The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-17
EPIsTLEs TO ST. PAUL.

Beside ]. Pluvius and George Goodwin
Dewey, st. Paul had another distinguish
ed, but unheralded visitor yesterday, the
same being none less than "Old
Thaumaturgas," as he was known to the
early denizens of Minnesota, William s.
King, as the Minneapolis city directory
knows him, and 1.-The colonel" as the
modern generation knows him. II isn't
very often that the colonel gets over to
st. Paul, but he happened over yesterday.
and as he was passing the corner of
Fourth and Robert streets he was obsery-
ed to halt and gaze pensively at the
sky-scraper on his right. Then he scan
ned the Fourth street front for the signs,
and finally located the Office of the paper
that so long ago f1ayed him mercilessly
for some political and municipal rivalry
differences.
Where will l find Mr. Wheelock?" ask
cd the colonel of the boy at the counter.
Eleventh floor responded the boy.
And the colonel sought the "sky parlor.
There. in the solemn stiffness of the
editorial sanctum, the old hatchet was
dismantled, and the blade will hereafter
serve no more vindictive purpose than
to keep editorial copy from blowing away
The colonel and the editor have made the
peace that waited so long. There was
more than one tender memory in the
meeting. The coloners brother, Tom.
end for years, and they do say that
Tom as everyone knew him, and every
one did, could get more news without
going out of the Office that overlooked
Bridge square than several generations of
later journalists have been able to get
in the town since. Then. too, the colonel
had given an earnest within recent years
that he did not bear the P. P. or its editor
any malice, and the result was that the
editorin-chief of the Pioneer Press was
not slow to extend the hand of fellowship
to his once cordial enemy.
A fad which seems to have won the APP
prevail of the ultra exclusive set in New
York and Chicago is the wearing of canes
by the fair sex. This must not be the
ordinary crook-handle affair affected. by
men, nor the light and airy Malacca' or
more staid cherry. 1t must be a little
longer than the canes carried by men,
and must be made of Indian teak wood or
orange wood with very high polish to
be absolutely correct. For this innova-
ton society is indebted to Miss Elita
Proctor Otis.
When Sporting Life, which comes
here next week, was first put on at the
Academy of Music, New York, at the
| beginning of this season, Miss Otis scored
a most pronounced hit, not only on ac-
count of her exceptionally artistic por-
lTdydt Oh the wicked OllVe de CarCerot,
hut because of the exquisite manner in
which she gowned the temptress. Miss
Otis is original in dress, as we'll as in
art, and two of the most prominent critics
called attention to Miss Otis cane,
Jessie Wood, of the New York World,
said: She carries something between a
golf implement and croquet mallet, and
1t is this something that society has taken
up and marked for its very own
Miss Otis in speaking of this cane, stat
ed that she had no idea of inaugurating
d fad when she carried 1t the opening
night of Sporting Life The cane is a
mascot, and it was because of it's pc
culiarly lucky qualities that she carried
it. The stick itself is of very highly
polished teak wood, and the head knob
of ivory, on which is carved a minute
series of figures, representing a council
OF the Hindoo gods. 1t is work of
marvellous ingenuity, there being no less
than eighteen figures, perfect in every
| detail, carved on the surface of the globe,
which is but an inch and half in di-
ameter. The cane was purchased in India
by Captain, now Sir Charles Elmsley,
who presented it to Miss Otis while she
was in London last year. Miss Otis has
had several opportunities of testing it's
lucky power, and she is firmly convinced
that no misfortune can befall her so long
as she keeps this talisman
The Philistine.