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20 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE THE GLOEH CO.. PU3LISHER3 (Ml PAPER «^§|i^> CITY OF ST. PAUL .." • ■. •- * ■■■ Ertered st F c:tcff:ce at St. Fsul. Minn.,, ss Second-^ Class MaUsr. . TELEPHONE CALLS. ■ jvyrt^wßster"—Susiivsss. 1065 Mali. E-!tMr!iV 78 Ma!v - „ * :.'tm Tw!» City— Suslnass. 1065. EdltDrii!. 73. CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Carrier I I rta | ft moT .| 12 me» rniycniy... I .40 J2.25" ;*Too Ejiysnd Sunday | .50 2.75 5.00 f Er^ty . ... I .15 ~*-T73~' - 7:09 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTION?. ! •■"«•«>> .* .*)? i ; f-y Vail I 1 ma | 6 moa ">f?nfii tti'y rr-.ly I .25 I 51.50 £3.00 r.-!v end Sunday | .35 i 2.00 " 4.00 Surrey A| ... I .75 1.00 ERANCH OFFICES. New YcrV. 10 Srnice Street. Char H. Eddy In Chare*. Chicago. No. 87 Washington St.. Tha F. S. Webb Company In Chares SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1903. ~ MANNERS AND EDUCATION. Tn delivering the Founders' day address at the com mencement day exercises of Lawrenceville school, Treu lon, X. T.. last week. Bishop Potter declared that modern education dismissed good manners. "We are getting to be in such a hurry in America," he said, "tliat the ordi nary civilities are disappearing out of our education and our life." While it i.s true that manners, like charity, should be practiced first in the home, it is also true that the school room offers an excellent opportunity to the teach er to supplement the efforts of the parents, or to supply a lack that is the result of defective home training. By personal example and by well chosen anecdotes she can impress on her charges the value of kind hearts, for with out these, of course, politeness becomes a mere" veneer. But if the home training is directly opposed to these school lessons, teachers can accomplish little. U is to be regretted that in the majority of cases parents who are well-to-do set a false standard of worth for their children. Apropos of this, Bishop Potter" s*ai"d: "We arc face to face with a great social problem con cerning which the minds of most of us are moving upon distinctly wrong lines. No one who is conscious of the i! and industrial situation can be unconscious of the fact that the classes have drifted away from the masses." One would imagine that a public school would be a common meeting ground for the rich and the poor and that free intercourse there would, to a great extent, level the barriers that superior social opportunities have rais ed. But unfortunately such seems not to be Che case either in public schools or colleges. A teacher who has taught for many years in the schools of St. Paul touched upon this question in discussing a case the'other day/ "1 have in my room a very bright girl, an Icelander, who works for her board in order that she may obtfafrf ait edu cation. She is a girl of excellent character and r>t\- «{»«• parently. lovable qualities, but I do not beHeve -that ~9fee« has a friend in the school room. The other girls are pleasant to her, but the fact that she works fwher board bars her from all their social diversions. I feel sorry for the girl, but so far my efforts to make things more pleasant for her have been futile." Certainly that teacher cannot be blamed for the rudeness of these pupils, for their attitude is directly the result of home training. In the speech already quoted, Bishop Potter said: "It is impossible to create a demo cratic situation by creating a democratic form of govern ment. The solution of pending problems cannot be brought about by,legislation, but by a kindlier feeling on the part of all the classes." And this kindliness must begin in the home. When snobbishness and other evi dences of ill-breeding are banished from there, the les sons that the majority of teachers strive'to inculcate will be well and easily learned. Graduates, then, wilFfhintc less of modes and more of manners and the American standard of good breeding be raised. " Russell Sage will build a $30,000 mausoleum. And Hetty Gseeivhas purchased an automobile of the most expensive make. Are they trying to outdo each other in extravagance? : EXCELSIOR. Miss Annie S. Peck, a graduate of 'the 1 University of Michigan, sailed last week with a parly, of .scientists for. South America. She hopes to climb Mount Sorata, an Andean peak, which scientists claim to be the highest elevation on earth. Many men have failed in their at tempts to reach the summitt, but this does not discour age Miss Peck. Nor does the fact that she will have to. carry on her shoulders an oxygen tank for breathing purposes, give her pause. Miss Peck hopes to ascertain important geographical, archaelogical, topographical and meteorological facts. There are many people who think that-women have risen high