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OUR SCHOOLS.
The System, Not the Princi
ple, of Education Under
Discussion.
From a Purely Parental and
Non-Sectarian Point of
View
The Writer Considers Causes,
and Points to the Reme
dies.
Children Should Be Educated
for Happiness, Temporal
and Eternal.
NO. V.
I have now reviewed five of the prin
cipal charges brought against "Our
Public School System." The charge of
enormous waste and reckless expend
iture of the people's money 1 leave to
politicians to discuss. 1 am viewing
the system from a parental, not a po
litical standpoint. How far my readers
have been convinced by the testimony 1
have adduced to sustain these charges
is for them to decide.
Enough, 1 think, has been said, how
ever, to convice every thoughtful man
that there must be something terribly,
radically wrong in a system that pro
duces such frightful results; or, what is
equally as bad, which fails to prevent
them: for the only reason for the exist
ence of the system lies in the supposi
tion that diminishes or prevents such
results. The moment has arrived for
me, then, to point out if I can, the
causes which have led to what some of
the keenest intellects of the age have
not hesitated to call "The Failure of
Our Public School System."
1 believe these causes are chiefly
two. Doubtless some of my readers
have already anticipated them. 1 shall
bring the first one to the surface at
once, however, by boldly propounding
the question:
••To whom belongs the duty to con
trol the education of the child?" Does
it belong to "his sisters, his cousins
and his aunts?*' Assuredly not. Must
it be entrusted to every "Tom, Dick
and Harry?" Most certainly not. Is it
to be confided to a soulless body politic,
called the state, or to the authors of its
existence, the parents who gave it
birth?
lf nature fails to answer, a few au
thorities will throw light on this ques
tion.
Every standard writer on the subject
of either law or morals proclaims with
one voice that parents are bound by
the natural law to feed, clothe and ed
ucate their own children. Bouvier says:
"The principal obligations which par
ents owe their children are their main
tenance, their protection, and their edu
cation." Chancellor Kent says: The
duties of parents to their children, as
being their natural guardians, consists
in maintaining and educating them dur
ing their season of infancy and youth."
Sir William Blaekstone says': "The
last duty of parents to their children is
that of giving them an education suita
ble to their station in life; a duty
pointed out by reason, and of far the
greatest importance of any. For," con
tinues the author, "as Puffendorf very
well observes, 'It is not easy to imagine
or allow that a parent has conferred any
considerable benefit upon his child by
bringing him into the world if he
afterwards entirely neglects his
culture and education, and sut
fers him to grow up like a
mere beast, to lead a life useless to
others and shameful to himself.'" Dr.
Wayland, in his Elements of Moral
Science, says: "The duty of parents is
generally to educate or to bring up
their children in such manner as they,
believe will be most for their future
happiness, both temporal and eternal."
Again: "He (the parent) is bound to
inform himself of the peculiar habits
and reflect upon the probable future
situation of his child, and de
liberately to consider what sort
of education will most con
duce to his future happiness and useful
ness." Again: "The duties of a parent
are established by God, and God re
quires us not to violate them.'? Accord
ing to the laws of nature, says Wayland,
"the teacher is the only agent; the
parent is the principal." But, under
the present system, as by law estab
lished, the parent is not recognized as
the principal, nor is the teacher re
garded as his agent.
In his biennial report for 1864, the
California state superintendent of pub
lic instruction— quoting from the itidi
dial decisions of some of the Eastern
states, construing their public school
laws— maintains that "the child should
be taught to consider his instructor, iv
many respects, superior to the parent
in point of authority," and "that the
vulgar impression that parents have a
legal right.to dictate to teachers, is en
tirely erroneous," and, further, that
"parents have no remedy as against the
teacher."
Thus the law of nature and nature's
God, which ordains that it is both the
right and duty of parents to educate
their children "in such manner as they
believe will be most for their future
happiness" is utterly disregarded and
set at naught by the state, which or
dains that it is neither the right nor the
duty of parents, but of the state, to say
when, where, by whom, and in what
manner our children shall be educated.
Now, it is always possible for either
individuals or states to disregard and
violate nature's laws, but it is not pos
sible to do so without suffering, sooner
or later, a penalty, and a penalty, too,
corresponding in magnitude with the
importance of the law violated. Hence
it is— and I assert it without the fear of
successful contradiction — that those
communities which have so long and so
glaringly violated nature's laws in the
matter of education are now reaping so
heavy and so deadly a harvest of crime,
pauperism, insanity and suicides.
Dr. Wayland has well said "that the
relaxation of parental authority has
always been found one of the surest in
dications of the decline of social order
and the unfailing precursor of public
turbulence and anarchy." Now, uuder
the law, as we have already seen,
parental authority is not merely re
laxed, but it is utterly set at defiance.
