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ST. PAUI*
Yesterday's observations, taken by the
United State- weather bureau, St. Paul,
P. P. Lyons observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at 7 o'clock Utst night.
Barometer corrected fo* temperature
levation.
Highest temperature 8
west temperature —9
rage temperature 0
Daily range 17
Barometer 30.09
Humidity 71
Precipitation 0
7 p in., temperature 8
7 p. in., wind, northwest; weather, clear.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
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Battleford .... S Si Chicago 0 G
tnarck ir. lfflCincinnatl ...14 2'J
- iry lit 44Cleveland ....18 20
th R 12|] lenver 20 32
Edmonton ....32 SZiGalvaston .. is 50
Havre ...a....34 34Macksnnv1lle .62 r.6
Helena M 46ILos Angeles..Bo 64
Huron 8 RjNew Orleans.aO 52
Minnedosa ...12 1J New York «2 S4
Pr Albert in is X-.rf.iik 3S 44
Qu'Appelle ... 4 C Omaha 10 in
S. Current 20 R.Phllade'.phia o0 33
Williston H> 18 Pittsburg IS 22
Winnipeg — 4 fi:S. Francisco.s4 56
Boston 30 58 St. Louis 12 is
♦Washington ime (7 p. m. St. Paul).
SATURDAY. MARCH 17. 1900.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
The disposition which wi'l be shown
today among all classes and nationalities
throughout the country to share In the
feelings winch tlie return of the Irish
national anniversary suggests shows how
warm a place the Americans of Irish
birth or blood hold in the affections of
the entire American people.
I.lke the members of all nationalities,
the Irish Lave had many prejudice* to
overcome. Religious intolerance has
been Invoked against them with more
frequency and bitterness than against
any class of American population, In
cluding the Jews, and it has been ao be
cause of the undoubted readiness of the
average Irishman to fight for his convic
tions without thought of consequence to
himself. Htit that disposition has
passed. Native Americans, as a rul*.
look upon their Irish-American fellow cit
izens as being very excellent Americans
In their way. They nhow move of adapta
bility to existing social and political con
ditions than most do. They accept more
lly than do almost any other foreign
race the standards of American thought
an.l action. There is today but little
save hj s name to distinguish the descend
i.r the Irish who left their country
fifty years ago from the descendant of
the men and women of the Mayflower.
A generation or two more and all the
feats which have found expression and
which have most frequently been the
outcome of racial or religious prejudice
v.-ill be seen to have been foolishly
founded, so Tav as they relate to the
peop> who accept St. Patrick aa their
patron saint. They are among the best
Americans in the land, and their readi
ness for the discharge of any of the du
ties Incumbent on them by reason of their
Americanism is daily piu in evidence by
the members of the race.
We can all afford to celebrate St.
Patricks day. It brings with it none
Haw feelings of kindliness and good will.
Thousands of men an.i women will to
day fly the national colors of Ireland
who bear no relation whatever of blood
toward that race, and will do so mostly
on account of the admiration with which
they regard the individuals of the race
or the known and accepted characteris
tics of the sons and daughters of the
Emerald Isle.
The remarkable circumstances which
we read of as attending the celebration
of the Irish anniversary in Lon.
don will afford surprise and pleas
ure. It la perhaps the first time
in the history of the two races
that anything- like a spontaneous exprea
slon of good will came from either to
ward the other. When Mr. Gladstone
assumed the responsibility of his Irish
legislation he had to suffer something
like political persecution, and at no time
In the political controversies growing out
of Irish affairs in recent years have the
Irish members of parliament been aught
more than social Pariahs In the city of
London.
It Is a new dawn which Is approaching,
when the genius of the Irish race will,
In it< own land, be given an opportunity
to lake root and blossom in a more pros
perous and contented people. The world
owes enough to the Irish race for the
sunshine of its laughter and Its wit to
warrant its earnest entertainment of the
hope that before many generations have
passed that race will become once more
Invested with the control of Its own na
tional destinies.
< o»<;m:ssMAX noßKis makes his
EXPLANATION.
The explanation made at Duluth Thurs
day ni«ht by Congressman Morris, of his
VOte for the Puerto Rlcan tariff bill, ap
pears to be just as unsatisfactory to his
constituents as were the explanations of
Congressmen Tavrney and Eddy. The
tone adopted by all three congressmen
Is substantially the same- a compound
of apology and defiance. They seem to
be aware that they have acted in direct
opposition to the wishes of their constitu
ents; they appear to fear the conse-
quenecs to themselves, but they refuse
to utter a single word of penitence. Each
one seems to hope that his offense will
be condoned and to believe that his in
fluence over the Republican voters In his
district remains sufficiently strong to se
cure renominatlon.
Mr. Morris denies the authenticity of
the Interview published in the Baltimore
Sun and credited to him, wherein he is
represented as saying that he voted for
Ihe tariff bill against his convictions, and
whether ho did or did not make such a
statement has now become a question of
veracity between the congressman and
the newspaper.
l.iku Messrs. Tawney ud Eddy, Mr.
Morris assures the people of Minnesota
mid those of the Sixth congress! vial dis
trict in particular that they do not
understand the question at issue, and
that a thorough comprehension of such
weighty public questions is the sole pro
relative of the congressman with his fil
most human intelligence. That is to cay,
Mr. Morris and his confreres who voted
as he did on this bill assume Uurt they
understand and know the wishes and
Opinions of ihe people better than the
people do themseh <*s. Such are the ef
fects of imperialism upon the mind of
the average Republican congressman.
