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I TO-DAY'S WEATHER. Signal Office, War Department, St. Pail. Nov. 25. 12:15 a. Indications for the twenty-four hours commencing at 7 a. m. to-day: For St. Paul. Minneapolis and ricinity : Light dashes of snow, followed by (rider, fair weather: light to fresh variable Rinds. For Minnesota: Light local snows, followed by colder, fair weather, and light to fresh variable winds. For Eastern and Central Dakota: Generally fair weather, except in northern portions, followed by local snows, and colder; light to fresh vari able winds. GENERAL or.SEItYATION'S. St. Paul, Nov. 24.— The following observa tions were made at B:4B p. m.. local time: I " al ~ = 5 -.k = * —£. g *-* = **-• I 5 2**2. =o Place of c?]| % | Place of o — |g S Obs'vation. 3 c ~-\ Obs'vation. 3 c jO %_ • S •■"" ' I 2."" I "H I q - =- a ■ sr *** *"I "**:**> Marquette. 2«: Moorhead. 130.26 18 "Milwauke. 3'».24 241 St. Vincent 30.22 2 Chicago.... 30.12 32 Fort Garry 3D. 22 4 Duluth.... 30.12 30 Minuedosa 30.16] 4 hi. Paul.. .190.24 2( ! Ft-Totten. 30.20 10 Lacrosse. . 30.26 1 24 I Bit-marc* . 30.18 14 lies Moines 90.24 .'!•-': (Ju* Apelle. 30.16 4 Omaha.... 30.24 28 Medico H. 3".21 20 Yankton... 130. 20| 20 Helena 30.18 11 Huron 30.2(>| 20 IT PAYS MR, GEORGE. Hexry George lias been telling the people of the West how to avoid pov erty and, inferentially, how to get rich] But the reliance to be placed upon any doctrine is largely dependent upon the man who preaches it. In this lespect the anti-poverty apostle, when weighed in the balance, is found wanting. In his going about to abolish poverty lie has failed, except in one instance. In abolishing his own poverty he has been conspicuously successful. For, be j it understood, it pays Mr. George ex tremely well to pose as the champion of the poor at so modi a ticket. His ad- j herents find his philosophy a very pleas ant one indeed, for it involves, if carried to a successful conclusion, the posses sion of everything that they now have not, and that, too, without labor and j without price. in effect Mr. George is an anarchist since lie denounces the private owner- Ship of land which all law recognizes. And for all the evils which are related I to the poverty he is attempting to dissi- j pate Mr. George can suggest no remedy . beyond the abolition- of land 1 ownership, lt pays him better, you i know, to proclaim a novel and attract ive theory than to labor without hire in a practical way for the benefit of those about whose unfortunate condi tions in life he professes to be so much concerned. As a dreaming theorist with talent for tinning his dreams into ready cash. Mr. George is a success; as an effectual ■ champion of the oppressed he is dis tinctly a failure. And he is not likely j to secure much sympathy here in the Xbrthwest, People in this energetic land have a method of their own for abolishing poverty. It differs from the Georgian method in being eminently i successful. Its ingredients are hard j work, industry, economy and faithful ness. Distasteful enough, no doubt. would they be to the followers of Henry George, but as a means to the desired end they are sufficient to knock the land apostle's theories into a cocked hat. ■•» A TROUBLESOME QUESTION. Washington dispatches inform us that the treasury surplus is the one absorb ing topic in Washington now, and is the prominent subject of discussion among congressmen who are rapidly arriving in the city to take up their winter Quarters. It is gratifying to know that our lawmakers have at last awakened to a consciousness that the people are in earnest in their demand for a reduc tion of the taxes. They have long ago j grown tired of piling up a great sur plus in the treasury for no other reason than to protect the interests of a few monopolies. The Americans are the most patient and long-suffering people in the world. They can stand more imposition than any other people on earth. But when they once reach the limit of forbearance and become aroused to a point of resistance they are the most terribly in earnest of any other nation. They have reached the point now that they will submit no longer to the gross iniquity of our existing tariff system. They have waited patiently in the hope that congress would grant the relief they hail a right to expect until patience has been exhausted. .Now they serve a formal notice on congress that unless , some tariff reform measure is passed at this session the people themselves will undertake to dispose of the whole business in the next na tional election. This is a good : time for the people to move in the mat- i ter. Next year is a presidential elec- ' tion. The party that fails to go before the country with a clean record in favor j of tax restriction will stand a poor j chance at the polls. The very,fact that I this subject is engaging the attention of congressmen at this time to the exclus ion of everything else is evidence that the political leaders have been feeling the public pulse and understand how it beats. With the possible exception of Mr. ]R a.nkai.i. and a handful of followers, who will not be strong enough this ses sion to be of much consequence, the \ Democrats in the House of Representa tives will present a solid front in favor of tariff revision, and a reduction of the taxes. The Republican majority in the senate will be the stumbling block in the way of accomplishing tariff reform. The Republicans know well enough the importance of making some sort of a record in favor of tariff revision, and the leaders will attempt to make a show in that direction. But it will be such a bungling attempt as to bring ridecule upon their efforts. No man can do anything successfully un less his heart is in the work. And it is a well understood fact that the Republi can heart is not in the cans.