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Patrons and friendsare cordially invited to visit and avail themselves of the facilities of our Eastern Office while in New York _B*__ TO-DAY'S WEATHER. Washington, Oct. 12.— For Wisconsin: Sta tionary temperature in east, cooler by Tues day night in west; fair, except light rain in extreme west; southeasterly winds. For ■Minnesota: Light rain or snow; cooler; southeasterly winds. For the Dakotas: Light rain or snow: westerly winds; cooler, except stationary temperature in extreme northwest North Dakota. Tor lowa*. Light rain; slightly cooler; variable winds. general OBSERVATIONS. -~ -_ ' bJLjj *** _ So "-"ioo Place of c"- 5 "•" j Place of 3- 2 ***. Ooservation. 5 *"L *".""- 1 Observation. SSlS***" •2. i° _; 2- a-3 o ***_ S ?_ i • re *« • a .' ' 7 . ' 7 St. Paul :'o.os 56 Ft.' Custer...] Duluth .... 30-10 54 Helena 30.16 34 LaCrosse... 30.18 .- Ft. Sully Huron ... 139.02 i- Minnedosa. 29.70 40 Moorhead... 20.04 50 Calgary .''"".lf* .... St. Vincent.. 29.82 50 Winnipeg. .20.80 40 Bismarck.... 29.92 12 0'Apne11e... {29.66 42 Ft. Buford.. 29.90 32- Med'e Hat..|:*o.oS 38 For st. Paul, Minneapolis and vicinity forecast to 8 a.m. Wednesday: Southerly* veering to colder westerly winds; rain, fol lowed Tuesday night by fair weather. P. I-'. Lyons, Local Forecast Official. «^_^— THE MERRIAM PARK LIKE. A meeting will be held to-morrow aft ernoon of people who are interested in securing better street car service on the Merriam Park line. ' Some of those who will attend will be residents of that suburb, and others will be property owners who contributed funds for the extension of the Fourth street cable road. Both of these classes are serious ly dissatisfied with the present situation and with the outlook for the immediate future. The Globe has investigated the subject thoroughly, and is sure that their discontent is well founded.*] A' bonus of a large size was raised and presented to Mr. Lowby for certain specific purposes. For a while these wete secured, and the result was very agreeable. Except for the very danger ous crossing and descent at "Summit av enue, the St. Anthony hill line has been eminently satisfactory' and has fur nished its patrons with a comfortable and adequate means of transportation. The ride beyond the power house has been particularly pleasant, because the time made lias been last and the country interesting. All this now. is altered. The cable power is discontinued a short distance beyond St. Albans street, and the avenue disfigured by unsightly poles. A change of cars is required at this point by passengers going beyond, and instead of an open grip, which is exceedingly popular here in all seasons, closed ears are provided for the rest of the route. This is not the worst of it, however. Long delays are experienced in the transfer, and people have to stand around waiting for the connecting train. This is disagreeable even when the weather is pleasant, but when it rains it is much more so; and when winter comes, with its snow and wind, it will be actually dangerous. As the street car system pushes its way into the suburbs, the frequent trains here tofore maintained by the railways are curtailed, and the inhabitants of such districts are left without means of com munication with the center of the city, except in as far as Mr. Lowry furnishes it. There is a very substantial basis, therefore, for complaint over such a state of af~*-*drs as at present exists in several directions.' The value of prop erty and the comfort of our suburban population demand that the transfer system shall be used only when abso lutely required, and that a prompt and (sufficient service shall be provided. FASHIONS IX HEAL ESTATE. Movements like that looking towards the improvement of West Third street accomplish good ends in a city like ours if adequately pushed, but at the same ! time it needs to be remembered that the destiny of streets and avenues is some thing which cannot always be controlled by even concerted effort. Tins is not true, of course, of' a place like West Third street, which is centrally located, commands a beautiful view, and has been allowed to languish because no at tempt has been made to advance it. i But in general the character of sections ! becomes fixed in the most capricious i and unaccountable way, and is altered ! only after long delays, and apparently for no better reason than induced it at J the outset. Structures of a certain class j begin to bej>uilt on a street, and others " j similar to them follow, and property j takes on a value commensurate to the. ! size of income they can be made to pro- I duce. There it stands, then, for many years, and booms come and go, take in everything about it, but leave it ab solutely unaffected and unchanged. This has been -so in Chicago, for example, during the recent real estate excitement there. Large fortunes have been made because prices have risen fabulously, but. at the same time, in many regions there has been no more movement than in the dullest times. So •• in New York, in the section west of j Broadway and south of Washington ; park, while all around there have been ! handsome buildings going tin and an | increase of values, cheap tenements, commanding small rents, have covered the ground. But within three or four years wholesale business has suddenly penetrated here, the old tenements have been demolished, and tall blocks pay ing big returns constructed. No one can put his linger on the date when this ! began, or say that any one cause brought it about. Somehow the de velopment of the city had reached the stage where this property was needed by its business, arid at once the transforma tion followed. After the same fashion will It be with us. Fashionable quar ters will fail Into disuse and new ones become popular. All, however, "will ■serve some purpose; and the history of wealth proves that the man .who, own ing property in a growing town, holds on to it, will not regret his courage. SENATOR "WASHBURN* TALKS. Hon. W. D. V-*A<iii*Ti'N, junior sena tor from this state, electrified his con stituents a few weeks ago by bursting forth info a well-sustained and tuneful strain of volubility. He had been in Europe during the summer, and as soon as he struck New York he placed him self at the disposal of the mob of gentle men who make their living "by writing for the press. From this point on he talked ceaselessly until he reached Min neapolis. Such -unwonted exertion proved somewhat exhausting, and there has been a decline in the amount of ed ucational _ matter attributed to him of late -in the interesting newspapers which he favors with his contributions when he feels in a mood to enlighten the public. The Globe looked with some agitation to see what he might think of the death of Mr. P___*___, but was disappointed to find that he main tained a stolid silence at this juncture. The explanation of this now appears. Senator Washburn, is out of the city. He is gone East, and his route can be traced with complete accuracy by close readers of the daily telegraphic dis patches. In every town he visits he is besieged by reporters, and his comments on what* is going on in the world are promptly