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4 THE DAILY GLOBE IS PUBLISHED EVERY DAY At the Globe Building:. COR. FOURTH AXD CEDAR STS. Official Paper of Ramsey County. DAILY (NOT INCLUDING SUNDAY) By the month, mail or carrier ..40c One year by carrier, in advance. ..$4.00 One year by mall, in advance .$3.00 Six months by mail. In advance... sl. DAILY AND SUNDAY. By the month, mall or carrier :.'..... One year by carrier, in advance...sa.oo One year by mail, in advance $4.00 Six months by mail, in advance... s2. 2o SUNDAY ALONE. Per single copy. Five Cents Three months, mail or carrier...... 50c One year, by mail cr carrier $1.50 WEEKLY ST. PAUL GLOBE. One year, $1 ! Six mo, C_c | Three m'.,35c Address all letters and telegrams to THE GLOBE, St. Paul, Minn. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 517,T__MPI_B COURT BUILD ING. NEW YORK. WASHINGTON BUREAU, 1403 F ST. N. W. __ . Complete files of the GLOBE always kept on hand for reference. Patrons and friends are cordially invited -to visit and avail themselves of the facili ties of our Eastern office when in New York and Washington. TODAY'S WEATHER. Washington, March 21. -Indications— For Minnesota: Fair, but possibly showers In northern portion; southerly winds; warmer in eastern and cooler in northwestern por tion. •- For Wisconsin: Fair: warmer and increas -southerly winds. For Iowa: \Yarmer; generally fair; warm er in eastern portions; brisk and high south erly winds, shifting to westerly. For South Dakota: Fair; &outh to west winds; slight changes in temperature Fri day. Ly: ■-■'--"'■'Ty For North Dakota and Montana : Partly Cloudy, with local showers; westerly winds; colder Friday night. general observations. United States Department of Agricui.t ike, Weather Bureau. Washington. March 21, 6:4. p.m. Local Time. .p.m. Meridian Time.- Observations taken at the same mo ment of time at all stations. Place. Bnr. T'r.j Place. bar. T'r. St. Paul.... 30.11 4. Caleary 29.32 38 Duluth.. . 30.06 £.' tfed'e Hat. . 20.3. 46 La Crosse. 30.22 40 .Swift Curr't. 20.52 38 Huron '29.72 54 Qu'Appelle. 20.5-- 38 Pierre 29.7. 50 Minnedosa . 29.48 38 Moorhena.. 29.74 4S ! Winnipeg. .. 29.50 42 St. Vincent. 20.04 4b Port Arthur. 30.16 26 Bismarck... 29.74 _S i Williston... 29.06 46 I Boston 31—38 Havre.... 29.52 46 ! Buffalo 26—30 Miles City.. 20.70 SO Chevenue 42-43 Helena 20.74 42 Chicago 28—32 Edmonton. 29.10 42 New Orleans M— s3 Batileford.. 29.42 3. .New York 36—40 Pr. Albert.. 20.-6 . 42 'Pittsburg 32-40 P. F. Lyons, Local Forecast Official. mtm . "Bill" King ought not to use his hat to talk through at his age. Mr. Thurston could count his friends in this country on the fingers of one hand. Pingree may yet be president. His potato plan has been indorsed in Minneapolis and Duluth. -v_f- Gresham has dusted off his presi dential boom. It does not, however, look very formidable. The Minneapolis Journal has an article headed "The Story of a Hog.'.' Does the Journal keep a mirror? \ -«_9__. ..... Mr. Cleveland killed only ninety one ducks on his trip. And ninety one is seven times thirteen. What luck! The Minnesota legislature is after the railroads again in that it takes What is left after the railroads get through. Nebraskans are hard up for ex citement. They are giving ovations to the Prince of Silver Wheels, young Mr. Bryan. Harry Hayward has given up talk ing to the press,- and turned himself -.over to a priest. This is the first sensible thing Hayward has done in several months. "Please say to Gov. Sheldon, of South Dakota, that I am not such a chump as to permit myself to be cap tured."—W. W. Taylor, ex-juggler of boodle for South Dakota. The "Emersonian symposium" : is •the latest vehicle to matrimony. A "silently forceful" young man of this city, whose name we do not now recall, has tried the plan quite "successfully. The senate having passed an ade quate vagrancy bill, it is now in order to take an accounting of the tramps who are loafing around the state capitol waiting for a cow to back up to them to be milked. William M. Springer and Con stantine Buckley Kilgore have been named as judges of the district court in Indian territory. With Kilgore on the bench, they will hardly need marshals and militia to preserve the peace. Mr. Litt may have to introduce a twenty-four-foot ring in his new play, "The War of Wealth."- Hilliard and De Belleville had an impromptu fight in it at St. Louis the other night. Both brought their hand some faces out of it unmarred. Li Hung Chang is on the verge of being snubbed again. In the Jap anese house of representatives no tice has been given of a motion declaring that the time for peace negotiations has not arrived. Mrs. Dominis has been cruelly de ceived. Mr. Cleveland did not make her a present, but somebody sent her a copy of the report of the board of public works of Chicago, in which were inserted cards of the president and his secretary of state. Tremendous excitement centers about the affaif-s of the late Senator Fair. The discovery of a new will is followed by the finding of a new granddaughter of the late senator. A little enterprise just now will de velop other new wills and other granddaughters. ; ; •';?",: Ty,': The fact that the author of the bill to halve the fees of surveyors general of logs and lumber was him self an unsuccessful candidate for surveyor general of logs and lumber may have some slight significance In connection with the introduction of the bill, but it does not alter the virtue of the proposition. It is eleven years ago come June that a Minnesota delegate to the Re publican national convention told a correspondent of the Pioneer Press how the successful nomination for president was brought about. "We ._,■--.- .