Mr. Morris seized upon the occasion to
Issue a solemn warning to William Henry
Bustis. He warned the gentleman from
Minneapolis "that if we have free trade
wherever the flag goes, it is not only little
Puerto Rico that will be affected* but,
later on, the Philippines, with 12.u00.000
people. The question we must first eon-
Btder is the welfare of our own people
rather than those of P«erto Rico."
Setting aside the f*et that the people of
Puerto Rico are now supposed to be "our
own people." being governed neither by
Spain nor by themselves, but owing al
tegiance to the United States government,
and supposedly entitled to the enjoyment
of ail the right8 and privileges of all peo
ple living under Ihe American flag and
the constitution, this warning given by
Mr. Morris is a dear Indication that the
Question of tariff or free trade for Puerto
Rico Is not regarded by the Republicans
In congress as the main question at issue,
but that the sugar, tobacco and twine
trusts have seized upon the necessitous
condition of the people of Puerto Rico as
a pretext for the Imposition of a tariff
which will be used as a precedent when
the Philippine question is reached.
This warning als'.» throws a doubt upon
the declaration of certain Republicans
near to President MeKinley, that his ob
ject in turning tail on his former
official free trade utterances was that
a basts tor an appeal to the supreme
court might b9 established. The state
in nl of Mr. Mi ills se ms to indicate that
the precedent which it was sought to es
tablish by the inupesUloa of a tariff oa
Puerto Mean exports aud Imports was
on? which would form a basis for a siml
lar tariff enactment for the Philippines.
This is exactly where the shoe pinches
the trusts. Free trade for Puerto Rico
means establishing a precedent for free
trade wiih the Philippines.
After thv.K letting the cat out of the
bag, in the heat of Ms desire to rebuke
Mr. Eustis. Mr. Morris proceeds to make
the usual explanation of his vote on the
bill, In which, apparently forgetting the
words he hat! used in warning Mr. Eustis,
he declared thai "the problem before
committee and the house" was how to
relieve the poor, Buffering Puerto Ricans.
fie denies that the bill applies the policy
of protection to Puerto Rico, but that it
was intended by the passage of the meas
ure only to raise the necessary revenue
' for the Puerto Ricans themselves. By
all this Mr. Morris would have the people
believe that the congressmen who voted
for tlie Puerto Ettcaa bill were actuated
by motives of pure philanthropy and had
no thought of the future tariff for the
Philippines, or that they "first considered
the welfare of our own people, rather
than those of Puerto Rico," as Mr. Mor
ris told Mr. Eusiis.
The Republicans of the Sixth district
will no doubt discipline or reward Mr.
Morris in their own way as they may see
fit, but, unless they are persons of an in
finite capacity for being gulled, the ex
planation made by Mr. Morris will not
placate them on his action in voting for
the Puerto Rlcan tariff bill.
THE HRVKBBAn BWI IWJI.
The Rev. Mr. Sheldon, in his conduct of
the Topeka Capital, has achieved a nota
ble success. He has succeeded in draw
ing toward him and his undertaking the
attention of the entire country, and he
has accomplished, no doubt, all and more
than all he started out to realise. The
undertaking has been well advertised, and
no doubt the financial results have been
eminently satisfactory.
Whatever Mr. Sheldon's undtTtaklnsr
may be thought to be, It certainly can
not be regarded as newspaper publishing:,
from either the Christian or the pagan
standpoint. If the prohibitl.,nt;us of the
country desired to select a national or
gan, they might make a choice of :he To
peka Capital during the. present week
with much advantage. Tf the Peace so
ciety wanted an advocate, they wou'd find
It In the form of this so-called dilly news
' paper. If the churches and religious so
cieties of the land sought to cultivate
public attention and favor, Mr. Sheldon's
undertaking would meet all their require
ments. But, were there no other medium
than that with which to serve the man wha
wants the daily news of the world serv
ed to him in the most acceptable form,
without much regard to other people's
prejudices or preferences In matters of re
ligious or ethical concern, the situation
would be a pretty hopeless one from the
standpoint of the man and woman who
do the work of the world and represent
its hopes and aspirations, its sorrows and
Us joys, as no Christian Individual or so
ciety can represent them.
For his plain repudiation of certain Of
ihe most hideous of the evils of the news
paper calling-, as, for instance, the publi
cation of vile advertisements and the dis
position to give undue prominence to mere
recitals of crime, the reverend editor is
certainly entitled to much thanks. There
has he done good. Indecency or Immod
esty of any kind may not be charged
against the so-called Christian dally, but
neither may the seeking of the chief ends
for which the «aily paper exists. Ths
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1900.
Hterary tone of the publication has been
uniformly poor. The newspaper amateur
rattling around In the place of the ex
perienced editor has been in evidence In
every paragraph of the Issue of the sh et
which has come under the special notice
of the Globe.
There Is a great deal of wisdom In the
old arrangement which results in the cob
bler sticking to his last. Mr. Sheldon Is
doubtless a most efficient minister of
some Christian church, and, no doubt,
meets all the requirements of Ida pas
torate. Hut ub the editor of a dally news
paper he does not commend himself to
attention. After aa many years as he ha-,
already devoted days to the calling, he
might pass muster as one of the mediocre
men upon whom reliance Is so generally
place;) with great advantage to work out
the deUills of daily newspaper publica
tions.
