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PEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET.
For Mayor ROBERT A. SMITH
For Comptroller MICHAEL J. DALY
For Treasurer GEORGE REIS
For Aldermen at-Large—
JOHN DOWLAN, JOSEPH minea,
•BERNARD ryan, CHARLES H.PETSCH,
Louis n. dion, william hamm.
For Aldermen—
First Ward WILLIAM JOHNSON
Second Ward.... COLEMAN J. FLAHERTY
Third Ward PATRICK CONLE Y
Fourth Ward.... PATRICK T. KAVANAGH
Fifth Ward WILLIAM BANIIOLZER
"Sixth Ward JAMES MELADY
(Seventh Ward FREDERICK D. HAGER
Eighth Ward JOSEPH MATZ
.Ninth Ward JOHN F. GEH AN
Tenth Ward ALEXANDER ADAMS
Eleventh Ward DANIEL BAKER
For Associate Justice of the Munici
pal Court JAMES SCHOONMAKER
For Justice of the Peace (Lower
District) FREDERICK NELSON
tor Justice of the Peace (Upper
District) FRANK C. BURGESS
Tor Constable (Lower District)
.;:. THOMAS BRENNAN
For (.unstable (Upper District)
THOMAS WARD
HELLO!
HELLO!
HELLO !
Everybody will Read
'Mrs. CUTHBERT HOPE"
"A story from within the
church and society"
"BY THE ABBE,"
Taken from the note-book of a
prominent St. Paul citizen
and drawn with - the hand of
a Hawthorne or a Stevenson
bee next Friday's globe.
to-day's weather.
SrfixAi. Office. War Department, St. ■
Paul, Minn., April 23, 1888. 12:15 a. m.—
Indications for twenty-four hours commenc
ing at 7a. m. to-day: For St. Paul. Minne
■ ixilis mid viciniiv: Colder, followed hv
warmer, fair weather; light to fresh north
easterly winds. For Minnesota and Eastern
Dakota: Warmer, fair "weather; light to
fresh variable winds, generally becoming
southerly.
Note— On and after May 1, the official in
dications v, ill cease to be made at this office,
find will be resumed from the office of the
chief signal officer, Washington city. .^ •.- \.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
St. Paul, April 22.— The following obser
vations were made at 8:18 p. m., local time:
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St Paul.... 30.24 40; Omaha.. .. 30.10 56
St. Vincent 30.30 38 Huron 30.30 42
IMoorhead . 30.34 421 Yankton .. 30.22 48
Duluth 30.28 34 Ft. Totten. 30.38 40
I.H Crosse. 30.22 38 Bismarck. 3i'.38 42
Milwauk'e. 30.12 38 Helena.. .. 29.88 62
Marquette. 30.22 30 Ft. As'b'ne 30.02 58
Chicago.... 30.08 36 Mertic'e II
I>es Moines 80.14 50 Q.u' Ap'lle. .;..;. ..
.St. Louis.. 29.92 58 Minnedosa 30.38 34
Ft. Smith.. 29.96 72 Fort Garry 30.38 34
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Register next Tuesday.
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Register to-morrow; it will be your
last chance.
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No max should lose nis vote. Regis
ter to-morrow. _
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Your vote is needed; don't forget to
register to-morrow.
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Now let congress take a fresh start
and give the tariff a whack.
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To-morrow is the last chance for
those who have not registered^
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□ Dakota seems to be as productive of
political news as congress itself.
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□Let us hope the St. Paul base ball
club will keep it up. St. Paul would
make a very good resting place indeed
for the pennant.
It is to be hoped that it will not take
over-much gold to mine the silver said
to have been discovered in the North
Superior region.
One flood which is ever welcome is
the flood of immigration, and it is be
ginning to set in to the Northwest at a
pretty lively rate.
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New England wants one of St.
Paul's ministers. Even in the matter
of salvation the West is able to give the
effete East instruction.
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The European "war cloud" is loom
ing up again. The wheat speculators
are bound to have war .even if it is
necessary for them to do all the fighting
themselves.
m
.
The building of a few hundred houses,
would do away with the general com
plaint regarding the altitude of rents.
Houses should go up and rents should
come down.
The elements may provide for street
sprinkling once in a while, but it will
not do to depend upon them. St. Paul's
street-sprinkling system is susceptible
of improvement.
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Anthony Oomstook seems to have
gotten himself into hot Water in New
York. Having aided in getting a good
many other men into- hot water, he
probably doesn't mind it much.
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Mr. Blame will probably smile very
significantly to himself, after looking
carefully aiound to see that no corre
spondent is near by, when he receives
his file of American papers announcing
that John Sherman is iv the lead for
the presidency.
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A LABOR DKPARTME.VT.
The O'Neill bill establishing a de
partment of labor, which passed the
lower house of congress last week, will
probably be asphyxiated in tlie Re
publican senate. Yet it is a measure of
real merit, and ought to pass. The
general design of the. labor department
which is to be created under this bill
is to diffuse among the -people* of this
country information on all subjects con
nected with labor, and the best means
of promoting the welfare ■of the work
ingmen and .workingwomemy The bill
provides in detail that the department
shall be in charge of a commissioner to
be appointed for four years, at a salary
of $5,000 a year. In addition to gather
ing labor statistics, the commissioner;
will be required to ascertain and report
upon the effects of the tariff : upon
agricultural industry, and especially
on the mortgaged indebtedness of
farmers. . The bill also provides that the
commission shall inquire and estimate
what articles are controlled by trusts
and what effect such "trusts" have had
in limiting production and in main
taining prices. '". '■'_% "'.-.
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THE STATE ENCAMPMENTS.
The preparations already making for
the encampments of the Minnesota mi
litia indicate that the out-of-door train
ing which the troops will receive this
year will be more thorough than any
they have yet received. It is to be re
gretted that the demands which their
various occupations make upon the men
are so great that the time of encamp
ments must necessarily be extremely
limited. Nevertheless, much may be
accomplished even in the brief space of
a week or ten days if the encampments
are regarded in the right spirit, as sea
sons of hard educational work instead
of periods of merrymaking and holiday
enjoyment.
Of course it all depends upon the com
manding officers whether they shall be
placed in the one class or the other.
But the high degree of efficiency which
the Minnesota militia has already at
tained in all that pertains to the duties
of the soldier, and its superiority over
that of neighboring states, is a sufficient
demonstration of the way in which the
encampments have been profited by in
the past, and promise enough of the
good results that maybe gained from
them in the future.
