The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-05


oms of water swimming becomes to him a
very important and necessary art, unless
he can always carry basketball girl
along as side line, and this sometimes
becomes difficult. Fortunately the ath-
letic girl was along with the party and
the travelling man, thanking fortune that
his suspenders were holding, was lifted
out Of the water and placed on what Mrs.
Darlington called vice versa once more.
If you are going to take the crease out of |
your trousers by falling overheard, make
sure first that there Is good stout girl in
the party. 1t may save your life.
A lady who has claim among the pine |
trees in northern Minnesota made pets Of
a half tame family of porcupines. They
were awfully jolly little fellows, but their
appetites we're something omnivorous.
They would come out of the woods at
night and look around for old AK handles,
barrel slaves, slop buckets and other deli
cacies which she would leave out in the
yard. One night they ate up the wash
board and chewed a corner from the saw
buck so that 1t wobbled badly. So she !
told man in the neighborhood who was
looking out for her interests and tho she
wept at the necessity all that is now left
Of the porcupinos is bunch of quilts and
a remem brance
A Taylors Falls family has had equally
serious experiences with woodchuck that
adopted the woodshed subbasement as a
home. The little fellow was friendly
enough but he bit the, garden severely
and during a moment Of absentmnded-
ness ate a corner of the shed. Hence his
demise. It seems too bad that we can
not live on better terms with our little
brothers of the wild, but you all know
that when there is a skunk under the
barn somebody must move and, usually,
we cannot afford to.
Our esteemed contemporary, Backbone,
Is, to the very last vertebra, out for Silas
Swallow for president. Sias might make
very satisfactory chief executive but
his chances of election seem rather
gloomsome at this writing.
Uncle Pease of Anoka came down to
Minneapolis the other day, but he found
the candidates for office so thick that he
couldn't elbow his way thru the throngs
so he disgustedly took the Coon Creek
| trolley line for home. Mr. Pease is not
overly pleased with the political situati
in the state this year and he is not afraid
to say so. He thinks that there is too
much money being poured out. He says
Mr. Candidate. mighty sorry for you
this campaign. Going to cost you money
| and don't you forget it. Lots of folks
have had a sample of filthy lucre, and
they like it right well. Going to bleed
Eyou whenever they can. If you fail to
come down, and the other fellow does you
won't be in it a little bit. The pace has
been set by some officeholders and it's
going, to be a fast and expensive one
don't care. Want to see the Doodle cam
paign progress right along, and the more
corrupt it gets, the better I'm suited Blu,
2it can't last always. as few can stand the
pressure, but I hope it will last Ions
. enough to make you sick and sore''
7 Now you speak Of it there are a gooc
many candidates floating around but no.
body has offeredFus fifty cents vet for oul
.infiooence. IS s. =
At Hills, Mimi, Mrs. Twanges lad,
friends gave her surprise party on hel
fifty ninth birthday, presenting an "eIe
: CANT rocker Among other good thing
on the bill of fare was "romme- graut
according to the Hills correspondent Car
anybody tell what this is?
The Fairnont News has been much in
terested in watching the work of tn,
"big bull ditcher" which has been cary
ing out canals in that neighborhood
Using the cows gentlemen friends to pull
Il big dftching machine is something O
a novelty. When hitched to the pillow tn;
bulls pull in two strings, ten yoke in=Ss
string. They are trained and obey tn,
word of command like soldiers. The dri,
Vers. three in number, have heavy whips
the lash being about eight feet long ant
) as large in the middle as a broomhandle
(, It is seldom used severely. The leadint
teams are wonderfully well broken, ant
at the word of command spoken in
moderate tone of voice and a slight tai
of the whip will swing to the right or lief
as the case may be and the whole strins
must of course follow. Each animal has ;
name and seems to know it when called
Everything connected with the outfit i
E strong. The evener that the teams ar
h1tched to is of oak, ten by twelve inches
and ten feet long. The links Of the chair
are as large as a bologna sausage. TIL
pillow cuts ditch six feet wide and thre,
: and one-half feet deep. The average day
work is about sixty-1ve rods TIL
charge is IS cents per rod
, It Is wonderful work to the uninitiate.
: and great herds of cows stop their feed
: ing to watch the boys tear the pillow thr,
the earth.
The man who attempts to rope tn
t wheat market nowadays knows how tn
3 Mexican don felt when he had a goo6
t vicious grizzly on the end of his RATA
. Before the day of an American Califor
. mia the Spanish-Mexican dons of the Pa
: cific coast used to have sport so
It called, of roping grizzly bears. The ex
element Of the conflict repaid the Span
: iards for the risks they ran. and the
e ran many. for in those golden days, in tn
DIAL and Santa Ynez valleys, there wa
a grizzly for every acorn bearing will
oak, and some Of them weighed more tina
a ton, if the old dons can be believed TIL
{ dons were well mounted and were all eS
: perts at throwing the lariat or the riats
! as 1t was called then. The bears wer
q cross at being disturbed and when
: grizzly was once roped the Spaniard ha
Il a bunch of trouble on hand that wa
: likely to make a modern bull fight appea
d like meeting of the Epworth league.
1t Some of the boys who are now irwin
e TO call the turn on the wheat market wi
n wish, before they get thru that a kin
e friend had provided them with tao
n hammer with which to go out and knoc
d a specimen from a chunk of dynamite q
e Dig as keg on nails. "A. j. R.
d 1T WAS GREAT MUSIC
W 5nYo oril