The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-29
The NONPAREJL HAN

THE NONPAREL Ian
Story Of THE Melancholy Man" Who Had
an Adventure With a Lady Past Her
Prince" Who Set Up a:"Most Presump-
tive Claim to His Affections and Who
Proceeded to Make the Claim Good I
Two 1aliffs Interfere.
People who enjoy poetry will find in the {
Writer'S league as aspiring and ambitious
bunch Of poets as there are in the north
west to-day. We always seize our Prog
ress and read with interest the weekly
output Of the muse in our midst.
Last week the modest H. an anony-
nous, an unknown made plea for "the
Pebble on the Beach,, 'H says:
Ye carping critics, bear in mind,
perfect man is hard to find
Your favor beseech;
Be careful when you criticise.
Be patient and do not despise
l aS a pebble on the beach,.
| With this caution in mind we wish to s1
review in a kindly and appreciattve way
| a. few of the poems that appear in the last
grist turned out by the Writers.
| We are always certain Of finding in thu
| first column gem from the fertile pen Of 4
DR.. Denton This week the doctors effort
was called TN Summer He says:
Young Waubun wakes the Morn and puts to flight
| The ZunfbrO Valley stars, ~
And from his culver filled with shafts Of light
He drives before him all the hosts of night
Beyond the sunset bars.
| DR.. Thomas, the Southtown poet, is also
| a. frequent contributor to the league. This
week he tells the surprising adventure
of "a melancholy man." who related to the
doctor 'tafetale OF mystery which oc-
CURED zone harvest morn at vesper
time The melancholy man says:
One harvest moon. at vesper chime.
| 81, Before my cottage door
OF legendary lore,
W brew l9 1sdyd Rsst her prime
| Under these distressing circumstances
! Of being looked over the melancholy
| man fastened to offer succor. He says:
! I thought her some unfortunate
| l In hopeless misery,
And rose to meet her at the gate,
! -. To urge my sympathy; f.
She smiled and said: Il seek my mate
| think that you are he!'
This gave the melancholy man slight
jolt and he proceeded to counter. on the {
lady past her prime as follows:
| started, shocked her words to hear
III most presumptive claim
| -. And answered her in tones austere,
! Hive you no sense Of shame?
| Why voice your frenzies in my ear?
Go back to whence you camel
The ''lady past her prime" like the an
cient mariner, refused, however. to be
thrown down in her ''presumptive claim
| by this short and easy method and the
| two had considerable argument right
! there. Note the result: 7'.
| clasped the lady to my breast
a Unconscious of her charms
| And thus, embodied and caressed,
| I soothed her wild alarms
| Two bailifs came for her arrest,
| And snatched her from my armsl
The key to all this terrible mistake is
given in the concluding verse. The lady
past her prime was mad! The melancholy
man relates the conclusion thus:
She shrieked one shrek of agony,
As only madness can,
l. Since then her presence follows
! And holds me under ban;-
/ There Is no rest on shore sea
l For horror haunted man!
This is rather too bad. but 1t should be
a lesson to melancholy men to duck under
similar circumstances.
/ There are other poems equally interest
/ ing, but space forbids more extended no.
I tice. The work of the League will repay
perusal if you have an idle hour. 1s34-gA
Chauncey Depew says that he met at
/ Swiss hotel an American autonaobo1ist
frightened by going directly at them and
showing his skill by swerving his machine
at the last second. Yes, and some day he
doesn't swerve quick enough and -.
This explains some of the peewee hos
tility to the auto. A man hates to be
tossed over into the next lot.
The London Lancet, medical paper,
has symposium on the question SIS Love
a Disease?' The medical thought seems
to be that it is. The Memphis Commercial
Appeal says that love is not the disease,
but the cure. Hate is the disease.
Election is coming on. One Kansas
editor refers to another as "our half
witted friend with the chronic brain fag."
It sounds like the good old times.
George AIDE is building $40, 900 house
| on his suburban farm in Indiana Hav-
ing made his pile, George needs fur
| ther first AIDE for. the injured
The Rochester Post says that the Raiah
of Rajputana is coming to Minneapolis
Since Swami Daigobanana was here with
his friend the Pundits LalalalanaI and
Punkipajama and the Swami O'Houligan-
ana, we have been much drawn to the
| Indian teaching. We shall welcome the
| rajah with open arms. 8
Professor Meyer, the German historian,
told the Chicago university students that
they ought to drink beer and cultivate the
dueling practices Of Heidelberg. The pro-
lessor is probably ignorant of how fatal
our football already is.
AS we have been looking over the sweet
pea bed Of late undecided whether to use
dynamite or the to get the seed into
the hard world, we have recalled the
story of the lady Of Arizona Recently
her husband bought a small ranch, and
with him she has been much interested
in planning improvements especially in
the growing line. The other day beds
were prepared for sweet peas, and the
lady OF the house were busily engaged in
asserting her seeds and carrying the lit
tie packets out Of DOORS where their con-
tents were transferred to the beds in reg
ular order. AS each variety was planted
the name was placed on small marker.
as is the custom with gardeners. In
particularly choice location the contents
OF packet We're laboriousIy dropped. one
by one, until the row was filled and the
earth nicely smoothed over 1t. When the
woman picked up the packet to write the
marker she discovered that she had care
fully planted mothers package of liver
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