---■„■ organized," ; said he,' "a : - coon hunt SundSy night and went 'out and bagged the game." It is just possi ble that McKinley is., down I South now looking for "coons" in advance ; of the convention. , "We certainly hope he will bag them. . NEW USE FOR CORONERS. The Milwaukee Journal opens up a new and hitherto unknown and unexplored field of operations for that vermiform appendix of our so cial structure, the coroner. Hither to that officer's functions have been limited to sitting on corpses made such by violence, and at: one time," when the sheriff was a higher and mightier officer than now es teemed, the "crowner" was the only person who could serve a writ or other legal process on the sheriff. But the Journal now widens out the limited sphere of the ' coroner, and informs the world that he has a right to examine not only the corpus, but the "corpus delicti" as well. He may employ an expert to dissect, the corpus or the delicti, or both. He may take photographs of it, or, if the delicti be a serious one, he may have a chemical analysis of its different organs. This discov ery of the Journal will ; be hailed with especial pleasure by the dis trict attorneys. Heretofore they have had to hunt up and examine and dissect and sit on the corpus delicti themselves. They have had to bring it into court and exhibit it to the jury and have the court pass on it and certify to its genuineness. They have, had to establish its ex istence and identity under pain of being fired incontinently out of court. They have had to establish also its locus at the risk of losing jurisdiction if they did not. From all this the prosecuting officers will now be relieved if the discovery of the Journal will only hold water. They need only to summon the cor oner with a subpoena duces tecum to bring into court the corpus de licti, present it to the court as an exhibit, have the court's reporter mark it for identification; submit the coroner's expert's dissections of it, accompanied with photographs and .diagrams and the chemical analyses that may have been made of it, and the corpus delicti will have been easily, satisfactorily and con clusively established, and the trial may then proceed. We trust that the Journal will not monopolize- its discovery, as it can, by covering it with a patent or copyright. " m . A NEW THING ix BRACTS. We fail to grasp the significance of the appellation given our sprightly neighbor of the evening twilight across the street by the Minneapolis Times, which says of it: "The word Minneapolis has so affected its northern grease spot doing service, as best it can, for brain, etc." Why "northern" grease spot? Has the Dispatch grease spots in all points of the compass? And is the brain function limited to its northernmost spot of grease? Whatfunctions.then, do its southern and western and other spots perform? Or if our up-the-river fellow worker did not use the' word northern to designate the particular grease spot of the Dispatch, but meant it in its geographic sense of Northern, we would deferentially ask what difference there is in brain capacity between; a northern and a southern grease spot? Is the former a product of lard and the latter of cottonseed oil? Really, as we ponder on this appellation the field of specu lative inquiry opens and extends in a most inviting manner, a tantaliz ing manner, in fact, because it is terra incognita with the chart in the sole possession of the Times. -But we must enter a protest against the use of such a term by. a paper edited and printed and published within the classic shadows of the state uni versity. Grease spot is downright vulgar. It smacks of the kitchen, and a dirty one at that. If it is a fact that a grease spot does service as the brain of the Dispatch, and we have sometimes had a suspicion that something like it did, the proximity of the Times to the "U" "should have suggested to it the use of, say, "He of Greece" as a better, neater and more classical term.' But, after all, the term grease spot best befits the Times as more in harmony with its disposition to "hog" everything in sight, including the state capitol. HARD TO l/XDERSTAXD. There are some things that puz zle even an editor, who, of all men in the world, is the man who knows it all. Way back in his inner con sciousness he knows he does not know it all, but he keeps the secret under lock and key, because it is his business to know it all, and if the managing editor or proprietor should for a moment suspect that his editor did not know it all, he would fire him insfanter. But this is a digression. The particularly puzzling -puzzle just now under „ consideration is made up of a combination of appar ent incongruities and irreconcilables that seem to get along together on : very amicable terms. Congress— to be just to the different segments of that term and locate the particular one for purposes of inflicting fit censure, it . was the Fifty-first— deemed those commercial octopi "monsters of so frightful mien" as to warrant their extermination by act of congress, and thereupon "duly" and gravely enacted the anti-trust law, which, with all the awe-inspir ing verbiage essential to such en actments, forbade and provided pun ishment for any and all combina tions made to restrict trade or en hance prices. It gave to the several district courts of the United States jurisdiction of such offenses against the common weal, and made it the duty of the law officers to prosecute violations of it. "T" : : : " That is the first factor in the puz zle. The second one" is the partner ship of the federal - government. through its courts and their officers, with the very octopi the. same gov ernment declares shall not exist. For instance, there was the Reading railway, which was one of sev eral roads that entered into . a trust to control the output and price of the deposits of anthracite coal. This road, in its greed, "to use. lthe ex pressive simile of the street, "bit off; more than it could . chew," and a federal court, forthwith appointed a receiver or receivers for.it and took it under its exclusive care, manage ment and control. And forthwith, also, under the very nose of. the court and the shadow, of the anti trust act, the receivers continued to carry out the agreements and pur poses of the coal trust, -arid we have not yet heard that the learned judge said them nay. or . that the district attorney has brought action to dis solve the unholy alliance. ■•■'• y- .;•_ And; now comes the whisky trust THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1895. . case. After its officers had exploit ed; it for all there was -in it the fed eral court appointed a set of receiv ers for it at the suit of one set of the holders of its much-watered stocks, who were getting all the water while the officers were ; im bibing, all the spirits. .This trust: was one of the ' trustiest of the trusts. It took every distiller and refiner and dealer by the throat. It made him sell its goods at the price it fixed. It made dealers