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4 THE DAILY GLOBE PUBLISHED EVERY DAY. AT THE GLOBE BUILDING, COR. FOURTH AND CEDAR STREETS BY LEWIS BAKER. ST.PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Tlaii.y (Sot Including SUNDAY.) 1 vr in advance.SS 00 I 3 m. in advances 200 6 in. in advance 4 00 I 6 weeks in adv. 1 00 Onemontb 70c. DAILY AND SUNDAY. Iyi in advanceSlO 00 I 3 mos. in adv.. s2 50 (im in advance 500 I 5 weeks iv adv. 100 One month 85c. SUNDAY ALONE. 1 vr In advance.s2 00 I 3 mos. in adv 50c 0"m in advance 1 00 1 mo. inadv 20c Tbi- Weekly— (Daily — Monday, Wednesday and Friday.) lyi in advance. s4 00l6mos.Iu ad v.. $2 00 3 months, in advance — 00. WEEKLY ST. PACT. GLOBE. One Tear, $1 1 Six Mo. 65c Three Mo. 35c Rejected communications cannot be pre served. Address all letters and telegrams to THE GLOBE. St Paul. Minn. TO-DAY'S WEATHER. Washington, Sent. 30.— Indications— For Wisconsin : Ralu in eastern portion, local rains, followed by fair weather in western portion; wanner in eastern portion ; station ary temperature in western portion: fresh to brisk westerly winds. For Minnesota: Fair, except in extreme eastern portion; light showers; cooler in northern portion; station ary temperature in southern portion ; north westerly winds. For lowa and Missouri: Fair; warmer In eastern portion; stationary temperature in western portion ; westerly winds. lor Dakota: Fair; slightly cooler; northerly winds. weekly rainfall retort United States Signal Office, St. Paul, Sept. 30.— For the week ending Sept. 211, ISSB, the rainfall reported from that portion of this state mainly comprising the water sheds of the Minnesota and Upper Missis sippi rivers, has been so small that a de tailed report of it is unnecessary, since only an occasional slight sprinkle of rain fell at a few places, and the quantity was insignifi cant and is not to be considered as having any effect at all on these streams, and unless the water in them be increased from some other source lliey will fall this week. P. F. Lyons, Observer. general OBSERVATION'S. The following observations were made at 6:48 p. m., local time: I a Mi C 5 StfS I*B Wg- go ! = J i- 2o «*§. So Place of "" "*> §;{• I Place of "**«- gra Obs'vation. § ° |°* Obs'vation. 2g, j*"* = '•?-" 5 "• *ri 2. - - ■. 7XT 2. rr " : ? 2*5 St Paul.... 29.50 «'-": Ft Is ford 29.72 72 Ft Solly . ■_'!>.<■-' 74 Ft. Custer. 29.86 72 Ft Totten. 29.60 62 Helena. ... 29.90 70 Da 10th.... 129.46 »'4 Minnedosa 29.54 62 La Crosse. 29.60 70 <"* Appelle 29.66 72 Huron 29.64 7o Calgary Moorhead. 29.54 681 Medic'e 11. 29.78 72 St. Vincent 29.56 60 Fort Garry Bismarck. 211.66 70 Edmonton •* The wages of sin are usually all the fun a man can get out of it. -•- The two fellows who want to bet the earth on an election, rarely meet. -^ Tin: "Republicans of Minnesota are for free whisky under a high license. A max* may have a level head, but It does not follow that he would like to stand on it. -o- Mr. Ackermax's straight shot knocked the Merriam coon higher than a kite. The Democrats propose reform of the tariff, reduction of taxation and re lief for the money market. m Tin? poorest kind of a poor man is a poor lawyer. He is too proud to work, and knows too much to steal. Mi*. Blaixe succeeded in laying out, politically, the living Coxklixg, and now he is trying to lay out his ghost. n^ The talented idiot who takes a vote for president on the cars, is pursuing his important calling with eager enter prise. The wheat market is the thermom eter of trade in these latitudes, and it indicates a booming fall and whiter business. The cigarmakers of Cuba are on a strike. Hereafter, as heretofore, our best Havana* will be made in the United States. -^*» Advices from Speaker Carlisle's district say that Republican money is plentiful thereabouts, but it seems to sink into a hole. Trusts are not new things. Every pickpocket who has formed a combina tion with his pal to rifle people's pockets is engaged in one. Chairman Quay is said to be hard up tor money, it tins be true, trying fat is either a failure or the chairman has been improvident. i The whirl in wheat has made trade so brisk in St. Paul that the Republicans will have a hard time in getting up a business panic this time. What is the use of speculating as to whether Mr. Blame will get into Geo. Hakmson's cabinet or not. Harrison Will not be there to give him a seat. ■ If cutting down unnecessary taxa tion be free trade, the more free traders there are the better. A good thing can not be spoiled by calling it bad names. Mr. Merriam is out ou a political hunt. We observe, however, that he takes mighty good care to keep out of the reach of Eugene Wilson's artil lery. The wheat boom is having a stimu lating effect on the prices of all farm products. Even the hens are laying higher-priced eggs than they did last . week. The millionaire monopolists are so worried lest the wicked Democrats shall succeed in interfering with the wages of labor, that tney have no peace of mind day or night. Capt. Bean evidently has the string on the sheriffalty nomination in to-day's convention. If any man deserves the empty holier the captain is the man. He is a splendid fellow to beat. - "By taking the tax off of raw ma terial, that much would be saved to the manufacturer, out of which he could pay increased wages, enlarge his busi ness and cheapen his produot. 'tm The man who will invent a real nice reversible overcoat, with one side look ing and feeling like an autumn top coat, and the other side looking and feeling liL-*. a ,11 \\-i Ml i»>- iil^tm- will i>nnffir a favor on impecunious humanity. . . ... The latest style of dress by Wopth is the "(oka Potteb robe," named after the newly risen dramatic star. It is made to show off the wearer to good ad vantage, and requires but very little cloth. It is not cut high from below, but low from above. The wadding expenses of a Ray county, Missouri, man the other day, included the cost of two marriage li censes, as he got drunk after taking out the first one and lost it. That would have ended it if the person he was en gaged to had not been a woman. It is to be remarked that nearly every public man of any eminence in this •jountry, and especially in the Republi sh party, must be a British free trader, as there is not one, from Blame down to Harbison, who has not repeatedly avowed himself in favor of correcting the inequalities of the tariff. m PROOF AT HAND. A correspondent, who is a Republi can, says: "1 admit the force of the Globe's accusations with regard to Re publican maladministration of the state finance.