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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
A cANoBR1DE OF 300 MILES.

In 1S42 Mr.. Folsom, having been
appointed by the United States gov
eminent to take the census in this then
almost unknown region, and having per-
formed his duties, purchased birch bark
canoe of the Indians, and alone, started on a
voyage, from Menominee, down The Chippe-
wa river to the Mississippi, and from thence
to Prairie du Chen, distance of 300 miles He
made sail out of one Of his undergarments,
and thus floated on the broad bosom of the
great river, sometimes stopping with fur
traders, sometimes with Indians, and some
times alone. Then there were no farms, no
villages, no towns, no cities, and very few
whites He came west when nineteen years
old, and has lived to see wonderful changes.
He speaks of visiting the old government
mill, near where Minneapolis now stands,
and between the mill and Fort Smelling, on
wide stretch of prairie land, stood lone
tree, and beneath this lone tree the sentinel
soldier would sit at noon day to shield him
self from the hot rays of the sun. Where
that lone tree then stood, is now a bustling
city
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
422 WabashaW street.

Remember that although there has been a
large amountof goods sold, all lines are still COM
plete, and you can get supplied with whatever
you want. Look at our SILKS, prices une-
qualed anywhere. A general cut in everything.
Prices for the coming week still lower than those
Of last week. CASHNERESS in all colors, at a
big discount KNIT GOODS cut in two.
Everything embraced in the great Slaughter.
We are better prepared for the Rush than ever
before having full corps Of attendants.
Come early, buy quick, and leave room for
Others and thus enable us to close out the stock
as soon as possible.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
PEN PICTURES
Of
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA.

Indian Camp Fires--The First Sunday School,
John Dobney--Simeon P. Folsom--A Canoe
Ride of 800 Miles--The First Cooper
Charles I. Rouleau, Sen.--Personal Mention
Charles Rouleau, Jr.--An Old Land Mark
The Wild Hunters Hotels-Benjamin W.
Brunson--As We See Him--First Regular
Physician--Dr. J. ]. Dewey--First Tailor
Parsons K. Johnson--So We Go.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
Good PuIea.

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-The produce ex.
change has adopted new rates regulating the
-four trade. The most important changes
are that inspectors of -four shall be appointed
and controlled by the exchange, and that
the grades of -four should be extra No. l.,
extra No. 2, superfne and fine. Rye -four
should be known as superfine and fine.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
NOTICE
TO
ARCHITECTS.
OFFICE OF THE CITY HALL
AND COURT HOUSE COMMISSION,
ST. PAUL, February s, 1884.

The special commission appointed and acting
under the act of March 9Th, 1881, being chapter
376 of Special Laws Of 1881, and the act of Feb
ruary 26th 1888, being chapter 102 Of the Special
Laws of 1883, win be glad to receive from such
architects as may desire TO submit them, plans
and estimates for the City Hall and County
Court House contemplated In said acts, on the
first day of May, 1884, at ten O'Clock in the fore
noon, at the Office of the County Auditor of this
county. but with the distinct understanding that
no compensation will be made for any such plan
or estimate unless adopted.
By order of the Commission.
j. j. MCCARDY, Secretary.
47-4S-54-56-61- 81
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
ON ALL PURCHASES.

twenty-five cents dollar
in
give White Of all
Embroderies Hamburg Edgngs Embroideres,
Inertions Null Oriental Tor
We received several
the market
direct importation Of Null Linen Lawns,
Lawns; plain figured plain fancy
offer choice
plaid and figured domestic foreign Pues
a prices, less Is cent. discount
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
Can Hold Office.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Feb. 16-Judge Bruce
has decided that Paul Strobach, recently
suspended for lack of confirmation by the
senate, was entitled to hold the Office of mar
shal until the president makes another ap-
pointment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
SIMEON P. FOLSOM

