St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-17

bread, fruit and mixture called but
termilk pap. This diet gave all of them
peculiarly pallid look Mnason is a
vigorous man, though, and as he now
wears his hair and beard close-cronped
he Is not so notwithstanding as for
merly.
THE ANGEL DANCES.
The angel dances often took place
at meal times. A resident of Park
Ridge who was invited to become a
disciple of the Church of the Ewing
Cod supped at the house just before
Mnason left, and he described the per-
Torrance to the writer. No other out
slider has ever witnessed the spectacle.
This is the way the dance was de-
scribed:
Finally, when Mnason had eaten
enough, he seemed to make I'D his
mind that something was wrong The
devil is among u.s.! he shouted Chase
him away" At this old Jane Howells
got up and began to prance around the
table as fast as she could.
Jump over it" shouted Manson.
She put her hand on John the Bap-
lists shoulder and sailed oyer the ia
bic, almost touching a dish Then
she commenced to cavort around us
again until she had covered fourteen
laps.
During all this time the others were
clapping their hands, 'praising the
Lord and squirting the old woman
to renewed efforts. She got wilder
and wilder, and finally jumped upon
the table and sloshed around among
the vegetable dishes. She stepped on
big cake and mashed it fiat
I'm the meantime old man Storms,
who mad not yet finished eating,
grabbed some 'buttermilk pap and
fled. The old woman kept up dancing
among the vegetables until she lad
overturned nearly all of them. Then
she sat down by John the Baptist,
painting with 'exertion, amid the rap
turous EXPLANATIONS of the disciples.
This was the ordinary Angel dance,
but it did not end here. Things would
have quieted down if John the Bap-
tist' had not leaned over and made an
affectionate remark to the painting
Mrs. Howells. Manson heard it, and
waxed wroth. He jumped up and
kicked the table over.
Away went the turnips, potatoes,
great clatter In an instant Mnason
and John the Baptist were clinched
like a pair of cats, and rolling over
the floor among the debris, fighting
for dear life.
'Silas the Pure, in trying to part
them, received a quantity of mashed
potatoes in the left eye. Then the
women took q. hand, and the dishes
| began to fly. You could have heard the
| noise of combat a mile away. When
| they got through there were mashed
| turnips and buttermilk pap on the win
dows and walls, and mashed potatoes
on the ceiling. The floor was covered
with broken dishes, and the place
| looked as though it had been upturned
| by an earthquake.
| 'In their struggle the disciples had
rolled over and over on the floor I'M
| til their clothes were covered with pro-
| vender. When quiet had been re-
| stored Mnason said, Praise the Lord,
and the others said 'Amenp That set
| tied it. I did not join the Church of
| the Living Cod"
| The cause of Mnason's departure
| was the fear of another term in the
| penitentiary. The neighbors were pre-
| pairing for another crusade against
| the angel dancers when he left. John
| the Baptist and Silas the Pure have
also DISAPPEARED. The two old women
still linger about the Storms farm, but
| there is meat on the table now and old
Hermann Storms is once more boss.