Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-21

way, Wnat Has COME over inc splrl0 OF our BIS
| ter city? Is she losing her grip, 80 to speak !?
boshy penuy-a-liner, named Abernethy, it is
said, was induced to get up wishy, washy
pamphlet OF six or eight pages, laudatory of
minneapolis principally and the lake region,
with Instructions etc., to tourists. Under the
seductive influence of the leading spirits of
that city he got up his pamphlet, and had
10000 copies struck off at a cost of $65. A
large number were placed at the book stand for
sale at 20 cents per copy, but somehow no sales
were effected. The price was then reduced to
two for nickle, and still they did not SELL and
rs result the pamphleteer departed yesterday
afternoon with his gripsack packed full of
chagrin at the manner in which he had been
taken in aud done for by the sharps of the
sawdust city
AFRAID TO TRUST THE DEACON.
Deacon Gilmore, good Christian at he is or
claims to be, ia unquestlonably not above sus-
picion among his brethren on the score of We
racity. The good man has every day, for the
past week, explained to his anointed the
steamboat time table, and announced the hour
upon which the boat would leave-also eau
tioning his elect not to mind the whistles of
other boats, but to stay patiently until the
stated time. Notwithstanding all the deacon
could say the crowd would inevitably make
break at the sound of the first whistle, and
this grieved the good man most intensely. He
imagined his friends doubted his word, but
the explanation of the rush is that
though the deacon had fixed upon Ger
tain time for the departure of the boat, the
ungodly captain would violate his agreement,
and with the viewof outgeneraling his rival,
would send up runners who would announce
the instant departure of the last boat, and
thereby produce stampede. Yesterday the
deacon again essayed to correct the evil, but
without avail. Like the deacon, old Captain
1Ook ont for M, I oil 4;
vles with the deacon, he transgresses the good
mans commands and resorts to all sorts of
heather Chinee tricks to compass his rival. If
Deacon Gilmore can convert his henchman
May and his crowd, then and only then will the
GLOBE admit the establishment of the park
was not in vain.
ELDER JOHNSON COLLECTS HIS BILL AND IS HAPPY.
Elder johnson is the true embodiment of
Christian charity, and since his mellifuous and
magnificent rendition of the "Wanderer's song'
on Tuesday evening. seems to wear a sort of
the eagle on the solitary quarter as he takes it
IN, until 1t squeals as in the days of yere, but
simply stands near and with autocratic beck
directs his obsequious satellite to pass over
the necessary pasteboard. In fact, he breathes
better, purer air. Meanwhile, the milk of
human kindness bubbles over in his bosom
and coagulates in the the shape of true religion
after the model of Gilmore Keith & Go.
The embodiment of the just man made per-
feet, he grows in grace and goodness
every day-in fact fourishes in piety like the
green bay tree. As this state of beatitude
grows upon him, his other virtues amplify in
corresponding proportion until, as man, as
songster, as Christian, he stands revealed-per-
feet, redolent and beyond compare. Faults he
may have, but
IF there be fault to cloud
The brightness of his clear, good sense,
1t is, and be the fact allowed,
His only failing-diffidence.
An amiabe weakness given
To Justify the sad affection
That in that vale of tears not even
johnson is complete perfection"
Such is the third unit ia the godly trinity of
Gilmore, Keith Il Go. The pen picture above
given of him may not be complete in all its
details, but it is nevertheless sufficient to point
the moral and adorn the tale.'' But with all
his transcendant virtues he yet affects humility
and lowliness of spirit-in other words, pure,
undetiled Christianity which teaches az a sine
qua non the cultivation of broken and con-
trite heart. Having thoroughly dgested the
lesson of humility in all its branches, he is
upon all occasions ready with obsequious gen
uhectious-even
Washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water''-
more especially in the instances, where with
far-sceing ken he detects the possibility of
thrift following fawning. But, with all these
characteristics, the necessarily accompaniment
of the Gilmorean standard of Christianity, he
combines vast fund of knowledge of all
things lin the heavens above, in the earth be-
meath or in the waters under the earth" An
examplar of all good and useful knowledge,
his store thereof is daily increasing
And still the wonder grows
That one small head could hold all he
knows"
Aud this is but an imperfect pen-picture Of
the presiding genius Of the box-office of the
gospel-peddling dispensation of Gilmore, Keith
d Go. The main outlines are correct to a dot,
and the reader is left to fill up the interstices.