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4 ©he §#♦ tyaxxl <&lobz . CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. -. ~ By Carrier Imo 6 mos» 12 mas pally only 40 12.25 *4.0Q ally and Sunday .... .50 2.75 6.00 Sunday .18- .75 1.80 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Mall 1 mo 6 moa 12 moa Dally only 25 $1.60 $3.00 Daily ana Sunday S3 2.00 4.00 Sunday 75 1.50 .Weekly 75 1.00 ' Entered at Post office at St. Paul. Minn., as Second-Class Matter. Address all communications and make all -Remit tances payable to THE GLOBE CO., St Paul, Minnesota. Anonymous commu nications not noticed. Rejected manu scripts will n6t be returned unleaa - ac compnnlpd by . postage. * ■ S BRANCH OFFICES. tir-Tr York 10 Spruce St. fhk'iiso.Koom 609. No. 87 Washington St WEATHER FOR TODAY. , Minnesota—lncreasing cloudiness; prob ably showers Tuesday; southeasterly winds. The Dakotas — Increasing cloudiness Monday; probably showers Tuesday; light southeasterly winds, Increasing. Montana—Showers Monday; probably fair Tuesday; northwesterly winds. Wisconsin— Increasing cloudiress; prob ably showers Tuesday; southeasterly ■winds. ST. PAUL. Yesterday's observations, taken by the United States weather bureau, St. Paul, P. F. Lyons observer, for the twenty four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night. Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. Highest temperature 78 Lowest temperature 60 Average temperature 69 Dally range 18 Barometer .". 30.12 Humidity 78 Precipitation 0 7 p. m., temperature 74 7 p. m., wind, southeast; weather, cloudy. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Danger Gauge Change In Station. Line. Reading. 24 hour*. St. Paul 14 10.7 —0.2 La Crosse 10 9.8 —0.3 —Fall. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES. _, High'Spm High*Bpm Bismarck ....78 76 Boston 76 66 Calgary 74 70 Buffalo 70 70 Duluth 74 62 Chicago 72 68 Havre 80 82 Cincinnati ...84 80 Helena 86 82 Denver 90 82 Huron 70 68 Detroit 74 70 Medicine Hat.9o 88 New Orleans.7o 70 ! Mlnnedosa ...78 76 New York ...70 6) Pr. Albert....SO 78 Omaha 84 M) Qu'Appelle ..78 74 Philadelphia .78 68 S. Current ..82 85 Plttsburg ....86 76 Willlston. 84 80 St. Louis ....88 84 Winnipeg ....82 78 Washington .82 63 •Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul). QIEEn TRYST ANTAGONISTS. If the trust were personalized one can easily imagine the look of pained sur prise upon its face as it read the denun ciation of itself by two men who have reaped riches from it. It must have been filled with a keen sense of the Ingrati tude of mortals when Havemeyer went upon the witness stand and chaiged the protective tariff with being its mother and denied that sugar was in the trust • because only a paltry 3 per cent protec tion was accorded It. It must have re called the scenes in Washington in 1894, after the house had put sugars of all kinds upon the free list, when Havemeyer met the'"Judas Iscariots" of the senate In his chambers and there made the deal by which sugar imports were restore*} to the taxed list with ad valorems and a*ldi tlonals r and discrimination;-, that, In their sum total, gave Mr. Havemeyer's par ticular .'-hare in the trust general a pro tection of 50 per cent ' and sent sugar stocks up to 13£. ; " V •v,r;-;v; Grieved as our personification of the trust must have been at this desertion by one whom It had solved so well and befriended'so stoutly, there was reserved for It a keener thrust of the dagger of Ingratitude in the declaration of the pres ent secretary of war that he is a can didate for the senatorship from Michigan .and that he is going to make his cam paign on the double issue of election of senators by the people and of extermi nation of tha trust. If Havemeyer dis owned the mother Alger proposes to com mit matricide. He declares himself "the foe to these great amalgamations." They "squeeze the small dealer out of business nml. greatest of all, eliminate the mid dleman and stifle competition. With a commodity controlled by one man or a coterie of men, they are not compelled to seek customers. The dealer must come to them, tak? what he can get and pay without a murmur the pi ice asked." What Russell A. Alger knows about trust formation and methods would make Interesting reading were he to write a perfectly candid autobiography. He was In at the beginning and exploited a trust that reached its skinny fingers into every home in the land, the richest as weir as the poorest, and exacted its tribute. It is older than the sugar trust and but lit tle younger than the Standard OiL It had its Inception In both the tariff and the Internal revenue taxes, the one shel tering it from external competition and . the latter, with its rebate on stamps bought in large amounts, enabling it to shut out its domestic competitors of les -5 sex magnitude. We refer to the Diamond Match trust, at whoso birth Alger as . sisted and whose extorted wealth he shared. The reports of the supreme court of the Tinted States contain an opinion rendered in a case growing out of Algers promo tion, of that trust and the merciless man ner in. which he squeezed one match maker out of all he had. Briefly stated • the - plaintiff put his plant and patents into the deal with the agreement of Alger and another that when some hundred and odd thousands came to them out of the net profits they were to reconvey the property to the plaintiff. They received the stipulated amount and more, but when asked to restore the property re- X fused. The plaintiff took nothing by his action because the court held the contract with Alger and his pal to be against pub lic policy and void. The court scored Alger severely for his conduct and re gretted that it was unable to award the plaintiff restitution, but the law would not permit a party, though grievously wronged, to use Its machinery to enforce .a void contract. And this man Alger is • he who now reviles the trust and an nounces hmself its Implacable foe. -^»- . Editor Kohlsaat is verifying the adage that "when rogues - fall ; out honest