One week of practical outdoor life
under military discipline is worth a year
of instruction in the armory, and there
is every reason to believe that such
training will be appreciated by the Min
nesota troops in the right way. But it
would be well if the national govern
ment, joining with the states, would
pursue a more liberal policy toward the
militia during their encampments. As
it is, there are certain expenses which it
is almost unavoidable that individual
companies must themselves bear, and
in defraying which the meager en
campment pay is entirely inadequate.
In times of emergency the dependence
of both state arid nation must be, as it
has been in the past, upon the militia,
and the policy to be pursued toward it
can hardly, therefore, err on the side of
generosity.
ALEX, COME OVER.
The probable ascendency of Prince
William to the throne as the successor
of Germany's dying emperor, Fred
erick, will, without doubt, render the
union of those royal lovers, Prince
Alexander, formerly of Bulgaria, and
Princess Victoria, daughter of Fred
erick, exceedingly difficult, if not im
possible. Bismarck has thus far suc
ceeded in postponing the marriage, and,
as he thoroughly dominates William,
the latter may be expected to bring his
sister's love story to an abrupt ending
by forbidding the bans.
Inasmuch as the contemplated union,
contrary to the usual course of royal
alliances, is said to be a real love match,
tne Obstacles wnicn nave l.ugu-u-u
the course of this true love -are all the
more unfortunate. It is not long since
Alexander's bravery, when as ruler
of Bulgaria he drove the king of Servia
out of his country, gained the applause
of the world and showed him to be a
young fellow worthy of every good
fortune.. Having dared so much, then,
when but a paltry kingdom was at
stake, it is very likely that he will have
courage enough to defy a gouty and j
choleric old premier, who decades ago
forgot the meaning of the word "love,"
and a prospective brother-in-law who is
arrogant and obstinate on principle,
when the prize to be gained is his lady
love, and one who all accounts agree in
saying is worthy of all devotion.
But with William and Bismarck su
preme in Germany there seems to be
but one resource left for Alexander.
Let him recall the feats of chivalry
which even now are extolled in Ger
man minstrels y, of the brave knights
who, reveling in opposition, made off
with their ladies fair on the pommels of
their saddles and dared pursuit. Such
a romantic ending to a courtship may
be rather impracticable in the prosaic
Germany of to-day, but the avenues
from Berlin are many, and a railroad
and ocean steamer make very good sub
stitutes for the speedy steed of the olden
time. .Let Alexander steal away his
bride and come over to America. He
will find a warm welcome awaiting him.
And in the fullness of time, becoming
a citizen, he may get elected to con
gress by an admiring constituency, and
be in a position to snap his finger at the
boasted power of the unroinantic chan
cellor and the imperial brother-in-law.
It is every voter's business to see
that his name is on the poll list.
Next Tuesday will be your last
chance, . : _
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TRUE CIVILIZING.
With so much cant and arrant non
sense generally prevailing in the East re
garding the oppressed and abused noble
red man, it is refreshing, to occasionally
come across some one who paints the
Western Indian in something like his
true colors, and who recognizes the
utter impracticability of most of the"
schemes devised for his benefit.
At a recent conference of clergymen
in Philadelphia one member electrified
the assemblage, which had been discuss
ing the usual Utopian plans for civilizing
the Indian, by declaring that the red men
needed soap and water more than they
did the gospel, and that, in fact, a lib
eral use of soap was necessary before
any "practical benefit could be expected
from a general inculcation of the Bible.
Of course there was an uproar; but the
speaker, who had been an army chap
lain, and who spoke of the Indians from
personal observation, sustained his
ground well against adversaries who
were obliged to admit that their prin
cipal knowledge of the Indian had been
gained through the medium of Coop
er's novels.
There will never be a practical so hi
tion of the Indian question until the
nonsensical . sentimentality surround
ing the aborigines is eliminated and
they are considered on their merits
as fairly intelligent, intolerably lazy
and abominably dirty human V. beings,
who naturally enough prefer to be sup
ported by the government in idleness to
earning their own living. Recognizing
the Scriptural "assertion that "cleanli
ness is next to Godliness,": the minis
ters^ must perforce admit that the
declaration in favor of soap as a neces- .
sary preliminary to the dissemination
of the gospel was strictly professional.
Of its necessity for sanitary reasons
personal acquaintance with the Indians
would convince them. ',y -...-'.
There can •be no true civilization
where soap is unknown, and the In
dians have yet to learn of its existence.
If the efforts' of the missionaries, and
other would-be Indian benefactors were
expended for a while in relieving the
aboriginal ignorance in this respect, *
they might find the more spiritual part "
of their labors bearing:' better fruits. :
THE SAINT PAXIL DAILY GLOBE: MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1888/
DOES NOT WANT IT.
- Senator Cullom is another one who
has the good sense to step under shelter
when he sees a shower coming up. It
is reasonable to suppose that ' the sena
tor has' ambition, and, like all other
American senators, is looking forward
to a time when he can round up his pub
lic career by landing in the White
house. But he is satisfied that this
is not the year that he is to get there.
His show for a presidential nomination
on the Republican ticket is probably as
good as anybody's, that is if we leave
Mr. Blame out of view. Yet the sena
tor hastens to inform the American pub
lic that he does not want the nomina
tion this time. This thing of running
for office just for the fun. of the thing
doesn't commend itself to a sensible
man like Senator Cullom. y
STRAY SUNBEAMS.
Wildwood's Magazine is the latest literary
venture, and a handsome thing it is. It is de
voted mainly to the sports enjoyed by the
hunter and the fisherman. The first number
starts off with a beautifully illustrated article
entitled "The Laud of the Dacotahs," by
Gen. Henry H. Sibley, of this city.
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Sam Small, the evangelist, is about to ap
pear in a new role. He is to run as the Pro
hibition candidate for governor in Georgia,
on the platform of "Down with the jug
wumps." The third party movement was
inaugurated at Atlanta last Tuesday evening,
the t«vo Sams, Small and Jones, taking an
active part in the organization. Sam Jones
said he had been traveling all over the coun
try, and he was prepared to say that there are
twice as many out and out Prohibitionists in
the United States as there were abolitionists
ten years before Lincoln signed the emanci
pation proclamation. . . -
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Senator Hoar assured the senate the other
day that the proudest work of his life was
his connection with the electoral commission
in 1876. An old man with a seared con
science is a most lamentable object. If
Senator Hoar has any friends, they ought to
take better care of him.