Notwithstanding the essential weakness
of the Rev. Mr. Sheldon's attempt to pro
duce a dally paper which would be read
and possess an elevating Influence on tho
now prevailing standards of opinion or
taste, his engagement in the enterprise
shows him to be at once a man of good
intentions and some measure of capacity
for original thought.
Ten years since the Persian minister
left Washington hi a pet because Amer
ican paragraphers had fun with his name
—Hadji Hassan Gooll Khan. Now Persia
is to try again. The name of the new
minister is not furnished in advance, so
the Yankee wits wiH have uo chance to
reopen the fun until he gels here. It is
hinted that the name .if the new Persian
plenipotentiary will occupy too much
space to be classed as a paragraph, not
to calculate upon the joke sentence.
St. Paul i 3 promised a Wagnerlan opera
season, but It will be as a summer Idyl
almost after the wonderfully abrupt har
mor.ies disclosed i;i a passing phonoscope
of the Republican party in banquet as
semb'.i d.
The horse editor of the Topeka Capital
h;:s b-< :i assigned to do an automobile
race ai the Y. M. C. A. track. Editor
Sheldon shows a keen appreciation of the
titmiss of things journalistic.
Col. Thomas Sharkey, facial decorator,
recently deposited $>;s,uou in a New York
hank. Col. Sharkey will soon attain the
status of eligibility for aldermanic hon
ors.
The Puerto Rlcan tariff, by the way,
is something of a local issue in Dv uth.
Page Morris' town once threatened to
secede and establish Insular relations.
Women barbers have been denied ad
mittance to the union In Chicago. It Is
understood they could not be trusted
with the "secret work."
Sir Thomas Upton's tea business in
America must be flourishing. Sir Thorn,
as will not again challenge for the Amer
ica i ( ;,,> until 1901.
It is one of the safest bets imaginable
that Rev. Mr. Sheldon will never tell v
real live editor how he thinks he ought
to edit.
AT THE THEATERS.
M ETROPOLITAN.
"Sporting l>tfe," the great English
melodrama. Is playing a biief engage
men* to big business at the Metropolitan,
and has repeated tho hit scored here
last season. The oast is the same a»
then, except that Mai ion Klmore. a.
favorite here, is p!s\lng one of the com
edy roles. A popular priece matinee will
be given this afternoon, and the engage,
ment will ctese tomorrow night.
The fifth and last of the series of
winter concerts by the Danz Symphony
orchestra win be given ai the Metro
politan opera house tomorrow afternoon
at :.:30. The programme will be on the
Popular order of music, and the gpecia]
feature, aside from the orchestral num
ber.:;, will be a soprano solo by Mellie
Wilde ("raves, the local vocalist.
The success that has been accorded
Viola Allen in her new famous imperson
ation of the role of Glory Quayis In Hall
Caine's powerful play "The Christian.' 1
is a satisfying tribute to the earnest,
honorable career of Hits conscientious
artist and her appearance in this city at
the Metropolitan, Monday night, wheti
she commences a week's engagement.
GRAND.
Today at 2:30 and tonight at S:ls will'
a&ard the last two opportunities for local
theater-goers to enjoy '"A Yenuine Yen
tleman."' Mr. Hendrlcks in the leading
role is assisted by a capable supporting
company. Many thrilling scenic effect?
are introduced lit the unfolding of ihw
different scenes and acts.
At the Grand opera house for the com
ing week will be seen Frederick Warde
and a company, said to be the strongest
organization since the lanious Booth anrt
Barretl combination. Besides being sup
port^ by one of the mo?*t charming lead
ing ladies on the stage, Miss Minnie Tit
tell Bruno, ho has Charles D. Hermann,
last season with Mine. Modjeska; Frank
Hctinig, for years with Thomas Keeiie;
John Sfurgeon and Alex. MeKenzie, late
leading men with Walker Whiteside ana
Robert Downing, respectively; also Har
ry C. Barton and Charles C. Clarke, for
years with Booth and Barrett, and Miss
May Warde, daughter of the great actor.
The repertoire Mr. Warde will present on
this occasion 1b as follows: Sunday,
Tu^sJay and Friday nights and Wednes
day matinee, "The Duke's Jester," Mon
day and Thursday nights, "The Uor.'s
Mouth;" Wednesday night, "The Mer
chant of Venice;" Saturday ma-tinee,
"Romeo A Juliet," and Saturday night,
"Richard III."
SMART SHORT STORIES.
A war correspondent writes from South
Africa to the London Daily Mall: "A
certain gallant corps at Chieveley camp
provided the guard that should protect
our precious beer till Christmas day. In
the morning two dozen bottles were miss-
Ing. 'Disgraceful!' said the authorities;
'double the guard.' And they doubled it.
Next day four dozen were missing."
• • •
President John Quincy Adams once as
serted that he would not give 50 cents for
all the works of Phidias and Praxiteles,
adding: "I hofie America will not think
of sculpture for two centuries to coma"
When some one quoted this to William
Morris Hunt, he asked, dryly: "Does
that sum of money really represent Mr.
Adams' estimate of the sculpture of those
artists, or the value which he places upon
60 cents?"
• • •
L,ord Randolph Churchill had not been
chancellor of the exchequer long before
the annual report of the condition of
Great Britain's finances was presented
for his signature by Slr-Francls Mowatt.
"Oh. I can't make head or tail of this,"
said he testily; "why don't you arrange
the figures so one can understand them?"
"My lord, I have adopted the simplest
known method. I have used decimals
throughout." "Yea. yes, I see, but I
never did know what those damned dots
meant," was his lordship's reply.
