Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-03-13
THE MONROE DocToRlN.

THE MONROE DocToRiN.
Some women take to authorin-I spose they
,sE might do worse sg B vs. sle
Though I don reel Of skeins Of prose or spin
MS out yards o. verse. .@
An while he is discussin things, Jest cot BY
an muse.
Idees don 7 seem to strike man quite as they
An what hits me the forciblist is ups an downs
Nj of life. sEl4 i.
The changes Of this world air proved in an
.%t amaZin way ~ '.~ r.. z.
By somethin Ezra read out loud an talked
about today. l4a..?. e.
Il didn't ask no questions, but . cartoon show
~ ed to me :@ 5-.sE VA
That some old English lady. who owns land
ia acrost the sea.
Camped out In Venzuely. took chill. begun
~ to pine, Z"
An forren kentries st,od around s-wstchin
. her decline.
Nobody tried to stop the spell from havin its
Until her cousin Jonathan walked up to wha.
W. was done: t' 49,. n
An seem dang 'rous symptoms a.carousin in her
II face, - r.. = &. .'-.r' % .. T.. IT,. 4
He set Monroe a-doctorin the melancholy case.
The cure was most miraklous: he toned her up
30 quick .,E % ~. -,.-s,,.
Folks found it hard to realize that she had
been so sickl 5.'a1; ~.
Her temper ture grew material, her pulse beat
full an slow.
While all the people swung their hats An shout.
2 ed for Monroel .
That fetched me to rememberin the days when
was small. ~ & '.ti
In good old Pennsylvany whore tho hemlook
knew !. squ.r' log cabin olost by susqusr
hanna's shore, ...... Il
With young Monroes a.swarmin round the
narrer batten door. '@' - ''t~
mind the hull big bilin. from Lysander down
to Jim. g.
Sandy was awful shifless, IN NO ono took
stock In him,
But Jim, he tackled medicine, though foltp
made lots Of sport:
Bare feet an ragged roundabout was made 70
hold the fort!
He worked his way to college an turned ous
with his degree,
/ An then he tried to 60 10 church IN dnein
T school with me.
alters poor;
took my choice sbetween the two. an Jim
= come back no more.
There amt much use in murmurin, but see
the ways Of fate.
There's Jim Monroe. whose doctorin must
E hev made him rich An great.
The way his patient oonvalesced hes raised 20
big breeze,
The hull Of venzuely smiles an dops down ON
its knees.
To-, ,;lo tho DINO ,nan,a balance scalea-ona
+ rises. t'other falls
Fer Ezra reads the papers in blue denim over
allsi
A common, kentry farmin man 10 all luck
made of him.
I'll bet he don't suspect Monroe is Pennsyl.
vany Jiml
But, thanks to forchune, I've got brains to fig
ger out sech facts,
Though can't grasp the tariff or see through
I'm ruther proud to recognize Teller once
my beau,
An Ezra. bein jealous. don't care to let him
/ <,,'- ','-..-. Chicago Inter Ocean
w Yt He Had Tried II. E./
4; ~ zone day." says q Boston story teller,
ssvhile John L. Sullivan and Paddy Ryan
were sitting In the dining room Of hotel
in western town, Paddy was perusing
the bill of fare, when q waiter approached
and asked him If he would have John
L. Sullivan punch Without q smile
Paddy replied: Not in hundred. I don't
take none of them any more. I had ono
Of 'em in 1889, and I don't banker after
more. They're all right in their way, but
they weigh too much All the others took
the punch named in honor of and made
after the style Of the former champion
pugilist, but Paddy would have none of
It,"
- Mill Owner Killed.
PRINCETON, MIMI, March Ill. II.
Estes Of the Estes Lumber company,
was killed at his mill at $50 p. m.
Near the mill Is an embankment about
six feet high. An oak log, two feet
through, fell down this height and
struck Mr.. Estes across the body,
crushing hum to instant death.