- of tariff re form. Every profession that the leaders make of being favorable to tariff revision is known to be the basest hypocrisy. Protection is the child of Republican parentage, and the Republican party can not desert its legitimate offspring. The party has never been organized on a basis of tariff reform and never will be. rv, -^. A "WORTHY' EXAMPLE. Occasionally we can get a pointer from our Canadian brethern well worth re membering. Canada's experimental farms in the Northwest have always been model institutions, and the policy in connection with them has been an en lightened one. In fact the excellent ad ministration of her agricultural depart ment has been iv marked contrast to the carelessness with which the public lands have been handled on this side of the line. A case in point presents itself. Though the great need of the far Northwest has been timber, no steps have been taken by the government to supply the want beyond offering a certain number of acres of land to settlers agreeing to plant a certain number of trees upon them, an offer practically worthless, while land equally as good can be se cured without that proviso. The tree claims, in fact, have been utilized seldom by the honest settler and a great deal by the dishonest land speculator. The same want exists in the Canadian Northwest, which is exactly similar to our own rolling prairies. They want timber, and the government is easting about for means to supply it. Prof. Saunders, director of the Government Experimental farm, has just returned from a tour through Wisconsin and Michigan. visiting the largest forest tree nurseries to secure a supply of forest tree seeds and young trees. These will lie planted throughout the Canadian Northwest at government expense, and from these it is hoped to propagate woodlands of considerable extent. With the rapid destruction of our for ests their replenishment is something the, government can well take into con sideration. The Canadians, by the in terest they take in the question, set us a worthy example, and should their ex periment prove successful we should not be long in following it. RATHER MORE SENSIBLE. At last the anarchists in Chicago, or rather the members of the defense com mittee are doing something rather more sensible than has been their habit for some time past. After fruitlessly spending huge sums of money in behalf of the criminals recently executed, they have directed their efforts in a way more deserving of sympathy. A grand entertainment will soon be given in Chicago by the combined talent of the various singing societies and unions for the benefit of the anarchists' families, lt is expected that 10,000 tickets will be sold and that a sufficient sum will be realized to relieve the necessities of the unfortunate women and children for some years to come. The object is one well worthy the hearty commendation ami support of ail charitably disposed people in Chi cago, even of those most bitterly op posed to the evil doctrines of the agi tators. With the possible exception of Mrs. Parsons the wives of the an archists had no part in their husbands' I evil doing, and certainly the children j are equally blameless. It is, however, an inevitable corollary of the strict enforcement of justice that j the innocent must suffer for the sins of j the wicked. Law must sometimes be \ merciless to be just and the condition j of the anarchists" families is a case in '. point. Hail they clung, misguided and ! deluded though they were, less fer- \ vently to their criminal husbands the j world would have thought less of them. Now that justice lias triumphed it can afford to show its sympathy. There should be an attendance at th*** j projected entertainment large enough to exceed the fondest anticipations of its managers, and these women and children should Ik- placed beyond want by the very people who have had such good cause to execrate their husbands and fathers. — mmm- The new French premier married a Chi cago girl. Now if she only would invite some of her male relatives to come over and take official i>osiiioiis perhaps there might he some hope of France getting out of her pre sent snarl. -*•■ If Editor Haskell of Boston, comes to Minneapolis to take charge of the Tribune will Poet BuiHM turn his fancy from epic to elegiac poetry? That is the question now agitating the office of our esteemed con temporary. mm Chicago is making preparations for secur ing the next national conventions in that city. If Chicago should happen to take a fancy to the Celestial firmameut she wouldn't hesi tate to ask for it. -— If youb clerks and other employes arc a. little late in petting around this morning ex cuse them. Thanksgiving coir c- only once a year, you know, and turkey is "fillin*." m — - — Scores of poor people will have cause for gratefully remembering Thanksgiving. The spirit of charity and generosity is in no dan ger of dying in the Saintly City. «•» He-sky GEor.r.u has decided not to visit the Twin Cities. Perhaps he learned that there wasn't enough poverty up this way to make it worth his while. ♦ There is imminent danger of the German crown prince choking ou some of the big words with which his doctors describe his complaint to him. _ Chairman Jokes, of the Republican Na tional Executive committee, will not resign. He wants to be in at the second death of his party. ■**•» Thousands of people with a holiday and not a single serious disturbance yesterday: that's the kind of a law abiding city St. Paul is. If Herr Most would consent to go on an expedition in search of the north pole per haps all might be forgiven him. -a- After a hard day's work to-day perhaps the doctors will give thanks. , — .^m STRAY SUNBEAMS. Henry George's effort to convert the labor organizations into political ma chines has been such a signal failure in the East that one is surprised that he should now come to the Northwest on a mission of this sort. It was not in New "fork alone that the (*i:oi:i;i: element melted away in the late elections. In Massachusetts the political labor men polled less than 1.000 votes. In Chicago their vote shrunk from 25,000 in April to 5,000 in November, while in St. Louis, Baltimore and Philadelphia it al most entirely disappeared. * The first snow has fallen and with it we offer a suggestion. It is that a heavy roller be run over the streets and the snow packed down. Whenever a fresh snow falls let the same rolling process be kept up. In this way the streets will be kept in good condition for sleighing the whole winter and to a very great extent we will get rid of the drifts. * « * Robert Bonner's retirement from the management of the New York Ledger is an episode in American jour nalism worthy of mention. When Mr. Boxxer established the Ledger it was a journalistic venture that no one but himself had confidence in. His wonder ful success was attributable to two causes : first he advertised his paper.and, secondly, when lie got it into the hands of the reading public, they found that be gave them all he advertised. Mr. Boxxer was the first "boom" adver- THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1887. User in this country. He would often take up a whole page in the old Herald or Tribune, regardless of