enough. There are others who Relieve .that the greatest height possible to her sex has already been attained. With neither contention, apparently, does Miss Peck agree. To her, higher education represents bat so many steps up toward that ultima thule, the loftiest ele vation on earth. She will not be content untij she. has surpassed all the rest of the world and from a peak hith erto inaccessible has looked down on mere man. To many her aim will doubtless represent the worst result of the higher education—an unfeminine desire to rush in where men have failed to tread. In Longfellow's immortal poem, it will be remembered, it was a maiden who sought to stay the youth who had his eyes fastened on a high peak. The poem illustrates" how times 'have changed and women with them. She has seized the banner herself and if any men are with her when she plants it on the topmost peak, it will he because they have followed in her footsteps. All the honor will be Miss Peck's. But her quest seems to be as reprehensible as the deed itself. She goes in search of facts—cold, hard facts, as Mr. Dickens most appropriately labeled them. Had he also pronounced them unladylike, he would, doubt less, not have been criticised for it. Miss Peck climbs in the interests of geography, arehaclogy, topography and meteorology. This is flattering, of course, to the 'ographics and 'ologies, but what is their luck is mere man's misfortune, for Miss Peck is said to be young and comely. But the fact that so much sweetness is to be wasted on an Andean peak is but an aggravation of her offense. Alexander Selkirk did net enjoy being monarch of all he surveyed. Is it not probable that Miss Peck will find, when "like a sweet little cherub she sits up aloft," that scenery palls and that a high altitude is uncomfort abiy frosty? Having climbed in the interests of science. is it not probable that she will descend in her own in terest and that of humanity? The old-time lover used to kill himself when his love tvas spurned. Now he kills the girl. SETTLING WITH THE SHERIFF. In Minneapolis tomorrow the sheriff Vill proceed to fevy on those of its citizens who have neglected to pay their persona! taxes. It is not the ttadaly rich,tux-dodger who is to be made to settle, but that other class of lax dodgers who simply ignore tlie tax assessor and who are arbitrarily assessed. The sheriff /will start out a number of vans, each under the direction of a deputy sheriff, who will be armed with power to levy upoi*. and take away such property of the person who has not paid his taxes as may be necessary to liquidate the coun ty's bill. The experiment will be new in this section and it will be worth while to observe the outcome. If the peo ple of the town up the river exhibit one-half of the enter prise in defying the sheriff as their representatives in of fice have in carrying off the public funds and increasing .thereby the burden of taxes the vans will not be over worked. It is to be regretted that these means have to be re sortedto in Minneapolis for the collection of taxes, for it ds a sort of reflection on St. Paul. Since the capital of Minnesota waslocafed by a great editor in Minneapolis, people abroad have got in the habit of mixing the two towns. Of course Minneapolis has features that are not to be regarded cheaply. It is the home of that distin guished financier and politician, Col. Thomas Lowry. Col. Tom is not to be sneezed at as a feature or an at traction. On the other hand, it is the rendezvous of the Ames family—and that almost stands off the advantage afforded by the possession of the street car magnate. It is the head of navigation—for air ships. Sometimes they make flour up the river. But all the time they have queer public officials and the burden of taxation is something to be viewed with awe. St. Paul does not like to be identified with Minne apolis for many reasons, hence we deplore the necessity for collecting taxes by force of arms-—people in foreign parts will think the practice is common to the Twin Cities. St. Paul people have not yet got to the point where they pay their taxes only when threatened with a seiz ure. They sometimes pay up with bad grace, but they do pay. Therefore are we constrained to invite our brethren up the river to settle and have done with it. What's the use of making the deputy sheriffs who took^ their jobs because they were too strong to drive moving vans actually work? Baroness Isacescu, Princess Obelensky and Countess Lubomirsky will swim the English channel. The first thing they will have to do, of course, will be to discard their names. THE AMERICAN DERBY. With all its trumpery pretensions, its shoddy imita tion of society and its vain exploitation of the field of art —in the pursuit of pelf—Chicago makes good just once a year in making a success of a big affair. The