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4 ©Its? gtt* $?mtl ®lob 2 THE GLOBE CO.. PUBLISHERS. CFFICiAL .^s^S^v CITY 0? gTRADESI,"^;.*' COUNCIL> PAPER ST. PAUL. Entered at Postoffice at St. Paul, Mian., as Seciji.d-Class Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS. hwestern— Business—liftji Main. Editorial—7B Main. Composing om—lo3l Jla.n. issippi Valley- Business—lo6s. Editorial— CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Carrier. | 1 mo | 6 mos | 12 mo 3 Daily "only | A 0 $2.25 $4.00 Daily arid Sunday.l .50 2.75 5.00 Sunday | .15 .75 1.00 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Mail. I 1 mo | C mos | 12 mos Daily only ......... 25 $1.50 $3.00 Daily B id Sunday. .35 2.00 4.00 Suoday 75 I__ BRANCH OFFICES. New Jfork. 10 Spruce St., Chas. H. Eddy in Charge. Chicago, So. S7 Washington St.. The F. y Webb Company in Charge. WEATHER FOR TODAY. Minnesota—Raid Monday, with rising rature In northeast portion a,:d r in west portion; Tuesday luir, i in i ;t si portion; brisk, northeast shifting im northwest winds. onsin—Rain "onday, with cooler lortion; Tuesday fair; cooler in tion; brisk north and northeast rning northwest. lowa—Showers Monday, with warmer in portion and colder In extreme - iy fair, with colder in cast win b< coming w< st. Dakota — Fair, except rain in in Monday; colder in .south v fair and wanner; north b coming variable. South Dakota—Showers Monday, with lower temperature; Tuesday fair warmer; brisk noith ■winds, becom : table. tana— Fair Monday and Tuesday; rising temperature; variable winds. St. Paul — Yesterday's observations, by the L'nited States weather \>u roau, St. Paul, P. P. Lyons-, observer, for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night—Barometer corrected for tem perature and olevatinn: Highest temper ature, 72; iowot temperature, 48; aver empi rature, 60; daily range. 24; bar ometer, 23.70; humidity, 48; precipitation, : 7 ]). m. temperature, 07; 7 p. .m weather, clear; 7 p. m. wind, soutneast. \■- sterday"s Temperatures— Elighi •Spmlligh Alpona a 58 Marquette ...36 42 ...28 39 Minnedosa ...28 30 Bismarck 5S 68Montgomery .7 o 14 54 Mojitn a] .....00 54 Bostt-n 52 BolNb.*hville i)S Ti iry 42 60|N. Orleans ..74 82 ■ 70 74-New York ...4S 5*5 56 WI Norfolk .". Cincinnati ...VI CSX. Platte ....82 92 Cleveland 44 52 Omaha 90 93 poi i .. .62 66 Philadelphia .56 01 oit ■">': 58 Pittsburg 64 68 Duluth 34 40,Qu'Appelle ...20 .7) (aven ...52 62 8. FrancJsco..s2 :,1 Gr en Eay ...50 SOlSt Louis 04 68 a 46 !6 E :lt Lake ....56 02 - .. .84 99 Ste. Marie ...40 44 = mville .62 72 Washington .60 66 3 <iry..s;; soiWinnipeg 34 44 ukee ...44 501 •Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul). TO OUE FRIENDS. Anjoac nnable to secure a copy ofTUe Globe u» nny rulJrotid train leaving or en tering St. Pad will confer a favor on tbe management by reporting the fact to tbc bus. in ess oillce. Tt-Jeiihoiie, 9lnin lOGS. Subscribers annoyed by ir regnlar or late delivery of The Globe will confer a fa vor on the ninnngpment by re portlns the fae! to the business office. Telephone, Mcm lOCS. MONDAY, APRIL 3 1 work of pledging a day's pay Kling of the Coliseum goes ir.;r- N w firms whose employes have : ting daily. By the 29th of behoved a large majority cf arners of the city will have their support to the laudable . ■ . Then the Coliseum will be an fact The work of enlisting the rt of professional men, proprietors and employers will 1"' pushed vigorously. Ed !»■ no fear that anyone will : ; urgent invitation to help. Nor uarni lest too much BASEBALL SEASON <>I'l.\K!\ The Natlcral leagrue opened the season last week and the other leagues will do so in a few . -V 3. Every lover of the xreat American game will rejoice at the auspicious opening. There were record crowds in attendance upon some of the games, and all signs are taken to Hcate ttat the game will be more popular tL:s year than ever. sing to find the pro : promising so well, it is encouraging to learn that the at in force. There 1.3 re healthful sport known than baseb and it is free from brutality of all It brings all the muscles of the Ing boys and young men into action, cut In the open air, strengthening their limbs and their lungs at the same time. Is a game free from serious contentions. There are momentary dis putes over the decisions of an umpire, but dissatisfaction is soon forgotten in ad miration of a fine play skillfully carried out. It is, withal, a strenuous game, and puts the players on their mettle. It begets in the player a self-possession most use ful in the affairs of aftcr-]ife, trains him to be quick in decision and as quick in action after a decision is reached. Ana as for the rooters, they are the sale Of the earth. A man who doesn't a good game of ball is fit for on, spoils, or any oilier old thing tot ■■ a by tlLe Ten Commandments. And it Is not to be laid up aa a serious charge St a rooter that occasionally, for an it, he wants to murder the umpire, he never does, and his vicious • oxea cut with the ejaculation "Rot ten!" Hut umpires do try the patience of tl.i faithful fan, and there is no gain saying it. The Globe believes no umpire ever lost his ilfo on Lexington field, the scene of many a hard fought battle, and we be speak ii: forbearance of the fans during the coming season toward such offenders; buf If the worst comes, we hope a humane method <■: extermination will be adopted. 