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GLOBE'S TELEPHONE CALLS. THE NORTHWESTERN. Justness Office ..... 1005 ; Slain Editorial Rooms .... 78 Main Composing: Room .... 1034 Main MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. ' - Business Office .. . . . . ..Y 1065 _: Editorial Rooms . . .". . . . ; 78 ffi to giU JFowl ©lotos 1 OFFICIAL PAPER, CITY OF ST. PAUL . THE GLOBE CO., ■ PUBLISHERS.' Entered at Postoffice at St. Paul, 1 Minn.; . : : as Second-Class Matter. __^____ ; .. CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Carrier. * I 1 mol6moa| 12m03- Daily only.■■-..- I -40 |; $2.25 $4.00 Daily and Sunday. , .60 : 2.75 5.00 Sunday ............. I .15 [■ .75 1.00 . COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. , By Mail. I 1 mo I 6 mos | 12 moa - Daily only .25 1 $1.50 $3.00 Daily and Sunday. .35 | 2.00 . 4.00 Sunday .... ........ .' ... I .75 — 1.00 ■ ' BRANCH OFFICES. __ •New York, 10 Spruce St.; Chas. H. Eddy In Charge. J. __„ Chicago, No. 87 Washington St., Wil liams & Lawrence In Charge. < WEATHER FOR TODAY. : Minnesota—Snow Tuesday; colder in them portion. Wednesday, fair; northwesterly winds. . l.'xeper Michigan— Snow or rain Tuesday and probably Wednesday; fresh north erly winds, becoming variable. ; : Wisconsin— Fair in southern, snow in northern portion Tuesday and probably .■Wednesday; fresh northwesterly winds. lowa—Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wed nesday; variable winds. : . South Dakota— Tuesday; prob ably rain or snow .in western portion,. Wednesday snow and colder; northwest -. erly winds. Montana—Generally fair Tuesday, ex " cept snow in mountain district. Wednes day fair; northwesterly winds. Yesterday's Temperatures— St. Paul — Yesterday's observations, taken' by the United States weather bu reau. St". Paul, P. F. Lyons, observer, for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last Barometer corrected for tem perature and elevation: Highest temper ature, 30; lowest temperature, 13; aver age temperature, 22; barometer, 29.P2; humidity, 94; daily range, 17; precipitation, trace; 7p. m., temperature, 30; 7 p. m., - wind, west; weather, cloudy.. ; ♦SpmHigh . ■ *SpmHigh Alpena .......30 38 Kansas City.4o 44 Battleford ...18 22 Marquette ...20 30 Bismarck ....20 22 Minnedosa .. 6 li» Buffalo - 26 40 Montgomery 44 . 62 Boston .......46 nt Montreal 36 40 Calgary 26 30 Nashville ... .34 52 Cneyenne ....36 42 New Orleans.4S 50 Chicago ......32 34 j New York ...4(3 50 Cincinnati ...U~ 33 Norfolk ......62 66 Cleveland ....36 36 North Platte.3S 48 Davenport ...80 32 Omaha .......38 "46 Detroit ....... 34 38 Philadelphia .54 56 Duluth .....,.2i- 24 Plttsburg ....54 51 Edmonton ...28 ?2 Qu'Appelle ..16 13 Grand Haven3G SS St. Louis .... 32 32 Green Bay ...32 32 S. Ste. Marie.26 30 Helena ..'.....26 32 Salt Lake ...38 44 Huron 20 32 .Washington .58 -58 Jacksonville .CC 72 Winnipeg ....16 22 •Washington time (7 p. m. ,St. Paul). j! TO OUR FRIENDS. j| ■ 1 Anyone nnaMc to ssM-tire' a (i i copy -of The Clob con any <' i ! railroad train leaving' or en- 'i i, teriiiK St. Paul will confer/ a (' I 1 favor on tlie mnniigcinent by i ' reporting the fact to the bus- i| i 1 in ess office. Telephone, Main ji V IOCS. . .". . |j •! ■ . ■-'■• "".■.-■-!; 1 Subscribers annoyed by ir- ( ,' regular or late delivery of •]i "| The Glob c will confer a fa- (| i 1 vor on (lie management by re- ,i % porting? the fact to (lie business l| / Office. Telephone, Main lOGS. ]' TUESDAY, DEC. 10, 1901. It Is a trite but a very wise old saw, that which suggests to the cobbler that he stick to his last. There is at least one Minneapolis dominie who might recall the advice when he feels like making: a fool of himself; by talking about things he knows nothing about, and which are but remotely related to religion. -Vo TIIAIfKS TO US. Through the high intelligence of indi vidual men in both cities the people of St. Pan!.and Minneapolis have had brought (home lo lh< ; . r«ooi time 1o time the folly of the altitude which the cities have borne toward each other in the past, and which to some extent is maintained to this day. The recent interchange of views In that behalf to wihich the public has been treated through the action of the two Commercial clubs has been effective in reviving the subject. 11 do^s not really matter very much, If at all. what individuals In cither city do or think on this general subject. The ef fect will no more be felt in the immedi ate future than it has been in the past. A vulgar and narrow-minded notion of local attachment has been sufficient to In duce the -representatives of both cities to make fools of themselves in the past and to go on making fools of them selves still, on the relative merits of the two communities. It is not'so long ago since we had a sen timent prevailing in this community among the business men that we should not encourage urban development of any kind in the direction of Minneapolis. And, accordingly, we went on planning and building in directions which led away from Minneapolis to nowhere in particular. The results have Indeed been very instructive, If we would consent to see them, or see ing them would admit their existence. Nor were we exceptional in this regard. Minneapolis business people and interests were just as foolish; and the trace of the game blind instinct toward fight Is vis ible in many directions in its industrial and social development. Today—let us not try to conceal it—from the commonest laborer to the keenest busi ness man, the sentiment among the peo ple of each of the cities toward each- Other is of unkindness and hostility. "We fire all friendly enough in our personal ref lations. But the resident of each city almost invariably views the other city Urith unfriendly eyes. Tins, sort of thing