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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24


SCRATCH HIMSELF ALL OVER.
Old blankets ana somebody's cast off
clothing were piled around the edge
next this cover according to the Indian
fashion. while pile of cinderS and ashes
in the center Indicated the cook stove. An
inquiry for the men elected the response:
$50 walk-'rOund town." which was inter-
pTeted as meaning Tat her noble chief had
gone down town, and the questioner had
better follow suit. Crossing the little gully
and approaching the third tepee one finds a
wall Of impenetTable stencil a squaw
was seen reclining in this tepee, and nu-
merOuS pots and kettles on the outside in
Gated that this family had a spacious
Kitchen. A large boulder near by was
covered with the entrails Of small animal,
frying in the sun, and the feast of sWarms
Of flies, while near by a dead rat lay on his
back showing the penalty he paid for too
near approach to such a spot, and furnish
ing a warning to passerS- by. A short dis
lance further on an Indian was seen APP
preaching from the direction of the river.
He was short of stature; wore a faded out
eOOn-Skln skull cap with the tail running
back from the forehead, and had his coat
thrown over his shoulders loosely On his
back hung bag by a string thrown around
his shoulders. and from the bag water was
dripping. Asked if he lived in the tepee.
he assented, and added: ''Me woman sick"
When asked what allied her, lie answered:
''Woman sicl-nO good-knOw nothing
do nothing" then he lifted one leg. grasped
the knee with both hands, and then clawed
the air with both hands, Indicating possibly
that his squaw had fallen and rolled over
and over down hill, injuring her leg. He
passed along 10 his tepee. but finally
turned, and tapping the bag with his hand,
said:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
OCToB f n.
~ comes across the hill

October comes across the hill
Like some light ghost, she is so still,
Though her sweet cheeks are rosy;
And through the floating thistle-down
Her trailing, brier-tangled gown
Cleans like crimson posy.
The crickets in the stubble chime;
Lanterns flash out at milking time;
The daisy's lost her ruffies;
The wasps the honeyed pipp1ns Try;
A Ohm is over the blue sky;
A spell the river mufiles.
The golden rod fades in the sun;
The spiders gauZy veil is spun
Athwart the dropping sedges;
The nuts drop softly from their burs;
No bird-song the dim silence stirs-
A blight is on the hedges.
But filed with fair content is she,
As If no frost could ever be,
To dim her brown eyes luster;
And much she knows of fairy folk
That dance beneath the spreading oak
With tinkling mirth and bluster.
She listens when the dusky ewes
Step softly on the fallen leaves,
AS if for message cheering;
And it must be that she can hear,
Beyond November, grim and drear,
The feet of Christmas nearing.
Susan Hartley.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
THE billiard SHARP.
A Fellow Who Fishes for sucker
and Generally Catches Them.

A Fellow Who Fishes for suckers
and Generally Catches Them.
There are probably fewer drawbacks to
billiards than to any other sport. One great
feature is that it is not gambling game,
the nearest resemblance to this phase being
the rule established by precedent, that the
loser pays for the use of the table. But
even this the most strict could not call
gambling, for superiority of skill certainly
should count for something, says the Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
It would be strange indeed, though, if
there were one popular sport that did not
have some representative of the laWleSS ele-
ment lowering around it for profit, and in
this game the "billiard sharp" undertakes
this task. To be successful he must be an
expert of the experts, for he never knows
when ne will run up against some very fine
players. Still his chief victim is the en-
bryO player with more cOncet than knack.
and perhaps the sharper does them good by
the experience they get, even if it does
sometimes cost them pretty penny.
One great point of his game is to lie i'll
wait for an unSuSpecting and inexperienced
individual, and when such is found he en-
cages him in game, deluding him by pro-
testing that he lis Just learning" and de-
sireS to play with some one from whom he
will have some chance of winning. He gets
the chance. and of course he wins, his OPP
pOnents paying for the game. He also will
attempt, in an innocent way to make bets
as to the result of certain shots, OF as to who
will win the game. and he invariably wins
the wager. The Mkado's plan for punish
ing the billiard sharp" is sure to meet with
the appreciation OF his victims,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
Circumventing the Law.

I
Hello. Sniyvens! Where are you going
with all those bOOks?" inquired an Iowa
man.
"Takin' ZEN home"
''Why, what do you want with so many
of them? l don't believe you ever read an
hour at a time since you went to school,"
Il know it. But I'm going to start in
now"
What's the cause of this change of
hearth"
Prohibition"
prohibition! What do you mean?"
''Well, you see the proverb says reading
maketh full man, and you bet l am going
to circumvent that prohibition statute if
there's any way of doing it. So long. See
Won sober
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
Progressive COurtship.

