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May 6.— For Wisconsin: tail, followed by local rains and severe local storms; southerly winds; cooler in western portion, and by Wednesday morning cooler in eastern portion. For Minnesota, Dakota and Iowa: Threatening weather, severe local storms and light rains; cooler; winds shift ing to westerly. SPECIAL PREDICTION. A storm of considerable energy is central over Dakota, and the conditions are favor able for violent local storms iv Minnesota, lowa and the adjoining states during Tues day or Tuesday night. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. ~" : 1 = I ft = _t a> a* 2. S_J Place of ft »c Place of Wg- go Place of 5 5 g8 Place of Sf gS übs'vation. go jr- Obs-vatiou. 2° g» • If S. :•? ff ■ r ! S • <T 3 : 7 i r> : ? M p a "__ . i_!.:;s 80 Helena 29.36 50 luluth... -9.43 13 Ft. Totten. •••-■-_•• La Crosse. '.- 9.54 78 Ft. Sully. . _!. 10 -b Huron 20.12 1 7. ' Minnedosa 29.20 02 Moorhead. 29.06 78 Calgary.... 29.30 __ St. Vincent 29.16 74 Edmonton .... lii.-marck. j L..I Ol 70 O'Appelle. 29.14 .0 Ft. Buford. 20.12 66 Medic'e 11. 29.34 5. Ft. Cu5ter.. 1 29. 28 60 Winnipeg.. 20.26 60 The only sign of blueness about the new court house yesterday was in the window curtains. A pugnacious Omaha paper wants to see some newspaper man knock out Sullivax and Killex as the reporter in San Francisco did Paddy Ryan. It might be dangerous for the champions to visit Omaha. While the president is trying to find chances for the civil- service, he might extend it over the census bureau. There are 50,000 or more holes for pegs there, and it is very desirable that only capa ble men should be entrusted with the work. It is estimated that the ratio for a congressman under the census to be taken next year will not range far from 200.000. That will give the Twin Cities, and perhaps the suburban attachments they now have, three representatives in congress. About all the babies of the right per suasion the past few weeks have been named George Washington. It is pretty safe to use a man's name after he lias been dead seventy-five or a hundred years. It is noted that the parental de mand for Benjamin Harrison has about played out. —mm- St. Louis last week had a case of burial alive averted by the merest acci dent. The doctor certified that the lady was dead, and the funeral was under way when the husband detected a sign of life and the party was restored to health.' Cremation •; seems to have an advantage in this respect. The legislature of Pennsylvania, which is about to adjourn, is commonly spoken of by the papers of the state as Quay's legislature. It has but few Democrats, and the Republicans seem entirely subservient to the great man ager. The parties he aided to put In power in Washington are not quite as grateful and docile. TnE conundrum of the Chicago paper, "Where was Chicago 100 years ago?" is only an exhibition of the conceit prev alent there. Less flattering, however, would be the natural response to the in quiry as to where most the Chicago people. will be a century later. Sympa thy and good taste repress the Saintly City foreshadowing. -___* Ben Butler displayed a new phase of his remarkable versatility in the modest role he assigned himself at the New Orleans passage of twenty-seven years ago. His picture of the gallant Farragut was vivid and faithful, but it was not a happy reference to Porter. Better let any little clouds of that sort be lost in the bright light of other heroic and dashing eras. There are but 5,300 clerks in the rail way mail service, and since the 4th of March it is claimed that 2,500 of them have been given release from official duty. It is the most remarkable feat in the history of the service, and is effected to "rectify the incumbency," as it is called, lt must have been an aggrava tion to the patriotic management that the president refused to push'; the civil service blanket off a few clays longer, so that the last Democrat could be eliminated. Some people do not realize the full strain upon men of great enter prise. __■ There is nothing in which the field for the display of sagacity is so palpable as in knowing when to live. Had Gen. Grant been born twenty-five years later, it would have never been sus pected that he was a great military genius. George Washington couldn't have got the nomination for president even from the Prohibition party of these times, for he took his toddy regular every morning. Edison wouldn't have been allowed fo discover things three or four centuries earlier. The trouble with most people is that they blunder into the world at the wrong time. -«»- The impression that Boston culture is indigenous and spontaneous finds trouble in the reports of the superin tendent of the public schools there that there have been an average of 18,000 cases of corporal punishment each year for several years past. In more be nighted regions theories have prevailed that brains and esthetic development could be quickened or fostered by the rod but the conceit was cherished that the modern Athens was less gross and material, and that a softer and more spiritual regime was on duty there. But beans are a very material diet. The Xew York Herald of recent date lias an interesting report from a corre spondent in Maine of the operation of the prohibition law there. He finds that at Bangor, a town of 20,000 popula tion, there are 151 saloons, all public and unrestrained. The liquor -dealers con trol the Republican party, and will allow no man to be elected who will hot pledge himself not to .enforce the law. The Democrats are a small minority and can do nothing. The investigator found that a similar condition prevailed throughout the state. The liquor, in terest deals with the Republican party, which is the personal property of Mr. BLAINE. The latter, of course, doesn't leave any letters on . the subject un burned, but allows the party to be run in the interest of the saloon. This is the ptohibitory operation in the state that took out the first patent. .