pay seven cents a gallon' more for spir its than its value, - and then rebated the extra charge if they ; furnished proof that they had' not- sold the product of any other distillery. It crushed out competitors. It blew- up their distilleries, or burned them down, or, as here in St. Paul, it punched holes In the stills and tanks out of which the profits leaked away. And now we are - told . that there is to be a reorganization of the trust, and that Gen. MeNulta, one of the receivers, is negotiating with the reorganizers with a view to the re habiliment of the trust, and that meantime the business methods of the trust are being" pursued by the receivers. The property of the trust is in the hands of the court, and its officers are in possession. The anti trust law is unrepealed. To a lay man, a plain citizen, who fallacious ly, perhaps, thinks that laws, are seriously made to be enforced, it is a puzzle why the court does not dissolve the trust, resolve it into its constituent elements, restore the in dividual distilleries to their original owners, direct the district attorneys to prosecute the organizers of the trust and teach them and others a much-needed lesson in respect for the laws of the United States. Why this is not done, why trust methods should be carried on under sanction of the court, why negotiations for a reorganization of the trust, having in view its continuation, should be participated in by the receivers, and all, this in the face of the anathema' of congress, is a puzzle whose solu tion we admit our inability to make. MERELY A BOUNTY. The legislature, following the precedents of its predecessors, has voted away about $4,000 of the peo ple's money to pay the expenses of two or three contests for seats in that body, and once more theques tion is raised, where is the limit to this kind of appropriations?. If every candidate who • only lacks half a dozen votes of election can carry his case to the legislature with the assurance that the expenses of the contest, whichever way it goes, will be returned to him, there, would be no apparent reason why every candidate who is defeated by a narrow margin should not appeal his case to the house. He has all to gain and nothing to lose. The simple fact is that the cus tom is a pernicious one, and should be speedily abolished. There is no more reason for the payment by the state of the contest expenses of a candidate for the legislature than there would bo for the payment of the same sum by the state to de fend the title of a man who had been elected governor. When a man becomes a candidate for office he assumes every .responsibility that the position entails, and one of these is the payment of his own expenses, whatever they -may be. . The custom -is "unreasonable and-' extravagant, and should never have : been inaugurated; but, since it has been inaugurated, it ought to be discontinued at the earliest possi ble moment. Take one of the cases covered by the bill considered yes terday as an instance of the extrav agance of the custom, and no further argument need be had. Mr. Fur long is allowed' $1,800 and Mr. Allen $1,250 as contest expenses. Add to this the salary of the successful candidate, $500,. and the footing shows that it costs the state of Min nesota $3,550 to have the Third leg islative district represented in "this house. Were all the districts in the state correspondingly expensive, it. would cost nearly half a million dol lars to seat the house alone. Of course there is little probability that such contingency will ever arise, but the very possibility of such a thing is enough to drive every business man in the state to the support of the position taken by Representative Bobbins in the discussion yesterday, that the amount of the appropria- tion should be limited to $500, or, better yet, entirely abolish the cus tom. If it must be voted at all, let It be done purely and solely as bounty,, and no longer dignify it by the exalted title of "reimburssment." THE WAYS OK THE LOBBYIST. With the increase of the inter-, ference of the government with the business of the people, the growth of the mania for 'regulating every-, thing, which is the marked feature of the renaissance of imperialism under the various thick or thin guises of socialism, there has natur ally come into existence a class of people who make the prosecution of these, various schemes, as well, as opposition to them, their profession. This business just now being looked on with disapprobation yby the public, who, with singular stolidity, approve of the regulating, but disap prove of the means, its practition ers are termed lobbyists, but as the process runs on to its ripening, the obloquy will disappear, and these good people will be properly termed legislative attorneys. ■■_ '-..._ : - .: J; ry"; -wt.-_. _. "11 ■ ii " -...-_ Some of them are thus known now, but they are limited to those' attorneys of the courts who find in legislation a more lucrative practice than the litigation . affords, and one that permits them to retain what of dignity there is in the profession. of the law without incurring the pres ent obloquy that attaches to the name of lobbyist. They bring to their new field of practice the 'ethics' of their own profession which per mits a lawyer to accept a retainer' without any consideration of the mer its of the case he is retained, to prosecute or defend. So, as legis lators, they [j are exempt from the disability that attends their lay col leagues, who, if they accept rfloney to push or resist a bill, are mere common, every-day bribe takers. - The attorney, : as an - attorney, . ac cepts, not a briße, but a -retainer'; and forthwith proceeds to aid or ob struct ,a ; measure, regardless of : its public . bearing, . '. and indifferent whether it serves or injures the pub lic. ."■: "'' Y-Y- y :■: ' -/■ :;•;-.• But it was not the varieties of this creature that we set out to de scribe, but his ways. These are too multitudinous 'to even sketch, but : they require and command the adroitness, all" the foxiness that hu man' nature : shares in common . with Reynard. And we do not intend at present to do more than | describe way, and we shall let the Wash- Ington correspondent of the Times- Herald do that for us and the delec . tation of our ; readers. .As •an illus- ! -ration of the ways of the lobbyist,* "ways that are dark and tricks. that are vain," this one's like those of Bret " Harte's heathen Chinee, "are peculiar." / Wellman says:, IJa ' While the. Bate refrigerator case wa?s : pending a few weeks ago the clerk to one of the supreme court justices met with a • little . experience which opened : his "eyes to the pitfalls ; sometimes • set for the unwary in - this selfish 3 world."