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6 ■-** * kmm <k HortOu ) &s The weather is becoming Perceptibly and feelingly chillier and it is time to adopt the needful precautions for an agreeable passing of the opening season. Winter and Furs cant be separated, and the thought of facing cold 'months furies s is enough to make any one shiver. Doiit do anything of the kind, but make s?iita ble selections from our stock of Furs, which includes all (lie new styles, especially the new and dainty little Fur Neck Scarfs, which are so popular all over the East. We feel confident that you can find no stock in the West like ours, but come and see for yourselves. One thing we know, "lookers" are convert ed info buyers without much effort, and we are daily told we have THE stock, and that it's way ahead of any others in the two cities. You cant all buy At once, or all get waited on in November and December. We should urge the imme diate ordering or selection of your Fur Garment. We hardly know what to call your attention to. We sim ply say we have everything in Fur Garments from $25 to $500, and think you will buy if you come and look. Anyway, we will be pleased to show our goods. i™iian di ™ MINNEAPOLIS ABLAZE . Continue*! From First Page. cause he assumed to be put to the test. The bill was passed on the 30th day of July, 184(5. to take effect on the Ist day of December,lß4G. Our trade has always been a trade chiefly between American farauns and foreign manufacturers and shopkeeper*: Jtnnj 75 1080 Him So per cent all the exports of this country have been foreign products and are so today. Therefore. . everybody knew that whenever the obstruction was removed I here would be an increased demand for farm products to go out to pay lor the increased importation of manufactured goods. The increased demand for farm products increased the price of farm products, and on the first day of December, when the law went into effect, the increased value of farm products in the United States was on an average 28% per cent, which added $350,000,000 to the value of the crop of the United States. It took away the stilted value which the tariff had imposed upon manufactured goods of an equal amount, and £700,000.000 were . left to be enjoyed among the laborers of the country, who had earned it by the sweat of their brows. [Applause.] Do you not suppose that if we should re duce the higher tariff of today that there would be an Equally Increased Price of agricultural products, and an equally depressed price of manufactured goods? Unquestionably there would. It would be at least SS per cent, because the price of manufactured goods is much higher than they were in 1842. What is the value of our farm pro ducts today? The agricultural depart ment reports them at 84,500.000,000. Add 25 per cent to that price and you will find that the value of the farm pro ducts of today would be £0,000,000,000 instead of 84,500,000,000. The increased price of the fanners of this country would be $150,000,000. That value the tariff de stroys, because it destroys the market for these goods. [Applause.] They are made here. This is the richest country in the world. We have the most intelligent and productive labor in the world. We produce the quantity, but if we cannot find a market for t c consumption of the product the surplus becomes worth less. Suppose the protective policy were carried out as some of the philosophers of that school demand that it shall be. Suppose that it should be carried out as Henry C Carey, one of the meat lights of protection, contends, and that the ocean should be set on lire so that no vessel could cross from this country to a foreign country, nor come from that foreign country tons; Mr. Carey says that that is what ought to have been done; that it would be infinitely better for the country if it were to be done. Now, Democrats are generally very well contented to rake this world as they hud it, just as Uod made it. and we all believe that He lias made it Hie wisest aud best that it could possibly have been made, and we believe that the highest possible attainment, moral, material and intellectual, is to be secured by living in the strictest conformity with the laws of (Jod. 1 know that many of you Re publican friends think that you could wonderfully Improve the Works of God, and if Mr. Carey had been in the Gar den of Eden when the world was made, doubtless he would have called upon the Almighty and would have suggest ed some wonderful changes in the mechanism of the universe. [Laughter.] Now, here is fifteen hundred millions ot dollars annihilated. And if the ! ocean were set on fire so that we could not send any wheat, any cotton, any provisions to any other part of the world after every one in this I