The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-19
THE HouPAREIb HAN

story Of Loves Old Dream--HoW Frldus
and Mary Resume Romance Begun
Sixty Years Ago-Nlce, Cosy Chimney
Corner for TWO at Frldus' Farm In
Illinois.
Sixty years ago Fridus p. Beach was
16 years old and Mary Hunt was II. They
went to the same village school down IN
Missouri and Fridus was solid with Mary
He carried her little books with boyish
ardor, and they agreed that when they
grew up they'd get married SO that they
could be together always
This plan fell thru because Fridus par
ents emigrated. So the two married 9TH
ers, according to the law of propinquity.
Later in life they heard each of the other,
and wondered-in the way that people
will-how it would have been If it had
been different.
Three years ago the wife Of Beach, who
is now a prosperous farmer in Onarga,
ILL.,, died A little later the husband Of
the girl who had been his first love died.
In an interchange of letters they shared
each others sorrow.
Then Beach left his farm and travelled
to where she still lived in Missouri. They
had both passed the allotted span of three
| score and ten, but they had not passed the
foolish age You have to be about a mil
| lion before you are by that. They sat
around in the parlor and told each other
all about 1t, and their hearts were very
tender about the past-and not so very
callous about the present.
! You can guess it all, anyhow. The
very next day Beach telegraphed to an
| old friend, Jarvis G. Evans, in Chicago.
requesting him to obtain marriage
license. Evans got that fatal document,
and Fridus and Mary took the tooty-cars
for Chicago and made good use Of it.
NOW they are going to occupy NICE
cosy chimney corner together at Fridus'
place at Onarga. What difference does
It make whether you are 16 or 60? You
notice and see if you don't camp on the
parlor chairs and run up the gas bill in
exactly the same way. Course you do!
Governor Odell made record Saturday
by vetoing the Niagara Falls bill that
gave away as waterpower the American
side Of the falls to a syndicate of mil
| hona1res to do as they would with. in
Guiding the right to condemn anvbody's
l property that was needed. Our club will
be furious at Odell.
The fypaper manufacturer is filed with
gloomy forebodings.
thinks that young men should take III,
agriculture In preference to law or medi-
cine Recently he satd: Unless a bow
mas deep-seated preference for SON q
profession, it does not seem to me wise
ior MN TO ignore the great opportunities
tnat agriculture offers, whether he was
born In the country or in the CITY. In
my opinion no other occupation offers so
rich rewards, all things considered az
agriculture offers those who are willing
70 Train themselves for it as earnestly as
tney would train themselves for law or
tneolcdae. 1t IS this getting out Of bed
at S:4o a. m. that has queered the farm
ing business in the past. It ia not noe
essary.
~ mao 70 come. Togo Jensen was horn
III south Dakota the other day.
"A. Chicago lady of the suburbs rejected
q, ST. sGnu avahaole man because he did his
lisalicurlng on the suburban trains. Lots
OF rich men do that,
Neenah, WIS.,, is so scared OF rnfcrohes
tnat the board Of education has issued a
l.. u uAase 10 the effect that all school chill
uLem under II caught kissing each other
fheu pe uspanked but If they are oyer IL
Icy VIII pc sent home with a note an
louhcing their expulsion Since Il Ia
p ,2ee discovered that pasteurized or star
lllzed milk is bad, we look to see The dis
coVery made shortly that kissing ia O
sanitary and healthful exercise.
The New York Mail tells again the story
OF the marriage of Myrtle Thine and Al,
Mail says: 11tiiii Inc
Unaer the Minnesota law she is of age. hav,no
passed her eighteenth birthday whi1e hs 10 I'M;
; YET Il, and SO is still legally but an In4o ~
o"1ng TO this fact, Albert could not take ont
10 iiase license without the consent of his par
I 1an,a OF guaidlan-and he was an orphan
looked as If the marriage would have to h.
postponed until he had reached full are pnt
; | loVe round out way-Myrtle evolved Mar
E TO i get to the Windward of the law She for
n a,S ana legally adopted Albert, with his full
consent; and then, as guardian, gave her consent
{ 10 MS marriage So the wedding license W..
Issued to him, and Justice Hammerly marriei
l the couple -A'i ie'
This is a beautiful story and we n,us
all regret that it is the work of our as
. teemed friend, the lie Sueur String Fiend
hence merely a flight of the legal imagi
J, nation.
: An "authority' says that one of III,
q finest places for microbes in the world i
the foul sink spout 1t would be a goo,
IDEA FOR a man with a careless queen q
a the cuisine to listen few at the sink
= spout and see If he can hear the uicrobe
singing:
"My sink-spout tits Of thee.
Sweet land of liberty
= In this case it would be well to pour
q little concentrated I've or other chemica
: down the, tube. .-.. A T p
e COULDN'T SAY 1T