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Patrons, and friends ■re cordially invited to visit and avail them selves of the" facilities of our Eastern Office •while in yew "York. • * ' TO-DAY'S WEATHER. Washington, Slay ID. — Indications for Minnesota: Warmer: fair weather; southerly winds. For North and South Dakota: Warmer; fair weather: southerly winds. For Wisconsin : Warmer; fair -weather : southerly winds. For Iowa: Warmer; fair weather; southerly winds. s is • ■ a h K2. 3*i las. 3}j *»1 25 ■ • 5% 25 •Place of §-. i§ 8 Place of I~■ * 3 Obsvation g« £- ration g« s& 1 1 |||| i i ? j : i' 7 St 1'nu1.... 30.02 46 Helena ... 30.001 62 La Crosse.. 30.00 48 Ft. Totten. ... .-! .-.-. Duluth...,. 44 Ft. Sully... 30.<>4 5!? Huron '.{(1.06 54 Minnedosa 29.70 42 Mooi head. ' 30.04 46 Calgary.... 64 St. Vincent 30.90 42 Edmonton .... Bismarck.. '-M.98 .56 Q'Appr-lte. 29.04 54 Ft Buford 2fi.«S CO Meaie'o H. 2».«8 68 Ft Caster. |29.!*1 041 WinnipcgJ-9.44 40 ~~~~ LOCAL FOKECAST. For St. PauL Minneapolis and vicinity: Pair; warmer weather. — : * THE STORY OP A DAY. Owatonua has an elopement Capt. D. 11. Valentine is dead. Rev. S. G. .Smith takes a wife. Murderer Brooker is to hang June 27. Castaway wins the Brooklyn Handicap. Passenger rates to Chicago go down to S3. The Wiuona Mill company's plant is ac- . toyed. President Gray, of the St. Cloud normal, , resigns. W[fiß ', A peculiar suit Is begun over the Ilotel j Barteau. Capt. Lutes, of Duluth. attempts self mur- ' der on a train. Senator Sherman proposes a modification of the silver bill. Capt. Danahowcr succeeded United States Marshifl Campbell. Thomas Loivry will build a Masonic temple on the Arcade site. Martinet McCallii is suspended from rank and duty for three years. The American Defense league pleads for restriction of immigration. St. Paul. Omaha and Milwaukee win the Western association games. Secretary Proctor says he. would stop en listed men from treating each other. — — ——^^ m - A JUNE ELECTION*. The canvass in Oregon is becoming animated, and the tariff is the leading issue. The Democrats are for tariff re duction, in lino with the national party, j and the Republicans use the wool ques tion as their most effective point. It is a sheep country and many of the sheep men have the idea that the higher and more comprehensive the tariff on wool, ' the more they will get for their product. They are able to make the links of the chain come well together to prove that the Democratic party is committed to the policy of putting all raw materials on the free list. Oregon is a cattle country too, and the equally irrational notion is prevalent that there should be a tax on hides. The Republican tariff bili has left this out, and therefore fails to spread any protection over that production. Another great industry of the state has a direct blow dealt it by the proposed law. An immense number of salmon are : canned on the livers, and the 125 per cent to be added to tin plate will be damaging to it. The advantage on is sues is with the Democrats, in spile of the wool pulling, and they are making a spirited canvass. It will be remem bered that Ha.mji.sox carried the state by nearly 7,000 majority, and the entire delegation in congress is Republican. Mr. Harmox, the representative, is per sonally popular, and will quite certainly be returned. The governor is a Demo crat, and will most likeiy be re-elected. The railroad influence is powerful in that state, and was solidly against the Democrats last time. How far it is now participating does not appear. The chief interest in the election is due to the fact that it is held in June and is the first to indicate the public sentiment in the far West. PRESBYTEKIAX ADVANCES. The general assembly of the Presby terian church, which met at Saratoga yesterday, is an ecclesiastical gathering of more than ordinary historical im portauce. As a history- maker, it is by all odds the most notable assemblage of Presbyterians since that famous coun cil in Westminster when the Confession of Faith was formulated. The public is familiar with the agitation of (he ques tion of creed revision, and a great deal nf interest is naturally manifested to know what this Presbyterian assembly now in session will do. Mure than two thirds of the presbyteries have pro nounced in favor of revision, while only six refused to vote on the question; but those favoring revision differ in some instances as to what parts of the church creed need revision, it is pretty clearly established, however, that the old doc trines of election and predestinatiou will be submitted to a severe pruning, if not wholly eliminated. With the growth of a universal religion the doc trine of universal salvation is expand ing. But the work that the Saratoga as sembly has in hand cannot be clone in an hour or even in a day. While the church is clearly on the road to revision,' it is going to take time and discussion to reach satisfactory conclusions. Hence the most that can bo expected of the Saratoga assembly is to still further ciear the way for disposing of those doctrines of Calvinism which have out lived