The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26
With the Long BolD
Eye natures walks. shoot folly as It flies.

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Eye natures walks. shoot folly as It flies"
How Fads the Public Schools Have Ruined the Pros
poets in Life of Our Small Boy and Made Him Able
to Do Something with His Hands-An Object Les
in Present-Day Methods Of Education.
These fads in the public schools are ruinous to edu
cation. For instance small boy wasted his time
learning how to make pretty farsh porch chair last
year. 1t isn't the kind of education had. In those
days the teacher gave out mental problems like this:
= II it takes 200 yards of lnoleum to make
hippopotamus bath robe, how long will it take
cockroach, with wooden leg, to bore hole thru
brick9' z- r. ~
= There is where you get the mental discipline that
enables rise in the world until he is worth
81 Or $9 week to any corporation.
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Will Chamberlain in the Dakota Herald doffs his
hat to the plain, brown hen. 'fFabulous wealth of
diamonds beyond the Vaa the glttering splendors of
the Rand and Homestake petty dreams of
opulence when compared with this low-voiced maid
in feathers ': t.f'
~ ttYet for all her superb labors is frequently
condemned to a coop where the winds whistle thru
the cracks, and the bzzard-wafted SHOWS sift Bit
terly.'' ...s. .+ -..
But bddy gets with the man that treats her
in this way. Instead of putting thought into the
egg business she puts it into keeping warm and thick
ening up her feathers If you to get dividends
out of the hen you must finance her with comfortable
quarters.
Mrs. H. E. Hamlin of Charles Mix county in South
Dakota heard outcry that sounded like com.
binaton of a small hot baby and stone crusher
working together. She out into the yard and
a good-sized catamount that had in from the
timber to engage the dogs, and that proceeding
to nip out pieces of dog while these faithful guardians
were putting up brand of canned fight that
reSembled COssack Mrs
Hamlin in for ''father's'' rifle and, being at
home with firearms, she stood around waiting to get
shot, but found she could not do without en-
dangering the dogs. Finally Mrs. Hamln succeeded
in landing the brute's skull with the dubbed
gum and the dogs instantly did the rest The wildcat
will be stuffed and preserved warning.
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Wonder where dear old Linevitch is in this time
Of stress in the army7 Picking ilacs in Manchuria,
probably. Perchance teaching Bible class among
his veterans.
When reporter called up by telephone Mrs. Nc
Curdy, the wife of the life insurance genius he
found that lady good and angry and she called him
down roughly that his soul rejoiced, and he
printed her harsh words in the paper and made copy
of them When you get angry the other fellow always
has the advantage.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has returned from abroad
where he went in search of health tho there is little
to show that there is any health abroad than
at home. John D. Jr. has not recovered and has an
nounced that he will not work with his Sum
day school class. It is said that the notorety con-
nected with the class CRATES John D. Jr, and he
does not like the way Henry II. Rogers smiles when
he him. 1t is suspected that Henry II. Rogers
also CRATES young John D. and there is bare pos
sbility that father also CRATES young John D. It
is feared that young John D. takes after his mother 8
side of the family and is sensitive to people who
'|grate' But my goodness, if you going
" into the game that father plays you must expect
people to ''grate'' you, and you must roughen up
SO you don It mind it. Father did.
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Booth Harrington had just finished chapter on
the true Indiana novel; the of which were
laid in Nottingham forest, when his wife informed
him that the coal shovel scrapng the bottom
of the bin and that the coal was practically gone
-. ''Now, by my halidom,' quoth the author,
''would st bring of lack to a weary traveller
on the moon?'
perchance the weary traveller have his neck frosted
in vain attempts to extract the pleasing warmth from
yon gray ashes sodden pile''
E' IT'S wel,' said the author with q sigh, "I
will forthwith have words with that baseborn chur
the coal man. Immediately, if not to once' ..
The author took his hat and proceeded gloomiy
to the coal IS
ri must,'' he mused within himself "speak in
terms that this good yokel may digest.
s'My good fellow, tell me, an hast thou coal en-.
kennelled still within thy donjon keepf'
"Yes.'
''Then to it at once, prithee, that Mrs Tark.
ington bin be filed Herewith that may sup and
rest in peace this night with grateful WARMTH
, The coal sent it up, but there a mistake
in the bill in his favor of So, and no even no
ticed it. "A. J. R.