sent over the wires and em balmed in imperishable print. At the latest advices he was in Washington, where he not only announced himself as favoring Minneapolis for the site of tne Republican national convention for 1892, but also as favoring a short and breezy campaign, because this was likely to prove decisive. The . Globe agrees with him in both of these things. Let the convention be at Minneapolis, and if a long campaign entails any danger of indecision, by ail 'means let us have a short one. It is very impor tant that the election should decide the contest. We do not want an election which is not an election. At Chicago Senator WASiißtrnx cov ered more ground in his public utter ances than lie did in Washington. This is because Chicago is a bigger place. lie said that his absence in Europe had put him a little out of touch with mat ters political, but told the reporters to watch for him on his way back from the East if they cared for the most reliable information. He is sure, however, without knowing anything about it. that Fassktt will be elected in New York and Mr Kixi.i.v in Ohio. Na tionally, he declares that he is for vine first, last and all the time. "If he desires the nomination." says our junior senator, "nothing but death can prevent his securing it at the next con vention." This means that, If Blame is alive and wants the nomination in 1892, he can have it. Senator Wasii- BT ■**"_" draws the. line there. He insists that no one shall be the Republican candidate unless he is alive, if the man from Maine has cherished any ambi tions inconsistent with this announce ment, he had better shed them at once. The state has now been addressed by its senior and junior senators in the most delightful, entertaining and in structive fashion. if its governor has the leisure, his people would gladly hear from him also. THEY FEEL. KEENLY. A graphic account of a murder trial comes from the South. It appears that a man shot another to avenge the honor of his wife, but on the unquestioned evidence now produced in court it is proved that his wife was a strumpet. The murderer takes the stand, declares that he never knew this before, that he is quite overwhelmed by the discovery, regrets exceedingly what has occurred, begs everybody's pardon, apologizes to his victim, admits that It was all a mis take, and throws himself on the mercy of the jury. The reports are unanimous to the effect that "he feels his position keenly." A Southern jury is notori ously unreliable in meeting out pun ishment to white men who take the lives of their fellows, but it is to be hoped that in this case they will show the culprit that the laugh is really on him. ■'. Every day in our own police courts there are gentlemen arraigned who "feel their position keenly." Once in a while some individual of mature years is apprehended in an attempt against the virtue of a young child. He readily produces witnesses as to his previous good character, and his wife sits be side him ana excites the sympathy at once of the judge and the bystanders. Sometimes a man of respectable ap pearance is accused of insulting decent women on the public streets, or a trusted. employe is arrested for petty peculations, evidently committed more in - a spirit of wantonness than in the hope of profit. Such offenders invari ably "feel their position keenly." The courts in general are disposed to deal lightly with people of this stamp, and probably this Is the part of wisdom if their misdeeds are not of a violent complexion. It wants to be remem bered, however, that the '•keen feel ing" is not all on one side. Children who have been sin red against, women who have been insulted and employers who have been robbed "feel keenly" also. If there is to be a fair balancing of acuteness, a dose of something a little more poignant than remorse may justly be injected into the veins of the gentlemen who have had ■ such a good time trampling on the penal code and the city ordinances. TO PULL TOGETHER. The conference of Methodise churches \ of the world in session at Washington, whose chief utterances have been so fully indicated in the telegraphic re ports, is a gathering of much signifi cance, although . with no legislative authority. It comprises the leading minds of all the branches and divisions of 'that great religious persuasion; and while it cannot dictate, its thoughts and suggestions will have great weight and shape the legislation, it represents a membership of several millions in this country, Canada and Great Britain, and a population of tens of millions. Ten years ago a simiiiar congress was held in London.and the effect of its deliberations was so marked that it was deemed best to follow it with a second one", in which the broadening and progressive Ameri can spirit should have fuller scope. Of the 500 delegates .America furnishes 300 and Europe 200. As it is to continue in session until Oct. 20. it may be- pre sumed that, the range of topics is com prehensive and the elucidation some what exhaustive. It will be -observed that the deliberations the past day or two relate to the unity and co-operation of the religious schools of all names that have the same essentials of faith. The idea of uniformity is charac terized as fanciful . and ; impractica ble, and hardly desirable. The Min nesota bishop happily illustrated t the thought in, his reference to .; the variety of lading in the several cars of a freight line, but all parts of a com moil train and having the same destina tion. .It is one of "the weaknesses of human nature that there has not oeen more unity of effort among the denom inations for the furtherance of the com mon aim, rather than for the relative development of branches of the com mon tree. As a matter of - business policy, especially in missionary : opera tions, combination would greatly pro THE SAIXT PAUL V DAILY ; GLOBE: TUESDAY MOILING, OCTOBER 10, '■': JSot— TEtt PAGES. mote, results. One. of the speakers at the synod in this city, at the meeting of Friday night, bewailed the Inadequacy of the financial resources available, and said there was similar complaint iv the other boards operating *"in' the. same fields. The economical and effective way would evidently be to pool their resources and broaden the label given* the work. It would seem to the practical eye of more importance to renovate the heathen on Christian prin ciples than to make him a Presbyterian, Methodist or any other sort of a'secta lian. The drift of religious thought is clearly in this direction, as shown not only by the Washington gathering, but most religious bodies. Probably oue speaker was right in the intimation that a number of prominent funerals would accelerate this tendency. A larger in fusion of business principles would presumably be beneficial in most of the elevating and reforming lines. THE POINT STATED. 