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* T H B ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1898. We Aim to Bs Aocurate. The Globe Prints the Associated Press News, CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. 1 6 12~~ By Carrier mo mos mos Daily only .... .40c $2.25 $4.00 Daily and Sunday .50c 2.75 6.00 Sunday 15c .75 1.60 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. I 6 Hi By Mail mo uios mos Pally only 25c $1.50 $3.00 Daily and Sunday .35c 2.00 4.00 Sunday .75 1 . 6«0 V>e.kly J .75 1.00 Enured at Postoffice at St. Paul, Minn., as Second-Class Matter. Address all communications and make all Remittances payable to THE GLOi'E CO.. St. Paul, Minnesota. Anonymous communications not noticed. Re fected manuscripts will not be returned un ■ less accompanied by postage. BRANCH OFFICES: Xt«v York 10 Spruce St. V< flKiiiimiiiii Corcoran Building ChU-ugu...Koom 609. No. 87 Washington St. "■— — ' — The Democratic State Ticket. Governor JOHN LIN'D, Brown county Ltc-ut Got J. M. BOWLER, Renvllle Bee. State J. J. HEINRICH. Hennepin Treasurer ALEX. M'KINNON. Polk Auditor GEORGE N. LAMPHERE, Clay Attorney General. .JOHN F. KELLY. Ramser Clerk Supreme Court.Z. H. AUSTIN, St. Lou!» Judges ITHOMAS CANTY, Henr.epJn Supreme IDANIEL BUCK. Blue Earth Court iWM. MITCHELL. Wluona SUNDAY'S WEATHER, Fair. By the United States Weather Bureau. MINNESOTA— Generally fair; westerly winds. lOWA— Generally fair, preceded by light show ers In eastern portion; variable winds. "WISCONSIN'— Light showers; warmer; light to fr^sh southerly winds. NORTH DAKOTA— Generally fair; cooler; northwesterly winds. SOUTH DAKOTA— Fair; northwesterly winds. MONTANA— General y fair; variable winds, becoming southerly. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES. Boston 7t%S2Helena 80-SO j Chicago 7S-M Montreal 70-7S Pittsburg 7C-:-a,New York 78-S2 Buffalo 7G-7»| YESTERDAY'S MEANS. Barometer 39.84 Mtan temperature 73 Relative humidity ". . 7jj Wind at 8 p. m West ■ Weather Clear I Maximum temperature 81 Minimum temperature 65 i Daily range 16 j Amount cf precipitation in last twenty four hours 20 RIVER AT 8 A. M. Danger Gauge Change in i Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours, i St. Paul 14 3.8 *0.5 '< La Crosse 10 2.8 0.1 ' Davenport 15 2 8 04! St^Louic 30 ll.'o — 0.8 j •Rise. —Fall. The river will continue rising in the vi cinity of St, Paul from now to Monday night. Note: — Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer. ATLANTIC LINERS. V YORK — Sailed: Lucania, Lfc'erpool; Pennsylvania, Hamburg; La Touraine, Havre; Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Bou logne; Al!er, Naples; Anchoria, Glasgow; Island, Copenhagen. LIVKHPOOL— Arrived: Cuflc. from New York. Sailed: Siberian, Philadelphia; Cam pania, New York. HAVRE— Sailed: La Normandie. New York STETTIN — Arrived. 4th: Aragonla, New ork. Sailed: Norge, New York SOUTHAMPTON — Arrived: Friedrtch der Gross*, New York. TODAY'S EVENTS. GRANH— Ilmd^-rson Stock Company in "A ! Scrap Of Pai:er," 8:15 PM. I METROPOLITAN— Dark. Base Ball— St. Paul vs. Minneapolis, two games, Lexington park, 2 PM. Concerts— Lake Como, 3 and 8 PM Union meeting of railrca.l train employes S<>ven:h and Jackson streets, 2 PM. O. A. R. posts visit C^inp Ramsey after noon. West side lodge, A. O. V. W.. excursion. Travelers unable to bay The St. Pnul Glob.- on any train enteritis St. I'nul will coufev a fnvor on The Glebe company by promptly notify. ii»B then of each Instance. Why i.=n't the wire nail trust easy to nail? The pen will have it out with the I Bword later. The w.nr bond is better fruit than the ! Michigan peach. . At any rate, if Shatter's army went to Cuba f<.i- its health, it got badly fooled. In rain or snow we always go, we al ways go tog-ether.— Chorus of biscuits and bullets in Porto Rioo. By the way. there is still a meaner man around than anybody who lives In Spain. His name is Abdul Hamid, sultan of Turkey. Honors are falling to Lieut. Hobson thick and fast. One of these days he'll be rewarded by being elected mayor of some Georgia village. The Seventy-first New York regi ment is to be taken to the hills, but not to the same hills it tried to take to in the battle before Santiago July 2. Millionaire John Jev.ett, of Buffalo, N. V., probably married Miss Margaret O'Dharn, his former chambermaid, ti avoid swearing every time he called her. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, has left the Republican party to become a Democrat because the latter is "thr party of the plain people." Mr. Doug las' load will be followed by many oth er Illinois Democrats. A young man of the Fifteenth reg . iment deserted to go to Minneapolis to take a bath. If he had stayed right at Camp Ramsey Friday night, he ' would have got the bath all right and saved a court martial. A Blnghamton, N. V., preacher got into a fight with another preacher and bit off his finger. That pastor should have practiced what he preached by stopping in the midst of Ms anger and having a season of prayer. Let St. Paul Rsse From the Dead. The city of New York began to won der recently and very seriously why she was losing her trade, and Phila delphia, Baltimore, Newport News and Boston were finding it. New York was qyer difficult to arouse, always slow to wrath, possessed of little or no civic pride in recent years, and very, very unconcerned about her own com mercial welfare. By comparison with St. Paul, for instance, New York is a slow town, and St.'Faul, it is generally admitted, might be more ready of heel and quick of foot. No 'implied compli ment for St. Paul, it must be under stood, Is contained In the comparison. St. Paul wakes up at least two or three times a yeas*. New York's aver age Is not over once a year. Her last moment of wakefulmess occurred a year or two ago. When her jobbers, realizing that something was the matter with the old town, got together and expend ed $200,000 to advertise it— think of ad vertising New York, ye men of St. Paul who close up like clams When a proposition is broached to advertise your own city on however small a scale. But New York Is not