• ♦ •
Once at a dinner party, where Gen. N.
B. Forrest, commanding the Confederate
cavalry, had been Invited as the guest of
honor, a loquacious widow, with hair of
raven black, rudely Interrupted the con
versation by asking Gen. Forrest why It
was that his beard was still black, while
his hair was turning gray. With great
politeness Forrest turned toward her. "1
fear I cannot give you a satisfactory an
swer," said he, "unless, possibly, the rea
son is that I have used my brains a little
more than I have my Jaw."
Washington aoeslp, Political and
Otherwise, for the Reader*
of the Olobe.
WASHINGTON, March 16.—The tour
of Inspection n£w being made by Senator
Platt, chalrmafc of the committee on re
lations with C#>a, and the subcommittee
comported of Senators Aldrich and Teller
will probably give these gentlemen some
insight into tlie situation on this island,
and they will return to Washington pre
pared, without doubt, to suggest emer
gency legislation to this congress. Tho
United State 3 government Is, of course,
not prepared to state what should bo
done with Cuba. The three senators who
have gone to the island to make a thor
ough investigation will probably discover
that the natives in Cuba at the present
time are in favor of self-government. It
would not be safe for the United Slates
congress to adopt any measure for the
relief of Cuba without waiting for a year
or two to see whether the people of the
Island will not later on change their
minds and desire annexation to the
United States.
It Is predicted that this will be the out
come, and it will therefore be unwise
for congress to enact anything but tem
porary laws for the government of the
residents of Cuba. It Is said that the an
nexation sentiment is not only pro
nounced among the residents on the isl
and, but that the people of the United
States are rapidly becoming convinced
that it would be better to have Cuba an
nexed to th-e United States rather than
give the natives self-government. This
country would bo compelled by this ac
tion to assume a protectorate over this
island, which would mean a standing
army, and which would net Uncle 3am
little, if anything, in return for this ex
pense. It is intimated that at least one
third of the members of the present con
gress, if a vote could be had. would favor
the annexation of Cuba. In view of the
act. however, that any measure of this
Kind will not be presented during the
HTty-sixth session, those in this congress
unless they are re-elected, will not have
the opportunity to vote on the annexa
tion plan. The advocates of annexation,
however, seem to think that such a meas
ure will be introduced during the fifty
seventh pea-ion of congress, and that it
it it Introduced, will pass
Senators Teller, Platt and AUrlch. upon
cher return from Cuba, in a few days,
will be able to g- iv e. their colleagues in
the senate ar.d their friends in the noose
considerable information regarding the
prevailing sentiment in Cuba regarding
the annexation idea.
• * •
thTV lou?f wLM tilke up earlvln Ai)r'i
the Hawaiian bill, and it will pass this
branch as easily as it did the senate It
Is a well known fact that it was not nec-
Hawaiian b 11 for so long a period. Early
action on this measure was Imperative.
i^H ce°P* °i V* Sandwich Elands are
them by the enactment of stable laws
for their control by the United States.
There will be nearly a month of un-
SnThf^f 6'8/ bef°re th* hoUse
up this bill. As before sated. it will be
passed and will be imm.ediat e ly signed
b> the presiuer.t. who has urged early
sUuatlo^iTr^^'?- ever Slnce th* ™£
situation In Hawaii was made known to
him early in the winter. Tha enactment
of the pending bill into a law will not
only prove beneficial to the residents of
ouslhp far- 4 aWay hA*n<i«- but also to the
states lnterests the Pacific coast
• • •
Representatives of Arizona. New Mexi
£rS? ? k!f °ma sli" «™aln in Wash,
ington. hoping against hope that tnifl
cong rt « s may takp BQ(ne ac(km t tttta
bills presented for the admission of these
Urritorles M st:Ue . Up to h
time mamas whatever has been accom
plished and those urging the admission
of these territories i n Washington are
considerably dishearten©* They cannot
I™*l"''" shou!'1 fcrfslate ft*
..vvaii, Por.o- Him and for Cuba ami
turn a cold Moulder to the people of
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma
It i:< now considered doubtful if phv
actum whatever is taken, during the first
session of this congress, looking to tho
admission of these three territories a*
states. TYie Information is advanced hv
some tthatit the real reaxon for delay is po-
Hllcal and that not one of the three ter
rltones will reoefee any consideration at
the hands of cocgresa until after the
coming presidential canvass closes next
November. This, without doubt is tie
true reason why both Republicans and
Democrats have found It suitable to them
not to act with reference to the admis
sion of this trio of territories as states
during the hrst session of the fifty-sixth
congress.
• • •
It is now stated as a certainty that
Senator De Pew. of New York, will prt.
sent William MoKlnley's name, for re
nomimuion at the Philadelphia conven.
tion next June. It is raid that President
McKinley hu.s asked the junior senator
from New York to present his name to
the convention and that the latter ha?
consented to do so, provided that he is
om of the seventy-two delegates from
New York to the coming national con
vention.
It is not doubted but that Senator De
Pew will be one of Ihe delegates at
large from New York and will, there
fore, have the opportunity to deliver a
speech, placing McKinley's name before
the convention, as he did in 1&92, at th*
Minneapolis convention, when he pre
sented the name of Benjamin Harrison
for renominalion. An attempt will b»
made, i* is also learned, to have Senator
Foraker second McKinley's resiotnination
at Philadelphia. If Mr. Foraker cannot
be prevailed uj>on to do so. It is prob
able that McKinley's second choice will
be Senator Wolcott, of Colorado.
