The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-09
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contlnuaily doing daring things and get
ting away. The other has to make an
affidavit Of ownership when he offers to
pay his taxes, and IL he should ask b
man on the street for a light would
probably be handed over to the police.
Lac Stafford. looking out of his study
window In Washington avenue, decided
that he would build theater. He found
an aged man property laden and pictured
the thing to him so graphically that the
ground lease was secured in week.
Then he built the theater. putting up
the celebrated girder twice. He leased
1t to Bill Sterling, and 10! the thing
had not figured upon. So he had to
begin figuring again. He figured Jake
Lift into the deal, sold him half the
dead one, and by purchasing the Lyceum
and closing the dear old Grand" turned
It into a live one. Now Lac goes to
Europe every summer.
/ Stafford has shown the same nerve In
everything he has undertaken, great or
small. When Harry Hayward had re-
ceived his quietus legally and was only
awaiting the physical taking off I met
Stafford one day in the courthouse. He
was doing jury duty and had time on
his hands. Lets go and see Hayward, -
he said. IL ss.---
''1mpossiblel" said the Tailor. ''Gover-
nor has set the date of the execution.
Nobody can see him." u,
''ImpossibleI" said the chief deputy
THE governor"
: Eyes, I know that" said Lac 1.-THE
jailor told me. Where Is: the sheriff."
''de is out. Back in half an hour
'Impossible!' said the sheriff. why,
nobody can see him. The gov
Eyes, we've heard that twice. But we
haven't seen n Hayward yet. We
want
"But 1t can't be DONE"
do you mean to tell me-" said Lao,
that you, the sheriff Of the biggest
county in the state, can't do things
Why, sir, you minimize your importance
ford went on and put the sheriff under
such stream of 1otair that poor Holm
berg swelled until his clothing was OBJ
viously painful to him. He was bigger
than the judges, the clerks, the governors
and everybody in the state. Lao contin-
ued. Holmberg capitulated, wrote a pass
and we went in and had. a. long talk
with Hayward about his prospects In
this world. >.
What did you want to see him for?'
l asked when we emerged. ,-r
Il didn't want to see him. wanted
to see how far could get with a sheriff. "
Invent down street with the other man
one! day. He had never been in the
courthouse He had never climbed the
tower nor seen the couples holding hands
on the roof. He would like to go up
We went in and. lacking carefully, made
the elevator without accident I preached
the subject of the tower confidently. The
operator looked at me with real sorrow
in his expression, and then glanced crab
bedly at the other man. "Tower closed
for the winter" he said.
When we reached the street the other
man remarked, Lets go over and look
at block 40. They haven't bought it YET
and I guess this is my only chance"
Frederick Lands OF the eleventh In
diana district will not be a member OF
congress after the 4th of March, and will
be candidate for doorkeeper, following
the Scripture opinion that It is better
to be a doorkeeper than to camp out
in tents where the wicked make their
abode af.zsE
Lands is one Of 1--WE brothers. who are
regular 1ndianians in politics. One is
in congress still, another Is United States
judge, another a postmaster in Porto
Rico. - - .-5.E>. ~,
The Judge one seems to have been the
surest politician, for he landed a job
which is good during life or good be-
havior. He has no constituents to con-
suit about his next move-which is, per-
haps, as well for him, for he is said to
have eccentricities. One Of these is call
ing people by their given names on short
acquaintance. While he was practicing
law he was one day in the chambers OF
Judge Kohlsaat, who was rallying him
on this habit. '"They tell me you call
the judges by their first names, and
even shorten them. They say that you
call me Chris Kohlsaat."
II don't know who told you that" re-
Joined lands, 'but I'll bet it was either
Jim Jenkins or Pete Grosscup."
The "reminiscences Of famous French
detective tell us of a safebreaker who
in his time had opened 700 safes with
out tools or explosives. He did it by
means Of his fingers and his ears. He
did not actually open the safes with the
latter, but by manipulating the combina-
ton with his fingers and laying his ear
against the door he was enabled in time
to detect the click Of the tumblers as
they fell under his experimenting with
the combination.
i But to follow this delicate profession
with success he had to be in constant
training. He practiced fourteen hours a
day with three different makes Of safes.
He was absteminous In his habits, neith-
er smoking nor drinking. One cigarer,
he was wont to say, would knock him
out Of his earnings for month, while
a glass Of whisky would throw him out
of work for an entire season.
We, cannot all be top-notch safecrack-
Org a
patience, the delicacy of touch, nor the
ear. But surely we can all emulate the
example which he set of keeping our
selves competent to do the business we
are competent to do by abjuring rum and
cigarets.
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Speaking Of drug stores, which we have
not been speaking of so far as know
there Is Northumberland rumor that
the prescription counter is becoming more
or less Of a "reminiscences The little con-
ming tower to which the tired-looking
pharmacist used to retire and think
while you paced the store wondering
whether he would come out again before
the baby died has ceased to great ex-
tent to, be all three departments OF the
government with an amendment to the
constitution thrown in. The reason is
that the physicians do not prescribe as
much as of yore. Then they give it
themselves. The doctors carry good
deal of medicine with them and give It
at first hand. Maybe this is not Just
what the druggists want, but 1t seems
to be the way of doing business nova
days.
But the druggist Is not going out of
business. by any means. Other branches
Of his trade have increased enormously
His sales Of little odds and ends help
him out amazingly. One down-tow
druggist admits with shame that he, sells
about a Wagonload of cheWine. gum every