we have not out grown and we are not likely to outgrow through any volition of our own. But we will outgrow it by and by. We will be cause we must. The progress of events is daily showing how foolish the attitude is. The cities are advancing by bounds toward each other. What was a wllder ■ ness, so far as human habitation went, fifteen or twenty years ago is today a thickiv inhabited interu:i:an regioTi. And it i.s growing every day. There is no di recti"n in which industrially or socially the .same growth Is in progress in either city as in the region which divides th« business sections of the two. We will go on no- doubt maintaining sep arate city and county governments—four huge tax-eating governmental machines— where one would suffice for all our needs. But there is a younger generation growt irg; and it is not bothered by the stupid delusions which the old fellows allowed themselves to be the victims of. With the advance of each day the people of each city are being forced to do with reference to the other what they have not had the sense and what they have not the sense to do today voluntarily—admit that the interests of the two are identical. The appointment of Cornelius Van Cott as postmaster of New York shows that President Roosevelt - has . succeeding '- in uniting the: qualities of civil; service re former and practical politician in the per son :of the same: gentleman—himself". to wit. ' ' . J \ ' ' ' : '-". - -e»- SOME BOUQUETS ACKNOWLEDGED. A number of our " esteemed exchanges have spoken in friendly terms of The Globe and the changes :: and '. improve ments made in the' paper of . late. * In fact, : bouquets have been coming our way so fast - that the editor's • desk resembles the floral - triumph of _;a;; sweet girl grad uate at high school commencement. "With the blushing glee of a popular bride dis playing her wedding presents, :-. we put some of them on exhibition: The esteemed Brainerd Tribune tells its readers that "the St. Paul Globe has brightened up perceptibly of late." There is a little thorn in the bouquet, however, for the Tribune adds that "there was certainly much room for improve ment." Nevertheless, we take pleasure in saying that the Tribune is a model pa per, given to the truth and open expres sion of opinion. Quoting an extract from a recent edi torial in The Globe, the Fern-am En terprise, voice? it 3 pleasure that The Globe "is again with us." And The Globe- is also glad to be with you. Friend Enterprise. "Aside from politics, however, a marked improvement in Th cGI ob c, during the j.ast few weeks, has been observed," says the esteemed Glencoe Enterprise, whose character is well shown by its name. A perfect landslide of kindness is mani fested in the comment of the Sauk Cen ter Avalanche: "There's no use talking, the St. Paul Globe is making big im provements as a newspaper since the re cent change of management," it says. Theso are specimen flowers from our basket of bouquets, taken at random from the collection. Others might be quoted, but those ara sufficient to demonstrate the good will entertained by our friends. Along with the shower of bouquets, however, we noticed quite a hailstorm of brickbats in time to get into the cyclone cellar. We beg to notify the gentlemen forwarding such structural material that they didn't touch us. "We hope that in time, with better acquaintance, they will abate the vigor of their long-lodged ha tred of The Globe, and perhaps de cide to let bygone 3be bygones. "Where upon we will live together in harmony ever after, as becomes neighbors. ■ The blockhouse is another of the agen cies of "Weyler which are finding favor among the British military authorities in South Africa. And yet with an inconsist ency which, we suppose, must be taken as wholly patriotic and humane, the block house in Cuba was, In the estimation of the London editorial brother, a brutality; while in South Africa it Is a commendable thing in itself. HE WILL DO NOTHING. It is an unpleasant thought, but it is a thought which his known opinions and entire career show to be fully warrant ed, that President Roosevelt is not in the slightest degree likely to be in fluenced in his official action toward the South African difficulty by any resolu tions or speeches which may be pass ed or made by any number of his coun trymen whatever. The-Globe has reason to believe that President Roosevelt personally sym pathizes very deeply with the heroic Boers; he would be unworthy of the blood of generations of worthy Dutch. ancestors which is in his veins if he did not. But his understanding of his obli gations as the chief ruler of this people toward a power with which this nation is at peace will never permit him to take any action or otherwise to give any official indication of the sympathy which he feels or the horror with which he and every humane man outside of England and her colonies must regard the prevailing con duct of the British military authorities in South Africa. The address of Mr. Cochran in Chicago, like all the speeches of that master of English oratory, was replete with sound argument and convincing figures of speech. The resolutions adopted are well thought out and are worthy of a great occasion. There can be no doubt but that the mass of the American people regard England with an aversion, not only concerning the Boers, but with reference to her policy toward all people over whom she has at any time exer cised political control, greater than that which they have ever regarded any na tion whatever. It may be the policy of American state craft, and to some extent of American financial interest, to affect a national re gard on the part of this people toward England. But there is no real friendli ness or regard save among a small fragment of Americans. That this feeling