? Suddenly there appeared at the house where he ' was boarding a . comely young woman of fascinating manners and coy disposition. She . and the jus tice's secretary • set up quite a flirta- ' tion. Finally mademoiselle confessed to the secretary that she not only loved him, but was in great r distress. 11 Her poor father was an inventor, now in straitened . circumstances and lying' at death's door. He was indirectly m-" terested in the decision in the Bate case. That decision might make him a rich man. If she could only write and tell her poor father that the de cision .was to be a favorable one it might cheer him up and save his life". Would not the secretary help her for her poor dear old father's sake? The young man kept his head and said he would see about It. He talked the mat ter over with the justice whose assist an he and the old judge warned him no., to breathe a syllable. An investi gation was quietly made of the charm ing young woman, and enough was learned to satisfy the inquirers that she was acting as a decoy for a syn dicate of stock speculators who want ed to make a big deal in telephone shares. : "-'V. :^l^'-- ; ' Col. Bill King, who has some equi ties in Minneapolis dirt that need to have value pumped into them, gives the Times a long, several col umns long, story of ancient history about the way St. Paul managed to get the better in days of yore of the city of slabs and flour. In some obscure 'way the colonel associates this with the scheme of his fellow equity holders to get the capitol moved up there. There is a lot of other matter equally irrelevant that the colonel might have incorporated in his alleged "Interview." For in stance, he might have added a cer tain letter he addressed to a Minne sota legislature from some point in Canada where the colonel had re tired to escape the annoying atten tions of the sergeant-at-arms of 'the house of representatives. It would not have any bearing, of course, on the capitol controversy, but it would be as interesting and apropos as is the tale he tells. : The death of Gen. Adam Badeau recalls about the only witticism ever reported as emanating from Col. Fred Grant, unless it be his remark that "it is easier to handle a surplus than a deficit." The subject of mon ograms was the talk, and the com pany was experimenting, on them.. Grant drew a straggling, irregular: circle, and passed it over to Badeau as a suitable monogram for him. Badeau, unable to see the point, asked Grant to explain it. "Isn't ' it a dam bad O?" asked Fred, and 1 the choleric little general got mad. , I It is hinted thct McKinley's visit! to the pine woods of Georgia is to secure lumber for the Republican platform of 1896. The Buckeye major will, of course, not fail to. remember that this timber may have to be passed upon by others— instance, -. .Reed or r the 5 Indianapolis lawyer. . . ~ .*'=, .- ■• ■..-., ;: .-.;-/ . .- ?; j One hundred and twenty-five dia mond cutters have been detained at Ellis island, New York, to be ex amined under the contract labor law. This is Class A evidence that the country 'is to have another boom. We are certainly drifting away from poverty when we can find use for so many diamond cutters. AT THE THEATERS. Miss Marie Jansen appeared at the Metropolitan opera house last evening in a comedy entitled "Delmonico's at 6," written by Glen- McDonough. -It proved to be a bright and breezy crea tion, and one -that offered the talent* of Miss Jansen a wide scope. It. is full of amusing situations, some of them rather risque to be sure, but never theless pleasing and pardonable. The dialogue is rather clever and the ac tion brisk. -;-',*'<*? Miss Jansen is unquestionably an artist. She possesses that fascinating quality or attribute described' as chic to a greater degree than, any soubrette on the American stage. Her acting ia notably intelligent and spon taneous and always marked by good taste.. In "Delmonico's at G" Miss Jan sen Impersonates a captivating' con cert hall singer with a zest that im parts a rich reliSh to the character for this actress-excels in depicting hul mor and coquetry. . Miss Jansen's company is entirely satisfactory.- Frederick Bond, the lead ing man. Is an actor of . excellent at tainments, whose performances al ways afford great pleasure. Clarence Heritage also contributes good work WIVES WOULD SUFFER If the Bill of Senator Stevens Should Pass. To the Editor of the Globe. A bill has been introduced by Sena tor Stevens known as Senate File No 599, .which ought to be black-balled by i every member of the legislature. It is for the purpose of allowing a man to alienate his real property without the' signature of his wife, which is neces- n sary under the law at present, thus"' throwing the wife back on the old law.' of dower. This bill now Introduced Js-.-v. .evidently ... in the interest. of real estate speculators, and would only, benefit real estate sharks and dishonest husbands. The present, law ls a righteous one, and cannot well' be Improved. ;It makes the wife v a^ guardian of her own rights, for at the death of her husband, should It happen she would have a third . interest In fee in all of the realty he died pos sessed of, | while under, the proposed law ' ■the husband might dispose of all of his property without the knowledge of , his: wife, and !no doubt he would - be 1 able to mortgage the homestead, and, ' if •so : disposed, leave her -to shift for** herself.- It would be a great misfortune' to repeal the present law, as it would be disastrous to the wife and in a great many instances only benefit real estate speculators, who wish to Injure their. wives. ""'-E. W. G. St. Paul, March 21. . --":.,": Ben a Back Number. Anoka' Union. The continual mention of that old chilly iceberg, ."Ben Harrison, for pres ident, makes a sad and mad look per-' meate the faces of many" politicians in Minnesota. r Harrison is a. back number and please let him rest. - * Miserable Attempt to Injure. Taylor's Falls Journal. - Somebody. ' scattered ; broadcast ; a .cir cular said "to contain "facts and fig ures" derogatory . to; St. Paul. ; It was a miserable attempt to injure the ", city, and cannot receive severe condem nation.