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6 WHO WILL CONTROL? An Inside View of Northern Pacific Af fairs as Against Threatened Speculation. Indications That Vanderbilt and Wright Will Consolidate Their Interests— The Result. Dissatisfaction at the L.ow Rates Charged by the "Wisconsin Central Koad. Arrival of the First Consignment of Tea from Jnpan--Other Notes of Jnteiest. IVortliern Pacific Affairs. Then was a great deal of gossip on the Streets and in railway circles yesterday on Horthern Pacific matters. The recent rise tn stocks, from the lower thirties to the Upper forties, and the prospective rise hi:rh up in the fifties before the ">ist inst, when the hooks will be closed against further transfers, indicate quite clearly that a struggle amonr financial giants is goim: on to gel cmtrol of the road at the September meeting, which will determine the future policy of the greal transcontinental line. It may safely he-stated that either the Drexel-Morgan-Wlnskiw-LanierA Co. com bination will maintain control, or that the C. K. Wright party will capture the organization on the basis of the majority Of Stock held or voted by proxj at the September meeting, on which great issues depend. The theory that the Bock [gland or Gould Is in thefightfor control as principal is not tenable, nor is it j entertained by well-advised authorities on Nortlieru Pacific East or West. The fact that President Cable is on a junketing trip over the line doesn't appear as a convincing i argument or a doubtful element in the alle- ; gat ion that the Bock Island is planning tor the control of the Northern Pacific, any more than if President Harris of the Northern Pacific were to take a pleasure trip over the Bock Island, it would Indicate that the Northern Pacific contemplated se curing control of the Bock island. These managerial tours are made more in the line : of pleasure than for any considerations of | business. A KOBE TEXAr.LK THEORY. ••The bet is." a> staled to a Globe re porter, "a much more tenable theory is thai the Northwestern would become a part] to securing control of the Northern Pacific. JEr. Vauderbilt controls a line of railway now from tide water on the Atlantic to the S»«ul of navigation on the Mississippi ami the northern lakes at Ashland. Bayfietdand Duluth. His line is from New York, the Hudson River, New York Central. Lake Shore and Michigan .Southern, Chicago A: Northwestern ami its allied system, the Omaha. By securing the Northern Pacific to Wallula Junction and building the Cas cade division to Tacoma Mr. Vanderbilt would realize the avowed ambitiou of his life. He would control a continuous line of railway from tide water in New York bay on the east to tidewater on Puget sound on the west. This ought to satisfy the most exacting ambition of more than a hundred millionaires. He would not only control the best railway system in the world, but one which penetrates and levies tribute on the most productive belt in the land. More than this, he could by putting on a line of Pacific steamers control the Oriental trade. China and Japan would pay tribute to his transcontinental system, and he would be the Imperial head of rail way managers of the world. In support of my position as to the trade. 1 would cite you to the fact that this very day a train load of tea from the producing area of the Orient passed through St. Paul for the East ern market. This is but the beginning of a great trade. And, mark you. this tea didn't come by the way of Portland and over the Oregon railway lines, which the present management of the Northern Pacific pro poses to lease, but by the way of Tacoma <«n Puget sound, where C. B. Wright's great landed interests center. Would you know what conclusion I would draw from this. In brief, I would say that if C. B. Wright cannot now secure control of the Northern Pacific at the forthcoming meefc ing and build the Cascade branch to Tacoma on Puget sound, and thus protect his own interest, what would be more natural than that he should join hands with an ambitious Capitalist like Mr. Yanderbiit, with a guarantee from him of the building of the branch, fand vote the stock of himself and of his friends in that interest? This i> not a visionary view of the situa tion. It is TIIK MOST TKXABI.E THBOBT thai ran be adduced from the chaos which seems to reign supreme in the popular mind mi the future of the Northern Pacific. How would tiiis affect the present management, you ask? Well. 1 would say the present active management not only have the conli dence of all parties in the Northern Padfic interest, but are held in high esteem by railway capitalists and managers even where. The way they have reduced ex penditures and held their own on earnings through the protracted season of depression, which has held sway in the Bast as well as the West, has been a surprise to financiers as well as railway managers. As to Yil lard. while he is popular throughout the fNorthwest, and is regarded as a benefactor, an honest, but perhaps vision ary man, doesn't enjoy the confidence of capital, which is timid and shrinks from ex travagance or experiment I do not think It within the range of probabilities that he -hall ever again sway the seepterof des potic power over the destinies of the North ern Pacific empire. He is. however, a no ble ami generous fellow, and those in the West who Iwve suffered most from his finan cial methods and visionary schemes have not a word of censure for him. and to-day would vote as a unit to have him restored to the presidency of the Northern Pacific. He has settled down to the quietude of do mestic lite forv the education of his chil dren, to whom he is ardently devoted, in Germany, ami I doubt not would shrink from again assuming the active re sponsibilities which must necessarily de volve upon the executive head of the North ern Pacific ;i1 this critical juncture of its af fairs. If i were the dominant power in the Northern Pacilic directory to-day 1 would place at the head of the corporation no less a personage than Thomas F. Oakes. whose prescience, hud he been consulted by Yil lard. would have saved him from the hu miliation he has suffered since his down fall. Mr. Oakes is no theorist. He is an r.u nsely practical man, broad and eomnre leiisive in his views, thorough in detail and lUick to grasp and to decide momentous is sues." Tlio First Tea Train Arrives. The first train loaded with tea Iroin the Mtrk Isabel, at Tacoma, arrived in St. Paul yesterday morning at '.i-jr) o'clock. The run was made from Tacoma to St. Paul in 