St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-11
SAINT PAUL.
Additional City News on Page 8.
TWO PUBLIC CHARACTERS.


TWAS between midnight and o'clock.
The rumbling, jingling street cars had
ceased to disturb the night; the clang
of cable bells was heard no more. A
great city was wrapped in slumber that
was broken only by the measured tread
of an occasional belated pedestrian,
or the noisy wheels of rafting hack.
Rice park was huShed as the tomb,
save for the musical FLASHING of the
fountain waters, which fell upon the
night air in sweetest melody.
Suddenly there was a great change:
The waters fell as if in a succession OF
angry protests; the leaves rustled I'M
easily, apparently foreWarned OF the
fierce blast that moment later came
shrieking through the city's boosted
beauty spot. sweeping the subtle
fragrance of the myriads of bios
SONS to the four winds of
heaven. A GLOBE reporter who had
been drawn to the spot enchanted, be-
came strangely imbued with fears of
impending danger, and skunk into the
shadows of huge maple. A moment
later and a dark cloud obscured the
clear sky, the winds moaned through
the branches, and her fierce blast fol-
lowed, and with swish and a swirl
strange object came t1oundering to the
ground, and again there was silence. A
few seconds interviewed, then the
leaves rustled uneasily again. the winds
moaned, andsa second apparitiOn .glded
swiftly to the ground, alighting few
feet from its uncannY precursor, where
both strange objects could be dlmly
seen through the darkness.
~
"Who are you?" demanded the first
apparition.
conner.
Ppm the Municipal Court Investiga-
ton. Who are you?'
"WeIl, Pun the Chamber of Com
merce's Idea of Retrenchment."
"And what are you doing here"' de-
manded the investigation.
1--WE been out tending to business"
"What do you do?"
"HOwl, principally"
"AbOut What?'
Reckless city expenditures and high
salaries"
And salaries are high, are they?"
Suffering Moses, yes! There are
clerks in some of the departments get
ting as much as $40 a month.
land the expenditures are reckleSS"
"There's nothing like it,"
And you're supposed to kick about
ftp"
THAT'S my business-and that's
where l get the worst of it," said the
Idea in confidential tones.
Flows that?" asked the Investiga-
ton.
"Wel, you see, we change directors
every year. Our board recommends
great outays one year, and Pm ex-
pected to howl about it the next. See?'
"Clearly. So your board recon-
mends city appropriations"
Every Monday morning. They'll
tackle the Spokane sufferers Monday"
But wouldn't it look better for the
business men who have been receiving
the patronage of the fire victims to
make liberal donations, and -"
"Sh Say nothing; they know their
gait. But, to change the subject, what
are you here for?
Nothing" replied the Investigation
sadly.
"No5hing?"
mo. Pm a loafer. Pye never done a
tap sinceI was brought into existence"
"And you stay where?"
''Out of sight. | amounted to some
thing for few days, but, alas, no one
knows me nOW,"
'And you can make nothing?"
mot a cent. No one will ever ac-
cuse me of having been bodied"
And what are you for?"
"Give it up"
But there's an election coming on,
and"
"Sh- Say nothing"
-
And, as the two upcanny figures
moved slowly out of the park, the trees
ceased to shudder, the fountain waters
resumed the melody that had been so
rudely broken, and Rice park was itself
again. The reporter, Stealthily follow
ing, overheard the Idea remark that the
city ought somehow be made to stand
round Of drinks, as it turned up College
avenue towards Capt. Berkey'S resi-
dence. The Investigation continued on
up the hill, and was last seen roosting
on hitching block, peering Though
the bars of the gate leading to Capt.
Bresett's residence.
ONE ACTKON, TWO DIANAs.
There was wild CONSERVATION in
John street residence the other night.
The trouble was occasioned by the &C
ton of an enterprising police officer,
who on finding the back door of the
house open, began tour of the interior
by the searching light of BULBS eye
lantern. The officer is one of the oldest
men on the force, and his bravery has
never been questioned even by his
worst enemies, but the wild shrek
which saluted him Is he entered one of
the lower apartments of the dwelling
was calculated to make even the stout
est heart quail. In vain he assured the
terrified occupants of the room that it
was only cop" and conjured them
not to be alarmed. there was man in
the room, and even though that man
represented the law in all its majesty,
and announced his coming with the
cleaning rays of lantern. there was
no pacifying the elder of the two
maidens, who lay, on the entrance Of
the man in blue, sweetly sleeping
meath the light folds of soil
tary sheet. The glare of the liant
ern in the faces of the sleeping
fair ones was the signal for the diScord
above chronicIed, and while the older of
the two girls pointed with one bare,
beautiful arm at the open door and babe
the intruder begone, the other was en-
gagged in a frantic endeavor to wiggle
the sheet over a pair of dainty feet,
which protruded from beneath its folds.
The ''cop" says he never was so sur
prised in his life as when he ran across
the two Dianas instead of the looked-for
burglar, and it's safe to say that the
girls will not forget the incident for
some time to come. The back door is
always locked at 10 p. m. nowadays.
ST PAJIT, PARK
Mrs. J. E. Merritt left for Chicago this
morning for six weeks visit.
Mrs. c. E. OvenShire, of this place,
and her father, of Detroit, Mich, left
Thursday for ten-day soiourn at Vel
lowstone Park.
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