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4 _-_-■-- wtßtaaai THE DAILY.GLOBE .PUBLISHED EVERY DAY. AT the GLOBE BUILDING, COR. FOURTH AND CEDAR STREETS BY LEWIS BAKER. 6T. PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Daii.t (Not .111,1)1—- Sunday.) Iyr in advance.! 00 1 3 m. in advances 2 00 om. in advance 4 00 I 1» weeks In adv. 1 00 One montn 70c. DAILY ANU -CXDAT. J vi in advauceslo OO I 3 mos. in adv. .$2 50 in in advance 500 I 5 weeks in adv. 1 00 One month 85c. * BUN BAY ALOXK. _yr In advance. fit OO I 3 mos. In adv 50c ti m in advance 1 00 1 1 mo. in adv -Oc __u-W*wn-_T— (Dai! v — Monday, Wednesday and" Friday.) Iy* In advance *. OO | C mos. in adv. .s2 00 3 months, in advance —$1 00. W-KKI.T ST. FAIL GLOB-. One Tear, ?1 , six Mo. Gsc | Three Mo. 35c Rejected communications cannot be pre- set-- *d. Addre-s all letters and telegrams to THE GLOME. St. Paul. Minn. TO-DAY'S WEATHER. Washington, Sept. I.— lndications for Upper Mulligan and Wisconsin, Minne sota and Iowa: Fair, slightly warmer: south- westerly winds. For Eastern and South- western Dakota: Fair: slight changes in temperature; southerly winds. CKNEKAI, OBSERVATION'S. St. Paul. Sept. I.— The following obser vations were made at G:4B **,■-. local time: " m H '■ E s " E ? : 5 5 tef . 5 , bS""* §1 Place of 5~ 3 c Place of **; r- gS 01-"vaUoii. 5-, Sc Obsvation. S=. § ~ _> •'•* ? *"? S •"* fir j. * S " : ? St Par.l 30.00 6_J Pt ßoford. 3»».O0 7>; St Paul ...130.00 GG Ftßuford. 3«».O0 70 Ft sully. 30.30 *> Ft. Custer. 29.96 **- Ft, Totten.l3o.o_ 62 Helena.. .. 2:».9<i M Duluih 29.9« 08 Calgary — 29.60 82 La Crosse. 130.06 661 [*■_* Ap'lle. 29.96 72 Baron 30.02 74 Hinnedosa 3W>B •>- Moorfaead. 30.02 68] Medlc'e H. 29.66 86 St. Vincent 30.12 50 i Fort Garry .... Bismarck. 130.02 Edmonton |... -«_*■- The tariff reform sentiment is one The tariff reform sentiment is one that is sure to grow with agitation and discussion, because it has reason and common sense on its side. It is espe cially strong in the Northwest, whose leading interests demand a reduction of duties, and the position which the Re-' publican party had taken was found to have endangered its ho.d upon more than one state which had been counted upon as "sure." This was why the senators began to hedge under the ear nest plea of Mr. Allison, of lowa, that the people of his state demanded tariff reform, and would not be satisfied with- out it. The idea that such a Republican stronghold as lowa should become doubt ful was alarming, and a conference of Republican senators concluded that something must be wrong.— New York Times (lud. Rep.) i-3» CONVENTION CHANGE. CONVENTION CHANGE. It will be observed that a change has been made in the place for holding the Democratic Fourth district congres sional convention. The convention will be held in .St. Paul instead of in Minne apolis, as originally named in the call, and, in pursuance of the change, will convene in Market hall in this city on the 12th day of September. The change was probably made to better accommo- date all parts of the district, St. Raul being the most central point. . ma> SUNDAY TA.tIFF TALK. SUNDAY TA..IFF TALK. It is a well understood fact that the great bulk of the export trade of the "United States is the product of the farms. We export less than 2 per cent of our manufactured product. It is also well understood that the prices of farm product's are regulated by the foreign demand for our surplus, and by our home market. This being the case, it follows as a natural sequence that our farmers sell in the open markets of the world— that is, a free market— aud the things they consume are purchased in a restricted or highly protected market. And the average duty on the articles the farmer purchases amounts to 43 per cent. in other words, our government does not interfere with the farmer's rigid to sell his surplus products where he pleases, but when he comes to purchase articles in the market where he sells, then his government steps in and says: *'You may exchange your wheat for Iron, woolen cloths, or blankets, but when they enter our ports we will exact a tax averaging 07 per cent on your wool cloth, clothing, hats, caps, socles and the like, and from 87 to 120 per cent on your blankets. If you wish to import machinery used on the farm, and made of iron, wood or steel, we will tax you 35 per cent on the wood, and from 20 to 100 per cent on your iron and -tee!."' The farmer learns from this that the duty on woolen, iron and steel is almost prohibitory. Forced to purchase in the home market, he finds the heavy tax on these articles enhances the cost to an amount equal to the foreign cost with duty added' transportation commission and custom house fees. "Naturally he asks himself, "Why am I thus taxed?" lie has no objection to be taxed for the support of the government under which he lives. Rut here are taxes far beyond the necessities of government. There are over $10,000,000,000 invested in farms in the United States, and their products probably amount to four times as much as those of manufactures. The laborers engaged in agriculture amount to 50 per cent of all laborers in the country. They receive no benefit from the tariff. On the contrary, they are taxed to support the manufacturing industries. Surprised at this showing, the farmer pushes his inquiries still further, and lin Is the whole people pay $1,000,000, - on account of the customs revenue tax. Of this, $215,000,000 finds its way into the United States treasury, and $785,000,000 goes to support the protected industries. He finds for every dollar paid by the manufacturer, the farmer pays four and a half times as much. And since the farmer selis in a free market, the 50 per cent of farm laborers Lave to compete with the pauper labor of great wheat-producing Russia, where farm hands receive from 20 to 30 cents a day; or of India, where the price of labor is 10 cents a day. The most powerful argument the pro- tectionists possess for the mass of Amer ican workingmen is the claim that the high tariff maintains the dignity of labor and of the laborer by securing to him wages higher than his trade or em- ployment pays his competitors in foreign countries. If this were true, and if any system of lawmaking at Washington could guarantee the American laborer on the farm or in the factory a rate of pay that would enable him to do less work and give him more time to edu cate himself and more money to educate his family and raise them iv intelligence and good citizenship, there would be no controversy. We should all be protec tionists if protection did this. Rut we know both from theory and experience, from the processes of logic and the bet- ter lesson of fact, from figures and from strikes and their attendant misery, that protection benefits only the owners of mills and factories, enabling them to accumulate huge fortunes at the ex- pense of labor all the country over. "%or the farmer protection is a snare and a delusion; for the workingman it is an instrument of oppression, injustice and robbery. ,*.,;''' YESTERDAY'S CONVENTIONS* YESTERDAY'S CONVENTIONS- The Republican primaries held throughout the state yesterday some- what change the phase of the contest for the Republican gubernatorial nomi- nation. It was essentially a McGili. day. That gentleman lias forged