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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-06
NO. 1873

be mentioned whenever the fire department of
st. Paul is referred to. For years she was q
constant attendant upon all fires. Thro' cold
aud thro' rain she always lowered around like
an angel of mercy, to minister to the comfort
of the fremen, and as long as one OF them
lives he will carry in his heart grateful recol-
lections of their self-sacrifcing, generous, de-
voted friend, Mrs. Bartlett Presley.
And now, my friends, since your organiza-
ton you have passed over rough and rugged
places, with frozen hands and feet you have
stood at your post. nntil recent
ly without compensation beyond
that which comes TO every man from con-
sciousness of duty, well and faithfully per-
formed.
Upon some of you the sun has ever shone
brightly, and your pathway has led you by still
waters into green pastures, interspersed with
the variegated hues of tender opening flowers.
Some of you, perchance, may have had to grope
along under dark and gloomy shadows, but to
such let me say that the clouds will lift and
the sun will yet shine, for God has allotted
both sunshine and shadows to every human
being.
Every member Of the old and new organiza-
ton should feel an honest pride in the credit
able record, the common prosperity of each
one, Justly earned by long, faithful and efh-
cient services And here let me say, that on
this, July 4, $780, onr city can boast of one of
the mOSt pcEI6ct uIt u6paltmcuts IL tuc Lsu1I
and we are all proud of it, from its worthy
chief down to xbe lowest private in its ranks.
General Johnson's eloquent and instruct
i've eaddress was listened to with profound
attention by the crowded audience and he
was frequently interrupted by applause.
Mayor Dawson who was expected to be
present being unavoidably absent, Hon. w.
P. Murray, the city attorney, was asked to
take his place. MIR. Murray came forward
and made one of the best speeches of his
life. He said there was no celebration that
he took more delight in than this one of the
Old Pioneer Hook and Ladder company.
He made feeling allusion to the old mem
bers who are gone never to return, and paid
deserving compliment to the present Fire
Department, and prophesied that in less
than year it would be both enlarged and
improved, with more and better machinery.
Mr.. Murray was loudly applauded.
This closed the formal proceedings and
the choir sang .'The Flag of the Free"
Impromptu speeches were next in order,
and Bart. Pressly, Ex-Mayor Prince, r. o.
Strong, cheif engineer of the fire depart
medt, Hon. 81. Il. Miller, n. P. Hall, Alder
man Ringwald, and J. @. A. Ward, and 9TH
ers made short and pleasant remarks when
the exercises here closed with the whole au-
dience joining in singing the Doxology.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-06

On the 9th day of March, 1857, the company
was re-organized and enlarged as follows:
Foreman-J Lunkenheimer.
First Assistant Foreman-H. w. Heffernan.
Second Assistant Forenan-John F. Witt.
Treasurer-W. f. Mason.
Secretary-P. ]. Dreis.
no,,, Pr,ro~ an~o:
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-06

talkeQ on Tie FOuTtn OIL July were cdileu bpIesau
eagle orators. man could hardly address his
fellow citizens on that day in the most sober
forms of congratulation for the past and assur-
ance for the future without being suspected of
sort of national fanaticism. People seemed
to think that the facts attending our country 3
birth, after all, did not warrant much enthusi-
asm. Washington grew to be very plain sort
of a man, who commanded very small army
and afterwards administered very limitsd
and inexpensive government.
| To declare ourselves independent OF goy-
ernment g. coo miles away when there was no
telegraph under the ocean and no steamers to
hasten troops across rather came to be looked
upon as not much of an affair after all, and
certainly no more than we would have done.
To ''bang away" at red coats as they tried
| to land with small boats, or to pour shot into
| them as they essayed to climb up some of our
| New England hills, seemed to have lost the
| glow of heroism and to be characterized with
about as much fun for our ancestors as danger
and trouble. In fact We seemed
that our patriotic fathers had
been Landed and ''orated' up enough, and that
| the Fourth of July was good day to 90 fish
| ing, shooting, picnicing, going on a general
| loaf about town, or perchance while our clerks
were. out induiging in some of these things,
| take quiet, extra glance at the ledgers in our
stores and offices.
Again say, utter no slander on these
times, nor of the people of the times, when /
| say these things. 1t was a very natural state
of things. entirely consistent with human
nature, and argues no want of patriotism,
| which was just as abiding and resl though un-
invoked by the prosiuess of the times and con-
| sequently undisplayed. Human nature ex-
| hibits itself in waves. As the ocean is never
| still entirely-so!hu human thought IS never quite
at rest, but as it requires winds and storms to
rouse the ocean to great muttering and sky.
| ward lashing waves, SO human nature whether
| in its individual or community life, answers
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-06
ANOTHER HORROR