cost, in adver tising the Weekly Ledger. It was seed sown in good ground as the great for tune he afterwards amassed amply tes tifies. ♦ The Ledger was Mr. Bonner's first ove. Fast horses was his second. He has now given up the first love to de vote his whole time to the second. He pays enormous prices for the fastest horses, simply for the gratification of owning them, and never permits them to be speeded for money. He would think it an act of sacrilege to permit any one of his noted horses to be entered in a race. » * * George Alley, the jockey who bought Dexter for $200, once offered to sell him to Mr. Bonnes for 115,000. Mr. Bonner agreed to take the horse at the price provided he would lower his record at a private trial on Union driving park. Hiram Woodruff, who drove the horse, knew that if Bonner got him Dexter would be taken from the track, and accordingly man aged to hold him so that the record would not be lowered. Alley then shipped the horse to Chicago and sold him at auction for 14,000. Mr. Bonner afterwards bought him and paid $35,000 for him. • * ♦ Judge Phillips, of Kansas City, says that the rumor of his appointment to succeed Mr. Sparks in the office of land commissioner is a surprise to him. It is an equal surprise to the rest of the country. Although a member of con gress for two terms, Judge Phillips has never been prominent in national affairs. The fact that Mr. La mar knows him and has had some opportunity to judge his qualifications will reconcile the country at large to the appointment in the event it should be made. The mass of the peopie have no favorite for the office. They simply want an honest man and one possessed of legal learn ing enough to know a good land title from a bad one. -m_~ DRAMATIC NOTES. The Boston Ideals gave two very pretty Thanksgiving performances, singing ■•Martha'" at the matinee and -'Bohemian Girl,"' with Miss Avery in the title role, in the evening. The au diences at both performances were large, at the evening performance being the largest of the engagement, and a re minder of the old Boston Ideal times. It is evident that the entire cast has grown in popularity. To-night Georges Bizet's artistic triumph, "Carmen," will be sung by a cast including the entire company, with Miss DE Lrss.YN in the title role. The costuming is all new. bavins been pre pared especially for this production. Miss De Lcssax will appear in four dif ferent costumes, which will be as rich as anything ever seen on a St. Paul stage. The story of Carmen is taken from Prosper Merixsee's novel of the same name, the outline of which we have al ready published in these columns. The opening chorus is a wonderful bit of Spanish local color. Then comes a very effective chorus of boys, with obliirato. with two flutes, followed by Carmen's entrance, and the "Habaniera." a na tional song of Spain. A beautiful duet between Don .lose and Miehaela, and then the celebrated quarreling chorus of cigarette girls. The next no table number is the "Seiruedilla." The second act opens with Carmen's gypsy song, followed by the Toreador's song, known to all concert and opera goers. One of the most difficult quintets ever written— very effective. Song scene between Don Jose and Carmen, containing a solo for Don Jose and a Castanet dance, and a sons for Carmen. In the third act occurs the celebrated fortune-telling trio, and several strong choruses. Traffic finale, outside bull rimr, where .lose kills Carmen. The sale of seats for Robert DOWJT ixg's engagement next week will open at the Grand box office this morning. Mr. Downing has made quite a repu tation in the heroic roles heretofore taken by Forrest and McCii.locgii. I lis engagement at Minneapolis this week has been a brilliant success. The overture to "Bohemian Girl" last night was something new and exceed ingly pretty. It was Bali own com position for the production of "Bohe mian Girl" as a grand opera in Paris and Berlin. ♦ The French Crisis. The crisis in France has reached a culmination involving the resignation Of the president of the republic. The lower house of the chamber of deputies, as it is called, corresponding to our house of representatives and the Brit ish house of commons, is certain to be the scene of great debates daring the week, fraught with results of the high est importance. First, however, as to the constitution and character of the chamber. It con sists of deputies elected by electoral districts, each department being one district. Deputies are chosen in the ratio of one for each 70,000 inhabitants, the entire district voting on each candi date, after the manner of our old repre scntative-at-large. The department of the Seine— another name for Paris— has \ thirty-eight members. The whole of France counts .Vis; six for Algeria i and ten for the colonies, making In all 584. There are in the house of com mons 070 members; in the American bouse of representatives 323, on the basis of one for every 154,000 inhabi tants. Population of Fiance. 38,000, --000; of ('real Britain and Ireland. 88, --000.000; of the United States. 00.000,- * 000. The electors of France exceed in num- I ber 10.000,000. and more than 75 per cent of them are interested enough in their 1 political destiny to vote. The qualifica tions are twenty-one years of age and citizenship, which is obtained by two j years" resilience in any one town or ' canton. A deputy must be a citizen and twenty-five years Of age. The senate is composed of 300 members, of whom j seventy-five are for life; but vacancies in this category are filled by i election for nine years. The elec tion of the senators is indirect, j but is practically controlled by the depu- 1 ties acting with delegates chosen by communes and municipalities. Thus ! Paris comes to have thirty senators. No \ qualifications are required except to j have reached forty years of age and to . be a Frenchman. " Representatives are j elected for four years. Both houses act | conjointly in legislation, but financial ; laws must originate in the lower house. j The president of the republic is j chosen by the two houses in joint session. His term is seven years, and he may be re-elected. In ad dition to the executive functions of our president he has also the right to initi- | ate legislation, concurrently with the two houses. He is head of the army j and the civil service; with the assent of the senate he may dissolve the house of ' deputies before the legal expiration of its term, but new elections must be held within three months. The ministers