•' m — '■ THE PIONEER JURIST. Among the many interesting occur rences of yesterday in connection with the ceremonies in celebration of the opening of the new court house, the most notable incident was the presence of (.Jen. Sibley and his remarks to the bar association. It was notable because Gen. Sibley is the oldest and most illustrious of the few surviving pioneers. But it was especially notable because Gen. Sibley was the first person to hold a judicial office west of the Missis sippi river. At the time of his appointment to a judicial station his jurisdiction extended from Prairie dv Chien to the British line, embracing a territory as large as the French empire. His judicial office also invested him with the power of a monarch, for his word was law, and there was no appeal from his decisions. He had no written code for his guide, but in his judicial administration de pended alone on his natural sense of what was right between man and man, and upon a judicial disposition inher ited from his father, Hon. SOLOMON SIBLEY, chief justice of the supreme court of the territory of Michigan. . Gen. Sibley was likewise the first foreman of the first grand jury ever im paneled west of the Mississippi. Wonderful man! And what wonder ful events have been crowded into the space of his lifetime. PERPLEXED DEMOCRATS. The Democratic leaders find them selves suddenly confronted with a ques tion almost as perplexing as the con duct of a national campaign. It is the question of who shall be chosen to suc ceed Mr. Barn m as chairman of the national committee, for upon the choice depends very largely the chances of Democratic success in 1592. In the last election the national Democracy had the misfortune to be under the leadership and management of men who did not believe in its principles and policies, and the wonder is that it came any where within sight of victory.' If the party makes the same mistake next time it doesn't need a wide stretch of prophetic vision to tell what the result will be. Zeal is worth a great deal in apolitical campaign, lt is difficult to see how a man, or a set of men, imbued with pro tection ideas, can be zealous in the cause of tariff reform. That was the trouble the Democrats had in the last election. Brice, Barnum and Gor man, the three prominent leaders, were all identified with the mining and manufacturing interests, and were con sequently in favor of protection. The Democratic party stood squarely on the Cleveland platform for a low tariff, and yet trusted its destiny into the hands of men who were opposed to its policy. Surely, no such mistake ought to be made a second time, and yet there is a possibility that it will. It is under stood that Senator Gorman and Mr. Randall are plotting to capture the Democratic organization, with the ex pectation of reversing the party's posi tion on the tariff, apparently unmindful of the fact that the tariff is the only live question in our national politics. President Harrison is conscious of the fact, and with singular fidelity to his convictions and to the interests of his party he is giving office only to protec tionists. He is carefui . that his party shall not make the mistake the Demo crats did under the Cleveland admin istration. If the Democrats possess the wisdom of the Republicans in the management of party affairs, they will remove from the national committee every member who is not in full sympathy with the low tariff movement, and fill their places with men who will he zealous in the cause and will not be using their positions to play the Judas Iscariot in politics. If a protectionist is chosen to succeed Mr. Baknim, it will be poor encourage ment for the tariff reformers in the party to persevere in their effort to overthrow the monopolists. The dis couraging effect of : such a folly would be apparent in the next election, and as the Democrats have no margin for risks, the wise thing to do is to close up their lines and complete their organization on the only issue that will be available. —mm- : THE SIOUX COMMISSION. The Sioux commission met at Wash ington yesterday to receive instructions and probably learn something as to who the people are with whom they are to negotiate, and what commissary stores will be needed for their sojourn in the district, where first-class hotels are not numerous. There are no indications of the haste in this work shown in putting the postal department in a state of effi ciency by the expulsion of the off-color people in politics. It is to be hoped that the patience of the residents of the country about the • reservation will not be needlessly tried further. The map prepared for the commission leaves 13, --474,627 acres for the Indians in the six new reservations of Standing Rock, Cheyenne, Crow Creek, Lower Brule, Rosebud and Pine Ridge. This will be not far from an average of 2,500 acres to each family, on which most white peo ple could manage to live without being fed by the government. Upwards of 10,000,000 acres will be opened to the whites for settlement. A COSMOPOLITAN DISEASE. Diphtheria is one of the cosmopolitan diseases. It cares little for climate or geography, and will get in its work al 1 most anywhere that it can find the taint ed elements upon which it feeds. No season or atmospheric condition dis courages its pernicious activity, nor is any age or sex exempt, It is fostered by bad air, filth, and dampness, but easily extends its ravages among those who seem to have the most saluborious surroundings. It is perhaps "more fre quent in cities, but its most fatal work is at times done in the country. The Boston board of health recently issued a circular containing useful informa tion in regard to the disease, . its favor ing conditions, and the means of dis infection. It is pronounced contagious and infectious. It may be communi cated by kissing, coughing, sneezing, or the use of infected articles,' r . as towels," napkins, etc- ; A- recent; report gives the deaths, from this disease hi one week as . 47 in New York, .26 in Chicago, 111 in St. . Louis, and 25 in London. — mam THE INSECT AGE. _ Some scientist who sees things in too somber colors finds that one of the grow ing problems the agriculturist of this country has to meet: is that of insect pests. His observation has probably been more particularly directed to the older regions ' when he concludes' that . one-third of the product of the farmer's toil is devoured by .the insects. ;' He j forebodes also that the earth is about to THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBS: TUESDAY . MORNING 7. 1889. pass through the age of insects, as it has already passed through the ages of , fishes and reptiles and is now in the age, of mammals. He does not suggest any more effective way of averting this peril than to cultivate birds aud attract the ; insects, to bonfires. The more rational : way would he to come West, where the insects are little known, and will DO. be likely to get in any very . serious ; work for a good while. Prophets of evil have always been blatant, and still the world wags on pretty comfortably. ■ _■> POTTER'S SERMON. It Is a noteworthy fact that all the brilliant oratory at the centennial cele- j bration lias been forgotten except one address. Mr. Depew's great speech, President Harrison's appropriate re marks, the responses to the banquet toasts, have all passed out of the public mind and yet everybody is talking about Bishop Potter's centennial ser mon. The bishop is not half so noted a man ;as the . president, nor is he one fourth part the orator that Mr. De pew is. The reason that his sermon is remem bered, and is so much talked about, is because he said something the people wanted to hear. And he spoke it, too, in plain old English language that everybody could understand. The very things that he talked about were upper most in the public mind, and the people were wondering if there would be any one in New York on that occasion