The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-08
GOALS FROM THE FIELD


In the colored regiment, which has re-
suited in the discharge Of the whole
punch, there Is scarcely a schoolboy who
cannot recall some experience Of his
boyhood which puts him in sympathy
with the colored trooper. Here is one
out of many. Some years ago there was
a great complaint Of false alarms of fire
being rung In from the neighborhood of
the Adams school,. The department was
being continually called to that part of
the city, and while it made great sport
for the children it annoyed the depart
ment exceedingly. Chief Runge deter
mined at length to stand it no longer,
and accordingly made a visit to the
school, resolved to ferret out the culprit,
whom he was satisfied was member of
the Adams: Accompanied by the princi-
paF@he visited each room and asked if
any boy or girl knew who turned in the
alarm the. previous day. Many evidently
knew, but the conspiracy Of silence was
barring until one young lad, BURSTING
with his secret, could keep in no longer
He raised his hand and said he knew:
| Immediately he was marched to the prin-
cipals office where he was sweated Wig
oroh sly, but refused to give up for long
tin1e.s Finally under the torture of the
questions he declared the culprit was not
a boy, but "a girl and-that he wouldn't
tell her name if he was expelled for not
doing it. The igallantry of Chief Rungs
| was touched. He asked no more ques-
tons, but taking the boy aside said,
'"That little girl is probably a dear friend
Of yours, and I think if you should 20
TO- her and tell her not to do it any more
she would listen to YOU
The false alarms were never heard
again. "a
Connecticut, says the New Haven Reg
lister, has cow that chews tobacco.
This is simply nothing. Minneapolis has
numberless hogs who chew tobacco and
distribute the juice along the sidewalks
and in the streetcars. It is not always
dlff1cult to work up sympathy with those
neW-fangled ordinances which seek, to
regulate by penal statute what is really
an offense against taste. It is easy in
the. case Of che expectorating villain who
Is not amenable to anything but the at
tentions of a policeman.
Goldie Mohr Wood, widow Of Pitts
burg millionaire in steel, who was
drafted from the chorus, has gone back
to the stage and "sassiety" says she is
doing it just to spite her rich relatives
by marriage. Goldie has million Of her
own and doesn't, need the money, but
she declares the spite stories are u,,.
founded. What drew her back to the
stage was love of the life. She was
never so happy as when making the one
night stands and humping from Fergus
Falls to Crookston on the accommodate
| ton. Now Goldie could travel in her own
car and send a pilot engine ahead, but
she is not going to do it. She is going
to take her chances along with the rest
of the company. The sad thing to con-
| template about Goldes case is that some
day Paul Potter or Will Wright will con-
vnce her that she should have a. play of
her own and then >Goldie will find that a
million will hardly pay for transporting
the scenery. - .,%t -,
Prosperity has brought another hith-
erto undreamed- of calamity in it's wake
They sue for more now than before. A
farmer in Kansas who promised to marry
a. girl and didn't has been John Doe..
for $50, 900. This same farmer was sued
once before, in 1896, when the populists
had the state. The schedule then was
$4,000. When he asked why this where
foreness on the part of the Tilted one, her
attorneys pointed to his barns bristling
with hay, his granaries bursting with
wheat and his corn spread all over the
lot. They showed him where wages for
the hired man had gone up and bacon
had increased 43 per cent, and asked
love had made mo advance In price 1t
looks like one on the farmer, unless he
can prove that he lives on one of those
congested lines where they don't furnish
any cars and where the farmer has to
burn his corn ia keep it from rotting.
$ The program of the council legisla-
tive committee contains some measures
of relief which the legislature might
legally grant, and others which could not
be secured by legislative enactment, even
under the classification law It would
be possible for the legislature to fix the
time Of the election of all cities in the
Minneapolis class in the spring, because
other cities in this class already have
their spring election and probably they
would not object to Minneapolis having
the same thing. But when it comes to
electing the city attorney, city clerk and
other officials by the people we may find
that we cannot get those things unless
they are already In force in cities of the
same class having home rule charters
If ST. Paul, for example. having a home
rule charter, did not wish to elect her
city attorney she would object to a gem
eral law which would take precedence Of
her. charter, making that process oblig-
measure OF relief to Minneapolis.
The more the. subject is discussed the
the more does it appear that Minneapo-
lis would have consulted her own best
good had she voted to accept the home
rule charter last November and set seri-
ously about the work. Of amending It, to
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