are responsible to the chambers; the president is independent of them ex cept for high treason. He cannot de clare war, however, without the assent in advance of the two houses. Ex-Chaplain Harrington's Opinion Minnetonka Mirror. "The state prison is in superb con dition every way. The improvements that have been made without burdening the state, the good feeling among offi cers and men, the general spirit of con fidence and progress, all are facts, and facts that tell their own story for Stor dock and Westby. Mr. Stordock's fault is in his daring to tell the truth and let the light shine. The state will under stand it, perhaps, after a while." ■***■ Language That Don't Conceal. Somerville Journal. Angelina asks for a definition of volu bility. Volubility, Angelina, dear, is the distinguishing feature of a horse car driver when he is thirteen minutes be hind schedule time ou his supper trip, and an overloaded coal team breaks down just in front of him on the rail. -♦- . A QUINT DAY. Thanksgiving-Celebrated Decently and With Order. New York, Nov. 24.— As far as re ported there were no unusual features connected with the observance, of Thanksgiving day throughout the Eastern states. Business every where was practically suspended; the home-gathering to Thanks giving dinner was general, and there was a great rush of collegians and others to participate in or witness the numer ous foot ball and other athletic exhibi tions; church services were fairly at tended, the theaters were crowded and the charitable ' did not forget the poor and those confined! in prisons or elemosynary institutions. In this city, in addition to the excite ment attendant upon the foot ball matches, the day was enlivened by! the marching and counter marching of that peculiarly local institution, the target* company. About fifty of these were granted permits to parade. Some of them appeared as mummers and in women's clothes and were I ar rested. The small boy made -the day hideous with fish horns. In Washington, the president and Mrs- Cleveland attended union services at the Fourth Presbyterian church and subsequently ate their Thanksgiving turkey at Oak View, having as guests three young ladies, friends of Mrs. Cleveland. The observance of the day after the New Eng land fashion appears to he coming into general use in the South. as indicated by reports to the Asso ciated Press. mm An Oregon Letter-Head. The Heppner Gazette thus reflects its prosperity and the {esthetic character of its editor upon its letter-head, thus: WOODSHED OP THE ONLY lIKITNEK GAZETTE. ENGINEERED BT ■'.. W. KEOINGTOX. All Eastern Oregon Paper that Never fans Docs, Rarely Drains the Cup that Cheers and Also Inebriates, and Uses But Very Little irofune Language. $2.50 a year— in advance when it can be got. Notary and Fire Insurance Shop. Only Religiously Inclined Paper in the Col on}-. Extra Editions in Volapuk. Land Business Done in all Kinds of Weather. A standard Authority on Irrigating Oyster Orchards, Clam Trees, etc. Five Years Old and Not a Bald Hair on its Head. It is the Housewife's Favorite for Dishcloths or Bustles. Many Are Fixed That Way. Washington Critic. '"So you've got a wife," said Joues to a newly married man. "Don't know, don't know," replied the man, with evident hesitation; "sometimes I think I've got her, and sometimes I think she's got me. You see, I've only been married a few months, and I can't tell just how the blamed combination is going to turn out." -^ Such an Ear Would. Burlington Free Press. Farmer Bascomb to his nephew— Do you play nothing? De Smith— l play the violin a little— by ear. Thunderation ! Let's see you do it. I thought it was considerable of a knack to play by hand. But by ear! Goodness, it must lap over everything. mm . Reason for 'thank:-*.. Feign* Falls Journal. While Hie diiferent towns in the Northwest are looking around for some thing to be thankful for we doubt if there Is one which can say with Fergus Falls, we have had no financial failures. Nile Fergus Falls may not have boomed, it has had a good heaibty busi ness, and since Jan. 1 it has not bad a failure of any kind, however small. This is a record of which this city may be proud. He Was Punished. 'lid-Bits. "And why are you so surprised, Mr. Sampson," she said, drawing herself up with hauteur, "thai 1 play the piano so well!"' "Because your hands are so small. Miss Smith, that you must find it diffi cult to strike an octave." Then she played some more for him. Los i < •' round. Duluth Herald. Gov. McGill is not working a very ex tensive boom for a renoniination in Northern Minnesota. The Stillwater prison episode has not netted him many friends and the Farmers' alliance and Duluth board of trade people hold him responsible for the action of his railroad and warehouse commissioners. — ■ ■ His Own Successor. Duluth Herald. Senator Sabin seems to be doing quite well, thank you. If would-be senators do not wish to see Mr. Sabin become his own successor they will do well to com mence producing their campaign thunder. •t> The Irrepressible Doctor. Albert Lea Standard. Mayor Ames has been appointed sur geon of the Soldiers' home, established by the state at Minnehaha. The irre pressible doctor has a greater faculty for accumulating offices than any other man in Minnesota. Unless You Hit It. Somerville Journal. People who have studied into the origin of phrases all agree that the say ing "I acknowledge the corn" was in vented by a man. A woman never acknowledges a corn.no matter in what condition a husband may find his pet razor. _ * Give the Matrons a Show. New York Sun. Fashionable Daughter— Mamma, do you really think it is wrong for me to flirt in a mild sort of a way? Fashionable Mother (horrified)— Clara. I'm surprised at you. The idea of an unmarried lady flirting! -m^- You Get There dust the Same. New York Sun. The Punxsutawney Picayune is the title of a new paper in Pennsylvania. The beauty of that head is that it doesn't hurt it to pi it. .