The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-23
THE NONPAREIL MAN
Story Told by an Adrian, Mimi, Tramp OF
the Remarkable Answer to Petition
Made In a Case Of Extremity--A Weary
Walker Tells How He Was Saved From
Starvation, 2s

A tramp told the Adrian, Mimi, Demo
crat last week remarkable story Of an
alleged answer to prayer. While we cam
not sVouch for the truth Of the story, the
Democrat man sometimes spraining the
exact facts In order to fill his teeming
columns with "good stuff practice we
strongly deprecate unless you are very
hard UP for material and unless the COM
posing room is hollering for copy, yet this
story is SO good that we reproduce It
on the chance.
The gentleman of the road had walked
for two days without even a bread
handout and it is unnecessary to say that,
he was hungry. And not only hungry, but
discouraged. The world seemed to offer
neither joy nor hope to an honest man
Who was down on his luck. The story,
from this point, goes on in the weary
gentleman's own diction: 5si
II sat down beside the track to rest and
was bewailing my condition, when =
thought T would pray for relief. man
stomach is crying cupboard I prayed
long and earnestly. Suddenly I heard a.
train coming. It was a fast train, run
ming fifty or sixty miles an hour. Just
before it got to where was sitting a rab-
bit tried to cross the track in front of it.
The engine struck the little animal, knock
ing it high In the air and, of course, kill.
ing it instantly The dead rabbit fell at
my feet and I'll tell you it didn't take
me long to have fire built and the rab-
bit skinned and cooking. It relieved my
hunger and gave me strength to continue
my journey. Since that incident I have
been a firm believer in the efficacy Of
prayer
In this case the rabbit probably might
have different view as to whether pray
er's efficacy was a good thing.
Willie Fly makes note on his tablets
every time he sees the butter going into
a house without the screens on. 81
The condition of the bicycle paths makes
paying for a tag an offensive form Of
highway robbery.
New Jersey is talking of retaining or
filing in the 81, 900 acres of swamp where
the eagles that bite you breed in billions.
The retiring bishops Of the Methodist
church draw $4,000 a year each as half
pay. There are some comfortable advan-
tages about being a retired bishop.
| ''Why Smith left home may be ex-
planned this fall if the reunion of the
entire Smith family is carried out, as pro-
posed. The plan is that of John Cabell
Smith, wealthy Kentuckian. Mr.. Smith
has issued a general invitation thru the
press to the Smiths of the country to
| assemble in Louisville for a. three days
reunion, and The will defray all the ex-
penses of entertainment. He says he is
willing to spend $685. 600 on his project, tbut
| that he will drop it unless he receives
assurances that the Smith family of the
United States will be represented by a fail
proportion If the Smiths all try to ge
! there will be general breakdown an6
paralysis of the railroad systems running
| into Louisville because Of the great cargo
of Smith to be moved In short time
If they come J. Cabell Smith expects tt
open few kegs Of fine old Kentucky
. carpet tacks. y
| W. b. Anderson of Winona is big man, ever
among men Of ability. The other day. wh1l
standing talking with him, we, saw cigar in hi
| upper vest pocket and were obliged to stand OF
tiptoes to reach it.-Wabasha Herald
Mr.. MCGOWAN ought to carry a poke
/ stepladder Il 80
! Caught on the FlyzFour trapeze per
formers were married IN mtdair at a Car,
son City, Mo-, circus. .3t tf5Fa ID
| There are some indications that TIL.
good old charivari-or "shiveree"-of TIL
fathers is going out Of use. Now an,
1 then~you hear of mobs assembling. dur
ing the night and making pandemoniun
for the newly married, but as rule sthi
relic of early barbarism and frontier hu
NOR is considered passe. One modifie
form of the charivari that seems to b
growing In popularity and that has point
of respectability that the 'shiveree' lack
is the burlesque serenade. This occur
early in the evening, the midnight hou
being left for repose. All kinds of in
struments are permitted in this band, an
facility in tone production is all that
necessary to the performer. Mailing rib
bons and shoes to the baggage is n
longer au fait, nor Is it absolutely neces
sary to waste a half barrel Of rice o
the depot floor. To tip over the house
knock the steeple off the church an
pry up a rail so as to wreck the trail
: are no longer practiced except in Nebras
ka's outlets.
The burlesque serenade is really not S
bad and it serves to show the appre
citation in which the bridegroom is held b
his fellows. A. j. r.