country had been satisfied, every snide, solitary dollar of the export business of this country would be annihilated. It would be a loss of a thousand millions of dollars a year; at least that. But is that all? Why, my friends, tlia-t is only a part of it— perhaps only half of it. The increased price of the manu factures, which we have to pay, takes an amount equal to that at least out of the pockets ot the people, transfers it I from the pockets of the laborers who 1 make it and gives it to a favored class who have no right to it. [Ap plause.] As I told you. we make $8.7'J0,0u0,000 worth of manufactured goods. On the imported goods into this country, about £450,000,000, we pay an I ad valorem average rate of duty of $45 on every $100 worth. Kay that we pay only 25 per cent upon Hie domestic product, and, if we. do, and give away i $700,000,000 (say that the product is only £8,000.000,0000, instead ol $5,700, 000,000, and that it has an increased price by reason of the.tariff of 25 per cent aver age), you have added §2,000,000,000 on i the shoulders of the. taxpayers of this country— taken it from them and given it to a favored class. These are stupen dous figures. They ought to command the serious attention of the people of the United States. It is for you to say whether this policy is to be continued or whether you will return to the an cient Policy of tlie Republic, to permit our people to work at what ever occupation they please, and send the products of their labor all over the earth if they please. [Applause.] Now. my friends, these (iaures re mind me of the story of a little boy who had gone to school, and his teacher gave him a sum to work, and he did it very readily and was very proud of it. He ran home and told his father that the teacher had given him a *unn and lie worked it right off, and he says. "1 be lieve 1 can do any sum in the arithme tic, any of them, 1 did that so quick." His lather said. "Well, now, my son. I am going to give you a sum, and if you do that— do it any time— i will think that you are going to be a great mathe matician, and 1 shall be very proud of you. You know 1 am digging a well out here in the yard, and I have got down forty feet deep this evening, It is as dry as a powder house, I haven't got a bit of water; 1 am tired ami I want to go to bed, but 1 want to give you this sum for you to work, and when you get through with it you can wake me up." Well, the little fellow says, "Wait until I get my slate and pencil;" and he got his slate, and pencil, and his father says, "Now, here is the sum: If 1 catch a cat and throw it in the well, and the cat scratches out two feet toward the top every day and slips back three feet every night, how long will it be in set ting to the top or' the well?" -[Laughter.] And the little fellow says, "Well, now, that may take me some time, but 1 am very sure about figures, and 1 will get him out for you." [Laughter.] lie trot his candle and went to ciphering away. The ol<J man went to bed, and away in the night he woke up and saw the little tellow with the «. Candle All Burned Out, f down on all fours before the lire, with the chunks all turned up so he could see to continue the investigation, his head stuck almost in the Same, and lie >>was still struggling to get that cat out APPLES v The ■■Api.le of rnpjro Your bye could KitLlO be no more desira- APPLES ble than the fruit APPIER you may get at MuLlo Yerxa's tomorrow. APPLES ~ Baldwins that ADDI EC are strictly "Fan- ArrLtO cy," $3 per barrel; Baldwins that are almost too fine to be graded 'Choice" (most dealers call them "Fancy"), $2.50 per barrel. YERXA BROS. & CO., Seventh and Cedar. THE PAINT PATH, DAILY GLOBE: RJNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 23, 1R92.— -TWENTY PAGES. of the well. In the morning his father woke up and the little fellow was toss ing nbout on his bed, and he said to him, "^ly son, have you got that cat out of the well yet?" The little fellow says, "Father, did youjsay 'ouT" He says, "Yes. that is what you* PCQil.ljS.9rt to do, and that is the sum I gave you; have you got that cat out of the well yet?" lie says, "Father, ligures don't lie; that cat's half-way to hell by this time." [Great laughter and ap plause.J Nq\>\ my friends, that is vist the oonriitioii of the people of the United States. [Applause] They are traveling the same course thai that ca,t traveled. Some of them seem to like it. [Laughter.] They continue to vote for the preservation of that uolicy that continues to push them still farther down instead of one that would aid them in coining towards the top and getting out of the well. Why is it that we continue to pursue this policy? This government was founded by our fath ers on the presumption that the pfople of