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4 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY, JULY 17, IS9S. We Aim to Be Accurate. The Globe Prints the Associated Press News. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I I t j 12 --mo mos mos Dally 40c $ 2 - 2 5 $4.00 Daily and Sunday . .50c 2.75 6.00 Sunday _•■*_ Weekly .. . „ 100 Entered at PostcJSce ot St. Paul. Minn., as Second-Class Matter. Address ail communications and make all Remittances payable to THa GLOBE CC. St. Paul. MlnneeoU. Anonymous r.-inmunications not noticed. Re jected unir.usi-rip'.s will net be returned ua ie::- acoumr'aiiiei! by postage. BRANCH OFFICES: New York 10 Spruce St. Waahlnartoa Corcoran Building Chl»-i'.u<i. ..Room CO9, No. S7 Washington St gp. The Dchiocratic Stale Ticket. Governor JOHN' LIND, Crown county Lieut Gov J. M. BOWLER. Renville Bee. State J. J. HEINRICH. Hennepin Treasurer ALEX. M'KINN'ON, Tolk Auditor GEORGE N. LAMPHERE, Clay Attorney General.. JOHN F. KELLY, Ramsey Cierk Supreme Court.Z. H. AUSTIN, St. Louis Judges iTHOMAS CANTY, Henr.epln Supreme (DANIEL BUCK. Blue Earth Court IWM. MITCHELL, Winona » — SUNDAY'S WEATHER. Fair. By the Vnlted States Weather Bureau. MINNESOTA— Fair; southerly winds. WISCONSIN— Fair weather; light southerly winds. IOWA — Fair; southerly winds. NORTH DAKOTA— Fair; coolor ln western portions; southerly winds, becoming west erly. SOUTH DAKOTA— Fair: cooler In western portions; southerly winds, becoming; west erly. MONTANA— Showers; cooler; westerly winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES. Boston 78-B'Buffalo SO-84 Chicago SS-DHCincinnatl SO-90 New York 78-So Montreal 74-80 Pittsburg 78-SSi YESTERDAY'S MEANS. Barometer 29. 56 Mean temperature B.) Relative humidity 61 Wind at S p. in Southwest Weather Clear Maximum temperature 91 Minimum temperature 70 Daily rangL> 21 Amount of precipitation in last twenty four hours 0 RIVER AT S A. M. Danger Gauge Change ln Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours. St. Paul 14 5.9 —0.3 La Crosse 10 5.0 *0.1 Davenport 15 3.G —0.1 St. Louis 30 IG.O —1.1 •Rise. —Fall. The river continue falling at St. Paul today and Sunday. Note— Baroaieter corrected for temperature and elevation. —P. F. Lyons. Observer. ATLANTIC LINERS. NEW YORK— Arrived: Umbria, Liverpool. Sailed: Victoria, London ; La Uretagne, Havre; Aiaasdam, Rotterdam; Furnessia, Glasgow; Campana, Liverpool; Patria, Ham burg. LIVERPOOL.— Arrived: Etrura, Giorgio. New York. Sailed: Aurania. New York. ROTTERDAM— Arrived: Edam, New York. BREMEN— SaiIed: Uarbarossa, New York. SOUTHAMPTON— Arrive- J Westernland, "£ew York; Roentgen Louise, New York. HAVRE— Sailed: La Gascogne, New York. TODAY'S EVENTS. GRAND — McKee Rankin stock company in •Oliver Twist." 8:15. M KTitOPOLITAN— Dark. Concerts at Oomo park, 2:30 and 8 PM. St. Paul folic. irdia Singing society cuting on Henrietta. 'J:-' AJL Trnvclers unable to bny Tlie St. Paul Globe on any train entering; St. Paul will confer a favor on Tne Globe cnmi»nn>- by promptly notify ing * lie in of each Instance. As a piece de resistance Toral has gone to pieces. Anyhow, the Philippine Cavite will soon be full of American troops. Heads of Northwestern wheat look more like the $ sign than ever this year. The apple tree of Appomattox and the eieba tree of Santiago will occupy adj ii tag Icta ln history. As we understand it, Gen. Shafter has reduced his weight and increased the eize of his family 25,000 since he went to Cuba. Perhaps it would be in order for Cervera to give testimony as to wheth er he was whipped by Sampson or Schley. It is comforting to tbe friends of the young man who "blew in" $80,000 in about that many minutes to know that he spent $70 of it for ice. Admiral Cervera said three of his ships would have got away if it had not been for the Brooklyn, tbe Oregon and the Texaj3. What a big little word "if" is. Marshall Field must stand pretty ■well financially in Chicago. He handed out one check for $2,100,00') on Monday. The 2-eent revenue stamp on it looked very feeble. Anyhow, young Mr. Hearst comes nearer telling the truth about affairs in Cuba than the correspondents he sent out to "get the news if you can, but get something." A Chi'ago paper says Lieutenant Commander Walnwright "has an ab normally long neck." He has a pretty long memory, too. He remembered the Maine with shot and shell when ho was chasing the- Spanish warships off Santiago. At lhat, there is a feeling in some Quarters that Boston ls too enthusi astic over this war. The other Sun- day morning the Rev. James Boyd Brady preached on "Reasons for Rest ing in the Loving Arms of God," and in the evening on "To Hell With Spain!" As long as he can get at a section of cable. Gen. Blanco will continue to tri fle with the truth. His latest dispatch Is full of bombast and prevarication. It is our duty to catch this old rascal and feed him on bread and water for a year. Backyards and Character. If he has an observant eye and a discriminating judgment, the man who drives the grocer's or butcher's deliv ery cart and leaves his packages at the kitchen doors will be able to form a more accurate estimate of the charac ter of the households he serves than will you who get your imptessions from tho front sidewalk or even from no In considerable acquaintance with front parlors. There may be elegance in the flowered and grassed lawn and in the receiving halls and parlors, but if these are all that pass under your inspection you will not know as well as does the humbler person who gains access only to the area whether refinement dwells also with that household. Refinement, which lovea the orderly and cleanly, and slovenliness do not live under the same roof. Slovenliness, however, seeing how highly refinement is esteemed, tries to ape her ways and, where censorious or critical eyes can view them, borrows and displays the mere adornments of refinement, her elegancies. But where critical eyes never peer, or eyes to whose seeing she is indifferent, she spares herself the effort of imitation and indulges in the luxury of being herself. No matter what the signs giv en by front yards and halls and par lors, if you would know for sure wheth er