St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-30
SUNRISE SIGNALS.

The ST. Paul Featherhead club held lurid
and interesting meeting Monday evening,
subsequent TO Sir Edwin Arnolo's lecture, at
their pleasantly located suite Of rooms on
Temperance street The attendance, In
numbers and quality. was considerably above
the average. This fact, perhaps, was owing
to the acknowledged deep interest taken by
each and every member Of the Featherhead
club in all matters pertaining to literature,
plain, trapped esoterie, oriental, erotic, or
Dreaded
The prominent topic of discussion was Sir
Edwin's reading at the Peoples church.
Views expressed widely differed, both in
range and concentration of argument. Some
of the criticism advanced was decidedly Sc
we're. But as the larger portion of these
scathlng structures emanated from the Auto
GRAFT of the Pool Table, discretion was consid-
cred by the other club members as the better
part-the white meat, in fact-of valor and
the remarks of the Autocrat were permitted
to go unchallenged In one of his inspira-
tlonal moments the Autocrat said:
Il am free to admit that Sir Edwin Arnold
possesses many of the elements necessary in
the modern versifier of traditionary legends.
There are passages in The Light of Asia
which not fifty journalists in Chicago, st.
Paul and Minneapolis could excel. The de-
scrlption of love scenes between Prince Sidd-
hartha and Yasodhara, daughter of Kol-
lyanraja, is fairly well done, perhaps much
better than the average reporter would do it.
Still, have myself done some pretty smooth
writing at hangingS, and once wrote up a
railroad accident in q baggage car, on top of
drummer's sample case. the train going
thirtv-five miles an hour, which the manag
ing editor said was pretty slick. But it was
p win ic
you must have observed that MS verse limps
II its feet was sorry to observe that. and
trust Sir Edwin, upon recovering from the
first fluff and furry of cacoethes scribendi
will correct what l cannot but regard as
serious defeet''
Enthusiastic applause greeted the Auto
erat as he resumed his place at the table and
when the Bard of Featherheads rose to the
occasion, he appropriated portion of it to
his own use and bowed blandly right and
left He said:
Il have. myself, to acknowledge that Sir
Edwin did not quite come up to my antici-
pations. The poetic measure of neither
The Light of the World" nor 1.-The Light of
Asia is exactly what should have selected
for so grand theme, subject replete with
so much of the mystic philosophy found in
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sutra. The local
have never been in India or Japan, although
our people up at the house use Japan tea,
one of my uncles has japanese screen i'll
the front parlor, and cousin of mine paints
japanese storks on PLAQUES. Now, a great
thought can best be expressed in few comic
lines. In the following l have endeavored
10 combine subtle thought with metrical
precision:
1 called for plate of bucks
At a restaurant down the street:
The waiter rolled off on his trucks
To order the cakes l would eat.
From out of the hurry burlv,
The cookie then heard say:
''Plater bucksr' and my waiter. surly,
Responded Take 'em awayr'
What lesson of life this teaches
At business, worship or play;
Fates hand for us ever reaches.
And will finally take us away"
"a
To 1.-THE Silence of Dean Maitland might
be added aeon anion volume, The Silence
of Jim Blaine" with a supplement relating
to the pertinent question, What Do the
People Propose to Do About IT,
-
Rudyard Kipling is soon to be married, and
he will find out that matrimony lis another
story sure enough.
"a
In view of the present strained relations
between st. Paul and its street car service,
the citizen of this town who wishes Tom
Lowry happy New Year win probably do
so with mental reservations.
-
What is that wheeZe from Michigan we
hear, sounding like the death rattle of bath
tub? Simply the city of Detroit filing her al
legged claim for the national Democratic
convention.
Confident and widespread belief is obtain
ing ground that Chill is nearly as nervous
over this war scare as is B. Harrison. Such
abject timidity on the part of Chill is repre-
hensible. Come OH. featherweight, put up
your dukes.
Editor Charles A. Dana, upon being asked
what issue. aside from tariff reform, was held
by the Democratic party, said: