The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-25
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How Little Henry Came Near Being Bowed UP a
Mild High by Empty Vinegar Barrel Back Of
the Grocery Store.
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I a LITTLE boy lived a few blocks from the Kenwood
~ grocery store in Minneapolis and he reads in the
pape how de little Teller in Fargo else
/ blowed mild high by t'rowing match in the bung-
hole of empty gasserleen barrel. =
So he hikes to the grocery store and pipes the
back end of the lot and there sure enough
empty liver blue coored barrel with gorgeous open
bung into it, He feels for de match an nen he thinks
sgee but match is too quick for little Henry He'd
be throwed the barn sure an bust leg or some
pin So he goes to the gunstore next day and buys
two nickels wort of fuse tweed long your
and he goes back and it into the bunghole lights
her up and she goes and he runs
good and plenty. ...~St -
But she blowed up at all he asks the
groceryman day, say, wet wos in that old blue
barrelout back thereg" and the grocer he says 'et
them raisens alone. Vinegar.' And Of course vine
gar wouldn't explode and little Henry is out 10 cents
L wort Of fuse Aim that tuff?
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"A Detroit paper in an able editorial the dis
aster to San Francisco and other smaller towns says:
/ L" It will prove blow to both ring and turf in
terests."
This is worse than we have any of feared.
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The tendency of the world to bite its thumb at
Dr. Dowie is not much to be found in his doctrines
in his walk and conversation prophet who rides
in sleeping and has negro salary OF 81
day merely to pull corks out of bottles and pass
the olives and another to brush his robes and hand
him the newspaper is not the popular idea OF
patriarch And then that language! reporter on the
Washington Star who tried to interview Dowe at the
time Of his failure in New York declares prophet
fighting mad at the press and called him person
ally % an intrusive ummox, - manikin with walk
ing stick,' Lavender shirted coxcomb, "a news
paper dude, ga lying parasite, - an insect, - the
hireling Of the filthy press' and "a nkpot'
The reporter declares he tried hard not to laugh,
but he had to smile and he adds, that Dowie so
enraged that he literally foamed at the mouth and
his eyes showed nothing but the whites.
If the prophet finds hostile Zion audience next
Sunday he is likely to be in for attack Of literary
appoplexy.
Not only volcanoes and earthquakes out after
but there is going to be terrible commotion, bloody
uprisngs and the ferocity of slaughter. Madame de
Thebes, the French seeress calls it strange, ex-
travagant, crazy incomprehensible year, and says
it is the opening of period of great struggles and
immense mshaps, in which the interests of all civil
lied nations mixed and warning with another
( far beyond the limit of reason.
Seerstern, a German prophet, confined all his pre-
dictions to war. Like the French he says the
United States will keep out of it.
I Lee Spangler, the American prophet, was mer
chant of York, Pa, until he became evangelist
Spanger claims that the knowledge of coming events
Is unfoded to him when alone the street in the
woods. Along with his prediction of war he pre-
dicted earthquakes in all parts of the world with
destructive eruptions Of Vesuvus Pelee Popocatepe
and some volcanoes supposed to be extinct.'
It is wonder some prophet does not come along
and prophesy something pleasant Some day are
going to be seized with the prophetic urge and cry
aloud that everything is going to be- all right tha
wars are ceasing, that crops going to be just
( Splendid and that that who borrowed SIS thre
/ years ago has great light and is thinking O
paying it.
Wouldn't that be glorious contamination!
"A. J. r.