men get their dues.'" The- dues of honest ->■ men in this case are confirmation of ' the report of the amount of the Republican ■ m national campaign fund in 1896. , Kohl saat says it amounted to $2,900,000. Our information is that Chairman Hanna had more than twice that amount to check against ten days before the election. Will the esteemed Times-Herald pursue its in vestigations to the point of verifying oui very excellent authority? - '. L^ . A SHAMELESS DEED, ■ A day or two ago an arrest was .made in this city. The defendant was charged with keeping a disorderly house. The Jury disagreed. An. additional trial may be had, and additional time, labor and expense may be Imposed on the city. The Globe knows and cares nothing whatever as to the merits or demerits of the charge. The truth will probably be found to be that the defendant Is guilty, and ought to be convicted. What we de sire to call public and official attention to In connection with the case Is this: That a police officer was the principal wit ness for the city prosecutor, and that he had himself become Qualified to give his evidence by committing a crime. This is according to the policeman's own tes timony. . Now, this policeman would probably never have done anything of that sort except under the direction of his superior officers. If so, he is unfit to remain on the force on his own testi mony. If he qualified himself by orders, then there Is something to be said In palliation of his shameless conduct, since he may be said to have been coerced by his superior officers Into committing a crime. In any event, his testimony was entitled to no consideration, and the court would not have exceeded its pow ers had it ordered him on trial for the crime . that he had confessed, and had it directed the jury to treat that testimony as being, morally unworthy of any con sideration whatever. It is impossible to conceive of a lower condition of morals in a department of government than that which details a police officer to the performance of such a duty. . It is the very perversion of all government, and involves a #grave out rage on -all laws of personal and official decency. Such places exist. They are sanctioned. They exist, too, notoriously in many cases with police connivance and protection. This Is only one, where there are scores undisturbed. Why was It singled out? There is an answer which might be given in all • reason which, of common knowledge, would not be at all unjust to the police administration. We call the immediate and personal attention of Mayor Kiefer to this case. He is not a fool. He cannot have the wool pulled over his eyes by his police subordinate, as his predecessor had dur ing the entire period of his incumbency. We ask him, as the responsible head of a great city, if he can tolerate anything of that sort? It is not a subject on which to urge any political consideration. It Is one which will n revolt the moral sence of every decent citizen. It is a wrong to the fair name of the cltv and to the dignity of public station, cf so atrocious a nature as to demand the in stant dismissal of every police and prose cuting official having any hand in It. Mayor Kiefer may ignore this shame less transaction. We prefer to believe that he will not and cannot.; He is the responsible and legal head of the police department. He is a man of good sense, and of good name. Unless he desires lo | make himself morally a party to the in j famous transaction he must bring ail the j power of his office to bear on an investi gation into the facts, and visit summary and adequate punishment on all connect ed with it. v. J. ■ ;:'-. -i \r, _'-- : ;£<i-i\'! : "v -^»_ ', PORTO KICAN IMPERIALISM. A very remarkable and altogether high ly suggestive order is that which we sire now informed has been issued by the new governor general of Porto Rico. It is described as an order against dis criminations in exchange in that island. Under its operation American gold and silver coin, national bank bills and treas ury notes are to have the same current value in all official and private transac tions. If* a lower rate is made or de mended in exchanges of American paper money than is made or demanded for American gold or silver, the offending party or parties will be brought to trial before a United States provisional court, and on conviction subjected to a fine of $100. Nothing is said as to the occasion for [ the. issuance of such an extraordinary command. Doubtless a few industrious money changers have been busy trying to make a dishonest dollar, and hence Gov. Gen. Davis proposes to enforce his peculiar fiscal views for the benefit of society. But what does the order itself mean? Has imperialism run to such ex tremes that in an American possession, where a state of absolute peace and or der prevails, the commonest law of val ues shall be overturned and different classes of money Issues be Invested with qualities which the law says they shall not have? The law regulating legal tenders is jauntily set at naught, and any Porto Rican merchant who refuses to accept payment of his bills in silver or treasury silver certificates or bank notes, in any amount whatever, and in sists on his rights und«r existing law, will be hurried ■ off to Jail to be brought be fore a United States provisional court, and subjected to a fine of $100. Porto Rico, be it remembered, posses ses all the requirements to the establish ment within its limits of a territorial form of government. The people are peaceful. They have gladly accepted and welcomed the change from Spanish to American government. Their repre sentative has been in the United States for some time past, urging our officials to save the country from the wrong of further military government. The late governor general, Gen. Henry, in his de fense of his policy in the island, has not had a word to say why the Porto Ricans should not have a territorial govern ment established over them. The best observers are unanimous in declaring that common justice to the island and its people demands . that