St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-18
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

Senator Quay talks like man recently dis
charged as cured from deaf and dumb
asylum.
According to the ''retraction'' in the Don
nelly matter by the Pioneer Press. that pictur-
esque organ Of sik-clocked hosiery appears
to be honey combed with irresponsible
editors
short horse won i'll the South Dakota
senatorial handicap, but he is colt Of ex-
cellent pedigree and unimpeachable record.
The Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin asserts
that lit is well known Watterson doesn't
love Cleveland" But it is not well known.
In fact, the intimation of the Evening Wis.,
consln will awaken surprise in large num-
Der of intelligent readers of the daily press
Somebody. it appears, is tampering with
Gov.IIills mail matter. He does not receive
letters regularly from Henry Watterson. EA7
plantations are in order from Postmaster Gen.
eral Wan Johnnymaker.
''Tin-Plate" Moody went oat in the fortieth
round.
Joe Howard picks up the word ''nudifc"
and uses it right along in company with
other idioms Of respectable parentege. Does
Joe Howard propose to father all the illegiti-
mate waits which fasten themselves as verbal
parasites upon the English language?
Mr.. Moody has been jumped out Of the
political tonsorial chair Of South Dakota, all
shaven and shorn. Walk over. Mr.. Petit
grew you are next"
Eve are reading great deal lately about
latter day haZing."
The speaker, St. Paul college-b bred man.
was addressing small party of friends. The
occasion was an informal meeting following
the regular services of the Twilight club.
This is easily explained, he continued.
There is more hazing at present simply be-
cause the number Of students is greater than
twas twenty-five years ago. But in ingenu-
ity of torment and pure deviltry. believe
the classes of 80, '66, and even down to 10,
eXcelled them. Before matriculation in an
Eastern college I was graduated from an old
fashioned academy. OF course, it had its Sc
cret society with Greek name, and was,
of course, to be initiated into its mysteries.
The night arrived, 1 retired to my room
to await the committee Not until 10
o'clock did the three selected seneschals
make their appearance. They were grave of
demeanor and soberly mysterious. [ was
hoodwinked and led down stairs to q car
rage. The drive, at brisk rate, seemed Of
an hours duration Finally we alighted III
what appeared to all my senses but sight
dense forest. Then followed an interminable
walk, as it appeared, at tunes in rough and
rutty road, and anon over yielding dead
leaves and Doggy mold.
At the conclusion Of this tramp we des-
cended long flight of stone steps. and, ap-
parently, through an extensive damp CORR
dor or stone tunnel, from the sides of which
l could hear water dripping. One OF my
guides requested me 10 be seated L heard
distant music. gradually approaching nearer
and swelling in volume. 1t seemed TO pro-
ceed not from a few instruments. but from
many, as though a vast multitude of
trained pedestrians had combined
their melody. The music was strange
to me. I could not distinguish
the nature of the various instruments wheth-
er they were stringed or wind. brass or coli
ian. The phrasing was weird, tender at
times; always mournful. 1t did not die
away as softly as it had stolen upon me, but
ceased suddenly in a wild Xintamarre-the
furissimo of mighty orchestra. The steady
drip of water was resumed. voice said:
g The vanitas vanitum Of life and death
is before you. We leave you alone for a
short space that you may saturate your soul
in the ointment of reflection
1.-THE hoodwink was deftly removed and
I stood alone in the center of the apartment
Alone. Oh, no. By the dim light Of
swinging censor beheld two marble Slabs
and upon them two corpses; the one the
body of beautiful young girl; the other that
of an aged man, with a long, gray beard
clotted with blood. Even while 1 gazed
upon them, a Shiny serpent crawled kissing
across the face and breast of the dead girl; a
milkwhite dove few down and rested on
the old mans forehead. From the low cell
ing dripped repulsiye ooze, falling upon each
alike, and trickling to the marble floor.
Suddenly, with a crash, the hideous scene
sank from sight. In its place. amid dancing
jets of brilliant, many colored flames, 1 saw
glistening fountains playing among dark,
waxen palms: enormous glass globes filled
with flashing gold and silver fish darting to
and fro, and large crystal tank in which
swan deep sea monsters moving lazily in
and out from coral reefs and marine vegeta-
ton. The air was aromatic as though famed
by breeze from the floral luxuriance OF
some tropical island. And all this time the
MOSAIC walls and ceiling were shifting,
changing, whirling like the bits of colored
glass in children's toys, and, suddenly,
great white light absorbed the jets of many
colored flame, and the old man and maiden
who were dead, yet now resurrected bounded
into the room, and began to grotesquely spin
in the undulating movements of a Paphian
dance And when the aged one plunged a
cruel dagger into the rounded bosom Of
youth; while the crimson stream leaped high,
to be caught in q glittering chalice held in
the old mans hand, the great light went out,
and 1 was standing in my own little room at
the academy, perspiring freely l had been
annoyed by insomnia for number of nights;
had applied to a druggist friend for choral.
and he had recommended something better
of his own preparation. I had taken it,