123 hours and 25 minutes, which time in cludes two transfers of ears by Deny in Oregon. This time was only one day slower than the time by fast express be tween these two points. The train left Cor .New York at 11 o'clock as a special over the Oniaha to Chicago, from where it will gooyer the Michigan Central and Its con nections. The train consists of sixieni cars, and will be taken to New York at nearly passenger speed, and if the good luck experienced so far continues, this run will be the most interesting one ever made by a freight train, if the present rate of speed at which it is being run is kept up. the train will be in -New York in nine days from Tacoma. Five other trains are on the way. and will arrive at regular intervals. commencing Sunday morning- Jl was on Ait;;. T that the ship Isabel. from Yokohama. Japan, arrived at Tacoma. W. T.. with a cargo of 22.475 half chests ol Japan tea, consigned to St. Paul, Chicago and New York. Tuis is the first direct Importation >>\ teas over the North ern Pacific road, and not only opens up a new route for this merchandise, sorpawhig all others in economy and rapidity of teiuistt, but makeo St. Paul the primary market for distributing teas throughout all the Western :111<l moxt ot the Northern states. St. Paul is the terminus of the Northern PacUlc road. and thecost of l<ii:i>riiiL r tc;.^ from Japaa to : Paul i- considerably leas than it is to . Chicago or New Fork, it is leaned thai Cliifi initial shipment lias been a me cth.-i. awl it is sltogethft probable that th»* Northern Pacific will inside of six months or a year be operating a line of steamers between Yokohama and Tat oma. The babelb now being loaded with [amber at some Pucet sound i>oiut for Liverpool. When the tea train arrived in the yard yes terday morning, v large number of buettieas and railway nun were present to view it. The cars were covered with placards, tell ing what was in them, where from and whe:e consigned. Too tow Altogether. Considerable dissatisfaction is shown by the Chicago lines at the low ntes given certain jobbers in St. Paul by theWiaoonshl Central over its Qreen J!a\ route on con signments from the East, The lir^t of tiie week fourteen car-loads of dry goods were received by i certain jobbing bouse, ami yesterday the same house received another Consignment of eight car-loads, all over the Wisconsin Central. The business, it is claimed, was carried at the extremely low rate of 5(1 cents per 100 pounds from New Yolk. The shipment was made from New York by the Lackawanna road and the Ward line of steamers to Qreen P>ay and i from thence to St. Paul by the Central. ' SOdi a rale was never before made on Btsfc class goods from New \oik i.> St. Paul, and traili • men claim ii is not railroading to make such an mtpreeedeutedly low rate by any line while its contemporaries are maintaining tariff. Kveu though the Wis consin Centra! is not a party to any pool or agreement that would hold it to the adhe rence of rates, it should not break all rail road<rulea by advertising itself in this man ner. This rate of 90 cents OB Bnt-dass goods is just 40 cents less than the rate by all rail from New York to St. Paul, and officials of lines in the Northwestern Traffic association eaunot conceive where ttu ; for the Wisconsin Central comes in when carrying goods at this low figure. Ii is a snapfor the receivers of the goods, but it is demoralizing to the traffic of the competing railroads, and there is ■ probability of the lines interested in Minnesota and Dakota traffic, at then next meeting, discussing this matter to see if they can prevent any more such Indulgence by some traffic agreement with the Central road. Will Build Imiuedinteiy. Crawford Livingston returned I Paul yesterday from New York, where he made all arrangements for Mr. Iferriam and himself to go ahead with the building of the James River Valley road, which property they purchased a year ago from Dakota speculators. While in New York Mr. Livingston purchased 5,000 tons of iteel rails and they are now being shipped to Duluth. Mr. Livingston's contract vides that they sha" all be delivered there by September i">. While it baa l><-eu re peatedly claimed that they are building the road in the interests of the Koek Island and Northern Paome, Mr. Livingston emphatically denies the report. >a> ing it i> an entirely private spec ulation between himself and Mr. Merriam. They have no contract of any kind or baffle arrangement with any rail road. They propone, with the assistance of the various communities through which the road passes to build and have their trains running over the road in time to move this year's crop. Theoulj assistance they a>k from those communities is in securing tight of way and proper terminal faculties in Hie different towns, particularly in James town. The rapidity with which the road wili be completed depends much on the Miecess in this regard. Con4derable en couragement has been received from other lines ami We Mini. Livingston and Merriam hope to so locate their southern terminus that it will be ranched by the Milwaukee t V St. Paul, the Chicago £ Northwestern and Chicago & Rock [aland roads, thus uniting North and South Dakota and giving easy access from all lines of railroads in South Dakota to the territorial capital. The \Vli<»:ii Home Considerable amusement is taken in inner railroad circles over the large amount of wheat which the Burlington supposes it will haul toCUcagOas soon as it irets into St. Paul and Minneapolis and makes its trallic contract With the .Manitoba road. A certain trallie man looks at the situation in tliis way: "The same price is paid for wheat in Dnlutli as is paid for it iv Minneapolis. The rate from Northwestern points is the same to Minneapolis as it is to Du'uth. but the rate from Duluth is much less to New York than it is from .Minneapolis to New York, and therefore, with equal induce ments in the way of prices at huluth. it is reasonable that all the wheat for the East ern market in the raw st;tte will go to Duluth for shipment. All that will goto Minneapolis will be ■»11• - better gi wheat, which is to be milled there, the other roads will stand - slmw a> the IJurlimrion for the hlHillnf of this traffic to Chicago. If the Burlington and Manitoba roads. .so closely count, ted. were very desirous of baring the wheat go to the Kast via St. Paul, thus cutting Du luth. they would have to make a rate cents per 100 pounds from Fargo <>r Moor bead to Chicago, the present rate, Fargo or Moorheadto Minneapolis or st. Paul, and even should they resort to this, which they surely would not do, they would before they bad one consignment to Chicago, be cross countered by the Northern PadAe making an $-oent rate to Duluth from Moot head or Fargo, which rate would be the portion the Manitoba would receive for Its haul to Min neapolis."' Kindred flic Defendant. Special to the Globe. Fakgo, Aug. 14.