What, I would ask, does parental
authority amount to in the mat
ter of educating children, when
a parent is not recognized
as having any " remedy, as against the
teacher," for the wrongs lie may per
petrate against his child, and when, as
in California or Illinois to-day, the par
ent is, in the eye of the law, a criminal
who ventures to send his own child to a
school of his own choice, and at his own
expense, without first going with his
hat under his arm to a board of petty
officials to beg their permission to do
so?
If parents, any longer, have the least
vestige of authority over the all-im
portant matter of their own children's
education, which is not wholly subordi
nated to the private interests, preju
dices, and petty spites of any and every
little conclave bf irresponsible upstarts
who, by hook or by crook, can so man
age on election day as to have their
names on the tickets of the winning
party, I should feel under many obliga
tions if somebody would inform me
what that remaining parential authority
is, or where it is to be found.
We have become, by degrees, so ac
customed to the usurpation by the state
of this parental right to control— l do
not say to promote and encourage, but
to control education— it has ceased
to excite our amazement. The absurd
ity of the thing will become more appar
ent, however, if we picture the state as
having usurped the cognate parental
duties of clothing and feeding our chil
dren. Imagine the great army of state
tailors, state cutters, state fitters and
state purveyors of shoddy cloth that
would be employed at public expense
for this purpose. And what more ap
propriate, from the state's point ot
view, than the national colors.
Imagine then every youngster in the
land clothed by law in red coat, white
pants and blue vest, or striped skirts!
Or, conceive, if you can, the vast army
of cooks, scullions, dishwashers, wait
ers and high-salaried wet nurses that
would have to be employed by the state
to provide food for the various tastes of
our children; or imagine them all, young
and old, reduced by law to the black
broth of the Lacedemonians! The state
demands the right to educate our chil
dren because education is necessary to
make good citizens; but to make good
citizens is it not equally necessary that
she should feed and clothe them?
But to put the' state's claim to the
right to educate our children for us in
the best possible light, let us analyze it
by supplying the following case, in
which 1 again borrow the words of the
late assistant attorney general.
-Let us take from this very large
mass of school material a small quantity
of its essential elements, just enough to
be handled with ease and examined
with care, and we shall be the better
able to see what is the character of the
ingredients which go to make up the
system. In order that you, good reader,
may not accuse us ot unfairness in our
selection of the particular sample to be
analyzed, we will allow you to choose'
your own material. Then cast your
eves around you among your friends
and neighbors, and name for us
two of the very best, purest, most
intelligent, highly-educated, and reli
able men of your acquaintance. Let
them be men of your own religion, and
belonging to the same political party as
yourself. In a word, let them be two
men to whom, in preference to all oth
ers in the world, you would be willing
to entrust the guardianship of that
beautiful little girl of yours, should it
please God to take you and her mother
away from her during her years of child
hood. Now, these two friends of yours,
whom we shall call A and B, we shall
take it for granted, are the very best
material to be found in that great mass
of voters who control by their votes the
destinies and shape the character of the
public school system as it exists in
your city.
"Now, suppose these two model men
and neighbors should some day come to
your house and address you thus: Mr.
C, we are informed that you are the
father of a bright, beautiful and intelli
gent little girl, now about seven years
old— just the proper ace to begin her
education. We feel quite anxious that
she should be properly educated, and,
to tell you the plain truth, we are afraid
that if we leave the matter entirely with
you her education will be neglected.
Now here is what we propose to do.
l. "We propose that we— two best
friends— together with yourself, shall
all enter into a written contract, bind
ing ourselves during your daughter's
minority to contribute annually a cer
tain percentage upon the assessed value
of our property, which shall constitute
a fund for the education of this, your
little girl. But it must.at the same time,
and in the same contract, be stipulated
that it shall at all times be in the power
of a majority of us three to select the
teachers and the school books for your
child. Should you, against the wishes
and without the consent of a major
ity of us. take your child away and send
her to some school, you must agree to
forfeit— should we choose to exact it—
not exceeding $20* for the first offense.
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♦ Penalty iii California. ■
and not less than tor each subse
quent repetition thereof. You must also
agree ana bind yourself in advance not
to withhold your assessment, even
should you withdraw your child from
the school of our selection, because we
should in that event need the money for
education of other children.
