$0000 Worth-of .Sample
OUUU Furniture Left!!
After three" days of big selling at prices
never before heard of in ST. PAUL.
The v/ftll known manufacturers, Levin Bros., of Minneapolis, and
D. CI. ani 8. G. Owens, of St. Anthony Park, closed out to us
their entire sample stocks of Iron j Beds, Upholstered Parlor .Furniture,
Dressers, Sideboards, Extension Tables, Chairs and Rockers at .—
35 Per Cent Off Regular Factory Prices.
In order to dispose of this lot we are satisfied to make 10 per cent.
This means that you can buy here at
Fifty Cents on the Dollar
of Regular Retail Prices, and EASY TERMS AT THAT.
_>^JCVJ Wool Tcp "Mattresses $1,75
_\Xk_l \-«s.^ Stesl Wire 5pring5......... $1.25
IT^^lu^ &=^s}pJ>S Dressers at.. ..... $5,75
rfr^p^JT^H Round Extension tables $7-93
ir~nzffS| 500 IRON &EDS }J LOW
"^^JLLss^ii Cl 1%, AND QOK
£^T *P I e%2 J> up TO *$&?<*&
MISFIT CARPETS 50 PER CXNT OFF.
<^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 303 Couches (just like cut).
MSI !i $3.50 and up.
W^m^^^^^L ' Sole ASent,s for MONITOR
M^^^^^^^^\ RANGES and HEATERS
See us for the biggest furniture bar-
l are^r-r'T-— <gS^^^ff^ rif" gains St. Paul has ever had,
St. Paul Housefurnishing
133-135 LftlTlfhlflV Bet* Robert
E. Seventh St. VvllljmilJ and Jackson Sts
EASY TEfiiMS—FURNITURE SAMPLE SALE— 50 PE * CEWT OFF.
EASY TERMS-FURNITURE SAMPLE SALE—SO PER CENT OFF
St. Paul Is Second to Chicago
as a Great Railroad Center
If the aggregate mileage operated by
all the railroads having terminals in
St Paul would be stretched out in one
continuous line of road it would reach
twice around the earth. The total
mileage of the ten roads that run into
St. Paul, as far as can be ascertained,
amounts to 50,440, the lines which this
figure represents ramifying the West
ern and Central states. These rail
roads tap one of the richest sections of
the terrestrial globe,and the number of
people and the value of the goods they
carry annually, if computation was
possible, would amount to such a to
tal as to well-nigh defy expression in
figures.
The extent of the railroad interests
tributary to St. Paul, and the impor
tant part they take in maintaining the
commercial, industrial and social life
of the country, as well as the great in
fluence they exercise in the develop
ment of the growing section, is scarcely
realized by Aie masses. Those inter
ested in the work of railroads and en
gaged in their operation, of course,
understand this, but the general public
does not appreciate its significance.
St. Paul is today recognized as one
of the most important railroad centers
in the United States, and, therefore, in
the* world, and it can stand compari
s.in with Chicago, which is yielded the
pahn as the greatest railroad center
in the world. Though all but three of
St. Paul's railroads center in Chicago,
still, when the aggregate mileage of
all the railroads" having terminals in
the twD centers is compared, St. Paul
will be seen to have. two-thirds as
much mileage as Chicago.
A? nearly as can be ascertained from
the records available, the mileage of
the railroads centering and having
terminals in Chicago is 75,601, which is
25,161 miles mere than is credited to
St. Paul. Fifteen of Chicago's rail
roads hnvp a total of 36,05S miles, and
the remaining seven, counting jointly
the Minneapolis & St. Louis and the
Illinois Central, which are common to
St. Paul and Chicago, have a total of
"5.613 miles; The Great Northern,
Northern Pacific and Soo lines having
a total of ll.s-7 miles. Help to lift tht.
balance up to two-thirds of Chicago's
mileage. Stated directly. Chicago has
i miles not touching St. Paul, and
38,613 miles operated by the roads con
necting it with St. Paul. The 11,827
miles operated by three roads that St.
Paul ha-, to it? individual account, cuts
far into the 3G.9SS miles operated by
Chicago's sixteen roads that do not
touch St. Paul.
Showing Is Remarkable.
When the relative sizes of the two
cities i.-: considered, and when the situ
ations of the two centers is taken into
account, St. Paul will be seen to have
•,n advantage over the Windy City.
