Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-29
The Warning From the Bake Oven.


tertona middle-aged man and his wife,
together with large family of chill
dren. They came from New England,
and purchased aplace on which stood
one of the oldest and best-known
houses to be found in the whole
country. They moved in early spring,
and when May came, naturally began
to explore the place more fully. One
day Mrs. Charles, a large wholc-souled
woman, with strong religious temp
erment almost verging upon .supersti-
ton, came upon an old bake-oven
which had been used in early times,
but long ago abandoned. AS Mrs,
Charles family was large, she determ-
ined to make use of the oven for the
next Saturdays baking. She heated
it, put in her dough, and the result was
six magnificent loaves Of very tempt
ing bread. But on the bottom of one
of the loaves appeared the statement:
''Died June 1917 in old-fashioned but
well-defned text Tho fact disconcert-
ed the family, and their feeling
amounted to CONSERVATION, when week
after week the same statement appear
ed on the bread--|.Died June 49,"
Mrs. Charles, with her slightly super
stitious turn, thought it meant her,
and, as the date approached, gradually
grew i'll. So strong was the power Of
Imagination, in fact, that the day be-
fore the fatal one named found her in
bed a very i'll woman and firmly con-
vinced that the next day would be her
last. The news of Mrs. Charles ILL.,
ness spread abroad and finally reached
the ears of an old residenter, who lost
no time IN getting to the home of the
sick woman. He found her in what
she thought her last hours, but quick
~ explained that, many years before,
he had helped to build that bake owen,
and had used for one the bottom slabs
part of an old tombstone that had
been spoiled in the cutting. Every
body in the neighborhood, he said,
! knew about this popularity of old
Hannah Hendricks bake-oven. and
should have told the newcomers. 1t
only remains to add that Mrs. Charles
superstition rapidly gave way, and her
health as rapidly improved. Ches-
terton Times. sss5 "
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Tippecan0e Not a GIutt0n.
Gen. Harrison was neither gour-
mand nor glutton, but was delicate
in his tastes, and abstemious in his in
indulgence at the table. The writer
has frequently eaten at the generals
table, and he at the writer's table,
so that our knowledge of the demands
of his appetite are not merely hearsay.
Nor was Gen, Harrison's sickness,
which terminated in his death, brought
on by oyer-eating large quantities of
indigestible food. He was always an
active, energetic man, and from boy
hood to the last week of his life rose
early, and, when it was to be done,
! engaged at the early dawn in necessary
outdoor work. And when there was
no such work, he usually took q long
! walk before breakfast. This had be-
come part of his life, and when he
came to Washington he continued the
practice. 81
| The week before his death, in pursu-
| ance OF the practice of his active life,
and his habit Of early rising and exer-
else. the general took walk, as he
frequently did, across the long bridge
! to Georgetown. About the time he
started to return he discovered ashoW-
er approaching, and fastened to reach
the White House before the rain. He
worked himself into 8 perspiration,
and q heavy dash of rain wet him
thoroughly before he reached protec-
ton. The next day he was quite in
disposed, which was quickly followed
BY pneumonia, Or bilious pleurisy,
Which bafied all medical skill and
Terminated his useful life after an ILL
ness OF eight DAYS. These are facts,
and he was not kkiilIed by i Hoosier
cook giving him bis favorites ..cah-
bage; cucumbers and pickle pork. - -
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