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9£&oiai *• xp*t c t;is» Cits' £« County j geparr: ■ . ■ — " ■■ ■■ -— triatec vtd ?ablisa»4 Every Day fa th* Yta* BY EL P. HALL. ia n YIBAAKIW •TftU'Z, bt. aui^ t^rar-"^: -- . . ..- . :. -■_ ... ._.: . ■ ■ ■■■_• MmrmM *l Babaeriptloa £ov tk* TimUy OUk*. ■7 Millar, (7 papw jmt wtt^ 71 oeala mi Mtatk. By Mao, (wihoct Soaiay MMm,) a fftpcm ya •Mk, M cents f*r Moctk. By Ban, (witk Scad*y •ditto*,) 7 ptftn pw week, 13 —iti pwr month. !' ■ • THIS WEEKLY GLOBE. The Weekly Globs la a mammoth sheet, csiotlj donblo the size of the Dally. It is Just the paper for the fireside, containing Id addition to all the current news, choice miscellany, agricultural matter, market reports, &o. It is furnished to single aubßcriben at $1, with IS cents added for pre-payment of postage. Subscribers should remit 21.15. ST. PAUL, SUNDAY, DEO. 5. 1880. JNiilW AND HTEBTAOUI6 FGBLIC&TION | A A mm Will be the name of a new weekly publication to b3 issued at St. Paul, Minn. It will be, as Its name indicates, entirely devoted tc the home —non-flectarian and non-political. It will be a sheet of 10 pages,* trimmed and bound with cover, containing Stories, Puzzles, Enigmas, Etc., for the children, Fashion Gos sip, Household Hints. Scientific Items, Liter ary Notes end general reading adapted to the fireside. No advertisements inserted save upon the cover, and nothing of an objectionable charac ter admitted on any terms. '■The Home" will be carefully uud ably edited, and will contain a large amount of original matter. It will have a LETTER DEPARTMENT, to which the public, and especially ladies, are Invited to contribute. The 'Letter Depart ment" is designed as a means of communica tion between subscribers, who can discuss household aud social topics, bat in order to ao eoirin<jJato al), the communications should be brief. The ladies of Minnesota and adjoining Btates will find 'The Home" a publication devoted to their advancement and encourage ment. There will also be a • SCHOOL CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT, In which *hort letters from school children wili be acceptable. These letters should not exceed twenty printed lines in length, and may be much shorter. Give jour criefs, your views, or ask questions, in the "School Children's De partment." The school children of different cities can compare notes and communicate with each other by means of "The Home." The first number will be issued for Christ mao, but will be printed about Dec. 15. The second number will bear date Jin. 1, ISSI, and thereafter the issue will be made weekly. Samplo copies ill ba sent to any one writing • postal card giving pusloffice address. TERMS: "Tee Home" will be sent postpaid to any ad drees for one year for One Dollar. Any one •ending five dollars and five names will receive an extra copy for ono year as a reward for the service. Tea persona clubbing together and ■ending ten names and eight dollar will re ceive ten copies for one year. As an introduc tory met sure "The Boms" will be cent ten weeks for fifteen cents. Give it a trial. Address communications "Editresß The Bomb," St. Paul, Minn. Subscriptions should be addressed to H. P. HALL, St. Paul, Minn. New Features in llio "Globe." The Gloeb this morning adds two interest ing features to its many valuable attractions. •no is the introduction of the "Silas Wegg 1' letters from New York, the first of which will be f mnd on the seventh page. These letters will be found valuable in in. formation and containing racy reading. We &Ibo icacgutate a "coci*ty department," which baa been placed in the hands of a competent gentlemen who brings many years 1 experience to the work The Sunday morning Globe will hereafter contain a weekly review of social life in St. Paul, tho State at large, and neighbor ing cities in other States. Tho public will find continually increased attractions in the Gl.ee every dfy in tbe year. Thebb ia a war now in progress between UlO present and. ex-chief of the secret ser vice. Each call the other a rascal, and brings pretty good proof to sustain the charges. When rogues fall out there is a probability that honest folks may get their dace. Now that the medical colleges have re sumed their wititer seEßiona reports of the desecration of graves come from all parts of the country. It will be necessary ere long to place a can of nitro-glyoerine in each of the graves, bo that a fitting welcome may be given to tho ghouls while about their work. Cue members of Congress do not appear to be over anxious to resume their legisla tive duties at Washington. Op to Thursday evening only twenty had shown themselves at the capital, aud somo fear there will not be a quorum on hand by noon to-morrow, when both houses will be oilled to order. Such laggard conduct does not argue well for f.n energetic business session. Wisconsin has two candidates for cabinet positions under Mr. Garfield. Postmaster Payne, of Milwaukee, is an active aspirant for postmaster general, and Hon. Thad. O. Found, of Ghippewa Falls, would not de dine the office now held by Carl Sehurz. There are several counties jet to hear from, aud it is possible that the vaulting ambition of our neigboring State may develop itself and take a tumble where there are no cabi net offices to be had. Tbsbb is every indication that there will be another negro exodus in the spring, bat this time it will be from Kansas back to the South. Nearly three-fourths of the colored people who entered that State last summer are living in absolute destitution, and great Suffering has been endured. Thousands are now dependent upon charity for food and raiment. The weather is intensely cold, and many must inevitably perish before the close of the winter unless aided. The people of the State, however, are becoming weary of maintaining an army of paupers, and contri butions are coming in slowly. This intelli gence is full confirmation of the predictions Of the Glob*, made while the exodus was in progress. j RATIONALISM dND MATERIALISM. Now 1 beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to ! the doctrine which ye have learned; acd avoid j them.