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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE
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GOULD AND GRESHAM.
Because Judge Gr.Esrr.AM exposed Jay
Gould's peculiar methods in the manage
ment of the Wabash system, Gould comes
back at him through the columns of his
New York organ, the Tribune, by saying
that the jndge is ambitious and has his eye
:>n the presidential nomination. Gould's
retort is just about what was expected of
him. lie doesn't deny the justice of Judge
Gbksham'3 decision, nor does he even
enter a plea of not guilty to the charge of
fraud embodied in the decision. He simply
routeots himself with twitting the judge
who exposed his corrupt practices with
oavi;.gthe presidential bee in his bonnet
Without regard to Judge Gresham's polit
ical ambitions, the fact that Jay Gould
bases the judge's judicial decision on that
eround is gratifying evidence of the drift
of public sentiment, lt is virtual admis
sion that the man who has the moral cour
age to stand up against the monopoly kings
is the most popular man. When he charges
Judge Gresham with being afflicted with
political ambition he concedes that popular
sentiment is bain? aroused against the
sharks and wreckers who perpetrate colossal
robberies under the forms of law. It is the
hist time that the great American railway
wrecker has been brought to time in a court
of justice. Gould has heretofore had such
complete sway over courts and judges that
he imagined his power was absolute and
unending. lie had grown insolent and des
potic to a degree that made forbearance no
longer a virtue. To Judge Gresham is
due the credit of being the first judge who
has had the moral courage to vindicate
the law and honor justice by taking
the eminent railway wrecker by the
throat and exposing his rascalities.
It doesn't - necessarily follow that Judge
Gresham is to be honored with an
election to the presidency for having per
formed a simple duty. But if Jay Gould
insists upon making this issue against
Gresham, the people will take it up and
Gould will find himself so deeply snowed
under that he will never get to the surface
again. .It is understood that Mr. Blame .
is Jay Gould's pet candidate, and by
forcing this issue against Gresham he is
only cooking Blame's goose. The popu
lar will is in no humor to be trifled with at
this time. "* The people of the country have
decided that the reign of corporation free
booters shall be brought to an end, and
Judge Gresham's decision is only in the
line of the popular verdict. If it should ever
come to a choice between Gould and
Gresham there is no mistake in predicting
a decision in favor of Gresham.
THE FISHERY MATTER.
The correspondence upon the fishery con
troversy with Canada betrays the fact that
Secretary Bayard is capable of using
pretty vigorous English when he is thor
oughly aroused. He gave Great Britain
very plainly to understand that this coun
try had undergone too much trifling al
ready in the matter at issue, and didn't
intend to stand it any longer. It is a grat
ifying exhibition of the appreciation in
which American determination is held, that
the British government at once returned
an apologetic aid placating reply. But in
spite of soft words the state department
should not be cozened out of its original
demand, that the Americans injured by the
wanton, acts of aggression on the part
of the Canadian authorities shall receive
ample compensation. An apology is not
sufficient for the high-handed proceedings
engaged in by our too-forward Canadian
sousins. There should be complete repara
tion, and the government should insist upon
that provision, even to the point of severing
diplomatic relations with England. The
unsettled nature of the fishery question is a
constant menace to the cordial relations now
existing between' the two countries, and
there should therefore be no delay in follow
ing tha president's suggestion that a com
mission be formed for the purpose of taking
proofs of the losses sustained by American
fishermen, preliminary to an amicable and
permanent settlement of the entire matter
upon aa equitable basis.
UNTAXED CLOTHING.
■While the protection doctrinaires con
tinue to mystify and complicate the tariff
question with their finespun theories, the
secretary of the treasury unravels the
whole problem so that it can be understood
by the humblest citizen, when he recom
mends to congress that it confer upon the
wage-earners of the United States the boon
of untaxed clothing. Mr. Manning
asserts that by freeing their clothing of
taxes the wage-earners will have the ex
penses for one of the three great necessities
of life reduced by one-half, which will to
that extent enlarge honestly and justly the
income of every wage-earner in the coun
try. As every laboring man knows from
experience, the matter of providing cloth
ing for himself and family is one of the
heaviest expenses he has to incur. Under
our existing tariff laws the revenue realized
by the government from the duty on raw
wool is an insignificant sum. amounting to
only a fraction over 85,000,000 annually.
Yet the tariff on that article has the effect
of doubling the cost of woolen articles. The
people pay an enormous tax without any
perceptible benefit to the government The \
tax goes into the pockets of the manu- '
facturers. This wrong upon the laboring
people is such an aggravation that it is
difficult to speak of it in terms of modera- '
tion. It is a crying, burning infamy. And |
the same is true of the whole system of j
federal taxation. Under the existing sys- j
tern taxation stalks up and down the laud,
haunting all the humble and obscure ways j
and wants of the people, and commits its ,
ravages on every substance save that which |
is richest. The bondholder is exempt from j
its reach, and consolidated wealth reaps a j
harvest from it.-, exacting. But its hard, j
tithing hand is laid on every moment of I
life's journey for the laboring man. from {
the cradle of children born to toil and of j
toiling parents to their graves. There is no
s.srn bu lliw door post cf the poor wage
earners to guard away the angel of tax ex- ,
tortion from their homes. With every pur- !
chase made for the necessities of a family, I
the wage-earner pays a tax which is added l
to the profit of some manufacturer. lie i
pays a tax to the . manufacturer every time I
he rocs to the counter of the merchant and l
buys his shirtings, flannels, calicoes, boots, j
shoes, buttons, thread, needles, pins, hooka
and eyes." . The tax collector walks by the
side of the farmer in his daily labor, or sits
down by the side of the mechanic in his
shop and gathers a golden income from the
tax on the plowshare, the hoe. the reaper
and mower, or from the tariff price
on the saws, the augers, the anvils,
the hammers, the screws, the to..gs and all
the utensils of those who work in wood and
stone. He sits down with the laboring
man at meal time and collects bis tax in the
double cost of the knives and forks and
plates, and of the tea. the coffee, the sugar
and the salt which are placed on his bumble
board. Or he sits with bim by the ingleside
at evening and collects from him a tax on
the coal which burns in tbe grate and
warms the humble abode. A:. a when he j
dies the tax gatherer continues to ply his
vocation and gathers revenue from the
snowy shroud that covers him up tor his
long sleep, and as a final evidence of the in
satiate grasping power of our iniquitous
system of federal taxation the tombstone
which is raised as a loving memorial is made
to pay tribute for keeping watch over the
dust of the wage-earner .