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Secretary Endicott lives the most retired
life of any public man in Washington. As a
rule when members of congress have busi
ness with the war department they commu
nicate with the secretary by letter. Very few
of them know him personally. Mr. Enm
cott visited the capital the other day for the
first time during his residence in Washing
ton. When he went into the senate cham
ber he was only recognized by three senators,
and two of them were Republicans.
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• Since Mr. Mills made his great speech in
opening the debate on his tariff bill the
chipper paragraphists of the Republican
press have quit belittling him. They didn't
know before that there was so much force
and spirit iv the modest Texan. A few of
them, but only a few, have been malignant
enough to insinuate that some other man
wrote the speech, The ability that Mr. Mills
has displayed at the' head of the ways and
means committee is a forcible illustration of
Speaker Carlisle's capacity for judging
men. . _^
MINNESOTA DOUBTFUL,
With the Chances in Favor of the
Democracy in Case McGill Is
Renominated.
St. Cloud Tribune, "v V
That time has come when the Re
publicans have to choose between two
propositions, and there is no time to lose
in idle words. Is Minnesota to remain
a Republican state or is it to become
Democratic? Mr. McGill was elected
by 2;S00 majority, and along with that is
the accusation that fraud in the election
returns from various counties can be
proven sufficiently large to have given
tne omce to in. Ames, wnicn casts a
further taint on Mr. McGill's manager,
Fletcher. The election in 1884 gave the
Republicans above 40,000 majority, and
we thus see that the extreme feeling
against McGill had a fearful effect upon
the party, and as that feeling is deeper
and more determined to-day, his renomi
nation means a Democratic Minnesota.
There is no question of this. .. There is
no reasonable argument that can be ad
vanced at this time in McGill's favor,
and we firmly believe he" would be" de
feated by 10,000 majority if he were to
be nominated. ,'- ; -'
McGill the Man.
Warren Register. . ■-„• ... i--:?r;y. :
McGill has made a very good gov
ernor, and according to the custom, of
political parties is entitled to a renomi
nation. To be sure he has made some
mistakes.. No man could do otherwise.:
On account of the small majority, by
which he was elected, many good men
doubt the advisability of nominating
him again. It is generally better to
select a man known to be a good one
than to select one of whose qualifica
tions we are in doubt. It is to be hoped,
however, that the state Republican con
vention Will well weigh the' matter be
fore making a nomination.
Banker Bill and Eric.
Red Wing Republican.
; If Mr. Merriam is behind Eric Olson's
scheme to have a mass gathering of Al
liance men and Labor party adherents
to repudiate Scheffer as a candidate and
nominate Ignatius Donnelly, he has
made a mistake. • No matter what un
derstanding there may have been that
the great ciphered does not want and
would not accept a nomination, the mo
ment Mr. Donnelly gets a nomination
for any. office 'he easily ciphers out a
majority for himself and he never de
clines. Being both the choice of the
people and their only friend, of course,
he cannot decline. y t y *_*.!
Answer or Shut Up.
Swift County Monitor.
The St. Paul Globe puts some very
pertinent questions to the St. Paul pa
pers who are howling about the corrup
tion and misgovernment of that city
which those papers certainly should be
able to answer, or admit that partisan
rancor has caused them to discard both
truth autt fact.
A Strange Republican.
Glyndon News. ._"'-•
| It grates on sensitive Republican ears
to hear the occasional suggestion that
California will present v the name of
Senator Stanford in the national con
vention. If this is to be, we submit, as
a design for the banner of the delega
tion, a bag of gold on the top end of a
pole. yyy^y
Will Be Forced on Joel.
Le Sueur News.
It begins, to- look as though Joel P.
Heatwole, of Northfield, | will be the
nominee for oangressiodal honors in the
Third district, in spite of the fact that
he doesn't want the office, or any other.
But if the people make a demand for
him he will have to take it, that's all.
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GROVER TAKES THE CAKE. *
Washington Critic.
The presiclen has vetoed the bill reliev
ng Paymaster Bash from paying 37,350,
stolen from a stage while the guard was
eating pie at the stage station. * ' ; . :
"Ho, Daniel."' quoth the president— r
"Come, bring my veto pen; ' . . .
Here is a bill I'll have to Kill,
• And stop its like again.
" I cannot have this thing go on
'Hong neither low nor high, - ' - -'■
'Twill never do to let it through.
And waste our funds for pic."
So Daniel brought the veto pen.
And Grover took the same:
Then with a dash he m ado a slash,
And thereto put his name.
"I prithee, sire," brave Daniel said,
With valor in his eye,
"I see the cash you charge to Rash,
Ain't that right dear for pie?"
" ."Go to! go to!" quoth Grover C,
••" And gave his pea a shake ;
y "Let others cry and take the pie, ': y-M
But Grover lakes the cake.'.' * .
* So Daniel went and as he went _
••. -^ lie said, with murm 'ring sigh: ;
'. "Dyspepsia grim has hold of him ;
I:" ' lie has been eating pie." ,-; . -*y:
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If you have not registered your
only chance to "■ do : so will be on '
Tuesday next between noon and 9
o'clock p. in. Attend to it at once
or you cannot vote. •
A WAIL OP WOE. '-Jljjfe !
Pig Iron kelley's Weak Effort in :
Vy Behalf of His Hobby. y
San Francisco Examiner. .
The main : portion of - Mr. Kelley's "
speech was mere campaign buncombe.
Indeed, he even descended 5 to j dragging
injhe "bloody shirt" by declaring that
a majority of the committee recommend
ing the Mills bill were irom states which
had once been under the dominion of
slavery. His peroration is a wail of woe
and a prophecy of evil, which ; will not
at all terrify the American people, who
have been thoroughly awakened to the
absurdity and iniquity of maintaining a
war tariff in time of peace. U-" V y
Senseless Clamor. .'.;'
Chicago Tribune. „
v The yell, "You are a free trader," is
about all the argument which the advo
cates of the existing war tariff 'and the/
monopolies protected by it offer in reply!;
to those who are in favor of. tariff re
form. Any one who proposes to make a
reduction of the duties in the slightest
degree is stigmatized a "free trader,'?
and with this persistent and senseless
clamor they expect to delude and scare
the people. The latter, however, will
not be deluded by the free trade yell*
There are no free traders in this count
try except Henry George and a little,
handful of extremists whose doctrines
are equally cranky and impracticable;
No one else is in favor of free trade, of
abolishing the custom houses, or of any
thing approximating such a dangerous
policy. ____y -
Republican Dissensions.
