The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24
From Mendoza.

! MENDOZA, Oct. %. When people get
cranky, or off their base, fly angry immeas-
| urably, lose their mental equilibrium, mis-
understand everybody and anything, get
! ireaky and take unexpected and susden
turns, sane people, who look square and
clear out Of their heads, ask How is the
moon?' 1t looks little as though every
! body were unbalanced and lost their regu-
lar senses when Luna Is in the shadows,
and perhaps the ancients We're correct when
they gave llghtheaded folks the credit Of
being moon-suuck Old maids have a par
ticular attraction for the moon, or the moon
an antipathy for old maids. Bachelors are
generally too solid in the head to get struck
badly. AS they can resist the awfully at
tractiye power of a woman, they have rath-
or got the bulge on the moon. However,
there are few whom the moon has played
havoc with, and wOmans influence in Il
magnetic way is weak indeed. We pre-
sumo, 10 theorise, that insanity originated
with women. Men d0 go crazy, and sci
ence will at some future time explain that,
excepting in very extraordinary cases, men
are only mad by hereditary title. Girls
who lean over the easement and gaze pen
slvely at the moon are in great danger.
Old bachelors who are out late o nights
very fortunately see half dozen moons at
once. Thus the influence is thinned out,
and she don't hurt them-the moon we
mean. Recently the moon has been in her
shadows II you have acted tritle strange,
don't notice it-don't mention it; it is the
moon. Two Mendoza old maids were at
tracted so powerfully last Friday night that
they were drawn as far south as Troy Grove
by her mild and gentle rays. They must
go, they had to go, and they did goa la
mentable fact,-and no one knew which
way they went And when their mystic
rlous absence had dawned upon our people
ana overcome them like summers cloud,
handbillS were circulated calling for volun.
teers to search for these estimable old
maids. And no Roman ever met in gladia-
torial sport with more heroism than did
our best men brave the soft, balmy air of
autumn for as much as fifteen minutes,
hunting in alley, pond, street, romantic ru-
ms, old churches depot, and sending tele-
grams to all points of interest. The fact
that they had disappeared unprepared for
any outdoor exercise banished the idea of
the railroad trip. The gentlemen of Men
dota display vast amount of pluck when
a woman's life is at stake, and they will
hazard their existence at any time for her
sweet sake. Marshal Mclntre was on the
alert all day and never looked for woman
more intently than on this occasion. Eu-
gene Wormley found an old hustle and a
portion of hoop skirt on an ash pile, and
he called about fifty of the volunteers to-
gether. They all stood with bowed heads
over the ruins. About 81 hours after their
departure the old maids bobbed up at Troy
Grove, and the community were relieved
Keep your eye on the moon and don't let
her bulldoze you!
Fritz WeaZlingdorf, a saloOnst, returning
home last Friday night about midnight
was waylaid by two men who undertook to
rob him Mr.. w. resisted their efforts in
that direction, and his alarms called night
police Tom Bailey, who fired four shots at
the villains. Mr.. W. was badly beaten
about the face. One of the men was recog
nzed as Louie Lindenmier, and the other
"A McGraw bOy-both known as mem bers of
a gang of hard cases, who have no visible
means of support, ami who stand around
the street corners, drinking whisky, ours
ing, and chewing tobacco. CITY Marshal
McIntire. in company with Alderman
Wormley, went to Lindenmier's house for
the purpose of arrestinp him. They were
met bv his mother. who told them thew
could search. They made tour through
the house and barn, and found all of the
property stolen from S. B. Dix's clothing
house last spring, also stuff stolen from
car on the railroad. including a number of
pairs of fine ladies' hose, In an old trunk
in the barn was seal plusb sack. about 80
in size. good material valued AT S35. and
which Mrs, Lindenmier claimed as her
own. She snatcbed the sack and ran into
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