The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-04
With the Long Bo,u
- -"Eye natures walks. shoot folly as 1t fiies.'
Open Letter to J. P Morgan Outlining Good Scheme
for Spending Money Artistically-A Few Words
About Dear Old 'Aht'' and Music, Too

H EAR PrERPoNT: What DO you think Of
"ahts' see by the public ? press n. that you ~
your real opinion of the stuff honest, between you
and mea Do you sometimes feel that it is sort of
stratty'' and useless, lying around in the way ana
piled up in the museums like much cordwoodS
We all love aht and music can recall man tn
the east who when he we'll and strong, could
listen music for fifteen minutes at stretch. oan
YOU do that9 And for collecting, he dotted on IT,
Do you watch the Salvation Army headquarters In
New York to see if their supply wagons sometimes
bring in little worm-eaten plunder9
# It may not be very high art to hang around the
Salvation Army supply rooms and give 500 for
picture Of st. Anthony in 1857. But to see genu'
me Elizabethan carved bedstead priced $4,000 IN
Lunnon and to say to your man, "Buy It, - that Is
art The world loves the strong man VINO puysS IL
even If he does not know the difference between
genuine Corot and cromo-lthograph OF yellowstone
Park that has been thru fire in the paint store and
been squirted on by the chemical company
ago we Peea up R 5 an an as nainteS
white and had genuine brass knobs on it-and three
casters We have dreamed upon it some large $lo Dill
Areams In which were saying to our man:
"Buy It. No matter what it 49, buy 1t! buy IL
anyhow and be hanged to it! Buy it and store II
away in the garret. Pay twice as much as anyone
paid before for like object Is Is 1T usefns % m MeYet e
mind. Buy 1t. Is it beautiful If not, 90 not lot
shat stand in the way. Buy 1t.
S1 Wasn't that glorious dreamf
Speaking Of money, one night years ago a wnen W.
wanted it. we dreamed that had found among q
lot Of waste paper all of Carneg les bonds and seeuI
Ties that had by some mistake been sent to the mill
rushed for the SCISSORS, anu, IorgeIClhS
cut coupons until 10 pm The next day we took the
coupons the bank and the obseqmous oanker
over 81 100000 In currency to us and sa1o peasanS
tCome again.
The savings banks wouldn t take SO much and as
10 was bulky In the cothes before nightfall we had
bought all the vacant real estate between Hennepln
avenue and the chain of lakes. There was a real
estate boom on. Before completing the deal we
clipped off few more coupons.
On the property purchased we then proceeded to
build neat little $4,000 and $4,000 cottages OF from
f. tpve1v
vigorous clipping -
We then looked around and located several thou
sand Door but honest with fam1l1es you can tell
Them every time who would appreciate good thing
and presented each of their wives w1eh mousse ana
Say, but we were popular while the houses lasted!
ii By this time Mr. Carnegie had discovered his loss
and he sent around his man after the bonds ne he
didn't miss the coupons SO we had no trouble WITH
him-but we penn1ess.
The deal made us quite number Of enemies and
some good friends, too. On the whole 1t was as
pleasurabe way to blow money as one colo oooeh'o
We wish to suggest to you that If you get tired
some day putting 900 into painting that can
barely be made out by experts with microscopes tna
the above dream offers neat scheme for getting RID
of money To be sure it has against 1t the argument
that the money is doing some good, but you can
afford neglect this minor objection. :. 49, So .,o,
Trusting that Mrs. Morgans health is at It's usual
high mark, and thanking you in advance, remain,
very truly yours etc., etc.
A fisherman off Big Island last week ran out of
bait AS he too lazy to to shore to dig
he began using chewing gum for bait The fishes bit
it like everything and he used up several sticks of
Beeman s. Pepsin, etc, ETC., before he hauled In
anything.
No believed him when he brought in quite a
large fish which he said had been caught by chewing
gum bait. The skepticsm would probably have lasted
until this day had not Lawyer Purple of Big Island
when looking the edge of his boat into quiet
water the other day two fairly large fish resting
on bottom and chewing gum. This seemed to clear
away all doubt. "A. j. R.
The message reads tFHenry still loves his little