who would have the manhood to speak the truth as it ought to be spokeu. Bishop Potter is the only one of the many eminent men assembled there to do reverence to Washington's mem ory that rose to the full dignity of the /occasion and completely filled the meas ure of public expectation. No matter if his remarks were offensive to those in high station, they were none the less truthful or timely. They were indeed words spoken in season. lt is a hopeful sign for the republic that the bishop's sermon has attracted such universal attention and elicited so much commendation. It is an evidence that, notwithstanding the corrupting influences of the times, the popular heart is still right. The masses are not worse than they were a hundred years ago. They are just as honest and as liberty-loving as they were in the days of Washington. The merchant able quality of modern politics is to be of short duration. The people have taken into their heads to reform the ballot system, and they are going to do it in spite of the powers that be. The evil that Bishop Potter rebuked is a national sin, but it does not imply a degeneracy of the people. mm LOTTERY INVESTMENTS. By some recent computations it is found that Chicago people yearly sink $1,500,000 in lottery schemes, the bulk of it going to that octopus in Louisiana operated under state auspices. The laws in Illinois prohibit the sale of tickets, as in most other states, but are constantly violated. A tax of $2 a head for the support of the sleek bene ficiaries in the distant state would not be paid very cheerfully in any locality, but there is hardly a city or town in the North that is not a large contributor to this purpose. Thousands of dollars go from St. Paul every month. Men of small means set apart a fixed sum each month for the lottery sharks, probably more than they pay the preacher. At tempts to prohibit the use of the mails in the matter meet little success, as they are easily evaded, and in fact most of the money is sent by express. There seems no way to effectually cure people of this folly, except by costly experi ence. BUTLER'S MALIGNITY. Ben _______ was a soldier brave, and used to war's alarms. And while a can non ball never got a chance to take off his legs or arms, it does seem a pity that some wayward shot did not cut a slice out of his slanderous tongue in order that the real heroes of the war might be protected in their reputations. His recent attempt to blacken the character of Admiral Porter by charging him with cowardice at New Orleans, when that city was captured by Farragut, comes with bad grace from a man whose military record consisted, as John A. Bingham once expressed it, of . living in a bottle and being fed with a spoon. Admiral Porter's subsequent service and promotion are a sufficient contra diction to the Butler story, even if it needed contradiction. Besides, the calumny is barred by limitation. THE REMOVAL RECORD. The removals in the postoffice depart ment last week only numbered 800. The week before 1,016 Democratic heads were lopped off. The falling off in the score last week was due to the fact that one day was a holiday, and the good Mr. Wanamaker was absent three days at ! the centennial celebration." He will be | at his desk all this week, and with the | Christian services of his active first as : sistant; it is expected that this week's : record will average 200 per day. Still, | it was President Harrison who laid j down the principle that "only the in terests of the public should suggest re movals from office." ! Hypocrisy, thy name is Harrison. — _» A girl in one of the cities recently j tried to hang herself with " her shoe i string because her lover had deserted j her. The string, iike that to her beau, i was too weak. Perhaps she will find ! garters stronger. Young ladies, how i ever, should remember that it is in very . : bad form to hang themselves at all, es ; pecially, for a fickle lover. They should i count themselves fortunate in getting I rid of such before it is inconvenient. ■_■» The impression tnat the strawberries in market of. late, that suggest ' quite ' luscious efforts of nature, are the prod ■ ucts of the reservations to be opened in j Dakota, is not quite accurate. The j Dakota article comes in later to prolong > the season. The early ones mostly come : from Louisiana, where the crop has been ' larger and better than the average. — «___■ : Under the last administration Con- I gressman Rice, of this city, had a very capable colored man named Curtiss appointed as railway mail clerk, but i his head went off a little quicker than ! it would had his hair been straight. A ■■ pure-blooded .Republican is trying to ■ ; learn the routes from him. "_» — : . > The postmaster at Oklahoma City is of the sort of heroes used in cornfields to ; deter crows, if he has had his photo i graph: taken with revolvers and a Win ' Chester rifle as the conspicuous features. | It is a reflection upon the Oklahoma ■ civilization, also. STATE TALK. What Dakota ought to do as soon as her state governments are formed is to establish fire limits.— Duluth Herald. Senator Sclieffer's bill, which pro vides for the punishment of drunken ness, is now a law, but there seems to be less need of it now that the legisla : tin "a . has ; adjourned.— Brown's Valley ; Tribune. ,' There are two ; or three editors lying I round loose in Southern Minnesota who I keep telling, that they -would not ex ! change ; their .papers for the. '-Sixth j Auditorship," etc. Now what there is about the "Sixth Auditorship'!,, that is I so : objectionable we cannot imagine. and It must be a matter of regret to Mr. Windom that so many of them re fuse, it is a great loss to •■ the public service.— Fairmont News. .I!2!pd_BgjgSi i That it will keep out the dressed beef is an assured fact, and ought thereby to raise the price of cattle, but Montana is overstocked with cattle on the hoof, and we may receive "a deluge of it so that the price of our own cattle may not be raised; In which ; case •it would be diffi cult to see any benefit from the lawl-r., Sauk Center Herald. j J ' J '• Don't think because Gov. Merriam al lowed the riparian rights bill, to die, that his excellency does y not know value of things pertaining to the water.' ! He was one of the honored guests I at 1 the Centennial ball, and wine is said to' have flowed there like water.— Duluth Tribune. :'f^Af^oggffAj/MgAg^- . ° The St. Paul Globe is a great news paper. May lit devoted its columns to the city, of Minneapolis and gave illus trations of that great city's prominent buildings, life-like cuts of its mayors, and a large, well-executed bird's-eye l view of the city, together with a com plete resume of the city and its extensive ; business.