With this but then of infamy resting upon
them, the great mass of the people
have no patience with the finespun
theories of the protectionist. Their every
day experience is a contradiction to all pro
tection sophistry. Secretary Manning has
struck the chord of popular sympathy in
his demand upon congress to confer upon
the wage-earners the boon of untaxed cloth
ing. The people are with him and they are
going to stay with him until relief is se
cured. There must and shall be a revision
and reduction of the tariff.
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HOME MISSIONARY WORK.
The refusal of the Chinese government to
permit American missionaries to prosecute
their labors in the interior of that far off
country might be well taken by those zeal
ous gentlemen as a hint that there are
places nearer borne where their efforts
might be put forth to good advantage.
Missionary work, like charity, should begin
at home, and there is certainly as good a
field for its prosecution in the large cities of
this country as there is beneath the burning
sun of tropical and semi-tropical regions.
Where crime, runs liot and young children
are brought up subjected to the vicious in
fluence of evil surroundings, where the
Bible and the school book are alike almost
unknown, there the earnest laborer who seeks
to save the souls of mankind can find a
far more fruitful field than among those
whose intelligence is not sufficient to under
stand the promises beld forth to them by
the religion which the missionary teaches.
In home missions, too, the results are more
direct and the benefit to society at large
more marked. They have in the past been
too much subordinated to the work abroad,
and if the somewhat rude check which the
Chinese have put upon the latter results in
the former receiving the attention they
merit, it will not be a matter calling for a
great deal of regret. The home mission
aries have, of course, done well in the past,
but the scope is a broad one and tho work
ers have been all too few.
LONG AND SHORT HAULS.
The compromise interstate commerce
bill agreed upon by the conference commit
tee representing the two branches of con
gress provides that a railway company shall
not charge more for a short haul than for a
long one. The proposition is one of such
manifest fairness that it is a wonder that
legislation is necessary to secure it. yet it is
a singular fact that the railway managers
fought that very provision more strenuously
than any other. The only reason that they
have ever assigned for wanting the privi
lege of charging less for a long haul than a
short one was that in the transportation of
through freight it enabled a railway com
pany to meet competition at terminal
points. If that were true, the question
would still be an open one whether the
public interest should be made to suffer
and the principle of fairness be sacrificed
in order that a railway corporation might
be able to survive competition. But it is
not true. By the present plan of pooling
there is no such competition among railway
companies. If the necessity ever did exist
it does not exist now. And yet it is safe
to assume that the railway corporations
will continue to fight that provision as vig
orously as ever. And with the immense
influence that they have in the senate there
is a possibility that no interstate commerce
will pass this congress. But there will be
a congress in the near future when such a
bill will pass, and it will be the right sort
of a bill at that *
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AVOID EXPOSURE.
Weather sermons are so common people
do not pay proper attention to them. But
at the risk of having the chestnut bell rung
on it the Globe ventures another sugges
tion relative to the danger of exposure
during the trying change of temperature
such as we have been experiencing the last
week. From twenty degrees below zero
last week we have undergone a change of
temperature to forty degrees above. A
change of sixty degrees in one week is ex
ceedingly trying on the human system, and
it is all the more so when the air is heavily
laden with moisture. First of all remem
ber to keep the feet warm and dry. The
chest and back should be well protected.
There is nothing so effective for this pur
pose as woolen underwear. Uncomforta
ble heat is a great temptation to remove the
heavy underwear worn in the extremely
cold weather. Do not be deceived into
doing it. The warm weather may be un
comfortable, but remember that improper
exposure to cold will certainly plant the
seeds of disease that will shorten life. It
is even more necessary to protect the body
in the warm damp weather, such as we are
now experiencing, than it is in the biting
cold weather when the air is dry.
THE ELECTORAL-COUNT BILL..
The electoral-count bill passed by the
house of representatives has more of the
ring of the old' constitution about it than
any measure that has recei ved favorable
attention at the hands of congress for a
long time, lt is one of those recurrences
to first principles which has a most healthy
aspect for the nation. It is a direct blow
at the centralizing tendencies of congress
and restores to the states the power with
which they were Invested by the framers of
the constitution.
DOUBLE SALARY FRAUD.
Sunset Cox did a creditable thing by
introducing a bill to prohibit an office- j
holder from drawing two salaries, Mr. :
Cox's recent experience has brought the
subject clearly to his mind and he sees the :
necessity for such a law. He is unwilling
to receive the two salaries which the law
entitles " him to as minister to Turkey and
' congressman, and he wants • the law so i
j amended that nobody else can do so if they j
i would. The country is with you. Mj. Cox, j
•in this - matter. Push your bill right along. ;
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I If the ice carnival managers are prevented
j by the weather from carrying out their con- !
! templated plans, they can at least have a
i lawn fete ..'-'■
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| A sensation was caused In a New York
! theater by' a young woman deliberately
removing her high hat, which obstructed the !
view of those who sat behind her. The audi
ence held Its breath in suspense for a moment, !
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believing the spectacle to be almost too good
to be true, and theu, convinced, broke into a
salvo of applause. It is tbe starting of a
new fashion which should not lack for imita
tors in a single town in tbe country* J
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It is with regret that we observe the calam- •
ity whiah has befallen the city of Bismarck. ;
It la to be booed, however, that with the .rue
Western spirit of making the best of every
thing, she will meet the catastrophe with j
Christian resignation, and after the usual I
period of mournlrg. once more take interest |
in tho outside world. Her two prettiest girls
have departed for Boston.