«. But Angels Have White Wings. Texas Siftincs. '; Even if a boy is always whistling "I Want to Be an Angel," it is just as well to keep the preserved pears on the top shelf. mmm Favorable to McGill. Albert Lea Enterprise. All things considered we think the administration of Gov. McGill will com pare favorably with those of several of his immediate predecessors. THE LAST STRAW. Farewell, my hat of straw, a strange vicissitude robs thee of all my former deep solicitude. You're laid aside with sundry summer jollities; with picnics, sleicli rides, ami such gay frivolities. Your glory's faded, long past ripe maturity; Now rest serene in darkness and obscurity. Come hence, my sober tile of sombre black. Cold weather swiftly comes upon the track of summer, and by an unchanging law you follow and supplant my summer straw. Adven tures wait you. Though you may escape the moth which hovers 'neath your baud of crape, you may a victim fall ere many days to some fat woman who three hundred weighs. You I'll are my trusted - friend: er stick what though men smile be- logeth to cause a little out of style, hang you you through every shoot you while kind of weather, and will not Washington Critic. A GREAT MATCH. The Feather-weight Championship to be Settled at Minneapolis. WARREN AND WEIR SIGN. The Former Hakes a Plucky Proposition, il Which Weir's Representative Ac , cepts-Dec. 12 the Date. \ Boston has recently bad a contest for 'the light-weight championship of the '.'world which has interested the entire 'country, even to those who ordinarily .'do not take much interest in athletic matters. Minneapolis is shortly to be the scene of another match involv ing quite as important a question, i. e„ the feather-weight championship of the world, It has been announced repeat edly in the sporting columns of the pa pers all over the country that negotia tions were pending for a match between Ike U'Seil Weir, the Belfast Spider, who holds the feather-weight • championship of England, and Tommy Warren, who holds the feather-weight championship of America. Recent correspondence with James Keenau, of Boston, Weir's backer, resulted in the signing of arti- I cles for a fifteen-round match between : the two to take place at Minneapolis i Dec. 12, each to deposit $250 and to ! weigh in at 190 pounds. Warren, who • has already gone into training at La j Crosse in anticipation of the match, it appears, is afraid that a draw may re sult. To avoid the possibility of this undesirable outcome of the match be has sought so long, he yesterday sent : the Globe the following card for pub lication : I have cocci! trying to get a match with Weir, the Belfast Spider, for over a year, and now that we Hie really to have a meeting I want the question of superiority to be settled without question, involving, as it does, the international feather-weight championship. For this reason, I propose that the number of rounds of our contest at Minneapolis to take place Dec. 12, be increased from fifteen to twenty, with a fair referee. Weir and myself should be able to determine who is the better man in that ! number of rounds, and it is with this pur- I pose in view that 1 make the proposition, the I other requirements of the articles of agree- I mem to be adhered to. Tommy War rex, Fen ther- Weight Champion of America. The Globe's .sporting correspondent at Boston recently telegraphed that Warren was considered a coward by the pugilists of that city. His plucky prop osition, however, does not bear this the ory out. Further than that, he is per- j haps the one pugilist who has visited the Northwest who has invariably given the public satisfaction. His two con tests with Danfortli, in the latter of which he defeated the champion of the East, stand as the best exhibitions of fistic science ever given in the North- I west. The assertion, which the Boston | correspondent even lakes occasion j to deny, that Weir will not get fair 1 treatment at Minneapolis, is ridiculous- j ly untrue. While Warren has won j fairly no little popularity. Weir will j find that the contest will be strictly i upon its merits, without fear or favor. John Donaldson, who is authorized by ! Keenan to repre sent and handle Weir. ; j when told of Warren's proposition' last \ | evening, said: ' 1 will agree for Weir to make the coolest : : any number of rounds Warren may desire. ; i Warren's a good little man, and I'm his i 1 friend, but he can't make a bluff at the Spi- j i iter that will rot be called on die spot. I j . [shall telegraph "Weir to-night to come mi to ! "Minneapolis and go into training at once. ; ; The time isn't any too long, nnd the quicker : ' he gets to work lhe better, for be will not ! j have any soft work when he puts up his j I hands before Warren. The articles .specify thai the match shall lie for a division of the receipts, ! ; the winner to take 65 per cent and the i i loser :*.*>. Mosey Talks. • J. D. Hayes, of Duluth. backer of i Mike Con icy. the Ithaca giant, came to I I the (ii.oi;r: office yesterday and depos , ited 8130 in addition to the 6100 previ- o usly posted as forfeit for a match with Pat Killen. Mr. Hayes also had this to ' say on the subject, which was also in dorsed hy Mr. < 'onlev. Said he: ••This *?130 makes ?230 in all. as $100 was ; lwsted last week. We called Killen , last Monday, but have not heard from j ; him yet to our surprise. We called him | at his own challenge. Now if he does not | put up his money at the St. Paul Globe ! oilice. which we consider the proper , place, and name a date and place of meeting to sign articles of agreement we I will have to brand him as a coward. Mr. Conlev means business, and money I talks.*' * They Shot Blackbirds. Members of the Northwestern Kennel club passed their Thanksgiving day by indulging in a little harmless killing of numerous blackbirds. The events took I ' place on their grounds at North St, ! raid. The following is the result of ( ! the carnage: FIRST MATCH. Skinner, 8; Wilson, '.»; Smith. 5; Fair, C; Sanders'* 2; Johnson, 7; Anderson, 7; Lawrence, 10. First money. Lawrence: second money, Wilson; third money. Skinner; fourth money. Anderson. SECOND hatch. Skinner. '.>; Wilson, 8: Fair. 8; San ders, 5; Johnson, 5; Anderson, 7: Ken nedy, 7; Lawrence, 8; Atkinson, 2. First money, Skinner: second money, Lawrence and Wilson; third money, Anderson. third MATCH. Skinner. l:'.: Wilson. 11: Fair, s: By ers. D; Jones, 9; Anderson, l.V. Kennedy. '.•: Lawrence. 12: Atkinson, 5; Lyon, 8; i Byron, 2. First money, Anderson; sec ond money, Skinner: third money, Law rence; fourth money, Wilson. FOURTH MATCH. Skinner. 7; Wilson. 7; Fair. (",; Dyers. , 4; Jones. 4; Anderson, 7: Atkinson,."): Lyon, 5: Brown, 3; Lawrence, G. First j money. Skinner, Wilson and Anderson: I second money. Fair and Lawrence; third ! money, Atkinson and Lyon; fourth | money, Jones. FIFTH MATCH. Skinner, 8: Wilson, 0; Byers, 4; Jones. 4: Atkinson, 4; Lawrence, 8. First money, Wilson: second money. Skinner and Lawrence; third money, Jones. The New Orleans Races. New Orleans, La., Nov. 24.