*. The treasury is in bad condi tion, with every prospect of growing worse. But what guarantee can the. Democrats furnish that they will do better than the Republicans "have done, in case the former came into control of the state government?" The guarantee is at hand. You are invited to inspect it. Take the Democratic administration of the city of St. Paul, for instance, and compare it with the Republican admin istration of the state government. There is the evidence of Democratic capacity for safe financiering. Read Comptroller Roch's report rec ommending a reduction of the munici nnl lav low 011H nnninnrii it with Trfia.S- y... ....» ,X,.J ...... v-w...,.-.^ .. . orer Bon rat's statement that an increase in state taxation is impera tively demanded. Then turn to the national government and study the financial record of the Cleveland administration in com parison with the preceding Republican administrations. There has never been a time when the Democratic party could not be relied on for safe and judicious financiering. An additional guarantee of Demo cratic ability to correct the mistakes of the Republican party is furnished in the character of its candidates. .No one questions the ability of Eugene M. Wilson, nor is there a taxpayer in the state who does not confide in his ster ling honesty. With Wilson in the governor's chair, and honest old Dan iel Buck as president of the senate, there is no danger of corrupt and ex travagant legislation slipping through without detection. FIRST DISTRICT POLITICS. The monotony of First district poli tics is over. They are going to have a lively time down there from this time out. Congressman Wilson reached home Saturday evening, and scarcely had his foot touched First district soil when the splendid fighting qualities for which he is noted were developed. He had his coat off and was wiping the ground with Mr. Duxxell before the friends of the latter gentleman had time to realize what had happened. That's the kind of pluck to win. The man who shows good fighting qualities is sure to be respected. Judge Wii.sox has made a congres sional record that the people of the First district may well be proud of. In one session he has gained a national reputation, and is looked upon to-day as one of the strongest men in congress. His ability and probity of character have secured for him a position in the national legislature that will enable him to be of incalculable service to ins ais trict in the future if he is retained in his present position. How would it be in case the people of the First district should exchange Mr. Wii.sox for Mr. Duxxell? It is not necessary to disparage Mr. Di mux's abilities. That he is more than an ordinarily able man is conceded by all who know him. But of what use were his abilities to the people of the First district during the twelve years he represented them in Congress? He did a great deal for DrxxKix, but very little for his district. He made a wonderfully able representative for the Kentucky distillers, but the government wouldn't have been benefited by his bonded whisky bill if it had succeeded in passing the upper house of congress. JNOW milt lie IS it Cillllliuclic wi' a. J..0.V --form favoring free whisky, it is possi ble that Mr. Duxxell's Kentucky con stituency are more interested in his election than the people of . the First district. The one measure that passed congress during Mr. Di xxi.i.i.'s six terms of congressional life, which af forded occasion for the most brilliant display of his gigantic intellectual pow ers was the one which increased his own salary. The salary-grab bill was the crowning triumph of his twelve years in congress. How is it with Thomas Wilsox? He comes back to his people with un stained hands and an unsullied record. There are no marks upon him except the scars which the faithful soldier brings from a hard-fought field. He was foremost in the magnificent de bates which have made this congress memorable, and no Minnesotiau is ashamed of the part he bore. He is now at home, full ot fight, and goes right into the canvass. -a— orsK-siiffc-u VIKHS. Some people believe, or pretend to believe, that the Democrats who con trol the house passed the Mills bill re ducing the tariff 7 per cent in the hope that the Republicans who control the senate would refuse to concur in it. The theory is indulged by these peo ple that the Democrats adopted the measure with the sole purpose of going before the country in the presidential campaign as the champions of tax re duction, and fairly lay on the Republi cans the responsibilty of defeating their efforts to give the people relief. This theory is based upon the still further belief that the neonlc favor tax reform. and the Republicans evidently concur in this belief, or the pretense of a senate tariff" bill would not have been given publicity, in spite of the Republican piatform. which forces the party to take an out and out protectionist posi tion. To ascribe this intention to the Democrats may be con sidered fair by active politicians whose views are colored by partisan bias. But the great body of the people have no concern in intrigues of this kind, except to condemn them. What the people demand Is an actual reduc tion of taxes, not promises and shams. The Mills bill is an actual effort in the right direction. The proposed senate bill is a sham. It was never intended to amount to anything. The issue is plain and direct. On one side is an effort to reduce taxes, on the oilier nnnnsirimi to any " iiif.>rfurans>a with the tariff schedule. Under the Mills bill the element of protection is retained for all interests. But it is not a protection measure for protection's sake. All competing industries are on the same basis. THE BUFFALO BUG. A number of our Eastern exchanges are complaining of the ravages of a pest which they describe as "the Buffalo bug." It is supposed to have originated in the city from which it takes its name, and to have been specially instituted to make the judicious heart of New En gland grieve. It has peculiar charac teristics, and is apparently especially inimical to false and showy tilings. It will bore holes in veneered furniture, l ...:...T~... .],.,.!....