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Eoed from tho new G_.o»K Bui-ding _ special edition of this paper* II will fee a unique and Intensely iatecesttng pnb-ica tiou—just such a paper as every Business, Man. __ hirer and l-eater in Real, Estate will desire to be h_adso«_ety repre sented in. The spaoe -devoted to adx^eiti. i_g favors will be necessari-y limited-* , therefore, those desiring to avail themselves i of this unusually desirable medium of com* muni cation with the public, should indicate that desire to the Publish-, at au early day* All contracts must be matte directly with this office. The edition will be composed of 50, 000 copies, with neat aud attractive lithograph covers. TO-DAY'S WEATHER. Washington, April 3, 1 a. in. — Indica tions: For lowa, .Minnesota, Wisconsin and Western Michigan: Local rains, colder, with a cold wave, and variable winds shifting to northerly. For Nebraska: Light local rains followed by fair colder weatbor, winds shift ing to northerly and then becoming variable. For Eastern Dakota: Local snows, colder and variable winds, generally northerly. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. St. Paul. April 2.— The following observa tions were made at . :4_ p. m., local time. Bar. Tii-i-T %~~ a 3 HI Q -SO Place of Observation. 2. •_ |*- % 2 ° i" _ _* _ S- Z £ 55 s* Duluth I **.. "3 31 *14 Cloudy St. Paul 1 29.71 1 49 +5 Lt rain La Crosse 1 29.79 581 .13 Cloudy Huron i 29.74 44 *2 Fair Moorhead 29.75 43 tijClondy St. Vincent 29.83 20 ...Cloudy Bismarck I 29.84 33! *10 Cloudy Fort Buford.. ! 29.93 23 *25 Cloudy Fort Assinaboine.... j 29.90 38; *1S Fair Fort Custer 29.94 33 Cloudy Helena 29.97 34 *14 Cloudy Fort Garry 1 29.81 17 ..Cloudy Minnedosa 30.03 4! *28 Cloudy Medicine Hat... j 29.94] 30 *22 Clear Qu 'Apelle | 30.22 5 *3'_lCl.ar "Lower. .Hiirber. — ♦ VENTILATING SCHOOL HOUSES. It is a pity that in a world full of pure air so many of the human race are com pelled to exist or rather to die, in foul atmosphere. And it is still more singular that in a world full of humane people so many of us should practice the most malignant species of refined cruelty toward those whom nature anil association have given tlie most claim on our sympathy and humanity. Pitiable and singular though these things be, they are lamentably true. "We find a daily illustration of it in the prac tice of crowding our children into badly, ventilated -^school houses where -they iire' compelled to sit day after day, suffering the. tortures of a lingering death. We impose this punishment upon ourselves every Sab bath when we congregate in church build ings and for two hours inhale a vicious, blood-poisonine element We shut our leg islators up for sixty consecutive days in musty halls, where the brain grows weary under the depressing influence of vitiated air, and then we complain of the bad char acter of legislation that is turned out. All this is done in spite of the fact that the good God has in no particular been more prodical In the display of His bounty than in the abundant supply of pure, fresh air which is supplied in this world and which we go to so much pains and expense" to deny ourselves of. At no time is the importance of an abund ant supply of pure air so necessary as during the growing period of life. Of the factors necessary in building , a healthy human body, none is more important than pure air. Good air to the body is what the rain is to the parched earth. It gives life to the blood coursing through the veins, and re news the wasting tissues of the body. As the rain dissolves the chemical compounds in the earth aud shapes them to be absorbed by the roots of the growing plants, in like manner the blood carries nutrition to the body. Good air plays an important part in this process of body building. Good food makes good blood, but. in making a circuit of the body thousands of little pores are de positing into this pure stream of life poison ous matter in the shape of dead particles from the system. The blood goes into the heart thus charged with poison. From thence it is sent into the lungs to be filtered. Here it is exposed to the action of oxygen from the air; the carbonic acid gas, which is largely the air form of decayed animal tissue, takes the place of the oxygen in the lungs and is thrown out by respiration. Then the purified blood returns to the heart and starts a fresh circuit to replace the drying tissues. This is nature's simple pro cess for giving health and tone and strength to the system. But we deliberately go to work to defeat nature in : its aim to make healthy men and women of our children by herding them together in close rooms, from which pure air is excluded, and compel them for hours each day to breathe over and over again the poisonous gases which na ture has taken the pains to drive out from their systems. The average modern school house is nothing more than an establish ment where poisonous gasses are bottled to be used in planting the germs of disease in children. Is it any wonder that the child grows restless in school and becomes inat tentive to his lessons, when his little lungs are yearning for more oxygen to purify the blood of the poison which is consuming his body? Even his instinct tells him that a good run in the fresh air would be a tonic •worth more to him than all the learning contained In the books on his desk. '• _' We have dwelt on this matter at some length in order to convince school boards of their imperative duty to provide school houses with proper ventilation. We know that to shut fifty or sixty children ; up in an un ventilated school room 'where ' they breathe over and over vitiated air, foul from exhalations from the. lungs and from the pores of the skin; is as surely a means of slow poisoning as any 'plan that a chem ist could suggest More recently school boards have been giving this subject more careful consideration, and it is gratifying to observe that it is being investigated in the light of scientific principles. The old-fash ioned notion that the way to ventilate a building was to let down -'a window or open a door. Is now out of dale. -The draughts crested in thi-* way, . .-.specially in cold I weather, are often as dangerous as the €bul '•■ air iw the io<-::u. The point is to not only g_. fresh air hit- a room, but to get the foul j'p.iv out of it and at the same time to keep the -room at an even .temperature. Careful' .