ahead until he is now leading Merriam. who fell back from the estimates his friends had figured out for him. Mr.SniEFKKR about holds his own, while ' Mr. Gil- man has enough (ratal in hand to make him a danger* a • guerrilla. The result of yesterdays primaries has the appar ent result of narrowing the contest to St -reefer and McGill. ._«&_ THE AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM. . THE AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM. The last Democratic state convention of Minnesota declared for the adoption of the Australian system of voting, and Republican county conventions now being held echo that sentiment. With- out question the next legislature will be asked to improve upon the present clumsy Whiteman law by adopting the Australian system. The three points of merit claimed for this system are the removal of the in- fluence of money from elections, expe ditious voting and freedom insured the voter from the baneful influences of ward "strikers" and coercive employers. These are evils palpable in Minnesota to-day, growing as the vote of the state leases, and with each succeeding election gaining new power in choking off an expression of popular sentiment. The Australian system provides that the expenses of election, such as bal- lots, necessary notices, etc., shall be borne by the state, thus removing any pretext on the part of corruptionists to demand campaign money from candi- dates. The state prepares the ballots for all the parties, distributes them equitably, provides the notices, election blanks and polling places, and assesses the ex- pense upon the taxpayers. In the voting, provision is made for absolute secrecy, so that the voter alone on leaving the polls knows for whom his ballot is cast. Enclosed polling places, into which none but the judges and supervisors enter, are prepared. Voters enter so that no two are ever to- gether. They select their ballots in a private room from piles representing all the parties, and where no one can see as to what choice they make. They pass to another room, and de- posit their ballot free from the solicita tion of "heelers" or the watchfulness of spies. In brief, this is the Australian sys tem. It takes from parties and individ uals all control of elections and makes the vote unrestricted. The greatest blessing claimed for it, and which has been successfully secured in Australia, is the secrecy of ballot. No man may know how another votes, and attempts to learn or to coerce are pun- ished by heavy penalties. This is what an enlightened public sentiment is now asking for in Minne sota, and the next legislature will do well to heed it. ma- MEN WHO TALK. Editor Barrett, There will be no question as to Cali- of San foroia going Demo- cratic this fall. The Francisco, issue of the Chinese will be . sufficient to insure that, although the tariff reform question will cut an important figure. Harrison's record on the Chinese question is so plain that every ("alifor- liiau who understands the situation is bound by personal and business inter- ests to oppose his election. Here is a copy of the San Francisco Report, a strong Republican paper of . the coast. You will notice that on its editorial page there is a sharp article ..urging Republicans to vote against Gen. Harrison because of his support Of the Chinese while in congress. The Report says that only by voting against Harrison can the state show how deeply in earnest it is on this question of the Chinese. Rut all this is not obscuring the im portance of the tariff reform question. and the journals of the coast are mak- ing every effort to educate the people to a true understanding of the difference between high taxes and low taxes. California, through the agitation of these issues, will be Democratic this year. » * J. S. Van I live In the same city as Gen. Harrison Molten, of docs, and within two blocks of his residence. Indianapolis. I have a speaking ac- quaintance with him — no more— although I have lived there twenty years and meet him nearly every day. In his business relations he is a cold, methodical man, of no exceptional abil ity. His townspeople never knew that be was a genius until the Republican national committee began to have cdi- torials written to that effect. But the point that lam coming to is this. The daily papers have made much ado about the great crowds of laborers and miners that have called on the general, and the tremendous processions that have wound their way to his residence. Now, I am fresh from Indianapolis- have been there all summer, and can say that these publications are hum- bugs. The processions have been so thin and enthusiasm so lacking that the Repub lican committee having charge of them have paid men $1 apiece to go into them and march. . *t 1 have seen men wearing badges in these processions leave the line, tear their badges off and assert that they had been paid SI to do as they had. Well, all this causes a great deal of laughter in Indianapolis, where we know just how popular the general is. Will he carry Indiana? Bless my soul, no! And we think there that he is very liable to lose Illinois. The betting in -porting circles in Indiana is against Harbison's election. A. It. ' Within the next six months St. Raul and Van Antrim, the state of Minnesota will be enjoying the of St. Paul, greatest prosperity they have ever had since their beginning. 1 spent the spring and summer in Europe, especially in England, Ger- many and France. Most of 'my time while there was spent in such manufact ories as I could gain entrance to. Wherever iron was being, used in any quantity I stopped and investigated. I found out that the bulk of the manu- factories of Europe to-day are engaged in preparing war material, and that the orders they have on hand more than ex- ceed what they can execute. .7. - War is in the air. You find it In the workshop, counting room and palace. Everybody expects it, and very soon. To my mind it will come within the next four months, and to avert it, I think next to impossible. . Cannons, firearms, explosives are be- ing made on the continent in quantities greater than ever before, and as rap- idly as completed are being forwarded THE ' SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE SUNDAY MORNING, St_PTEMBEB 2, 1888.—SIXTEEN ' PAGES. to the garrisons of the nation ordering them. " .^.v;. >•«.,.-. The actions and utterances of tUe The actions and utterances of the new German emperor have caused great uneasiness, and when lie moves I think every patriotic Frenchman stops to curse. The impression is general that he intends to attack France, awaiting only such opportunity as will enable him to do so without fear of attack for himself from other foreign 'powers. " ' As I say, war is coming soon, and when it does Minnesota grain will be in demand, wheat go up, real estate sell again and the nation feel the impulse of a new industrial era. What injures our neighbors across the water, helps us. Their granaries are empty, and while they have food for war they lack supplies for the soldiery and the people who stay at home. When the volcano bursts they must cross the sea for the beef and wheat of our Western plains. - <» *'_•■.