The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-02
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Fierce Argument ON Block as TO Whether a Wheel
+o barrow Should Be Pushed Before You or Dragged
~ After You and It's Application TO the socialistic
aatand Competitive Forms Of Production. zS..5
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~ After You and It's Application TO the socialstic
and Competitive Forms of Production. 5ss
e11HE discussion on Block 5, Lake View addition
yesterday, changed from the standard arguments
u as to whether the people should work to improve
the present competitive business system whether
they should endeavor to supplant it with modi
fed sociastic form and the talk became fierce this
subject whether you should push wheelbarrow before
you or should drag it after you. - So
The fact that all wheelbarrow experts are said to
drag the barrow after them first brought up and
worked out at length by concrete examples adduced.
Next, the mathematician and physicist of the block
showed loss Of power in pushing against obstacle
instead of bringing into play the lifting possibilities
of the dragging process: t.sasss% IT, y
ging system the lazy man g method, a system
imported from the old world and only used because it
made work easier. It shown that an energetic
man, anxious to get work done, after trying both
systems invariably ended by pushing the wheelbarrow
before him. r. I'LL.
$50 the argument ebbed and flowed and the con:
testants borrowed matches Of another and spat
on the sidewalk and little came of it. >. -.
2 Then the man who was using the barrow and who
had been working right along getting superhuous
pile Of sand somewhere else said: 49,.
foE''Say, if you fellows would put your whole soul
into it and would do it either way you would get
work done than you would by chewn' the rag, -:
So the meeting broke up. ~;~<7,2 ~ :
All of which recalls Lewis Carolls proposition in
his improved geometry: 1fr@ ..-.>,.:
ian argument may be started on any point at
any distance from that point.' -: -
IA Sioux Falls correspondent writes that they do
not say 'hjelo' thru the telephone in Norway. It
not dignifed. He says:
3''The telephone operator calls No. 3246, which
the number of Hanson & Co. The employee answering
the call takes down the receiver and says Hanson
CO. Or the operator calls &c. John Smith residence
and Mrs. John Smith or the hired girl or Bob or
Maggie Smith answers, John Smiths residence.
This at settles the question: who is this9'
s1s this Hanson Coz and is clearly better than the
American Hello and the consequent questioning"
-. This may all be true, but have been saying
S'hello for twenty thirty years, any attempt
to change this good old savors to us too much
Of anarchy. Stand pat!
Vernon Lee has just published volume under the
title 'sHauntings' containing accounts Of certain
spurious ghosts that have given amusement to herself
and her friends story of most interesting spurious
ghost is told, but not in this book, by a. gentleman
railroad train when he travelling in the south
sometime in the '90's He in the vicinity Of
Ashville and was looking from AGAR window at ths
wonderfully beautiful scenery along the French Broad
river It was drawing towards the close of the day
and the train clanking along with that hypnotic
regularity that trains sometimes attain when no stop
is made over long distances of territory The story
he tells something like this: = ..,-..
firing at last even of the scenery, looked back
into the and surprised to note person had
not seen before among the twenty so people who
were occupying the seats. This person was about
seven or eight seats in front Of the end of
the car There was something strangely familiar
about the back Of his head. kept looking at him and
saying to myself in bewildered sort of way, now
who is that9' My attention was so riveted to him
that it seemed almost uncanny. anxious to sec
his face There was mirror in the end. of the car
and it occurred to suddenly to look into it. did
50 and with thrill Of horror that looking
into my own face Explain it could not, but either
was the victim Of profound illusion or was gazing
at my own double. There the four of us, two
apparently real beings and the two reflections. Not
only the face but the manner of holding the head
and shoulders was the familiar sight accustomed
to see reflected from my mirror at home Here thu
reflection was seated in a Pullman number OF
seats in front of me- -.. %tr;' 49, = :,
3s With creepy feeling about the scalp that indi
Gated something uncanny turned my eyes away and
looked out of the window. Then thought Z must
face this. 1t is Illusion arose from the seal
determined to walk towards this person whoever he
was and see him face to face But he had gone