St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-19
THE GOSSIPER.

Church deacOnS are mortal, ana just
as liable to = get off as anybody else'
When temptation comes to the average
church deacon it hits him hard, and he
has either got to be a personified saint
without a beard, or else succumb. A
church deacon who had Succumbed was
in the city having a gay old time yester-
day. He had left his native heath IN
Iowa a few days previous, and gone to
Minneapolis, where he had fallen a VIC
tim to the early-closing law and gottull.
He continued full Until yesterday, when
he became fuller, and came to this city
to find some friends to get enough
money to carry him home again. The
establishment of his friends on behold
ing him in such a deplorable condition
was great, as they never dreamed that
Deacon j would do any such a
thing. They gave him money, how,
ever. and advised him to go to bed and
sober up. and then go home. But his
reply to that advice was very unbecom-
ing for deacon. Said he:
81 ain't-hi0-no dad beat-hlc
yes | am-hic-hic-I'm a shentleman-
hic-no, hanged fl am-hic:"
He was finally gotten on the Manitoba
train for Minneapolis, and just before
leaving ne hiccoughed out to the gem
tlemen who accompanied him: Amt
-hic-goin' 'tbed 'tall-goin' 'tget full
er'n-hic-a billed owl-and-hic-go't
blazes-hic-in a ~halo-hic-of glory"
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This same deacon gets on a tear about
once a year, and hauled up as many
times before the church board to an
swer for his sins. Last fall he came to
st. Paul to attend the fair. The pastor
of his church was with him, and the
two wandered about the fair grounds
taking in the sights. The weather
was very warm, and both the
donnie and the deacon were
perspiring very c%opiously. Finally
the good pastor became thirsty. and he
said to the deacon: Brother 7,
shall we not have a glass of lemonade
to quench our thirSt?" The deacon was
willing, but while the lemonade vender
was mixing the beverage, he excused
himself to the pastor, and made a bee
line for one Of the counters under the
grand stand. From that moment until
two weeks later the pastor never laid
eyes on Deacon T. He had gone
on a bowling drunk, given his minister
the slip, and icy returned home for
two weeks.
The gentleman who threatened in
junction proceedings against the city
contractors who are doing the paving
on Jackson street, for using bis patent
asphalt facing surface for cedar blocks,
has either given upthe idea or been out
generated, as the work was going on
yesterday. Fully two dozen men were
hard at work, with the evident intention
Of getting as much done on the Sabbath
as possible. The street between Fourth
and Fifth streets has been ready for this
surfaciDg several days, but from all ap-
pearances it was the object of the con-
tractors to wait until Sunday, when no
injunction papers could be gotten out
to spring a little coup as it were.
What a noticeable difference there is
between the police departments of st.
there exists no nightmare in the shape
of a police commission" things are
quiet and unruffled. The police depart
ment is in perfect harmony. and the
chief is not being constantly hauled
over the Goals. How different in Min
neapolis where this nightmare does
exist. The three members of the i'm
mortal commission when not fighting
among themselves are writing commu-
nicationS to the newspapers or riding
about Oh tours of investigation" in the
DdIIOl WuSOII. liz CllCl VI pUllCC lids
it III for the captains and the captains
have it in for the chief. The patrolmen
stand pat, as each and every individual
one of them is waiting for the chief to
kill the captains, or the captains to kill
the chief, so that there1l be a chance
for promotion. And all this in a town
where small boys are arrested for play
ing "mibs" on Sunday.
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"There is one thing that l cannot un-
derstand," said a travelling man yester-
day, land that is why the railroad COM
panies will allow ticket brokers to work
the trains. When you strike Western
Dakota and Montana you are almost al
ways approached by a man dressed in
the regulation railroad uniform and
wearing a cap with Ticket manager
across the band. He follows directly
after the conductor, and asks to see
your ticket. When he gets his hands
on it he sticks it in a satchel that he
carries with him, and hands you
back some kind of a slip, which
he says is a receipt, and
which you are requested to sign.
great many people travelling who have
iong-distanGe tickets, do not know but
what the man is authorized by the road
to collect the tickets after the con-
ductor, and so give them up without
any questions. But when the train
arrives at another division and an
other conductor takes charge, those
who have given up their tickets find
they have been swindled and have no
ticket, as the new conductor will not
honor the receipt given by the ticket
manager Of course this fellow is not
on the train then, as he generally gets
off at some small station and waits for
the next train"
81 have run across the fellow two or
three times. and have seen several peo-
pie who lost their tickets, one of whom
was a travelling man. He tackled me
ticket as l had been ''put on" He
didn't say anything to that, but went
further down the car and worked an old
lady for her ticket. | got off at the
next station, so l do not know how her
case turned out. l asked the conductor
who this ticket manager was, and what
right he had to collect tickets. HIS
answer was: 4 don't know who he is.
He has no right to take up your ticket.
You do not need to ever show him your
ticket if you do not want to- This be-
railroad companies allow such things to
occur on their trains? 1t is a gross i'm
position. | suppose these ticket man
ayers are agents for ticket brokers in
the Cities"
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There is nobody, perhaps, more jubi-
FAINT over bright prospects for good crops
than the travelling men. 1t means
plenty of work and good big orders for
them. This year has been rather a hard
one for the drummerS, as the times i'm
the country were so dull thatthe county
merchants were not buying anything,
and consequently most of the wholesale
houses cut down their forces as much
as possible. They only kept the very
best of statesmen, those whom they
could not very well get along without,
and laid off the rest. Now they are put
ting on a full force again, and it is safe
to say that the average drummer VIII