- i.m.1,. «..» f eat wiimow Miaous malic inn iv paper and colored to resemble satin; it builds nests in false hair and gnaws curls that are coqtietishly designed to adorn the female head divine, It regards face powder not as <i dainty to be used as an entomological desert, but to he dined off regularly and persistent And the crimson rouge . which ladies of an uncertain age* sometimes put on their cheeks to give them a delicate blush THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: '. MONDAYS MORNING OCTOBER fV3 1888. like the harvest rose is, to use a" famil iar term, "nuts" for the Buffalo bug. : We are led to this brief biography of a peculiar insect from its evident hos tility to all kinds of sham; and to wonder whether this quality is indig enous to Buffalo, and is bred in the people as well as in the Insects. Not a great while since, the story was told of a man who stopped over flight iv Buf falo, and to whom the suspicions of the police were attracted by his peculiar appearance. That night while he slept the bedbugs went for his epidermis with such singular and sustained feroc ity that the cuticle was laid bare, and the discovery made that he was a Re publican politician in the disguise of a Prohibitionist. It may be that this Buffalo bug is a variety of the same In sect which attacked General Neil Dow when in the guise of temperance he went as an emissary of Blame into Mr. Cleveland's stronghold. It is no wonder the bugs attacked him. The wonder is that enough of him was left alive to ever again pose as a figurehead at a temperance spectacle. TWO MOKE VICTIMS. An account of two additional mur ders in the White Chapel slums is de -I:iili'il with vii>lr<'iiiiicr m!»iil»ni>u in a London dispatch to the Globe this morning. Tho assassin has now bereft seven hapless women of their lives. On the bodies of the slain is fixed the fero cious trade mark of the monster, whose unappeasable appetite for blood seems to grow with the horrors it feeds on. The terrible inspiration which culmi nates in such diabolism is apparently as much a mystery as ever. The revolt ing deeds are as swiftly and silently done as the lightning stroke, and the perpetrator is unknown aud unseen, and seemingly untraceable. The poor wretches who live in the neighborhood of these assass inations speak of them with bated breath and pale lips. Every woman in the class from which the victims are taken is haunted by the fearful thought that the assassin's knife is whetted for her, and that the blow may fall at any moment. The police seem powerless to detect the criminal whose terrible atrocities, while not without ex ample, can only be accounted for in a morbid desire to take human life. It was only a few years ago an almost similar series of occurrences frightened the little city of Austin, Tex., almost out of Ms propriety. - There were nine women murdered there within the space of a few months, and with such marks of peculiar and identical atrocity as pro duced the conviction that they were the ruthless deeds of the same man. One singular feature characterized these as sassinations. They were invariably perpetrated in the full of the moon, and physicians ascribed them to the im pulses of a disordered intellect. The perpetrator, however, escaped detec tion, perhaps by means of the cunning which attends some forms of insanity. In his work on the "Diseases of the Nervous System," Dr. Hammond men tions a number of cases where human life was taken by persons suffering from morbid impulse. Under the influ ence of a nervous disease which had perverted her mind, a French woman in 1838 poisoned thirty-seven people. There was a French assassin, Damoi. lard, who put to death six young girls during a period covered only by a few weeks, and each one was tortured with fiendish cruelty. His habit was to ob- tain admittance to the chamber of some grisette and rob her of her life, as he afterwards confessed, for the mere pleasure of seeing her die. It is possible that the White Chapel murderer may be an assassin of this kind— a maniac, perhaps controlled by an animal instinct for the shedding of blood, and shielded by the subtle cun ning which sets at defiance alike the genius and the experience of the detect ive officer. A DASTARD'S WORK. There is nothing in this world so infamous and revolting as the anony mous slanderer. To take away reputa tions and to stab in the dark is so soul less and craven an injury that decent people look upon the crime as far more sinister than open murder, lt possesses all the elements of vileness and cow ardice. About a year ago a young lady teacher in the public schools of New York city was made the victim of an anonymous correspondence. Her name is Miss Virginia Masox*. and until this secret and forbidding blight fell upon her name she possessed an unsullied repu tation. But by some unknown and per haps unintentional act she made a secret and unscrupulous enemy, who wrote an anonymous letter directed to a fe male member of the school board, ac cusing • Miss Masox* of grave offenses against society and mor ality. The poor girl had noth ing to oppose to this insidious slander but her blameless life. Sus picion spread its baleful influence among her friends. There was talk about the case among her acquaintances. The newspapers were full of it. Miss Mtvnv brnlre down under lif»r «rrir»f and threw up her school. In her despair and shame she disappeared from her home, and was next heard of in a little hamlet in a Western territory. And now, after the cruel mischief was complete— after the young woman's name and reputation had been ruined— the anonymous writer, who proves to be a revengf ul youth who courted her and was relused, confesses that he originated and wrote the shameful lie. It is a vindication, perhaps, but does not compensate the victim for her bitter tears, her untold sufferings, her loss of position and friends. A few wretchedly scrawled words written to an excitable and hysterical woman did it all. The wretch who worked this iniquity lives on. unpunished by the laws, to do more harm, perhaps .to assassinate, more characters, and spread more poison on the spotless whiteness of some girl's life. It is a bitter commentary upon the de pravity of banian nature and the. hasty and inconsiderate judgments of society. THE WOOL QUESTION. A high tariff on the importation of wools cuts off our manufacturers from a supply of an indispensable raw material, and, as without tiiat they can not manufacture at a profit, they are to that extent prevented from being buyers of American wools. The result is that the foreign -manufacturer, their competitor, is the only buyer of foreign wools, and so takes them at his own price, and. the American wool grower also has to take lower prices because the American manufacturer cannot buy. It is a fact that our manufacturers can turn out woolen goods only by using foreign wools which this country cannot produce. With a low tariff, or no tariff at all, on these wools, they get that part of "their raw material which comes from abroad so cheaply that they can undersell the foreign manufacturer in this market, instead of being under sold by him.- This enables them to in crease their output so greatly that they are enabled lo buy more heavily of the American wools, which are mixed with the imported wools. This raises the price of the domestic wools here at the same time that the purchases abroad of foreign wools by our manufacturers raises the prices lof that raw material on their competitors'. 