£)_» title UivestisaUen of Uie subject of ven li.ati.ii ha. resulted in demonstrating to the point of absolute certainty that' the' only MM system of ventilation is by tlie down draft* secured by the application of mechan ical power. By what is kuown as the 'Mown draft system, the air :' supply enter the room at the top. Is warmed before en ter-tig aud is drawu • downward to the fleer Ami exhausted at several different point, at the floor-. The school board of this city recently made an experiment itt this direction with; the most gratifying results. The building selected for the experiment was Uie frank lin school building*, which is one of the old est and probably the worst constructed school building in the city* There are eighteen room., In the building aocoiumo* dating 900 . children, and ii was supposed that any system which could give proper ventilation to this house, would be a sue*: «es_ in others. After careful examination Into various plans aud sugges tious. the board determined to let the contract to the Chicago Exhaust Yen hi at or company. This was done in the face of serious oppo sition and adverse ci .Uc-ism oh the part of people who either lacked confidence iv the ability of any system to give proper vent. la'-OR. ot were so wedded to old fogy Ideas that .hey didn't believe good ventilation to be of siuficieut importance to warrant the ---4>e_-l-_-!_<- involved in the experiment. It required a display of nerve and mora) coinage not always possessed by public of *____>. to tao- this opposition and to go ahead with a trial of the new* system. Fort-wat ety (ca the pub-re as well as for the «m_:_ bets of the school board, the sue* cess. -U result of the ex.pcFiu.eul is an ample vindication of their wisdom in making it. ftwni an old faulty building of long standing the Franklin school house has been converted Into Uie only per fecUy ventilated public building in the city. By the use of proper mechanical appliances the foul air is constantly being taken out of all the eighteen rooms and replaced with pure air, and yet Uie proper temperature of each room is maiutaiued. It is done with out draughts ami without opeuiug doors or windows.. The down draft exhaust fan sys tem used by the Chicago Exhaust Ventilator company is the ouly correct one. It is ap parent that the company has devoted a great deal of time to experiments and in vestigations to ventilation, and that careful scientific knowledge has been applied to the system adopted by this company. Fresh air is drawn into the building through two large openings by means of a large blast fan and forced through flues into every room in the building. The air is forced over heated pipes located at the bottom of each flue, which are so arranged by dampers that the temperature can be regulated as desired. The air is admitted into each room at the top and escapes through a register at the bottom of the room, which is connected with another system of flues lead ing to the foul air chamber, where a large exhaust fan discharges it through openings out of doors. Tests made in the pres ence of members of the press and of the school board a few days ago demonstrated that the ventilation was even and general in each room, and that there was a su-} ficieut quantity of pure, fresh air constantly coming in to supply each pupil with 2,000 cubic feet per hour, and that there was no chance for an accumulation of foul air. The board was so well pleased with the re sult that a contract has been given to the same company to furnish the Jefferson, Madison and Lincoln school buildings with the same appliances. Now the question arises, why should not the school board provide all the public school buildings with this same system of ventilation, lt is proven a success far be yond all other experiments that have been made. No other system of ventilation has even" approached in this in perfection. The Chicago school board has detected its merit, and as rapidly' as the work can be done the school buildings of that city are being furnished" with it. The Chicago board of trade heat and ventilate their building with It The Boston school board is using the I same ventilating apparatus in the school buildings of that city. Other cities are beginning to realize its advantages and why should St. Paul hesitate in a matter of such vital importance. The Globe is gratified that our school board has taken a step for ward in this matter and expresses the hope that there will be no halt until every public building in the city, and especially every school building, is provided with this sys tem of ventilation. It is no time to stop in a- parsimonious spirit to quibble over the expenditure of a few thousand dollars where the health of our children is in volved. No tax-payer will object to the extra stipend when he sees his children coming home from school with rosy cheeks, bright eyes and in buoyant spirit instead of dragging themselves along with tired bodies and aching heads as so many of them do now. CZAR AND STUDENTS. - The petulant reply made by the czar to the address from. the university students re veals the fact that he has learned nothing by experience, •but, clings with stubborn tenacity to all the old ideas of despotic monarchism that have made his position the unpleasant thing it is to-day. He chides ..the students for wishing any change from the established order of things and inti mates that it is their duty to yield blind and implicit . obedience to the authorities and that such a thing as a difference in the manner of administering the affairs of the government is not to be thought of. He calls upon them as representatives of the educated class, to impose a barrier before . the great movement agitating all classes of society. and which threatens before lone to sweep him from his throne. The czar fails to perceive that it is just I because the students are more intelligent and better ': educated than the mass of Russians that they have so often been prime movers in revolutionary efforts. They have become educated to the point where they cannot :, help perceiving that there is no hope for Russians until the Romanoffs are compelled to grant a gov ernment more in accord with the spirit of the times, and the principles of justice or else are removed from the face of the earth. It is these educated men who mould the people to their vi ill, for it is they who are the true champions of the people. They are instinctively opposed to methods involv ing blood-shed and should the czar grant the reasonable request for a constitutional government none would be more anxious for the preservation of peace than they. But so long as he continues in his present btind and despotic course, deaf to the ap peals of reason, he' cannot expect the edu cated men" or their followers to be very heedful of the means used to bring about the certainly desirable end of personal lib erty.. If the czar should some day find himself flying through the air in fragments, ho matter who casts the bomb, he will be "hoist by his own petard." -..