20 - THE DAILY GLOBE Published every day. AT l BE GLOBE BUILDING, COR. ' FOURTH AND CEDAR STREETS BY "T.EWIS BAKER. ST. PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES. D.mi.v (Not li*c__t>ino Sitniiay.j 1 vr inadvau-c.58 00 I 3m. in advances. OO om. in advance 100 1 6 weeks in adv. 100 One month 70c. DAILY AND SUNDAY. 3 vriti ndvanceflO OO I :i mo-, in adv. .£2 50 -in iv advance 500 I 5 weeks in adv. 100 One month 80c. SUNDAY ALONE. Ivr In advance. *"*•_ (Mil 3 mos. in adv 50c Cm. In advance 100 1 1 mo. in adv 20c Tin* Weekly— (Daily - Monday, Wednesday and Friday.) 1 vi in advance.?! 00 | 0 mos. in a*lv--S2 00 3 months, in advance fl 00. WEEKLY BT. PAUL GLOBE. One Year, Si : six Mo. 65c i Three Mo. -oc Rejected communications cannot be pre served. Address all tellers and telegrams to THE GLOBE. St. Paul, "Minn. One of the Boston papers insists, as an objection to female suffrage and politic.-, that they never could nail a lie without mashing a thumb. maw Rev. Joseph Cook, the orthodox Boston luminary, doesn't think that "Robert Elsmere is a nice book." That will insure a great sale for it in Boston. Mar*. Anderson has planted her English shoes upon her native heath once more, not as English shoes, but in disgust with the high heels which she is said to have discarded for all time. Mary is generally sensible. mm*. Chicaco is having a run with a dain ty religious fad, in the way of church concerts (iii Sunday— a sort of pious opera. Admission i- charged and li cense paid as in other shows, and even thosesobusy in abhorring the Sunday daily have not manifested disapproval. m* It i- said that, an insurance company refuses to pay the loss ou the driver of a nitroglycerine wagon in the oil re gions, because alter the explosion noth ing could be found of him but a knee cap, and that was not sufficient evidence of bis death. Persons insured should be careful to keep their parts more to gether. mtm. It i- figured out by the New York Time- that Boston investors have sunk 182,000,000 of their good money in the Atchison, Topeka ft Saute Fe and Chi cago, Burlington it Quincy railroads. Jf such is the fact, it would suggest that their mistake was made in putting their money in roads thai do not penetrate the new Northwest. After 20,000 women had -.one to the ballot box in Huston, nearly all the pul pits discoursed upon the event as the inauguration of a new era, and the gen tle voters were deluged with compli ments. One foresaw a time in the has tening future when there shall be "a female loveliness thai --hall be the de spair of tin* painter of posterity." Some examples of it are not unknown in this city reach . mm li the experiments being made to gen erate electricitj by wind succeed, and heal for Fuel can be elicited by electric agency, llie problem of cheap fuel for the North will be. solved, appar ently. The farmer uses the windmill for pumping water; why not attach the dynamo and generate heat lor his bouse and stables? The more severe the storm, tin* greater amount of electricity will be developed. There might be a difficulty in ease there was no wind, but that seldom happens on the prairies in the cold season. It is alleged that a man at Indianapo lis has a somewhat substantial back bone. The other man who will step out of his way gracefully in March has dis played a more rigid spinal column than was altogether agreeable to some friends. But there ha- been no accurate appraise ment Of the value of a backbone in a public man. Boston, however*, has re cently indicated some of its estimate of the financial worth of the female spine. In a suit against a railroad for damage to the dorsal column of a woman, the jury gave her $23,000, and the higher judicial wisdom Ol the state pronounced it nolaiiuv •rvalulation. It was only au average spine and an average woman thai is, a Boston woman, of course— but they vote somewhat down there. Even a Boston man might lose his head, and everything else of value to him, in a railroad catastrophe, and his family would get but "55,000 worth of satisfaction out of it. It is a chivalric age, manifestly. "OF SUCH.