The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-05

American vessel to Port Arthur and the
fifteen minutes.
after reading six books of the Had
I felt that I would rather give a large
sum than read to the end" says Herbert
Spencer in his autobiography. Many COL
lege students have felt the same way,
and finding that the book has been read
before and done into English, have given
from so cents to rs cents each for what
is sometimes called "hoss,'' because 1t
pulls you out Of mudhoes and over rough
places; in other words, a literal transla-
ton. The Iliad was doubtless pretty good
reading for the ancient Greeks, but we
prefer something that smacks e. little more
of the United States.
Doc Bixby of the Nebraska State Jour-
nal is puzzling over the problem, Shall
We Know Each Other There" Too many
Of US, after we get s125 ahead in the bank
and own a few shares Of 1.-THE Yellow
Bonanza" mining stock, don't know each
other here.
A former school teacher in Ohio claims
to have the essay on "Cats' written in
his youth by a man now holding re-
sponsible position under the United States
government. 1t sounds to US like fake,
but we give it for what it is worth:
Cats Is an insect with long tail IL
some boy hasn't cut it off some cats has
one eye because Jim Jones shot the other
eye out with his cir gun some cats Isl
black and white and the color of our brin-
die cow and squalls at night on top Of the
Woodshed and can see in the dark with
the eye what is not shot out Cats has four
legs two at the front end and two at the
end that isn't front The legs at the end
where the head is is straight and the legs
at the end where the tail is is crooked
like the hind leg Of a white COW with her
horns sawed off and is good to give milk
| and make butterr1ilk for pigs that is good
for sausage and drink slop and eat little
chickens and make ma mad at the cats
or pigs forget which Our cat is good
to jump on our dog when he is asleep and
lick him before he wakes up and wonders
| if he is having a tooth pulled This is all
| there Is about CATS
| Walt Mason has just dug up terrible
example in the shape Of prosperous and
amiable Nebraska merchant who knows
his own weakness and who confesses to
it with contrition. This merchant says:
II believe that my greatest weakness 10
| an abnormal desire to talk; it is a weak
ness that I despise. and try to recover
| from, but can't do it. If ] get into an
argument with another man 1 forget that
he has a moral right to present his side
Of the case. 1 use UP all the language at
hand, and feel affronted If the other chap
tries to get in word. After have
talked while I usually pull up with
| jerk, remembering that I am giving way
to the old chronic weakness, and then I
am ashamed Of myself, and listen cour-
| teously to what the other fellow has to
say; but by the time this happens he is
! usually mad, and so the argument turns
out to be improbable from all points Of
/ view
From this it seems that this lamentable
weakness is masculine as well as-that
is, men have a falling this way as well
as-as-other people Now, IL there is any
I body whom 1t is unpleasant to have
around, it is the person who dominates
the conversation, walking roughshod over
/ it when you want to talk yourself. We
once knew party who thought before he
4 spoke, and he said it never did him any
4 harm so far as he could see. "A. ]. r.
! The japanese bury their dead with the head
| toward the north.