-Y **_* - — ' ■ — _——____ - A -SCHOLASTIC REBELLION. There is trouble in the classic town of Poughkeepsie, and, of course, there is a woman, or rather, several hundred of her, at the bottom of it Vassar, the famous academy of learning, where the feminine mind has for many years been moulded, developed and stored with the truths of sci ence, is the scene of the rebellion, and hotly I does It rage. _It seems that the young .women,: and there are some five hundred of I them, have made up their minds that they j look especially charming attired in the old .rirosTYi*^^ DAILY GLOBEj STOPA? MCTOTCSTG, APRIL H, 1887— TWENTY PAGES. time aeademie cap and gown, and* reason-, Ilia .rom the undoubtedly true preposition that ii is lovely '. woman's duty to look- as lovely as possible : " at ail times, they hay _ sev.-i.-Ujr and eoileetlvely. made up their niiiuis to wear the scholastic attire. ; .- .: ; From some peiveratmess* as yet . unex plained, l-n ' _'Av_>yu. th. president u£ the. feoilege, i-efufies to grant the desired privi lege, and hence the strife and contention. But what can hue pool' lone man do anion live hundred winsome and wilful girls. The average woman may be reasoned with and persuaded regarding anything except her personal appearance aud personal attire* Having matte up her mind on that point, she is adamant The Yasaar maiden**, hay*. in . concluded that the cap ami gown la be* coming. it is lolly to attempt to reason them out of that belief. Dr. Taylor might as well capitulate at once. He will save end* less trouble by so doing. But if lie persists in his refusal he should not take all the re sponsibility upon his own shoulders. How does he know but that the girls aro right and he is wrong? The feminine mind instinctively takes to uniforms, and why. then, shouldn't the Vassar girls be permitted to wear one. of their own since they are not allowed to visit the neighboring West Point with satis- ' factory frequency? . Di.. Taylor should seek additional aid in deciding tho question. Let him choose a " committee composed of delegates from all the leading colleges, for men, let this com mittee convene at Vassal', and let it have ample opportunity for associating with the young women attired in their longed-for caps and gowns. It would then, after a satisfactory lapse of time, be in a position to make a reliable report and Dr. Taylor would be relieved of all responsibility. If he attempts to hold out alone we predict that within a week he will be compelled to give in. When she starts in to get it. it is very rarely that lovely woman does not have her own way. If Post Tennyson writes ouo or two more odes be will be in demand by dime museum managers. We have the word of Poet. Blethen, of the Tribune, for it tnal the English professional's latest labored effort is sadly lacking in rhythm and metre and not nearly so good us he himself can do in his most amateurish moments. ■a*. The hundreds of scalpers who have been let out by the interstate commerce law need not be ai a loss for occupation. They can go j Into the real estate business. It is un em- | ployment, particularly in the boundless ' West, in which there is always room for one j more. Perhaps the socialists think that if they can capture the Chicago municipal govern ment there may be hope for their condt ra_ed anarchist brethren. Perhaps it was foresee ing wisdom that led to the establishment of a military post at Chicago after all. Postmaster General Vilas denies that he is a candidate for vice president, but if the general keeps right on making such a satisfactory record in postoffice removals, there is no telling what may happen to him j when the next convention meets. It will be curious to see just how many old residents of California, with records be hind them, will suddenly have business over the border when the detectives go to San Francisco to search for the mysterious Mr. Kissane. It I? again asserted that the peach crop of the country is ruined, but almost any poli tician can tell you that the crop of sour grapes remains unimpaired, so the balance is preserved. i One week from to-day the Easter bonnet will bloom in all its gorgeousness. Fathers of families of interesting - daughters should proceed to-day to get themselves In a slats of humility. Perhaps the queen is getting out of Eng- ' land to be out of the way when the explosion occurs that must inevitably follow the en forcement of th. Salisbury coercion bill. , _ oi West side residents want a park and they should'nt rest until they get one that will be a credit to that thriving and enterprising portion of the city. A New Yorker will build a stable to cost $125,000. It will differ from tho dwelling in that while one shelters thoroughbreds the other shelters a donkey. Teddy Roosevelt is about to return to his Dakota ranch, but he will find that all the territorial offices have been filled during his . absence. ■_i_i''i i in ii iiiiii ■■_..■■ in ■ii ii i in — — 188 The season is at liana wnen mi* vi.iiui.t will keep an eye out for cyclone clouds. Tho wary will have their cyclone cellars ready be times. Perhaps the mysterious and unidentified "Billy Kissane," of Sun Francisco, is a rel ative of the equally elusive Billy Patter son. That Wisconsin veteran who has received tbe largest pension on record will probably be induced to run for a local office. m Perhaps Mr. Blame will purchase a few vacant estates while in Ireland and become au absentee landlord. " ■» STRAY SUNBEAMS. Mrs. James Brown Potter's stage debut was not a magnificent success, although it was by no means a failure. She was sensible enough to select London as tbe place for be ginning her professional career. In London a pretty face covers a multitude of dramatic faults. *__* ' The Prince of Wales occupied a box during Mrs. Potter's first performance and led in the applause. Her royal highness, tbe princess, did not attend. This is a good adver tisement for Mrs. Potter's - beauty, and she is likely to have full swing on the English stage. It will be a disadvantage to her, how ever, when she gets back among her plain, every-day American cousins. It is ■to the credit of this country that the favoring smile of the Prince of Wales is a blight upon any woman's public career. *** The skin of "Old Sorrel," the war horse of Stonewall Jackson, has been stuffed by a Washington taxidermist and will be pre sented to the trustees of the Confederate Sol diers' home at Richmond. "Old Sorrel" was au Ohio horse by birth, and in early life belonged to the United States government. In August, 1861, he was en route from his Western stable to Washington to enter the service of the United States when the train was captured near Harper's Ferry by a band of Confederates under the command of Stonewall Jackson. From among the lot of horses Gen. Jackson singled out "Old Sorrel" for his own use and paid to the Con federate quartermaster $150 for the privilege, of owning him. YY ■ # From that time on until the hero of the Confederacy fell mortally wounded on the field of Chancellorsville "Old Sorrel" bore his master through all the battles of the tei rible conflict. It was from "Old Sorrel's" back that Gen. Jackson fell when he was struck by the