The Minneapolis journal., 1904-09-30
TIE N0aPAREIE MAK

THE NOApAREJL MAN
MyI the Terrible Night of Wandering Put
in by seven Beautiful Wabasha Girls
Lost on the Prairie and There Were
Cows Abroad.
My! But it was terrible night. Or
Sunday seven Wabasha girls, Mary Roun-
dy, Elsie Kelley, Carrie Ascot, Ollie Lin
coin, Eva. Gran, Ruth Burgess and Sadie
Burgess, concluded to drive to Lake City.
Miss Roundy handled the reins, and man
aged to drive right into Lake City with
out hitting "a single fence. She concluded
that it would be just as easy to drive
home thru the darkness. This was Miss
Roundys fatal error.
However, the girls started for home
light-hearted and gay, with no thought
OF care or trouble. and the team forged
steadily ahead for three mortal hours.
Then 1t stopped suddenly. Investigation
showed that it had done so because the
Tongue OF the wagon had run into high
and steep bluff, out at the Bade place, in
the town of Lake, many miles away from
the point at which they had left the right
| road. There were some tears and a slight
scare 1t was very dark and there We're
| COWS abroad. After unhitching the team
and turning the vehicle around by hand,
q fresh start was made. This time, after
| striking the right road, the horses fairly
| flew over the pike, Miss Roundy encour-
aging them by pretty little chirrupings
and suggestions Of oats unlimited, until,
| at o'clock Monday morning, seven tired
and teary girls found home and bed at
wabasha and slept seven mighty sleeps.
Miss ROundy will do no more driving af-
ter night until the, electric light system
has been introduced all the way between
Lake. City and Wabasha, or unless there
is a man along who knows the way.
| The Janesville Argus has a column writ
| ten by the sprightly Miss Dashia Blanke
devoted to- Scholastic Events.'' x Either
Miss Dasha or the printer became slight
ly mixed III her punctuation and use Of
words last week, for the following article
appeared regarding Little Noodles" who
divided his time in school between study
and the manly art of ay-catching:
| Dear little Noodles we devoted few
minutes time to a careful scruting last
Friday OF the boy and saw part of his
second nature. Did you ever see him
catch flies? Well, my gracious, he seems
to have hatred for the tickling buzzy
things and as we watched him we noticed
that though he was intent upon his books
yet at the same time he would make a
|
| cow, tOrmentS as much as to say, If I am
little there's no flies on me-. All the while
his face had a calm studious expression
devoid Of care. but tell you what he is ar
| adept! at the business and if he would
turn his whole attention to flies the Tan
glefoot company would soon be bankrupt" "
The Lamont Gowa) Independent says:
| William Shakespeare, Jr., and Ethel Shake
spearre went to Kewanee, ILL.,, for few weeks
visit. .~. :..-.
The Independent is probably not aware
Of the fact that Francis Bacon Sundayed
at Chicago. Ha! We see it all.
'The more fellow gets out among the
| towns Of the state,'' says Uncle Pease In
his Gossip column, 'the sooner he learns
that all the wealth is not to 'beafound in
| the big. twin cities, Minneapolis and st
Paul. Lots of men who can count theil
wealth with six figures are to be found
in the smaller places, who live in splendid
. style, have handsome mansions beautiful
grounds, expensive equipages, etc., equa
som metimes to the show places in the
twins. Tell you this state of Minnesota
is producing wealthy people all the time. ,
f.. The GAINESVILLE Argus notes the interest.
ing sight presented by several old mer
over 80 years Of age running around toW1
as spry as kids. These men, the Argus
says, could never have reached a ripe ole
age other than by abstemious habits
such as are not shown by the young fellow
who takes out his paper, a bag of tobac-
co and match every fifteen minutes dur-
ing the day. The cigarette fend is not
!. booked for that comfortable, spry feeling
lat 80 such as every fine old fellow ough
to have.
The Austin Herald tells a good one or
Jimmie Harvey's mother. When Jimmie
was 4 years old, a baseball team was
practicing near his mothers home or
River street. She was afraid the little
fellow would get hurt and told him SO
EJimrnie listened to- her words of warning
and they threw scare into him. Wher
she left the room the scare deepened ant
| he craWled under couch, the covers O
which touched the floor and went to sleep
Night came and Jimmie could not b.
found. The Salvation Army was holdins
forth on the street. They reported tha
: they had seen little fellow, bare-headet
and crying. BY this time the family hat
become greatly alarmed. The baseball
players raided a gypsy camp and turned
over everything in "A search for the littl,
fellow, but found nothing. At about II
o'clock the fire whistle summoned all able
bodied men to the search.
When Mrs. Harvey saw the men search
ing along the river bank she became sicl
with fright and. going home, threw her
:, self on the couch. AS she did so, her foo
touched the little hand of little Jimmie
Mrs. Harvey says the hardest thing sh
ever had to do was to have it announce,
: to the crowd of men that all the tim
they were searching the little fellow ha,
been soundly sleeping safe at home Bu
my, everybody was glad! And 50 is Jim
mie, to this very day. "A. ]. r.
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