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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05

but with twist of the wrist, and a
dexterous lunge of the finger, he soon
has the contents before him. A glance
is all he wants. and in jiffy the letter
is tossed to ''Aleck," who examines it
more carefully. Another knack which
Mir. Kelly possesses is that he can open,
read and digest a mornings mail and at
the same time converse with two or
three friends in the room without ap-
parently incommoding
HIMSELF OR HIS GUESTS.
The Manitoba Railway company. as
everybody knows, is giant corpora
ton, and from the nature of things re-
ceives very large mail. The mail OF
this company comes principally from
points along the line of the road in
Northern Minnesota and Dakota. The
The daily average is about $50 letters.
OF these the general manager, Mr..
Marvel, and the general passenger
agent, MI. Warren, receive the greater
number. The president, James j. Hill,
also receives to large mail, which he
opens himself, and takes pains to
answer, if he has the time.
Beaupre, Keogh Il Co., the wholesale
grocerS, have an extensive mail, coming
mostly from the Northwest states and
territories. Some idea of their cores
pondence can be gained from the fact
that they pay out monthly $500 for post
age stamps.
The Ryan and Merchants hotel mail
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was an impossibility and they were be-
ing constantly punished. The punish
ment was the hose and humming-bird.
The hose was one and One-half inch
hose. The convict was first stripped,
handcuffed with hands behind him,
blindfOlded, then put in a tub with a
chain around his feet connected with a
pulley, by which he was crawn up till
he assumed the shape of letter V.
health and work, and when any one
turned loose his powers of eloquence in
endeavoring to talk him off, Jimmy
turned on the hose. My first encounter
with him, l thought 1 had him
right. but a moment later thought
the Ohio river had struck me.
The humming bird was an electric bat
terry. The con was placed in a large
tub OF water, land old Jimmy, who, by the
way. was the most benevolent-appear
ing, softest-talking man who ever pun
lshed man within an inch of his life,
applied the bird" and when it began
needles were punctu1ing my anatomy.
After getting it five times, bid adieu
to what Warden Thomas called the
great moral and ethical prison. After
leaving Ohio l visited Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin and other states in
a professional capacity, and in the
spring OF 'S5 went to Massachusetts,.
But after leaving my mug III Boston
with Inspector Hanscom and in New
York with Inspector Byrnes, for obvi-
Gus reasons | came West. and while at
Fort Wayne, Ind, was steered against
game OF stud poker and dropped my
stuff. | went out to see what could
pick up, struck slome (house) on
main corner where they seemed to be
singing selections from Verdi.
Whatever they were singing was be-
yond my comprehension, but supposed
people who sang songs OF the kind had
STUN SO climbed upon the porch. All
the windows were secured by burglar
alarms except one small oriel window,
by Which L entered, and to the music of
Italian notes L took my departure with
al the American notes in sight and such
Other portable property as | could carry,
the job netting me about $500. But the
renee, when collared with the swag,
turned me up, and not wishing to hurt
MS feelings by going on the witness
stand, and not wishing to get ten years
either, pleaded guilty, and got two
stretches. From the day l entered Mich
lgan City prison till | came out, this
summer, was sure great mistake oc-
Cured when l was born. Just before
my coming West party wanted to go
over to England and help work Meth
erby hall; but as my recollections of
the beautiful were not of the pleasing
sort, would not go. Three of them
got scragged (hung), and Meany, Chi
cago man, and local English crook,
got twenty years at Dartmoor. AS for
myself, L have terminated my criminal
career, and have been engaged in the
commonplace occupation of shoveling
gravel, which is exceedingly honest, but
unremuneratiYe labOr.,'
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AFTER MANY DAYS.

do not ask remembrance in your hours
Busy and full,
Bearing such gifts to others, rich in powers
For use and rule.
Check not the current of your life, that
breaks
Joyous and strong,
To hearEen where some haunting memory
speaks
Like sad song.
But when the dusk is creeping, and the dew
Lies on the hill,
When the first star is trembling through the
blue
Remote and still;
When from the lilies steals a breath so
faint
1t thrills like pain,
And, hushing into peace Days long COM
plant,
Night falls again;
O then one moment be the Present fed,
Think of past days,
And that sweet summer that so strangely led
In one our ways;
When was young in every pulse and
thought
And you, too, seemed
To give back something of the gift
brought
Or so l dreamed!
And know that as it then was with me-
Sweet
So is it still:
That lifes love is waiting at your feet,
Whene'er you will. NJ. NJ. NJ.
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DANGER IN SMALL FRUITS.
The Cause of Congressman Ran
s dalI'S Illness.

