Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-12
GREAT DAY AT HEADWATERS.

side of the unassuming precinct doubts It's
supremacy, after Saturdays bi-centennial
celebration, he's an impostor. In sober Sc
robustness no town in the world could have
managed such an affair with the admirably
harmony, good will, and perfect public spirit
of Minneapolis. The absolute unanimity of
sentiment in all things and questions per-
tanning to the advertisement and advance
ment of this great town is the open secret
of its extraordinary progress and develop
ment. "Two souls with but single thought,
two hearts that beat as one,' is beautiful
poetic condition; but up yonder 1t is the lit
eral multipIyer of thousands and thousands in
pulsations of permanent unity. WhenBill King
and George Bracket give the word of CON-
mand, scores of men and women rise as effl-
cient aids, animated by sort of inspired i'm
petus, which is the propelling sentiment of
the whole population.
Saturdays work proved to scoffing out
siders that Minneapolis is ruled by the most
magnificent communism in the world. Not
a break, nor even flaw, in the conduct of
affairs from the handling of that grand
crowd, until the last straggler was placed in
his proper outgoing homeward train. up
and down the closely packed and enthusiastic
lines rode three of the most accomplished
marshals ever seen in conduct of any pro-
cession. Minneapolis was cute in the selec-
ton of trio of marked and remarkable
men. There was Gen. Rosser, who is the
very ideal of beau sabreatr. Tall, command
ing, bronzed, black haired, handsome from
crown to heel, he was the most superb
soldierly figure in the scene, as Gen. Sher-
man was the most plebeian and Insignificant.
How such looking man ever achieved any
distinctions is twister, when every facial
and chronological trait is dead against
him. The most legible Indication
is pronounced egotistical colloquialism.
Looks are not much, we are told land even Abe
Lincoln wasn't pretty to look at. But his
ugliness was aggressively suggestive of great
ness. AS Choat said of the homely Chief
Justice Shaw, 81 venerate him as the In
dian does his log, curiously carved; &C
knowledge he's ugly, but feel that he is
great Nature cast him in her grandest
and greatest ugliness. Every furrow of the
rugged, unhandsome face, yea, the very
mole, historic as CromwelPs, and the big
slipshod mouth, proclaimed Titanic possibii
ties of intellect, and action, and of homespun
verisies which should capture the heart of
very different thing. When the betweenities,
gay from Lincoln to Conkling, who are ex-
tremes in looks, as in all else, get into some
commanding position, you fall back ON
Lavater, Spnrzheim, and the rest for an ex-
| PLANTATION, and small comfort you get for
such case as Maj. Gen. Sherman, unless,
! indeed, first of all you take the goodness OF
God into account and mix it with dash of
Darwinism.
To return to our marshals. Col. Hicks
has no peer in the State for heroic disfgure-
ment. His nose was invaded by minnie
ball at Madison Ridge, and, while it spoiled
his photograph, the massive, faxen haired
colonel is, nevertheless, very prond of it. 1t
isn't every man who can smell gun-powder
so conyincingly, and lay his nose on the al
tar of his country. Logs and arms are every
day offerings, but the brave colonePs nose is
pleasing variety in soldier dssjectGnaeDa5rG.
Col. Gilmore, who served CALAMITY in the
war, is curiously like DR.. Stewart, our sur
veyor general, and as he rode up the line
some amusing stories were told there anent.
On one occasion he was 80 thoroughly taken
| for Stewart that he would have been tempted
to play practical joke, only he was on
political job for McNair. An
unaccountable interloper among these three
marshals was "Col." Drivewell james, who NJ
Minneapolis proper must haye been willing
to introduce as Sara Bsrnhardt does her old
est son: "Mon petit accident"
The procession being duly huddled, up
struck the band, and along came the mobs
| in carriages. A Fishman as well as a
Fishy man had the whales-Ramsey and
Sherman-in his drag. Next that magnani-
| nous and muniGcent rascal, Bill King (para-
| doxical but correct statement). behind span
of sorreI horses, hard to beat Tor synletery,
speed and costliness in the west, held his
high, predacious nose and his ribbons at
| their level best. Over to the university
grounds poured the enormous concourse
from both cities census heart-burniDgs
stayed during this anniversary armistices,
and State pride uppermost.
E. B. Washburne generally calls st. Paul
"Pig's Eye" Appropriately enough it pre-
sides over a bar in the river below town.
The rest of the animal never located here,
but struck blindly for more convenient
wallowing ground. st. Paul is essentially
metropolitan cosmopolitan. No east
ern State-no set of men-has made any
recognizable impress on its accent, its in
dustry OR any of its features, It's
superficial quiet and apparent passivity are
elements of conscious power. There Is no
brag, no buster. 1t has a well-bred repose
based on very respectable dividends In every
direction. Ruskn says: 81 hate a straigh,
street = and st. Paul could have no share of
this resentment. Its crooked, narrow streets,
its old time structures, its healthy phase of
western conservatism, suggest Boston as
compared with Lowell, to illustrate the real
status of our rival towns. We 60 over to
Minneapolis and look at it as we would at
the Corliss engine It snorts, and grinds,
and saws, and huns for us. The song of
the apron under the falls is Washburne,
Pillsbury, Morrison, Morrison, Pillsbury and
Washburne. When the representative IN
telligence of the State is in demand. we 60
to the capital. Minneapolis had one scholar
ly gentleman, George B. Young, but he got
80 lonesome that he moved to st. Paul.
For the apotheosis of this stupendous ma
terial civilization, and the gigantic graphing
of the mechanical arts, the Falls of st. An
thoDy can't come to Gov. Davis, but he must
60 to them, to lift them out of the realm OF
sordid glorifcation by fltering through his
capacious mind. Everything about this man
is important. He gives TO every occasion
the dignity of perfect speech, and most fully
and admirably does he bestow himself on his
subject. His mind has remarkable assimlla-
tive properties, and all the resources of im-
agination, reading and research are thor
oughly fused and plant, in the most splen-
did affirmation possible to the language.
There is natural distinction about the man,
which made caliow clerk in the postoffice
once remark, as he watched his retreating
figure: "If he were dressed in Kentucky leans,