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4 THE PflliY GLOBE IS PUBUSHED EVERY DAY AT NEWSPAPER ROW, COR. FOURTH AND MINNESOTA STS. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Payable In Advance. Dally ami Sunday, Per Month .50 Daily and Sunday, Six Months $ir.T5 Daily and Sunday, One Year - $5.00 Daily Only, Per Month - 4O Daily Only, Six Months - $2.25 Dally Only, One Year Jf4.00 Sunday Only, One Year ----- ?1.50 Weekly, One Year ?1.00 Address all communications and make all remittances payable to THE GLOBE CO., St. Paul, Mlun. Complete files of tbe Globe always kept on hand for reference. TODAY'S WEATHER. "WASHINGTON, Sept. SO.— Forecast for Fri day: Minnesota — F-asr; cooler in extreme southeast portion; northerly winds. Wisconsin— Fair; cooler; light northwesterly •winds. North Dakota— Fair; warmer in eastern por tion; south easterly winds. South 1 )akota— Fair ; northeasterly winds. Montana — Fair; probably cooler in west portion; variable winds becoming northwest erly. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Washington, Sept. 30, 6:48 p. m., Local Time, 8 p. m. 75th Meridian Time.— Observations taken at the same mo ment of time at all stations. TEMPERATURES. Place. Tem.|Place. Tern. St. Paul 76 Qu'Appelle 63 Duluth 72 Minne&osa yS Huron 74 Winnipeg 08 Bismarck 68- WiUi&ton 7G;Buffalo CS-70 . Havre 70 Boston bS-76 Helena 74 Cheyenne 70-76 Edmonton ..60 Chicago 16-82 Ua-ttleford 54 Cincinnati VS-8S Prince Albert 50 Montreal 66-76 Cal-sary 58 N[ew Orleans .. . .7J--S0 Swift Current 64 New York i 2-76 Pittsburg 66-72 DAILY MEANS. Barometer, 30.13; mean temperature, 74; rel ative humidity, 64; wind at 8 p. m., northeast; ■weather, clear; maximum temperature, &S; minimum temperature. 59; daily range, 29; amount of precipitation (rain) in last twenty four hours, 0. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Danger Gauge Change in Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours. St. Paul 14 4.9 -0.1 La Crosse 10 4.1 0.0 Davenport 15 3.0 *0.1 St. Louis 30 4.0 —0.1 —Fall. *Rlse. Note — Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer. -r*&- OIR CROWDED SCHOOLS. If any argument were needed for be ginning at once and pushing with the utmost expedition the work of building a new charter for St. Paul, it would be found in the condition of our pub lic schools. The buildings are crowded to an extent that precludes good in struction, and that threatens not only the comfort, but the health of the pupils. With our standing boast of a public educational system that in cludes all, and with an interest and a pride that are universal in the ex cellence and progress of the system, the facilities for school work are far behind the demands made upon them. The worst of it is that this arises, not out of an indisposition of our people to provide for public education, not out of hard times or insufficient public revenue, but out of an iron-bound clause in our city charter, which may not be either amended or repealed. Until a new charter is framed and adopted, we can have no more revenue collected than a tax of 2% mills will furnish. That tax is levied on our es tablished valuation of property, which has been so decreased by our assessor, confirmed by the action of the board of equalization, as to furnish scanty revenue for employing the present number of teachers and keeping the present number of buildings in condi tion for occupancy. The only way to meet this situation and to provide adequate school accom modations is by the adoption of a new charter. Bad as the conditions of things are today, it will be worse next year, and still worse the following. With the incrc-ase of population that has come to us from natural growth, and with the still larger increase that is now going forward as a i-esult of im proved business conditions In St. Paul. the school population is growing rapid ly. What are we to do with these children? The injustice of having halt-day sessions in part of the build ings is manifest. The wrong of com pelling from 50 to 100 children to bo placed under one instructor, who can not possibly attend to them all, is equally apparent. There is but one way of escape, and that is by providing the proper num ber of sittings and making the teach ing force equal to the demands upon it. To do that we must have a revenue sufficient to conduct the schools when administered with the utmost economy. That revenue is dependent absolutely upon securing: a new charter. Let it bo remembered that, if this is not done at the time of the next spring election, it will have to go over to November, l?