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We, or course, do not kaow what it por
tends, but we have it on reliable authority
that Hon. Knutb Nelson baa of lata, on ;
several occasions, wandered into the senate !
chamber, gazed upon the cbalr which Sena- I
tor McMillan was occupying, and then'
heaved a sigh which, in intensity, might well
be mistaken for a Fifth district zephyr.
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All through the Northwest the papers are j
beginning to take great interest lc St. Paul's i
coming carnival, and report the formation of
numerous clubs. The Northwest knows a
good thing when it sees it, and every effort
should be made to extend similar knowledge
to other portions of the country.
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Spring weather is all very well in Its way,
but it is in the way when it intrudes itself la
the middle of December when the prepara- |
tions for the ice palace have begun, and the
weather clerk will accordingly confer a dis- j
tinct favor on the Northwest if he will shove
it aside for a lew months. ___&s___
Senator Ma hone predicts that Virginia
will go Republican in 1883. Now let the re
pudiated senator try himself on a prediction
regarding Minnesota after he makes the ac
quaintance of the three Democratic congress
men who will represent this state in the next
cougress. B£_ij_j
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If it is true, as reported, that Dennis
Ryan has purchased a mine in Idaho for
$ - JOii.oiXi and now discovers that it is worth
$5,000,000, what an excellent senatorial can
didate be would make should be ever locate
in that territory and wait fur its admission as
a state.
Perhaps the secret of Prince Alexan
der's sit to England is that be intends, out
of the depths of his stormy Bulgarian experi
ence, to give his brother Battei>berg a few
po titers iv regard to tbe best way of man
aging his royal luother-iu-law.
Now that Hon. C. K. Davis is nut again,
and is able to keep a vigilant eye out for de
fections from the ranks of his supporters.
those of the rank and tile who have shown a
disposition to get out of line will probabaly
speedily toe the mark attain.
There is a strong prospect that Chicago
will secure tbe Indian supply warehouse now
located in New York. St. Paul might have
bad it had she put forth an effort. It was a
case of inexcusable neglect.
Senator Riddlebkrgkr is very, very mad
at tbe sergeant-at-urms of the senate and has
probably ere this informed the police authori
ties that he intends to challenge that gen
tleman to mortal combat,
Buffalo Bill will take bis Wild West
show .o England and English authors will be
thus enabled to write their usual reliable (?)
books on American life without the trouble
of crossing the ocean.
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Judge Church wants it distinctly under
stood that be is no carpetbagger, and further
more, that the trunk which he has unpacked
for a permanent stay in Dakota is plainly
marked "Governor."
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Can the presence in the city of Junius Henri
Brown be taken as au indication that Gov
ernor-Elect Mc iiLL has at last entered into
definite negotiations for the disposal of his
St. Peter organ?
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The audacious burglar, without the fear of
the police before his eyes, is resuming his
rounds. The public guardians should leave
nothing undone to secure an introduction to
him.
Omaha is making a big effort to secure
Patti for at least one night. Shall it be said
that Omaha, of all places, has greater musi
cal appreciation and culture than St. Paul?
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It is now thought that the only words ad
dressed to Delegate Day by tbe president, in
spite of his phenomenal run against Gifford,
were, as he bowed him out, "Good Day."
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Judge Gresham is fortunate in incurring
Jay Gould's enmity. No otber presidential
candidate has received as yet so vigorous a
"boom."
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Speaking of Editor Wise
and bouncing recalls a little
incident in whioh Editor
Wise was the central figure.
It was last winter during the
visit of the toboggan and
snow shoe clubs to Mar;kato.
The boys were magnificently
entertained by the citizens
of Mankato in the great
skating rink. After lunch
had been disposed of and
just before the speeches began, the ooys es
pied Editor Wise standing near the door, and, j
yelling "Up! up! up!" they rushed for him in j
a body. The editor weighs 290 pounds and ,
always wears a heavy cane of seasoned hick- j
ory, carved at one end. He had seen the boys ;
bounce several of bis fellow citizens and j
knew what was meant when they came to- j
wards him, yelling like demons. Just as the
head man reached out to take hold of the i
editor's coat collar, the latter raised his cane
and it came down with a crash on tbe head \
of the presumptive tobogganer, and he went
to the floor in a heap. A second man re- j
ceived the same treatment, and for tbe third
tuna the formidable cane swung up, but no
body seemed anxious to get under it.
"Don't mind me, boys," said the editor. ;
"I'm too heavy. Take some lighter man."
The boys took lighter men that night, but
they have always remembered Editor Wise, j
and If he is caught iv St. Paul during the ;
coming carnival season, there is no power !
that will save him from a good square-shoul
dered bouncing.
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Ezra F. Kendall, the versatile and original |
comedian now filling an engagement at tho \
Grand with his laughable farce. "A Pair of i
Kids," Is purely a man of circumstances. !
Hardly more than five years ago he was a
member of Charles Gardner's "Oaly a
Farmer's Daughter" company. Cherie was
the widely-advertised star. Kendall played j
the exalted role of property man, which, by j
the way, was the most interesting part in th© i
play, and Gardner at first refused to give the |
stage-struck youth a salary, but finally set- :
tled the princely weekly stipend of ft on bim '
Kendall drew his $4 quietly for awhile, but !
soon became ambitious and asked to be cast
in the character of Jake, the country gawk I
in the play. This was finally done, and Ken- |
dall made such a decided hit that he surprised
himself and won a raise of salary from his \
manager. Later on he went under a three j
years' contract with Mestayer.of the Tourists ;
fame, to play the character of the doctor in !