their usefulness, it will take an other general assembly, and perhaps several of them, to finally dispose of the uuestiou of creed revision. NOT A SIERE SENTIMENT. The defeat of the international copy right bill in congress is quite generally h matter of regret by those who have given the matter consideration. It is insisted tnat if there Is acquired mone tary value in the fruit of mental toil, it is morally as culpable to steal from a foreign toiler as one in this country. The national statutes give American authors the right to control the publica tion of their writings, if they choose to exercise it. The chairman of the house committee, Sir. Payson, , termed the bill presented a measure to take largo amounts of money from the people on "sentimental grounds." The question involved was, has the author over the water any right to control the creations of his mental workshop after they come to this country, or shall any person who cares to be allowed to steal them ; and make what he can from their publica tion? It may be a matter of sentiment, but it resembles the sentimental pVase of smuggling or buying stolen goods. It it is stealing to appropriate the liter ary labors of the local author, it must be a very ioose sentiment that will allow the foreign writer to be robbed. ■;'••' ■' • . -*». — : — ■: THE STATE CAMPAIGN. . The people of this state are wonder ing: what they have done that they should be afflicted with a four months' political campaign. The -feeling was general throughout the . state that we were entitled ; to a rest from politics this year, or at least as much of a rest as it was possible to have and get through with our regular biennial state election. Outside of a few politicians who had axes to grind, no one con templated more than a two months' campaign, and most persons thought we could get along very comfortably with six weeks. But the few poli ticians with axes to grind happened to controi the Republican machine, and the result is that the popular will has been disregarded, and we are in for a full four months siege. . ' The only amusing part of this busl . ness is the effort being made by those who are responsible' foi the early con vention to relieve themselves of the re sponsibility. They recognize that they have made a big mistake, and they are anxious to saddle the responsibility on somebody else. It is an open secret, and has been for some time, that Gov. Merbiam*B friends were working up the early convention movement. When the scheme was ripe, the govern or's organ, the Pioneer Press, sprung it on the public, and before the Republi cans who oppose the governor's renom- i nation had time to recover breath, the thing was done. Then, no sooner was it done than the same organ makes an other labored attempt to show that the governor and his friends had all the time been favorable to an October con vention, v ■ But without regard to who is responsi ble or who is not responsible for the July convention, the nominees of that convention will suffer for the skul duggery that has been practiced- The people as a body : are not to be trifled with, and they are perfectly competent to know when they are being trifled with. No amount of glossing over will conceal the fact that the call for the July convention was a trick, nor is there any difficulty in discerning its purpose. The i beneficiaries of that trick will be held responsible without regard to what hand they had in devising it. It would be a pretty mess for the tricksters, however, if the 24th of July should roll around and congress should still be in session without having disposed of the tariff and silver bill. Their difficulty would be in know ing how to harmonize the state platform with the action of the Republican ma jority in congress. It looks now as if it was the purpose of the Republicans to run a double-barreled campaign. They propose to put up Gov. Merriam on his Farmers' alliance speech for a stale platform to catch voters going that way. Then they will renomiuate the present congressmen on their record in favor of the McKinlky bill, to catch voters going that way. That is, they will serve out sauce for the tariff-reform gander, and sauce for the protection sroose from the same vessel, and thus it will be Hie most heterogeneous campaign ever known in these parts. This would all be very well if the masses had no intelligence or power of discernment. But in these clays of pop ular education, and a growing tendency towards honest politics, the body of the people are enabled to see through mill stones, much less to uncover hypocrisy with such a flimsy covering as the Min nesota Republicans propose to cast over their summer's campaign. It is the substance and not the shadow of tariff reform that the people are seek ing, and they are terribly in earnest in their search. Nor will they be deceived by the skulduggery practices of the pol iticians. All that the Democrats have to do is to stand squarely on their platform, make decent nominations, and then make an honest appeal to the intelli gence of the voters for support. Wo want neither straddling nor straddlers