the United States would have intelli gence and common sense enough to know what was best for their welfare, and virtue enough in their hearts when they knew what was for the best "to do what was best. They thought we had. and all the world knows thai the people of the United States have, more information diffused among them than any other people in the world. There may be an exception in the case of some brainy philosophers in some parts of the world, but*the en tire population of No Country Compares in intelligence with fte population of the United States. [Applause.] It is a land of universities, of colleges:, of free schools. We live in tl<e shade of edu cation all the time. We know that this policy is wroug. Now the question arises, knowing thatjt is wrong, have we the virtue to* tear the abuse out by the root, or would we rather follow our predecessors, would w* rather follow our party affiliations, would we rather nurse that insidious monster in our bosom— prejudice against our own interests— and continue blindly to vote forown enslavement?[Applause.] It is a question of virtue. It is a ques tion, not of the head, my friends— you cannot plead ignorance— it is a question of the heart. If you want to emancipate yourselves and your fellows from this condition of things, there is but one way you can do it. and that one way is to begin now and work, and on the Bth day of November vote the straight Dem ocratic ticket from top to bottom. [Applause.] But this policy of protection claims that it is in the interest of the American work ingman, not in the interest of the manu facturer, but the workman— the poor man. It is the patriotic policy, it is the philanthropic policy, it is the human itarian policy! The men who are pro pounding it and forcing it upon the country are the manufacturers,bounding the doors of the congress of the United States, and demanding these high du ties, and every time in the interest of the workiugman! They never claim it is for themselves. [Applause and laugh ter.] Why, in lsss", Mr. Blame an nounced the policy of Tthe Republican party on this question, in a speech de livered in New York, when he said: "Capital Can Take Care of Itself." It is not the capitalists. Wealth can always take care of itself. But It is the poor workingman that we want to take care of. He said, "It is not a question of capital, it is a question of labor, from skin to core, and from core back to skin again." [Applause.] Yes, my friends, it is a question of labor from skin to core. The manufacturer gets the core, the workman gets the skin*. [Applause and laughter.] It is the plundering of the pocketbook of the workman. It is a question of labor. He cannot possibly be benefited by any tariff. You cannot conceive of a tariff that will raise the wages of a workman, high or low, little or much. Every tariff, whatever its amount, is injurious to the man who has to consume the products upon which it is imposed. 1 wiil demonstrate it to you right now. I do not intend to let you go away from here in doubt upon this ouestion. Now 1 will say that there ore two men here; one is a manufacturer of woolen goods, the other is his workman. 1 will say that we are in a state of nature, with no law but Clod's law of equality among his children— the old Democratic law, equal ami exact justice to all [applause]; no class privileges, no class burdens, every one standing upon the fundamental and inalienable principle of free govern ment, equal rights to all, exclusive priv ileges to none. [Great applause] I wll say that that manufacturer has to work six days in the week. He gets six yards of cloth, worth in tlie market £1 a yard. Well, after he has got as much as he wants fur himself aud his family, the rest of his cloth is for sale or exchange; he has to sell it to get means to pay for his labor. He goes to the laborer and lie says, "You need some cloth for your self and your family. I will give you six yards of my cloth, of my making,for six days of your labor, you laboring at $1 v day. The Trade Is 3la<le. The manufacturer cives one yard of cloth, worth .