Mr.. Folsom was born in lower Canada in
1919, and is consequently 65 years old,
which will greatly surprise most Of his init
mate friends, who presumed him to be man
not much more than so years. He studied
and practieed law, and then took up the pro-
fession of civil engineering He left his
home in 1889, and came to st. Paul in 1847,
or 81 years ago. He early enlisted in the
Mexican war, as did Edmund Rice and NJ.
N. Kellogg, and also served in the Union
army for term of three years during the
war of the rebellion. He was also on the
staff Of Major-General Bodfish, in 1889,
ranking as major, and in 1923 was clerk in
the legislature. He was also the first city
surveyor of st. Paul, in 1854, and has been
a continuous resident of st. Paul, or near to
it, and identified with her interests, for 81
wears,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Folsom is man Of a great deal of in
telIigepce and has led an active, busy life.
We remember him in the palmy days of real
estate, when he dealt in broad acres and
drove about the city as nabob; then we re-
member him again, not so rich; in poor
health, ready and expecting to die any min
ute, and yet he has outlived large number
of his old friends, and is as active as kit
ten. Very few men know more about real
He has surveyed it.; he has owned it; he has
sold it. He has been on the top-most round
of the ladder, and at the bottom, and just
now he is in the middle of the ladder Of life,
and is as tenacious as an old hickory tree.
He is social, kind hearted, generous; has an
excellent memory, and delights to reyel in
the incidents of the past. Withal, he has q
vein of humor in his composition, which
makes him popular as companion and liked
as q man. Mr. Folsom is in the best of
health, and looks younger than he didtwenty
| years ago.
THE FIRST CooPER-cHARLEs t. RoULEAU
SENIOR.
Mr.. Rouleau was born in canada in 1907
and is consequently seventy-fve years old
He came west in 1929, or fifty-fye year,
ago, and was in the employ of the American
Fur company for nine years, or three terms
was mail carrier from Point Douglas to Tay-
lor's Falls in 1874; lived at St. Croix an(
removed to st. Paul in 1915. Hi
family consisted of fourteen chill
dren, eight of whom are still living
A carpenter by trade, he was the first coopet
in the city; made casks for the government
hewed the logs for the first hotel-''The st
Paul House, ,n-later worked for the LAM
Brothers, but is now living upon the weigh
of his years. He also built the first ferr.
boat at Anoka, and also the oldferry house a
Fort Smelling; made the first barrels in th
state, and labored in the saw mill Of John S
| Prince. He now resides with a married
daughter, IN an humble dwelling in tn
Sixth ward, or West st. Paul
/ PERSONAL MENTION.
| We visited Mr.. Rouleau on Wednesda,
last. lie is bright, CHEEKY old man, abou
medium height, clear eyes, thin face, ye
sprightly and polite. He is pleasant in con
yersation and philosophical In his conclu
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
JOHN DoBNEY.

At the first election ever held in st. Paul,
(says Mr.. Folsom,) in the year 1s47, forty
nine votes were cast, and one of the judges
of the election, after announcing the result,
stated that John Dobney had received the
full number, and was duly chosen. AS some
of the judges were somewhat set up by copi-
Gus drinks of water from the Mississippi
Dobney was, when the aforesaid judge con-
Quoted them to closet near by, and point
ing said: "There he is!n which proved K
be a demijohn filled with whisky. In those
days such candidates invariably received the
full number of votes, and of course were al
ways elected.
THE FIRST AND OLDEST SUNDAY SCHOOL L
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
A Spring Pointer

goes his Spring or oyercoat sMade
his Hat at pays
$55 goes Clothing House.
and he
buys stylish Spring Clothing Houses outfit
Suit Overcoat
goods l. the general equally
good. garments stylish as No rs
being Spring here
why not be sensbEeP
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17

We visited Mr.. Rouleau on Wednesday
last He is bright, CHEEKY old man, about
medium height, clear eyes, thin face, yet
sprightly and polite. He is pleasant in con-
versation and philosophical in his conclu-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
BY T. NJ. NEwsoN.
ARTICLE TY,
1S47-INDIAN CAME FIREs.