the lady or the slattern abide there, whether appearances be the solid gold of refinement or the gilded base metal of imitation, consult the man who drives the delivery wagon. For he knows, If the backyard be as neatly kept, as cleanly, as graced with flowers or shrubbery as is the front, that the refinement showing there is genuine. And he knows, if the backyard shows piles of dirt, grass killed by kitchen slops, ash-heaps in its cornets and lit ter strewn everywhere, that a slat tern presides in fact, however she may conceal herself in front finery. And there are backyards to character as well as to homes. "No man is ever a hero to his valet" because of these backyards. "Familiarity breeds con tempt" where familiarity reveals un couth backyards. You have known this man or that woman for years. They are oourteous, modest, truthful, frank, upright, virtuous; having the qualities we all esteem. Some day something happens, some fit of anger, some stress of temptation, a fit of pique, some un guarded remark, and you find ycu must revise your judgment. He or she Is not the man or woman whom you have known. They are just the same, only you have always seen their front yards. You have just caught a glimpse of the backyards of their character. Tho View Point of Obstacles. Lieut. Hobson, recounting his expe rience in the attempt to block Santiago harbor by sinking the Merrimac in the channel, said: "The more I think about it the more marvelous it seems that we are alive." And, indeed, It does. To drive an unarVned and unarmored ship into a narrow channel whose sides were lined with batteries and whose bottom was corded with torpedoes, with | battleships facing the bold intruder, I was an attempt from which no man engaging in it had any reason to ex pect to come out alive. It was mar velous, that escape absolutely un scathed! But the remark of the lieutenant illustrates the different point of view from which men look on obstacles that confront them. There are those who habitually look at them from the front, tee them, if not in exaggeration of their full magnitude, in fairly accurate es timate of them. Tha more frequent tendency of this class is to magnify them. If nerve is lacking, if courage is subordinate to prudence, this class sur render without assault. They form the groat mass of men who never accom plish anything, for the habit grows of magnifying all obstacles, and yielding makes subsequent yielding easier un til tho habit is formed. Hobson belongs to that other class who sense the magnitude of obstacles that come athwart their wiy only after they have assaulted and, generally, overcome them. Looking backward at what they have accomplished they marvel that they dared undertake it, or that they succeeded. They have self-confidence in abundance. They count their resources more than they do the dangers or the difficulties. They are the men who accomplish. They are tenacious of purpose. They drive con stantly toward their purpose. Rebuffs, defeats do not discourage them. They are mere incidents to be met and brushed aside. They may have to turn this way and that, but never back. Head winds may compel them to tack, but progress ls made with each tack. And then, when the struggle is over and they pause for breath and lock tack and see what th;*y have overcome, they sense for the first time the full proportions of the obstruction and are astonished at their audacity in attack ing it. But the w«rld would not be what it is today were it not for just this class of men. Wong Kirn Ark's Case Extended. The supreme court of the United States rendered its decision in the case of Wong Kirn Ark before congress had embarked the nation on a policy of expansion by annexation. The case called for an interpretation of the Fourteenth amendment to the consti tution, which declares that "all per sons born within the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The court held that the plaintiff, although born of Chinese parents, who were subjects of the Chinese emperor, was a citizen of the United States by vir tue of having been born within them. The resolutions annexing the Sand wich islands also annex their pop ulation. These consist largely of Chinese and Japanese, together with some Portuguese and other foreign peoples, the American element num bering but some 3,000 of the 100,000. The resolutions apply to the islands the laws of the United States relating to the Chinese and, in addition, preclude any of that nation in the islands from entering the United States. But as the islands become part of the United States it follows that children of Chinese parents, or Japanese or Kan aka, born after the annexation, be come, under this decision, citizens of Ihe United States as fully as do chil dren of their citizens. The new policy contemplates holding THE ST. 'PAUL GLOISE SUNDAY JULY 17, 1893. the Philippine islands with their un enumerated millions of savages and semi-savages. Whatever legislation congiess may adopt fixing the politi cal status of the natives, whether cit izenship is bestowed or withheld, this decision brings under the aegis of American citizenry every Nigrite, Malaslan, Meztlzo or Mangyan male whose birth dates after the annexa tion of any one of the hundreds of islands. There ls and can be no lim itation put upon their rights and priv ileges. They become as fully citizens as if their ancestors had been among the Roundhead and Cavalier immi grants to our colonies. Any one of them will be eligible to the office of president, of the United States, to put the effect of that decision in its strongest light. Possibly some other case may come to that court involv ing this same question, and it may reverse this decision and hold with Justices Fuller and Harlan that "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" are qualifying words which incorporate the pre-existing law that made the nationality of the parent fix the po litical status of the child. A Surviving "Twin Relic." ln these days of sharp questioning of the old and established why should not the batteries of the questioners be aimed at that hoary survival of bar barism, prize money of the navy, which has survived its twin, the booty of the