The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-25
GLINTS OF ST. PAUL LIFE.

GLlNIS OF ST. PAUL LIFE.
There is in this town youth of good line
age and who was well brought up but who
mas been pursued by untoward fate, until
he now occupies the lowly position of re-
porter He shall be nameless, for fate, not
satisfied with reducing him to his present
walk In life, has struck him another blow
that is almost more than he can bear.
AS has been said. he OF good lineage;
he even had grandparents. His grandparents
had relatives, too, and. IN this matter, he
was equipped for membership in any OF
the societies that require Of their members
that they shall have had ancestors
A couple OF years ago there came TO this
young man, through the mails a communi-
cation, which set forth that there had recent
1y died in the small town IN Illinois. from
which the writer dated his letter, aged
person, who stood in the relation of grand
aunt 10 the young man: that the deceased
had left an estate of Which he was bene.
hciary, and would he be good enough 10
sign the enclosed documents and the writer
banker, would see to 1t that he would re-
ceive his share of the estate In course OF
time. Would he sign the papers! He most
certainly would. He would sign anything.
He signed the papers and then he began to
swell up. He told the wife of his bosom,
the woman who has cast In her lot with his
In spite OF his lowly condition, that the sun
Of prosperity was already In sight for them
and that she might well look for a fiat of
st least three rooms, with space enough in
them for an ordinary, instead of a folding,
tooth brush. He swelled up obviously when
in the course of three months or so, there
came another communication from the banker
with yet other papers to sign and the young
man Immediately began TO get into debt on
the strength of his expectations. Every
month or two there came TO the heir COM
muncatons Of portentious appearance, and
which added 10 his prestige about the office.
And this sort of thing was kept up for almost
two years, and he had pushed his expecta-
tions up to about the $4,000 dollar mark.
And he had It all spent IN prospective
The other day the finish came And the
blow almost killed the whole family. The
same Old official, proud Neutrality-suspicious.
envelope arrived. There was a letter in 1t
which stated that the estate had been wound
up and would he be good enough TO acknowl-
edge the enclosure. which was his share of
the estate.
The enclosure was check for 1910.
George Lennon heard the foregoing Ger
true tale from the youth himself during the
course of little financial transaction they
had, and he said:
That reminds me OF story once heard
about preacher, and / can see your finish
This preacher was strung along for a couple
Of years in the expectation Of getting part of
an estate and he didn't get it after all. The
blow affected his mind and his mania tolk
the form Of a frightful appetite for ham and
egg sandwiches. His friends took the poor
fellow and put him in the lunatic asylum.
He stayed there for about a year and
turned loose, apparently cured, and given a
church. Well, sir, he went wrong again and
POhhed ri
of 81 100 and made his escape. They put
tectives his trail and they captured him
three days later, but he had spent SS75 for
ham and egg sandwiches. Do you feel any
desire for a ham-and?"
Henry Johns had dream Wednesday
night 1t had to do with politics, of course.
Even in his sleep he can't keep out Of it.
And he must have been reading what hap
pened to the Republican party down at Man
kato TO bring this on:
Il had gone to bed with easy mind and
expecting to have good nights sleep, when
this horrible experience befell me:
Il dreamed that the charming month OF
May was here; that the trees were in bloom
with myriad blossoms, and the little songsters
hidden In their leafy bowers were swelling
their little throats sending up songs Of praise
and thanksgiving for the newly born joys Of
earth-hey, how's that? Amt that hot
one?
We'll. anyway. 1t was May and the cleo
tion was over. l went up 1t seemed to me,
into the mayors office and asked Jim Nugent
where Mike was. Oh, I forgot to tel you
that thought Mike Fitzgerald had been
elected mayor. Jim pointed into the mayors
room and stepped in there.
The mayor was engaged and l waited
Naturally 1 could not help hearing and see
" hn uaa proint al IL
was talking to the mayor, and l heard him
distinctly say:
This must not be. I INSIST that you re-
store the license which you have taken away
from the Palm Garden
Then l fell dead, and the shock Of falling
woke me up
"A man came in here the other night
Eaid Clerk Bowman, of the Ryan. walked
down into the bar room and swatted a vouns
fellow who was standing there an awful
swat. There was no row whatever for there
was prompt interference ! heard afterwards
what Il was all about 1t seems that the fell
low who did the swatting is a travelling man
representing big house in the East He is n
big money maker, and when he is not on the
road he stays here in St. Paul and PLAYS the
market a bit. Somehow he had hurt the
feelings Of the other fellow the swattee. as
II were, dlIu tHe IdtleT lnOuSnt ne would
even with him. He wrote letter to the house
that Hyatt-that's the travelling mans name
works for, and told them they d better look out
for him; that he playing the market
The firm thinks pretty well of Hyatt and thev
enclosed the letter to him with the suggestion
that he had better look his friend up He
did and he looked him up good while he was
at it. I've an idea that hereafter that fellow
will forget to sign his kicks when he sends
them to that house"
julie Meyer, who has some local emnence
even if there were no streets named after
him, tells casino story that isn't bad if the
game is pretty obsolete. 1t is useless
for any one to attempt 10 tell one of Jules
stories as he tells it. Here are the unvarnished
facts:
During the Wright administration the sa-
looms closed up at midnight, and 1t was the
practice Of a good many night owls to rendez-
vous In the back room of place that was
fixed" One night a goodly young man who
never INDUCED in late hours. cards or drink
to any great extent was in this back room
when midnight came, and he stayed there He
had been playing casino-the only game he
knew anything about-with an accommodat-