•'■ BOOKS AND AUTHORS. BOOKS AND AUTHORS. The educational value of a series of articles now running in Scribner's Magazine on American railways can hardly be overestimated. ".'; i- As a nation the complaint that we heed too little our own merits and rave too much over those of our foreign cousins, is not made with any great amount of injustice. It may be said that we look out Wo much, forgetting the store of knowledge at our own doors. After perusing the Scribner's articles there must be a growing of our national pride. Without being railway mag nates or employes we know that we lead the world in the construction, management ond development of rail roads, and that American pluck and energy cannot be discounted. The series has been delightfully illus trated, and written to the level of the e very-day man. * * In the current Scribner's Robert Louis In the current Scribner's Robert Louis Stevenson writes to "A Young Gentle man Who Proposes to Embrace the Ca reer of Art." "."; .:■■ ''■ He is not consolatory in the advice he tenders— after all, it being doubtful if consolation is part of the nature which is revealed in the pages of Jekyll and Hyde, or John Stevenson. He looks at life so keenly that to tell the truth in any but the bluntest fash ion seems impossible with him. He writes: "The writer (in spite of notorious examples to the contrary) must look to be ill-paid. * * * If you adopt an art to be your trade, weed your mind at the outset of all desire for money. * * * In- the wages of the life, not in the wages of the trade, lies your reward." This is bluntness and truth personi fied, and mayhap the better for not be ing sugar-coated. • m It. is the fashion for newspaper men to write novels these days, to publish them, and, in many instances, to attain success. The latest aspirant for recognition from the journalistic world is John S. Shnvcr, of the editorial staff of the Baltimore American. Mr. Shriver has written a novel en titled "Almost," a story of Washington and Venice— two extremes so widely separated as to require considerable geographical knowledge on the part of the reader to connect them. £ ;l.\. The plot is mysterious enough to satisfy the average novel reader, but the denouement too flat to invite attention to any part of the story but the end. Doubtless Mr. Shriver wrote for sum mer readers— if so, all credit is due him for a masterly effort in the direction of what they demand. Lombord, Druid & Co., Baltimore. » • Of Dr. Lockwood's "Readings in Natural History" no more interesting volume will be issued than his "Ani mal Memoirs. Part 1. Mammals." The volume in convenient pocket form contains a valuable collection of the result of investigations into animal humor, queer animals, eccentric ani mals and the like, all of vital interest not alone to the student of natural his tory,but the every -day man and woman who will find a moment to stop and learn something of the animal world about them. Ivison, Blakeman & Co., Chicago. * » For the law sthdent and the finished lawyer, the Bancroft-Whitney com pany, of San Francisco, have issued Volume 1 of the American State Re ports, covering California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Minnesota and other important legal centers of the Union. In connection with these reports will be with each volume 180 pages of original notes covering salient legal points. The publishers claim for these reports cheapness, complete and concise report ing, varied selections and extensive an notations. • * Hubbard Bros., of Philadelphia, are Hubbard Bros., of Philadelphia, are in the campaign field with the lives of Cleveland and Thurman, by W. U. Hensel. The value of the work beyond its biographical nature is in the public papers, speeches and acts of the two candidates here recorded, and which should be read and understood by all who are interested in the growth of American statesmanship. The chapters devoted to the exercise of the veto power and Democratic tariff reform policy are valuable, and cannot be too widely circulated. It has been the narrow and unjust policy of the president's opponents to make it appear tnat his exercise of the veto was for personal ends, they forget- ting the solemn oath under which he labors to discharge all of his duties for the people (not himself) of the United States. The career of Thurman— and legislative— is well prepared, and all that he lias championed as a commoner given an able presentation. To Democrats, the Forum will be un- usually interesting this month, for the article" of Senator Blackburn on "The Republican Platform." Edward Atkinson robs Henry George, in a measure, by writing of "Progress From Poverty," and Hjalmar Boyesen inquires and answers, "What Shall The Public Schools Teach?" ma> Gray Whiskers. - Gray Whiskers. Jackson Republic. Albert Scheffer made a clean sweep of the Si. Paul primaries. lie even carried the Ninth ward, Candidate Merriam's own home. Scheffer has 77 out of the 100 delegates in Ramsey county. While Banker Bill and hi* 'heelers" are hunting for the sorest spot, they declare it was the most corrupt election ever held in St. Paul. But, really boys, don't you -now that excuse is so old that the whiskers on it are gray? Tell us something new, and In the meantime take your mcdi- cine with-good grace. A Leaky Boat. Houston Argus. ,«S3iB_fB. The Republican convention to be is In a very leaky boat. If it nominate "McGllla big bolt threatens; if it name Merriam, boodle, the state fair and House Bill 157 will cut deep, and if it nominate Scheffer. it wll treble the Prohibition vote. One of Sam Weber's '-"-alibis" would be wery conweu- ient. _■ — ' Impossible. Fergus Falls Journal. ' Mcrriam's defeat .in Ramsey county and the . idea of boodle which . has become so thoroughly associated with his canvass, ren ders his nomination not only unwise but Impossible. f_KHffiS-®_aS-6_-M^--S_i3_l_-_i EYES AND EARS. - A There was a perfect speci- ■ , men of the stage-struck Serious woman loose in town last week. . Her home is in Den- Case, vei. Col., and she is a : wealthy widow. She Is, by the most charitable reckoning, thirty-five years old, and ! has spent the last ten ' years of her life -following theatrical ■. campanies all over the country. She was here in the wake of the James company, and she con- * fiaentially told everybody she came in contact with that she expects to assume Marie Wainwbioht's roles next sea son, and is traveling with the company for the purpose of studying Mlss'Wain wrioht'B methods : and style. She is about as much like Miss Wainwright as a decaying telegraph pole is like a rose. She is tall, thin and coarse in voice and manner. But she dresses her part well, even to the point of wearing on the street "tacky" looking gowns with the spickest, spannest and Frenchlcst of the French-heeled shoes that always* trade-mark an actress. She carries* with her four big trunks filled- with"*; , stage costumes, which are constantly re ceiving fresh additions. While in StX ' Paul she had an elegant black silk vel- j vet gown made. The material was ; I beautiful, and the long court train was lined with the heaviest and most expen- ; sive satin. She paid $10 for a pair of ; velvet slippers to wear with the dress, and Tuesday night she was in a box at the Grand, attired in ail the glory of her black velvet, with an immense ostrich feather fan that must have cost $•-.