<tS; in which case nothing can be dene until the tax levy of the following year, 1599, is completed. This means that it will be the end of the century before our schools are relieved from the conditions now imposed; intoler able to all who are connected with them, and a general impairment of their efficiency and their work. Of all the voices that clamor today for char ter reform, and that demand instant action, none is louder than the chorus of little children, whose privileges and whose rights are neglected and dfr.ied. TAKE MOWN THE FSAHS. The money that is paid annually for the transport of our merchandise over the ocean constitutes a sum that sets the palms of what President Harrison termed our 'funinstructed political econ omists" to Jtching. It is certainly a magnificent sum of money. Elkins, the slipper-in, estimates it at ?200. 000,000 annually, but Steve has large way of talking that admits of a heavy discount on whatever lie may say. Transporta tion rarely exceeds 5 per cent of the value of the merchandise transported, and our out aiid iv ii-eiijhtagc last year amounted to $1,796,718,909. Ocean trans portation is the cheapest of all, and it is probably about $75,000,000 that is paid for the carriage of our exports and imports. Even that is a snug sum, and if it could be earned by owners cf ships of this country it goes without saying that the owners would be better off and, indirectly, the country would be benefited. Whatever other causes operated to take away the carrying trade, that, prior to the war, was in the hands of Americans to the extent of 75 per cent, two have been potential in preventing them from regaining it. The first is the substitution of iron and steel hulls for wooden ones and steam for t sails, and the taxes imposed on iron and steel imports to protect domestic mak ers that have put it out of the power of our ship builders to build iron or steel vessels as cheaply as they were built where the material was untaxed. The enhanced cost obliged a higher freight charge than the cheaper built vessels made, and the first efforts to reconstruct our merchant marine on the new lines were abandoned. The other obstruction to the creation of a merchant marine to sail under our flag and carry our register was the provi sion absolutely denying American reg ister to any vessel not of domestic build, thus denying to Americans the right of buying vessels where they could get them the cheapest and sail ing them under our flag. This was done to force the construction of vessels in our own ship yards.wlth the result that none are built there nor have been for years, except those intended for the coastwise trade. But there has been for all the years of the ascendancy of the policy of cre ating industries and stimulating them a strong element that has been urging government assistance. Large subsi dies were paid until their stench be came unbearable. A discriminating duty on imports carried in domestic bottoms was adopted, but practically abandoned when it was found that it would seriously complicate our rela tions with foreign nations. Treaties and conventions exempted the vessels of almost every nation from subjection to this additional charge. Recently there has been a revival of this move ment. The Republican national conven tion pledged the party to it. Elkins j introduced a bill that would redeem the pledge, but it was defeated, and then he "slipped in" section 22. Republican pa pers are discussing the topic, some of them growing quite pathetic over the "loss," as they call it, of this large sum every year. "Is not that sum worth saving?" they ask, as if we gave it away and got nothing for it; the same idea Blame had when he said we "dropped $40,000,000 a year into Cuba," because we bought of that island that much in excess of what we sold there. Now there is a very easy and simple way of getting back our merchant ma rine without the payment of a dollar of subsidy either directly or indirectly. Merely allow any citizen of the United States to get register for any vessel he may own, regardless of whether he had ; it built here or bought it in some foreign j ship yard. Congress set the precedent | in the special act granting American register to the City of Paris and the City of New York, foreign built vessels owned by Americans. There is now a large amount of American capital in | vested in these ocean lines, in some a i controlling interest; but the boats can not fly the American flag over Ameri- j can property because our law denies the privilege if the boat is foreign built. Let's have done with this namby-pam byism about festering our ship indus try by subsidies and discriminating duties, and leave American citizens froe to buy them where they will. This is a simple remedy and a natural one. A CASK OF COW Alt HICK. A Republican contemporary informs us that the