Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1889 — AN ANCIENT. [ARTICLE]

AN ANCIENT.

Logansport Journal. The lice lie <ler K i noticing a recent lk>h and Indian Minor MoFi.dlul says, “his ptregriu ms in Northern Indiana since the organization of the state make him familiar with every minutia of its history. In fact the mayor is considered by some a second Melchizedec, who according to scripture ‘had 1 no beginning of days or ending oi' life. 1 We hopedt will be no disparagement to other proud pioneers to say that it has been intimated that the Major is at least of antediluvian parentage anchthat4re survived the flood by wading Ulong-side of Noah’s ark. lie bring at that

time a very tall young man. It was a little love affair he had ? with the old maid Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron, that caused him to come to America. One of the mistakes of Muses .was to suppose an undue intimacy existi d between the - circumambulating historian and the beautiful song singer of the camp of Israel, and after the crossing of the lied Sea a general rupture resulted in Miriam getting a sudden attack of leprosy, which the Major deemed a. divine interposition, and he .punned the country. . Aud this unpleasant termination of his first love doubtless accounts for his continuing in single blesspdness. His expert ience with the flood, the Red Sea and the waters that covered the prairie country of Indiana at an early day gave him an aversion to internal applications of water, but the knowledge lie does not now possess about the habits of the American aborigines and the big fish inhabiting Lake Manitou and other waters in Indiana is scarcely worth the trouble of acquiring.”