"We, Us & Co." Tnis character was created
by Kendall. At the cud of two years he found
that while he was giving the play its reputa- j
tion be was getting the thin end of the net re- !
ceipts, and he sold the play to Mestayer with
the understanding that he would release him
irom tbe third year of his contract. This he
did, and Kendall promptly put "A Pair of ,
Kids" on the stage, and has since been mak- j
ing money. His second visit to a city is al- i
ways more remunerative to him than the
first.
Farewell to Wile.
Freeborn County Standard. ,
Hon. Milo White, our own Mllo, whom
through tbe fond and unselfish labors of the
Standard his old-time friends and political
coadjutors have come to truly appreciate and
loving! v revere, has gone to Washington to re
sume his teat in congress. How sweet and
how pleasant it must seem to a man to know
that he is the idol of a great and free people.
To achieve that a life must have been well
lived, and his crown of a majestic, electric
lighted manhood will be recognized by all im
partial'men as noological, nutritious and
ne plus ultra. Tbe Standard considers Itself
indorsed in its unfaltering course towards
our Milo, and especially in its affectionate re
gard for bim. and we join all bis friends in
hoping that the closing of bis statesmanlike
career may be aa jejune and gorgeous aa the
golden setting of a western sun.
School Room t'clioes.
Teacher of • chemistry to class— Can you
give me an example of the gases in a solid
form'/
Class, witb vociferous unanimity Congress.
— Washington Critic. .
Teacher— To what class of leather does calf
skin belong?
Pupil (son of a village shoemaker)— the
upper class, Yonkera Statesman.
Au unsatisfactory lesson. Father of the
small boy— My son. if you had three apples
and should give me oue how many would you
have left? Small boy — Botcher life I wouldn't
do it.— Boston Post. BPfiß
A schoolmaster wrote to a lady:
How comes it this delightful weather,
That U and 1 can't aine together?
! She answered :
My worthy friend, it cannot be,
U cannot como till after T.
— National Weekly.
Scene Polk street kindergarten.
Teacher Now, children, silence and atten
tion. Who made the world?
Eddie Jones (with uplifted hand— The
Creator. •..:-..-
Front row of pupils with chestnut bells—
Ting-a-ling-a-ling.— San Francisco Post.
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\T hen Pa ••» Beueatu the Sod.
Washington Critic.
"Did father injure your feelings last night
when be asked you out in tbe ball?" said a
fair damsel of G street to a clerk in a Seventh
street dry goods store.
"Yes," he' replied, in bitter, revengeful
tones, "but I can forgive him that for your
sake, dear." nSB
"Then you will come again?" she asked,
hopefully and brightly.
"Yes, love, I will come again."
"When. Harry, when?"
"When your pa is in the cold, cold ground.
Annie."
"No sooner than that?" she asked, with
tears in' her eyes.
"Well," he* said, forgivingly, "for your
sake, 1 might be induced to come to bis
funeral."
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Let i oiouuicik Combine.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Alter the Minneapolis millers have formed
a vast combination to monopolize the supply
of flour, perhaps all the farmers may get up
a similar one to monopolize the supply of
wheat. When these and other similar com
binations are completed we do not see that
anything will be left to be done, except for
consumers to get up a combination which
shall protect their own interests b using the
law to smash all the combinations to control
the necessaries of life.
Will tne solona Toboggan ?
Lanes . Journal.
St. Paul , is preparing an ice palace and
carnival for 1837 that will open Jan. 17, and
will surpass the grand display of last year.
The palace will be larger, the programme
more elaborate and the illumination more
brilliant. There will too be the additional at
traction at St. Paul 'of the legislature, and
why should there not be several noted Legis
lative Toboggan clubs? But the big thin? to
our mind is tbe "Syeo;>odiuni spouting fire."
Hurrah for the Sycopodium.
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The Oasis oi an Evening.
Boston Folio.
Editb — What a lonesome spot a social
gathering is where oue is such a stranger!
• Harold lt is indeed, 'pon honor, doucber
know.
Edith— l don't know what I should have
done but for you. You are the oasis of the
evening's desert.
Harold— Really I am beholden to you, Miss
Edith.
Edith — Yes, dear Harold! you are the even
ing's oasis — the one gicm spot in all the
dreary waste.
Tired off the Constitution.
Le Sueur Sentinel.
There will he a demand in the coming
Minnesota legislature for annual sessions
instead of biennial, as now. and this demand
ought to he embodied in an amendment to
tbe constitution, with a return, also, to
annual elections. The better thing to do,
however, would be to provide a convention
to frame a new constitution. The old thing
bas been patched so much that one can
hardly recognize any of the original cloth.
more Strained Relations*
Omaha World.
Uncle Sam— l bear you have been turned
out of office, yet refuse to deliver up tho
keys.
Rebellious Postmaster— Just so.
"I demand lv the name ot tne great United
States government that jou surrender."
"I wont"
"You wont, eh?"
"No, I won't."
"Well, I'll— l'll tell your mother on you."
Bartn'ji Furnace.
Sauk Centre Herald.
Quoting a Fergus Falls gentleman, one of
the St. Paul papers referred to that "big-bel
lied Barto." Not only large in abdominal,
but in cranial and cardiac preportions, his
big belly Is "merely the furnace which keeps
the active enginery of his head and heart ef
tectivelv moving. Many a human engine is
crippled by the lack of heating surface un
der the boiler. .
The Bootblack* Error.
Omaha World.
Bootblack— Shine, sir?
Omaha Man— Why, it isn't five minutes
Since you polished my boots. What do you
mean?
"is you the feller what I shined just now/
"Yes." ■;.-, _.v"u*T'' 1
"Beg parding, sir. , .1 thort you was the one
tbe other boy shined. ,
*■ merely a .natter of Mind.
Rambler.
Old Turveydrop — Now, my boy, I don't
think you bad better break off your engage
ment with Miss Crtesus. You may be more
iond of her after you are married.
Young Turveydrop— Never! The more I
think of her. the— the less I think of her.