0 The tin plate manufacture, which has its storm center at present in Ohio.is very chestnutty, and perhaps there should be gratitude to the Pioneer Press for settling the controversy in its magiste rial way. Still, it may be questioned that it Is quite accurate "when it places the Democrats on the negative side as to the practicability of manufacturing: the varieties of tin plate in common do mestic use in this country. It is not quite thinkable that the oracle could misapprehend the facts, but it has been intimated that even Jupiter has been caught nodding. Genuine, commercial tin of American material and man ufacture is not in the market now, and the only question as to whether it will be in the future relates to the economical feature. if the bounty the people are forced to pay, in the shape of a high duty, Is sufficient to pay the Welsh and other capitalists for going into the business, they will make it in this country. There are no metes to the industrial genius of the United States. It cau make anything that is produced by human skill. Bananas can be grown in Minnesota," and perhaps would be if the tariff were high enough, or the people forced to buy them at ex travagant figures. No Democrat doubts that good tin plate can be produced in the country, but be questions the right to tax him to provide the profits the cap italists insist upon in the investment. MADE AN ISSUE. As absurd as it seems, the Republi cans in Ohio are really trying to make campaign capital out of the tin plate tariff. They insist that it is being dem onstrated that the plate can be pro duced in this country, and parade the fact that in most classes of tin wares advance In price has been less than ,the added duty. There need be no hesitancy in conceding both of these claims. The duties have been opera tive only since last July, and the im porters laid in enormous stocks in ad vance. The St. Louis congressman who has figured so largely in the tariff business and had nice things packed into it for Ills industrial specialties is credited with making KO.OOO by this ad vance importation of tin plate. It is not surprising, then, that price's should advance somewhat slowly. The over stocks must be worked off first. It is a question of little time when the full ; 000,000, as based on the yearly im ports, will be added to the cost of the wares. Tin plate can be made in this country. There is no question as to that. .The point is that there is no right to take fifteen or twenty millions out of the pockets of the people every year to sustain it. It is bard on the mental, digestion,- bu there does, not appear any way to 'avoid it. "Melbourne, the Australian fake, as the scientists call him, seems to have captured those West Kansas fellows, and proposes to enter into a contract to produce all the rain needed in forty of the dryest counties of the stale. lie may bleed the other sections by threatening to bring too much rain and drown the crops out. He is either a humbug, or he has one of the cutest tricks that has ever been worked on the elements. t___ Some of the McKinley apostles let their tongues get the better of their heads.' Oue of them in a single effort the other day as serted that the tariff affords the manufact urer better prices, protects nim from foreign competition, lowers the price of goods to the consumer, and at the same time increases the imports. "What more could auy rational man want? The New York illustrated papers picture the unveiling of the Grant statue al Chi cago, just as if the Lake City were not point ing a finger at the place where the New York monument isn't built. Comparisons are odious. REQUIESCAT IN PACE. The final act of his life has been played: The curtain has dropped upon the great Irish drama for a time, to be continued later on; and he, the prime actor and great chieftain, has been called home to give an accounting ■of his life's work, leaving behind him a liv ing monument in the heart of every true Irishman. The great work of his life was unfinished, and though he battled against obstacles almost insurmountable, he never lost courage, _ ad remained true to his first love. This great love for the Irish people prompted him to give his life to the work of elevating them and bringing about a com fortable state of affay-s. To this end he ex erted every energy, and now that the master hand is taken from the lever the mass of the Irish people Will appreciate what he has done for them, while a few, prompted by envy of this great man, will seek to blacken bis char acter. He was but a mortal and not infal lible, and the few mistakes made in later years count for naught when compared with the great work he has dove. The closing mouths of his life were spent in turmoil and trouble, and yet he was never heard to* com pin n. He died like he had Jivcd,giving voice to his great love for the people "and keeping his trouble within himself. Hardly had the breath left bis body before many unchari table people flaunted before the "eyes of the public his faults and defects, overlooking, his many virtues. Parnell is dead. Let him rest in peace. Cease from this strife and 'warfare upon the dead. • His work was a great one. and he did the best be could: and now this, bis eventful life, is over. Let his ashes rest in peace, remembering his many virtues and forgetting his faults." "V--;:;::*"-- ' "_ . M. T. PARNELL. To the Editor of the Globe. I commend your editorial on Parnell. The bitter denunciations of "the arch bishop of Dublin are shameless. Oii : the other hand, the friends of the dead leader are almost equally in the wrong in their intemperate, language, such as "murder to please Englishmen" and the like. They falsely assume that Par nell's relations to the woman who be came his wife when she was the wife of another was the offense which cost ,him his position as leader of the Irish cause. Only , remotely was this true. If he had shown a decent respect for the opinions of mankind, and retired for a few months from prominence, as Mr. Gladstone properly suggested, all would have been forgiven; and, before his death, if "indeed death would then have occurred, he would have recovered his lost prestige and retained the love and confidence of all his associates. It was his defiance of; the religious senti ment and his unwarrantable course to his venerable associate; Gladstone, aua ; towards others, that caused the loss of respect and confidence of the men gen erally. I think this fact and this dis tinction In his • offense have been lost sight of in comments on his career since his death. W. R. M. St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 10. HEARD AT HOTELS. Minnesota cattle and horses are already ' famous throughout the Northwest, and they, bid fair to be as well known .. all over the * United States very soon. Yesterday C. N. Cos grove, . the ..