*" In the current number of the Scien tific "Magazine, a medical writer states that between one-third and one-halt of all the children born in the world go out of it before they are five years old. This is a strange statement for tnis late day in the history of scientific research and knowlege of the contributory con ditions of life. It is a fearful indictment of the race as an animal institution; but the sparkling eyes and merry face- are too numerous lor .somber hues or prosaic homiletic- just at this time. It is not, aside from the view of human grief, a forbidding picture suggested by this wholesale mortality. The Christmas Master has said that the translated little ones an* the joy and light of the abodes where there is fruition of the Christmas foretastes. The men who doubted that little children with out some sacerdotal indorsement go to heaven have gone where they can learn the error of their clumsy conception. The little earthly buds will bloom in the celes tial life, an-Pno possible servitude in expiatory realms can Ik* presumed of them. Bad they lived and become men and women, a good many of the male portion would have become dudes, tramps, sots, and worthless generally, while a considerable fraction of the other sex would have saddened life as gum chew ers. whistlers, trifiors with the adolescent center of masculine emo tions; worn tall hats to the theaters to make bald-headed men .-wear, or have done other deplorable things that would cloud, it not ruin, the life in another sphere. The question as to whether the loss of the information to be gath ered in this terreslial career would be a permanent or weighty deprivation is not for present solution. The evidence Is absolute!, conclusive that no demerit marks will be made against those who do not reach five years in the records of the new lands to which they are borne on angelic wings. They must be re garded as the fortunate who are caught upward in the bud of life. They will bloom where there conies no blight. mm : OVERWORKKD EMPLOYES. There is no doubt as to the fact that some of the most serious railroad acci dents have been due to the overworking Of employe-:. This makes it a matter of concern to the public, and efforts have been mate to interpose legal barriers. The last legislature ill Pennsylvania passed an act designed to restrain em ployers from exacting or permitting more than twelve nours" work. A grand jury in Philadelphia, under this law, has just indicted the president and superintendent of a street railway for allowing an employe to work beyond the twelve hours. If convicted, and the penalty enforced, they will be impris oned from one to six months. It is said to be the first case of the kind, and its result will be noted with much interest. The law fixes the maximum working day at twelve hours, and all over that must be counted as overwork. But the employer is forbidden to allow such overwork. The performance of the work is prima facie evidence of vio lation of the law. Ignorance of the law is allowed as a defense, but in this case the defendents do not make such claim, but will test the validity of the act. It presents the novel phase that a man cannot work beyond the specified time at hi- own instance without bringing his employer into, criminal liability. The control of his time inheres in the state and not in himself, and may be exercised at the discretion of the state. The courts must decide whether a man can be imprisoned for not preventing too willing servants from doing over work. Should the statute be sustained, its scope will be more fully developed, as it will evidently have the sympathy of the pubic. It will apparently apply to ladies in stores, street car drivers and all classes of employes. If it is a suc cess in Pennsylvania, it will likely be taken up in other states. m*» OCR ; ANNUAL* REVIEW. The Twin Cities of the Northwest have passed another milestone on the turnpike road of their marvelous prog ress, and as they pause to look back upon the record of their development within the last year as it is spread be fore them in this Christmas annual num -1 ber of the Globe they must experience a feeling of pride and gratulation that the lines have fallen to them in such pleasant places, It is not by the capac ity of a city's population for horn blow ing, nor by their indulgence of a boast ful spirit, that a city's growth is to be measured. The dimensions of its in crease are only ascertained by the use of the plumb line of truthful figures and the square of unerring statistics. De termined by this, the only cor rect method of measurement, the growth made by St. Paul and Minneapolis during the year 1888 has in some respects been more phenomenal than that of preceding years. While there has not been a manifestation of that disposition to spread out and cover the earth which characterized the growth of some former years, there has been an improvement more stable in its character, and more permanent in value than in all the years that have passed. The growth has been of a more decided metropolitan character, giving evidence that the people of the Twin Cities have awakened to a full consciousness of their destiny, as it has all along been understood by the outside world. It must be remembered, also, that the record of Isss was scored in a sea son ol universal financial depression and business stagnation. It was presidential year, and everybody knows