congress shall at once grant the demand, against which not a single argument has thus: "far. been urged. We have heard a good dea; of talk lately about Porto Rican franchises. The people at Washington have had the task before them of determining what fran . chises . can be , granted ,- now . and * what are"to be 'reserved for the future. Re-> ports arc coming from till quarters among those who have• vislUd the island— TH^ ST. PAUL GLOBE, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1899 among whom, by the way. Is the great war "-' minister,. Gen. Alger—of | the J sur passing richness of the island. Yet: in cipient militarism is already sufficiently powerful to- overturn all accepted under standing of business transactions and to set up an order which is capable of being ' made at once an engine of dis honest profit, robbery and extortion. - ; On such a basis as this it will not take a very long time to convince • the people of Porto Rico that they were altogether premature 'in their expressions of unre strained Joy over the. establishment or American control." SMALL POLITICS. The ways of the administration states men are past finding out. After weeks, nay months, of insistanee that the sit uation in the Philippines was satisfac tory from every point of view, and that the insurrection of the natives was to be promptly ended, the statement Is now made, apparently with authority, that the situation is more serious than it ever was before, and that a large ad dition is to be made to the army of oc cupation. After alternate praise and blame of Gen. Otis it has come now to be generally admitted that the. facts have been . withheld from • the public through the Immediate - action of the president himself. '_. '{,• For nigh a year the. administration has stood loyally by Gen. Alger. Embalmed beef and scandals of all sorts affecting military administration have been ignored, and the contingency of the resignation, enforced or otherwise, of the head of the war department has never been consid ered apparently even for a moment. Now, however, all this Is changed, and the information is forthcoming that if Alger does not resign he is to be forced out. Why? Because he has gone into a political deal with Gov. Pingree, of his own state, looking to his election as United States , senator, and Pingree is not an adherent of the administration. Here is truly a remarkable state of affairs. It shows how utterly a national administration can with impunity ignore the public will and preference for a con tinued period, and then, for reasons purely personal and political, do what on every principle of public responsi bility ought to have been done months before. Has not Gen. Alger the right to enter a contest for the senatorship and to. se cure the aid of Pingree or anybody else whom he thinks can promote his elec tion -to that place? There is a general Impression that he .has. that right with out paying the penalty of being kicked out of his office. Pingree is a Republican. He is the Republican governor of Al ger's own state. He is an avowed friend of Alger. If the head of the war de partment is entitled to hold his office, In view of the record that he has made in it, then he certainly is still entitled to hold it unless he is to be made the vic tim of a scurvy piece of political- spite and Jealousy. Pingree is not responsi ble to .anybody in Washington for his opinions. So far as. the public knows, Alger's concurrence in . those opinions is creditable rather . than otherwise. He accepts • ■ the - two -.propositions -'■ of oppo- ■ sition to trusts and .in favor of popular, election of United States senators. If the administration is . opposed to these two principles to such an extent that no man who commits himself to them is qualified to- sit :in:McKin.ley's cabinet, the fact is of sufficient ' importance to be made generally known among the American people. The Globe is as little interested in Alger as it is in any of the group of small. politicians who control the ma chine at Washington. Yet it certainly is convinced that Alger's enforced retire ment from the cabinet on the grounds now alleged Is even less creditable to President McKinley than has been his re tention as war minister under the pecu liar circumstances which have attended his administration for the past year or so. * --->;.' GRATEFUL WHEELMEN. '" The appearance of a number of Minne apolis cyclists on the streets of that city engaged with pick and shovel In the con struction of a cycle path explains in some measure the high respect and considera- ' tion which the authorities of that com munity bestow on cycling and cyclists. For instance, if, In a moment of mental abstraction, or in stress of street ruts or added mud, a bicycle rider in Minneapolis finds himself on the sidewalk astride his wheel, it indicates bis readiness in certain contingencies to contribute according to his means.to the administration of crim inal justice. The administration of crim inal justice comes high up the river, and its cost must be met. The same measure of official energy prevails with reference to cycle paths already in existence when they happen to ba in need of repair. An entire cart load of sand has been known to be lavished "on ' more than one occa sion on a break in a cycle path, and the inspiring task left to the bicycle men to work the dumped sand into a consistency, with the aid of their wheels, which would admit of its being ridden on. The remarkable spectacle presented at Pennsylvania avenue and ■ Fourth street within a day or two simply proves the high state of civic pride and devotion that prevails among the people, and espe cially among the bicycle people of the other Twin. Let us hope that their ex ample will not be lost and that In time, as the city advances and new streets and sidewalks are needed, pedestrians and the owners of vehicles will be found with pick.* and shovels in their hands just as ardent in the needful work as are the men of the wheel. No one class of citizens should be allowed to possess a monopoly of the grand disposition to save the tax payers the cost of needed public improve ments. . ' \ • - . -m- .