'Jlils newspaper will not Indorse the np nplication of the "wai.tr euro" to an ur- pire, however serious his offense. Even it" beer should oe substituted for water, Th c Globe would not condone its applica tion a second time if the first proved fatal. There are limits beyond which this news paper will not go. St. Paul fans are ready for the opening of the season, and hope for a fair field and no favor, and may the best team win, provided, of course, that the best team i 3 the St. Paul team. Other nations are taking a fling at U3, as was to be expected. The leading news paper of Austria says the Philippine at rocities arc "doubly horrible when it is remembered that America waged war with Spain in the name of humanity." What can we say in retaliation? DOX'I WJXT him. Republican members of the senate com mittee investigating- the charges of cruelty perpetrated on Filipinos refused to let Aguinaldo come to this country and be heard. They allege that the effort to get him to testify is purely a political one. Well, if it were -poliuc-.il, and there were no cruelties, how would the Republican party suffer? It looks to a man up a tree like a confession of guilt. For cer tainly, if there is a sincere desire to get at the full truth, Aguinaldo should be summoned ami given full opportunity to tell all he knows. This action makes it probable that tho Republican members of the senate com mittee will manage the investigation with an eye single to the political results that may follow, and hence the investigation will be worth very little in the way of making plain the actual condition of af fairs in the islands. Edward Atkinson* the distinguished Massachusetts writer on political and economic subjects, was asked to be pres ent and testify before the committee on Saturday. After this request had been made the committee, by a strict party vote, decided to adjourn from Friday until Monday. Perhaps the Republican majority did not take this action with a view to offending Mr. Atkinson and keeping his evidence from being heard; and again, perhaps it did. No one can tell exactly what motive guides a Republican committee that could find damaging evi dence against its party if it tried to. President Roosevelt and Secretary Root may hope to gloas over the affair and lull public conscience into forgetfulness of the atrocities alleged by making a good deal of bluster about one or two court-mar tials, and an announced determination to fully investigate conditions. But if they so hope, they are doomed to disappoint ment, for so serious are the charges made that the American people, regardless of party, will not be content with anything less than the fullest ar.d most open in vestigation, the employment of every available means to secure witnesses, and the production of papers bearing upon the subject. " Let the whole truth be known. J'RAXK It. STOCKTOX. In the death of Frank R. Stockton the literary world loses one of its most pro lific, profound and entertaining writers. Stockton's work was much of it done for the magazines, but he wrote many books, a dozen or more of which are likely to live in book history. Among these are "The Lady or the Tiger" and "Rudder Grang-e." Stockton was not so great a student of character as Dickens and did not write with the charm of Balsac, but there is a finish, an earnestness and lneisivenesa about his fiction which hold the interest of the reader and leave a more than passing impression upon the -mind. Of the American novel writers of the past two doz n years Frank R. Stockton easily held a place in the front rank. MONEY TO LEXD. England's credit is still good in ihe financial world. Despite the tremendous expenses of carrying- on the Boer war, the failures and disasters of that campaign, and the frequency with which the nation has hud to go into the markets and bor row money. Only List week she offered for sale $80,000,000 worth of consols, and the loan was oversubscribed several times in a day or two. There was a good slice of it set apart for the United States— 000—and men with money fell over each other in an effort to get a portion. Thi:? evidence of the coafidence of the financial world in the integrity and sta bility of the tight little island is no doubt most gratifying to the English people, and 110 doubt the Britons would prefer that the United States should take all of the loan possible, for the more English money is in vested in the United Str.tes, and the more United States money invested in England, the less probability that the two countries will ev^r go to war; and the more probability that they will stand by each other in case of war with another nation. Another comforting revelation of the oversubscription of the loan is that there is so much money in the world looking for investment. Of course, the loan is con sidered gilt edgod, but it draws a low rate of interest. The fact that $10 were subscribed for every dollar needed is evi dent, that there is money to be had in abundance if the security is sufficient. JSOKRS MERIT COXCESSIOXS. Reassuring news comes from South Africa and gives hope to every lover of peace that the awful war which has been raging there for several years is-actually about to end. And this peace should not come to the Boers under the weight cf terms which would make it much akin to absolute surrender, but should be temper ed with that consideration and mercy which is due every man who does battle for liberty. Great Britain has expended millions of money and buried in the far-away.Trans vaal thousands of the best men of its army, and its disposition at this hour is perhaps to crush out the spirit of the sturdy Dutchmen who have crossed swords with the yeomanry of -the Britten empire on a hundred battle fields. But there is a tomorrow after every field of carnage—happily a tomorrow" on which THE ST. i-AUt ixL,OH3 p 'S^NDAT, APJKI£ 