slow When she is fully aroused, and the benefits ac cruing from the visit of hundreds of customers amd their families from the West, Northwest and South and South west, as the result of that little piece of fall advertising, have astonished even New Yorkers. The New Yorker knows a good thing wihen he sees it, «.nd the consequence has been that the merchants' organization has been en larged and perfected alnd thousands of dollars have been added to their busi ness. It has been suggested by several men of St. Paul who contributed of their time and their substance to make ths recent cap>itol corner stone ceremony a success, and who admit of some im perfections in their work, chiefly due to the touch-and-go nature of the enter tainment plans, that a permanent body be organized, a standing committee on the welfare of St. Paul. Such a com mittee would be in session, the year round. It would be on the alert to seize opportunities for arousing the public and presenting some form, of entertainment or diversion whidh would advertise to the outside world that St. Paul is at least as much alive as Min neapolis.. A finance committee would naturally have at hand a moderate balance wherewith to carry out any programme at the shortest possible no tice. And the character of this pro gramme and the occasion for its pre sentation would naturally be left to tlhe discrimination and good judgment of the Minute Men — for that, in fact, is what they would be, citizelns realdy to move at an instant's notice, in any di rection, upon any lines Which would create a favorable and lasting impre3 --! slon of St. Paul. This city is on the broad highway be tween Europe and Asia. Many dis tinguished men travel it every year, Americans as well as foreigners. We I have much to be proud of here, and no : false pride is involved in displaying it j to the stranger who may be but a few ! hours, even, within our gates. A case in point was the visit of John Sherman a few months ago, on his way to the Pacific. He felt interested in the city, as was manifested during the interview had with him by one of The Glob e'3 bright young . men. Mr. Sherman'3 public services were sufficient to have entitled him to some recognition from somebody In this city. Had the St. Paul minute men been around he would have received a welcome that would have warmed his old heart — and would the city have lest anything in conse quence? We may learn much from casual visitors about the country to the ■east and the great world toward the west whose business with the United States is so rapidly developing under the influence of the great transcon tinental lines and their ocean connec tions. We may profit much by coming more frequently in contact with the residents of our own stat«; who are among our best friends and business customers. Of course, there will be scoffers at the idea which has been here roughly out lined. But when in the history of man kind were there not scoffers and idlers and unwillirg contributors to anything that hinted at progress? New York ha 3 been Pitting with her hands contented ly folded for many years. She has awakened with a rudo jolt. There is a hint to St. Paul contained In the fact. Who will take up the idea and help work it out? The Globe's columns are open to a discussion of this or any other suggestion embodying the wel fare of the capital city. Don't all speak j at once, but speak as often and to any extent that you please. St. Paul has the floor. Wherein Have We Profited? The war Is practically ended. Nego tiators are chaffering over terms, and Miles is picnicking through Puerto Rico, although the special correspondents, dc-s-perately hard up for the sensation | al, are confronting his advancing lines ] with hostile Spaniards. The warships are coming home to go into dry dock and get the barnacles and sea weed scraped off their bottoms, and Shaf ter's invalided army Is to be sent to Montauk Point to recuperate under the refreshing breezes from the ocean. There will be no more fig-hting. Spain is whipped; was whipped from the out set; knew it, and has been taking the pommeling until the point waa reached where she could, with some show of respect, cry "Enough." We will get Puerto Rico directly and Cuba Indirectly and something, more or less, in the Philippines, and Guam, at loast, in the Ladrones, for which we will have spent half a billion dollars and lost a thousand or more lives. We set out as pure humanitarians, reliev ers of the oppressed, with our heads In the air, our eyes directed heavenward, our hands clean, and we come home with the oppressed discontented, sus picious of our ultimate purposes, and our hands filled with conquered isl ands. We started out to spread the sphere of freedom, of enlightened self-' government, and we come back with an ugly problem in government to BOlve. We set out with no thought of abandoning our political isolation that has brought us such Independence, and we come home with the shock of the touch of international contact tingling our nerves. We may well ask wherein have we profited? As a national entity, in glory, noth ing. No honor comes from a conflict 'of a nation such as ours is in Btrensih THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY AUGUST 7, 1898. and resources with such a one as Spain la; a lusty, vigorous, growing nation against a dying nation. We must look elsewhere than to national laurels for what gains we make. And there are those that overbalance the cost. First, there is the evidence that the spirit of loyalty, patriotism and manhood has not lessened in strength in this generation. The response to the call for troops; the cheerfulness with which war burdens have been met; the response to the call for finan cial aid; the dauntless bravery of the men of the army and navy shown in conflict, and the no less striking en durance of hardships shown by the troops, are supplemented by the chiv alry, the generosity shown the defeat ed, attesting that Americanism, the best there is in it, has suffered no diminu tion in the long Interval of peace. It is worth while that a nation be occa sionally put to the test to establish that fact. Next, we can place to the credit of solid achievement the clearing of sun dry international fictions. Relations that had been clouded for years by sentimentalism on one side and selfish ness and traditional memories on the other have suddenly become clear. The line of demarcation that runs be tween peoples of what, for the lack of terms of precision, may t>e called the Latins and the Teutons, and marks the distinction between progress a>nd fixity, where there Is not retrogression; be tween peoples capable of administra tion of their public affairs and those requiring direction and guidance; be tween individualism ever insistent upon its freedom, and collectivism subdued to submissive docility; between peoples that exalt.