White Bear Lake Scene of Terrible
Catastrophe.
PLEASURE SAILBOAT CAPSIZED
And Seven of the Fifteen Occupants
Find Watery Graves.
DETAILS OF THE SAD ACCIDENT
One Enare Family Blotted from
Existence.
A HUSBAND ONE OF SAVED
While His Wife and Sister Go Down
to Death.
A LITTLE CHILD RESUSCITATED
emily One Body of the Unfortunate
Seven Recovered.
NAMES AND LOCATION OF PARTIES
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16

BLIND ToM-lS0me Curious Facts about
tie Negro Musician. Blind Toms birthplace
is Georgia, and he began to excite attention
as a musician at the age of four years. All
sounds afforded him delight; even the cry
ing of a child caused him TO dance about in a
state of ecstacy. When at home he often bit
and pinched his brothers and sisters to make
them emit cries of pain. If kept away from
piano, he would beat against the wall, drag
chairs about the room, and make all sorts of
noises. When in London n flute was pro-
duced for him, of a very complicated pattern,
and having ~ keys. He frequently rises up
at night and plays this instrument, initiating
upon it all sorts of sounds which he may hear
at the time. Once, when the agent attempt
ed to make him stop playing piano in a
high-toned hotel, at O'Clock in the morning,
Tom seized him and threw him through the
door. In Washington, he threw a man down
stairs who came in his room. When at home,
in Georgia, he lives in q building about two
hundred yards from the house, and there re-
mains alone with his piano, playing all day
and night, like one possessed with madness.
Bad weather has an effect upon his music.
In cloudy, rainy seasons, he plays sombre
music in minor chord and, when, the sun
shines and the birds sing, he iudulges in
wAltzes and light music. Sometimes he will
hammer away for hours, producing the most
horrible discord imaginable. Suddenly a
change comes over him, and he INDUCES in
magnificent bursts of harmony, taken from
the best productions of the masters. Since
his childhood he has been an idiot, and he
played nearly as well at the age of as he
does now; but now his repertoire is much
larger, as he can play anything he has ever
heard. He now plays about seven thousand
pieces and picks up new ones everywhere.
1t is a curious fact that he will not play Sun
day school music if he can help it, having
great dislike for it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16

Jay GoULD's PERSONAL HABITS.
Goulds millions now crowd close to those of
Vanderbilt. He is q man of finer texture
than the old commodore's son. He doesn't
run to fine houses, costly stables, and blood
ed steeds. At night, when he dismisses his
operators from the telegraph Offices in his
own house in Fifth avenue and enters up in a
little book the telegraphic reports of the re-
ceipts of the various railroads which he owns,
he does not go to a club TO carouse, to a ban
quet to steam up with champagne, or to a
theatre he retires to the recesses of peace
full library, and, with his young sons about
him, reads the Latin classics the world for
getting, but not by the world forgot-by a
large majority. The next morning early he
has the telegraph doing lightning service,
and he is sending an electric shock through
Wall street as soon as the bulls and bears
come into that field of pasture. Mr.. Gould
is liberal man, although when he makes a
bequest he does not have the information
written in manifold and sent to all the news
papers The first news New York had of his
gift to the Memphis sufferers Of 90, 900 came
from Memphis, as did the news of the second
gift of 81, 900.
Mr.. Gould, being a small man of little
physical prowess is naturally not disposed TO
put himself recklessly in the way of the horns
Of the bulls and the claws of the bears. There
are some men In Wall street. as Mr.. Gould
has reason to know, who wish TO resent their
losses with their fists and are disposed to fol-
low Major Seloyer's example and despatch
him bodily down into a convenient area Ao-
cordingly Mr., Gould keeps his office guarded
by stout Irishman, who prevents the intru-
sion of visitors, and he has usually private
way to get out into the street. He has, too,
it is said, big italian bookkeeper who ac-
companies him on many of his business trips
about town, and stands ready to protect his
millionaire employer.-St. Louis Republican.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16