fatal bullet. After Jackson's death the horse was sent to his widow, who took him with her to North Carolina where she resided after the war. ' During the New Orleans exposition "Old Sorrel" was on exhi bition there. He died last spring at the ad vanced age of 36 years. *** Senator Sabin evidently has a vein of. irony in bis composition. In an interview with the New York World the other day he : is aucted as saying: "My presidential pros pects appear to be progressing quietly. I have now pledges of support from half a dozen men. Think I shall have to start on a tour of the country, however, to keep my end up." Messrs. Blame and Sherman will please make a note of this. v*- A little , politeness now and then . doesn't hurt any sort of business. The lack of it Is sometimes ruinous. An immense New York dry ; goods establishment has lately, been wrecked by its rough treatment •of a lady customer. ... Macy's ■is one of the biggest stores in the metropolis, where ladies flocked by thousands beonuso they found a profusion of .everything at alleged cheap prices. V" Last week a lady who was shopping at ■ this plnep was pounded upon , by a floor walker, charged with theft and committed to prison. lv vain s_. plead her Innocence, and was not even periuiuod to send a note to hoi* husband. She was thru. tin a cell at the station bouse and - kept .' ovar night. Tho.- next morning When the tearful little woman was brought into the oourt there was no .evidence against her, and the 4 udgo discharged her Just as the husband,' who . bad been searching all night for his lost wife, ontored tho court room. j The soon, was mi unvoting oue, and when the orowd of peoplo lv attohdnnco at the court room learned iho particulars of the outrage, they urged the husband to arm himself with a shotgun and kill the brutul proprietor' of the dry goods establish mont. *«* The husband wan sensible enough to loave the work of vuiiguunoQ to a more capable agent than tho shotgun. Tho newspapers took it up. They Jumped upon Macy's glided den of ruffians, and smashed it. The Graphic led the crusade, illustrating tbo "whole affair. It pictured the arrest, tho drugging of the victim through the streets by a burly police man, tho forlorn woman in tbo cell and her arruienmeut before the court. That one issue of the paper wiped Macy's whole busi ness out of existence. After all. the news paper is the best regulator' in the world, and the most reliable champion of the helpless uud oppressed. V Mr. Blame will not «et the support of the Illinois delegates in the next convention. Ho went direct to St. Louis without stopping in Chicago. »_• It was "Hail to the Chief" in tho Treasury tlopartmeut Friday. 'Iho grand army of clerks in that department wautod to make the new secretary and bis first assistant feel at home. These treasury clerks are wise in their day and generation and know on which side of the' bread to spread butter. *** A reduction of nearly .13,000,000 in the public debt is a good record for the mouth of March. It is also a good introduction for Mr. Secretary 'Fairchild.- As the public debt decreases there is that much more argument in favor of tariff reduction. The country will get around to tariff reform after awhile. * * . * It begins to look .as if tariff reform was really maklnir headway sure enough when the Connecticut legislature adopts resolutions de claring in favor of tho removal of the tariff from raw materials. When a tariff reduction boom strikos a New Euglaud state it Is time for other sections to be putting on tariff re form garments. . An old real estate campaigner who went through the Ashland boom, returns home with many comical reminiscences of his ad ventures. And that Is about all he did bring home with him. Ho didn't have much money when he got back, but he says he had several thousand dollars worth of fun while he was gone. ■y A young St. Paul man who had saved 8200 from his year's salary; was impressed with the idea that be could make a fortune at Ash land. He went up while the boom was at fever heat and placed the whole of his year's savings on a ten day's option on a 5-acre lot. The lot looked mighty pretty on the plat displayed to him by the real estate dealer, and be started out early next morning to look over his imperial possessions. . . ■x •* -. About the middle of the same afternoon the same young man, -with a languid step and wiping the perspiration from his brow, wended his way to . the piazza of the main hotel in the town. "Where have you been, Jim, that you look so tired out?" asked a compassionate friend. "I bave been hunting up my five-acre lot,'' was .he reply. "Did you find it?" "I" did. But I bad to walk sixteen miles before I got to it, and when I got there the bears and tho wildcats were so plentiful I was afraid to venture on it. I tell you what it is. Bill, the next time I come to Ashland to buy town lots lam going to bring my Winchester, rifle along." . Y-rYrY.v a, *"»»*■*. -v^..*- The old campaigner says that the maxi mum profit made by any one man during the Ashland boom was .1.800. A few others made as' high as," $1,000, '. several dealers scooped In a profit of $200 and $300. but that the great bulk of the speculators got nothing but burnt fingers. '■" ' • .:- , : »B- _ • Why so many neatly .tied packages were ly .l __ around on the I Vdewiilks yesterday and why the people who picked tbem up dropped them so sud denly on second thought? Why Prof. Welles, of : Redwiod Falls, didn't postpone his visit to St. Paul until his colleague, Sam Jones, had arrived? If George . Clason will become a millionaire when the boom strikes Bismarck? -*'■" • If Dan Foley, of •• the Clarendon, isn't the quietest landlord in St. Paul? ... Why, about this time of the month, men who haven't paid their last winter coal bills, walk so much on back streets? How much winter overcoats are worth in those little shops with three brass balls over the dcor? If W. E. Ward, the erstwhile hustler for an afternoon paper, really did make a stake at Ashland, as he says? If Dick Warner has played even on his Du luth losings since his return?. If the story that Al Rhodus tells about the time he and Larig'evin had ir. Chicago is true? Whether the Sixth ward will get a park this year? V - ' If McHenry Johuson really believes that the Black Pearl could whip Black Frank if he was two inches taller? If: Henry Hintermister begrudges the dollar he paid on that April fool telegram from Los Angeles?-: ■•-.'