7 In this way the operation of low tariffs is to raise the prices of American wools, and to enable the American manufact urer to compete with the foreign much more successfully than under high tar iffs. - WHEAT AND CORN. The conditions of the grain market at the close on Saturday give promise of renewed activity to-day. It was strong at Chicago, and fractionally higher at other centers, with good prospects of continued upward tendencies. The philosophy of the movement is proba- ' bly duo to the extraordinary shortage - in the European harvest and the pro posed removal of the French duties on grain. The discussion of the policy and' movement to abolish the French import tax was a matter of considerable inter est a few weeks ago, aud it is not im probable that it was the germ of the present whirl in prices. Shrewd manip ulators of the markets perceived the drift of inevitable conditions and pre pared to meet them. They fully un derstand that France must have the wheat whether she takes off her duties or not, and whether she does or Dot is a matter of indifference on this side of the Atlantic. Corn receipts are also heavy in the Chicago market, signifying evidently that the crop is in readiness to take Its share in the upward tendency of prices. The maximum estimates entertained generally for some months appear to be about fully realized; that is, a rise on 2.000,000,000 bushels. If so, it will be the richest and grandest year's gift that this nation or any other, in all history ever received from nature's providence, and its effects and influences will necessarily be felt in every branch of industry, finance and commerce. Let the farmer whistle and grow merry, for his lines have been cast in pleasant places. The whole earnings of labor in the protected industries only amount to $18 in the $100 of product. The average tariff tax is $47 in $100. If foreign labor should be twice as cheap as our own labor, a tax of $9 on the $100 would make good the difference in labor cost. The remaining $38 in $100 is wrung from the earnings of workingmen who receive no equivalent in wages or ad vantage. It is this $38 of "protection for the sake of protection" which fills the pockets of the few and filches from the pockets of the many. A newspaper sets open table to a mill ion different tastes, lt cannot do other- that which is unqualifiedly demoraliz ing, the many department editors who make a great paper have the keenest possible scent. That which survives the ordeal of scissors and pencil resides in the realm of taste, and tastes are in finite. ~»~ The Republican legislative ticket 'se lected at Friday's primaries, and whose nomination ' will be confirmed by the convention to-day, is just strong enough to put the Democrats on their mettle. Ramsay county will have important in terests to be attended to by the next legislature and none but first-class men should be named for legislative honors.' -^t_ When Rev. Dr. Burchard reads Bob Ingersoll's free whisky remarks, Blame's speech on trusts, and Fos ter's letter on manufacturers' fat, he about comes to the conclusion that this year the grand old party is suffering from something more serious than Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. im The most fragile of the protectionists'. arguments against the Mills bill, is the" often repeated assertion that "it is the first step towards free trade." On the same parity of reasoning the man who buys a 10-cent cigar and smokes it, has' taken the first step towards bankruptcy. '*+ At noon to-day, the present session of congress will have become the long est in American history; and owing to the obstructive policy of the Republican senate, has perhaps accomplished the least legislation, good, bad, or indif ferent. -. -^m* Nothing better illustrates the dan ger and disadvantage of unwieldy polit ical majorities than the tendency to float unfit persons like Mr. Mebbiam into office. -^ The laboring men of this country have minds of their own, and they vote accordingly. The hospital law suit at .Newport, R. 1., has been settled after two centuries of litigation. nm> Inventor Edison thinks he has found an antidote for Saffron John. Wheat has gone up among the stars —the falling stars possibly. No argument can shake the solidity of the Democratic position. "Out-lucked" is l>ase bail for trounced. ONE DOLLAR A DAY. The proof that Candidate Harrison did say that a dollar a day was enough for any workingman is furnished in the following affidavits. In juxtaposition is the affidavit of Gen. Harrison him self, in which he rates his own services at a thousand . dollars. Workingmen will read and draw their o.vn conclti- sions: ENOUGH rOB TiI E! NOT TOO MUCH FOB TUB mram i attorney. State of Indiana, William Ki.nu et al. Marion County, ss.— vs. the O. &M. Hy. Co. John G. Schwartz, etal.: Benjamin Har being duly sworn, rison. being duly states upon his oatli sworu. says upon his that ...he was present oath that affiant and heard Mr. Ha it- took part in preparing ui>os. now a presi- the defense ...that ■ deutiol candidate, say hearing was had at. that $1 a day was Springfield. 111.; that enough for any work- iu going to, returning logman, and that be and arguing the case, ■„ himself could live on nearly one whole that amount. week of time was cou- JoifN G. Schwartz, sumed, and that he Subscribed and believes the. services sworn to before me of affiant were rea i tbis2sth day of Sep- sonably worth $1,000. I tember. ISSB. Benj. Harrison. Joseph T. Faxxixi;. '■ Subscribed and Notary, sworn to before me this 31st day of March, 1887. ■ Howard Tale, Notary. «3»»- SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT. The discussion that has sprung up re regarding the omission of the' word "obey" from the marriage service seems superfluous. The word was always looked upon in married life as •'the little joker." --• * Ladies who aspire to great dramatic celebrity should remember that,, the first step toward distinction in their chosen profession is to dress well. The artist in robes has more to do with femi nine triumphs on the stage than either Shakspeare or Oliver Goldsmith. The lady who stoops to conquer should have Worth for a prompter. 77V"* • w They are to have a beauty show next week among the roses atSanßernardino, California. We shall also have one this winter in St. Paul. The ice palace will glow with all types of beauty, and dim pled cheeks will be alive with roses. ■"* * . * The tendency of English peeis to marry American wives is becoming constantly more marked. ; The Duke of borough's honeymoon 7 with 7 his New York hrfrln". Is hnrdlv nvnr hpforft -.~.. ~ v __ ~»ap.>> *~ ......--j v . ... -■ -^» the news comes that the Duke of Nor folk is to wed Miss McTavisii, of Balti more. That American women make the best wives Is a conviction that has come to many prominent Englishmen of late. But does an Englishman make the best husband for an American girl? That is a question not easy to answer. Perhaps it should not be propounded until the conundrum "Is marriage a failure?" has been settled. * » I ♦ j The young emperor of China is an "ex travagant sort of a cuss. It is estimated that his wedding will cost $0,000,000. A sum like that .would run a. Republican paper in Missouri for nearly a year. • * « : Another victim of the March blizzard is reported. . A New Yorker who res cued a strange girl from the snow mar ried her last week. In the other cases rf.r\nrtoii llio vi/»tir,,a cl,r,T,lir .1it., 1 iwywiwi wn. ,1* i tint oiiiipij uicu. ;'.