"Now tell us, good reader,! could ycu
ever consent, while living and in the
possession of your reasoning faculties,
to entrust such a power as this over
your infant child— girl or boy— to any
two men in existence? Would you not
spurn such a proposition as the above
with indignant scorn, come from what
source it might? We may here remark,
in passing, that it surely could not bet
ter the matter should these supposed
friends and neighbors, in consideration
of this proposed outrageous betrayal of
your, parental trust, even offer to perpe
trate a similar wrong against their
own children by turning over
to you, the insulted father,
a corresponding share in their
parental authority. And yet. good
reader, this miniature picture which we
have just drawn of the public school
system presents that system in the very
best possible aspect; because we have
represented you. the father, as still
allowed to retain in your own hands
one-third of that parental jurisdiction
and control which the God of nature re
quires you to exercise over your child,
while the other two-thirds are to be en
trusted to two of the very best men in
the whole community. But under the
public school system, as it is by law
established, instead of retaining in your
own hands even ■= so much as
one-third of your parental author
ity, you retain only an infini
tesimal fraction thereof. Where there
are, as in San Francisco, tens of
thousands of voters, each father divides
his parental authority into tens of
thousands of equal fragments, retain
ing but one of these fragments for him
self, whilst the great bulk of this au
thority, instead of being lodged, as in
the case above supposed, in two of the
very best men to be found in the city, is
scattered around broadcast among tens
of thousands of people, good, bad and
indifferent. It is gobbled up and wielded
by every rough and every rake who is
allowed to vote; and this is what they
call our great American free school
system.
"Those who attempt a justification of
this monstrous usurpation of parental
authority never fail to entrench them
selves behind the hackneyed and much
abused maxim, that the majority has the
right to rule. But there are some
things in which the majority has no
right to rule. For example: The ma
jority has no right to select for a man
his religion ; neither has it a right to
choose for a man the wife, nor for a
woman the husband, who is to become a
parent of his or her children."
Our best teachers are fully alive to
the anomalous position they are placed
in by the limitations of the present sys
tem; hence Hon. E. B. Carr, former
state superintendent of public instruc
tion in California, did not. hesitate to
say that: "Dependence on one side and
patronage on the other destroy the free
and harmonious play of benefits be
tween the home and the school;" and
that "Private institutions, colleges and
seminaries draw away our best teach
ers, who thus avoid what is, to a sen
sitive and high-minded teacher, an in
tolerable burden." js£-§£y
Gail Hamilton declares in her book
already quoted that "The 'system' is
constantly degrading teachers into
menial, and concentrating authority in
the hands of outside men who have
nothing whatever to do with the actual
teaching, and have the slightest possi
ble contact with the children."
American Citizen.
[Continued next Suuday.]
IN AN OLD CHURCHYARD.
In one of England's sweetest spots,
A little old gray church I found;
Around it lies— dear restful ground
God's garden with its sacred plots.
With myriad arms the ivy holds
Its time-worn walls in close embrace;
So Memory sometimes keeps a face
Half- veiled in tender misty folds.
With sleepy twitter aud with song
The tower, bird-haunted, is alive;
In leafy seas they dip and dive,"
Those tiny warblers, ail day long.
Like sentinels grown hoar with age.
The crumbling headstones guard the graves
That softly swell— green voiceless waves, .
That will not break, though tempests rage. :
"Concerning them that are asleep"
In this sweet hamlet of the dead,
In broken sentences I read
The records these old tablets keep. J
Each told its tale, for hath not Grief
A voice whose echoes never die?
Adown the ages Rachel's cry ■ •
Still rings o'er some God-garnered sheaf.
Mine eves, ne'er prodigal of tears,
Did fill with such as seemed to rise
And drown the glory of the skies.
O'er those who'd slept two hundred years. .
— M. Hedderwick Browne. ;
THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1889.--SIXTEEN PAGES.
THESE WANT LANDS,
But They Have Curious Styles
of Making* Wants
Known.
Innocent Blunderers Who
Bore a Railroad Land
Office,
Mistaking: It for an Intelli
gence Bureau or Detective
Office.
Samples of the Information
Sought at the N. P. De
partment.
The land office of the Northern Pa
cific railroad is frequently sought out by
all sorts of remarkable characters look
ing for information. The information
they seek is not by any means confined
to land matters. They apparently
think that Maj. Postlethwaite and his
staff of assistants form a general in
formation bureau, a detective agency,
etc. Letters of the most remarkable
nature arrive almost every day from
every point of the compass. Many of
these documents are hard to read, and
when read, harder still to understand.
Still, they always receive an answer of
some sort. A gang of Swedes will
enter the office and talk through an in
terpreter in the most voluble manner.
These men generally want some land,
and as a rule know just about
where and how much they want,
and what they are prepared to pay.