*; -, . "~ -y-:,< CAPITOL AND CORRIDOR. Blngrik in Demand. 'Representative Adolph ' Blaglk, .;- : of Winona, ' is : a : member who is '. always in his seat, but does very little talking. He Is a Pole who has made his own way in life, and when the Republicans of Winona made up their minds to in vade the Democratic Fourth ward, In which he resides, they selected Blaglk. Adolph stands In with the managers of the Republican machine in Winona, and now they have determined •to run him for alderman. If he should be elected, perhaps he might- regret the passage of the bill introduced and put through by himself which provides that no alderman shall be elected for more j than two years. Heretofore, under a special charter, aldermen* have been Elected for four years in Winona. Letter Carriers: Revolt. '.A politician of some note in Ohio is - William H. Jackson, who resides in 1 the county in which Y'oungstown is lo cated. He was In St- Paul yesterday, and was asked about the case that has created^ such a. commotion in that town recently. It will be recalled that a letter carrier was said to have been dis charged for trying to "organize his fel low workers to resist or abolish certain rules of the department. "I do not know much about it, other than the common talk," said Mr. Jackson, "but it appears there is some truth in the report that such an organization was contemplated, even if it is not now under .way. The most interesting point about the matter, to me, at least, is its possible effect on. the people who are agitating for government owner ship of everything in sight. If their theory— men in government employ would never be found engaging in disputes" with, or strikes against. Uncle Sam— to be thus forcibly discredited in the postal service, I do not see how It could possibly stand the test in indus trios that naturally produce strife and difference between capital and labor. It strikes me that incident's of this character ought to significantly em phasize the folly, if not the danger that is involved in the agitation for a further, extension of paternalism. No, sir, socialism is not a plant at all adapted to American soil." . '-y~lY\2 Farmers'' Experiment Stations. Probably the most forceful and quick ly effective speech made in the Minne sota - legislature two years ago was that of Hon. H. E. Craig on the re apportionment bill. The Sage of Or rock carried his point, and it was largely because he never talks unless he feels a very deep Interest in the matter under consideration. Mr. Craig has made only one speech this session, and that was delivered Wednesday -in favor of his bill to establish two new experimental ; stations. One is to be located in the Red River valley and one in the north central part, of the state.- The locations are to be se lected by the board of , regents of the state university, and $20,000 is appro priated to purchase the sites and erect suitable buildings; an additional $10,000 ;ls|to be allowed for maintaining them : for two years. 1 'Mr. Craig and other advocates of the new stations make out a strong case. They point to the fact that the present .state experiment staton is all rl;_r>-t for. •trie eastern and and southern parts. of the state, because soil and climate are suited to grow and mature the seeds 'sent out by the station.- But as you go north there is* a vast amount of ! la'nd where the soil Is a cold clay, and it is a fact that for probably 400 miles 'of the Red River valley it is impossible to' grow ; corn, except in isolated in stances, and then in very small" quan tities.' The same Is true of succulent: grasses. Plenty of hay can be gath ered, but* pasturage of even a poor quality is exceedingly scarce. It is held .that the proposed stations could 'experiment much more cheaply, and to far better advantage than the farm ers, as to what grasses will grow on the light, cold soils, and what varieties will give the best results. If the farmers in the Red River valley and" through out the northern* portion of the state can be aided to secure a plentiful growth of pasture grasses, and can be reliably Informed as to what seeds will thrive best in their soil, a tremen dous handicap on their prosperity will be removed. One "acre of good pas turage land - in- the southern tier of counties is as valuable to the farmer ■or dairyman as forty acres of the weedy, dried out pasture land In the north. .'lt is proposed that the experiment stations shall grow and furnish seed to •the farmers of the state who cannot use what is sent out from the station at ' the university. No charge is to be made for seed so furnished. . Fullerton, Executive Agent. . The election of officers was the only business transacted at the meeting of the game and fish commission yester day, at the capitol. The -impression had somehow got abroad that the. plan to" elect Commissioner Fullerton, of Duluth, as executive officer might mis carry. What lent a semblance of prob ability to the rumor was the connec tion therewith of Lieut. Gov. Day's name. - He was said to be urging the selection of Game Warden Bird, of Fairmont. When the commission met, however, no opposition developed to Fullerton's appointment, and It was made. President W. S. Timberlake was re-elected; Capt. William -Burt .was chosen, as vice president; Fred yon Baumbach as secretary, and Al' , Ferris treasurer. Y^YYiY'Y An Honored Pioneer. -. Hon. P. J. Kniss, of Rock county, Mlss Lillian Kniss and Mrs. J. T. ; Fisher, are registered at the Mer chants'. Mr. Knlss was a member of the house In 1881, and for years before and afterward was a prominent man in the • political life of the southwestern past of Minnesota. Though he today occupies a palatial residence in Lu verne, the log cabin he erected as a settler is still standing. As farseeing, as fearless and enterprising when he platted I the town site of J Luverne \he set' out thousands of trees that today shade and beautify Its streets. In the hour of trial he went to the front In the Union army, and in every walk ? of life he has proven a true citizen and a credit to his county and his state. In resent years he has taken '. but little active part In political affairs, except i on behalf