The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1883-12-13
NUMBER 4.
From our st Paul corresp spondent.

The Otier morning DcdiiilH III I'D io.o
a request from the effulgent editor
for an occasional letter, thus giving
me stronger excuse for rushing into
print than cold observer world per-
haps credit any correspondent with.
For, gentle reader,it is incredible
what an avalanche f icy criticism
falls on the heads of those, who fur
nish 50 much that is readable and
newsy AMI spicy TO the press. As
long ago as when Jefferson and lIar-
ilton and Burr were playing their
parts in the National drama. the for
mer thought it necessary to write
that nothing can now be believed
which is seen in Il newspaper. Truth
itself becomes suspicious by being
put in that polluted vehiclc.' amt
suggests perhaps an editor might
begin reformation in some such way
as this: Divide his paper into four
chapters, heading the 1st.Truths, IN /,
Probabilities. 3rd. Possibilities, 4th,
Lies. i;ut as no one. not even our
veraclous Joe Wheelcck, has seen fit
to follow this gratuitouS advice Of
the great Democrat, it has fAllen to
the brethren Of the pencil to deftly
blend these chapter headings and pre-
sent hotch -po'ch which shall neither
resemble an affidavit of facts nor IN
extract from MunchauseD.
So much ly wy of prelude; ard
then comes the difficult question as to
what l shall send that may interest the
dwellers Of your pleasant city. Shall
dip into the pool Of politics, now SO
stagnant that the rumors of go beauti-
full scrimmage as a fight for congress
sional honors between H Of fix
Fletcher and Bill Merriam hardly
causes ripple, cave of curiosity as to
how comfortable SabiH's seat on the
fence will be. Shall 1 try to outline
business matters, and run the risk Of
into Il weekly market
reportl Or shall society and gossip
be my theme and jenkins my exem
plar! You see what a field of confu-
sion lies before the occasional CORES
pondent, and how futile it is for him
to think of satisfying the different
tastes of this, that, AMI the other
group of newspaper readers. So
will modestly begin with the most
impersonal of all things-a city.
The capitol city has passed through,
peculiar era in it's growth. Even
our mayor and colonel Allen will ad-
nit that. 1t has been unconciously
stretching itself out like a fast grow
ing boy in his teens, until curly in this
year sudden conviction seemed to
have struck home to our people that
we actuall had city to care for.
Since then has followed woi thy eff
fort to get this into the slumberous
heads of the municipal fathers; an
effort which is meeting with some
success in cautious orders to lay re-
spectacle sidewalks in place of the
corduroys Of planks and nails which
now disgrace our streets and in prom
iSes of pavements and other neccessi
ties. And the court house commits
sioners have really got SO far as to
discuss the possibility of getting ready
to lay the foundations. An encourag-
ing prospect for those who make
up the list of births of the year.
The new opera house, however.is a
decided step in metropolitan direc-
ton, and the past week has shown
how much it was needed, and what a
level-headed philanthropist the un-
couth Old commodore who built it, is.
It has been crowded from pit to fresco
all the week and big audiences have
laughed and sighed, and some tender
eyes have perhaps cried, 10 the sweet
music of the Boston Ideals. The
operas they have rendered are most
of them well worn, but who complains
when dear Old ERA Diavolo," with
its countless "reminiscences of other
singers, or bohemian Girl" with
Whitney's grand voice to bow your
heart down. are repeated They are
operas that no one can begin early
enough or live too long to enjoy.
What an interest attaches TO actors
or singers! How delightful, for in
stance, it is for some select few in the
audience to know that the estimable
wife of Barnabee puts those almost
superlluous wrinkles on his long
drawn visage and assists Frothing-
ham to add to his natural ugliness.
Such information came in whispers
from one to another Of a rapt couple
in my neighborhood the other night.
and filled me with envy ana all I'M
charitableness.
If all Morris has not been down to
this feast of music, it must be because
they are saving their dollars to des-
cend on our shopkeepers between
this and the holidays. The shops
show our emersion from the village
period perhaps as much as anything
one can point to. The year has
wrought many and beautiful changes.
old shops transformed, new ones
added, and all bettered. The displays
of holiday goods are bewildering, an6
short purse makes one feel as though
Tantalus' curse was good deal more
alive than the rest of the classics.
Books there are and in profusion.
beautiful copies of all the authors,
some delicately illustrated with etch-
ings and engravings and bound hand
somely and we'll, and all bearing, the