question of retiring the greenbacks need not disturb congress in formal shape, because the same pol icy is being carried out, practically, without any law to direct it. This is true. The treasury is holding an im- I mense surplus now, in the neigkbor- I hood of $225,000,000, in its vaults as the ! proceeds of the last bond sale. In se lecting the currency that is to form i this reserve, the treasury ollicials choose greenbacks wherever it is pos sible. They are not allowed to cancel these legal tenders when presented and redeemed in gold, but they are al ! lowed to lock them up in the treasury ! as a part of the government's current i assets. That is where a large portion jof the legal terdeis now are. In case I the revenues were to so improve as to ' give a surplus instead of a deficit, of j which there is now, unfortunately, no ! prospect, the same policy would be i applied. In this way it is possible to minimize the danger to our finances arising out of the existence of the i greenbacks. Such of them as are held : in the treasury cannot form a part of ! the "endless chain," and cannot be \ used to draw down the gold reserve. We have no quarrel with the ado,> --i tion of this policy as a temporary ex ; pedient to tide over a dangerous sita- I ation. We wish to point out the fn- I herent cowardice of a party which pro j poses to make it permanent, instead ; of daring to take a right stand "or i currency reform. It will meet the fate j of all trimmers, by inviting discontent I and criticism of both factions. It does I not satisfy the sound money men, be ! cause they know that it is not safe. Not all the $340,000,000 of greenbacks outstanding car; be treated in this way. j The treasury surplus will not be large : enough at any time to absorb the ' whole. There will be sufficient of j them outstanding to be used whenever ; gold exports shall set strongly against j us to force another bond issue. Not until we have sold enough bonds to gather in and keep in the treasury the entire 5346.000.C00 will the country Jbe safe. Why, then, not retire these I notes outright? Is the country bene ! lited any more by having them stored ' away under ground in Washington I than it would be by having them burn ed? What is the difference? To those who hold, as a great many Re ! publicans do, that it would not do to ! "contract" the currency by redeeming ; the greenbacks, the answer is plain. ' The currency is contracted to the same ' extent when you tike a certain amount THJS SAUVr PAUL GtOBS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER I, 1897. of money out of active circulation, no matter how you dispose of it. There is just that much less in actfve use, whether the notes are cancelled «>r locked up. The Republican policy, therefore, is to do by indirection what it dare not do directly; to "contract" the currency by keeping an enormous and useless cash reserve, instead of by boldly re tiring our demand paper; to take the greenback out of actual use, but to leave it a standing menace and temptation to unwise legislation; to enable^ an administration with different views to throw it all once more upon the country, to the violent disturbance of com merce and finance, and to the detri ment of our credit. "VVe can under stand and could commend a courage ous policy of retiring the greenbacks. We can understand and commend, as far as its honesty is concerned, the un wise policy of keeping out our fiat paper and increasing its issue. We can not understand the utterly stupid and pointless policy of attempting to do both. It is consistent only with the unintelligent and shifty method of this administration in dealing with the only issue that gave to it its power and its opportunity. «a> WHY THE MOTTO DISAPPBARKD. For years so numerous that the mem ory of man runneth not to the contrary the Sun — there is but one, and its lo cation may be omitted— carried at the left of its name a card in which a ris ing sun was legended "If you ,;ee it in the Sun, it's so." Lately the card has disappeared. Surmise as to the cau.se of the omission ha 3 been rife, and among the suggested explanations is the rather cynical one that, the Sun having openly espoused Republicanism, such a motto would be inappropriate. A mere probable one is the chagrin that has followed the several conspicu ous refusals of the president and his department chiefs to obey the Sun's orders directing the policy of this ad ministration. To have roared at Cleve land for not fighting Spain to free Cuba, and to have assured thrise upon whom the Sun shone that McKinley would do it as soon as he was seated in the presidential chair, and then to have him treading in Cleveland's foot prints "with legs that are painfully