The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-05

terest have yet been heard in either
house on the passage OF any measure.
POSSIBLY the members of the house will
unilmber little eloquence when the ex-
emption bill comes up for passage, it
having been reported to pass at $500
Debate is precipitated by heated section
al or local feeling for or against the
passage of any proposed measure and
none have yet come up that are of par.
ticular effect on localities.
The suggested repeal of the anti-hobo
law is not meeting with entire favor
We see by the legislative proceedings,
says the Washburn Leader, that a bill
is before that body authorizing the coun-
ty commissioners to pay a 81 bounty on
wolf scalps in addition to the state boup-
". This looks like the old Magician
Corb1n is widening his range. For many
years Benjamin, with a ggnny sack has
put medicine over the eyes of the au-
ditors down in the sheep county, and
pulls out imaginary Filters of squealing
coyotes much the same as his master
used to pull white rabbits from some
body hat, or mice from coat sleeve on
pubic exhibitions of his mystic art. Ben
presumeS too much on the Verdancy of
the average auditor. Some of them
nave travelled, but not all attended animal
SHOWS, or read Buttons Natural History.
consequently a swift or kit fox might
pass for coyote, badger for wolf and so
on. You may bankrupt Emmons, old
man, but the wolf load is heavy now,
with the state bearing it. Coyote pelts
can be readily obtained in the British
Northwest at 40 cents per pelt, ready for
the auditors punch and certificate.
The railroad bill recalls many bits of
ancient history. Thus member related
how a certain hayre-gamp made a legal
light take water at former session and
hide his light under bushel. The legal
light ran in finely worded bill regarding
tax titles. Hidden snugly and safely
out of sight was a small 'nigger" in this
bill of many rails, said nigger'S business
being in due time to recover money paid
oil tax IeV4eS made against railroads
prior to 1888. With many a sly wink the
legal light fathered the BILL niger and
ali. From the same county hailed a
Norsk, with bad English long hair,
shaggy eyebrows and a wooden shirt. His
krc wledge Of English was not sc cd, but
his knowledge of men was as powerful
as Mark Hunts Safeguarding. He found
a friend whom he asked, Say, W at in
hal does dis beel meen, eniyay?" They
read it together. Found the little tax
niger, said to be worth $4,000 then,
same as now, and pulled the wool off his
eyes. The weather got very warm. The
legal light, who also wanted to be judge
o. o., found it too hot for the $4,000 mig
ger, and yisnked him out backwards. eX-
claiming, "Niggers amt, no good nohow''
among those fool Norsk who cannot ad
clCar-headed lawyer does. Since that day
the Norsk and the lawyer have not eaten
salt together, neither have they slept
together, because, the Norsk says, the
lawyer is rotten. and the lawyer says
he understands high-priced niggers thor
oughly-but holds that all Norsk who
can't read English real well should not
be eligible as representatives, because they
are just as liable as not to spoil the best
mans plans for judge or attorney general
and the narrator lighted a new cigar
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womaa's suffrage first-handed.
Anent the proposition to limit the fran
ch;se by an educational test, the En-
mons County Record remarks: In the
cold and brisk wind of Wednesday of last
week two Germans who live some ten or
dozen miles southwest of town walked
to Linton to pay their taxes. These peo-
pie may not be able to read the state
constitution. Hoyle's Games or Mother
Goose's melodies in the original; but
wher it comes to the prompt payment
of taxes the procession must move rapid
ly to keep up with them.