The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-09
With the Long Bolu
The Little Men and Big Men and the Man Who Takes
Your Watch with the Excuse that He Is "a Bust
ness Man.
-'.Rye Mafure's walks, shoot foly a.

-HE small man has numerous advantages, among
them that of popular support in times of stress.
People say, 'tthat little fellow has lots of nerve
for his sze'' and in any controversy he may enter
they 'tholler' for him.
The ''big man" is often false alarm. He starts
ponderousy to take off his coat and the little fellow
fills the air full of himself and has him licked before
the big completes the operation.
You often ponderous man step into the pulpit
but as soon he opens his mouth you discover the
microscopic character of his intellectual grasp the
problems that offered for him to grapple with
The crowd sits there looking solemn, but it is 'wise
to him. It knows.
But this doctrine of the physical and intellectual
superiority of the small is not universally true
Some of the httest peewees that lived have been
small men, small that if type they could
not be used to patch out the tail of semicolon.
have little college professor who "earned
in all the wisdom of the Egyptians He had studied
in Heidelberg! But he didn't know anything. And
the whole class knew that he didn't know anything.
At least, anything with any juice in it. Emerson
stated tho not in these words, that you could almost
always tell the sound of popgun tho the wise
of the world announced 1t to be the crack Of DOOM
It isn't Drawn that makes big man, is it
brain. The biggest idiot the world has ever known
had of the biggest brains known physical SCIENCE
The real man is the behind both Drawn and BRAIN
And if he has neither Drawn brain he gets along
without them.
When an excited Individual informed Emerson that
the world was coming to an end, the philosopher
piled that he thought he could get along without it.
The world is wise, or fairly So to the religious
small man. 1t is just beginning to awaken to the fact
that the biggest gold brick it has to contend with
today is the so-caled "business man, This is no
attack on the real business man. but the man who
uses the word business as for all kinds
of meanness and verminferotfs littleness the man
who takes unfair advantage of his brother and
then says, in excuse, "that was purely business
transaction 'business is business or sI'm not
in business for my health or syou can't combine
business and philanthropy \
This variety of gold brick is now being tested by
an acid that is developing its real value which
bound in the long to put it it's proper scrap
heap
1t isn't 'busness', to go around taking other
people S Watches Or if it is business it is bound in
the long run to become very unpopular
The press agent of comic opera star wrote that
she the finest, fairest fufest fragment of fas-
cnating feminnty that flashed across the frma-
ment of this fugnatous footstool' It is fairly clear
from this that she is not only getting her own salary
but large section of the press agents.
M4
Do you suppose the fixed stars that appear to
twinkle peacefully ever have little starquake
and scare all their people out the milky way in
their pajamas?
A British baseball association has been organized
The game is little too brisk and hilarious for Il
cricket appetite where you make few hundred homo
runs in day and then back the next day for
In the hurry and rush of things when the goldman
wagon and icecart pail the sight, and when the
asphalt appears less hard and nty than the hearts
of the grocery delivery boys, the mind turns CRATE
fully to the old farm and to the happy days when as
boy, you fercely rebeled at the potato patch and
at the position, then forced you, of chambermaid
to the
You shut your eyes and the two big NAPLES in
front of the little white farmhouse There is pole
extending from to the other and from it hangs
swing for the children In of these trees is the
yellowbrd's nest. Down the lane both sides are
apple trees. They in blossom and in the blossoms
million bees The air is full of scent and hum
ming sound and the whole place is noisy with Bird
song and pig squeal The pasture up to the
barnyard and if you stand at the bars you may hear
the crisp ripping sound made by eighteen tear
ing the short grass from the sod. There is no hay
left in the barn after the winters feeding, but the
place is full Of good barry odors and of the twtterng
of few dozen barnswallows now making their mu0
nests the rafters and darting in and out of the
great open DOORS
But where's old grandpa who used to whistle ''The
Girl I Left Behind Me9'' And where is grandmother
who after putting in thirtysix hours work in each
day kept up fierce, implacable knitting up to the
very moment of going to bed9 Where's all the chill
dren and the innumerable cousins and your particular