Other men come in and talk and ask
questions and waste hours of valuable
time who either don't want anything.or
know they want something but of just
exactly what nature are ignorant. One
day not long ago a well-dressed appa
rently well-to-do man entered and asked
to see some land. Maps were shown
him, and. as it was evident he really
wanted to buy something, two hours
were taken up in explaining things to
him. At last he was asked exactly what
he wanted. He replied: "I want about
ten acres of sandy land for a chicken
farm." The fellows who had spent
half the day showing him land felt like
kicking themselves for their trouble.
This sort of thing is not at all unusual.
The idea which is entertained by the
public ofthe raison d'etre for the land
office seems to be that it is nothing
but an ordinary real estate office.
The notions men have of the price of
land, too, are rather remarkable. A
letter was received last week from a
man who asked for good farm land
within a few rods of the railroad and
adjacent to a town of 2,500 or 3,000
people. He wanted to pay 10 shillings
an acre for this, and was informed that
the N. P. would like to buy some such
land at that price. Men with schemes
are numerous. A man arrived one day
and wanted to see the land agent on
very important business. Having been
shown into Maj. Postlethwaite's private
office he propounded his scheme. This
was to lav out a town site at some re
mote point. He wanted the railroad
company to put in the land, he would
do the selling and they would divvy on
the proceeds. He was politely informed
that the Northern Pacific railroad had
too much at stake to go into any such
booming scheme. This is only a single
instance of many similar visitors. Such
men arrive almost every day, and go
away sadder and wiser than when they
arrived.
Besides dealing in land this depart
ment has to handle all sorts of miscel
laneous business. One man wants to
buy the grass on a certain tract, an
other the timber and so on. Here is a
letter received last week:
Land department N. P. R. R. Co. Sirs.
in reply to your letter I will say to you that I
will give you for Sec. 21, Town 133, range
31, for Hay stumpage 810.00 Ten dollars,
please let me hear from you soon I am a
poor man and need the hay. Yours truly
Wm. Hardy, Motley Minn.
Similar letters are received every day
asking for prices or making offers for
hay or timber. The lamentable igno
rance of the English language shown
by some men who ought to know better
is demonstrated every day. A letter ar
rived last Friday from a man who wrote
a good hand, and stated that he was a
telegraph operator for the Chicago «fc
Northwestern railroad. His spelling
was worse than that of a school boy in
his second year. The smallest and
simplest words were misspelt, and his
idea of capitals was most erratic. The
sort of stuff that the clerks in the land
department have to decipher is shown
by the following letter, evidently from
a Scandinavian. That the writer wants
a farm in Washington territory is ap
parent, but what the latter part of the
epistle means and what "Mr. Nelly"
has to do with it would take Ignatius
Donnelly to decipher. The letter is as
follows:
Salt Wells, P. 0. Almond, Sweetwater
County, Wyoming, 9 Junne, 1889.— Charles
S. Fee, St." Paul: I am willings to settle
down in Washington Ter. and like to bought
a farrm or piece land of 240 acres please
send me information a cartes, who the Nord
wester R. R. loings have land to offert so I
like to have Mr. Nelly, county carte of Wash
ington Ter. but I dout was it oors will be.
Your respectfully Ed Weil.
The sort of information asked by some
people is shown by another letter from
a man asking if his brother Daniel lived
in Ramsey county. Here it is:
Lexington, Ala., June 11, 1889.— the
Land Agent, St. Paul, Minn.— Dear Sir: Per
mit me to trouble you so much as to inform
me if my brother Daniel is in your county,
as I wish to come out there and buy Land if
he is there I heard that he lives 10 or 12
miles from St. Paul, Minnesota please inform
and oblige Respectfully, Thos. Bergin. di
rect letters to Lexington. Ala, Lauderville
Co.
Maj. Postlethwaite reported to this
man that he had not the honor of his
brother's acquaintance, and that his
time was so occupied that he had not
time to go out and hunt him up. He
also respectfully reminded him that the
Northern Pacific railroad was not in
the detective business:'BßSMßlßP | @P
The following reply was received
from a man with whom they had been
in correspondence regarding a certain
section of land in Montana:
"If salt were selling in Montana at 2 cents
a barrel, you could not sell the land I want
for money enough to buy salt enough to
pickle a jay bird."
These letters were selected at random
from a few received last Thursday and
Friday, but are enough to show the
curious nature of . the correspondence
constantly received. The land office of
the Northern Pacific is a good place in
which to study character and human
nature.
The Great American Shaker.
Joel Stubbs, of Minneapolis, has in
vented a shaker, to be used in making
the invigorating lemonade, the refresh
ing milk shake, and other liquid decoc
tions. It is noiseless and is said to pos
sess many advantages over other
shakers. A company with F. C. Bar
rows as president: J. M. Bennett, vice
president: Henry Baldry, secretary and
treasurer, has been organized to manu
facture and sell the machine.
