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The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05

r OUIsvILLE. KY, June 4-Behind
L. the closed shutters Of her humble
home Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch stands today awaiting the arrival
of the next pilgrim. By her side-in
fact, all over the house-are great buck
cts filed to the brju. and the sudden
downpour Of the contents Is to be Mrs.
Wigs greeting. 1t matters not whom 1t
may be-the stout, charitably inclined
person with an offer to adopt the fictitious
Lovey Mary, the angular gushing visitor
who does so love to know noted char
acters, the autograph hunter-as II Mrs.
Wigs has anything to do with the auto
graph-the relic hunter. the souvenir
ffend, or the amateur camera f1end. For
the last named Mrs. Wigs intimates
that she has particularly large buckets
containing undiluted carbolic acid.
Ali this because the law has said she
can escape the persecution OF publicity
In any way she chooses. 1t upheld her
when she used this method on Mrs. Fred
erick Guy Smith this week, and she VIII
stick to 1t. Mrs. Smith. wife a a very
estimabIe citizen of Hazelwood. deter
mined that she would see the cheerful,
charitable optimistic resident of the
Patch, and she went there. She didn't
see Mrs Wigs until they met in the
court room. Before that Mrs. Smith had
worn home a new gown drenched Dy
large bucketfuI of water thrown from an
upper window of the Wigs home. Mrs
Wiggs' simple and forceful narration OF
the trials of heroine Of popular novel
was such as to win instant acquittal from
the Judge.
The Cabbage Patch is not unlike certain
other portions Of Louisville, and there are
sections of almost any American CITY
which bear q general resemblance. The
cabbage patch of today bellies its name.
A few years ago it was cabbage patcn'
to be sure. That section Of the city lying
along Twelfth street. just south Of Saints
Mary and Elizabeth hospital, beyond the
point where five railroads cross, few
years ago was a cabbage patch. doing its
share toward supplying the city with its
garden truck.
AS this city grew the land Became more
valuable. Factories sprang up along the
lines OF the railways which skirted 1t,
and the Industrious truck farmer who
owned 1t sold It to shTewd investor at
a good price and bought new tract some
miles further out.
Streets were laid out from Tenth to
Fourteenth and cottages began to appear.
They are not the patchwork cottages OF
the story. For this part of her book Mrs.
Rice chose the now fast disappearing
Tintown-that city dump OF years gone
by on the river bank fast giving way
to coal elevators. In the Cabbage Patch
are cottages, all frame, some OF two
stories, mostly in the Queen Anne style,
and all built in the last few years. The
rents are cheap, and here live that poor
but Industrious class of citizens who go
to make up such a large part of our
urban population.
Has Another Name.
Mrs. Wiggs has another name-Mrs.
Mary A. Bass. She is widow with two
children. A few years ago she had q
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On every gateway Is posted a red
slab where a man has gone to the war,
marked "Gone to the front'--to be
supplanted with a black one Bravery
fofever"-should he be brought home
dead. And when he Is brought home
dead his body Is received at the station
by his kin with proud faces and no
tears. The Roman mother has come
back to earth again, and 1t is the Japa-
nese mother who makes Japan the high
priestesg OF patriotism among the ma
tions OF the world.-John Fox Jr. In
Scribner's Magazine.
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DENVER, Col, June A hungry,
clucking Plymouth hen with a little
curiosity and an appetite for anything
has beaten out all the gold prospectors
In Colorado and has, at least, discov-
cred pay dirt. Reversing the system
of the goose that laid the golden eggs
and thereby laid also a moral for men
of all time to come this hungry Colo
rado hen didn't make it known that her
crop was a treasure chest until after
the ak had severed her cIucking ap-
paratus from the white meat. After
the execution the Plymouth rock gave
up a nugget worth $2.50 in coin of the
realm, but her secret of where she
found it is hid with her feathers in g.
sofa cushion
Some time before the cliff dwellers
held high carnival in Colorado and
that was long time ago-a mountain
was hourishing in the vicinity of Har-
man. One day-somehow or other stu
dents of such things fail to select the
exact date-but one day a great wall of
ice and water came along and carried
the mountain away.
And that was the start for the chick
en- that dug up gold recently on the
ranch Of c. H. and w. H. Brown, one
and one-half miles east of Myrtle hill.
Most everyone will agree that the
chicken could hardly have scratched
the mountain away, and without the
mountain being transplanted on some
other spot w. H. Brown would never
have had the desire to dig a chicken
coop for his brood Of Plymouth hens.
1t is just these little things that ma
ture did so many years ago, and the
desire for cellar under his chicken
coop on the part of. Brown, that has
set many people to thinking.
Discovered the Nugget. !.
If-there, comes the first big if-Mrs.
Charles Thorp had not found a gold
nugget worth $3.50 in the crop of a
Plymouth hen sold by the Browns they
would be going along today. satisfied
that the five-acre ranch was nothing
but q good place to raise chickens. Now
all this is changed. There comes the
idea for what nature did thousands Of
years ago-the question if nature, when
she moved away the mountain, left
great beds of gold for the Browns.
As the chicken that proved to be a
gold digger is dead-even the bones are
gone-a bit of a tribute must be paid
to the Plymouth hen.
This Plymouth hen-and maybe she
will so down in history-was one of
several hundred owned by the Brown
boys. Grocer Madden, who owns a
store, has been in the habit Of buying
his Saturday supply of chickens from
the Brown boys. He bought the usual
amount two weeks ago, and among the
number was the gold-digging hen -
though no one knew that then.
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Statesman and Fisherman.
D 9TH as statesman and as a fish,
- erman. writes Father Time, I
have always had the highest admira-
tiOn for the Sage of Princeton. In
either capacity Mr.. Cleveland was al
ways good enough for me, and have
never yet been quite able to make up
my mind in which capacity he showed
the greater genius
In the piscatorial side Of his activi-
ties I sometimes think he showed
greater diplomacy than in the others,
since on the water / have known him
to lure the most difficult cases of shy
ness into his net, whereas there have
been times in his public life when, with
a difficult catch in view, he has sub
stituted for the delicate casting of the
fly the far more vigorous shying Of the
brickbat.
Judging from the phraseology Of his
public utterances, in which it is the
weight rather than the number Of his
words that counts, [ am inclined to the
belief that intrinsically, good statesman
as he is, he is the fisherman. In no
other way can 1 account for the tre-
mendous philosophy of his reply to his
secretary, Mr.. Lamont, in the cam
paign of 1888, when it became evident
that he had been beaten by Mr.. Har-
rlSOn. we then were sitting in the
presidents private Office in the White
house receiving the returns. 1t was 2
o'clock in the morning and Secretary
Lamont had just come from the tele-
phone, his face the picture Of unhap-
piness.
'.Well, Dan," said Mr.. Cleveland,
what is it ?"
Sire" replied Mr.. Lamont, bursting
into tears, Il regret to say that we
have lost the state of New York"
"Ah. well, Dan," said the president,
rising, and throwing his cigar into the
waste basket, what else did you ex-
pect. 1t is always the biggest that
gets away"
-H-
Mr.. .Bry1n's Ready Wit.
n TR. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
w has received great deal Of
pretty hard criticism On his day,
but for myself 1 have always found
him a charming companion and a good,
healthy individual, irrespective of his
political views, with which I have
nothing to do. He is by no means the
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I KNOW NOW WHAT II IS TO
BE- The lCENAN,,