army? Long ago the custom that made land captures a source of added profit to the armies was abolished and sur vives now, where discipline does not prevent, in the dishonorable form of loot. Captured cities are no longer put under ransom nor turned over to be looted by the troops. Private property is sacred from the pillage of an invad ing army. Progress has been made in the ethics of naval warfare since the days when, as to commerce, privateer ing was but little better than piracy, and progress would have put the navy abreast of the army had the terms im posed by the United States as a con dition of its assent to the Paris con vention been accepted. This distinction is brought sharply to view by the events of this war. The navy destroyed the Spanish fleet. For this it gets prize money based on tha estimated value of the fleet. Sampson gets $10,000; Schley, $3,000, and so on down to the common sailors. Shatter's army captures 5,000 square miles of rich territory, with its cities, planta tions, mines, and the arms and muni tions of war, together with several ships In the harbor. And neither he nor any in his command receives a penny ad ditional to their salaries. Schley won the prize money of the navy with the loss of but a single life; Shafter's win ning cost hundreds of lives. Schley gets his salary and $3,000 in prize money; Shafter gets his salary only. Sampson and his crews campaigned in snug and comfortable quarters; Shaf ter's men campaigned in the rain and mud and under the scorching blaze of the sun. Sampson's sick had treatment in comfortable quarters; Shafter's in hospital tents floored with mud, or burned with fever under their dog tents. Another phase. Gen. Miles reaches Santiago in time to be in at the win ning of the immensely valuable prize secured by Shafter. He awards Shaf ter and his men full credit for their feat. Sampson's first word to Schley, when the New York came rushing back from Aguadores to find the Spanish fleet all destroyed, was a notice that he was "in hailing distance" all the time. His announcement of the fight was that the fleet under "my" com mand sends the nation a Fourth of July present ln the demolished fleet. Had the law not made all vessels with in hailing distance of the prize sharers in prize money, might not Sampson have been as generous to Schley as Miles was to Shafter? "When, again, Shafter had forced Toral into a sur render Sampson served notice on him that he must be consulted In making terms. Why? There were ships in the harbor and mines in the channel and, possibly, forts on the harbor shores to be claimed, valued and divided as prize of the navy. It is recalled that when Porter came up Red river with his fleet, in rear of Banks' army, which had cleared the country of the enemy, Porter coolly claimed as prize of the navy all cotton on each side of the river within the range of his guns. And he forthwith sent out and brought it in and loaded his boats with it. And why should this antiquated and unjust discrimination continue to ex ist? Will men not serve as well, fight as hard, endure as much without as with it? Must cupidity be appealed to to stimulate patriotism and duty-do ing? Not unless American sailors are different from American soldiers. Did Shafter's men fight any the less stoutly that not a dollar of all the wealth they might capture would be theirs? Is the naval service so much more dangerous than the army that it must be given additional inducements? Let the rec ords of casualties in this or any war answer that. When we get out of the habitual and look with fresh eyes at this matter it does seem as if prize of the navy should be relegated to the oblivion into which booty of armies has "gone. , The report of the statistician of the treasury for May contains a lot of in teresting information about the Ha waiian islands,''6f unusual Interest, now that Uncle ' SSlii has adopted them, volcanoes, leprosy, natives, half-castes, Japs and Chinese. The internal taxa tion shows, in its increase, that Ameri cans are in control, having climbed up from $432,656, or $5.09 a head, in ISBS, when the total population was 80,578, to $706,541 in 1896, or $6.4S a head, when the population had risen to 109,020. The public debt shows the same unmistaka ble sign. It was only $22,000 when cur missionaries got there, but by 1876 they had civilized the natives Into a debt of $459,187. Their eons, however, did bet ter. By 1884 they had run It up to $898,800, and by 1896 they had financed the country into a debt of $4,101,174, the payment of which Uncle Sam kindly assumes. The revenues of the islands touched top notch in 188S, when they were $4,812,575, with the expenditures running nip-and-tuck with them at $4,712,285. Since then there has been a falling off, and in 1896 the former were $2,253,070 and the latter $2,137,103. In their anxiety to put John Lind "in a bole," the Republicans are admitting what has been charged freely, and a.= 3 freely denied, that, in scattering regi mental commissions, Gov. Clough con sulted politics quite as much if not more than he did fitness. The gover nor indicated, in a recently reported remark, embellished with vulgar ex pletives, that Lind was not to take the nomination for govarnor if he ap pointed him quartermaster. The Min neapolis Journal asserts that "it is well known is Republican circles that at the time Lind received his appointment I: was promised for him by his closest friends that he did not want to be a candidate Hhis year; that, he wanted the appointment so that he might, with good grace, decline the nomination which he saw coming." It further as serts that Col. Bobleter was the one who gave Clough that assurance. Whatever the merits of this controversy it convicts £ov. Clough of making an appointment to an important position in the service of a man who had been his opponent two years before and was sure to be the opponent this year of the man whom he had chosen to succeed him. In this instance every report shows that he chose a competent man, but that was a minor consideration, if, indeed, it was thought of at all. How many incapables has he put over the volunteers because he thought they could help the Van Sant and his own