— Relative to the proposition made by a Minneapolis paper that Gov. Lind should have the state defray the expense of transportation for the Thirteenth from San Francisco to St. Paul, the Globe, while not assuming to speak for the gov ernor, whom, so far, the petulant carping of the paper up stream has failed to make speak, Is decidedly of the opinion that he should not do it. He should not do it because it would be an expenditure of public money without warrant In law. He. can not dp it . because he has '-. not the money'required at his-disposal. His •contingent fund Is utterly insufficient and has enough legitimate demands upon it to use it all up. * Another reason Is that the boya get travel : pay. and commutation of • rations from the United States,' from ', the place; of muster-out to the place ot muster-In,' which is ample to pay their fare. ItC tvoull certainly bu a graceful act were the citizens .of the , two \ cities to raise a fund by Subscription to defray their passage, and ajiat'' ia the only way it should be d6JTe?_^lt"is an expression of appreciation, -of gratefulness;, and. it would be deprived of all its virtue were it to be a force.l|c.>iirrß'utlon levied under whatever use oij ciUise of . law. Back of all thia prctcn.sij of desire to honor the boys of the Thirteenth 'in this 'manner, however, is the purpese to make them a "part of tho >liow at the-McKfnley recep tion, and it would ho&s well to wait until the boys get to San Francisco and • as certain if they "wish" to .be made an ap pendage of that perfbrmance .or not. We rather think' th'^r -yyi decline Ilia ' part.:." In conformity, with orders from the White house the t army beef report has been suppressed. This report sustained Secretary Alger, and it is barely possible that, in view of recent political develop merits in Michigan, ' the administration doesn't want Alger sustained. . "The Republican party," says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, • "is the only one with the will and ability to regulate the trusts." Just at present It is the only one with the ability, but the will is extremely microscopical. 1 \,l" J. s :'l' ■ One of the pleasure resorts of Massa- J" chusetts is the Mooselookmeguntic House. ■ Pronunciation of the full name : is not imperatively ; demanded on a return from a fishing trip .to. that locality. . . •. • "The tariff problem" so harped upon by Republican organs is not a problem at all. tDo away T with., the tariff iniquity | and there would be neither tariff ■ nor trust problems. *.« '• "^:V '•• l^?iT;7j As a counter irritant •to the fish ball story it is now related that Senator Hoar owns a copy of the famous Aitken Bible, which he inherited from his .'grandfather. The New York Journal editorializes about "An Incredible Swindle.'' An in credible swindle in New York must be something enormous. ■ ■ Gov. Pingree 'tlias i. come out for Al ger, and here's hoping Alger, himself, may be induced to come out—of the cabi net. "Dave" Henderson continues to pose as a fairly well groomed, heir apparent. epistles; to ST. PAUL. ; L. J. Auerbacl\er, how in St. Paul as a representative (if tjie • national police alarm system, is the patentee and manu facturer of an electric lamp. The lamp is about six inches long, and two inches in circumference' and consists of a stor age battery inja ' leather • case with a small headlight m' one end. ; By pressing a spring an incandescent lamp Is lighted. : Mr. Auerbachar was explaining the beauties of the searchlight In the mayor's office the other day and telling: what • a fine thing it would be to have the police use tho lamp instead of the present dark, lanterns now carried. .. ' No one seemed to be particularly in terested until Mr. Auerbacher stated that he had one of the lamps in his own house and it saved him many a sleepless night Some one asked how so, and then Mr. Auerbacher went on to tell.. how when the baby awoke at night, ready for a crying spell, Khe "'simply pressed the spring, ! shot a glare light into the infant's face,; and either, from fright or pleasure the kid immediately went to sleep. There is probably- not -much chance for the police department to adopt the new searchlight, ; but \ the story ; has been cir-. culated around ih'e:- city hall as" to the wonderful effect the patent lamp -has in putting crying babies> to. sleep and the patentee has been busy taking orders' from the city officials. ... ■i-.i.'rii /' ,;;;*: -.',:•..'■■ '■ '■' '*.':♦ *■•.■.-' .. .:".••*";••■ "Mr. Phinback, ' you are slangy." . .The, tall, . svelte, creature threw at the young man a haughty Crocus hill glance.. But he muffed it. -i. . : )l ':', ■'.: ;■ ....': ■ "Miss Cuddleton,'' he cried, passionate ly, "let me implore you to hear me out." The girl replied in a riant, thoroughbred tone: :'',; ' - . 'h', iV I-i^-.' "Why for? What further communica tion can you possibly have .to make to me after what has occurred this morn ing?" . . ._ :• "Matil—— Miss Cuildleton," he spoke hoarsely and clutched fiercely at his Adam's apple which was bobbing like a cork on a mill pond, "you have laid at my door the charge of being . slangy. Can you honestly examine your own heart and say that you have not been a trifle un just?" '.: ■:. ...:., i ' '-■ ;. .. ■ • .•/;-*■;■; While two pearly tears welled from her lustrous orbs the gicj sank down on to a custard-colored fauteuil. The idea of sink ing up never occurred to her. She might have sunk down (on 1 a bow-legged Roman divan on the port side of the alcove, but of.two evils she chos^e the least. "Mr. Phinback,!; she replied, "you heard my gentle 'wheeze.'- I.trust" it is unneces sary for.'a' brickj^ipViSe to fall on you." : "True, Miss Cttddleton, you have, ■ in deed, given me. a, hunch. If you Imagine that T cannot cotto^ to your invidious patter why, you'll have to guess again.