short," cast a severe reflection upon the dogmatic "it's so." Then there was that section 22 case. When it was first discovered and while stalwart Republican papers were trouncing it and its undiscovered au thor, the Sun stood up valiantly for it and him. It was orthodox party doc trine, simon-pure Republicanism, clear quill protection, warp and woof all wool; meant just what it said and said just what it meant. Then, when the attorney general was asked what it meant, the Sun told what his answer would be, because it could be nothing else; he would say the tax should be laid on goods of origin in uncontigu ous foreign countries "coming into"' the United States from a contiguous coun try. It scouted the idea of any other decision being made. And it had good warrant, for it was in its own col i umns that the Washington dispatch appeared, sent by its own veracious correspondent, a month before, giving the decision of the attorney general that diamonds from Furope. coming into the United States from Canada, were subject to the 10 per cent discrim inating duty. How could it anticipate that the attorney general would so eas ily reverse himself? On Tuesday the opinion was publish ed. For two days the Sun was in total eclipse. What had appeared in the Sun wasn't so. What the Sun had said was so was not so, but was a directly opposite so. By Thursday morning the Sun had sufficiently recovered its breath to term the opinion Judge Mc- Kenna's masterpiece. "Read the opin ion through forwards," it said, "and then read it through backwards; read it again, skipping alternate para, graphs, and finally zigzag back front finish to beginning, and you will get each time the same idea, namely, '.hat the attorney general found the job and the responsibility too big for him and preferred to enwrap himself in a man tle of obscurity." Having made an analysis of the opinion after its own formula, it con cludes that it is a masterpiece as "'an ingeniously conceived and laboriously executed plea for the postponement of a difficult question of interpretation of national policy." by a man who does not like to t^ike bulls by their horns and "is a past expert in the art of cov ering up his mind." Under all .the cir- cumstances we think the Sun was ful ly justified in hauling down its old flag and ceasing to assert that "if you see It in the Sun, it's so." THE DOCTOR'S ALMA HI ATE It. As the D. V. S. from the rather in volved language of whose circular we endeavored to unravel and extract the meaning failed to .inform the "de pressed symmetry" of Mower county the name of the college of veterinary surgery where he gained his "Inbred distinctiveness" and knowledge of the "affections of the hog,"' we could not give to some institution the credit it deserves and which would attach to it from the profound observations of its distinguished graduate. An inci dent at the New York State Veterinary college, which is located on the grounds of Cornell college, the other day suggests the department of veterinary surgery of that college as being the possible alma mater of the . Mower county D. V. S. It is said that ex-Gov. Flower was driving, m company with ex-Gov. Cornell, through the grounds when, just as they were opposite the state veterinary college, one of the horses balked. That is, the driver said he balked, but the consequences indi cate that the horse knew what he was about. While Flower was governor the legislature defeated an appropriation of ?5,000 for the purchase of a libra-y for the veterinary college. It is proba ble that the horse was aware of this fact and refused to draw the ex-.jovei nor past the building erected and dedi cated to the healing art pertaining to his ancient and honorable race. Anyway, as the horse could be neither coaxed nor punished into £O ing on, it was proposed that the party inspect the interior of the college while the horse was reflecting upon his mis conduct. Prof. Law, the directed, met them and conducted them through the building and, finally, into the library, which was found to contain exactly seventeen volumes. Some one jestingly said to Mr. Flower that, as his legis lature had deprived the college of a library, he should contribute one, and he, on being" tplcL, that a suitable one would cost fs,oooii-drew his check for that sum and* presented it to Mr. Law. On their return lp the carriage the horse had gQt over his balk, as the driver put it^butiftad accomplished his purpose, as °we Sil know who know how intelligent tjhose creatures occa sionally are, and pulled the party away in his best style. ' l The bearings of this observation" {plainly point to Cornell's veterinary callege^as the alma mater' of the MoweV county D. V. S., for his circular