{S traight to
.fe^. the mark
viSmily fee ifye wttk ilfc
1 JBeer isttiejbesh
While-Chicago is the largest city in the
United States, and is also the greatest
railroad center, and as St. Paul makes
no pretensions to great size, the favor
able showing made in the comparison
will appear the more remarkable.
Though many of the large cities of
the United States have a larger num
ber of railroads than has St. Paul, j-et
for mileage and the extent of the terri
tory tapped by direct connections, this
city, will stand comparison with any.
The cities between Chicago and New
York have practically the same connec
tions; and even New York, though
having a large number of compara
tively short roads, has not a greater
tributary mileage than Chicago. The
cities of the Central states and of the
Mississippi valley have the Southwest
ern roads, but they are counterbalanced
by St. Paul's two great North Pacific
transcontinental lines.
The following tables show the mile
age of the respective roads having ter
minals in the two cities. In the first is
included the St. Paul roads, and in the
second £he fifteen Chicago roads that
do not touch St. Paul. For the sake of
convenience the Noi thwestern's total is
made to include the Omaha and its
other branch lines. The mileage of the
Minneapolis & St. Louis is embraced in
that of the Illinois Central; and the
mileage of the other consolidated com
panies is represented by one figure.
The mileage of the St. Paul systems,
as taken from records believed to be
substantially authentic, is as follows:
The St. Paul Mileage.
Great Northern 5 094
Northern Pacific 5' \ OS
Soo Line • iV'B
Burlinton Route " 8032
Milwaukee 6 ' 6o s
North-Western 9 o°4
Great Western 1171
Illinois Central 5^954
Wisconsin Central 891
Rock Island System 6.933
Total 50,440
The mileage of the railroads entering
Chicago, exclusive of those represented
in the foregoing table, compiled from the
same source, is as follows:
Chicago's Mileage.
Lake Shore 1,412
Baltimore & Ohio 3439
Nickel Plate 523
Chicago Terminal Transfer .... 259
Michigan Central 1.<5G2
Big Four 2.290
'Pere Marquette 1 901
Chicago & Eastern Illinois '737
Wabash 2.433
Grand Trunk 4J73
Monon Route 536
Erie 2.318
Santa Fe 6.517
Chicago & Alton " 908
Pennsylvania Lines 7.514
Total fifteen Chicago mads 36.95S
Total Chicago-St. Paul roads.. 35.G13
Chicago's mileage 75,601
These figures are to he taken merely
as approximate, but it is thought they
will convey some idea of the situation.
The actual number of Hues having termi
nals in Chicago i.s thirtyj-two, but some
of these are merely suburban, which are
omitted, and others are embraced under
the titles of roads with which they have
been consolidated.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1903.
Life in the Workhouse.
EASY TERMS—FURNITURE SAMPLE SALE 50 PEK CENT OFF
The "bolts closed on my cell door at
the workhouse, with a clangor which
did not have the terrifying effect it
had when I heard it the first night I
was there.
I had been an inmate of the institu
tion for eight days. I had come there oh
a sentence for drunkenness, which was
just, and was condemned to ten days'
imprisonment.
I was put in the "Black Maria" about
| 10 o'clock in the morning at the city
hall. There were seven other occu
pants of the wagon—two of them
women. One negress who had hardly
recovered her sobriety was loud in be
! moaning- her fate.
"If some one had only lent me $10,"
she reiterated as the wagon jolted on
the pavement, "I would not be here."
"If I hadn't got drunk I wouldn't
j be here," was the philosophic remark
j of a s'oung man with a scraggly beard
j which made him look almost like an
anarchist. He took matters as inevi
table results and tried to be happy.
j I attempted to follow his example,
and met with fair success. And yet
when the doors of the workhouse clos
• ed behind me I cringed with horror.
!My personal' liberty was gone. I was
in jail—a felon.
