The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-17

With the Long BolD
i --"Eye natures walks shoot folly as It ales."
First Draft Of the Famous North Dakota Ditty sThe
Ballad Of Walter Wellman - by O. E. Boyden, with
Suggestion for an Additional stanza in Case Of
Failure Of the Expedition.
- E. BoYDEN, the sprightly lyric poet Of Lis
bon, N. D., known in that part Of the whea
~. belt as sthe Lisbon Bard has wrtte'
6 The Song of Walter Welman - in several stanzas
of which these are samples:
The Motorcycles serumptuous the auto not 50 mean
hut earths revolving axis is scientific boon
Which be cornered cept by drtgibe balloon
So up in the balloon, boys. in the balloon,
Sailing round the North Pole, lighted BY the moon.
Snow and icebergs plenty, guls all sing tune,
It's going some, tell you this drgible balloon
/. Then the orchestra plays little interlude and
the song starts in again with renewed fervor:
Six hundred miles of sailing, thru the ambient atnos-
Before we the goal Of all hope and
successful then, the sun will just perennial
While science binds progress dirigible balloon
If the expedition should result the other way, We
submit to the poet the following stanza in place Of
his last .-+ =. IL T.
SIX hundred sailing and then within trce
Our sparlzer fails to work and we hit tho
We're gobbled by a polar bear at high eternal
the day trusted to our dirigible balloon
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The Wadesboro, N G., Ansonian printed the fol-
ssWe were presented with large onion last week
by Mrs William Guledge~o of Gulledge township. The
onion measured eighteen inches in and
we unable to dispose of it, family being away
at this time.'' r.
Why not drop it carefully out of the kitchen
Window .-~. J. Is :..-~-..s- @?< q
An Edorado Kan, hen has turned egg that
is not only scientific curiosity, butt commercially,
of considerable value. T. B. Murdoch in the Repub-
can vouches for the story having seen the eggs I'M
the daytime. In Colonel Van Rensselaer's poultry
yard is low, swanpy spot that to be the home
Of the FREELY, or lightning bug, and one particular
helpful hen stays late to catch them. She gorges
herself refies evening before going to roost
and it discovered few weeks ago that the eggs
laid by this helpful hen nocturnally luminous;
that each egg is Of the brightness of electric bulb
and that by coating them with impervous prepara
tion they retain their brilliancy for indefinite
period. So Miss Angelina and Miss Dorothea painted
the eggs with all the colors Of the rainbow-blue
lights for the blue rooms red for the red rooms white
lights for the done in white, green lights for
the haymow always observing the proper effects The
seventeen of the home the barn and outbuild
ings, are all brilliantly lighted with these eggs.
Speaking of editors troubles, the man behind the
case at Carman, Okla. has just had his The Head
light Of that town says
In last weeks issue of this paper the statement
made that from information believed that
the present Mrs Kiehle, the wife of Jonas, was a
lady of education and refinement. Since that pub
cation had personal interview with that female
person, and have revised opinion. She struck
very forcibly with the butt end Of buggy whip)
being athletic than refined. @Whatever else
may be said of her, truthfully say that she
IS good fghter.'' :@&.t a.
Tobacco Plains is a reservation town somewhere
up in Alberta, named not because Of the tobacco
grown there, but because Of the plains Some friend
sends in stray copy of the Tobacco Plains Journal
giving account of birthday party festivities at
the reservations
The village band, which consisted of first bass
DRUM second bass drum, big drum and little drum,
played selections of music between the events max:
ing an elegant combination of harmony. z~,&
The squaws dressed like New York society
ladies, with slight difference, and looked proud
drove Of peacocks =. =#r&# @&evz ,G.vy
stIn the evening Miss Mile Bull Trout 1.-THE
speckled Beauty, sang several selections by request
and was accompanied by Gall-in-His Hand on tho
tomtom.
The crowi dispersed singing the great Irish
American ballad, ''Auld Lang Syne''' A. J. R.