— .weather was clear, and the track was i in good condition. ' First race, selling, seven furlongs — Little Joe won by half a length, Phil Lewis second, Walker third, beating • Leamn, Probus, Jim Nave, Lida L. Jes sie J, Overton and Verner. Time.l Second race, six furlongs, selling— Alleghany won by one length, Trouble second, liiihine third, beating Cupid and Fi'stus. Time, 1:10}^. Third race, for two-year-olds, five fur- I lontrs— Elmira won by a neck. Rosa Lee i second, Golightly third, beating Vi | ranza, Black Knight and Katie Me. ' Time, l:03 l .<. Fourth race, Morris stakes, seven fur i , longs— Florence F", won oy a half length, Glenhall second, Climax third, beating Armstrong, Balance and Golden Keel. me, 1 :2-' K. Want Their Money. Special to the Globe. Watf.rtowx, Dak., Nov. 24.— The Watertown Base Ball association is hav ing trouble with some of the players. ' An attempt was made by the associa tion to disband the club Sept. 15, after * signing contracts to Oct. 5. The play ers object to losing nearly a month's salary, and several law suits are the re sult. Won by Rosalind Wilkes. Mobrisakia, N. Y„ Nov. 24.— great trotting match between Rosalind Wilkes and Kenilworth, on Fleetwood track, took place to-day, and was one by Rosalind Wilkes in straight heats in 2:21%*, 2:21%, 2:22. The mare won easily and could have gone decidedly faster. A large araouut of money changed hands on this race. The Sprinters. Philadelphia, Nov. 24.— The trial heats in the ISO yard handicap foot race were run at Echo park to-day. Sprint ers were present from all parts of the coun try. There were sixty-four entries and when darkness stopped the sport there remained only the following, who will run the deciding heat on Saturday : P. H. Delee, of Hopkinton.Mass.; Peter Priddy, of Pittsburg; P. J. Griffin, of Burlington, Yt.; and C. O'Brien, of Hoi yoke, Mass. * . ■/. Gilniore's Benefit. Harry Gilmore, whose effects were recently destroyed by fire, is to receive a benefit atthe Theatre Comique, Min neapolis, to-night, at which J. H. Clark, Johny Connors, Jerry Murphy, Pat Kil lane, the Black Pearl and others will ap pear. The beneficiary will undertake to knock out in six rounds Fred Engle, the South Minneapolis butcher boy, who recently made such a good showing before J. U. Clark, A Marine Bicycle. Boston, Nov. 24.— Alponse King.who had declared his ability to cross Charles river on a marine bicycle, performed the feat to-day in the presence of 20.000 spectators. His time from the bridge to the East Boston side was nineteen min utes, distance one and one-half miles. The water and wind were unfavorble. Cornell Beaten. Elmjra, N, V., Nov. 24.— The foot ball contest to-day between the Lehigh university aud Cornell university teams resulted: Lehigh 38, Cornell 10. Littlewood Still Ahead. Philadelphia, Nov. Littlewood still keeps ahead of the record and his friends believe he will beat it. The fol lowing was the score at 11 o'clock: Littlewood, 440; Albeit. 417; Noremac, 373 ; Panchot, 400; Elson, 358. m POWDERLY MAY DIE. The General Master Workman Worn Out by His Battle for Labor. Ixmanapolis, Nov. General Master Workman Powderly, in response to a request from prominent knights in this city urging him to reconsider his announced determination to retire from the leadership of the order, has written a letter of which the following is the substance: "You ask me to re consider my determination to retire from ths head of the order after the next session. Ido not see how 1 can consistently do so, and it would be unfair to ask me to retain a position which I do not want and which I am confident another man can fill with better advantage to the order at large. During the past year I received thou sands of communications from individ uals, it is true, in which I was abused, condemned and asked to resign. The papers were full of abuse and threats. Impeachment charges were made and threats of withdrawal from the order freely indulged in. Through this cloud of gloom but one ray of light made its way and that came from far away Denver, where D. A. 82, passed those ringing resolutions indorsing my course and condemning the anarchist element which sought to prostitute the order to its own baseness. I felt that the order would stand more cheerfully by some other man than it would stand by me. True. 1 have never had cause to find fault with Kie official treatment I have received, but when blows fall thick and fast.friendly intercession now and then, cheers a person on whose head blows are falling. I believe the best service that I can render to the or der is to step aside and allow some other member to do the work I am trying to do. I have devoted years to the cause of labor. My life in the service of humanity has been one constant fight by night and day against the enemies of labor and the el ements of discord which opposed me from within and without. Such a life has been a most exciting one, and has left me with a legacy which I can never part with, ill the shape of heart trouble, which may do its work at any moment. I could not make such a subject a matter for dis cussion in my annual message, or be fore the general assembly. Personal in terests, social ties and the comforts of home have been things of the past with me for years, 1 long to be once more a free man, for to-day i am bound by tics most iiTcsistable and ruled over by, not only one, but by 500,000 masters. You can never know the strain under which I have lived for years. It would not be becoming for me to speak of the financial sacrifices I have made for the order. I am free to say I would be willing to make the same sacrifice again of either health, wealth or comfort for the order of the Knights of Labor. I have for eight years as general master workman, striven as honestly as 1 know how to better the condition of my fellow workmen, by helping to build an organization through which they would be protected in their rights. That organization is built, but profane hands have been laid upon it. and the men who gathered at Chicago, and gave out that hostile dec laration to the world, did so only be cause anarchy could not rule the order. I do not charge all those who attended the meeting in Chicago with being an archists, but I claim that the vast ma jority ot them did not represent their constituents." -^W Thanksgiving in Mexico. City of Mexico, Nov. 24.