Miss Bishop, who came to ST. Pau
in 1S47, alluding to the embryo
city at this early day, writes: ''It must be
borne in mind that st. Paul was a small trad
ing post giving yet no sign of its unprce-
dented growth. The council fires of the red
men were but just extinguished on the East
side and were still brightly blazing on the
west of the river. Our village was almost
daily thronged with Indians, where they fre-
quently encamped in larger numbers than
the entire adult male population of the terri
tory. Tragic scenes were often enacted by
them when intoxicated and provoked by
fraud practiced upon them by unprincipled
whisky sellers.'' These Indian continued
to dance and to beg about the city up to, and
including the year 1S49.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
Italian Epigrams.

The chestnut is for the man who
takes its shell off.
He is one Of those men in whom ne
cessity is the mother Of virtue.
If bad temper were a fever, there
wouldn't be hospitals enough to hold
us all.
1t is poor sort Of business to waste
your breath whistling for yesterdays
breeze.
The world is hard enough, God
knows, without one shutting ones
mouth the day it rains comfits.
To a woman's eyes there is always
an atmosphere of youth left about a
man who has once made love to her.
Another mans admiration is back
ground against which many an ordina-
ry woman has shone clad in unaccus-
toned graces to her lovers eyes.
1t is only fool who would expect the
wind to be always blowing from the
same point of compass. And real
sorrow-an old sorrow-rve known il
to act like ballast. It's heavy, aye,
but it trims the boat There's many o
man wouldn't sail SO straight if there
WASH t some dead weight O. that sort
at his heart to steady him.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
The Outcast Poor of London.

Born meath some favorine stars auspicious
ray,
Bred in the envied case that knows no
care,
dcrchance to some high heritage the
heir,
TAUGHT how to love, 10 honor, and to pray,
Fed without toll or trouble day by day
How shall the child of fortunes gifts 80
rare
Measure the weary brcadwinners de-
spair2
His world is but pleasure ground of play.
Reared in the rookcry Of foul reputc.
Graded In crime, sucked by squalid
shame
Prrchancc of birth unbest to bear the
blame.
Taught but those things which life and love
pOllnte.
or necdful food and raiment destitute
How shall misiortune's enid alliance
claim
with honest folk2 How shall he learn to
tame
The savage instincts Of tn ancestral brute2
drudge not your garner'd grain, o gilded
great,
To help those outcasts! Meath their
shrunken skin
Pulsates that life which makes all crea.
lures kin
And claims your voice it's cause TO advocate.
These brothers from soul-cOrrOding state
ministry of mercy yet can win;
So may their darken'd dens OF shame and
The lamps Of love at last illuminated
st. James Gazette
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
Baker Pasha and the Women.

The social topic of greatest iptoros,
just now appears TO be the proposed re-
instatement Of Baker Pasha in the mil
itary position which he forfeited some
years ago. The StaAdard, it seems, re-
ceived no less than two hundred let
tiers from ladies recently urpinp that
the erring officer should BE- FORGIVEN.
Forgiveness being with many women
the heroic virtue, this is not very sur
prising; but have these ladies' no fear
that in their impulsive generosity thew
may be helping to break down the bar
riers which society, not too careful as
rule Of female honor, has placed
about the sex TO protect them from tho
foulest wrong? at is only moment
airy impulse. they say, but is that any
reason for relaxing the penalty which
tends to keep these momcntary Impulses
in check? Suppose the victim had been
less courageous, the yielding TO that
impulse would have entailed term of
penal servitude, and that, too, we sup.
pose, might have been remit, ed on the
same grounds.
81 am nightly amused" writes to
us a graceless reprobatc, 'at the an
nouncemcnt in the Standayd this morn
ing that the editor has been deluped
with letters from hundreds of ladies
impetuously demanding the reinstatc-
ment of certain gallant officer in the
British army. They are all unanimous,
it seems, not one disscnticnt voice
among the whole two hundred. |,
brought to my mind the familiar coup.
let of Pope:
Men, some to business, some to pleasure
take,
But every woman Is at hoart-.--
Let those finish the quotation who
will.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
The Old Printer.

