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Patrons and friends are cordially invited to visit and avail them selves of the" facilities of our Eastern Oflice. while in New York. • - TO-DAY'S .WEATHER. ■Washington, Aug. 15.— For Minnesota: Showers; clearing in extreme northwest por tion; generally cooler; winds shifting to' northwesterly. For North and South Dakota: Fair, except local showers in extreme east ern portion ; winds shifting to northwesterly ; cooler. For Wisconsin Showers in north ern, fair in southern portion: southerly winds: generally warmer. For Iowa: Fair, except local showers in extreme northern portion: southerly.shifting to westerly winds; cooler in northwest, i stationary temperature iv southeast portiou; cooler Sunday. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. ' =TXi K~~ 5 te2. 13*' W2. S * pn (oil g» o^ Place of §"■■ B $ place of °- |g Obs'vatiou go §» Obs'vaUon go ■•» f . rf ; f "| Ist. Paul.... '2!).S«jJ 82! Helena.... 30.16 48 Lacrosse.. 30.02 78, Ft. Totten. Duluth.... 29.9) j 5 Sj Ft. Sully .. 20.80 82 Huron 29.661 bO Minuedosa 29.78 6$ Moorhead. 29.72 72 Calgary ... 30.02 54 St. Vincent 29.72 70 Edmonton Bismarck.: 29.92 06 Q'Appelle. 29.88 CO Ft. Buford 30.00 62' Med'e Hat .... Ft. Custer. 30.08 041 Winnipeg 29.06 72 LOCAL "FORECAST. For St. Paul, Minneapolis and vicinity: Rain, followed Saturday .by fair weather; cooler. . .«». — — . THE STORY OP A DAY, Colorado gets a cloudburst. Cooler weather is predicted. A Nebraska double murderer is lynched. The Crystal mill, Minneapolis, is burned. . The Ida won the yacht race at Minnetonka. Poachers take 20,000 seals in Behring sea. Judge Emery takes time to decide the Ray Case. A St. Paul man sues the binding twine tiust. ; jj(HB Edmund 11. Rood has His head cloven witb a saw. ' Ramsey couuty Democrats hold their cau cuses.'^HHtj □Senator Duraut declines to run for con gress. Nebraska Democrats nominate a state ticket. Nicholas Kill is brought back to St. Paul for trial. Mrs. Gagnon is said to have skipped with her porter. Jack Chins carves George McCabe at Nicb olasville, Ky. ' 'fSftStfEi^Bl Potatoes are so scarce in Ireland that dis tress is feared. H9H The body of a woman is found In the river near Newport. '"* France lias no uso for American packing bouse products. Uncle Sam will make some changes in his bond-buying policy. . . p.: >""'..; * ■..V. J J The crand circuit races at Rochester prove worse than hippodromes. Minneapolis remits one day's license to get Barnum'a circus two days. The Minneapolis base ball management Signs Broughton and Werrick. ■ Senators are inclined to vote money for im proving Western waterways. W, 11. Horton, of St. Paul, is accused of drowning his wife and child. A fiendish attempt is made to wreck a Bal timore & Ohio excursion train. Guesses on the population of Minneapolis give the city from 100,000 to 180.000 people. Col. Rogers places the wheat yield of Min nesota and the Dakotas at 93,000,000 bushels. 881 Bsß Factory owners in Saxony announce that they will dismiss employes known to be So cialists. Bridget Doody, aged 120, the oldest per son in the United States, dies at Mineral Point, Wis. Capt. Burke, Republican candidate for governor of North Dakota, denounces the Louisiana lottery octopus. A Wisconsin woman claims the late An drew J. Davis was her husband, aud has a paper which she claims is a will. SOME OP THE POINTS. ln speculations about the results of the census as developed, is is quite gen erally stated that the New England states will lose six or seven congress men. On the present ratio there could be no loss, of course, as there has been no falling away in population. "Ver mont has almost exactly the figures of ten years ago, and Maine . has but a trifle more. The others have all gained largely in their manufacturing districts, and in the aggregate. They will hold their present members of congress, with any probable ratio, with the exception of a loss of one perhaps in Massachus etts. Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island have two each, and will bold them if the ratio is 190,000. New England will not lose more than two members in any event now at all probable. The most sur prising statement yet made in con nection with any state is that lowa has lost 00,000 or more in the past decade. This has been taken as a mis statement of the figures, but it is per sisted iv as the actual summary, with no chance for the final figures to fill the gap. Still there may be some distrust. Every state bounding lowa has made a very large addition to its census. Ne braska and South Dakota, on the west, have more than doubled and Minne sota, on the north, and Missouri, on the south, have greatly exceeded the aver age growth of the country, while Illi nois and Wisconsin have kept up well. If lowa has really lost its thousands, it is difficult to account for it on any theory that applies to its neighbors. There has been depression in agricult ure, but it has not been peculiar to lowa. There is evidently a chance for the disbeliever in prohibition ' to get in his oar here. He will look a little to the Southwest . and see Kansas halting and stagnant, if not going back, also. Whether fully justified or not, the cen sus will be made to do active service to defeat or turn the local currents ad versely to prohibition in lowa, Kansas and the Dakotas, as well as in the pend ing vote in Nebraska. ,It will require a rare ingenuity to devise a cause for' the contrast iv the prohibi tion states and their more legally bibulous neighbors as the census men insist upon presenting it. Aside from the new states in the West, there; will he no very marked shifting of political strength. The report that . Wyoming has but 00,000 and Idaho 80,000 may cou firm the suspicion that there was par-; tisan anxiety "to hasten their statehood' before ; the census figures were "-. re ported. Ifi9SNBMB££BH9BKfIE§ ■ - am* '.. TO-DAY'S CONVENTION. -X ■ The Democratic primaries, held last evening, elected exceptionally strong delegations to the - county convention which will meet in Newmarket hall this morning. This fact, in connection with the large vote