* Le Sueur stockman, passed through St. Paul with a carload of Here fords, bound for the Texas state fair, to be held at Dallas next week. This is along trip to make,' and : betokens considerable confi dence in Mr. Cosgrove, and, as Carl Judson, expresses it. goes to show that Minnesota' has got as good stock as there is in the coun try. Mr. Cosgrove himself was calmly con fide and said he felt sure that he would bring back a few medals with him from the ■ Lone Star state. The Cosgrove farm in Le ' Sueur county is only one of at least several hundred- fully ■ equipped and successful ■ farms devoted to the breeding of superior cattle in this state, and the time is not far distant when Minne sota will have the finest cattle in the world. To-day she has fewer "scrubs"' than -most states, and they are rapidly disappearing. In horses, too, the state is fast coming to the front. Trotting and draught horses of the ; finest strains are being bred in all parts of the state with great success and a profit, in spite of the fact that horses are not bringing the prices they should have during the past - few years. W. M. Deary, of the firm of Taylor A Deary, lumbermen operating in the Rainy river country, was a guest at the | Merchants' yesterday. Last week he made a trip through the district struck by a cyclone or tornado about two weeks ago, and reports the damage as much worse than reported. "The cy clone." he said, "started on the Red Late reservation about ten miles from Rainy river, and pursued a southeastern course ending near Swan lake. It fairly mowed down the timber on a strip from three to fourteen miles in width and sixty miics in length. Trees three feet in thickness were snapped off near the ground. The state lost considerable timber, but the govern ment much : jnore on land unsur veyed. Private parties, too. lost a little. It was the worst blowdown I have ever seen. There were many" homesteaders squatting on the unsiirvcved government land who packed up their belongings and left, considering that the timber nad been as good as de stroyed." Mr. Deary operates a lumber camp ou the Big Fork of Rainy river, and roaches it from Grand Rapids, on the Duluth & Winnipeg. From Grand Rapids there is a wagon road leading north a distance of forty miles. The logs cut by Taylor & Deary are driven down to the Lake of the Woods, where they are sold to the mill men operating at Hat Portage, on the Canadian Pacific. In speaking of the reports that are frequently heard in re gard to timber stealing in the Rainy river country, Mr. Deary said, they" were much exaggerated. The government may have lost a little timber In this way, but it was confined almost entirely to that stand ing conveniently near Rainy river. Judge F. S. Brown, of Tracy, the leading attorney for William Rose, the man under sentence of death at Redwood Falls for the murder of Moses Lufkiu in that county sev eral years ago, arrived in St. Paul last even ing, and will make another effort to secure a commutation of Rose's sentence. Judge Brown stated that he has no new evidence to offer in the case, but that he will try to make the governor look at the old evidence in a different way. While here, Judge Brown will attend the sessions of tho meeting of the grand chapter of Royal Atch Masons. ■ Ex-Sheriff "Lon" Brandenburg, of Fergus Falls, is in the city to attend the meeting of the Grand Ctiaptcr of Royal Arch Masons of Minnesota, of which he is grand high priest. This meeting will be held at the Masonic asylum in the Lowry Arcade, aim will prob ably last not longer than this evening. The election of oflicers aud the reading of annual reports will be the principal business consid ered. Frank B. Clarke, of this city, after a font months' tour, of Europe. - returned to St. ; Paul yesterday morning, looking as though the trip had done him a vast amount of good. Enelaniy France, Germany, Austria and Italy,, were the European countries visited by Mr. Clarke and his observations are interesting as might be ex pected from one used to the practical idea', push, and liberality of this country. Oh the" return trip across the ' Atlantic Mr. Clarke was a passenger on the City of Paris, which had such a" rough voyage that her arriva*in New York was three days behind the sched ule time. In chatting of his trip Mr. Clarke said: "All lhat .has been said concerning the cramped conditions in tnese countries is true. There Is a great shortage of crops, and the supply must necessarily come from the American markets. I did not visit ttus sia, but I came in close contact with many who did, and from them learned that a most deplorable condition exists Hi that country. The rye and wheat crop is a. total failure and in certain localities the people are to day bordering on starvation. "You can judge something of how hard, the peasontry are pressed for a little money. Good horses are selling for St, cattle SI and all other . stock in proportion. The govern ment will necessarily be compelled to import a large amount of breadstuff's. Rye is the great cereal, but rye bread this set sou will be a comparatively scarce commodity. It now looks as though the American flour will be substituted for the home product, and I believe the condition of affairs are such that the American farmer can dictate the prices of breadstuff's in the foreign markets. All foreign nations, with the exception of Rus sia, have money in abundant amounts to pay for our wheat and other products." "The large number of men forced info serv ice annually is depleting the agricultural ranks, and most of the work is now done by women. ~I saw ten women at work in the fields to one man in many localities. I also saw. what would never be for a moment tol erated in America, women laying tracks and rails in building a railway. 1 tell you lam glad to return to my native soil again and witness the prosperity of our laboring classes, and can repeat what I have often said be fore. America is good enough for me. I want none of that country where they em ploy women to lay railroad tracks, , and women and cows to plow the fields." Mis. Clarke is still in Paris, where she is entertaining Miss Newport and other friends. She will sail for New York about the 21st inst. Ex-Congressman Knute Nelson, of Alex andria-dropped into the city yesterday morn ing on his way home from Washington, where he has been on business connected with the land office. He tarried at the "Wind sor long enough to dine and journeyed north early in the afternoon. He had nothing to say in regard to politics, asserting, as usual, that he was devoting bis entire time to his legal business. . . ■ Hon. J. W. Craven, of Norwood, Carver county's active and hard-working member of the state senate at the last session, was- a prominent" guest at the Clifton yester day. Senator Craven reports the farmers feeling unusually good with the largest crop in the history; of the county. As a result business is pit-kins: up very fast in all Hues and everything is going along at high tide. ; "The farmers of Carver, however, are ac customed to good crops," remarked Senator Craven with a smile, "and poor oues are un usual. The county is one of the oldest In the state, and it is certainly one of the best, it not the best, I venture the assertion that there are fever waste pieces of land in the county than in any other county of equal area in the state." Gen. J. M. Diment, the Owatonna states man and possible candidate for the Republi can congressional nomination in the ' First district, dropped into the city yesterday, and, after transacting a variety of business, took dinner at the Merchants', and returned home on : the : afternoon ;". train. Gen.' Dynent, of course, denies that he is in the race for the congressional nomination next year. ""In fact," he said, "I do not know of an avowed candidate in the district although I have no doubt that nearly every county. will have a candidate before the