on our side. An honest campaign on honest issues, whether it be short or long, is the one th at counts in the wind-up. WANTED TO BE HELPED. The statement telegraphed from Washington that Senators Hoar, Wil son and other eminent legal minds are of the opinion that the "original pack age" decision applies as well to Minne sota or any other license state as it does to lowa or any prohibition state, is not a startling matter of information. A pe rusal ot the text of the supreme court delivery leaves no room for drawing any distinction between states in regard to this feature. The wet goods can be sent into one state and held by the re cipient as free from molestation as in any other, without regard to local dis position or legislation. If the original packages can come in and be sold in South Dakota under its prohibitory law. they can likewise be brought into Minnesota and sold without any license being required by the seller. In neither state can there be more than one sale, or any breakage of the original package, without meeting the restraints of local law. The accepted scope of the opinion makes trouble in the prohibition states, and induces a demand from that quarter upon the party in power to help them out by con gressional action. To secure this action it is sought to alarm the license states and induce them to make common cause with the prohibitionists. Bills have been introduced in both houses by representatives from the dry states to delegate to the states the power to out law all alcoholics. This involves articles recognized in a part of the states as legitimate subjects of inter state traffic. The subject promises to be a very embarrassing one to the Re publicans in the popular ordeals. Hence there is likely to be a strong effort to en act one of the bills presented on the sub jfct. The supreme court advised the pro hibitionists that they must go to congress for their remedy. That Is, congress must come in between the supreme court and the states, and enable the latter to ostracise what the court finds to be a recognized feature of traffic. The license states have no practical concern in the matter. There will be no demand in them for goods in original packages, as the license matter will not affect sell ing prices. The issue to be made up in the action by congress will be form ulated on the prohibition line. This will involve serious difficulty for the Republicans, as between their prohi bition elements and the portion of the THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBS; FBIPAY MOBNEm. MAY : 16, 1090. party that doe 6 not take kindly to pro hibitory measures. WEATHER AND CROPS. The weather is always a favorite topic, possibly because it is such a con venient one, as we can always discuss the weather when we have nothing else to talk about. But it so happens that just ot this time the weather is entitled to all the attention it is receiving. The oldest man living doesn't remember to have seen its equal, and the youngest man alive indulges the hope that he will never see its like again. It is May with such decided December characteristics that some one was suggesting yesterday that summer ought to be made a legal holiday. It is noticeable, too, that the out-of-season weather we are now experiencing is not con fined to any one locality. AH along the Atlantic sea board, and down ou the Gulf coast, they are shivering in the presence ot an Arctic wave, and even out on the Cali fornia shores they are wondering why it is that the tropical sun has lost its wonted power of warming vegetation into life. Of course there is a cause for the un seasonable weather we are endming, or at least we are trying to endure. A year or two hence the weatherologists will come along with an explanation ; but that is a matter of no consequence. If we knew the cause now we couldn't ramose it. We would have the cold weather all the same. The matter of present concern is to know what is to be . the effect of this weather on the crops. From the way that wheat is jumping up in the mar kets the speculators seem to have an idea that the weather is playing havoc with the grain crops, and that there will be a fearful shortage in the next harvest. This, however, is only a mat ter of speculation, and we hope to see the bulls and the bears tripped up on it. While the situation is not as encourag ing as it might be, there is nothing to kill hope or even to shake one's faith. There is one consoling fact in connec tion with our Northwestern spring sown crop; the seed is in the ground and there is no danger of it rotting. The first warm rain that comes will bring it out all right. It is an old proverb of the farm that a cool May is good for fall-sown wheat. So that really there is nothing to justify the excited condition of the wheat market. ';:,; It % is all right to grumble at this weather all we please, for it is an un welcome visitor, but there is no cause for discouragement. The crops are all right in the sowing, and they are going to be all right in the harvest. :' •m^m The oldest railroad bed in the United States, in the vicinity of "Saratoga, is to be laid