Konton Is Such a Small Place.
Boston Courier.
New Yorker on a visit to Boston— Why,
you've got your grip. Jack. Going off.""
Bostonlan Yesl *, ~V;
N. V. — Business trip?
B.— The fart is. I get to be so big feel
ing, living here all the time in Boston, that
I'm obligee to take an occasional trip to New
York to take me down a little.
Too Big to be Kicked.
Dansville Breeze.
Winnie Johnson, of Cincinnati, weighs 733
pounds. And the. say it is fun to see Winnie's
papa irjing to drive her fellow heme- when he
stays too l at«. Her papa goes one way and
his dog the other, but it is so far around her
that the fellow has no trouble in evading
both of them.
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nni>u«iiy'x Enterprise.
Bismarck Tribune.
Histoid of Farmer Donnelly, of Minnesota,
that he had sent abroad for a merino ewe and
crossed it with a hydraulic ram to secure a
breed of sheep capable or enduring v Minne
sota blizzard.
Another Kichuiond.
Duluth Herald. '.-':,%-.,
Ignatius Donnelly wants to be speaker of
the house, and he may be anxious to be
elected United States senator. Ig is said
to have the Washington county delegation
solid .
-, — _ i m ■
Annual Sessions Favored.
Eoka'n Cblef.^ggg_B_|g_33S
We think the biennial session is a humbug.
Annual sessions would be better even of
thirty days. ' But in so young a state annual
sessions of sixty days is about tbe correct
thing. If » session is held only once in two
years sixty days is not long enough.
It is (be Best.
Arlington Enterprise.
Although the political complexion of the
Globe does not suit us, we must admit that
for general news it is one of the best daily
newspapers published in the Northwest.
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A CVf OF TANTALUS.
In a hammock swinging low.
Just across the way, you know.
Dainty gown of rosy pink.
Slippers Louis Quinze, I think.
Maddening mass of golden hair.
Rounded arm so white and fair,
Hoseleaves showered upon the ground, .
Rose-perfumed the air around.
And this picture .neath the trees.
■_'.'; Gently swayed by boldest breeze,
In a hammock swinging low—
Is just across the way, you kuow.
—Frank Chaffee in New York Graphic.
FROM FOREIGN FIELDS.
The Capsiaing of Two Life Boats at
Southport, En§r., Results in a
_S*^ ; Terrible Disaster. ,
__-p' p *^
Twentr-Sereu Persons Belonging to
the Crews Drowned or Suffocated
' - v":"/i •-*;"» to Death.
Gladstone Asked to Define His Posi
tion on the Anti-Kent
■^_ Question.
Russia's Attitude Toward Bulgaria--
The German Army Acquire
ments.
Loxdox, Dec. Three life-boats left
Southport to assist a distressed vessel. The
latest reports say that the crew of one of
the boats succeeded in rescuing the men
on the vessel, but the two other boats cap
sized, and it is believed that twenty-seven
persons were drowned. The survivors of
one of the life-boat crews say that instead
of righting herself the boat remained
bottom up and that five of their
number were underneath it for an hour in
water only knee-deep. Three of them
were suffocated. The two others were
rescued. The Norwegian bark Ajax
sprang a leak southwest of Start point. A
boat was launched from an American ves
sel to rescue the crew. The boat went
adrift, but two sailors of the Ajax jumped
overboard and succeeded in overtaking it.
With this boat the crew of the Ajax was
transferred to the Harway, which after
ward landed them at Dartmouth.
BRITISH POLITICS.
A Definite statement Asked from
Gladstone — The Government*
. i rotrratunie.
London. Dec. 10. — Mr. Gladstone's dis
approval of the anti-reut campaign in Ire
land was expressed in a private letter to Mr.
Cameron, a member of parliament for Glas
gow. The Scotch and other Liberal asso
ciations are not satisfied, and have asked
Mr. Gladstone for a full and public declara
tion on the subject. The. cabinet met to
day and will not come together again until
after Christmas. The order of business in
lie coming session of parliament was re
vised, and Hfffa
THE PROGRAMME
will probably be as follows: The session
will open with the introduction of a coercion
bill, including special provisions for the
suppression of boycotting. It was decided
that local government measures affecting
England and Scotland shall have precedence
over legislation on the same subject for Ire
land. The result of this wiil be that no
Irish business except such as relates to
coercion and to the bill extending the scope
of the Ashbourne land act will be trans
acted. The Harrington section will give
thorough support to the measure, It is re
ported that the Marquis of Kipon will lead
the opposition in the house of lords in the
event of Lord Granville retiring, and
that Lord Kosebery will be displaced on
account of his verging toward Unionist
views.
BiLHAKIA.
tn Official Statement of the Atti
tude Assumed by Hussia.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 10. — The official
Messenger says:
Tbe recall of the Russian agents was not
intended to sever the ties tbat unite Bulgaria
and Kussia. It only signified that Kussia
ief used to recognize the legality of the con
dition of affairs under which an insignifi
cant minority seized supreme power, and
Imagined it was entitled to guide Bulgarian
destinies and make the people its tools.
Revolutionary passions have had a pernicious
effect upon public morality in Bulgaria.
Bulgaria was making rapid progress when
the revolution of Phlllipoppolifl suddenly
diverted the country into a path of
DANGEROUS POLITICAL ADVENTURES
which entailed heavy sacrifices and resulted
in the present condition of affairs which, if it
continues, will end in anarchy and a constant j
< menace to peace In the East. Russia's duty
is the maintenance of peace in the East. j
While remaining on the basis of the Benin
treaty, she intends to endeavor to remove the j
pressure which is weighing heavily
upon Bulgar.a, and to re-establish j
legal order, which will serve as '
a guarantee of future prosperity, |
and justify the sacrifices Russia bas made.