- .and those that ignore the common public school, betokening brain hunger in the one and brain apathy In the other, this line has been obscured of all that made it dim, and brought those on each side of it into closer sympathetic touch. The future history of the planet will be writ larger for this. Can They Trust Eustis? The story in yesterday's Globe con cerning the ungenerous treatment whioh has ever "been accorded the old soldiers by the Republican candidate for governor cannot fail to damage his candidacy very seriously. The specifi cations supplied t>y Col. 'Mertz are clear, and by the memibers of G. A. R. posts generally will be accepted as con vincing. Herein lies the folly of not knowing fully the strength and weak nesses of a candidate before he is en tered in a gubernatorial race. Van Saint would have suffered no such scor ing as will fall to the lot of Eustis in this connection. Old soldiers may be reduced to the ranks in the Minneapolis police de partment "for the good of the serv ice," just as other officers; but a mayor who makes such a reduction should have some ether reason than the ne cessity of appointing as a successor to the 'humiliated man the man of a street car company, presumably because it may have caatributed to his own cam paign funds. The old soldiers will settle this mat ter. The general public cannot. There are 400 posts in their order, comprising 10,000 veterans. They are qualified to judge Whether a slippery politician In ■the governor's chair can serve the in terests of the state's institutions as well as the man who is now in the field. It is for them to determine how warm will be the welcome they will give him "whan Johnny comes march ing home again!" They can trust him. Can they trust Eustis? As Lowe!! Saw the Dons. President Hayes honored his adminis tration and benefited literature by making James Russell Lowell minister to Spain, where he served from 1877 to 1880, and until transferred to the court of St. James. Mr. Lowell was discreet enough to confine his impressions of the people among whom he mingled, ami whose traits he observed with s/hrewd, observing Yankee eye and com mented upon with Yankee sagacity, to his letters to his personal friends, and their publication to a date after his death. This was a precedent Mr. Han nis Taylor might better have observed. Now that our touch with the Spaniard has been closer than it has been since Gen. Jackson bullied him in Florida and brought Spain into a mood to sell that possession rather than endure the constant annoyance, Mr. Lowell's de scriptions of the Don become more in teresting than when he was merely an abstraction to us. In all the books there is nothing more entertaining, by the way, than are these letters of a man whom we are getting to see was New England's best gift to the nation in this century. Describing life in Madrid; "the noi siest city" he ever dwelt in, with its in cessant street cries, he says, "The first sound in the morning is the tinkle of the bells on the necks of the she asses that come in to be milked at the cus tomer's dcor for surety;" and adds, with a cut that is cruel, "I know not who j the customers are, but there must be ! many if there be amy truth in the vulgar belief that children take after their nurses." Just now, with the im patient Yankee temperament chafing under the delays made by Sagasta in the progress of the peace negotiations, this from a letter to Prof. Child is illuming: There is something Oriental in my own I nature which sympathizes with this "let her slide" temper of the hidalgos. They go through all forms of business, as they do of religion, without any reference to the thing itself, just as they offer you their house (dating their notes to you "De Su Casa") and everything in it. But they are very friendly and willing to be helpful where they can. They are unenterprising and unciisnge ab'.e. The latest accounts of them are jutt like the earliest, and they have a firm faith In Dr. Manana — he will cure everything or, If he can't, it doesn't signify. We can understand better the at titude of Blanco and Toral and Cer vera today, when Lowell tells us that the Spaniards still "fancy themselves always fn the age of Charles V., and the perfect gravity with which they assume the airs of a K rtat power is not without a kind of pathetic dignity. We all wink at the little shifts of a decay ed gentleman, especially when he is a Don Quixote, as this one certainly in." If one recalls the sensations following absorbed attention in some work of fiction dealing with middle-age life as the story ends and the book is closed and the reader conges back to present day life, one can appreciate the sen sations that came to Lowell In this transfer from busy, bustling, pushing, commercial New England life to a land where today is an annoyance and mansna the comforting retreat. These sensations he describes in a letter to William Dean Howells: You can't imagine how far I am away from the world here — I mean the modern world Spain Is as primitive In some ways as the books of Moses, and as Oriental. Spaniards have, I believe, every possible fault— and yet I love the Jades for a' that! They find them selves in the midst of a commercial age poor devils! with as little knowledge of book keeping as the grand Turk. But there is something fine in this, impenetrability of theirs, and the