The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-10
THE NoaPAREJL NAN

Widow Out Of Six Months' Barn Rent
Essay on the Ethics Of Doing Your
Nelghbor-What Shall Be Done to tho
Man Who Simply Ignores His RllIs7
Do you ever run across those men who
simply will not pay bills? Pretty good
fellows, most Of them seem, but they won't
pay bills and that is all there is to it. 1t
seems to be matter sof principle with
them. We have heard good deal said
In the past about tailors' bills, and every
the fellows we refer to see these boys and I
go them several better. They do not pay
any bills.
You might ask your grocer sometime
what he thinks Of the man to whose fam
lily he has supplied the Injuries as well
as the necessities of life for about three
months before discovering that father has
little If any intention Of paying up except
as the grocer by arduous and bone shat
terlng labor succeeds in extracting two or
three wee little dollars month from him.
The grocery mans opinion of the dead
beat Is so firmly established that 1t is diff
fcult to shake it.
We once knew a poor widow who tried
to get a little aid in her struggle with the
world by renting her barn to a dead beat
OF the variety who never paid for anything
until the supreme court Of the United
0Se@SSo 6SS oAICE I'LL, Cilu SllCll 1lS ilSSl-
tated. After he had boarded his horse in
the barn for three or four months and
every inducement had been offered him to |
pay the rent, two or three little dollars a
month only, the woman went to him per-
sonally and made a strong plea His
whiskers fairly bristled with sympathy
and sorrow but he was calm as he told her
how he did not have the money by him
them but would certainly get it Friday. |
That was eight years ago last Friday and
the Friday he mentioned has not come
yet. In fact this man has never paid the
widow cent Of barn rent and had no
more intention Of doing SO that the presi-
dent Of Patagonia had of declaring war on
the United States. He worked the widow
for six months barn rent before she got
him out and as I watched the brilliancy
of his operations I gradually grew to the
conviction that DR.. Shutter must be mis-
taken and that there was one-and good
hot one.
Then there's the man who borrows IS
| OF you. Any man who has had IS bor-
rowed Of him, let him raise his hand
That's right. All up!.
] And yet the thief meets you often and
/ looks you in the eye. How can he do it?
I have sometimes thought when met
that old fellow who "did'' that poor widow
out of the barn rent that I would ask him
question, say something like this:
did you ever pay that poor widow that
barn rent?''
But never quite dared to. He is bigger
than am and his whiskers look danger
Gus; yet when think Of that transaction
I feel that can lick him. But you can't
tell.
/ President Harper was pretty badly cut
up over the appendicitis but is already in
4 fair shape again to make his spring touch
/ down with John D.
4 Rev. DR.. Conwen of Boston asserts that
4 the only reason a young man goes to
1 church nowadays Is because he knows his
4 best girl is there. Too many young men
II are driven away by the variety Of noise
they hear in the front end of the church
after the preliminaries are over with.
u General Kuropatkin says that the Rus
sian soldiers will astonish the world.
Wonder If he refers to the sprinting rec
4 ord?
Il King Solomon ought to learn that old
} song beginning
u Now is the time for disappearing
By the way, what has become Of Kit
tie STingley. the San Diego mahatna?
The night blooming cat is beginning to
holler
( The Dressmakers' Protective association
says that the Grecian Bend must come
again!
s Do you recall the lettering affected walk
that the ladies of 1874-75 first sprung on
an astonished world? 1t took violent
hold on fashion. With it went a huge.
ungainly chignon and a little hat tilted
lover the face, immensely high-heeled
shoes and the indescribable hustle Of huge
proportions.
The dictates have gone forth from the
Dressmakers' Protective association that
a form Of the old bend is slated to be
revived.
'To-day's Grecian bend may be cult
waited in few hours" says Miss Elizabeth
A. c. White, president of the Dressmak-
ers' Protective association.
i ''The chief characteristic is the stiff
knee In other words, my lady Of the
Grecian bend will have to walk with stiff
knee joints.
> ''she must walk on the ball Of the foot
9 and this, with the stiff knee, throws the
! abdomen In. the chest out and generally
: distorts the line Of center of gravitation.'
The real article will be seen teeterine
q along Broadway as soon as the spring sea
8 son fairly opens.
: And that is not ALL Miss White, adj
: dressing the ladies Of her association, saie
y further:
Nov, ladies, you must prepare your
> self for tight waists We've been havin,
'em bloused, and we've come to thinl
e them nice, but we're going to go back t,
y tight waists. Your customers will sa,
. they don't want them, but they will hav,
; to have them"
!. Can the sensible woman stand for this
She can and will-if it must be tn
;, fashion.
:, When the North Dakota Editorial asso
:, citation was running thru the sand, alkal
;, cactus and sagebrush desert in northern
= Mexico the other day and the mercur
II stood at 100 in the tig htly closed cars
IS the editor of the Litchville Bulletin
= with his tongue hanging out, spent som
4 time writing home. He said in part:
= IT think If somebody should deed me
2 thousand square miles of this portion {
= northern Mexico, and found it out an
! knew who 1t was that played such dirt
! trick on me, I believe, as peaceable ma
~ as am, would hunt up that man an
: ask him to take it back. and if he re
i, fused could kill him In cold blood.
"a cit is impossible to describe the ccuntr!
70 It is not land at all. 1t is worse than
q desert It is all sand and alkali, an
= not good sand and alkali, either. Fe
! hundreds Of miles there is no green exceI
10 a clump OF cactus now and then, ard n
~ live bird or animal. Once in while
is crow or two would be SEEN but there wa
20 nothing a self Prospecting crow could ca
T. wanted to tell them that up In Mort
II Dakota they could steal enough grain frol
- one farm to make them millionaire