St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-29

influences emanating from temperance
rranks have failed to move them. The
Shange that is coming has been
started among themselves and by their
own aeOple. In other words, l mean
that powerful sentiment against the
indiscriminate use end abuse of liquor
has beeen awakened am6ssg the German
people. The Lutheran pastors, 50 cer-
tain extent, have been Instrumental l..
bringing this about, but something else
has contributed to it powerfully. Many
wise and proud Germans have discove. Ai
thata powerful stumbling block to their
success in this country is their national
habit of drinking. They have Won
dered why the Irish made such headway
and shared in the rapid progress of the
ScandinavianS. 1t has dawned on them
at last that perhaps less beer and more
mental activity will bring them to higher
stations of life. predict. a revolution
in German thought on. this subject
within the next decade.
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Hon. Morton A long and varied
experience in public
S. Wilkinson. life has convinced me
the parties have an
important position in the main
tenance of the welfare of the gov
ernment. The check that they serve
to keep upon one another is perpetual
guarantee of safety. Public policy can
not go so far astray but that the minor
ity will always be in position to de-
mand reform and by becoming a ma
jOrity secure it. 1t is human nature to
take one side or the other of a question
open to debate. How impossible,
though, to secure legislative action on
the same unless sentiment is crystal
lied into the form of an organization
for the defense or attack of that ques-
ton. That is the best view of what a
party is and its purpose. The evils
that have come to attach themselves to
parties are recognized. Their eradi-
cation depends upon the intelligence of
the masses within the party. Where
they fail to appreciate these evils, de-
structiOn is invited and inevitably
comes. Then the purer and better new
succeeds the old.
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Hon. j. @. l shall start hunting
for prairie chickens
Flynn, of on the 14th of August
this year. That is one
Little Falls. day earlier than the
law allows, but then /
shall be on the ground and ready
to fire my little gun just as soon
as the hands of the clock are past
midnight. Chicken hunting is form
OF sport so enhancing that consider it
a celestial gift. The long, weary tramps
over stubble and field always have their
reward in the unmasking Of a covey; the
wild furry of birds and the noise of the
guns, while here and there the fluttering
birds come down. A man who is a
professional chicken hunter never
loses the keen Zest with which he
seizes gun and calls dogs on the day for
the opening Of the season. The sport
demands unerring accuracy of sight,
quickneSs in the handling. OF the gun,
and varied knowledge of the dogs and
birds that is serviceable at any time.
True chicken hunting is not slaughter
but test of human skill against the al
most matchless cunning of the game it.
self. The tricks of the birds are many,
and the tact with which they avoid the
aim of. bungling hunter is something
worth seeing. The indications this year
for an abundance of chickens are good.
The season has been favorable to them,
and the outlook is fine.
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Charles G. The railroad devel-
opment of Montana
Mallory, of this year is greater
than the newspapers
Butte, Mont. have announced. | do
not mean in the con-
struction- of any transcontinental lines,
for their progress is not so rapid as it
was, but in the building of small branch
lines that tap the mining regions. These
lines are none of them of great length,
and serve only as feeders to the through
roads, but they have given an impetus
to local improvements that has never
been felt before. Mines that have been
practically valueless through lack of
transportation for ore are now flourish
ing and enriching their owners. Interior
towns that have lain dormant for years
on the advent of these roads have at
once shown marked increase in inhab-
itantS. The value Of real estate all over
the territory has improved at least 25
per cent this year. Inotice another sig
nificant change. The character of the
building being done is far superior to
that OF any past year. think the ter
ritory is Oh the eve-not of boom-but
of certain and permanent advance in
population and wealth.
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Gen. j. III. The beauties of the
North shore for fishing
Baker, and scenery cannot be
sung too much. Life
Mankato. there is one perpetual
dream. You are mon
arch Of the finny tribes of the deep,
while waves, sky and the changing
views of the shore give to you one last
ing panorama Of beauty. If ]
were a king feel as though
l should abdicate my throne, Sc
lect the nearest and best of my friends
and go to the North shore to spend the
remainder of my days. What is life
where your feet tread brick and stone,
and the high city walls bind you in, but
burden-a load that bears you down?
But where the mind is free and Gods
Nature pours out at your feet her treas
ures, life is poetry, romance, an endless
series of happy circumstances. A man
feels his kingship amidst such surround
ings, and knows that above all the cark.
ing cares of humdrum existence there
is something in him that is in keen sym.
pathy with the freedom of the .wilds. II
is shaking off the bonds of convention.