senatorial campaign along? The tide of immigration has shrunk en within half the volume it attained after the Civil war and kept up until the present decade. The average half million has fallen about half, the num ber arriving for the eleven months ending with May being 212,475. Europe continues mainly to furnish the mate rial, 201,792 coining thence. The fig ures for June have not been given out, but, if the average for May is main tained, the total will be about 250,000. The sources of supply of these addi tions to our population, even if the quantity is so largely reduced, is a matter of interest. Roughly classified, they may be assigned to the Teutonic, Latin and Slav races. Of the first, Aye received 85,516, of the second 61,349 and of the third 66,131, the remainder com ing from other countries than Euro pean. It is probable that a portion of those classed as Slav are Teutonic. A notable, but not a surprising fea ture is the falling off, as compared with former years, of the immigration from the Dominion, but 317 having changed their residence to this country. Should Laurier's policy remain that of Cana da, these merely nominal figures will mark future reports. If any of our mercantile houses are contemplating sending out their com mercial travelers to Hawaii to drum for trade, it is just as well that they know the conditions under which these versatile and useful gentlemen may do business there. Before they can open their sample trunks in any town on the island of Oahu. on which is Hono lulu, they must take out a license, for which they must pay $570. If they would drum up trade In any of the other islands, they must have licenses, for each of which they pay $225. When one gets ready to leave, if he shall have tarried there thirty days or more, he must get a passport— fee $I— and this will be denied if he leaves an unpaid | bill or has been pulled by the police. UNCLE SAM'S DUSKY KID. Word comes that the government has just ordered a regiment of the army to Hawaii. This is the first step ln the carnival of im perialism and vastly expensive militarism upon which the Republican national specula tive and Jobbing hog combine has launched the country. It costs comparatively a pile of meney to keep even one regiment anywhere, end this is only the tiniest end of the entering wedge of the policy, which, once well in operation, will burden the American people under the terrible weight of mighty standing military establishments, such as have ground the peo ple of the military nations of Europe into the oust and driven them in most instances to seek refuge In anarchy. A regiment for Hawaii! I i s ths fim reaching out of tho mailed hand of imperial ism and speculative jobbery, and it augurs ill.— -Wheeling Register. There must have been several speeches on Hawaii squelched at last in the senate. One of them would have been edifying. Sonets. Spooner, of Wisconsin, w<ho has made a repu tation as one of the abiest lawyers of the senate, had intimated that he had a speech prepared against the constitutionality of the measure, which might have been a worthy comparison to the speeches c-f Senators Morr.il and Hoar. — Boston Herald. The annexation of Hawaii is a starter for a policy of government by commission. One part of the imperial programme will be to gradually increase"the power of the president and correspondingly weaken that of the peo ple. Another part of it will be to try to make people believe that the author of the Declara tion of Independence was an eld fegy and didn't know Whf.t he waa doing.— Toiedo Be. The Hawaiian commission Just appointed by the president will sail for Honolulu on August 1. The delay in sailing ls occasioned by the sugar trust not having its plans fully matured.— La Crosse Press. Two of tlie three Americans on the Hawaiian commission are from Illinois. Must ba a scheme to annex Honolulu to Chicago and try to catch up with Greater New York.—To ledo Be». As Senator Morrill, cf Vermont, put it, Hawaii is of no more value to us in aiding Dewey to retain pesscssion of the Philippines than the backside, of the moon.— Wheeling Register. So we may believe that after year« will convince even the present doubters that the ! disasters rhey foresee are the creatures of | their own fears and that they will coma to re joice with the rest of the American people in | Hawaii as one of the brightest stars in the Incomparable ga'.axy of our expanding firma ment.—New York Tribune. (Gee Wkitaker! Wonder if the young per son who ground this composition cut of the Tribune rhetoric mill was able to let go of the handle when he finished!) Commodore Watson has been given per emptory orders to proceed at the earliest ! possible moment to attack Spain. This ; movement has already been warmly com j mended as the most promising means to '■ bring the Hidalgoes to their sers s. An en j ergetic campaign against the Canaries, Ceuta i and the coast of Spain cannot fail to pro | dure good results In bringing the war to a ; close — a consummation devoutly to be wished ! — and at the same time may be produc'.lve of I other good results. When the flag of the United States is j hoisted on the continents ot Europe and ! Africa, as well as In Oceanlca, it U just pos ! sible the ludie-roustjess of the propaganda, I that "wherever me Stars and Stripes are nar- I rled by this war, there they shall remain," may begin to be apparent even to the im ! perlallst jingoes. But if the United States is to abandon,.,, at one Jump, its principles I and traditions there should be no mincing of matters.' It has Spain at its mercy, and if the wa,r. begun ln Che cause of humanity, la to b^ perverted . into a war of conquest, the na,t.ipn should not neglect to extend its ijnperi&*> power and "clvili/.ing influences" over all 'the territory of Spain. Who will be govertaor general of Spain? Senator Morgan*^ abjtetice from this continent would be wekjpmedrby a majority of the people and hejinightihe induced to accept. For the other governors general it might be well to take othfer senators of Imperialist pro clivities, meantime passing a law that If r.ny colony secedes the governor thereof shall never be eligible to return to America. — Pittsburg