— Sauk Rapids Free Press, j .' The legislature should have passed a resolution censuring the late theological synod that revised the Bible, in that the synod omitted to exclude from ihe Scriptures all descriptions of crime, vice, wars, ; and crucifixions. We sug gest that it is not the event described, but the style and aim of the description, that has the demoralizing effect. The remedy in the ease of reporting the state's treatment of criminals, would be either to create a body of reporters and a reading public with better tastes, or for the state to treat criminals In a less barbarous manner.— Howard Lake Her ald. . - ' AYS IDE NOTES. This Is certainly summer. The signs are frequent.: and infallible: For in stance, the fragrance of the wild plum blossom was breathed all over the city yesterday; the fizz of the soda is heard at every corner; nameless bugs swarm about the lights at night; the directory fiend is making his rounds; the size of your daily modicum of ice has dwindled to half; and finally, a straw hat of the vintage of '89 was seen at he Minnesota club yesterday. To honor thee, immortal George. And ye whose feet at Valley Forge Made bloody prints round ' Freedom's ' shrine, __4i4BM_V |l! MBB_SBBSB_H_B New York took one grand champagne gorge In eighteen eighty-nine. Hon. Freeman P. Lane did take some bills with him to California, but they were carried in his pocketbook, and were principally of the denominations of twenties and fifties. Those kind of bills do not require a governor's signa ture to make them legal. - A storm is on the way, and should reach here to-day or to-morrow. Such weather as that of yesterday is a sure breeder of storms. Experts do not look for the cyclone variety, so be prepared for anything, for cyclones, like country relations, always come when least ex pected.arfSßß Butchers and meat men have been found in Minneapolis who are willing to admit that meat is higher and scarcer since the passage of the inspection law. When a butcher will admit his meat is higher and not so good as formerly, a market millennium is at hand. You may brush, you may scrub, ;. ' - The new court house at will, • . . But the soot and the smoke dust Will cling to it still. . j lii closing up the construction and decorating the new court house grounds, bow would it do to place two pieces of statuary, one at each front corner? Two leading citizens of St. Paul might be thus appropriately honored and the adornment of the 'grounds made com plete. Who can suggest names of de ceased great men of St. Paul who should thus be honored? GALVANIZING THE CORPSE. No; Mr. Blame has not had a ■ stroke of paralysis. It is the Democrats who will get the paralysis when -he speaks in the next campaign.— New York ess. ,M It is very evident that the Democratic newspapers are afraid Mr. Blame is not so sick as he has been represented to be.— Peoria Transcript. V _!P__3___3___| The centennial festivities seem to have diverted the attention of the Democrats and Mugwumps from the great problem of whether Blame rules Harrison or Harrison has his own wayabout things. —Burlington Hawkeye. Secretary Blame is not paralyzed, and those who don't want to be had better let him alone.— Philadelphia In quirer. -'_.._ OKLAHOMA HOTEL RULES. . 1. If the bugs are troublesome you'll find the kloroform in a bottle on the shelf. ' '. "I 2. Gents goin' to bed with their boots on will be charged extra. 3. Three raps at the door means that there is a murder in the house, and you must get up. tt_____£flH_Ho_to a -_l j 4. Please rite your name on the wall paper so we know you've been here. 5. The other leg of the chair is in the closet if you need it. 6. * If that hole where • that pain of glass is out is too much for you, you'll find a pair of pants back of the door to stuff in it. 7. The shooting of a pistol is no cause for any alarm. 8. If you're too cold, put the oil cloth over your bed. 9. Caroseen lamps extra; candles free, but they musn't burn all night. 10. Don't tare off the wall paper to lite your pipe with. Nuff of that al ready. ' 11. Guests will not take out them bricks in the mattress. 12. If it rains through that hole over head, you'll find an umbreller under the bed. . 13. The rats won't hurt you if they do chase each other across your face. 14. Two men in a room must put up with one chair. 15. - Please don't empty the sawdust out of the pillers. . " 16. Don't kick about the roches. We don't charge extra.'9-flSP___B_P^_Hß_B 17. If there's no towel handy, use a piece of the carpet. ' , AMONG THE JOKERS. How did Washington manage to fill up his offices? There was no state of Indiana then.— Puck. '■^gJjAJp -fffflffijßf "Ahd you will always r love me, George?" "I will if you behave your self ami don't cut up any didoes." The match is off.— Boston Courier. ! At ottr Washingtonian tableaux. Lit tle Hem y: "I don't believe this show is goin' to go." Little Edith: "Why not?" Little Henry: "1 just heard George Washington tell : Gen. Gates he didn't have a cigar, and I saw two stick ing out of his vest pocket."— Judge. ' He wasn't rich and he had no friends. But all the same he accomplished his ends; When he asked for credit he drew his gun, i And the banker sorrowfully shelled out the "mun." :'*-:--'-'. ,- .■ -- ; ' '.; . —New York Herald. ; Car-wheel manufacturer (passenger in fast express train which is making a long stop): "What are you striking those wheels for?". Man with hammer: "To see if they are sound yet." Car wheel . manufacturer -(nervously): "Well, please don't hit .'em quite so hard."— New York Weekly. Over in Brooklyn: Mrs. Pierpont Street— My dear, I wish you'd : get tick- [ ets for the matinee this afternoon, and come home early • and take me. . Mr. Pierpont Street— ■ can't . do ': that very well to-day, but I'll tell . you .what : I'll do; I'll take you to prayer meeting to night.New York Sun. ■":'■'■ v. : .;..- Omaha Chief— .when, the shoot ing .began you ran away front the melee? Proud Policeman^- Yes. O. C— you not know you would be called a coward all your life? P.' P. -I made a hasty , calculation to that effect, but I thought I would rather a coward all my lite than .a- corpse for fifteen minutes.-: ■' Omaha World. ..._.- : "My son," said the anxious ' mother, "1 learn with some surprise ; that you are . marked 'deficient. in your French ; history. 1 thought you told me you fin- ; ished your paper in ten minutes." "So 1 did ; but the . question was. .Tell all you know about the history of France.' " "Ah! I see."— Harper's Magazine.' .ggfifi "Speakin', of twins," said the old man (.bumpkins, "there was two boys raised in . : our neighborhood that looked just alike: till: their dyiu' day/Lent didn't ; have any teeth and his brother Dave did, but they looked precisely alike all the same. The only way you could tell ,'em apart was to put your finger in Lent's mouth and if he bit yer 'twas Dave."— Lewiston Journal. APHORISMS, Ignorance is the mother of all evil.— Montaigne. __pßj_^flffiF_fflflr^^ No gift can make '■ rich those who are poor in wisdom.— Julia Ward Howe. Twenty years in the fife of a man is sometimes a . severe lesson.— Mme. de Stael. * The surest way to please is to forget one's self and to think only of others.