St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-24

Mr.. Smith would give him a glass of
milk. and take one himself, and top off
the banquet with pie and things. The
man didn't have to show him bank
book as a passport before he could enter
the Smith palace, or even show him a
dollar bill as card of Introduction.
When man approached William O.
Smiths castle, even if there was dust
on his shoes and cobWebs In his whis-
kers. Mr.. Smith let down his draw.
bridge and admitted him.
And William Q. Smith never found a
man with heart SO small but he could
walk right into 1t with his hat on. And
he always walked in and took chair
and made himself at home.
And Jed Peasley, whose wife could
never break him from using slang, used
TO say that Smith was mashed on the
human race" he was dead gone" on
everybody, including the tax collector
and ais neighbours little boy who owned
a drum.
II am one Of the gang" said William
Q. Smith; and he loved every fellow in
the gang.
And in this Christmas season of the
year. when every man is popularity
supposed to cherish good will to his
fellow man, every mars wife to cherish
good will to her fellow woman. even if
her fellow woman does wear an old
shawl instead of a sealskin--in this
season of the year, perhaps. the views
OF such good, old crank as William @.
Smith may gain respectful hearing.
But have got to admit that William
q. Smiths eldest daughter Mary, who
called herself Marie, and who had a real
pretty beau whose name was John, but
who called himself Algernon Frederick
this daughter Mary didn't have much
of an opinion of her father, whom
AlgernOn called 1.-THE old man." She
said that her father had no style about
him, and that during their European
trip, when he was presented to Queen
Victoria, he was no more polite than
when he was introduced to Margie
O'Flaherty, the Washerwoman of Dog
town.
She told Algernon, after they were
engaged and could afford to be conf
Dental, that her father was real COM
mon, and hOrrld vulgar, and would bow
just as low to man with bod OH his
shoulder as he would to man with a
crown on his head.
Outrageous exclaimed Algernon
from over his collar.
But, nevertheless. Algernon and
Mary were married, and the vulgar
William Q. Smith supported them ever
after.
But William @. Smith never got over
this horrid Vulgarity, and would never
sign his name William Quintilian
Smythe, although Mary-er-Marie re-
peatedly importuned him with tears in
her eyes to do so. He persisted in say
ing that one man was just as good as
another, as long as he kept outside the
q CT N
serted that old Tom Jefferson was right
when he asserted that all men were free
and equal.
CURIOUS old fellow. this William @.
| SMITH
Yes, he was very eccentric man: an
odd stick; but right here we run up
| against big Interrogation point.
Wasn't perfect equality, once, a long
time ago, when the old-fashioned Tom
| Jefferson aforesaid was working at his
trade of tesmanship-wasn't perfect
equality considered good American doc
trine? And Oil this Sabbath day before
| Christmas is any one bold enough to get
UP in meeting and announce that he
| thinks human brotherhood is humbug
| aud played out? 1t there is any such
| brotheE even in the back seat, let him
| arise and cast the first stone at William
Q. Smith.
Nobody rises?
Then William Q. Smith stands APP,
proved. And think he is good char.
| acter for us to contemplate on this day
before Christmas, in this season when
| it is we'll for every man to be mashed
| on the human race" and to love his
fellow man in reality as we'll as rhetori-
cally.
Ii you initiate William @. Smith to-
| morr0w-and remember that he and
| you are all members of the same gang
you will have happy Christmas; and
| you will continue happy as long as you
| continue to initiate him.
He is a man worth knowing; and ]
| am glad have introduced him to you,
| for he has given me an opportunity OF
preaching you sermon while you
thought, all the time, l was telling you
a story.