21, 1903. men may pause and ponder and prepare fcr a period of reconstruction and mutual forgiveness. The hour of magnanimity is at hand. Great Britain can afford today to con cede even more than the Boers ask. Let them be sent back to their families, their mines, their workshops and their families with as few restrictions as possible. They fought fiercely but fairly for what they and most of the civilized world believed to be right. At the dawn of a new day they are entitled to honorable considera tion by the nation which has forced them to the verge of actual defeat. Jchn G. Carlisle, of New York, says Gov. Beckham, of Kentucky, can't suc ceed himself as chief executive. Carlisle has caused enough trouble in Kentucky to justify him in keeping hands off for the future. BEEF TRUST SHOULD BE BLOCKED. To the American housewife who has been laying up cash all the spring to buy one of those $9.80 embroidered shirt waists the announcement that all kinds of meat products from tenderloin to lard have gone up 1 to 10 cents a pound comes with a pang cf regret too great to express in words. There is a beef trust and a lard trust, but the average woman cannot get trust of any sort and she has reason to be sad. That the attorney gen eral of the United States is preparing to try to find out if the beef trust is not planning to further put up and keep up the price of meats in violation of the Sherman act, may interest her, but it does not bring her relief. Seriously, however, everybody who has a family to support hopes that the strong arm of the law will be brought to bear to prevent extortion in prices. The far mer should get and is getting excellent prices for his beeves and mutton and hegs on the hoof, but the margin of profit ba tween price from the farm and from the butcher shop is outrageously wide. It is quite evident even after casual investiga tion that there is a combination in ex istence whose purpose is not to give peo ple good meats at fair prices, but to take from them every cent that can be squeez ed out for the sole purpose of putting millions of dollars of profits into the hands of half a dozen companies controll ed by not to exceed two dozen men. Such a condition of things is contrary to pub lic policy, an outrage upon the consumer and should be stopped by government in terference. Is there bravery and power and perseverance enough in the officials chosen by the people to enforce the statutes to put an end to this most atrocious and direct robbery of the com mon people? If Roosevelt has any of the old-time re form spirit in him that gave him his litt in politics, and is not afraid to exert it, the proceedings against the meat trust will prove it. In view of recent events, especially since he took up his residence in the "White house, there will be no uni versal surprise if a crawfish should ap pear in the presidential pond. The college boy, it has recently been discovered, is not a model housekeeper. Hi 3 shortcomings in this regard may not recommend him to social scientists, but they will be a passport to the favor ot those from whom nature selects all the best of housekeepers. Carnegie modestly points young men to the example of Paderewski, who achieved eminence through industry and persever ance Paderewski can hardly do iess than reciprocate. There is universal hope that the young queen of Holland may safely recover from her present illness and live many years to reign over a peaceable and prosperous nation. Now it's Boston that has a touch of blue laws. The town is to be made so "tight" on Sunday that a resident can't open a can of beans on that day. Minnesota easily won first rank in the debate in congress on the Cuban tariff bill. Minnesota is first in bread and but ter and eloquence. Young W. K. Vanderbilt is decidedly the fastest man in his fast set —he goes 100 miles an hour in his automobile. Augustus Thomas' magnificent drama, "Arizona," was produced by an entirely adequate company at the Metropolitan last night. Twice before has St. Paul paid a royal tribute to this play which, may well be called "The Peerless." The play is so well known as to make comment almost superfluous. It i 3 the best thing ever done by Gus Thomas; it is a greater achievement than "Alabama." This is praise, indeed. It is the consensus of critical opinion that "Arizona" is, with the possible exception of "Shore Acres," our best native drama; that is, the most typical of our native genius. In point of construction "Ari zona" has few equals among recent American plays. Its sequence is natural and logical. It is less artful, and there fore more artistic than "Secret Service,' and mast other modern achievements that rank high in current dramatic opinion. It cannot be analyzed. Only minor things can be measured and bounded; genius is as spontaneous as nature and as inexplicable; and "Arizona" is very close to absolute genius. There is nothing artificial about it; indeed it scarce seems to be a play. It is life, buoyant and triumphant life; "life immense in pas sion, pulse and power." It is a drama of real men, "unciminished men," men or heroic proportions, strong, sturdy men, the advance guard of the world's need. Lacking the poetic atmosphere and brisk philosophic dialogue of "Alabama," it is more tense and powerful; more direct, in its appeal, more cumulative in its de velopment. In brief it is a fine, beautiful powerful play, a-throb with life, rich in all the legitimate elements of humor and pathos. Most of all, it is intensely hu man. It is "all spirit and fervor of splendid fact, pulse and muscle and arteries of living heroic thought and act." It has no technical