— Mr. T. B. Connery, charge d'affaire of the Ameri can legation, gave a brilliant Thanks giving day banquet at the legation this evening. There were pres ent about fifty persons, including the members of the Mexican cabinet. (Jen. McCook, U. S. A-, railway mana gers, editors of leading Mexican papers, American press correspondents and a delegation of Kansas City merchants. Mr. Connery, in the course of his remarks, referred to the good fortune of the two republics in their presidents, and in offering a toast to them eulogized the sterling qualities of Presidents Cleveland and Diaz, and paid a graceful tribute to the beauty and popularity of their wives, whom he char acterized as the '•Uncrowned queens of our hemisphere." Minister Marisea responded to this toast, in the course of which he said that Presidents Diaz and Cleveland were the right men in the right place, and suggested that they should be kept there. Regarding their wives, be had no doubt that if two women were to be voted for as presidents' wives Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Diaz would be elected by immense majorities. -*» A Welcome Rain. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 24.— steady rain all day gladdened the hearts of the coal operators and miners along the Monontrahela river and gave renewed hopes of a rise in the rivers sufficient to allow the shipment to the West of the 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 bushels of coal lying in the Harbor and pools. There have been no shipments to the lower ports since last June, and the mines have been closed on account of a scarcity of craft, all the boats being loaded, The enforced idle ness has caused great suffering among the 6,000 miners in the valley, and large numbers have gone to other fields in quest of employment. The Anarchists' Graves. Chicago, Nov. 24.— The anarchist de fence committee had a conference this afternoon with the directors of the Waldheim cemetery in reference to the purchase of a lot in which to bury the dead anarchists. No objection was made to burying all the bodies in one plat of ground, and a suitable place was selected, containing about 3,600 square feet of ground. <**■ The Diamond Thief. New York, Nov. 24.— Dorsey, the colored man arrested for the theft of the Morgan diamonds, was arraigned to day. He pleaded guilty and was re manded for trial. Strange Garments for a Boy. William O'Donald, a boy of seven teen, was arrested at the colored ball last evening with a lady's plush coat and hat in his possession. He was ap- Srebended by Officer McAllister before c could make his escape. THE MOSLEM HAREM. An Inside View of the Host Sacred Mohammedan Institution. MECCA'S HOLY OF HOLIES. Mistaken Ideas of the Western World Regarding Harem Slavery and the Slaves. N THEORY the *"*|Moslem classes his women-kind with the holy of holies of Mecca. The innermost shrine of his tem ple and the rooms I with latticed win- Idows, says the Saturday Review, { are both called by the same name of Harem or "Sacred." The apartment is harem, and the ladies who live in it are harem for all but the lord and master. He may enter at will, but generally an nounces his coining beforehand so that he may not run the risk of meeting fe male visitors who are probably the wives of his friends. In well-regulated houses tlie husband intrudes only at fixed hours, perhaps for a short time after midday prayor, and does not else favor his harem till he retires to rest. Home life, such as we understand it, can scarcely be said to exist tor the Mo hammedan. The man lives in and at bis work outside, and the woman among her slaves and friends in the harem. The most interesting view of the home life of the harem is when it is consid ered as the cradle in which Eastern manhood is reared. Schools of any kind are few and meagerly patronized, and boarding schools are unknown. A few boys are sent to Paris, Constantinople ; or Syria to be educated, but the majority \ grow up among slave girls and servants, seeing a great deal which they ought j not to see, and learning very "little" of what they should, lt is small wonder, then, that the better moral qual ities, if any were ever inborn, are rapidly obliterated, and the boy grows up to the man saturated with vice and effeminacy. The women occu pants of the harem are the wife or wives and the female slaves. Perhaps on no subject does greater misconcep tion prevail than on this of harem slav ery. The field, however, is too wide a one to be touched on more than inci dentally. THE name OF SLAVE as applied to the Georgian or Circassian girl is a misnomer. She occupies more the position of a friend, or at least of a lady's companion, if sue does not, as is often the case, become an adopted daughter of the house. She is well and sometimes expensively dressed, and shares the small amusements of her mistress at the theater, the moolid, or the promenade. Now and then the lady may fly in a passion, and soundly Inu tile girl's ears or pull out a handful of j hair: but a reconciliation soon takes place, and is usually cemented with a present of jewelry or a new dress. The principal diversions of harem life consist in the visits of friends and of a pernicious doss of traveling women, who hawk about articles of dress and gewgaws from one house to another, re tailing the latest gossip and scandal with their wares, and assisting the ! ladies to get in all manner of scrapes. Wise women who tell fortunes by cards and incantations are also in great de mand, and their vaticinations are, as a rule, believed in by the ladies with much the same delightful and blind confidence as given by tanners" daught ers to the mysterious prophecies of the Gypsies. Now and then condign pun ishment awaits these hags, as in the case of the notorious Ayesha, who, several years ago, was called for one night, hustled into a carriage under pretense of visiting a great harem, and has never since been heard of. But, as a rule, their sor ceries, evil eyes and charms are per fectly harmless. aud when there is noth ing better to do they are called in to be guile the heavy hours. Nor must the men singers be left out in the catalogue of delights of the harem— delight, nevertheless, which is but sparingly in dulged in, and can only be enjoyed to the full when THE HAREM'S LORD IS AWAY. A notion seems generally prevalent in Europe that if only the harem doors were opened a rush for liberty would immediately take place, and many are the sympathies wasted on the supposed prisoners of the Mohammedan marriage tie. In reality lnith men and women consider their state far superior to that Europeans. The man argues thus: •'You are a slave from the moment you marry. You cannot go out to lunch or dinner or to your friends without taking your wife with you. You can not even leave her alone for a few hours without giving an account of yourself. Such a state of things would be unbear able to me. Igo where I like and she goes where she likes. 