grand way they wrap them selves In their ragged capa of a past an« find warmth in their pride. Their indiffer ence to legitimate profit is a continual com fort, and" they have no more enterprise than an old Cambridge man. Lowell's terry be^an with the close of the Cuban insurrection of 1868-79, with the causes remaining and the apprehen sion of fresh outbreak lively. The Vlr ginius affair and American claims for damages to property In Cuba served to make our minister to Madrid a bit nervous over possible disturbances with Spain, and it Is not surprising to find, in a letter to his daughter In 1880, that Lowell "was startled day before yester day with a cipher telegram. My first thought was: Row In Cuba— no end of bother." Eighteen years later we have got into the thick of another "row in Cuba," and are having "no end of bother" about it. Republican Canal Frauds. The canal frauds of a generation ago, pointed out by Samuel J. Tilden, profit ed the public and the Democratic party. They were the fruits of Republican mis management, just aa are the canal frauds which have been unearthed re cently In New York by a commission of citizens, and the effect cannot fail I to be disastrous to the Republicans In the coming campaign in that state. The citizens of the state, by popular vote, four years ago, authorized the ex penditure of $9,000,000 for the enlarge ment and improvement of the Erie, the Oswego and the Champlaln canals. The work was begun during the administra tion of a Republican governor, Levl P. 'Morton, and has been continued down to this point under the supervision of his Republican successor, Gov. Frank S. Black. Republican subordinates have drafted the plans, drawn the specifications, advertised for bids and supervised the details of the work. Some months ago it became apparent that something was wrong, and Gov. Black appointed a commission of sen sible, reputable citizens to conduct an investigation. It discovered that about $3,000,000 had been wasted, to use a wcrd that ie often diplomatically em ployed to convey the idea of thievery and fraud. Items of $50,000 In engineer ing, $41,500 in "inspection, $72,500 in an unbalanced bid, $80,000 in advertising, $211,500 in overhauling material, and $1,000,000 in overpayments on con tracts are pointed out, and the farm- j ers and taxpayers are aghast, as well i they may be. At least $12,000,000 mo-re j will be necessary to complete the canal i improvements, partially on account of these frauds and partially because of j the necessity of adhering to the scale j on which the original improvements i were contemplated. This is a pretty mess, and the re sponsibility for It must fall upon the^ two Republican governors who sue- '• cee-ded Gov. Roawell P. Flower, and upon the Platt machine, with which their fortunes have been closely linked. ! It is apparent, even at tills distance, | that the days of Platt and Plattism are j numbered, and that the people are pre pared to again trust Democracy in the management of their state affairs. This | exposure will be a body blow to the | Republican party. The Democratic i leaders will have, we believe, the good I sense to get together once more. Lay | your plans for a clean sweep, gentle- j men. The assembly, the senate, a Unit- I ed States senator, a governor and a full set of 'state officers are the Democ racy's if you are wise and conserva tive in your Judgments and selections, tnd while you are about it don't neglect the congressional nominees. New York city will resent the force ; bill thrust upon it by a Republican j legislature. The country will repudiate I the party responsible for the canal I frauds, just as it did when Gov. Tilden ! punctured the Republicans for malad- j ministration in connection with these ■ same waterways so many years ago. I Above-and^belo-w the Harlem ought, ' together, to give a comfortable ma- ! jority to the next Democratic nominee '] for governor— say 100,000 in round num.- ! bers. Who shall say that state issues j are not better calculated to produce i practical results than national issues in off years? A fount of inferior thought in Minnesota, the St. Paul Pioneer Pres3, thus conside. s the question of Spain's indemnity: "The Sun's proposition that Spain put up I thf: Madrid gallery as collateral for the war indemnity borders on the barbarous. Some body will be asking for the Alharcbra next " I Our contemporary is loss sophisticated than we had supposed. The Alhambra, a bundling, cannot bo moved, and, as a monu ment of local history, it belongs forever on its own foundations. — New York Sun. When, some other day, our esteemed contemporary taps its fount of humor j for the Sun's quaffing, it will try and ! get an article with a heavier body. The Sun's palate is not suited to deli cate flavors. I Mechanical means In shipbuilding have ) made great progress in American shipyards, ,' and much time is saved, even when com parison is made with qui'e recent periods. ' This results from the application of com- \ pressed air and electricity to operate small ! too'.s and machines. At the Cramps' _yard i power is developed by steam at a power- j house to compress the air, which is carried fill over the yard in iron pipes. Attach- ; ments are made wl'th flexible rubber tubes, i to which the tools are fastened, and, with a ! pressure cf eighty pounds to the square inch, I the tools are operated. Great use is made of a boring tool, by which the holes for cnn inch rivets are made through the iron plates of which the ships are made. A man and boy to each tool will do the work of half a dcztn men by the old method. Another important tool is a pneumatic ccld-chlsel, which i 3 used to cut large holes through the plates or to trim off their rough edges. The strokes upen the chisel are very many each sec ond, where two men by tho old method i would have made no more than ,or.c etroke at the most. Electricity, also developed at I the central power-house, is conducted to j motors which run small stationary machines used for punching or shearing plates, cr for bending them into shape; also for cranes In the shops. Electricity, from the same point lights up the interior of the vessels, and work can be done by. night as well as by <Jay. ' ! pall Together. From the Fisher Bulletin. John Llnd has accepted the nomination of the allied reform forces for governor cf this state, and his letter of acceptance i* such as to stimulate every admirer of good gov ernment to earnest action In his behalf. We believe that no name has ever been presented to the voters of the elate more worthy of ihMr support than that of honest John L.