The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-18
"Hoot Mon''

One touch OF nature makes the whole world kim
DID you ever watch opening safeY The act of
opening safe presupposes that the individual has
been Entrusted with the combination This is in itself
enough to give him Importance denied to ma
Jorlty OF the members Of the community The comb
nation OF safe like the password Of fraternity is
something very few know and only a few know we'll
Both are frequently changed to meet changed cond
tons either in the society in the Office But sup
pose the man knows the combination and has not vet
peen discharged. He approaches the safe, first pat
ting it gently like the barber who yearns to cut your
halr When You have asked for shave He grasps the
KNOB and turning slightly to the left to you are
looking gives it short quick turn if opening safes
were ms life work. Then he turns it back more
slowly and GLASSES to first position. Here troubled
look makes corrugations on his brow Has he forgot
ten the way to unlock it9 No. this is just to make the
who opened safe perhaps never even
cut open preserve can feel his contemplate station
IN this world. The bystander is Immediately keyed
up ana When 1t is apparent that he is bursting with
eagerness the at the safe breaks into mocking
whistle, something from 1Floradora perhaps. and
with crash of bolts, slammng of doors and cres-
cendo on the tune the door flies open. The bystander
heaves sigh partly of relief partly of envy. It
grand sight.
One Of the most mystifying and tantalizing impedi
ments Of the modern business world is the ro-top
desk 1t began some years ago with semi circular
ia which would come down not, just tho it
an administration with the law in it's own hands
Sometimes it came half way down and stopped to
think it over. It would come no lower that day
Neither would it go any higher There it stuck and
laughed in a creaking Then they brought on
desks with spiral top that would describe para
bolas and fly up in your face just when you expected
1T to go down. This desk looks less like half in.
Hated balloon than it's predecessor and it has more
kinds OF pigeon holes. Pigeon holes, secret drawers
cupboards and places to lose things in are the DELIGHT
Of a roll-top desk had one with typewriter
IN Its entra1s but this did not to be success as
had to move my entire effects when it was necessary
to annoy the typewriter I am reminded Of the MANY
exceencies of the roltop desk by the of Vice
president Goodrich of the street railway company that
they have been abolished in the general Offices here
Flattopped DESKS with but small drawer in which
man may keep his salary his tobacco are the rule
Each clerk is thus moved to clean up his work every
day This is pretty good idea, but it is evident it
would not do for Congressman Fletcher His speciality
is having little work hanging over, which requires
his presence at the next session d -.
The square deal has made deep dent on this coun-
try II the haberdasher is to be taken as an authority
1t has even penetrated the realm Of mems clothing
The popular pattern Of men, shirts this year will be
white ground full of Squares rhomboids and oblongs
made by deep colored crossines Men clothes will
also be light, heavily tinctured with squares. When
chappy walks out for airing he will be advertise
ment of the presidents policy. These clothes will be
very little affected in the senate. s.
IL While American boards Of aldermen are puzzng
over the question of the ideal pavement the inhabi
tants Of Gwandun Africa have gone on and solved it
by using the skulls of their enemies paving the ap
proaches to their capital More than 900 skulls are
used and to those who do not know what material is
used these cleaning skulls polished to whiteness by
the attrton Of countless feet form an voryike foot
ing of no small attractiveness.' When new paving
is needed war is declared upon neghborng tribe and
presently new pavement makes it's appearance This
is suggestion to aldermen somewhat akin to the
speech Of the English councilman When the question
OF paving was up this statesman reported by Sid
ney Smith, remarked g Gentlemen, we have only to
lay our heads together and the thing is done' One
advantage Of the African plan is that there Is never
any scandal about the letting of contracts tho there
was some disappointment the results of the last
war The tribe exterminated was found to have very
soft heads which crumbled away in such manner as
to render the taxpayers furious. On investigation it
was found that the late tribe contained large per-
centage of higher critics
= Governor johnson g attempt to fix the limit Of
man g income at $10 900 year has at least the merit
of giving most Of us something to look forward to-
Very few Of us governors editors have reached the
limit doubt whether governor and editor COM
bined has done With his salary as governor and
the advertising receipts of his newspaper and with
cash credit for the wood received subscription Gov
ernor johnson may be close up, but then campaign
for reelection will have tendency to reduce the sur
plus below the danger point. Governor johnson is
right tho in talking to young along the lines of
doing something besides making money. Take his
own case an illustration He has been highly hon
ored in being made Of the There are
some millonares who would give more for the Office
than John A. johnson will perhaps have but they
cannot get it in that way. Neither could Mr. John
son have gotten it in that way public honors are
worth more than money and they to be- since SO
many men are willing to exchange money for them
then there must be something in life which is better
than money getting. In the case of Mr. johnson de-
veloping strong rugged manhood along homely, old
fashioned lines seems to have paid him well. Even
tho it had not brought him the governorshp it would
still have paid hin. s$s james Gray
7 "a SONG or THE SEA
VI III The poet who writes of the moaning sea-
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