
and we applaud the bravery of one side
Or the other. We educate our picked men
to bring it about.
the world is the vision seen by the old
Hebrew prophet, who, looking far into the
future, alas, how very far spoke of a
time when "they shall not hurt nor destroy
In all my holy mountain. Z
Seems tho we tax dodgers, now you
mention it., ought to get together and
oppose or support somebody for some
thing. There's an election next fall.
4 A Mrs. Beers was fined for selling sew
1 eral OF her name in Excelsior Of late.
4 We thought we detected a. sparkle in the
Minnetonka Records lake gossip.
Mr.: Lowry, say the Wall street dis
| patches, has been looking over Brooklyn
Rapid Transit. BY the way, that reminds
us. Nobody has kicked on the street car
service lately. Now then, boys. all to-
Igether! ". 80
= Miss Rebecca Mccullough Darlington Of
Ptttsburg has $15 100000 in her own name
and stands in a way to inherit $40, 100000
more. She has recently thrown down a
/ mere duke to marry a Connecticut boy.
| Wise girl! What's a coronet when you
/ have fifteen million dollars In the savings
4 bank?
We used to wonder why SO. many of
the Irish "came over,'' but the stories
they brought explained it somewhat. Fur
ther explanation is given by recent dis
patches stating that a. whole town in
Ireland is to be sold at auction-C Castle
Martyr, in Cork county It belongs to a
! count somebody or other who needs
money, and SO has to sell his village.
j A Rhenish and Westphalian society has
1 just published in its journal an interest
ing paper upon the subject of ecclesiastical
anathemas launched. against animals
Thus, in 1121, St. Bernard cursed the
mosquitoes. We are astonished at Ber-
nard!
Levi P. Morton has just turned 80 with
| out making any fuss about ft.t#aI1evi p
once saved the country by running for
i vice president.
Il NJ -- 80
l Somebody says that lettuce will prevent
i smallpox But does not your Kitchen lady
wash the lettuce in city water, thus open
ing wide the door for the typhoid germ to
| pasture on your manly frame? ALAS
what perils do environ!''
! The Philadelphia Post brings to hand a
i Gene Field story that all book cranks will
thoroly enjoy, no matter whether it is
true or not. Field, it is known, was al
ways entering bookshops where he was
1 not known and asking for an expurgated
edition Of Mrs. Hemans' poems. One day
4 IN Milwaukee he was walking along the
4 street with his friend, George Yenowine,
when the latter halted in front Of book
shop and said: "Gene, the proprietor Of
this place is the most serious man I
ever knew. He never saw q joke in his
his life. Wouldn't It, be good chance to
try again for that expurgated Mrs. He
mans?' Without word Field entered,
asked for the proprietor and then made
the usual request. THAT is a rather
scarce book" came the reply. Are you
prepared to pay a fair price for it?'' For
Just second Field was taken aback; then
he said: Certainly, certainly; know
it's rare'' The man stepped to q. case.
took out cheaply bound volume and
handed 1t to Field saying: The price
1 is 50. Field took it nervously, opened
4 print: The Poems of Mrs. Felicia He
mans. Selected and Arranged with All
4 Objectionable Passages Excised by George
4 Yenowine, Editor Of Isaac Watts for the
Home, The Ffreside Hannah More etc."
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