what that mean-, in our American busi ness and financial affairs. A commu nity that can hold its own during a presidential year is lucky. The one that takes one -Hide in the direction of progress is exceptional. Yet here are the Twin Cities of the Northwest dur ing the year I*****', not content with hold ing their own, not satisfied with taking a single step forward, but, bursting all the bonds ami limitations of municipal expansion and metropolitan growth, have bounded into an era of prosperous development unparalleled in the history of cities. It is not surprising, then, that the peo ple of St. Paul and Minneapolis should be proud of the year's record as it is unfolded to them in this issue of the Globe. * # buildings and PUBLIC IMPROVE MENTS. In looking for evidences of metro i politan proportions the reader will ! naturally turn lirst to the statistics re lating to buildings and city improve ments. Here they are, and how mag nificently they loom up. It is not of the number, so much as of the character of the buildings that have been erected during the year, that the two cities have just cause to be boastful. Here in St Can! we have added a building frontage of fifteen miles, with a total expendi ture of $15,0-0,000, principally in busi ness blocks that would be an ornament to any city in the world. A total ex penditure of 130,000,000, with thirty miles of frontage, is the year's record for the two cities. St. Paul has expended 12,000,000 this year in public improvements, street paving, street grading, increasing the Water supply and extending the sewerage sys tem. It is upon solid foundations, such as our building and public improve ment records exhibit, that cities of per manent prosperity and enduring quali ties arc built. * ♦. *■ TUT. JOBBING TRADE. Among the most gratifying features of the year'- prosperity is the rapidity ! in development of our commercial in terests. The jobbing statistics here in St. Paul show a business of (118,000,000 for the year 1888, being an increase of 117,000,000 over last year. When we consider that commerce is our destiny, and that all onr future prosperity must depend largely on the maintenance of our position as the commercial center of the Northwest, we find more com fort in the figures which tell of this great increase of our jobbing trade than in all the other evidences of one year's growth. . * RAILROADS. The railroads have kept pace with the growth of our commerce, not so much : iv the building of new lines as in the ; extension of branch roads into new ter \ ritory and in the equipment of the vari ous roads to accommodate the increase of trade and traffic. The opening ofthe '•Soo" line during the year has marked an epoch in Northwestern railroad busi ness. * * MAN L" FA CTURI NG. Manufacturing is the handmaid of Commerce, aud .while the latter has a THE SAIXT PATJB DAILY GLOBE: .SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1888.— THIRTY-TWO PAGES. more mature development' in this local ity, the former continues to grow into comely proportions. The St. Paul fig ures rest at -44,000,000 for 1888, a gain of 5G,000,000 over last year's record, with plans already projected, and many of them perfected, to give a stimulus to the manufacturing interests during the coming. year unprecedented in the his tory of the city. The building up of a large commercial business in Minne apolis and a corresponding building up of manufacturing industries here in St. Paul are bringing about an equalization of interests between the two cities that has long been desired by those who had the welfare of both at heart, and who have believed that their destinies were common. * * BANKING AND REAL ESTATE. The banking and real estate statistics for the year are encouraging. The shortage in the wheat crop, and other causes that are apparent, have short ened the bank clearances for the year, and jet there is no reduction below any previous year. If the wheat ••'crop had been an average, the bank clearances would have shown an increase in pro portion to everything else. Still, money is plentiful and to be had at easy rates, mortgages have been paid at maturity, and the report of debt collections is the best the city has ever shown, even in (lushest times. While there has been no "boom" in real estate, the figures show a remarkable activity in the real estate market. And it has been a healthy movement, for of the ?21,000,000 real estate investments herein St. Paul, there has not been a particle of the •■mushroom" business. It has been good hard cash planted in good honest dirt, and every handful of the dirt worth the money paid for it. The same is true of the Minneapolis real estate business. * * *■ POPULATION. The estimate made by a reliable di rectory firm places the