Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-09-22


NYE READS HIS MAIL.
toric times. Could you tell me if sponges
are or are not divided as to sex, as are
most of the lower as we'll as higher order
of life?''
Yes, the question is really considered
settled by late authorities, though at first
in grave doubt. Even mollusks are, many
of them, now so divided.
It is a wonderful study, Napoleon, the
relation of the sexes, for instance, in the
public schools of Spanish mackerel, and
the communities of gasteropods, and the
various types Of conchifers.
Who would think that away down in
the bottom of the sea, where the bones
of dead men lie covered with moss and
tho treasures that it has taken thousands
Of years to accumulate upon the face of
the earth lie forgotten in the back yard
Of a polyp or echinoderm, the line is close.
ly drawn, and the little sponges, some
of them, are playing circus and pirates.
while the others construct playhouses
and carry dolls, while at the head of the
school we may find large carriage
sponge as tutor, who tutes in summer
and boards around sponging on her rela-
tives in winter? All these are divided into
two great classes, like the higher order
of vertebrates.
Is it not remarkable, Napoleon, that
the sponge should love and be loved at
the bottom of the deep, deep sea? Do
you not wonder as you think that in the
show window of the druggist there are
fragments of broken hearts and envy
and jealousy and unrequited love?
Away down in the bottom of the sea,
where the Atlantic cable and McGinty
lie together, sponge yearns for sponge
with great big yearn that distance and
damp weather cannot destroy.
once knew little quiet sponge that
had no parents living, and she was given
to introspection and absorbed knowledge
or anything else that came along, and
she grew to be very beautiful, with blond
tresses and features enough for a Sunday
paper.
She grew up under the eye of an uncle
who did not care for her and who carved
in such way as to give her the salty
and disagreeable end of the joint, and in
other ways he was unpopular with her.
She loved large tan sponge with
liquid eyes who sat near her on roch
the livelong day for 80 years, like an arts
tocrat. He spoke of his love to the crue,
old uncle, but he told him to go and soal
his head.
And so while they suffered on, hoping
for merciful death to come and carry
off the old gent, she was one day torn
from the rock on which she had so Ions
been seated that she seemed rooted tt
the spot, and now far away, where eve,
the murmur of the sea is never heard
she is the top of sour and unhapp.
mucilage bottle on the desk Of mai
who uses grammar that he has learne'
by ear and who gesticulates with hi
tongue while he writes and contribute
the literature that is marked "Commu
nicated."
Yes, Napoleon, even into all spong
life some rain must fall
Mortimer G.. Tdd, Erin Prairie, Wis.
writes: II am a constant reader and
young man Of "a. years old. - was en-
couraged by what you have said to sor
Of branch out for myself and try to fire
myself from my environments at hom
so as that I could, as I say, branch on
for self and get a start. have no none,
to speak of, but felt that should n
longer be burden on my parents, an,
they agreed with me.
II got on train and rode as far as
could, which brought me to a small town
where I thought I would practice medi
cine. There were no other physician
there, and I got off there more on tina
account than anything else.
II felt encouraged to sort of make
large wild ass of myself partly becaus
you had been through the same thing
and I thought it would. be exciting to b
busted and trust in providence, like yo
did, but when I practiced medicine I gu
arrested for not having state license
for did not know that I was require
to have them, and the justice Of th
peace called me to one side and said b
was my friend and would fix it for me 6
as that I would not be sent to the pen
tertiary. He would advise me to waiv
examination, and then he would let me 6
on my own reccomisance. which mean
that I could fit.
$50 I fitted.
| "Please tell me what to do and send &
IF had Of used my own good sense
would still DO at home with my pa
ents getting three (s) meals per day an
| good rest At night. Now I am felc
| in the eye Of the law. This is paint,
thing. A felon in this eye of the law,
mean. It must hurt like everything.
would like to prescribe for it. ..
Write at once and please makeft41
81 would not cali on you for this nl,
as say, that I've been constant read'
and judged that by what yon say it
fun to be free and venturesome and n.
have anything to eat for long tim
/ But am not that way. If lean get 81
! Twill go back home to where mother j
and she will bind up my broken heart.
p. S.-H you publish this letter,
will kill you on sight"
| Preferring to die before cold wealth,
| sets in, give the above verbatim, ho1
| ing that it will warn some other constal
| reader In time. 5ss
You did wrong, Mortimer, to thin
that You could start away from hon
that way and not have moments Of "a.
ness and depression. Your hope lay
| successfully OUTLYING these periods an
overcoming this nameless pain withO,
/ your mother.
You are now, Mortimer, like the so
and bruised little birding that has bee
thrust from the home nest by the moth
bird. You naturally want to get bat
| where yop can hold your beak open ~
shut ycuy eyes and get Rs good q wor
as the early bird would
But you are chirpdng now il the "
1 grass, and yon are OF yonr perch. Al