—Romans xvi:l7. The growth of materialism in this as well as in the old country has caused many sin cere Christians to fear for the permanence of the church and of religion. No observer of passing events and prevailing public senti ment on the subject of religion can deny that during the post decade the church has lost much of its influence among the moss of the people, and that there is no longer that implicit confidence in the words uttered from the pulpit or even that faith in the inspiration of the scriptures that was once characteristic of the regular attendants upon the ministrations of the gospel. Men doubt now where they formerly believed; they dis pute where they formerly accepted on faith. This is not wholly to b3 wondered at for many reasons, and the fact is not wholly to be deplored. Men in this day and generation are far more intelligent^than they^were even a gener ation ago, and read, think and argue for themselves. They do not accept all the doc trines end hue. that have been taught by i the pulpit for ages as the correct interpreta tion of the will of the deity, but, taking tbe scriptures they formulate a creed for them selves based en what their reason teaches them are the fundamental principles of Christianity. They cherish the precepts taught by the master that tend to make of all mankind a brotherhood, and reject almost unanimously as repugnant to their sense of justice and benevolence the doctrine that the creator is a god of hate, visiting the iniquities of the father upon tbe chil dren to the third and fourth generation. They know, for Jesus has told them, that the whole duty of man to his fellow men is comprised in the commandment to love the Lord with all their soul, mind and strength, and their neighbor as themselves, and that all else is but tbe invention of seen who ganged their conceptions of deity by their own narrow minds. The clergy are doing a great deal to pro mote the growth of rationalism. In the first piece their lack of sincerity—of earnest belief in the doctrines they preach, inspires a distrust cot only of their honesty but of the truths of religion which they profess to teach. Then they are not content to preach the gospel of Christ, but run off after strange gods. They preach politics, science, domes tic, political and social. economy, discuss the latest novel or. poem, measure swords ! with the noted controversialists on this, that I or the other point, and seem to be endeavor ing to render truthful Mrs. Partington's defi nition of a church as "a place where tbe gospel is dispensed with." Intellectual cul ture is not inconsistent with Christianity, but a great aid to it,*but the instruction of the mind should not be allowed to entirely supersede tbe good of the soul. Materialism is no doubt making great progress. A little of it infused into the churches might prove of benefit to it. Cer tainly rationalism is not to be wholly con demned. There, is so much that is ixrational in tbe teachings of many pulpits that it is a relief to go outside and bear the same subjects discussed from the standpoint of -reason, and to witness the breaking up of the many graven images that have been set up to represent some of the attributes of deity. It is impossible for intelligent hu man beings to worship a god snob as the creator is pictured sometimes—a spirit pos sessing all the faults that we have been taught to bestow upon the evil one. Reason should be applied to religious precepts as well as to other things, and when the sects come to recog nize its sway and to separate religion from superstition—to sift the wheat from the chaff and tares, there will be an end to the complaints of the spread of rationalism, materialism and infidelity. The churches sbomld recognize the fact that holds good all over the world, that one extreme begets another, and strive to conform their pre cepts to the eminently beautiful dootrraes taught by Christ while on earth, peace on earth and good will to men. ■' A HEEDED ENTERPRISE. St. Paul business men are usually enter prising and really alive to all industries cal culated to build up our trade in every diiec tion. Already the city is tbe commercial center of a vast empire, and the wholesale and jobbing trade amounts to very nearly fifty million dollars a year, and is constant ly increasing. There is one direction, how ever, in which the city is derelict, and & very important one, too. Allusion is had to the absence of adequate beef and pork- pack ing establishments, which would unques tionably prove not only a source of profit to the projector?, but a convenience and profit to the entire country tributary to this city. It is true there are a number of small estab lishments that pack a few hundred barrels of pork and beef each year, but what is needed is one or more concerns that shall put up enough to supply the demands of the whole territory the west and northwest of this city. Minnesota raises cattle and hogs enough to supply her own people, and have a bal ance on hand for her neighbors. This city, besides, is rapidly becoming a distributing point for the cattle of Dakota and Montana, a constantly increasing trade that will, in the course of a few years, require the em ployment of hundreds of thousands of dol lars. All these cattle and the hogs raised in this vicinity have to be transported to Mil waukee or Chicago, whence they are re transported to this city for distribution to the customers of our wholesale dealers. Thus consumers are compelled to pay trans portation charges unnecessarily for more than eight hundred miles, a tax that in the course of a year amounts to a consid erable sum. This might be saved by the • establishment of a large pecking house in this city capable of packing enough pork and beef to supply tho want is of our trade. It would also stimu late the business of hog raising and add largely to the wealth of the producing olasses of the State. There is a bonanza awaiting some enter prising capitalist who will engage in this bueineES. A large outlay for buildings would not be necessary, while the profits would j amply repay the investment. There is no business that has in the past been more p*o dnc'.ive. As long as people are obliged to eat there will be a demand for the*products of the pecking