- - -,".'.■ , * * I A Washington paper relates this anecdote on the junior senator from Kansas: . "It was only a little telegram —a very little telegram, in fact— but the frown on Senator Plumb's face dark ened repeatedly as he sat in his seat yesterday and read and reread it. It appears that the senator and Represent ative Peters had agreed to address a political gathering at Wichita, Kan., on the 16th hist. This is what the tele gram contained: 'Don't come; Bar ium's circus is billed for same day. You can buck against the Democrats successfully, but our people would rather go" to — -than miss a circus. Better lix upon another date.' It is needless to add that the advice was fol lowed." ■_ » GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE. Walt Whitman is again tuning his lyre. Blame has already tuned his. Henry Irving is going to play "Ma homet." Will the London public play the mountain? Levi P. Morton's cattle have already won seventeen prizes. But Mr. Mor ton cannot lasso the cowboy vote. Holiday is the name of an Apache Indian living in Baltimore, Md. Of course he has grown used to being ob served.' The Rev. C. H. Spurgeox is about to publish a book which bears the eccen tric title "The Cheque-Book of the Bank of Faith." John Piersox, of New Haven, Conn., who died Tuesday at the age of eighty seven, was born in the same town as President Clkvelaxd, but had lived in New Haven for fifty-three years. Mr. Jackson, the husband of the late lamented authoress, Helen Hunt Jackson*, was married recently, and is now residing at Colorado Springs, Col. He married a niece of his first wife, and there is, therefore, still a Helen. Hunt Jackson. The grave of the first Mrs. Jackson, known to fame as "H. H.," is literally covered with visiting cards left by tourists who climb the mountain near Colorado Springs to visit the last resting-place of this remarkable woman. Before the campaign opened, and while Mrs. Cleveland was still mov ing freely in society, the press began to prqphcsy how useful she v^ould be to her husband, by reason of her beauty, tact and popularity. One paper, bit terly hostile to the president, made a great deal of her value in the campaign and paraded it on all occasions, with the evident intention of forestalling public opinion and injuring him. How base less, as well as heartless, all this was, is shown by the demeanor of Mrs. Cleve land now that the campaign is under way. ■ She has retired utterly from the public gaze. There are no receptions, no little journeyings hither and thither ki lw>..»Af„./. «...! <•„_ „ll n.„. .1... „... us ncieioiore, anu. ior an mat me out side world hears of her, she might have dropped out of the universe. She has declined to be interviewed or to permit any publication of her opinions. —*« MEN OF NOTE. Gen. Fisk, the Prohibition candidate for president, is sick at his home in New Jersey. Hannibal Hamlin, of .Maine, it is said, has purchased an overcoat. This is a sure sign of an early and hard winter. One of the members of the incoming class nt the Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, Troy, N. V., is Dan Rice, Jr., son of the noted cir cus star. . " , . . Richard Kii>i>, of Texas, having reached the age of 115, is still voting the Democratic ticket. He is undoubtedly the oldest voter in the United States. H. C. Bain, editor of Puck, is said to command a higher price from the magizines for his short stories than any other American writer of his age. • Thomas Bland, aged eighty-four years, who lives near San Jacinto, Jennings county, is said to be the oldest native-born Hoosier living in the state. Levi P. Morton, Republican candidate for vice president, won eight prizes at the Buf falo International fair for his eight exhibits of improved stock. Senator Stanford is said to be quite ill, and with a peculiar affection. He is con stantly drowsy, yet Is unable to secure any restful or refreshing sleep. William R. Mkimuam, the Republican can didate for governor of Minnesota, is sup posed to be the youngest bank president on record. He is thirty-eight now. Charles I) max Warner begins to show the effects of the hard work he has done as a literary man. His hair, beard ana mustache are very gray, and give him an older look than his years warrant. The czar spends very little time in his study, as he is more afraid of stoutness than of political plots, and is consequently in the habit of receiving his ministers in the grounds, walking up and down an avenue while listening to their reports. SPhAKiNG of M. Pasteur, a recent writer says: "He is of average height, has a large, high forehead, small grey eyes, soft and in telligent; short neck, broad shoulders and an emaciated face; he wears a full gray beard and mustache cut close. He limps slightly." STATE PRESS! And His Name Is Wilson. Red Wing Republican. ; - 1 Republicans who have read the statements 1 et the St. Paul Globe, and the not too com plete explanations of some state officials' about the condition of the state's finances, will fie thankful that the result of the Repub lican convention ensures a change iv the ex ecutive for the next two years. Merriam Was a Member, Farmingtou Tribune. let, us be fair and decent, even in politics, and let us stick to the truth. Mr. Merriam was not a member of the legislature when P. H. Rahiliy was. . [Mr. Rahiliy sat in the house of 1883 and so did Mr. Merriam.] , ffii Barto's Treachery. Montevideo Leader. ' He seconded Merriam's nomination In a noisy speech that served but to "ring the changes* 1 on his own vile perfidy.and to con vince his hearers that he is vi: .<>riliy of all political preferment, even as he i s destitute of all political honor. Ta!ta' Barto. Your people did well to nominate a more honor able man for congress, and with them ''We'll not forget thee." Minus the Capitol. Swift County Monitor. 7. * Mr. Merriam has plenty of capital, but he is also minus the capitol, A Poor Bluff. Winona Herald. -'••.'-'.. .