American Derby is undoubtedly a big turf event, the biggest, all things considered, in this country. There are other races that are worth more to the winner and some other events are quite as largely attended, but for widespread interest among horse owners in the great breeding districts of the country there is none of the race events that touches the Washington park affair. The English Derby has developed in the course of- «many. years, but even now it is a Cockney holiday rather than a great racing event. The great value of the prize and the fame that is won by the Derby winner make horse owners eager to try for the stake, but there are other races in England that attract greater attention from the more exclusive breeders. All England watches the event of the Derby and the sporting Cockney's year ,is««sJ*Lrked by two great trials, the Derby and university waiving match. . . -■•- i i ,„ . We of the West are growing to our Derby, but it .must be admitted that we are taking to it kindly. Horse, owners have been inspired to get better results by the possibilities held out to the breeder of a Derby winner. It -sis.: a tremendous thing for a comparatively unknown horse, like the winner of yesterday's race to win over such a field, in the presence of 70,000 wildly enthusiastic admirers of the horse, and take down a stake worth al- $25,000. It brings the horse, his owner and jockey• fame> in plenty and adds enormously t»-the value of the animal. Picket was yesterday morning a little known beast who was recognized by a few as having a chance to make his mark. Today his name is heralded all over the world, he is regarded by some hundreds of thousands of Americans as the ruler of the turf and his owners are rich men—if they backed their entry. ,' Let us then admit that Chicago is not altogether, pinchbeck. It has a redeeming feature which it actually justifies for admirers of the horse and the credit of the town may yet be redeemed by the American Derby. King Peter of Servia has ordered his crown. That, of course, was a simple matter. The difficulty will be in keeping it on straight. &<x<!&h*i A Hackensack weather prophet has predicted. that overcoats will be worn July 4. Well, no one has packed his in camphor yet. Lord Beaconsfield once said that assassination nev er changed history. No, but it always inserts a new date in the history book. Cariveau seeks to immortalize in poetry the sweet girl graduates of the Central high school. But who is Cariveau? That Kentucky juryman who held out against con viction probably saved the lives of all the other jurymen I.'1.' EDITORIAL EXPRESSIONS. Living Down Reputation. The larger part of the traveling men who attended the U. C. T. convention here last week, left the city Sat urday night or yesterday afternoon, and a signally suc cessful meeting terminated. It was successful in moax. ways than one, and the visitors went away with a gocji taste in their mouths. The meeting was characterized especially by the ex cellent behavior of the large crowd of men who came here to take part and look on. The officials of the U. C. T., as well as the Duluth people who had a hand in their entertainment, were loud in their expressions of praise for the drummers. It used to be, a long time ago, the traveling men say, that the typical drummers were sporty high-flyers, and general all-round rowdy-dowdy boys. But today it is far different. The men oi the road today are gentle, kind and meek and are riot of the. boisterous class. The traveling men resent the imputation that the profession is still as it was, when the "cold bolVe and hot bird" game was apparently the sole object of life for them. The business conditions have changed, they say, until the profession demands strictly sober men to transact the representative business that they do. This observation was borne out by the deportment and conduct of the men who came to the Duluth gather ing. With several hundred men turned loose from the cares of business, and with a holiday, away from home, among congenial company, with no restraint whatever, they attended to the business and social duties presented with a will that was admirable.—Duluth Herald. Flood Lays Bare Political Pretensions. Tension Commissioner Ware has been roundly de nounced for saying that Kansas did not need outside help for the sufferers by flood, and pointing to the pkthoric condition of the banks as proof of a prosperous condi tion. It turns out that those bank balances were for political illustration purposes and not evidence of the real condition of Kansans. Peffer appears to have mow"-" ed his whiskers too soon, according to this wail from~the drowned. —Rochester (N. V.) Herald. Kara's Troubles Only Begun. The* choice of Piince Peter Kara Georgevitch to Ye king of Servia and his acceptance of the throne probably tire but the beginning of the troubles for the just grad uated king, who for some time has been inhausting" smoke at Geneva. That he takes his life in his hands who ascends the Balkan thrones is obvious in view of ihe experience of his predecessor in Servia.