Bank Officers Change.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Metropolitan bank yesterday the resig
nation of President S. P.Channell was
accepted and E. J. Edwards, vice * presi
dent, chosen in his stead. J. T. Wyman
was chosen vice president. Mr. Chau
nell remains a director of the bank,' but
owing to illness in his family, which
compels him to remove to California, he
was compelled .to resign the duties of
president. _ ■ ■ ■■';...
The royal dynasty of Saxony kept its
800 th birthday on June 12, and the king
dom celebrated the anniversary with
great festivity.
MINNEAPOLIS.
TIM AND CHARLEY'S TRIUMPH
The visit of T. E. Byrnes to Minne
apolis has stimulated patriotic efforts
upon the part of those gentlemen who
have an honorable ambition to succeed
to places of trust and profit under the
government now. held by- Democrats.
The positions most eagerly sought at
present are those of deputy collector
of internal revenue and ganger, a hum
ble position similar in its indus
trial scope to that of exciseman
held many years ago by the
poet Burns. This historic fact, coupled
with the remembrance that Capt. J. C.
Whitney, a Presbyterian divine, once
was engaged in the revenue - service,
may have given these places a social
eminence they do not exactly deserve.
Be that as it may, it is none the less
true that the "best elements" are well
represented in the candidates. Among
those who stand ready to take the
deputy collectorship, provided it comes
unsolicited, are Warde F. Gray,
who is at present engaged in
handling the golden grain before
it reaches the malt stage; A. B. Hush,
a handsome young man who may have
other political backing, and John N.
Harris, the organizer of the now famous
Flambeau club. For the more obscure
though not less easy position of gauger,
Gus Plummer, whose brother is
deputy register of deeds, is in the
field, and also Arthur Holden, chair
man of the house committee of the
Union league. P. W. Wildt, whom A.
C. Haugan would probably say was a
member of the modest Ole Olsen tribe,
is a candidate for the chief collector
ship now held by A. Biermann.
There were some remarkable ab
sences from the banquet to Tim and
Charley on Thursday night.' It is un
derstood that about forty invitations
were issued, but there were scarcely
more than half that number of re
sponses. The clarion voice and auburn
hair of E. A. Sumner were conspicuous
by their absence. Freeman P. Lane, that
eminent conservator of legislative bills,
was not present. Neither was John N.
Harris, commonly known as "Capt."
Harris, nor Minneapolis' representa
tive in congress, Capt. Snider. Not
one member of the city council assem
bled round the festal board, nor
did Carman N. Smith, nor that
splendid young Republican leader,
Will E. Haskell. It was hinted
that some of these gentlemen tarried on
the outside for fear of compromising
themselves politically. If they were
afraid it was to be another Blame Del
monico dinner they fooled themselves
and sacrificed a good supper for a chim
era, for William Henry Eustis managed
the speeches so skillfully that noth
ing occurred •to mar the seren
ity of the occasion or compromise
anybody. True, the company good
naturedly dissented from Col. Johnson
when he said the Republican party
stood just as the Democrats did in its
relation to the offices, and that Eugene
Biggins might as well be appointment
clerk as his friend Tim Byrnes;
and the party laughed loudly
when Gene Hay remarked, in a
half-earnest way. that he didn't see
what Tim and Charley were doing in
Washington. He couldn't see that any
appointments were being made. The
chairman also administered a soft
answer to Hon. E. J. Davenport when
the latter asserted that his recent tray, '
els had convinced him that, com
pared with the legislatures of Penn-'
sylvania, Massachusetts and New York, !
the last' Minnesota assembly was pure
and good. The chairman replied that,
this was the first time purity in the do- :
main of morals had been made a matter
of comparison. Mr. Davenport's was
the last speech, and he did not get a
chance to explain that he meant that all
those legislatures were pure and that l
all the newspapers iiad lied about them
wantonly. "";.••-' !
Two other facts of interest brought ,■
out by the speeches were that Will Bas-,
sett was hardly sure whether he was a
Republican or a mugwump, and that'
Frank Davis had never been ;in Wash- 1
ington. Judge 'A.M. Scott confessed
the same fact, but it was not so remark
able in his case, as Mr. Davis was a
New York lawyer and politician before
he came here, with plenty of oppor
tunities and temptations to visit the
national capital.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS.