-' --: Hjh. William R. Merriam, Successful can didate for. the Republican nomination for governor, is in New York, and took pains to out himself on record it: regard to the com ing election. He modestly .intimates that there hare been objections . to gubernatorial candidates in the past which hare cut down majorities, but this rear the candidate is all right, ami Minnesota "will give all the way irom • 35,000 "to 40,000 majority for j Gen.' I Harrison." Mr. Merriam's modesty is superb. If he really believes what he . says, lie had better stay In. "New York for a' few weeks. For if he repeats any such assertion in Min nesota he may find a large roll of his favorite campaign material thrust under his nose with a suggestion that he may back his opinion. Business is lively, this fall, but there is no such an opportunity for picking up money as to call Mr. Merriam's 35,000 bluff. If he Is : the shrewd financier his friends claim, he will avow when he returns that the New York reporter added a cipher to his actual claim, or else remark that since he became a candidate for governor he has given up betting. - Works From the Stub. Wadena Tribune. • When asked if Merriam would take the stump in his own interests, a Democratic campaign speaker staled that Mr. Merriam did not work from the stump but from the stub. This remark contains a great deal of truth, as newspaper clipping published else where in this issue indicates. Rash Statements. Jackson Republican. C. W. Smith in an interview with a Pioneer Press reporter, says that Merriam, in the Sec ond will have not less than 10.000 majority, for it was the original Merriam district. We guess C. W. Smith does not read the papers or talk with a great many people or he would not make such rash statements. Merriam will not take 200 majority out of Jackson and Nobles counties. : 777 Touches the Spot. Stillwater Democrat. Merriam is undergoing his first political hnticßirpnnlurr nerienep. and likes it. He is certainly financially hospitable and dis likes to have "the boys" look gaunt. Next to a man's stomach, nothing touches the spot so quick as boodle. Mac Donald Arrives. Faribault Pilot. The Democrats of the Third congressional district will be pleased to learn that Hon. John L. Mac Donald arrived home Tuesday, hale, hearty and ready for the fray. "Pleas ant Acrimony Hall, his opponent, had bet ter diet on brain food for a few days, so that he will be intellectually strong enough to at least attempt to wrestle with some of the knotty tariff problems Mac will give him to solve. A Queer Confession. Zumbrota News. The fact that Mr. Merriam has money is being used as an argument against his useful ness as a governor. We are glad he has money and wish we had as much or more. Openly Stated. Brownsville News. It is openly stated that Merriam, the Re publican nominee for governor, bought his nomination. He was not the choice of the convention which nominated him, but by some hook or crook he got there just the same. Well, it remains to be seen whether the people of this state are so partisan blind as to elect a man for chief administrator who has so little scrupples about the means used to gain his own selfish ends. Killing Scheffer. Glencoe Register. In its efforts to kill off Albert Scheffer po litically the Pionter Press is doing more to lose Mr. Merriam votes than his best workers can make for him. Is it not '-Mischievous meddliug?" Feathered His Nest. Todd County Argus. This sudden change is not surprising to the people up this way who know Barto best He is for anything that will feather his nest, and he didn't change his coat this lime without there was something in sight. He can now talk of Gilman's treachery. CROWLEY'S COMPANION. The Grace and Dignity With Which Miss Kitty Eats Her Din • ner. Prior to the arrival of her attendant with the repast Miss Kitty disported herself all over the Crowley man sion, says the New York Herald, and by posturing of singular modes proved that she could give any chimpanzee in America points in ballet dancing and delicate contortions, and Inter mi arte evinced hevond a oerad- venture ncr possession of ladylike de portment and' the graces that befit an educated and well-bred girl of African extraction. When her dinner was brought in and placed upon the table, Miss O'Brien stood patiently by until a chair was set for her beside it. Then she took her seat gracefully, and with a tablespoon began her meal, which was contained in a soup-plate and another dinner platter. She behaved herself as correctly as many children .do, and she used her spoon, her knife and fork, and napkin as deftly as many who are seen in our restaurants. She never made the mistake of put ting her knife instead of her fork in her mouth. Once, and once only.was she guilty of what might be called a faux pas. This was after the dinner things had been removed and her attendant had disap peared into the pantry.- Miss Kitty leaped upon the table and grinned gleefully. But this was done in the gayety of youth and in the esprit of mirth, and as the young lady imme diately descended with a grave expres sion of countenance, it is fair to assume that she was penitent and had merely forgotten herself for a momeut. ♦ A CAMPAIGN ALPHABET. [Written for the Globe.] A's for that curious word Affidavit— The News has got one, and is going to save it. B is the Boodle true ueiegates got— Those fellows who voted for Bill, and were bought. C is for Cole, who believes in free trade, But is given to calling a shovel a spade. 1> is for Donnelly, the great acrobat, who's ready to flop at the drop of the hat. X is the Earth, the Republicans claim; On November the sixth they'll get left, just the same. F Is the Farmer who doesn't much care if A slight change were made in the odious tariff. G is the Globe, which contains all the news; The masses its columns each day do peruse. H is tne Hat, grandpapa's number 10, Tho' a very large size, it will never fit Ben. I's for the Irish who voted for Biaiue— Just why they dia so would be hard to cx i plain. ~- J is for Johnson, whom Dahl tried to buy; It looks bad for Dahl, tho' he snys its a He. X is for Kelly, who spends all the day Getting In his fine work with his Utile "O. K." L is for Loreu, a man hard to down; ' He knows all the wires in his own native town. . M's for Mc.GiP, whom a traitorous crew Deserted to rake in a dollar or two. >' is for Newel, who wears on his feet Silk stockings of pattern quite nobby and neat. .. ;7;W O is for Office, which should seek the man; Nowadays things are run on a different plan. l*'s for the Press, which stands la with the gang— Its fliug agaiust Scheffer was a bad boom erang. Q is the Quarrel in G. 0. P. ranks— lip re are numbers of people not stuck UDon banks. R is for Rice, with a heart large and warm. Who'll sweep the old Fourth like a cyclonic storm. S is for Scheffer, a prluce among men ; Where Bills has one friend, why, Albert has ten. Tis the Tariff protective— a fraud— A theft against man and a sin against God. U is the L'nioii the Democrats need, If at Uncle Sam's crib four years more they ; ; would feed. - - . . Vls the Voice of the people. "Ere long It will stifle Protection's sweet siren song. W's for Wilson, old Tom or Eugene; They mean what they say, and they say what they mean. - X Is 'Xcitement, 'twill reach a high pitch When Grover on Ben gets a half-Nelson hitch. • -.. . V is the Yell of great triumph you'll hear When the Democrats win in the fall of this -. 