of his friends. V When the history of ; Southwestern ' Minnesota % shall be written in years .to . come the , nam© of Pierce J. Kniss will be en titled to a place of honor that he has wgn by his achievements as private citizen and public servant. License . and Xo License. _, : In the elections recently -held many i towns of -the state reversed ; their policy. Where license had heretofore prevailed, this year it has been voted cut, as in the case of Worthington"; whye |in other instances license has been voted - in, as at - Edgerton. In i the 'past it was -a- regular thing to ; establish wholesale . depots In towns where saloon licenses .were not grant ed:. Liquor could then be sold in pack ages -of : five gallons or more. ; Now this Is all [done away '. with, for S. F. 107, introduced by - Mr. Thorpe, pro vides that whenever the people of, any village _ or • municipal 2 township ... shall .have voted against the issuance of 11 --! cense for \ the sale' of.- r Intoxicating 'liquors therein, ; it : shall thereafter :- be unlawful for any ; person or ■: corpora tion to sell, barter or "give away the same therein at retail or wholesale in any quantity -/whatever; provided that nothing herein contained shall in any manner affect the provisions of chap ter 8 of the General Laws of 1887. Tho exception i noted . ln •', tho proviso is for the benefit of drug stores, which may. sell liquor for medicinal and me chanical purposes, or to bo used in tho arts and sciences. Hence there Is con sternation ' among the liquor dealers in towns that have voted for no li cense. Johns luriiM the Tultlen. While the capitol bill was under dis cussion, Mr. Feig, from the county with the unpronounceable name, was one day making a heavy assault mi the bill. Mr. Johns rose to ask a ques tion, but Feb? thundered, "No, sir; nit down!" and Henry sat. Yesterday the gentleman from Ramsey was speak ing in favor of a measure advocated by the gentleman from the over flowed capitol site, and the "latter rose to -interrupt. Quick as a flash Johns raised his index finger, looked fiercely at the big man, and tragically mut tered, "No, sir; sit down!" with the accent on the last two words. The house caught on and roared with laughter, in the midst. of which Feig disappeared., .-_."• . MINNIE'S MAD MOVE. ;YYT-Y, * Exhibition of Smallness. Alexandria Post-News. The most distinguished display of buncombe during the present session of the legislature has been the' several efforts of- Minneapolis to secure the removal of the state capitol to that city. It has been an exhibition of smallness unworthy even of the Min neapolis gang that has been its spons ors. That city has been trying to pun ish St. Paul by taking the time of the legislature at the state's expense, for a series of bluffs. St. Paul is the con stitutional capital of - the state. Citi zens have for that reason made it their home, have invested their money there, and with confidence in the state's integrity, have made their busi ness arrangements. That confidence was not misplaced, and the only effect of Minneapolis' spitework is to injure it in the opinion of the rest of the state. It is a matter of congratulation that St. Paul has not retaliated by at tempting to cut off the large appropri ations asked for the state university. May Go the Whole Hog:. Mankato Free Press. r> And now the Journal suggests that In addition to the $2,000,000 capitol site, Minneapolis offer to put up a $2,000,000 building and donate that to the state also. If the legislature will keep on quietly chewing gum, Minneapolis will soon offer to throw In all the state offi cers. There Is nothing small about Minnie but her feet, and they give evi dence of growing. Site Irrevocably Settled. Chatfield Democrat. The members outside of these two cities should make very short work of this whole business. St. Paul and Min neapolis should understand that they cannot make the interests of the state a football for their wrath. The site has not only been determined upon, but selected. There It should rest. TIPS ON CHARTERS. Duluth Commonwealth. Find a single city in the state, find half a dozen voters in any city who are satisfied with the Howard bill, and we will say no more. But if that is as near as the legislature can get, wouldn't: it be better to leave It until the cities can make their own char ters? The laws are supposed to be such as the people, demand. No mem ber- of.the legislature, hot even Sena tor Howard, claims that the Howard bill is satisfactory. Scarcely arty one opposes the Sheehan bill and a num ber advocate It. Is not that sufficient hint for the legislature? Spring Valley Sun. The Sun will to the end of the chap ter insistently cry out against the miserable city charter bills before the legislature. Spring Valley is to, in the near future, work under a city char ter. When she does, we, the people of this live burg, want to make our own rules and regulations under which we are to live and do business. FOSS' INVESTIGATION. A Cheap Job. Houston County Chief. The legislative committee appointed to investigate the rates imposed by the express companies,' made report that the charges are fair, and, in other words, that the public have no cause for -complaint. The "work" of this committee cost the state just $3.50, which is proof number two that it was a cheap lot. - ~_ __ Some One Will Go in the Soup. Albert Lea Enterprise. The committee of the house to which was referred the bill to regulate ex press companies in this state evidently got a large number of franks and re ported the rates were very reasonable. This express monopoly Is one of the most glaring with which the people have to contend, and yet no member of the legislature seems able to get any legislation upon the question. Some day some ambitious statesmen will be precipitated into the cold, cold soup for Ignoring the wishes of the people they pretend to represent. V-V'.r- "=. Some For^ott.ii Facta. Philadelphia Record. The farmers do not stop to consider that in answer to silver agitation, the government has authorized the coin age of many more millions of silver dol lars than It can prevail upon the peo ple of the country to keep in circulation, and that it has afso tried its utmost in a single-handed effort to maintain the price of silver by buying and storing it. -As a result of these operations the quantity of