indicates, an education obtain ed in a college with a library of but seventeen volumes', and no dictionary nor rhetoric among them. What with the decision of Judge Peekham, in the Trar j-Missouri Freight association case, that of Judge Foster in the Kansas City stock ex change case, the probable result of other suits against similar close corpora tions elsewhere, and the utter failure of the anti-trust act, under which these decisions are made, to phase a single trust at which only it was aimed, we have again a fresh illustration of the axiom that there are but two certain ties about any law; it will not effect its purpose, and no man can predict its ac tual results. Some Elkins will try to "slip in" a repealing clause at the com ing session of congress. Now that President McKinley and his attorney general have ratified the agreement made by President Cleve land and his attorney general for the adjustment of the claims of the United States against the Union Pacific rail way, the extremely watchful and zeal ous organs of the party of the present executive find the settlement a fair and judicious one which they denounced as a sacrifice of the public interest when made by his predecessor. Again, as of old, it does make a difference whose ox is gored. D -*=- Several of sthe l^' visiting statesmen" who went to Hawaii have had their views gathered and spread before an eager public. ! We note, with that cha grin that every Minnesotan must feel in reading the interviews, that our own Tawney wasf.noi^ among those whose views were deemed important enough to take and wire Home. Let a loud pro test swell up frCrm the indignant or gans of the broody First. B-'s-^'j* 1 . The Minneapolis Journal professes to think that wheat goes up because the Republican party is in power, but that clothing goe& up because of a short crop of wool. ' Why not be honest once, just for a £hange, and admit that wheat has gone up because of the im mense shortage in the European wheat crop and. that clothing is about to go up because of the tariff iniqjuity, the Dingley law? >^ President McKinley is no longer the "ad vance agent of prosperity." because, having arrived and taken possession of the country lvosperity no longer needb an advance agent.' —Hal lock Ne#s. Well, that's candid. McKinley having arriv ed at the presidency and taken possssion of the country the humbugging is no longer necessary. - '■<»■ " — * — Dave ClouKh in .Senator Davis" shoes would rattle around like a -shot' in '•&:. base drum. But 'this isn't Sayihg anything against the governor.— Lamberton Star. Mr. Pickwick also said that something de rogatory he had said was not offensively meant when given its Pickwickian sense. Supposen Woodford's ultimatum don't ulti mate, what are we going to do about it?— Pine Knot. Let slip a penu'.timate at 'em. -cfc» FINDS OF THE CITY. Uoport of Treasurer lio'r.-it for I,ant Month. Following is the report of the re ceipts and disbursements of the city treasurer for the month of September, 1597: Balance on hand Sept. 1, 1897 $1,002,156 18 Receipts — General Fund- Municipal court $1,507 50 Liquor licenses 13,000 00 Sewer connections 77 00 Foot rcddler license 20 00 Peddler wi th wagon 43 00 Peddler, street corner 10 00 Selling medicine, street corners . . 16 00 Interest bank baiance 1,725 SI BuiJd'ing inspector's foes 16 CO Hotel runner license 25 00 Workhouse (sale of s;ockings) 254 SO Market rent ..■ 298 03 Market, outside coll-ections .... 41190 R?nt cf levee 100 Show license 4 00 City clerk (office fees) 85 05 City clerk (dog tax) 60 00 Hack license i ' 10 00 Female intelligence office 75 00 Auctioneer's license 200 CO Scavenger's license 50 00 Lunch v.-agonsV liser.se 200 00 j Second-hand store license 10 50 Peddler with push cart 20 00 City attorney costs of City vs. Germania Bank 13 12 Total |15,157 79 Special Fun<ie — ' Redemption $3.514 21 Water board collection 35,000 00 I Sinking fund .. , 182 61 I Park .'-and S4 40 j Tax receipts 15,000 00 | Library fund 63 53 Central high school state award. . 400 00 Cleveland high school, state award 400 CO Humboidt nigh school, state award 400 00 Mechanic Arts school, state award 800 00 Teachers' training aohool, state award 500 00 Interest water board 25,000 00 Total $81,644 73 Special assessments $12,385 30 Total $1,114,374 02 Disbursements — City orders $149.814 08 Water orders 42.485 46 Park orders 7,587 69 I Library orders 1.148 04 Workhouse orders 1.963 32 Total $202.998 95 Baiance on" hand Oct. 1, 1897 911,375 43 Total $1,114,374 02 Where Deposited— •Merchants* Notional bank $71,627 81 I National German-American bank. . 250.747 26 ; Capital Sank %i....n 46,01152 IBank of .Minnasota account 22.480 SI Northern Exchange liank 34,313 65 ! St. Paul National bank 104.359 61 I West Side bank-...