St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-14

aged man, ''and he is just as digniied as
judge and is surprised at nothing. 1 was in
Omaha some twenty years ago, that was before
Omaha amounted to much. Indians were
quite generally seen on the streets. Most OF
them were sober, though occasionally q
drunken red man could be seen if you were
on the lookout for one
ST was seated in the old hotel now occu-
pied by the Union Pacific railroad. It was
the nearest house to the river and had
a view of all the ground to the
river. I got in one of the windows
and watched a drunken Indian on his home
ward journey. He staggered along until he
came to deep ravine filled with water lead
ing down to the river. 1t was spanned by q
single plank. The Indian came to the ravine
and looked over. He folded his blanket about
him and looked over again. He looked at the
plank.
HE started to go over The least inclination
which he experienced to fall over caused him
to come back. Several half-unsuccessful at
tempts were made, and finally he fell over into
the water. With great difficulty he climbed
up the bank from which he originally started,
acting as though it was beneath him to go to
the other bank, which he desired to
reach. He kept on trying. went in to din
ner, and on coming out saw him complete the
task of crossing on the plank. Apparently
he had walked himself sober. Not once dur
ing his many trials did he exhibit any signs
of anger or discomfort. He made up his
mind to walk that board and he kept on try
ing until he succeeded
~
''The first drink I Took said a Missouri
man, twas at an old school Presbyterian
oh hald of fho Of of
the deacons. was boy at the time. The
host had some very good and very hard
cider. I guess he didn't know how hard that
cider was. 1t struck me as being nice and
drank three or four glasses of it.
''Pretty soon it began to tell on me. I stag
gered around, and finally yelled like an In
dian on the war path. My conduct shocked
the gathering, and the good Presbyterians,
men and women, were at loss to account
for it, knowing ME to be quiet and well-be-
haved boy.
mot so worldiy-wise young man who was
in attendance. He pronounced it a case Of
intoxication at first sight, and said the cider
was strong enough to make man full, let
alone boy. Twas taken home and a sicker
boy never lived than I was during the night
when the effects wore off, and 1 played the
seasick act for an hour or so. I don't go to
sociables now and don't drink cider.''
NJ
81 was up at st. Cloud shortly after the cy-
clone visited that place and Sank Rapids, -
said a man from Cleveland In. fact may
say was there the day after the storm.
Among all the strange sights to be
seen, and there was any amount of
them in addition to the death and destruction
to show the fury of the gale, the most re-
markable to me was shingled roof all COW
cred with fine feathers
ut looked white and downy as if a lot of
feathers had blown on the roof and would
blow away at the first little breeze. But a
closer inspection revealed the fact that the
feathers and down had been Embedded in the
shingles and were there to stay. The roof was
perfectly white.
ut was learned that during the cyclone a
feather-bed had been blown out of house
some distance to windward of the second
one. The feathers were blown out of the
tick and so great was the violence of
the storm that they were car
red along and Embedded in the
pine shingles of roof 100 yards from the
place where they had started. The quilts of
the feathers were not damaged in the least,
but were driven in the wood up to the down,
and required hard pulling to get them out.
Everybody was after a piece of that feath-
cred roof. At first the owner attempted to
preserve tjust as 1t was. but he gave this up
in hurry. People would come along and
cut off piece, and finally he went into the