author Of the Declaration OF Independ-
ence was true to the very end. When
he drank his whisky was always the
plain straight stuff Of the people, and
when, on the first of every month, he
went in person to the treasurer to COL
lect his salary his invariably reply to
the question as to how he would have
1t was: I'm coppers. please. That is the
money Of the plain people,
The only act Of ostentatfon that I
ever knew him to be guilty of was one
New Years day at Monticello, when
his cook came into the library to get
some papers to start the fire with
Here, Dinah," he said, tossing a
bundle of letters to her. Here's three
or four dozen letters I have just re-
ceived from George the Third. Use
those"
Willard Fillmore and the Vice Presidency.
HE impression that the vice presi-
4 dency is in politics a short cut to
oblivion Is by no means q product OF
the latter years Of the nineteenth GEN.
tury. AS early as the time of Millard
Fillmore this idea was not only cur
rent, but was painfully realized by
that incumbent of the chair. A few
years. after Fillmore's retirement from
the presidency I spent few hours with
him at his home and he expressed him.
self openly on the subject.
'I did not enjoy the vice presidency"
he observed. 1T seemed to cast the
haze of obscufity over me. | would
meet senators at public receptions and
they would tell me that While my face
was familiar to them my name had
escaped them, and a certain eminent
detective in New York, Hawkshaw by
name, baffied in pursuit of an alleged
criminal, observed that he had disap-
peared from view as completely as
though the vice presidency had opened
and swallowed him"
But" 1 interrupted, sit was through
the vice presidency that you stepped
into the highest office Of the land"
"Yes," replied Fillmore, "but the eff
feet of my incumbency Of the second
Office was very trying For the first
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George Washington and POsterity.