houses. There is scaraely any loss, as hides, hair, hoofs, bones and entrails can be utilized in the various manu facturing industries. Who will be the first to engage in this enterprise in St. Paul? The first man in the field may be assured that I there is a fortune awaiting him. ah*, saini pall SUNDAY GLOBE, SUNDAY feUKMiIiU DJSCKMJJKIi 5 io U BETWEEN OURSELVES. Thackeray says the "grocer rules the world now instead of the baron," and we know he's right, although he has a very shocking way of breaking such truths to us. He paid and did the moat unprecedented thirjgs in his day—things that hit us all, and fit us all, with the most awful impartiality, and are likely to describe our kind while thii swinging ball of earth holds the race, w hose past he set before us in British Humorists and the Georges; which seem to be continued in Vanity Fair, the New comes, and Pendennis. It is an outcropping of the same human nature, whether tbe per sonages be real and notable, or real with a Blight varnish of fiction, as in the masterpieces of this mighty delineator. His friendships were of eclectic method, and bis appreciation of individuals had an occa sional dash of hardihood, which proved that he knew who be was upon occasions when a Emaller soul would b« mute to everything save the bold framework of circumstance, which being suited to the letter, what need of more ? Now so rare is this admission of that ulterior dne, that there are few men who are responsive to it. The writer in sure Chris. O'Brien has that enviable impulse—for he was tested in a way that bronght his Bound head and manly heart into action—all the harder for him too, that he conld make no pecuniary retnrn, and bad to depend solely on the fine atonement of the spirit to a friendless and forsaken creature. Two of Thackeray's finest volumes are dedi cated to a tailor—M. Areta.of Paris—who trusted him when he was needy, and not only that, but offered his goods and services in a way that touched the great satirist's heart. A tailor— think of it!—to send him down the stream of time, the one immortal of his craft, enshrined in genius and gratitude by this odd yet august Englishman, who, not content with paying his bill as far as the money was concerned, still felt a debt which mere money oculd never liquidate, and co he claps his generous tailor'b name where the world may be reminded of his kindness. Yon see in this, perhaps, abravado of honesty and impregnable candor. Thackeray knew that he would pay that confiding Frenchman, and while he was beholden to him he would fust as lief have the whole world know his indebtedness, because be probably cared very little for "genteel" appearances as tbe world values them. But supposing he Old care for them, and had no ready money to sustain them—and suppos ing that he was thin-skinned at the least suspi cion of his impecuniosity at any time in his life, why then of course we should not have that outre dedication, proclaiming it, and we might infer, if we pleased, that be web in complete sympathy with the pecuniary peccadillos of his favorites, Goldsmith and Fielding, who dressed riohly at rare and rapturous intervals— and, alas, gayly fionted the unrequited tailor. Now there are hoßts of people apparently flourishing in a costly sphere, who are well supplied with all the Enperficial requirements of it—and yet we know that it is rather con jectural whether they wonld carry the same high heeds if the items of the merchants' ledgers were known, and the secret of their showy artifices laid bare. There are lota of fine people who cringe to and supplicate shopkeepers for pecuniary favors who snub and ' 'cut" persons in their own set, and out of it, partly because they haven't the very things they themselves under- j go snob untold miseries of suspense and morti- i fioation to compass, and largely because 1 hey are a, tacit rebuke to them. Sometimes they manage to get out of the shopkeeper's power— and then in any spasm of gratitude for past trust would they, think you, dedicate anything to him? Not mnch. They soon "quench his familiar smile with an austere regard of oon trol,'"Malvoliofashion. These are the cowards; persons with tbe instincts of the thief, and tbe manners of the monkey in every emergency of imitation and acquisition. There axe scores who do a flourishing society business on such a basis. Their impecuniosity is well-known, and while people smile, and aek where the finery comes from, and specu late over every fresh symptom of posses. Biona—the deception is bo general that they are received as if they were the most solvent in the world. It is pitiful to think that their subterfuges are a commentary and a i laughing stock to the world they move in,) ' and it is yet more stultifying to see the' "make-believe-you're-all-right" affectation of the world towards them. There is more con summate acting on the world's atsge than any where else. Be it genteel comedy or high strung tragedy, the beat actors are in private life. We know them, and applaude them tacitly. Wby, there has been a part played here which is bo blended of lies and simulation, and mys tery, that there is no more extraordinary act ing in the world. It didn't hang well together and the cues were far-fetched. In point o» fact, the play was unnecessary and the acting overdone. The, to them, nether world of shopkeepers and servants know the impecunious and the strategic. That's enough. How much and how little weight is given to what servants have to cay. Bometimes Mrs. Harris is elated when she can get a eervant who has lived with Mrs. Flaneur. It gives her the prestige of equality, and by many an artfully artiesß method of questioning the interior of that household is bronght under her wistful inspec tion. Of conrEe she has bsr ups and downs of feeling as her own points of difference are bet ter and those of the social magnate worsened. But when that indefinable flavor of something better than money is given—and trust me, no one can give it better than a servant—then is Mrs. Harris unhappy. While that servant stays with her, be it long cr Bhortfßhc wiil make her feel the ineffable drawback, and use it accordingly. The people of all the world who see humani ty