-: 24,954 23 j Allemannia bai# o i 120.479 17 ! Scandinavian-American bank 30,444 9a j Union bank ...%....}.< 56,677 23 National German-Amfcrican bank, interest aecouSft '.fi 56.866 22 State bank ...."... .. : ? 31, 05S 3S ' Bank of Merria,m Park 11.826 41 Minmefota Savirfgs cfenk 10,000 00 Other banks •■ . ; 4.49S 12 Total ...... .,,..... $911,375 43 NOT GOING' VERY FAST. State Treas|jrer. r Koerner Reports <><i B«e.t Sugar. A report of^the beet sugar appropria tion has been-f urnished by State Treas urer Koerner. Out of the $5,000 set aside by the last legislature for the purpose of advancing the cultivation of the sugar beet in Minnesota, $2,683.1/ was expended far seed and $100 moru for caring for the same, and there is a balance on hand of $2,293.83. The treas urer secured 27,571 pounds of sugar beet seed, of which his aales amounted to 2.332 pounds. 1 EQUALITY Ifl TAXES THAT IS THB DEMAND MADE BY THE MERCHANTS OF THE CITIES. PETITIONS AND PROTESTS AGAINST THE 15 PER CENT RAISE ARE VERY NUMEROUSLY SIGNED WILL MAKE A FIGHT MONDAY. The Gage Will Be Thrown Dawn at the Meeting of the State Board. Five hundred legitimate retail merchants of St. Paul and Minneapolis signed a petition yesterday to the state board of equalization asking that body to rescined its arbitrary sweeping in crease of 15 per cent in the assessment of property covered by the item, "Goods and Merchandise." Twelve copies of this petition have been dis tributed over the business district of the Twin Cities and they will be cir culated for signtures until Monday. On that day the state board will hold its last meeting of the present session, and it will be waited upon by a com mittee of the interested merchants with the petition. In the meantime it is thought that the petition will con tain the names of not less than 5,000 retail merchants and firms. At a mass meeting which will be held in the council chamber at the city hall in this city tomorrow night the merchants will organize and take formal action towards the protest which they will make against the in creased assessment. This meeting should have been held last evening, but owing to the fact that the work of obtaining names to the petition had only been begun and that the meeting had not been generally heard of, it was thought best to postpone organiza tion until a larger attendance of inter ested tax payers could be obtained. The petition is sensational in its terms, as it brings out clearly the im plied threat that if the state board does not rescind its order and equalize assessments against which there are complaints, the affected merchants will carry the controversy into court. It sets forth, in substance, that the assess ment between the legitimate retailer and those of the merchants of the larger interests is unjustly levied; that it is arbitrary and contrary to the laws of the state; that the smaller interests are assessed from 60 to 100 per cent, while the assessment of the larger holdings ranges from 5 to 20 per cent; that the state board of equalization, by applying the 15 per cent raise upon all merchants, "has caused the imposition of an extraordinary burden upon the smaller interests of the cities." The petition seeks to have those interests undervalued brought up in percentage to those of the merchant "who has heretofore borne the greater burden of taxation," and it concludes that if the state board refuses to rescind its order the matter will be carried into litiga tion, in which event and collection of all taxes under the assessment would be balked. • Merchants who are leading this fight against the increased assessment said last night at the city hall that certain lawyers were already making a special effort to "'bust" the assessment as it stands and thereby block the wheels of prosperity, so-called, of the munici pal, county and state government in the correct maintenance of public in stitutions. They said that the object of the lawyers was to let the state board adjourn without protest from the merchants and then attack the whole assessment in the courts. The merchants said that they had started this movement under the form of pe tition and protest in order to forestall the proposed suits. However, if the state board refused next Monday to accede to their demands they would be compelled as a source of personal pro tection to resort to the courts. "The smaller merchants are deeply in earnest in this fight," said a retail dealer last night to a reporter for the Globe, "and they intend to have their rights. We have no objection to an increase in the total assessment if the board will only make this increase after equalizing unjust assessments. But