ought at this time to find expression and that the friends of the Boer nationality should avail themselves of it to the limit cannot be questioned. There Is no use, however, in placing-any dependence wnat ever on the personal dispositions in the premises of the president. He is posi tively committed to the doctrine that we shall not interfere in European con cerns, quite as positively as he is to the cortollary of that proposition, that Euro pean nations shall not Interfere in our concerns or in the concerns, political iv- Ktitntiov!!?, or territorial Interests, of any olhc-r American nation. Let it be said here: Americans mdi THE ST. PAUI, GIfOBE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1901. •vidually and collectively have shown themselves to be far less in earnest in their admiration and sustainment of the Boers against England than is worthy of them. They have allowed themselves to be too deeply influenced by the atti tude of their general government. It Is time that the country should be made to ring—and it never should have ceased to ring—with popular denunciation of England for her ferocious and bloody policy in South Africa. In this way, and in this' way alone, can the American people make their representatives in Washington understand what is due to humanity and the good name of the re public in the present South African situ ation. The board of control might organize into a committee of the whole house on its con trol of its own temper. When Armour & Co., of Kansas City, finds it possible to ship Minnesota cattle to Missouri, slaugh ter them there, carry the carcasses back to Fergus Falls and sell the meat cheaper to the board than a local meat dealer can, there is evidently something wrong in the state of Denmark. Nor does the state of Denmark in that case seem to be located in the Fergus Falls slaughter house, as the board so naively assumes. Considering the number of states which of late have been without representation in the federal senate owing to Republican disagreements, it would not be especially harmful to South Carolina If that state indicated its readiness to accept the res ignations of both its representatives in that body. Even if this were followed up by the return of neither of the present senators, South Carolina and the country could doubtless endure the loss. The Democratic party certainly could. Assistant Corporation Attorney Stob bart is quoted as declaring that the wa ter system is of more importance to the city than the street car system. But, then, Mr. Stobbart is only one lawyer, and there are others. That ingenious aggregation composing the street car concern's law department may be safely relied on to entertain a different opinion, and to demonstrate it In 3ome practical form, if the demand is seriously made on them. Another philanthropist has declared his intention of giving away his fortune be fore he dies. This makes two of this type heard from up to date. Andrew Carnegie will now doubtless ' find that lonesome feeling materially lessened. If the readiness to enlist for service in the Philippines were as general as the willingness to be mustered out, which was shown on that transport from Ma nila the other day, what a rush there would be to the recruiting offices! The Europeans are wondering what will be the next in the way of Yankee devel opments in industrial affairs. They have evidently decided that there will be a "next" in the case of the Yankees, if not in-their own case. The day's record of births in this city shows two boys and seven girls. If this proportion is to be maintained generally it may prevent the emperor of Russia frcm feeling as badly as he might other wise. "The Investigator Investigated" might be adopted as the title of the little com edy which the council is asked to enact this evening by investigating Pope's re port of the city engineer's office. Come Jrafe *^ Remarks The move to raise the pay of the fed eral legislatoi-3 to $10,000 may be all right when the legislator is that sort .of man, but the premium is altogether too high for the 30-cent politician. A Russian surgeon say 3 that violet rays soothe and heal wounds. This is very nice, but What the American man wants is something that will soothe his wife when she finds her unposted letters in his pockets. What miserable scoundrel is it who has suggested perpetrating such an outrage en the honest farmer as to repeal that law which enables him to collect $40 when the health board kills a $2.50 cow, who3e principal ailment is old age? Lillian Russell celebrated her undated birthday yesterday. Miss Russell will also doubtless soon celebrate 'her tin wed ding. She is, indeed, half way there, hav ing been married five times, or is it six? Another auspicious day! The pope, Count Tolstoy, Jonkherr Van Tets, Miss Stone and Mme. Tsilka all dead yesterday are alive again and most of them "passed a comfortable night." The women of Chicago are both cour ageous and resourceful. One of them se> verely clubbed a "masher" who insulted her, then knocked off his hat and retained it for a souvenir. A row of hats dang ling from the Chicago woman's waist hereafter may be considered as equaling the Indian's string, of scalps. Mrs. Wright Smith, of Connecticut, who refused to tell the court where she had deposited $300,000, instead of being lauded as the unique specimen of her sex who could keep a secret, is imprisoried for contempt. What an inconsistent world it is! The mayor of Houghton, Mich., is a disgusted man. A stranger left his valise on the wharf for a few hours to look for work. When he returned the mayor hired him to drag the river for the body of a drowned man. After work ing some time curiosity prompted the stranger to ask the victim's name. The ensuing explanation brought out that the