as it is—are the shopkeepers—and the ser vantß. This is one interpretation of Thacker ay's text that the grocer rales the world instead of the baron. They Eec us in our shabbiness, onr vain glory, our pretensions, our helcießsnee, aye, and even in our \ices, for it doesn't seem to be worth the while to affect much before them, It is too troublesome to be always acting. Ore mnst have a rest. Meanwhile tbe kitchen jnry bMb, and what a ghastly verdict they return. When Mrs. Bawdon Orawley made her ap pearance at Gaunt house, tbe porter who un barred the gates, the servants of all uniforms in the ball, the f anctionaries in white waist coats, who bawled out from landing to landing the names of Col. and Mrs. Bawdon Grawley, knew about her, or fancied they did. The man who brought her refreshment and stood behind her chair, had talked her character over with the large gentleman in motley colored clothes at bis Bide. Bon Dien! it is awful, that servants' inquisi tion ! You see a woman in a great party in a splendid | salon, surrounded by faithful ad mirera, distributing sparkling glances, dressed to perfection, curled, rouged, smiling and happy:—Discovery walks respectfully up to her in the shape of a huge, powdered man with atray of ices—with calumny (which is as fatal as truth) behind him, in the shape of the hulk ing fellow carrying the wafer biscuits. Madam, your Eeeret will be talked over by those men at their club at the pnblio house to-night. Jeames will tell Chawles his notions about you over their pipeß and pewter beer pots. Some people ought to have mntes for ser vants in Vanity Fair—mutes who could not write. If you are guilty—tremble. If yon are not guilty have a care of appearances— are as ruinous as guilt. The Vthm (jeritht d the servants' hall had pronounced against her. Acd so — guiltless very likely — she was writhing and pushing onward toward what they call a "position ia society," —and the servants were pointing at her us j lost and ruin?d. What a pitiful picture Dickens gives of Mr. Merdte, the railway grandee, under tha know ing eye and imperious port of that awful but ler, who knew him in his travesty of high life, and perhaps shrewdly rated him as the swind ler he proved to be. Merdle coulcfn't stand it, so he shook off life and the butler by suicide. There ia but one servant who stands out in touching relief to the usual behavior of his class—and that ia Caleb Balderstone in the Bride of Lammer moor, who persisted in keeping up appear ances, and putting on airs, when his gloomy and impoverished master, the laird of Bavens wood, flung them aside contemptuously. Why, Caleb actually Btole a cooked goose to Bet something before his master's EJinboro kins man who arrives suddenly to the dismay of the faithful retainer. Perhaps Sancho Panza deserves honorable mention. He humors his master while enter ing the most literal protests against his absurd ities which make them both so uncomfortable and ridiculons. But he doesn't forsake his kind-hearted and gentle Dan— he lives to have the misguided yet noble old soul make apologies on his death bed to his faithful, but never too credulous squire. ' Well, what are we any way ? Science- tells U3 our ancestors grovelled; ©battered and had tails. When you see a white, upright creature driving a span of horses with a cockade on his hat, you can believe we have just evolved into the menagerie display of it, and you- crave to study tha specimens. Don't you? THE CHURCHES TO-DAY. Globe Announce of Religious Sei vices in St. Paul To-Day. Catholic Churches. . ■ St. Michoel'B church, Sixth ward—Rev. P.J. Gallagher, pastor. Mass at 7 o'clock A. m. High mass and sermon at 10:30 o'clock a. m. Vespers at 3:30 o'clock p. m. St. Joseph's church, Carroll street, between j Western and Virginia avenues— Bey. Joseph : Eeefe, pastor. Low mass at 8 o'clock a. si. High mass at 10 o'clock a. m. Vespers at 4 o'clock p. m. St. Mary's church, corner Ninth and Locust streets—Bey. L. E. Calliett, pastor. Mass at 10:30 o'clock a. m. Sunday school at 2:30 o'clook p. m. Vespers at 8:30 o'clock P. m. Assumption church (German), corner Ninth and Franklin streets— Mass at 7 o'clock A. M.; for children at 8 o'clock a. m. High mass an/i sermon at 10:30 o'clock A. M. Sunday school at 2 o'clock p. M. Vespers at 3 o'clock p. m. Church of St. Louis, corner Tenth and Ce dar streets—Bey. A. Payett, pastor. Mass at 7:30 o'clock A. M. High mass and sermon at 10 A. 11. CAI#EXDAB FOB WEEK. Deo. 5, Sunday—Second Sunday of Advent. Deo. 6, Monday— Nicholas, confessor. Dec. 7, Tuesday—St. Ambrose, confessor, bishop and doctor. Dec. 8, Wednesday—Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. *•' Dec. 9, Thursday—Of the Octave. . Dec. 10, Friday—Of the Octave. Dec. 11, Saturday—St. Damascus, confessor. Protestant Chtirches. Firat Baptist church, corner Wacouta and Ninth streets—Bey. L. O. Barnes, pastor. Ser vices commence at 10:30 a. and 7:30 P.M. Communion at close of morning sermon. Sab bath school at 12:15 p M. Young People's meeting at 6:45 p. m. First Presbyterian church, corner of Lafay ette avenue and Wood street—The Rev. George F. Fitch, of Shanghai, China, will preach at 10:30 a. m. No service at night. House of Hope Presbyterian church, cornrr of Fifth and Exchange streets—Services at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Preaching on both occa sions by the tor, Bey. David B. Breed. At the clese of the sermon in the morning the sacrament of the Lord's supper will be ad ministered. Central Presbyterian chErcb, Bey. B. F. Blaolaren, pastor; on Cedar street, between Ninth and Tenth streets, (near capitol)— Preaching at 10:30 a m. and 1:30 P. M. Sab bath school and bible classes at 12 m. Bey. Geo. F. Fitch, a missionary to China, will preach at the evening service, on foreign missions. Christ church (Episcopal), corner of Fourth and Franklin Btrata—Rev. Henry Kittson, rector. Services 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 P. M. j Bday school 2:30 P. it. Plymouth Congregational Cbureb, corner 1 Wabashaw street and Summit avenue— service at 10:30 A. m and 7:30 p. m. Preach ing by the pastor, Bey. Dr. Dana. Evening subject: "Facing toward Jerusalem." Sab bath school at 12 