— • Moncrif. Beauty is often but a splendid cloak which conceals the imperfections of the soul.— T. Gautier. We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess.— Suard. There are three things which women throw away: Their time, their money, and their health— Mine. Geoffrin. It does not depend upon us to avoid poverty, but it does depend upon us to make that poverty respected.— Voltaire. It is never the opinions of others that displease us, but the pertinacity they display in obtruding them upon us. Fou bert. PB-B__(EM__BB_l There are several ways to speak: To speak well, to speak easily, to speak justly, and to speak at the right mo ment.— La Bruyere^ AMUSEMENTS. The Russell Benefit. Mr. Russell's testimonial at the Peo ■ ple's last night attracted an audience that £ ricked the house to the doors, and , Mr. ipman's J ago was such as to surprise i the most sanguine of his friends, and stands as the best thing he ever did - in his life. Mr. Russell, of course, was rapturously received by his young friends, and at the conclusion of the third act was presented by George Sargent, of the Tribune, : with "a gold watch, bearing the inscrip tion "Presented to Harold Russell by the Boys." Miss Young, as Desdemona, was thoroughly at home and in her ele ment; but the honors of the evening were shared by Miss Aigen, as Emilia. The performance in all was a surprise to every one, and it is a matter of regret that more cannot be seen of Barton Hill. To-night "Everybody's Friend" will be given, and at to-morrow's matinee photographs of Ben Johnson and Sally Williams, as Mr. and Mrs. Dismal, will be distributed. Coup's Equescurriculum. At the Jackson street rink last even ing W. C. Coup gave the first perform ance of his celebrated equescurriculura to a crowded house. No one can real ize without seeing this marvelous en tertainment to what a nicety horses and dogs can be trained. After the funny shadowgraphs the horses go through a : school performance in the most realistic manner. The names of colors are called from the audience and the horses pick them out. while one of them does the same with numbers. . The battle scene is thrilling iv its intensity; the horses fight a regular battle, firing can non and answering the word of com mand by their actions. When the audi ence applaud they bow nicely. Another marvelous horse is known as' Gen. Sher man, who walks, trots,' gallops, waltzes and polkas at the word of command. The trained dags are quite equal to the 'horses, going through a regular military drill. During this one of the animals steals a collar, is arrested, tried, con victed and sentenced to death. The other dogs erect a scafford without as sistance, aud not only -hang the delin quent, but place him in a wagon, cart him off and bury him. 'Miss Ida Clark; the cornetist, caused a furor by her marvelous manipulation of the difficult instrument, playing with a delicacy of tone and volume of sound unequaled except by the greatest cornetists of the day. This is altogether an entertain ment unique and remarkable, being well worth a visit. .. Miss Williams' Benefit. - Miss Sally Williams, the popular soubrette of the People's stock, has addressed the following self-explan atory note to the gentlemen who sug gested a benefit for her. i :..-. Messrs. R. A. Smith, J. S. Prince. Joseph Lockey, P. H. Kelly, B. Beaupre, William Bickel, J. D. O'Brien, John Summers, L. Musseter, W. L. Gorman, C. J. Monfor and William L. Kehy. Dear Sirs: Believe me, I do not know how to thank you for . the kind interest you Have shown me by your letter of the 4th. I have consulted my manager, Mr. Walker, and he has agreed to allow me to take the benefit you so generously suggest, on the evening of May 16. On that occasion we shall play -Ernestine,'' a two-act comedy from the French, aud "The Clock Maker's Hat," a short farce. Most of the favorites of our dear little company will be in the casts, and 1 shall be in both pieces. Again assur ing you I am heartily grateful for your solic itude in my behalf, . I remain, very respect fully yours. -•■.-. - Sallt Williams. . People's Theater, May 6, 1889. Miss Williams is an exceptionally clever actress, and her benefit will as suredly be a success. Jewelers Organize. About twenty-five of the retail jewel ers of Minnesota met at the Ryan last evening to organize an association. Their object is to combine against what is termed illegitimate selling by jobbers who go to the retailers' customers and undersell them. The opinion seemed to be unanimous that too much of this sort of thing has been going on, and the only way to put a stop to it was - to com bine. ,The association will be of the nature of a mutual protective society, and meetings will take place period ically. A meeting will be held at the YV est hotel,. Minneapolis, on May 20, when permanent organization will be effected and officers elected. -__*« " — Practically Over. Special to the Globe. Anoka, Minn., May 6.— The Anoka National Dank is still in a flourishing condition, the run being practically over . at : noon. About $12,000 or $13,000 was drawn out to-day. The bank has over $100,000 to start in with to-morrow. No further run is anticipated. ■ —mm Mild Treatment. Special to the Globe. Ashland, Wis., May 6— Burglars turned themselves loose in town last night. They ransacked several houses, but got i nothing of value except some advicefrom an ex-deputy sheriff, who told them peremptorily to take a walk :°| Instructed for Bellows. Special to the Globe. Mandan, Dak., May 6.— The Demo crats to-day held a county convention, and instructed the delegates to vote for James Bellows, of Mandan, for the con- . stitutional convention: LOVE. [four quatrains.] ", -•'• i. - Where love exists it cannot be concealed; No mask can hide it from the lover's gaze; Existing not, it cannot be revealed, For love, if feigned, its hollowuess betrays. ".'-'• ii. As wind extinguishes the sickly light. And fans into a blaze the ardent glow, So absence casts on weakly love a blight, And makes the passionate love more vio ---*" lent grow. ■ 'ill.'--;' -'.-' When first a woman feels sweet Cupid's dart, •- She loves the lover for the sake of love ; _v-; , But after, when she really knows her heart, - She loves the man himself all things above. ■ lv.!'-- .... " -".-'■ :■■■'■■ .■' ■• Ah, they that know not love arc poor indeed i The joy of life can scarce repay the sorrow : They have not lived who have not loved, and need Some memory of the past to wish the mor ;.•-.morrow. ..; .- . _— __.hodes_-acl_u.ght. BLAINE'S_A_BUGABOO. At Any Rate Mr. Harrison Starts When Jim's Name Is Spoken, And Frequently Shows His Fear of the Cunning Sec retary. Adam E. King: Will Probably Be Made Consul General at Paris. Important Work Mapped Out by the Fish Com mission. Special to the Globe. i Washington, May 6.