The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
THE NoNPAR RI j MAN

Detailed Story OF the Sorrowful Mis-
chance Which Refel One Charles EuI-
bert Of Salem, Mass, When His Sweet
heart Eloped With His Hind Leg; That
Member Having Been Artificial and
Having Collapsed In the ParIor Of the
Lady's Home.
Charles L. Fulbert of Salem, Mass, is
in a peck of trouble because his sweet
heart packed his artificial leg in her trunk
and has gone, possibly with another" but
at any rate, gone. And Mr.. Fulbert is shy
a leg. While Mr.. Fulbert was calling on
Miss Anna Sullivantsvt Salem, his artificial
limb collapsed and, as he graphically says,
went down with a crash. - He adds. &
~ did not know what to do with my leg,
but Miss Sullivan who had helped me
to gather up the broken pieces, said: You
can put your leg in my trunk until you
can send for new pieces and repair it.
The hind limb was carefully placed in
Miss Sullivan's trunk and Fulbert sent
away for the missing pieces. In a few
days when he returned to the Sullivan
home to secure his damaged member he
met generation that knew not Charles.
He says:
II received cool reception at the Sulli-
van home, and Annals sister said she
didn't know anything about my leg She
said that Anna had packed her trunk and
had gone to Hartford Fc "A
Mr.. Fulbert at once entrusted his trou-
bles to newspaper representative, who
van. wherever she might be- in the name
Of humanity to return the missing mem,
ber
The leg is a complicated affair and cost
$3.50. 1t could be repaired for 81 OF course
the moral is that a man should never al
To-, 1T %1,o II
session ''.'.
| The Fourth Of July is scheduled to
come off as usual next summer-if the
government can be induced to keep it's
cold wave flag out of sight long enough.
| Talk about digging your Panama canal!
The man who lives on a corner with fifty
| feet of sidewalk one way and 140 the
other is the man who ought to be hired. =
From Cleveland Ohio, comes the joyous
I news Of the Incorporation of the Bashful
i Bachelors Company, limited, an organiza-
| ton of seven young men who announce
thmselves as mot married, but willing"
Sic 'em, girls!
If few Of those last years sun spots
would show lip with a bunch of heat, we
would be resigned to consequences,
| So strong a no-license fight has been put
up In Tennessee in the last four years that
of $500 towns in that state only sixteen
have open saloons; while of ninety-six
counties only twelve permit saloons to
run. Just think of Tennessee turning
against the colonels milk.
There is q dry doc at Port Arthur.
Seems if he might get some at the drug
store.
1t has been the custom and delight of
the Glenwood Gopher, stanch supporter
of It's home candidate for governor, to
wind up its political items with the
phrase, "Eddys stock is up" An ex-
change in copying an item made the clos
ing paragraph read "Eddy's sock is up, .
to the great disgust of the Gopher. -.
correspondent sends in this Simple
query Is there any one sufficiently up
IN the designs Of Providence to reply
to it: -
Beans Irvine around a pole to the right
: and honeysuckle to the left. Why is
: this?" s. 70
Answers that say ""to get up the pole
will not be received. 30 ."+<,-. +
In Los Angeles gas: sells for 95 cents
la thousand feet, and Coal. is higher there
than here, EIetsus think a few moments
General Nuropatkin says he won't begir
until he has 100000 soldiers in Manchuria
} This Is the mark of a great military ex
: pert. The best military authorities nov
, say: First get about a million me1
more than your antagonist. has,; the,
march up and biff him quick and plenty. ,
The beauty Of this policy is that it end
= the war quickly instead of letting it dras
, for years. There is only, one "out'' il
General Kuropatkin's policy. 1t is this
1t will take, a long time to get 400, 90
3 men to the far east. Meantime, what will
, the Japanese be doing? -.:... ..,-.-.
=, 1t came little sooner than expected
but here it is in a London dispatch to ,
= New York paper:
t Radium as means of cure for cancer ha
, deem discarded by the celebrated British EXPERT
on cancer. G. Fl. Plimmer who has lust re
> turned from Vienna, where he had been study
Elmer, believes it to be a failure, and DR.: Snow
of the Brompton cancer hospital, is equall
: skeptical. The radium treatment, according t
Dr. Snow, may now be dismissed from tn
sphere of potential cures
! Former Secretary John D. Long of tn
: naval portfolio has daughter. The ex
secretary is fairly rich. But is Miss Lon,
l chasing around Europe and Newport afte
e g. dude with a coronet? Not So Mis-
] | Long studied medicine. It was not a fad
: but a business. She graduated with hon
: ors, and then society lost sight of her an,
! the world forget that John%D Long had
e daughter. For months she has been work
! ing among the poor, of New York. Sh
. has given them the best of her skill an
y the benefit Of her encouragement. Sh
: has attempted to teach them how to live
4 With her name and Social position Mis-
Long might demand admission to tn
i, homes Of the most aristocratic and ex
L elusive. She could be a butterfly anon
f butterflies. The admission she does de
n mand, however, lis ito such tene1nents a
. Lung block 500 called because consump
: ton is as common as 7squalor there, AN
e entire families have: been. wiped sou
II by it, - : 80 ,1s#a
& John d. Long { is proud iof his daugh
ters work, and he has finally made pub
lie what, ,she. is doing because he wishe
the world to share in his pride. &,
sr * .sE "A. j. r.
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