Boston COURIER.
She-What is progressive euchre, John?
Helm sure don't know. The thing
I'm most interested in just now is progress
sive courtship.
She-Oh! what is that?
He-Well, for little while after he
begins to pay his address to her, he simply
shakes hands with her when they are
parting at night, as have been doing for
the past two months. Then he becomes
little holder, and some night as he is leav
ing her he puts his arm around her waist,
like this, and kisses her as l do now.
There.
She (blushing)-And next thing, l sup
pose, he proposes.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24

situation. Politics. like poverty, makes
strange bedfellows, indeed, but DON'T
YOU rather suspect in the still
watches of the night. that Gilman
would like to kick the covers Off and
leave you in all your nakedness, hustle
and corset, to be ieered at by the unsuc-
cessful bidders for the unpromlslng
eminence you have been forced into, while
the sly Duke of st. Cloud retired to
secretly enjoy your modification!
Oot 10 AVIS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24

have for many years lived in the midst of
civilization, but can talk but little English,
although they understand good deal.
They are Sioux who took part in the FAM
Gus massacres of 1862 and 1868, but have
cut entirely loose from their people to ac-
quire a precarious living at the hands OF
those whom they would have murdered but
for lack of opportunity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
w at..eI a..

New York Sun.
''Oh, Miss Brown, who was that very
homely young lady you were with this af-
ternoon?n
THAT, sir? That was my sister,"
'Oh-ah--I beg ten thousand pardonsl
ought to have noticed the great resem-
blance! That is-that is"
Then he wished an earthquake would
happen right then and there.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
The DarIings, Dream Club.

NorriStOwn Herald.
The young ladies of Bar Harbor have
organized Dream club, the daily sessions
being devoted to the relating of their
dreams the night before. One young lady.
who ale liberal slice of fruit cake, seven
fried oysters and three plates of ice cream
before firing. related dream NJ the newt
session of the club that m de the false hair
of three or four of the members stand on
end. Most of the dreams. however. have
nice young man for their hero, and some
thing lingering, like matrimony, occurs in
them somewhere
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
Training the Youthful Mind.

HHFptT bdLdr.
Sunday School Superintendent (who has
just been endeavoring to impress upon the
minds of the scholars the lesson of the long
life of the prophet Elijah, and the punish
ment OF the irreverent children by bears)-
Now, can any one tell me why the bears ate
the children?
Wee Small Voice latter pause) -Cause
they thought 'Lijah was too old.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
Setting a Classic TO Rights.

The June-bug poem is sufficient of a clas-
sic already to secure reference as 1.-THE old
song" Yet it has been before the public
less than two years. This gem has been
more often mutilated, misQuOted and stolen
than any other poem of its length in the
language. There are at least half dozen
negro MINISTRIES who claim it. 1t real au-
thor was the This and That" man of the
Louisville COurer-J Ournal. The June-bug
poem is seldom given correctly. In the
original and most beautiful version it ran:
The June-bug hath gaudy wing
The ightning-bug has fame,
The bed-bug has no wings at all,
But he gets there just the same.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
MusHRAr.,,

A Sh Ort tim e
afterward he was
seen trOwsing for
kindling-wOOd, near
his tepee, prepare
tory to getting his
supper. In this
locality many of
the moccasins and
Indian ornaments
sold on Third street
are made. and even
the hair scraped
from deer-skinS is
saved and dried,
maybe to fill beds
and pillows. The
camp is within the
afternoon shadow
of the new Hen
bricks school house,
la tely dedicated,
yet they possess
not even the ''lit-
S dangerous. They
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
HER ANSW ER.

Come. let US wander through the grove,
The golden day has flown,
And | will tell you of my love,
My beautiful, my own!
The silvery moon in beauty beams,
Unclouded is the sky,
The stars are mirrored in the streams,
And zephyrS softly sigh.
Among the trees the f1reflies fit,
With intermittent CLEAN;
Upon messy knoll Wen sit,
And there dream Loves young dream"
Then thus replied the maiden sweet:
I'd rather go with you
To MulliRan's saloon down street
Aud have an oyster stew.
Boston Courier.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24

HE awakening,
in this latter
part of the nine
teenth century,
of women to the
possibi l i t i e S
within them
selves, and the
results which
they may at
tain by effort, is
what the occult
list would call a
great world
sweeping wave
which has not
yet, by a II y
means, reached
its highest alti-
tude, and by
the scientist the
4 -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
The Ribald lrreverence of the West.

Omaha World.
First Omaha Critic-I see W. d. HoWells
regards the book of Job as a novel;
prised.
Not surprised"
''Why, no. 1t meets the requirements of
Mr.. HowelS' obvious Standard-all talk
and no plot"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
AN OPPORTUNITY
FOR GENTLEMEN!