• • •
Col. Bryan, it is stated here, has also
selected the man to present his name for
the presidential nomination at the Kan
sas City convention. This gentltman la
no less a person than George Fred Will
lams, of Massachusetts. Col. Bryan's
nomination will be seconded by National
Committeeman Johnson, of Kansas, or
James Hamilton Lewis, of Washington
state, ln the event that the latter Is eloct.
Ed as delegate to th Kansas City conven
tion.
• • *
There Is excellent authority for stating
that Admiral and Mrs. Dewey will makj
a lengthy tour through the Western and
Northwestern states this spring. They
will go first to Detroit, and then west to
Minneapolis and St. Paul. It is stated
that they will spend several days in the
Twin Cities. While in Minnesota they
may visit Duluth. They Intend to go
west from St. Paul, through North Dako
ta and Montana, on their way to the West
coast states. It Is believed that while on
the Pacific slope they will visit Seattle,
Portland, €an Francisco, Los Angeles and
several prominent cities ln this section
of the country. -.
• • ♦
As I have before stated in Washington
dispatches to this paper, President and
Mrs. McKinley, and probably certain
members of the cabinet, will visit Califor
nia and other Wtst coast states this sum
mer. It 1«, at least, the president's In
tention, at this time, to be in San Fran
cisco when the battleship Ohio Is' launch
ed from Scott's shipyard. The president
will go north from San Francisco to Port
land and Seattle, and then east through
Minneapolis and St. Paul, and make his
second trip to Duluth, If possible, within
the year. It is understood, of course, that
the trip is made for pleasure, but the real
purpose of the journey Is to work up re
newed interest ln MaJ. McKinley's behalf
for his re-election as president of the
United States.
• » •
Felix S. S. Johnson, commercial agent
at Stanbrldge, has submitted to the state
department a report of Interest to grain
growers and grain shippers ln the North,
West and far Northwestern states. He
says:
'The Quebec & Lake Huron Railway
company, which is asking a charter from
the Canadian government, promises to
be a most important factor In the traffic
between the Great Lakes and the Atlan
tic seaboard. The lines will start from
the mouth of French river, on Georgian
bay, and run east to Quebec, crossing the
Ottawa at Mattana. the Llvre river at
Rapide de l'Orlglnal, and the St. Maurloe
at Grandes Piles. The distance from
Georgian bay to Quebec will be 440 miles,
or 135 leas than from Parry Bound, which
is now the shortest route from the Great
Lakes to Quebec. Aa regards the trada
coming from Lake Superior and Lako
Michigan, there will be a saving of 115
miles of navigation on Lake Huron. Tha
water and rail transportation will, thero
fore, be 250 mlleg shorter by the proposed
Quebec & Lake Huron railroad than by
the Parry sound and Great Northern.
The new line will pans about 125 miles
north of Montreal, and run rhrousrh tin
immense plateau of tho Matawln, Rouge,
Livre and Gatineau rivers, embracing
over 8,000,000 acres of the forest and farm
ing lands of the Province of Quebec. Un
doubtedly, the opening of a railway
through this immense tract of araV.e
lands will give a powerful Impulse to col
onization, as there is enough good farm
ing ground In this plateau out of the
reach of railroads to support a popula
tion of 500,000 souls.
The company proposes to build Immense
elevators at both ends of the line, and,
regardless of cost, to build a rflad whoso
grades and curves will allow a modern
locomotive to haul at least fifty loadod
freight cars.
The capital of .the company is $10,00>>,00')
In shares and 113,200.000 In bonds. Tha
main object of the promoters Is to lesson
the east of transportation of grain und
flour between the Western states and Jfiu
rope. They expect to bring to Quebec for
shipment by the St. Lawrence, either in
grain or flour, between 80,000,000 and r.0,
--000,000 bushels of wheat per year, and a
great part of the 2,000,000,000 feet of lumber
cut every year in the country traverse-1
by their line. The new road will effect
the utilization of the splendid forests of
hard woods through which it. will run.
which are now unavailable because they
cannot be floated. It U also expected thai
numerous pulp and paper mills will be es
tablished along the line.
—J. S. Van Antwerp.
SPECULATIVE SOLILOQUY.
fP. A. M.. the Initials at the end of the
following parody, stand for P. Allister
Murray, a tanner St. Pnul' newspaper
man, now connected with the Wall Street
Journal, in which publication Mr. Mur
ray's effort appeared during a recent
flurry in stocks.)
To buy or not to buy; that is the ques
tion—
Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer
The fret and wor»-y of outrageous chances
Or to resist my broker's importunings
And by liquidating end them; to buy; to
hold:
No move!—and by "no more" I mean no
more
Wruid I have left with which to venture
more.
[ might go broke! 'Tis not a consumma
tion
Devoutly to be wished. To buy; to hold;
My all in quivering margins; there's the
rv.b!
For on the tricky tape what bulge may
come.
When I have staked my last simoleon.
To make me rich; There's the respect
Associates give to him of flinty nerve,
And should I win, such bigger worlds to
conquer.
But then perchance there come another
slump
And 1 be swiftly chalk marked off the
earth —
A sickly counterfeit of 30 cents.
There is a something somewhere chokes
me off
And tells me to let bad enough alone
Till all this panic- palpitation's gone
And I can once again see where T'm at.
A crazy market makes us cowards all!
—F. A. M.
HOW HE GOT EVEN.
A. Traveler's Somewhat Amusing Ex
perience at a Jlute.l.