—BosTOif journal. Species Is Not Extinct. Queen Draga was not the only beautiful but bad woman on earth* There are a few others.—Chattanooga- News. THE ST. PAUL-GLOB^ SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1903. It is not ofts j^jat anything so en terprising comfte Mit of the South as Mr, William JT Farr. or J. William Farr, as he frequently signs himself. But when it is known that Mr. Farr calls Chicago home, it can be seen tha*t- he comes naturally by his talent. Mr, Fair wentSotith and established himself at Nashville, where he opened the. National police of Law, taught legal intricacies while you wait, and is suad degrees of LL. D. for the small sum of $10. The number of LL. D.'s that are now to be found in that vi cinity is tremendous. The letter that accompanies the degree is another evi dence of Mr. Farr's genius. Among other things he says: "I have the honor to inform you that the honorary degree of doctor of laws (LL. D.) has be«n conferred upon you by this cor poration, and could your friends feel the unostentatious ecstacy which now pervades the recesses of your heart in rejoicing in your happiness, I am sure they would say, 'It* is well * * *'" There is more of the same, all of which shows Mr. Farr to be worthy of the city that gave him to the world. He shotfld go down into history, if for nothing else than originating that charming expression "unostentatious ecstacy." It is presumed that when the $10 pour in Mr. Farr sees no harm in a little ostentatious ecstacy. There is a man in Los Angeles who has attained fame without ever lifting his finger. His name is Huddleston, and he is President Roosevelt's double. So« remarkable is the resemblance that when away from home, Mr. Huddle ston is constantly pointed out as the president. In this way Mr. Huddleston is enabled to enjoy the fruits of dis tinction without any of its dangers, such as being surrounded by secret service men in sik hats, or living in constant fear of anarchist plots. The president's double has by far the best of it. One of the Shibboleths of vthe time is the elevating influence of education and the value of culture in uplifting men. Strange then, is it to read of a case of a highly educated man with a cultivated mind whose present—and perhaps permanent—address is Sing Sing, New York.' The name of this student is "Al Adams, and is known as the policy king of New York. His greatest pleasure and recreation is reading the best literature, and it was probably during a moment of philo sophic thought that he did the careless thing which turned his steps towards the Sing Sing hotel that the state keeps for the absent-minded. Since his res idence at this'resort. Mr. Adams has been engrossed in the works of Dante, which he particularly appreciates, and Drummond's "Natural Law in the Spiritual World,", which is a great fa vorite of his, as are also the works of Thoreau. Mr. Adams is a cultured gentleman, in spite of his surround ings, appears always well dressed, with his fingers carefully manicured, and is altogether a specimen of the finest up-to-date criminal. He is rais ing the standard of Sing Sing by re maining there. Though Mr. Adams de sires only the society of the best liter ature, a rough and uncouth man who" is hired to wait' upon the gentlemen guests of the establishment awakened him the other day from his studies of the "Inferno," and told him rudely that, he would hereafter be obliged to make mats. Every scholar who has been torn from his academic seclusion and from his precious books will feel a sympathy with Mr. Adams in his un congenial avocation. Time was when this was a free country, but the day is now far in the past, and we are so surrounded by laws and hemmed in by restrictions, that liberty has Micome a by-word. This is apropos- of a most annoying rule that has just been made at Hart ford by the New York, New Haven & Hartford road which deprives young persons from throwing rice after the newly wedded. If the bridesmaids and ushers of the entire country should form a union and then declare a strike, it would be only what coulti be ex pected after this iniquitous ruling. What, we would like to ask, have rail- road corporations with no souls to. do . y>ri£h brides and grooms and rice? This is in line with the outrageous re quest of another road that there shali be no kissing between the departing and the stay-at-homes, as it makes lire 1 train late! If the trains ar« notufor tfre. accommodations of the traveling •public, may we presume to inquire what they arc fo£? The reason given by^.the road for the