with steel ties. These are believed by railroad scientists to be the coming thing. It is claimed that they will last enough longer than wood to more than make up the difference in cost, ami add to the safety, as there will be no accidents from the spreading of the rails. • This Saratoga road was first laid with strap iron on timbers, and the cars drawn by muies. A little later the road from Boston .to Lowell was laid with stone ties. As steel is cheapened in cost it will fill many new places. Tite legislature of New York recently adjourned, and that state now takes easier breath. There seems to be no dissent from the statement that it was the worst the people ever were burbened with. Yet comparatively few of the big jobs of plunder got through, aud it should be said to the credit of Gov. Hill that he was an obstacle in the way of the boodlers. How it came to pass a good law for elections is one of the mysteries. Still, the last legislature in this state was credited with some reputable work, besides adjourning, if it is difficult to specify just what. The census man will soon be around asking your age and all sorts of ques tions. It will be well to have the rec ords looked up, for it is a singular fact that as people get aloug in life they for get how many years have passed, and are forced to go to the records. A St. St. Paul preacher was quite mortified the other day to discover that he had given his age two years out of the way to a life insurance company. Uis rec ord in the Bible shows that he was too modest. Ladies are said to be pecu liarly apt to make this mistake. A controversy between newspapers at Council Bluffs and Burlington as to which has the prettiest women, leads to an offer to put on exhibition at the Sioux City corn palace, or elsewhere, twelve samples from each town, the award to be made by a committee of art ists, if the object is to illustrate the virtues of corn aud water, the contest will have merit. If Quay really means to bring a libel suit against the New York World, he should not go off on another of his {tsbiag excursions and forget all about it. If he can prove that he has been slaudered, he can get money enough to buy a good many of those pretty flO certificates that have the picture of A.BBAHAM Lincoln on them. Ax Eastern paper understands that somebody has talked Igxath'B Dox xki.ta out of his Baconian theory, and proposes to decorate said unnamed party with a medallion medal, a ban quet, a eentograph, and after death an obelisk. The man who can out-talk the Sage of Xiniuger may be safely prom ised these, and more. Ox THE first of July the Japanese make their first trial of popular suffrage. The limitations would not quite suit in this country, as the voter must be twenty-five years old and pay a tax of $15 on land or income. That country, however, is learning a good deal since it opened up its acquaintance with the United States. The oldest newspaper in Guthrie, the capital of Oklahoma, has just celebrated its first anniversary. Al though but a yearling, it is a well built city of 10.000 people and has seven news papers, three of them daily. It is per haps one of the communities indicated in prophecy as to be born in a day. Some Frenchman says a neat thing about the young German emperor when lie says that he has become the ruler twenty-three years to soon, and makes the great mistake of fancying his emo titms to be thoughts. Emotions are variable and not very dangerous to the settled order of things now prevalent. It is the general impression that the United States senate is a collection of easy-going old gents who don't like to do much work, but in ninety minutes by the watch, one day recently, it passed 185 individual pension bills. No unusual flocking to the refreshment rooms for recuperation is reported. It is announced that this collegiate year ends the -'department of journal is in" at Cornell college. This is due to the fact that there is ho demand for journalists. The newspaper men get their traiuintr in newspaper oflices. Sixce the war Georgia has sold its 7 per cent bonus at 80 cents. The other day it found eager demand for ?>}■« per cent l>onds at par. The new South is better than the old. It is probable there will be a discount on Quay's $10 party certificates when taken in blocks of five or more. His photograph will go with them when wanted. With the addition of 125 per cent' duty on tin plates, tin weddings will not be the cheap affairs they have been. GOSSIP OF THE DAY. The following little story, says the New York Tribune, is told of Secretary Rusk and a young "man of society." The young man, in the course of a con versation on certain table dishes, ex pressed a great preference for beef steak and onions. "But dont you know, Mr. Secretary," he said, "I seldom enjoy my favorite dish. A fellow can't eat onions and go into society. His breath, you know - well, it's not quite what he wants for the drawing room. The girls, you see—" "My young friend," interrupted Sec retary Rusk, "let me tell you how you can have your beefsteak and onions.and go to ste the girls, too. You go up to Chauiberlain'sand