To be sure, I had committed no
crime. I had simply been drunk. I
had friends in St. Paul and could have
obtained the requisite money to pay
my fine of $10 had I desired to com
municate with any one of half a dozen
men. But my pride was too great for
that. I would not admit that I had
been on a spree, that I had spent every
cent that I had, that I had hocked my
watch, jewelry and overcoat; that in
fact I would have sold my soul for a
big drink of whisky. My punishment
was light—ten days' imprisonment—
a chance to see somethi^J of the
WESTERN SLEUTH WAKES UP GOTHAM
Joseph Jacobs Introduces Novel Startling Methods to Run Down Gamblers for the Citizens
Union.
m\/ rb k»^ ~ " ' '* ''" ~XX&QF£I&3ttTS
A few months ago Joseph Jacobs was totally unknown to New York and fame. Now he is one of the
city's celebrities. Coming out of the West he secured employment as detective for the Citizen's union in its
crusade against gambling and other forms of diversion. He is especially strong in disguising himself, and in
the above cut he is seen in two of the many roles he is wont to assume.
nether wheel of the world's millstone
and to tell how finely it ground the
unfortunate.
The bailiff, who accompanied the
prisoners to the workhouse, gave our
names to the clerk and we were
searched and a record made of all the
property which we had.
Next I was standing stark naked in
a small room before a big tub filled J
with water. I was glad to plunge in
and when I came out I presume I was
the cleanest man in America. Never
had I had such a thorough cleansing in
my life. The attendant scrubbed me
with soap and brush and then seemed
to holystone my skin as the way sail
ors do the deck of a man-of-war.
He examined my clothing carefully,
tied it up in a bundle and pvit it away
with scores of similar bundles. Then
I was taken to my cell, after of course
being provided with proper garments.
In a short time dinner was served. It
consisted of soup, bread and coffee. I
wasn't hungry—all I wanted was a
drink, but the other prisoners seemed
to enjoy the fare.
When I went back to the cell I felt
very nervous and my hands were
shaking.
"Been on a toot?" asked the guard
who accompanied me.
"Yes," I replied.
In a few moments he came back
with a bottle filled with a black fluid
of "« hicta he gave me a dose. It was a
good nervine and in half an hour my
system was so much toned up that' I
could do a little work without fatigue.
The work was light the first afternoon.
I simply scrubbed some woodwork in
one of the halls and washed some iron
bars.
After supper.which was a substantial
meal, though coarse, we were allowed
to walk about the corridors for a short
time and talk to each other, old pris
oners told me that this was necessary
to enable men to retain their reason
where their confinement lasted for any
length of time.
Then came the bell at 8:30 o'clock
which was the signal for taps. Its
vibrant tones hissed through the corri
dors of the prison. The effect on me
was appalling. It meant a night of
ten hours in a cell, alone and in com
plete darkness. I had been reading
Charles Read's "Never Too Late to
Mend" and had just reached the point
—by the way charitable people should
send the workhouse some of their
spare novels —where the Rev. Francis
Eden went into the black hole to see
what punishment the prisoners had to
suffer. The lights went out. Through
the bars of my cell I could see a faint
light in the corridor. It seemed to be
fading slowly away and I thought I
was in the black hole.
I wrapped my head in my blanket
and cowered like a woman on the lit
tle shelf which served for a bed. Then
the regular tread of the guards mak
ing their rounds came to my ears. It
was as welcome to me and as entranc
ing as the finest chorus ever sung in
grand opera. It showed me that I was
not alone in the prison. Other men
were near me. They were probably
undergoing the same experience as my
self.
Then the lines of Richard Lovelace'
came into my mind:
"Stone walls do not a prison make,
nor iron bars a cage;
Minds, innocent and quiet, take that
for a hermitage.
If I have freedom in my love and in
By One on the Inside.
my soul am free, ;
Angels alone who dwell' above enjoy
such liberty."
But Lovelace was Imprisoned on ac
count of the cruel machinations of the
father of the girl he loved. I was
imprisoned for getting drunk, for being
a disgrace to myself r fof* being a hu
miliating recollection to the minds of
my family. But finely sleep came.
The Awakening.
The clang of the bell in the morning
caused me to jump from my couch in
bewilderment. It was a welcome
sound. There was activity to it. There
was noise in the corridor. The voices
of guards and turnkeys were audi
ble. The sound meant work, meant
action. It was dress, wash, clean cells
and breakfast. The coffee and bread
and hash tasted good. I enjoyed the
fare. The nervousness from my spree
had passed away.
It was a fine day, and after breakfast
we went out into the adjacent park
and worked in the open air. I enjoyed
tossing the snow off the rocks. I en
joyed bringing down the heavy sledge
hammer upon the stones. I was once
more in God's sunshine. My muscles
were in fairly good condition and I
wanted to hit a3 hard a blow as I could
each time I brought the hammer down.
I stood the work much bettor than
a big, muscular fellow by my side ap
peared to do.