george washington ana PoSt6FIty.
9TH in the field in times of war
and in the councils of state in
the piping times Of peace 1t has been
my very good fortune to come into
frequent contact with that great SOL
dier and statesman, George Washing
ton, writes Father Time. He was in
deed a man Of colossal figure, both
! physically and mentally, and in all
! things that he did was actuated largely
by the philosophy of cheerfulness.
On the famous trip across the Della
ware, when his companions complains
ed of the heaviness Of the storm his
cheerful response was Better snow
balls than cannonballs," and on land
ing on the other side his first remark
to his aides was 81 know know what 1t
is to be the iceman." Such an attitude
toward the ever present trials Of his
existence undoubtedly gave heart to
his followers, and in my Judgment
contributed greatly to the ultimate VIC
tory which perched upon the banners
Of the coIonists.
The fact that Washington had no
children has often been commented
upon with regret by those who would
like to have seen a family founded in
the republic, but Washington himself
shared not at all in them. On the
contrary, he accounted it a blessing
that no posterity of his would ever be
vexed by having to bear the mantle
Of his greatness.
s'The hardest job in the world, Chro-
nos,' said he to me one morning, 'fs
that Of the grandson Of a truly great
man. These Adamses will find that out
some day. Be the son of a great man
If you can, but never the grandson"
STILL I suggested, "it would be
pleasant to be the founder of dynas-
ty."
Don't you believe it." retorted
Washington. 'Tt would only result in
trouble. Just wait a hundred years
and see what a mess the sons and
daughters of this revolution Of ours
will get themselves into"
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I EANE KNOWN HIN TO WAIT AS
PATIENTLY FOR THE HOUR OF
VNTOEY. As WOULD JOB HIMS6LE5

year of my service as president my
private secretary had to tell me my
own name before I could sign 1t to my
state papers. I had even forgotten it
myself"
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tions. I'd dress up in red, white and
blue swallowtail and wear automobile
lanterns in my shirt front if I thought
the time was ripe, and for my meals
I'd have pate de fois gras and soft
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CLAIMS la Newbourg four times day
If I could. but the republic Is too
young for me to indulge in such osten-
tation."
And to this self-denying principle the
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The KietUs of Judge Parker.

HAVE been told that Mr.. Alton B.
Parker, one of the sturdiest prod
ucts of American citizenship now
in the public eye, greets with absolute
silence every attempt on the part Of
interviewers to learn his opinions on
public questions. This may be true
at the present time. I have not seen
Judge Parker for a month or two, but
it was not always so.
I remember very we'll spending a
Sunday with him on his farm at ESQ
puS, and delightful day it was, with
nothing of this newly acquired reti-
cence about it. In fact, he spoke free
ly in response to all my inquiries in
matters of national interest. 1 re-
member in particular two Of his an
swers which showed a profound in
terest in current affairs. One Of them
was in response to my query as to
what he thought of the Chicago plat
form.
1T lacks the rugged literary quality
of Kipling'S earlier work." he replied,
"but find it more interesting reading
than the vast bulk of the writings Of
Alfred Austin"
The other reply was to my inquiry
concerning the trusts and the men
back of them. -
We'll" he replied promptly there
is Mr.. Carnegie, who ayers that Homer
is no good, and, on the other hand,
suspect Mr.. Morgan Of being the pur-
chaser of the original manuscript OF
Millions Paradise Lest for $4,000.
What can one say in the face of such
evidence, except that the best thing to
do is to encourage the living poets and
see if by the proper conserving of their
interests we cannot finally produce a
truly great one"
I have not had Judge Parker's per-
mission to publish this anecdote, but
at such a moment as this he will per-
haps forgive me for yielding to the
temptation.
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S ONE complaint having reached
the editor of these memoirs that
~ most Of Father Times recol-
lectiOns have to do with persons so
long deceased as to have no contem-
porary interest, 'and mostly foreign
ers at that" as one correspondent puts
it, have searched the manuscript
pretty thoroughly for "reminiscences of
statesmen, living or dead, who may
still be accused of having some inf1u-
ence, direct or otherwise, upon our
lives in these United States of ours.
Ed.
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hot-headed person that he has been
painted, and I have known him to wait
as patiently for the hour of victory as
would Job himself under similar con-
ditions. AS case in point recall one
Of his visits to the enemy's country
when l had the pleasure to be with
him for short while.
AT the Waldorf one evening he and
TWO otners with myself, sat al dinner,
ana Mr.. Bryan, finding himself In inn
mediate need of a quarter to pay
messenger boy he had employed, hand
ca the waiter dollar to be changed.
III rev moments the waiter returned
anu lald 52 cents on the table before
the distinguished visitor
hank you, said Mr.. Bryan. ac-
ceptlng the situation with much grace
ana pleasant smile. He paid the mes
senger, and we resumed the repast.
Later our host called for the check.
II was for an even 80
Here, Henri" said Mr.. BRYAN. Law
Ing $500 on the table. That's for the
dlnner, and here is a quarter for vou."
AND he handed the waiter 13 cents.
~
Mr. DePeW's First Speech in the Senate
HAVE always known and loved
Il Chauncey NJ Depew, writes Fa-
ther Time. He is a man of in
finite wit and readiness of resource
upon all occasions, but I have seen
him embarrassed once, and only once.
This was upon the occasion Of his first
speech in the senate, when for a few
moments he appeared to be suffering
from what theatrical people call stage
fright
The ready flow of language that we
were all breathlessly awaiting did not
seem to be forthcoming, and the pause
that heightened out into minutes be-
came highly embarrassing to every
body. AS / recall the incident it was
his colleague, Senator Platt, who re-
heved the situation. Summoning a
page, a hurried whisper sent the lad
scurrying from the room and in a
moment one of the lunch room walters
appeared bearing a tray on which were
knife and fork. a napkin, two wine
glasses and a siphon. These were hur-
riedly spread on the desk In front Of
the embarrassed orator, together with
piece of bread and a vase Of roses.
The effect was instantaneous. The
situation was relieved and the new
senator made one of the best speeches
of his career.
"A great deal depends on atmos-
phere," he said to me afterward, "and
/ shall never cease to thank Senator
Platt for lis thoughtfulness in pro-
viding me with the setting to which
was most accustomed"
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Mrs. Wiggs has another name-Mrs.
Mary A. Bass. She is a widow with two
children. A few years ago she had q
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05
Prospecting Hen Picks
Up Signs of Fortune