m. Young people's meeting at 7:45 p. M. Grace M. E. church, Hopkins street— ing—Communion Eervice. Evening—Sermon by the pastor H. C. Jennings. Sunday school 12 m. General class meet at 6:30P v. Unity ohnrcb, corner Wabanhaw and Ex change streets—Service at 10:30 A m. Sermon by W. C. Gannett. Sunday school at 12. First Methodist Episcopal Church, rner of Third 6treet ana Summit avenue—Services at 10:30 A. m. and 7:30 p.m., conducted by the pastor, Samuel G. Smith. Seats free. All welcome. * German Evangelical St. Paul's Chnrcb, on Temperance street near Jackson—Services at 10:30 a.m. Preaching by pastor, Bey. Bobt. Conrad. New Jerusalem (or Swedenboreian) church, Market street, between Fourth and Fifth streets—Rev. Edward C. Mitchell, pas tor. Services at 10:30 a. m. acd 7:' p. M. Subject of sermon: "Revenge." Evening lecture: "Physical Death; Its Nature, Cause and Results." r Bethel chapel, foot of Jackson street— Preaching at 8 p. vs. byChaplain Smitb, and at 7:30 a gospel temperance meeting and song service. Young men are specially invited, and everybody welcome. Y. M. O. A.—Bible reading and sons: service at 4p. m., conducted by Rev. M. D.Edwards ard Messrs A. E. and R. 8. Clark. An 12ar}y Morning Disturbance Early yesterday morning, when everybody as is anyone, but policemen and newspaper reporters, were abed, a disgraceful row tock place between to demireps at the entrance to Clara Morton's bagnio, on Eagle street. The row was between Jennie Bateson and the doorkeeper at Morton's, a woman who goes by the elegant cognomen ef "Daniel." The fuss took place about 2 o'clook, at which time the sylph like and graceful Jennie called at the rival concern to pay her respects to a former inmate of her bouse named Frankie Howard. The latter expressed herself as desirous of giving Jennie the go by and she was request ed to take French leave from the house. But Jennie is not that kind of an anaconda; she tarried around that door till the chin music commenced to flow and the venerable damsels soon got to blows. For a few min utes there was some tall old scratching. Bateson was hauled over the coals in a style that made her head spin and it is alleged that she tried to stab her opponent with a pair of scissors. Both women were badly demoralized, and they swear vengeance on each other, The whole caboodle should have been put under arrest In this wise does a worthy Illinois oontem porary bemoan: This ia to certify that we have never tried StJJacobs Oil, and haven't the least idea whether it woald do us good or not. Even so, ye Ledger people} but we know lot? of people who have been cured by it, and such a - glad thanksgiving as is daily rendered by the army of martyrs recovered from rheumatism and other painful diseases, would be a revelation of pleasure to the fa vored ones of health. The Holiday Trade has now begun, and our stock of all kinds of musical instruments and merchandise is larger than ever. Dealers and otherß will do well to get bur prices before purchasing elsewhere. Send for catalogue to Dyer & Howard. - -1 THE TEACHERS. The Krgutar Monthly Mte'iajc Yesterday— Jvimi^Kioiis, lissayK anil Interchange of Views. The monthly meeting of the teachers of j the pnblio school* was held in the assembly room of tbe High school at 10 o'clook yes terday forenoon, Inspector Donnelly beiag the oiily member of the board of ed ucation present. The teaobers wero present in fall force and the exercises were product ive of the liveliest interest. Commencing at 10 o'clock, the' High school glee club, un der the direction of Prof. Priem, favored the audience with a selection. The class sang in perfect concert and displayed the most in telligent vocal culture. paper was then read by Prof. Weitbreohfc on the subject of school hygiene. In oom mencing, the author called attention to the paiamount necessity of maintaining good health, and to the conditions necessary to preserve physical stamina in the school room. First among these were the indispensable factors of sunlight, fresh air and exercise; in the school room good ventilation was most conducive to good health; it was not the bread or meat which the body assimilated that made good health, but the quality of the blood; with pure blood there would be good health. The speaker said it was a well known fact that the death rate was larger on the shady side of the street. With the body well charged with oxygen, the organic impurities of the body would be driven out. The speaker was in favor of strong exercise; exercise tbat would open the pores of the body, admit of free perspiration, and thus aeei9t in throwing off the organic impurities of tbe body. Pare air in the school room v as indespec sable of good health; to obtain this there should be a constant current of fresh air and in addition to good ventilation there should be established a system of light gymnnstics. As a general thing boys are apt to obtain out-door exercise enough to maintain good health, the girls suffered more from the ef fects of bad ventilation. The speaker al luded to scientific experiments recently made in Paris, by which it was shown that the old fashioned fire-place were more oon ducivrf to health than the stove or faraace, as the tem perature in the room could be perfectly reg ulated. The ,screed was elaborate and sci entific and was beard with great pleasure. Prof. H. W. Slack, of the Hacaboldt school, took exception to the statement that all the schools in St. Paul were illy venti lated. The speaker thought that the Hum boldt school was well ventilated and explain ed the theory as iv vague in that school. Prof. Wright liked the suggestion regard ing plenty of robust exercise; he spoke of the ventilation of the several schools and ex plained that the school buildings recently erected were far batter equipped in point of ventilation than the old buildings, The great difficulty seemed to be-to keep au even temperature; in many instances the ther mometer was more of an ornamental ap pendage than anything else; the registers were wired down and the windows were not properly attended to. Miss Haggerty and Mrs. 2ahonyi were called upon for a vocal selection, in response | to which they rendered a song, accompanied