The police commission yesterday took
a step in appointing N. W. King as a
member of the detective force, which
goes further than any other act of that
body toward what might be considered
non-partisanship in the formation and
government of the police de
partment. Mr. King proved himself
to be a more than ordinarily efficient
detective, but lost his position through
the biennial disorganization of the po
lice department following on the heels
of an . election. Another cause which
led to Mr. King's removal and operated
against his reappointment was the
petty jealousies and factional quarrels
which divided the police force into
cliques and greatly lessened its useful
; ness. The commissioners' action fur
ther means that the warfare- among
members of the force must cease, and
that protection to tlie public from crim
inals is to be made the chief end in
view. BSe
The alumni of the university have at
last attained their great ambition in the
selection of a graduate as a member of
the board of regents. Honors have
fallen thick in the path of Stephen Ma
honey. He is but twelve years out of
college, and he is a judge and one of the
governors of his alma mater. His ap
pointment will be generally acceptable
to the people of Minneapolis, and cer
tainly objectionable to no one.
In fulfillment of what the Glore
stated last December, Henry J. Altnow
has been appointed deputy clerk of the
municipal court, and goes on duty Mon
day. Mr. Altnow has been a deputy in
the clerk's office at the district court
for six years, and his uniform politeness
and capability has made him a favorite
with attorneys and others coming in
contact witn hira.
THE DIM FUTURE.
W. M. Brackett is reported to have
said that he would resign as chief of
police if N. W. King were appointed
detective. . As he was reported to have '
made this same terrible threat when N.
F. Gjertsen was appointed police com
missioner, and didn't do it, this menace
loses much of its awfulness. No, the
ex-chief of the fire department and ex- ;
government gauger of liquors for the )
city of Minneapolis will resign-
When lie has to.
Wheu the returns from the next elec
tion are in.
When there is a new mayor.
When Minneapolis gets a new city
market.
When the Minneapolis ball club heads i
the Western league.
When Buffington's twenty-eight-story
building is completed.
When the action of the board of trade <
can be taken as representing public >
opinion. . ' i
When Tim Byrnes is secretary of the ■
treasury and Charlie Johnson United
States senator.
m
AN ARABIAN NIGHT.
Midnight— the song is done; lay down thy
lute.
Dark face, yet raptured from the music's
close,
The lamp swings languidly— the soft light
glows '•'•.-:
Around thee, and thy passionate lips " are
mute, :.-X; -■:•■■-■■• -■■■'-
Too near to mine. Warm fragrance of fruit,
Odors of musk and Jessamine and rose . j
Float faintly past us; some late reveler
goes ;
Homeward with his far-off sound of fife and
flute. -^a»s®B9«SSB^S
The curtains drop their deep embroidery .
Behind thee, and the jeweled goblets
. gleam;
Thy. hungry, yearning eyes are fixed on
mine-
As in the mazes of a wild love-dream.
Slowly, by some magnetic law divine.
We tremble toward each other silently.
— M. C. Gilliugton.
I
HAD A DELIGHTFUL TRIP.
An Excursion of Business Hen Over
the Eastern Minnesota.
ROYALLY ENTERTAINED.
A Trip About the Zenith City, a Sail on
* the Lake, and a Supper at the
Spalding.
Special to the Globe.
DiTLimr, June 15. —President Minot,
of , the Eastern Minnesota, gave his
road an impetus in the excursion to
day which places it on an assured busi
ness at his disposal. Leaving St. Paul
this morning the run was one of con
tinued good cheer over the excellent
road bed to this city, which was reached
at 7:10 this evening. The train was
composed of two buffet cars, Pokegania
and Allouez, and E. W. Winter's private
car, and instead of using the Northern
Pacific track from West Superior
was brought in on the . elevated
road to Eighth avenue west,
where the party was met by a
delegation of citizens in carriages
composed of a committee and given a
drive about the city for an hour, when
a return was made to the Spalding
and an elegant supper served to which
all did full justice. After supper a
number of citizens entertained the visi
tors in pointing out the beauties of Du
luth by electric light until an excursion
about the bay was announced, when
the guests repaired to the dock and were
given a jaunt about the bay and an op
portunity afforded to view the bluff
city and her massive coal sheds, eleva
tors and commercial docks. Another
hour was spent in this manner and the
party returned to the train and started
on the homeward journey. To many of
the party Duluth was a revelation, and
expressions of wonder were heard on
every hand. President Minot feels
highly gratified at the feeling of good
will toward his road, and if this party
is to serve as au index, these great
commercial cities of the Northwest will
not be slow to show their appreciation
of his magnificent enterprise. Follow
ing is a list of those in attendance:
TOE GUESTS.
St. Paul Jobbers— l. H. Moon, of Allen,
Moon & Co. , J. P. Larkin, of Larkin &
Smith; J. H. Davis, of Beau pre, Keough &
Davis; O. Lampher, of Lampher, Smith &
Skinner: C. H. Kellogg, of Kellogg, Johnson
& Co.; J. F. Broderick and W. B. Dean, S. S.
Eaton. E. S. Dudley.
