Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-23
SUNDAY SINNERS.
John Smiths Dilemma-He Wants Water
-Marsden,s Escanade

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! --Marsden's Escapade.
| The Sunday batch of sinners who will be
marched up for Monday inspection by
Judge Flint are:
John Smith, lit strikes us that name has
appeared in print before), and Fred
Marsden.
Mr.. Smith ia the drunken individual who
made successful and attractive
procession, Saturday evening, from
the Sixth Ward to the lookup
He was registered at that hotel as an un-
known stranger. Sunday morning he woke,
| with a wretched headache, and penitence
enough for church full of people. His
degree of repentance was increased ten-fold
by some practical jokers, who forced an in
terview with him. This illegal proceeding
(none of the interviewers being newspaper
men) commenced by ascertaining that Mr..
Smith was Badger from La Crosse. That
his liquid obliviousness 10 time, space and
place, begun several days ago.
"Where am II" asked he.
| "In st. Paul, Minnesota-h.''
| ooh Lord!'' This expression is inexpli-
cable.
"Where'bouts in st. Paul?"
"In the dungeon of the city's CITADEL
ooh Lordp' Easy of explanation this
ejaculation.
"What for?''
| "For violent. persistent, rude, outrageous,
girl
"Oh Lord! Please give me a drink of
water.''
MIR. Smith got the water, and all the in
formation he could possibly desire upon the
subject of his "dastardly assault"
81 guess your only escape is to plead emo
| tional insanity
| ooh Lord Yes. I have been in
an insane asylum before now," he eagerly
said. ''Please give me drink of water, and
send for lawyer
And Mr.. Smith was left in very becom-
ing Sunday state of mind. Sorry and peni-
tent, and paving the future all over with
good resolution.
Fred Marsden was taken in early Sunday
morning, 10 o'clock, at Swede Annie's.
He became noisy and bellicose
and the police were called up to sit down ca
him. He was i'll such an elated or elevated
| spiritual state he did not want to be sup
pressed. He pulled pop on Chief Weber,
but before he could manipulate the engine of
death Capt. Clark grabbed it away from him.
Marsden is a bad character; has served his
time, and the police had his character
to a dot. He passed Sunday
very quietly,.and was wholly unmindful of
the bowling wind, velocity fifty miles per
hour, outside.
In addition to this duett another, name un-
known, and too drunk to tell, was taken in off
the streets Sunday morning helplessly drunk.
ellis only cry is water, waters
1
| Society for the Relief of the Poor
TO the Editor Of the Globe:
| In our recent communication in regard to
| the work Of the society for the relief of the
poor we had time only to speak Of that part of
the work which relates to the poor and nnfor-
tunate of our own city in whose welfare it is to
be presumed that every good citizen feels or
should feel personal interest. For it is no
small matter, and if our tax payers have not
already found it So they soon will. Whether
the large number who are now depending more
or less upon Others for support are allowed to
multiply and increase, or whether some timely
| effort is made to check the evil where it is.
| 1t is believed that those who have this matter
in charge are doing the best they can under
| the present system. But the system is one
that has descended to us from past generations,
and is as much behind the demands of the
LINES Zines a. IL would 90 Tor our business men to
travel by coach instead of rail and as we
| said then, it constitutes no small part of the
work of our society to counteract the evil eff
fects resulting from such system.
| But it is not the object of this com n1unica-
! ton to find fault with what others may, or
may not be doing, for we know it would do no
| good If we did, but to speak more particularly
OF that part of our work which has to do with
| the poor from other places, or who have no
| place that they can legally or otherwise call
| their home-for the time being we will
have -, that class usually denomin-
ated "tramps or dead beats"-for thanks
to the ticket system and work test Especially
as applied at the stone pile on Sibley street1.
this class we believe has been reduced to it's
minimum
In carrying on the work of the society we
have doubtless had better opportunity than
any one else OF becoming acquainted with the
fact that among the great numbers who have
sought to avail themselves of the unprecedent-
ed inducements afforded by our State to those
who are looking for permanent homes great
| many have been induced to come who are with
out the requisite means to at once make them
selves and family comfortable and 40 in one
way or another have needed temporary aid and
this number will doubtless largely increase dur
| ing the coming winter. In this con-
| nection we wish to acknowledge
| our Indebtedness to the managers of
| the various transportation companies for their
uniform kindness and many favors without
which the society would have found it inpossi-
BILE to respond to the many calls from this
| quarter for assistance in reaching their homes
| and friends.
Aside from the above there is, and always
Will be, large number who, from physical or
| mental weakness, ever and anon drift into
some kind of trouble, from which they find it
| impossible to extricate themselves without as
| slstance from those with better endowments
1t is frm this class that the pauper ranks are
constantly being replenished. and the best, and
often the only thing, our society can do is to
keep them from being public charge as long
! as possible
We now come to that class who, though less
| IN numb Der, are by less in power to
annoy or impose upon the public, especially
| the CharitablY inclined.