The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-08

Do You Remember Six or Seven Hundred
Years Ago, When You Held Your Best
Girls Hand for the. First Time and
There Were but Two Feathered Song
sters in the Whole Bird Store 7-story of
"Me and Toots" at. the State Fair,
Heaven Bless Us! -.
The world was deeply interested in the
turtledoves who came to the state fair
from somewhere in Wisconsin,, They held
hands freely On Nicollet avenue and gave
open and broad evidence of holding sturdy
opinion that there were but two feathered
sengsters in the bird store.
, Me and Toots Just one grill She's all
the world to me, and SO forth and so on
forever! Do you recall the first time
when you went somewhere alone with
your best girl? Amid all the throngs of
people that swept unheeded by, only one!
Do you recall that graceful turn Of the
wrist that little wisp of hair that curled
SO entrancing1y on The Shapely neck?
Mama, mama!!
There was the great town Of at least
5000 people; roaring end surging in great
tides all about you, vet the busy throng
was all unnOticed. Perhaps it was a cir
Gus, or, a parade, or Decoration Day.
but there you were,
The world forgetting and by the world forgot.
The tide has now left high up on the
beach the Holsters who smiled at you
And if you smiled, at me and Tootse
during fair week, is it not a sign that
YOU have Joined the great army of stran-
ded shellfish yourself and are looking
longingly at the receding waters? Me
I and Toots! Heaven bless our fool souls
how gorgeously and eestatically happy we
| were, holding hands last fair week! Or
was it six or seven decades ago, and are
We wandering in our minds bit?
No matter, here's to me:%and -Toots,
anyhow; and may the gas always burn
| dim for us III papa's parlor : :
| The Fargo Forum is getting some cor
| respondence from Manitoba that will re-
call to: Minnesotans the passionate work
of the LIE Sueur string fend. Tooral
Springs is the location of ithe,,Manit oban
outcast and the coarse work he is doing
1 for OH Fargo contemporary ais4llustrated
by the "a le of the great piscat tory fors
nance Of John Hennessy in Mill Bottom
creek. Hennessy felt hard tug at his
I hook and thanked fortune that he was
using ,clothesline instead Of a string.
Seeing that he could not land his prize
John tied his flshpole to the boat and
went in search Of assistance. A man
named, Bloomer- was working in corn
field nearby, and he, taking. his :pitchfork
4 gladly volunteered to- assist. =: Together
they tied the boat to a: tree and began
steadily to pull OH the rope. TO Their
great surprise, they landed a whisky bar
: rel, which was full of water, there. being
no bung in the lbunghole. ~ - r. -sy:'
i Taking a hatchet Hennessy split the
I barrel open and inside was an -. eight;
pound maseallonge. The fish,, no doubt
u had grown, from a minnow in the barrel
:. and, of course; couldn't get out. Mr.
i Hennessys bait must have f1oated into the
barrel thru the bunghole and was .swal
lowed by the fish. People at Tooral con.
slider the circumstances strange. Hennes
sy works night times in the distillery. 49,,
"A writer in the, Washington Post. tell:
;. an interesting society-column: story abou
Il the awful position in which the wife o
the poet Longfellow once found herself
Mr.. Longfellow had a soul above sordid
material considerations: and on one occa
}. sion he brought a guest home to din
| without" advising Mrs. Longfellow before
hand. The guest was a distingui she(
Englshinan who had just arrived with
letter Of introduction. The day was Fri
day, and the cook being a Catholic, tn
family had. fallen into the kindly IAN,
= thoughtful habit of. eating no; meat 4
the Friday dinner Mrs. Longfelloy
thought despairingly of the fish, and then
! realizing I dare say, that dry brea,
would be feast with Longfellow at tn
table, led the guest to the diningroon
with faint heart. The fish was brough
in. The distinguished guest glanced a
it, and then he smiled at his hostess
;. II know Mrs. Longfellow will pardon
D me- he, said, IF decline the fish course
a The story told by the Washington Pos
writer stops here. But we would slik
, to ask those fair readers who have socia
e aspiratie OF who. are at. -alI..xerseGa i
t. the ways of society, exactly how Mrs
Longfellow should have gone to work t
- put her distinguished guest wise to tn
< facts and at the same time to put hin
= as much at his ease as possible, afte
II his unhappy faux pass 5-z.-s -
Please address possible solutions OF thi
> social problem toSthis column. They vii
r. make a valuable Ssymposium on the sub
o ject Of good manners
A bunch of birds was fitting around i
3 the oak trees this morning, having thei
t first conference over the matter OF goin
4 south for the winter Much feathery chat
: ter and cutlery marked the assembly an
y the whole crowd finally few away to
: gether.,crying, Keep in line, everybody.
y 1t was the first practice fly for the grea
fall migration. . +%L t~Fs' = ~
The goldenrod and the other wild au
:, tumn flowers are blosson1ing now and tn
: tomatoes and melons are getting RICH
g There is just little. tang in the air an
t the open fire in the crate at morning an
a | at night is honey and comfortable. w
: begin to like to pull down the old book
II again and to finger the bindings and
: read little, snatches of prose or a fe,
q aincs Of poetry, such as this:i
til Hast thou named alt the birds without Gun
i'll Loved the Woodrose, and left it on its stalk?
!, AT rich mems tables eaten bread and pulse?
n Unnrincd, faced danger with n heart of trusl
T And loved well high behavior,
. In, man or maid, that thou from speech r.
t Trained IS
more nobly to repay? ~
I %, be, my friend, and teach me to be thine IS
+, These arc the signs that the glorious oI
: winter is on his way south again. II
has already pushed down to the Yukoi
whose sandy banks in the morning al
: now shvery with thin Ice. few NOR
n days and you will hear of Old Winter
a the far northwest. putting the frost O
the@pumpkin and drawing the smoke OF
a Of the settlers chimneys. The next thin
q on Winters program is a touch of hig
!, life for Nebraska, with the wells froze
: to the bottom, and we in Minnesota begi
n to think Of starting UP the old furnac
ell again. Then comes Christmas and TIL
!, next thing YOU know 1t is February an
: then April and here we are way mi
e 11s05 and nothing done yet. "A. J. r.