-> or $30, and diamond necklace and earrings that would be a year's bread and butter for a large family. She never misses a performance, and after the perform ance she honors the dudes who affect her with admittance to her hotel apart ments, where she puts herself in cos tume and rehearses the play for their delight and her advancement in his trionic art. Her husband showed his sanity by going crazy six months before he died. Nothing hut a fool could lie other than a lunatic and remain the husband of such a woman. She left here with the James company Thursday • morning, and intends staying right with . them throughout the season. it- * On a cable car yes- On a cable car yes- Young terday a couple" of ladies were discussing America, the heirs of their re- spective husbands. Said one woman: "Freddie is a sad base ball enthusiast. He put his thumb out of joint playing ball while I was at the lake, am' 1 think he never was' prouder of anything in his life than he was of that crippled hand. If I don't let him go to the games he is pretty sure to come up missing in the afternoon, and not put in an appearance until the game is over. He takes the whipping I give him with the patient resignation of a martyr, feelin.: satis fied. I suppose, that he is suffering in a noble cause. But his case never seemed as hopeless to me as it did this morning. I have been trying to help him with his catechism of late, and to teach him something of church history. This morn ing I told him the story of St. Aloy sirs: how when he was a boy at school one day, during recreation hour, his playmates fell to discussing what theji would do in case God were to let them. know the world was about to come to an end. One declared he would immedi ately go to confession, another that he would say "Our Father," another that he would tell his beads, and so on— all would do some act of devotion. But when it came to St. Aloysius to tell what he would do, he said, 'I would continue with my came of ball. 1 have done, the tasks the holy fathers set for this day. and now it is with their permission that I play. If the world were coming to an end in ten minutes, I* would continue with my game,' I was} just ready to point the moral of thet story when Freddie spoiled it all by, exclaiming; 'Say. ma! I bet it was! St. Aloysius' Inning, don't you?' I am afraid I never shall be able to get any** thing but base ball in that child's head in my life," Freddie's mother con cluded, and her friend quite agreed that the prospect is discouraging. •* * r Poor Field Any one who saw **' Virgin! us" at the for Tights. Grand - last week must * : " have felt that men of this day and generation have cause for gratitude in the present style of dress. Loins James or Fred Moseley in tights and trunks is superb. But fancy our average city man in the same cos tume. The appearance of the stipes on the stage Tuesday night was a hint of the painful sight. Their knees stand out for sympathy. and their starved-to-death look in.: legs are enough to turn a stone into bread to feed them on the spot. Luther Newport's splendid physique would show to advantage in Roman at tire, and so would D. F. Colville's. G. V. Bacon would doubtless feel un comfortable coming down to business in tights until he got used to it, but he would always be followed by admiring feminine glances. Lieut. Aitern and Mr. Paget might do Yirginius, so far as dress goes, on Third street without exciting any emotion but admiration in fair beholders. So might Mr. Sktpwith. and Dr. Stewart's perfect taste in dressing is equal to making him a Ro man exquisite as well as American swell. — - » Where Minnc- Perhaps it is the Where Minne- Perhaps it is the modesty of true genius a polls Leads, that 'keens St. Paul women in the back ground and hinders organized effort for the advancement of their sex, but there really seems less of such effort here than in Minneapolis. A recently established Woman's Press associ ation is flourishing there for "* the good of would-be petticoated journal ists. Different secret societies that have representation iv both cities have a larger showing in Minne apolis than in St. Paul. The Masonic order of the Eastern Star has only one chapter hero and five there, arid the Woman's Relief corps has but two corps in the former place and eight in the latter. There is a corresponding difference in the woman suffrage ele ment of the two cities. Minneapolis has a society auxiliary to the National Woman's Suffrage association, and sent a delegate to the International Woman's council, held in Washington last spring. Here women who would vote are not consolidated for action and are few in number. The most prominent suf fragists in town are Drs. Mary Emery and Jennie Fuller. They absorb all the woman's rights literature published in the country and are energetic work ers for the advancement of their cause.-* * * !_ ' Fun in House hunting is as' peculiarly a feminine,, a Boarding amusement as attend- .. ing auctions or £v- House. nerals. One little lady, addicted to the pastime, looking over the advertise ments of rooms to let one day last week, read a description of a suite that was suspiciously like the one she was occu pying. The landlord had been talking" increase of rent, which she objected to 1*; paying; so were her suspicions given reasonable ground. She put a pretty bonnet on her very pretty head, and started out to find the agent to whom the paper directed her -to ap ply. The gentleman at once verified her suspicions' and she made an engage-" incut to go with him the next day to see the rooms. Accordingly, the next mom ing, beside the agent, she rang for ad- mittance at the door, the latch key of which she was twirling on her finger. With a glance, she hushed the Swede girl who answered the bell, and was escorted by the polite and obliging agent to her own rooms. There she found fault with everything, criticised the carpet, objected to a standing bod, declared she must * have gas, and when her complaints were exhausted she said, "But, bad as they are, 1 know from experience „it is dif ficult to get anything better. I'll take hem. and I guess I'll stay right on." tso saying, she unpinned and removed her hat, and seated herself quite at home in an ea sy chair. - . "But madam." the agent expostula ted, "the rooms are at present occupied. To-morrow night Is the earliest I could let you have. them. 1 must see the I present occupant first." - I "Look at her then," she said, rising I up tragically before him. "Oh! you mean, miserable man, I have found you out." He was surprised .and she was mad. There were explanations on one side and there was indignation ou the other, and, in the end. a written con tract for one year bridged the breach between them. -Eyes and Ears. DRAMATIC DRIFT. The theatrical business had an up ward tendency last week. The. Peo ple's gave a good presentation of Rob ebtson's comedy "School" all the week to audiences that averaged well. At the Grand the first half of the week was occupied by those incomparable stars in the production of legitimate drama, Louis James and Marie Wainwright. The latter part of the week was taken up with a presentation of Rick's By ronlcal burlesque opera, '"The Corsair." It is evident that St. Paul theatrical taste is for that which - pleases the eye more than the other senses, as was demonstrated by the