Philadelphia Record.
The Republicans in congress are be
ginning to realize the existence of fatal
divisions in their own ranks on the tariff
question. There are more Republicans
who oppose Judge Kelley's programme
of : repealing the whisky tax than there
are Democrats who would support so
desperate a fiscal policy. Whilst the
Republican leaders remain without a
policy of revenue reduction,many West
ern Republicans will support the Mills
bill rather than have no bill at all. In
this situation the prospects of the Mills
bill in the house grow brighter every
day. The senate has never yet defeated
a tariff bill. y^
Living Issues at Last.
Henry George's Standard.
The great struggle is now on— is
sue is made and the discussion begun.
The congressional debate will be a long
one and a bitter one, for the Democrats
must follow their leader, and will get
more and more radical as the contest
goes on. But the congressional debate
is •of small importance as compared
to the popular discussion to which it
will lead in every nook and corner of
the whole country, and which will in
crease in intensity after the nomina
tions are made and the national cam-,,
paign begins. It is now certain at last
we are to have a national campaign in
which living questions are to be dis
cussed.
Repeal Unnecessary Taxes.
Washington Post.
The one great advantage which the
advocates of tariff reduction possess is
that the simplest statement of what they
propose to do convinces unprejudiced
minds that it ought to be done. Who
has the effrontery to deny that taxes
imposed on the necessaries of life to
raise money for war purposes ought to
be reduced twenty-five years after the
war, in a time of profound peace and
when surplus revenues threaten finan
cial disaster? -'J
Free Trade in Labor.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. .'•!': '■-■'. -I
The Philadelphia Manufacturers' clvb t
held a meeting the other day and voted
against the Mills bill. At the same
meeting it was announced that '5150,000'
had been subscribed by the members
for the erection of a tine new club house.
The club seems to be composed of men*
whose protected capital has realized im
mense profits from free trade in labor. 'L~
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HARRISON FOR CONGRESS, f
Duluth Wants to Furnish Nelson's
- .'*-.**: %, Successor, /££*
Duluth Age. t-i r"S r '-
Duluth interests demand a congress
man, and it must rest with the Demo
crats to furnish her one. ..Though not
a "trained politician," M. B. Har
rison ; ; possesses every ; . element
that the city and district needs.
He is a. worker— for Duluth, and Duluth
needs . a man of his stamp 'at Wash
ington. He is broad-minded enough to
cover the whole district, but as Duluth
is ten to one the most: important city in
the district she has the right to demand
the congressman. And if Republicans
have not the nerv or unanimity to make;
the demand, it is to be hoped that Dem
ocrats have. __________ ;-- ; '' "-''-■'
Fulfilled Every Pledge.
Montevideo Commercial. . „;.:-
. At the rate Judge Mac Donald is at
tacking the trusts and monopolies, he
may be defeated by them. They do not
enjoy having men in the legislative and
Congressional halls who attack them on i
general principles and handle them as
rough-shod as the judge is doing. They
have been known to roll big campaign
barrels into districts before now to defeat r
men who were no more antagonistic to
them than the judge has shown himself
to be. • Let us be on our guard, lest a
like attempt be made in this district.
The judge has fulfilled every pledge
made before election, and the voters
can do no better than show their appre
ciation by returning him by an over
whelming majority. ,
A Strong Candidate.
Wadena Tribune. •;'■'.". -""'•' -': -'-- : /;>
Eugene Wiison, of Minneapolis, is the
best possible candidate the Democrats
of Minnesota can nominate for governor.
While there are other men in the state .
who might make a splendid . race for
that position," they cannot develop :
sufficient strength tor the party. Judge*
Wilson, of Winona, would make a good "•
candidate, but his party needs him for a
re-election to congress from the First
district. Eugene Wilson's Democracy
is undoubted: he has a clean record and
would sweep the country districts like a
hurricane. - • •
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Next Tuesday, between the hours
of noon and 9 o'clock p. m., is
your last opportunity to register.
If your name is not on the poll list
you cannot vote on election day. '.
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A Monstrous Evil.
Omaha World.
In theory ' protection is designed to
foster^ American industries, maintain
the wages of American labor and supply
a home demand, consisting of a manu
facturing population for the consump
tion of agricultural products. But" in
practice protection ; in two many in
stances has become a , monstrous evil,
nuturing combinations of manufact
ures called trusts, oppressing the Amer-^
ican laborer by increasing the cost of
his clothing, rent and food and burden
ing the agricultural iuterests of the
country by practically prohibiting. the
purchase of cheap lumber, iron and
tools while keeping up freights to pay
dividends on railroads that could be.
built for less money if the tax on i lum-»
her, Iron and steel were modified.
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v Afraid of the Issue.
St. Louis Republican, y
Republican anxiety to distract atten
tion from the tariff issue is shown iii the
effort to start a sectional quarrel on ac
count -of the action of a number of
young hoodlums in a local election for ;
mayor in a small town ;in Mississippi. -
If the senate.has the right to investigate '
to determine ".who. ought to be mayor of
Jackson, it has also the right to send for!
persons and papers to settle the mooted
question .of the fairness of the recent
elections of , town councils in Oshkosh,
Skowhegan and Mattawamkeag. " ? ... „
Citizens who do hot register dis
franchise ' themselves. ; You may :
register next ■ Tuesday. ; That kis
your last -. chance for " the ? spring >
election. y3^y^'y^
WISCONSIN'S OWN JERRY.
The Badger State Will Stick to Gov.
Rusk Clear Through. •'.-;
VILAS FOR CHIEF JUSTICE.
The Democrats Earnestly in Favor of
Cleveland and Tariff Re
-1 j ■ form.
Special to the Globe :
' Madison, Wis., April 23.— polit
ical pot in Wisconsin will . begin to boil
in earnest from this on. There has been
comparatively little activity in the way
of( national politics up to the present
time, but the near approach of the state
convention, which meets in this city the
fote part of May, and the holding of the
county conventions, has started the ball
rolling. _ ; "y . -_- *
So far what activity there has been
has been confined to the Republican
camp. Outside of a small amount of
speculation over the selection of dele
gates to the St. Louis convention, the
Democrats have displayed no activity.
