The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-25
Epist!es to st. Paul.

Sandy Dingwall is in town looking over
Jacob Lifts summer prospects. 81 heard II
on the train coming up from Chicago" he
said apologetically to The Philistine who
eyed him attentively.
lone of your Minnesota farmers believe
had raised a fine fruit crop. and on being
asked by an Englshman what he did with the
fruit he replied: I'VE eat what we can and
what we can't. We can" Not long after
wards. wishing to entertain some friends. the
Eng ishman rere ted the story in h m ann T
farmer was once asked what he intended
to do with the fruit he had raised. and he
said: I'VE will eat what we can and what
we can't, we will preserve"
That reminds me of one also of mature
years which Dave PEBBLES gave me the other
day." responded The Phiistine, ''about a
lawyer named John Strange. Just before his
death, he called his wife to him and requested
her to have engraved on his tombstone the
words. Here lies an honest lawyer with the
date.
there. too?'
That will not be necessary, as anyone
stopping to read will be sure to say That's
Strange When this story was told by an
Englishman. much to his perplexity it failed
to cali forth any amusement This was the
way he repeated it: There once was bar
rister by the name dwell. 1 don't recall his
name-but it Is immaterial. On his death
bed he summoned his wife and told her to
have engraved on his tombstone, Here lies
an honest barrister" "For," said he, "any-
one stopping to read will. say. How extraor-
dnary.' -" 1s--t.s,-.. II.
The county commissioners would have got
through of EQlIrinp n
decrease the length of the delinquent tax list
without a single CLEAN of joy breaking the
gloom of the proceedings but for the merry
and sarcastic mood of Mr. McCarron.
Going down the list, in that peculiarly Op-
pressive tone of voice that is acquired by all
reading clerks, Deputy Bourne came pres
emily to the name of ]. Fl. Southau
81 move that we strike him off, said m
missioner Quehl. '"He is broke and in jail
and there is no use of taking a judgment
against him.
tits too bad he can't get out of JAIL re-
marked the clerk of the board. by way of
getting rid of his duty for moment.
'"That'll be ell right" Clipped in Mr.. Me-
Carron. 81 understand that he VIII be put on
trial in couple of days. and Sam Anderson
will see that he ge.s out
'There seems to be an impression among
NO then people that the mint julep came out
of the South said D. F. PEBBLES, as he
slipped his lemonade. 1.-THE impression should
be corrected. The Southerner drinks his to l.
dy. whisky. sugar and water, and knows
nothing of the julep except what his natural
disposition to take to a good thing has taught
him. The first time that the ju,ep was in
troduced into the South it proved fatal to
the man who was told about and taught to
drink It.
ut was good many years ago that a
No'thern travelling man went into the South.
and he treated with great consideration
by a planter whom he met. To show his
gratitude to the planter this travelling man
made for him mint ju'eo. Twenty va 8
later he visited the same locality
and thought he would call on his o.d-time
friend. He sought out his plantation ard
found everything changed about the place.
Presently he met an old darkey whom he re-
membered as the servant of the planter.
He hailed him:
Hi there. Pomp,' he said: where is Gel
Meliowton?
I Dunno answered the cd fellow. Yer
see.' he added. evidently not recognizing tn =
visitor. 'marsa's bin dead about TO- yeah
now. The traveller was surprised, and ask d
the cause Of the colonel's death.
Well. I KANT quite say answered the
darkey; but one time dere kim down yere
a dam fool Yankee. an he showed marsa
how ter put grass in his toddy, n I guess
OF marse he jest drank hisse'f ter deaf"
The Philis.ine.