Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-01-09


I, too, see the stars pale above;
!, too, watch my life, my love;
The wind says to you goodnight,
And tho sea, "Aly love, delight"
Goodnight, goodnight, - -----
All the grasses sleeping light,
Nlvery radiance over all
Tie opal tops Of poplars tall;
Sleep, my love, till the morning break,
Hsep, my love, till the birds awake;
Then goodnight, my love,
The sky breaks white above.
MILWAUKEE. Wis.
I: JEREMY GREEN - 81
Hls Adventures in the. city. {
BY HATTIE e. 8. CREsSY.
Jeremy Green left the potato field
just quarter before IL by the sun, and
went in to dinner. Instead of resorting
to the weed" as solace for WEAKNESS,
he devoted his spare time to the Weekly
Narrator, the only newspaper he ever
took. As he was porting over its con
tents that eventful noon he all at once
leaped about three feet in the air, and
in his descent brought down his fist
with such force en- the table that he
overturned huge pan OF soup that his
mother had prepared for dinner, be-
side breaking o few dishes.
what is the boy about2" fairly
Numbered the father.
HE has split the soup, broke the blue
platter, and, dear me, ] don't know
what elsew replied his mother in q
calm, though vexed tone.
Jeremy's next sensation was that of
an afectionate caress from the lash of
an immense horse-whip. This was the
first appeal for good behavior he had
received from his pa in four or five
years. For q moment he looked saw
agely at the old gentleman, and thought
of his own superiority of strength, but
soon quelled his pugilistic desires and
sat down again to the Narrator, or
rather to the advertisement that so
elated him. It was call for agents.
Ten dollars day guaranteed, etc.. For
particulars, Roy & Co., No. 8 Village
avenue, A., N. Y, were to be con-
suited. Jeremy had always been con-
fined to the farm, and, feeling tired of
it, considered this chance for him, so
he resolved at once to give the business
trial.
He planted potatoes all the after
noon, keeping one or two rows ahead
of his father, and MIXED the COWS as
usual that night, but the next morning,
before daylight, he was on the way to
the city. About noon Of the same
day he entered the village of Smythe-
vile, just twenty-five miles from home,
feeling tired, hungry and little dis
turbed in conscience. In this condi-
ton he called at Farmer Smythe's,
where he procured dinner and an invi-
tation to remain until the following
morning and rest himself. His father
and Farmer Smythe once went to school
together; Jeremy now profted by it..
But we hardly think. he would have
tarried, 80 anxious was he to get to the
city, only that Farmer Smythe had
three very pretty girls. Heptalina, the
Oldest, was 10, just year younger than
himself, and so fast did their acquaint-
ance progress that he became the owner
of card bearing her name and address
before they parted. Jeremy slowed it
away in his left vest pocket, feeling
that the donor was, to say the least, an
angel, and that he somehow or other
had taken leap into paradise.
The remainder of his journey was
passed in kind of delightful trance,
from which he did not thoroughly
awake until he found himself in view
of the city. Then his heart gave a
great throb, for was he not soon to
know his destiny? He never had been
to the city before, and the sights were
so new and startling that he was in a
tremor of excitement by the time he
reached the locality indicated in the
advertisement. He found the avenue
dirty one, Nos dilapidated concern,
nd the woman at the door of very hag-
ish appearance; but he summoned
ourage to inquire if a man was living
shere who employed agents. She re-
piled that there was, and showed him
into small, stability furnished apart
ment, where an oily-tongued old fellow
informed him that the article to be
canvassed for was grease extractor OF
the greatest merit; he considered it the
most marvellous discovery of the age
and the rapidity Of its sale was un.
precedented; agents were making fort
unes; the article was put up in 5O-cent
bottles; he would be pleased to furnish
Jeremy with few dozen, appoint terri
tory, etc. He charged agents half price
so their profits were enormous.
Jeremy told the old gentleman he
would take but a dozen bottles, as he
had not the means for larger invest
ment. The territory he would decide
upon before he left. The old gentle
man limited to- Jeremy that it might be
as well for him to begin to canvass in
some small country place, as he was
well, little verdant. Jeremy's tenn
per rose slightly, but he made no reply
for who wants to be told he is "green,
even if he knows he is2
After limiting this, the old gentleman
left the room to get the bottles ir
readiness for Jeremy. He had nc
sooner gone than q girl of - or Il
entered the room by another door
Coming close to Jeremy, she whispered
Are you going to be an agent for tn
grease extractor2" Jeremy replied
that he was intending to be. "Well
now; if you viii never tell the OLE
man nor woman, I'll tell you wher,
you can look through q keyhole ant
see him prepare it," she said, adding
that she knew he would not think j
wrong when he knew the cheat Their
was about it.
She then directed him to the doc
where he could see the article pre-
pared. In the fre. place, the professor
as the girl sneeringly called him, tool
q bar OF common par soap, immersed
in pail of water, shook the pail, ant
then filed, corked and sealed the bottle
That SOAP" said the girl, "he buy
in quantities Of soap maker in TIL
country. IT, is good soap for washin,
clothes but will no more remove greas
spots than any other common soap. Al
agent never goes with it but once. Blu
by advertising he makes fools of q goo'
many, and considerable money on
of it."
"Do you tell everybody that come
tho same you have me2" asked Jerem,
mo, I don't often get chance" sh
replied; "you see, the old woman jus
went out, Or I should not have got il
here. Imean to get away from tho,
pretty soon, Is soon Is can get anothe
PlS place: They both drink and abuse m
jeremy did not stop to hear NOR
but took his hat and ran into the stree
went at such . pace until be was OF
of sight of the house that a,policema
on the conner had q great notion {
arresting him on suspicion Of som