*l, one day's labor, tor one clay's work of the laborer worth ?1. Hare is equal trade; here is fair trade; here is a rightful exchange; each one exchanges one day of toil for the satis faction on on;j day's worth of doth. Now the tarilt' conies in. This thing is for the benefit of the workman. Let us see how it affects the workman. The manufacturer goes to congress and says 1 want a tarilf to protect me against cheat* pauper labor of Europe; 1 cannot continue this business in competition with these cheap workmen over in Eu rope; 1 want 100 per cent duty on my cloth. One hundred per cent duty means SI per yard tax put on it. Then when a yard of cloth like mina is made in Europe and brought to the custom house in New York, or any othercustom house, it has not to pay another dollar on the way; that is ?2a rard. The goods have got to be sold in this market for? 2 ajard to cover all cost; that fixes the price of all goods of that kind, and the yard of goods made in this country is protected to that extent, and it sells, too, for §2 a yard. Now, what is the condition of the workman? lie lias got to work twelve days to get 812 to buy the very same six yards of gooJs that lie got before for six days' labor. [Ap plause.] lie was working at ?1 a day before the tariff came to bless him with its beneficence, lie now works at 50 cents a day. For if it takes him twelve days' work to get the So worth of goods, he' is certainly working at SO cents a day. How is it with the manufacturer? They teli us that capital can take care of itself, and italways does. [Laughter and applause.] And it does a good deal of it TliroHKl* Acts of Congress, too. [Laughter.] And acts of Repub lican congresses. [Great applause.] That manufacturer before was working six days at a dollar a day to get SO to pay for six days' work of this laborer. Now, his cloth is worth $2 a yard and he is .working three days to get £6* while his workman is working twelve days to get s 6. He has taken care of himself. And yet tney tell us that the tariff is for the protection of American labor. It is the labor of getting the arm of the manufacturer into tne pockets* of his workmen and extracting the last dollar that lie can get out of it. [Applause.] Now, my friends, 1 have demonstrated that to you, and it cannot be answered. A man may answer a irreat many things, but you cannot change the mul tiplication table. Mathematics is an exact . science, . There it is; 1 demonstrated it to you. I will demon strate it to you again. Take this prin ciple, that the rate of wages of workmen decreases just in proDoition to the in crease of the tax on the things that they •have to consume. It never does increase, it always decreases, and the decrease is just in "proportion to the increase of the tax. 1 will, prove that, too. Suppose this same gentleman comes— as they always do come— [laughter] and says, 1 am not content with one dollar, lam not content with 100 per cent, 1 want 200 pere«nt duty on these goods. ' Well, the Republican congressman says, "Why didn't you say so before? You could have gotten it if you had wanted it [laughter and applause]: you are to blame, in} friend, for not getting it, we always give you whatever you want, we need some votes from you when the Election Is Camtiijr O:i, don't you know: [laughter] we will give you what you want, we will irive you 200 percent. It is given." ss<3w then, the yard of goods costs SI in Eu rope, ttLSQJtafa ayarutopass it throuirh the custom house; the foreign goods have got to bfl sold at $3 a yard in the United States. Thajt tixes the price dt the domestic goods, protected up to that point at $3 a yard: and now the manu facturer has to work two days at &i a day to get ty jo pny for the six day's sGfvidirof Ins workman, "whfle (lie workman has got to work eighteen days to get SIS to buy the six yards of cloth. Don't you see how this operates? [Applause.] They started perfectly equal by the laws of nature— a fair trade, an open and competing trade — but as the tariff comes the work man has to work longer, and just in proportion to the rate of duty he goes that way (downward), and the manu facturer goes this way (upward); the manufacturer's wages are increased — the workman's wages are decreased. Put it 100 per cent more, ami the work man will have to work twenty-four days to get $34 to buy the same six yards of cloth, and he will work at 25 cents a day. Put on 100 per cent more, and he lias to work thirty days to get $30 to buy the same six yards ot cloth, and then he will work at 20 cents a day. That is the way the tariff benefits the workinirnian. All this duty levied upon goods is for the benefit of the woTkingman, they profess. Why does he not get it? There is a duty of 50.7;2 placed upon each ton of pig iron for the protection of Amer ican labor in making that ton of pig iron. But who gets it? Why., all the reports of the manufacturing establish ments in tiie I. 1 nited States show that the workman only CJets Free Trade Prices for his labor he gets from $1.;25 to $1.50, and, in rare cases, ?1.75 for the labor of making a ton of pig iron. The manu facturer gets the $0.72 and puts it in his pocket, and this is the way it helps the workinirman. Now, 1 have a proposition to make that I have made all over this country, and 1 will make it here in this beautiful and historic city, and that is, that if any man will show me how 1 can get that 5G.72 out of the pockets