St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-03

house and city hall dread the sight of
lady entering the portals Of their par
| ticular domains. Owing to their sup
| posed higher rank, the state officials are
| the most prosecuted of men. There are
| daily book agents by score, and lady
| collectors by almost the hundred. Prof.
| Fletcher Williams is so scared by the
| sight of a book agent, that at the last
meeting of the Historical society he
suggested that trap door should he
| placed near his desk, by which means
upon the approach of a book agent. he
could instantly transfer himself to the
region below. The lady collectors
rarely take mo- for an answer from
the head of state department, and the
past week the state treasurer was be-
moaning the loss Of Sos.
/ was seated IN the rotunda Of the
Hotel Ryan the day of the visit of the
Pan-Americans to st. Paul. An old
gentleman entered the hotel and seated
himself at my side.
'Are you resident here7" he shortly in
| CURED.
Yes"
''Then you won't object to me asking 6
question:
The gray haired veteran collected himself
| and yanked off the following at my head:
when the government demOnitized our
silver dollar they separated the money from
| the dollar, and left the dollar moneYless-
what was the money!"
The old mans face frightened and
his eyes glistened as he watched Inc
| Writhe under his inquisition. | bore up
manfully against what was undoubt-
eddy subject which he was riding to
death, and when we bad come to
mutual understanding that the power
OF the government was the money, he
confidently informed me that he had
| come to the Ryan for the purpose of in
terrogating the Pan-American delegates.
l therefore took the liberty of intro
ducing him to Senior Romero and had
the satisfaction of hearing him pro-
| pound the hackneyed question: when
the government demOnitized, ETC." My
satisfaction was not long lived. The
pain and dismay which took possession
of the courtly senor's cOuntt nance was
heart-breaking, and l Immediately re-
membered an engagement in the par
lOrs above.
The coming year is going to be
frOught with considerable interest to
the educatiOnalistS, not only of st. Paul,
but the state at large. Two educational
City-the National Teachers Educa-
council The latter body Is somewhat
of a close corporation, being composed
of none but acknowledged leading
educators, who discuss educational
problems from philosophical stand
point. The National council meets
three days prior to the Teachers Educa-
tiOnal association, and its secretary and
treasurer is our own state school super
intendent, Prof. ID. l.. Kiehl.
st. Paul and the state OF Minnesota
will be largely benefited by these edu-
cational conventions the ensuing year.
The 10000 teachers who will be gath
cred into the city from all quarters of
the North American continent will take
away with them-at least they ought to
"a good impression Of the Northwest in
general, st. Paul and the state of Min
nesota in particular. and the school
houses throughout the land will ring
with it's praises as the Scho0ima'ams re-
late their experience to the budding men
and women under their charge. This
will not De the first time the national
teachers educational association has
visited Minnesota, as the annual con-
ventiOn was held at Minneapolis in
1876. The association was created In
1857. and conventions have been held
yearly since, with the exception of the
years 1861. '62, '67 and '7s.
Col. BobIeten, n. G. Braden, Matt
Clark, Capt. Chantler and other re-
n0wned sportsmen domiciled in st.
Paul. have just returned from duck
and geese hunt at LakOta, n. d. They
They had excellent sport. Capt. Chant
Ter shot one gOOSe-hiS first ShOt-in
four days: while Bert Braden and
Matt Clark gave unmiStakahle signs of
becoming fnIl-hedged sportmen. The
story is told by Col. Bobleter in his
apOcryphal style:
II had dug pit few hundred yards away
from that of Braden's ard Clark's," the
colonel remarked. land had been having ex
cellent sport. I could not understand why
the other fellows were not attempting to
bring do1n flock Of geese lowering around
their pit, and at last walked over. Clark has
the idea that to keep the cold out Of his body
it Is necessary to imbihe something in. He
asleep. and when landed at the pit he was
dreaming that big goose was fighting him,
while he was attempting to put some chew
ing gum between his bills"
Citizens are becoming aroused as TO
the great deStitutiOn among settlers Of
North Dakota. ard there Is little doubt
their response will be worthy of the
city. While packages of clothing may
come i'm very serviceabie to these dis
treSsed fellow citizens. gentle hint
might be given that articles of wear
will not exactly satisfy the stomach of
the hungry man, the wan wife. and the
crying children. Provisions and fuel is
what is wanted above everything. and
where this cannot he forwarded in kind,
money is an excellent substitute. While
the inhabitants of the Twin Cities are
responding well to the cry for assist
ance, IL would he well for some infOr-
nation as to how the wealthy citizens
of North and South Dakota are acting
in this grave emergency? In the recent
electoral campaign. hundreds of thou
sands of dollars were expended over
the capital fight. What are the capital
lists doing to mitigate the distress exist
ing in their territory?
The property owners on Randolph
street find themselves in an unpnviable
hole. They promised to provide the
bonus for an electric line through their
property, then. believing they could
get the line without parting with their
money. went back upon their promises.
The line VIII not be built but what IS
the position Of the people who the past
few weeks have purchased property on
this street with the expectation that the
line would be built? These are Ger
tainly in the s0up.
y
That portion of Third street between
Broadway and the bridge. has as heavy
road traffic as any other public thorough
fare in the city. In the best of weather
the street is disgrace to any city street
department, and yesterday it was a YER
table quagmire. The powerful drays
that are ever and anon passed along
were in imminent daHSer of being
swallowed up by the pile of mud they
simply walOwed in. Certainly some
effort ought to I've made to properly ma
cademize the street. OFFsIDE.