• Were 1 out for the stuff simply it would be dead easy for trieito catch on with a certain guy's daughter with fifty thou sand plunks. But it turns out I'm dead stuck on you, personally. Of course, your governor's well fixed, but so far as any of the velvet being jin your individual name, why, he'll have to show me. I'm from Missouri. So there's no .need for you to make a rough house by chewing the rag about my objectionable . char • acteristics. :j I've been keeping cases,: on you for six months. \ I've put. up for ice - cream, livery, theater.; tickets and cut • flowers. That's jno j pipe i story. ;- Now \ if. you ;are 'going to turn me down for some" lobster with a high grade vocabulary, why, all I've got to say, Miss Cuddleton, I I won't stand for it.". . f ..; - "Morti Mr. ": Phinback," : replied -'ft he" girl, "it is barely, possible that I was a -trifle too previous. . I can readily per ceive that you are a pretty, smooth guy. For me to ;give you the : marble heart at this stage of the game wouldn't be treat ing you exactly white -Had this trouble occurred the first crack out of the box I might,' perhaps, have trun you down. But now. after such a' lapse of time, ■ I haven't the. heart to queer you. We both have certain duties ; that we owe to so ciety. We have known each other since we were kids. .We have trotted in the same class. I have -liked-you from the kick-off. In the past .six months we have done centuries .|opretWr., Together we- I have chewed caramels in the grand stand at the races and the ball game. Mr. Phlnbnck—Mortimer F' Must we now de clare-the stuff off? Oh. no, let us not go. to pieces " in"; t£e homestretch, but come under, the jjyJre'noso". and nose and make a dead herg o/,it."-• .-.. And the willowy-Miss-Cuddlotop pil lowed ber smaU, hjpad on the manly breast of Mr. Phinback while the English sparrows twittered paean of peace. . . '. .ji.uW —-—.■';" 7.; ■:.;- From EiVry Standpoint. Morris Sun. _. Dissatisfaction tivit** the conduct of af fairs in the Philippines is growing apace, and there'is. a general consensus of opin ion that the propjer - course is for the ad ministration to -sentf a force "adequate to conquer the'lnsurgents. The present policy is a mistake'politically as well as in other. rhases. ',;. :An -All-Year. Fourth, Princeton Union. - ;~.- .-,--;;.■=": - There has -. been so much - gunpwder. burned within the past twelve months that it would seem -.that'^we' could dls- pense. with some of the pyrotechnics ■ that - '-■ usually attend the Fourth of. July cole bration. L '■ : *^l ;V -,"-*%:. :.;,>,; ■ ■'. AIM WILL ON THE BBCHETABT SATS UK WILL NOT . RETIRE FROM THH * ■.";'.••. "■•-''CABINET'"/ cl;^V _..:;:i/ DISCUSSES PINGREE DEAL Su>« the Michigan Executive Is - „ With the Administration, and That the New Alliance Need Have No Effect Upon " Present Official Relations— Denies That Gen. Otis Him Asked for More Troops. WASHINGTON, Juno 25.—Secretary Alger returned to the city tonight; after an absence of three weeks, during which he visited New England, and afterwards spent some time at his home in Mich igan... He says he has enjoyed his out ing very % much and appeared benefited by the change. To callers at his house during the evening the secretary talked freely re garding his announced candidacy for senatorial honors,. and of the printed statements of the probability of his leav ing the cabinet because of his alliance with Gov. Pingree, who, It has been stated, is opposed to the administration of President McKlnley. He made It plain to his questioners.that he did not propose to resign on this account, as ho does not consider his candidacy for . the senate ". any.' reason why he should not continue to: hold his position as a mem ber of the cabinet. Gov. Pingree, the secretary Sdded, is < for President McKln ley first, last and all the time. During his absence from the city the secretary has been kept fully informed of all dispatches which have been re ceived from Gen. Otis regarding the sit uation, in the Philippines. He was not prepared to say anything tonight for publication respecting what addition, if any, is to be made to the troops undor Gen. Otis' command. The . matter will be considered by the president as soon as he returns to Washington from hid New England visit. The secretary, In conclusion, said he had no knowledge of a dispatch alleged to have been received from Gen. Otis, in which that officer stated his inability to conquer the Fil ipinos with the force under his com mand, and that he would be obliged to abandon the ground already taken unless reinforcements were quickly sent. • All dispatches from Gen. Otis were for warded to him, he said, and he had seen nothing of the kind mentioned. HAS OTIS APPEALED? Reported That He : Hag Asked . the President for More Men. NEW YORK, June 25.— dispatch to the World from Adams, Mass., says: ■ A long cipher message from Gen. Otis, sent to Washington and thence relayed to Adams without the usual official edit ing, has caused President McKinley many uneasy moments in the last forty eiffht hours. All that Otis told the president is not known positively, but this statement may be accurately made: Otis plainly inti mated his inability to conquer the Fil ipinos with the present fighting strength at his command. Furthermore, it is said, he gave the impression he would be forced to abandon the ground already taken unless reinforcements were quick ly sent. :':;, •' :vv?- ! .'. ;:.'. !,-- : ■!'■.' From the beginning of the Philippine war Otis has been an optimist. He ha.3 made official , Washington believe .; lie could crush the rebellion with his pres ent strength, and, instead of reporting the true situation, he . has made his daily dispatches conform to the picture as he saw it through his colored glasses. .