The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-14
With The Long Bo1D
Eye NATURES walks shoot folly as 1t flies"
Bit of Biblical History Showing
that Methuseah Must Have Been Drowned in the Great
Flood that His Grandson, Noah, Weathered.


Flood that His Grandson, Noah, Weathered.
It takes Kansas editor discover nice points in bib
criticism Topeka Herald has had time enough
the side sit down with his Bible and work out the TACT
that Mehuseah was perhaps drowned in the big Hood lie
says: ,sz Es-T.~r :.s -:.s..-.s-- ~:
1872 t es vs s xsS
Noah 500 years old when the flood came was
drowned? $780, 49,.
AS Mehuselah not in the ark, he must either have
died this year have been wonderful swimmer
The North American Review gives some of the reasons
for family prestige England It is not primarily, due to
wealth. His wealth has such effect for Mr. Astor in
England 1t is ancestry is the long unconested primacy
of families first in their place. time out Of mind that lays it's
reess hold upon the fancy and bows the spirit before it.
AS ancestry does lay hold the mind Of American
bow his spirit very low it must be peculiarly English
and European feeling Little American boys of today are
likely to kick descendant OF the Adamses or ete
sons than bow before him. The fathers did pretty good
thing when they managed abolish the idea Of falling down
before whose remote ancestor had been kicked by
William the Conqueror.
This revival didn't minute too soon On the
street the other night with her lOyearod
child When the conductor held out his hand for the second
nickel she gared fostly him and stated that the child
yet Every passenger in the ratified in his
seat for he that the girl nearly ready to be mar
re The conductor looked from to the other and then
moved on saying nothing but evidently thoughtful If the
to beat the band.
Charles Wolf editor Of the Alton, Iowa, Democrat, has
lust married the scfoolma am whom
trp He tells his subscribers ''a about it, Parts of his
apology like this:
MY overcoat hangs in the woodshed and the peg 1t
occupied holds things of wierd design and unknown
married. have been that way about month can't tell
o1IyE Ito a11irro Mt
of bed 80 years old and have had twenty-nne love
affairs. was young to have the first Having
been exposed often [ supposed myself immune from
matrimonial fever.
Reminiscent moods bring memories of several other
mild attacks years. but like that which nabbed
my vas when special train stopped to pick us up and
little symphony in brown floating down the steps, She
sits across the table from writing letters to my new
relations with her little musical fists all burned and cut and
battered up from wrestling with the kitchen range and Gull
nary tools She music teacher and had played
the cakewak the soupbone symphony the hardcoa
She undoubtedly the most adorable little animal
that ever happened. Excuse moment while plte
her ear may get divorce next week. but just
now we love each other harder than thunder can bump
stump.
sSomemes hazy recolections of Denver in tour
ing and the Garden Of the Gods in tayho and the
COG road up Pixies Peak side by sde and OF breakdown
on the mountain sidehigh above Beuna Vista facing the
snowclad collegiate rangewhere in cleft OF rocks we sal
and told the stories Of lives. The plunge together IN
Salt Lake brine like myth-HkeWlSe the mormon
tabernacle and it's of melody Together we did Los
Angeles and Pasadena and the beach at Monterey anc
meath those sunny skies in the shade of giant palm
we stood watched the andwe know the rest
''Fitting up home in country village when you can
buv nor build is no snap The house that living IN
one that built in the early days before squares anc
levels were invented The floors crooked that water
wouldn't it's level them, but simply stood
detected puddles not knowing which way to move. The
man who built it found the stovep holes on the pra
and built the house around them to boring ones
He measured the lumber with the hind leg Of his dog.
ssThe last family that lived in the house had mania TO-
red paint eighteennc borders on sevenfoot wallis AM
looked inside like bunch of abandoned potato bins
te culinary department. of the internal But toda
i is one of the scrummiest wolf dens the west 1t ha
and curtains pianos and bookcases and folding bed
and kitchen cabinets and couces and Bullets and roun
tables and china closets and conlers and dressers AM
RANGES and things in it till you can't walk around night
without cracking your shins We have hardcoa heate
that makes things so coy you have to stand outdoors
fan Yourself with your apron And have things to eat
foo After twenty years Of boarding this is quite nove
to
1tIf YOU never hear from again you will know tn
lady didn It like this article.'
Like it! Bless you she will think it is the finest bit
literature in the language and she will cut 1t out carefully
keen t. sacredv and it to her grandchildren 1915
II is clear from that Mr. Wolf has made mistake
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BIRD STORIES. ~.