1 pay my servants to look after her. and I am sure that she is not flirting with other men when I am not by her side. You are never sure of this.'* etc. This is his line of argu ment. The woman says: "My religion for bids me to look upon other men than my husband. If 1 changed my religion perhaps I would like to mix up with every fellow I came across, but as long as 1 am a Mohammedan I detest the thought of it. 1 cover my face from the sight of the world as your women cover their bodies. As to being watched and guarded.it is a compliment which shows now much my husband cares for me. If he were to leave me to do what I liked, i 1 should know he did not care for me and should feel deeply insulted." It is difficult for the Western mind fully to grasp the immense gulf be tween our ideas and theirs. Their rea soning is fallacious and almost ridicu lous from our standpoint but it is good enough from theirs. And, therefore, as long as the Mohammedan religion lasts, so long will the harem exist. And its ex istence is, on the whole, a happy and contented one, in spite of all the rea soning which may be brought to show that it ought to be miserable. Centu ries of communion and contact with Eu ropeans may possibly change the ideas born and cultivated in the harem, but there is as yet no sign whatever of such a change. Up to the present no ap preciable difference is noticeable in the domestic economy of the Moslem. >••**•*» MARINE. TOUT OF wasubcbk. Special to the Globe. Washbubx, Wis., Nov. 21.— Arrived: James Fish, Jr., and City of Duluth Ash land. Cleared: James Fish. Detroit car wheels, City of Duluth C'hienso, lumber. These are the lust boats of the season. The lake is covered with ice. PORT Or JJULUTH. Special to the Globe. Dulcth, Minn., Nov. Arrived: Pro peller T. H. Camp from Port Arthur and north shore points, with passengers, fish and sundries; propeller Jay Gould from Chicago, with sundries. Departed: Propellers Spo kane. H. A. Tuttle, Missoula and Koumania to Buffalo with wheat. Light snow and cloudy. Bates dull at <**,> cents to Buffalo. AT THE soo. Sault Ste Marie., Mich., Nov. 24.— Passed up— Myles, 8:05 p. m. Down— Wallalnla Wadena, 7:25 p. m.: Fountain City, 11 a. m. Wind— Southeast, light, with snow. STEAMSHIP ARRIVALS. Southampton— from New York for Bremen. New York— State of Nevada, from Glas gow. Moville— from Boston for Glas gow. Queenstown— Germanic, from New York. A Female Swindler. New York, Nov. 24.— Mrs. Edna Per rin, of 531 East Seventh street, was ar rested yesterday on a charge of swind ling by means of the saw dust game. A large number of letters from people throughout the country ordering count erfeit money, were found in her posses sion. She operated under the name of W. J. Jones. Her real name is un known. She is the first woman sawdust swindler ever known to the police of this city. A Bagnio Palled. The bagnio of Nellie Williams, col ored, was "pulled" by Officers Switzer and Davis shortly after midnight. la addition to the keeper, Mollie Anderson, Isabella Leslie, and Annie Jackson, inmates of tho . house, and W. P. Smith and 1 Frank Jackson, visitors, were taken up to the central station and locked up. This bagnio is located in the rear of the corner of Jackson and Eighth streets, and was "pulled" a few weeks ago, tho 1 keeper being fined $100. A Statue Unveiled. I Springfield, Mass.i Nov. 24.— The Puritan statue erected in Steams park in honor of Deacon Samuel Chapin. one of the first settlers of this place, was un veiled and presented to the city to-day. It is of bronze, and is the artistic work of Augustus St. Gaude-ns. Many de scendants of Deacon Chapin were pres ; ent, including H. L. Chapin, president of Beloit college, Wis., who delivered an appropriate address. ♦ Yellow Fever. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 24.— Two returned refugees and two children were attacked by yellow fever at Tampa yesterday. There was no death. Dr. Wallace telegraphed the Times-Union to warn refugees not to return till noti fied, which will be as soon as the pres ent cases terminate. -^ Mr. Longley Suspicious. Toronto, Ont., Nov. 24.— Long ley, attorney general of Nova Scotia, in a letter to the Mail regarding the fish ery commission, says he ifas good grouuds for believing that the Canadian case at Washington is to be subordin ated to the interests of the British ex porter on the one hand and to those of the Canadian manufacturer on the other. Gerster Still Sings. New York, Nov. 24.— Mine. Etelka Gerster made her appearance in a con cert this evening at the Metropolitan opera house after an absence from New York of over four years. She received a hearty welcome, and her singing was greatly applauded. i Failed to Agree. New York. Nov. 24.— jury in tho trial of Peter J. Gorven for the murder of Michael Smith, failed to agree after being locked up all night, and were dis charged. -•> Here's mi Health Of Every regular sub scriber and every one who purchases a copy OF THE DAKOTA GLOBE TO-MORROW! May They tin Long and Prosper ! THE ISSUE WILL BE SPICIER AND MORE INVEST ING THAN USUAL, The man on the right, in the pic ture, is the staff contributor; the one on the left is the GLOBE'S late Bismarck correspondent. They are having a nice, quiet time of it, spending a por tion of the money paid them by the GLOBE for their services. Gov. Pierce may rest assured that none of it came from the territorial treasury. The GLOBE feels so elated over its marvelous success in Da kota, and so grateful to the in telligent citizens of the territory for their generous support and patronage, that all trace of ani mosity towards its rivals is ban ished from its mind. Like the leader in any great race it is in clined to be magnanimous to the stragglers in the rear and offer them any encouragement in its power. Therefore, on this occa sion of mild celebrating, the GLOBE extends a cordial invita tion to Editor Pierce to join the staff contributor and the political editor in a "smile." Our valet will please pass the seltzer to the gentleman, and there are also a couple of fine cigars, which it would please us to have him accept with our compliments, and with the double assurance that no territorial funds have been used to meet the expenses incurred.