ot the owner of the pig iron, under the tariff, and put it in the pockets of the man who made it. 1 will vote the Republican ticket and talk for it all over the country. [Great applause.] L can make this proposition without the least peril. [Laughter.] Because you can no more do it than you can stretch your hands up and tear the sun from its cousre. The tariff increases the price of the thing upon which the labor is expended, not the labor; it increases the price of the product imported into the country and the product that is competing with it made in this country. It does not be long to the laborer, it belongs to his em ployer. When the tariff of $0.72 is put on a ton of pig iron it increases the price of pig iron in this country, not the price of the sweat and strength or the arm of the laboring men that made it. The manufacturers get it all. But still they say whatever tax is paid at all in this country is paid by the foreigners over yonder; that our people do not pay it; that the duty is Paid by Foreigners. My friend McKinley is going about all over the country saying that "the issue presented to the American people is whether the American people shall pay their own taxes, or make foreigners pay them. Taxation goes from the citizen to the government i:i compensation for the protection of the government to his rights. What right have we, professing to be an honest, a moral and a religious people, to lay the hand of power upon a foreign people and take from them two hundred and twenty-live millions of dollars, when we offer them no protec tion to life, to liberty or to property in our own country? [Applause.] There used to be pirates swarming the seas in the centuries that are gone; but in the prosnvss of morality and civilization and christianity,the nations of the earth have combined and swept the pirates from the sea. Yet, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, statesmen, claiming to have come from a party of the high est morality of the country, sro before the people and advocate a policy of robbing foreign people to make them support this government, when we afford them no protection. [Applause.] But, my friends, if we could do it. and if the moral question is left out of ac count altogether, why stop at 5?22."j,003, --000? The expenditures of this govern ment are £o;>,000,000 a year. Why shall we not make them pay it all? Let us take $500,000,000 from them, and do not let us stop at that either, if we can take $225, 000, 000, or sr>oo,ooo,ooo. why not take everything they have got? [Applause and laughter.] Why not di vide it up among us? We all need something in this country, we could en joy it very much: and if we have got the power to take £225,000,000. we have got the power to take Everything They Have Got. But that is fallacious. It is false. It Is not hardly a sophistry, it is so plain. How on the face of the earth can we collect taxes in foreign countries? Take that ton of pig iron that 1 have been speaking about. When it is made in Great Britain or Belgium it is worth SlO. Now.then, Mr. Foreigner pays the tax when he sells that ton of pig iron. When he sends that ton of pig iron over here we could, but for the tariff, buy that ton of pig iron at the same price we buy it in Europe. If we pay the tax we buy that ton of pig iron at the price at which it is sold in Europe, plus the amount of duty paid at the custom house. And that is what we do. When the ton of pig iron comes to this coun try it is sold; if it brought there .?10, it is sold here for $16.72 a ton, with the other chartres added to it, and the $0.72 is collected at the custom house and paid into the treasury at Washing ton. Do you suppose that any man in the world who is making pig iron is fool enough, when it costs him $S out of the $10 at* least for material and labor and then pay §0.72 and sell it for |10? [Laughter.] " If it cost him S3 for labor and material and $6.72 for taxes, that would be £14.72 that he pays out, and he takes in $10. And yet they say they are getting rich at it. This is a sample of all the rest. No, my friends, we pay the taxes. We suffer the burdens, and our working people are the chief sufferers from this iniquitous system that is gathering up the wealth of this country and putting it into the pockets of a favored class. There is only one way, my Iriends, To Make Wages Higher — to increase Ibe rate of wages. That one way is to increase the consumption of the products of labor. When you in crease the consumption of the product, you must necessarily increase the em ployment of labor that produces the products, and when you increase the employment of labor you must neces sarily increase the demand for the em ployment of taCpr, and that increases the wages. [Appiause.] Now, the