St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-28
SUNRISE SIGNALS.

OtlS U Glngerqualt was at the Ryan again
yesterday. He is still travelling for the same
Boston tea house. He is looking much bet
ter than he did-before he went to Dwight.
Mr. GingerquaIt said
"A few years ago found myself in quiet
river town below st. Louis. After supper
took walk up the river about a mile above
the levee. Here l found a man standing
with his back to driflwood fire, drying his
damp clothes. TO the right of the man was
pile OF wet lumber. He had pulled it from
the remains of raft hanging by an inch.
and-a-half hawscr from snubbing post.
Good evening" said i'll a suave, won't
please-look-a t-my- line of samples tone of
voice.
Good evening to you, SIR" returned the
stranger. The cear-cut intonation of his
voice, combined with certain liquid cadence,
conveyed to my mind the impression that at
some period of his career he had mingled
with the great masters of English as she is
spoke at Chautauqua circles and lawn ten
mis-.
You have been working later"
YES, sir. 1t is necessary that I should
complete this task before sunrise shall gild
the eastern sky with russell tinge. These be
perilous times for the poor man whom
'Unmerciful disaster
Follows fast and follows faster
as Mr.. Poe has so felicitously expressed il
in his immortal Raven "
The reply was corker. 1 countered as
follows:
'You-you-er-that is-evidently-you are
a man of good education and wealth of
latent talent; bound down. however by the
Calling chain of untoward circumstances.
You seem to have brains on draught''
Yes" be modestly admitted. dropping his
chin into the vicinity of his wishbone, and
turning himself sideways to bring new Sec
ton of water-logged pantaloons within the
focus of the blaze. 81 was not ever thus
since childhood's hour. 1 wasn't ALWAYS a
dockwalloper. Once 1 studied for the min
istry."
s'Indeedr'
Yes indeedy. bought theological libra
ry: all the standard works OH polemics, in
Guiding Greek. Hebrew. Sanscrit and New
Jersey authorities, Buffers Analogy
'Baine's Notes and full line of CONCORD
ances and encyclopedias intended to ell
ter the ministry, and was anxiously debating
with myself how should decide between
two vociferous calls. one for $4,000 per an
mum. and the other for $3.50, when it sud-
denly occurred to me that was hungry. 1
went out. sawed a cord of wood for six bits,
and realized that was drifting l had Robert
1SioiAClCu, do IL WcIc. oO SOlu MY DOCKS ana
accepted the position OF manipulation of the
cant-hook in saw MILL
You preferred to be consistent"
YES; rye bread and cabbage is better TO-
day than pate de foie gras and donation
doughnutS i'll the dim, uncertain sometime
ana perhaps. Having shaken off my piety,
and become to certain extent tough and
immoral. it was natural that 1 should turn
toward the law profession with big, pas
sionate yearn. bought full sets of Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota reports, 'BIackstone's
Commentaries 'Greenleaf's Evidence,
'Chitty on Contracts Coke Upon Littleton,'
Copper on the Queen Rough on Rats and
heaven knows what else, and began to read
with law firm who let me sleep in the back
office nights for the pleasure of bossing me
around daytimes. So was cuspidor solicitor
and barrister of the broom for three months.
TWAS profane, wicked coterie of legal talent
with whom was studying the rudiments of
petition. answer, reply, rejoinder rebutter,
surrebutter, general denial and you're an
other, nisl prius, quo warranto and contempt
OF court, and the time eventually came when.
from the way these lawyers talked to me-
really didn't know mandamus from Cd
On us. So l sold my books and became mud
clerk on the old steamer War Eagle"
The change was grateful. presume"
Eyes, the first mate could cuss little bit in
his own original aud peculiar vein. but he
wasn't marker to the lawyers from whom I
had recently escaped. That summer saved
up some money. and in the fall decided to
study medicine. l bought a fair medical
library and got in with decayed physician,
who managed to restrain crowds OF debilitated
patients from interfering with his comfort by.
keeping himself stupefied with whisky, opium
and cocaine / had pvQrvfhipu
my own way. Of course, we two passed the
time very quietly, and 1 read so much about
levers and chills, malaria Bright's disease.
small pOX,@ bolts. Wolf-teeth tapeWOrms
leprosy bacili, microbes and peritonitis
that began to feel sick myself.
L plned TOR chance to stand around
at post-morten examination, and
watch some prominent surgeon cut upa
dead man into hams shoulders and side
meat. Reading about such things awakens
horribly morbid curiosity. AT last got
card to attend clinic, and. having BACKED
my shoes and put on my other collar, re-
paired to the medical abattoir. Some one let
me in at a side door. 1 found myself in a
long room charged with csrbolic acid guam
tum suf. The stiff had been divided into
nine parts before my advent, and nine stu
dents were shaking poker dice for first choice
OF the anatomical prizes. A man with glass
eye won the epiglottis the first crack out of
the box turned right about face, left the
body snatchers, and went back to the Office
Next day l sold my books. 1 am too sensi-
tive for surgery. Do you know where 1 could
get secondhand set of books on North
American journalism
With the New York Herald for Henry Wat
terson and Henry Watterson for John G.
Carlisle, we are led to infer that John G.
Carlisle is for the Democratic nominee at
Chicago.
Ali this talk about looking to the West for
presidential candidate is as gall and worm
wood to Belva A. Lockwood. She resides in
Washington.
Congressman Harter appears to have the
courage of somebody's else convictions.
John l.. Sullivan, who will today arrive in
st. Paul, is Democrat. Whether he is for
Cleveland or Hill we are not, at this writing.
Informed. but we do sincerely trust that no
one will jump onto Mr.. Sullivan on account
of his political convictions.