The Cause of Congressman Ran
SO da1l's Illness.
, Philadelphia Telegraph.
Can people swallow seeds and the
pits of fruit with impunity? 1t is a
topic that may be more important than
Others of more apparent weight. The
slightest amount of physiological knowl-
edge might be supposed to bar the
swallowing of cherry stones, yet a
young woman died in this neigh
borhood the other day from
peritonitis caused by such indul-
geuces. This violent form of seed
swallowing, however, may be consid-
cred as a little apart from the real in
quiry, since it is not exactly common,
though doubtless much sickness and not
a few casualties are caused by it. But
what of smaller seed swallowing? The
country has been startled by the pros
tration of Congressman Randall, and
it seems to be proved that the
disaster was, at least in part, occa-
stoned by Mr.. RandalPs over
indulgence in berries in his par
ticular bodily condition. Doctors tell us
that the common physical trouble under
which Mr.. Randall laborS is always more
noticeable in the berry season than at
other times of the year, the seeds being
the aggravating influence. 1t is not
the size of these foreign sub
stances that is the consideration,
but their bulk when swallowed in guam
tity. One would hesitate about swal-
lowing the small handful of pits con-
tanned in moderate lunch of grapes
they make quite formidable showing
yet they are, all the same, swallowed
in eating the grapes, and possibly pack
in the stomach OF bowels, an entirely in
digestible mass of woody fiber. AS to
yet smaller seeds the process is pre-
cisely similar, depending only on
the quantity of such food
eaten. The seeds of blackberrles
are enormous in size and quantity COM
pared with the pulp, and in eating a
comfortably large saucer of this fruit
one swallows the equivalent in seeds of
those of large portion of grapes or of
number of cherry stones. But are we,
then, to bar small fruits as a diet?
Scarcely, but more prudence can be eX-
ercised. They should be eaten
in moderation early in the day
rather than at night, and with
the greatest caution, if at all, by
persons i'll the physical condition of Mr..
Randall. The rejOinder may be made
that this stony dissipation has been
going on for ages; SO it has, and much
mischief has undoubtedly marched
hand in hand with it. 1t is clear, at
least, that persons with impaired ali
mentary organs should make the work
of those parts as easy as possible, and
not load them with quantities of indi-
geStible matter.
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FOOD FOR LAUGHTER.

The baby is merry to see her new toy,
She crows and dances in childish joy,
She tastes as much bliss as ever l wish
VIII be here in a world as dreary as this.
The maiden is merry to dream of her love,
No fear has she that it ever will rove;
And until she sees how swiftly it fees
She'll not know there's rue as well as hearts
ease.
The mother is merry to clasp her first born.
She smiles to think she was ever forlorn,
The height of her bliss is her baby kiss,
What happiness, think you, is equal to this?
The worm, he is merry to feed on the dead,
He chuckles each time the death roll is read,
He gloats in the graves DER monarchs and
slaves,
No merriment greater than this he Graves
Now which is the merriest think you, of
these?
Which one has the plaything that longest
will please?
All. the babe may forget, the maiden regret.
The mother turn cold, but the worm will
laugh yet.
Susie NJ. Best.
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She Couldn't Be Bothered.