Republican dis trict convention when the time comes." "It is reported that ex-Congressman Dun nell will again be a candidate for the nomi nation—is this correct?" . "I have not heard him say so, nor h<»ve T heard auy of his friends suggest such a : thing,*' answered Lieu. Diment* "He ' was not a candidate • the last time. Of course," he ', has lots of friends in the district, but I do not think 1 c will ask them to support him for the nomination again, although ; I know 'nothing at all about his intentions.".' "*■ VIEWS OF THE REVIEWS. - The Forum— There may . be no relation be tween the forces which have filled the * gran aries to overflow this mouth and those which have swelled the bulk ; of . the Forum, but in both "the yield is phenomenal." : Nor is the Forum exceptional in mere quantity; the quality is excellent. The . Forum follows ail the other magazines in yielding first place to . Lowell and Archdeacon Farrar brings his tribute of kindly appreciation of the man, of his abilities aud his works. ; In common with the others, Farrar yields his critical faculties to the warmth of a" friendship which unseats judgment and puts them all rather in the role of friends bringing immortelles than of cool critics bringing their implements of dissec tion, measurement and weight. In all is ex pressed a sense of . personal loss which pre cludes their Judgment from acceptance as the final one of the place Lowell ; must take in the ranks of men of letters. The --per sonal equation" is shown in all the articles • by -the selections made by each of the verse or thought which has Impressed e.-ich writer as characteristic of some feature of Lowell's character, and the diversity is marked; but. . singularly, none of them cite the verse which as strongly marks that sturdy sense of right, that scorn of "the ginooine statesman" who . "Should be on his guard. ' Ef he must hey convictions not t" b'Jeeve 'em ..tew hard," .... which • was so strong in Lowell as any he wrote. I refer to the verse he contributed to the proceedings of the Society of Authors for the promotion of copyright:" "In vain we call old notions fudge, .":. And bend our conscience to our dealings; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing still continues stealing." President Eliot, of Harvard, adds to the literature of municipal economy "One Reme dy for Municipal Misgovernment." Before the tendency to extension of municipal func tions is further encouraged, he thinks it will be well to stop and inquire if those already possessed are used in a manner which war rants any further gift of power and duty. He makes. a negative answer to the question whether we have shown ourselves capable of governing so well that the domain maybe ex tended. Taking separately the functions of taxes, lighting, sewerage." water, street con struction and cleaning and the control of monopolistic franchises, he examines our treatment _of each, «and, comparing it with that of foreign cities, he finds the defect in the want of fitness of the men to whom the direction and discharge of these various functions is given, and jnis want he lays at the door of our craze tor elections and the attendant use of places of trust as spoils of war. The uncertainty of tenure alone pre vents meu from engaging in • this work and giving the time and study necessary to qual ify them for the iii discharge of their duties. The employment of such men never comes as the intentional result of our elective sys tem, though it may occasionally occur: but a system should not' be buiit on exceptions. "Before municipal government can be set right," he concludes, "municipal service must be made a life career for Intelligent and self-respecting yonng Americans; that it must be attractive to well-trained young men who enter it, as they enter any other profes sion or business, meaning to stay in it. learn it thoroughly and win advancement in it by fidelity and ability." * * * "Hou. M. D. Harter's "Plan for a Perma nent Bank System"' has had notice and com ment in the editorial columns of the Globe. but there are points of interest in his argu ment leading up to the statement In detail of his plan which are noteworthy. Mr. llarter is a Democrat, belonging to the free trade wing of his party, and has been connected with the management of the Aultman A Taylor manufacturing company, engaged wholly and largely in making farm imple ments, since its organization. That ho lias the full courage of his opinions was shown in his unaccepted challenge to Senator slier man, hi? townsman, in the campaign of '88, to discuss th? issues in Joint debate, and that he' has the. ability to defend them will be amply demonstrated before the Fifty - second congress shall haveended. It is very refreshing at a time when so many "statesmen" in all par ties go "swashing around," to use Senator Washburn's term, among the economic fren zies which the transit from old to new prob lems has developed, to see this Democratic congressman standing sturdily by the tried and tested principles of finance aud govern ment, principles "known to be Democratic and right," and refusing to consider the new questions '-in the light of dangerous and temporary expediency." He rejects as un wise and hazardous any scheme which will leave, to congress the power to fix the amount of currency, believing that that should be an unrestricted servant of trade, able to render at all times the precise amount of aid required by trade condi tions. He opposes the proposed unrestricted coinage of fiver because experience demon strates that two morals of varying intrinsic value can be kept in circulation side by side, only by limiting the coinage of the cheaper: because it would result in the immediate and disastrous contraction of the currency by the withdrawal of our 1500,000,000 of gold under the immutable operation of Gresham's law: because it would" "'reduce the'values of all de posits in savings banks; the value of pen sions, ."and generally, fleece the whole peo ple for the. personal benefit of a handful of silver mine owners, bullion producers and speculators." Senator Sherman's suggestion of ths use of silver bullion as a basis of note issues he dismisses 'as not . "the well-considered plan of a man of . his recognized ability, or inefficient If It is. As currency carries but 8 per cent of our ex changes and 02 per cent is carried by credits, checks and drafts the volume of money is a secondary consideration, the l first being the provision of credit facilities and - the main tainance of the measure or standard of all these values which is gold. | The enlargement of credit facilities would be obtained by the multiplication of banks under his ' system, while the value of the credits would be main tained by basing ihetn on the ■ only measure of values that enlightened nations will ac cept. "-•* i "fll fill * * * Senator Vilas' article. -'The Bennett Law in Wisconsin," is redeemed. from haying a historical value only by the f-ict that a Re publican senate iv Illinois defeated the bill passed by the Democratic assembly repealing a similar law and the projection of the ques tion into the issues in that state next year. This gives the article title to a place