—Ex-President W. A. Kindred of the Fargo Southern finds him self a defendant in fourteen different cases, brought against him by property owners in Traverse county in his capacity as president of the above-named rand. Then suits arc brought to recover for lands condemned and occupied by the Fargo Southern. The damages claimed aggregate over 550,000. and the suits are brought on the ground that the condemnation proceedings were illegal and are void. Mr. Kindred lias been endeavoring for some time past to settle these claims without bringing them into court, but the claimants were not only im portunate but exorbitant in their demands, and have just brought matters to a crisis by bringing action in fourteen different claims, all for lands in Traverse county. It is ru mored that if these cases are pushed to a successful issue the entire right of way from Fargo to Ortonville will be contested. Will IMH No More Patents. Washington, Aug. 14.—Acting Com missioner Walker of the general land office has declined to issue any more patents to the Northern Pacific railroad pending a de cision fixing the legal status of the railroad. In this regard be follows the rule laid down by Commissioner Sparks in relation to the California A: Oregon and the Oregon a. Cal ifornia railroads. The question at issue, briefly stated. is that that road was not completed within the time required by law, and that until congress takes definite action one way or the other no steps should be taken to place it beyond the power of the legislative branch of the gwverninent to pro tect the public rights. Like the Ceutral. Special to the Globe. Chicago, Aug. 14. —Recent statements that the Illinois Central is taking freight at less than tariff rate to Si. Paul, are officially . denied. While the Illinois Central is not ■ member ot the association, it is stated on the best authority that it has refused to take a pound of St. Paul freight at a tenth of a | cent less than the rate fixed upon by the Northwestern Traffic association, and* will ' not, under any circumstances, become a ! party to any rate cutting. It will take any freight to St. Paul, offered at tariff, and is not sufficiently interested to make a struggle for business. There are two other point* in this connection that can be set at rest. The Illinois Central it not interested In Mr. Ackerman's lowa trip or his consoli dation plans regarding local toads in that section: neither is it back of nor docs it own any slock in the Minnesota & Northwest ern or the Dubuque extentiou of that road. iiork Iklaud Hai Oilier Plan*. Special to the Globe. Chicago, Aug. 14.—There Is a revival ! of the story that the Burlington is arrang ing to construct a bridge and enter Daven port, and that the Rock Island is preparing i to invade the Burlington's territory by the purchase of a line into Burlington. In re- Bard to the first project, a local company at Davenport .seemed a franchise to build a THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE. SATURDAY MORNING, ATJGTTST 15,' 1885.—TWELVE PAGES/ bridge to that point, but failed in their pur -1"'-. . Thflf would undoubtedly Hkt to sell out. but then is no evidence on the surface, or in any otter direction, that the l'uriiii? ton is a eufta uier and those most int.-: do uot believe. that OOrpOMtioa has any present intention to enter into the M-heine. The second pro ject.; has abo been referred to in the (jl.oiik. President Cable Mated that the company was uot treating for purchase of any ro.;d. or listening to any propositions, at present* tram citizens of Burlington. The Toledo. Peoria A: Warsaw is the line about which all this gossip is ■float. Its Stockholders WOUld naturally look to the Book bland as a probable purchase and on the best of authority it can be Stated that at this Hum no such proposition is being considered. The K<»ck Island wiil. in all probability. ::o to Buriiagtoa some time in the future, but it has other puns on hand Which will bfl developed within the next year and which need its pressing and ex clusive attention. Can Bill as Before. Dispatches were received by the freight agents of the various Dues running east! yesterday from the West Shore, rtiitnc that the freight difficulties with the (irand Trunk bad ben satisfactorily ami and that t;cLht could be again billed "via the Wet Shore." It will In' remeni tiiat a few days since the I Grand Trunk that it would receive no more freight from its Western mnnrrtliiM billed via the West Shore unless ehs prepaid. This was because the West shore, the Grand Trunk claimed, already owed Ittff,! freight and it did not projM.s,- to gel any d vi ( r into the mire and so took the ;. indicated. In '...< r:il. A special to the Globe from Oshkosh last night said: Late this afternoon it was dis covered that notice of lis ]tendons had been lied at renter of deeds ofllee in the matter of the application of the Milwaukee & Lake Winnebago railroad for the condemnation of certain lands, for the purpose of acquir ing certain real estate described in the pe tition. This indicates beyond doubt that this is the Wisconsin Central's new scheme for the building of a bridge across the river here, as it now runs over the Milwaukee & St Paul bridge. A party of prominent railroad contractors arrived in Winona Iflllllajl. and after dbt ner took carriages for ■ drive over tb posed route ot the Wiuona. Alma A North ern load between Wii'.ona and l.a « The party OOBSiptB of V. ii. Winston of Minneapolis: J. ■$. Casement of l'ainsville; and T. Kaulfbaugh of Bock fobm i:. BmithofLa< George Andenoa and <j. A. Drak Tomaha. A party of railroad surveyors have been operatingjn Galena county. Illinois, since Monday last. Tbeyeounaeaeed work near the mouth of the Galena river and proo south, and are now in Hanover township. ire very reticent as to whom they represent, but they are doubtless in the em ploy of the Winoiia, Alma & Northern BaUroad company. Messrs. Livingston and Merriam of St. Paul wen In La Moan Thursday iaapeet e grade of the .fames River Valley railway, and yestenlay a construction arrived with horses, wagons, scraiiers, etc. Work will be resumed at once betweea La Moure and Columbia, and possibly on oilier sections. The Central Traflic association, com Of all the railroad lines bound e ;1 ~t from Chicago, met yesterday Bad decided to form l. gross moncj pool, all settlements to date from Aug. i. The question of pereeatages will Ik- decided later on. A man named Chinch fell from a water tank at »anover.on the lowa and Mhwesota division Of the Milwaukee road, yesterday, and it is likely he w ill not recover. A. a. librae, local afjaal Ear the Chicago ft lowa at Etoekford, also afjaal for the lOlwaukeoA St. Paul at that ]^>int. the city. Blm fin ii ii t-. The river marked three bat and three tenths yesterday. The War Eagle Of the Diamond Jo line will clear Tuesday ai '.