Dispatch. II IKK <-•■«< Gold JiiiKurl. Big gold nuggets are extremely rare. The biggest on record was found in Australia ln 1852, weighed upward of 223 pounds and was worth $T>o,ooo. The Hnllnn l,niiKDHK<'- At a coijgrees in India, where nine lan guages were spoken by delegates, the discuc sions were carried on ia English. A proposi tion has been brought forward to make Eng lish the missionary language oi the world. | Epistles to St. Paul, j He was long and gaunt and about fifty years of age. He didn't look the least bit like a man with a German accent. But he had it, had It badly. When he tried to talk English it sounded like German with an English accent. He likewise had a Jag, and in his hand he carried a "turkey." He landed in front of the city hall Friday afternoon ai.d he made inquiry for the Herr Burgomelster. He admitted that he was hard up and he had been told that the thing for him to do was to see Col. Kiefer. One of th© city hall gang took him ln tow, and ln three minutes he was ln the mayor's office with this note in hli hand: "Mayor Kiefer: "Give the bearer $36. He needs the money. If you haven't got that much with you, give him a Job on the police force. — "T. McMahou, Ex-Policeman." When he came out of the mayor's office his clothes were not bulgtng out of shape with any money that anybody could see and he was too big for any of tho gang to inquire what the colonel said to him. It was that same day, Friday, that tha mayor had another caller. He was alsj long, gaunt and spectral. He got by tho young man who proved to Tommy Neuhausen that the Hammer is mightier than tho pen, aVI found himself In the sanctum. The colonsl looked up and noticed that he wore a G. A. R. button In his coat. "This is Mayor Kiefer," he said, remov ing his hat. The mayor acknowledged that It was, with a wave of his hand. "Well," said the visitor I am an old sjl dier; I am going to Fargo, and I haven't quite money enough. I'll show you my papers so that you'll see that " "It is not necessary, my dear sir," said the colonel, in hi 3 best manner. I always believe an old soldier. Sit down and I'll fix you out." He sat at his desk and wrote a note, which he handed to the veteran. "Take it down to the office in the basement," he said. "No thanks at all. I'm always ready to help an old soldier." The old fellow left the offire, and when he got into the corridor he looked at the note. It was addressed to the board of control. "Here, you take the light and I'll shoot." "But, father, remember that you are a po liceman _„d can't shoot, said the boy. Ser geant Frank Horn promised himself at that moment that he would presently teach his son the respect that is due a father, even If he is a policeman. He pushed the gun out in front of him and flred It off. Since then he ha 3 been sleeping in the stable. The conversation took place about a weak ago. It was close upon midnight, and Frank had heard something going on in hl3 hen roost. His chickens are not as expensive as Phil Schweitzer's, but they are serviceable, ard the number of eggs they lay U gui o astonishing. So he aroused his son, and b2 tween them they recconnoitered the hennery. Frank had the gun, and he saw the animal that was preying on his hens. Then ensued the conversation recorded. The shot was not effective, for Mr. Horn ls still ignorant of what sort of beast it was that he sihot at, so far as seing it is concerned. But he Is still non persona grata at home and ln the station. —The Phillstiue. BINDING TWINE. From tho Retail Dealers' Poii»t of View. To The St. Paul Globe: There ls a letter in yesterday's Globe that was written in a hayfleld. The letter is evidently a syndicate composition, because the writer expressly states that he "writes with a large crew of men." His heated argu ment would also indicate that the temperature was somewhat near the boiling point in the vicinity of his hay cock-dotted landscape. If the writer would leave off haying long enough" to investigate the binder twine situa tion, and sit down in his library long enough to cool off, he might arrive at different con clusions. In the flrst place, If the warden or prison board have erred, it has been on the side of the farmer. They did not do as any in dividual or corporation whose expenses are not paid by the state would be obliged to do. They did not advance the price of twine when the price of raw material advanced, because when the price of the raw material declines, and twine goes down, the great state of Minnesota pockets the loss, and the tax payer makes the loss good. Other firms and individuals not so fortunate are obliged to recoup their losses by judicious buying, and by taking advantage of any rise in price that may follow. These chances come but seldom in tne ordinary business life. The most careless student knows that the period of declining values is far greater than that of rising values. There is a rumor that the Drlson has made $85,000 in its twine this yea"r, but there is another rumor that it could have sold lto raw material for $15,000 more than it has received for its twine. What institution not fostered by the state could have been as generous? The result of this generosity will appear this winter, when the prison board, in order to purchase more material, will have to in vest its capital— furnished by the state— its profits, made by selling twine below the cost of the raw material at the time of telling a large part of its output, and probably a good round sum in addition from the state treas ury. This will be the result of one year's business conducted like the past one, and yet ti".ore are farmers who complain. The farmer had the same chance to purchase as the merchant, and has had the further advan tage of being able to purchase long after the merchants' orders were being turned down. Does the writer af the "hay field letter" wish to advocate establishment of a bureau to hold merchants off and round up the farm er to compel him to purchase? The farmer should be aware that he will probably nee twine, and he has the same opportunity to investigate matters at the prison, as the storekeeper. If all farmers used ordinary business sagacity, as Mr. Rahiliy evidently