first step to take is to take all the taxes off the raw materials of manufacture; that enables them to be cheaper. Then all the taxes off the fin ished product, except what is sufficient to support an honest administration of government: that again makes them cheaper. [Applause.] When you do that jiSu enormously increase their con sumption, and when yob do that you enormously increase their production, and when you have done that you have increased the demand for labor to make tliat enormous increase of production and increase the wages. Now, you sec our Republican friends have proceeded on precisely the op posite course. They have increased the cost of the material; they have added to the cost of the finished product. They have increased the price in the market:. they have restricted the con sumption; they have restricted the production; and in restricting the pro duction they have restricted employ ment of labor and reduced its wages. [Applause.] All over this country, since the adop tion and passage of the McKiniey law, wages have been falling. I rt'ive a list with me of 400 establishments iv the United States, since the first day of Oc tober, 189), wheie" ~ .;*- - . . WajjcsHny^ Been tteilucijd, -.. when they promise.l thai 'these wages should be increased. [Applause.] ---^ .; J^!iave"!j^t Beard of but ease where wages" Have Peen . increased. And see ing: on one of the banners in your line of Diticeosion this evening a reward of $500 offered for information of any case where wages had been; increased. 1 I thought I might put in an application to draw that fund. - Down in Illinois a ■'Democratic candidate had been calling out ail over the state where he spoke ; for some one to raise his hand, and tell him a case where labor had, in a single instance, its wages increased since the McKJnley bill was passed. Finally one hand rose in the audience, and the .man whose hand was raised was ques tioned by the candidate, and he said' that in his establishment he yt had raised the wages of his working people on an average of 5 per cent. The governor asked him: "How -many persons do yon employ?" "About 300." "How many persons have par ticipated in the increase of wages?" He says: "That is none of your business; that is my private business; but 1 say. to you that I have increased the wages of my workmen on an average of 5 per t cent." The governor made an examina tion into the subject the next morning, and he found out that in this establish ment there was a bookkeeper who was getting $5,000 and a superintendent who was getting §3,000 a year. They had been employed in the establishment lons enough to know all about its busi ness, and to know that it was making money very rapidly, and so the two combined and made an agree ment to set out upon their own hook and make some money for themselves, In order to buy them oft' tlieir wages were doubled. '1 he man who got 55.00J was given ten the " man who got $3,000 was given six. and then they ran the average of the whole through that, and thes« two fellows were the only ones that got money: the other workmen got none. [Applause.] This is the only establish ment I know of in the United States where wages of workmen have been in creased under the MeKinley tariff law. Now, my friends, the issue is squarely joined between the two great parties of this country, one for cheaper products, one. for higher wages one for more employment, one for more extended commerce and open markets to the world for the sale of the products of American labor, and the other for higher taxes and lower wages and less employment. [Applause.] You can choose between you, my friends, which oftliese two you will follow. If you want greater prosperity; if you want to see the wealth of this country distrib uted among the labor that makes it; if you want to see it in the homes of the poor who earn it; if you want to see equality preserved according to the fundamental principle of association among a tree people, vote the Demo cratic ticket from Grover Cleveland down. [Great applause.] Vote for a Democratic president to sign the bill. Vote for a Democratic vice president; it may be possible that, as with Mr. Dallas in IS4O, lie may be required to give iliß casting vote to make it a law. Vote tor the Democratic candidate for congress from this district [great applause] to help to pass the law through congress. Vote for Democrats to the legislature of your state to vote for a Democratic United States senator to help to pass the law [applause]. Vote for the Demo cratic candidate for governor of your stale to put the state of . . Minnesota in Line with the Democratic procession that is marching on to victory [applause]. If this be the desire of the good people of the United States: if they