The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-16
With the Long Bo,u

w I'm LnG Long DOIU
~ nature flies"
The Grim Reaper Runs His Thumb Along His scythe and
Looks Medtativey the Duchess Of Devonshire, but
Her Careless Grace Kisses the Tips Of His Lily Fingers
Lightly Waves Butterfly Kiss at His Reaperlets.
nEAR old Duchess of Devonshre! It is just like her
~ The cable brings the that she refuses to be put
the SHELF despite her age We told the duchess
ago ha- she ought to retire. but she laughed at u.s. The
cable tells how she dying condition. neither the
duke the doctors expected her to live thru the day. but
they did her astounding will power for next
morning tho toerngy weak she sent for her secretary
and gave orders for the usual invitations to her house party
at Newmarket, and tho the weather damp she drove
out in the afternoon went down to Newmarket In an in
valid carriage and not only attended the races, but enter
tanned the king at dinner
The king realized how i'll his old friend She sat
propped up the table, kept alive apparently by the
periodical administration Of smulants She talked with
feversh gayety and insisted upon playing bridge afterwar
tho almost ghheaded from Weakness Before he left the
king mpored her to res but made impression, for the
gallant old woman out again the next day.
The duchess always this way from her childhood She
has lived moment of her fe and she intends to live
1t out to the last minute. In 1887 said to her:
"Duchess, for heavens sake quiet down and get little
rest''
But she replied lightly:
Your old friend the duchess is in the world to have
little fun and long she lives things going go
with CO." l.: - ".~....
And so they have. a4~"
bright farmer who objects to having his corncrb on
st has put up ratproof crib by wire screen
CLOTH tour meshes to the square nc under the siding roof
ing and flooring No rat has yet been able to bite thru this
wire netting but the farmer has several old gray fellows
trying to break into the Toulouse to get the fe
M->
The advance Of per cent In the price Of small hot dia-
monds recalls the fact that capacity Of the South
African mines is unknown, all the working done
secret That the untrammeed operation of the
result in making diamonds at least half cheaper
10 widely suspected But there danger of any such
commercial bder The full beauty Of the capitaistic ex
poaton OF the treasures Of the earth here shown the
hmehght. While working night and day and wear
ing fingers to the bone for winter diamonds few
London fat boys with crubbng side whiskers are
soaking us for stone buy. Ha! We break the
market on them by selling our tarara and sunburst!
The compositor the proofreader "handed one
to Doc Blxby way that drew anguish from the
poets inmost SOUL violins had played at Lincoln one
of the real kind without ridiculous hair or mannersms
any kind and the wealth Of music he from the fiddle
worked does sensitive that he threw off serions
poem 1t came out in the paper with war on it that arred
all Nebraska But let doc tell the sad story in his own
In few lines Of appreciation poetic FORM we
ried to express the right thought the right way felt
fairly satisfied until the next morning appeared in
print and what had been written ypewtteh at tha) as
ever-enlng ears doomed everasting'' pub
sned poem 1t customary in all welreguated newspaper
offices to blame the proofad inexcusao but
s n,s case the t1sn eomPostor had only follow
by the copyholder had he been Everybody
nothing than Christian forude in case cas- Ike
this can restrain one from saying darn ''> g..
That's what get for trying up right And what
makes the composito proofrader and copyhoe1
doubtless all laughed with great gee when they heard the
whitening profanity leaking under the door Of docs den
"A. j. r.