St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-06

boarding at Sections hotel asked him if
the WOodpecker club was not one of
those clubs with blind pig attachment.
This was very cruel in the hotel man,
for the WOodpeckers pride themselves
on having one of the toniest and most
moral clubs in the city. The president
is one of the pillars in the Plymouth
church, and there is no doubt but what
he will feel scandaliZed to hear that
anyone should think for moment that
they would even patroniZe blind pig.
No one is allowed to JON except straw
berryblOndes whose characters are above
reprOach. The club was formed for the
mutual protection of the members
against the encroachmentS of the white
horses.
Several years ago the inhabitants of
the thriving village of Sleepy Eye came
to the conclusion that a village ike
theirs with a future before it, ought to
have a more classical name. Accord
ingly their representative in the legIS-
lature was informed of their conclusion,
and several meetings were called for
the purpose of deciding on new name.
Every resident, however, advocated
some different name, and as the session
of the legislature was fast drawing to
close, the member from Sleepy Eye
concluded to take the matter in his own
hands and name the town "LOrena,"
after his old friend Hon. Loren Fetch
er. 4 bill was consequently intro
duced in the house and passed, chang
ing the name to LOrena. But as soon
as the villagers found out that their
town was to be named after Uncle
Loren, an excited throng Immediately
took the train for st. Paul and had the
bill stopped up in the senate. So the
village still retains its original name OF
"Sleepy Eye"
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Uncle Loren Fletcher, by the way,
says that he wants the next Republican
national convention held in Minneapo-
lis. and that he will contribute $1,000 to-
wards getting it. He also announces
that he is out of politics Gust as much
as he ever was probably.
Now that the excitement attendant
upon the return of DIR. AmeS has sub
sided and the people are able to look
at the matter more calmly, three facts
stand out distinctly: The gentle doctor
is still prone to SlOp over, and to do 1t
hard; he has shown that he has the
sand to stand by what he says; the an
cient proverb. "Scratch Russian and
find Tartar" may well be parphrased
to read, Scratch an freshman. and
there will be DonnybrOek fight"
'Doc" always would let his tongue
get away with him. He says more than
he means. The people of Minneapolis,
it would seem. ought to be perfectly
cogniZant of this little falling of the
doctors, and make allowance for 1t.
But in this case they do not do it.
Anti-Irishism, anti-CathOliclSm. pro-
Scandinavian, ETC., are aScrlbed as rea-
sons for his latest break"
Gentlemen, throw away your preju-
dices, cool your heated heads and look
the matter squarely in the face You
Will find that doc" has simply stopped
over"
1t is refreshing, however, to find in
this day and age. when public men are
ever ready to swear that the reporter
lied, when the chances are that he did
not tell the whole truth, that at least
one man and that doc" AmeS, with all
his faults. will stand right up and own
that he spoke just as he was reported.
The doctor was abused on all sides. By
denying that he had spoken as quoted
he could undoubtedly have quelled a
good deal of the storm of wrath that
burst upon him. But he did not do IT.
He. like an honest man, preferred to
take the consequences of his words to
crawling out of small hole. How
many politicians would have taken
similar course?
Hon. f. Z. Pratt, former member OF
the legislature from AnOka county. who
lives near Attorney Trussell's old home,
tells of little experience he once had
with Judge Hicks. Hicks was at the
time sheriff of Hennepin county. and
Mr. Pratt was living on farm in Rich
field township. The sheriff was making
a tour through the county collecting the
delinquent personal taxes, and, calling
on Mr. Pratt, informed him that his
name was on the delinquent list for
small amount. Mr.. Pratt was seeding
at the time, and, being quite anxious to
get his grain in as soon as possible, told
the sheriff that he did not care to stop
his work and go to town after the
money, but that if he would let it go for
a day or two until he finished seeding
that he would call at his Office and
pay it and allow him his costs the same
as though he had made the collection.
This did not, however, satisfy Hicks,
who was perhaps just as anxious to eX-
ercise his authority as sheriff as he
now is to exercise it as judge. He
told Pratt that he must have the money
Immediately or he would make levy.
Pratt then told him if he wanted to be
mean, why to go ahead and make his
levy. Hicks then levied on the seeder
so as to bother Pratt as much as posi-
Bile. and to paw him back for what he
called his sassy talk" In taking the
seeder, however, is where the sheriff
made great big mistake, for the seeder
was a borrowed one, and the sheriff,
after hauling it eight miles into town,
was compelled by the owner to haul 1t
the whole eight miles back again.
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Aid. Gray-Look here, my friend
Gale, if you would increase your pop
ularitv a little, you do that.
Harlow Gale-I don't know as it
makes much difference about the pop
uIarity. just as increase the income of
the market house.
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1t a-Pierres that the Minneapolis
capitalists who invested their super
fluOus moneys in capital sQuare-lots in
WatertOwn. found them indeed invested
in liquid real estate.
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Hiawatha's ghost may rest more
quietly now. No more are the pie-faced
urchns of the great and metropolitan
Minneapolis to dig their grimy digits
in the face of the sacred bluffs whose
sands looked down in many colorS upon
the laughing waters. No more will he.
of the long and inky locks whose squaw
and wigwam squat upon the legend
painted banks, cram the legendary
sands in glass bottles to be peddled to
the sacreligeius generation of palefaces
who HE them to its shores by Sunday
motors. The council of the pleasant
lodges, those known by the prOfane as
park commissioners, say no. The Great
Chief Loring, he, of the slender form
and gray locks, he, the father of all
these park systems, says mol" Chief
Boardman. he, of the stalwart frame,
he, of the fat cheeks, says mop And
now, when the signt-seer, he with the
multitudinous baskets and kids, would
carry away some of the sights with him
he must spend his wam-pum for thin,
shallow paper book with thanksgiving
poem coneocted by young maiden.
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