for snipe and started for town. Not knowing the way he labored under a great disadvantage, but about this time he gladly spied an approaching vehicle coming up the road and screamed manfully for assistance. The man in the rig seemed as deaf to his desires as did the Saline county Snipe, who never made their appearance.     This up-to-date man, failing to find the bridge, actually walked through water knee deep and arrived at Ming’s Hotel at three o’clock in the morning, where he found the Marshall boys had strived some time ahead of him and were ready to receive the sack and to agree with him that it was indeed a bad night for snipe.     From— The Marshall Republican. (Marshall, Saline County, Mo.), 17 May 1901. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.