- q .
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Maybe the gold came from the grav-
ell? Where did the gold come from
rather. the gravel with the gold? They
were not just sure about that, but not
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-08-12
GRAND FORKS TO ENTERTAIN
Those Who Register for Land in
DEVILS Lake Reservation.
From, Go Doilxy

Those Who Register for Land in
DEVILS Lake Reservation.
From Saturdays Daily.
The lands of the Cuthead, Sisseton and
Wahpeton bands of the Sioux tribe of
Indians on the Devils Lake reservation,
by act of the last congress, will be
thrown open to the public, and entries
may be made under the general provision
of the homestead laws. Those who are
eligible must register between Aug. Sth
and goth. Commencing Aug. oath draw
ings of allotment will be made. Sept.
9th filings by those who have drawn
privilege of selection will begin. The
cities of Grand Forks and Devils Lake,
N. d., have been designated by the gov
eminent as official points for registra-
ton.
The Commercial club of Grand Forks,
realizing that Grand Forks is by 100
miles the nearest point for the many
thousands coming from the east and
south, with its usual enterprise, has
taken the initiative and have made am
pie arrangements for housing and feed
ing those who desire to register through
that office. In addition to the ordinary
facilities of the United States land office,
the government has rented other build
ings and assigned large force of clerks
to that point.
Grand Forks is beautiful city, with
hotel and other accommodations for l5,-
600 to 10000 people. All railroads have
made low rates, in effect Aug. LIST to
Goth and an especially low rate
for Aug. 10th. The lands of the
Devils Lake reservation, which is forty
miles long and eighteen miles wide, en-
bracing 10000 acres, is very choice.
Lands bordering on the reservation are
held at $40 to $50 per acre Those who
draw allottments, will be very fortunate
indeed.
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THROWN FROM THE BRIDGE.
Peculiar Accident Occurs to Good
Thunder Bicycle Rider.
From SATURDAYS Daily