.. Why the board of public works can't ad dress postals to parties interested in assess ment notices with their right aud full name, after having been twice and three times re quested to do so? V; _:■"*-' -■' When it was announced from Washington on Friday that Charles S. Fairchild had been ap pointed secretary of the treasury, there was quite a flurry of excite ment iv St. Paul among ia certain circle. A b'Ottng fellow saw the ■statement in the papers, (and be forthwith jumped to the conclusion that the lucky man was Charles C. Fairchild, of the - real estate firm of H. S. Fairchild ft Son. He rushed about telling all ' young . Fairchild's friends about it, and within twenty minutes a score or more of them congregated at the new secretary's office ;at the corner of Sixth and Robert streets to tender congratulations. Charlie C. (not S.) had heard of the impres sion that had gotten abroad, and visions of setting up cigars and two or three "cases" made him desperate. *It did not take him long to dispel the illusion in the minds of his zealous and enthusiastic friends, and the money he saved by not being appointed to the secretaryship — and thus being excused from doing* the elegant, he sent by telegraph to Sault Ste. Marie to be invested in acres on the water front. •*■_* The Hon, E, G. Rogers seems to be better adapted to successful real estate j speculation than lo the business of fighting against tbe majority in a farmer letrislature, or even fol lowing in- the paths of his chosen profes sion, : the law. Mr. Rogers' recent bold dash on Ashland, and his present desperate assault on Sault Ste. Marie, stamp him as a man ot nerve and discernment. He shows bis nerve by taking desperate chances, and his discern ment by dropping the law business and de voting his whole time and attention to the ac quirement of wealth.', Mr. Rogers has lived long enough to learn a lesson from the expe riences of others. He realizes that a g«Pd fat pocket book, or a healthy . bank account, is the lever that moves everything in a political camoaian. In this connection it may be well to state . that Mr. Rogers has congressional aspirations. BBWMM| Y4Y'' ' *** Prof. A. Montmorency Welles, of Redwood Falls, the well-known inventor and educator, is in the city, with the object of closing up some business connected with his patent and to purchase a stock of Second readers .and crayons for the district, school in section 31, town 48, range 24. He will remain over Sun day, attending the Gospel Army meeting this afternoon and the Olympic theater this, even ing. The Drofessor reports Representative Jones a . in good condition since the weather moderated, and he has not been compelled to Inhale tho fumes from V u\ buy flic. He also intimates that he may. bring a suit for dam . ages against Fred Warner, us he suspects the ' latter of concocting and" promulgating that story about the mowing machine attachment to his bicycle. "ItjTllifc'llliOii l<Jll( | *i l fTOi--S_lKfe- ; .-. . : .v.v ' **"* y '■ ';■:; I . Howard Estes has ruturned to the Windsor again, after a lorn, absence, ana taken bis old place behind tbe pilot wheel. He is loaded to the guards with all sorts of stories and jokes, and bis hourly entertainments are better than the dime museum. His adventures _ have been of a most startling and oftentimes mar velous character, and several times he barely, escaped with bis life— by leav ing hi. pocket-hook behind. Mr. Estes has worked off a few fresh "sells" on .the :■• boys, but be has ulso brought back and attempted to palm them off us new, a lot of very rank chestnuts, which have cost bim a good many rounds of drinks. But Mr. Estes does 'not seem to be disoouruged, and tbe mill ..will probably continue to grind until the grist is exhausted. V ."V ;_ '.'•»"*• i p-iV. 7>\. The suspicion is horrifying., but,.^juit possible that there are any .Billy... TßW, sune's in- St. Paul? Is It ' within/ the range of possibilities that a man who com mitted a great crime years ago has settled in St. Paul under an assumed name and grown to be a rich uud honored citizen without ex citing the slightest suspicion us to bis past history? If there is even one in all this vast city he can make a tut' thing of It by coming around and giving to the Globe an exclusive account of the whole matter. If it should turn out to be a "scoop"' the Globe will pay .5 per line for it, but will not undertake to suppress names. Y.i',."Y "V Now, is there any reason why those two as piring dodgers Should, as they pass each other, wear a smile so cold aud cruel? You say the one with black mustache is Mr. .V E. G. Rogers. And that the one with pretty beard is Mr. Stanford Newel? ■■; ; " . Well, what of that, I'd like to know? I hope they are not jealous?. They want to go .to congress at the end of Rice's term? V . "<■.: -,Y' .' Theu let us go and stop them and get tbem both to tell us Their position on the tariff— you'll laugh to see tbem squirm. :'•,'■"< **** ''YftVV'l The departure of Horace Beausant Hum phrey for Chicago— where he will reside dur ing the coming summer — removes from White Rear social circles one of its brightest orna ments. Mr. Humphrey has been a constant habitue of tbe pretty shores of White Bear during the summer season for years, and his nobby white llanuel suit, patent leather shoes and sailor hut, witb blue ribbons pendant, were the joy of all his. lady friends and the envy of all the men. His bathing suit was a revelation in costumes of this character, a po etical fantasy, as it were. And Mr.Humphrey's ankles and lower limbs were man els. They attracted the attention even of the waddling goslings that played along the beach. Last summer Mr. Humphrey had no whiskers. .This summer he will bave. It would be a pood investment tor Mr. Loip to offer Mr. Humphrey inducements to spend the summer at his house — a board bill for the season, receipted, for instance. Mr. Humphrey would prove an attraction. As be bathed in the surf along the Lelp house beach during the pleasant summer evenings, the guests, who lolled lazily on tbe veranda or reclined dreamily in the hammocks under the cool trees, would be greatly edified and entertained in watching the undulating waves trickle gently und gracefully through Mr. Humph rey's whiskers. Mr. Humphrey should come back. "YY *»* ■.;'■ i .-'-j • A gentleman who has lately returned from Chicago gives a glowing account of the good time Col. O'Lear.-, formerly of Avooa, is having in his . new position as postoffiee in spector. He receives a salary of $1,800 per annum, which enables him to live in a style properly befitting his dignity, and he is in a position where he has a chance to grow. If Judge Stacy, or any of tho Democratic mana gers at Albert Lea, desire to engage the col onel to make a speech during the next cam paign a letter addressed in the care of the Chicago postofflce will reach him. V ■-'«<..* COMMENT BY THE EDITORS. Most Odious Man in the State. ; Blue Earth City Post. ' Under the new reform administration . of Gov. McGill, who was elected on the reform lest kind of a reform platform, the governor himself standing upon . the most economical plank of the whole structure, the state is pay ing lor two adjutant generals— Adjt, Gen. Seeley and Asst. Adj. Gen. Hawley. The people wouldn't care so very much about the extra expenses ol'the assistant adjutant 'gen eral if he were not personally the most odious man in the state. Hawley was adjutant gen eral for Gov. Hubbard two years, but the governor's stomach wasn't strong enough to endure him another term. McGill evidently has a cast iron museum-membranous reser voir. .... V i ._. .;'_. - Y.