St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-03
SHARPS AND FLATS.

When, in the course of the seasons events,
and in your pants appear the rents which
hard days work upon the bleachers does
produce,
And at home you must explain (what to US is
very plain) how your Office chair, SO
nicely padded. does SO rapidly reduce
That ample portion Of your breeches to a
state OF worn-out stitches, a condition
which none other but fox can ever
show,
And your language. once so skilled, now
with base ball talk is filed and you
''slide it down to first when you pass the
meat to Joe;
When you aggraVate the preacher that good
old guide and teacher by referring to his
sermons as ia las' which the devil can
not touch;
When your bills you ''shoot to third" and
your business is a ''bird,'' and all your
thoughts are Oh the game which inter-
ests you much,
And the failings of your wife. who's the
comfort of your life, are always spoken of
as 'errors very rank
Do you think we are to blame il, when we
hear your name, who think of you as old
Barnacle, the base ball crank?
O.
Rev. Robert Christie, of the House of Hope
church, writes the GLOBE as follows:
Had the assumption underlying your
leader of this morning entitled Infant Dam
nation been as sound as the spirit of the
article is fair, would not have troubled you
with word on the subject. Yonr assump-
ton is that because one of the trainers of the
Westminster confession held that some in
fants dying in infancy are lost, therefore
the teaching of the confession contains the
same doctrine But apply this mode of
reasoning to the Declaration of Independ-
ence and what would be the result? By
reason of the relation that the writer of that
document and a number of its signers bore
the institution of human slavery, we would
be compelled to believe that the words
All men are created free and
equal, and have right to life,
liberty and the pursuit OF happiness
were notintended to include the blacks then
III America. If this process of reasoning be
not legitimate when applied 10 that docu-
ment, why should it be considered con
elusive when applied to the confession?
President Patton has we'll said: THE Ian.
guage OF the confession is plain and our III
depreciation must conform to the funda-
mental legal principle that requires us to
find our materials for the construction of a
document within the four corners of a doeu-
ment.'
l need not remind you that my contention
in the letter which gave rise to your article
was that the confession does not teach the
doctrine. and therefore, Presbyterian min
listers and officers do not subscribe to it in ac-
ceptng that symbol of faith.
One day last winter a street urchin of
twelve or Whereabouts was injured by pass
ing vehicle on the streets of St Paul picked
up and carried to a hospital. 1t was found
necessary to amputate one of his limbs, and
he was delirious for days. Being a regular
street Arab the nurses expected to hear
some bad language from his lips during his
delirium, but no; he talked necessarily, using
no words which would offend the most SEN
sitive ear. When he began TO recover the
loss OF his limb was kept from him as long as
possible, fearing the shock might increase
his fever. One night, however, he insisted
on being told just what shape he was in. The
nurse told him as gently as possible The
boy did not speak for some time, then said:
II would have been in h of fix if they
had cut off the other leg''
o
An amusing scene occurred the other day
in one of the courts, and those who saw it
nave not yet uone Laughing over 1t. 1t ap-
pears that one of the old settlers of st. Paul,
wearying of calling and dunning for a bill,
brought suit to enforce its collection When
the day of trial came on the old settler, who
is as jolly an Irishman as ever wore sham
rock, was little late showing UP, and the
jury had been empaneled and sworn He en-
tered, sat behind the attorney and rapidly
ran his eye over the jury. When he reached
the last man he sprang to his feet and, re-
CARELESS of court etiquette and decorum,
called out: 's
Holy Moses! Judge, every mothers son
ON that jury owes me bill. Dismiss the case
quick or I'll turn up in that fellows debt"