on the piano by Prof. Priem. The selection waa prettily sung and received with ap plause. Supt. Wright called attention to two recent produotionß on educational themes from the pens of very able writers. The articles were an essay by Chas. Francis Adams, entitled "Sciantifio Common School Education,*' Harper it Magazine for December, and a ' screed by Kicu&rd Grant White in the No vember number of the North American Re mew, entitled "Poblio Schools a Failure." In Bpeakiug of the articles Prof. . Wright stated that Miss Nowsou bad made interest ing extracts from the article of Mr. Ad line, which tbe lady would read to the audience. Miss Newson read the extracts alluded to, which had reference to the mode of con ducting publio Echools, in. that nursrry of common school education, Pennsylvania. The subject of common schools receives ooni prehensive treatment at the ha ads of the : ablestatesmen,' and history of common school education in New England is traced from the meeting house of the Puritans to the scientific and grandiase institutions of the present day. i Supt. Wright followed with some timely remarks on the subjeot of the essay. Prof. Campbell called attention, with pardonable pride, to the record of his high : school data and to their proficiency in spell ing. He oited the record of the class for ; three years, at the examinations, whioh showed but few errors and a remarkable proficiency in this most oommouiy neglected study. ■ Mrs. Zahonyi favored the audience with a i song, accompanied by Prof. Priem. The selection was admirably rendered. v 1 Sapt. Wright alluded to Bioaard Grant White's artiole, entitled "Public Sob^ola a Failure." Supt. Wright ably oombatted the ideas suggested by the author, and read some thoughts on the influence of popular edaca cation on the moral development of tho ! pupil. The speaker ably maintained that the system of public education was not to blame for the moral deterioration of the rising generations. Tbe extravagant assertions of Mr. White to this effeot, were arraigned as absurd. As a rule the morale of the dcbocls was good; it was impossible to conceive bow with average discipline and attention the in fluence of the schools could ba demoralizing. To remedy? what be deemed was tho per nicious influence of the schools, Mr. White thought all but the primary branches of the schools should be abolished; the utter ab surdity of this view was fitly characterized by Mr. Wright. Announcements were read of teachers' meetings as follow:-: Grades, second and third, Friday, Deo. 10th; grade first, Friday, Dec. 17tb. Principals' meeting, Monday, Dec. 20th. German teaobeis at Jefferson school, Tuesday the 14th mat. at 4p. m. Teachers will be paid on Thursday, Dec. 23, at 3:30 p. m. . The State educational association will meet at the capitol Tuesday, Dec. 28tb. and con tinue in session two days. The exercise? closed with the song "Moon light on the Lake," rendered in charming i style by the teachers' class. MUUXT ZIO.V. A Fair for the Benefit of this Worthy r-n --stltutlon. The fair of "Mount Zion" congregation is to commence December 13, and continue Decem ber 14,15, 16 and 17, and close Saturday, De cember 18. All necessary preparations have been made to make this fair one of the most interesting and attractive in every particular which ever was held in this city. The ladies and gentlemen who have charge of the matter have resolved that no efforts shall be spared to please one and all who should favor them with their attendance. This being the first Hebrew fair which was held here, it is'hoped that it will be liberally patronized. The entire pro . ceeds will be donated for tbe erection of a new , temple. The members of the Hebrew congre gation owe already our good citizens a debt of : gratitude for the liberal subscriptions they ; have received for their noble enterprise—of building a new temple. Tni* true, . liberal spirit shall never be forgotten, and fully recip ; rocated whenever an opportunity should pre sent it?elf, 1 Let us hope and trust that tho forthcoming fair will be made a great success, and Chat one and all will spend many pleasant evesttngs at the beautiful Sherman hall, where the fair will be held, is earnestly desired. Buckler: Arnica Salve* Thfl beet BaiTa in the world fof Cats, Bruises, Barm, doers. Salt Rh»anv Fever Sore«, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, tioxn*. and. all kinds of Skin Eruptions. Thii ulv« U guar anteed to give pert satlifactioa In every cut n money refunded. Price 25 oenU per box. Far sal* by Edward H Biggm, St. Paul, Minn, A LOUT miSONBn. Tho Sheriff of Brown County Takes t; Leu son la Human Nature and Mourns • a Prisoner Who Skipped From Him. There was a fanny incident transpired on Jackson street near the levee yesterday af ternoon which would have made Dean Swift's donkey laugn itself to death or pat Tr is tain Shandy to steal from a prince or drink sack with an honest beggar. Yesterday morning there came to St. Paul an honest soul named John Manderfelt, sheriff of Brown county, in charge a gal lows scapa fellow named Dnncan, who had been sentenced to fire years and six months in the psnetentiary for having too great a fancy for other people's horses. The*officer of tha law wa3 on bis way to Still water, where his man was to be immured for. over live years. Fending the departure of the train the twain hied them op town to take in the Bights of the city. Demean ' promised to behave himself, so the confiding sheriff didn't make him pat on the darbies. They were both jolly dogs, and Duncan felt so overjoyed at his prospective rest that he imbibed several glasses too much of the ! ardent. In fact, they both indulgeckto some extent and became quite jolly. After a while Duncan became slightlyjmore familiar than tbe relations of the men would seem to warrant Then it was that the arm of the law pat on the visage of outraged justice and started with his prisoner for the depot. Going down Jackson street he tipped Officer De Corsey a wink,who accompanied them to the depot. Here all was excitement; the Sioux City train was polling out, and thinking it was the express for Stillwater, Manderfelt hustled his man on board. As soon as Dancan