But, he was an old offender, It was
the third time he had been sentenced
to the workhouse and he was due to
pass ninety days there on the charge
of vagrancy. The guards had no pity
on him and he was compelled to do the
hardest kind of work. When dinner
time came I wns glad of it. I enjoyed
the strengthening, if coarse, fare
which was provided for us. It tasted
good. In the afternoon I was employ
ed at some unskilled labor in the broom
factory. The skilled work is only done
by men who are undergoing longer sen
tences than mine. They develop some
times a remarkable for the
work, and occasionally obtain po- f
sitions in factories on the outside when
their workhouse sentences expire.
And when night came and* the 8:30
bell rang I needed no solace from the
poetry with which a somewhat ram
bling course of reading had streaked my
brain. The only poetic, mythological,
or historic, characters wh,om I wanted
to woo was Morpheus. In a few sec
onds after I pulled the blanket over mo
I was in his arms afid knew nothing
till the order to '"dress, wash and clean
cells" came in the morning-.
The next day was, stormy and we
were all employed on ijisi^e work. Then
I began to make the acquaintance of
my companion in misery.- I was most
interested in the philosophy expressed
by a man whose white beard proclaim
ed that he was on tHe down grade of
life. He seemed to be in-poor health,
but his sickness was more apparent
when a guard was near than when he !
was alone or in the presence of fellow
prisoners only.
"My name don't matter," said he. "I i
have a new one for each city I visit. |
The name my chifdren hear is an hon- '
ored one, but they lost- 'track of me !
years ago, and I suppose they think
that lam dead. lam a lazy, worthless :
drunkard. 11l admit that. But I eon- I
sider that the world owes me a living.
"Now I'm fairly honest," he oontin- !
ued. "I've never stolen unless I thought
I had to. My game now is being'a va
grant. I used to work the hospital
racket, but that's been done so much
lately that it's about played out. , At
present the workhouse graft is the
best.
"The best workhoti?e in (he country
during the winter months is in St. Paul.
The work here from Nov. 1 to March.-15
is light. It's mostly done on the inside, \
far away from the buffeting- winds, i
The. broom making is a snap and the '
grub here is pretty fair. Taint as
good chuck as you get at Stillwater,
but when you visit that stir you have
to stay too long.
"The St. Paul workhouse is a bad
place in the summer, however. .Then
the air up here is fine and bracing and
they send you out in the parks ond !
streets to dig ditches and cut weeds. |
There's too much walking- and too
much physical exertion about that. The '
best workhouse in the summer is on I
-Blackwell's island in New-York. i
"After a hard spring and early sum
mer on the golf links I generally go
there for July and August to recuper- )
ate. They make you work, of course. ■
but there you are in sight of the Fall j
River line of steamers,and all the yes- j
sels that go up the sound to Boston, I
Portland or Labrador. The Minneapo- I
lis workhouse is on the bum. They i
don't make you do anything there but i
pound rocks."
The Man From the South.
That night in the workhouse I was
given a cellmate. He was a negro, I
clean, wholesome looking and intelli- I
gent. He told me his story and I be- i
lieved it. He came frpm the South, he [
said, and arrived in St. Paul several:
days ago with about $20 \h his pocket. !
He knew no one here and paid $15 for !
a month's board in advance at a place :
on St. Peter street. I© the course of a ;
few days he secured ,lhe, position of
porter m a saloon on Wabasha street. '
Let him tell his own story, dialect and ''
all: j
"I was prowud, flat's what I was fo' i
suah. I had de job. I had de booard
paiyc-d fo' a mon'f. I had tree bones.
I done drank de niggah gin. I done
did drunk it for suah."
According to the negro's story he
was arrested, taken into police court
the next mem ing, pleaded guilty, did
lioi have s»-n;-e enough to tell his story
In mitigation of his offense and was '
flaefi $10. When he comes out of the I
a< f^r COPSE AMD SEE - WHAT A I your cent f
AS YOU ■ . X
. <*" I DOLLAR WILL DO FOR YOU <£>» \\
; ;,. We have just finished inventory and we found a lot of odds and ends of furniture, etc., -';
which we will close out at LESS THAN COST ;. . Z . . . : < ' * 'I
400 Yards Matting i A B|2 Coucll Sensation!]
From 2 yards to 20 yards £#% W W^^^^^^^^k^ lQ likQ cut, ff| f| ft ft
-worth from 15c to 40c; 1 Oft ? thsl3'50' \K M«
all goes. Monday, at, a |£ close^T' V^IWU
ti,. Several others at a Big Discount. *
J5 'Everything in our store at a big discount. Don't- miss this sale if you want a real Bargain, "
pspS^ ° "° , - * E.7th p ay Freight ,
Country Orders THE HOUSE.'.OF.'.BARGAIMS . 100 Macs
workhouse he will be without a job,
without money and without character.
