St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30

Of marble. He may. graduate into
hotelkeeper or doctor. but usually as
merchant. AS specimen of good
travelling man Christopher Columbus
was mentioned. The discovery of a
continent while travelling for house in
Genoa, Italy, to trade with India. while
ostensibly looking for a shorter cut"
i'll trade. was brought out in a pointed
way, and the example held up as an
incentive to the travelling men who are
looking for shorter cut to trade.
The next toast was 1.-The Country
Hotel" with the sentiment from Paine:
BE it ever so humble, there is no place
like home" In the absence of Harvey
Moore, who was to respond, the toast
master told story of him illustrative
of how he gets out OF tight places, and
then called upon Charles Fogg to re-
spond to the toast. Mr.. Fogg seemed
to be the proper man to call upon under
the circumstances, and he made good
speech. He began by declaring that
joke is most common in the country
hotel, and then related in pertinent
way some incidents and jokes pertain
ing to the country inn.
Next in order was the toast "The
Ladies'" with response by James s.
Arey. This gentleman responded as
follows:
Travelling men are proverbiaily diff
dent. 1t is only the most modest men
that naturally gravitate to Our business.
and the longer they remain at it the
more modest and retiring they become.
am somewhat of veteran in the
trade, and you may therefore imagine
how my original stock of native modesty
has been augmented, and yet l am
ruthlessly called upon to plunge into
subject that might well appall the
heart Of C9ur de Lion. The ladies.
heaven bless them! Where would we
be without them? Echo answers no.
where. They mould our destinies,
Emerson says 1--WE are what our moth
ers make u.s." They rock us i'll our
cradles; they spank us when as urchinS
we return home at night bearing un-
miStakable evidence of there having
been fight, though we were not in it,"
their footsteps mark the borderland of
progress; their hand is seen in every
good work; we feel their Influence ON
every side. With a gentle rein they
guide us toward the right: with a strong
check they protect US from the wrong.
When duty calls they fearlessly re-
spond, and can with equal grace
wear the crown of empire, or,
if Dame Fortune so Decree
rest content to see their noblest deeds
win blame instead of praise. The noble
traits with which they are endowed it
can be only our privilege to love and
cherlsh-nOt possess. If 'he who has
no music in his soul is fit for treason.
stratagem and spolls," what is he fit for
who loves not the mother, sister. wife?
For nothing under the whole canopy of
heaven. Let him go hide himself on
some barren isle, that the world may
forget his existence. Like George w,
the ladies are and ever will be first in
war, first in peace and first in the hearts
of their countrymen. Their bright eyes
greet us first in life; they comfort
and Soothe our bruised shins and
aching StomachS in Doyhood; their
bright smiles lure us on to seventh
heaven of bliss i'll our youth; i'll man.
hood they give us needed admoniton
aud bald heads; in old age their tender,
loving care never forSakes us. No pict-
ure need be painted of the glory of the
ladies, for they are pictures of them
selves. They need no monument raised
to commemorate their deeds, for
crowded are the pages of history with
records that will outlast the hardest
marble. Gentlemen, the ladies first,
last and always. We love them; we
love them, and who should dare to chide
| US for loving Gods last and best crea-
ton? You must all admit that without
them this earth would be barron
waste, and heaven would be no heaven
without the ladies', $780,
Ihe POSTMASTER perpetrated- joke
on several prominent gentlemen by de-
claring that they had begged the privi-
lege of responding to the toast to the
ladies, and then proceeded to read what
puFDorted to he letters and telegramS
from George r. Finch. f.. j. Stillwell,
John S. Proctor. w. Il. Bourne. Henry
Gilbert and Mayor Wright, asking the
privilege of responding to this toast,
the latter's letter having postscript
rendering position as inspector of the
dump i'll case the favor should be
granted. The mayor good-naturedly
promised to run the POSTMASTER in, and
several Others denied the genuineness
Of the letters.
J. Newton Mind responded to the
toast and the sentiment: The Travel
ing Salesman and the Trade Journal
Twin Hustlers for Trade-Their Inter-
Dependence"
Mr.. Mind spoke in business way,
and made an excellent address, calling
attention to the province of the trade
journal and the good purpose it served.
Frank W. Gibbons responded to the
toast Our Competitors"
He said he took the position that all
St. Paul men take in talking to a st.
Paul crowd. I'VE have no competi-
tors. l WilI therefore talk about our
selves. A man wishes you to get along
well as long as you don't take trade
away from him. The man who has good
wares, and handles them and his GUS
toners honestly and fairly, need fear
no competitor. There is an element of
competition among travelling men them
selves that is commemorate and brings
out their better qualities. The men
who have done the frontier work in this
country should remember that they will
have TO relinquiSh the field to others.
w. B. Brawley was called upon for
some "reminiscences III keeping with the
sentiment of the couplet:
"Oh, tell me a tale of the airly days.
Of days as they used to be.'-Riley.
He began by saying that he supposed
that some of the greatest minds of the
country emanated from the travelling
man. Such were the president of the
| Great Northern road and the mayor of
| st. Paul. He said be went Oh the road
| in 1871, when he made the entire trip
from ST. Paul to Fargo with team. He
| told how George Brown came to be
/ called Pop Bottle" Brown, and other
| stories Oh fellow travellers were told, to
| the edificatiOn of the gathering.
| George Il. Finch was called upon and
| spoke iu q reminiscent vein. He declared
| that it was mistake that he had asked
| the privilege to respond to the toast to
| the ladies. He said that twenty years
| ago he knew every travelling man and
| about what he sold. but that the trade
| and the statesmen had grown beyond
! him. He eXDreSSeU qualification at
| beng able to greet the company of last
night, and wished them we'll IN their
| future efforts in business.
i The meeting ended with the singing
! OF "Old Lang Syne."
Stop at Rietzke's Pharmacy, cornes
SeibY and Western avenues. and buy