order your Beefsteak and onions. They know how to cook them there. When you get your bill, it will just take your breath away." President Oafces, of the Northern Pacific, says that a different rate should be allowed the Wissonsin Ceutral com pany on passenger rates, to offset the disadvantage under which it labors, says the New York Star- This theory is advanced because the fast trains upon the lines between Chicago and St. Paul bear the same relation to the slow trains of the Wisconsin Central as the limited trains of the Pennsylvania and New York Central roads bear to their slower trains. The late Junius S. Korean, the Lon don banker who left a fortune of $10, --000,000 in personal property and a largei amount of real estate, had three chil dren, one sou and two girls. The son, J. Pierpont Morgan, is, as everybody knows, a New Yorker. The girls mar ried Morgans. One married Dr. John Morgan, the popular Episcopal minister who has been stationed at Paris for some years. Her sister married George Morgan, one of Gov. Morgan's family, who is now connected with the Londou banking house. Dr. Morgan, the clergyman, is one of the most fascinat ing Americans on the continent. In fact, all tue men of his branch of the Morgan family have possessed great personal magnetism. It is rumored that the authorities of Trinity coilege, Hartford, Conn., are surprised that Junius Morgan left none of his vast wealth to that institution. George M. Pullman is one of the moit genial of American millionaires. 1 met him on an elevated train a tew morn ines since, says a New York writer. He wore a silk hat, a handsome Prince Albert coat, light trousers and patent leather gaiters. His cuff buttons were not striking, and his hands were devoid of rings. Mr, Pullman— he never likes to be called Sir George— has white hair and a wnite goatee. He does not wear a mustache. There is about him an air of neatness altogether removed from foppery. I recaiied to his mind the old days in Western New York when he possessed neither wealth nor fame. "But I had something better," he re marked, smihug. "What was that?" "Youth." Julian Hawthorne lunches at a down town restaurant now and then. He is a delightful man to meet. If your grip is not powerful do not shake hands with him, for he is a giant in strength. He has lost none of his muscular vigor since he knocked down a German offi cer and snapped his sword in two in a university city on the continent. Mr. Hawthorne seems to pay more attention to his attire than he did some years ago. lias he been influenced by the some what dndisfl tendencies of Edgar Saltus and Eds;ar Fawcett? Senator Beck, says the New York World, was one of those orators who speak all over, and he spouted out facts and figures at the rate of 200 words a minute. He wilted his shirt collar and got into a profuse perspiration every time he made a speech, and while his wife was livingit is said she often made him "carry a valise containing a fresh shirt with him to the senate, and once called him out in the midst of one of his famous speeches and made him change before he continued. Senator Beck spoke well, too. He was not a flowery orator, but his words were full of common sense and practical wisdom, aud he always commauded the attention of the galleries by his earnestness. His figure was such as to attract attention, and his big, round Scotch head, his strong voice of deep chest tones, ut tered with a slight Scotch brogue, made him by no means an unpleasant speaker to listen to. • * A few evenings since I happened into the ' Windsor and found Addison Cam mack the center of attraction to a crowd of brokers and speculators. Mr. Cam mack used to be one of the most regular attendants at these extra sessions of the market at the Wi"dsor. Since his mar riage a few years aeo he comes there less frequently. But when he does, every one present endeavors to talk with him on his favorite sofa tor half an hour and listened attentively while ne accorded audiences to a succession of the foremost people in the "street.' The impression 1 took away was t!iat to be a successful operator on a large scale in the stock market is not so much a matter of luck or chance as peo ple imagine. Mr. Cammack. for in stance, is a perfect cyclopedia of in formation about railroads, the crops, business interests, finances, and, in fact, everything that has any bearing on the "movement of the market. Coupled with this, he possesses a sound, practical judgment that arrives at cor rect conclusions through labyrinths of complicated and conflicting causes. After listening to him as I did, one learns that guesswork plays a small part in guiding the actions of the lead ers ©f Wall street. STATE SENTIMENT. May Be a Victim. Northfield Independent. If Mr. Mernam gets the nomination, we sound a bugle note of warning, and it is that he may be the sheep that is to be led to the slaughter. He will be the target of a host of disgruntled Repub lican politicians, and defeat at this time will be fatal to his senatorial aspira tions. Our advice to Gov. Mernam is to beware lest he be sacrificed in the house of his friends.