The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
THE NONPAREJL HAN

THE N0NPAREJL HAN
a Horse steppeth on the Pastor at Noon
tide, but He Recovereth Himself and
Indlteth Psalm xon the Vanity OF Life
10, Things Are at Loose Ends and We
Are as Those VINO Are Thrown Out at
Second Base. tis[
It was cruel indeed, the fate our pastor,
the Rev. G. L.. met the other afternoon.
He was not even run down by an auto
mobile, no lady poked his eye out with
her umbrella nor did the nurse girl run
over him with the perambulator, nor the
grocery delivery boy get him. 1t was
worse even than all these. A boss stepped
on him! In the country the acme of dis
responsibility Is to be coWkicked. In the
city, it is to be stepped on by common
horse. After man has lodged bicycles
and automobiles, to be stepped on by
simple horse! WE'LL well; something
| wrong somewhere!
The pastor was on Lake street preparing
to take the lowryInoble He was medi-
tating metaphors SMILES and climaXes
for a little effort before the lodge of the
High and Accepted Rollers, when the
horse came along. planted his forefeet on
| his shoulders, looked into his frank. open
countenance and exclaimed, mo, it is not
he,' and passed on The pastor was some
what shaken up, but he boarded the car
and quoted his mind by reflection.
MAN is of little moment and standeth
| but vain show for safety
| He riseth up in the morning and call.
eth out.Aha' and rejoiceth like the elm
trees of Inglewood.
But; at noontide the horse steppeth on
him and he is brought low; yea his roar
| ings are heard in the streets. -
| If he surviveth, it is as nought for
at eventide the meat trust layeth hands
| on the table spread before him and he
payeth tribute to the oil king.
His rest is troubled by the thought Of
the tax gatherer and the coal man saith
| Of him, He is my prey
"Then I said, How long and the reply
came About million years, the way
| things are going now
| "And I thought within myself and said
| Lo, it behooveth us to look little OUT -
! Farm, Stock and Home, our agricultural
authority. gives this valuable. advice:
Neither dehorn nor paint in fy-time"
| We have not done much in live stock on
our upper 80, but we are always careful
| never to dehat in fly time.
| Alderman Hunter of Chicago says that
municipal reform drives people away from
a city. IF we keep on with this reform"
ing says the alderman, pretty soon
there will be nobody here
Well, it does drive out the grafters and
buns and almost any city can stagger
along minus that element of population.
Nebraska papers are boosting hard for
! John l.. Webster for sonething-vice
president or minister to New Jersey or
something. The only John L.. whose re-
| nown has extended beyond state lines is
Mr.. Sullivan of Boston.
The busy bee never hesitates to tackle
something a good deal larger than it is.
On to Mukden.
i Harlem has plague Of f1eas. Experts
say that they are imported from Naples,
the new Italo- Americans furnishing them
free ocean passage with board.
The postofice department has issued a
| fraud order against the Columbia Scien-
tific Academy of New York, and R. F.
Robertson, its president. Inspector Crow
ell told the department. that at the time
he made the investigation of the concern
tit had sold 10000 scholarships. or courses,
I at S25 each and upward and was doing
1 a rushing business. The courses were
personal magnetism and magnetic healing,
SCleuLllC character reading from the
i hand, Ki-Magi, "a system Of physical cul-
ture, and the x-ray faculty and scientific
sight by which a man could look thru the
side Of the house Seems If professor
must be som ething of a personal magnet
when he can draw $500, 900 for long dis
lance promises Of this kind.
Here it is at last The editor Of the
y Medical Bulletin of Philadelphia. DR.. John
". Shoemaker, declares that the use OF
sterilized or of pasteurized milk lays the
foundation of such disease of the blood
and blood making organs and the bones
as we'll as other important organs and
tissues, that the result is seen In de-
formed, distorted, weak and stunted crea-
lures.
Theoretically it Is stated, an idea
product had been evolved as substitute
for mothers milk. Human infants, how
i ever, are not nourished upon mathemati-
cal formulate. Notwithstanding the elab-
crate attempts, these scientifically hui
manized preparations have proved of less
Il value than good, pure cows mi
But the trouble is that 1t is easier to get
q good, pure COW than to obtain good
pure n1ilkman. The milkman knows thai
81 II he puts formaldehyde in his milk, 1t will
not sour. The temptation Is great and the
mi1kman is mortal. - s-i5 IS gss
Notwithstandi INSECT Is up to you t.
know exactly THAT kind of food the in.
fant Is doing his best to build up into