• a. iv. The Sidney of the Diamond Jo line left for St. Louis at l(J:o0 o'clock yesterday moning. The Josephine of the Diamond .To line will arrive an this morninf and at B o'clock to-ttlght will take a moonlight excursion down the river, irturntna; a! midnight, it will leave -it ;;i o'clock Sunday atoming for Clinton, and will U- followed by the : burg Monday. "So I'lilicui.' I'rcsi'Ut. Philadelphia Time*. It was a brilliant vision of every variety ami shade of f-'iiiuii.ie bang*, from the -old.'ii yellow fo BM raven black, th.it met the eyes ol the lounger in the auditorium of the Central theater one morning last spjii,_-. us he looked toward the nragn Hie fab* ap pendages reveled in sealskin sac.|ii. dolmans of all shapes and siaes and talked and laughed with men in eheoscer-board suits, v.itii big '"headlight" diamonds tlash intr In their scarfs md shirt lro'its. who to,d fanny stories and spat in the wings, tiie «h- casiou being the rehearsal ot the i bill. A man in a shiny plug hat. holdini; a vio lin in one hand and fa eompanionbow iv the other, occupied a high seat in the middle Of the space railed off for tin* musicians and tnundieroflnsty Germans sal on hiaright and left armed withldrtlci. MUtOS, trom bones and other .similar instruments ofplea rareorof torture. In the middle of the Stage, under four glaring lms jets, sa! the stage manner of tiie fwjihliialhm. a puffy individuai, who called out the names of the various ]x'ifonners.when it came their turn. with a voice and manner that suggested* cross between a pot-house politician auda Boasau < mpt A plumpyoiunrwoman with a liberal al lowance of blonde bah squatted down in •f the footlights and distributed a number of manuscript parts aUMOg the gen tlemen of theorem *tra» •"Look here."' said a dropsical individual who manipulated the trombone, "I've been playing for a long time, but I never saw two sharps written this way before." "Oil, you never did. eh? Well, the man that wrote that lives next door to me and you just bet your blooming old brass-foun dry he's forgotten more about music than you ever knew. Just you go ahead and play it for the cigars." Then the fair young creature proceeded to sing: very sweetly about the valleys, moun tains, lakes and other geographical subjects which were somehow or other nixed up with a stranger who came '"in the spring/ though for what purpose she neglected to mention. Then the good men in the or chestra went wrong and the songstress flopped down before them again and pleaded incllilluously. "Oh, gents, can't you catch on? Play this a la charlotte russe. Let things move along kind of easy, and throw that trombone wrestler out of the window if he doesn't stop raising Ned with Ills brass yard-stick," I-rs«.of Tien and Women. Giddy Gusher la Mirror. You tell ■ man a funny story. What does he do? Slaps his legs, ills risibilities are closely allied to his legs. Look at the prominence man instinctively accords his legs. A woman's dwell in com parative obscurity. A mans are always on exhibition. In public places they are con stantly placed higher than his head. This is instinct. lam doing as good a business just now betting on legs as John Raymond in matching ]**nnie-. You see lam stopping at a country hotel to which a garden is at tached for restaurant and bar purposes. a party of men drift in. 1 make my beta while they are in motion. The man with the check legs will have his two legs on a table in live minutes. Out come the watches and we time him. Nine times out of ten 1 win. Drive up the boulevards and look at the piazzas of the road houses—rows of boots ■ad shoe soles are set up on the rails. The men are taking in the spectacle of our presence, and the speed of fast horses with that portion of their body capable of most enjoyment—their legs. Look down the aisles of a theater. Every man who has an end seat has his legs waving about in the passage. Tin little blower that is provided at the base of an orchestra chair to let air in on your spinal column is usually occupied by a boot toe. The foot-rests are enough for a woman, but a man is only prevented from putting his feet on top of the back of your seat by the presence of the usher, QWe all know that the attributes of the head are transmissible and contagious. The son has all father's red head and his mother's cross eye as an heirloom, and you can catch the scald-head from a hair-brush lam told by Myers, the wig-maker. So it is with legs. 1 slept in Frank Wilson's bed up in Thirty-ninth street once, and 1 have been troubled with a very coarse vein of hu mor in my left leg ever since. The low comedy of that man's legs is as catching as the measles. A great responsibility rests on Mis. Predigain. She is a model house keeper, and the advantages of her establish ment cannot be couiined to the theatrical profession. Now. what would happen if a meek and lowly minister applied to her for board, and In a rash hour she assigned him Francis Wilson's room? The theological training of a pair of clerical legs could not stand out one week against the atmosphere of that enchanted apartment—it would cul minate in the Bar. Mr. Graveyard doing a clog in his pulpit and getting his dismissal. It was a wise provision that put women's brains iv their bonnets. If women's affec tins dwelt in their legs we should be hor riiied at their deportment. If woman's ambition dwelt in her legs we should be paralyzed by her having them higher than her head, and her No. I Spanish insteps stuck on mantlcpieces and balcony rails. Her sense of humor does not lie in her legs, or we should be shocked by the spectacle of woman slapping them every time she heard bar husband Rail caught on to a new girl, or some little frequently recurring joke like that STI DIES I> All ELEVATOR. People Who Invariably- Go the Wrouc Way. From the Chicago News. "I want to go to Mr. Smith's office." "First door to the