- "Beware the Jabberwock. my son ! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch I Beware the Jubjub bird, and shuu The fruinious Baudersiiatcb !" Connted by Boss McKinley. Albert Lea Standard. ; In truth, men of good,, honest putty, dressed in regular attire and seated in the Minnesota chairs in ;"; the '*. house, would command much ; more:°attention, at least, than does the average congress man from this state; and to intelligent, 1 high-minded people the putty men would not ". appear ■ more ridiculous or sham than does ~ the V little blood and breeches ;: members t whose •.•;- noses are ] regularly: counted . by : Boss McKinley and the other muek-a-mucks of the rob ber gang. ' — : ." -: Not for Farmers. ;. . . Bulutn News. . ■"". : ;. There is no denying that the friends of (lovT Merrian are in the majority \ on the central committee. ~: Why, r ; then, have they called the convention ; at the most . i iueonveuient ' date- possible : for farmers ' to ; attend - the : primaries? - ; In four seasons outof five the harvest time in Minnesota is from the 30th of July to Aug. 1. Every moment of that time is : precious, and no farmer ( can t afford to ' leave his binder standing idle, : eveu for an hour, to attend a caucus. The gov ernor poses as the farmers' friend, but for some inexplicable reason he doesu't seem to care for their attendance at his July gathering. NATIONAL POLITICS. Count It i in In. Houston Post. Since he has vetoed a bill Reed may consider Harrison a quorum without the lieed of counting. McComas' Monstrosity to Be Buried. Cleveland Plain Denier. A number of bills for federal control of congressional elections are under con sideration by the Republicans, and one of them, as offensively partisan as can safely be ventured, will be passed by the house, whatever becomes of it after ward; But the MeComas monstrosity will be put to its final rest in the con gressional graveyard, where its Wick ham brother is already putrefying. The Way of the Vanquished. Louisville Times. The tariff disc ussiou is in progress in the National house at Washington, and the Democrats are holding up their end of the log a little higher than the other fellows— so much so that tne Republi cans want to cease the debate as soon as possible. His Friends Turn Against Him. Kausas City Times. Notwithstanding his effrontery Quay has latterly become a most anxious man. The man who will neither ex plain nor resign now encounters a Re publican revolt all over his state, and he may be given a chance later on to do both. A Friendly Warning. Houston Post. 'Tis said that the chasm which opened between Senator Farwell and Mr. Har rison same time ago has now been made too wide for the engineering skill of the political bridge builder, by the latter's refusal to appoint a henclunan of the former to toe petty .office of subtreas urer at Cnieaeo. If Harrison does not head himself off, the only Republican triends he will have by the end of his term will be Mr. Huston and Baby McKee. Remedies Tor Desperate Ends. Macon Telegrapti. Mr. Clarkson's speech on the deca dence of the Republican press should convince President Harrison of the necessity of calling back the numerous editors he has sent to Europe. That would not help matters much, perhaps, but the case is so desperate that no means of salvation should be neglected, no matter of how small promise. Things Will Right Themselves. Omaha World-Herald. But "when things get to the worst they mend of themselves," and it is just possible that the crowning iniquity of the McKinley bill was necessary to arouse the people to a sense of their real condition, and cause them to seek a change from such a class-serving ad ministration of public affairs. PERSONAL POINTS. George Bancroft, who was secretary of the navy under President Polk, is the oldest ex-cabinet officer, both in age and date of service, now living. Secretary Blame, speaking of his Washington house lately, said: "We did not remodel it because we have no desire to have, as the boy said. Queen Anne at the front and Mary Ann at the back." The Spanish queen's two daughters, aged nine and seven years, talk Spanish, French. German and English fluently and are strong and hearty-look ins children. The mud-pie has its fascina tions for them, too. Howard Furniss, the caricaturist of Punch, has made many enemies among the Royal academicians by poking pic torial fun at them. They fear the pencil more than the pen. (Jaricature is some times criticism. Chief Justice Chase's historic Edge wood home, overlooking Washington, will soon be purchased by a syndicate of wealthy senators and divided into building lots. They hope to get more than historic interestout of their invest ment. Senator Vest is one of the plainest dressed men in Washington. During the winter he went around in an old gray ulster almost threadbare and split up the back. H raports that come from Missouri regarding the senatorial con test there are true, Mr. Test himself must be slightly split up the back. Mrs. Lanartry has made a personal triumph in her now play in London, but the piece itself is said to be very bad, and was once or twice on the point of beinsj condemned out of sight. Her Esther Sandraz, the critics declare, is better than her Rosalind. She wears long dresses in the new play, which may have suggested the favorable com parison. Dr. C. E. Bliven. of Portland. 