reached the platform he skipped off on the other side and broke for West St. Paul. The story goes that Manderfelt is hoofiing it over the ties for Brown county. Danoan is described as 5 ft 6 inches high, weighs 150 pounds, 23 yeard old, gray eyes, long nose, blonde complexion, sandy mous tache and whiskers. He wore gray pants, boots, an ulster overcoat and a cheap beaver cap. A reward of 960 is offered for his cap ture. CAUGHT. An Old Fish, With Stale Bait—The Sad T*le of an Aged Mlnneapolltan. . An old sport, past sixty, with venerable aspect and gray whiskers, and wearing a continental stovepipe hat, which must have been in its prime when the Father of Oar Country "carried the news to Mary," came to St. Paul yesterday from the bucolic- pur lieus of Minneapolis in quest of his darling and a gold jigger. The antique old thorough bred actually wore a shawl; this may seem strange for a thoroughbred, but after all he only oame from Minneapolis. He said he was looking for a young lady, Sophie, her name was Sophie Laughey, who borrowed his watch and some other trifles. The kind hearted old party described the young woman as being well developed. She wore a gray dress, No. C shoe, red striped stoc&iDgs and a thing, said the eld dandy, I think they call a dolman. Yon could tell, snid he, that she was game by the look of her eye. She had occupied rooms next to his apart ments in Minneapolis, and he had been particularly kind and fatherly to her. David Van Derm, such is his name, had been divorced from his wife a couple of 3 ears ago. He saved from the wreck a quantity of household furniture, which for : convenience sake he stored in his room. From time to time he kindly loaned articles of household furniture to his lad* friend. Last Friday she came to his room, and re lated how she was going to have her picture taken, and how she wanted to cut a stunning figure and look nice, so that ha could wear her carte about his good old neck as a re minder of happy days. She wanted to bor row his watch, and succeeded in so doing. Hence his trip to St. Paul. Ho related the above, but my boy, said he, I wouldn't have it in the newspapers for a thousand dollar?. A Missing Bookkeeper. Night before last at closiing up time, James Thomson, the assistant bookkeeper at the commission house of James J. Jellet, No. 16 Jackson street, put ell the loose cur rency he could find in his pocket, turned the lock on the front door, and skipped out. The young fugitive and thief went his way, over the cordoray road of crime to the penitentiary, which he will reach in the long ran, undoubtedly, and his crime was found out yesterday morning. He took with him $150 in currency of the firm's money and it is thought that an in vestigation will result in the finding of oth er delinquencies. Young Thomson has been in the employ of the firm about eight or ten weeks and his former history is not known. He oame to the firm highly recom mended by Mr. Chase of the relief bureau. It is thought that he took the evening train for the East and up to last night he had not been apprehended. THE COURTS District Court. ! Before Judge Brill. ] SPECIAL TEEM CAIiE>DAB. Farmers & Mechanic*' bank v.-. John Dona hue": attachment for disobeying supplement ary order. Irmina Gies vs. Win. Gels; settlement of ali mony. Taken under advisement. A. ft Capehart vs. M. Craig et. al.: order to show cause. Continued one week. Win. H. G3y vs. Kuec Bros.; motion for new trial. To be heard by Judge Wilkin. Herman Grene vs. Chas. Ley berg; motion to remand to the municipal court. Taken under advisement. R. Blakely vs Wm. G. LeDuc; motion to confirm receiver.* report of Rale. Same. C. W. Farley us. James B. G-;ldsburg and the St. Paul & Manitoba railroad company, garnishes; application continued one week. E. U. Dahl vs. S. Potter and Dawaon & Co., garnishces. Referred to J. W. White to take disclosure. i£. _-v E. D. Dahl vs. same and the Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha railroad company, garnißhees. Same eeference. The St. Louis Cotton factory vs. N. B. Ear wood and Langdon & Co., garninhees. Con tinued two weeks. [Before Judge Simons. J COURT CASES. Julia T. Greenleaf vs. P. F. Egan; action for accounting. On trial. Municipal Court. [Before Judge O'Brien.] CRIMINAL. The City vs. Wm. Moore; drunkenness. Com mitted for four days. The City vs. G. E. Gustanson; same. Com mitted for three days. The City vs. (J. A. Johnson; same. Fine of S3 paid and discharged. The City vs. Michael Hoban ; disorderly con duot. Discharged. The State vs. Gust Dih 1; bastardy. Settled. The City va. James Kennedy; assault and battery. Discharged. Theßtate vs. August Moeller, Jr.; assault with dangerous weapon. Held to the grand jury. The State vs. Fred. Parth; larceny. Held to the grand jury and committed in default of $600 bail. j: One Experience from Marriage. "I had been sick and miserable so long, and had caused my husband bo much trouble and expense—no one seemed to know what ailed methat 1 was completely disheartened and | discouraged. In this frame of mind 1 got a S bottle of Hop Bitter* and used them unknown to my family. I soon began to improve and : gained bo fast that my husband and family thought it strange and unnatural, but when I told them what had helped me, they said, "Hur rah for Hop Bitters 1 long may they prosper, for they have made mother well and as happy " —The Mother.