Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13


penny to buy my next meal. or place to
put my head in. The world has literally sung
my song until every heart is familiar with its
melody. My country has turned me ruth
lessly from Office, and in my old age I have
to submit to humiliation for bread" Payne
tells the truth, perhaps, but he does not tell
it all. He was much too 'genial- hearted"
and no one could do any permanent good for.
him because of his habits. He was the author
of his own misfortunes.
A PARTIAL list CT the robberies perpetrated
within the past few years by eminently res
pectable gentlemen, like Baldwin of Newark,
has been compiled, together with statement
OF the amount each succeeded in stealing. The
standing of all these men was good They
were honored, trusted, even courted. It will
be noticed that the eminently respectables got
away with good deal more than all the train
robbers. Carleton, secretary of the Union
Trust Company, took S400, 900; G. II. Phelps,
cashier of the New York state treasury depart
ment at Albany, S3OO,OO0; j. c. Duncan, bank
president, San Francisco, $750,000; Stephen
Wardwell, cashier of Commercial National
bank, Providence, R. l., $4,000; David Gage,
city treasurer Of Chicago, H., $500, 200; Theo-
dore Wick, treasurer OF Ohio, $4,000; the
water commissioner of Pittsburg, Pa, $780,
900; Henry NichoI, chairman of the executive
committee of the bar association of New
York, 100000; Abraham jackson, lawyer
and president, Boston, Mass, $500, 900; John
R. Morton, Philadelphia, 100000; E. J..
Winslow, Boston, Mass, 100000; G. Van
Hollen, city collector, Chicago, $l30, 1000; D..
D. Spencer, Chicago, $4,000, 900; John c..
Tracy, bank president, Hartford, Conn, falsi-
fication of accounts to the extent Of $500, O0o;
Hildreth & Tighe. lawyers and agents, New
York, over 100000. Total, S., 100000.
TIE dangers of keeping diary are again
illustrated in the case of a tramp recently ar
rested in England for theft. In the diary he
| told how in several months he had only worked
two days, and the agony Of those days is thus
| described: "All day tying up wheat. Awful
work. Every bone seemed to culver. Come
| to the conclusion work only fit for slaves. -
The other days work is set down as lawful.
All the steam taken out of you. More money
earned by cadging. Governor H. e. employer)
isolent, and not pleased" Then comes an
entry: "Called at the house of gentleman
| at Caterham. Treated like Christian The
daughter beautiful girl, the image of purity"
At Reigate he ''saw a charming girl, about
IA, standing at a lodge gate: Gave her
| sweet kiss, and pas sed on He further re-
cords details of his ingenious pilferings, and
occasionally ripples into rhyme:
Jox,
| Till good hath crossed it.
Calm may my future run,
| And Joy surround it.
! The English trampi is nice, pleasant, poetic
person, possessing qualities of amiability
care of society "Gave' her "a sweet kiss
tells the whole tale. The one he took was
probably unsaccharine.
| Hon. HoRATIo SEYMOUR is a good deal of a
scholar, though he makes modest use of his
| learning. He has lately written a short article
on the use of short words, which is one of the
best things in current literature. He says:
We must not only think in words, but we
mast also try to use the best words, and those
which in speech will put what is in our
minds into the minds of others. This is the
great art which those must gain who will
teach in the school, the church, the sbar, or
through the press. To DO this in the right
way they should use the short words which
we learn in early life, and which have the
same sense to all classes of men. The English
of our Bible is good. Now and then ONE
long words are found, and they always hurt
the verses in which you find them. Take that
which says 40 ye generation of vipers, who
Gomez" There is one long word which ought
not to be in it, namely generation" In the
old version the word "brood' is used. Read
the verse again with this term, and you feel
its full force. 90 ye viper's brood, who hath
warned you to flee from the wrath to Gomez"
Crime sometimes does not look like crime
when it is set before us in the many folds of a
long word. When man steals, and we call
it "defalcation," we are at a loss to know if it
is a blunder or a crime. If he does not tell
the truth, and we are told it is case of "pre
varicaton," it takes ms some time to know
Just what we should think of it. No man
will ever cheat himself into wrong doing, no r
will he be at loss to judge of Others, if he
thinks and speaks OF acts in clear crisp terms.
It is good rule, if one is at the loss to know
if an act is right or wrong, to write it down
in short, straig ht-out English
FEW tasks in the way of physical labor are
more arduous than that of training for prize
fight A New York reporter has paid a visit
to George Holden, who is preparing for con-
test with Frank White, in Canada, November
16. Being asked about his training, Holden
said: 81 generally rise at daybreak, and" hen
I want to take sweat, 1 muffle myself up in
| heavy fannels, put on heavy boots, take a
short, thick stick, and start off on a two-mile
run, leaving Dooney Harris, who is a little
| bit old, to take care of my things at home.
When get back I am bathed and rubbed,
| washed with decocton of arnica, borax, and
Jamaica rum, and battle my face with white
vinegar mixed with alum and borax. Then l
| lie down on my bed, and after rest go down to
breakfast with an appetite. 1 generally polish
off two mutton chops, four slices of toast,
| four fresh eggs, and bowl of English break
fast tea After breakfast rest, and then put
on my fannels for run of twelve miles at a
-mile-an-hour gait. I get another good