population of St. Paul at this time at 193.000, and that at the end of next year it will be 224,000. Those of us who have the best opportu nities for judging are satisfied with the correctness of these figures. The esti mate falls under rather than over the actual population of the city. The GLOBE admits that it would be wild fig uring to estimate the population of this city, or even both cities, at 1.000,000 by the year 1!»00. We are not deceiving ourselves into that belief, nor do we propose to deceive any one else. Yet we believe it to be a very modest esti mate to place the population of the two cities at over a half million two years hence, with the prospect very strong ■ that by the year 1900 we will have passed the million mark. *. » CONCLUSION. It is because tlie Globe thinks it neither right nor profitable to be vain glorious that we have refrained from the '-padding" processes so often em ; ployed by the press in getting up their annual reviews. We have made an hon est effort to get honest figures, and con gratulate ourselves that we have suc ceeded. There is no necessity for the employment of fiction in writing up the annual statement of the development of two cities like St Paul and Minneapo lis. The truth i- marvelous enough. And while we say it with a feeling of mingled pride and modesty, the Globe itself and its publication of the Chblst mas Annual are the surest evidences of the thrift, enterprise and prosperity of these two great cities. THF. CAMPAIGN KISS. It is related that since the election, at a reception in Indianapolis, ('en. Harbison went out of his way to kiss a little girl prattler following it- mother; and tlie historian of the event narrates that the oscillatory effort was so pro nounced as to be heard over the hall, and elicited applause. It is not re ported that either the child or its mother was specially calculated to provoke the incident. The conundrum now with Hoosier social aud political philosophers is. why did he kiss the child. Had it been before the election, partisans would have found an easy in terpretation. If he had been known to be subject to such spasms, it might be regarded as a somewhat involuntary act, requiring no special theory. An explanation insisted upon by some is thai it was a vindication of ante-elec tion practices, showing that they were free from interested motives. The tact that it was a loud kiss, in violation of the most artistic requirements, and evi dently designed to secure the at tention of the company, is evi dence of a purpose behind and permeating it. Had it been (.en. Sherman, he would have kissed both child and mother, had they been pretty; but (Jen. Harbison is not ac customed to unbend on social occasions, in this direction, at least. If he kissed tender young female- while a candi date, it was done in a perfunctory man ner, not with the unction and explosion thai seems to have attended this post election event. There are instances on record of politicians going out of their way to kiss the darlings of strangers, ; and the theory seem- strongly fortified by circumstantial evidence that there was significance to this kiss. When the mind of President Lincoln was over burdened with state cares, he found relief in witticism and romping with children. May it not be that the work of cabinet building demands this relaxa tion. If so, does it point to the charac ter of its chief components? But, with out further light on the subject, there can be no complete solution of the ques tion why Harrison kissed the infant with such oscillatory emphasis. He re fuses to talk. CHRISTMAS CHATTER. To-morrow night how many little lips will lisp: "God bless fader, God bless moder, God bless sister"'— then a pause. Then the sweet, young lips devoutly murmur: "God bless Santa Claus." And Santa Claus will come, for both father and mother have seen him. * * The poor you have with you, even on Christmas. Is there a home in the city so dark that no ray of the glorious Christmas light will not penetrate? If so, seek it out and carry the sunshine of the season with you. -*r" V *■» . „.-.