among the topics ot the day, and the senator's abil ity gives it interest to the reader. If the Ben nett law is a matter of mere transitional In terest, the conflicting principles of gov ernment which were active •in its in ception and its repeal, were never more a matter of interest or of importance, never more a vital topic of the day than now. That conception of the government which is best described by the word paternal ism, that tendency towards the steady, pro gressive assumption ot power by the state at the expense of the liberty of the citizen, that conception of which Federalism. Repub licanism and Socialism are types differing only in decree, found expression in the Ben-, nett law. On the other baud, that idea of government which believes. that (he liberty of the individual should be conserved in the largest possible degree, that the state should be restricted to little more thau the functions of the police, found its expression in the re peal of that law. While in this case its im plement was the Democratic party, and while that party is. supposed to stand ; for the ! Individualistic as opposed to the paternal Idea of government, it is apparent to all of our legislatures that the socialistic tendency has tainted Democracy and that no more im portant duty lies on our public men and all citizens than the effort to ' reverse this drift and turn the lid? back ; towards limited powers of the state and greater freedom for the individual. - And this is what Senator Vilas' articles teaches. While admitting the right of the state to demand education he limits its correlative duty to the provision of means for obtaining that education. While it is the duty of the parent to see that his offspring get an education it is his cor relative right to direct that education and say what it shall be. In the public school the state performs it- duty; in the private school the citizen exercises his right. * *. * A titling companion piece is Mr. Winston's "The School Controversy in Illinois." which heads in the same conception of government which produced the Bennett law in Wiscon sin, and of which Mr. Winston is a ' zealous advocate. Starting with the conceded im portance of at least, a rudimentary education and of the duty of the state *to furnish the "means of getting it. he assumes as an equally undisputed right of the state the ' power to compel attendance, a power .or right by no means generally admitted, and which is opeu to serious question and then, with that easy facility with which all thinkers afflicted with this socialistic tendency • gilde from the exercise by the state of a power of undoubted right -to powers of a doubtful or a disputed right, he passes from what all admit, the right and duty of public education, to what but few will "admit, the right of the ; state to direct the L studies in parochial schools, without seeming to have sensed that he had crossed the line which divides the - domain of the state from that of the individual, aud was riding rough-shod over the preserves of the latter. Fortun ately for individualism, this particular ex pression of paternalism ran \ against strong religious and linguistic prejudices and met defeat. It were better for good : government if the other encroachments of the .socialistic school . could - meet equajly , ; powerful op ponents. tm Abandoned at Sen. " London*", Oct. 18. — The steamship Devonshire, fiom Barrow, for New. York, has been abandoned nt sea. The British Steamer Norwegian, which ar- . rived at Glasgow yesterday, from ■■■ Mon treal, .had on board : the crew of. the Devonshire, which was valued at f 100, --000. *m — ** -Fancy, handkerchiefs . are among the fixings at present tabooed y by- well dressed "VH"_i___S_SS@»&&__S__i A TOUCH OF GINGER. The Ecumenical Council Ex- cited Just a Little by Politics. Discussion of the Power and Influence of the Press in All Lands. Congress of Prison Reformers Indulges in Philanthropic . Speeches. A League for Human Free dom Organized—Preach ers Differ. a*-iiixcito>-, Oct. 12.— A spice of Ex citement was added to the proceedings of the fifth day of the ecumenical Meth odist council to-day by Rev. Dr. Balmer, of England, who, while criticising Dr. Hughes' essay, aroused some warmth by touching on politics. Some sharp ex changes took place between some of the delegates. The council opened with Bishop J. "W. Hood, of the African M. E. Zion church, Fayetteville, N. C, in the chair. The opening services of the great council were conducted by three colored men. The topic for the morn ing session was '"The Church add Her Agencies," and Bishop R. S. Foster, of Massachusetts, proceeded to address the couciLon "The Responsibilities and Qualifications of the Preacher." He began by saying tbat he would touch alone upon the second point of his intended address, as he regarded it of superior importance. By the call of Cod, the preacher was an instrument of God, in the regeneration of men, to be co-workers with Christ in saving sin ners. Salvation was the restoration of man to right relations to God. The minister was a part of the instrument ality-for that purpose. The preacher was to be viewed as a man in a body addressing his fellowmen charged with a message. His consciousness should lift him to ll Ugnliled, Noble Manhood. lie should be able to look his fellow man in the face, to scrutinize and be scrutinized, to win confidence and re spect. The preacher needed high qual ities of mind and proper qualities of body. He should know aboii*, which he spoke; he should be a man of experi ence. Men were not born into the fel lowship of God by the volition of God; there was a process and every soul en tering the kingdom must enter by that process. Truth lodged intelligence steering the heart, leading the sinner by the gateway of repentance; by such a process was the preacher made. But that was not all. The theory to which the church held was that God called his ministers. He selected them, and made it known to' them and to others. His instrument must be able to know and act out the truth. At the conclusion of Bishop Foster's address the subject ot the day was dis cussed by Key. John Bond, of London; Rev. Frank Ballard, of England: Key. Dr. William Arthur, Rev. C. W. Clinton, of Pittsburg, and others. Key. Dr. Leonard closed the morning session in a few remarks condemnatory of the preachers who invited doubt by deliver ing sermons on Darwinism and on Hux ley. A recess was then taken in order that the delegates might attend a recep tion at* the*" White house, where the president and Mrs. Harrison received the members. Bishop Hurst acted as master of ceremonies. PRISON" REFOK3IER3. Prevention of Youthful Criminal ity Under Discussion. PiTTSncr.G, Pa., Oct. I:2.