that was polled, is an en couraging indication that the Demo cratic masses propose to take au active interest in politics this year. Out of the abundance of eood ma terial on hand the Ramsey county Dem ocrats should have no trouble in nom inating a county ticket that J will com-, mend itself to public favor. The legislative candidates nominated in' the several districts ■at the primaries • las'; evening are all of them gentlemen- of . ability and high character, and loyal to Democratic principles. J If the conven tion will fill up the; rest of the ticket with equally good material, as it r un doubtedly will, a victory in the fall elec tion is assured beyond all perad venture. DAVIS' LITTLE KICK. Senator Davis had the courage to vote with the Democrats in opposition .to the tin-plate clause in the McKinley bill, and now . the wonder is that Mr. Davis doesn't muster up courage to vote against the whole abomination. -< Senator -Davis has ever been a disciple of James G.Blaine. He has walked and talked with Blame on the tariff question ever since he has been. old enough to walk and talk, lt must occur to him, as it has occurred to his eminent tutor, that there is not a line in the Mc- Kinley bill which will open the market for another bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork. It is the opening of a wheat market and a pork market that Mr. Davis' constituents are interested in securing. There is no anxiety in these parts to increase the cost of man ufactured fabrics, the very thing the McKinley hill proposes to do. Why, then, should Senator Davis, or Senator Washbcrx, or any. other Western sen ator, be lured under the specious cry of party loyalty into the support of a measure which must inevitably work ruin to the agricultural interests of the West ? How much more creditable it would lie to them to do as Senator Plumb is doing— stand up in tbe senate and fight the iniquitous measure at every step of its progress. The moral cowardice of modern states manship is the bane of the republic. Senator Cush Davis is a brainy man, one of the brainiest in the senate*, and : yet, of what avail are his brains so long as he lacks the moral courage to protect the interests of those whom he represents? He is making no better record for himself, nor is he doing any thing more for his constituents than ••Dar" Hall, who doesn't know enough to get under cover when it rains. What the people of Minnesota want, almost without regard to party affilia tions, is to have tne McKinley bill killed, and killed as dead as a stone. And yet, the^ntire delegation from this state are standing up to the support of that abominable measure just as if' the life of the nation depended on its passage. WBBBSm . "^ IT IS PROTECTION. Senator Davis was the only Repub lican in the senate who had the nerve to join the senator from Kansas, who has been looking at the home fences, in voting for the motion of Senator Vest to reduce the duty on tin plate in the McKinley bill from two and two-tenths cents per pound to one cent, the pres ent rate. If these dissenting Repub licans still have both feet upon the Re publican ""platform erected in 1888 for this administration, they are in danger of slipping. Senator Hiscock was quite right, in supporting the measure, in his claim that no feature of the tariff bill more clearly illustrates the policy of the Republican party and the princi ples of protection than the tin plate item. It proposes to advance the duty ou tin J plate 120 per cent, in the ex pectation that some capitalist will be induced . to ' establish - a .tin; plate manufactory. . To effect this re sult and create the home article would be a work of time, but the advance in tinware would be immediate. Every bit of tinware used in the households, in building and in the immense can ning industry would be loaded down with this increased burden in order to encourage an industrial infant, whose birth is anticipated. Millions of peo ple are to be taxed and industries, in many cases, encumbered fatally, in the hope to furnish business to a capitalist and a few expert workmen at Pittsburg or elsewhere. Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, glowingly pictured the delight of the consumer iii paying a heavy tax to secure the stamp of the Americau eagle in place of the British lion. This sort of patriotism has made a good many fortunate people millionaires, but they have not been the farmers and industrial workers. But it is Republican protection. Much cheaper would it be for the country to accept tbe proposition to pay a bounty on all the tin plate made in the United States. If none were made it would cost nothing, while the tariff bill proposes to impose the tax all the same whether any is made or not. The duty was vigor ously urged by Senator Moody, of South Dakota, on the supposition that it would benefit the tin mines in the Black Hills, alleged to be the richest in the world, and able to tarn out the ore at half the cost of those now worked abroad. This, in addition to the duty of four cents a pound on metallic tin, he was assured, was to be added to the bill. The scientific journals are not agreed as to the character of the Black Hills tin, some insisting that it is too hard to be worked, and others that it is equal to the best. If tbe claims made for it are well based it needs no protection, and it is a small item in the manufacture of tin plate. There is no assurance that the increased duty will have any other result than to further oppress the peo ple; but it is Republican protection. . - ARTESIAN IRRIGATION. The feasibility of irrigating the Da kotas by artesian wells is now pretty well' established, and the inexhaustible water supply which lies underground ought to be utilized for making an Eden of perpetual fertility out of a section that has suffered so severely from drouth for the last three years. Irriga tion is a pet hobby with Maj. Powell,' J of the geological bureau, but his theo ries took such an impracticable turn, and his methods were so expensive, that congress was compelled to shut down on appropriations for that ". purpose The Dakota idea is entirely different,, however, from the visionary schemes i which originated in Maj. Powell's brain; and if the general government is not willing to help the Dakota J people in this matter, they ought to go to work and.help themselves. The few experi ments that have been made ; with arte sian well irrigation in South Dakota are of the most satisfactory nature. J In J ev ery instance the effort has been crowned with success, and while the experiments are costly, yet the results justified the outlay of capital. With a steady wheat crop assured, averaging from* twenty THE SAI3T PAUL DAILY GLOBE: SATURDAY MOENING, AUGUST 16, 1890. to twenty-five bushels to the acre, what a•■ splendid ' future 7 the Dakotas would 1 have. And yet that is just exactly what they would have if the • artesian system. of • irrigation ~y should be JJ generally adopted.'