Tbe Russian government will not accept any
arrangement which, under cover of legality,
will merely perpetuate the present abnormal
conditions in Bulgaria. Russia is satisfied |
with tbe attitude of tbe Porte. She regards '
Turkey as working seriously for a pacifio
solution of the Bulgarian problem in con
formity witb existing treaties, and as being
therefore entitled to the support of the pow
ers.
THE BE It I.IK BUDGET.
_
The Need of Strengthening the Army
Still Urged on the I awTlalifr*.
Berlin. Dec, 10. — The commission on
the military bill continued the discussion of
the measure to-day. Gen. Yon Scbellen
dorff explained that if the bill was passed
before January everything would be pre
pared to strengthen the infantry regiments j
with the full numbers of recruits provided
under the bill by April 1. He denied the
accuracy of Bert ltiehter's statements
about the forces of France, and reminded
the committee that the Algerian corps ap
pealed very swiftly on scenes of action in
1870. Regarding" the German artillery, he
said it was necessary that the line of divis
ion between toot and field artillery
be made more distinct, and that
teams for guns be increased. He
took less account of the Itussian than of
the French army. The regent of Bavaria
has gone to Dresden. The emperor, the
crown prince and other members of the im
perial family accompanied the regent to the
railway station and bade him farewell. Dr.
Junker, the African explorer, teiegrcphs
that he has arrived in Zanzibar from the in
terior. He reports that he left Emir Bey
well, and that the latter had reduced- the
rebels to submission as far as Lardo. on the
White Nile, whence there is a daily steamer
service. President Madeburg, of the gov
ernment department of Kassell. has been
appointed under secretary of the German
ministry of commerce.
Hanlan, the Oarsman.
London, Dec. 9. — Hanlan has deposited i
£100 forfeit for his race with Beach June |
; next. He stipulates that the race shall be
according to the same articles and over the I
same course as his race with Laycock. j
Haitian will sail for Australia from America \
on receipt of a message from Beach continu- i
ing bis acceptance of his challenge.
France iv Egypt.
Cairo, Dec. 10.— Although Count
D'Annay, the French agent here, declares '
that his government prefers to continue the
status quo rather than treat of a settlement J
1 of the respective positions of France and \
England 'in Egypt until the date of the ;
evacuation of Egypt by the British has j
been fixed, yet it is understood that France
will not refuse to co-operate in the work of
reforming the Egyptian administration.
The ©sieiid Nail Robbery.
Brussels, Dec. 10.— woman to-day
revealed the place where a number of the
letter* recently stolen from the Ostend ex
press had been hidden. They were found
in the Hue Blanchissese iv a drain. The >
English police know who stole the mail
and are on the track of the robbers.
The London police are on the track of ;
thieves who belong to a gang engaged in a '
number of mail robberies. The railway
officials here recognized one of the sus- ,
! pected robbers by a photograph sent here. {
: He . returned to London on tho night of •.
Nov. 27. and has since visited receivers of
stolen diamonds in that city.
English Bondholders.
London, Dec 10. —A meeting of hold
ers of Central Pacific railroad bonds was
held to-day, Joseph Price presiding. The
chairman said that the company was in the >
hands of directors who held no stock. A
committee was appointed to protect the in
terests of ,the English bondholders.
A Swindlers Sentence.
Dublin, Dec. 10.— Arthur Morelan, alias
. Rev. Theodore Keatinge was convicted to
day of swindling aud sentenced to eighteen
months hard labor. ;. >
A Sugar Bill.
The Hague, Dec. 10.— The govcrh»«^t
has introduced . in parliament a bill to tem
porarily suspend the sugar export duty in
the Dutch East Indies.
An Abyssinian Outbreak.
Cairo, Dec. 10. Advices have been re
ceived here saying that Has Aloula, the
Abyssinian general, is marching on Kas
sal a.
Ericsson's Solar Engine.
New 1 ork. Dec. 10. The statement is
published that Capt. Ericsson, the inventor
of the Monitor, has completed and basin
practical application an engine operated by
heat from the sun's rays. The rays are
concentrated upon the boiler from a concave
surface of looking-glass. 11 by 14 feet in
size, the cost being reduced by
using narrow strips of flat giass
set upon the concave, which
is so arranged as to constantly turn toward
the sun. He is able to secure with it a
steam pressure of thirty-five pounds. The
engine has been in operation three years,
under improvement, and is now completed.
It is intended chiefly for use in hot coun
tries. The captain thinks he has carried
his last marine invention, the Destroyer, as
far as he can under the law, and he hopes
the government will take hold of and com
plete it.
In Hard Luck.
New York, Dec. 10.— A terrible looking
I wreck of a man, with snow-white hair and
a face that was intellectual, though hard
ship and dissipation had somewhat dis
torted its lineaments, applied at the Tombs
police court this afternoon. He asked to
be committed. The presiding justice
granted the old man's request, and he was
taken below where he might lodge for the
j night in the corridor and be fed when food
I is given the criminals, of whom he is now
j a companion. His history is that of a man
' who was once independent and talented,
hut who has come now to be a tramp.
He says his name is Charles War
ner, that he is the author of
fifty-two inventions, among which the
best improvements and real utilization of
; the Colt's revolver and conversion of the
Springfield muzzle-loading rifle into a
breech-loading rifle weapon, • stand promi.
nent.
They Fa. led to Wed.
New York, Dec 10. — For some days an
Indian member of the Buffalo Bill show has
been trying to induce some minister or
justice to unite him to a white woman, It
is said .-, that the pair have now
decided to give up any further
attempts at conjugal bliss, and that the
> young woman has gone home. Her name
I is known to certain members of the Buffalo
' Bill troupe, but they decline to divulge it.
j It is asserted, however, that she belongs to
! a wealthy and respectable family, and her
■ dress and manner corroborate the state
; incut BBs£H Hf?m
Absorbed m K«.ad.