The Dane county convention,
which met here yesterday, brought
out some little excitement over the
choice of delegates to the national con
vention, but aside from this and the en
thusiasm exhibited for Cleveland and
tariff reform, politics in this part of the
state are extremely quiet. From what
sentiment that can be gathered. here it
is about certain that Col. George W.
Bird, of this city, for several years a
member of the state central committee,
will be one of the delegates to St. Louis
from the Third congressional district.
Montgomery Smith, of Mineral Point,
will probably be the other delegate.
For delegates at large the only name
prominently mentioned as yet is that of
lion. Bruse" J. Stevens, of Madison. It
goes without saying that the Wisconsin
delegation will be solid for Cleveland.
The talk, so frequently indulged in,con
necting the name of Col. Vilas with
the nomination for the vice presidency
is regarded as the merest nonsense by
the friends of Mr. Vilas here and
throughout the state. It is the unani
mous assertion of those closest to Mr.
Vilas that he not only does not seek the
nomination, but would positively refuse
it under any circumstances. It is quite
generally believed that Mr. Vilas could
have had the nomination four years ago
if he would have accepted.* The hope
has been expressed by some of the inti
mate friends of Mr. Vilas that he might
be appointed to succeed the late Chief
Justice Waite on the supreme bench,
and there is considerable feeling that
the president may make this appoint
ment.
The Wisconsin Republicans will send
a delegation to the national convention
at Chicago, composed of the very strong
est men of their party in the state, and
as large a crowd as admission tickets
can be procured for, to whoop it up for
Gov. Jerry Rusk for president. The con
vention will be held May 9, one week
later than the Democratic convention,
at which time Gov. Jerry will be given
a send-off in keeping with the favorite
son doctrine. Seriously, there is a grow
ing feeling that Gov. Rusk's chances for
a place on the national ticket are by no
means to be sneered at. One month ago
the Rusk boom was not what the Rusk
boom now is. At the convention of the
Young Men's Republican league here
in March, the Rusk sentiment seemed
to be purely one naturally growing out
of state pride, and appearances at that
time indicated that Rusk would merely
receive a complimentary vote at me
hands or the Wisconsin delegation, and
that at the proper time the strength of
the state would go over to Gresham.
That, however, was before Gov. Jerry
had been given his little boost in the
way of an ovation during his visit to
"Washington. Jerry's little trip has
changed all, and the Rusk boom
is now dead in earnest. If | Wiscon
sin can not succeed in securing the
nomination for Jerry, the game is, p nev
ertheless, not going to be given up. until
everything that can be has been done.
It is hinted here that a great * effort will
belmade to give Rusk the first place on
the ticket, but that if this is impossible,
and Blame or some other Eastern: man
carries off the plum,* advantage will be
taken of the enthusiasm created for
Jerry to spring him on the convention
for the second place. There is a notice
able sentiment prevalent among Repub
licans hereabouts in favor of Blame and
Rusk as the national ticket. - * /■
THE DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE
Invites Cluhs to Send Delegates to
"y" j'\ Baltimore July 4.
New York, April 22.— The general
committee of the National League of
Democratic clubs, formed at the confer
ence of delegates held yesterday, has
issued a circular inviting all Democratic
clubs of the United States which ap
prove the principles adopted at such a
conference to join the league and send
delegates to a convention to be held at
Baltimore July 4. The basis of repre
sentation in the convention will be five
delegates to each club containing not
more than 100 members, seven delegates
to each club containing more than 100
and not more than 200 members, and
nine delegates for each club containing
more than 200 members. Clubs desiring
to join the league are requested to ad
dress the secretary of the committee at
once. The call is signed by Charles
Ogden,* chairman; Frederick R. Lee,
vice chairman; Edward B. Whitney,
secretary; George 11. Lambert, treas
urer, and sixteen other representatives
of prominent Democratic clubs forming
the general committee.
.--'> f Un instructed Delegates.
Special to the Globe. S. • ."
v MiLBANK, Dak., April 22.— The Grant
county Democratic convention elected
delegates to Water-town as follows:
James C. Drake, H. J. Glassor, Henry
S. Volkmar, W. B. Saunders, John
Douglass, C. G. Requay The delegates
are uninstructed, and will go to Water
town in behalf of peace and harmony in
the Democratic party, but in a contest
between Church and Day will be for
Church. The following resolutions
were adopted: :
i Resolved, Th at we heartily indorse Presi
dent Cleveland in that he has given the
country a wise, conservative 'and business
like administration, and we especially com
riiehd him for the emphatic position he has
taken in behalf of tariff reform, i -
"^Resolved, That we also cordially indorse
tne administration of Gov. Church, and the
position he has taken In behalf of equal taxa
tion of corporate and private property.;
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m\ Cox on the Tariff.
Special to the Globe.
New Ulm, Minn., April 22.— E. St.
Jntjen Cox spoke on the tariff to a large
audience at Union hall last night.
For Day.
Special to the Globe.
2 Hamilton, Dak., April 22.— The del
egates appointed for the county , con
vention are pledged to Day. -y* : _ y
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-* 1 *- No Breaks This Year.
Philadelphia Record.
By making two bites of the Dakota
cherry the Republicans hope to secure
four United States senators. . There ; is
no doubt that several of the territories
are • ready for statehood, v but, the de
termination of the time when they shall
be admitted is a question for con er ess.
No particular disadvantage to the popu
lations - of* the territories ..-'. will
result from-; a continuance of : the
territorial - condition. y. They govern
; themselves, and are more lightly, taxed
than they would be after the organiza
tion of more -complicated administra
tion. : The territorial politicians are ! al
ways in haste, but the bone -and sinew
are not in such a -hurry. The : Demo
crats lost the presidency by. premature
:ly letting down the bars to make a* state
of Colorado. They are not likely to re
peat that mistake this year. '
THE CLEARANCES.
Exchanges of the' Leading Clear
s ing Houses of the Country.
Boston. Mass., April 23.— The follow
ing table shows the gross exchanges of
the leading clearing houses ■ in the
United States for the week ended April
21, 1888, together with the rates per
cent of increase or decrease, as com
pared with the amounts for the cor
responding week in 1887:
Amount. Inc. Dec.
New Y0rk....... 8580,552,711 16.5
Boston 85,233.439 3.2
Philadelphia .... 67,532,860 2.7
Chicag0.......... 63.352,000 11.1 ......
St. Louis .:. 18,491,063 10.3 ..... .
San Francisco... 14,706,853 10.8
8a1tim0re........ 12,229,688 ...... 12.9
Cincinnati 10,243,850 ...... 11.6
New Orleans... 7,191,498 14.2
Pittsburg.. 11,883,985 13.3......
