The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25
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az I P FROM st. Louis at break Of day
~ Brinpinp uerica fresh dismay

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4 The Hurruldn and World and Evening Star
OF Gotham and Frisco and Zanzibar,
ST. Paul, Grand Rapids and Manistee,
Jobs Siding, Three Rivers and Milwaukee,
Passaic, Elmira and Missabe
Had extras on grating four times day
And Steffens still ten chapters away
And the CRATER sang song Of the sea,
fsYo! Ho! this Steffens he can It catch me!
I've alibis thick as hoppers In hay,
Grand juries packed to do as say, s
And judges who will not tell me nay
Bold buccaneer be not too gay;
Link Steffens is only five chapters away.
"A two-fsted fellow, this terrible Link,
With backaction pen and barrel of ink;
With Count Fosco toss he throws off page ~
And whirling about like lion in cage,
Yells for moro ink in horrible rage; ~
Then for more paper then for more ink again
The bu''anne9F CRATER 2 close to the brink again.
J The first that Link saw were the courts
And then he braced up with some affable snorts;
Knocked out the mayors, 1mobbed the police
And gave the aldermen three minutes apiece
Their little buy play to suddenly cease;
Then says the president, CHOW look alive;
Announce to the people that Link has arrived
Hurrahl Hurrah! for Steffeps! Then, E>t.;s
Hurrah!- Hurrah for and pen! ~ -.s,..z~..>>y
And. when their statue Is placed on hlgh,
Under the dome of the yellow press sky -
Z The American journalists temple of fame
Be it said in letters both bold and bright,
"Here is the pen which the fight; 4
Here is the sink which saved the day
When Link was twenty-five chapters away y =
*The name of the ink was. ..-..-.s
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A lawyer was telling me the other day that he
meant to file caveat and summons and complaint
and writ in custer against the wall pictures in the
supreme courtroom. "There is only which has
any appropriateness he said ''The picture of
receiving the law is all right and Moses looks
frstrate in his red suit but the others too far
fetched. There is on one side Chinaman writing
down precedents in unknown tongue, the other
the Count Toulouse who would have been good count
to lose in my opinion, asserting the rights of cities
and the fourth wall picture Of Socrates taking
sday off, sitting the bank overlooking Lake Cal
houn. I have patience whatever with such sub
jects when there were SO many others more appro-
priate The attorney did not specify what he would
have substituted for the lost count for Confucius
writing down the precedents which necessary
in the law business SO venture to make some sug-
gestions Instead of the comparatively quiescent pic
ture of Socrates enjoying his holiday perched the
bank high above the automobile track, there might
have been lively representation Of John Byrnes
opening the Barrett to the jury All lawyers
agree that this momentous event in the history
of the Hennepin county bar. In order to make mat
ters between the Cities the opposite side might
have shown Ignatius Donnelly calling down Judge
@Egan in the eoal On the remaining wall what
could be appropriate than lightly sketched-ln
picture Of the code commission carrying copy to the
printers9 The whole trouble seems to have arisen
from the simplicity of the capitol builders in giving
carte blanche to foreign painters who do not know our
local traditions and domestic glories.
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Did you know that the courthouse is nearing COM
pletion againq The main entrance is to be
completed, thistme finally and ultimately. There is
to be short wait for iron and shorter wait for
BILE, and then things will boom and the entrance will
be opened to the public probably in July When this
is done you will be able to transact half hour 8 bust
in the building without half days walking for
you will be able to trip right left into the city hall
courthouse you choose instead of going roller
skates thru what DR.. Folwell would denominate in
park language 'the grand rounds" ~-. -.
g. A man of my acquaintance called down hard
for saying last Sunday that the human skull pavement
of Gwandu proved failure because the skulls had be-
onged largely to higher critics. He believes in higher
critics, thinks they are doing great work in dispel-
ling superstition and putting the world basis
where it start right. He would very likely enjoy
the book which has been printed by Rev. Newton Mann
entitled, ''The Evolution Of Great Literature y
From this book may learn that Moses s'prob-
ably myth; that Samuel was "a fortune-teer'';
that Solomon never wrote anything, couldn't even
spell his name that the ark before which David danced
ga great fetch that the sojourn of the Israel
ties in Egypt "a fiction Of the Hebrew imagina-
tion.'' Having disposed thus neatly of the Old Tes
lament the Rev. Mr.. Mann takes up the birth of
Christ, which he says ga charming concet. The
miracles 'legends'' and the acts of the apostles
fairy tales. Nothing is certain about the letters of
St. Paul except that Paul did not write them. This
is all very uplifting Of course and prepares the
human mind for immediate and great advances in all
useful directions. Higher criticism is good deal like
the scafolding about building You do not get much
of idea Of the building until the scaolding taken
de-. James Gray.
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