wish to bring back the government to the old principles of their lathers; if they want to have a government that responds to the public will; a government that ad ministers its laws in order to promote the happiness of all the people and pre serve this grand system of free govern ment which our -fathers founded, and transmit it unimpaired to our children from generation io generation, fall back into, the old, Democratic column and march with us to victory on the Bth day of November next. At the conclusion of Senator Mills' speech the crowd began to shout for Lawier again. He was wanted and wanted badly by his many enthusiastic admirers, lie advanced to the front of the platform and asked to be excused, lie was too hoarse, he said, to make himself heard, and besides, lie was very tired. His heart was with the crowd and their sentiments were his. The crowd good naturedly gave up de manding another speech; and the meet ing broke up. It was not the work of a few moments, however, to clear the hall, for so densely packed was the crowd that it was an effort for people to extricate themselves from their seats, it took half an hour for the audience to get oul of the building. Although the speeeli-niading on the interior of the building was over, it was not so on the exterior, where several thousand people were gathered to pick up the fragments, as it were, of Demo cratic truths. These people had been uuabie to effect an entrance into the hull and were enjoying themselves by listening to speeches delivered from the big stairway, facing the river, by St. l'aul and Minneapolis orators. When the speeches were over the crowd marched back to the city and the big rally was over. . Did as He Pleased. Puclc. Kickwood (to his old classmate, whom he lias met by chance)— Come right into the house, old mail. Here's the bottle. Have a drink. Bunker— Does your wife let you drink? Kickwood — Why, of course! Have a cigar, won't you? Bunker— Thanks- Does your wife (putt) allow you to smoke (puff, puff) hi the house? Kick wood— Certainly! We'll have dinner, and then we'll so around to the club and meet some of the boys. . Bunker— your wife let you go to the club? Kickwood— Why, of course. Bunker — Urn- where is your wife? Kickwood— She is visitinsr relatives in the country. Set the Boy Thinking. x Boston Democrat. Mr. Marks— Well, niy little man, what do you intend to do when you grow up to be a man? ■ Little Man— l did intend to be an actor, but my mother wouldn't let me. ! Mr. Marks— Did you practice walk ing a Rood deal? ; Little Man— No, sir, I read. I Mr. Marks— Oil, well, walking is one of the things an actor muse be up in. j';*j^.: A ORKKD. God sends no message by me, I am mute When Wisdom crouches in her furthest cue; I love the organ, but must touch the lute. No controversies thrust me to the ledge Of dangerous schools and doctrines hard to I learn; Give me the whitethroat whistling in the 1 Hedge. I am' content to know that God is great, And Lord of fish and fowl, of air and sea- . Some little points are misty. Let them wait, I well can wait when upland, wood, and deil Are full of speckled thrushes great with son?,' And foxgloves chime each purple velvet bell. At eventide I lean across a gate And, knowing life must set as does the sun, Muse on the angels in the Happy State. My song is all of birds and peasant homes, For on such themes my heart delights to . dwell ' ■ And sing in sunshine till the shadow comes. I sing of dasies and the colored plot Where dandelions climb the thistle's knee— I take what is, nor pine for what is not. I am for finches and the rosy lass Who leads me where the moss is thicK, and where Sweet strawberry-balls of scarlet gleam in grass. And this I know, that when I leave my birds. The llchened walls, the heartsease and the heath, I shall not wholly fail of kindly words. And while I journey to the distant Day That first shall dawn upon the eastern bills, Perchance some thrush will sing me on my way. •—Norman R. Gale. THE OWL LAUGHED. The Bird of Wisdom Indulges in ■*. > a Little Noise. VER twenty years ago, traveling on foot through a rough section in the eastern part of Mis souri, says a writer in Ar k an sas City Times, 1 found myself toward sunset in a solid (ierman s c 1 1 1 ement. They almost without excep tion keep cross dogs— usually bull-dogs of savage • feroc- ity. often dangerous for their owners if approached after being loosened from their chains at nightfall. For this rea son it was hazardous to travel after sun set, so 1 began an hour before sundown to find a lodging place for the night, but the Germans either could not or would not understand me. The shades of night were gathering when 1 saw with pleasure the light or a campfire shining on two white-covered emigrant