The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-07
STORIES OF THE STREET.

AdJt Gen. Lambert is a friend of the
| soldiers 1t Is, not an uncommon thing
| to see them in his office There was one
there the other day, and he talked to
the G e without knowing it. Though
| just a high private in the rear rank -
this soldier had "a. precocious amount of
intelligence, and the poor cuss ought to
| get In some place that will net him more
| than $13 month He said:
Max Nordau, good in1ftator of Lom-
bardi, the criminologist, says in one of
his books that you should never pay
Your debts; also. that you should always
lie and never tell the truth. He proba-
Oily meant to be facetious- don't know
but 1 can tell you a story that will CON
vince you 1T is good policy to speak the
truth y
u. was a.. soldier in the Fourteenth
Minnesota. l was with the last bunch of
recruits sent out from, St Paul, under
Capt. Eva, The Commercial club, gave
US, banquet just before we. left, and, 1
span never forget the pretty, girlssI saw
there, especially, one.
We'll. ,wheni. We reached the depot it
was packed with people. When the train
pulled out saw the girl who attracted
me at the club, and yelled:
VIII you?' -, =
- .'Bat what address shan put On
",Oh, any old place go
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81 saw the girl at Chickamauga about
a month later. She lived at Chattanooga.
managed to get an Introduction, and
We Became friends. sss+ go ~ '|f-'-a ::
Pay day came around Event to my
captain and asked for leave IF absence
for day and was refused. This stirred
my blood and l took French leave for
Lytle Arriving there got an old Geor-
gian tostalze me. to- Rossville,: four miles
away L rode I'm an old rickety wagon
pulled by an army mule. We. had no
more than got out of town when the pro-
yost guard began to chase u.s. Mother
of Caesars ghost! i grabbed the whip
and didn't do a thing to the slow7feoted
beast.is ~ ---..:s, a.
s.Don'syo' kill my poor mule yelled
the Georgian; I'VE lived together TO- nigh
unto twenty year. &C.,
don't care if both you and your
beast are as oldSas Methuseleh and you
have lived together all that time. Whir,
whir went the whip.
We'll, after a while the mule laid
down with one last exhaustive kick, and
the proves were. down at the bottom of
the hill I was never so excited in my
life. And then that old fool sung out
again:
g You've killed my poor mule. Got'r
pay me-do yo, hear-me?
g Go on; sell your papers. You prom
ised to take me to Rossyi1e for IS cents.
You haven't kept your contract and
ought to carry me the rest of the way on
your back. Here's a dollar
81 made for the woods and soon reach
ed Rossville. There l jumped on a dunn
my and lit out for Chattanooga. There
I met the girl. I had never seen her
father. She asked me if I had gotten
permission to come to town, and l replied
in the affirmative She didn't know that
I should have had a written permission.
OF course I had to lie, and l couldn't say
anything about the mule. Well, what do
you think? That old leather-faced mule
skinner was her father She found it out,
and we are not on speaking terms to this
day.
Il stayed in Chattanooga two days and
night When I got back I told the
truth like a man-because I had been
caught once Twenty-one other men in
my company had done as | had, but when
they came back they lied Ike troopers.
They were put in the guard house. You
may not believe me- but l went scot
free
There is a drummer. by name Fred
Lucas. who stops at the Ryan every two
o. three months. He is big. jovial,
funny, in short. lone of the boys" He
was over at the hotel a week ago re-
counting certain of his observations made
during the course of a varied cares:
ST tell you he said, .'luck is bound to
follow some men. They'll do most fool
ish things and get out of it all right.
There is an insurance man I have in
mind who comes up here quite often
from Southern territory. About six
months ago he got after rich man
down in Louisville. KY, and the man
promised to take out policy figuring as
high as 100000 On the strength of this
promise he borrowed $500 and went down
to ST. Louis and played Croesus for
while. He spent every red cent, and then
received the welcome news that the rich
man did not pass examination. Well
thought. Your game is about Played 1t
looked bad for the man. and no mistake.
about three weeks afterwards the
rnoneyed man decided to take a trip to
Europe, and told his insurance friend as
much, who took it into his head that 1t
would be a good idea to get him to go to
the companys head office in New York
and make vigorous kick. This the
man did, and, strange to say, he had no
difficulty in passing the examination.
1.-The insurance agent was Immediately
credited with couple of thousand dol
lars. and away he went for New York.
He registered at the Waldorf Astoria and
got the best of everything Well, it
wasn't more than couple of days be-
fore he got bill for $3.50. That man
would have lived there until his money
was all gone. he was just that foolish.
but again luck came TO his aid. Hts sis
ter lived near New York. and she got
wind of what was going on and came
after him She took his money. made
him go home, and asked him to think 4
little, which same he did with startling