silver dollars and silver bullion In the hands of the people and the treasury is enormous and without precedent. There remains no . other possible way to increase the circulation but to discard the use of gold and the gold standard of value, and substi tute therefore the silver standard— as in Mexico, where it takes two Mexican dollars to buy a dollar's worth of any thing. ... Grain vs. Sugar Bush. Granite Falls Tribune. , While farmers in Minnesota are pre paring to seed their lands to grain, those of New England are getting ready to work In their sugar bushes. The latter are a source of much profit to those who have thrifty maples, and they derive revenue therefrom that comes more easily than following the plow and harrow day in and out. Here's to Their Success. New York World. It is no part of the business of the United States or of the American peo ple to foment quarrals anywhere or to Interfere in them. But if the Cubans can win local self-government by their own efforts the American people will hsartily rejoice at it, not from any selfish motive, but for tbe sake of prog ress and . humanity. Very True. Chicago Tribune. All the babies born In St. Paul last Monday were girls, and . there were eleven of them. On the same day there were born, in" •'Minneapolis fourteen boys. Still, this * doesn't settle the question N of capitol removal, y: OPPOSES THE BILL Dairy Commissioner Ander son Against Potter's Meas ure Appointing- LOCAL FOOD INSPECTORS The Most Serious Objection In That Many Concerns Have ."-■ a Strong: PULL WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS Impartial Enforcement' of the Law Would Be Very Difficult. Dairy Commissioner Bernt Ander son is decidedly opposed to the bill recently introduced by Senator Pot ter, passed by the senate, and now before the house. This bill empow ers the large cities of the state to appoint local inspectors of food products. "This bill," said Mr. Anderson, "will remove from the state prac tically all jurisdiction. It is true that Senator Potter" has offered to attach an amendment providing for the retention of the state's jurisdic tion, but such a provision would scarcely fail to give rise to conflict of jurisdiction, and the collection of double fees. "But the greatest objection to the bill lies in the undeniable fact that many concerns most likely to dispose of adulterated products often have a 'pull' with local officials, or with the powers that control them, and it is altogether certain that the im partial enforcement of the law would be much * MORE DIFFICULT with local than with state inspection. Besides, without a fully equipped laboratory nothing of value could be accomplished. Such laboratories would have to be established In every large city. This, together with the payment of officials, would entail a decided increase of taxation, yet the purposes of hygienic inspection would be by no means as effectually carried out. "We have in our depratment one of the best laboratories for the pur poses that is to be found in the United States. A most careful watch is maintained upon all dealers likely, from their past record, to attempt to dispose of unwholesome products. Milkmen of that class, for instance, must submit to an inspection once a week. By our victory some months ago over Armour in the supreme court we have practically abolished the sale of oleomargarine as butter in this state. "Senator Potter's bill was doubt less presented in good faith, yet all that can be said in its favor is that It will add to the patronage at the disposal of local bosses, and it will meet the warm approval of Mr. Ar mour." ;';*<•">. ZIP-ZIM-ZIER. Making Tidal Waves Unpopular. Albert Lea Enterprise. Zier the pill dispenser who floated Into the legislature on the tidal wave of last fall from a Minneapolis dis trict, will not be suppressed, and has introduced another .patent medicine bill, and it is more ridiculous than the first one that was indefinitely post poned, but this one will no doubt share the same fate, so there is no need of making war Upon the proposed law. Political tidal waves would not be popular if all men rescued from ob livion by them were like Zier Not Fitted for a Hard Race. Stillwater Gazette. Dr. Zier may be honest in his con -2£ ;. ? G may believe that his pat ent medicine bill which was so ever astingly para zed by the legislature Is the proper thing for our. people, but he cannot make them believe It It wasn't fitted for a winter race, and fell down at the fall of the flag. Let Up on Tom Fooler,. Lake Crystal Union. Since Dr. Zier's patent medicine bill was throttled in the committee room he or some one else, has run around and thrown another as obnoxious in to the window. Scat! What are you fooling about? Let up on that kind of business and do something to save the thousands of young men from be ing poisoned by something else than patent medicines. How about the ex press and telegraph business? Here is something worthy of your steel Costly Rea Tape. Crookston Tribune. Dr. Zier seems to have it in for the patent medicine fellows, and al though his first bill was defeated he has Introduced another one. The state board of health is empowered to order the analysis of each and every patent medicine, and to compel the manu facturer or vendor to pay to the chemist who does the work a fee of 150 m each case. There are some 4,000 different patent. medicines sold in this state, and the fee for analyzing all of them would amount to $200,000. The passage of this bill would simply be a discrimination against the local druggists, because the patent medi cines would then' have to be sent di- j rect from the manufacturer to the consumer. ,-.'.;: • Represents a Small Constituency. St. Cloud Times. Dr. E. B. Zier was elected by the people of a Minneapolis district to rep resent them in the legislature The doctor seems to have concluded that he w-as chosen to represent himself and he is devoting his time and en ergy to an attempt to wipe out patent medicines so that he may make more dollars by. writing more prescriptions. The legislature should sit down hard on this cranky and selfish disciple of Esculaplus. If members indorse his schemes by their votes their constitu ents will remember them. „v\£VV IMOSW/rt^^ The purest . "TtMEoyiWt H6UTRALIZED ■TOCK *;_ Mill. RIOT. I,'iimloii Police Attempt lo Ureal. « i* Ihe Curb*! one Market. LONDON, March 21,— For three even- Ihk» «>««». Throgmorton net, In the City; portion of London, a. thorough far** where, after hours, ■ curb-stone •■,'_ market la J,, |.