The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-23
With the Long Bow
Eye NATURES walks. shoot folly as it flies. I"
Story of the Patent, Duplex Cement Tombstone Invented by
Colonel j. H. Nancy of Seattle, an Article that Is Now
Looming Large in the Chinese Trade-How the Colonel's
Success Is Due to His Grand Old Mother.

picking up the Richmond (Mo) Republican, we read:
.'Mrs. Nancy tried to get rich by farming, but
couldn't; she tried weaving carpets, then making maple
sugar, but didn't succeed, and now she is manufacturing
medicine and baking powder and appointing agents, and what
next | can't tell" -~'
It is enterprise like this that, even if it does not win out
financially, gives Mrs. n. that all-around' training that makes
her a character and an authority.
And her boy? Trust that kid for making good! Before
he is 40 he will have on the Pacific coast a factory engaged IN
the manufacture of tombstones for the Chinese trade. And
he will push them, too. Not a Chinaman in the fowery king
dom in 1890 will die a triumphant death unless he feels sure
that his bones will rest under one of Nancy's Patent Duplex
Tombstones, made from Cement, and put down in China at
less than two-thirds the cost OF the Chinese article right on
the ground.
This will make Nancy Independently wealthy, and you
will see the old place at Richmond, Mo, brighten up and
real hand-painted pictures will take the place Of the notices
on the walls, and there will be a nice fence around the house,
and Mrs. Nancy will say: 81 knowed all the time that we
was goin' to git it some way, but [ didn't know jest how. "
M@
Mrs. Delay of Evansville, Ind, was granted a divorce
last week. Those of us who have known old Bill Delay do
not wonder at 1t. It was brought out in the testimony that
he came home with a burden one night, chivarousy threw
his wife down and sat on her. When she objected to acting
in the role of a davenport, he stuck pins into her person.
The court granted the divorce at once. Seems if wives are
getting mighty particular.
But the trouble isn't all on one side. A New York coun-
try paper prints this legal notice:
'This is to certify that my wife, Elizabeth, formerly the
Widow Wild. is too wild to be steered by my compass, but
one of her own making, and as she has the devil for her pilot
she has altered her course and steered away from me, so
that I will pay no debts of her contracting after this date.
I now understand why Old Man Wild longed for death and
was said by the %neighbors to be resigned at the last.
800 -"Richard jennings
Wanted-An entirely new idea; must be bright, some
thing that will interest and hold the attention, that will
satisfy the heart as we'll as the mind, for use in this corner.
Please inclose with the idea check for $40, not for publica-
ton, but as guarantee of good faith. If idea is used, check
will be retained. If not used, check is forfeited. Address
all communications to this column.
Physicians tell us that there are over ninety distinct liver
diseases. People who hold this valuable organ strongly in
mind may have a large bunch Of these all at once. Nothing
can give a man more mental gymnastics than what is vaguely
Is called oliver trouble This "trouble'' has of late gone
tsomewhat out of date, but there are others ready and will
fling to take you on. Where dear old Aunt En- laid every
thing to the liver, now almost everything is blamed on the
stomach and the appendix. Every good doctor takes the
/ appendix, and he cannot diagnose stomach trouble without
watering at the mouth, for people have lived with excised
stomachs.
Before going to that extreme, some Of us propose to take
that good old remedy, dockroot and dandelion. It pulled
grandpa out Of many a bad hole by one galus when he fell
too much run down to care for the critters. "A. j. R.