* Another important fact worthy ; of consideration is that by the multipli cation of artesian wells more moisture is gathered into the atmosphere, and, as J a result, there ; will be more ■ rainfall. , Water is the one thing needful to insure crops in the Dakotas, and : now that it is ■ demonstrated water can be had from beneath the" ground more reliably ; than it can be had from the clouds, the thing to do is to go down under the ground : after it. •:'* X' < WSSB___W_W_Wt_W__W_m A STORM CLOUD. . Ostensibly the strike on the New York . Central is at an end. In reality the trouble is only begun. The stiff . back bone that Mr. Powderly carried back with him from the conference of labor leaders Xii 1 significant of coming trouble; and what the result is to be cannot now be foretold.~J39HttfiHEßMßHH ■ Divesting the situation of all its mis leading features, we find it simply to be a life and death struggle ■ between the corporations and the labor unions.- The position taken by the managers of tbe New .-York Central company is that from this time forward they will '. have no Knights of Labor Jin their employ. If they, succeed " in '• holding this position their example will be followed by other railway corporations, and by the end of the year there will not be a Knight of Labor in the railway service. This will amount virtually to an' extinction of the labor unions. BSB The labor leaders understand the situ ation perfectly well, and have girded up their loins for the approaching struggle. J They realize that au issue has been pre- J cipitated which involves the very life of the labor cause, and they would hardly be human beings, much less American citizens, if they did not accept the issue with a determination to fight it to a finish. , ' That is the situation plainly stated. But what a woeful state of affairs is to follow. Here, at the very season of the year when trade is most active, are all the wheels of commerce to be locked? If the labor leaders have resolved to ac cept the gage of battle that Mr. Webb has thrown down, it will necessitate the complete cessation of traffic until the light is ended. In the meantime the new harvest will be • left to lie in the granaries, and at a time, too, when the Western grain growers most need the money that is to be realized from their farm products. It is just the season when the jobbers are making shipments for their fall and winter trade. It is the time.when our supply of winter fuel is being brought in. .- A tie-up of the rail roads now would mean disaster to all interests. Are we. the producers and consumers, to be made the sufferers while the. corporations and their em ployes take the time to fight out an Did quarrel? There is something wrong in any in dustrial system which will permit such a chaotic condition of affairs as now threatens this country. Where to locate the cause or to find the remedy seems to be beyond the reach of American states manship. Congress is too busy with force bills and unjust tax measures to give attention to matters of pressing im portance. The administration is too stupid to observe the signs of the gath ering storm, or too indifferent to the public welfare to profit by the warning. It is a singular fact that the country is now solely dependent on the wisdom and the conservatism of one man to avert the threatened danger. It is the crucial hour in Mr. Powderly's leader ship of the labor movement, and if he fails now all will be lost. For him the situation is as embarrassing as it is critical. If he surrenders to Webb, the labor organization will go to pieces. If he makes a fight, disaster will be visited upon the country, and he will be held responsible for it. It will be au extra ordinarily wise man who can see his way clear out of the perplexing difficulties which beset Master Workman JPow derly's. pathway; yet he has never heretofore failed to rise equal to the emergency, however perplexing it may have been. We hope that bis good angel will stay by him. TWO. OP THE SONS. . The sons of public and notable men do not always add to their comfort and serenity. President Harrison has a son whose name is familiar to the pub lic. He is not a fellow of specially ob noxious ways, nor is it probable that he has sought to make his relations to the White house a matter of distinctive traffic. He has aimed to be generous to personal friends in the use of things to be partitioned out by the head of the family. He has not shown filial de votion to the public professions of his father in the lottery matter. In several points he would not fill the picture of a paragon 'of sonship, but greater men have had sons that made them more trouble. The commissioner of pensions. Gen. Raum, has a son who advertises his relationship to draw business, creat ing the presumption that he has special influences to aid him in getting claims allowed. , This has drawn out very se vere condemnation from the public, but there is no evidence that the father dis courages his boy's mode of promoting thrift. It is very hear a scandal. SUMMER GAME. Judge Lambert Tree is one of those who have returned from the Yel lowstone Park full of maledictions for those who have a monopoly of caring for and "fleecing visitors. He terms them an "ignoble race of human wolves." This is not creditable to the government, and