Detroit Free Press.
GLOW shall | cook the potatoes for
dinner, ma amp" asked Mrs. Readypen's
domestic, appearing at the door of her
mistress room while that lady was
writing.
{ I'm sure l don't know. I never
cooked a potato in my life.''
''And what about the meat?"
''Oh, l don't know. Just any way"
/ .'And the salad, ma'am?"
''Any kind will do"
81 'sAnd what about the dessert?"
: "JaneH' said Mrs. Readypen sharply,
you told me when engaged you that
you could cook anything, and if you
cannot you'll have to go. 1 know
nothing about cooking myself, as
= l told you. My whole time is oc-
cupied in writing for household maya
zines. Now, go away, and don't dis
turb me again. must finish this article
on The Ethics of the Home and think
up something on The Higher Life of
the HOUSEHOLD before noon. Get any
thing you can for dinner and cook it
your own way. can't be bothered with
domestic affairs of any sort"
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away from him and Howard became
jealous and gave the collars some points
OIL the party, and mansion they were
renting on Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn,
was pulled, and Porter, Irving, Welsh
and another party were run. When
they found he was trying to square him
self about the Maine business by turn
ing up the rest of the gang
THEY CROAKED HIM.
All the party are dead, Welsh having
killed Irving and Porter killed Welsh
in Shang Draper's saloon in New York
in 1888. Draper was one of the North
ampton bank robbers. The men ell
gagged in that job were Edison, sales
man for Herring's Safe company, whose
biz was to get at the lock, examine it
and try and retain one-third of the COM
bination, the combination being divided
between cashier, president and some
other official. He did his part, they
stuck up the other two, and got $780,
600 in bonds and cash. The others
were Scott, Dunlap, Draper, Connors
and Red Leary. Inspector Byrnes had
a case OH COnnorS and ran him in, got
points on Scott, Dunlap and Edison (for
which he was permitted to break out of
Ludlow street jail.) Edison turned
states evidence and Scott and Dunlap
got twenty years in Massachusetts,.
Dunlap is there yet and Scott is dead.
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farmers. When saw that jury would
have pleaded guilty, but my attorney
would not permit it. and when he got
through felt myself the most injured
man in this country. got two stretches
just the same, and took the case to the
supreme court, when the decision was
reversed and 1 was discharged fifteen
moths after my first trial.
l again went East and South, visiting
in the best society through roofs and
second-story windows), but as the time
rolled on" once more found myself in
the great moral and ethical institution
at Columbus, o. The deputy said was
a smart, muscular young man, and that
I should learn trade. So he set me at
stove-moulding work year. and then l
was sent to the hollow-ware foundry to
run errands and carry water. While
occupying that position took thirteen
men to the hospital who had poured
molten iron in their boots, as the task
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His cell mate was Tom Riley (Onc-Armed
Tom), who learned him all about box
lsafe) and how to open them without
blowing. His method with Hall was
to knock the combination off, then drive
the spindle back with punch and cop
per sledge. A Diebold, put hole
between handle and combina-
ton, use a screw, break the
dog, then turn handle and bolts
turn back. When Scott came out he
looked for me to go in on the Quincy
Bank job, but unfortunately l was an
unwilling toiler and involuntary exile in
Missouri at Jefferson City, quarrying
stone in rccompenSe for sneak on
Mermod e Jaccard's jewelry store.
Bobby Adams accompanied me Oh my
trip. He got five and l twoyears. When
there short time the prisoners rebelled,
as the food was Scant and of the poorest
quality. The governor (WoodSon) called
out the militia, and the convicts all
sneaked to their cells. That night the
fun for the guards began, as every man
In prison, with few exceptions, got
twenty-five, fifty and seventy-five
lasheS. The lash consisted of strands of
rawhide, twisted together while pliabie
and then permitted to harden. When
well laid on man carries the marks to
the grave. l escaped by cutting out of
my cell and scaling the wall. March 10,
1875. went East, and April Sd was sent
to Sing Sing for a year, when worked
in the quarry. One day in June Pete
Boyle, the original butcher cart robber,
doing twenty years; McKenna, a life
man; myself, known as McGinnis; Yves
Allen, noted New York burglar, and
another party, disarmed guard, then
stuck up second, stopped freight,
took the engine and left. The pursuit
was very hot, but We got away ali right.
Mick, and John Ewing and nv.
self came West, when I made
the acquaintance of George Howard.
alias Western George. He was bank
burglar, and while doing bank in
Maine Dexter, Me- they tied up a cash.
Ter too tight and he passed in his chips.
George had a girl. but Irving took her
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Three Hundred Dollars for
One Months Supply Of
Stamps.