}. Now, however, that' Gert. Otis ; is no longer able to successfully distort the facts, the true state of affairs is coming to light, and he is forced'to tell things which he might like to hide. It is possible that Gen. Otis soon may be relieved of his command. ■•-'•• ,:i'r. Whether President : McKinley- will ask for more troops immediately upon- his return to Washington next week or wait until August or September has not been fully determined. i Today the president is inclined to defer the inevitable appeal for reinforcements until six or eight weeks hence. The sea son of incessant rainfall is now on ki Luzon. He believes it would be impos sible to make any headway against the acclimated insurgents at this period of the year. . : ■ ■ ■ M'ARTHUR CUT OFF. Officials Admit the Philippine Sit uation Is.Serious. WASHINGTON, June 25.— war de partment practically admits that the situation in the island of Luzon is most serious. The officials concede that Gen. Otis may have to detach a force from the garrison to rescue Mat-Arthur from the precarious position he is in -at San Fernando, with the main insurgent army between that point and Manila. In brief, although Mac Arthur has about 7,000 men with him, it is admitted that they "may have difficulty in cutting their way through . the Filipino hordes, who would, worry front, flanks and rear continually from the jungles and destroy the railway and bridges on the route to the city. The concentration of the natives at San Francisco de Malabon, only four .miles to the right and rear of Wheaton at Imus, and their apparent prepara tions for a concerted movement upon Manila from all sides at once tend to the opinion that the events of the com ing week or two may be very grave. I Every fresh victory [ gained by the "little American army only weakens it and swells the list of sick and wounded.. VAt present Otis cannot spare: men from his . trenches defending Manila and its waterworks to give a few hours' rest to any single battalion."-- All must stay con stantly . under arms and under the fire of sharpshooters to maintain the short ened line... ...... - . . . ■ .'■'■ . ' mIBM DRAMATIC. ■: METROPOLITAN. The Boston Lyric .'company opened at the Metropolitan last night in "Said Pasha." with some interpolations that were received with favor by a large' and enthusiastic audience. The opera always was merry and the Messrs. Kunkel j and Henderson help much in making'it so, while the music is delightful, and Well sung for the most part in the present ! production.. . Miss Stanton, as Serena, is lively and graceful. , She has a voice that is pleas ing and adequate. She will be a favorite. Miss Kingsbury, as Alti, was handsome, dressed in splendid taste, and sang feel ingly in a voice of liquid quality, al though not over strong. Her duet, with Torano, "Heart to Heart," was very sweet.; - \ Miss McNeil,.,as 1 Balah, is a clever ac tress, although ' there is only a limited ! opportunity In this opera for her. In Mr, Rogers the - company., has what' so many ; summers companies lack, a heavy basso, j who can act. ' Mr. Rockwell has a fine stage presence, and breezy style. Ha sings with little effort and very pleasing ly. Mr. Hallan has a tenor of good qual- ■ ity. : Tonight will . be . given as a benefit for the Babies' home.... . _ _^^_ : :— :; Exceeding Great Faith. Mabel Tribune. William Henry Harrison Miller,: former attorney general of ! the United States, says of the situation in' the .Philippines: ■ "When ;in doubt, keep your patriotic ■ views of . the eternal fitness; of things \ al-' • ways .to ; the. front and,: always v believe «. that your country • cannot be wrong." : ■ WHITE BEAR IMPROVEMENT. Some Things Done Which Were Far ;„• .;/' Better Left Undone. To th« Editor of. the Globe: : '•" Many improvements are going on at White Bear, under the ; auspices of the Improvement company,- lately organized at St. Paul. .: A great deal of unsightly rubbish la being cleared away; the roads are undergoing a thorough scraping;, the - cycle < paths have been widened and straightened and well rolled, and mat ters are looking better In . many . ways. But—and now comes the.rub! There are some things being done which ought not to be done. Probably a general order has been given to clear away all, the loose brush S wood f and useless lumber ". scraps around th« shores of the lake; which un doubtedly, have given a very untidy ap pearance to them, and should, be got rid of. But general rules require many ex ceptions and demand close . Inspection when the execution of.them is committed to subordinates who, however good their Intentions, are not ordinarily supposed to possess that refinement of taste or clear ness of Judgment necessary to the proper noting of exceptions. For instance, is it wise, or was it intended, to absolutely clear away all the growth of green under brush on the bank of the lake sloping down to the water? It is difficult to be lieve that such an order was given or that such was the intention of the gentle men having the "work in chin?.?, seeing that the greatest problem we have to contend with Is the preservation of the water supply in the lake, of which this very growth of brush on the shores is the chief and greatest protection; at the same time • that, so far from being un sightly, it is one of the beauties of the lake, especially wh-jn viewed from the water. But let me give, an instance of not only utter want of taste and Judg ment on the part of the overseer or the laborer In the matter, but of what I think an infringement of the rights of property owners on the shores. My real estate title runs to the water front, across the road, although the right of way on the road is in the public. Now, on the bank sloping to the water's edge, where no vehicles could go, was a beautiful, lux uriant vine, the growth of years, which had entwined itself around the branches of over-hanging trees, thus forming a charming shady bower and one of the beauty spots of the place. It was so com pletely covered and secluded as to form a natural bath house where young persons sometimes changed their dress, without the least impropriety, for the purposes of bathing. So struck was one of my sons with its beauty that this season he placed within it a rustic seat for the con-, venience of the family and as a spot where, perchance, some youthful couple might pour out to one another their Joys or their woes. What then was my chagrin yesterday morning, upon paying ray cus tomary visit to the lake shcr.