right at the end of the hall." "Thank you." It was iii an elevator in one of the large office buildings on LaSalle street, ami a lady had just landed on the top lloor. The conversation took place between a lady passenger and the elevator man. Im mediately on receiving her Instructions she looked up and down the hallway in a con fused manner sad then faced around and started toward the left end of the hall. "Tiie other way, mad.uu." cried the ele vator man. as his car started, off its down trip.but ahiiust before be said the words the elevator was on the l"oor below. "Its blanked strange," he said to the re . whoWJM on the elevator witli him, "but over one-half of the persons who ride on elevators gel so mixed up that they don't know rkht from le:u vi east from \v« -,i. Now, that lady up-slairs. I'll wager a dol lar, is at this moment groping around the north ride Of the building, when she should be at the south end. 1 told her plainly wnough w : go, but she was so con fused sh^ didn't know which was her right hand." •How iio you account for it?" asked the reporter, taking a seat at the man's side as the car came to a standstill on the yrouud loot "Oh, I'm sure I don't know. How is it a man will enter a Straagfl city in the early morning and Bad the sun risimr in the cast. Be will get into a carriage and ciose his U he is driven two or three blocks when be gets out the sun Is m the west? or, in other WOtSn, lie is all turned 'round. The nuin reaaaa, Igaeas, te persons letting mixed up in an elevator is—they net in one side and waaa they gat oat a few stories thej got out on the other side of the ■•r. and they don't notice the differ ence. Then they wonder why the hall is Caring an opposite direction "from what it did below, and if you showed tl.em black and while they couldn't really toll which waa which, they set so confused. When.a man gets OBBfjMOd once he's gone. sure. Did you ever notice It? Do can only turn two ways, but he will always take the Wrong one." '"You elevator men have queer experi ences," remarked the reporter. "Well, rather, at times," lie answered. •'One queer thing is that when we are suing up these warm days the air is hot and sti lling and does not stir hardly, but when we are going down the draft is cool and re freshing. The meanest thing is to get a car full of passengers and get stuck between the floors; but next to that it is to have the average woman waiting on the first floor for the elevator when it is just going up. If she doesn't ring the bell twenty times, then it is because she's got a lame arm. Bat, talk ing about getting stuck, I had quite a little romance about a year ago, in which my car got stuck, and I got 'stuck' at tho same time. It was on Ma] 10, LBM—I remember the exact date, you see—and I was going up with a pretty little girl, with bright blonde hair, bright ruby lips, and the smartest pair of blue eyes I had seen in many a day. It was about 5 o'clock in the evening. Well, i was watching her out of the corner of my eyes, when, somehow or other, tin • was a sudden jerk aud the car came to a sadden stop. The car hi closed all around, you see, except the door on each side. Well, from the front side here 1 made an observation, aud saw that something about the machinery had broken and we were stuck between the third and fourth loots, and in such a position that we couldn't get in or out, and it struck me that perhaps we might have to stay there sev eral hours; but I looked at that pretty little girl and 1 didn't care if we hail to stay all Bight, 1 didn't want to speak at first, for fear she would be offended, but pretty soon she began to fidget around in her seat and then a>ked what was the matter. 1 told her the easiest way that I could, but it was no use. She looked scared ■ little at first, and then asked me if it would take long to get started again. I told her that it might lake an hour and it might take five. Then her pretty eyes filled with tears and she commenced crying- IJastaat there like a 'big gawk* at first and let her cry. but by au' by uiy sympathy got worked up and 1 went over and talked to her. She only cried the worse. Then I sat down beside her and she leaned her head OB my shoul der and cried. Finally she quit crying long enough to tell me that her father WSJ sick, her Mother was dead, and she had three little brothers to support. She had been promised some copying by a lawyer, but it had to be completed by 9 o'clock, and now she couldn't get it: that she needed the money for medicine and food, and rent was soon due. and she didn't know what she would do. Then her tears lowed afresh, and pretty soon I put my arm around her waist and consoled her by promising to get her some money when the car got up to the next floor, whenever that happened, and that she could return it when she pleased. Well, it was two hours before we got out of that, and I walked with her to a house on West Madison street where she said she lived. I cave her $5 and took her name and numbe. but didn't go up. as she thought her father might not believe the elevator story if she was with a stranger. I prom- Ljed to call soon and then went away. Well, sir, the next morning, bright and early, the girl was down to sec me. She looked bad. Her eyes were red with weeping, and she told me her father was dead—that he had died While aha was away. 1 felt pity for the poor thing and gave her S2oall 1 had; —without her even asking for it. Well, she went away, but the look she gave me when I handed her the money went to my heart." '"Married now, eh?** asked the reporter. The man ignored the interruption. "I went over to the house that night." he con tinued. "Nobody had ever heard of such a family. I had been duped. She WSJ a 'con' woman and 'bled' me just like the worst hayseed from the country. Well, I got off cheap. I'd have given her a thou sand if I'd had it." It Wat >o Jake. Arkansaw Trart-lir. A woman in Scott county. Ark., when Mi that her husband had hanged himself, said: "Look here, man, don't come trying to play none o' your jokes on me." ••It's a fact," her informer solenmly de clared. "Not tryin' to play a prank: 1' "Nu." "Well, that's all right, then. Ido hate for a person to skylark with me when I'm bu>y. I wonder whar Abe got the rope," William Si.sk, of Columbus Ind., was the oldest man in the county. He had Iheda century, and his funeral was the largest ever known there. TALES OUT OF SCHOOL. , Cases Where the Crime of Suicide Has Been Concealed. ' A Man Who Died to Save Ills Fam ily From Want. Secrets Locked Up In the Breast of a