owner of the valise was supposed to have fallen in, and that the stranger was dragging for his own remains. He re ceived his pay, but the mayor says that in future all drowned persons will have to swear to the fact before he will hire them to recover their own bodies. The industrial commission at Washing ton lias discovered that the whole trouble of the servant girl problem is due to the "irresponsible tyranny of the mistresses," and not a word is said of the autocratic despotism of the cook lady,' and her aider and abettor, the "second girl." Gov. Van Sant announced that he was •too hoarse to speak at the M. E. church -on Sunday evening. It is respectfully suggested that if the~ governor would stop hurrahing for himself for a little while he might not tire his voice so much. Now is a good time to tell your wife that you have sworn off smoking. It may save you serious trouble and many cigars of unmentionable character and non-smokable brand. That "whisptr" about the ten noble youths being in love with Queen Wilhel mina that the correspondents are telling us so much about seems to be getting rather beyond the whisper stage now that it has been in about every newspaper in the civilized world. a&TRIC^b ■' *In the original - French, and v before a ■ French audience, •'Colinette" may have I been a success. Indeed, it is i hardly to j: -■be; doubted that such was the j case,j else so skillful I a^translator- and adapter as i Henry Guy = Carleton would | hardly have | been likely to attempt to transplant it to American soil. It ; may be, ;. too, that j the I history of \ the : 5 incidents ; and * characters % with which it Ideals is tolerably familiar ' to 3 Parisian ■. theatergoers, and \-\ their presentation, especially if they happen to coincide with 7 previously formed concepts, ' was ; received with 7 acclaims or i even '. en , thusiasm. On this ' side :-■ of .; the r water, < however, where we are but little interest-j :ed I in. kings who ; have' held. sway in ' Tuil leries, it ~ must, with candor, " be con j fessed : that it is wholly uninteresting, .and • that I- it narrowly | escapes | being weari some. Without the vivacity and tne brilliant genius ,of Miss Gertrude i Cogh-1 lan to Interpret the role of ; the leading ; part, vit c would =be "flat, stale r and * un- "' profitable.".^Whatever, of merit, whatever ■ :of : interest or of worth was bodied forth 1 ■in ■* its;; presentation last might";rnight"; is to :be * .wholly ascribed 7:to; the genius :of ; this talented young woman, \ who has won her right to ]; a * place among the ?. foremost.} actresses,.- of i. the | present , time, ; and -by . sheer "force; of ? merit alone. --"-..:- ,"- It is not so long ago that Miss Cogh lan, then a mere girl, presented herself before the public as leading woman for her talented father, the late Charles Coghlan. It was then predicted that the time would come when she would be en titled to be heard on her own account, and that time has come. There are few women before the public who have more claims to its consideration, and not one of her years. She has youth, beauty, a charming personality ,a winsome stage presence, in which there is no trace of affectation or self-consciousness, a man ner that is convincing and peculiarly her own. Her reading is delicious, and her voice as musical as the babble of a mead ow brook. She has mastered the tricßs of the elocutionist—of- that there Is little doubt—but she has chosen, and wisely, to forget them. If Miss Coghlan continues to advance in the next three years as rapidly as she has done in those just past she will have attained an eminence that is reached by but few who strive for firme and fortune on the stage. It was fortunate tliat, In the play last night, Miss Coghlan's part was one that compelled her to be almost constantly on the stage; for truth, to tell, the support she received was weak. In "Vanity Fair" the members of the company acquitted themselves with credit; in "Colinette" they did not appear to good advantage. James Cooper gave a very fair imper sonation of Loui3 XVIII., the old king of Franco, and be and Miss Coghlan made the final act one of the most enjoyable of the play. Charles Bertram as M. de Alberede, chief of police, handled the roie with discretion and his work was com mendable. The remaining people in the cast were either indifferent or incapable. The costumes were rich and extremely handsome, and the stage settings left lit tle to be desired. "Colinette" will be re peated Wednesday night. Tonight and Wednesday matinee, "Vanity Fair" will be given, with Miss Coghlan as Becky Sharp. J. M. Barric's comedy, "The Little Min ister," which is being presented at the Grand the current week, is an attraction which will appeal to local theatergoers who enjoy a good, wholesome comedy. Although this play has been seen here on two previous occasions, its production at the Grand this week Is fully up to the standard of previous presentations. Three of the best specialties ever seen on a St. Paul stage are being presentri at the Star this week by Sheridan's "City Sports" company. The burlettas, too, with which tha entertainment begins and closes, are enjoyable. Matinees are given daily at 2:30. GItEEXROOM GOSSIP. Mr. Frederic De Belleville has been engaged by Liebler & Co. to play Baron Eonelli in "The Eternal City." This is a great part, and should fit Mr. De Beller ville like a glove. Fra'ik McKee has enga.ij.yj Margaret Fuller to br leading woman o" ihc com pany he will present in liamsay Morris' new play, "Ninety-and-Nine," " at the Academy of Music in New York next Oc tober. Edwin Arden will play the prin cipal role. The present season will probably be the last that Mr. James O'Neill will play "Monte Cristo," arrangements having been made for him to produce "Tha Christian King" the coming season, the Play recently written for him by Mr. Kdward E. Rose, of the London Times. Mr. Edward J. Morgan will make his first appearance in New York city as John Storm in "The Christian," since hia appearance in the original production at the Knickerbocker, at the Academy of Music, on Dec. 30. Mr. Kyrle Bellew will open at Wallack's on the same even ing. Miss Amelia Blngham says that slie is illustrating in her production of "The Climbers" ideas she has long "neM. "I think that the people appreciate a wom an's thoughtful arrangement of little de tails that make a stage picture natural. I believe that the settings of a modern play should reflect not lavishly leoorat ed examples of the scenic artist's ideas of a dwelling, but should convey the Idea of a home, characterized in its iittinjjs by good taste," Francis Wilson began rehearsals of his part in Nixon & Zimmerman's coming production of the latest London Gaiety theater hit, "The Toreador," at the Knickerbocker theater yesterday. Mr. Wilson will however, continue with "The Strollers" "till the opening of "The Toreador," its proximity to New York rendering this plan possible. The new production will receive its American pre miere at the National theater in Wash ington Dec. 30. Jan. 5 it will open for a run at the Knickerbocker theater in New York. George J. Appleton, manager for N. C. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott, nas cabled that the last performances of vheso play ers in London were ovati ms, and that they had their choice of three theaters offered them to continue their London run. Mr. Goodwin's lect:ire before the Playgoere' Club of London on "The American Invasion," especially his ref erences to Americans' losses in London and Englishmen's success over here, un doubtedly proved interesting and some what instructive to his listeners. As a matter of fact, but two or three English artists have failed m America, while a real American success in London is ?. nine days' wonder, both to En=;ik;hmen and American management. Air. Good win's London venture this season has cost him over $100,000. The engagement of Miss Viola Allen at the Montauk theater, Brooklyn, this week, will constitute her last appearance in the East this season, and will prob ably be the-.aafei opportunity given the residents ofc Greater New York to see her in the ©rawford-Stoddard delightful romantic drama, "In the Palace of the King," as jihe'will open the season ot 1802 with a Sieve play, in all probability a dramatization of Hall Caine's "The Eternal Cit^\" " upon which work Mr. Calne is now energetically engaged. Next week Miss Allen will jump direct to Detroit; and will then remain in the West until sne starts on her way to the Pacific coast-, to which destination she will make her way via SL Louis and New Orleans and the Southern Pacific railway. There has been no end of stories afloat during the past week relative to Mrs. Patrick Campbell's alleged objection to opening in the Grand Opera house, Chicago, because of the exaggerated state ments that had come to her of the sizo <>f 'the Grand Opera house auditorium, and a consequent emphatically voiced de sire on 'her par,t that her American open ing- should take place in New York, and in a theater of reasonable size. These reports had little truth for origin. Mra. Campbell had expressed a desire that au<iitoriums of reasonable size should be chosen for her use, where it was possV Lie. She had made no objection to opening in Chicago, nor in fact has sfoo at any time had any knowledge of this alleged controversy. Mrs. Campbell Is not disposed to take issue with her man agers in this regard, and it will be found that she will abide by their decision. She will open at the Grand Opera house, Chicago, Dec. 30. as previously stated, and in "Magda." Her Neiw York appear ance will take place Jan. 13 at the Theater Republic, when "Magda" will again be presented. The other passengers on the particular - interurban car in question were either buried deep in their newspapers or busy holding converse with their traveling companions, but not so with the real live Sherlock Holmes in the third seat from the rear. Having Jabbed a quarter's worth of 10 per cent hypo solution into his system Sherlock Holmes was on the alert and ready to handle the most difficult case. To the other passengers the girl with the Mother Hubbard ulster and Kangaroo walk looked just one of the many, but Sherlock Holmes knew better; for simple deduction told him all about it. Sherlock Holmes knew that this girl was to board this particular car for from his seat he could see her flagging the train. He knew that she wore a brown skirt beneath the ulster for he had caught a glimpse of it as the girl walked and he was not color blind. "Wablins," said the great detective to his companion "That girl will take the fourth seat from the front on the right side of the aisle. How do I know? Why, simple deduction will tell you that, for iEmEBESSBHBSBB^HHHHSEfIBH -■■•.......