The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-04
PERTINENT OR PARTLY so.

The lumber trust has anothr sin to an
SWer for.
The Minneapolis Iumbermen have de-
cided to abolish the Mississippi river log
drives, which have been feature above
st Anthony Falls since about three Sun
days after the buffalo deserted the
Stearns county "walIows," and logs are
now being transported from the pineries
by rail It is insisted that the railroads
get the logs through quicker and not
so many Of them are sunk, but what is
to become of the upper Mississippi with
out its picturesque adornment of a badly
battered wanegan, with red flannel
shirt swung to the breeze from the bow
or stern-as they were usually very SINH
lar What will the upper river towns do
without the heavy tread of calked-shoed
r1Vermen, making miniature toothptcks
out Of the sidewalks which the citizens
had paid for with large round dollars?
Tho BOOM" with its big kitchen, redo
lent withe bacon and beans, will go the
way of all things earthly, unless per-
haps, it is the Belgian hare.
Some one stole the banner off Mr.. Bry-
ans private car. Yet without it, according
to the chroniclers of those days, $4,000
people, In eleven different towns and
cities. in some way learned of the adj
vent of the orator of the Platte. "1f you
may be all right. but 1t does not seem
to comprise the whole Of political adver-
Using.
The action Of one of the state normal
schools in asking for money to buy foot
ball suits suggests the query what will
the directorate do for the fair sex in
these coed Institutions?
1t is reported that the mothers clubs
are against Aid Hunts ordinance for all
night cars. Some of the members say
that the husbands and fathers are late
enough coming home as it is.
Senator Davis, who has been campaign
is laid up at his home by a bad corn. He
is not the only political campigner who
has come home ''corned."
The recent spasm Of wordy newspaper
warfare, in which Robert c. Dunn has
been faying Gov. Lind, Prison Manager
Nelson, and sundry others. who have been
replying to Dunn and his political asso-
ciates in kind, might in a warmer cline
result in bloodshed, but 1t Is safe to pre-
sumo that three days after election, 1t
would be possible for any of the now
corffbatants to enter the Office of any
other with no weapons Of ofense other
than a torpedo-shaped cigar.
The duel never was much in vogue in
Minnesota, and even in Virginia, it did
not require any Horton law to put it
on the shelf. There is a we'll authent.-
Gated story of a candidate for g. conspicu-
Gus political office, who sent his rival
letter calling him several kinds Of pri-
vate malefactor. The expectation was
that the person addressed would courue-
ously reply, under seal, naming weapons
and seconds, and seek to arrange a meet
ing place. But the other candidate rude
ly violated the courtesies of the code
duello He outraged all the senses Of
Southern courtesy by attacking the let
ter-wrlterin handbill Whereupon the
candidate first mentioned, instead Of ac-
quiring black snake horsewhip and
drawing the fellow from the highways,
merely got out a handbill little larger
than his rivals bearing copy Of the in
sulting letter and under it the simple
statement that it had not been courte-
ously replied to.
And yet there are men running for
office in Minnesota who are so thin
skinned they talk of utilization" when
their opponents merely do not use the
same figures in their speeches.
W. G. McMurchy.