St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
The years pass on, yet the freshness of

The years pass on, yet the freshness of
youth remains.
Mistaken Mer- The ties of nation
atty are wonderfully
cy to Mrs. strong. That's why we
Americans took so
hTaybrick. much interest in Mrs.
MAYBRICK's case. If
she had been an English woman we feel
that she would never have been con-
victed. If she had been French
woman or a German woman, we posi-
bly, never would have heard of her case.
The fact that she was an American
woman, tried in an English court and
convicted by an English jury on evil
Gence that would never have justified
an American jury in finding verdict
of guilty, has enabled her to rise into
international prominence, and to be in
vested with halo of martyr dom that
will be sure to fix her a place in his
tory. 1t is now, therefore, with a gen
uine feeling of relief and devout
"God save the queenW that we hear
the news of the communication OF her
sentence. And yet it is a question
whether good old Queen VICTORIA has
done the poor woman kindness by
committing the sentence to life impris-
onment. 1t does not remove the stain
of guilt. and only adds to the punish
ment. If Mrs. MAVERICK is an inno-
cent woman she deserves her freedom.
If not innocent she deserves to hang,
and surely hanging is more merciful
punishment than a life term of penal
SerYitude.
Heavens Fa- A correspondence asks
why it is that the harp
vorite Musical is by common consent
supposed to be the
Instrument. musical instrument of
the angels when there
are so many other instruments that sur
pass 1t. Without assuming to be au-
thority on celestial matters, the best ex-
PLANTATION l can give is that this whole
harp business is only a metaphor. In
the time of DAVID, or even in the days
of the evangelists, the harp was the
finest instrument possessed by man, and
thus the Scripture writers attempted to
represent the music of heaven by the
nobleSt tones of earth. In that way we
have received our ideas of heaven being
a place ringing with the melody of
golden harps. If the Bible had not
been written until this generation it is
possible that the angels would have
been depicted as playing on violins,
with a banjo or cornet solo now and
then. The association of the harp with
celestial music, however, has created a
reverence for that instrument that will
endure as long as our Christian civiliza-
ton exists. But whether there be harps
in heaven or not, there is comfort in the
thought that the steam piano is
limited to earth. and that the angels do
not sing on salary.
English In England they call
a railroad tie sleeper,
and Ameri- and instead of being
spiked down, as we do
can Sleepers. them here, they are
laid in an iron frame
called a chair. This difference in En-
glish and American railroad building
methods was the cause of ludicrous
misunderstanding the other day be-
tween a prominent London capitalist
now visiting in st. Paul, and one of our
leading railroad men. They were dis
cussing the comparative merits of En-
glish and American railroad service.
How do you like our sleepers?' asked
the st. Paul railroad official, having in
mind Wagner or Pullman palace car;
81 don't like them at ALL" replied the
tNow calculated the st.
Paul gentleman. "Will you be kind
enough to suggest their defects"
"Well, in the first place, you put your
sleepers too close together; then they
have no chairs,for safe and comfort
able rest, and they are roughly blocked
out, very often with the bark lett ons
and they rot out in little or no time"
BY this time the St. Paul railroad man
had puckered his mouth, with the tongue
protruding at one corner. and, with an
utterly subdued look on his face,
gasped, Jeewhilikins, let me carry the
news to BILL DIXON"
Spices of Pr Senator SCHEFFER
has recently been Wis
oneer Life. iting in Montana, where
he got good deal of
experience in pioneer life. He saw the
wild broncho on his native plains and
watched the cowboys lassoing him. He
saw 'BRoNcHo BUSTER" tame a wild
horse and break him to the saddle in
fifteen minutes. But what impressed
the senator most was the queer civiliza-
ton of the mining camps. They charge
fancy prices tor drinks of all kinds at
the saloons, but it is the inyariable Gus
tom when patron orders something
for the barkeeper to stand treat on the
next round, and you give Offense to the
saloon man unless you take glass or a
cigar with him when invited. That's
Montana hospitality. Then he saw
of the other side of pioneer
life. One fellow held grudge against
another one, and proceeded to take sat
isfaction in regular Montana fashion.
he went to his place of business. poked
a revolver through the window and
cleared out everybody in the establish
ment. The proprietor fell. pierced
the heart, and two visitors who
were in the house, unconscious of pend
ing hostilities, were carried out on a
stretcher after the fray. Another miner
went to the camp of his enemy and muir
dered a whole family in cold blood.
"And what struck me as being peculiar
about this kind of business remarked
the senator, twas that nobody in the
seemed to be excited
about it. These two tragedies did not
create as much of sensation in that
as a dog fight wonld here in st.
Paul. The murderers went their way
without any attempt being made to ar
rest them, and the people i'll the neigh
borhood talked it over as coGlly as il it
were an every day affair."" Y
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