rule about rice throwing is that itl prevents other per sons from getting on the train and sometimes they sfip on the rice and are hurt. In othe*nvords they may sue the . road. But what :&o brides and grooms care how mam*; ot-ker persons get upon •••the train and whether they slip or not? Rice-throwing is -a matter that should' not be interfered with by station agents who have'outlived sentiment. . An exchange says that brick picture hats are the tfeshion. They must !tHP ifttended for heavy swells. "First aid to the injured in St. Paul ,js.. usually a rfde^toi the patrol wagon. The only comfort in the cold weather of the past week was that is pre vented the girls from wearing their thin waists on the street. —Mab. St. Paul, June 20, 1903. , Minnesota—Fair Sunday,' except show ers in southwest portion. Monday fair in north; showers in south portion; variable winds. : ■: ■•:■•»-■■•' -r? ■-<■■". ,'.■';,.„. •-,:. J Upper —Generally fair Sunday and Monday; fresh north winds, becoming variable. : -■■■-■•■:•. Wisconsin—Fair Sunday; ■ warmer ■ hi southwest portion. Monday partly cloudy ! probably showers in south portion; varia ble. winds. " ; •■■-■.. -;.-. ■■:•.-' lowa—Fair Sunday, except showers and partly cloudy Monday. • . :■ '■'■ -■■■■ North Dakota— Sunday and Mon day; warmer Monday. ;.. ; South Dakota—Showers Sunday; warm er in extreme west and cooler in central: portions. Monday fair and warmer. I Montana^Showers . Sunday in west and i central, fair in east; -warmer in west and" south portions. Monday fair. . - v- St.: Paul—Yesterday's temperatures, taken by the United States weather bu reau, St. Paul, W. E. Oliver, observer for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night—Barometer corrected for tem perature and elevation. Highest tempera- » ture, 64; lowest temperature^ 55; aver age temperature,* 63; dayv range. 9; bar ometer, 29.87; humidity, ■ r?; precipitation' trace; 7 p. m. pernture, 61; 7 p. ml .wind, southeast V eather, partly cloudy Yesterday's 'Sent >eratures— ,, ; •BprtdHi®Pl: - - ' *BpmHigh i Alpena .5?,-«sw| Milwaukee .. 56 64 Battleford .. ..W^Qi Minnedosa -....64 66 Bismarck ... .$8 5 Montgomery .-..80 *90 Buffalo 1 f8 "IPMontreal ......66 72' Boston 54 -M Nashville 84 86 Calgary ..... 6C "jJS New Orleans.. 84 f»» Ch>yenne ... 5| ■*;.§? New York .. 64 68 Chicago .... ..S*.-. SB Norfolk " .;......70 80" "Cincinnati „ ...® J I North Platte. .72 76 Cleveland . ...6f !j«6 Omaha ...;...74 84 T>etroit ft f$ Philadelphia ..68 68 Duluth ....... is >i*t) Pittsburj* . 68 68 "Orand Haven.66 .68Qu'Appelle-"-.. .62 64 Green Bay . if • "Frisco -..-.... 54 5$ H^ena •£s"«'£? St. Louis ..;. 76 i 82 Huron .......fl^P Salt Lake 80 82 «iJHoksonville ..ft :-»>!Ran Antonio...Bß 90 Kansas City .ft. ■'JplS. Ste. Marie.. 62 -M&rquette .. .5* |f$ .Washington .. 74 76 Memphis .... 88 fl9o[Winnipeg -... 66 70' -Medicine Hat. 70 f/ 70} . ■:. -.;, . ww • *.Washineton time <7 p. m. St. Paul). •_ River Bulletin— ". *^.^, . Danger Gauge Change ■_*".:- Line.'".ding. 24 Hrs. St. Pau1....-....14 4.5 ' o.l< La Crosse ...... 10 6.6 0.3 Davenport ....... 15 '8.3' —0.4 St. Louis ... 7..30 -I- 26.3. •- —3.3 —Pall. r The. Mississippi will remain -nearly, sta tionary during the next thirty-six hours in the vicinity of St. Paul. - Men, Wbmen ?.'« and Things TODAY'S WEATHER. Sunbeams from the South ' : By FRANK L. STANTON. ==: THE DEVIL'S DANCING LESSON. BROTHER DICKEY'S PHILOSOPHY. Brer Jinkins say dat. dancin' gwfne ter lan* us in de place De goM at-de end er de Rainbow is got de fool's run- Wnar dey ain't no ice in summer, en dey's wood en coal nln' wild 'twel dis day. ' ter was'e! En he, helt ter dat opinion 'twel he met up wid de Hants. De problem c/ £c Sun gwine out don't bother me at all. JiJi de Devil tell him "Howdy," en de Devil make him How ter support de Son-in-law is what gits me dance! Some folks spen's half dey life huntin' fer trouble, en Lef foot, Brer Jinkins— • de yuther half in ciissin' out de worl' kaze dey foun' it " Lef foot en right, ' Dancin' wid de devil Dis is a g^reat country fer folks ter rise in; but it would On a Sunday-meetin' night! take a ton er dynamite ter sen' some er dem higher. De Devil make a music what wuz louder dan a ban's, pc fattes' 'Possum is always on de highes' tree, en it's En kep' Brer Jinkins gwine ter de clappin* er his nan's; mighty seldom de harricane comes ter blow him down Brr Jinkins say he toired, but de Devil say, "Keep on!