-. Most of the letters now being written are addressed to old Santa Claus or Gen. Harrison. The subject "Matter is similar iii all. They want to be remem bered in the distribution. Y^-Y •_** A Boston "paper says that, thousands of people flock to that city before Christ mas solely to view the show window tableaux, * which bring into exercise very great artistic taste and skill. They are more than mere advertising devices; they are exhibitions in themselves. There are some such in St. Paul which attract the attention of the throngs, and they all advertise in the Globe. ; t * * " Even in St. Paul there are some whose Christmas will bring no remem brances, unless those who are more fortunate are thoughtful* and actively kind. j_ » * Before the first Christmas, so far as the records show, it was said upon authority never discredited that it was better to give than receive. It is a good time to verify it. * * * Last night it seemed as if about all the population of the city were in the throngs that choked the ways nnd stores where the Christmas goods were: alluring. All arms on the homeward route were loaded, and there was a) brightness of anticipation in the face that made the picture a peculiarly; pleasing one. Had there been no other legacy of the Christ than the anniver sary woven about Bis nativity, the world would still be incomparably happier and richer in all that beautifies and sweetens life than it had otherwise been. One who can catch no breath of its inspiration is worthy only of pity or contempt. * * It will give a brighter ray or two to the Christmas light to accept the faith that the wonderful explorer of Africa is verging upon civilization and safety, laden with the mysteries of a strange land. He will be credited with a charmed life if he comes out of the dark ness of primitive savagery to the eager view of Christendom. The interpreter of faces does not often misjudge when lie looks into one worn by the man laden with the little packages that are carried so plentifully homeward just before Christmas. An element of goodness and kindliness will have its impress there. The rest of the year the crust of selfishness and auster ity may be over the heart, but it will be lifted in the Christmas time. An utterly bad face, with ineffaceable lines of cruelty, would be an anomaly in the com pany of those who remember tiie sweet est of all anniversaries in its relations to the youthful life. * * The ancient ladies may chill the at mosphere about them with the mossy legend that a "green Christmas makes a fat graveyard." but their mumblings are not adapted to this latitude. The conditions for hcaltli have never been more favorable than this winter, and it is a salubrious fact that the physicians have had less than usual occasion to enjoy the delicious atmosphere on remedial errands. Those who have trouble with the movements of the physical machinery must find other cause to berate than the irreproachable weather of this winter so far. . mmm DRAMATIC DRIFT. The past theatrical week was all jan gled out of tune. A dramatization of (Hilda's "Moths" was produced with only limited success at the People's, while the Grand did next to no business at all. Sol Smith Russell played to small houses the first three nights 01 the week; and an audience disgracefully small, in proportion to the merits of the perform ance, attended the Seibert concert and Fantasma of Singing Flowers Thursday night. The Christmas theatrical bill is an un-. usually attractive one. At the People's the dramatic romance entitled "The Cusican Brothers," in four act*; and tableaux. from the French 01 Dumas.and dramatized by Dion Boucicault, will be produced with new scenery and start ing effects by the following cast: Fabian del Frauchi ( Twin 1, c T -__,,_ Louis del Franchi "( brothers »A _ & * 1 - l l ,ma **> 31 .Alfred Meynard.: Harold Russell M. de Chateau- Renaud F. C. Huebner Baron de Montgiron Chas. Wyngate 'Baron Giordano Martelli Ben Johnson M. BeanchamD W. Haggerty M. Taveolleo."..: '..T. Duncan Orlando * the heads of two I It. F. Cotton Colonna 1 Corsican families j .Claries Stanley i Antonio Sanola, a judge ...Johnson ; Boissec, 11 woodcutter M. Woods t Griffo. a Corsican ....Will Marks i Emilie de Lesparre Miss Loduski Young ] Mine. Saviliadel Franchi.. Mrs. Mary Meyers Estelle Miss Lisette Le Baron Celestine Miss May Louise Aigen Mane, with son*? Miss Sally Williams Coralie Miss Katy Lauphear * ■* - At the Grand opera house throughout this week, with matinees Christmas day and Saturday, the well-known Boston lans in English opera, Karl, Mac Donald & Barnabee proprietors, will appear in a varied repertory, of which three ofthe operas are new in this city. "Pyg malion and Galatea," billed for Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings, is by- Anibroise Thomas, author of "Mignon" and "Hamlet," the libretto being founded on Gilbert's well-known comedy. Marie Stone, Jessie Bartlett Davis," Carlotta Maeonda,- Josephine Bartlett, Tom Karl. 11. C. Barnabee. W. 11. Mac Donald. Eugene (owles and Fred Dixon have the principal roles in the opera. Tuesday afternoon "Fati nitza," with Jessie Bartlett Davis as Lieut. Vladimir. Juliette Cordon as Lydia, Edwin W. Hoff as Julian Hardy, Barnabee as the Pasha, and Ricci, the general. Tuesday evening and Satur day matinee. Collier's comedy opera. "Dorothy," never sung here before: Thursday evening. Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," also new here, as it is in most American cities; Friday evening, "Mignon."' with Corden in the title role." The advance sale, which is large, gives reason for belief that the coming angagement will be a notable one in at tendance. * *■ a•_ per cent, ot tbe cash value, while the substantial assets, without inflation, exceed $8,000,000. Deducting the debt from the assets, the balance will represent 1/5718 pins per cent premium upon the assessed valua tion of property, or .08*"*'." plus of 1 per cent premium upon the cash value for the year 18S8, in favor of the prop erty owners. But as this per cent pre mium can not be paid directly to tho property owners, the great benefit they derive from it is in the strength given to the city in her financial standing, which is the foundation of the existing individual and public prosperity. The census of the year 1885 shows 111,897 souls. The city directory for this year (1888) contains 7o,234 names, showing an increase of 8,00.'» names over the year 1887. If by using the multiple of 3. employed by most cities in figuring population in the absence of the census, will represent 210,702 souls. Put to be on the safe side by using the multiple of :."... the most conservative method of computation every adopted, the population on the Ist of March, 1888, was 175,085 souls. In considering the financial condition of a city, the rate of debt per capita of population should not be considered, as in some cities a large part of the popu lation own no property, while in St. Paul most people own their homes. The vital points to be considered are as follows: First— Are the interest anil principal of the debt promptly paid hen due? Second— What per cent of flic as sessed valuation of property is the debt? Third -What proportion of the esti mated cash value of property is the as sessed value. Fourth— is the annual interest on the debt, and what is the average rate per cent upon the whole debt. Fifth— Are the assets substantial and do they conservatively offset the debt? The city of St. Paul has issued no bonds for several years for the purpose, of redemption, but levied a direct tax upon all of the assessable property for the payment of all bonds as they ma ture or used the surplus revenues, other than taxes, for the payment of bonds. For example: The city bonds redeemed in the year 1887 were promptly paid out of the tax collections levied in the pre vious year (1886) for the purpose, while the city bonds maturing in the year 1888, were redeemed out of the surplus liquor licenses in excess of 200 licenses, which i consider i*-* absolutely the true policy for all cities to adopt when their bonded debt, like the debt of the city of St. Paul, represents large assets, and the percentage upon the assessed valuation of property is within reason, in place of levying an annual tax upon property for a "sinking fund," endangering the finances and distressing the people, as iv many cities where sinking funds have run into corruption funds, ending in dishonor and bankruptcy. 1 consider it an indication of financial weakness for a city having to resort to levying an annual tax for a sinking fund. When it is considered that cities are in excellent financial condition when the debt is 5 per cent of the assessed valuation, without any assets, regard less of the per centage it bears to the true cash value, then the financial .standing of the city of St. Paul, with her ?8,000,000 assets, is surely grand. Yours truly, John W. Hoc hi;. City Comptroller. — mm. THE EROTIC. ST. PETER. Since Shakespeare's gone; and Byron fled To regions where unquiet dead Koaui the isles of Dante's hell, Tell me, Gabriel, tell me well. What the earth-fools sing of now. CABBIE*-, The modern erotic, with power despotic. Now blossoms in beat like a Northern exotic. "lis a questionable rase— matter of fash ion To sing in mad (-trains of tropical passion. Take *'a tender embrace" and a heart "hotly heeding;'^ A "bosom upheaving" and a love that Is "•bleeding." A soul swashed in terror, a "low-whispered prayer." A woman's "hot breath" and a lock of her hair. With the blood of a tigress, and a feeling infernal, Supposed to be caused by an ache that's internal. Add to this a swish of the awful supernal With a drop of the hero to hells eternal, While lily-white arms and lips "madly pressing." Eyes hot with fire and hands warm ca ressing. Forsaking the "whirl" of a commonplace life, Go "madly careering" Wilh passion's veneering. After the hero in "iladeau strife." burning and sizzling, the twain are united With a --thrill" unfelt by earth's benighted, Who. living the life of weal and woe. Find dearer and sweeter than passion's "mad glow," The lisp of a' babe at love's "breast ot snow." -—11. I. C.