But Barba kept her eyes fixed on the wall
before her She knew that il once she let
feeling get the upper hand, Marie's will would
rule.
II mean, she said, in a dull, monotonous
voice, that it is best for you, my daughter,
that we should both try to forget Jehan
Kerrec."
Marie's eyes were full of sad protest, but
her mothers face checked her. II seemed to
the girl that her sorrow was flung back upon
her henceforth, she must bear alone. Her
mother had never been demonstrative in her
sympathy, but the girl had felt that it lay
there ready for hor when she chose to seek IT,
What had happened TO change her mothers
love
But the vow she had taken against her self
will held back the angry words that rose on
her lips. She turned a pale, sad face towards
Barba.
"You can forget him." she said. "You
have forgotten him, or you could not speak
so but am his wife in Gods sight, and il
indeed he has departed, am his widow"
ut is useless to fight with Providence"
Barba had gone back to her distaff. at was
meant to happen-there is no more to be
said"
Marie only sighed. She felt deeply, almost
bitterly, that no more could be said about
Jehan to her mother
TCOncltied nert 1te6k.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16

back to the settle beside the hearth 'Marie
has gone outside"
"Well, then" but Mcllac still spoke in n
/ low voice, ~ tell you that Kerrec will not
come back, so that besides the cottage you
will have Marie on your hands, and by-and-
| by you will find out that ii Is l who saw her
! part from her lover in anger, but tho whole
| village will proclaim that she is cast of by
him"
Barbas pink skin had Redeemed at last. ut
is false" she said sternly, "and you know it
is false. For what reason could he cast of
my Marie Z"
! Mellac shrugged his shoulders.
"You ask the very question which | cannot
answer but I'll be bound when once the
thing gets wind there will be plenty who can
furnish good reason for Jehans desertion.
There are things which are hard to say to a
mother.
Barba looked stolid again. She felt con-
| temptuous, but caution warned her that it
was foolish to make an enemy of Mellac while
the cottage remained in her possession. " What
else have you to say, Monsieur Z" she asked
| coldly.
Mellac felt tho change in her voice.
81 want to be your friend if you will let
me" he said. II know as well az you do
that Marie is good and honest but it looks i'll
for a girl to be deserted and the best way to
bnul people 3 NOUNS IL 10 give lueln hOult-
thing new to gossip about Listen then. /
am willing to marry Marie. Will you have
me for a son-in-law? That will make every
thing right"
The freight showed Barba's face and
white cap visibly in the darkened room. She
was staring fxedly. She almost gasped with
surprise.
"You" she said at last. "You, a rich
man besides, you are twenty years older
than the child"
And for that reason better able to take
care of her Listen, Barba Gourin l can
give Marie a good home, plenty Of clothes,
cart to ride in, n servant to fetch water and to
do the hard work, and know Marie shrinks
from work can give you many comforts
that Jehan Kerroc could never furnish If he
lived to be "A hundred"
Barba put up her hand to stop him.
Peace she said. You are going too fast,
neighbor. I must think, and I must be
quite sure about Jehan Kerrec. Leave me
now"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16

They were inspecting group OF statuary,
and she asked him who that female figure was.
He said he wasn't certain about II, but thought
it must be bust of Sahara-at least il was a
barren waist.
Lady with an eye for the picturesque)
"How old are you, little boy ?" Little dark
ey SWELL If you goes by wot mudder says,
rs six but If you goes by de fun rs had, rs
most hundred"
At christening, while the minister was
making his certificate, he inquired the day of
the month, and happened TO say "Let me
see, this is the thirtieth p 1.-THE thirtieth ?"
exclaimed the indignant mother, Indeed,
but it's only the thirteenth"
A schoolmaster recently informed an anI-
ious mother that her sons were 80 thoroughly
disciplined that they we're as quiet and order
ly as the very chairs in the schoolroom. II
was probably because they were oane-bottom-
ed.
A lady inquired of neighbor how q GER
tain friend of theirs-notorious for his lazi-
ness-who had been i'll, was getting along,
and the reply was II believe he is now able
to sit up at his meals, but still has to lie down
at his work"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16
INTIMACY OF PARENTS WITH CHILDREN.