-Y.- .: '";_. »> ri.--._lli--.- Put Out None Too Soon*.,; ..*.;. Caledonia Argus. t_/J V ?:' ' Gov. McGill was severely criticised for re moving Warden Reed, but it looks as if he .was put out none too soon. The inspectors have been investigating charges of malfeas ance in the administration of his office, and under the ■ very - evident desire to cover all that can be hidden by a liberal coat of ••whitewash," can be seen gross corruption. Prison supplies, groceries, lumber, etc., have been sent out in liberal quantities to the bouses of not only Reed, but other officers of tbe prison. Gov. M -Gill cannot afford to let this matter rest without a thorough investi gation by impartial experts in accounts but ignorant of the use of whitewash. . Thought He Owned the Prison: : Elk River Star News. -.'• "'.",.' ■ A great kick was made in some quarters when Gov. McGill displaced Warden Reed, of the Stillwater penitentiary, with a new man, and mauy went so far as to believe that the: penitentiary would go to the bow-wows with out him. The ex-warden is now accused of: appropriating meats, groceries, soup, etc., out of the prison stores aud making no ac count of it. This is another argument in fa vor of a change of officials occasioually. Warden Reed had bold his office so long he undoubtedly thought he owned the prison. His Own Suecesssor. Willmar Republican-Gazette. Sunday's papers brought the news that Marcus Johnson had been appointed post master at Atwater, vice Marcus Johnson re moved. It will be remembered that some time ago Mr. Deming was appointed post master there and Mr. Johnson removed, but Mr. Deming never got his commission, and now Mr. Johnson becomes his own successor. It is said that "Me and Mike" did the work that brought about this result/ Why Col. Allen Sold Out. _ Blue Earth City Post. The Merchants hotel at St. Paul has met with a change of owners. Mr. Welz, proprie tor of the Clarendon, having purchased it from Col. Allen. The colonel couldn't stand the interstate commerce law and the Sunday barber bill; besides he fears a capitol removal scheme. Sat Down on Windom. Caledonia Argus. • • The only complaint the Pioneer Press and the Winona Republican make of the appoint ments to the interstate commission is that the territory west of Chicago is ignored. Be tween tbe lines this means that Cleveland sat down on Windom. They Know a Good Thins. * Farmington Tribune. . ..:";-;'- Hon. O. L. Cutter, the genial secretary of the last senate, has been nominated for mayor of Anoka.. This shows : that Anoka people know a good thing when they see it. All his late associates would be glad to vote for him . ■ .- -2 VY The Colonel Will Be There. . Duluth Tribune. Col. Allen has leased the Merchants hotel to Mr. Welz, late proprietor of the Clarendon, St. Paul. The hospitable old Merchants will hardly seem natural without the cheery face of Col. Allen in the lobby. There Will Be Gillies. Duluth Tribune. Sault Ste. Marie is the next point to be boomed. The Twin Cities' gangs are en route there ; now. * They will have no difficulty in finding any number of gillies. Only a Heavy Dew. Duluth Tribune. . Mandan peopcl are up in arms about re ports which have been sent out . from Bis marck that there was a flood at Mandan. Per haps it was nothing more than a heavy dew, after all. ..... \\ Well Nigh Political N .ws. Lanesboro Journal. The announcement that Col. A. Allen has transferred his interest in the Merchants hotel, of St. Paul, to F. R. Welz, is a g hotel item that is well nigh political news of < im portance to Minnesota politicians. I ■: " Unique, Attractive, Immense. Y{j> Lanesboro Journal: . V On May 1 the St. Paul • Globe will issue a special edition iv honor of its entrance into its .': new quarters. . The Globe's " annuals : and specials are always unique and attractive, as well as immese.' - ' '**•". ' ; RUMBLE OF THE RAILS. 1 j-- ; V . The St.' Paul & Minneapolis Passenger As sociation Withdraws Second Glass , Kates Below the Ohio. . Representatives of Southern Lines Make an Argument Before the Interstate - Commissioners. . They Say Their Roads Cannot do Bus f'a-Y lueßb Under Rule. Strictly - Construed. Sale ofthe Chicago A: Eastern Illinois --General Railway Intel ligence. li 'Tha Minneapolis and St Paul Passenger association held a special meeting yesterday with Messrs. Dixon, of the Milwaukee & St Paul: MeCullough. of the Omaha; Ken- ! yon, of the Burlington & Northern; Boynt. of the Minneapolis & St. Louis; Anson, of Wisconsin Central; Hazzard, of the Minne sota & Northwestern; Fee, of the Northern Pacific; Taylor, of the Minneapolis & Pa cific, and Rockwell, of the St. Paul & . Du luth, present The following resolution was discussed, but failed to pass: Resolved, That on and after April ... 1887, all second-class rates from St. Paul and Min neapolis to Chicago. Milwaukee. Peoria, St. Louis, Missouri river points and immediate points bo abolished. It was resolved that up to and including April 4. 1887, the association continue the use of the St. Paul and Minneapolis rate sheet of .larch. 1887, that .after 'that date until further information on., connections is received no second class tickets be sold beyond the Hues represented; also that the secretary be instructed to withdraw from the next issue of the St Paul and Minne apolis rate sheet all second-class rates now quoted to points south of the Ohio river known as the territory of the Southern Pas senger association; also : that the present i round trip rate quoted in St. Paul and Minneapolis rate sheet to Hot Springs, Ark., and return be continued until the in terstate commissioners shall decide that it is illegal.. . , ; V; ... ' A communication from Mr. Shuttue, gen eral passenger ageut of the Ohio & Missis sippi road, was read asking rates o noted from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Cincin nati and Louisville via Chicago; he also ap plied via St. Louis. This was referred to John N. Abbott, chairman of the Western States Passenger association. 1.-TEIt.TATI*: COM MISSION. A Case Presented by Southern Cines Itel alive to Cong Hauls. Washington, April 2.