St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-16
IN PUBLIC LIFE.

Not long since new face appeared in
the Peoples theater company. The
management made no great claim for
the new member, but asserted that Mr..
w. j. Davenport-that was the new
members name-WaS an actor of eXpe-
rience and ability, Mr.. Davenport's
conduct, public and private, has justi-
fed this assertion, but it now develops
that Mr.. Davenport is the son of we'll
known st. Paul official, and that he is
graduate from Phosa McAllister'S
opera house, Minneapolis. A friend Of
Mr.. Davenport assures me that his first
dramatic work was done during an am
ateur performance for the benefit of ST.
Maray'S church some years ago. Mr..
Dayenport'S name is Wilson, and, with
his wife, lives out on De Soto street with
his father. Mrs. Davenport will be re-
membered as the "Sister GeneyeYe.,
Gsn't that the name9 during the recent
production of the 1.-TWO Orphans''sat
the Peoples.
An attorney who recently came here
from the South related the following in
cident yesterday. 1t was In 1884, when
Judge Buckman had been boosted Oh
the bench by means not exactly fair.
To satisfy the element that claimed
that Sunday laws on the statute books
were not enforced, he agreed to enforce
those laws. The result was that all the
saloons and hotels in Lexington were
closed the following Sunday. A promi-
nent minister bought milk Sunday
morning from a dairyman; another
man, well known as an elder in church,
bought bread from baker. The Judge
caused a prosecution of dealers aud
A1nc Il 4I,n Low
action. Since then there has been no
to Sunday closing in Lexington, XIV.
Wouldn't it be we'll for some of our st.
Paul agitators to investigate similar
laws On our statute books?
For instance, [ have quite an intimate
acquaintance with the w. G.. II. U. and
White Shield league. My business
compels that acquaintance. There are
laws enough in Minnesota, which, if
enforced, would accomplish all these
ladies are working for. But these
same good Christian souls are violating
other laws in the Minnesota statutes.
They talk too much about their neigh
bors. If the newspapers published
small quota of the malice that | have
heard in so-called Christian circles in
this town, libel suits would swamp
them and with reason.
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I knew of a case not long ago-a
month, perhapS-Where an ambitious
police officer, working for a record. ar
rested thoroughly respectable young
woman and her escort because he
Thought" they had been drinking.
But small effort was necessary to con-
vince the official that he had made a
scfo 4lr.,1 -,
would never have been heard of but for
the interference of a lady who inter-
ested herself in such matters. Forum
ately,she did not obtainlthe girls name;
otherwise all the female philanthropistS
would have been talking about her, and
nine chances out Of ten the fact that
she was not guilty would have been
omitted in the rehearsal of the yarn.
A gray-haired, white-bearded gentle
man, who has been for many years a
resident of st. Paul, and accumulated
much property, has retired from active
life, but collects his rents from numer-
GUS tenementS. A day or so ago he
called upon a tenant and received his
rental. But the old gentleman is ab-
sent-minded, and he called second
time on his tenant and refused to be-
lieve the story that he had been paid
but few hours previously. Finally the
old-timer called in his son to eject the
tenant, and the result was that the old
gentleman and son were bounced from
the building with more force and grace.
At one time the papers contained ire
quent mention of the old gentleman, as
he was prominent in business circles
and a crony with with some of the grav-
haired members of the chamber of com!
merce.
1t is satisfactory to the ge neral public
to know that the two race meetings
next summer are to be month apart
instead of few days. as was arranged
at first. There is little doubt but the
meetings will both be more successful
financially. The track will be in bet
ter order for the running races, and the
horses will have more time to practice.
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Another advantage not to be over
looked is that it will give the fellows
who bet on the wrong horses a chance
to earn another months salary, ena-
bling them to forget their resolutions
never to attend another race meeting.
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It may not be known to the public,
but man is now in st. Paul who.
among his own cOuntrymen, is one of
the moSt'celebrated men in the world.
HiSrOun MichalowSki is referred to.
He is sort of an itinerant singer, who
makes his living by travelling frome one
country to another singing the old sery-
ice of King Solomon'S temple in the
synagogues. He has a most unusual
voice, ranging from very deep bass to
a high contraltO, and his singing of the
ultra-fiorid music is worth going miles
to hear.
Inside the synagogue it sounds now
like a brass band playing Wagner'S
music, now like pack of wolves roar
ing, now like a nightingale singing in
the distance, and again like the mourn
full wall of ghost in distress. 1t may
not be music according to modern ideas,
but it is beautiful.
Talking about ancient music, it is a
fact that many Of tie chants used in the
singing of mass in the Catholic church
are identical with those used by the an
cient Greeks in chanting their tragedies
and comedies. These were something
more like the modern oraterio in style,
and many of the solos in some of Eschy-
lus' and Euripides' great plays were
sung to the same tunes now used by the
priests in the parts of the mass sung by
them.
E. E. Macdonald was talking yester-
day about salaries of state officers, and
made the remark that the attorney gen
eral should have at least $4,000 year,
and the others in that ratio. A lawyer
with good practice cannot afford to
take the position, unless he be so
wealthy that Decuniary considerations