— Home Journal. SUNDAY GLOBELETU Thought at a church fair-Faint pocket-book never captivated fair lady. The Rev. Samuel Caley, a distinguished Wee leyan divine and theological professor, is dead. Christian Hebrews are moat numerous in Russia, Germany and England coming next in order. One thousand Congregational ministers of England and Wales are set down a.i total ab atainerß. Sir Francis Lycett, who recently gave $25, --000 toward Wesleyas chapel building in Lon don, is dead. It is said that Mr. Moody'a meetings in Salt Lake City carried consternation into the rank* of the Mormonß, and were very influential for good. One-half of the necessary endowment of $3O;oooforthe Southern Presbyterian tbeo legical seminary, at Columbia, 8. C. has bean provided jr. ; y ... Dr. Dickey, pastor of Calvary Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, enters on his sizth year. The church has 567 members and is enjoying steady prosperity. A piece of tough meat lodged in tho wind pipe of the Rev. Mr. Carey, of Abington, Northamptonshire, England, and killed him before he could rise from the table. On an old Faglish tombstone is the fol lowing : Here lies the body of Mary Bent Kicked op her heela and away she went. The English Cosgregationalunion will cele brate, next year, the jubilee of its foundation, and institute a special jubilee fund. Congre gationalisis from other countries will be invited to participate. The English society for promoting Christian knowledge has just published the Oo3pel of St. Matthew and parts of the prayer book in Ojib way, and a manual of devotion in the Beaver Indian dialect. '•Is heaven a State, do yon think " inquired Mrs. Fitzjoy of Mr. Toplofty. "Aw, I wealiy don't weoollect. My impression is that-it is only a tewwitowy, aw'" Theological geography was immediately dropped. "I wonder, uncle," said a little girl, "if men will ever yet live to be 500 or 1,000 years old?" "No, my child," responded the old man, "that was tried once, and the race grew so bad that the world had to be drowned." The English papers tell of a pric jt near Tra lee, Ireland, who made his congregation, at two masses, promise on their knees not to im brue their hands in the blood of one of his pariahoners—a large land agent. Dr. Legge, an expert in Chinese matters, calculates that, at the present rate of mission increase, there will be, in 1913, 26,000,000 church members and 100,000,000 professing Chmtians in the Chinese empire. The Methodist ministers of Boston, in their Monday morniDg meeting, have had under con sideration for much of the time for some months the question of future probation, in , which some of their ministers were found to be ' heterodox. Five missionaries about to go t>ci or return ' to service in India participated in the recent missionary meeting of the English Baptist un | ion. One of them was a converted P&reee, and two of the others were authors of works in the ; Hindi language. Bishop Cotterill, of Edinburgh, gave an ac count, at the recent meeting of the synod of his dioce3e, of his visit to America and at tendance upon the Episcopal general conven tion. He testified to the wannpth of the re ception he met with. The council having in charge the dutrioc tion of the London hospital Sunday fund fats decided, in substance, not to make grants to hospitals in which religions liberty is not al lowed or in which religions principles of pa tients are tampered with. it is stated that King Oscar 11, of Sweden, has ordered a collection to be taken in all his churches of Sweden before May next, for the benefit of Zion Swedish Lutheran church in Philadelphia. The fund will be nsedto help in providing a place of worship for the Swedes. A Scotch professor said with great warmth, at a diflonsßion of the Sunday question in th: Glasgow meeting of the Social Science con gress, that "30,000 Englishmen have been ly ing at Bannookburn for the last 500 years be cause they could cot stay at home and mind their own business." The Vicar of Whitfield recently presided over a Nonconformist meeting at Glossop, England, and said that he believed the time was coming when the Christian churches must agree as far as they could on the points which were essen tial, and try to differ as little as poosible on points that were non-essential. There has been a loss of 469 members _ the California Methodist conference last year. The Bnpposed causes are the decrease in population of the State; large emigration to the north into Oregon, south into southern California, and to the cast into Arizona, and in observing more strictly the new schedule for reporting statistics. The Methodist plan of Episcopal visitation of the spring fixes the time and place of the New Jersey conference atßtlem, N. J., Bishop Foster presiding; of the Newark conference at Jersey City, March SO, under the presidency of Bißhop Harris, and of the Philadelphia confer ence at Pottsville, March 16, Bishop Harris presiding. Prof. Rob?rt6on Smith has signified his in tention to submit to the "instruction" of the commission of the Free church, and abstain from teaching in Aberdeen college until the meeting of the general assembly in May. Ef forts will be made in his behalf to have tho assembly disapprove the action of the cotnmiß sion as irregular. A man in a prayer meeting at Great Springe, Ga., declared that he was ready to die, and awaited the summons with impatience. He had barely uttered the sentiment when a ballet crashed through the window and grazed his ear. A neighbor, whom he had sued for debt, had taken him at his word. He hastily hid himself under a bench. Among the persons recently admitted to the membership of the South Congregational church, at Hartford, was one who had been baptized in the Roman Catholic church. Dr. Parker, the pastor, expressed his gratification that an opportunity had been offered for an explicit recognition ef the Roman church as a branch of the Universal Christian church. The British clergyman, Mr. Dale, who has been sent to prison for persisting in ritualistic practices, has determined to have bis church closed until be is released. A notice on the door of "St. VedastV says that the church is closed "for necessary cleaning." Borne ir reverent wag* said that this meant that Mr. Dale was ecclesiastically "cleaned out. The Rev. R. E. Bartlett, who was once upon a time president of the Union at Oxford, has been looking over the minutes of the discus sions of some forty or fifty yean ago. He has come on the record of a debate in which Mr. Gladstone took part, and appended to the name of the premier is the note, mado at tho time: "This speaker spoke for the motion but voted against it." Bliffera has just buried bia fifth wife. Bliffers was walking, with a friend, out to Forest Hills, showing him the beautiful ground". His friend was profuse in his ex pressions of appreciation, and asked Barters if he had a lot there. "Well," said Bliffers, "I don't know what you would call a 'lot.' I've got five wives here, which is mora than the general average."