the statement might be made very much stronger without extravagance. This rarest of wonder lands is reserved by the government for the enjoyment and benefit of the peo ple, not for the cormorants who seem to be using it to : fill their own j pockets merely. Complaint is made that pleas ure-seekers go over the water so largely to see things and spend their money when their own laud furnishes unsur passed attractions. Some excuse for this disposition may be found in the fact that the tourists find travel cheaper and the expenses at the popular resorts much less than in their own country. The National Park pluekers are not en tirely alone in the : theory that summer tourists are legitimate game. — — ■> STUCK IN THE MUD. The times are surely out of joint when Matt Quay can't handle a . Re publican caucus. His failure to ma nipulate the senatorial caucus Thursday _ night may be attributed to several causes. In the first place, the Repnbii- can senators are not so much averse .* to wearing Quay's • collar as J they are -to parading that '■ fact i before J tne public. '-, Hence, when they got into caucus ' they got stubborn and ; refused to say any thing or J to jdo anything. '; In the sec ond place, the Republican senators find their position on the tariff and election bills fairly well described by the old J couplet: ?||Q£BSRBHHfI ."I'll be damned if I do ;.;wAnd I'll be damned if I don't." ■ - - : It is ruin to go forward, it is : ruin to go backward, and it •' is . equally ruinous to stand still. Any way they move, or if tbey don't move at all, will jeopardize ; the * Republican party. . - The congres sional elections are coming on, and the murmurs of popular discontent are loud arid angry. The force bill, the tariff i bill, the restriction of silver coinage and j congressional \ extravagance / have ' all combined to put tbe conntry in an ; uproar. 'ry- * . , - : •-•. What are . these ; Republican . senators . going to do about it? That is what they : > want somebody with supernatural wis dom to tell them. But they don't Matt Quay for mentor at this critical; hour. Quay :is good j enough ;in the . capacity of boodle distributor, but he iaj. not good enough to act as a party v oracle.; '-'- : fi9HHßSraß&#£ A ll we have to say to these J Republi can leaders is: Gentlemen, you ~ha\n deliberately put your foot into the mire; now get it out the best way you caik, .You discarded the' advice of your wisest *• leader and your only statesman, James* G. Blame, and now make the most of your folly. - . 'J J- j ""' a'tji The ScmvEiN flrth gang at at Rock ford, 111., might be designated a swine herd, ■ whatever the . translation of the name may be. That kind of ;• a heaven { is not adapted to the earth, at least out side of Turkey. Even Utah wouldn't'; have it. How people presumably right wishing can be so infatuated is one of the curious phases of :i the human com position. It is a puzzle, however, to the community how to abate the nuisance without doing violence to the reputa tion of the place as too esthetic to coun tenance rudeiiessi-CBBBBHfeHßffiffl There is the usual generous tender of advice to the farmers as to when to sell their crops. Most of them are keep ing better posted than in earlier times, and have in hand the data for framing their own opinions. Usually there is no doubt that there is advantage in get ting the money, for their products early, but there is such shortage in most lines this season that ; lack of haste has a strong presumption of better returns to the farmers. Those with full crops may be classed as peculiarly fortunate.: The approach of Labor day is sug gested by chromatic proclamations vis ible to the street traveler. In some lo cations it is to be afgeneral holiday; with suspension of business. .It ; affords a magnificent exposition of the chief, fac tor in the industrial development of the country, and shows; something J of -the progress made by labor in adjusting itself to the better conditions of society. All encouragement should be given to promote the interest of the occasion. The intimations thrown out by the Louisiana lottery workers at Washing ton that the octopus will lie : down and cease all other " lying, if the pending legislation in congress . should ' be enacted, may be taken with some allow ance. It will drop into the pit only when it can't keep out. .It may hope to alarm some who have fed from its bounties, and hope for larger feasts. The Democrats in South Carolina met the general anticipation in splitting wide open, the, regulars bolting when beaten. There is too much bad blood to allow a reunion, and the fight will be carried to the polls. It is not expected - that any Republican ticket will be put in the field, but it will not be surprising if there is a demand for brunette votes. The waning of the summer period is already sending many of . the visitors homeward. The boat down to St. Louis Thursday was crowded with : this class," many of whom have remained in St. J Paul since the educational convention. But the most enjoyable part of the year in this climate should be in the comi ng few months.'°f39BHHßHHH Gen. Booth is drawing the lines on his Salvation Army forces. Some time ago he issued an edict that no members of the Army below the rank of captain, should marry. He how denies promo tion to all privates caught smoking. - Perhaps the luxuries of life are to be monopolized by the high officers. If ex-Senatok Spencer is accurate in his computation that the big lottery has spent a year's profit in its fight in Louisiana, North Dakota and Washing ton, that may represent a million dollars in each place. What a wreck of hopes it will cause in tbe Dakota state if it comes no more. Hannibal HAMLiN.the venerable ex vice president, is credited with doing more fishing and showing less fish than any man in Maine. His fellow citizen, Mr. Blame, has" done a good deal of. angling, but the big fish have eluded him. His new bait may serve him better. The fact that ophthalmia has attacked the patrons of public baths in New York city should not alarm those famil iar with the use of water. If the sys tem is not shocked by an innovation, there