The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-27

The Exciting Tale OF the Twenty-Five
North Dakota Hunters Who Went Az
ter Rabbits With Garden Hose and
Fell Into the Hands Of a Powerful
i Animal Who Was Prepared for De-
fense-Serious Accidents That BefeI
1, Two Hunters at a Time When the
Mercury Might Have Been Higher. ;.
Twenty-Five Litchville, N. Dr.. hunters
participated in rabbit chase last week
and are Bulletined in the Litchville paper.
Fred BettSchen came home robed In en-
tirely new apparel which fitted him like
the bark of a dog. He fell into the Jim
river and was with much difficulty pulled
out Of the wet. His companions took
him to a lonesome shanty, separated him
from: his clothes with hammer wrapped
the chilled and discouraged Nimrod in
buffalo robes and hung his garments. over
a brush fire to dry. The brush fire dried
his clothes and also set fire to them,
burning a large section from the bosom Of
his pantaloons and leaving him as help
less as the day he was born, twenty miles
from home and the thermometer lowering
way under the zero mark, with an assort-
ment of grinning idiots as companions
Later in the, week a soil ticker came
into town and said he had seen that
gang hunting rabbits with a garden
hose. Cliff Rich got at one end Of the hole
and Mr.. Casey, not the one who famed
out, poled piece OF, garden hose into
the other end of the hole and talked Ian
guage at the rabbit Every rabbit in the
place at once tried to get out quick. The
farmer said they caught many rabbits.
All went well until they happened to scare
out a skunkus Americans who threw the
game. So another member of the party
went home clad in his natural rnodesty,
a necktie and hoss-banket So e
This incident closed the hunt, but the
hunt ball was postponed until the atmo-
sphere cleared a tri9e and until the gen
tlenlan who had Inadvertently grabbed the
kitty had cooled off and stopped wish
ing. he had looked first and grabbed sec
ond instead Of reversing this operation.
Any remarks regarding the Belgian or
other hare as a game bird are not well
taken in certain quarters of Litchville.
Bring on your thaw
Old line democrats refer to the Hearst
boom as "the yellow peril - - sz.-~
1t is not so cold but what that poor
family's back yard will hold cord Of hard
wood if you feel inclined :zto have it
dumped there. =
The Social Economics club Of Chicago,
made up Of members of the woman's clubs,
mas -Deen searching, Tor. the clue Ito 'tla
Happy Home" Mrs. Edward A. Bigelow
gave this as her receipt: -:
| Feed the brute good, we'll cooked food
and forgive him.
Wonder how this. strikes Ed when he
sees it in the paper? Then Mrs. Carroll
took up the bat and after acknowledging
that the home was not quite complete
without the father and provider who was,
as 1T were, sort Of furniture that was
at least useful if not an ornament, she
handed out this rap" '-1''
1T has taken ages Of repression to bring
the husband and father to his present con-
dition of abject slavery of the wife and
mother. He is the victim of a process that
began in the Garden: of Eden and gives
no promise of ending, until he is called to
the reward that awaits the humble on the
other and brighter shore" A. ~ -. ..... -
How, does this set on. papa's stomach?
| The paper does not state. No yellow re-
porter flew over and interviewed Mr. Car
I roll at his favorite bar. We say bar
without knowing Mr.. Carro1l's personal
habits, but feeling confident of them while
opinions like those expressed by mother
are. held in the Carroll home. We may
talk prohibition until our Threats are dry
but while conditions such as are outlined
above are possible any attempt to en-
force it will be a screaming farce: -
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