Plivaiclan. "There are suicides and suicides," said an old doctor, as he blew a funnel-shaped cloud of smoke Into the air above the heads of a RToup of friends who surrounded him a few nights ago, "and although reporters are iynx-eyetl and übiquitous, ami society at larce i.s keen iv its scent of blood, many a ; man goes down to his grave under death 1 self-inflicted."' "And who knows of it?"' asked one. "Occasionally the physician who has the i deceased in charge. Otherwise, nobody, l.et me tell fOU a story. In the year l^so I one of the most prosperous commission hruis in New Orleans was that of Sniythe :h. The summer was dull, and in , the fall Smith, the junior member of the firm, ran away with all the money on hand and left Suiythe to hold the bag and face I a crowd of howling creditors. Smith had doi.e all the active work during the year 1 preceding. Smythe. an old man. only a-s ; ,r. ' lag Occasionally by his presence. Alter Smith's departure, it was seen that he had gone to work systematically to ruin his old partner, and hudsueceeded most damn ably. Smith went to Canatla.or to Europe, or to Auckland, or somewhere, and has never been beard of since. Smythe went home and told his fashionable wife and his stjlish daughters that the reports that had already reached them concerning the col- I lapse of the firm were true, and that they were all j>ennile>s. People whose parents have been i>oor.\vho have always been pool i, and never exj>eet to be any thing but poor, think they know what pov erty means, but they never sink to so low • a depth as those who arise in the morning ; with the knowledge that they have but to wish for athmg cohave it,and who go to bed with the feeling that everything they had inished: that tiie very bed they lie on their own, and that a week hence, or a few days hence, they may be in need of sustenance. This is poverty and there is xo Uttfltn so <;kka.t as it. Smythe's family consisted of his wife, only a few years his junior: her mother, a j septuagenarian: two daughters, gTOWB i young ladies, who bad never known what it ■ want anything, and three sons, one an invalid and the other two under wise. He was over 00 years of age himself, liis fam ily were helpless without him. and the shock of the failure bad so unmanned him as to deprive him of his aaaal good scr*«e. His honesty remained, however, and he be- I roieailysaertfeedeverything to his credit or-. He made the great mistake ofneg leettng to rebuild his buataesa, though.an.l came to St. Louis to hide hbaseU and lam ily from his old friends. He secured em ployment here as a bookkeeper in a com lnission house, and eventually set his boys to v-.uidnir a living, but he never recovered from the blow inllicted by his heartless partner. The family never lifted up its head again. Through a system of pro tracted visits the youn-r ladies managed to live off their wealthy relatives, who were anxious to care lor them, but whose assist ance the old man accepted sparingly. Thus ■flairs went on for a year, the old man buf feting bravely the waves of adversity that beat down upon him. No Spartan suffered pahl with more stolidity than he. and those who knew him saw nothim; of his suffer ing. It nems, however, that Sinxthe had one star ahead of him whose rays kept him up. Ha had had the goad aaasa to aannae a Inavy fife insurance when ho was pros perous and after his failure ke wrote to a well-known gram qntmarttiff in New Or leans with regard to keeping ap the pre mium on it, the understanding being that so much of the insurance money after Sm\ tiie's death should iro to the speculator and M much to the heirs, A document to that effect had been drawn up, ami this it was that badSbeea all along the old man's guer don. Well, not to In* prolix, let BM that I was called in to see Smwhe one day In the spring of 1888. 1 found him utterly prostrated. He had worked him self out and ins immn was OOSX. •Why did you do this?' I asked him. 'Why did you not take a rest w hen yon fell this comiiii: on." HasjaUed sadly,but did not answer, l attended him closely, and daring my visits saw what I've x-en" in a great many families, but never iv <o heart li^ht as this. What little milk of hu man kindness that had lowed in the breasts of the female i;ieml>ers of the family bad soured when misfortune came, and the pa tient, brave old man. instead <>t having met with encouragement, had had to listeu to reproaches and reniaiags day after nay, until not only was the body weary but the >pirit drooped. New daring his long illness did the wife or daughters relent.and as their poverty deepened their selfishness and cruelty For a time it appeared as if he could not recover, but his wonder ful vitality held liiiu up and he gradually :>ettcr. It was evident that he would ncrer Ik- able t<> work a^ rain, and one day, after much solicitation on his part. I told him so. He was then moving BOOUt in the little house with the aid of a cai.e. and as 1 spoke the words his lace fell, and.leanini: liis head on his cane.the poor oid man burst into tears. I heJd his wasted frame in my strong anas and ivsou^ht him to have eour to lift up his head again and try to WOO fortune back, but he could not be con -1 felt badly at parting with him. for I admired the ur of the old man's character, and as my services were no longer nm!e«l I felt that 1 should see but little more of him. 'Come to my office oc easkmaUy,'lsaid, in bidding him good-by. BY shiHik liis head sadly and hobbled back to his room. "Two mominsrs afterward I had a tele phone call from tiie Smythes. Mr. Smythe dead, they >ajd. and would I please come up and see about it. I went up. The body of the old man was still iv bed. lie had died Dtmnra thk sight. I was surprised at this, for his condition vrhen 1 saw him last would indicate that he would drag through many years of life yet. I looked at hi» body. There was an unus ually rosy flush hi the skin. This surprised me. and I looked at his eyes. The pupils were contracted. a dull, cruel suspicion crept into my brain. I investigated* fur ther. The body was as rigid almost as a bar of iron. Here were all the symptoms of poisoning. 1 called Mrs. Sniythe into the room. The poor, weak, vain woman ooked at me like a frightened animal. 'I am afraid there will hare to be an autopsy here. Mrs. Smythe,' said I. 'I cannot cer tify to the cause of death clearly without one.' With this the unfortunate woman dropped on her knees beside the bed and buried her face with a moan in the bed clothes. 'Oh. doctor, don't, don't, don't,' she cried wildly. lifting her head suddenly. 