should be little danger. It has been decided by a justice of the peace in lowa that an hour is not long enough for an able-bodied ' man to get drunk. Wagers are offered that the judge cannot sustain bis opinion by the use of original packages. BBS De. Holmes has written up the elec trical street car in his happy way, and, with the witch upon the sweeping uten sil in mind, termed it the broomstick train. The i Electrical World accepts the christening. I The fine weather may be expected to continue, as one of the weather prophets has provided the biggest storm of '.the month for the next eight days. PROMINENT IN POLITICS. .: Senator Arthur P. Gorman, of Mary land, has intrenched himself so solidly in the affections of the Democracy of his state by his recent action ]on 7 , the tariff that there is now no question of i his re election to the United States senate two years hence. So satisfied is Mr. Gor man himself on this point that J he - h as purchased a new house in : Washington, it is at the corner of j Rhode Island ave nue and Seventeenth street. The house has benn j. vacant since Perry Belmont left congress to ; serve as " minister • to Spain, during the last : few months of President ; Cleveland's "J administration. It is located"' in the J most fashionable quarter ... of Washington, and is a i fine dwelling in all respects. :' Senator; Gor man's former residence on X street, be tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, was much nearer the business quarter thau his new one. * He also recently de cided not to serve any longer as a state director of the Baltimore & Ohio rail road."-'i^S_^__S^^^m^S_^_S_tKßg^jßM The senator began his public career as -a page in the ; senate. This J was in 1852, and from then -J till 1868," when he ceased to be postmaster, he- was in the employment of the senate in various ca pacities. jj It was - this ' experience- that: probably gave him the thorough knowl edge of polities that distinguishes « him. Since then, after having been for a time collector of internal revenue for one of the Maryland districts," he % has served several terms in the state J legislature and in congress. He has been ten years in the United States senate. JJiTlPillliJlli '■ : His attitude on the tariff is not all that. Maryland | Democrats J could wish, but; they have strong hopes i that in time his conversion will be.; completed. He has developed as a debater beyond all their expectations. ' It is only iv •■ recent years that he has become a speechmaker.-His reputation has JJ- been : exclusively in the line of practical management and polit ical manipulation. ! : j His oratorical suc cess in the 7 senate i is, - therefore," a sur prise. His. speeches \ have been elabo rately exploited <ln the ■ t state press and his new fame Is growing rapidly. Reed's Joke on Morse. Representative Morse, of Massachu setts, was one of the most active mem bers in trying to secure a recess i of ' the house this week in order that the con gressmen might attend the Boston cele bration with clear : consciences. On : Friday he went^up to Speaker Reed and exhibited the petition for a* recess; It had 130 names attached, and J Mr. Morse began to argue , with •■ the 7 speaker > for recognition in order that he X might '- in troduce a .resolution authorizing the recess. The speaker, however, : was firm in opposing such a motion, and the debate between the two became quite heated. No one knows what the out come might have been ; if , the speaker had not had an inspiration. I ; " Morse," he said suddenly, glancing; at his watch," "I have an eneagement in my room. I wish you would please take the chair." r, It was the first time Mr. Morse had been asked to preside *" over ; the i house, : aud the temptation to accept the honor, even at the risk of losing his recess res olution, J was too great to~be resisted. So Speaker Reed descended from his chair and J; went J out - in the lobby, where he chuckled until his fat sides shook. Mr. Morse did not : get the recess, but the applause which the members gave him when Jhe took the gavel in his hand must have been a soothing balm to his feelin£sJ*tiKSß*"'*~g§g£r - Judge Riley Has No Fear. "No, sah^' said Judge Riley, of Ac comack, whom a discriminating presi dent has selected from 10,000 applicants to represent these United States as con sul at Puerto Cabello. Venezuela, Vi do not fear to face the yellow fever on . its native heath or in: its .native lair, so to' speak,' sah. Wherever my country calls J me, there XI, go, by gad, sah. J I never know fear, sah, especially, when the clarion call of duty resounds within the convoluted chambers of my ear, sah, with a salary of $2,000 a year attached. • Besides; sah, T" had the yellow fever : many years ago when I had the honah of representing my country as" consul at Maracaibo. r No, sah, I am not aware, - sah, that an attack gives J you immunity. : from a second; but in the equatorial re gions; where yellow fever is indigenous to the climate, sah, it is lighter aud less dangerous than in more northern lati tudes. .If the yellow fever broke out in Boston now, by gad sah, 99 out of 100 would die of it. But in the > far , South, sah, yellow fever is no J more dangerous than our home-brewed bilious fever on the eastern ?ho' of ole Vargiuuv, by gad, sah." - " Red-Headed and Stubborn. . Representative Struble, of lowa, who achieved fame by a protest against one man legislation, was having difficulty two years ago in securing renomination for congress." JAt one point in the con test it looked ; : as if the best thing for him to do would be to withdraw, as it seemed likely that if J/ he did not he would be turned down. X Friends wrote to him advising him how matters stood, but saying they would fight for him to the end it he , desired it. Mr. Struble was troubled by the ( letter and did not know how to form .an answer. JAt last he, turned to the member sitting beside him. showed the letter and asked advice abyut a proper, answer. "Oh, say that yoii are still red-headed and stubborn," answered his fellow member. Struble thought a minute and then exclaimed, "I'll do it!" Grabbing a sheet of paper Jhe wrote as his friend suggested : "1 : am still red-headed and stubborn, and will be a candidate. Yours, Isaac S. Struble." ■ Hamlin's Fishing Adventure. 