To introduce myself more extensively candidate for pub
Lie favor and at the time increase business at rate faster
than by the usual natural growth Iavedeermnd from
this date ther notice to allow discount Of 20 per cent from
regular marked prices My stock all of this seasons mpor
ation and of the best quality have the most elegantly fur
nsed paors west of New York The cutting and tailoring skill
embodied my productions receiving the highest cOmmenda
On My high standard of excellence in these respects will be fully
maintained putting forth best endeavo1s in every legi
mate way make for myself reputation which shall make the
recognized authority in matters of dress here Those who have
tried have been than satisfied Give trial. and the
ordered do not fully meet most exactng require
ments you need not take them.
Z. 8. BART r NJ,
5 and Mannheinner Block,
Formerly 174 Fifth Avenue. York
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
what we All were Once Tired o

''Why do you speak so dlsrespectfuIly OF
your father"
"Well, Pm tired of hearing him get off
that old chestnut, Come in the house,"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
@AH Sold by Drugsists.- at

Send stamp for Mrs. Pinkhann "Quide to HealthA
and Confidential circular, with description of case
and symptoms OF weakness. Mention this PupeT.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

BY ANToINErTE V. H. wAKEMAN.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24

lie learning" which is dangerous. They
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-11
County Girls, Think Twice.
Providence Journal.

Before making the plunge into city
life, county girls should ask them
selves what is really to be gained by
it. Perhaps in their quiet rural homes
some stray advertisement has reached
them, promising to young women
high salaries for light work. Hun
dreds OF Advertisements are framed for
the very purpose of deceiying the
unwary. They accomplish their pur.
pose, however, and large numbers of
young girls rush up to the city, dazEled
by the generous profusion of promises.
A girl from the farm answers one of
these advertisements. Life may have
been slow at home, but there was al
ways good fooG and in plenty, and
there was some one to care for in the
old farm house. When she goes to
the big city she finds that the Eight
work" consists in working all day in
a badly lighted and ill-smelling work
shop, where scores of other girls and
women are employed at wages hardly
high enough to keep body and soul
together We know what Otter comes
next. The girl has left home, she IS
ashamed or un willing to return, and
she must take the consequences, one
OF two things-shame or suffering
Many girl finds first in the frivol-
tiles and next in the iniguity of the
streets that excitement by which re
grets and remorse may be deadened.
II she is too strong in principal, too
pure and elevated in tone thus to sink
down to one of the pitiful women Of
the streets, she may find herself in
some cold garrett, lonely, overworked,
respondent and miserable. Better re-
main at home than risk the failure
which attend so many girls who go
up to the city in pursuit Of high pay
for lieht work. 1t is the saddest OF
all ventures, forsaking country home
for the illusions and receptions Of a
large town.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-11
Where Towns Decay.

A Waterbury. Conn, correspondent
writes; many queer things are now
and then brought 10 light in the
records of the old country towns of
this state, which sometimes make the
present generation VOL der how the
state came To win the national reputa-
ton as the "land of steady habits.
Other instructive lessons are also
draw u from these records. The town
OF Oxford, ia New Haven County,
about twenty miles distant from the
New York state line, is an example
Toe Just completed records for the
past year show falling off OF about
10 per cent of the inhabitants and the
large amount for country town of
81 600 from the tax list. Under the
heading of increase, all that appears
is lone COW" and five sheep
Within the memory of many people
now living in this town it was once the
trading center for this part of the
state. Merchants from all of what are
now large towns and cities hereabouts
bought their goods here, and it was a
regular trading place for horses, cattle,
and wine. The Injuries of life were
imported from New Y ork. overland
by slow journeys, in exchange for
country produce. And 1t appears
from the ledgers Of Hon. David Tom
linson, deceased, who did the largest
business of anyone, that liquors form
ed no small part of imports. II is re
membered by many that at a certain
parish meeting, when 1t was voted To
build Christ church. the chairman of
the meeting, a good old deacon, offer
ed prize Of five gallons OF the best
ST. Croix rum to the man who should
get the first timber on the ground.
Before me sun set that night there
was timber enough TO last the builders
many days, and the villagers in this
'laad of steady habits made exceed
ingly merry over the prize, which the
fortunate man shared with them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-11
The Groeer's New Boy.
Detroit Free Press

A Michigan avenue grocer took on 8
new boy the other day, and when il
came noon he catechised the lad as to
the price of butter, sugar, eggs, clothes
pins, and other articles which might
be called for, and went home to dinner
feeling that the boy was all right,
When he returned, after an hour, he
missed a barrel of -four and asked
what had become of it.
"Sold itl' was the proud reply.
For cashl"
mo the man said he had an &C
count here.
"The internal dead beat. He took
advantage Of you -
"Oho, no he didn't. lie said
he couldn't wait for US to deliver
it. aud he rolled it out the back door
and went after a wagon to take il off
Oh, no-he didn't beat Us any.
but the flour is gone.
eyes, bat while this fellow was az
ter wagon another maa came along
and stole the barrel and got away
with it Id like to see anybody take
advantage OF me "
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-11
Mountaineering in Persia.

