St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-02
ODDS AND ENDS.


whence he went up to Lunnon to
achieve present notoriety and possibly,
enduring fame. There are many Car
lyles there, yet and the one esteemed
greatest by the natrives was Sandy, who
/ is famed as "a grand breeder of soos."
I while Tom is only recalled by one of
the ancients as a Carlyle ''wha gaed
4 AVA up To London, but dinna think he
eyer did muckle guld."
i A story is waited in from Tacoma with
! the aroma of salt water and fir trees
about it, that is too good to be. kept for
repetition by mere speech. They have
/ out there judge who is terror to
debtors. casting them into the maws OF
/ receivers on the slightest provocation.
|. fhey have also bright young Uni
|. tartan minister named Martin. who has
been preaching series of sermons on
the ten great religions. Nelson Ben
nett, one of Tacoma's solidest citizens.
man OF extensive business, meeting
. the dominic, said to him: 81 am more
familiar with business than with relig-
iouS terms, and L wish you would te me
. how you would rate these religions, US
ing Bradstreets or Dun's phraseology."
well, said Martini" think would rate
the old Persian as AL and the Buddhist
as Az or b." "And the Christian, what
would your ate that?" "Oh, about Co."
''For heavens sake. Martin. don't let
Judge Il. know it or he will appoint a
receiver for 1t forthwith" said Bennett.
Humanity is after all nothing but q
great Struggling army, with It's advance
guards. lis skirmishers FAR in advance,
feeling Of the enemy developing his
position and strength. Back of them
the slow moving mass dwlndiug off into
the comet-tail of stragslers who are
never In action. and do nothing but inn
| pede the progress of the forces. We
have manifestations enough of the fact
that barbarism lives next door 10 civil
/ lZation; that bigotry of the middle ages
survives IN the glare of liberalism, and
that the nineteenth century is IN touch
with the fifteenth. One OF these is the
refusal of the bigoIed peasants of the
little Breton town of Tregur to permit
statue of Renan to be erected in it to
commemorate the fact that that town
was his birthplace. 1t is, of course. a
mere sentiment, this desire to connect
the great man with the small town of
his birth, and l doubt if it would meet
Remains approval, could he speak. 1t
wasn't his fault that he was born there
people can't control such things-and
he got away from it as soon as he could,
and stayed away and died away from it.
Such statues should not be placed
where the least consequential event in
a mans life took place. but in that
where he did his best work.
The sudden outburst of enthusiastic
adulatiOn bestowed on Capt. Madam. Of
our navy, abroad is very much sur
| prise to his counIrymen among whom
he lived. whom he has served, but who
have never discovered that he was
genius in literature, and he might have
lived more years here and died heavy
with them without Our finding out that
/ we had ''entertained all angel un-
/ awareS." But abroad he is the lion
Hiss book, Influence of Sea Power on
History" has opened the doors OF the
se1ectest circles of England and the con-
tfneut to him. The old universities
fastened TO honor him with their titles
of LII. DIS and ID. c. LIS, and the
question 'Who reads an American
haok?" is no longer tauntingiy asked.
|, The German emperor has put iiis fbouk
On all his ships, and has not only read,
but deroured it himself. Yet. after all.
the cause is not far to seek. Despite
the hundredsof millions we have squan-
dered on our navy, we are not Seafar-
ing people, and care but little for the
glories of naval warfare. We like to
read OF the triumphs of our comino-
dores in our history; but they were
achieved in days before our merchant
marine, that nursery Of navieS. was pro-
tected out of existence. 1t Is different
on the continent and in England. Eng
lands dominance of the seas and spread
Of territories gives first place TO her
navy. and the ambitions and fears OF
the European countries make their
ravies their especial pride; and so it
comes that modest American officer,
which his countrymen are Indifferent,
finds himself famous among the ma
tons where navies are their pride.
| Whether that old story about Adam
and Eve in the garden be fact or myth,
the incident of the apple, which they
were forbidden to eat and yet ate. illus
p A
man nature which all the subsequent
centuries of progress have not elm
mated. That which is forbidden is the
thing to 20 which there comes an i'm
| pulse which is we'll nigh irresistible.
| Foolish parents still tell their children
| that they must not do that thing or this,
| and equally foolish legislators continue
to command their subjects not 10 do this
| or that or the other thing, and both
| children and men and women
continue to do the inhibited thing as
often from rebelliOus impulse against
| being commanded as from any ford-
ness for doing it. How early this dis
! position shows itself, how regardless it
| is of race, color, or previous condition
| of Servitude. WAS shown me the other
day as l came up Fourth street Just
after shower, which had left little
shallow pools of water iii the depres-
sions of the walk. Coming down the
street was colored man. and by his
4 side was toddling along little plea
uinny not older than three. Approach.
ing one of the pools he said 10 her !:
Now. honey, dom go fru dat WATER l
| wished had kodak to catch the look
| on the little rascal's face, as, lifting her
skirts, she turned her face mp to the
| mans with a mingled expression of
mischief and defiance OH it, aud DELHI
| erhtely waded through the water.
aas~
! 1t may be a provoking trait. and 1t