'When. Hannibal Hamlin was vice 'president of the United States he went fishing in a* Canadian stream and had struck a splendid salmon. A J boat ap proached in-' which were the English treaty commissioners. Mr. Hamlin was' meeting the crisis > with the * vigor and' skill of ian accomplished angler. The Englishmen", as J their boat diew near, saw that he was battling with a noble foe. .When told : who the gentlemen were, ' Mr. Hamlin -.: called -out: "You must excuse me till I land this salmon !" The introduction was deferred for about half an hour, when the Englishmen were able -: to salute , not only the vice president but the conqueror of a kingly salmon. He decided the question of eti quette off-hand, though it is to be pre sumed that the salmon. would have pre ferred the following of the venerable and accepted rule— everything when a caller is announced. NOTE AND COMMENT. .The Florida Times-Union says- that Senator Call's re-election is absolutely a forgone conclusion. . There is a suspicion that Henry George will again be the Labor candidate for mayor of New York. The people of Putnam county, Georgia,* have for their particular boast the fact that not a vote was cast in their county for Benjamin Harrison as presi dent. 'JHnUBHBnnHHI "The Pine Tree state," says the St Louis Globe-Democrat, "is an object of considerable interest to the politicians." Secretary, Tracy's ''. "emergency" open ng of the Kittery navy yard shows the irutb of this observation. "The several recent propositions to empower the president to suspend tariff taxes, or to reimpose repealed tariff taxes, in certain contingencies, of which the president shall be the, sole judge," says the Philadelphia Times, ' is a bold stride toward the most despotic and revolutionary exercises of power." ' The Providence Journal thinks that speeches like the "maniy, patriotic and friendly" speech of Congressman Breck inridge, ot Kentucky, "urging harmony, union, and mutual help and understand ing between the North J; and South" are "calculated. to make such makebates as Ingalls. Chandler? : and all the . rest of the politicians whose chief capital is re crimination and misrepresentation, look very small indeed." HME;"--" The fact is subject for serious appre hension as ,'. to the morals of the es teemed New York Sun that in a recent issue it printed;' as though in invidious comparison for the unnamed Tammany ite, the : statement ■ that "John Reilly's election contribution to the expenses of s the contest in 1888 was $5,000, or 16.15 on the average for each one of the 812 election districts at that time in town. A recent recruit j. to Tammany in the Thirteenth district, now holding one of the f most, lucrative municipal posts, contributed ~ $25 " toward Mr. Grant's election." rTHf^k^BOS'Hf^^^ JfflßlPn«Bßfißßßß****ißßPHH^^BHß | r. . AGAIN. - - H.£ yy ~, — ~ — "" — ■ What forms arise amid the olden places, Filling -each spot with, loved, familiar faces: .The i v^ry ; walls ■; have language, and " are i. t thronging " With speech that makes the heart grow wild : ; with longing. J Amid the dusk a thousand lights assemble— Smiles that vibrate and make the quick air --.. ■ hi nil li . j|ii'|lt|llli[HJ|l tJWiiMP ijIi MJJUUI ; Eyes in • whose blue the Heaven-look was ; ; sbimug-fllnffiHsnHQpßtpßitiaMH Closed eyes to earth, now better worlds di viihng.>£***t}**n*HßHlH|B4|BPHßß ■■...* , , ■ .- * .- ■ .■ * a '.*'■".'*... Fain wonld I linger round these fragrant ************* elo^s.^Maißit***Bß*********w*Bß****^j~ The dear, dear past— its ashes ' strewn with ■roses—' - -'AA ■ ".''p r■- ■ :~.~- Sp ■.. But faith looks up with smile of light super nal; ; - s . y.f r. . The past shall live and be eternal. J There is no death so deep, but in the dying - A higher life aoth rise, all death defying: • y-p And those freed souls our love * would make te-Q-p immortal - . yJH. MmpW >4ki!3SUa^k!% u 4 Await ns with life's truth at Heaven's porta'. There' shall we see them ih_ their completest • • presence. .... V ' .".' Of all we loved them here the glorified sweet ■•'•".."•- essence— 'A- J Oh. heart, no longer doubt the bliss to be ex - pected— .,--.. ■ ■'..,. Thy passing grief all dead— thy joys all ;' res ._: : urrected. ■ VERY FEW IN a hill Potatoes Are So Scarce in Ire ; land That Distress Is Feared. Bloody Balfour Reminds the Celts That the Workhouses Are Open. Hitch in Negotiations Between Striking' Welshmen and Employers. Factory Owners in Saxony Will Dismiss Socialistic Employes. -London, Aug. 14.— The Catholic primate, preaching recently at Armagh, declared that great distress threatened the poor in Ireland owing to the failure the potato crop throughout the coun : try. ,-In ; the ; house of commons to-day ; Mr. Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland, said that while it ' was . true that there had been a serious failure of the potato crop, yet there was no reason to fear a famine, as the resources of the poor law J .unions/would be J sufficient to meet all cases of distress that might arise from the failure of the crop. Dublin, Aug.- 15.— Reports received here ,' show that > the J potato blight is spreading in the counties of Donegal, Cork, Waterford, Tipperary and Lim erick. Prices of Potatoes Doubled. Prices have already doubled at West port, where the guardians and the gov ernment are making exertions to avert a disaster. The blight has spread over the whole \of Galway. It is • not con fined to any particular soil. The blight :is due partly to the sowing of old seed in old ground, but mostly to the rainy season. In the worst districts the stalks are withered. In five of six examinations made there were no roots, and in the sixth case the tubers were only the size of marbles. . Michael Davitt writes to suggest that something be done to replace potatoes with such vegetables as will make food between now and March, and he asks suggestions without delay from those who are qualified to give advice. AGAIN AT SWORDS' POINTS Hitch in Negotiations Betwee Strikers and Employers. . London, Aug. 15.