-'nd. Thi leaders of the reform movement ail over the state are getting in order for the c;m:ng fray, and the utmost , confidence, of BUoi:e;s is taking possession of the entire rank?. Re formers, organize! Pull together! FlgKt for the right, and success will crown your e* forts. G-et out and work and you can elect your entire ticket, with John Llnd at its head, from top to bottom. Emperor Deivey. From the Toronto Mail and Express. Dewcy's claim to undying fame is now placed on a sclld foundation. An American Investigator has found that the admiral Is the thirty-fifth in direct descent from the Earl of Winchester, who was the most dis tinguished of the twenty-five barons who forced King John to sign Megna Charta on the plain of Runuymede, June 15, 12ig ; htt d the thirty-third In direct descent from Al fred the Great. If Uncle Sam goe3 in for imperialism and established a throre, ho will have a properly quu'ifled king real* to fill it Great to D«w«y- ■ I The last time that the Countes* of Aber deen was In the Northwest sh« had an expe rtence that often comes 'to the tenderfoot on the frontier — especially In the "cow country, "a but w-hlclh Is seldom the portion of the Eng lish ■woman of rank. la 1887 the Hon. Courts Marjorlbank* was the only real good thing In the way of an Englishman that they had up in North Da kota. Marjorlbankß was a younger eon, and in the '70' a and early '80's IJhere -were plenty of ihle kind all over the prairies. The son of Banom Tweedtnouth and the brother of the Oountess of Aberdeen, It was thought to be the reail thing, as ' a part of his educa tion, to give him a touch or roughing it. He was sent out in the early '80's, went to lie Black Hills country, was sold a $2,600 oow 'boy's outfit, was permitted to ride out -of town, held hd and robbed of the outfit and then sold the came lot again. He made his way nortft from the hills country, fell In with the Marquis de Mores at Medora, get an allowance from home, »nd after a generally warm time with the mar quis made his way to the .Mouse River coun try In North Dakota, which was Just bains: opened up as a cattle country. He had an allowance of a couple of thousand pounds a year and he bought a lot of wild la^d. a lot of wilder cattle and started In to ronko his fortune. He had a home ranch about five miles from the present town of Towner. on the line of the Great Northern, and spent a good deal of his time in the village. The rail road got as far West as the river in the sum mer of 1886, but Courts was there before the road, and it wa% his province to take n«w comers In tow and show them Che country he had discovered. Coutts had a friend of his own kidney, E. H. Thur&by, formerly a captain of marines who lived some miles down the river. The ' cow country was not lacking in plcturesqueness, and sometimes there was a bit of color thrown in that was car mine, Indeed. Coutts was a great, big, hulk ing man, with a black whisker and a very bald head, though he was S-11l young. One day he rode into Towner, got his mall, went over to Bob Fox's saloon and opened his let ters. Incidentally, he bought the gang nine drinks. When he had read the first letter he made an announcement. The announce ment astonished the gang, for, though they knew something about the magnificence of Coutt's connections they never thought he would put any of his relatives in evidence. He said: "Boys, my sister is coming out to sse me, and this town has got to do the right thing. Give us a drink. Bob." "Who's your sister 7" asked Fred Fritz. "She's the Countess of Aberdeen, ami ycu fellows have got to help me entertain hsr." "Well, they didn't know about that. They hadn't seen much of women for some time. There was old Miss Conlin and Mrs. Frisb:e, who kept the hotel, and litUe Mr 3. Loftus, and that was about the limit of their knowl edge of females, and they all declared them selves out. "Now look here," said Coutts. "Haven't I always been a good fellow, eh? And can't you do the right thing in a case of this kind? My sister's coming out here to see the Wild West, and the sight has got to be furnished." When he put U that way they couldn't kick, and that night there was much discussion as to ways and means. Majoribanks had the show place of the river country at hts home ranch. He had a long, low rambling house built of hewn logs and portions of the interior were quite handsomely kept. There were carpets and drapes and there was always provender galore and Coutts was agreed that if he could bor row the old lady that kept house for Thurs by he would bring the visit off all right. The old lady refused flat to be loaned. She knew Mr. Majoribanks, she said, and he was putting up a Job on her. So that after all the camp cook had to be relied on. Pro visions were sent for to St. Paul and there was a store of everything around Majori banks' ranch. The boys up and own the river polished up the saddlery and their guns and spent much of their time at Bob Fox's discussing the visit. The day of the arrival of the countess was a great day in town. Majoribanks was in town all day and he had been helping to keep up the courage cf the gang with the assistance of Mr. Fox. The train was due about 5 o'clock in the evening and as soon as the smoke of the engine could be seen as she left Rugby, lif tee-n mifles down the track, everybody was got into his saddle. The idea was to range up alongside the depot platform and when the lady arrived to give her a salute by emptying, every man, his gun in the air. There was a buckboard for Lady Aberdeen to ride in and the push was to act as escort and be as much iike cowboys as possible. The