complications, no problems, no perplexing philosophy. It u> just a wholesome bit of every-day life, charged! with good red blood. It touches the heart and appeals to the sympathies. Its crash of conflicting passions is w A g the crash of storm clou-ds, leaving every thing sweet and pure and invigorating. The company which pres3nted '"Ari zona" last night is in every respect a thoroughly capable one, every part being interpreted with rare discrimination. The players Individually and collectively made a decided hit wit* the audience and were rewarded for theit* efforts with a liberal applause. Mr. J. "VV. Cope, asHenrj' Canby, the boisterous, rough," g> ca t-hearted ranch man, as gentle as"* rough, as cultured as uncouth, was most admirable. He gave a very natural delineation of a great and rare type of man, one of the pioneers who seem almost quarried out of the great earth they hive^ubdued. First place belongs'to Hiss Grace El liston, who is the Bonita Canby of the Play. Beautiful, vivacious, graceful and winsome, she gave a most delightful por trayal of ths bouyant, hoydenish girL loyal, sturdy daughter of Arizona. Mr. Dustin Farnum, as Lieut. Denton, the hero of the play, was in every re spect all that the roie demands. He gave to the part a dash and natural boyish ress that was convincing, and he had the sympathy of the audience from the beginning. Mr. Frazer Coulter was admirable as Col. Bonham, the grizzled old soldier, in whose heart rages the conflicting storm of love and hate, and who, at best, can only give the premise of forgiveness to his erring, but loving wife. Mr. Ben Deane, as the jovial surgeon, and Frank Champeau, as Tony, the itexi can vaciuero, who, w:hile he is on the stage but a brief period, fills a large part in the plot, were both most excel lent and deserved all commendation. Miss Grace Thorne. as Estrelia Bon ham, wife of Col. Bonham, the woman arcund whose one mistake and future atonement the action' of the entire play is drawn, performed, with rare tact and commendable discrimination, a most ex acting—in fact, the most exacting—role of the play. Her work in the last act especially was of a high order. The entire company was excellent and well proportioned. There was an earnest ness and zest about the work of the play ers which added to the r&ality of the play itself. "Arizona" and the company interpreting it deserve will of St. Paul theatergoers. Such a play and such a company does not come very often during a season. The 10-cent novel of childhood days and the yearning to £3 nnd do likewise cer tainly find re-enactment in the stirring nulodrarra "At Cripple Creek." jvbtch patrons of the Grant! ere treated to this week. Hal Reed has been credited with a few plays that are good and a number undor'ably bad, but in "At Cripple Creek ' he owes the stage an apology. What the attraction lacks, however. Is neither heru nor there. Into its four acts have been packed sufficient excitement to build a dczen melodramas, and when it fails to thrill it awes. Every act has a climax that sends the* gallery into con vulsions and the more conservative into wondering what will happen next. Lov ers of this class of art could not wish for more. It must bo said the play found ap proval last night. As its name implies, the play is purely a product, replete with the pic turesciue characters peculiar to a mining camp. Detail ha 3 been observed and this finds expression in, some well executed and decidedly artistic scenery and ■me chanical effects. Not the least are the climaxes, the most thrilling of which is a leap for life, in which an Indian chi?f rescues the customary lone maiden, and a battle to the death in the black depth 3 of a gold mine. The company is no-t strong 1, in fact some of it-borders on mediocrity. The most picturesque character and whose work is the best, both in lines and impersonation. la M. J. Jordan, who takes the part of a Sioux Indian. Miss Jeari Patriquin, as Ann Maybury, gives an admirable imper sonation. Miss Margaret Shaw also aids in strengthening the cast. Frederick Mosely, as Joe Mayfield, also deserves mention. "The City Club" is again at the Star. The piece retains all the good features that were seen at the last appearance, and is strengthened by thjC addition of a couple of new turns. The initial burlesque, "The City Club at the Seaside," and the afterpiece, "At the Pan-American," proved as popular as ever. The two new acts make the olio especially good. The Four Juggling Normans are the feature of the bill. It is really a marvelous act, considering that three of the team are mere boys, the youngest probably not ten years old. The little fellow juggles Indian .clubs in a masterful'fashion. At one time during the performance the air is full oi clubs, and yet the little lad never makes an error. Another new and clever sketch is by Martell and Lancaster, comedy acroLats. Grace Leonard, the up-to-date girl, heads the list of specialties. She has a new song, -which is a hit, called "Back to the Woods." "Certain Party," by Ferguson and Watson, still continues to make good. Both men are good com edians. The Sisterg Lane, singers and acrobatic dancers, have lost none of their entertaining qualities. The colored Golden Gate Quartette, furnishes a good share of the pleasure of the entertain ment. The concluding part of the per formance is prettily staged, and serves as a medium for u»e introduction of a number of pretty costumes, songs, and considerable amusement. "York Stato Folk.V tne famous Sidman 1-lay, which has been one of the season's big successes in the East, will be brought to th.j Metropolitan Thursday evening