did, there would be but little complaint, ex cept in regard to the capacity of the twin* plant, for if its entire output were sold to in dividual farmers, only a small proportion of twine users would be able to buy of it. I wrote to the warden for prices on a car of twine, but was too late to purchase. I suf fered no hardship, however, because I was still enabled to buy outside of the state at the same price, and for that matter so could any farmer, at that time. There seems to be a theory on the part of many farmers that the nearer they wait to harvest time the cheaper twine will be, and they act on It. No assurance from the dealers, or even from the warden, as was the case this year, will induce them to pur chase. Tell one of these doubters that twine is going up, and he will tell you flat-footsd that you don't know what you are talking about. There are hundreds of farmers at this late day who are calmly waiting for the de cline that they so surely expect, before they purchase. There seems to be no difference between farmers and any other class of men. The brcad-guagc, liberal, sagacious farmer has bought his twine long ago; if by soino chance he ha 3 overlooked its purchase ile blames himself only. One factory in a state as large as Minnesota cannot overcome the law of supply and demand, although at times it may interfere with its full effect. All the malignantycriticism that can be brought to bear on the subject can't make it do so, either. Mr. Rahiliy also speaks in rather strong terms of the merchants who have bought In Stillwater. Now these men could havo bought elsewhere at the same prices at that time. Si;al twine they could have bought even cheaper. Many of them thought they were oulte patriotic in so buying, because in ordinary years the disposal of the en tire product of the twine plant would be quite problematical were it not for the as sistance of these same merchants. In re gard to the statement that the prison broka the twine trust and the exorbitant prices that ruled at that time, there seems to be little to say, except that it did nothing of the sort. The twine trust failed because of its unbusi nesslike ambition, and dumped enough twine on the market to ruin many indivdual manu facturers outside of tha trust. It took six years to finally dispose of all that twine, which became known to the trade as bankers' twino. The last of it went last season, and the menace of a twine sold at 50 per cent of its cost thus finally removed from tho market. When the prison twine factory was started it was the intent of Its promoters and of the people In sympathy, to manufacture as cheap ly as possible, and to sell ot a very small margin. No one Intended that it shouid sell Its product for less than the fiber was worth, and because a part of It was so sold this year there Is a big holler on the part of many who think that, because the farmers use this product, the law of supply aud de mand and all business axioms must ba thrown to the winds, while any merchant who takes advantage of such a condition, and who bases his price on the market may be called all kinds of names. When these same storekeepers, through competition or a faliing market, are obliged to sell at a loss, these fau.t-flnders are su premely Indifferent. When there is a boom In wheat from 60 cents to $1.25 one doesn't see very many farmers hunting around to get 60 cents, either. The only fault that a business man can And with the prison board is that conditions vary* while their price remains fixed. This operated all right for the lucky purchaser this year, but when the market drops, as It often does during the late spring or early summer, and the hated speculator under sells the prison, those who compiain most bitterly now are the ones who will forget Stillwater twine and purchase elsewhere. The prison twine was sold this year at (I*4 cents in car lots. The prico of sisal fiber to day in New York or London ls 9(^ cents. If that price remains stationary for the next six months or advances, as now seems prob able, how much money has the prison made, if it intends to run this ooming year? — E. H. I* Sons of Their Fathers "Are "Well." From the New York Timet. This is a country whose people are not timid ln speaking their minds, whether to praise or to blame, about men In authority, but surely the voice even of American crit icism must have been hushed by the dls* patch from Gen. Shafter which began, "Cap tains Alger and Sewell and Mr. Corbin are well." That is axactly the sort of news wn were waiting breathless to hear, and our commander at the front would have been re warded for all his hardships if he could have heard the sigh of relief that went up all over the Union when its anxiety about Cap tains Aiger and Sewell and Mr. Corbin was lifted. There are. indeed, other young mon down in Cuba, and even a few old on.s, whose health interests individuals here and there, but what are they besides the sons oi a secretary of war, a senator from New Jer sey, and an adjutant general? Gen. Shafter isn't real rugged himself, and he has a good deal on his hands, but he knows his coun trymen, and sympathizes with their consum ing affection for the progeny of eminent pol iticians, and therefore, when telegraphing at government expense, he naturally leads lm communication with the giad. glad tidings that Captains Alger and Sewell and Mr. Cor bin are well. Let the war now go on. Manual Training; In Eivrope. From the Milwaukee Journal. Whole countries in Central Europe have been elevated from agricultural squaior to such wealth and comfort by the lntrodu:tiou of cottage and local industries. Wood carv ing, lace making, turning, toy making, weav ing, embroideries, basket making, wire work ing, willow ware, ornamental leather work, and a thousand other industries are carried on at home, to the great betterment of the people. Gardening is not the least of these employments. Technical schools are ailed or supported by the state to teach each neigh borhood the best methods in its particular line, so that the products are of the best character and finish. These products are tak ing the world's market from the hands of the immense factories of the continent and