immense audiences which the "Corsair" attracted. There is nothing to the play, or opera, which ever it may designated, except the elaborate stage settings and the gor geous costuming. Whii- the principals were all well known people, still a good many of them were back numbers, and away back at that. And yet, because they wore tight-fitting clothes, artistic ally padded, people paid their money and flocked in crowds to see them. On the other hand, Louis .James, who stands now next iv succession to Edwin Boon, and Mabie Wain wright, acknowledged to be the fore most American woman in her profes sion, played to houses that only little more thau paid expenses. Such com parisons are a sad commentary on the degeneracy of the dramatic taste of this age. The bill for all this week at the Grand is Fbknch and Sanger's romantic spec tacular melodrama "Harbor Lights." Nothing is known here of the play, as it is new in this locality, but is represented to have had a run of 574 nights in London and over 100 nights in Boston and New York. It is de scribed as a nautical drama, showing a series of pictures incidental to English seaport life, and is announced to be presented on a more elaborate scale than is usual with plays of that sort. * * The People's theater will take a new The Beople's theater will take a new departure this week in letting up on the long run of comedy, which has grows a little monotonous, and will give a touch of melodrama. The play selected for this week is Bui.wek's ■'Lady of Lyons," a play familiar enough with play-goers, but never lacking in the freshness of its charms. The following is the cast: Claude Mel notte, A. S. Lii'max; Col. Daman, Ciiables Stanley; M. Deschapelles, R. F. Cotton; Beauseant. F. C. Hi'i:itxEi*;Glavis,CiiAitt.EsWYXr.ATK; Gaspard. Habold Russell; Landlord, Bex Johnson; (apt. Gervais, Will Marks; Lieut. Dupont, Mr. Weeks; Pauline, Miss Lodi. ski Young; Ma dame Deschapelles, Mrs. MARY Myers. ♦ * ~ Louis James aud Marie Wain- Louis James and Marie Waix wkioht will not be seen in St. Paul for some time again. Most of this season will be spent on the Pacific coast. Next season their engagements will be con fined exclusively to four cities. New York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadel phia, where they expect to produce the Shakespearean plays with a scenic splen dor even surpassing what Booth and Barrett have been doing in that line. * * Jack St. Maur, who during an ex tended stay in St. Paul.making prepara tions for the Patti concert, won a host of friends by his eenial manners and ac commodating disposition, died suddenly in the Catskill mountains last week. Mr. St. Maii: had made a brilliant rep utation both as a journalist and as a theatrical manager. At one time he was an officer in the British navy, and had been twice around the world. He had been engaged as Lotta's business manager for this season, and had gone up into the Catskills to enjoy a short vacation before en ering upon the sea son's work. • • Manager J. M. fIiLL announces the re-opening of the Union Square theater, New York, to-morrow night, with Miss Helen Babby as the star in Sidney Rosenfeld's successful American play, "A Possible Case." It will be'remem bered that the Union Square was de stroyed by fire last spring, and Mr. Hill has displayed wonderful energy and enterprise in being able to re-open so soon. - * We offer our congratulations" to "Billy" Florence on his success in getting a new play adapted to himself and wife. It is called "A Paper Chase," wrltten.by Lionel Brougu, and lias created somethiug of a sensation in London. * ■* As long as Marie* Wainwright, the model wife, has been married, she never attempted to wear the pantaloons until last Friday evening. Her appearance in the character of Rosalind at the Min neapolis Grand was the first attempt she had ever made to don male attire. Her face was suffused with blushes every time she cast eyes on herself, but for all that she looked so sweet and cunning, and won such rounds of ap plause, "Louis James declares she can wear the breeches from this time out. * **• We note with sincerest gratification that little Minnie Maddebn is work ing herself up to the position she was lons ago entitled to occupy in the pro fession, and from which she has been held back by bad management. Her new play is a brilliant success, and the addition'of John J. Jennings, the emi nent comedian, to her company was an astute move on the part of her new man ager. Minnie Maddebn's merit has never been properly appreciated by the American people. If given a good chance to show the stuff that is in her, this little rosebud of the stage will dem onstrate that she comes nearer being a rival of Beuxiiakdt than any of our American actresses. * • * JosEPn Anderson, brother of Mary, is shortly to wed the oldest daughter of Lawrence Barrett. We hope Jo seph may make a good husband, for he is a most awfully indifferent actor. » » • Jack Haverly has secured a new musical skit which he proposes to put on road this season. It is called "Blown In.", If it is founded on Jack's experi ence in Colorado mining stock, it will recall some unpleasant reminiscences. , * » ;•'.-. . < » Margaret Mather declares that if she loses her suit with J. M. Hill, she will, quit the stage forever. It does look as if there was a little spite work mixed up in Mr. Hill's prosecution of the suit against the ideal Juliet. As a gen eral principle governing human nature, every woman is entitled to have her way, and Miss Mather should be no ex ception. .* ... ma — - : - Ought to Understand. Ought to Understand. Le Sueur Sentinel. ■""'■ ■' __ The people ought to understand, that W. R. Merriam. a prominent candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, if nominated, will be the candidate of the rail road' corporations of the state, whose title to him. will be absolute, as every railroad in the state Is being drawn upon for all its forces to elect delegates to Republican conveutlons. . PAN. By the wandering river For ever, - • "Wheie lirtlesg waters ran . Would the reeds croon low, When the winds did blow, Under the touch of Pan ; Great Pan, . . Who played where the ripples ran. At the edge of the river, Oh! never As yet surpassed by man, As vet surpassed by man. From the reed-bed float! Those musical notes Fresh from the lips of Pan; tiood Pan, ; So far from the haunts of man. None by the dreaming river Shall ever -■. . '" '■'"■ j'* V- '..' His face or figure scan; • J:- . ;•-: Yet they all may hear •j,""' A melody clear, The rythmic cunes of Pan; • -,• ti . Gray Pan. .. In the wilds remote from man. —Ernest ilctiaffey. BURDETTE'S HUMOR. "And how do you stand on the tariff, Mr. Cornbrake?" asked the schoolmas ter; "are you a protectionist?" "1?" replied the chiropodist; "no, I'm a feet raider." . [Dies.] . • -'•' .";'. * • ■ "Who is that fellow Miss Lightfoot is dancing with?" "Oh, that's young Shutmeoff, the meter man for the Stygian Light and Fuel Company." "I see that's the reason she turned me off ; she's struck a gas swell." r'*- ;/ ♦ • • -.