The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30

cept a good thing-at any moment. When
he appears most Sereneiy unconscious,
look out for him, for that s the hour in
which he meditates some diabo!ical ac-
ton. He bucks when he is ridden, and
balks when he is driven. but once get
him going and he shows his mettle. He
can go. and go like the wind and go all
day, and live on one blade of grass and
one drop Of dew, and keep awake all
highland keep you awake, too-and go
again all day, and keep it Up until he
tires out everything and everybody in
competition with him; for when you get
him started You can depend upon him.
He never gets sick nor breaks down, and
| do not believe he ever dies, but it IS
awfully hard getting him started some
times.
Il know a missionary party who haG
pair of bronehos, one of which could
only be started in one way; the other,
of course, was in entire sympathy with
and regulated his movements by lis COM
panion. Two disinterested people who
We're not going with the party would pass
the blight of a stout rope around the hind
fetlocks of the =reealcitrant animal, and
each take amend and saw away until you
could almost smell the burning hair,
when, without one word of warning, the
beasts would bolt and from that time
would so all day cheerfully al the live
lest kind of a trot, provided they were
not halted for anything. If they were
stopped, the same process would have to
be gone over with again. Moral suasion
was absolutely and entirely lost on those
bronchos, yet you could not help liking
them; they were so mean they were ac-
tually charming"
1t was, OF course, necessary that Mr..
Brady should board around on his visits
to different places He writes:
BOARDED AROUND.
''The hospitality Of the people was al
ways generously and freely given-too
generously sometimes, in fact, for they
frequently never left me moment alone.
Sometimes, after spending the day with
me, my hostess would excuse herself
upon the plea Of urgent household de-
mands and say something to this effect:
81 But we won't allow you to get lone
some. Here's little Johnny (aged three;
he will entertain you. Which meant
that I was to play the rest of the day
with little Johnny / used to long for
a chance to get lonesome some tine
In another particular the hospitality
was not enjoyable and that was when
the spiece~4lez res stance of the menu was
cllicfScr: >
cit seems to me that have had chick
en- three times a day for week at a
time. This statement is problbly incor-
rect as to facts but it serves to show
the impression left upon me after the !
years that have interviewed 1t was fire.
quen sly ,Presen ted TO me with the remark
That preachers always liked it. especially
th6s yeEow-l legged k;nd2f Yellow-legged
chickens, not preachers, be it understood
If anything gould make chicken unpala-
table to me Beyond thes mere fact that 1t
was q chicken, it would be the thought of
the meteorological kind 1t seemed to
me That I had chicken scrambled, fried,
solft- boited and in every other possible
shape.
sC4'iclsen to the right of ne, chicken
to the left of me, chicken before me,
chicken behind me! Chicken. chicken
everywhere, and not drop to drink
which is a mixing of metaphors, or some
thing; but let it pass, as it was in
prohibition state. [ wondered sometimes
that did 3ot turn into chicken myself.
think l could write a feeling essay on
the Prevalence of Chicken in the Diacasa
of y. Once in a while fortune was
Kind to me, and when / would make
visit TO new town they would have
meat. whereupon 1 never failed to ex-
press my qualification at the absence Of
chicken. The. news would soon be dis
seminated among the people of the com
munIty, and chicken would be consplcu-
e
was a guest in that town But lie I
struck chicken on my first visit 1 had 1t
forever after, When it was not chicken.
1t was usually ham,
Here IS an anecdote Of a clerical friend
of Mr. Brady who was visiting an Old
schooimate. who happened to be the
curator of luEat;c asylum:
AS a favor, my friend vas taken l1v,
ais friend into that Part of the asylum In
which the dangerous asses were kept. AMI
to which ordinary visitors were not all
lowed access He was instructed before
entering the different cells as 10 tha
nature of each case. and tod what he
must do. He was informed before one
door shat the man he was al out 10 see
was erly violent when he was disagreed
with and that he must acduiesce in
everything that was said. The Iunatic,
who was rather nice looking o.d man,
apparently perfectly sane, entered upon
a conversation with the clergyman 1t
once
He surprised the minister by remark
ing: j suppose you saw that President
--- had been iunpeached the other
day for stea,ing?' Yes" was the reply.
vely family delivered. What pity Ii
is that the Washington monument was
blown up by dynamite by the strikers the
ether day, isn't it2" was the next dues-
tien. IAN awful pity" said the pep
sprung cleISFfldn. Ana lam so CAD
that the queen of England is dead, so she
can give her son a chance to reign, aren't
you? continued the old man. The
clergyman answered desperately: YES
yes, certainly; il was time for her TO die
The old man stopped, hooked earnestly at
his embarrassed visitor, and remarked |
suavely: Didn't you say you were
minister when you came in here?'
Yes," said our friend brightly; 1t was /