Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-25
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To the Editor of the Globe.
1t Is hoped that your just and worthy zeal
for the charms of White Bear lake will moi
prove an obstacle to the insertion in the
GLOBE of an earnest protest against prac.
tices which are calculated to make the zeal
of all Of us in so good cause well NIGH
futile.
The lake has obtained very extended
reputation as an admirable place for the re-.
cuperation of invalids, and conseq uently il
has become almost sort of convalescin q
hospital. Anything that interferes with the
exercise of the benign Office thus placed
upon it by Providence must prove detri-
mental to the interests of all concerned.
For this reason the knights templars, with
manly consideration, suspended the firing
OF their cannon when they discovered how
much real distress it caused our MANY Wis
itors with shattered nerves and generally
broken health who might be either earnestly
counting sleep in their beds or hammocks or
seeking quiet recreation on the soothing
waters. But occasionally We have demon
stration far more terrific in its character
and more injurious to the good name
of the lake than all the bIoodless roar of
Masonic artillery combined. For several
years past, as an instance, there was some
drunken idiot, name unknown, who fire.
quently, about ten o'clock at night, launched
himself on the placid deep and RECALLED the
whole neighborhood with sort of hell
broke-loos till early dawn. The poor
wretch seemed, IN the course of the night
to fancy himself successfully and without
exception, fit representative of each and
every OF the most violent characters depicted
by the immortal Shakespeare. Sometimes
he seemed to unite all in one, and this en-
tertainment was varied with maniacal imita-
tions or oil the celebrated singers who have
adorned the art of classic music within the
last hundred years. No doubt this LIQUOR
crazed enthusiast lived the while in elo-
rlous halo of his own creation, under the i'm
preston that his efforts were thu admiration
of all listeners, and that, of necessity, COM
prised every one within three miles of him;
whereas the one desire that throbbed in ey-
cry manly breast, and which even the most
exalted sentiments of humanity and piety
could not suppress, was to boot the brute
from January to December, and from
one end of creation to the other.
But this year, thanks to merciful
providence! the lunatic has disappeared He
has probably died of delirium tremens, been
sent to st. Peter, or gone to Minnetonka,
and lately matters have been reasonably
quiet. Nevertheless there have been some
painful indications that the mantle of mean
ness and idiocy has descended upon the
shoulders of some of his Successors, and last
night We had one of the most disgusting
evidences of the correctness of our appre.
tensions
At precisely twenty minutes of o'clock
Friday night number of men q use the
word with limitations) paraded along the
bank of the lake singing at the top of their
voices comic song, Interpreted with
ribaldry and loudly yelled blasphhemies,
with hootings, howlings, screenings and
Economical laughter enough to disturb the
dead. Now, Mr.. Editor, there probably was
not one household subjected to this low,
foul-mouthed and cowardly infection in
which there was not one CT several invalids,
generally women and children, to whose
Frustrated health an unbroken nights rest
is q boon earnestly sought and seldom
vouchsafed. In my own family was one
lady, for years in miserable health, who night
after night had been almost totally without
sleep. She was startled from one of the few
refreshing slumbers she had enjoyed in q
long time and forced to hear the dirty per
Torrance of these brave men
In the adjoining house were two invalid
ladies, one of whom had recently lost two
children byedeath and had come to the lake
partly to save the third.
When heard the crying and wailiDg of
this poor little sickly babe thought of the
long and weary hours of sleeplessness which
must probably be passed by the careworn
mother, marvelled again that hale, hearty
men could be 20 unmanly. There was prob
ably not house on the route taken by these
bacchanalians where the experience was not
similar to my own and my neighbours. What
is the remedy for such brutality? You can
not shoot the perpetrators as ,yon would
bowling dogs or caterwauling Tom cats. You
cannot even punish them with dose of fine
shot. What protection then have We for
our feeble wives and children, against these
despicably mean and injurious assaults? II
the names of the evil-doers could be ascer-
tanned they might be held up TO shame and
reprobation in the public press.
But, after all, what sense of honor or Of
shame is left to men who would be guilty of
such base acts2 One thing is certain, either
this matter must be arrested by some police
regulations OF some other means, or we may
soon be called upon to exclain of our lovely
lake, "Ichabod, Ichabod, thy glory is depart.
ed.'' WILLIAM MARxor.
White Bear Lake, Aug. %.
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