printer stood at his case one night,
In his Office dark and drear,
And his weary sight was dim rs the light
OF the mody lamp hung near;
Tho wintry winds were bowling without,
And the snow falling thick and fast:
But the printer, ! trow, shook his locks or
snow,
And LAUGHED at the shrieking blasts
He watched the hands OF the clock creep
Keeping time with its snail-lke tick,
AS he gathered the type, with weary click,
In his old rust-eaten stick.
His hair was as white as the falling snow,
And silently, day by day,
He beheld them with grief, like the autumn
leaf,
One by one passing away.
Time had cut with his plow burrows deep in
his brow,
His cheek was fevered and thin,
And his long Roman nose could almost repose
Its head on his Gray-bearded chin;
And with fingers long, as the hours stole on,
Keeping time with the clocks dull tick.
He gathered the type with weary click,
In his old rust-eaten stick.
For many long years, through joys and
through tears,
That old printers time-battored face,
so ghostly and lean, night and morn has been
Earnestly bent DER his case.
In a few years more death will lock up his
form
And put it to press in the mold,
And stone DER the spot where they lay him
TO rot,
VIII tell us his name and how old;
And his comrades will light up his lamp by
his case,
And list to the clocks dull tick,
AS they set up his death, with solemn click.
In his Old rust-eaten stick.
Printers Circular.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
"The Lilly Girl"

Home, through the rivers recky fringe, p
She Saunters slow
Uron her smiling lips tinge
OF rOsc-a glow
OF rapture, on the tender check,
Eyes, that, uplittcd. would be sure to speak
OF the unsu lied soul within her breast;
A slender figure, simply dressed
"In russell gown" a kcrchief, tied
In careless fashion round her shapey neck,
And, At her SIDE
A glovei hand grasping lilies, TO bedeck
Her when in fl my, spOtless white,
Evening shall find her TO water-sprite
Transformed. Undine's very self
when LOyc-cNpriciOus elf
Had her fair form invested with soul, .
Which, we are told OF beauty IS the whole
Expression-fairer could not be, than she
In her unconscious grace and sweet SIM
plictr,
An artist passing-as in thought
She's paused q mOment-truthiuly caught
And prisoned on his canvas, with most grace
fu. brush.
This bouuy maiden in the early flush
OF wOmanhOOd upon her head
Has set the suit-p.umed hat of dusky red;
Beneath its rim mas put away the rare
LuXuriancc Of her dark brown hair >
In wavy tGnds-has made her very fair
To look upon'-just rs she doubtless is,
Whether lie be ideal or a genuine Miss.
Sarah Louise Morris.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
EMARKABLE RESULTS.

! have had remarkable success with SwiN's Spe.
enc; hgNe cured several cascF permanently in n
very short time One case which am now treat
Ing was given mp to die, and after using three bot
ties is 40 far recovered that think one more bottle
will cure her. The most remarkable case OF all was
a lady with medultry cane r of tn womb, fog whom
had 10 hope whatever. Aner using Que bottle |
am satisfied rhe viii soon be cured
WlL L QUILLIAN, NJ. u
Ea-leys, 5 G.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free TO applicants.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawers Atlanta, Ga.
\. \. Office, lj9 ". 2}d ST., between Sixth and
Seventh avenues.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29

Old John lngmanson, of Sycamore,
ILL.,, used TO hold Christine Nilsson on
his knee when she was child in
Sweden, and when he went out to sell
his tinware, she went with him and
sang 10 draw purchasers.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
POISON OAK.

had fol thirty-eight years suffered every spring
in bathing " heL boy. tried ever thing for f.,
including many phvsicans, but without any benefit
took Fix bout es of Swfts Specific IS. S. 5 four
years ago, and 1t cured me sound aud well Three
summers have passed, and have had no return Of
it, JOSEPH BEAsLEV, Columbus, Ga.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 1sr YEAR.