Kansas City 8,307,011 1.6 ......
Louisville 5,056,206 6.1 ......
Providence 4,609,400 3.3
Milwaukee 4,175,000 8.9 ......
St.Paul 3,294,682 7.9
0maha...:.......} 3,040,960 15.1 ......
Minneapolis 3,499,066 31.5
Denver.. 2,466,116 3.5 .. ..
♦Galveston....... 756,275 2.2
Detroit 3,981,800 49.9......
C1eve1and........ 3.015.834 15.3
Indianapolis.... 1.869,894 9.4 ....
Memphis 2,130,451 16.6
Columbus 2,567,073 15.4
Hartford.....:... 1.557,561 ...... 6.0
New Haven 1.172,426 3.1
Wichita 661,646 20.0
Norfolk .. 716,332 21.5 ....
Pe0ria............ 1,175.655 47.2
Portland . 893,593 21.2
Springfield 1,2-14,249 28.6
St. Joseph .-. • 1,224,901 ...... 2.5
Worcester „ 1,095,676 0.1
Lowell 581,902 43.1
Syracuse......... 667,595 22.1
Grand Rapids... 676,614 32.7 .... .
Duluth 1,634,793 33.1
*Topeka 326,377 .....
♦Quincy. ........ 174,009
Total 8933,490,264 10.3
Outside N. York. 8352,937,553 1.7
* Not included in totals. . ■
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STILLWATER NEWS.
For the May term of court in this
county the grand jury is summoned to
meet May 23 and the petit jury May 29.
Aid. John Lyons lies very low with
erysipelas at the residence of Robert
Dougherty, on South Main street, and
grave doubts are felt regarding his re
covery.
Very stringent orders regarding the
closing of saloons on Sunday have re
cently been issued, and in consequence
yesterday the handy back doors were
all locked and the most strenuous efforts
of the thirsty souls who besieged them
were fruitless.
The Omaha road is to rebuild the
burned depot at Stillwater Junction in a
few weeks, and will construct a depot
that will be a great improvement over
the old one. Passengers who have to
wait over for trains at that point at
present have to catch as catch can,
especially when it rains.
A report was current upon the streets
yesterday that the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul railway would purchase the
property of the Union Depot Street Rail
way & Transfer company to be offered
for sale to-day. The property, includ
ing the union station, is valued at 8300,
--000, and no bid will be received at less
than 8100,000. Deposits from bidders to
the amount of 825,000 will be required.
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Still in the Wilderness.
Philadelphia Record.
After the politicians have fought their
fight to a finish, buried their dead,
shaken each other's hands and strewed
flowers on the grave of controversy, the
theologians continue the battle with
unabated fury. The Northern and
Southern Presbyterians have not yet got
in sight of their Appomattox; they
are still banging away in the Wilder
ness, 'i'^v
BB
Scheffer and the Bosses.
Brown's Valley Tribune.
There has been a noticeable falling
off in the amount of abuse heaped upon
the shoulders of the Farmers' alliance
and its candidate for governor by the
Republican press of the state. In other
words, the boys are 'hedging, and it
would not be a great surprise to see Mr.
Scheffer at the head of the Republican
state ticket. It would be a bitter dose
for the bosses, but they may have to
swallow it. : . 'r-i'-p:*.
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A Tarift Crank.
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Mr. Kelley not only favored, the aboli
tion of all taxes on whisky, beer and
tobacco, but went so far as to declare
that the sugar duties ought not to be re
duced. He is obviously opposed to any
reduction of the present import duties.
Probably there are not ten men in the
house who agree with him or who will
vote with him; and yet he likes to be
considered a represntative Republican.
He is not, but must be known as a tariff
crank.
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Ruled by Brains.
New York World. y,T-' [ '- i
Roscoe Conkling's career afforded the
best example we have had in this state
since the death of Seward of the power
of brains in the direction of public af
fairs. He ruled by the divine right of
ability to rule. The little men who
have since rattled around in the place
that he left vacant make more apparent
Roscoe Conkling's greatness.
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Make it Warm for Lind.
Blue Earth City Register.
Ex-Senator Wilkinson, of Wells, is
spoken of as a probable candidate for
John Lind's congressional shoes. Mr.
Wilkinson, if he would consent to run,
would make it decidedly. warm for Lincl,
who is a protectionist, tariff reformer
aud what-not, all combined.
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Forakerl'or Himself.
Kansas City Times.
Gov. Foraker declares himself solid
for Sherman. Garfield was solid for
Sherman until the convention was called
to order in Chicago. History teaches
that the only thing an Ohio man is solid
for is himself. - -
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Boston's Pride.
Boston, April 22.— The steamer Cata
lonia, with John L. Sullivan on board
has not yet been sighted, and it -is not
expected before to-morrow afternoon.
Clark's President. '
Baltimore, April Prof. G. Stan
ley Hall, of Johns Hopkins university,
has accepted the presidency of Clark
university at Worcester, Mass,
i — '
Would Be a Sister to Him.
Epoch. y i y
s Jeweler (to a young man exchanging a
ring for cuff buttons)— Didn't the young
lady like the ring, sir?
Young man (mournfully)— She didn't
have a chance. It struck me that a $10
--ring was too expensive for a. mere
sister-to-you sort of girl.
. m>
He Heard the Command.
Tid-Bits. .. v >y'' - '>;';■
Instructor— Didn't you hear the com
mand to load? yr. % ' ■■; * -
Plebe— Yes, sir; but someone's ragged
the ramrod out of the gun.
Instructor— Why, man, the piece is a
breech-loader ! -■>-.'
Plebe— Well, sir, I wish Mr. Breech
would load it. I can't. /^ y y
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' He Could Afford It.
Judge.
Railroad President (going over the
road)— l didn't see you at the lunch
counter, Sam.
Pullman Porter— sah; I had a
right good dinner at the hotel. y 'y:
-_" President (with a sigh)— Wellj I sup
pose you can: afford it better than 1 can.
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It Had Whiskers. ; ; ■".
Judge.
; Grocer— Tom, get out the . new maple
sugar! -
; Tom (after hunting some time)— Here
it is, Mr. Smith;- but it needs trimming.
• Grocer— What needs trimming? . - --
Tom— it's got a beard on it two
feet long.
A LOVER'S MISTAKE.