-. Sherlock Holmes. the fourth seat from the aisle on tho right hand side is the only vacant one in the car." "Wonderful," declared Wablins, and he waited for more, but the great deLective appeared buried in thought. The g-irl with the Mother Hubbard ulster and Kangaroo walk took the fourth seat from the front on the right hand side, and, as she seated herself, the human sleuth hound clutched Wablins. "That girl has a past," he hissed into the ear of the faithful Wablins. She will furnish me a field for work." And the great man smiled. "Why has she a past?" asked Wablins, knowing that it was up to him to act as a foil for the remarkable Sherlock. "Look," ordered Sherlock Holmes as he reached for the hypo injector. Do you know that this car is going to St Paul? Yes. And you also know that we are go ing to St. Paul from Minneapolis, do you. not?" Wablins admitted that a little simple deduction would confirm the great de tective. * "Well," continued Sherlock Holmes, "You look up ahead and you will see that the woman in this case has a bundle of letters. She got them at the Minne apolis postoffice, for I saw her come out of the postofflce. She belongs in St. Paul because she is now on the car going to St. Paul and paid her first fare with the last ten-cent piece she has in her purse. "She has a past because she comes over to Minneapolis to get her mail. Anyone having mail sent to Minneapolis ha 3 a past. You notice that she read the first letter and then saved it. She read ah others and then tore them up. She tore them up because they were bills and she wants to forget about them at once. After she had rid herself of the bills she returned to the first letter. "If you were a shrewd boy like the great detective sitting beside you, you would have noticed at once that this first letter was written on a piece of hotel paper. If the young woman would permit you to give a look you would see that it is signed by the writer's first, or pet name. "Now, what does all this show? It shows that this woman is receiving let ters first from a traveling man. How do I know? Because the letter is mailed to Minneapolis from a country town. Sec ond, the writer is a married man, for he does not sign his full name. Being a married man he knows better than to take chances in the alimony circuit "You would also have noticed, if you were clever, that the girl is helping the traveling man In avoiding chances, for after she read the letter she carefully tore off the letter head. That woman will break up a home some day, and I know It, for simple deduction tells me all this." The great dectective paused to fill hia injector with hypo and Wablins, while waiting for more, turned to make a study of the girl with the Mother Hubbard ul ster and Kangaroo walk. He turned in time to see another fair maid dash up the aisle and join the woman discovered by his great friend. "Oh, Madge, how are you?" chirped the newcomer, "are you going over to St. Paul?" 'For a few minutes, : yes, 1'• returned the girl in t the M. IH. ulster. £ "I will i meet mother over there, and ' after matching a piece of silk we will { hurry home. I ■ just got•: a ; letter ■ from -Harry and: he : will be home next week/ I can't show : you the '■ letter, but I will ; show you something else. You : know ; I am collecting[mono grams- and Harry i always 2 writes me •on new monogram = paper. Here iit r is," and the girl of the Kangaroo walk dug out of . her purse 7 the - letter: head ? torn ; from the letter Sherlock Holmes had picked as com ing ~_, from ', a naughty married traveling man." > ' --■'-- ■ -.■-■■"-■ .'"■"-'■•:"■ '.- v:-;:r V- i "Wablins •; felt '-•■ hurt, but as ';■ Sherlock Holmes was busy with the hypo injector and missed : all the talk the r companion of the great man heaved : a happy sigh. ; - ; % .':::-! ~ :: -,~- — **"*"■ -'" ~- -' '"■": V' k~,h ' : :^~ Irrigation V. ill Win.:.^ The .'Western. represenatlves In ' congress .are taking a leaf out of the Eastern book lon T the J irrigation matter. They have i formed *an I alliance zof ,r all i the members \ from west fof the Mississippi rlvfer and will stand for. the Hansbrough bill! or one 1 something like it. This bill provides that all of 1 the money J received |by i the ; land \ offices in the ~i arid and * semi-arid » states : shall be placed in a fund for j irrigation and be used in establishing storage dams. 1- The "Western men form a heavy block of votes ; and by >' acting lin unison -i will; unodubtedly Tbe f able \to I defeat ! the river and : harbor and f other appropriation bills; of s interest almost i entirely in the f East i ' unless their righteous 2 measure *Is » sup. ported.—Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. - _ - Choice of Evils. Miles—As for me, I prefer a live mule to a dead lion. Giles—Oh, I don't know. It's about as difficult to move one aa the other.—Chi cago News. She globes Course Jhe %ise and Qrovtth of Wealth. BY E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS. CHAPTER VI. The Advent of Manufactures and Commerce, The growth of definite crafts and trades and of traffic by means of money marks the passage of a people from agriculture to the next highest stage, that of manu facture and trade. When a people has at tained to manufactures and commerce as head industries it need not, In fact cannot, lay aside the more primitive ones. Agriculture and fishing at least will certainly continue and be stapl-3 forms of production. This transition, like each of the preceding, consists in a rise by the social body to a new round of th-a industrial ladder, while it still rests a crutch Or cane upon each of those reached before. We have, however, at this point, in the development the peculiar feature that commerce and manufacturing can never become in anywise so exclusively a people's means of subsistence as agri culture, shepherd's work or hunting can. Commerce and manufacturing may be the characteristic means of production. even the main means, but never the sole means. It is only when the commercial stage of economic experience has been reached that a people can be called civilized. This is the turning point between what may, with some propriety, be called the state of nature and the state of culture. Why it should be so is manifest. Nbw, first originate cities and city life. Cities are centers of manufactures, also cen ters of trade. A considerable proportion of the population throngs into them close together. The art of close community life has to be learned. Interchange of thought as well as of competition, which also now