The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-04

costs more to live here than anywhere
| else in the country, If men and women
want and get everything they see, as
so many men and women do.
But there are clerks here who live
and support large families on compare
lively small salaries and not few save
money and own comfortable homes,
not at the expense Of denying them
| selves necessary luxuries, but who have
all they desire. 1 know q clerk whose
salary at no time during the past flf-
teen years has exceeded $1,000. Yet
he owns the house he lives in-worth
some $4,000 and has respectfully brought
up and educated three daughters, with
out owing a dollar he couldn't pay;
and when any one talks to him about
the impossibility of living on stipu-
lated salary, he says that depends upon
Imaginary wants. If man is so con-
stituted that he must drink a pint of
whisky a day, and take his wife and
children to see every game of base
| ball, every horse racS, every circus,
minstrel show and theatrical perfor-
nance, before he can be happy" as
one Of my neighbors does, 1t will take
more than 81, 600 a year to supply his
wants. He receives that. His family
isn't as large as mine; his children are
no better educated; none of them move
in any better circles than we do, and
yet if he were to die or be discharged
| lOudy, HIS IdIIlliy WOulu NC pSSSdTS.
One of the most artistic unique and
valuable relics of Oriental art, and for
some time the chief attraction in the
| rooms of the japanese legation, con-
sists of a pair of screens over 800 years
| old, taken from the invader Jaikio. In
! the strange and wonderful blending of
| light colOrs on a dark background, it
| conveys an idea-of moonrise as seen
| through tangled mass of grasses and
ruSheS, nothing more or less, and yet
/ they are strangely beautiful in artistic
effect. Here and there and everywhere
are many grotesque conceptions of an
! cient deities, and one Of special inter
! est is faded panel with many queer
! traceries and characters, surrounding a
! disk-crowned Japanese god. 1t is by
| Tsunenobon, and considered very fine.
! The tray upon which madam'S visitors
cards lay was the gift of the empress,
and is, therefore. much appreciated.
that he is the ablest statesman the
state of Missouri ever produced, and
| whom everybody regards as the wit
| test man in congress, heard large
rat story by Col. Dick Wintersmith.
and said:
True as your story may be, it Is
| surpassed by an occurrence that took
place in Monroe county, Mississippi,
where the crows had made themselves
obnoxious by their persistent invasion
OF the cornfieldS. A man who had
| been hired to watch a particularly
promising field and inform these birds
that 1t was against the rule to pick up
anything therein, bethought himself
how he could make a soft thing Of 1t
for himself and at the same time meet
the requirements of his contract. Fin
ally, by beautiful instinct, he hit
upon the plan Of soaking some corn In
whisky and placing it in the field so
that the crows would eat it and get
drunk, and thus enable him to have a
sure and easy thing Of killing them.
He had tried the shot gun, but crows
smell powder long way. After soak
Ing some corn over night, he put a
good supply IN the field the next morn
ing, and in two or three hours went
out to see how things went on Now.
gentlemen, mark the result: One of
the crows, a little larger than the rest,
had taken possession of nearly all the
corn, had built himself a bar out of
some clods Of the earth and was retail,
ing the whisky soaked corn to the
other crows charging them three
grains of sprouted for one of soaked
grain. The man. continued Allen,
thought the whole proceeding so hu-
man that he killed not a crow, but
came back to the house and-took a
| nip himself"