The purist in thought, diction and
action will sit upon his iceberg and de
clare the negro deserved the punish
ment he received because he got drunk.
The humanitarian with* active pulse,
throbbing heart and kindly speech may
think that the law imposing $10 as the
minimum fine for drunkenness in a
city which receives $325,000 a year
for allowing men to buy liquor to get
drunk with, might be changed.
This is only a workhouse suggestion,
however.
As a rule the men at the workhouse
do their work cheerfully. Most of
them do this from a wise policy. They
know they have a certain time to stay
1 under the care of the warden. Oblivion
in a prison_is not a desideratum to be
longed for at any time. The chief ob
ject of prison inmates should be to
make time pass as quickly as possible.
In order to do this the old offenders
say the easiest way is to work, work
hard, work constantly, and thus keep
your mind off yourself.
A man is rather low in the scale'
of human beings when he is serving
a term in the workhouse. Yet in many
different ways." most" of them coarse
and couched in uncouth language, I
heard Dr. Edward Everett Hale's
famous lines beginning:
"Look forward, not backward;
Look upward, not downward."
The expression of the thought was
Dr. Hale's, but'the language was of
the slums. One mode of putting it was
this:
"To h-— with the past; it isn't
what you used to be, it's what you'll
be tomorrow."
That sentiment is what makes life
i in the workhouse bearable.
No Excuse for the "Vag."
Now, I don't believe that I am a
I hard-hearted man. I have to ask that
i so many^excuses be made for myself
j that I am willing to grant them for
j others. But I see no excuse for the
j workhouse vagrant.
..^ For the vagrant arrested because
he, according to law, has- no visible
-means of support, I have some sympa
thy. He works. He wears good
clothes. Diamonds adorn his shirt
front. To be sure, he works other
r people and is dishonest. But then he
, . wafks and he takes his chances of go
ing to the penitentiary.
» But . the workhouse vagrant never,
| .works. He is not honest. His honesty ,
doesn't come from principle, however,'
j but because it is too much trouble to
"be dishonest. . ■ = . .:;
He likes the workhouse.'- The curses !
of the guards are incense to his soul.
If he can play sick he enjoys tak
ing nasty tasting-medicines because;
they are free. If he can avoid lifting
a pin from the floor he is happy for
j a day. ~ ' '
After seeing his species at the j St.
I Paul workhouse, I ask:
"Is it any wonder that prisoners are
sometimes badly treated?"
—The Ten-Day Man. .
. , _<£» .
■ ' THE CAPTURE. ?.. *
Duck come switchin" 'cross de lot, ■
Hi. oh. Miss Lady!
i Hurry up an' hide de pot, -•-■■
Hi.'oh. Miss Lady!, ; .
j Duck's a mighty 'spielous fowl.
i Slick ez snake an' wise ez owl.
! Hoi' da t dog-, don't let 'im yowl, ■
Hi, oh, Miss Lady!
Th'ow dat con out kind c' slow,
Hi, oh. Miss Lady!
Keep yo'se'f behime de do',
I Hi, -oh. Miss Lady! '
! Lots o' food'il kill his feah.
; Con is cheap, but fowls is dean. -
I Come, good • ducky, come on heah. ":
- Hi, oh, Miss Lady!
I Ain't he fat, an' ain't he fine!
: Hi, oh, my . lady! ' ■. . - •
! Dcs cain't wait to mek him mine,
i Hi, oh, my lady! "
See him waddle when he walk: t
'Sh! keep still an' don't you talk!
! Got you! Don't you daih to squawk,
; Hi. oh, T my lady! - - .
I —Paul Laurence Dunbar in Ainstee's for
January. ,■' ■
—"
-~: A Sordid Philosophy. "" \. - j
I "What have you decided to do about the ,
man who publicly accuses you of putting
money into politics? ; ; ?- -
■r "Nothing," answered Senator Sorghum.