arbitrary increase in the total as sessment without equalization is not to be tolerated. By going before thf board next Monday and presenting our grievance we hope to bring about a compromise that will keep the trouble out of the courts. Litigation would block the collection of the tax, and, as a consequence, our schools, and in fact every public institution, would suffer. But to the courts the question must go if we do not get our rights. Al ready merchants are arranging to establish a fund with which to secure attorneys, and these of St. Paul have the hearty co-operation of the legiti mate retailers of Minneapolis. The state board of equalization shall not thrust upon us tax burdens to which we are not entitled. We are all willing to pay taxes upon a just assessment, but we will not stand for the sweeping raise of the assessment through which only the larger commercial interests can possibly benefit." WORK AND PLAY. Monuments and Whist Diversify Lo <■:>.! Women's* Occupations. The ladies of the Monument associa tion are much encouraged over the growing interest which is being Shown in the monum&nt entei prise. The work of soliciting will begin in the winter, meanwhile the subscription books are often in demand and some of those in terested have already begun active so licitations, though that feature of the work has not yet been fully systema tized. The Ladies' Cavendish Whist club is making perceptible progress in the scientific manipulation of whist combi nations. The Cavendish club rooms, on Selby avenue, are open every Tues day evening to any St. Paul lady who wishes to play a thorough game or to learn how to play one. A ladies' Tues day afternoon club has been in exis tence for some time, and is composed of loyal lovers of the game. Of this club, Mrs. M. L. Countryman is presi dent. The ladies' contests in the even ing, consist in twelve games, in which the norths and souths of the various tables are pitted against each other rather than against the easts and wests. The boards net being turned around eliminate the objectionable memory element of the regular dupli cate game. The lady, who has the highest score of any one evening carries oft the badge, and she who has the highest score of the series will get fiist prize at the end of the season. A sec ond prize will also be given to the next best player. The Tabernacle society met yesterday morning in the Ryan annex. It was the first meeting of the season, and hence was for the purpose of getting the work started for the winter. The last Friday in October there will be the annual election of officers. J. A. Simmons and Mrs. Hattie A. Davenport were married last evening at 7 o'clock at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Buckingham. Rev. C. D. Andrews performed the ceremony in the presence of a few friends and rel atives of the contracting parties. The bride was prettify attired in a traveling costume, carrying a bunch of American Beauties in her hand. The parlors were tastily decorated with cut flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons left on an evening train for the Pacific coast, where they will remain two weeks, and will be at home at No. 42, The Buckingham, after Oct. 15. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clifton, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hunt, Miss Clifton, Miss Maugan, Mr. and Mrs. Henrickson, L. D. Wilkes, George Beals, E. Johnson, J. Simmons, T. Simmons, Judge and Mrs. Mills, Ernest Mills, Miss Mills, Mrs. W. N. Richardson, Gray W. Richardson. A quiet wedding took place last even ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Humbird, of 527 Dayton avenue. The bride was Miss Florence de Charital Humbird, and the groom, Edward Thomas Koch, of Cedar Rapids, 10. The ceremony was performed at 5 o'clock by Rev. D. W. Rhodes, of the Church of St. John the Evangelist. Only the immediate relatives of the families were present. The house was prettily deco rated with roses and palms. Mr. and Mrs Koch left on the evening train for a brief wedding trip. They will be at home to their friends in Cedar Rap ids after Nov. 1. Yesterday at 3 o'clock Miss Clara Dunlap and Mr. William Blake were married at Sauk Center. The bride is one of the most popular young ladies of that place and the groom is a St. Paul traveling man. They will make their home here. The ladies who are playing for posi tions in the coming golf prize contest, continued their preliminary game yes terday afternoon. The exact status of the players will be settled tomorrow afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Countryman, of Ash land avenue, went to Prior Lake yesterday afternoon. Misses Julia and Tadda Rossum will leave for the East this