wagons in the woods down below the road I was traveling. They proved to be Americans, and when 1 told them how 1 was situated they gave me a friendly welcome, and we passed a pleasant evening by that camptire. After we retired to rest, raid perfect quiet reigned in tl:e camp, there arose on the still night air the most hideous, diabolical laughter that ever greeted the ears of mortal man. The boy lying be side me made a fair imitation of the sound. "What is ii?" 1 asked. "That," said the father, "is a laughing owl; the boy is mocking it in his sleep." Some time after, still prospecting in Missouri, I reached after dark a ferry house and which was also a tavern, on the Osage river, in a thinly populated district. The house was filled with mulattoes and negroes of all shades, from that of a new saddle to a pot black. The ferryman was preparing for spring work on his farm, so there was no room for me. Two negroes rowed me across the river, and going up the bank 1 soon found by the starlight a road which 1 followed but a short distance when my way was barred by a fence. As 1 hoped to strike the road again at another Doint, 1 turned off into an apparently new road in the woods, but soon in the dark ness lost my landmark, the fe*nce, and my way. too. To stay in the woods on a very cold April night was not so desirable, so I listened earnestly for some sound of a human habitation, as the crowing of a cock or barking of a dog, that would lead me to a house. {Standing there in that impressive silence of the woods at night there came at length a welcome sound, a low laugh as from a distance, from some negro hut. perhaps; but bet ter to sit up at night, even in a negro shanty, than to stumble around in the darkness in the strange depths of the Osage woods. 1 started in the direc tion, traveled some distance and lis tened again for a repetition of the sound, when suddenly, right overhead, arose that unearthly, blood-curdling, fiendish laughter. I have stood face to face with a furi ous maniac arid looked on his glaring, bloodshot eyes, lips Decked with foam, face of a cadaverous hue, and heard his forced, soulless laughter until it seemed as if moie in contact with with some hideous demon than a man; yet to me that night that horrid laughtei of the laughing owl was a greater strain on the nerves than the demoniac laughter of the maniac. However, the laughing owl had done me a irood turn In bringing me back to the road again, for his voii-e was the low laughter in the distance I first heard. 1 climbed over the fence, fol lowed the road about a mile, roused up the inmates of a farm house and was comfortably lodged. I have examined works on natural history, but cannot find any description or picture of the laughing owl. . As 1 never saw him, he exists in memory and my imagination only as some, imp of darkness. Gabriel and His Trump. New York World. The -Republicans are claiming — or they were— that grand old Gabriel Bouck, of Wisconsin, had deserted the Democracy on the "soldier" issue. The denial of this sturdy veteran is em phatic and streaked with robust pro fanity. There was no need of any de nial where Gabriel Buuek is known. It ever there was" a Gabriel whose last trump would be sounded to call Repub lican sinners to repentance, that one is Gabriel Bouck. the veteran soldier and Democrat of Wisconsin. Theatrical Note. Texas Sifting. Brown —How did you like Jones' new comedy? Robinson— Well,it's an improvement on his other comedies. "Do you think so?" "in the other one I went to sleep in the first act, but 1 didn't doze off until the second act of this last one." r^ Like a Number of Others. Chicago News-Record. "Are you in favor of civil service re form?" ••Only in certain circumstances." "What circumstances?" "When the other party is in power." Something Like a Political Egg. Voice. A nation that tacitly consents to one code of moraiily for its politics and an other code for its business and social life is a nation that is already decaying and disintegrating. -«*- . HAD NO KICK COMING. Long was his hair, his raiment ragged, torn. His board unkempt; his shoes were rough and worn : „ Dusty was he and dirty and forlorn. As through the village street he slowly passed, F.uU many looks unkind were on him cast. Until he gladly sought the fields at last, And laid him down beneath the waving tiees. : . And bared his brow unto the cooling breeze, And thanked old other Earth for rest aud ease. And. lying there w/th sullen, upturned face. Reviewing all the features of his case, He turned and groaued, and cursed the hu man race. No loving friends in all the earth had he No joys, no hopes, nor pleasures yet to be— A hopeless wreck cast upward by the sea. 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