VIM Stratton, Srstton h Bird, Gro"crs, Cairo, H..
}. A. Godstine ofGOldstine Il Rosenwater, whole
sale and retail dry good; c. W. Dunning. NJ. D..
Pres. BID. Med Tx, for Pensions; Albert Lewis
commission merchant; j. II. Robinson, county
judge ana notary public; VIM +. Pitcher, com.
broker and insurance agent; II. H. Baird, city
street supervisor; NJ. Philips carpenter and build
er; Thomas Lewls, attorney and secretary; +. ".
P:ercc attorney.et-law, DuQuoin Ill. y. Z. Pace
cashier of Centennial Bank, Ashley, H.; Albert
Hayden. cashier of George Connolly & Co, Spring.
field, IL b. NJ Mum, attorney-at.law, 166 Ral-
dolph street, Chicago; Hon. Robt. A. Hatcher, at
cashier First National Bank, Stuart, Iowa.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
Poison Oak

Some to yield every time to treatment with
Swiit's Specific.
Spartanburg S, c., March i3, 1854.
Your most valuable medicine (Swi's Specinc)
has done me so much good tia feel like saving
this for the benefit or those Who suffer like did.
was poisoned by POISON OAK, and saw not well
day for Fix years until used almost every Kind OF
medicine, but none had tina desired effect. After
using six bottles Of SwIFTs SPECIFIC am restored
to perfect health-with not q sign of that aNful
poison
Yours truly, DAVID NESBITT.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
The Night-Blooming Flower.

There was little uight-blOoming flower,
That thus spake To bright leaning star;
"Fron earths !Oncliest wild and lOwlicst
bower,
see thy brilliant orb from nfar;
Bul thou from thy home of radancy
Cun,t not, in thy gorgeousness, dcscry
One so insignificant, little rs me
So Gimnutive and small am l."
The pure and resp endcnt star replied,
In Ienderest love: 20, meek Hover OF earth,
Thou art little but do not thyself dcride
As one possessing no merit worth;
THY Maker designs thee, beauty and charm;
Although so far distant from me thou art
That | cannot thy rosehte petals warm
With smiles nor gaze down into thy heart.
"There is One without whose kind, loving
care
A sparrow cannot fall to the ground,
Has c Othed the lilies in robes more rare
Than calths monarchs in all their glory
crowned!
Though thou boomest in darkness Of the
night,
With no eye to greet thee-nOne TO behold
II is in cd, thy Creators sight,
That tnOu dost thine exquisite charms un'
fo.d!"
Thus many pine in their solitude
For recognition and honors from men,
And siyh, with restless wish to be viewed
And loved and admired by human ken,
Spend their ives I'm efforts fruitlc-s ana vain
To ga n rcuOwn while on earthly sod,
Who. freely as light and air, could obtain
TIE higher hOnOrs that come from God!
james Homer Kennedy.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29

SOkEPlNG CAR from Cairo O Cincinnati WIN
out changes, and through sleepers to ST. Louis
and Chicago.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
II II Il
ABE LINCOLN
Mutual Life & Accident
SOCIETY,
AT CAIRO, ILLINOIS,
organized December, 1883, Under the
Law of 1888.
COPYRIGHT SECURED.
Successor to Widows and Orphans Mutual Aid So.
Cety, organized July 4th, 1871, under
the laws OF 1872.

JOHN II. ROBINSON. ...".... ....., President
WIN. STRATfJN.... ...............N Vice President
j A. GOLDSTINE...... ...... secs. asurcr
c. W. DUNNIN G.................Me Medical Adviser
THOMAS LEWlS.........,".......,.. ....Secretary
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29
Is Is. MARRIAGE GUIDE. : pi iS2

Elegant clOth and gilt binding. Sealed fol 30
cents In postage or currency. over fifty wlu-
derlul pen pictures, true to life, articles on tire
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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29

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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-29

1t Is self-eyident that physician reying
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great SKIN, and physicians I'm regular practice
all over the country knowing this, freq emily
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