these piping days of peace, the power
OF the pen for good or evil cannot be
estimated. There is an old saying that
one-half the world spend their time
writing letters, while the other half
spend theirs reading letters and answer
ing them. Indeed, the whole time of
some business men is taken up, for the
most part. with correspondence. In the
good old days the mail was an event and
letters were rarities, but with the adj
vent of the fast mail, the typewriter
of the business is now transacted
through the postoffice.
There is no class of men who do more
correspondence than railway officials.
The majority of people think these men
have little else to do but ride in palace
cars, smoke good cigars and drink bet
ter wine, but it's mistake The cor
reSpondence of a railway official would
be revelation to the young man
FROM THE COUNTRY.
But the railroad official doesn't mind
it, and goes right along pursuing the
even tenor of his way as imperturbable
as if life to him was one long vacation.
General Passenger Agent Charles S.
Fee handles about as much mail as any
man in st. Paul. There is a great deal
of correspondence in this department,
and much of it he must attend to him
self. Oftentimes he but opens the let
ter, and glancing hastily at the con-
tents gives instructions to his secretary
as to what the answer shall be. The
letters received in this department
in general correspondence from the
postoffice mail and from the railway
mail have reached in number, in one
month, as high as $1,000. The total
number'of letters written during the
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CONTRACT WORK.
Sewer ON University Avenue.

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works, |
CITY OF ST. PAUL, MIMI, July 26, 1888. {
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of st. Paul, Min
nesota. at their Office in said city, until
10 m. on the 9th day of August, A. d.
1883. for constructing sewer on Uni
versity avenue. from brewster avenue
to Cedar street in said city, according to
plans and specifications on file in the
office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties
in sum of at least twenty (20) per cent
of the gross amount bid must accompany
each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
R. l.. GORMAN, President.
Official: w. f. ERWIN,
209-2l9 Clerk Board of Public Works.
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CONTRACT WORK.
Grading Terrace Park Avenue.

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, |
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug. 1, 1888. :
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of st. Paul, Min
nesota, at their Office in said city until
IL M on the 18th day of August. A. D.
1888. for grading Terrace Park avenue,
from Wilder avenue to st. Anthony
avenue, in said city, according to
plans and specifications on file i'll the
Office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties
in sum of at least twenty (20) per cent
of the gross amount bid must accompany
each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
R. L. GORMAN, President.
Official: w. f. ERWIN,
215-225 Clerk Board Public Works.
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is nearly the same-about 100 letters
day, directed principally to tourists and

is nearly Iile SdIu6-dDOuG lUU letters a
day, directed principally to tourists and
travelling men.
Some of the other establishments of
the city that receive large mails are as
follows the number of letters received
daily by each being given: German
American bank, 400; Bank of Mime
sofa, 400; Merchants National bank, 400;
Omaha road, 1926; r. G. Dun, $50;
Farwell, Ozmun, Kirke 81 Co.,
1926; Lindeke. Warner & Schur-
meier, $50; Allen, Moon & Co.,
800; Mast, Buford & Burwell, 275;
Strong Hackett Hardware company,
$50; Finch, Van Slyke & Co., $50; Max
field & Seabury, 200; Nicols & Dean.
200; St. Paul & Duluth Railroad COM
pany, $50; Minnesota & Northwestern
Railroad company, $50; YAM, Griggs &c
eHowes, 500; st. Paul Fire and Marine
Insurance company, 200, and st. Paul
Storage and Implement company, 225.
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yourself upon slight eminence pleas
ing view is secured. There is nothing
grander than to behold a city nesting
at your feet, its inhabitants Slumbering,
with the dead silence of the night
broken at occasional intervals by the
approach of an incoming train. All
sorts of groteSque thoughts Obtrude
themselves in disconnected and sense
less confusion. With the growing night,
the silence becomes deeper, and the
moon rides high, her polished beams
playing strange tricks with familiar
objects. You stand as if transfiXed and
drink in the scene until almost intoxi-
Gated with delight, turning yourself
away with some difficulty.
The wee sma' hours" ring out clearly
from the neighboring clocks, and the
streets are dark and desolate. Walking
through them inspires you with feel
ing OF loneliness, and even the huge
buildings seem to frown at the dis
turber of nights chilly stiffness. Few
people are encountered, and the streets
policemen, rogues and vagabOnds.
Truly, necessity does make strange bed
fellows. Occasionally the faint glim-
mer of light is seen in a window, be-
tokening the abode of some unfortunate
individual racked with pain. These go
to relieve the monotony of the night,
but they are not all. Suddenly there is
the sound of hurrying wheels far down
the street, and quickly the strokes of
gong are heard. Yes, it is fire, and
Immediately the engine .dashes by on
ITS ERRAND OF MERCY.
1t is now verging upon the dawn of
day, and the darkness becomes intense.
The atmosphere rests in folds upon the
o,,I I 81, III,
to the touch. The moon has sunk into
oblivion, and ''leaves the world to dark
ness, and to me-" A feeling of terror
takes possession of you, and gristy
phantom seems clutching at your back.
The flesh creeps. A scream rises to the
lips, but dies before it is uttered. There
is also desire to flee, but the body is
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DICKENS LOVES JERSEY.
OF All States He FOuGd There the
Best Audiences - He advises
Young Men to Go West

