The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15
TALES OF THE TOWN

from grace and not only dropped
out of the church but became
quite worldly and even a bit
ribald on occasion. By persistence
and, possibly, being on the right
side in a political campaign, after
he was ousted from the office as
agent of the Humane Society, he
was appointed to the police force
and made jailor at headquarters.
At about that time, a movement
was we'll under way to give the
men plenty Of drill, exercise and
physical training. Haskins en-
tered into the spirit Of things and
not only worked up a muscle as
hard as nails but became quite
proficient with the gloves.
One day quite tough customer
was jailed and, getting into a
wrangle in the bull pen, Haskins
was compelled to go in there to
stop the row.
The tough prisoner turned on
jailor Haskins, thinking to pound
him up. Humane Henry gave him
the surprise Of his life by beating
him at every turn as a boxer and
finally knocking him out and put
ting him to sleep. After that,
Haskins was one Of the fistic
champions around police head
quarters.
j. Adam Bede, over thirty years
ago, when married and with two
boy babies, went to college at
Tabor, Iowa. He was a studlous
chap and did not have time to mix
as much in society as he wished.
But, although compelled to study,
he often urged Mrs. Bede to 60
out to entertainments while, in
theory, at least, he read about
ancient Greece and Rome and took
care Of the boys.
One evening, Mrs. Bede went to
college entertainment and LETT
j. Adam at home. In those days,
bv the wav. he was known by his
real name, James Ambrose Bede.
He got very much absorbed in his
studies and knew nothing of what
was going on until his good wife
returned.
There was disaster in the Bede
household. The two tow-headed
youngsters had hauled out the
kerosene can and poured the con-
tents into the family flour barrel.
A barrel of flour was not an every
day purchase in the Bede family
in those days and the absent-mind-
ed husband came in for bit of
'reproval for his negelct Of duty.
j. Adam Bede, or James AM
brose Bede, is half Welsh and half
Yankee. He learned the printers
trade in Oberlin, Ohio. Going
West, he worked in Hebron,
Thayer Co., Neb., for awhile. He
finally reached Missouri, some
where north Of st. Joseph. There
he eloped with a pretty little coun-
try girl and eventually landed at
Tabor, Fremont Co., Iowa. He sold
patent medicine, canvassed tor
Hills Manual of Business Forms,
ran papers, taught school, worked
with his hands and went to college
there until 1884, when he went to
Sioux Falls, S. D., to become a
writer on the Argus-Leader. While
there, Mrs. Bede died in Iowa.
Bede later on married a Sioux
Falls teacher whose home was in
Minneapolis, a Miss RedGing, the
present Mrs. Bede. They went to
Minneapolis where Bede did
newspaper work and, in due
course, came to Duluth as a rep
resentative of the Minneapolis
Tribune, about thirty years ago.
He ran the Photograph here and
was connected with the old Du-
luth Herald. In the fall Of 1892
he started the Little Citizen but
lost his little plant in December,
1892, when the Fargusson block
burned. He was appointed U. S:
marshal for Minnesota under
Cleveland and held the job eight
months, making a big thing dur
ing the A. R. U. strike in the sum-
mer of 1894. He then lived in St.
Paul awhile but came back to Du-
luth to down Charley Towne and
90 to congress. In recent years,
this stormy little petrol has been
busily engaged on the Chatauqua
platform.
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