The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-28
POLITICAL sIDE-LIGHTs.
Albert Berg,s Barn storming Tour
Henry Johns Photos.

HenrysrJOhns' Photos.
There are a lot of funny things in
this campaign, but not the least anus
ing is the way in which Albert Berg,
who is drawing a munificent salary
from the state, is going around the
state on a transforming tour with
an operate. company consisting of AL
I bert Berg, prirna donna, basso; Signor
Albert Berg musical director, and A.
Berg, manager, Mr.. Berg's company
appears in a repertoire of operate Sc
lections, the motif of all Of which is
similar. A gentleman who has just
returned from Hallock Kittson county,
each way to hear the late chief of the
census sing operatic parodies in the
hay loft of barn. Mr.. Berg's opening
selection is not from "Cavalliefa Rusti-
cana as that has a PopuHstic sound,
but from the 's.Mikado," and the grass
+ hoppers scramble out of the stubble
and sit on the window sills to hear him
sing: aliN haofs9 80 1@sia--s
--1L GA wandering minstrel I, 's'f S's n
A warbler of sweet ditties,
re',F's My singing my hope it Is,
SS2 ; And my name is Albert Berg.''4--
But Nanki Pooh is not the only Jap
anese role that Mr.. Berg essays.
Katisha, if you remember, had a Shout
der blade that5people came miles to see.
She did not say whether they went
back home disappointed or not, but the
fact remains that Albert Berg has a
face that only needs a mint of money
and a little bunch of burnsides to equal
that Of Marcus Aurelius Hanna. This
enables Mr.. Berg to give a remarkably
life-like inlpersonation of Mr.. Hanna
with Solo), as the programme explains
The major and me
Sat under tree,
With tickers and phones at our side,
When silver quotes fell,
We said: sfW'at t ELL"
And we laughed until we mighty near cried.
Then Mr. Berg returns to the operate
field again and sings, /. u. e.:
l. am the Lord III ghd Ta- ra-tazra-ra;t rtr
In me you mark the dignity of ages;
My good deeds, il they were writ In books,
Would take at, least hundred thousand
am the best that ever happened,
Though truly, Issdqs gFieve to plug the game !;
Let's gather at your ffestal bar of walnut:
i Give me some beer; you all take the
same! EuA& Sta
~saBy this time rthere is not a dry-eye
in the house, naturally, and in order to
relieve the strain 81 the programme has
intermiSsfon printed on it in large let
tiers. Il 70 sa9
You might think as Berg was the
motif throughuthe first half, that the
second half would be devotedto CHough.
You had no rights to think this. It is
right to sing just what he pleaSes. Your
impudence, dear reader, deserves Sc
we're rebuke. - -r.soz ,-ss.4 4,4.5 3cy4liss>5-
Second half opens with a song:
You behold jn Rae a hustler, "a happy. hearty
WholaRds himself in a, hole;e,o at-,-s-a
He wants your votes, does he, to use this
winter?
If there are still any who have not
= hxy ayyt1o n .1f
athe big ones .artless Establishments
they are sure to s1ccunab5 to this r,oa
When 1 was a kid 7 served a term,
Playin second fiddle in Tams Bixby's firm;
~ iButt1 got onto his curves.
And I'm sure that act deserves
Your kindest favor for Sir Albert Berg.
Henry Johns, who is running for the
legislature in the Fourth ward, has
had some dotibfe-collimn portraits of
himself printed on stiff board, which
are exce1lently adapted to catch all
kinds, of floating svotes. When Chaun-
cey Olcett struck the town with. his
rMinstrel3of- Glare window card, Johns
manager promptly seized a number of
the same, and, cutting out Olcott's face,
inserted the benign countenance Of
Johns, and tt now beams forth from
the show windows on, passersr by with
the Minstrel Of clare marked below
Then, for the Italian section, Johns
man Friday took the portrait and pen
ciled a strictly Miehiavelhan- goatee
upon it; for Irish sections where the
Minstrel OF Clare bills had not been dis
tributed the neck was fringed with lead
pencil S1aiways; the Prince of Wales
beard was put on few which were
carefully distributed, while Kaiser
WilhAIm is mutton chops adorn still
others. There is one place, however,
whereaFfenFyss ''rnhg ssshas not been
substituted The Young man did not
dafestick in the w1adow cards of Rev.
John Watson, D. ~ a,a.
"A large and=eHt husiastie Republican
meeting was hed Monday evening at
Edmand and K&1ft streets-'..- A Gle e
reporter happened along there that
night and was tattraeted, by taesseund
of old plantation melodies. Within a
robust-vofced .negrb was singing from
long sheet:
"And dere's Charley Chapel; break) he'll
H sss az gains 3 e Is Elected wathic-
cough)walk. :.
Sitting around in the dim light Of a
smoking kerosene IaTaPv were exactly
twenty-one people. Mayor Doran and
Charley Chapek, fandF = George Walsh
=