| ',;,;, 1,.,.,, a scene of hiuhl dUotdzr, Tf.rogmorton street, Ueinff '|i'H« narrow, the assemblage of \/TOUmH nUlumt completely blocked lt ''''"'* i p, m.. t/t ti:V) p. m. <>■. Thurs day tWtmtng 'lie poii'-e tried to clear »ii ; nUtirfyttlk* n-itfi arrested a broker who tf.fiint ; /l \i t mtwe on. Th« crowd tried to pr#V#Ot t\m poli'-..-a"ii tram remov- Ing lb*, prisoner, and a lively sorim "<•""■" followed, during which several policemen w«rie roughly handled and three other brokers were arrested. This evening, when the broken gathered In Throguiorton street, the police diverted vehicles unnecessarily Into the thor oughfare, with th. view of dispersing the crowds of brokers. Mr. Paxton, a prominent member of the stock ex change, expostulated at a police in spector, and this caused a renewal of disorder, resulting in the arrest of Mr. Paxton. The arrest caused great ex citement and a cowd of brokers at tempted to rescue the prisoner, who had to.be taken to the station through aby street. The general opinion ex pressed is that the police will be worst ed, as a market has been held in Throg morton streat without interference for years, the street dealings being chiefly in American and South African se curities. SLATIX HEY A PASHA. The Khedive r, Promotes the Ek- caped Governor of SenaaxC CAIRO, March 21.— The khedive today received in audience Slatin Bey, for merly governor of the province of Senaar, who recently escaped from Omdurman, where he had been in cap tivity for eleven years. Slatin Bey was accorded a warm welcome, and tha khedive expressed the hope that he would again enter the service of Egypt] Replying to questions regarding the situation of affairs in the Soudan, Slatin Bey says that, although Khalifa Abdallah's prestige had diminished, and although the Madhist soldiers were un popular, any military action against the Khalifa would require a strong force. At the end of the audience th? Khedive promoted Slatin Bey to the rank of pasha. B_ATAAFA»S KATE. Rauiislted Sn.ii.onii Chiefs Can Ex- peel \o Clemency. LONDON, March 21.— Sir Edward Grey, replying to a question in the house of commons today, regarding the treatment of Chief Mataafa, of Samoa, according to a recently pub lished letter of the late Robert Louis Stevenson, said that when Mataafa yielded he was given no assurance ex cept that his life would be spared. Th. cases of Tamasese and Mataafa were quite different. Tamasese yielded peaceably on arranged terms, while Mataafa yielded when in open rebellion. According to the latest information the government had received from Sa moa, Mataafa and his chiefs were well treated. Their communication with the outside world was strictly controlled but arrangements have been made to allow the banished chiefs to be joined by their families. poor mi. zier: The Retail Di-ni^isls Take a Shot at Him. ,To the Honorable Members of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota - Respected Sirs: At a meeting of the St. Paul branch of the Interstate Re tall Druggists' league, held on March 14, the following preamble and solu tions were unanimously adopted: , Whereas, It has come to the knowl edge of this league that certain bills have been Introduced Into the legist lature of Minnesota known as House File No. 628, and Senate Pile No. 559, ostensibly for the benefit of the public, by controlling the sale of proprietary medicines; therefore, be it Resolved, That in the opinion of this league such measures are unjust, wholly unnecessary and opposed to the best Interests of our state, as the peo ple are not suffering, but on the con trary, receive much benefit by their use, and it would be a great hardship to deprive them of the means of doc-! toring themselves, especially the poor and thoso residing in the rural dis tricts; . Resolved, That in our opinion the practical working of such measures would be to confiscate hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of prop erty belonging to an honorable and useful class of our citizens and reduce many of them to poverty, as under such a law every item of proprietary medicines would have to be analyzed at a cost of $50 for each item. And as these Items are numbered by the hun dreds with only a few dollars' worth of each In the hands of any one retail druggist. it would be Impossible for our druggists to bear this burden; Resolved. That in our opinion tho manufacturers will not have this an alysis made as they do not want it, and the wholesale dealers cannot af ford to have it done for the small profit they make on them; Resolved, That in our opinion the alcohol clause in the bill la cunningly devised for the purpose of giving thoso who are opposed to proprietary medi cines for business reasons a chance to ring the changes on alcohol, same as the baking powder folks harped on ammonia, by working upon the pre judices and ignorance of the public and thus bring many valuable rem edies into disrepute; Resolved, That placing the control of the sale of proprietary medicines in tho hands of those who are opposed to them on grounds of personal in-, terest, as these bills would do, is urn just and unwise in the extreme; Resolved, That we earnestly request the Ramsey county delegation in the legislature to vigorously oppose these unjust bills and see to it that the same are defeated; Resolved, That these resolutions be printed and that a copy of them be handed, by a committee appointed for that purpose, to each member or the legislature from Ramsey county, and to such other members of the legislature as said committee may deem proper. ?A_si. BECKER ' President. JOHN MARTI, Secretary. Chinch lings in Beans. St. Peter Tribune. Peter Brady, of Lake - Prairie, brought in samples yesterday of threshed beans Infested with live chinch bugs. It may have been held that beans are obnoxious to these pests, but to look at their presence in beans, and to know that they can sustain life from this garden product, will set gardeners to thinking as to the best means to accomplish their destruction. Cash in i reiixur.v. WASHINGTON. March 21.— Today's statement of the condition of the treas ury shows: Available cash balance, $183,2_7,791 ; gold reserve, $90,861,800.