The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-23
AMONG THE SUNS INMoRTA,.s

Henry Feig, OF, as he is Familiarity
termed by his fellow farmers, "Ey"
Feig, has had a seat accorded to him
among the Suns immortals with Abe
Slupsky, Dink Bolts, Pod Dismuke.
Bine Koozer, George Breechloder and
Wis Pinks. We congratulate him upon
his translation. 1t is something to be
a farmer. 1t is more to be a farmer in
Kandiyohi county with its perennial
dream CT g. state capitol It is still
more to be a member of the house of
representatives from the Forty-first
senatorial district of the great state of
Minnesota. 1t is additional to be the
man who led the onslaught on the
peripatetic peddler, with his craving
for old rags and his persuasive presen-
tation of the merits of his pins and
needles. 1t is much to have a foghorn
voice to carry denunciations of the
predatory peddler into the farthest
cloak room of the capitol and be
echoed from the concave of the lofty
dome that surmounts that superb pile.
1t is fame even to have ones name
go laundering down the coming cen
turtles mingled with the startling re-
ports that emanate from the court of
supreme adjudicature as the author of
the peddler act which that august body
exploded with one blow of the consti-
tuition.
But all this is as nothing compared
with the Immortality accorded him who
gains admission to the Suns Academy
of Notables. Hon. Henry Feig will
shortly pass off the stage on which he
has played a minor part, and nothing
will remain to remind posterity that
he ever existed save his name in the
legislative directory and the modest
sketch of his career in the Blue Book
that will inform the hereafter that he
was clerk of his town for seven years
and one of the honorable board of
school trustees for nine years prior to
achieving distinction as a member of
the Minnesota legislatures lower house
and the author Of the abolition of ped
dlers act. Some historian of the Re-
publican party, compiling another Rise
and Decline, noting how parties have
given birth to children with appetites
so cannibalistic that they have ap-
peased them by masticating their
mother will point to the once invinci-
BILE Seventh congressional district of
Minnesota and tell how, In 1892, Hon.
Henry Feig led his parCy's forlorn hope
and went down before a majority Of
eighty-five.
But such fame fades like the SUM-
flowers that adorn the humble home on
the forty-acre farm of the Kandiyohi
legislative and political farmer when
the September frosts come with wither-
ing breath. OF all things mortal such
fame is the mortalest. But there are
avenues that favored mortals may
tread that lead to Immortality. Every
country has them. Egypt has her pyra-
mids to assure posterity that the Phar-
aohs lived and reigned; and, Ieaping
over the centuries, England has her
Westminster in which to entomb her
undying, and France has her Academy
Of Immortals; but in this land of de-
mocracy and humanity's common level
we have nothing but the Suns Acad-
envy Of Notables whose roll of men,
bership is kept and guarded by the ven
cradle Dana with religious scrupulos-
ity. To be admitted to that roll, to
have ones name inscribed on it with
Slupskys and Dismukes, that is to
achieve Immortality; and with ali
the pride Of fellow citizenship, Of be-
ing in and of the same state with its
distinguished son, do we announce that
there Is written on that deathless roll
it's latest initiate, the honored name Of
ely Feig"