"He'll work out his own retribution. If he
keeps on" talking : that way people with
; money to spend will keep clear of him,
' and he'll'miss lots of good things." —
I Washington Star. v ■ :^ >^£ t
GENERAL GOSSIP
OF THE WORKERS
A Brief Review of Week's
Work of Every Nation
on the Globe.
Plumbers in England receive $10 34 a
week.
Cigarmakers of Dodge county, Wis.,
will organize a union. -~
Boot and shoeworkers at Omaha. Neb.,
have formed a union.
Striking boot and shoe operators at
Ipswich, England, have returned to work.
Female house servants command from
515 to $20 a month in South Africa.
Trade unions at Everett, Wash., have
oujjt a home for themselves at a cost of
During 1901 the amount paid in wages
for labor in the state of Ohio was $134,-
It is estimated that non-union "men do
not represent more than 20 per cent of
the various trades.
After Jan. 1, Boston (Mass.) newsboys
and bootblacks under fourteen years of
age will be licensed.
Bridge and structural ironworkers at
Cincinnati will present a new wage scale
to take effect Jan. 1.
Employes of the Memphis (Term.) street
railway company have secured an ad
vance of 1 cent an hour.
An hourly wags of 45 cents will be de
manded oy the Milwaukee (Wis.) bridge
and structural ironworkers after May 1,
J Jit), «
An energetic attempt is being made to
unionize the bakeries at Columbus. Ohio
by the journeymen Bakers' union at that
place.
Oregon labor unions are preparing child
labor, eight-hour and other labor meas
ures for consideration by the legislature
this session.
Window glassworkers have practieallv
severed their connection with the Knights
of Labor, having refused to send delegates
to the next convention.
It is reported that a number of labor
unions in the East propose to affiliate
with the American Labor Union, which
promises to put organizers in the field.
The Factory and Shop Report of
Queensland, Australia, states that in
every instance the proportion of female
to male employes in shops has greatly
increased.
Four hundred and seventy-three thou
sand miners work In the district covered
by the Miners' Federation of Great Brit
ain, and of these 347.000 are union men.
Calculating the annual industrial value
of a workman's life at $700, the Italian
office of statistics finds that Sicily lost
$-50,000 last year through deaths from
malaria.
Telephone operators at Vancouver, B.
C, have returned to work, the company
having come to terms with the local
branch of the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers.
painters in New Jersey work
forty-eight hours a week and average
$2.50 a day: non-union men, fifty-seven
hours and $1.80 a day, according to fig-
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THIS WILL INTEREST
EVERY LADY IN ST. PAUL
'..:-■-'•. V . . ". ■ :...'■ . " • ■ ,
Who desires to be attractive and good-looking. She who does not lacks an
Interest in herself that she should be ashamed of. Unless one's complexion
is faultless, unless it is free from disfiguring pimples, blackheads, moth
patches and all other similar facial blemishes so common to women, she
cannot be attractive, no matter how beautiful her features may be. Without
a clear, spotless complexion, she cannot be and is not considered good looking
by any one. The famous complexion specialists. •
"• *'
Of 78 and 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City,
Have Just arranged with MANNHEIMER- BROTHERS to show the Misses
Bell's celebrated Complexion Tonic to the ladies of St. Paul, and the sales
lady in Mannheimer's storo will explain to every lady the marvelous effi
cacy of the Complexion Tonic and its remarkable tonic effect on a skin cov
ered with freckles, pimples, blackheads, moth patches, redness, roughness or
oiliness of the skin, and wrinkles-not caused by facial expression. The Misses
Bell's COMPLEXION TONIC removes all these blemishes permanently and
bestows a complexion that is beautiful to look upon. The Complexion Tonic
is not a cosmetic to hide and cover up the blemishes, but a colorless liquid
that has a -tonic effect upon the pores of the skin, driving out the impuri
ties that clog up the pores and restoring the skin to the same delicate, vel
vety texture it was in infancy. The price of the Complexion Tonic Is 91.00
a bottle. ; -. '
Superfluous Hair on the Face, Neck or Arms
Can be removed permanently -by the Misses Bell's new discovery. KILL-ALL
HAIR. which removes this annoying and disfiguring blemish forever, and
kills the root of the hair so that it will never: return. -, In order that every
lady in St. Paul ntay.have an opportunity to test the merits of the won
derful KILL-ALL-HAIR, and see for herself its wonderful effect, the sales
lady, in MANNHEIMER BROS.' store at the toilet goods department will
give to every lady, FREE, a trial treatment of KILL-ALL-HAIR, which you
'can use yourself, and notice. its effect. For those ladies who live outside of
St. Paul, and who aro desirous of trying the wonderful "KILL-ALL-HAIR"
Treatment, the Misses Bell will send a trial treatment free if you •ill send
two two-cent stamps to the Misses Bell, 78 and 80 Fifth Avenue, New York
City. - - ' "
Ask the saleslady. In Mannheimer's to explain the merits of the Misses
Bell's Preparations to you, and have her show you the Misses Bell's CAPIL
LA RENOVA, for restoring gray hair to its natural color; the Misses Bell's
'HAIR TONIC for removing dandruff and curing itching, scaly and diseased
scalps; the Misses Bell's SKIN FOOD, a daintily scented ointment for use
before retiring, and the Misses Bell's LAMB'S WOOL SOAP, for the bath;
and toilet. '--..■; - .