— A serious hitch has arisen in the negotiations between the striking workmen in Wales- and their employers, greatly impairing the prospects of a speedy termination of the difficulties. The men submitted to the companies a scheme of settle ment which the latter promised to con sider. It was believed that the agree ment would be accepted, but the com panies, after considering the matter, have substituted a form of agreement differing in every important particular from the one framed by the J men. The men are greatlj incensed and threaten a general strike Monday which will J in volve a large number of workmen not hitherto included in the struggle. It is thought that the result of the fight will be the placing of wages .on a sliding scale. The secretary of the Parnell de-" fense fund, which was' collected to de fray the expenses of Mr. Parnell and his colleagues in defending themselves against the. Times'. charges before the comniission. announces that the total sum , contributed was £42,000, of which £28,000 came from Ireland. A blue book on the Behring sea dispute was issued by.the government this aft ernoon. The book contains 532 pages and embodies 382 documents covering the "period from : September. 1886, ■ to August, ; 1890. A memorial' to the late prince imperial of France, who lost his. life : in • Zululand, was unveiled to-day in the chapel at Chiselhurst. . The J : factory owners throughout Saxony have entered into a secret combination to dismiss all employes who are know to socialists, It is understood that the reason for J dismissal will not be openly stated to those discharged, but other pretexts, however slight, will be , taken advantage of to rid the factories of : socialists and agitators of every description. The dis covery of the existence of this agree ment among the employers has created great excitement among socialists, and will be bitterly resented. A dynamite bomb was exploded underneath the res idence Jof Councilor Weihris at Mons, Belgium, to-oay. The building was much damaged, and two of its occu pants were slightly hurt, but fortu nately . there were . no . fatalities. Jlt is supposed that the outrage was commit ted by socialists, who were exasperated at tlie action of the councilor during the late strike. A hurricane and water spout destroyed twenty houses and in flicted other damage at Mulfort, Bel gium, to-day. No lives were lost. Pats Himself on the Back. Sofia, Aug. 15.— Speaking at a ban quet in Widdin, Prince Ferdinand di lated upon the progress made by Bul garia since his accession to the throne, and upon the J increased confidence in her political future and the growth of the idea of nationality. lie expressed deep gratitude to Premier Stambuloff for his wise administration. ; Prince Ferdinand returned to this city to-day. He received an ovation. Is "Leprosy Contagious? London, Aug. 15.— The government of India reports that the ; medical au thorities are unable to agree as to ; whether leprosy is contagious or not. The local governments also differ on the question. The proposed legislation will therefore be postponed until full details have been ; collected through the national leprosy fund in conjunction with a medical commission which will leave England in" October. Portugal Will Bow to Britain. London, Aug. 15.— 1n the house of commons to-day Sir James Fergusson, . under foreign secretary, said that the convention with Portugal was still un signed, but that the matters in dispute with that country were on the eve of an amicable settlement. '• In reply, to queries Mr. Goschen stated that it was I absolutely fixed that the bouse . would meet in November. .".__■_; J Extending the Canal Concession. Panama, Aug. 15. 1t is officially an nounced here that the Colombian gov ernment lias asked congress to author-: ize the extension of • the : concession :to the Panama Canal company Jon the basis proposed by J Lieut. -Wyse, and it is generally believed that the authority will be given. .. J ' Heavy Hail Storm in Austria. YiENNS^Aiig. 15. A terrific hail storm ; to-dS* destroyed .'; the vineyards on the left bank of the Danube in South- . em Moravia. "■ Twenty T thousand ? per- J sons paraded to-day with the choral so- ! cieties. '-The Ring strasse was thronged with 7 spectators. -. The Germans ; were especially applauded. "f. '•-:■ X -■-.-. Cholera in Cairo.' \ Cairo, Aug.' Three cases of chol era have "■ been ; discovered here. One has already; proved fatal. J The" appear ance of the disease here" has caused in tense excitement/, J People of all classes are making hurried preparations to de part. "•• - - , .-■.... - ='r. .. .- ■ ff. ' - - Editor Powell Released. -Dublin, Aug. 15.— Powell, editor of the Midland Tribune, who was .sen tenced last week to six months' impris onment in Tullamore jail for publishing a boycott resolution; has been released on account of illness. ; - A Baron in Hard Luck. . :• Berlin, Aug. 15.— While the Grand Duke of Oldenburg was out driving with Baron Hehnburg to-day the car riage was overturned in a ditch near Varel and the baron broke one of his wrists. The grand duke was ; not hurt. XJ French .War Ships Disabled. „r : Paris, Aug. 15.— French squad ron of evolution,* which has been cruis ing .' in the Atlantic, has arrived at Toulon. Several of the torpedo boats and dispatch * boats of . the }. squadron were disabled. It was necessary to tow them into port. The ironclads : behaved well. Australian Marines to Strike. : ; Melbourne,; Aug. 15.— The marine officers here have decided to strike. The paralysis of the shipping trade conse quent on" the strike movement extends to Sydney; Brisbane and other ports. London, Aug.. Recent -floods in Beloochistan have done enormous dam age to property and many persons • have been drowned. The Bolan railway for a distance of six miles has been swept away and the great military load has been partly destroyed. "Wheat Booming in England. London, Aue. 15-The raise in Ameri can wheat ; has stimulated the English product. In the Leeds, market to day wheat was above' Tuesday's quota tions, and corn advanced Cd. Striking JDockmen Discharged. London, Aue. 15.