— There : Is " a thick streak of harmony one hundred and fifty feet long and about forty-five feet in* diameter between the White house and the . department of state. This harmony is generated wholly by the man who wears George Washing ton's seat and his . grandpa's coronet. Honor bright, Ben Harrison is not a small man intellectually, but he is not a big man. He has more than ordinary ability. He could not have lifted him self to eminence and power by the straps of his boots, the boots of Tippe canoe. Yet, after all, he is a small man. I always admired him when he was in the senate, and • would respect him now if he would permit it; but he won't. He is jealous and fearful of Blame, and he is small enough to show ; that feeling '-. to the very teeth of the great ./fan from the Pine Tree state. That is a small trait in a president. James G. Blame is made to feel, more and more, that he is merely an executive clerk te Harrison, just as Prudeu and the other fellows of the clerical force at the White house are. Harrison is mak ing Blame a candidate in 1892, in spite i of Blame's earnest and honest desire to let all ambitions of that kind bury themselves with the dead past. SE<S_U_TA_BY WIN DOM . has been smiling under the castigation of the critics. He is an old friend of Senator Gorman's, and would do all things in reason for bis friend. But the partisans are "pitching into him" for his reappointment of Gorman's brother. Windom is not the only Re publican who will stand by a Demo cratic friend if he can. Sawyer, of Wisconsin, and Stewart, of Nevada, stood by Lamar, and compelled his con firmation. Last week a resignation was called for in Kansas. Tlie Democratic official was a personal friend of Sena tor Plumb's, and he will not need to resign. There is not any need of howl ing, down Windom— not yet. He will make greater mistakes, probably, later on, and then will be the time to pound him. No man can be secretary of the treasury four years without making mistakes. HONOR AND PROFIT. Adam E. Kins to Be Consul Gen eral at Paris. Washington, May 6.— Gen. Adam E. King, of Baltimore, formerly naval offi cer at that port, has, it is said, been de cided upon at the state department for consul general at Paris. The appoint ment is attributed to the close personal and political friendship existing be tween Gen. King and Secretary Blame. Gen. King's name was mentioned early for collector of the port of Baltimore, and the influence of Mr. Blame would perhaps have secured the appointment, but for the decision of the cabinet offi cers at their first meeting not to inter fere with matters in other departments than their own. Gen. King, it instated, has' had the Paris appointment under : consideration for some time, hesitating to go abroad on account of business in terests requiring his presence in Balti more. It is understood in Washington, however, that he will conclude to ac cept the consul generalship, which is both an honor and a profitable position. FINN Jf FOOD. Summer Plans of the National Fish Commission. Washington, May 6.— To an Asso ciated Press "reporter to-day Col. Mc- Donald, tbe fish commissioner, set forth in detail the plans proposed for him for the summer. At the request of the Ohio fish commission tbe United States commission this spring added to its reg ular programme the distribution of pike perch, commonly called pickerel, eggs and fry collected and hatched at Sandusky. About 80,000,000 eggs were secured and these are now being planted in the waters of the Illinois, Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania. The trip of the distributing car to Illinois is reported to have been one of the most successful ever made. There are now being taken at the- Fort Washington station, ten miles down the Potomac river, about 20,000,000 shad. During the summer, the cars will be engaged in the collection and plant ing of indigenous fishes in the Missis sippi valley in the states of Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois. Ohio, Indiana, Mis souri and Michigan. The several steamers attached to the commission have their summer's work laid out for them, and it is of great importance. The Alabatross will leave San Francisco about June 1, going as far as the Priv ilow islands in Behring's sea, where a study will be made of the seal fisheries, in accordance with a resolu tion of congress adopted last session, as well as of the general fisheries along the Southern Alaska peninsula. On the way up, the Albatross will leave a party of investigators in Alaska, who will ex amine into the salmon fisheries there under the terms of another congres sional resolution. The new hatcheries are to be located at Put-in-Bay island, Lake Erie, which will be the largest fish hatchery in the world, having a ca pacity of 500,000,000,000 eggs a year. . VALUABLE WORK. Topographical Surveys to Be Con tinued This Surveys. Washington, May 6.— The continua tion of the work of making a topo graphic map of the United States will be carried on during the coming season by the geological survey. The work is under the immediate supervision of Henry Ganett, the chief of the di vision of geography. He has about 125 men in the office at Washington to whom he assigns yearly . the locality in which their field work is to be prosecut ed. The maps prepared as a result of these surveys are made on the scale of one inch to the mile in the northeastern section of the country ; on the scale of one inch to two miles in the southern portions of the country and the Missis sippi valley, and an inch to four miles in the thinly settled re gions, of the west. Counter lines indicating equal altitudes are shown, thus making it comparatively easy to detect the undulating, character of the country from the mountains to the sea. This work of the geological survey has been carried on during a number of years under the supervision of the several heads of the bureau since its organization. Through its medium about 600,000 square miles of the coun try have been' topographically "• sur veyed. : Besides this, there is a region .: of about 40,000 miles in the extreme northwestern section of the country, which was surveyed by the Northern' Pacific railroad company, and which is accepted by the government as a satisfactory survey. Thus there is over.: one-fifth ;of the entire area- of : 3,000,000 square miles included with the United States (exclusive of Alaska) • which has been brought to a state when an immediate ; glance at the map will Indicate the. altitude of the coun try - , with ' respect to the sea. An ! annual appropriation of $200,000 was made by, each session of the . last con- J gress for the purpose of continuing this line of work. ; In Colorado and New Mexico the, work : has been in progress all winter, and in : Kentucky and West Virginia field operations have just commenced. Another geographer is working in Arkansas. The force of topo graphers during the coming season will work in . the following ' states, in many of which work has been partly done: Maine, Virginia, West Virginia, Ken tucky, Georgia/Alabama, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Kansas, Texas, Col orado, New Mexico, Nevada and Ar kansas. Mr. Gantiet hopes to be able to have at least 100,000 . square milds sur veyed before the cold winter arrives. Called to Time. Washington, May C— Attorney Gen eral Miller has called upon Marshals Jones and Needles for. an explanation of their conduct and that of their dep uties on the occasion of the opening of the Oklahoma territory. ' ■ _» . MUST NOT RECOGNIZE IT. Royalty Cannot Stand the French Show. London, May 6.