Under this title, in the March Cen
fury, the Hon. S. G.. w. Benjamin
contributes an illustrated description
Of Jaunt through the mountains Of
Persia:
This is the way we are obliged to
prepare for the trip in order to reach
our destination. It was essential that
We should take with us tents, bed
Ding, crockery, and sufficient animals
70 carry ourselves, this servants and
Inc outfit. This required the employ
ment of much talking and Of an oc-
caslonal thrashing when the inso-
.enee Of the churuddars. or auleteers,
-nlerterred with the chnching Of a
bargain. After several days of prep
aratton all seemed ready to start. One
curious circumstance about the jour
ney however, was the fact that we
were obliged to journey by night.
Ale great heat makes it impossible to
tFavel in Persia in The middle of the
gay during the greater part Of the
year. Our departure was, therefore,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-11
He Was Hungry Too.
New York Tribune.

A lean young man with brown
overcoat and SLOUGH hat has been
haunting uptown hotels for several
weeks, working on the sympathy of
guests by the pathetic look with which
he presents to their gaze piece of
paper or which is generally written,
II am hungry" The young fellow is
thought to be deaf and dumb, but he
is known to have picked up such con-
siderable sums of money as to be out
of want, and the fact that he still
hangs around Madison square has led
many of those who contributed to his
relief to believe him an imposter.
About 6 o'clock, Jones, who is a
heavy capitalist from the west, came
rushing along Twenty-third street
from the elevator station. Jones who
is one of the hotel guests had
contributed literally once or twice to
the pocket of the deaf and dumb man.
AS he was Fastening to his hotel, not
having eaten a bit since morning, he
was suddenly confronted by this same
cadaverous young man, who thrust a
piece of paper in his hand. Jones,
not noticing who it was, and thinking
it message of some kind, looked at it
and read:
II am hungry
He looked up, and his eye met the
stare of the mute. Jones took in the
situation. He stopped, took out his
pencil, and deliberately wrote on the
paper underneath the above inscrip
ton:
so am ]"
He gravely LANDED it back to the
beggar, and shot into the side door of
mis- hotel like n bullet. The beggar
was arrested by the police later, and
several dollars were found in his pos
session. He had made his hunger
profitable calling.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-11
HORSES INTELLIGENCE.
Acts Of Brute That Approach VERY
Near Human Reasoning.

A Stroudsburgh PENN correspon-
dent writes: A horse which has been
in possession of the Peters family in
Bushkill, Pa, for twenty years, and
which was famous for the almost hui
man intelligence he frequently dis
played, died recently. During the
last few years of the horses life he
mad been permitted to run at liberty,
but was frequently hitched up to
haul the dead bodies of cattle or hor-
ses that died on the farm 10 a place
near the Delaware river, where the
carcasses were buried. The old horse
always stood near and watched the
burials with great interest and atten-
ton.
Some time ago this horse fell sick.
One day he was missed from an inclo-
sure where ne was being cared for.
A search was made for him, and he
was finally found lying dead on the
spot where he had hauled the dead
bodies OF so many OF his kind. AS
the place was out of the way of the
old horses usual haunts, and as he
had never been known to go there uu-
less driven there with some dead ami
NAL, no one who knew the horse be-
lieves that he did not seek the spot
feeling that he was about TO die, and
to save the trouble of hauling his
dead body there TO be buried.
Among the instances teld of his in
telhgence are the following: Late
one night members of the family that
owned him were awakened by a great
noise on the piazza Of the house. There
was the loud neighing of horse and
heavy stamping on the piazza floor.
One Of the inmates of the house went
to the door. There was the old horse
stamping and kicking lad neighing
with all his power. The discovery
was made that an Clubhouse near the
dwelling was on fire. The old horse
had given the alarm, and disastrous
fire was prevented.
One spring there was food in a
stream on the place. & blind horse
belonging to a neighbor got out Of its
pasture, and, wandering down 70 the
swollen stream, in some way got into
the water. 1t swan about in a circle
and was unable to reach either shore.
No one could render any aid TO the
poor animal, and there seemed no es-
cape for it from drowning. The old
Peters horse came along while the
blind horse was struggling in the
water, and after moments survey
OF the situation plunged in. lie swan
out to the blind horse and headed it
oil as 1t turned to make its usual circle
thus keeping its head pointed straight
for shore as it swan. By heading the