•." a Justice Mittimus— "What is the charge Justice Mittimus— "What is the charge against the prisoner?" '7: ' Mrs. Donovan— "Sure, your honor, I caught the bloody winded robber in me hin house staliu' me eggs." Mr. Whitesmoke— "Nevah done no secli a thing, boss: deui aigs was stale long afore I was ole enough to know a aig f'oni a base ball." '. :*, * • Mrs. "George Archibald" — every body enjoys her poems— is the mother of the cutest baby in Elmira. .. A little while ago she came to the poetess with the baby conundrum: "Mam a, which do you like best— the dark, or the shine, or a nice fresh breeze?" • # The People's Tribune, one of the ablest papers on our exchange list, in an impassioned article on the trusts compares them to "Esau of old. contam inating his lingers with base bribes, and selling his brother to the Egyptians for a paltry handful of silver." This gives us a more exalted opinion of Esau; it took a mighty smart man to sell Esau's younger brotner. # A foolish young man of La Cygne, A foolish young man of La Cygne, Went and planted a Boston baited bygne ; Then he said, with a frown, "Why, baked beans are brown, But this one is coming up grygne." * * "That l'rohibitionist party holds the "That Prohibitionist party holds the balance of power this year," said the deacon. "How's that?" asked the chorister. "Why," replied the deacon, "the Re publicans hold the power in the North, and the Democrats in the South, and the Prohibitionists control the balance of the country." * • * Everybody is coming out these days. Everybody is coming out these days. Francis Murphy's son has come out for Harrison. George Henshaw has come out lor Cleveland, and Sain Wallace's little girl has come out with the measles. Come out nicely, too, they say.' Who say? The measles, dummy, the measles; can't you read? * * ..... * ~.-y Well, we'll find a name for him after Well, we'll find a name for him after awhile, and it ought to be a good one when we get it. We used to call the man who rides on the right hand side of a locomotive engine the engineer, then put a little English on it and got to calling him the "driver," and now Scribner's Magazine comes along and calls him a "runner." It's all right, we reckon, only we stick to it that a loco motive goes on wheels and not ou run uers. * » "You have a great deal of wind here, don't you?" inquired the tourist. "Well, ye-es," said the native, "we have, but" —brightening up— "it doesn't belong here ; it all comes from away up in the Northwest somewhere.'' * » Teacher— "Shakspeare says, '0, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal their brains!' Now, what is this 'enemy?' " Sad boy, whose father runs for office now and then— "If you please, ma'am, it's their tongue." * » Sabbath morning: Mr. Smallpew Sabbath morning: Mr. Smallpew pauses at the door— "Margaret, have you any change? 1 went something to put into the collection basket'" Mrs. S.— "Why, yes; haven't you any money?" Mr. Smillpew— but nothing smaller than quarters." # * "Is It bad form*" writes G. McK. Ilenly-Barnes, "for me to wear my dress suit in the morning?" Why, no; if you are the head waiter, certainly not. It would be quite proper. Perhaps, how ever, it would be well for you to consult on the subject with the proprietor of the restaurant in which you are en gaged. • SHE -TOLD ME SO. Written for the Globe. There are chestnut- I remember which I heard when but a boy. And standing by my dear old mother's knee, She told me that the female sex were hard to understand, An elephant could never climb a tree. She told me that two cities would grow up in the West, That emigration there would surely flow; She told me that Chicago would be en- vious indeed. I believe it, for my mother told me so. She told me that St. Paul would boom and get there in the end, Dultith would make a stride, too, for the lead; McGill would make it all right for his trusted friend Stordock; Who'd try to put a head on Warden Reed. She told me that the street cars of St. Paul would be N. G., As run by Thomas 1,0 wry, Parr & Co. ; A man was very lucky if he ever got a ride. i believe it, for my mother told me so. She told mo that Mike Doran would control the Democrats, At least enough of them to keep his grip; She told me that our u rover would Old jennys framelet mount, . And steer for four years more the ship of state. She told me that his grandpa's hat was never made for Ben, His party in the fall would dine on crow; She told me Unit protection was the rock they'd split upon. I believe it, for my mother told me so. She told me that Jim Blame would go across the briny deep, And ride in jaunting cars and four in hand: He'd give the "paddies" taffy in the dear old isle so green, And with the dukes and princes take his stand. She told me that his advent on our shores would raise a yell. At every town and village he would blow;- And put his foot in it by stating "trusts are private things." I believe it, for my mother told me so. She told me that Phil Sheridan would die - In '88, Bemoaned by every soldier North and South; *.;" She said the pension, when proposed to aid Phil's little wife. Would cause one Kilgore to shoot off his mouth. She told me that Ed Rice would wrestle Sni der in the tall, In one short bout, the latter surely throw, And make the Grand Old Party think a cy- clone Was about. I believe it, for my mother told me so. She said that Aldert Scheffer was a good man of his kind. With heart as large as bass drum or bal- loon; But people would get down on him, and that as sure as fate. Because his main support was the saloon. They'd prate of inconsistency, and trimming, and all that, And say he advocated license low: McGill was weak as water, but the lightning might strike him. -• I believe it, for my mother told me so. She told me that "Gene" Wilson would the nomination get, And prove a worthy leader in the fight. She told me, if elected, I could bet my life on this: - -. t * • That "Gene" would do in every case the right. She told me that Bill Merriam would spend a pile of '•stuff," That hope would, in his bosom, ebb and flow; His chance for nomination might be marked with a 0 (zero). I believe it, for my mother told me so. She told me that an umpire was a man and not a beast, -■..-,,-..>■■ . But ball cranks in the stand reversed the rule; ''-'-• r~ - That boys, when their vacation of two months was at an end, Would sooner go to prison than to school. She told me that a bumble bee was loaded on one end, • •> v . A corn, though cut a thousand times, would grow; " "•'. , 'V-~ - ■ If tramped upon it made one think his days were at an end. .1 believe it, for my mother told me so. She told me that our ball club was a daisy when at home, No nine could hold a candle to It there ; That street car drivers never slopped when . beckoned by a dude. That everything conductors take Is "fare." The court house would be built, she said, in ■ 1893, : The mashers to the "Corsair" sure would go;. . ' And ogle all the pretty girls that came upon the stage. I believe it, for my mother told me so. . — m. J. D. THE DESERT^ HUMPS. Meaning Not Sand, But the r Wild Camels of Ari zona. Turned Loose by Man, They Turned Loose py Man, They Have Thriven, and Large Herds Exist. The Sport of Hunting Them Wild, Exciting and Dangerous. When Brought to Bay They Will Fight Their Foes Savagely. In the thick mesquit groves along the Gila river in Arizona, and in the foot hills of the White mountain range northeast of Fort Apache, wild camels roam in herds, and are often seen by the traveler far out on the desert. They are the descendants of those employed by the government many years ago in carrying the mails across the treeless waste of sand stretching from the Rio Grande to points beyond the great Mo jave desert in California. The occupa tion of those African exiles having been usurped in time by the stage coach and the pony express, they were turned loose on the Gila river to run wild and free. :'-. '■■';• They have since rapidly multiplied, and are regarded as legitimate game by hunters and lovers of the chase. It was in pursuit of these animals that four men one April morning, a few months since, lounged around their camp fire on one of the affluents of the Gila and in the shadow of the White mountains. .