0 A New York Star re-
porter Mr.. Dickens said
that since his arrival in
America his opinion of
the American people,
which was always good,
has been greatly intensi-
fed, and that he is truly
thankful to the Ameri-
can public for the kind
and generous manner in
which he had been
treated durinp hic aptira
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same period was
about 5000. The
time spent and the
labor expended IN
asserting, reading,
writing and forward
ing such a number
of letters is, in it.
self, immense, to
say nothing of the
mental labor in
. volved in consider
ing them.
The West Publish
ing company is a
big patron of Uncle
Sans. This COM
pany receives from
200 to 800 letters per
day, and has been
known to send TO-
600 letters i'll one
day. Their CORE
spondence is mostly
with the legal fra
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ternity whom the company furnishes
with reports, digests, etc. The West
Publishing company publishes the Ma
tional Reporter, Northwest Reporter,
Atlantic Reporter, Pacific Report
er, Southern Reporter and Amer
lean digest. These legal pamph-
lets are sent all over the United
States and, of course, their shipment,
by mail, neceSSitateS an immense CORE
spondence.
The drug firm of Noyes Bros. & Cut
Ter has correspondence that extends
all through the Northwest. The aver
age daily receipts are about 500. D. R.
Noyes used to give his personal atten-
ton to the opening and examining of
most of the mail, but in late years the
correspondence has so increased that
clerk or two has been called in to assist
in disposing of
THE PILE OF LETTERS.
The First National bank receives the
largest mail of any of the banks OF ST.
Paul, the daily average being nearly
500. Cashier Bailey and his assistant.
Mr.. Miller, attend to most of the CORE
spondence, although Mr.. Gilfillan takes
a hand when he is about.
The p. H. Kelly Mercantile Co. has a
heavy correspondence, while Mr.. Kel-
ly's personal mail makes quite re-
spectacle showing. Mr.. Kelly reaches
the Office every morning at o'clock and
the first thing he does, after extending
greetings to "Aleck," is to examine the
stack of envelopes lying on his desk.
Mr.. Kelly is an adept at opening let
tiers, and at reading them, too, for that
matter, and he can dispose of grist of
mail in quicker time than any other
man in st. Paul. In opening letters he
uses the forefnger of his right hand,
holding the envelope firmly in his left.
1t is difficult to explain how he does it,
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transfiXed to the spot. There is some
thing which overawes you, but it is diff
ticult to make out what it is. The rea-
son seems to give away to terror, but
gradually the causeleSS fright is over
come and surrounding objects assume
their normal shapes. And then the
Pickering light of day appears.
The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning
night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks
of light;
And fiecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth days pathway, made by Titans
wheels,
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer, and nights dark dew to
dry"
With the dawnsof day cities rouse
themselves from their sleep. and CON
fused and jumbled sounds fill the air. A
freshening breeze invigorates the early
roses, and articles of all kinds are be-
coming numerous, The light increases,
and it is morning.
Why the Wooden Mills Suffer.
Providence journal.
The shutting down of the wooden
mills in North Adams, Mass, is not an
event that will be exploited as evidence
that the prospect of lower duties is
death blow to business enterprise. The
mills close because the high price of
wool and the narrow range of selection
caused by the tariff make their business
a losing one. Hundreds of other wooden
mills are in almost as bad condition and
are continuing operations only in hope
that the onerous wool duties will be re-
moved before the choice is between
bankruptcy and cessation.
Nh, are your rooms vacant? An ad in the
tIuI GLOBE will rent them.