lor a week's engagement, with the orig inal company and* the elaborate scenery us^d in the Eastern production. James L.ackaye and Ray L.. Royce will posi tively be sen in eheir original roles, sup ported by the complete strength of the organization. Two St: Paul stock favor ites—Kate and Hurry Jackson—have strong parts in this famous play. The advance sale of seats opens today. Bartley Campbell's pet play, •"ine Whlt3 Slave," will ie the attraction at the Grand Opera house next week. Its story is well Known. It is powerful in theme, original In cihnaxes, replete with lien comedy and J^ep pathos. A year ago iho management of the Stu debakcr theater and the Castle Square Opera company took the initiative and the lead in making the summer produc tions Jn Chicago with "King EK)do," which proved one of the most notable musical successes 'A the year. This sea son the management has been equally tuccessfjl with the modern musical sa tire, "The Sultan of Sulu," by George Ade, author of the well-known "Fables in Slang." The new opera has been running for eight weeks, and there is ev ery evidence of uninterrupted prosperity j"cr many weeks to come. A BIXCH OF PUSSY-WILLOWS. I lay my cheek against your furry face 3— Ye, tWGt have seen the sky from some far qui.jt spot— And dream of spring in pleasant country piaces, The noisy turmoil of tire town forget. I dream of clden haunts by wood and river; Of bare hills, shadowed by the flying cloud; Of winds that set the slender pines a-nuivcr; Of rich brown field and fallow newly pluwed. Of sunny silence in the sheltered mead ows, And pungent scent of distant burning brush; Of flick'rinpr ligfats and misty purple shadows, And chirp of bird, affiid the woodland hush. Dear buds, that whisper of the year's un folding. What messages of quick'ning life y bring: Te, that within your hearts are warmly holding The great, glaJ myst ry of the wak'ning spring. —Harper's Weekly. Forced to Come to It. "Bid you hear the wild rumor from Washington?" ".No, what is it?" "The Congressional Record is to hay* » colored supplement." WORLD OF INDUSTRY News Notes of Interest of Unions and Leagues the World Over TALK OF BREADWINNERS Review of Work in Every Nation of the Globe Where Manufactur ers, Mechanics and Arti sans Hold Sway. Clinton (Mass.) master builders have granted an eight-hour day. Biddleford (Me.) carpenters have made a demand for a nine-hour day. The lathers and plasterers of Colorado Springs are on a strike for higher wages. The weavers o? Dover, N. H., have vot ed not to strike in support of the strik ers at Olneyville, R. I. The fifth annual convention of the West ern Labor union will begin at Denver en Monday. May 26. The 10 per cent advance has gone into effect in all New Bedford cotton mills, benefiting 20,000 operatives. Lawrence (Mass.) hostlers and team sters are organizing and propose to de mand shorter hours and more pay. The junior drug clerks of Pennsylvania have organized and locals have been formed in Pittsburg and Philadelphia. An Eight-hour League ha 3 been organ ized in the California iron trades and a petition will be forwarded to congre-s. The Portsmouth (N. H.) striking paint ers have resumed work. They will get eight hours after May 1 and ?2.20 a day. The Lawrence (Mass.) Textile council has drawn up a. new scale, which will be submitted to mill agents this week. Indiana labor unions have begun an agitation against the chain-making work done in the State Reformatory at Jeffer sonville. The masons and bricklayers of Fall River, Ma:s., have postponed their pro posed strike and accepted eight hours after May 5. Three of the largest cities in Connecti cut now have labor mLiyori—Hartford, -Ar.sonia and Bridgeport—and all are able orator.?. "Bushelmen," the journeymen tailors who do the altei action work In the ofttV. .s of the most fashionable Chicago tailors, have formed a un'on. The 2,€00 structural iron and bridge workers of Pittsburg will be granted an increase of 25 per cent and an eight-hour day after May 1. The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in Philadelphia is arranging for a concerted move looking to an increase in w^itfta and shorter hours. The San Francisco Laftor council has has submitted to the board of supervi sors an ordinance for the maintenance of free, open-air concerts. The conductors and: motermen of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting com pany's lines in Norwalk, Conn., will ask for an increase in pay from lSl^ cents an hour to 20 cents. Five hundred building laborers employ ed on the new Lake Shore <fc Rock Island railroad depot are on strike. They have been getting 2j cents an hour a.nd demand 23 cents. The 10 per cent increase of 30,000 Rhode Island cotton operatives means only 5 per cent because the new SS-hour law goes into effect this week. Heretofore 60 hours have prevailed. At the York, Pa., rolling mill, a raise of 25 cents a ton in puddlers' wages will take effect April 15. This raise will make puddlers' wagps $4.25 a ton, the highest rate ever paid in the York mill. The foundry of American Locomotive Works, at Manchester, N. H.. which was Closed down a few weeks ago as the re sult of difficulties between the iron mold erg and the head officials, has resumed operations. ,An effort is bring made, backed by tne National Building Trades council of America, to concentrate the energy and int. rests of all of the Allied Bu'ildlr* irades and Local unions of the country' into one central organization. In addition to the great blast furnace and open henrth plant that the Union hteel company has arranged to build in Donora. Pa_, a contract was awarded last week by that corporation for a new blooming mill that is to adjoin the other departments. The threatened strike of the Tntprra tional Paper laborers at Bellows Falls, Ifew york £efter. IS.EW YORK, April 1!».