The Duluth rip-saw., 1919-08-09

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marble lined courthouse are increasing
almost as rapidly as guinea pigs in a
warm basement.
A delble-barrelled boy is chap
VINO holds two public positions and
draws tive public salaries simultan-
eously.
Senator Charles E. Adams is the
dean of double-barrelled boys in the
service of the kindly old county Of
St. Louis. He first was state SEN
ator and then special attorney to the
board of county commissioners, after
which he held the two jobs simultan-
eously, as well as maintained a profit
able private law practice in a down
town building.
Probably County Attorney Warren
E. Greene is the nattiest and cockiest
Of all the double-barrelled boys now
serving county and nation at one and
the same time.
Mr.. Greene started life right in Du-
hth by working for the Big Interests,
housed in the noble Wolvin building,
as civil engineer, and then in select
ing the venerable Judge Ensign for a
father-ln-law. Later on, he wiggled
around until he became county at
torney.
Mr.. Greene seemed to be a bit
peeved because the man who should
have been his subordinate, Senator
Adams, was an independent, prosper
Gus double-barrelled boy by virtue Of
a state senatorship, a special attorney
ship to the dignified county commits
sioners and the beneficiary Of profit
able private law practice.
"Im become a major,' declared
Mr.. Greene, to himself, "thereby be-
ing a double-barrelled boy, with one
barrel shooting out convictions for
kindly old st. Louis county, per Mason
M. Forbes, and the other barrel shoot
ing out military opinions for Uncle
Samuel"
Securing his military appointment
and title as major, the distant kinsman
of the historic Darius Green hiked to
the Atlantic seaboard, where he has
been majoring for many months. He
not only enjoys the deep sea foods of
the coast and the evening visits to
Coney Island, but he wears natty
uniform and silver spurs, the latter
implements being very useful in keep.
ing his feet from slipping off his
shiny desk as he sits there maioring.
j. j. Cameron is a mighty affable
and competent double-barrelled boy.
Since Judge Ensign has been spending
80 much Of his judicial time in dry
deck, Laird Cameron, so to speak, has
had no duties to perform as court
stenographer. His salary of $3.50 a
month has run concurrently and been
drawn with another from Uncle Sam.
Laird Cameron, while serving COM
placent St. Louis county with his left
hand, has been using his clever right
hand at taking evidence in shorthand
for the q. s. railway administration
out in the devastated hinterland, prob
ably at the rate Of $4,000 a year.
When government detectives and
agents 60 among the impoverished set
tiers, claiming they are angels of
mercy from Washington. bent on re-.
facilitating the fire victims, Laird
Cameron takes down any and all slips
OF their tongues in shorthand. Later
on, when the settlers try to get a
Judgment in district court for fire
damages they bump up against a
transcript of the remarks they let slip
to the clever government detectives.
Incidentally, some of the settlers
have double-barrelled shotguns which
they talk of using on these govern.
ment spies if they catch them tres
passing on their devastated domains
out there in the hinterland, but all
that is another story.
Fred Ward is not a human six
shooter, but he is bigger than a double
barrelled boy. The English sports use
a three-barrelled gun of Daily manu-
facture, therefore kindly old Fred
Ward may quite properly be called a
three-barrelled English Daily.
Fred Ward was not, of course, born
and reared in st. Louis county. Native
Sons Of kindly old St. Louis rarely
become double-barrelled boys, to say
nothing Of three-barrelled English
Dallys. These double and triple bar
relied snaps must be set apart to toll
in clever boys from other states, and
even dear old Canada, the home of
the genuine Glengarry Scots.
Fred Ward blew in from Illinois,
If tradition can be credited. He first
took modest job as agricultural
agent Of the said county of st. Louis,
state of Minnesota. After that. he
became superintendent of the county
work farm, where the petty crooks and
unfortunate drunks grew to love him
because Of his gentle and humane
ways.
There was some talk of running good
old Fred for sheriff, but that Job is
q big, cumbersome, bell-mouth. one.
barrelled affair. ct hone for don.
ble- -barrelled job or none at ALL" was
Fred's ultimatum.
"We better make him a three-bar.
relied English Daily or he NAV Get
discouraged and leave the county -
said the county commissioners, SO it
was done accordingly.
Fred Ward was permitted to retain
possession of his left barrel as secre.