becomes a marked phenomenon, stimu lates intelligence. International inter course and the consumption of diverse products, foreign with domestic, enlarge thought. The spirit of peace is fostered by the still further new fact of mutual dependence between bodies of men. The people of the city cannot alone supply their wants; those of the country do not any longer, because they can effect this so much more cheaply and satisfactorily by exchange with denizens o£ the city. This is saying in part what must be more fully emphasized, that a leading characteristic of the commerce and man ufactures epoch is the envision of labor. It existed before; now it is a dominant and determinative force. Genuine organi zation pervades the nation's economic on deavor. Merchants in each of their many kinds constitute a class. So with sailors, also with miners, and with handicrafts men of every sort, and the ramifications of craft and industry increase as the years go on. New wants bring new me chanic arts, new arts, new wants; tech nique arrives at a perfection never dream ed of before. Many peoples of antiquity, as the Egyptians, Hindoos, Assyrians, Babylo nians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Carthaginians, gained this economic level. It was not agriculture that supported the crowded populations and mighty, contig uous, wealthy cities whose remains greet us today in Egypt, upon the Euphrates and Tigris and throughout India. It was commerce, no inconsiderable part of it in manufactured articles. The Bolan and Khyber passes and the fertile strip of land south of the Caspian sea have been the avenues of commerce since far pre historic times. The stones "jadite" and "nephrite" have been traced from their sole and original sources In Central Asia into Southern and Central Europe along caravan and water lines which they must have traversed more than 1,000 years B. C. Tyre and Sodon, 2,000 years B. C, made themselves fat upon the ocean carrying trade. There Is indeed no end to the adduciblo evidence that stupendous traffic was carried on between East Asia and West Asia and Europe long before our era, long even before the dawn of history. Some specimens of weaving from Egypt's mummy tombs are believed to be unsurpassed by aught of later produc tion in their hind. The wares designed by Demetrius of Ephesus or by the Laerces, whom Homer mentions, would delight and surprise the most elegant Chicagoans and New Yorkers should those old craftsmen come to the light again and work for the trade. As a recent writer has well said: "All competent judges are agreed touch ing our inferiority as goldsmiths when compared with the ancients. Very few of our great artists think it worth their while to draw patterns for vases and for salvers, rings, brooches and watch chains. It was not so when the shrines of half •the cathedrals in Europe shone with ham mered, chiseled and burnished gold and enamels, bftght as the sun at noonday, and when pastoral staffs, chalices, pyxes and censers were veritable works of art. wrought under the influence of religious enthusiasm. The doctrine that the de mand will insure the supply does not ap ply to tho finest goldsmithing. Surely there is a demand for such objects as are said to have been produced by Calicrates of Lacedaemon and Myrmecides of Mile tus, and they would not lack purchasers in Paris, Vienna or London if forthcom ing today. In fact, in our ideas of jew elry and goldsmith's work we are little in advance of the Cingalese, whose no- fivers Comments s™Jsf Worthiest A Political Orphan. Senator McLaurln Is to be kicked out of the Democratic party, and will appear In congress as a political orphan. Well, McLaurin is certainly as good a Republic an as some men who have not yet been kicked out of that party.—Grand Forks (N. D.) Herald. Great Prospects. At no time in the history of the state have North Dakotans been more sanguine over the prospects of the future than at present. Earlier in the season, when the bountiful gTaln yield was In the shock, speculation was rife as to the probability of facilities for handling it. Merchants who had purchased unusually large stocks were somewhat uneasy, and on the whole there was more or leas occasion for alarm. Curbstone prognosticators were going to "have it rain; policemen on their beats wagered that It was cold enough to snowy and the "weather man," to cinch things, was going to have it do both. Devotees of the traditional almanac said "ditto," while the calamity howler knew for a certainty that the "jig" was up. But, fortunately, it has been another case of "All's well that ends well."—Bis marck Palladium. Hansljrongli's Irrigation Bill. Senator Hansbrough has relntroduced his irrigation bill of last session with various amendments. It provides for the setting aside of the moneys from the sale of public" lands In the arid and semi-arid region of the United States and the collection of these moneys in a fund to be used for the reclamation of the arid lands. The secretary of the in terior is given charge of this fund and all the details of its collection and ex penditure. Ha Is authorized to make surveys and construct reservoirs where necessary and to condemn the lands nec essary to do so. Water Is to be dis tributed and persons whose land are benefited are to pay for the same, the funds thus collected to go Into the recla mation of the land. Senator Hansbrough has borrowed one section from the New land's blll t providing that nothing in bis .' ' I tion of mounting a sapphire, however large, flawless, deep-colored, and conse quently valuable, consists in setting thj gem in a plain shank of nine-carat gold, so that at a tittle distance it may easily be mistaken for a piece of glass fitted into a bit of bra^s. Were it not for rac s cups, challenge vases and shields, testi monial caskets and corporation chains there is no saying what would become in the nineteenth century of the art of Theophius and Cellini. Occasionally one hears of an arti3t of reputation con descending, as it is thought, to design personal ornaments in the precious met als. But nowadays the trays of the Per sian jewelers represent gorgeous color. E. BEX JAM IX AXDREWS. 