— The interstate commerce commission began active work at 11 o'clock this morning. At that time ex-Gov. Rufus B. Bullock, Dr. R. D. Spaulding and S. F. Woodson, a committee appointed by the Atlanta chamber of com merce to co-operate with the Southern Railway and Steamship association in seek ing such liberal interpretation or modifica tion of the operation of the interstate com merce act as may be deemed . necessary for the protection of the. manufacturing and commercial interests of this and other Southern societies, were granted a hearing. Gov. Bullock, speaking for his associates and himself, thanked the commission for the opportunity afforded, and read the fol lowing paper: To the Honorable, the Interstate Commerce Commission,, Gentlemen: . We, the under signed, a committee appointed by the Atlanta chamber of commerce for that purpose, re spectfully represent to your honorable body that the territory covered by the Southern Railway and Steamship association is compar atively SPARSELY POPULATED and that the trade centers or distributive cities within that territory are widely separ ated, and therefore that a rule which would apply to lines in more populous sections of the country would be disastrous to us. The rates of freight now in force by said associa tion, which is the territory south of the Poto mac and Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers, are the ; result of ten years of experiment, modified by the orders of railroad commissioners ■ in the several states and"by appeals from commercial bodies like our own, representing the interests of shippers. Your petitioners further represent that the rates now in force, as embodied in the tariff of the Southern Railway and Steam ship association, are. acceptable to our ship pers generally, and under them trade has been established, contracts for purchase and sale of commodities have been entered into, and a sudden change would prove seriously hurtful to parties interested. We are in formed by the railway management that under the fear of penalties provided by the interstate commerce law their roads will be compelled to largely increase their rates on the sth lust. This will destroy the whole sys- , tern of rates upon which our Southern manu facturing industries have been founded and Y-. DISORGANIZE AND PARALYZE the trade centers upon and through which wholesale dealers have established their ex tended business. We therefore respectfully petition your honorable body to pass on or before the sth day of April to the effect that tbe schedule of rates in the territory south of the Potomac and Ohio, and east of the Mis sissippi rivers, so far as these rates relate to interstate commerce, be declared in force until the further order of your honorable commission, and that a reasonable time will be given for a further bearing and revision before any changes are put in force. We submit herewiib a Jschedule of rates of the Southern Railway & Steamship associa tion to which we have referred. We also in vite your attention to the accompanying com parative statement which we have prepared of the present rates, by which is shown the great increase which will occur in rates to the principal points 'if the railways put in force, and the rates they now understand the new law will require. The showing made by the comparative statement submitted may be judged by the fact that the rates from New York to Atlanta, Montgomery. Selma. Rome, Dalton and Chattanooga will be increased from Si. 4o to 51. 41, to Macon from Si. o9 to ,1.85. to Augusta from 96 cents to „ 1.21, from Cincinnati to Atlanta from Si. o7 to 51. 26. to Macon and Augusta from 51.07 to 81.46. The chairman of the commission (Judge Cooley) remarked interrogatively that he understood the application to be in part at least in support of the application which had been made by the railroad com panies for PERMISSION TO CHARGE LESS for long than for short hauls. Gov. Bul lock responded affirmatively. At present, queried the chairman, the railroads are charging less for a longer than for a shorter distance. Gov. Bullock said this was the case, where it was necessary to meet the circumstances of water transportation. The chairman asked the opinion of the commit tee with respect to the authority of the com mission to make the order asked of them. Gov. Bullock replied that as they read the provisions of the fourth section they under stood the commission had , the authority. The railroads, he added, had informed them that unless they, made the rates at once they would be lia ble to penalties under the law. Contracts had been made by merchants for delivery three months hence, based upon the rates which prevailed at the time. Now to suddenly raise these, rates would prove disastrous. . A brief colloquy.during which in reply to queries by Col. Walker and Mr. Morrison, the position of the committee in respect to some details was elaborated, ended the hearing. The whole proceeding was an, informality, the hearing . being granted at this time, as a few gentlemen had come from a distance to present their cases. No formal consideration of this question, or any other, will be undertaken before the sth lust, on which date the law goes into effect. Sale of Chicago _ _a.tern Illinois. New York, April The negotiations which began about a week ago between H. Porter and President Stevens, of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, . were consummated to-day by the sale of all the stock of the company, except 4,000 shares, at HO. The purchase was made by R. P. Flower & Co*, who acted for H. H. Porter and his associates, and the ck was trans ferred immediately . after the agreement was signed. As soon as the transfer was effected a majority of the old board of di rectors, viz: J. C. Knapp, of New York; C. T. Baker, of Boston; C. F. Leonard, of Springfield, 111,; F. A. Peters, of Boston; S. M. Crosby, of Brooklyn, Vt. , and P. W. Clement, of 'Boston. . resigned, and Richard M. Hoe. Ogdeu Mills, David Dows, Jr., A. R. : Flower and 'H. - H. Hollister, of New York, and Lewis Lyford, t-^.«"M_Mal ' ■■-. . ■- ' "' ' ■ -.. " ' "• ■ - •'•■■ -- '- :■■: --, manager of the road, were elected in their places. " The new board organized Immedi ately by electing Richard M. Hoe,;presi dent, in place of H. H. Stevens,- and H. H. Stevens, vice president, in place of ; George H. Ball. The ' syndicate is composed of parties identified with the Chicago & Indi ana Coal company, but a consolidation ol the two interests is _ Intended. The Atchi son, Topeka & Santa Fe is uot represente. InY the syndicate, but as Atchi son, made a traffic contract, with the Chicago & Eastern Illinois for ninety nine years only two days ago, the relations of the two companies are already estab lished. President Porter, of the Chicago St Indiana Coal company, who holds the syn dicate, says that the purchase of the prop erty is a simple business matter. He looks upon it as a good thing for both tbe East ern Illinois and the Indiana Coal company, it brings them into harmony, and gives both the facility to do business at low rates and in a most economical way, and is nol antagonistic to any other railroad interest. Baltimore A Ohio. New Yqrk, April 2.