- •>: '■■■ Behind them loomed swart and grizzly peaks above the forest of pine that clothed the steep acclivities. In front of them the sullen desert swept away iv yellow undulations of verdureless sand. The hot summer twilight, pulsat ing in the tremulous heat of the desert, seemed to the weary hunters an atmos phere of flame. A II day they had trudged over plain and foothill on the spoor of the camel. To stalk the huge beast, wild and savage as his desert sur-. roundings.involves not only keen sagac ity and nerve, but tireless endurance. Wild as the deer, and almost as fleet, the camel will yet turn at bay when followed too closely and give dangerous battle to his pursuers. Wounded, he will light with a courage bordering on ferocity. It is these qualities which render the chase of the game so allur ing to the venturesome hunter. It is besides, novel and exciting. Only a few years ago, an officer of the ARMY LOST • -' his life in a contest with a wounded camel. Closing in on the game when the beast had fallen to the shot of his rifle, he was in the act of applying his knife to the slim, yellow neck, when the animal, with a convul sive effort, regained his feet, and seiz ing the officer with his teeth dashed him to the grouud, and trampled the quivering body to death with hoofs that cut into the flesh like a sword. The hunters camped on the edge of the desert that April evening were led by a famous Arizona hunter, named Foote, Tom Foote, as he was called far and near. lie has the reputation of being the most successful camel stalker on the desert. Over a hundred of these wild animals, it is said, have fallen to his rifle. And now with three friends from San Francisco, as eager and reck less of danger as himself, and all equally urgent in acquitting them selves with distinction in the stalk before them, the hunters were camping on the spur of five big "humps" which they had vainly tried to overtake before night came upon them. "They can't be fur away, anyhow," Foot was observing to his companions, "and we are almost certain to catch 'em at daylight." "Don't they travel in the night?" asked the youngest of the group, a youth of twenty, his face eager and ex pectant as a trained hunter of the plains. ""Never, except when they think there's an enemy on their trail, and them afore us have no suspicions." "Are they out on the desert?" "Certain! They always sleep in the sand. And now we'd better turn in if we're going to be up afore daybreak, and be after them humps," remarked the hunter as he carefully spread his bundle of water and weeds into a bed. The night rapidly fell around them. The loneliness grew intense, and the moan of the desert swept by them in a low gruesome monotone, as if it were the plaint of spirits in the air. The crimson reflections from the sun which had a moment before glared in red and fitful lights upon the low lying clouds, we« turning into purple. '1 he tawny sands were deepening into black. Scur rying flecks of grayish clouds shot In fitful gusts above the horizon. The desert hawk poised hundreds of feet in air rested upon slanting, silent wing, while the plover's scream grew exultant out upon the boundless plain. NIGHT OS THE desert! Nowhere else in the world is human isolation more profound. The bleak and rayless woods loomed dark and for bidding in the oack ground, casting their inky shadows far out upon the waste beneath them. The tall moun tains seemed to grow hugely dispropor tionate in the distance. Cool and dew less the gathered curtains of the night wrapped the scene in the wood splen dors of the sleeping desert. Long before the sun had risen, and while yet the wide plain lay in the cool shadows of the night, the hunters were treading cautiously and silently upon the spoor of the camels. For a mile or more the traced the broad track in the direction of a distant water hole. The game was sure to be some where in its vicinity. The camel never lies down on the banks of a stream or the edge of a pool. He prefers the scent of the water as it comes to him chastened by distance. Yet he is sure to be near enough to get a draught of the REFRESHING LlQjriD without too much exertion. Within a hundred yards or so of the pool is as close as he cares to be. By this pre caution he keeps out of the way of dangerous enemies attracted to the pool by thirst, and enjoys his ; rest without disturbance. Foot was. therefore, sure he would find the game, not at the foot but a short distance from it. And he did. Close by a little sand dune the five camels lay with outstretched limbs at lazy ease. The hunters, thirty rods away, came to a halt and prepared for action. By the direction of Foote, they separated to take positions at the four points of the compass, and some 200' yards from the common center where the animals lay. But as they moved off to accomplish this pur pose, one of them inadvertently stepped upon the dry limb of a sage brush, and the noise, although so slight as scarcely to be heard by his companions, penetrated the alert senses of the old "hump" which led the herd, and with an angry snort he scrambled to his feet. By this time the light of breaking day was visible and the quick eye of the beast instantly discerned his Eursuers, and with a trumpet of alarm c summoned the herd for flight. It was yet too dark to see plainly, but the hunters knew that "in another moment the game would be off, and Foot gave the order: v-? - "Fire at the group!" Four Winchesters sent out their quick, sharp report upon the air. A young heifer struggling to | her feet sunk oack upon the sand with a scream . of agony. It aroused to fury the old bull, who in age and size might have been a patriarch of the desert. With ears folded back upon his long, slender neck, his ' teeth * gleaming white and ugly in the gray dawn of the morning, he faced the enemy, and before the men could anticipate his intention, the mad- dened brute came at them with head- long speed. The straggling, shaggy mane bristled upon his neck, ami ins short, stumpy tail lashed his sides, as African travelers tell us the lion does when aroused to fury. The onset of the camel was terrific. As he moved forward in a long, swing- ing stride, . "' THAT BAPJDLT . : . M covered the intervening distance, foot plainly saw that only a death shot could arrest the progress of the beast. if once he .reached the group of hunters somebody would be hurt. Unless a camel is hit in the head or spine it is difficult to kill him. To reach his heart a ball must enter just behind the foreshoulder, and this is not always possible to accomplish. Oftener than otherwise the bullet