3 ear. ?v ' .„? "-.-. 7 •._'-'•■: , Z is the Zeal which the people - should show In putting down fraud, and corruption also. . - — M. J. D. -^»» ** _ results, largest circulation and mJ g\ o r most ; advantageous rates ' are Otjt\ i giveu by me duoLt, Un: great. mw . ■ w■, "Want"' medium. CARNEGIF SHAME. Women Toiling at His Fur naces Under the High- Tax System. They Are Imported From Eu rope to Supplant Ameri can Labor. Valuable Statistics as to the Robbery the Tariff Commits. High Taxes Mean Highway Robbery Upon Helpless Labor. Toledo Bee. To the editor of the Bee: Is it all necessary for the Blade to go to Eng land to find women working at heavy labor, such as forging, etc. Six years ago 1 walked a distance of six miles in one of the most beautiful districts of America. Had the artist making the electro-plates at Republican general headquarters been with me, he would have hesitated before sending out such plates as did service in last evening's Blade. This is what he would have seen: Women working at furnaces, who to all appearances were unsexed. They were Hungarians, working alongside of their husbands and countrymen, and lost to every idea of propriety or rudest sensi tiveness. They were clothed with a short kilt and a pair of boots, and, so far as the eye could judge, that was all. Prom waist up they were as naked as the cold truth. Iv all the habits of daily lite with men they were as men. This charming little picture our artist would have beheld as 1 beheld it, in Western Pennsylvania, about sixty miles south of Pittsburg, between Scot dale and Mt. Pleasant. The furnaces were coke ovens; the workmen con tract laborers who had crowded out Americans. The owners of the furnaces are Frick & Co., protectionists all, who can weep profusely at the threatening dangers to American workingmen in a slight reduction of the tariff. Perhaps to make the picture complete the artist would wish to present the portraits of the owners. After Mr. Flick's portrait, whose? If the galler ies of Pittsburg have not his photograph Mr. Blame has. Frick & Co. means Mr. Flick and Andrew Carnegie! Ask the first man you meet from the Smoky City that was, if this be not the fact. Charles E. Wheeler. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Some Good Words on the Tariff and Wage Subject. To the Editor of the Bee : I am glad that Mr. Wheeler has given to the public in last night's Bee the facts he privately related some time ago. The picture is a ief resiling one for those who talk about labor getting the benefit of protection. Women nearly naked working beside men nearly brutalized in the scorching fur naces of Andrew Carnegie, while that gentleman is riding with the leader of the Republican party to Cluny castle. The fact is that "protection" not only lowers, but greatly lowers, the rate of wages. If not, how comes it that wages in the non-"protected" occupations, such as the building tiades and railroad ing, are so much higher than wages in iron-making and mining? Since 1880 there has been a general rise in wages In the non-"protected" occupations of about 15 per cent; bnt in the "protect ed" occupation there has been a general fall, as John Jarrett himself admits of 20 per cent. The truth is that the high tariff nuts the men in the liower of the masters. The masters can and do fre quently fro through with this little pro cess. First they manufacture a heavy surplus; then, alleging that the market is weak, they unite in declaring that wages must be reduced. The men probably strike. Then, as production ceases, prices go up and the manufac turers make more money than ever, in asmuch as the mountain-high tariff, more than twice as high as that of any other country except Brazil, does not allow the competition of foreign goods. in two or three months the men get starved out and go back to work at re duced wages, and stay till another cut is determined upon. The manufactur ers would not be so ready to shut down were it not for the high tariff which se cures them the market. I fancy how Carnegie must roll around and laugh at the idea that a high tariff makes him pay high wages. Now, Mr. Editor, 1 propose to offer you a companion picture of Mr. Wheeler's, and I challenge Republican denial. While the manufacturers have been reducing the wages of "protected" labor within the last twenty years until the general level is below that of the awful "free trade" year of 1860, the manufacturers have been gathering in the money of the people of the United States as follows: Pig iron, average annual production, 4,500.000 tons: in twenty years, 90.000. --000 tons. Average extra price paid by the people because competition was re stricted to Petinsylvanians is at least $10 per ton; tota.l tribute of people to Pennsylvania 800,000. There is not a blow made, a railroad built, a house erected that does not cost from 15 to 30 per cent more on account of the tariff. If our Republican friends want another picture I can supply it: Steel raits proamnion in 20 years in U. S. in tons, about.. 15,000,000 Extra price paid first by rail road.- and next by their ship pers will average, per t0n.... $20 Total tribute to steel rail makers $,*00.000,000 The mass of the Republican party is no doubt honest in its belief that some how the tariff "fosters" industries with out anybody paylne for the fostering, hut those who get the benefit of the un just taxation of their fellow citizens arc not honest in the reasons they give for "protection." C. S. Ashley. GEN. SHERMAN ON HOVEY. A Letter That Will Not Help the Republicans in Indiana. New York Herald. Among the items of news gathered at the Democratic national headquar ters is the following letter taken from the military records in Washington, which is not calculated to help the chances of Gen. Hovey, Republican candidate for governor of Indiana: Headquarters MILITARY Division or 1 the Mississippi, in the Field, Near v Atlanta, Ga., July 25. 1804. ' Col. James Hardie, Inspector General, Wash inton, D. C: I have your dispatch of yesterday. * * * I wish to put on record this, my emphatic opinion, that it is an act of Injustice to offi cers who stand by their posts in the day of dangerto neglect them and advance such as Gen. Hovey, who left us in the midst of bill lets to go to the rear in search of personal ad vancement. If the rear be the post of honor, then we had better all change front on Wash ington. W. T. SHERMAN, Major General, Commanding. - Why, Oh, Why? To the Editor of the Globe. Allow tme to make a suggestion through your paper. Why can't we have a joint discussion by our candi dates for governor? Give us a chance to hear from those irentlemen. Please invite them to come before the voters at an early day and take for their text, "Tariff, high and low wages, etc., etc." We have no doubt but that much use-' ful information will be imparted, and they will draw a crowed house. Yours, etc ' r-.: . Jasucs Redlight. • Sept. 20. 