evening. Harry Davis goes to Chicago today. Samuel C. Stickney returned from Chicago yesterday. Miss Caroline Farquhar will be the guest of Mrs. Rudolph Rossum for a few days. Mrs. Kinning will return Monday from lowa. Miss June Cook, of Rochester, is at the Aberdeen. Miss Julia B. Noyes has gone to Brooklyn to spend the winter. Mrs. C. H. Burbank has returned from a five months' trip abroad. The Misses Rob bins, who were with her in Europe, will spend some time in the East. Mrs. Emerson Hadley, of Farrington ave nue, has returned from the sea shore. Mrs. Messner, of the Ashland, returned Wednesday from a week's visit in North field. Mrs. Willard Fifield, of Alexandria, is the guest of Mrs. E. D. Brann, of St, Peter street. Mrs. Herman Trott. of Tacoma, is visiting her daughter, Miss Louise B. Trott, at the Astoria. Mr. and Mr 3. A. G. Foster, of Tacoma, will arrive today and spend several weeks at the Ashland. Mrs. Van Carratt, of Watervliet, Mich., is visiting her mother, Mrs. P. M. Vincent, 289 Mackubin street. Commodore and Mrs. W. J. Kountz, ot Following- are the pictures that constitute the first two of the Fifth Set. The next two of this set will be published on Sunday, and the last two of the Fifth Set on Wednesday next. Be Surd to Mail Your Answers, as tha Postofflca Stamp will Determins ths Priority of Answers. Xo. 25— Wlio I.i tlie Lady? \Vlm« Is She Dotafff When and Where? No. 20— Who Is This Bold Rider, and Where Did He Ride? For six weeks the GLOBE will publish six pictures per week representing some scene or event in American history. 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F»/\LJL, MINIS. Pittsb.urg, Pa., are visiting their daughter Mrs. Thad C. Jones. Mrs. William Gilger and Miss Stella Gilger, of Willmar. are visiting Mrs. Franz Lam brecht, cf Park avenue. E. T. Koch, of the Aberdeen, returned Wednesday from Cedar Rapids. C. G. Bank, of Western avenue, Is at the Ashland for the winter. Mrs. David Day, of Dayton avenue, will spend a few weeks at the Ashland before go ing East for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Claflin and children, of Omaha, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson, of Laurel avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Greenman and family have returned from White Bear and have taken a house at 459 Laurel avenue. Mrs. Rudolph Schiffman, of Summit ave nue, and Mrs. J. A. McCloud, of Minneapolis, will leave Sunday evening for St. Louis. NATITRALIZATIOX THE THEIIK. Meeting of the Democratic (Sean nell) City Committee. Sixteen of the twenty members of the Democratic city committee (Scan nell) met in the office of Building In spector Kingsley last night and talked over some of the work preliminary to next spring's city campaign. In the absence of A. H. Miller, the secretary, who is out of town, John C. Hardy was elected to the position. The com mittee will meet regularly herefatvr the second Monday in each month, and a committee was named to select permanent headquarters. The special subject under consider ation last night was the best method to pursue in the matter of the natur alization of all Democrats whose resi dence in the city and state entitles them to second papers. As a result of a general discussion it was decided to have each ward committeeman submit a list of four names for each precinct in each ward, two of which, in each case, shall be chairmen and secretary, and that this precinct organization will assist in the work of naturaliza tion and become the nucleus for th« precinct organization when the time arrives that such organization is nec essary. P. D. Scannell reported for J. L. Townley that a meeting of the execu tive committee of the Democratic county committee, the executive com mittee of the People's party, the ex ecutive committee of the Bimetallic league and the executive committee of the Democrat-Citizens' party had been called and that the Democratic city committee had been requested to meet with them. It was decided to appoint a committee of three to advise Mr. Townley that the Democratic city committee would be glad to hear the representatives of the organization mentioned at any regular meeting of the Democratic committee, or the lat ter would, if desired, call a special meeting for the same purpose. The object of the conference is to promote naturalization. The committee named consists of P. D. Scannell, John C. Hardy and William Johnson. This concluded the business of the meet ing. Three Children Cremated. ALMA, Neb., Sept. 30.— Three children of A. L. Gordon were burned to death in a fire which destroyed his house Monday night. They were aged respectively, 7, 9 and 11. Gordon inhaled flames in trying to save them and is critically ill.