— report on the Street to-day Is that the transfer of the Bal timore & Ohio with its attendant express and telegraph business has been made and arrangements completed with the French Telegraph company. The rumor had no affect on stocks. Everything connected with Baltimore & Ohio has been discounted for some time and little notice is taken of mere reports or rumors. Chip. Front the Tie*. The Northern Pacific road bos Is -sued a cir- I cular to tbe public, giving notice tbat tbe | agents nt each of the stations on that road I have been furnished with a complete set of all tariffs and schedules showing the rates of fare and charges for the transportation of passengers and property that have been pre scribed by law; and also tbat tbe agent is in structed to submit the tariffs to tbe inspec tion of any one desiring to see them, and also to explain them. The road further asks that any neglect "of duty in this respect by the agent be reported to the road. The Burlington & Northern has published i a circular giving the through rates on soft i coal from all miues on the Chicago, Burling ton & Quincy iv Illinois, to points in lowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Marvin Hughitt. Jr., in addition to his duties us division freight agent of the Galena division of the Chicago & Northwestern, will hereafter have similar charge of the Madison division of the road. The tariff on lumber to points on the Sioux City & Pacific and the Fremont, Etkborn _ Missouri Valley road will be used Monday. The Association of Contractors and Build ers was taken by the Minueapolis & North western down to the stock yards yesterday. The machine and car shops of the Milwau kee, Lake Shore & Western railroad will go to Ashland. Mr. Dv Puy. of the Minnesota & North western, has returned. 1 ___——— -lAKCH WEATHER. Observer I. yon*.* _ uni tuary of What the Northwest Endured for the Cast Thirty-one Day*. In his report on the weather for the last month Signal Officer Lyons says:* Last month was about average in every thing that relates to the weather, except in precipitation, and in that respect there was a marked deficiency. The mean tempera ture of the initial spring month was 27 °. The average of the last seventeen corre sponding mouths is 26 ° . The same months of 1872, '4, 5, '6 and ! 7 were much colder than last month, that of 1873, '84 and '85 about equaled it. but any of the rest since 1870 were much warmer. Tho warmest March since then was in 1878 and the coldest in 1872. the monthly means be ing 4.4 and 19 respectively. The lowest March temperature for St Paul in the la., seventeen years is 15 ° below zero and the highest 68 ° above; these were ob served on March 19, . 1575. and March 27, 1879, respectively. The total precipitation was 0.33 of an inch. The average for the last seventeen corresponding months is 1-5 inches. Thero vere 11 days clear, 11 fair, 9 cloudy. Tne highest temperature was 54 on the 12th ana the lowest 7 ° below zero, on the 4th. The ice dam in the Mississippi river at St. Paul commenced moving out on the 21st, from which date the ice continued to disintegrate slowly, and on the 31st all that remained floated away, leaving an open river as far as could be seen. The highest stage of water in the : river was 7.9 feet on the 25th and 26th, and the lowest 6.9 feet, on the 22d. __-. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. After the Legislature. To the Editor of the Globe: /- £ The order has gone forth and the clergy men's half-fare permits have been called in. This, let it be remembered, was not required by the interstate law nor by the railroad com panies, but by the legislature of Minnesota. The bill, as presented by Senator Pope, ex cepted clergymen and so conformed to tb© interstate law, but a gentleman, who is reputed wealthy and who is seldom found ac church, and who is conspicuous for not help ing to build churches and support ministers, made' the motion to strike out, and it was done, and now no company can grant th© favor in our own state without violating th© law. 'We can have half-fare to travel out of the state on, and if out of the state we can get half-fare back Into it, but we can't get the privilege of these rates in the state where our work is, and whose interests w© are striving to promote. * * * Ido not complain of the railroad companies, for they would like to continue their favors, but of our Minnesota legislators, who, keeping their own full purses, cut off from hard-working ministers of religion the privilege of half fare permits, men who have done more for the iuterests of Minnesota than any legisla ture that ever met in her halls, lt is to be hoped that tbe grangers are happy, now that they have struck the railroads and cut off th« privileges accorded clergymen who were traveling over Minnesota trying to do good. It is better for them perhaps to follow such men as led them in the last legislature than such as are trying to be and are tbeir tru« friends. T. McClary, Presiding Elder Methodist Church, Minnesota Conference. Minneapolis, April 1. mm Notes Front White Bear. A. A. Snow has Just completed his new cot tage in Ramaley Park. Eugene Ide will remove to his cottage in Ramaley Park next week. Charles Schneider will occupy his beautiful cottage on the lake shore May 1. Mrs. J. D. Ramaley, of White Bear, will re turn from Los Angeles about May 1. J. D. Ramaley is building an addition of ; fifteen rooms to his "Lake View" cottage. The house will be open on May 2. J. D. Ramaley will build three cottages in Ramaley. Park this season, and possibly a large pavilion: also a new boat bouse. "Write to a Denver Newspaper. To the Editor of the Globe. Shakopee, April I.— Will you kindly inform men what the pharmacy law of Colorado is, or if there is no law in that state to regulate the practice of pharmacy. Yours, respect fully, ;-.v- W.J. Rademacheb. ■»' A Mission For Rural Editors. Sibley Independent. The country press made a United Statet senator out of Davis; now let it show iti strength on the pass-forbidding interstatt commerce law. ' —i LIFE'S WAY. Passing once along life's way, I heard a low, sad sighing. And there alone neglected lay A human heart slow dying. "I'm starving," moaned that heart to me, "With plenty, plenty of gold. For food of love and sympathy Is not to be bought and sold." •I'm stifling!" gasped that heart so fain- 1 ' "With plenty, plenty of air. . But air that's false, 1 feel the taint, . And selfish or laden with care." "I'm dying!" sighed that heart in pain, Alone, you see, here alone. I sob and beg. but all in vain. My language being unknown." "Then envy, thou, the rich man not. ; ' While one true friend alone thou hast. His palace is not worth tby cot Against life's cold and withering blast. • Not all his treasure, all his land, Can purchase thy great blessing, A heart thine own to understand. The one thing worth possessing. Even now I hear that sighing. And 1 feel strange sympathy For the human hearts slow dying Iv *••■_ world of misery. - jj