-» ter v*.. I never see such dancin'- sence de day dat I wuz bo'n!" DlS'thing dey calls Civilization is well enough in its Lef foot, Brer Jinkins— way, but what we needin* in dis country is mo' picnics in Lef foot en right, de woods. Dancin' wid de devil - On a Sunday-meetin' nightl De small Man in de big place is lak a Lizard in de He say.de bell a-ringln\ en hits time fer him ter go— sunshine, wavin' his blanket en tellin* creation dats he's "Dey'U tun me out er meetin' ef I double-shuffle so! M a Alligator. But de Devil make him answer he mus' go It anyhow— ; "You got ter dance Hereafter, so you better l'arn it now!" De ears er a Jackass is long enough ter hear ev'thing dat gwine on, but de po' creetur' ain't hardly got brains Lef foot, Brer Jinkins— enough ter flop 'em. Lef foot en right, Dancin' wid de devil De way 'er de Transgressor is hard, onless he tuck On a Sunday-meetin' night! enough money wid him w'en he lef de Bank ter lay in a _. tr j. .' supply ef feather-beds. En fum den ontel de present—on de big road en de street, "*-" Brer Jinkins keeps a-gwine wid a shuffle in his feet! _ , , , _1 " m En he don't want any fiddle, or de music er de ban's, . .?^ 9 f veral reasons wh^ Wisdom don't cry out in Fer dey sez he hear de Devil dcs a-clappin' er his nan's! J e t blg ™a<?: *n df °™ 1S dat de F°Ql SaVeS de trouble by doin all de hollerin'. Lef foot en right De sayin> is> you mU3> fi Sht de Devil wid fire; but dat Dancin' wid de devil 3° n>t 'd°-kaze-lie's use ter it. En ef you th'ow water on On a Sunday-meetin' night! hlm yoU Only raise mo" steam! > Dey may be a time a-comin' w'en de Lion en de Lamb LIVELY TIMES IN BILLVILLE. will lay down tergedder, but, jedgin* fum de way things Is gwine on now it's my opinion dat de Lamb won't lay "Well, sir." said the Billville citizen, "ef they ain't a dar long, power o' confusion in the skies atter a-while, I'll give it UP! "What's the trouble?" THE RATTLESNAKE'S INVITATION. "Well, over yander is Deacon Jones, prayin' fer rain, De Rattlesnake tell de Mockin'biii an' jest 'crost the way is Elder Brown petitionin' fer dry! He sing so fur en fas', A*n' the whole poperlation's crowdin' 'roun', bettin' which'll Hit's mighty hard ter r/ar him win; an' the High Sheriff's done sarved notice to all of 'Way down dar, in de grass. 'em to appear in court an' answer to the charge o' gamblin' in Futures, an' he says he'll git enough cash out o' the "I wish you please come nigher, gang to finish the Artesian well an' paint the Town Hall." En den you'll fill de bill, En w'en I rings de breakfas' bell I'll feas' you—dat I will!" A PROVIDENTIAL THUNDERSTORM. "Yes; suh." said the pious colored brother, "it wuz de biggest' thunderstorm dat ever I seed sence de days I raise "wL you gits thoo' won fbe enough '^wuzr Pr°VidenCe WUZ in R ' atteF aIL What's lef er me, ter sing!" "It sho f wuz! De lightnin' flashed his lantern, lak he done los somepin', en had ter fin't it fo' de sto'm blowed riICT A , .-... c c . wnD over, en peared lak he got so mad kaze he couldn t fin it, dat he lit in ter hittin' ev'ythin' in strikin' distance, en he A Billville prisoner addressed the following note to a strick 'bout twenty big trees, en split 'em inter kindlin' friend on the outside: wood, dcs de wideness er de fireplace at home, en no sooner "Dear Bill: I want my case postponed till the next did he do dat dan here come a mighty harricane, en lifted term o' court. Please invite the Judge to take a ride be de wood, en piled it up, house-high, in de yard! En w'en hind the hoss that killed yer mother-in-law, an' spill him •I seen dat, I lef de plow in de furrer, give de mule a holi- in the big road, an' cripple him so's he'll have ter take to day, en tuck out a license fer a woodyard!" his about two weeks, or better; or, ef he won't go ,a-ridin'/wij& you, couldn't you manage to shoot him in HDnri^Aßvn the.leg fer me? Ef you'll do this fer me, Bill, I'll call you ROOKABY. m y friend'fdrever!" ,, Angels comin' tip-toe down de stairway er de sky; *■* .* Singin' bird'll wake you in de rnawnin' by-en-by, ! TOUGH PROPOSITION. Rockaby, my purty li'l Honey! ■ >- • ~« i= -*K«rmel>" said the colored campigner, "you know it ... Rockaby, my Honey—en a heap— takes money ter drum up votes?" Rockaby, my Honey—shet yo' li'l eye; .."AH .right. Here's a dollar?" W'en de mawnin' Sunshine thoo' yo li'l winder peep, "Much, obleeged ter you, Kunnel; but it'll take 'bout a Tell me what de angels been a-sayin' in yo* sleep— dollar en er quarter ter 'lect a man lak you." Rockaby, my purty li'l Honey! (Copyright, 1903, by Frank L. Stanton.) Grist of the Political Mill According to the Washington dis patches the president yesterday called time on an ugly scrap in the ranks of the Minnesota Republicans, and set tled the location of the general land office. The president signed the com missions of J. D. Jones, register, and Bert Oakley, receiver, which means that the Cass Lake proclamation stands. ■ The settlement of the long-drawn out land office fight is not alone a de cisive victory for the Sixth congres sional, district, but it is a brilliant j|ftaj;her in the new congressional cap of Congressman Buckman, of Little • Palls. Six months ago the Sixth dis trict stood