The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-07
She few across my world ;gs.s5al
9 Like a meteor across the sky, III
With my love around her fuFled
/ said it would never die;
But it did.

This affair was much more rapid In It's
course than a number of others the poet
mentions. There are Eva and Ocle and
Clara which We recall with much pleas
ure, althe the poet records a eontretemps
with Clara's mamma that evidently left
some painful feelings. He says:
Friend Clara it is of your mother would write,
For she is the one that snubbed me at Endeayor
last night.
am inclined. to believe that she must have
heard
Something that might have said, tho said
No matter, I will not on the unpleasant part
Y dwell,
But proceed at once my pathetic story to tell.
She turned her head-as much as to say:
Mr.. Weodcox, bid you good-day.
And tho kindly offered her question
Her action was enough--a suggestion
That held in her thoughts no place
Without 1t was one of common disgrace.
The wound I felt. hut smiling sweet
calmly turned and beat retreat.
Here you see the delicacy of the poet
SOIL. When it is thrown down it suffers
in silence. Clara's mamma was, to say
the least, cruel
The little affair with Eva occupies con-
siderable of the poets book. Mr.. Wood
cox says in the initial stages of his
slavery:
TITS poets duty to thrill
With music such souls as thine.
If he moment is still,
The world will cry "a crime"
But no. Ills the poets doom
Turnout his life to remain
Closed in solitary tomb
His books, his study, his fame
Alas. yes; how truei Let us close this
delightful volume with another sad in
stance in which this time girl named
Ocie threw the poet down. He says:
From my eyes nc tear shall start
To bear to you lovers token.
You bid me go.
I went.
The old pastoral faverite of this col
unn-We like him because he isn't SEN
sitive-Rey. G. l.. Morrill,, has been en-
Toying fascinating season of ghost hunt
ing at Sank Center. The story comes
from the north that a, man who was killed
two and half miles from the Cent9r
and his body thrown into a swamp has
been seen in lonely place in the woods
near the spot where he was Killed. Many
people claim to have seen the weird ngure.
The matter is taken so seriously that par
ties have been organized at Melrose and
other towns for the purpose of running
down the ghost The liverymen are doing
a big business, and are not throwing any
cold water on the subject.
Rev. Dr.: Morrill, ran up to Sank to
tighten up the banquet. reception and
dance given by the. Macabebees the other
night. The doctor can give you biblical
reasons why we should banquet, receive
and dance Even David did something III
this line. MIR. Morrill, does not dance,
but he has full control of the ball at
banquet, and the after-dinner speech he
losses off so kind of careless like would
make Chauneey Depew perspire with envy.
At reception also the pastor is a regu-
lar Little Sunshine in pink waist, so
gay bright and debonnaire is he.
Now as to the ghost. After the ban
auet and reception--the pastor was care
full not to miss these little functions--he
slipped out and joined a little party in a
ride to the swamp AS they drew near
to the lonely spot where the murder took
place the talk died down and even the
pa stor was silent. The night was quiet
NOT even a pigs whisper could be heard.
Arrived at the spot, the party disem-
barked and walked around in the woods
a little But there was nothing there.
The ghost was keeping very quiet. Final
ly the pastor said
s 5 NOW on the level--on the spirit level,
i might say--do YOU believe in ghosts p.
Then they sadly returned to their car
rage and were driven rapidly back to
the gay scenes Of the world