The reason why I was traveling aim
lessly about the country was just this:
I had secretly engaged myself to Thyrza
Mayfield without even telling my most
intimate friend, Jack Hassard. about the
fact. I aid not know they were ac
quainted until I came upon them to
gether one day, he with his arms about
her waist and she looking up lovingly
in his face.
I rushed home, packed up my traps
and took to traveling to find rest for
my mind. One night I arrived late at
an inn where I was to pass the night,
and was informed by the landlord that
the only accommodation I could get
was a double-bedded room with another
man. .
As I had journeyed far, I made the
best of. the circumstances. Just as I
was about to get into bed I fancied I
should like to take a look at my neigh
bor. I went close up to the sleeper and
flashed a candle over his face.
It was Jack Hassard! And worst of
all he was dead .
Suddenly I started, and my heart
seemed to cease beating. I could have
sworn that a faint breath had parted the
pale, still lips.
I bent closer, and earnestly examined
the face.
Notwithstanding its pallor, there was
a strangely life-life expression about
the features, and a faint, almost imper
ceptible shade of pink in the lips, in
stead of the livid hue peculiar to death
I began to tremble violently, but I
would not allow myself to be overcome,
and steadying my nerves by the utmost
power of will I set down the candle
stick and then drew down the sheets.
1 was a physician and aware of all the
tests to which those apparently dead
ought to be subjected, and I was soon
convinced that this was not death, but a
case of suspended animation.
I need not describe my efforts, my
fears, my anxiety. Enough that my
suspicions proved correct.
Jack Hassard was not dead, and be
fore the end of an of an hour his eyes
had opened calmly, and were looking
serenely into mine.
"By Jove, old ellow!" he exclaimed,
"is it really you, or is this a dream?
Why, Ralph, what possessed you to
lead me such a chase? I have been
looking for you for weeks, and Thyrza
has been beside herself with grief and
terror."
His words recalled all the bitter sor
row which, for a brief while, I had for
gotten in my efforts to restore him to
consciousness.
I drew back with an unintentional
gesture of repugnance, which was suc
ceeded by bitter indignation when I
saw a smile of amusement flit over
Jack's face.
"You dare ask me such questions?" I
exclaimed. "Fool that 1 am, to have
brought back into the world such a
wretch as you must be! Thyrza! You
call her so, and to me! You must be as
bad as herself, then." •. .
"Just about," was the placid reply.
"Why, you dear old Ralph, you must
have seen us together, then, just as she
surmised, and so you ran off in a fit of
jealousy. How much better to have
come boldly forward and demanded an
explanation!"
"You are a brazen ruffian!" lex
claimed. "I do demand an explanation,
since you wish it, here and now."
"Softly, old fellow! You say that you
have just brought me back to this world.
Don't scare me out of it again before I
have a chance to make things straight.
Thyrza is my sister, and all that you
witnessed was an innocent filial em
brace, and at that very moment she was
telling me of her love for you, and I
was congratulating myself that the man
1 had always loved was to be in very
truth my brother as well as friend."
"Your sister?" I exclaimed— was
the word which I heard through all else
that Jack said— your sister? She never
told me. Are you deceiving me?"
"Dear old Ralph! have I deceived
you? I ought to say half-sister, for
Thyrza and I had different fathers,
though the same mother. My step
father was a good deal of a
brute, but my . mother clung to
him; and at last my dis
like of him became so great
that I ran away from home— that was
years ago— when 1 tried to lind my
mother, after her husband's death, I
had a long search of it. 1 succeeded at
last, and had just revealed myself to
Thyrza, who recognized me at once, al
though she had been but a little girl
when we parted; and but for your pre
cipitate departure we would have been
a very happy party that night."
"Your sister?" 1 repeated, helplessly.
"0 Jack, will you— will she ever for
give me?"
"Well, I think so. And it must be ad
mitted in your defense that the circum
stances were decidedly suspicious-look
ing." -"w"
As soon as daylight came we refreshed
ourselves with an early breakfast and
set out together on our return to
Thyrza, who is now looking over my
shoulder at these last words.
- So the reader will understand that
she forgave me.
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THE SNOWDROP.
The Origin of the Beantiful Win
ter Blossom — A Legend of Eden.
Boston Journal.
The arrival of snowdrops in the city
gardens as the first blossoms of the
present season recalls a mediaeval legend
in regard to the origin of the flower. It
states that "one day after the fall Eve
stood in paradise lamenting the barren
ness of the earth, which no longer pro
duced vegetation and where no flowers
grew. An angel, pitying her sad con
dition, exposed as she was to the blind
ing snow which was falling at the time,
came down to the earth to try to console
her. ■'■:'■'■' *■' "**
"He listened to her complaints, and
being moved with pity for such grief,
took in his hand a flake of the snow,
and breathing upon it, bade it take the
form of a flower and bud and blow. He
at the same time added that the little
blossom should be a sign and a symbol
to her that the winter was over, and
that the sun and the summer would
soon return. On raising her eyes to ex
press her gratitude to the angel he was
nowhere to be seen, but on the place
where he had stood was a snow white
ring, which she had no difficulty in
fecognizing as composed of snow
drops."
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Carnegie has the Floor.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
What is the matter with Andrew Car
negie's employes in Pennsylvania?
It seems that while he is writing
books showing the beauties of a protec
tive tariff to the workingmen, and go
ing around to banquets making speeches
on the same inspiring subject, to say
nothing of the fact thathe is making a
million dollars a year on his protected
steel mills, his laborers are striking
against his proposal to lengthen the
hours of work from eight to twelve, and
to make two gangs do what three have
been doing.
Temperature No Object.
Omaha World.
Col. Doctor.your medicines
are doing me no good. An old lady in
town has written to me to try hot water.
She says it's a sure cure.
Physician— Well, if you will drink
plenty of hot water and nothing else you
will get well.
- "My stars! Why didn't you tell me
so before?"
"Nothing else, remember."
"Y-e-s: I'll do it."
"All right, liy the way, colonel, you
needn't bother yourself about taking it
hot; cold water will do."
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Whims of Authors.
Columbus Dispatch.
Herl>ert Spencer plays billiards, and
Amelie Rives smokes cigarettes. Thus
do science and literature continue their
giddy dalliance witii worldly frivolities.
Aristotle oiled his hair three time a day,
Goethe was an incorrigible flirt, and it
is suspected that James Whitcomb
Riley plays marbles. The world, the
flesh and the devil are pretty hard
things to get away from.