Don't forget to visit the toilet goods department and ask to see tha
Misses Bell's Celebrated Toilet Preparations.
" ' X^_ Sixth &nd Robert Sts., St. Paul, Minn.' ; a.
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ures compiled by the bureau of labor of
that state.
The opinion recently rendered by at
torney General Hamlin, of Illinois: that I
the letting of contracts for the labor of
convicts m penal institutions of the state :
fs illegal, has given tho Arti-Convict La
bor league great encourag invent.
The Chicago (111.) Steam Power Coun-
Cll. t "assecured a satisfactory agreement
wuh the Building Managers' a^soL-iaiiprr.
About S< large buildings are included fin,
the compact and nearly 1,000 employes
will benefit by the agreement. '
Iron Holders' union of Indianapo is, ■■
Ind., is asking for an increase of 25 j »er
cent in wages. Conferences are being hfeld
with J:he different employers, and it con
fidently expected that tho raise will bo
granted, to become effective Jan. 1. j
Referendum ballot by the United Asso
ciation of Journeymen Plumbers. Gas and
Steam Fitters of the United States and
Canada has decided that after Jan. l
the dues shall be increased to 30 can* a
a week. The project for equalizing tho
matter of sick, death, strike and sufler- •
animated benefits was adopted. THere '
had been no uniformity in this matter
and some locals paid no benefits. J
The Cleveland Cliffs company, at Hlad
stone, Mich., has opened a club house
which it has built and equipped for the '
exclusive use of the employes of its'
Gladstone blast furnace. Aside frofti a
large reading room where magazines and!
newspapers will be kept on file, pcol
billiard tables, card tables and parapher
nalia for other similar pastimes have
been provided. The use of the club is free
to its employes.
Arrar gements have been made for a'
joirt conference of the iron working •
crafts affiliated with the Allied Metal <
Trades, to be held in Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. i
10. The conference is called to discuss '
the changes required in the wage agree
ments of these various iron working \
trades for the coming year. Among the i
trades which desire an advance in wages !
ai'3 the sheet metal workers, boiliimakers
and structural iron workers.
"Veterans in the service of the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation Company v/ill J
_oe benefited by the introduction of a i
"t>ension system to apply to those employ- \
ed continuously for twenty years or irore
and who have reached an age necessita
ting retirement therefrom.
Compulsory arbitration bills for the set- i
tlement of labor disputes will be present- i
ed before the Washington (state) leglsla- I
ture at this session. Briefly, tha bills
are three in number. One provides that
combinations of employers and employes |
may incorporate. The second provides for .
the establishment of courts of urbitra- 1
tion. The third provides that the incor- j
porated employes and employers may ap- i
peal to the said courts of arbitration for
redress of grievances, and that the de- j
cisions of the courts are binding for two
years. Only incorporated worklngmen j
are allowed the privilege of appealing to j
the courts, thus compelling all to oit;: j.!i
ize and incorporate if they wish to get ,
the benefits -of the law.
Thls Is a Codfish Joke.
Adlai Fl. Stevenson says he will not j
leave Bloomington. 111., until he goes to i
heaven. That is a compete and emphatic |
deniol of the report that he intends to
move to New Jersey.—Boston Globe. ,
Enough Will Be Plenty.
Minister Bowen, like an agent of tha
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Childr*er>, should see that President Cas
tro is not oveispanked.