train pulled in, shunted a special car —it was General Manager Egan's private car — on to a side track, and went on its way. Coutts made his way into the car and presently came out leading his sister by the hand and waving his hat to the gang, whereup every man pointed his gun into the air, fired as many shots as he had and whooped as he supposed a cowboy ought to whoop on such an occasion. Lady Ab:rd3en was a very sight woman In those days, and very nervous. Indcel she did not need to be nervous to be shosked at the reception. She screimed and ran biek into the car. Twenty minutes later Coutts came cut and said that his sister didn't like that p-art of tha programme, that ehe vai very grateful, but wouldn't they put ther guns away. Anything to oblige a lady the/ aruged, aud the guns were put away and a damper was cast on the festivities. L:d/ Aberdeen was gotten into the buckboard and started for the ranch a 1 d the escort b hay d tolerably weCl for the firs", m'lc, then it g t monotonous, and one o? them turned Joose with his gun, and ttiea another. When they got to the ranch the counUss and her nu:d locked themselves in and would nat o..en the door of the nous?. Coutt3 b.gged for an opportunity to show her soni2 real wild Wes. life, but shs wouldn't l'sten and she hal no part in tha festiviti s that kapt her awake all night. Early in the morning she and the maid and a tenderfoot c;wboy escaped ;ni went to town. She got into her c;r and w.'.a hurled East on the fir3t train and the first great social event in the history of Towner was a ra-.k end unqualified failure. A startling example of'- the trem ndous power of electricity, E3 compared to the effor.s of the strorgest horses, was given en Wab asha street, near the new capitol, last ( v. n iug. A truck loaded with one of those m ss v.; blocks of Georgia marbla that enter inti tb.9 buildiug of the new structure was bsing dragged slow'y up the stree' by a six-horso team. At TUtoB street the whe«l]s of the dray slipped into the street car track and ill: horses were stalled. They were encouraged in every way, taken off and hitched to th? rear of the wagon, and everything else c"oie to get the great stone moved, but in vain. In the meantime a J^m cf str:et car 3 won accumulating. At the head of the Jam, right In front of the team was a Como lnterurban. When everything else had failed, end It looked as though the block would have to h: sawed up on the spot, somebody had inspira tion. A shan was had. It was fastened to the end of the pole of the truck, the oth.=r end attached to the car, the motorman cut in his reverse current, there was a slipping sound for an instant and then the car moved off with the truck without tha lO3st tioib>. After the load was gotten cut of tho rut the six horses took it oft the tiack. The tre mendous power of the silent monstrr, thit man has harnessed never had a mor.s st ik ing illustration. —The Philis'lne. His No«e In In It. Mr. Whitelaw Rold, former special ambassa dor In small clothes from the United States to the Queen's Jubilee celebration last year, is one of the active spirits in endeavoring to effect an Anglo-American alliance. The Irish World, in referring to tho incident, says: It will be se-en that the Anglomanlacs in Now York are tumbling over one another In their desire to 'help on the English alliance movement. Whitelaw Reid, the editor of the New York Tribune, who has placed himself in the forefront of this Anglomaniac demon stration, is well known. Those who have a knowledge of his private life have little dif ficulty in divining the motives that prompt him to take ao active a part In promoting aa English alliance. Personal reasons are at the bottom of hla effusive demonstrations of loy*Hr t» England's Interest*. He knows that his present course will make him a per sona grata In London, which for him means the realization of the social aspirations he has entertained ever since he married the daughter of a multi-millionaire, and thereby obtained the control of great wealth. All the older Journalists of New York city know how Whitelaw Reid played lag© to poor old Horace Greeley's Othello in the po litical campaign of 1872. When that cam paign was over the founder of the New York Tribune discovered that lago Reid had sup planted him In the editorial chair of the Tribune. The shock of the discovery killed Horace Greeley. lago Reid lived on to en- Joy the fruits of his treachery to his official chief. Twelve years after the Greeley tragedy, James G. Blatne was in the field as the presi dential candidate of the Republican party. In its character of a Republican organ the New York Tribune supported the candidacy of Mr. Blame. As a result of this support, thousands of printers threatened to bolt the Republican ticket because the editor of the New York Tribune refused to pay union rates. Every effort was made to induce Mr. Reid to meet the printers half way in the Interest of tho Republican party. But he obstinately refused to listen to arguments that appealed to his sense of loyalty to his party. Eight years pass. It is now 1892, and Mr. Whitelaw Reid Is candidate for vice president. It was for his personal interest that the long standing dispute between him and the printers should be tettled, and settled it was. What the editor of the New York Tribune obstinately retused to do in 1884, when a great cause was at stake, he willingly did in 1892, when he believed he could best ad vance his personal interests by complying with the printers' demands. Such is the record of the man who has undertaken to organize a national move ment In tlhe interest of an English alliance. He is a type of a class that has come Into existence since the Civil war. The class we refer to are pronounced Anglom-aniacs, who make no concealment of their love for Eng land and everything English. On the oc casion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee this class Indulged in enthusiastic demonstrations In connection with that Jubilee. They were fit tingly represented by Whitelaw Reid, who was sent to England as special ambassador to represent the present