INTIMACY OF PARENTS WITH CHILDREN
The number of American parents, intelligent,
well-informed, comfortably circumstanced,
who have very little knowledge of, and no
kind of intimacy with, their boys and girls
after these begin TO go to more advanced
schools, until they enter upon practical life or
marriage, is very much larger than is gener-
ally supposed. This lamentable ignorance
might not be so strange in case of fathers ab-
sorbed in business, and seldom in the house
except to eat and sleep-the more 10 be re-
gretted-but it is startlingly strange in the
case of mothers, who are the natural guArdi-
ans and protectors of home. Even these
too, often have the notion that American
boys and girls are exceptions to humanity
that they must be permitted 10 do pretty
nearly as they choose, and that they will be
all the better for it. Although they and their
husbands may hold theoretically that all per-
sons should, from the first, carefully instruct
their children that they are their best friends,
and that all confidence and counsel should be
given to and sought of them, they very rare
ly act upon the sound opinion. They are
strangers to their children their children are
strangers to them. Consequently they have
no power to shield them from the dangers
which always beset inexperienced youth.
They too often lament their error bitterly
[the domestic tragedies ever occurring,
though seldom made public, are hardly sus-
pected), all the more bitterly because at It's
discovery it is irretrievable e-Ne1o York
Times ... ... ...
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16

by AN ACCIDENT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.

BY AN ACCIDENT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
Christmas-tide came in the little wash
ed village but Jehan Kerrec did not appear
TO claim Marie for his wife. A fortnight
passed, and still there were no tidings of him.
Marie looked pale and sad, her eyes were red
as if with constant crying, and, instead of her
saucy, erect way of holding herself, she went
about with bent head, and looked thor
oughly detected.
Barba, too, was troubled out of her
quiet steadfastness. She had some weeks
ago secured the cottage Jehan had fixed on,
and had settled with the owner, Monsieur
Louis Mellac, that the rent was to be paid
from the beginning Of the year. II anything
had happened 10 Jehan Kerrec she was the
responsible tenant, and Mellac would look TO
her for his rent when the end of the month
came. The end of the third week had arriv-
ed, and she sat one evening beside her hearth
in anxious thought.
Barba's cottage was two-roomed mud
hoored and low-roofed, with huge beam
across the living room, on which hung a blad-
der of lard, some dried herbs, and string Of
dingy-looking gdIettes. few sticks burned
on the open hearth, and over them an iron
pot hung suspended from hook in the chin
ney. Barba sat on a long oaken settle, placed
beneath one Of the box beds cOntrived in the
wall which showed on each side of the fire.
place, about midway between floor and roof.
She sighed, and then hearing noise, she
looked round for Marie. But the girl was
stll busy in the other room, which opened
out of this one, and in which the COW and
pigs slept and were sheltered in rainy wealth
err.
Next minute Barba saw the outside half
door open, and mans head peered forward
into the room. She thoughtit was Jehan,
and she started up, moved out of her custom
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16