-J o hn Arbuckle tne wealthy coffee merchant, has put the executive committee of the Brooklyn Con gregational club in a great stew by his at tack on the lecent dinner given by the organization. The dinner took place at the Pouch Galiery. on Clinton avenue, on March 31 Mr. Arbuckle, who is a member of the club, attended. He left when the last course was reached and wont home to get something to eat," as he afterwards declared. Next day Mr. Arbuckle ex pressed himself with regard to the dinner which cost $1.50 a plate. He declared that tffe meal wasn't worth the money He could beat it for one-third the price Ihe coffee merchant also offered to take the members of the executive committee to a certain hotel in Manhattan where he would guarantee they would get a better dinner, more courses, and with apollinaris or wine, all for 50 cr-nts a head. More than that, he wou.id pay the bill. The offer was not accepted by the com mittee, but it has stirred up much dis cussion amons the members of the club Some nave written to >.Ir. Arbuckle com mending him for the stand he took, while others have written criticising him for failing to get up at the dinner and maks the issue there instead of expressing h's sentiments in an interview afterwards. Mr. Arbuckle, by request, attended a meeting of the executive committee, the members of which wished to have a talk with him about the dinner and his criti cism of it. Mr. Arbuckle, it is said, de clined to take back a single word and repeated that he knew where he could get a 50-cent table d'hote dinner that would make the $1.50 meal served to the club look like a mere "hand-out." Tha end, it is believed, is not yet. Saloonkeepers Discuss Excise Commissioner Partridge will not discuss the police-excise question. There was much activity among ths saloonkeepers who are regarded as leaders in the Cen tral association, many of them doing 1 what was termed "missionary work" among those not prominent in the councils of the organization. No one would talk of plans for the future, but it was believed that the saloonkeepers have found more comfort with the police magistrates than with other officials, and it was intimated that within a fsw days a programme for next Sunday will be agreed upon. The long looked-for eligible list of ser geants, from which at least ten police captains will be appointed, reached po lice headquarters this woek from the mu nidal civil service commission. Circus Comes to tlie Garden— Fairyland has assumed a concrete form. It is bounded, just now, by the walls of Madison. Square garden. At night thi3 building, glorified and fantastic, like a palace of the clouds, fills the dreama of a multitude of children. All day thou sands of ea.ger eyes are fixed upon it, seeking to pierce its walls and revel in the glint of tinsel, the wonderland of clowns, of fairies, and of beasts. When the circus comes to town, the Society for tile Prevention «f Crime Vt, has been averted, .and arrangements were made with the mill managers where by the discharged employes were taken back and all questions involved held In abeyance. The building laborers of Providence. R. 1., have demanded of contractors that after the first of May a day's work $>r plasterers' tenders shall consist of eight hours and that the rate of pay shall be 5i.00 per day. In case a refusal is met with the men will strike. The 200 freight handlers in Providence, K. 1., employed by the Xew York, New iriaven .fc Hartford railroad; have for warded a written request to the com pany that their wages be increased 10 cents a day to $1.95. and a reply is asked for within two weeks. Sixty drillers employed at Lewis Nix on s shipyards, at Elizabethport N j are on strike because of a cut 'from 8 to 414 cents a hole. An effort will be made by the Federation of Labor to call out all union men employed in the b"e shipyard. • The Rhode Island mule spinners have postponed their proposed strike for four months. The J. &P. Coates Thread company, of Pawtucket, granted its 175 spinners the 10 per cent raise, but other l:elp do not benefit. Other yarn mills refused the increase at present. The state board of mediation and arbi tration, at St. Joseph, Mo., aft-r hear ing evidence for two days on the bi~ carpenter's strike, decided that the men snould receive 35 cents an hour. They demanded Zihz cents. Both sides ar^> well satisfied with the result. All lines are laid for a gigantic tie-up of the building boom in Cincinnati if an agreement is not arrived at by May !. Over 10,000 building laborers are to de mand shorter hours and more pay. Ar chitectural and electrical workers" have already issued their ultimatum. In a communication to the Federation National President Samuel Goxnpers blamed the leaders of the Chicago Team sters' union for his recent failure i back into the ranks of the Team Driv ers' International union the 13,000 Chicago U-amsters, who have seceded. The strike at the Penwell coal mine, in Illinois, involving about 300 men, 13 ended. The scales have been satisfactorily ad justed by President S. J. Austin, of the United States Scale com] at tbo mine svill be resumed. The strike lasted about ten days. On or before May 1 the representation of the Housesmlth and Brldgesmiths' union will demand an increase of \ from their present scale to that of 4'l cents an hour. Unless their demands are granted, it is .