The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30
Epshes to St. Paul.

There Is young lady who works in one
OF the county Offices who has become very
much addicted to the dance habit and never
misses chance to entangle herself in the
mazes of the waltz. Last Friday was the an
niversary of her birthday-she would not
tell which-and in honor of the occasion she
had invited a number of her friends to
birthday party at her house. On the night
before the time set for the party the young
lady in question went to a dance and was
pretty well tired out the next morning. She
felt She was hardly in a mood to entertain.
and accordingly sent out type written notes
to her expectant guests that read:
My birthday is postponed one week"
He was pretty tired CD when the wagon
rolled up to the station and Capt. Rouleau
watched the jailers go through his pockets
Tor valuables The man did not protest. He
was good natured. BUT he did say:
This is all right, but 1 won't pay you
cent for driving me up here"
= And while the officers were laughing the
supposed prisoner gently waited himself out
the door again.
few nights ago Jack Henline, who knows
Col. Welz as well he knows any one in
town, wandered into the Ryan. and, seeing
the colonel seated by himself with far
an retrospective mood or serene contentment.
approached him with, Beg pardon, but is COL
Weiz ln?" mo-" was the answer 1.-THE COL
onei mas gone to Florida for sanitary pur-
poses. If that is So" was the quick reply
OF Helnline, who was batting very wise. 81
th1nK that Col. Welz is a great traveller, be-
cause his mind wanders." That same kind of
far-away look has not since been seen in
the coionePs face
Inc present cold spell has made some diff
oui'y Win the laborfng man. 1t is bad
weather for bricklaying, for instance and
the iinemen on the telegraph and telephone
poles md 1t quite unpleasant to stick to the
frosty wires. But at the same time there are
people working who it would seem might as
wea De INDOORS. store room on Cedar
street mas been vaeane six months On
us piale grass window were a lot Of porce-
IAN letters pertaining to nothing that had
been there since the old firm moved out.
Later, the Philistine happening along found
a man, fncased in sheepskin gloves and such
prying the letters off the window with a cold
ehisel, and with no double entendre implied
In the cold, either.
1t would have been much pleasanter iob
last August.
"io"6y I1uHDoiuI nlSn school girl was
overheard asking the young man the conun-
drum: What is the difference between q
man who has seen Niagara Falls, one who
has not seen Niagara Falls and a ham sand
wich?''
He gave it up.
One has seen the mist the other missed
the scene"
The young man thought moment 'And
where does the ham sandwich come in?" he
asked innocently.
That's where you bite"
There stands in st.. Louis statue of John
c. Fremont in which the Pathfinder is
looking and pointing westward, while on the
pedestal is craven. This way lies the East"
1t has been the inspiration of the country
lying west of the Atlantic slope that, dis
lance played against seafaring dangers the
Pacific route to the Orient must ultimately
command the popular favor of the worlds
commerce. unless the steppes of Asia were
subjugated by the iron horse ST. Paul has
had an equal interest with st. Louis In this
theory. If not greater, there being two
distinct transcontnental systems starting
here, and one other with a practical if not
an actual terminus at the head Of Mississippi
navigation
Yet. in spite of this, the war department,
when planning to take soldiers from here to
its newly won possessions in the Pacific Sc
lects the Suez route, with it's horrible six
days under the burning suns on the Red
sea. rather than convey the men by the route
to which the finger Of destiny has been
pointing for more than a generation. since
the Atlantic cable first carried current to
flash its spark in the. little dark room at
Valencia BAY. The PhiIistjne