Minneapolis Jobbers— S. P. Farrington, of
Harrison, Farringtou & Co. ; Anthony Kelly,
and J. I. Black, of A. Kelly & Co. ; B. Jan
ney, of Janney, Semple & Co. ; C. C. Eliel, of
Eliel Drug company; — Dunham, of Dun
ham & Co. ; P. C. Pillsbury.
Newspapers— Lewis Baker, St. Paul Globe;
George Thompson, the Dispatch; A. J.
Blethen, Minneapolis Tribune,
i Elevator Companies— M. Amsden, gen
eral manager of the Minneapolis and North
ern ; A. B. Robbins, general manager of the
Northwestern; 0. S. Hulbert, of the Griffith-
Marshall Grain company.
Railways— W. 11. Truesdale, of the Minne
apolis & St. Louis; George B. Harris, vice
president of the Chicago, Burlington &
Northern; E. W. Winter, general manager of
the* Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha;
T. B. Clarke, general traffic manager of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha;
John M. Eagan, general manager of the Chi
cago, St. Paul & Kansas City; H. D. Minot,
Minnesota Eastern.
j ... ' STRIKING TEAMSTERS.
! Duluth teamsters want $4 per day
hereafter, and are just now enjoying
the expensive luxury of a strike to gain
their point. Contractors have been
paying $3.50 per day, but men owning,
teams can not afford to work for this
sum any longer, and do not intend to
unless compelled to give in. This
morning, headed by a band, about 300 of
the strikers paraded the streets with
their teams and succeeded in bringing
several who had heretofore held aloot
from the union. . The contractors say I
simply that they can not afford to pay
more than $3.50 per day, while the j
teamsters maintain they can not and 1
l : ; WHAT IS YOUR
o who DnirDipn
uUlllli Lv ULiL InULi
There are certain drinks or beverages which cannot
prove harmful even to babies. Such a drink is
HftA JIB .^tfWfek. (OffKß ■BBBfll A .^fttfO^t
MOTT'S
Sparkling Draught Cider!
Made at Bouckville, Madison county, N. Y. We, the under
signed, have assumed the St. Paul agency for this firm's
goods, and from now on shall supply the Grocers and Drug
gists with this article.
taiy l T 10 IT 0 It is nothing more or less than pure ap-
II HA I lO II i pie and peach juice, put up in barrels,
half barrels, quart and pint bottles. It is a drink that is
healthful and harmless, and in reality the best temperance
orator, and it does away with all alcoholic drinks and
proves a pleasant, nutritious substitute.
nr ft I C DO f We are now prepared to furnish these goods
UtALltlld i to dealers. It is our object to introduce
this healthful beverage into every family, and all Grocers
and Druggists will do well to call or write to us for fall
particulars.
rft ftlll iro If your Grocer does not keep it, send us a
rAlfiiLlLO i postal card ordering a case, as follows: —
the goods come in cases containing
2 Dozen Pints, $3,507
11 Dozen Quarts, $3.00.
PRICES ON BARRELS ON APPLICATION.
DICCCDCKIT If I kin C These goods come in three kinds,
i 1 1 1 IlL ll I iMIIKJui and when ordering state which
you want, i. c., Champagne Cider, Crab Apple Cider,
Peach Cider.
' PCI I VCD Your order will De delivered you direct from
UtLI I Lll 1 1 our store, and postal cards will be left with
you for future orders. We prefer to let your dealer supply
you, but if he does not keep it in stock, send to us. .
piiiniiiTrr Every bottle is guaranteed to be Pure,
UU All All I LLi Sweet and Unadulterated, or money
cheerfully refunded Wjm
' . You can buy nothing that's more suitable for a Sum
mer Drink. SEND US A TRIAL ORDER.
Cornish, Curtis & Greene Co.,
318 Robert Street, St. Paul.
will not work for less than 14. This is
where the matter rests at present,- and'
where it will probably remain as long
as the teamsters can afford to Keep their
teams idle. .^gHHHSMBin
PEOPLE IN PRINT.
W. PI. Holmes Is enjoying a visit from
his mother, Mrs. W. N. Holmes, of
Aberdeen, Dak.
Col. W. H. H. Stowell, of the steel
works, is in St. Paul to spend Sunday.
Elliot Lord departs for Boston on
Monday. ;
M. A. Hays left on this afternoon's
Omaha for his former home near Co
lumbus, 0., called by a painful message
announcing the probably fatal illness
of his mother. * >;
A. Fitzer has been showing Paul
Hauser, of St. Paul, the sights of the
city during several days past.
Chief Engineer Knowiton, of the Du
luth & Winnipeg, was in the city for a
few hours yesterday.
S. R. Norris will take up his residence
at Lakeside next week.
