The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-02

u ~ viii NcSCCfl III tie lc!lIS Oh
x kedar,' sang the psalmist
king when at some time dur
ing his chcckered and adventurous career
ne mad been forced to endure an unSatis-
factory neighbor. Metaphorically. l am
dwelling ''in the terIs of Kedar' ard
DaV has my sympathy for having had
Mesoch for cohabitant for he is not
comfortable sort of fellow to consort
With OF compulsiOn. And if ever the ex,
kings thoughts wander from psaImistry
towards this sanity city 1 know 1 have
his sympathy. for ! have not one, bat
several Mos>chs
There was time wnen I could have
folded my cloak and silently stolen away
from the tents CT Kedar and his Mesech
and escaped Observation-Disclosures days
they were when the bottle the bird ana
the seductive Jackpot We're LAYING the
foundations of rne unatic govt and cheap
loGg nSs. Of course rheumatic govt was
not David s reason for laying out through
Palestine winter among the snug rugs
and pelts of Kedar's tents. I don't think
eout was invented in those days-in faetf
! think it comparatively modern inven-
ton of Old Nicl's to prevent the aging
roae and bon vivant from turning his
mind to repentance ard reformation.
Doctors chose that agree upon tais
ron0 CAIN it is due to a lengthy line
of three bottle ancestors But 1 don't
say this to claim Mayf1ower or Van der
Teufel ancestry. Nc! I must have
caught it from one of my heightened ex-
associates who, as the song gees:
Game to dine, drank my wine
And took me by the hand"
when my book account could stand the
pressure Of four figures without flinching
But now that the finaEoa al cow IS dr. the
flow of the milk of human kindness my
wards has ceased, they know me not
and leave me severely alone to nurse my
equity joints in the tents of Kedar which 4
IN my case is a Second-rate st a II heated
tenement where reaches and r dents to-
say nothing of other small glme) We
with several Mesechs to make life "a
burden.
Still my quarters, with all their draw
packs, would be a joy forever to those
human buzzards who have a cons. E MT
yearning for foreign affairs; their au al
powers would not have to be strained in
the least to know all their n ig bors'
sayings. The walls are thin and the
rooms mostly en- suite, with connecting
doors Of attenuated kind; to an inIu,s1
tive nature thus to dwell would be a
foretaste of the paradise; but to
dyspeptic old crank, with a very slight
acquaintance with Morpheus the
sweet restorer," it is Sheol ard repeat
thus to dwell, and very much of both.
Perhaps you ask why Sheol to a 6YS-.
peptic in particular? Can you n t imagine
the condition Of one whose doctor has
put him on strict regime of stale
bread, lean broiled meat and grains at
having his olfactories continual assail-f-
ed by appetizing smells from common
foods that have become luxurious by
their denial? Here sit I at my Barme-
eide feast in comming.ing odor waves
Of fuzzled ham, sauerkraut, fried onions.
welsh rarebit, coffee, liver and baC on,
sausages and fried potatoes. The fate Of
Tantalus was a bagatelle to mine ana
[ have to plug my nostrils, el-e would
L cast the doctor and discreet n eto the
winds burst the fimsy barriers between
me and the deicac;es my scul l1vetI
(even as Esau loved his venison stew,
and rape the oil stoves of their oloraus
burdens
David was In no such lard lines,
though Saul was after his scalp. In tho e
early days dyspepsia had net been in
vented by the genius of chefs and the
gluttony of gastronomes. Vitel!ius had
yet to live to gorge thrust a feather
feather down his throat, disgorga and
gorge again to his stomach's uadolng,
and the giving of text to AeSop for
his fable Of the body and its me rnbe-s
Gratis cheese and barley bread with an
occasional kid stew, was undoubt ely the
chronic menu; even though Kel az was
undoubtedly a ranchero of considerable
substance the luXuries within his reach
probably went no farther than led figs
dates, raisins and wine SO ordinary that
there was not a twinge of govt in a
thousand tuns of it.
But to our muttons; they anguish to
be exploited.
My late neighbors on the right were a
newly married couple, Judging from the
Oniyo hon ivAr
very much better half-the male pc ton
was a long primer edition Of what SHOULD
not be; his ordinary voice was a COM
promise between a woodpecker's cackla
and the grating of rasp which took OH
a Kissing undertone happened to "aggra-
vate a feller' which seemed her m1shap
too often. He was a railroad man, an
artist either of the switch brakes
and had doubtless acquired the habit of
kicking from constant breaking Up OF
freight trains; at all events he had it
either by acquisition or "to the manner
born" and his tones were in const ant
discord with his wifes quite Gulcet and
soothing voice. I never heard her re-
tort but once, and there was snappy
firmness in it that meant bust
ness: 1--WE taken care of myself this
long while and I guess I can co it some
more If you say so''-this in answer to a
raucous snarl the import of which was
lost in it's harshness She assisted evil
IDENTIFY at some restaurant whence her
husband s salary Cor selfShness) had not
emancipated her, for her hours OF COM
ing and going were those that would
best fit in with the diurnal meal rushes.
She was good sort and of the right
metal if voice and football are induces
and experience has taught that beth are
character opponents to careful student.
He got job somewhere else, for they
pulled out, by train, awhile ago to fresh
pastures, and perhaps a more liberal
per diem will emancipate her from the
hash-house. u
There was brief occupation by a night
owl with Bacchic proclivities, for his out
going tread was firm enough for White
Ribboner, but his incoming was a shuttle,
and mostly at an hour when his keynote
seemed cumulative of the restlessness of
the sparows under the cornice; after an
extra ordinary elusiveness on the key
holes part he would enter so tired that
he would turn in standing" or in far
Western parlance, Ego to bed with his
boots on" Happily he was naturally
light sleeper, so that, when his stertorous
breathings would eliminate in a snore,
he would awaken to semi-consciousness
turn over and do 1t again, for which !
laudable trait 1 was thanlzful-a tenor