Youth's Companion.
Some people are philosophical enough
to aecopt defeat graceful".-,- others m»M
their wrath and waste much time in a
mistaken effort to "get even." Of one
of these latter a Chicago paper tells an
amusing story.
A man came to a Chicago hotel one
day, and took his dinner outside with a
friend. When he came to pay his bill he
found himself charged with a day's
board, dinner and all. He protested. The
clerk tried to explain that the American
plan was based strictly upon time, and
that if he chose to eat elsewhere it was
his own lookout, but the man would not
be pacitied.
He paid the bill under protest. Ther
fre asked if dinner was still on, and was
Informed that it lasted until :» In the
evening.
"Then I'll go back and tacklo it!" he
exclaimed. "I've eaten one dinner, bui
I'm going to get my motley's worth out
of this house, or perl6h in tho attempt!"
He rushed into one of the dining rooms,
seized a Mil of fare, s.nd ordered every,
thing he could think of. When he nriAliy
got tc the end of his tether, the waiter
handed him a check for $4.10.
"What's that for?" he asked in sur
prise.
"Your clinner, sir."
"Brit I have already paid for my din
ner In my bill," he protested. "I'm stay
ing here on the American plan."
"Then you should have gone to the
other dining room," said the waiter.
"This is the European plan cafe."
The man paid the bill and walked out.
His feelings must have been heavy, both
In body and in mind.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Small l*ro*i»ect of Wair.
Indianapolis News.
It is doubtful indeed if this generation
or the next will see a European war. The
wars of the world are likely to be fought
in Africa, in Asia and possibly In South
America. Where the cau.se of such wars
involve European antagonisms they are
likely to be minimized. The time may
come when the great question of Slav
versus Saxon may be a real thing. But
until they there is likely to be evolution
and not revolution.
Sacrificed Principle to Party.
Indianapolis Journal, Republican.
The president has sacrificed too much
to party harmony and has made the sacri
fice without securing the result. There
is excellent reason to believe that if the
Puerto Rico matter could come before the
house again In the form of a free trade
bill, or as modified -by the Davis amend
ment, the majority of the Republicans
would vote for the modifications regard
less of the president's advice.
"Will Re There for Some Time.
Columbus, 0., Press-Post.
When administration organs come for
ward courageously to tell us that "the
war Is over" they probatoly mean that it
is over in the Philippines. It has been
over there ever since McKinley purchased
It from Spain—but there will "b« some of
it in the United States along about the
first Tuesday In November.
Doem't Know or Care.
Atlanta Constitution.
Mr. Hanna doesn't know what to make
of the fuss the Republicans are kicking
up over Puerto Rico. And, In point of
fact, ho doesn't care one way or the other,
so long as he can keep the senate in Una,
'Who Can Be RlffhtT
New York World.
"The war Is over." says Otis, placidly,
a-t Manila. "Re-enforcements!" cry Gens.
Young and Hood from the firing line.
Now, who can be rightT
TlonH Seteni to Knew.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Fifty new typewriters have been sent
to Gen. Otis, and yet some people main
tain that warfare In these days la as
savage and horrible as ever.
But Not the People.
Omaha World-Herald.
Mr. McKinley is becoming such, an ex
pert that he can change his mind In full
view of the audlenoe so rapidly a* to de
ceive the are.
PAY OF ST. PATRICK
There is no more illustrious character
of whom we have any knowledge whose
entire personal history is shrouded in
deeper mystery than that of St. Patrick,
whose birthday is so generally celebrated
on the 17th of March, though it is wholly
a matter of conjecture that he was born
on that day. A witty Irishman haa writ
ten on thla subject as follows:
"On £2Ji hJjF ot March il wa * *»•
lhat the day-'* &i midnight he flr»t »aw
U hlIwaU hbfr'n. deClared * WaS ** 9th *»
And 'twas all a mistake between midnight
ana morn,
For S? M wUI occur la a hurry and
And n.»^ c\ bif me<? th* bat>y *"<* »ome
_.„ "lamed the clock,
' t^. aL l thelr disputlngs. sure no one
could know
lf th tc^Ll&w^ t<X> fttßt °r the clock was
BUt ( »w °f theSe factlons «> Positive
That each kept a birthday, and Pat then
TIH 1S r s £ U'°ill*jrp who shove* them
d:paw Twin° s Uld have tW° but a lln*
D°n nin^ 8 *" fltrMln* for <*Shl or for
be nffhtins' but sometime.
X1 *hia athe markadd tog6lher-seve»teen
*° clerk "'*' birthdajr/ 'Amen.' said
i-?? *a."r clent lyrJc acc°unr of how the
*u° w. eh has come to be celebrated
as the birthday of Jreland's patron saint
Is quite as authentic as any other In
formation we possess concerning him.saya
the Cincinnati Enquirer, but It Is not
ai°Sf «c ? onor of beln * the natal day
2L2S, P t atHck Whlch entitlv * the 17th of
X to mos* respectful consideration.
All the early English calendars name this
flay as that on which Noah entered the
ark for the purpose of escaping the
England. Scotland. Wales and France
have each claimed the honor of havin?
fnT* ?u th J 0 lreland>B Patron saint,
and, while the honor is accorded to
France by many. the bulk of
traditionary evidence, which is all
we have, seems to be in favor of
Scotland. His native p?ace seems to hav^
been Nemthur, now Dumbarton, then a
Human province, and the date of his birth
A SD ne 3% 1y thoUffht to have been about
ORIGINAL NAME WAS SUCCATH.