administration. And now, after rubbing elbows with Eng land's nobility, Whitelaw Reid has undertaken to show his English entertainers that their hospitality was not unappreciated by him. With this object in view he has set about organizing his fellow Anglomaniacs, prepara tory to starting a propaganda in the interest of an English alliance. In doing this he Is aotuated by personal motives which In the main have always had more influence than loyalty to party or to country. THIETY-SIX YEARS AGO NOW. Just thirty-six years ago yesterdny Presi dent Lincoln issued a call for cOO.OOO volun- I teers, the third since th* first gun was fired I on Fort Suniter. making in all 600,000 men called for on second and third calls. Ths base of operations of both armies was in Vir ginia, and one of the bloodiest and most dis astrous battles for both sides was fought be fore Richmond late in July, 1862. In the second year of the conflict the armies of the North and South carried on "a compa'gn which was equally disastrous for botti causea, although the North steadily gained ground] but lest thousands of her troops both from famine, pestilence and battle. Vicksiburg was surrounded and eventually taken, a disas trous blow for the then tottering Confederacy. The South fought on the more, and later victories caused somewhat of a sensation in England, and at one time an effort wa3 made to have parliament recognize the Confcdsr acy, but it did not meet with general favor on the flcor of the house of commons. News of the battle of Richmond was long in reach ing the North. The s'tge lasted four diys and 125,000 troops were engaged in tbe bat tle, and at least 15,000 were killed, and it waj saX at the time that 10,000 were Northern troops. McClelland meantime reinforced 'h army of the Potomac, and Just In time, and the war continued with unabating fury for two years more. The second call for 300,000 trops necessitate! a seventh regiment in Minnesota. Ten young men were Immediately appointed by Got. Sibley as lieutenants to act as recruiting of ficers until the proper instruc.ions should b» received from Waehington. The text of th 9 president's call gave it that unless enough | could be secured drafting would b? resorted to, and all necessary papers would be s:nt each state Just aa scon as possible. The following counties furnished companies for the Seventh Minnesota: -Dakota Gocdhue Ramsey, Upper Mississippi, Rice, Carver Flil more, Blue Earth and Valley of St. Croix. As soon as the emergency call for 200,000 additional trocp3 was received half a dozen business firms and individuals offered boun ties for the first ten men to enlist. The city offered a bounty of $20 for every man who enlisted, and the United Stafs gave $ 7 to every man who enlisted undsr the last call th t^-u' St ' Paul gave » per monti to the families of all going to ths war and the United States paid one month's pay In advance, and in some casx* a $75 bounty was paid wfoen discharge wae given. War meetings were held all over the state the country was fairly aglow with patriotism' and by autumn there was hardly an able bodied man who had not gone to the war Those who could not go, including the women and children were none the less mthusiastic ai.d did a great deal to alleviate the suffer ing of those wounded In battle. Every mall was eagerly watched for, and little groups of excited women and children anxiously waited for news froirf loved cnes. The citizens of Dakota ccunty held a mass meeting at Hasiings a few days after the call was issued, and subscribed a large amount to assist in filling the quota from that county Gov. Sibley gave $10u and many ethers made equally liberal donations. The board of coun ty commissioners voted .a war bond issue of 13,000 to assist in paying bounties. Dakota was not the only ccunty which authorized a bor.d issue fcr this puipcse, but meny others were compelled to rcsjrt to this end. Aug IS was the date set by the president, when the quotas should bo full. When the time ex pired the Seventh Mlnne o;a re^imunt marched 1,000 strong through the streets of St. Paul. Under the draft none were permitted to leave the state, or country, and excluding a few cowardly ielxws, who were puiled out of coal bins and garrets, the Fedcr;:l officers experienced no difficulty in enforcing the draft. The day following the president's call, a meeting of the young lien of St. Paul was hold in the town hall, and they decided to organize an independent company, but If un able to secure a full company before the ISth they agreed to Join the Seventh regiment, In a company where they were best needed. The meeting passed patriotic resolutions, fired with the impetuosity of youth. The committee drafting the resolutions was made up as follows: C. J. Stees, F. W. Norwood. E. K. D. Randall, Julius Wcnz, E. H. Jud&on! J M. Keenan, E. H. Norwood, W. H. Burch, D. 'H. McCloud, H. D. Tenny, N. H. Wilmot, G. S. Haselt'ne. Slum of Good Times. From the Philadelphia Times. One of the best indications of the change-! monetary conditions wrought by the good crops and high prices of the p.ist t>vo years is- furnished by the increase in bank d<?pjr.i;s in the agricultural states. The iP'iividual | deposits in tho national banks of the Mlddla I states for the month of May, ISSS, were $195. --000.000 as against $409,000,000 in 1597; in the further Western states, $100.800, 0 CC a.; agnj.-.n $80,700,000 a year ago, and in the i'acifio *i.ateH, 54,700. 010 as against $3S,UQU, l X)0" l a tetal l'irr, ase of 5122,5C0,000. This vast sum dees not locluflo :ncr.a">:d saving bank deposits, inves:merUs i-i eal cstato and building end lean association tharos, but shows very plainly that the wheat, oats, corn and other rrodu?U o.' .igii culiure have been bringing ar unusual an;ount of money into the country and that the Middle, Western and even the Pacific titles have goodly bank balaai.i;3 i.f ;hr>ir own without borrowing from t'dS ironoy cen ters of the Eastern states. AW AWAKENING. Now who would think to view that girl, With ruby ltps and teeth of pearl, With sweet, pink cheeks and brilliant eye, That she could make such soggy pie? '—Chicago Record. TO LITTLE DOROTHY. 