— Hon. It. B. Hayes, president of the association, called the national prison congress to order this morning for the third day's session. The interest is increasing, and the attendance was very large. Key. Father Voight, of. New Jersey, led in prayer. Alter miscellaneous business had been transacted, Judge Frances Wayland was introduced. The subject of his address was "How Shall the Chil dren of Vicious or Cruel- Parents Be Prevented From Becoming Criminals'.''' Among other things Judge Wayland said the immigration laws should be so amended as to bring to our land the better class of foreigners as far as pos sible. Education is most effectual when begun early. This truth can hardly be questioned when associated with the in mates ot a penal institution. Almost any warden will affirm " that his most hardened criminals are graduates of re form schools. The early education "of the young in associating. with youthful criminals is consequently of the worst sort. Marriages should not be permitted, unless both parties are morally and materially fit. After Judge Wayland had concluded his address the question was discussed in a general manner. A very interesting talk was given by G. W. Kound, of New York, who de • nounced the influence of reformatories. Father Canevln, of this city, said that if the homes can be reached and the fathers and mothers infused with the spirit of Christianity there would be no need of penal institutions for the youth. By the constitution of our state religion cannot be forced upon any child. There is no morality with out religion. At this juncture in Father Canevin's address Warden Pattou, of Indiana, asked him whether the child should be taught that, the laws of church or state should stand supreme in the teaching of tho children. The father made a re ply which brought forth the hearty ap plause of the audience. He said: "Teach the child its duty to the church and it is already trued in its duty to the state. The great principle" of Christianity should not be lost." The congress then adjourned - for ah excursion down the Ohio river for a vitit to the Riverside penitentiary. This evening, when the congress re assembled, Michael J. Casslday, warden of the Eastern penitentiary, Philadel phia, read a paper on his impressions of the prisons of England, Ireland. France and Belgium. He said the prisons of the four countries visited were distinct in all respects. In Ireland and Eng land the inmates of the convict prisons in physical . appearance are much the same. They are mostly below thirty-five years of age, many of which are first convictions and not of the- crime class. These facts do not seem to be . considered or any. means employed to rescue in dividuals from the accumulating crime class. The principle adopted is to re form all. In our prisons the system i-, dependent for its results on the officials of the prisons. He was under the im pression the ticket-of-leave system in Ireland— parole, it is called in the United States— has not produced the results the projectors expected. John 11. Patterson, warden of the Xew Jersey state prison at Trenton, followed in -an interesting and comprehensive paper on the parole system. He said the proper subjects for control were not the hardened criminal who has repeat edly violated the law, but those who arc not so wilfully wicked as -weak. The session closed after the . reading of a paper on criminal statistics by Dr. Ro nald Falkner, of the University of Penn sylvania. - "LEAGUED FOII FREEDOM. Opening, of a Convention Unique in Object. ; P_n__lK_S*___, Oct. 13.— The open ing session of the committee to perfect arrangements and draw "* up plans for the meeting of a pan-republican con gress and human freedom league dur ing the quadri-eenteiinial year began here this morning in the historic old In dependence hall. When the meeting opened only about seventy-five out of the 300 members of the committee were present. Of this number, six . were women. The members of the commit tee represent nearly every state in the Union, and were elected by the societies in those states that believe in universal freedom for mankind, and the abolition of wars and the substitution of arbitra tion and peace congresses in their places. — In the absence of Judge William 11. Arnoux, of New York, president of the committee. Dr. John Clark Uedpath. of Greeucastle.'lnd., took the chair. Dr. Persifer Frazer, clieirman of the local committee, in welcoming. the delegates, stated that the object of the congress was for the attainment of justice, a broader manhood, the abolition of na tional theft and murder (called gener ally annexation and war), and the sub stitution of arbitration and fair dealing. Gov. Pattison welcomed the members of the committee as the chief executive of the state of Pennsylvania, and Mayor Stuart performed a like duty on behalf of the city. Dr. Redpath re sponded to Gov. Pattison's and Mayor Stuart's speeches. At the afternoon session the Human Freedom league was organized by the appointment of a committee of organ ization consisting of one member from each state. A white Hag was adopted as the ensign of the league. In the center of the flag is placed the national flag ot the different nations of the world, each country in which a branch of the league is located using its own flag for the center, PRINCETON "PRKAHCERS. Dr. Green on the Bible— A. De fense of Briggs. * PitixcETOX, X. J., Oct. 12.— Rev. Dr. Green, senior professor in the theolog ical seminary and moderator of the last general assembly, who is, perhaps, the most profound Biblical student who is opposed to the revision of the confes sien of faith, preached yesterday before the college students, and in the course of his sermon, after reviewing his well known arguments for verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, said: "The question is as to the general trustworthiness of the Bible. Can we accept the Old Testament at all if it is j full of false statements in historical facts which are not incidental, but essential? If the stories of miracles are the emana tions of the heated Oriental brain aud the prophets were deceivers of tiie people; if tne human history contained in the Bible is untrue, can we accept the state ments, for which it is the only author ity, concerning God? This is the point for which we are lighting, not for the mere verbal accuracy, but as to the broad truthfulness and trustworthiness of the Bible, against 'a. destructive criti cism, which throws wide open the gate which would lead us down into a self seeking rationalism." NEW Yokk. Oct. 12.— 1n the Bloom ingdale Reformed church last evening Dr. Madison C. Peters spoke to an im mense audience in defense of Dr. Briggs, whose trial on charges of heterodoxy Is now pending, lie likened his case to that of Dr. Lyman Beecher, Albert Barnes and Prof. David Swing, whose prosecution the Presbyterian church has occasion to remember with shame. Such trials, he sain, should be placed side by side with the burning of witches in Massachusetts years ago, and he thanked God that a majority of the clergymen of New York are in sym pathy with Dr. Briggs. Power or €lie Press. When the council reassembled the topic for discussion was "The Religious Press and the Religious Uses of the Secular Press." Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, of London, delivering the essay. He said there were now 4,000 daily pa pers.. Was it not strange that this great agency bad rarely received the consid eration of the curches. ' It was now the fourth estate, the greatest engine of the world, and became so without the aid of the church or its blessing. What were the true mictions of this engine? First, to collect news, and enormous were the expense and results. Through the telegraph every man might know what transpired in the whole world. Christ condemned the religious men who did not know the signs of the times. A great function of the press was the definition of public opinion. It was well to know the prevailing opinion, no matter what It was. Another function of the press was to influence the public; to impress upon it the views of the editor. It had been said that the news paper was mightier than the pulpit, and perhaps that estimate was not too high. The powers of journalism used on the right side was enormous and ir resistible. For the creation .of public opinion in these swift days the press was supreme. if so disposed, the editors of the daily papers could render Incalculable service to the cause of God. The religious press should never be used for political purposes, and it should extend its work in learning and recording the progress of God's work on earth. Organ* and Polities* Rev. E. 11. Dewart, editor of the Christian Guardian, of Toronto.Canada, held that the church must have berown press as well as her own pulpits, but he disliked to hear the religious paper called the "organ" of the church. In times of moral degeneracy, when the public conscience is paralyzed by selfish views of duty, the religious press should fearlessly rebuke prevailing .sins whether it brings popularity or opposi tion and reproach, for a time-serving press is the curse of the country. Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Ferguson, presi dent of the Primitive Methodist Church of England, could not say amen to all Dr. Hughes had said, and especially where he said that religious papers should not take cognizance ot politics, in England there were thousands of people that received their politics, not from the daily papers, but from the weekly religious journal. Many parts of this great country, he had been told, were influenced strongly by the Roman Catholic power. It might be because that power was concentrated, but might it not also be because of their use of the press? Rev. E. E. Hoss, of Nashville, Term., said the religious newspapers had not kept pace with the secular press in de velopment, though the improvement had been great. Every argument brought forward to show that the church should put its hand upon the pulpit would apply with equal force to show that it should put its hand upon the press. Rev. Dr. Buckley, of New York, ed itor of Jhe Christian Advocate, believed that the weekly religious paper had a greater influence in - manufacturing public opinion than the daily, and was severe in his criticisms upon the secular press. A Little Excitement. Rev. Dr. Buhner, of . England, was grateful to Dr. ll uglier, and said it might be that condemnation by some speakers was equivalent to the praise of others. This remark called forth mani festations of mingled applause and con demnation, and Dr. Balmer withdrew his remark, but immediately afterwards aroused - Mr. Atkinson, of London, by ref erring to a remark mti-le to the effect that one of the English political parties had ridden into power on a beer barrel, and adding, "we , have never learned that the party was divorced from the beer barrel." yJaeBSH . Mr. Atkinson replied excitedly that the party never was married to it. Dr. Balmer rejoined that he was sixty years of age and as competent to form a judg ment as others. If the gentleman was in the British parliament he would be expelled. y At this stage Dr. Morley, of New Zealand, raised a point of order that ii was not competent -to discuss English politics in the conference. Dr. Balmer replied that his allusions to politics had been called forth' by the preceding speakers. He hoped he would be al lowed to occupy his full five- minutes. ".* *l hope you won't," was Mr. Athinson's parting shot But Dr. Balmer was al lowed to speak on and confined himself to his subject of the proper, functions of the press, The business committee reported back the •memorial touching the clos ing ot the 'World's Colombian ex position on Sunday and recommended the appointment of a committee to pic an appropriate expression of the judg ment of the conference. The commit tee will meet to-morrow. HAWKEYE POLITICS. Political Rallies of All Kinds Co- Be Held at Dcs Moines This Week. Dcs Moines, Oct. 12.— Politics will be lively in lowa this week, and tho center of activity will be here at Dcs Moines. The two leading parties will hold their great rallies of the campaign here, and each is straining itself to out do the other. The Democrats have se lected Tuesday and the Republicans will follow on Wednesday. Gov. Boies will be the principal ape-iker on Demo cratic day, or rather night, whlie the Republicans have Golf, of West Vir ginia; ex-Congressman Mason, of Chi cago, and others of lesser note. The Democrats expect to carry off the honor of entertaining the largest crowd, and they are quite likely not to be disappointed. On the same days the two Farmers' Alliance organ izations will meet In state conven tion for the purpose of attempting to unite the two organizations into ono body. Success may crown the meeting, but it is extremely doubtful. The old Alliance is officially dominated by Re publican influence.. Its president, J. B. Furrow, is a narrow partisan, and on several occasions he has attempted to steer the organization into the Re publican camp. The new or Southern Alliance is not averse to politics, but it does not take kindly to the Republican party, as it has a ticket of its own in the field, headed by one of its own mem bers. Any attempt at union with the old organization that does not leave tho new in control is not likely to find much favor. It is doubtful, indeed, if the in congruous elements contained in the two Alliances can be harmoniously united into one. Gov. Boies is billed for seven speeches during the week. He will open at Mar shalltown Monday, Dcs Moines Tues day, Pella Wednesday. Burlington Thursday. Muscatine Friday, Decorah Saturday afternoon, and Independence in the evening. The governor's meet ings keep up with unabated interest. The attendance is marvelous. During the rainy weather and consequent mud dy roads that prevailed during the past week In Southern lowa, when- several of bis meetings were held, the attend ance and interest were undiminished. There is no doubt that Gov. Boies is making great inroads upon the Repub lican farmer vote, having HO one to meet his convincing arguments. Tho Republican managers have appealed to Clarkson, and that distinguished poli tician is expected to come to the rescue early next week. It is whispered that a healthy campaign fund will come along with him which is to be used where Candidate Wheeler has previously arranged for the application of the "blocks of five" rule. In oilier words, they propose to carry lowa if it can be done by the use of a corruption fund in the cities. But it can't be done. Tho Democrats will gain more votes among the farmers of lowa than the Repub Means can buy in the cities. ***• An Artist in His Way. Will— You don't mean to say that y ou are something of an artist? 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