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

stances. During the great Hooking
Valley suit at Columbus Judge Burke
was making brilliant argument be-
fore the jury in behalf of the defense
and used this expression: MY friend
Judge Hoadly, says that this is case
of deliberate stealing. Now, i am
probably not as good a judge Of steal
ing as Judge Hoadly."
No." interrupted Hoadly, like q
flash, mot as good a judge, but a bet
ter practitioner
AT one Of the receptions at the White
house there was little case of rapieI
thrusting between two ladies.
The daughter of a famous man, who
is noted for her aristocratic tendencies
met the wife of a Western official, who
was presented.
The latter said: "I have had the
pleasure of meeting your father
II dare say" replied the young lady
languidly. Papa, in his position, meets
all sorts of people"
The Western lady flushed, and re-
piled like a flash: 81 should judge So
especially when he is at home"
Ex-Congressman Billy Mason says
that it occurred in Chicago, and that II
is a true story. A brawny Briton
middle-aged and pompous, registered al
a prominent hotel, laid down the pen
and said:
GIVE me a good room, now"
Certainly" replied the room clerk
do you want bath with it?'
"Bawth?" exclaimed her majesty 5
subject, who had not been used to
stopping at first-class hotels and there
fore did not know that the question re-
ferred to a room with a bath room at
tached "Bawth! My Gawd, man,
what the devil do you mean? Do |
want a bawth? Why, - your imper-
thence, sir Do I look as if 1 didn'
know when I wanted a bawth, sir? Or
do you mean to insinuate that I smell.
No. sir" And before the clerk could
explain himself the bold Briton bolted
down the corridor and out of the State
street door.
Senator Wilson, Of Washington, a
man who ''roughed it, through life
until he compelled popular recognition
and political advancement, tells many
interesting stories of frontier life. He
says that when the stampede began
for the Occur d'Alene gold region il
was regarded as soft snap when a
man could get the privilege Of sprea d.
ing his blankets on the bar-room floor
by the payment of 81 a night. Meals
Of bacon and beans straight were 81,
but no one thought of complaining at
high prices when there was q posi-
hility Of taking hundreds of dollars
daily from the ground. But not every
claim PANIED out well, or in fact,
yielded any return for the miners la
bor The men in the mines and min
ing camps were constantly planning
FOR their own advancement, and they
were not choice of their. victims either.
"A young fellow named Jones played
a shreWd game on a preacher at Muir
ray, and everybody in the camp soon
knew it, because the preacher was so
indiscreet as to give it away. Jones
had been digging ON his claim for a
month without as much as striking a
color, when one afternoon the preacher
appeared upon the scene. Asking the
usual questions as to his success, etc.,
the miner replied cheerfully, and dip
ping up a pan Of gravel offered it to the
preacher, telling him to carry it to the
creek and wash 1t out and see for him
self. On the sly, however. the young
man took $3.50 in gold dust from his
pocket and plentifully saIted the pan.
Preacher carries the pan to the
creek. and, returning, reports that he
found nothing. Jones preserves a dis
Greet silence, though inwardly sizes the
preacher up as an ccompliShed liar
Pretty soon the. preacher offers $3.50 for
the claim, which Jones very promptly
accepts. Preacher goes to work like
a man, never doubling that he would
realize $2.5 a pan. Imagine his sur
prise, after thorough trial, to be unable
to find color. Then 1t dawned upon
him that the ungodly young man had
sailed the pan proffered him with ma
licioUs intent and-gold dust. Meeting
the former owner in a saloon, where he
was spending his ill-gotten gains like a
prince, the clerical gentleman accused
him Of acquiring money under false
pretenSes.
Don't you dare to throw any of
them charges up to me, partner said
jones solemnly, as he spit on his hands
of course 1 saltd that mine, but what
did you do. Didn't you steal the salt 2
And he fired the preacher into outer
darkness
'Impecunious clerks are the rule an6
not the exception" says the, chief Of
large division in the interior depart
ment 1.-The government clerks get
better pay for less work than any other
class of wage-earners in the country
and yet, a majority of them are always
hard up, because they are shiftless.
know one young man who is receiving
$1,400 year, who lives with his youne
wife, fourteen-months'- old-babe and
two servants, in a house he pays $5(
month for, and one of the half dozer
entertainments they gave last winter
cost him-so he told me himself-ove1
500. And during the opera season
the couple attended, on the average
two performances each week That's
all right. It's nobody's business but
theirs. But no wonder the salary can't
support them. Twice 81, 400 wouldn't
do it, and they could easily manage tc
get away with three times that amount
and still be in debt at the end of the
year; for [ doubt if there is any place
in the world where to a person inclined
to be a spendthrift, or to put on airs
where there are so many opportunities
to the square foot for him to get his
fill as can be found in this city OF
magnificent distances. Nearly every
nationality is represented in all forms
of social life, and in every conceivable
fashion, on the street, and at public
and private receptions, and there is NO
end to the charms and destinations one
may neet-and he can meet them in
proportion to the length Of his purse
strings. And so it happens that it