'Don't disgrace vs —look at this,'and she snatched a piece of paper from her bosom and thrust it at me. It was a letter writ ten before death by the dead man giving directions as to the securing of 820,000 life insurance and the payment of So, 000 to Mr. —, of New Orleans, in accordance with the terms of an agreement entered into be tween them. It was a clear case of suicide, and when the widow implored me to say nothing of it. that the children were in ig norance of the cause of death and that their lives would be saddened by the exposure, I simply did what the dead man would hare had me do. certify to his death on the score of his former complaint and withdraw from the house." '•What became of the family?" "They are living here, and strange to say, are doing well. The daughters mar ried a short time afterward and the sons with their mother and grandmother live very nicely in a quiet little home bought vi li part of the insurance money. The widow lias become a strong church mem ber, and unchastened by THE AWFUL TRAGEDY , of her husband's death, is vain and frivol ons still, although she is said to be afflicted with melancholy occasionally." "And you" never betrayed her confi- I dence?" "She and I are the only ones who know that he took his own life." "Are such cases common?" "Not common, for such heroism is not common." "But don't you think you would have done better to have informed the world?" "No, for the world would not benefit by it, and after all, why should I inflict need less shame upon a family of weak, unfor tunate people. If the world would look at it as 1 would see in his fight against fate and his final sacrifice for the welfare of those he loved —for he knew that if he lived merely as a helpless invalid he would only drag them into deeper povertya dis • play of bravery and heroism greater than that exhibited by the martyrs— should have acted differently; but as it would con demn the family as cruel and the man as cowardly I held my peace." The doctor relighted his cigar and set tled back in his chair for a smoke, but he was evidently in a talking mood, and when somebody wondered if physicians came across many such suicides the old man broke out with the exclamation: "Plenty of them. Just think for a moment of the number of deaths that occur, and then ask yourselves if among these millions there are not many who rush to death as a child to its mother. Think of the ingenuity of some suicides and add to that an equal amount of ingenuity on the part of others so keep the crime secret. I could tell you tf I wished, of a young lady of eminent family who, having loved neither wisely nor well, found herself gradually nearing the time when her shame would become appar ent to her mother and sister. Exceedingly sensitive, she hesitated to ask for advice or to confess her fault, and seeing but one way out of it. she deliberately Pt.AXXKDFOK HER DEATH. "Toxicology is not a lost science, and works upon it are easy to obtain. The discover}- of a book on poisons among other books in her room startled no one but my self, who noticed it when called in by the family when she was lying at death's door. I quickly made an examination. I found no indication of poison, and could do noth ing. She was in a semi-conscious, lethar gic condition, but with several powerful stimulants revived enough to speak. 'You have been killing yourself," I said to her in a whisper. 'Don't tell,' the answered. The case was hopeless, and she grew worse and died slowly, just as water freezes. I sus pected the motive of the suicide, and qui etly ascertained it. It was as I thought, and looking at the poor.dear girl I felt that I should be Inhuman to make that exposure which she had given her fresh, young life to prevent and I did nothing but tell her parents that her death was a natural one." "What poison did she take." "I couldn't tell. It was BO subtle and delicate in its operation as to baffle my scru tiny, and 1 should never have been able to explain her death had I not seen the book on poisons and made the subsequent dis covery. "Here is ■ ease, though.'' said the doctor, traigutening up and dropping his cigar, "which was imparted to me by a friend, who suffered by it. The principal was the uncle of my friend, lie was a wealthy man, and his death was deemed a loss to the community. The funeraf was an im posing one, and in all the throng that fol lowed the remains to the grave but three people knew that the death was a violent one and self-inflicted. They were the physician and the attorneys of the deceased. One of the latter was his nephew, my friend. The cause of the suicide was and is unknown, just as the suicide itself is a secret. Suffice it to say that the deceased was FOUND DEAD IX BED, and that the physicians and attorneys re ceived each a letter revealing the fact that the death was an unnatural one, and en joining upon them the utmost secrecy with regard to it. The letters were full of in structions concerning the disposition of the remains and of the estate, but no light was thrown upon the dead man's action. A line to the effect that each had been re membered handsomely by him accompan ied the request that his family and the world be kept in ignorance of the cause of his death. His instructions were obeyed, but his nephew, unable to restrain a curios ity that impelled him to discover the cause of his death, made all sorts of quiet inves tigations. Nothing ever came of his work, and tke only clue he ever obtained was the discovery that a large sum of money in cash had been paid by the deceased to some unknown person a few days before his death. "Une more before yon go. now, and this one the most daring. A dissipated young scion of one of our best families died not long ago, and if you ask any of his friends what his death was caused by they will tell you he drank himself into the grave. That was something of a disgrace in itself, but it was as nothing to the real cause of his death, [was aroused from my sleep one night to read a note brought by a mes senger boy. It was in a woman's hand writing, and contained the intelligence that the young man in question had shot him self in the left breast at the room of the person sending the letter. Knowing that 1 was the family physician in the homo of the young fellow, she wrote me to assist her in gently conveying his body to his home, in order that his parents might be SAVED A SCANDAL. All this was written hastily but clearly, and indicated to me that the writer was a remarkable woman, first in her power of expedience and second in her delicate appre ciation of others' feelings. 