— Hundreds of dock laborers at Cardiff have been, dis charged. " The employers . have de termined to resist the J demands of the men. Further troubles are feared. TARIFF TAX TABLETS. Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, is another who, having "had bis ear on the ground," has arrived at the conclu sion that his people are opposed to the McKinley bill.— New York Times. What is the difference between an thorizing a lottery to cheat innocents throughout the country out of 47 per cent of the cash they invest in the gam ble, and authorizing" favored industries to levy 47 per cent of unearned prize money on the general public? To call the one thing "legalized pillage" and the other "legalized protection" makes a difference in nomenclature, but tliere is no difference in principle. * » » * . This is a very plain statement made by the Philadelphia Record. Our Min nesota wheat growers should look into it: S&&a&*W£Bskm23BSg& "We exported 40,000,000 bushels of wheat last year, and imported 1,900 bushels. The imported wheat was prob ably wanted for seed, J or. mayhap, it may have been raised in some corner of Canada where it could not readily be sold to other customers than people of the United States. The whole tariff duty collected on this wheat was $389, the duty being 20 per cent. Now it is pro posed to raise the duty to • 25 per cent, in order to make the farmers think that they are protected on a J commodity of which they have an immense surplus to sell, and for which they are obliged to accept the prices paid in foreign mar kets for wheat raised by the ill-paid la borers of Russia, India and Egypt! J. We doubt if the Flathead Indians could be fooled by the performance with which Republican congressmen seek to impose upon the tillers of the soil in the United States." '^nMBQH ■ — mm ODD ITEMS. A young woman in New York is in trouble because she threatened to break the head of an elderly suitor if he did not stay away from her grandmother. The suspected lovers are each about seventy years old?and both deny the soft impeachment. : * Ploughing by electricity is in contem plation for a large property in Central Spain. i^SBSBHM It is proposed to phonograph the songs of birds and afterward write them down in score. The electric spark has been photo graphed by means of a special camera, in which the sensitive plate rotated 2,500 times a minute. It has been found that in the long run no powder is satisfactory for quick firing guns that is not absolutely safe from explosion by detonation, and that the only satisfactory and safe system of quick firing is by electricity. Some interesting trials with signal lights were recently made rff Paris be tween persons in a balloon and others in the : Eiffel tower, which r showed the practicability of interchanging signals from a distance far beyond the circle of' an investing force. It is supposed that the loss of light from electric lamps in a fog, as com pared with the yellow gas light, is ow ing to the blueness of the fog or mist, the electric light merely intensifying the blueness, while the gas still pierces the gloom. N. A. McDavid, of Fellowship, Fla., carved out a "rebus" on the end of an orange cane which translated is the name of President Harrison. On one end of tha handle is the head of a hare, near the center is an eye,, then a sun. Putting them together the symbols spell Harrison. The cane is elegantly finished in oil, and has been sent to the presi dent by C. P. Haycraft. MEN OF MARK. The Marquis de Leuvile bears a strik ing resemblance to Col. Elliott F. Shep herd/?9HBHttBSB| Baron Rothschild is an ardent phila telist, and devotes much time and money to collecting and arranging stamps. Senor Castelar is writing a life of . Je sus, and will soon pay a visit to Pales-! tine to gather material or inspiration for the work. ; . Gen. Ezeta is only twenty-seven, but he appears to be a young man who is quite competent to . take care of him self, even in an emergency.- Since his retirement from office Prince Bismarck has reduced his weight, has slept better, and is generally in better health. It is said that Emperor William of Germany will soon announce the organ ization of an East "African state, with himself as sovereign. J A large mass of . De Quincey's corre spondence has been lately found,throw ing new light j! on his character and career, and generally to his credit. : The Duke of Edinburg is a clever vio linist and also an J enthusiastic postage stamp gatherer, his collection being one of the most complete in the world. ; : Lieut. Manlio Garibaldi, youngest son of the illustrious liberator, is about to be married to Miss Mantegazza, daugh ter-of the celebrated author of that name. BFOWbHH '.J J- Whitelaw Reid's granite, mansion at the Ophir farm will be modeled after the German castle of the .-; fourteenth century.- The portico will be supported by 100 columns and will cost $40,0110/ JWllili o' WISP. Where the rushes bend and quiver By the margin of the river, ' here I met her in the gloaming, Glint of sunlight in: her hair—^ In its meshes caught,, while roaming, 'Prisoned mid its meshes fair : Moving on with motion airy— _ Is she mortal— is she fairy? _ ay, I know not— but her power ■"* . Held me fast— and holds me iHilll - And each magic twilight hour She can lead me as she will: Through the rushes, down the hollow, Where she goes, needs must follow. Fair, intangible sweet vision, '-fSSSSS Turn again ihy face on me ! Men. may laugh me lo derision* ' But I love no one but thee —Judith • SDeiicer in . Kew - York Home Journal. HBBMBHHBa LADIES! BEWARE, Ladies will do well to get their Fur Work done NOW, and beware of delay ing until fall, as it will cause annoying delays and cost more; This applies fully to the purchase of new garments in Fur or Plush. These you can get much cheaper now, and if you desire can make your pay ments in MONTHLY Installments! And thus feel the outlay less. This applies with great force to such young ladies as are earning their own living and have money coming in by the week or month. 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