The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-26
EPISTLES TO ST. PAUL.

| They're telling story of a st. Paul man
who is not half as wise as he thought he
| and who has no great opinion of his own
wisdom now. 1t wouldn't be fair to give his
| zane.
| week CT more ago some friend talk
| ing to him going up on the cable car and
| they got to conversing about feminine Curl
! osity. The friend remarked that If he should
! cut a piece out of the paper he was carry
! ing and should then take it home his wife
| would never rest until she had found out
| just what 1t was that had been cut out.
MY wife has no curiosity said he. but
| I'll just try her."
So he cut out nice little yarn from the
weekly society paper that he had with him
and left yawning vacancy there. The yarn
| he cut out was something Of great interest
about the number of suits the prince buys
in the course of a year, or something like
that
He carried the paper home and threw it on
the table. After dinner his wife read it
VI til she got to the page where the elision
occurred She locked up at her husband, but
she said nothing. He noticed the look and
smiled to himself.
"she bites, all right" he SAID musingly,
81 wonder what she'll dor"
She went on through the paper, but came
back to the page with a hole in 1t and she
muSeu. men she LClu Nln Sne was going TO
run over to a neighbours for a minute. The
neighbor takes the same society paper and
she knew 1t.
In ten minutes she was back with another
copy Of the paper. She stuck it under his
nose and Kissed:
You beast. now that I have found ycu out
I'm going homo to my mother"
Then she fell into a chair and sobbed and
berated him and tod him she knew he was
monster and had been trucking her for years.
He did not understand and tried to get
something definite out of her, but couldn't
do it. She wound up her wall of grief by de-
elaring she would not stay under his roof
another night and rushed out of the room.
He picked up the paper and looked up the
item he had cut out. 1t was the same the
page he had cut, but she had it folded the
other way. On the ether side of the clip
ping this item caught his eye:
There is a good deal Of talk in certain
circles about the supper that given the
other evening by st. Paul man to a spr-ght-
ly and wel,-known actress and a couple of
her friends. They say 1t the best thing
moon, and people are wondering what would
happen if the ST. Paul mans wife should
hear of it,"
AS it happened he was away from home for
a couple of days about the time referred to.
He remembered this fact and before he set
to work on his wife he wrote a letter of an
extremely violent personal character to the
friend who suggested that women were
curious.
Why should there be any d.ficulty about
the matter of getting colonies for the three
regiments of state militia that are to go to
tie front? In the capitol itself there are co..
onels enough to equip an army corps. OF
course there are but three colonies required,
and that may make it difficult for the gov
ernor., The capitol list OF military titles is
Thnrn 10 in q nrcf
place. Col. Wade. If he could use half the
energy In directing a regiment that he does
In IN, conversation there, would be no use for
other ammunition to dispense The enemy
And then there is COL Berg. He would be
rather mark for the bullets of the enemy
and If he fought foot at the head of a
regiment there would be no chance of any
man in the command being bowled over until
he was laid out
colonel unless there is truth in the rumor
that he is to go as an army ''Muehl.'
Gel. Bob Dunn and Maj. George Finn have
been wearing empty honors long enough, and
either would not object to colcnelcy that
would allow him to break away from poi
tics.
Col Koerner is insisting that he will NOT
stay here to be bothered running for office
again. so he might be reckoned as a volun-
teer.
Col Dan Shell doesn't live at the canitc,
but he is very close to it indeed. and If he
cannot be given regiment he might have n
place as substitute for megaDhone ON q
warship.
Col. Darius Furioso Reese will not remain
In the state while there is war going on-thlt
is, during actual hostilities. He has been
precticing at lighting the War of the Rebel
lion over during so many political campaigns
that he is not likely to let this chance go BY
for real warfare.
Then there is Gen. Childs. He would not
be likely to claim his exemption, and might
trade his nominal title of general for the real
title Of colonel.
Commander-in-Ch Chief Clough might get out
or the row that he will find himself engaged
In when 1t comes to the question of max ng
St. Paul. commanding officers, BY organ ling
MS colonies into regiment and going to the
wars himself at the head Of them.