-yd, they are deter mined to stop work throughout the en tire country. Another strike is threatened at the Hammond Packing company, ChJ which only last week had a sirTv ■ of meat cutters to deal With. This time the trouole grows out of tbe employment <>r non-union carpenters In the work of building the company's $1,000,000 plant at the Chicago stock yards. Loaders on lumber borUs on the Great Lakes are to ask for 60 cents an hour. The present rate is 50 cents an hour, and lakes, with the exception of two » ago, when it was 60 cents an hour. Last year the raU' went down to 50 cents an hour, without the union giving any tremble. The persistence with which the striking tug- firemen at Duluth. Minn., are hi:!.u ing out for an increase in their wages to 160 per month is giving much concern to marine interest at the bead of the lakes, and it is felt that unless it shall be settled soon, other organizations, particu larly the lumber shovers, will strike in sympathy. A convention for the formation of an International association of the various lodges of Ornamental and Architectural Hcusesmilhs is planned in the E states. At present there are th: locals in the country, mostly in the Basf* The largest of these is in Philadelphia, which has a membership of Gw. Four of thf organizations are in New York. Seven hundred girls employed in the Brooklyn factories of the American Can company have joined the male .strikers. Secretary Fitzpatrick. of the union, stat a that the firm Involved has 113 factories throughout the country. If th.- d< mand for the abolition of the time s;lp3 was not granted, he said, the strike would be extended to them all. Ice deliverers of Chicago are restless and threatening a strike over grie\ entertained against their employers. It is a special complaint that th. y haw been denied a conference by the in;m age^rs of the companies to open negotia tions for a coiif.rence at which a work ing agreement for the ice season, now about to open, would lx> discuss* ■!. The government of Germany appears as the purchaser of patent rights cover ing all Europe, except Great Britain and France, for an automatic BWitcM) manufactured In Chicago that will dis place a telephone system of 40,000 instru ments. Many operators will bo forced to set^k other employment as one person can ke*p an entire system in order. The builders at Niagara Falls. N\ V.. deny that any satisfactory adjustment of the strike troubles has been reaelTed, ar.d to all indications, the strike is as serious as when it first started, if nut i Some of the banks state that the fan of sorrii> of the men out on strik. drawing on their small earnings, which shows a serious side of the trouble. should raise a fund and provide a means by which any boy of the stre< ta may earn a ticket to the show. Racing Season Opens— The racing season in the metropolitan district formally opened this week at Aqueduct. The Queens County Jockey club threw open its gates for a fifteen day meeting, and racegoers turned out In force to welcome the thoroughbred*. Five months is a long time to forego ones favorite sport, and close followers have !)• q waiting with growing impatience for this day. The bright, clear weather will help to make the opening an auspicious one, and it will be surprising if a record breaking crowd is not on hand. Une track is fast, and in fine condition and the • n ire looks fresh and attractive, Quito different from a year ago, and, judging by the horses quartered at the track, the quality of the spurt will be on a high r plane also. Everything, in fact, points to a mc,3t successful meeting—a pleasant forerunner of the most pretentious ones to follow at Morris park, Gravesend, and -head bay. W. C. Whitney Xot on Seal- The famous Washington, Mass., town seal is to be changed and the portrait of W. C. Whitney is to give way to one of George Washington. Mr. "Whitney, for tal reasons, asked that his portrait be withdrawn from the town sea!. It is presumed that the notoriety which baa atended the use of the seal has been dis tasteful to Washington's wealthiest en dower. Teachers for Abnormal Children— "Tendency to lying may be cured some times by the giving of medicine," said Dr. Max Groszmann, in his talk on "Atyp ical Children," before the New York City Mothers" dub. Christian Science would be shocked by this view of the case, but Dr. Grosamann insisted that a child that was troubled with imperfect digestion would sometimes be a liar from that cause alone. Especially below the kindergarten age are children given to such troubles. "Many mental and moral deefcts," he said, "may be remedied by fitting the child with glasses," and he illustrated this by describing a case of bad temper that was cared by glasses and tonic. Another rebellious youngster submitted to the cold bath and the drinking of milk for tho first time after being fitted with glasses. "The term 'atypical,'" said Dr. G mann, "is used by way of compromise; it is a yielding to the prejudices of fathers and mothers, who hate to aeknov. that their children are different from other children and require special training. Parents often know other people's cl. better than their own. They rarely under stand their own children. Sometimes the home environment is bad for the child. The first condition is harmony between the educational and environmental ences. Miss Julia Richmond told of the effort.* and difficulties of dealing witU abnormal children in the public schools, advocating the apopintment of ■pedal teachers for small classes of such children, aa ir.ei-t are in London. YOUNG MEN IN FRONT Senator Bailey Points Oat That Gray Hairs Are Xot Necessary to Fame TILLMAN OPPOSES HILL Senator Tom Kearn». of Utah. AVho Begau Life as a Freighter on the Plains. Is Beooiiiiii a Social Leader. FRO THE GLOBE BUREAU, "Washington, IJ. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, April ».— "Youth is no longer an unpardonable off remarked a Democratic congressman m discussing the candidacy of Joseph \\. Bailey for the presidential nomination. ■ young Mr. Bryan cam.' :■■ front, and yuuus Mr. Beverldg : into the senate, and young Mr. ;; velt succeeded to the White are getting- over the idea that a man knows nothing until bis hair has t and he has begun to go down the dccl if life. "This age seems to demand youth, and the trength and elasticity which go with it. It is a time when we demand for our hig-hest offices the best years of a m.in' 3 lifie<; we must have young men, with capacity for work, and with minds qulelc to meet new and changing conditions. At the age of sixteen Alexander the Great was acting as regent of his father's king dom and putting down a revolt of tno Thracians, and at twenty-three he had de feated Darius ana was master ol the world. "In our young country the battles of n won with young men. ■:''' -(t t':"' i" ad of our railways and our steel trusts and I conquered fal worl i. No, I do not tnink la an objection which canm ined. In any case, as Senator B rs. It Is one which la out . grown." "Young .Mr. B ator i.s still so nine years old. He h near] - tactly a chicken. Of ■ Gor man, who is twenty-1 -nior, Bailey Is a youth. Hill, too, is fully quarter of a ci ,ii,>y. - cli ction to thi himw If v, 11 rablo dignity, m.-, ab i an l he. h ■ .■! assumed, by vi the leadership of the minority. Jam 1 fill the bill, and h b- t a gui Uy shi : Tilman I* Againat Hill. Senator B. F. Tlllman to bo rec inciled to the Idi a B. liiii In !:•■ i. He does not I ike any stock in Hill's talk of harmony in party. "No one, "will be misled by Mr. cull's half-hi arted and I for harmony. He was a traitor to thu party in 1896, and did not support 11 dlally in 1990. it do that we are called uj lead of one who has !. utlly when he la dou ;.sh motives." Tiltanan and McL mrin an ln 8 !■ ' ■■■ not, i!i fact, an any terms. Each Ignon s, utt r] lstence of the other. If they chan they look Into not i on the floor of the year they have noi ? Personal relatii •■ In which th. y Indulged last mer in South Carolina, i I recriminations L came go bitter thei the two were almost on the point of \ 101 l nee many \;. Othi r memb< ra of the i c not ■ '1 the Tiliman-McL ■ ••• to make any difference ol their Ither participant. Politics other ways, there Is no doubt thai man has stiffen d as the i currence. i 9 suffered more from the misguided zeal of his fool friends and particularly bis it upon himself u> withdraw the inv.ita it the ! to Micah .1 nkins. Had it not I- ■ a for this Tillman would have stood rty in having hi vitatl d ai t< r in Ing r;.; the White lenry. Many believed the president to be .. in doing that. feUs colleagues in the • fond of th< lieve him to be hon st—v/ith a verj sual brand of honestj and courageous, morally as well aa physically. an '.iinciulionlst. Si nator Morgan, of A l, la quite an ard< nt advi ■ i is aa necessary to the i i la to England. H lieves th • p under which \. ition, i be a mutual bl t>otb coun tries. In tl exponent oi I Eie is the author 01 - of this i Newlands explains that <'ut;a would in with th>- urn ally it would b< t would ! r ter riloiv I lj's it is h I that Cuba would c in merely as ,t d< Newlanda favors reciprocity limited period conditioned nn ua acceptance by < 'uUi of our Invitai B< nator Tom Kearns, of Utah, i.i be coming a ssorial leader. lie lives at th« .Raleigh hotel and buys < verythlng :>.■-. sees. He is very rich. He started bus- In ess when he was fourteen, at that timo he . came a freighter. Which mcann that he freighted miners' supplies fron« the raßroad terminus In Nebraska to ttio Black Hills. He had quit school four years previously for the more remunera tive occupation of farm work In Holt county. He discovered the Mayflower ami Silvrr King mines, axd that made a turning point in his fortunes. He did not hay*> to work at $2 a day after that; instead he began buying railroads and securing political honors. He ami Senator Clark, of Montana, travel together, and make a pood working team. They are now building a railway from Salt Lai to I.os Angeles. One night last week Kearns bought the best dinner there was In Washington, and had nearly 100 gursta at hla hotel, includli - Speaker Hender .<:•->!•), the secretary of war, the president pro tempore of the senat and Champ Clark. I| befran with cocktails and end ed v.'ith any old brand on tho card. Ordinary Sl«e Appalling. Two cf Senator Teller's constituents called at the capltol today to pay their respects t'< him. Mr. Teller la above tho a%-cratre height, but ho felt about one foot high when he met the visitors. They were two painfully thin gentlemen hi <i bo tall they had to incline their heads a'hen passing unCer the chande lli rs Tn thte marble room. Mr. Bpooner, ihe abort H n the senate, except Simon, of Oregon, n . tonishtd at the size of M r. Tell r*s ers, ai;d asked him it ail the i the Centennial state weie built 0,. plan. "< »h. nol" replied Mr. Teller, with a ■ a to t;.e LJlllputlans."—New World. Nnmbers Xot Xecc»miry. Cttiman—Yea, PB h* !4!ad to run o-..:t and see jou some time. \V:.... number? Subulvs—Why-er—the bottsea tn Swamp hurst are not numbered yet. i.'itimnri —AVcS!. how shall ! find you? Sububs—Turn to the left from the sta ticn anii walk clown the road nntU you conic to the si»cond bip puddle. My house is directly opposite.— SpriagAelO lcci-uLlican.