The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-01
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Having put in coal at various times during the
winter and spring, the writer has made something OF
study of teamsters, and has discovered that they
about like everybody else modified perhaps by the
fact that their business brings them into conflict with
overparticular people who not like to have the sides
of their houses ripped off.
Tie teamster drives up with load of coal too
heavy for any but straight road and his milk Of
human kindness is slightly by the that the
builders of the houses have left as rule altogether
inadequate facilities for the teamster to work in.
Here is where the true nature of the teamsfer
to the front The endeavor to cope with extraordinary
difficulties usually brings the underlying man out
strong and the teamster is exception.
I cherish pleasant recollections of teamster who
threw in two tons of coke and who gentleman.
He had to work to get the coke to flow, but he used
extraordinary language, nor did he evince any
desire to rip bay window from the house. Our
friendship eemented by glass of lemonade from
the house brush the coke dust from his throat and
we parted with mutual expressions of esteem.
Another teamster could not to make the drive
way without backing otherwise maneuverng his
horses little To avoid this he broke into the shed,
secured and cut away 81 section of rustic
fence with two years growth of tenderly nurtured
vine it. Our opinions of this teamster clouded
with error that took days to dissiPate.
A third teamster, whose language pervaded the
entire neighborhood and infected the vocabulares Of
small boys who listened in for blocks around,
described by neighbor in bated breath "a demon
from the inferno.' He looked the part Coal dusty,
vicious eyed foul breathed and launching forth threat
enngs and curses his potent language, heard all
the house, to bood-wah, bstered the paint.
He threw in the coal with fiery devilish energy that
blew clouds Of dust all the house. His treatment
of his horses would have drawn tears from vivisec-
ZIONIST Instead Of going into the coabn open the
window he pried it open from the outside with small
crowbar jimmy, ripping the hasp from it's socket
and fatally damaging the woodwork. His entire treat
ment of the window and bin indicated that he did
little sidelne Of burglary at night
Mild complaint at the coal office the next day
brought out the fact that the coal company could
would not guarantee that their teamsters were
church MEMBERS and when intmated that this
particular teamster the broad road to perdtion
the coal company, who had evidently heard from him
before, breathed the pous hope that he would land
there shortly.
transfers union made up of men like this would
be subversive Of republican institutions.
(. There are two sides to every story, and it might
be interesting to get the point of of that bad
teamster, but not in his own language.
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We sometimes read in Of murder or accident
that the victim is found weitering In his own gore
Exactly what does do when he ''welters' This
question asked quite frequently this last week
but nearly all the people questioned, tho they claimed
to know what was meant, were ignorant of what
man did who "weltered." careful study of tn.
dictionary showed that the verb 'sto welter'' cam
from ''welteren'' twetren,'' variation of s'wal
teren'' ''waltren,' perhaps from the Latin
"volvo," meaning to roll toss tumble about, flow
act waveringly confusedly. 1t has also come t.
be used of objects lying in pool of liquid. One o
the examples given under this head contained old
familiar phrase, ''weltering in her own blood T
be absolutely accurate the person who welters shout
roll toss about, tho he has authority for lyin,
perfectly still provided he is lying own or some
body's blood. 1t is well to be accurate, and perso
who desires to welter would do we'll to wigge little
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d The American Press Humorsts going to hol
L. their annual convention in Philadelphia the first wee
in June. 1t is of the saddest events of the yea
You might think the humorists would get together
= have good time but where they have been humorou
by force for fftyons weeks out of the ffty-two III
, remaining week Of the year is long drawn sigl
}, of tumultuous laughter. 7sf' A J. R.