St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-13
''TAIHGS TO THINK OFF,
"JADAR BEDE. VINO rs A MAN. nv
DEED" LEcTURED LAST NIGHT.
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N WILLIS, INTRODUCTION.

.ntch was hepiete With
Thought and Humor-Duluth
Men Bristiing-New Version OF
Ewes Creation = Some side
Shots for the A. p. A. 80
In Introducing Hon. j. Adam Bede.
vino lectured upon the subject Fittings
to Think Or at the Market hall last
night. Judge Willis. chairman of the
meeting, said: ISIS. -
I'VE are all familiar with the mys-
TEDIOUS illumination often appearing in
that quarter of the sky which overhangs
Duluth. The northern lights as this
illumination Is called, are typical of the
people who inhabit the region about the
plcturesau shores of the 'Gitchee- Gam
mee,' or great inland sea which we call
Lake Superior You will be glad to
learn that gentleman has lust
stepped off from The aurora bore
ais into the midst of the city of ST.
raul and is about to deliver lecture,
HE name of this gentleman is j. Adam
6ede-a name that has recently ac-
CURED worldwide notoriety So
brilliant an illumination enanated from
the region between Duluth and the Ca
madam border that Grover Cleveland
caused an investigation to be made into
its origin and occasion. The report
came to Washington that the light pro-
cueded from the village of Tower, aud
that j. Adam Bede, editor of newspa-
per called Bede's Budget, was its center
aud chief dispenser. The president
forthwith named Mr.. Bede. OF Tower.
Mimi. as marshal of the United States
OF America for the district Of Mime
sofa. The new marshal will soon fake
up his residence in this community.
We may well be congratulated upon
such an acquisition" -
lie of The birch bark p then came
: &c the FROM. and, amid the hearty ap-
plauSe. OF an audience which, measur-
ing by merit, should have been much
larger, began.
=; Mr.. Bede. certainly possesses to
great .degree the same sense of quaint
ihumor that has placed James Whitcomb
Riley OH a pinnacle of poetic popularity,
and. which, if allowed free sway, will
,bsfore long earn for Minnesota's new
marshal an equal rank in prose. -
Pr After general plunge into a number
of topics the A. T.. A. was given little
touching up, and the hope expressed
that St. Paul would have no place for
religious persecution.
The dissemination of news by the
daily papers received a well-deserved
share of his remarks. "Why, Gladstone
couldn't express an opinion OH one, side
of the Atlantic nor Doc Fish OH, the
other, but what ali the world would
know it,
According to Mr.. Bede, Adam and the
angels were out i'll the garden singing,
and finding that a soprano voice was
needed, woman was created. NeVerthe-
less we must not look on this creation as
a 'onp-sided" affair. 20.
Man, that is Duluth mani is but aeon
pound of bristles and sellishneSs, In
fact regular hog. "A hog frightened
on to his hind legs" Mr.. Dede believes
that man'S mission is to create charac-
ter. and anything which makes men live
letter lives is good enough for him. At
no time does he like jokes about married,
bliss, and he feels that the fact he newer
wo keG off a motiIerin.law Joke may
have given him the rnarShaiShip. n <
A very touching picture was drawn
of Bob Ingersull looking for the grave
OF .lOseS,SO that he might dance upon it.
One of the best received points of the
evening was made when Mr.. Bede said:
81 asked a fellow what he thought: the
rate of inteFesEwouid be il more than
half the children OF Israel had not been
lost in the wilderness"
Swell churches are not held in very
high regard by this energetic thinker,
who asserts that zone mother is worth
dozen saiuts;' that ''if Christ came to
Duluth" and found the churches run
ming wide open he would go down to
one of the bethels on Minnesota point.
and that the memory of the character
of Abraham Lincoln, with his charity
for political opinions. offered AS an Oh
ject lesson, is worth more to this coun.
try than the entire cost of the pension
list. 49,.
The lecture closed with character
istlc anectote. -
One day when walking in Duluth Mr..
| Bede met a lot of little children crying
because they had heard that the A. +.
| AS were going to have Santa Claus
killed. MIR. Bede treasured them. For
the benefit of last nights audience he
| compared the danger line Cai hoiics were
in from the A. L. A. to that of the
| chiIdren'S patron saint.
After the lecture Mr. Bede held all
| informal reception, at which the audi
ence were given y chance to shake him
by the hand.
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