Congressman Hall was in Duluth for
a short time yesterday.
Drs. C. A. Wheaton and W. H. Crary,
of St. Paul; Dr. A. R. Morgan, of New
York, and Dr. T. B. Sheldon, of Red
Wing, made up an enjoyable fishing
party yesteday.
THE BEDS OF ROYALTY.
Carious Fancies of Illustrious
Personages About Their Sleep*
ing Apartments.
Modern Society.
Clarence house is one of the most
comfortable houses in London, and is
famous for its good beds, for the only
daughter of Alexander II of Russia is,
like many Muscovite ladles, very par
ticular about her beds, and will tolerate
in her house '■ none but the very best.
Even when a mere child, and long be
fore her marriage, she was so particular
about this very important item in do
mestic comfort that, to insure the sheets
being tightly stretched over the mat
tress, she used to have them sewn
down, for even the slightest crease or
-wrinkle would entirely destroy the re
pose of the imperial spoilt child for the
night.
Pier Royal Highness used to be great
ly chaffed about this weakness by mem
bers of our royal family when first she
came to this country, but ; the queen,
who is also very particular about her
beds, stuck up for her, and although
now the sheets are no longer sewn down
to the mattress, they are composed; of
the most exquisitely fine linen that can
be procured, and stretched like a tight
rope over the most perfect mattresses
that can be manufactured in Paris, in
which capital the making of mattresses
has been brought up to the level of a
fine art.
A curious and amusing chapter might
indeed be written about the beds or
illustrious personages. The ex-Empress
Eugenic is quite as particular about her
beds as the Duchess of Edinburgh of
our gracious sovereign, and quite agrees
with the first-named lady as to the fin
ness of the linen and the tightness of
the drawing of the sheets, but her im
perial majesty has an odd fancy to have
her bed so low as to give a visitor to
the imperial bedchamber the impression
that the widow of Caesar is almost sleep
ing on the floor. It is indeed hardly
elevated more than a foot from the floor,
as all who have visited in old days the
private apartments at St. Cloud, Coru
piegne and the Tuilleries will remem
ber. Another curious bed is that of
Sarah Bernhardt, lt is nearly fifteen
feet broad, and when the great sorae
dienne is indisposed and receives her
intimate friends reposing on her couch
she looks like a little golden-haired bird
lost in a great sea of white satin.
—
Very True.
Boston Courier.
Stern Parent— Young man, I am as
tounded at your impudence. You ask
to marry my daughter., knowing her to
be wealthy in her owu right, while you
haven't a cent.
Self-Possessed Youth— all
right. What's the need of my having
money when she has plenty?
TAILOR
MIDSUMMER, 1889.
Glean ing-Up Anfe-Stock-TakingSale
-» \ i sK~S~ A Jca mm\ I /irC^l ) rA
The old fogy tactics that prompt the hoarding
of odds and ends of stock for the guileless to bite
at, and pay a high price for, together with the
principle so much in force among slow-going, out
of-date merchant tailors, that goods costing so
much must bring so much, even if carried over
from season to season until the revolution of time
brings them into fashion again years hence, find
no abiding place in our business management.
Such arguments are scouted by us as homeless
vagrants, wandering around, only finding tempo
rary resting places in certain hole-in-tSe-corner
tailor shops until Public Opinion, that greatest of
all judges, gives them hours to leave town.
it * * f. . * * *
So far we have enjoyed a brilliant season's
business, and as it draws to an end we propose to
close it in a blaze of glory, by giving you
UNHEARD-OF BARGAINS
In fine garments, made to your order.
Our Semi-Annual Stock Taking takes place
July 1, and in order to reduce stock we offer a se
lected line of Fine Fabrics at greatly reduced
prices, commencing to-morrow, Monday, morning,
June 17.
m $6 * From Fine Saxony, Bannockburn
i dN-7 o and Worsted Trouserings, import
lsi I ed direct from Fisher & Co., Hud
- $8 " dersfield, England.
When we assert that these Trousers are actu
ally worth from $12 to $20 we make a stupendous
statement, but it is nevertheless true, as any or
dinary judge of Woolens will verify upon examina
tion.
$20 h From Serges, Flannels, Black
1 $2 5 § and Blue Worsteds, Gassi
"Son I meres, Saxony and Bannock
v>OKJ burn Tweeds and Mohairs.
A casual glance by the most inexperienced will
readily recognize that these Suits represent from
$30 to $60 in actual value.
H®*Two pairs of Pants only will be sold to
one person during this extraordinary sale, and no
samples will be cut.
MF*We advise an early visit, as we expect
the "Standing Room Only- ' sign to appear before
the morning is far worn.
S. W. COR. SEVENTH AND ROBERT STS.
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