1888. 7 . Comment— Mr. Merriam's managers will not permit him to ' indulge in de bate, and he speaks only as a they dic tate.'--"- 7":7 1 PROPHECY — .FULFILLMENT Tiiden's Patriotic Hope Achieved in Cleveland's Administration. "The government can never be re stored and reformed except from inside, and by the active, intelligent agency of the executive. We must hope that Providence will, in its own good time, raise up a man adapted and qualified for the wise execution of this great work, and that the people will out him in possession of the executive* administra tion, through which alone the noble mission can be accomplished, and the health and life of our political system be preserved and invigorated."— Samuel J. Tilden to Iroquois Club, Chicago, March 11, 1882. "Cleveland's administration has been free from official or personal scandal ; has been honest and clean. There have been no Star route robberies ; no navy jobberies; no war department cor ruptions; no profligate waste by United States marshals; no treasury combina tions or speculations; no corrupt .opera tions in or through the land office. . No American at home or abroad has had occasion to droop his eyes in shame be cause of any such things under Mr. Cleveland's administration. On the contrary, there has been a resolute ef fort to promote honest government, to increase efficiency, and to lessen ex penses."—George W. Childs in tho Philadelphia Ledger, Aug. 1838. An Interesting Conversation. "Sew York Herald. "Can I interview you in regard to the action of the United Labor party in coming out for Warner Miller?" the re porter asked Alexander Jones, editor of the Yolks Zeitung. "Yes," replied Mr. Jones. "Well, what do you think of it?'» "Boodle!" "Is that all?" "That is all." The Teutonic mind seems to be able to grip a situation by the nape of the neck, so to speak, and to state facts in crisp and expressive terms. London Is. To the Editor of tne Globe. To settle a dispute, please answer the following question, viz; Which is the largest city in the world in population. By erivill"- an nneivpr in nutu -,,,..,• ...... Will Oblige A Reader of the Globe. St. Paul, Sept. 28. Answer— London 8,832.000 J,""' I 1.988,100 £ cLi , n 1,648,000 Canton. 1 - 1,500 "Newlork „. 1,1*00,000 LIFE'S BRIGHT SIDE. Funny Paragraphic Conceits Culled in Many Brainy Fields. From Puck. The Emperor of China is preparing to mop up the earth with the nations who decline to admit his subjects. He is looking out more for his queues than for his peace. Malaria is a malady that a doctor says you have got when he doesn't know what's the matter with you. Since oil has come into general use to calm the ocean waves, the cruise of oil has had a greater run than even in an cient times. Stationer— Fes, sir; we have every kind of pen. What kind will you take"? Chicago Litterateur— You may give me a box of facile pens. I understand that the best writers use that variety. "Going to be away six months, eh? Aren't you afraid something will hap pen to the wife and children while you're gone?" "They're safe enough; I left them in Philadelphia. Nothing ever happens there, you know." - From Harper's Bazar. "Oh, the Frenchman was very harshly treated. They threw him off the bal cony Into the street." "They did? Well, was he hurt much? Anything broken?" "Nothing but his English." There is a policeman in Boston who has carried his club for fourteen? years' and has never struck anything but atti tudes in all that time. First Baggageman— l say, Mike, all ay these trunks belong to the wan woman. Wat d'ye s'pose is in them? Second Baggageman— Shure, Jerry, an' it's her war-rurobe. She's a cele brated actress. First Baggageman— what's in the small handbag that goes wid 'em? Second Baggageman— Be gobs, Jerry, oi'm thinkin' that's wat houlds her janius. "Mistah Farley, I guess de baby's swallered some rat pizen, an' ma fought maybe you'd know wot was good fur it." Gentleman (at an evening entertain ment)— Pardon me, sir. but am 1 not ad« dressing the Duke of Wynu Wylyys? Gentleman Addressed* (drawing him self up with hauteur)— I am the head waiter. First Tragedian— Oh, I did splendidly on my Western trip. Second Ditto— supported you? First Tragedian (indignantly)— Sirrah, I suppor-r-nte.d meself. From the Cartoon. Miss Bruce (who haf heard that hei friend, Miss Deering, lias had a falling out with Mr. Downey)— Why, I thought, Eugenia, that you and Dick were.. very solid. Miss Deering (icily)— Oh, dear, no I only plated. Clerk— Perambulators? Yes, sir. We have just got in a new stock, satin lined, silk-trimmed, silver-plated iron, work, full-jeweled handle, etc., only $50. Step this way, please. First child. I ciir,iww..'> Customer— No; seventh. Clerk— Oh ! John, show the gentleman those latest improved $10 baby "coaches." Eastern Farmer— Got tired of Kan sas, eh? Returned Emigrant— Yes, too hoi down there for agriculture. . E. P.— Don't see how it can be too hoi tor corn. R. Well, the corn grows fast and ripens fast, that's a fact; but you see it ain't remarkable. Nobody wants to buy roast corn. Most folks like it better biled. Prison Visitor— what brought you here, my good fellow? Courect— 9:40 train on the All Round railroad, Aug. 2, 1880. Ask me something harder. GET OUT OP THE WAY. For the Globe. The tariff crowd is a little too late To get inside of the White House gate; They carry such loads, and they travel 84 slow, That to get to the froat they havu't a show, cnoßirs. Get out of the way. old Indiana, Out of the way. Indiana; Get out of the way, Indiana, You never can beat that old Bandana. 'Way up in tne woods, in the state of Maine, They've got a little horse they call Jim Blame; They ran him hard four years ago. But that Mulligan saddle made him slow. Chorus. They never dare to run that horse "agen," So they traded him off for Chinese Beu ; But Ben has a record you all have seen, Made years ago with Old Blue Jeaus. Chorus. The tariff folks are terrible thin To put such a feeble horse in trim; And then they are almost tempting Fate, By running Monopoly for his mate. Chorus. They claim that Ben is a fancy stock. That his great grandfather was a lighting cock;. But doesn't it look most awful lame To try to win a race in your grandfather'! name? . * Chorus. The Democratic party has come to stay. And tbe horse they run is a Cleveland bay. We ran him once with the horse from Maine, And ever since theu that horse was lame. Chorus. Our Cleveland horse is a common strain, . With a mighty backbone and lots of brain; He's running so fast this present fall. - That it looks like Ben wasn't running at all, ;7r.?7-V'?\-v-*7":7- ; -?-'"7-' ■-' ' Chorus. ,