1 &fTr here there Js h °^ »n * Jar And I>o?othyTkn n MttI t friend oi "'*•: That only a t k a n ° w , W h her f daialo9 are The thought that thou art coming makes all ""A 11 bHgbt Wlth bI — ** And many a little lass and little lad 1^ fllghi then< We y ° Uth had t>akea Thy grandmamma, cif women love"est blest 6 ° f mcD mOSt honon * ] **•& 'mcit That naughty boy who led thee to supp se He was thy sweetheart, has, I grieve to tH /Vfi,, 10 Pick the garden's choicest ro e And toddle with it to another belle Who does not treat him altog<:thtr 'well. But mind not that, or let It teacfc thee th'» To waste no love on any youthful rover ' (All youths are rovers, I assure thee, miss); No, If thou wouldgt true constancy dis cover, ' Thy grandpapa is perfect as a lover So, come, thou planrato of my c'o^in" day The latest treasure life can offer me, And with thy baby laughter make us gay Thy fresh young voice shall sing, my Dor. othy, Songa that shall bid the feet of sorrow fl>«, — W. E, Gladstone to His Grandchild. THE! ABSENT BOY. They miss him In the orchard where the fruit is cunning over. And in the meadow where the air is sweet with new-mown hay. And all about tbe oJd farm which knew him for a lover. From the early seedtime onward till tlia crops were plkd away. They mias him in fche village where nothing went without him, Where today the young folks' parties are auii and Incomplete They cannot just explain It, there was suoh a charm about him. The drop of cheer he always brought mads common daylight sweet. And norw he's gone to Cuba, he's fighting for the nation, He'e charging with the oiiers a lad In army blue, His name Is little known yet, but at the up land station. They all are sure you'll hear it before the war Is through. And when yon talk of battle, and scan the printed column, His regiment's the one they seek, his neigh bors think and care; The more they do nat speak of it, their lock grows grave and solemn, For somewhere in the thick of s'rife t'-ey know, their boy is there. —Margaret E. Sangster in Collier's We&kly. THE FIRST FLAG. 1 * h ° ly blrUl ' *"&£? B fl r n e i tien the * Mu * When war's grim beacon blazed and threw Atoove the dead, ItS ISr1 S rW -t. 810w ' and kls s«J. with ruthlea* breath. Both young and old. And hurried onward to the arms of death The brave and bcW Who fought and fell, ±hat Liberty divine 'Might always stand Enthroned within the sacred shrine Of this fair land. The star of Hope gleamed faintly through tho gloom And cheered m«n on. But for some it was the light of doom Wafting anon. And from the bleed for Truth in conflict shed There quickly sprung A flag that riopled white and blue and red And "v.'aved among The banners of the nations— first and best For it was free, Acd its stars shall brightly 6hlne from East to West Through all etsrnity. —Will E. Mald.n. RETREAT. The day Is bathed In golden sunet. And through each cloud the shimmering rays Fall softly, like th« summer breez?. Which in and out through the white tentl plays. All work has erased, Save here and there A stalwart sentry slowly walks his beat, As on the air the bugle call Brings to their cars tho not?s, retreat. And now in quift ranks each company's men Stand fast, and on the outmost po^t The watchful sentinels p^U^e. the while Silence falls upon the marshald host. Parade rest! And all pay tribute to the flag;' Reverently, uncovered, the effi-ers stand— The bugle sour.els its clarion nat°s; Its echoes wake tho martial band. "The Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave," Throughout the camp 'tis heard by all. It is retreat and o'er the camp ngh '• curtains fall. — Company B. IF SHE HAD A CROWN. "If you sotnn day were made a qu:en," The anxious !cv;r s.iid, "If you were placed upon a throne. With a crown upon your head What thing would joj Propose to do The first of all that day— What thought would bo Tho firs! to thre. And uppermost, I pray?" "If I were m"de a r.ucen." she salfl, "How splendid" it would be — If I haci a crown upon my head And a grand throne under me — What thing would 1 Do first, then? Why. I would l-:av? the hall of state For a moment, so Thnt I might know If my crewn wen sot en straight." —Chicago Dally News. TWILIGHT. Red skies above a level land: And thoughts of thee! Sinking sun on reedy strand. And mystic sea! Coming night, and drooping birds; O my child ' Dimness and returning hercU. Memory wild! —Stephen Phillips !n Chicago Times -Herald ALWAYS DANGER I\ DELAY. He said, "Dear girl, I haven't had For weeks, as yr.u well knew, A kiss from those sweet lips of youm Without which life seems s!ow." Tbe maid replied, "You are tco !ate; There's no chance left to hook 'em; For while you waited, timid-like. Another fellow took 'em." — Detroit Free Press McKlnlry'a HoroHCope. From the Philadelphia Times. Tho little episode of the seizure at Coney Island by secret service men cf a. Utler from J. Addlßon Porter, President M<-KliJey's sac relary, thanking a "horoßcoper" for a horo scope of the president, seems to carry a moral that needs no pointing and coi:c:rns oth:rs more than It dots the hcro3ccper. The latter had the letter in a glass frame hanging out side of his place of busims?, di.ipla-, lr.g It as an advertisement, after the fam'lUr style adopted by the yellow Journals in using such epistles, and it was quietly ap-p.-cpi vied by two men who gave a recclp-t lor i\ ;lgneJ "W. J. Flynn and Frank Esqui:el. secret service." The only explanation vouched waj that "the orders ca.me from Washington." Itit Dilemma. From the Wirona HeraH. Toe Minneapolis Tlme-s, which nttempts to bo an Independent newspaper, finds itse'.f In a dilemma on the candidacy for governorship. That paper lauded John Llnd to the skies before his nomination, and Is hardly in a po sition to make any retraction. The same paper vehemently espoused the nomination of Eustis. Both Lind and Euslis are now nominated, since which time that p&P«r dole* out a little taffy, first to one and then to the other. A* a supporrer to either, the Tlir.as la neither fiih, flesh, nor good r»d herring.