1.1,. D. Chancellor of the of * Nebraska, ana Kdltor-in-Chicf of The Globe Home Study Coarse. brilliant sparkle and money value, with but little of that artistic merit and lov ing labor once lavished upon crozier and' cup, scepter and crown, rings, bracelets and brooches, corporation maces and» mayoralty chains." In the mitter of organized industry, however, the division of labor through the agency of exchange, modem commer cial and manufacturing peoples have boon greatly in advance of the ancient ones, of the same general class and rank. In antiquity isolated manufacturing, liko isolated agriculture, was tlie rule. Each family establishment was a closed cir-^, cle of production and consumption, uio proprietor, whether in city or country, * producing by means of slaves most of thj - - ordinary wares required for his establish ment. Trade was thus, of course, cor respondingly less important. As the an cient world had no manufactories of tha modern kind, but only private shops with, their slave artisans, and no groat indus trial cities like Lowell or Fall River, so it had no commercial centers that would '< at all remind one of Liverpool, Hamburg* or New York. It ought, however, to be said that Roma** in particular is known to have been much more of a commercial port than present appearances would indicate. The whoio district west of the Aventine, outside d f Porto Trlgemina, wai once occupied by granaries and warehouses for storing im ports of all sorts. Between the north side of Monte Testacoio and the Tiber still* exist colossal remains of the great em-,, porlum built by Marcus Emilius Lepidus" and Emilius Paulus, nearly 200 years be fore Christ. A good portion of the quays were unearthed in ISGB, along with some GOO rare and variegated marble blocks, many of them immense, lying just as landed from the galleys which hai freighted them from Numldia, the Greek Islands or Asia Minor. In 18S5, during ex cavations for building in that locality, two warehouses wera discovered, ono filled with elephants' tusks, unfortunate; ' ly much decayed, the other with lentils* which are said to have been sometimes % brought from the east as ballast. Closely connected with the liner organi zation of labor in the commercial era comes the most momentous change in all economic history, the passage from barter and quasi barter to the general use of metallic money stamped by public author ity. Gold and silver put to this new use advance In value and the loaning of them grows Into a branch of business by itself. Banking originates and the beginnings of credit appear. It is not, to be sure, in herently necessary that credit business should wait for the advent of money, yet as a matter of fact money has always been earlier than credit in asserting itself/ as an economic power. Money exchange begins in cities soon after their origin and works from them into the country, greatly furthered probably by its accept ance on the part of the state for taxes. Legal tender laws carry this influence further. It i 3 likely that we always underestimate the influence of statute and customary law in procuring the cur rency of hard money and tne confident f use thereof in exchange. Such influence • / is by no means confined to paper money. (Copyright, 1900.) proposed law shall be allowed to conflict with state laws bearing on the subject of irrigation. The secretary of the interior is authorized to designate immediately what are arid and semi-arid landa.—Lis bon (N. D.) Free Press. Between Two Stools. The administration says in effect: "Poor Cubans! We must help them," and many senators and representatives reply by saying: "Ungrateful Cubans! We have already done too much for them." Be tween the two opinions Cuban reciprocity is not breaking any records.—Washing ton County Journal. Wants a Mandatory Law. The opposition to the "Torrens land title system, 'J dies hard, but die It must. All reforms come slowly, but the really great reform comes surely. No greater boon could be conferred upon honest propertyholders, than the general intro duction of this system. The next legis lature of Minnesota should *not only ex tend Its operation to the whole state, but should make its operation' mandatory Instead of optional, upon each county.— Le Sueur Sentinel. Speaks a* One With Authority. The law passed by the last legislature making non-support of a wife felony has " been declared void. The only way to punish such, an offense i 3 with a club, {, and that Is really the way God probably . intended that punishment should be ad ministered. That is the reason He made besswood so plentiful in this country.— St. Peter Journal. m That Malicious Correspondent. The mischief that may be accomplish ed by a careless or malicious corre spondent with a number of newspapers on his string comes to the Press quite forcibly in the recent announcement, with nothing whatever to base it upon, that this paper was to unite itself to the for tunes of the Republican party, and of the machine, on the Ist of next month. Newspapers throughout the state are generally reproducing the fictitious an nouncement and they will quite generally omit the reparation due In a failure to publish The Press denial. So a wrong impression becomes fixed. The fair course for the correspondent In this case to pursue would be to give to a cor rection the same publicity he gave to his original error.-Sloux Falls Press.