1 called my coachman, and instructing him to say noth ing of the affairs of the night, ordered him to drive to the house the number of which was given in the note. Here I found the writer, a pale, thoughtful-looking girl with flashing eyes and nervous frame. Seeing that there was bat little time before dawn to act I hastened to the residence of the young man's family and acquainted the heart-broken father with the details. He returned with me and we took charge of the body. But little was said to the woman, who, utterly prostrated now that her work of covering up the suicide had been done, clung to the body and covered it with ca resses. We closed the dour on her and her sorrow, and when the daylight streamed through the windows of the boy's old room at home it fell on his swollen, discolored features as he lay dead in his bed—the wound through which his heart's blood had flown having been closed and bandaged, and all vestiges of the crime removed. Those who knew the deceased never sus pected but that he had died at home quietly and decently, and only his family and a few others, among whom were the remarkable young woman and myself, were aware of the sensational nature of it." "And what became of the girl?" "The relatives made no attempt to find her, and I. thinking she would call upon me, neglected to look after her until too late, when I found she had gone to her home, which was— one knew where." A Renovated Fire-box. The stomach is to the human system -what the lire-box is to the steam engine. If not in pood order it is impossible to "fire up," and consequently everything goes wrong; Mr. J. 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J Separate Sealed Proposals Will be received until 5 o'clock p. m. on WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19,1885, For the following work, viz: Removing Boiler|>, First—For disconnecting two boilers now fn m High School buildin?, removing and placing the same in position in new building ready for wulls and ni;ikii>ir pipe connections; and for furnishing and setting up in complete working order One New Boiler (Additional), To be iutide of Otis steel; all of the above to be done in every respect according to specifications on tile at this office. ;I " Note—All o£ the above work must be ia« eluded in one bid. Second —For supplying One Ten'-Horse-Poweh Steam Engine, To be delivered at the engine house in rear of th< High School building: bid to be accompanied bj drawings and specifications. Preference will be civ.-ii to an engine which will develop the said hor:-e-power using steam at a low pressure. Plumbing, Etc. Third—For furnishing and putting in eompleta working order in the basement of the Neill, \V'eb« stor anj Lincoln School buildings, the necessary Watch Closets, as called for by and according to spt'p-fications now on file at this office. Kach bid for any of the above described work oi material must be accompanied by a bond on th« part of the bidder, with two (2) good and sufficient sureties, in a sum amounting to at least twenty five (20) per centum of the contract price of th« article or articles or work tiie bidder proposes td furnish or do in his said bid, and conditioned, thai in case his bid is accepted by the Board of Educa tion. he will enter into a contract with said Board to furnish such material or do such work in accordance with the requirements and in the man ner and fur the price mentioned in his bid. All bids must be respectively marked " Pro posal for Boilers,'' or "Proposal for "Engine," or "Proposal for Water Closets" and on exterioi of a sealed envelope, endorsed with the name and address of the party or lirni presenting the same, and addressed and mailed or handed to the under* ■igned ".* his oflice, at the High School building, where he will receive them during the usual busi> ness hours, until the hour of the final day fol their reception first above stated. The liodrti reserves the right to reject any or all bids. By direction of the Committee on Real Estate, Bawd of Education. IS6-S3l OTTO DREHEK, Secretary. IMPORTANT TO MINNESOTA DRUGGISTS Tli" State Board of Pharmacy will examine applicants [or license who present themselves nt the capital, 9 a. m.. September .Sth. Candi (':.t a for registry must send in their applica tion-; before that date. Btate papers please copy. B. O. SWEENY, Secretary. An??. 10, 1355. 228-829 PICTURE FRAMES. 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The said Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. JOHN FARRINGTON, President. Official: K. L. Gorman, Clerk Board of Public Works. 217-227 "CONTRACr~WORKT Grading Bradley Street- Office of the Board of Public Works, I City of St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 4, 1885. | Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Public Works in and for the corporation of the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, at their office in said city, until 12 m., on the 17th day of August, A. D. 1885, for grading Bradley street, from Maryland street to New Canada road, in said city, according to the plans and specifi cations on ale in the office of said Board. A bond with at least two (2) sureties in a sum of at least twenty (20) per cent, of the gross amount bid must accompany each bid. The said Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. JOHN FARRINGTON, President. Official: R. L. Gorman, Clerk Board of Public Works. 217-227 CONTRACTWORK. Sewer on Seventh, Hoffman and Third Streets. ' Office of tiie Board of Public Works ) City of St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 13,1855. f Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Public Works in and for the corporation of the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, at their office in said city, until 12 m., on the 24th day of August, A. D. 1885, for the construction of a sewer on Seventh (7th) street, from Maple street to Hoffman Avenue: thence on Hofl min Avenue, from Seventh (7th) street to Third (3d) street; thence on Third (3d) street, from Hoffman Avenue to Canal street, in said city, together with the necessary catchbaskis and manholes, according to plans and specifications on file in the office of said ; Board. A bond with at least two (2) sureties in a sum of at least twenty (20) per cent, of tho gross amount bid must accompany each bid. The said Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. JOHN FARRINGTON, President. Official: K. L. Gorman, Clerk Board of Public Works. 22tW3iJ