St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-02
MEN AND THINGS.
Daniel A very clever gentle
man, who established |
Webster. his residence upon one |

least modernized hills of ST. Paul be-
cause it suggested something OF his
native Granite state, in particularly
genial mood. induced by the festive cir,
cumstances and associations of Thanks
giving-the New England institution
that has been so happily diffused over
the country entertained small gather
ing with incidents of his adolescent life.
Among those dwelt upon with most
JUNCTION were several relating to his
personal observation of DANIEL WEB
sTER, who1:., he regards as the largest
and most massive statesman and eX-
FOUNDER of the constitutions this country
has produced. His pride has grown
with his years at the fact that the great
man once held familiar seance with
him. AS he relates, when lad of a
dozen years OF so, he lived on farm In
what was then known as Lower Frank
lin, but now Webster, n. H., which dd-
Joined DANIEL WEBSTER'S homestead,
and which WEBSTER used to visit once or
twice every summer to enjoy few days
recreation, and to fish and hunt i'll the
rocky brooks, ponds and hills where he
passed his early life. One Sunday even
ing the st. Paul party was searching
over one of the thickly wooded hills for
his cows. Like other boys of that time,
he was fond of the slime found under
the bark of young spruce trees, and
stopped in his bovine quest to regale
himself from one of the finest trees on
WEBSTER's side of the pasture fence,
when he saw the Godlike, as his admir-
erS termed him, right before him. lie
was terrified, looking for q verbal, if
not dorsal, chastiSement for mutilatlng
fine trees. Instead. this great man,
who 1OOlyad CrQaf end inprpcCad ayarU
beholder as no other American has ever
done, asked the loan of his knife and
scraped out some of the slime for him
self and sat down on log and had a
pleasant chat with the boy. He pointed
out localities that he had frequented
in his youthful days, and the di-
rection of the house where he
was born in the Salisbury hills,
two or three miles distant. Not a
word of reproof, or about the constitu
ton. The great man then passed On in
his solitary ramble and communing
with nature. They met afterwards at a
fish choWder at one oil the small lakes,
but no other private and confidential in
teryiew between these parties was ever
had. This meeting was had soon after
the Wings had thrown Overtheir great
est statesman to catch the populace
with the glamour that invested hero
of the Mexican war; and there was con-
yictioD, as we'll as personal disappoint-
ment, in the remark of Mr.. WEBSTER
that it was nomination unfit to be
made. The ingratitude of his party
eliminated four years later, and WEB
sTER went down to MarShfield with
saddened heart and died. Some other
incidents related by the St. Paul party
in regard to WEBSTER and his rural ep
isodes may be given at another time.
sSSsss
1t Was Among the clerks in
one of the large whole
the sale houses in this
city there are two
Other Gates. han dsome brothers
named GATES. The
younger, who is very lordly and
naughty in his manners and decidedly
eXtravagant in his habits, is known
among the boys" as GOLDEN GATES. A
few evenings ago the elder GATES, who
is quite the opposite of his brother in
several ways, attended dancing party
in West st. Paul. He was introduced
to a certain young lady who is famed
for her ability to always say the wrong
thing, and gentleman sitting near
heard the fair creature say. with the
most artlesS manner Imaginable, sob.
yes, | know your brother GOLDEN
GATES, and suppose you are the other
GATES, are yOu?"
SIS y
A Young A very bright and
merry young lady, who
Lady's is the life OF some Of
the social circles of
Scheme. the city and resides
rather teo far out to
walk to the opera house, has lover who
belongs to one of the old and wealthy
families, but is 4dudisll enough to- fail
into the fads Of the more rapid young
men who go into society. They visit
the theaters frequently this season,
SO often as two or three times
week. The young lady has been greatly
annoyed at the persistence of her at
tendant in deserving her after each
act and going out. She had read in
an Eastern paper an account Of young
lady aggravated in similar way who
had secured its abatement by supplying
herself with a lot OF the confectionery
devices containing small chambers of
liquor, and handing them to her thirsty
gallant at the end Of each act. She de-
termined to experiment Oh this line. So
she took a shopping tour and provided
dialS and ingenious SWeetmeatS that
contained the various potions that in
duce the consumption OF cloves and car
damon seeds on returning from seeing a
man. The next night they visited
the theater she took a muff well
filled with these supplies and
told her escort the object
OF them. He admitted that the situation
was understood on her part, and con-
scented to use them if they proved pal
atable. He did not go out. but the con-
tents seemed rather tame to his palate,
and he wickedly determined to make
the lady victim of joke. The next
evening at the theater he took along a
supply himself, also, but took care to
know that they were filled with brandy
instead of the miider beverages of those
his fair partner had provided. AS the
first curtain went down, she commenced
to dole him out his medicine. He re-
fused to take them unless she would
consent to use those he had provided,
which he represented as strictly of the
temperance order. The reciprocity and
consumption wenton during the several
acts as well as while the curtain was
down-the lady, unfamiliar with the taste
OF brandy, not detecting the deceit. al
though she remembered peculiar feel
ing growing upon her. The result was
that at the close she was not in condi-
ton to walk, or even stand. and the en-
barrassed young man had the greatest
difficulty in getting her to the carriage
without creating scandal. 1t is not nee
| essary to say that the young lady was
| intensely mortified and shocked when
| she realized the facts. She said little
| to her young man, who attempted to
| apologize for his course as a joke, but
she resolved upon revenge. With the
| aid Of confederate confectioner she