JJls original name was Succath, Patri
cius being the Roman appellation b>
which he was known, indicating that he
came of a patrician family. Captured by
pirates and taken to Ireland In his six
teenth year, he wag sold to a petty chi.f
■whom he served as a swineherder for six
years, during: which time he claims to
have been miraculously converted whiln
tending his flocks. Effecting his escape
he went to France, according to some of
his biographers, to England according to
others, and prepared himself for the
priesthood. Of the writing of St. Patrick
but two Latin manuscripts have been p-e •
served, hid "Confession" and a letter ad
dressed to Coroticus, a Welsh chieftain,
who had captured several of Patrick's
converts. In his confession he tells us
that he was miraculously called by GoJ
In a dream to the sacred mission of con
verting the Irl^h, a mission In which he
was confirmed by Pope Celestine.
Returning to Ireland, ho devotod his life
to the evangelization of her people, and Is
said to have founded 365 churcho3 and to
have personally baptized 12,000 converts.
The date of his death is assigned to vari
ous widely sundered years, some writers
placing it as early as 45S and others as
late as 493.
THE SNAKE STORY.
The miracles, legends, traditions, su- I
REV. GILFILLAirs WORK.
A Hubbard lnuuiy < °4>r-re«t»ond«tn t's
Kind Word* for Him.
To The Editor of the Globe:
I waa pleased to read in your Issue of.
Friday, March 9. that the Rev. J. A. Gil
fillan was talked of as a likely successor
to Bishop Mahion N. Gilbert. I have ba^n
pleased with the plain, earnest and rev
erent account you have given in your pa
per of the sickness, death and burial of
the much-beloved bishop. Too much
could not be said or written of his noble
acts and character.
Now. I am glad that the right man
has been mentioned to wear the mantle
of the late bishop. No one will doubt,
no one' will dispute or deny but that in
the two great cities of Minneapolis and
St. Paul there are clergymen of noble
standing, good men, scholarly men, de
voted to their high calling, beloved of,
their people, under their charge, a power
for good in their parishes, and of each it
could be said: "Well done, thou good and
faithful servant." But if desert stands
for anything, if goodness stands for any
thing, if real self-sacrifice stands for any
thing, if character stands for anything,
if faithfulness to duty and to church
stands for anything, if hard work and
long service for church and state siaml
for anything, then there is no one can
be brought forward more worthy, more
fit by hard experience to fill the place of
the good Bishop Gilbert than the most,
humble servant Archdeacon Gilrtllftn. A
man as humble as Moses, as courageous
as St. Paul, as charitable as Joseph of
Arimathea, Who would give up his own
tomb that one poorer than himself might
be buried therein.
A man known, beloved and reverenced
over a parish fifty times larger than all
the parishes of St. Paul and Minneapolis
put together. Ask every mud hole, every
river, every slough, every lake, and smow
drift, who might to wear the mantle of
Bishop Gilbert, and all would answer
loudly, the Rev. J. A. Gilfillan. Ask
every logging camp, every lumberman,
every hamlet in the Northwest of Mln
neosta who deserves to serve with the
Great Bishop, all would answer without
hesitation, the Rev. J. A. Gtlfillan.
Ask the angels of heaven who have ao
companied him for the past twenty-five
years on those terrible long missionary
Journeys, through the greatest storms,
the severest cold, the blackest d.nkr.esa
that tongue or pen can describe who
would be the most acceptable to the Grea:
Shepherd of the fold; the answer would
be. J. A. GUfMan. It is a great mistak,.
to suppose that his life's work has be»n
confined to the Indian neld. Th* truth la
that nearly every present mission, every
church and parish in the Northwest of
Minnesota, owes Us real birth to Arch
deacon Glltillan. He Is no respecter of per
sons; In even' hamlet, with ovtry fam
ily, no matter the nationality, ha woul.l
hold divine service, and che^r and «ncotir
age the poorest and most disheartened
on life's stormy journey.
Every railroad, ©very lumber oompany.
Today's Attractions at
St. Paul Retail Stoires.
FIELD. SCHLICK 8c CO. annountt
their final clean-up on winter Jackets
some lesa than half price; a sensational
ribbon sale also. Saturday specials in
stockings, new petticoats, handkerchiefs,
fountain pens and perTumes.
BROWNING. KINCJ & CO. continue
today their March clearing sale of men?
suits which they say Is a frugal man'»
chance for a trustworthy saving.
W. S. DTER & BRO., 21-23 West Fifth
street, furnish today a graded price on
piano* that would attract any one, and
th*y are all first-class makes at that
They also have pianos for rent.
perstltlons and quaint customs and ob
servances associated with the name of
St. Patrick would fill many large vol
umes. One of the best known of hia
alleged miracles to which It Is only nec
essary to allude, as It has been made
universally familiar through the medium
of picture, song and story. Is his expul
sion of snakes and all other reptiles from
Ireland, which he Is said to have accom
plished by beating a drum and driving
them before him Into the sea. This
strange procession had not gone far be
fore St. Patrick beat his drum with so
much vigor as to break a hole in It,
but an angel instantaneously appearing
and miraculously mending it, the march
pioceeded without further interruption.
St. Patrick may be said, however, to
be the means of introducing Into Ireland
snakes of another and more deadly kind
than any that had existed there prior
to hi* arrival, for tradition assigns to
him the credit of having instructed the
Irish in the art of distilling whisky, from
which alleged fact it is said to have been
called poteen In hl3 honor. But Father
Matthew and other Irish advocates of
temperance have claimed St. Patrick as a
strict prohibitionist, and tell how in A.