In the evening games of winter gatherings
of young people, and older ones too il often
becomes necessary to punish some one or
more, of the company by imposing for
felt" The penanoe should be something
that either is not easy to follow out to the let
ter-that is, has some catch in it, or puts the
person in a conspicuous and amusing light.
In all cases forfeit should be designed to
amuse the company as q whole, and never to
offend the person called upon to pay IL. In
order 10 illustrate our idea Of good forfeit,
and also to furnish suggestions to those who
enjoy and take part in such pleasant amuse-
ments, we give few of the forfeits that may
be imposed. (1) Put newspaper upon the
floor in such way that two persons can stand
on it and not be able TO touch each other
with their hands. This forfeit has the hon
. or of being old, but it was not our good for
tune to meet it until short time ago, and
we were forced to give II up" By putting
the paper in a doorway, one half inside and
the other outside of the room, and closing
the door over it the two persons can easily
stand upon it and still be beyond each others
reach. (2) To go out of the room with two
legs, aud come in with six. Not difficult II
one thinks to bring chair along on the re-
turn. (3) To act the dumb servant The
person who has the forfeit to pay must act
out the answers TO the questions put by the
master Of ceremonies as How do you make
bread ? How do you eat soup? etc. This
forfeit will cause much merriment il proper
questions are put az Put one hand where
the other cannot touch it. One can get out
of this difficulty by putting one hand on the
elbow Of the other arm. (5) Place pencil
on the floor so that one cannot jump over it.
It may be done by placing it close to the wall
of the room. (6) Put question that no one
can answer with mo" This is not hard il
one thinks to ask, What does spell?"
~ Push chair through finger ring. This
is done by putting the ring on the finger and
pushing the chair-any other object will do
as well-with the finger. This last much re-
sembles the next. 90 Put yourself through
key-hole This was great puzzle to US
for a while, but when piece of paper was
taken with the word yourself" written upon
it, and pushed through the hole, it was all
clear. There are many others of these anus.
ing little tricks, but these given will suggest
others, and help to make the social winter
gatherings the enjoyable times that they
should be.-Americdn Agricultural
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16

How LINCOLN GREETED THE SOLDIERS THE
DAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN.-What
a genuine man Abraham Lincoln was, ex-
claims Joseph Howard, Jr., in the Spirit Of
the Times. The day after the terrible Bull
Run scare 1 was in the camp of German
regiment from New York. Gen Mcdowell,
in foTaging cap, his boots and clothes COW
cred with mud, sat on his horse listening to a
report from the adjutant, when word was
brought that the President and Mr.. Seward
were driving up in carriage. In few min
utes they were there. think Mr. Lincoln
wore stove-pipe hat, black clothes and
black gloves, and Mr.. Seward had on light
suit and broad -brimmed hat. After talking
some time with Gen. Mcdowell, the two dig
nitaries left the carriage aud strolled toward
the men, who were drawn up by companies
in double rank. The President looked at
them. They were dirty, soiled and stained.
Without word he took of his hat placed it
on the ground, aud advanced to the end of
the double ranks. To the man ON his left he
gave his right hand, to him on the right his
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16

ICE-YACHTs. .-Ice-y yachts cost from S15 to
81 ,O0G each. When mention the S15 boats,
refer TO those of our school-boy days, built
of refuse boards, with 3-shillinR skate-run-
ners, using bent nails thrown away by car
penters What a contrast TO the ice-yacht of
the present day, exquisitely shaped and lined,
with hull constructed of alternate strips of
hard wood, wire rigging, A No. / duck for
sails, brass elects and blocks, full sets of coll
ors, splendid spars, booms, bowsprit, polish
ed steel runners, nickel-plated ornaments,
buffalo robes &c. The time made by ice
yachts is simply wonderful. A mile min
ute is an everyday occurrence when the ice
is in good condition, and the wind blows. In
the winter of 1866 the ice-yacht Snowflake
ran nine miles north, from Hewburg dock, in
minutes When the ice is in good condi-
ton, and the wind blows heavily railway
trains cannot compete with ice-yachts in
point of speed. Time and again have they
run up alongside of trains ON the Hudson
River railroad and beaten them easily. On
Jan. 10, 1871 the Zephyr and Icicle, both
Poughkeepsie ice-yachts, raced for two miles
with the Chicago express, the fastest train on
the Hudson River railroad, and at the end of
two miles, had to wait for the train to come
up, Many would suppose that great danger
existed in consequence of the vessels going
with such lightning velocity. Such is not
the case, as nothing but extreme carelessness
on the part of the helmsman results in inju-
ries. With light breeze the craft will not
carry over two persons to advantage. In q
heavy blow however, they will hold six or
eight. In fact, during the prevalence of a
heavy wind, it is necessary to carry as many
in order to keep the vessel down on the ice.
What is meant by keeping them down is,
that unless sufficient weight rests forward,
the windward runner will leave the ice, and
rise oftentimes to an angle of 45o. This only
occurs when a sudden flaw of wind strikes
the craft. In such a case, although the
helmsmAn does not lose control of the vessel,
he is compelled to bring her up in the winds
eye, or nearly to get her down again. -BreJ1-
tanos Monthly.