of England. Labor and profits are distrib uted among the people, who live independ ently in their own homes. Central Europe is directing ail her energies through the estab lishment of technical schools towaids the building up of such industries. Partia'ly made goods are shipped from England to these communities, distributed among the families, embroidered or otherwise finished aud returned, paying duties both ways to the profit of the dealers. All this is to the bene fit of those countries and the cost of Eng land; the benefit i 3 due to the support of technical schools in the country suited to th=> localities. FAITH IN DEWEY. To One Boy There Was One Thins That Seemed Impossible. From the Washington Star. "If there is one thing more than another which is to our credit as compared with Spain," remarked a Capitol Hill man, "it is the almost universal knowledge of affairs which characterizes our people, as against an almost universal ignorance characteriz ing the Spaniards. Even our small children are so well up on military and naval terms that they astonish us at times, and what the boys don't know about the men who have thus far made a reputation for them selves, isn't worth knowing. As for Dowey and poor Bagley and Hobson, there Isn't a boy of any age who doesn't know more about them than he does of Julius Caesar and George Washington combined. My daughter, who teaches a mission Sunday school tells me of a Dewey experience she had with a youngster making his first ap pearance. She had put him throueh a half hour or more of instruction in the rudi mentary principles, for he was entirely lacking in information on that point, and to test him was reviewing her work with him. " 'Now,' said she, 'tell me again who made the world and all that is in It?' " 'God did,' replied the boy, with commend able promptitude. " 'God can do everything, oan't he?" 6he asked again. "The boy hesitated a moment. " 'I don't believe He could lick Dewey ' he answered, at last, and his teacher <»it si lent between hc-r religion and her patriotism It wasn't her time to say anything, it sh^ didn t want to lose that boy forever, and she had wit enough to let it go at that." Always the "Bitter* End. From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. "We will fight to the bitter end." Gen. Linares is reported to have said before the battle. Once more thl3 singular preference for the wrong end which was shown by Ad miral Montojo before the Manila disaster. It is not the spirit that wins battles. Presi dent Lincoln once complained that there were | so many good good young men in the army | who were ready to die for their country. | What was really needed, he said, was men | who could kill the other fellows. From a military point of vi°w soldiers are better 1 than martyrs. And while we are speaking of the bitter end, it is the height of foolish ness for the general government of Spain to I Insist on having it. It is cruel to waste lives by keeping up a hopeless srruggle. Rebel Yell Under Happier Anspiees. From the Springfield Republican. It was interesting to read that some of our troops went into action Friday to the music of the famous "rebel yell," that so norous and terrifying cry evolved from gen erations of calling hogs and runaway cons. When it came to vocalization the Confederate army had a marked advantage over the Northerners. The college yell had not vet I come to save the vocal organs of town folk | from wasting away from disuse. The rebsl yell deserve-s a place in the literature of I war, besides the famous battery of the Moslem. Pardoned by Telephone. From the Philadelphia Record. The court of pardons today pardoned Clar ence W. Derby, who had served about one third of a three-year sentence for keeping a disorderly house at Atlantic City. Derby Is dying of consumption. He comes of a good family in Pittsburg, and his petition was signed by Gov. Hastings and a number of other prominent Pennsylvanlans. Gov. Voor- I hees was at Sea Girth, and gave his consent to I the pardon over the telephone. Attorney | General Gray said that this would be legal, i Derby was immediately released aud taken home by his parents. Transportation In Havana. The favorite means of transportation In j Havana is by one-horse victorias, of which i there are thousands. Two persons are en j abled to go to any point within the city i limits for a peseta, which Is equal to about 15 cents ln American currency. Romance ReariiriK Forbidden. The reading of romances is forbidden by th/> Koran, hence popular tales are never put ln writing among Mohammedans, but are passed from one story-teller to another. Death and Birth Rate. It Is computed that the djr.t'i rate of the world is 67 and tho birth rate 70 a minute and t-Ja seemingly light percentage of gain 13 sufficient to g ye a net increase in ropula tlon each year of almost 1.200.U00 souls. Army Balloons. An officer ln the Austrian army In Vienna has Invented balloons which will float both men and horses across a river. They are to be fastened to belts around the men and to the harness of horses. Enginecr'n Punishment. A Danish locomotive engineer has been pun ished with a fine of $12,000 and four months' imprisonment for causing a railway acci dent by his oarelcssness. A MOTHER OF '1)S. My gallant love goes out tcday. With drums and bugles sounding gay; I smile to cheer him on his way- Smile back, my heart, to m°! The flags are glittering in the light; Is it their stars that blind my sightT God, hold my tears until tonight- Then set their fountains free! He takes with him the light of May; Alas! it seems but yesterday He was a bright-haired child at play. With eyes that knew no fear; Blue eyes — true eyes! I s.