The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-21
With the Long Bolu
Writer In London Sketch Has Article on the Sad
Side Of the Humorist Business-People Anxious to
Tell the Humorist what Little Willie Said
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HUMoRIsT, whatever that may be, has read

"A HUMORIST, whatever that may be- has a read
~ able article in London Sketch on the sorrows Of
the craft He says:
8 g In my day have known a good score of humor
ists-some blithe of temperament, some detected
and uniformly I've found that their humor caused
them much grief. They worked like Percherons to
produce it, They couldn It tell whether it good or
bad till the public had sampled it, they cursed their
gods if pet joke fell fat they banged their heads if
lesser scntation of theirs got praised unduly.
they were prepared to admit they in all their
lives had been clever if only some detractor sail
Boo to them, and they dwell in mortal terror lest to-
should witness the exhaustion Of their vein
of fun Worse yet, mankind has trick of buttonhol
ing humorists and dosing them with merry tales of
quite primitive lucidity Ali There goes Boggs,
author of ''The Monkey and the Mucilagel'' I'll tell
him what little Willie saidl' -
Ed Pierce of the Grafton Record is popularity said
be out of pocket because of humorous vein. If it
mad Deen lett out OF ms makeup, MT. Fierce would
doubtless be in congress today AS it is he ism
in debt =. ~.sEE
81 Another patient sufferer is Doc Bixby who once
kept spotted to furnish material for his sDaily
Drift The youth of Lincoln seemed to look up the
bossy in the light Of joke, and 9Th of July
morning, at milking time, she found on top, Of
the Methodist church. sz. s~5".
j. At the time Mr.. Bixby debated with Carrie Nation
at the town hail. he had barely entered upon his argu
ment when he was interrupted by commotion at the
Of the auditorium Of course, everybody craned
his or her neck to what doing. To the mort
fcaton of the speaker his evidently anxious
to hear the argument was seen entering the door,
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=, man named Anthony Washnek stole forty eight
pound cheese in Pennsylvania He stated to the
that he hungry and that the larceny did not
bother his conscience mite.
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Chicago, as usual, rushed that Gekwar of Marauder
out to the stockyards the sausage made by
light. 1t Gabriel should alight somewhere the
lower end of Lake Michigan and start to sound his
trump somebody from Chicago would try to rush him
out towards the stockyafds gz-. e.--.1 e..
49, -.-..
q If ''The Jungle'' is dramatized we have few
eggs and ham laid away the shed rafters to
@.~ $50.
The packers may be able to dodge the inspection
law by putting their plants in their wives names.
.. Michigan papers are telling how the president
nearly killed Assistant Secretary of the Navy New
berry of that state by nearly walking him to DEATH
The secret of the assistant secretarys illness is
out s.- '"t -,
s The president took shine to Newberry and one
day he asked him to 60 walking. The assistant sec
rotary is not athletic and has been. His lines
are not those of the winged Mercury But the invita-
ton left alternative. When the president any
one In official life to Ego walking 'tplay Tennis
ride ''dine,' It that that accepts
promptly and delig htodly. Mr.. Ne,vborry went
walking with the president.
AS usual, the first mile reeled off in close to
record time, and the hit up when the second
mile began. Mr.. Newberry was tagging some, but
determined Still the president never looked around,
continuing the heart-breaking across country.
Then the secretary felt the first rumblings of con
stitution and physique unaccustomed to such usage
He stumbled reganed his balance stumbled again and
went down YEARLY and completely.
The president was surprised and made soicitous
inquiries. Mr.. Newberry not talkative He could
not regain his feet. carriage was called into the
far country and Mr. Newberry driven home, where
he remained in retirement, attended by physician,
for the best part of a week. s.,.-- ~.
= The president penitent and made many anxious
inquiries.
If you want to 'stand in' with the assistant sec,
rotary you want to preserve decorous silence over his
pedestrian accomplishments. A J.. R.