— transpires that Lord Lytton, the British embassador to France, was really desirous of remain ing in Paris to witness the opening of the exposition, and plainly intimated his wish to the foreign office. The queen, however, commanded that his lordship should withdraw from the French capital, at the same time inform ing Lord Salisbury that it would never do for the minister of ; a royal house to participate in, or • even countenance a ceremony designed to commemorate the overthrow of royalty. The Tory press adopt a similar view in their comments upon the opening of the exhibition. They profess to forgive the revolution ists for their iebellious acts, but do not condone their excesses, nor do they admit the benefits of the republican form of government, which is the ulti mate result of that struggle. On the whole, the Conservative press can see no reason for the exposition, neither can they bring themselves to the belief that it will be otherwise than a misera ble failure. __ ** — VIGOROUSLY DENIED. The Catholic University Not a School of Monarchial Ideas. New York,' May 6.— the Commer cial Advertiser to-day appears an article on Bishop Keane and the Catholic university, alleging that he has imported a foreign faculty with monarchial and reaction ary ideas to teach young Americans; that there is no Americanism in the university; that there is a feeling of dissatisfaction among the priests of New York at his course; that they will not meet with the approval val of most of the other bishops, etc. In an interview to-night Bishop Keane said : "This article is a monstrous ab surdity. I did not individually have the selec tion of the professors. Noth ing was done without consultation wtih the sixteen bishops ■ and archbishops. We have many able men among the bishops and priests of the United States, but they are engaged in their dioceses and seminaries and could not be spared for the particular kind of teach ing required in a university; a training which is certainly not to be had in the busy life of parish work. The only man so equipped here at pres ent is Manager Corcoran, of Philadel phia,and he was one of the first asked to join the faculty. He declined on account of his age and health. While we have drawn from abroad, it is the earnest . desire of the bishops, as well as of the pope,that we should use American brains entirely as soon as possible. The asser tion' that the professors were selected because of their monarch ial tendencies is a contemptible absurd ity. Every one who knows me knows that my opinions are the opposite of monarchical, that lam an out and out American, thoroughly imbued with the '. doctrines of our American democracy and the principles of popular sov ereignty established by our American constitution. Every cardinal in Rome, and the pope himself, is sure of it. There is no functionary in Rome, and least of all the pope that has the slightest wish that we should make a tendency to monarchical teaching, for he fully appreciates that the American constitution contains the highest form of government for our country. In all details and characteristics the universi ty will always be thoroughly Ameri can." ___ PRAIRIE-DOGS. What a Visitor to One of Their "Towns" Says of Them. The prairie-dog is no more like a dog than he is like an elephant. Instead of being a carnivorous canine, with danger in his eye and treachery in his mind, he is a prairie marmot, a chubby, fat paunched ground-squirrel, with a short, tail. He is the jolliest little rodent un der the sun ; he is as lively as a cricket, as watchful as a weasel, and, to all ap pearances, as happy as the day is long. While you are still some distance from the town you see the inhabitants run ning freely about, nibbling at roots and blades of grass, and foraging at quite a little distance from their respective dwellings; but as soon as you show your self within a hundred yards of the mun icipal suburbs, the alarm is quietly given and every dog scampers for his burrow as fast as his stumpy little legs can carry him. On reaching his open door, which is a six inch hole running down through the center of a little mound like a miniature volcano with a bottomless pit for a cra ter, he poises himself on the rim, stands up on his hind-feet so high and so straight that he looks uncommonly like a tent peg, and views the landscape o'er. When you get fairly into the town the holes are found to be as thick as apple trees in an orchard, and on each of the mounds, excepting the very near est, there will be a prairie-dog, yapping away at you as if his whole life de pended upon his bringing out a hundred and twenty yaps to the minute. Per haps twenty dogs will be barking in dustriously at you in concert, with twenty tails jerking spasmodically in unison and twenty pairs of eyes watch ing you with keen interest. As you slowly walk forward and cross the imaginary dead line that the near est dog has drawn around himself, he dives head foremost into the bowels of the earth, and his tail twinkles merrily from side to side as his hind feet dis appear. When you run forward and apply your ear to the hole you hear an indis tinct, shuffling sound, which grows fainter and fainter, until it finally ceases, and then you hear his jolly little bark, "Chit-tit-tit-tit!" come like a smothered laugh from the regions be low.—Youth's Companion. •-__■• MARINE ADVICES. Special to the Globe. Ashland, Wis., May 6.— Arrived and cleared: Britanic, Hiawatha, Iron Duke, Schenck, Minnehaha. Iron Cliff, N. K. Fairbanks, Iron King, G."N, Glid den, Alta, Coffin berg, Ohio, barge 101: schooners F. A. Morse, George Warring ton, Alcona, ore for Lake Erie ports ; Peerless for lumber. Special to the Globe. Washburn. Wis., May 6.— The Peer less. C. A. Street. Homer and Halstead cleared for Chicago with lumber. New York, May 6.— Arrived, Netley Abbey, Mediterranean ports; Circassia, Glasgow. -J______M_______S__S ;..- — * Wants Heavy Damages: Chicago, May Thomas S. Moffat., . a lawyer of '_ this city, began ' suit , for libel to-day against the Chicago Inter Ocean, "claiming $50,000. The suit is based on an article in to-day's issue of the paper, reflecting upon .he morality of the plaintiff. '■"-': ■"•:..'' ~ — * 0 0 Many "Want'!, ads in Sunday's Glow vv pov. that it briu gs thebest results. UP AND AT HIM. Butler Says He Will Down Ad. miral Porter. _ ': Washington, May o.