*e them shine Far down, along the waving line — Now meet them bravely, eyes of mine! Good cheer, my love, good cheer! Oh, mother hearts, that dare not break! That feel the stress, the long, long ache. The tears that burn, the eyes that wake. For these our cherished ones— A.nd ye~-tru'„' hearts — not called to bear Such pain and peril, for your share- On, Hit with me the pleading prayer, God save our gallant sons! —Marion Couthouy Smith, ln Leslie's*. | Poetry of ihe Period, I Al* AIRY CREATION, As red as the lily that blows And vividly trembles and glows On the moorland all day To the halcyon's lay And the surge of the wold undertows. As blue as the billow that leans As white as the sea foam that c'reens In the teeth of the gale, P And as white as the sail That glimmers and gleams on the deeps. Fashioned so airily, Sculptured so fairlly, Light as the light zephyr lulled to repose: Sweet as the napery Of | dream drapery, Sweet as the night zephyr kissing the rose- Lissom and willowy. Breezy and billowy. Witching, mysterious, dainty d'vine* Languorous fluffiness Wind dlmplPd puffiness— What an imperious beauty i 3 thine! Flimsy, dlapharous, light as the snow- Darkling and sparkling, with lif" a. I aglow— buch .s the witchery lent by the cute bummer girl unto ber new bathing suit. When she slides into it, When she glides Into it, Then shine the charms of her blue bath ing suit. — R. K. Munkltitrlck, in Chicago Tlmrs-Her al(*. THE MAN BELOW. While you sing of Schley and Hobson, And of gallant Dewey, too. While with thoughts of them your hearts are all aglow. I would sing you of another— Just as brave and just as true— Of the man who does the stoking down be low. For his home is In the hell. Down below. And he doesn't hear the yell, Down below, That gor-s up when the firing's done. When the shin he's with has won— He must keep a-shoveling on, Down beiow. Though his name be never mentioned, Though wo see or know him not. Though his deeds may never bring him worldly fame, He's a man above the others— And the bravest of the lot— And the hero of the battle, Just the s/une. He's the man who does the work, Down below. From the labor does not shirk, Down below. He Is shoveling day and night. Feeding flames a-blazing bright. Keeping up a killing fight, Down below. In the awful heat and torture Of the fires that leap and dance In and out the furnace doors that never close. On ln silence he must work. For with him there's ne'er a chance On his brow to feel the outer breeze that blows. For they've locked him In a roonp, Down below. In a burning, blazing tomb, Down below. Where he cannot see the sky. Cannot leorn in time to fly. When destruction stalketh nigh, Down below. While the fighting fierce is raging, And the cannon overhead With their sizzling shells the enemy sur round, To the stoker down below, Not a word ia ever said. To his ear ls borne no echo of the sound. When they open wide his door, Down below. And they cry. "You're work is o'er, Down below!" There they find him weakly lying On a pile of coal and crying Out in madne«s for he's dying Down below. —Detroit Free Press. CASABIANCA TO DATE. The boy stood on the backyard fence, Whence all but him had fled; Tie flames that lit his father's barn Shone just above the shed. One bunch of crackers in his hand, Two others in his hat. With piteous accpnt loud he cried, "I never thought of that!" (A bunch of crackers to the tall Of one small dog he'd tied; The dog had sought the well-filled barn And 'mid its ruins died!) The sparks flew wide and red and hot; They lit upon that brat; They fired the crackers in his hand. And eke those in his hat. Then came a burst of rattling sound — The boy! Where had he gone? Ask of the winds that far around Strewed bits of meat and bone And scraps of clothes, and knives and tops. And nails, and hooks, and yarn — The relics of that dreadful boy That burned his father's barn! — Indianapolis Journal. TO THE ARMY MILE. The war steed wins his meed cf praise, Oft sharing, on the shining i>age Of history, fame's golden wr is, Which are the hero's heritage; In monumental brass he makes A part of glory's entourage. A city once wos named for him. With thee, O mule, It is not thus! No modern Alexander'!! find In thee a new Bucephalus: Thou'rt nothing but a nondescript— In life and death inglorious! I mind me of but one, 'mong all Thy kind, who e'er on glory's track Has made a record — only one. And that the white mule Alborak, Who, so 'tis said, bore Mahomet To Allah's heaven upon his back. The battle charger's shade, no doubt, Neighs in Valhalla's vestibule: But ne'er a niche doth Fame reserve For thee. O plodding army mule! Thy ghost, among the demigods. Would be a butt for ridicule! Yet, tho' to Glory's camping ground Fate ne'er for thee let down the bars; Tho' thou mays't never be the mount By which the hero seeks the stars, I strike my lyre to celebrate Thee, O thou toughest aid cf Mars! —Boston Globe. JiEEDFII, PREPARATION. Oh, brins the atlps, mother. The big one bound in red: Likewise a magnifying glass To show the letters spread Across the tinted page, mother. Where cri*s-cross lines confuse. For I'm going to read the news, mother; I'm going to read the news. And pray do not neglect, mother. To get a gazetteer And a Spanish dictionary; These woris are sadly queer. It's a fearful undertaking And It's giving me the blues, But I'm going to road the news, mother, I'm going to read the news. —Washington Star. OPEN ORDERS. Joyfully, when freedom gave Sword and KCpter to die brave. Young Columbia heard the word. Grasped the s<tepter and the swerd; Clothed herself with majese.y; Crowned herself upon the s.a; Called her sons from far and nigh — Sons for her who gladly die — Bid them dig for tyrants' grive3. Thunder fieedom unto slaves; Slay with sword and burn with flame Every ancient wrong and shame; Through the deadliest night ar.d day Make for Liberty a way. • « * a a a Rest; for men so brave and true Do what they are sent to do. —Amelia E. Barr, in New York Herald. A LESSON FROM HISTORY. When France was smitten through her eagle crest The victor stood above her. lying low. And. with an armed heel upon her breast. Tore land and treasure from the vanquished foe; And Germany now groans beneath her arm 3, The sword ls never absent from her side, Sho sleeps in steel, and dream 3of night alarms, And battles roaring on her frontiers wide. Ah! force not then a conquered race too far; Tarnish not victory with plunder's stain; Leave not your, laud an ccdles3 threat of war; ■ . A menace to your children still. In Spain- Arming, conspiring, brooding on the past. And— all prepared— striking in hate at last. —Maxwell Wi. llama in Chicago Record.