The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-07
EPISTLES TO ST. PAUL.

Annandale is a paradise for lovers Of
hshing this season. One man tells the
story that the black bass are so nu-
merous and game that they play leap
frog on the surface of one of these lakes,
ana II boats are not provided with side
curtains to keep them out the fish will
Jump in in such numbers as to sink the
boat. The solemn allegation is made that
on Friday night last forty-seven black
pass jumped into one boat during a
snort trip on one of these lakes. The
story is vouehed for by A. NJ. Hull, of
the jefferson eIubs reinforced by his
friend, the manager of the Pittsburg
penalty prescribed for telling fish stories
winch are not strictly up to date and ac-
cording to HoyIe.
ms Is great country to what it used
10 be, said the new boarder, as he chip
pea an egg and proceeded to decorate a
piece OF toast at the breakfast table
Th1nk so?'ss replied the young man
who never eats veal. ION what do you
base your observatfon?"
oh' on most everything. I tell you,
the people Of this country have got
Things down pat. Why l can remember
"hen the railway conductors on passenger
Trains didn't wear no uniforms. They
USED to lurch up and down the car aisles
and take tickets, wearing plug hats and
sack coats, and spit on the stove, and gas
and crack jokes with everybody they
knew on the train. Now look at 'em all
pound IN blue cloth and trimmed with
ofass. Those, too, were the days of bus
Ses, hlIed on the inside and running over
on top with passengers, and the driver
taxing tickets through the roof and yell
Ing TO people in the street there was
room for one more. Street cars! Bless
you, nobody had thought the thing out
to a successful finish"
Those were the good old times, take
it, eh?''
Fairly good Folks enjoyed them
selves then much the same as they do
now. Ned Forrest was playing tragedy,
John E. Owens comedy and Jenny Lind
singing as no one has sung since Why
my dear sir, those were the days we had
10 cut postage stamps apart with pair
OF shears. Then some one invented the
art OF perforating EN-, ard made a for
tune out of the government, which paid
MIN Tor the patent. There warn't no
elevator boys in them days, nor janitors
| ana the landlord went right with you to
look at house-Warn't no flats hot or
cold water, electric lights nor telephones
ana zeal less profanity to the square
men -than there IS now. Men and women
roae horses instead of bicycles, and the
only place they played golf was in the
scottish Highlands. We didn't hear any,
thIng ABOUT trusts, nor syndicates, nor
octupuses. Men and boys walked on the
grass and courts didn't enjoin 'em from
doing it neither Daniel Webster was
making the welllin ring with eloquence
ana Edgar A. Poe and Nathaniel Haw-
thorne were making the best grade of
literature America has produced. Buffalo
N. y, was away out west, and Mime
sofa mad never been put into a Republi-
can straight Jacket
Now everything is different A bust
ness man sits down by a telephone, and
typewriter girl, and does $500, 900 worth of
business before 8 o'clock in the after
noon, when his automobile wheels up
TO the sidewalk to carry him home to
dinner His friend in London sends him
! a. cable to says that he can't be back in
New York until week after next, but
not to let thaAI fact interfere with the
poker game set for next Saturday night
Oh we are all right in this country, and
getting br1sl5ers and more enterprising
every day. Pass the cleo. please. and
that's another Slick nnovation-an illus
tratton of modern. progressive thought"