St. Louis, Dec. 10. — It is officially
announced that the St. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad lias taken formal possession
of the St. Louis, Salem & Little Rock rail
road, and that it will hereafter be
operated as a part of their
road and known as the Salem
branch. It is seventy-two miles long at
present, runs through a very rich and
pretty well developed iron region and fur
nishes a large amount of freight traffic in
the way of iron ore and pig iron.
Kteamstiip trrirals.
New — The State of Georgia, from
Glasgow.
Queenstown — Adriatic, from New
York.
Said He V» « » roisnited.
Last night a man was taken into the
Economy lodging house, Minneapolis, while
suffering from the effects of a dose of poi
son,' as he said. He gave his name as
Merrill and said he wanted Dr. Kilvington.
; When the doctor arrived the fellow" was
standing up and gazing around at the sea of
faces. The doctor recognized in him the
fellow who had played the same old game
a dozen times. He gave him snch a roast
ing that the fellow actually turned pale.
He is the same . man who is supposed to
have set numerous tires last fall.
Why Berlioz Disliked Wagner.
''■ Pall Mall Gazette.
i Hector Berlioz, whose statue has just
been inaugurated in Paris, had a violent
hatred of Wagner. It arose out of simple
jealousy. One day Berlioz went to the re
ception at the Tuilleries. and had the'honor
of a chat with the emperor, who inquired
about his opera, "Les Troyens." adding
that he should like to have a look at it.
Berlioz, transported with joy, resolved to
demand-' an audience of his imperial
I majesty, and looked forward to the speedy
production of his work at the opera. But
days and weeks passed by and no news
came. Suddenly one morning he was
startled by the annoucement that, in pur
suance of imperial orders, the "Tannhauser"
of Wagner was to be immediately brought
out at the opera. Berlioz immediately
flew into a passion, and from that moment
spent all his bile on Wagner. He attacked
him right and left on every occasion.
"Wagner," he wiote to a friend, "is evi
dently mad; he is sure tv die in an asy
lum." To an another person he wrote:
"I will not write any criticism on 'Tann
hauser.' I shall protest by my silence."
He was then musical critic on the Debats.
In another letter he said: "The public
laughed outright at the bad style and bur
lesque orchestration of Wagner." When
"Tannhauser" failed he exclaimed, "Thank
Cod. I -am richly avenged!" At length,
"Les Troyens' was produced at the Lyrique
and turned out a fiasco. It was the death
blow to Berlioz. Wagner, in his turn, was
richly avenged.
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Clam Juice for Headache.
Bon Vivant.
Several first-class hotels in various parts
of the country now give a permanent place
on their bills of fare for boiled clam juice.
The secrecy of the potency of this prepara
tion, which is simply what the name calls
it — the juice of the clam boiled until mod
■ erately — has long been known, it is
[ said, in English swelldom, but here it is
comparatively new. It is tho only thing in
the world that will safely, surely and
quickly restore the normal equilibrium of a
system upset by much of a good time
' with the boys. It is pleasant to take, per
fectly harmless and never fails, even in
the most hardened case. It has none of
the deleterious after effects of bromide and
the other drugs usually applied as nerve
soothers and constitution bracers. An
other form of the same thing is the clam
cocktail, and this is also dispensed at the
modest bar. There is only one objection to
clam juice— that is the peculiar smile of the
waiter that always goes with it. Nobody
ever orders boiled clam juice but a man
who needs it. and a man who needs clam
juice Is in a condition to be irritated by a
knowing grin on a waiter's face. If the
clam juice hotel can only arrange to have
the stuff served by cast-iron waiters, the
demand for it is bound to be immense.
■
An Editor's Experience*
Journalism has many disadvantages In the
West. The editor of the Aurora (111.) Blade
says pathetically: "People about tue town
were more or less interested in our house.
because the idea of an editor putting up a
ranch was so novel. We have answered tbe
inquiry. 'How is that house of yours (retting
aloujr)' more than a thousand times in the
last two months. And tbe question, 'Have
you moved yet?' has been fired at us more
than five hundred times in the last fortnight.
We h ye answered these questions without
ooce snowing a grain of irritation, but the
other day Ike Phillips said something tbat
made us mad. 'Are you moved yet?' asked
Phillips. 'Began this morning. We carried
over a saltcellar and a chair and coaxed the
dog over,' we ejaculated in delight. 'Is that
so?' said Ike in a tone of congratulation. 'I
am glad to bear that you are so near through
with the job.' "
Fred Carruth has gone East to arrange for
the Zephyr, the new Dakota funny paper, to
be started at Sioux Fails next month.. He
does not deny that Gov. Pierce is to be as
sociated with bim, nor affirm anything.
RICH in CIV'S HABITS,
Balances Carried by ill en of means**
I hi I Armour's Vast Deposits.
Chicago Mail. *.';
Big cash balances are often controlled by
people whom one would not expect to keep
a great amount of ready money on hand.
Around the board of trade it is the gossip
that one of the biggest balances is kept by
a young fellow who a couple of years age
was working in Armour's office for 860 a
month. He saved enough to get a mem
bership, and began trading in the thousand
bushel lot crowd. He took the selling sid«
and soon had enough to his credit to
transfer his operations to the big
Pi*- , F - .H. Hill, called familiarly
"Effie" in the pit, is now the
biggest scalper on the floor. He sells
1.000.000 bushels of wheat now as nonchal
antly as he sold 1,000 bushels when he be
gan. The gossip in the pit is that he has
made about 3200.000, and that lie keeps ail
of it in bank ready to be drawn at a mo
ment's notice. Leopold Bloom, on the
oth er hand, is a man who does not believe
in big balances. When he gets 810.000
together anywhere, whether at the Corn
Exchange bank or in the hands of a broker
or anybody else, he gets the currency, buys
property and puts it in his wife's name.
Ten thousand is a sort of unit with him.
Any sum under that can lie undisturbed,
but he no sooner sets his hand on that sum
or any multiple of it— s2o,ooo. 830.000 or
$40. 000 —than he puts it safely away.