— Admiral : Por ter has been interviewed again on the charge of Gen. Butler that he ran away at the Battle of New Orleans. After quot ing letters from Secretary Welles and others, Admiral Porter said: "it is all nonsense to say that we forsook our duty for an hour. The forts surren dered to me, and Butler knows it. His position is untenable, and he never would have attacked me had he been sober. That speech of his was a drunken speech, you know. I'll give him enough of a reply, however. I'll fire it at him for the next three weeks, and then lie will let me alone for five years. I shall not hear any more from him during my life time, for I don't expect to live another five years. I suppose he was celebrat ing his capture of New Orleans. Ho claims it, I understand, although tho city was in the possession of the marina corps for fully three days before Butler and his troops got there. I know that because 1 towed them." ' GEN. BUTLER, fortified behind ponderous legal tomes and immured in huge piles of manu scripts, sat in his office on Capitol bill this afternoon, engaged in the prepara tion oi a reply to Admiral Porter re« garding the New Orleans episode dur ing the Rebellion. He has enlisted the assistance of .his law partner, O. D. Barrett; business wili be subordinated to the work which was inaugurated by the general's utterances at the recent banquet at Boston, Mass. When a re porter interrogated Gen. Butler as to the course he would pursue concerning Admiral Porter, he replied :"When Por ter will say that he did not go down thq river- with his fleet below the head o] the Passes on the day that Farragut passed the forts, 1 will prove he Res, He has not said that yet." Among the papers on Gen. Butler's desk, and which will be a prominent factor in the proposed answer, is a brief of the record in a case whicli was tried several years ago in the supreme court of the District of Columbia before Judge Humphrey. On the brief is inscribed: "Supreme court, District of Columbia,' in admiralty, No. 200. United States in behalf of the officers and men of the North Atlantic squadron versus the ironclad ram Texas and the Beaufort." "We will show up a transaction in which Admiral Porter was interested,** said Mr. Barrett, "and in which he claimed prize money aggregating $882,121.60 for the capture of these two vessels, when, as a matter of fact, they were in possession of the army. It was in, closing days of the Rebellion, and these two alleged men-of-war were on the point of destruction by the Confederates after the sur render of Lee. Admiral Porter put in a claim tor the amount of prize-money stated, but the case was thrown out ol court, and especially when it was shown that the two boats only brought 15.00(1 when they were disposed of. 1 think Admiral Porter will find it necessary to consume more than three weeks in set tling Gen. Butler, and the prize-money case is ONLY AN INSTANCE that we will cite against him in this con troversy. It is not upon hearsay evi dence that Gen. Butler has made the statement that Porter ran away from a floating dry dock and two small Confederate steamers. After Farragut went from the passes, and ran by the forts to New Orleans, Gen. Butler followed in his headquarters boat, and was thus between Porter and Farragut and able to see and judge what transpired. Had Gen. Butler acted upon the information given hira by Porter he would have aband oned Farragut and ceased operations against the forts, but he was better in formed than the commander of the flo tilla, who. the day after he had reported that the Confederates were in pursuit of and would destroy the fleet, retraced his steps when it was shown that there was no foundation for his scare. This controversy will not be settled by pooh-poohing on the part of Admiral Porter, as he will find out before we get through with it." "When that bird of ill omen." said Admiral Porter, "takes offense at any one, he 'bottles up' his venom until in one of his maudlin intervals, he expels it. On my first acquaintance with But ler at New Orleans he sent me an impertinent message, upon which 1 wrote to him that if he did not send me an ample apology I would take personal satisfaction. He had to make the apology after doing all he could to dodge the issue. Since then we have not been at all like Damon and Pythias. About once in every five years, after one of his drunken bouts, Butler makes a spasmodic rush at me like a mad bull, but I have always caught him on my horns and thrown him flat on his back. I wonder the public should notice what the old imbecile says, and except for the tun of laying him out again, I would not notice hira now. He is the only man 1 ever heard of who could outlive the contempt of the whole nation, could always run away in time of war and yet flourish. I came very near threshing "him while he was military governor of New Orleans, and am sorry 1 did not do it. The general is going to write a volume of 'Reminiscences.' If he will come to me I will give him a book full about himself which will enlighten the pub lic, who may have forgotten the time when he went by the name of 'Beast Butler' among the children in the streets." ' «__»• Changed His Creed. Prisoner— Last time yer had me here I was a good Meffodist and got sent up fer borrowing a couple er chickens, while yer let a fellow off who had killed his m udder 'cause he war a somnam bulist, l'se changed my creed, and when I stole" dat pig I war a regular howling somnambulist. Judge— Three months for the pris oner. Prisoner— Yo' don't mean ter say dat somnambulists has gone out ob style al ready. I might jest as well er stayed a Meffodist. __. Fire Department Election. Special to the Globe. Winona, Minn., May 6.— The annual election of the fire department to-night was very lively. I. T. Smith was elect ed chief engineer; first assistant, Pat rick Fennel); second assistant, James Hughes. — — The Stage Elevated. New York Weekly .- Theater patron— Wasn't it this Mrs. James Brown Potter, now placing Cle opatra, who started out to elevate the stage? Manager— The same. She has had the stage raised three feel higher so the gentlemen can see over the bonnets. -__•» The Killing Instinct. St. Peter (sternly)— man, put away that note book and pencil. :.• New York Reporter— You will have to excuse me; but I am due this after noon at a New York seance, and this article will be a clean "scoop" for our evening edition. Honesty in the Cigar Trade. Smoke— Have you any good cigars? Honest Dealer— Hey? v "Have you any good cigars?" "Huh?" "I want a cigar." "Yes. sir; yes, sir. What price, five, ten, or fifteen?" -^__B Two of a Kind. "Ah, Miss Slillmayd, I declare, you're looking as well to-day as you did twenty years ago." "And you, Mr. Yetbeau, are looking far better. Your wig improves your ap pearance wonderfully." : — . m . Dangerous Realism.' ..; [BETWEEN THE ACTS.] Stipe (to stage manager)— guvnor, have you got a life preserver? Manager— No; what's the matter? \ Supe— The Roman general fell over board iuto the tank with his helmet on, and he's floatiu' around head down.