\ to find the whole thing had disappeared— been totally demolished; the entire vine had been torn down and carried off and one of the trees cut down and taken off with it! Now I do not suppose for a minute that this destruction was wrought from any motives of enmity against me. It might, for all I know, have been done by men who were my personal friends; but it does show the necessity of having this work under the supervision of those who have some .knowledge, taste and judgment in such matters. In fact, ought not the whole business to be put under the charge of some thoroughly informed landscape gardener, capable of dealing with it from the standpoint of water supply and a proper regard for what nature has already done for the place, rather than leave it all to mere Jobbing contractors who, whatever their integrity or their ability in other respects, cannot be expected to handle a work of . this character with the care and skill which it obviously demands? I sincerely trust, Mr. Editor, that my friends, .who are engaged in this good work, will not set me down as a chronic grumbler. But when I look back to the glories of White Bear lake in the early sixties, when I first became familiar with the grandeur of its • natural. beauties; when the normal height of its waters was full four feet above what it now is, in spite of what the recent rains have done for them, and when I recall the ruthless, Vandel-Uke destruction : of . one ,of Its . most extraordinary attractions— old Indian mound—and - when I think of our hard fought battles to save it from de struction at the hands of the St. Paul Water company; when I think of all these past events and scenes. I admit that I have . misgivings when I hear of "White Bear , Improvement companies."- For years White Bear has been the only home I have had on earth..- The light of that home has, indeed, been put out; but I love it yet with a reverential love, for Its sacred memories. . /.% -W. M. — A ■ STATUTES AND COURT RULES. Mr. Rogers Finds Fault With the Ruling; of One of the Judges. To the Editor of the Globe: At the special term of the district court today, Judge Bunn presiding, refused to give me an order in a legal proceeding where the statutes clearly and unequivo cally gave me the right to the order. He gave as his reasons that there was a rule of court that virtually abrogated the . statutes. Is it not rather a high-handed proceed ing for Judges to make rules that set at defiance the statute . law of the state? Is it not ground for Impeachment for a judge sitting as a court to refuse to obey the law he is supposed to administer? While I cheerfully admit that there is' good reason for the enactment of such a rule a3 Judge Bunn enforced, my point is, he should obey the law as other peo ple are required to, and if the law is wrong have the next legislature right it, but not to ride over it and set it at de fiance and at the same time, in his ju dicial capacity, punish people for other infractions of the law. Laws are made to be obeyed, and of ficials are elected to enforce them. —J. N. Rogers. St. Paul, June 24. : m ;,-. THESE THINGS UNIQUE. The largest map of the world is the ordnance survey map of England, con taining over 108,000 sheets. ■ and costing $1,000,000 a year for twenty years. ' The details are so minute that the maps show every , hedge, fence, wall; • building and every ■ isolated tree in - the country. The plans show not only v the '- exact shape of every building, . but every porch, area, doorstep, lamp post, railway and fire plug. The hottest region on earth is the southeastern part of Persia, where it borders the gulf. For forty consecutive days in July and August the tempera ture has been known not to fall lower than 100 degrees, night or day. The largest library in the world is the national library of Paris, which contains forty miles of shelves, holding 1,400,000 books. There are also 175,000 .manu scripts, 300,000 maps and charts and 150,000 coins and medals. • - The largest ! sun dial in the world Is Hayou Horoo, a large promonotory ex tending 3,000 feet above the Aegean sea. As the sun swings around the shadow of this mountain touches one by one a circle of islands, which act as hour marks. . The greatest cavern In the world Is Mammoth cave, eighty-live miles south west of Louisville. It is about ten miles long, though to explore its multitude of avenues, chambers, grottoes, galleries, domes, rivers and cataracts entails 150 miles of travel. The largest geyser in the world is the Excelsior geyser in Yellowstone park. Its basin is 200 feet across and 330 feet deep. This basin is full of boiling water, from ■ which; clouds of steam are con stantly ascending.- At long Intervals water is spouted Into the air to a height of from 50 to 300 feet. The deepest hole. In the earth is at Schladebach, near Ketschau, Germany. It is 5,736 feet in depth,' and is 'for geol ogic research only. The drilling was be gun in 1880, and stopped six years later because the engineers were unable with their Instruments to go deeper. This hoi.? was expensive," as its cost was $50,000. . TRIO ON EVEN TERMS NO ONE OF THE KENTUCKY CANDI DATES HAS THE VOTES TO WIN -;'*"-:- DARK HORSE IN PROSPECT New Nominee May Be Necc a »ary to Break the Deadlock Which Ex ***■ «* Louisville— Hardin Men, hy Shrewd Strategy, Are Still a Factor In the Situation—Charge* of Bad Faith Are Being Made. LOUISVILLE. Ky., June 25.