to be torn up by the re moval of the St. Cloud office to Cass Lajce or some other point in the upper end of the district and see two offices Settled upon the Ninth district. As it is St. Cloud and Cass Lake both ■have land offices and the Sixth district stalwarts the plums incident thereto. It was Buckman's first fight as a .cpn-gressman. If St. Cloud lost its land office Buckman's pick would be broken in turbulent Steams county. If the upper end of the district were not equipped to transact its land busi ness at home, the northern leaders were prepared to be restive. The new congressman managed to pull off the proclamation and then found that he had to fight a movement to reverse him led by Tarns Bixby, who wanted the land office located at Bemidji. If Buckman lost after the signing of the original proclamation, it meant a loss of prestige that would go a long way to offset the remarkable majority by which he was elected last fall. If he won after Bixby had given it out that he would make the president listen to reason his prestige would be increased several fold. Plainly it was up to Buckman to bestir himself. The Little Falls man heard Bixby would be in Washington to finish up the Sixth district's discomfiture. He drift ed through St. Paul, managing to evade his friends and the newspaper men, and reached Washington a day ahead of the reported smashing of things by Bixby, Prank Eddy called on the president yesterday to say a pleasant farewell. Eddy is returning to Minnesota, whicn means that in a few days gubernatorial gossip will again occupy a prominent place in the affections of the para graphers and political writers. Eddy has been out of the state three weeks but his friends staid behind and now tjo one pretends to believe that Frank Eddy is not hunting the gubernatorial nomination with large ammunition. Members of the legislature and oth ers In close touch with the political pulses of their several communities who have been in St. Paul recently have taken cognizance of the fact that the Eddy boom, though comparatively noteless* is a very lusty infant. It may be bad form to run for the nom ination a year before the convention, but strong men here and there pledged to do their best will bring others into the fold and unless the Eddy tire is effectually punctured by some unfor seen circumstances, the gentleman from Glenwood will go into the next convention a formidable quantity. Pease, of the Anoka Union, is not impressed with the practicability of the alleged schemes for consolidation iv beat Robert C. Dunn out of the nomination as Van Sant's successor. He says: "What's this? A combination being formed to put Bob Dunn out of the race. Isn't that biting off more than can be safely masticated?" —George A. VanSmlth. P^udweiseFs^Fourdt ufChuiy | Und id came to pass dot der schmall: poy shall be silent on der- Fourdt of Chuly. Vot a great text dot vould be for some goot blayer to get ub und mage a spiel for der schihallpoy.- To tell der truth I don't lige^kl, -dec vay some uf dose "achitatoraLV.are.chumping on der schmall poys' Fourdt uf Chuly chust because he iss 's'ehn'iall tlnd cant vote. I vos a schmall poy metnselluf vonce. I haf nod^fosgotitea id, und. I hobe I neffer vill...;Dare iss only two events in der schmall poys yearly life —der Fourdt uf Chuly und- der circus. Id iss all he lifs for—yon grand antici pationings uf dose two sublime events vich bring so much choy to his kid heart. He safes der- leedle pennies, does all kinds uf any olt chobs to mage more monies to see der elephant und to buy schooding crackers, pistol caps und dings lige dot. :Vy he don't schleeb nights thinking aboudt der noise he iss going" to mage on der Fourdt. Und to dink dot a few round heads vant to spoil id all. Aeh! Gott forbid id. Id should nod be so % Led 'em alone. Uf dare iss any yon sick in der block, speak to der.. p,oys aboudt id und dey vill be chentlemens" und mofe ub in der next black. . Led dem mage all der noise dey vant. I know dare iss a dancherousness connectioned mit der fireworks und boom shells vich ye didn't had yen I vos a schmall poy. I don't lige dose big cannon crackers, und dey are nod necessary for der schmall poy's habbiness. He can ged along midout dem. I vould only do avay mit der deadly cannon cracker und der mud can, bud noddings else. I know some uf dem are bound to get hurt, bud id vos alvays so. und al vays vill be so. Uf you do avay mit his Fourdt uf Chuly schooding vy den dare iss nodding doing except dot he might go sohwimmins some blaes avay from der Public Bathings und get drownded. aindt id.; Now- let us be goot, und not forget our own child hood days yen we vos young und hab by und enchoyed der only habby days ye vill effer haf. Dit"you etfer stob to think aboudt id? Our troubles in life begin veil ye are grown üb. Id machts nix $ua how much money you got, how many bup ples you own, how many Houses you haf or how many debts you haf id iss all der same. A rou think und strife und plan und york und. r vorry aboudt tomorrow. How you must do this or iss id better dot you .do id som*. odder Sweet Girl Graduates Defend Them- selves. v_" . ' To the Editor of The Globe -* —As a favor to the class: of 1903 of the Central school we ask of you to publish these.statements in op position to an article given in the Dis patch of Friday. ■,The editor w.as.under the impression that.the.sweet girl was lost in extravagance arw*%vorldltness. As a rule the gowns are . inex pensive, being made of simple white goods, trimmed with lace. We are flat tered, indeed, to have* so blinded the editor as to have given him the impres sion of costliness. The designing and making of the gowns has in many cases been done by the graduate herself, but in . others t the , complete -gown : was a present, : given by outside friends, : - The' same applies to tire cutK day gowns. Both of these gowns r may be worn on many occasions to corrie, while a black cap i and gown, a»..«\2g&estc4. would bo of no use whatever. . . There was not one pair :of Mil trioves worn. The four pairs/ of gloves worn were *of Bilk. The neat coiffeurs were arranged by the girls' oAvn jhandf. French \ heela;; were df-cidodly "in the minority. Many of the girls wei'o,given flowers by kind friends, so this would cause no* expense on the -.-of* the parents. We will admit* that we have h.-ul two gowns in one week, but for all the girls this £ occasion la the fast odm^e* vay or uf you don't do id ad all vof! iss der liability uf id chumping ub und schlamming you between der face, . aindt it? But der schmall boy, does he vorry aboudt any ding? Ach, Gott! Nein. He stumbles his barefooted toe —he has a fight mid der big boy aroundt der corner und geds licked und runs home crying, maybe some odder boys steals his ball or his top, or throws'him in der face a stick —he cries aboudt id lige his young heart vould break, bud vot uf id, in an hour id iss aJI for gotten und he is habby again ofer someding else vich has came to his notice. No thoughts has he for to morrow unless id iss to ged ub early und ■go fishing. Habby childhood. How thou art to be envied. Und dis iss der poy dot ye vould deprife uf der Fourd uf Chuly schooding. Vot les son does id bring to him. Vot iss der Fourdt of Chuly? By der Greadt Pum pernickel und Schweitzer Kase, id iss der Independence Day uf der greatest nation in der vorld. How mem bosom svells mit a chestiness yen I say dot. I must say id again—Der Independence Day uf der greadtest nation in der Vorld—nod only der schmall poy bud all uf us shouldt ged oudt und mage a noise dot can be heard around der vorld. Ye are dare mit der goots und yen I read aboudt dose poor misguided peo ples vot vish to do avay mit der Fourdt uf Chuly id listens to me lige dey are forgetting der greatest day in der his tory uf our belofed country. So I say led der schmall poy alone, bring him ub to mage a noise on der Fourdt uf Chuly und see dot he knows vot id iss for und dot der stars und stribes stand for der greatest country In der vorld, vare kings und queens are no good unless you haf four uf dem. All hail der Glorious Fourdt of Chuly, led der eagle scream und der schmall poy sehoodt. Id's only for a day und led him mage id yon to be remembered. Long lif our glorious country—der stars und stribes und der Fourdt of Chuly mit ids schmall poys und fire crackers. Yen der day comes, und may id neffer came, yen ye shall as a nation become so forgetful vif der greadest event in our history dot ye shall pass id in silence und muzzle der schmall poy on dot date, den I am all in. Louie, me und you to her high bridge side by each und den dare vill be maybe fireworks alvays. Yes? —Budweiser. insist on the caps and gowns. We f>?el certain that the editor is the only one who views the class from such a standpoint. _ —Two Members of the Class. At the Hotels "I heard a funny little thing while I was down in York state recently," said Howard Estes. of the "Windsor fast night. - "I was in a saloon, wheso they had a German*, orchestra to play in the evening, but it happened,to be in tho morning when 1 dropped In an/1 they were busy rehearsing a now piece. "All at once the ierulcr, a man right from tho fatherland, got exasperated and shouted: 'D\v*ii iv.ore on dose notes —cut 'em longer. Dos« ana dree quarder notes? —dree-quarder r.t.s, by goily, yust like 75 cents.* Ingenious simile, r/asn'tit? 11 Those from the Northwest at the Windsor last night: V. C. DocUltle, Spokane; F. C Howard and wlf«?. West Superior, Wis.; William H. Snllman, NorthJield.. Minn.; F. A. Nelson, I^e Setter, Minn.: A. C. McCoy, Byron; Mary 11. Bonn, Ashland, Wis.; B. & McLVKUi-i. Bemldjt. Minn.