The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-17
TIE NOKPAREyL HAN

The Glencoe, MIMI, Enterprise Tells
How the Destructive Tornado Of Last
Month Bent Silver Quarter In the
Pocket Of Matt Murray of Bergen and
Broke a IS Bill. =g.
The Glencoe Enterprise is responsible
for the story that Matt Murray of Ber-
gen is exhibiting quarter that was
in his pocket when he was caught in the
late tornado. This quarter was badly
bent. He thinks this was done when
he was blown violently against tree.
A tornado that will do thing like this
ought to be able to break a SIS bill.
The cold snap at Chaska this week
drove Mr.. Skoog, democratic candidate
for county treasurer, to put up his fam
lily stovepipe. The expected happened
Mr.. Skoog says the stove lifted up one
leg, causing the pipe to fly into sections
The air was blown full of SCOT, Skoog,
stove, language and pipe.
That however, was nothing compared
to the excitement caused by the base
ball argument between the Chaska fats
and leans. t"There was a time, per-
haps" says the Chaska Review, when
they could play ball, but that was in
the dim and distant past They fell
down, butted into trees, became en-
tangled in barbed-wire fences, rubbed
the buttons from their vests and tore
one anothers shirtsleeves OUT Yet the
game was just what the public wanted,
and gave DR.. Hartley an arnica and
courtplaster boom that was a great SOL
ace to him.
The GAINESVILLE, Mimi, Argus tells of a
citizen in the upper part of that town.
who was delinquent in paying his doc
tors bills. The other evening he sent
for his physician in great haste. The
father, it seems. had a morbid fear thai
the child would be marked, and while
waiting anxiously outside the room
asked the nurse, after the critical mo-
ment was passed, if it was marked ir
any way. Yes was the word sent Out
by the doctor, "Tell him it is marked
C. o. D." Haven't we heard this story
somewhere before?
,Nettie Nelson is something of char.
acter in Fargo courts owing to the same
weakness that afflicted Horace and othe1
old classic poets, namely a love for the
fruit of the vine. Taken before Judge
Gearey the other day owing to some
bacchanalian - extravagances on tn
streets Of Fargo during the quiet hours
Miss Nelson seemed much pleased to SCI
his honor: ......
MY" she exclaimed, ''but you ar
looking well. judge. I hope you enjoyed
your trip to the fair at Minneapolis. 1
ever man needed rest and recreation
that man was you, and many's the tim
I, said that before you went. The las
time stood here you gave me ten day
and when I went back to the cell say
to Joe Wood, says l. IF that Judg
Gearey doesn't lay off work for awhil
he'll find himself sick in bed. Away
have said that"
Same old charge, I suppose?" inter
rupted the judge.
1t was the same. And Miss Nelso
{ drew twenty days with a suspension G
sentence provided she would max
Jamestown her home. .-a
Did you ever see anything that WASH
there? There is a curious story told {
a certain witch farm that sometime
appears on the edge of a forest in tn
, state of New York. No one who has see
it can ever recall having seen it Their
before. There is no one about the farm
: no sound is heard. yet there are signs
i busy occupation The door is open, empt
milkpails lean against the wall, newly
cleaned pans and dairy utensils and butte
churns are set out to dry; clothes hang O
the line in a little drying ground
; Whoever chances on the farm seldol
stops long to look He will pass OF
thinking to himself: II don't seem to re
member that farm. must inquire ahor
+ 1t in town." In town not soul know
, anything about it, and never will tha
:, person see the farm again, however ofte
he may return to look for it. Then other
will go out to see the witch farm. Owe
and over again. will they pass and repas
the very spot where it had been seen, re
| tracing their steps and puzzling and say
+ ing: It must be there; we have mis-
taken the way
: James Russell Lowell, the poet ono
t had the privilege Of seeing this spectr;
. place. On the verge Of this wood h
, passed a homestead which appeared pre-
,, cisely as has been described. Lowell sa
I it all and passed on without thinking
! then suddenly stopped short with fee
r Ing of something strange, turned an
: sauntered slowly back. But no house we
= there and he was unable to find again tt
3 exact spot where it had been.
e The stories told by the people WI
! catch a glimpse of the place suggest thu
: it may be the result Of mirage. Ye
u mirages are almost unknown in tho cas-
s SO many people have seen things ths
were not there that we are som etime
! tempted to think that perhaps there al
: things where they are not, and that tt
1 mind Is sometimes tilted at an angle sue
that a brief glimpse Of them may be re
3 f1ected in the upper. every day conscious
Z ness Then you start and say Gosh
! and little shiver goes down your spin
: just as 1t used to do in the old swing
! the barn when you launched yourself frol
Y beam and swept the whole length Of tt
4 barn in one grand sWocp. Perhaps we
!, know more about 1t some time.