When old S. H. Thompson, the restau
rateur, died, 8134.000 In bills was found
packed away in his safety deposit vault at
the Illinois Trust and Safety Deposit com
pany's building. Thompson could not
write, and it has always been supposed that
it was the old gentleman's sensitiveness on
this score that caused him to keep a great
fortune like this in greenbacks. He could
write a check for $100 or $200, or any even
sum like that; but when it came to writing
out odd sums he was at a loss. If old
Thompson had invested his money he
would have left probably $500,000. instead
of $150,000. Andrew turnings, who was
for so many years in his em
ploy, and who was only taken into
partnership a few years before his death, is
supposed to be worth $300,000. Thomp
son's restaurant lias always had a charm for
ladies, and has always been the headquar
ters for cold-water advocates. The old gen
tleman did at one time serve English ale,
but not regularly. He never sold but one
case of wine in all his career as a restau
rantkeeper. The very day that he put this
wine on the bill Cummings, a gambler,
came in and ordered a bottle. He drank
too much, got into a wrangle with the
darkey serving him, whippet! out his gun
and shot the waiter. The wine came right
off Thompson's list the very next day.
But to get back to the topic of big bal
ances again. Armour each morning has a
little ticket put on his desk which shows
the funds on deposit at Chicago, Kansas
City, New. York and elsewhere. The
writer has seen these figures when the bal
ances exceeded $1,000,000. Armour's cash
balances used to be larger than they are
now. He invested in St. Paul and became
a director there mainly because he had so
much foods that he could not keep them
well employed. He is now using $5,000,000
in carrying wheat. Then there are the
millions he has in St. Paul and in
his business. Armour does not believe in
keeping balances unemployed. Hutch
inson bought and paid for 10,000
shares of Northwestern common about
a year ago am. > now said to own 15.000.
He propably has nearly 000,000 ready
money all the time at his disposal. Eggies
ton. one of the board of trade grain cat tiers,
could probably raise a great deal of cash iv
thirty minutes. Ed Pardridge must keep a
very large cash balance. The amount kep'
on deposit by Marshall, Field & Co. and J.
V. Farwell «fe Co. must be something lik<
81,000,000 for the former and $750,000 fo;
the latter. In the winter the packers neea
big balances. The pay roll of the big houses
out there run from $50,000 to 8100.000 per
week, and Armour pays for cattle and hogs
about $750,000 per week in the busy sea
son. Just think of the balances that a
business like that requires.
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I CUPID IN THE TREASURY.
it donning- a Bright Young ,T!an and
Making a . reity Girl Happy.
National Republican.
Six j ears ago last March a bright-eyed,
rosy-cheeked young fellow of 22 received
an appointment through political influence
in the division I am employed in. You
know that was before the days of civil
service reform. He was quick and intelli
gent, and it was uot long before he was as
familiar with the work as the oldest clerk
in the office. For a week or so he was a
most efficient clerk and always on time.
With sorrow 1 began to notice
that he was becoming dissipated;
that his work was behind, and instead
of the frank, independent expression
he had when he came in the office was a
careless, devil-may-care sort of look. I re
monstrated with him and told him lie would
be dismissed, and justly, too. if he did not
shake the companions he was associating
with.
His only reply would be: "I can tako
care of myself; yon needn't fret about me."
His downfall didn't surprise me much, for
I had seen a number of young men go just
his way who had come in the departments
honest, sober young fellows, and leave it
broken down in health and careless as to
how they made their living. Things
went on this way until the present
administration came into power and the
heads of the different bureaus were
changed. Consequently a great num
ber of new clerks came in. Among these
was a pretty young lady with large brown
eyes and a fascinating smile. The clerks,
both male and female, immediately took to
her and she became a general favorite. The
young men in the office never lost an oppor
tunity to have a few minutes' chat with
her, but that is as far as it ever went.
Though she treated ail pleasantly, none
were ever invited to call on her. The
young fellow I spoke about had gotten so
that he seldom had anything to say to any
one. In the course of time he made the
acquaintance of the pretty young clerk, and
that evening one of the old lad es, with the
best intentions in the world, told the young
lady not to gee too intimate with that man,
as he was considered a "rounder," or, in
other words, dissipated.
She said she liked him and thought there
was a great deal ef good in him if he had
the proper encouragement. He seemed to
be a gentleman, and that if he did anything
wrong it was only through carelessness.
After this the two young people were to
gether constantly when not at the office,
and a most wonderful change came over
him. He stopped drinking, attended to
his work with a will, and when not some
where with her of an evening, stayed in
his room and read. 1 was pleased to note
the change and knew that all would come
out well. She had only been in the office
about six months when he came to me one
day and said be was going to resign, as his
salary ( was not sufficient to support a wife
as he would like to, and that he bad
secured a position as bookkeeper in a
wholesale grocery house in New
York. He went away and I heard
nothing from him. We often spoke
of him at the office, but no one
ever dared ask the young lady clerk about
him, for they remembered how she went for
the old lady who spoke of him to her. Sev
eral weeks since I was surprised when the
young lady came to me, as the young man
had before, and said she would be pleased
if I would send her resignation to the sec
retary. I asked her jokingiy if she was
going to be married. She blushingly ad
mitted she was, but would not say to
whom. I suspected and felt pleased. This
morning she and her husband called to see j
me, and it* proved to be the young man I
suspected. He told me he had been very
fortunate since leaving the office, and was
now head bookkeeper for the concern to
which he went from the department, and
attributed all his success to the pretty young
bride at his side. They left this evening
for New York, where henceforth will be
their home. It does my heart good to see a
marriage like that. • I
a ■ i
A handsome pamphlet has Just been issued I
setting forth the unsurpassed advantages of I
Sioux Falls as a manufacturing and business
point. A good idea of the placets afforded
from the cuts and description*, and a solid
bottom laid for the anticipation that it will j
soon be in front of all Dakota cities. . -/."