Peculiar Accident Occurs to Good
Thunder Bicycle Rider.
From Saturdays Daily.
Hilbert Lehman. whose home is at
Good Thunder, and who is employed by
Joseph Anderson, was the victim Of Pc
culiar accident last Saturday after
noon.
Lehman had been in town Sunday, rid
ing in ON his bicycle. On his way home
he had gotten as far as the top Of the
Lattimer hill when he saw a party ap-
preaching with whom he wished to talk,
so he turned around intending to tide
down hill 'te the bridge ever the river.
Lehman, however, lost control of his
machine, which dashed down the steep
incline with him at great velocity. The
hill was negotiated in safety, but upoI.
crossing the bridge the wheel struck a
slight obstruction, throwing MFR. Lehman
over the railing to the waiter, "a great
many feet below.
Fortunately, Mr.. Lehman was not
rendered unconscious, but remained in
full possession of his mind aad body,
otherwise he would undoubtedly have
been drowned. He rode the wheel back
to the Andersen farm, where he was
taken very ill, but at this writing is
progressing nicely. His spine was injur-
by by the fall. DR.. Holden is the at
tending physician inebago City En-
terprise
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NATIONAL BANK
II OF COM M ERCE
CAPITAL, $1OO.Coo.CO
oFEIcERs:

A. o. oLEsoN. Preelcsnt.
JOHN 6. DIAMOND, Vice President
c. I. OLESON, Cashier.
w. J. FLAcHSENHAR, Asst. cash'r
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GENERAL BAKER WILL SPEAK
invited to Deliver Address at Meeting
of Territorial Pioneers.
From SATURDAYS DaiJv

invited to Deliver Address at Meeting
of Territorial Pioneers.
From Saturdays Daily.
Plans for the celebration of Mime
sofa day and the annual reunion of the
Territorial Pioneers association of Min
nesota at the coming state fair were
partly arranged at meeting of the exc
cutive committee of the association held
yesterday at the Merchants hotel, ST..
Paul
1t was decided to invite w. d. Hoard,
former governor of Wisconsin, to make
the principal address of the occasion, and
Gen. j. HI. Baker of Mankato will also
be asked to speak.
A large tent will be erected for the
formal exercices, which will include the
singing of the "Log Cabin" song COM
posed for this occasion by Moses E. Arm
strong of St. James, and the reading of
an original poem by F. G. O'Brien.
There will be an informal reception
at the log cabin with musical and dane
ing program. 1t is customary for even
the Oldest among the pioneers to partici
pate in the dancing at the log cabin on
Minnesota day.
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c. st. p, M. 4 o. Time Table.
'Des Moines and Sioux City Passenger,
NO. 8, arrives 10:45 a. m; Departs
10:45 a. m.
''Kansas City and Denver Express No.
8, arr. 1905 p. M; dep. 1915 p. m.
Kansas City Mail and Express. No. I.
arr. 1915 p. M; dep. 1920 p. m.
EST. James Passenger. No. z. arr. 7:6o.
p; M; dep 500 p. m.
'Mankato and Gilmore Passenger, No. A.
departs at 7:55 a. m.
No. Is, Omaha Night Express arrives at
11:45 p. M; departs at 11:50 p. m.
Trains Going East and North.
Irwin City Limited, No. 2, arrives az
st. James Passenger No. g. arrives at
$50 a. m; departs at 7:10 a. m.
sTwin City Local, No. 6, arrives at 12:3E
p: m; departs 1855 p m.
''Twin City Express, No. 4, arrives at
4:45 p. M; departs at 1850 D. m.
Gilmore and Mankato Passenger, No. AZ.
arrives at 700 p. m.
No. 16. from Sioux Falls, and Mitchell.
arrives at 4:55 a. M; departs at SOS
sDaily except Sunday. .sDaily.
H. ]. WAGEN. Agent
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TELEGRAMS RECEIVED.
Affairs at New York End of the Line
Are All Right.
From SATURDAYS Daily


Are All Right.
From Saturdays Daily.
Mayor Taylor signed the street rail
way ordinance last night, after its pas
sage.
This morning Mr.. Willard received the
following telegram from the New York
Bond and Securities company of New
York: eve accept and approve
Pounds report upon your proposed city
of Mankato and extension railroad"
This relates to the report made by Mr..
Pound, who is the engineer who recently
came to the city to investigate the mat
ter. AS soon as this was received, the
Mankato Railway, Light and Power COM
pany forwarded the other $1,000 requir-
ed by the contract.
This afternoon the following telegram
was received from President A. Norvale
of the New York Bond and Securities
company, in response to one sent by Mr..
Willard, notifying him of the passage of
the ordinance last night: "Congratu-
late you. Nothing succeeds like push and
success. Will wire Monday when we can
come"
President Eberhart of the Mankato
Railway, Light and Power company will
go to Fargo Monday to investigate the
system and appliances used in the car
line being built there by Deegan & Daily,
for the reason that this is the latest line
to be constructed in the northwest and
probably has the latest devices.