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Dp l Estate ads. iv the Globe are seen by
"r**' the most people.
LIKE TO BE DEADHEADS.
A Manager • Describes the People
Who Want Something tot
Nothing.
Washington Star.
"It's curious, too," he continued,"how
fond most people are of getting dead
head tickets, although they may cost
them in the end ten times as much as
regular tickets could be bought for at
the box office. People with more wealth
than they know what to do with
will work like beavers, stand snub
bing of all kinds, sacrifice their
self respect and often spend in
treating more money twice over than
tickets would have cost them at the box
office, in working an agent for compli
mentaries. They seem to prefer free
passes which put them under obliga
tions to the theater people and cost
them a good deal besides to the regular
tickets which they might have bought at
the office and beeu entirely independent
of everybody. Another curious thing is
the ambition which many solid business
men, who are perfectly "willing to pay
their way, have to be known as men
who can pass in and out between the
acts without the aid of a return check.
They seem to think it a great privilege
to be allowed to go in and out this way,
apparently feeling that it argues them
men of prominence. I know a number
of middle-aged men, who you think
would be above such vanity, who never
take checks if they can help it."
"What sort of a crowd is hardest to
handle?" the reporter inquired, to stim
ulate the flow of talk, which gave some
signs of drying up.
"I have the worst times at matinaes,
when there is a big crowd of women. I
am sorry to say it.'but there is no deny
ing that women, even of the best class,
are vastly harder to keep in order than
men. They cannot be got to submit to
regulations which are only made for
their own benefit and comfort. If a po
liceman tells a crowd of men waiting to
reach the box office to get in line they do
so at once without trouble. Rut let him
try to get a crowd of women in line, and
there is almost invariably a row. They
crowd and jostle and hustle one another,
try to steal places ahead of where they
properly belong, and altogether act as
if they had put off their good sense and
manners when they put on their good
clothes to come to the theater. If a po
liceman or theater attache speaks to
one of them, no matter how civilly, the
chances are that he will be accused of
insulting her and bring down oil him
self a blast of wrath that uses him com
pletly up.
"People may think the scenes at box
office windows which the funny paper
get up now and then are exaggerated,
but if you will study women buying
tickets over there you will come to the
conclusion that justice has never been
done the subject. The average woman
is never satisfied with her seats, and in
variably insists that the ticket seller
could give her better ones if be wanted
to, no matter how good those she
secures may be. Usually she
winds up with an intimation
that he is swindling her by keeping
back better seats for people whom lie
wishes to favor, and, having counted
out her Mange three or four times, put
it carefully away in her purse, found
her pocket and stowed the purse away
in it, buttoned her gloves and shook her
draperies back into proper position, she
starts to get out the way she came in,
although the other way is entirely clear,
while the wrong way she insists on tak
ing is full of impatient people waiting
their turn at the man in the box office.
If you think I am too severe just come
up some Saturday afternoon and see for
yourself. 1 can't understand it.*'
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An Ingenious Yankee.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
John Wheeler, a toll collector on the
Titusville and Pleasantville road, has
made from the caudal appendage of a
porcine squealer as perfect a whistle as
ever was seen, It is made entirely of
the skin Of the curly afterpait of a pig,
and it is as hard as nickel and has been
polished till it shines. Mr. Wheeler has
made several of these eccentric trifles,. l
am told. Whether he is now devoting
his leisure hours to the evolution of a
silk purse from a sow's ear is not staled.
Mr. Wheeler is a native of one of the
Eastern states, that of the wooden nut
meg, l believe.
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Wanted a Better Business.
Chicago Tribune.
"Willie," said the good pastor, who
was taking dinner with the family, "I
suppose you will be a literary man, likfl
your father, when you grow up."
"Nope," said the little boy addressed,
as lit' looked at the somewhat meager
array of delicacies on the table with
lofty scorn, "literary Qothin'l I'm goin'
to be a 810,000 cook."
How to Treat a Sore Throat.
Texas Sifting-.
Labalt, of Galveston, remarked to a
friend:
"I've got an awful sore throat."
"You ought to treat it."
"I did treat it at three different sa
loons, but it .don't seem to do it any
good." '__.
Only a Fair Profit.
Puck.
Tne druggist makes only a fair profit,
on the average, Nay, repress the cruel
gibe, the heartless sneer! We said on
the average. He may corral a few hun
dred per cent on prescriptions ami
patent medicines; but look at the nar
row margin on postage stamps!
THE OHIO ICEBERG.
Cold from the northward comes hither the
boom of John Sherman:
This is the Frost King's particular darling
and hero.
Ail other boomlets are helplessly kiekin' and
squinnin';
What can they do with the mercury quite
down to zero?
Solemn and grand as an iceberg o'ertopping
the ocean.
Snow-covered, cavernous, wholly majestic
and mystic.
Seeming above or outside of all human emo
tion
Such is the boom of John Sherman, tho
paleocrystic.
Fierce as the blizzard that sweeps o'er tlio
plains of Dakota,
Quite as unwelcome, It makes us all huddle
and shiver:
Hard as the cold of the wild woods of North
Minnesota,
Freezing the brook to solidity, bridging the
river.
Wise as an oracle bora of the Greeks or Chal
deans.
Calling aloud for a count that is honest and
Hayesy,
Sherman unfurls the white flag to the dear
Tennesseans,
Waving the bloody shirt then with a vim
that Is crazy.
Always wherever he travels, from Nashville
to Kingston,
Freezing the leaves that are dead and the
blooms that are faded.
Over him hovers the shade of Eliza de Pinks
ton,
With him abides the dark stain of the
Fraud that he aided.
Say, will this iceberg melt wholly before July
weather,
Sinking at last in the sea where it sought
domination?
Or will John Sherman's and other booms
perish together.
Giving some booinlcss unknown tho de*
sired nomination*
—New York Sun.
POETRY UNDER DIFFICULTIES
How can the poet soar,
The coming spring time write about,
Wnen standing at his study door,
His wife says: "John, the coal is out!"
His Pegasus is lame.
And closely clipped are Fancy's wings;
He'll never wear the wreath of fame
Who toils for groceries and things.
_ — Boston Courier.
THEIR FRIENDS DIED.
He questions her iv German,
In Spanish she it-plies;
He looks at her in Turkish,
And Kussian fills her eyes.
No English words escape them ;
To Melsterschaft they're wed.
They've smattercd every language—
Their friends are mostly dead.
— -Aristine Anderson.
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