D. 445 he one day commanded his dis-
flplea to abstain from drink until the
bell should ring for vespers in the even-
Ing. One Coleman, though busily f-ri
gaged In the severe labors of the har
vest field, obeyed this injunction so lit
erally that he did not even taste water
throughout the long sultry day, and at
length when the vesper bell sounded he
fell dead—a martyr to thrlst.
ANOTHER FAMOUS MIRACLE.
Another of St. Patrick's most famous
miracles is thus commemorated in the
old Irish ballad of "Polly Roe:"
"St. Patrick, as In legends told,
The morning being very cold.
In order to assuage the weather,
Collected bits of Ice together,
Then gently breathed upon the pyre,
When every fragment blazed on tire.
Oh. if the Saint had been so kind
As to have left the gift behind
To such a lovelorn wretch as me.
Who dally struggles to be free,
I'd be content—content with part—
I'd only ask to thaw the heart,
The frozen heart of Polly Roe."
The peasantry of the Galtee or Gaultle
mountains, situated between the counties
of Cork and Tipperary, have a legend
that when St. Patrick banished, the
snakes and toads from Ireland he chain
ed a monster serpent in one of their
lakes known as L,ough Dilveen, telling
him he would not be liberated till the
following Monday. The serpent has
continued chained there ever since, and
every Monday morning cries out In Irish,
"It's a long Monday, Patrick."
ST. PATRICK'S JAWBONE.
In the possession of a family residing;
near Belfast there Is a silver shrine
containing a Jawbone which is said to
have been St. Patrick's. Great miracu
lous powers are attributed to this reilc.
It is believed to cure epileptic fits, to
counteract the diabolical machinations of
witches and fairies and to avert the
baleful influence of the evil eye. It U
also used as an extra Judicial test of the
guilt or innocence of suspected persons,
who are required to place their hand
upon it and declare their innocence. It
is believed that they will be Instantane
ously visited by supernatural and awfnl
punishment If they then speak falsely
or even suppress any portion of the
truth.
A quaint old book of folklore pub
lished at Dublin In 1700 pays that if the
wind blows hard upon St. Patrick's eve
"It betokens a death among them that
are learned, and much fish shall die In
the following summer." A point that
the United States fish commissioner*
would do well to "make a note on." The
same venerable authority states that an
egg laid on St. Patrick's day will bring;
luck to the possessor if kept.
every school and church, every new-pa
per, the historical society, the mercantile
department of Minnesota onw a debt of
gratitude to the Rev. J. A. Gilflllan, foi
he has spoken its good name more than
the public are aware of, at h >me and
abroad.
Rtenop Gilbert, in addressing a larg*
audience in a Philadelphia church eomo
years aso on mlsslonaiy labors, sj
wrought them up to such a pitch of in
terest and excitement of the thHllirg, sac
rificing missionary labors of the greatest
missionary of Minnesota that Chejr callel
out from the audience and ask^d thj; his
name be given, and where he Ilvtd. Bish
op Gilbert answered them: "The Rev
J. A. Gilflllan. White Earth."
The life of Bishup Whippl* :md Blslmp
Gilbert, together with the history of thj
church of Alinnesota, would not be com
plete without J. A. Gilflllan. Bishop
Whlpple holds him in his loving memory
with the same relationship as he did Bish
op Gilbert, via., that of a son. Propose
him. Yes, and he will honor the churcli
and state. Elect him. Yes, and heaven
will approve. —A Pioneer.
Hubbard, Hubbard County, Minn, March
11.
BIS BINDING PLANT SOLD
P. J. GIIQSErY SEI.L.S OUT TO WEST
ithmsmim; oimrjiinr.
After April 1 the West Publishing com,
pany will bind all its own books and con
duct its own bindery. For nearly twenty
years P. J. Glesen has done all the bind
ing for th« West company, employing a
very large number of people. Before tre
company moved Into its new building on
Third street, Mr. Giesen conducted a
book bindery on Wabasha street, and
later occupied two floors of the new
structure on Third street.
The West Publishing company pur
chased outright from Mr. Giest n the en
tire plant and will, as before stated, da
all its own binding. The plant is one <>t
the largest, i£ not the largest in the city.
DIED VEEY SUDDENLY.
Bnens M««Aul*>>-, sat Old It«**l<l<»n I of
Ihf Ktltchth Ward.
Eneas McAuley, a machinist at the
Great Northern shops, and an olfl resi
dent of the Eighth ward, died suddenly
yesterday afternoon of heart failure at
his home, 177 Aurora avenue. Mr. Mc-
Auley had been somewhat indisposed dur
ing the day and Dr. Brlggs was called
to attend him, but h« had not been se
riously ill previously, and his death was
not anticipated by the family. Mr. Mc-
Auley died, however, at 2 o'clock.
He waa a member of the A. O. U. W.,
under whose auspices the funeral will be
held tomorrow.
ST. PAUL HAIiDWARK CO. call at
tention to their choice line of kitchen
housefurnishtngs and especially to their
Un« of granite ware.
PEOPLE'S PROVISION CO. say It will
pay people to consider the prices they
have been paying and see what a saving
they give.
YERXA offers a list of prices on tablo
supplies that talk to every economical
housekeeper.
SCHOCH says the amount of money
you save on groceries depends only on
the amount you buy at his store.