-Up to a late hour tonight there is no sign of an agreement between any two of the Demo cratic candidates for governor, and it seems likely that the first ballot taken when the convention meets tomorrow morning will result Just about as did tho eleventh on Saturday night. Candidates and their managers have been on the go, all day, out of one conference into an other, but so far to no purpose. The 1,092 delegates to the convention are divided so nearly evenly that there Is not a difference of thirty votes in the strength of the three candidates-Stone Goebel and Hardin. But of these Goe bel is the strongest because of the solid ity of his supporters. He controls his following absolutely, and can vote them for himself or throw them to either of his opponents. Neither Stone nor Har din can do this, and for that reason neither is in position to make ad vantageous terms. . • • There has been a break in the Stone- Goebel combination since balloting be-» gan caused primarily by the action ot Goebel's managers in voting the seventy votes of Louisville solidly for the Ken ton county leader on the first ballot. The Stone people say their understand ing was that the vote was to be di vided equally between Stone and GoebeL The latter, it is said, produced a writ ten agreement covering the combina tion of the two forces upon temporary organization, but containing nothing aa to the governorship nomination. Chra- ned as the Stone people are at the failure of a combination promptly to effect the nomination of their candidate it is not believed they can. In a spirit of revenge, bring about the nomination of Hardin. They threatened to try this when Goebel showed such surprising strength on the first ballot and went so far as to start a stampede, . but Goebel's nerve and coolness checkmated it. On the other hand, the Hardin people can not throw their strength solidly to Stone, for they are divided in the matter of a second choice, and, as was the case yesterday, many would go to Goebel in case of a break. A notable feature of the affair is the Hardin campaign. Coming into the con vention with a hundred votes short of a majority of the convention; beaten at every point on organization, and weak ened by adverse decisions of the cre dentials committee, involving scores of seats, the Hardin managers, with con summate cleverness, jumped into the nght when the game seemed to be lost withdrew the name of Hardin and left Goebel and Stone to fight it out. These two fell into the trap and flew at each other's throats with the result that when the convention adjourned last night Goe bel and Stone had split and Hardin. on the last ballot, stood second in votes Meanwhile, the three-cornered fight grows warmer, and the delegates who have spent nearly a week trying to nom inate a state ticket, may yet have to look outside the trio now occupying the ring to find a leader upon whom they. can unite. ■ - GLEANED BY A GIRL. In a village not far from St. Paul lives an old. man who is the very prince of optimists. He is possessed of a broad charity, which thinks and speaks no evil Especially Is this manifest when he talks of the dead, for with him the good that men do lives after them, and the evil is interred with their bones. He grew to be a feature at funerals, and people with sharp tongues and mean er minds came to expect that he would extol the virtues of the dead In even nr.ore glowing terms of praise than did the clergyman or the weekly paper. One day it came to pass that the Scrooge of the town died— r>ne whose cringing ways and disreputable charac ter could not be wholly cloaked by char ity, nor covered with the flowers which many people receive only after death. He had a funeral, of course, though a poor enough one in Its way. There were no "chief mourners," for he had no near relatives. Yet, ho was dead, and that gave him a distinction and a consideration which nothing in his life could have won for him. The minister halted through his ser mcn. mostly after the "horrible example" kind, which he hurled at the heads of the well meaning men who sat stiffly in the hard sews. The choir sang a few mournful hymns in . a listless fashion, and the services were over. No; not quite over either—they could not be complete until the procession of people had marched about the coffin, to view, with a morbid curiosity, the "re mains of the deceased." The optimist was there with the rest, and many were their silent conjectures as to what good he could find to speak of in the life now ended. They gathered about him as he passed the bier, and as he gazed musingly at the features, con tracted and sinister even in death, he muttered aloud: "Well, he had good teeth!" • . • • There is a well known" knight of the road" in this city, rejoicing in the sug gestive name of Darling. He Is now traveling in the Dakotas, but" formerly drummed uu trade for his firm .in tho towns along the Duluth & St. Paul rail road. In one of. these villages the as sistant at the postofflce was a girl, tho niece of the postmaster, pretty, young and saucy. She had grown somewhat tired ■of the - Jokes of traveling men, who demurely, inquired, when disappoint ed in receiving letters. if she would di rect them to another postofflce in town. If they could purchase postage stamps of her. "and if she would give them thirteen two-cent stamps for a cent and a quarter —with a hundred other Jokes, better and worse, which the drummer is fond of springing. . She went to the delivery window one day when she heard approaching foot steps. Mr. Darling was there in quest of mail. He smiled, and said, simply: "Darling!" An angry flush and an indignant snap of tho eyes was the only response he re ceived from ,the fair, assistant, who start ed to retreat, when her misconstruction of his laconic request burst upon him, and > he* satisfactorily explained that he had not intended to confer his name upon her. / —Beth. .«. THE WOOD-THRI'SH AT EVE. At the wood-edge, what time .the sun sank low. We lingered speechless, being loath to leave The cool, the calm, the quiet touch of eve. And all the glamor of the afterglow. We watched the purple shadows length en ■ slow, Saw the swift swallows through tha clear air cleave. And the bats begin their wayward flight to weave, Then rose reluctantly, and turned to go. But, ere we won beyond the warder trees. From out the dim'deep copse that hid the swale ■-•■*■•■■ Welled of a sudden flute-like harmonies - Flooding the twilight, ■ scale on silvery scale, .... >. . As though we heard, ■ far o'er . the sunder ing sons, -••.:. •.,-.".- r : * The pain and passion .of the nightin gale. —Clinton ScOllard In the July Atlantic. '•'