St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-17
PHASES OF LIFE.

The man who makes one dollar return
him three by dealing in chattel mort
cages is much maligned individual.
He is abused by the man to whom he
loans the lucre needful for safe trans
ition of some period of financial de-
preston. He is scourged by
the press. He is villified from
the pulpit. More gallons of
abuse are poured upon his head in the
course of one day than ever the court
house commissioner ever heard of.
This naturally makes the chattel mort
gage man melancholy. and when
streak of brightness falls across his
caShbook it comes as warm hay NOW
to the tootSore tramp on day in De-
cember. A local money loaner claims
to have met with piece of uncon-
scious humor recently in the trans
action of a piece of business. which
actually made him smile for
thirty-eight consecutive minutes. He
was making loan to man who had
never done any of that sort of business
before. In filling out the document the
loaner asked, mot necessarily for pub
lieation, but as guarantee of good
faith" how many children he had.
''Three." he replied; ''but if Pve got to
mortgage them. too, l think I'll try and
get along without the money"
Perseverance, steady application,
energy, desire to do all in ones power
to further any laudable object, are al
ways admired by Americans. They
are, to certain extent, characteristics
of the true American and. naturally,
are looked upon as most desirable attri-
buteS among Americans; who love to
speak of themselves as the hardest work
ers on earth. These noble qualities
may, however, be carried to extremes
and sometimes such is the result. A
case in point is related by County At
tOrney JamiSon. 1t came up few years
ago, when bob" was younger as a
politician, and had more faith in the
courtesy of man than be has now. He
and another somewhat prominent local
politician went out into the country to
make political speeches. With them
was another man, also law
yer, who was not quite so
| we'll known and much poorer speaker
than either OF his two companions.
| They all went to Shakopee as starter
and, partially an act of courtesy,
no doubt, to gives themselves an
opportunity to appear to better advant-
mentioned speaker concluded to let the
meaneSt man speak first. But they
won't do it again. ''What do you think
that fellow did?" Jamison said, when
| telling about it. "That-I won't call
| him names-went on to the platform at
] 7 o'clock and he spoke until 1920, so
| that the other two of us had to go home
without saying a word
i
There is a story related of a we'll
| known young real estate man of Mime
apolis which illustrates the same quail
| ties in somewhat different light. This
| young man is, in the main, a most eX-
| emplary young man. but when his
| friends come to town for brief stay he
is prone to indulge in what is face
tiously known as a ''toot-' This Young
| man has a friend up in the north
ern part of the state. who is some
thing of a ''rounder," too. and when
he and MIR. Realestate meet they usual
ly indulge in contest to decide which
possesses the most staying powers III
the matter of imbibing liquids. Not
long ago the young man from the north
came down to Minneapolis. and he and
| Young RealeState set out to engage In
the carrying trade. This was the order
i'm which the drinks were to come:
Beer, Rhine wine. sherry, whisky and
maraschino. AS soon as they had
finished the list they would be-
gin all over again. Along toward
IL o'clock the puryeyer OF the earth in
small. sections began to get very much
| under the influence, but he was dead
| game" He refused to throw up the
sponge. 'sJoe,n he remarked confid-
emily to his friend. and the fog on his
voice would beat an ace full, I'm get
tin Q4ie) drunk. When l getsh (biel
| sho | can't talk, (hic) just shay (hic,