aimed at this point goes astray. As the beast came on at a headlong stride, Foot shouted to his campanions. "Aim at the hump!" - lie hoped that some of the missiles would break the animal's spine. Quick and fast the Winchesters runs: out in the air; but the camel still pressed for- ward at a furious gallop. The blood flowed from his sides, his neck and haunches, but no bullet had found a vital part. With flaming eyes and quivering nostrils, and his short upper lip curled back from his gleaming teeth, the on- coming camel was not an encouraging sight to the hunters. A half-dozen shots had been fired from each gun, but the furious speed of the quarry gathered momentum instead of decreasing. The next minute he was among them. He singled out the young hunter, and ris- ing upon his hind legs, his fore feet projected like two parallel lances, he launched himself with a wild scream at the resolute boy, who in spite of a situa tion that might have made a strong man lose his nerve, faced the encounter fear- lessly. The boy, with admirable pres ence of mind, swerved to the right, and then dashing forward passed the en- raged animal, whose fore feet came down upon the sand with terrible vio lence. Had those feet encountered the object they were aimed at, the young man would never HAVE LEFT TITE SPOT ALIVE. Meanwhile the other camels were not inactive. A young bull, hitherto un- touched, had already joined in the me- lee. The first discharge of the guns had confused and bewildered him, but when he saw how his old sire was con- ducting himself the young brute deter- mined to take a hand in the fray. Closely imitating the maneuvers of the older animal, lie was now giving Footc all sorts of trouble. Maddened by two bullet wounds, his ringing hoof-beats on the sand denoted more than one savage but misdirected blow. While the hunt- ers were busily engaged with these two the old cow and her yearling calf had made a wide circle around the combat- ants, and were now approaching them from behind with the evident intention of taking part in the light. Savage as are the bulls when aroused, the cows are scarcely less so. In this instance the rapid approach of the enraged fe- male rendered the situation of the hunt- ers in the last degree precarious. Foote observed it, and shouting to Stickney, bade him "Look out for the cow!" That gentlemen, quickly heeding tho adjuration, turned and fired upon the new antagonist. The bullet was well aimed and went true to the mark. With a fierce scream the - cow rolled over in the sand with a broken back. At this moment, also, the old "hump" fell, pierced by a ball from voting Hughes' rifle, and at the same" time Foot succeeded in sending a shot into the half-grown camel, which broke his back, and ended the conflict. There now only remained the calf, which, in pity, was left unharmed. The sun had now begun to show above Tire horizon, . and lit with its beams the scene of the sanguinary contest. Four camols lay dead upon the sand. So rapid had been the shots, so fierce the attack, so be- wildering the affray that each of the hunters might reasonably claim "a captive to his bow and spear." To little Hughes, the youngest of the sportsmen, had fallen the monarch of the herd, and his pardonable pride was revealed in im- measurable exultation. Only the night before, when he had boasted of what lie could do when the game should be found, they had laughed at him. And now he had redeemed his boast. The boy's enthusiasm touched old Foot to the heart, and then anil there was born to them both, an appreciation and love for each other that went hand in hand with them through many a fierce strug gle in the desert. The next thing to do, after killing the game, is to take such part of it as is lit to eat. The skin is comparatively val ueless as an article of commerce. But the "hump" on the back of a camel, like that on the back of the buffalo, is a delicious morsel. When properly cooked, it has no superior in the wholi range of animal food delicacies. The proper way to cook it, however, is the way the buffalo hump is cooked on the frontier. The skin of the animal, commencing about a foot away from the hump and circling around it, must be loosened and re- moved up to the edge of the desired del- icacy. Then a deep incision made with a sharp knife will separata the flesh following the circle of the hump, and enable the hunter to lift off the part lie wants. The loose skin must then be folded carefully over the raw portion and the hump cooked up in the ashes of a hot fire, where it will quickly roast. In this way the hunters prepared their breakfast on the brink of the desert watcibole. The meat, rich in juices, and tender as the flesh of a young chicken, afforded a repast which in rich- ness and delicacy was far beyond any- thing the art of the most accomplished chef in Ins city restaurant could pro duce. Tired and hungry, the camel hunters eat long and ardently. Such appetites as possessed them the desert alone could give. But the most exact- ing demands of the stomach will have an end at last, and, rising from his hearty breakfast. Foot and his compan- ions prepared to return to the shelter of their camp in the distant foothills. am A LITTI.E GIRL FROM MAINE. A L.ITTI.E GIRL FROM MAINE. How She Disconcerted President Cleveland and Astonished Her Parents. 'Pv';y' Lewiston Journal. A Lewiston little girl disconcerted President Cleveland the other day. Her parents were en route from the West to Maine, via Washington, where they passed a few days. In their party were a clergyman and his wife, who particularly desired to see the president. The little girl made up the third of the party, and with the clergy- man and lady, called at the White house. The president shook hands, and as he took the maiden's palm in his she spoke up and said in a resolute treble: "I am glad to see you, sir. 1 am a little Democrat." The presi- dent smiled and shook her hand again, while the good clergyman and his wife stood aghast. "I am glad to know it, my dear," said the president. "I am glad to know it. I am pleased to have so valuable an adherent," and he was about to turn to the next in the throng of people passing on when the little girl spoke up again in her clear voice, and added: "But, sir. lam a great big Republican." President Cleve- land is said to have turned, looked at the little one quizzically, laughed, and to have been for a moment or two at a loss for a word to say. Then he said good-bye to- the little girl from Maine, and they passed on, while those who heard bun and saw the incident were highly amused. Of course the Lewiston little girl's parents were as- touded and are wondering who could have suggested such an encounter to their little daughter, but who can tell the fancies of the mind of a child of six? a& Steer Clear. Steer Clear. Delano Eagle. It is now reported that Merriam Is trying to mate the mmc bargain with Charley Gil- man. He Is willing to turn his delegates over to Gilman for governor if Oilman will pledge to support Merriam for United States sena- tor. Mr. Gilman, if he values his reputation, should steer clear of such a bargain. He cannot ' afford' to mix himself up with such flagrant boodleism. A nomination so ob- tamed by any man would be dearly bought, and would lead to inevitable defeat before the people.