Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-18
OLD HENNEPIN's BOOM.

OAO DULL
Preparing to Celebrate the Too HMmdredth
Anniversary of HIS Discovery of the Falls
Of st. AnthOny-St. Paul Gossip.
lSt. Paul Correspondent Chicago Times.
pins discovery of the Falls of st. Anthony
will be celebrated in notable shape the conf
ing summer, and already the muses. are at
work for the occasion. A series of papers
will be prepared by our leading minds, under
the auspices of the Historical society.
Its president is that noble and intrepid
gentleman, Gen. Sibley. 1t is well worth
Thile to have lived, were there no world but
this. to have now the confidence and respect
of the State and community as he has. If
ever man embodied the knightly virtues of
honor, generosity, Observation-Disclosures and
magnanimity, that man is Henry Hastings
Sibley. When he was SO i'll, year or two
ago, no one saw the slow step of the once
swift and dauntless Walker-in-the Pines
without sorrowful thrill that, when the
stately figure passed from earthly sight, there
was no one to take his place. In these days
the mold for such men, if not broken out
right, is wofully mislaid.
Baker, the elegiac, whose "throat was cut
from ear to ear at the last State convention,
is to be the poet of the bi-oentenary COM
memoration. He is already incubating his
lay in the scholarly retirement of Mankato,
and in one respect he is like Tennyson-he
is the very reverse of rapid or inspired.
Baker, Notwithstanding his hazy record, has
mysterious knack of getting into good
company-pretty much on the same easy
terms that gave him tho title of General"
During the war he left the State as colonel
of the Tenth, we believe, and when he got as
near the front as st. Louis he was magically
transformed into the provost marshal of that
precinct, leaving the gallant and garrulous
Jennison to carry the regiment through all
the vicissitudes of the fght-to return with a
wound or two, uncrowned, unsung, unbrev-
cited, while Jim Baker, the elegiac, the pas
save, the provost, got brevet for-his dis
cretion.
Stick to thy readings of Shakespeare, oh,
lovable, and loquacious Jennison. Thoult
find therein thesaurus of pertinent conso-
lation for thy unrequited valor. Leave
Baker, the sweet singer of Minnesota, to all
his laurels- as they are.
Fancy him swelling into his mighty theme
on the Sd of next July-after Cush Davis.
"a poulterer's description of a Phoenix" said
Sheridan, and Bakers version of the
"rise'' of State!
tell yeu, Hennepin has had to take some
ugly filings for two centuries, but-poetry
from Jim Baker-Lord!
The very best old settlers address ever de-
ivered in this State was given by Mr.. Heard,
one of orr first lawyers, at the meeting of
the Ramsey County Pioneer association. It
is replete with distinct and specific excel
lence. Its historical grouping, its vivid por-
traiture, its pervasive pathos, and its large
comrade love are most nobly conveyed.
With remarkable assimilative power he gives
the gist of history, statistics, records, myths
and monuments, while quality of informa-
ton, which only master can impart-viz.,
the utilization of nature with his theme-is
so apparent that the very landscape broods
over and vitalizes Mr.. Heard's perfect adj
dress.
The pretty story of Cophetua and the beg
gar maid is distanced in this community by
the munifcent legacy of a lately deceased
banker to his adopted daughter. The young
woman was his sons nurse, and by her fidel-
ity and general suitableness was promoted to
an equality with the family. 1t was not
much of lift in one way, but the idea OF
money making such an eccentric stoop! Why,
society raised its eyebrows and drew its
breath in pain to tell the story-for while.
Then came the usual clairvoyance in discov-
ering all the sweetness, the goodness, and
attractiveness in the foreground of nearly
half a million dowry.
Our emigration pamphlets are derisively
incomplete in showing,a few of the delight
full inducements of our State. Servant girls
have married moneyed and prominent men
in encouraging numbers. That ought to
fetch them. There is an everlasting query
going up. "What shall We do with our
girls?" and here's market with millions in
it. It might be worth trying. Said the
wife of one of Mlnnesota's oldest settlers to
the writer, after long absence: "The
change in st. Paul may be summed in one
sentence. Those who were in the kitchen
twenty years ago are now in the parlor- and
those who were in the parlor are in the
kitchen"
Ills only Republican rotation in Offices
after all-healthy sometimes for change,
but trying. POLLY CARP.