0., has discovered a prototype of Volapuk iv the Chinook jargon, which in use in the northwestern portions of this continent. About fifty Indian tribes, each having a distinct language, use it as a medium of communication. A few philological Gr<eco-lloman nouts between Volapuk aud Chinook ought to lower the price of pyrotechnics. CS3> Short Hours Wanted. Washington Post. "So you are complaining again?"' said the" head of the firm to one of his clerks. ;~. "Well, yes; I have been slightly dis satisfied." '^SBfSlSp&Bßbp "You want shorter hours, I under stand?" "No, sir: was the prompt reply. "Far be it for me to desire you to, tamper with the present chronological .system. I am entirely content to have the hours remain their present . length. Fewer of them as applied to my daily period of service is what 1 wish." Cold Comfort. Boson Transcript ■ Yes, ice is coin g. to come hitch this summer, but there is no little comfort to know that owing to the high temper ature during the past winter the mi probes in the ice are this year much fat- ; her than ever. To him who 'i will but search for it, there is something of good 10 be found even where least to be ex acted. ' " -T.-'-'-"' "' '"' ': "'- ~t ! -Visible Means of Support.* Torre Haute Express. f ~ Watts— Did yon see the new star in "Rosalind" last night?. - 'Potts— Yep. :\ ;: > Watts— Was she well supported? ; [ Potts— I should say so. Pretti- ; pst pair \ 1 .ever, saw, and 1 am almost: sure they were perfectly natural. -;' ! ■ ■ . ■ =■ ... .. * . ' — . :; - J; A Sad Lack of Confidence, Mnnser's Weekly. ' ''_-..". ; Madge— Oh. isn't that a bull? • ! . Charlie— Yes, but you needn't be afraid so long as I'm with you. }. .Madge— l'm afraid you won't be with : me long if lie comes this way. • The Only Wonder. ■"; : Granite Fills Tribnne.' '-." \ ': The only wonder to ;us was that \ Kiefer was not elected simply because ! the Pioneer Press opposed him. J GIVING UP SMOKING. Although he'll refuse, without doubt, to con-. ;'- - ■ fess. '. j: S:--',~ ••'•'■ .; :': ~-'- •:.-' -, •-' No mailer how hard lie is pressed— . ; ;.": :; ; XVheii a youth gives u|> smoking 'tis easy to ■'--^■guesa ■:--'■ ' v ■•" :, : -:-': '■■ It is at some fair ja«i<le»"s request ; An <1 uheu be, at some future period," resumes '• - The pipe, cigarette or cigar. *'-.:r-j- V v. :; .; .; 'And mow of ■.. ihe "soother"; than ever cou ;-i . smile*— ■• : :'■:■'■: '-"-■■ .-:,■■"■■ ■■■■- : -, .j'; He» married— there's. been a jHr.^c^O-ii — I'lthtrtirg Dispatch, .-.,■■• ."I .."-!:*: ENDOWINGPUBLICANS The Tories' Peculiar Plan to Lessen the Evils of the Liquor Trade. Principles That Will Prove Futile and Dangerous as Well. Gladstone Denounces Gosch en's Indemnity Scheme as Vici ous. Germany is Discreet Enough Not to Claim the Whole of Africa. LOXDOX, May 15.— Sir James Fergu s ou. uuder foreign secretary, stated in the house of commons this evening that Henry M. Stanley's treaties with Afri can chiefs were not authorized by the government. Sir Wilfred Lawson re sumed the debate ou the licensing ques tion. He asked what publicans had done that they should be rewarded. The country had hitherto pen sioned men for killing the ene mies of the nation. The bill uude discussian would pension those who 1 ' were daily active iv killing their fellow countrymen. It would lead to an im mensity of evils and further public des regation, corruption and jobbery. If the government decided to diminish the curse of drinking, let them take the ad vice of temperance men how to do so. Mr. Matthews, home secretary.deffciided the compensation clauses on tha grounds of expediency and legality. Mr. Glad stone saw no necessity for treating this ; matter as a party question. He gave ' Mr. Goschen credit for sincerity iv his attempt to lessen the evils of the liquor trade. The means proposed were ut terly futile and extremely dangerous. The question was gradually assuming larger dimensions in the public view. The tide of public opinion against the liquor traffic was fast rising. "The bill itself ought to instil in the minds of those concerned in vast proprietary liquor interests prudential considera tions as to the policy of opposing public opinion. Allusion had been made to remarks of his, ten years a<ro, in favor of compensation. Siuce then tne law had been settled in a manner wholly unfavorable to the doctrine of vested interests. He certainly never contemplated approving a bill such as this, which pro posed tlie purchasing of a number of public houses on any terms that the pro prietors were willinc to accept. The bill might fairly be described as "A bill for- the endowment of public houses." It was said that the publicans would not be entirely Masters of the Situation, as magistrates might refuse to grant licenses to those who refused to sell on the terms offered by the county coun cils. Would the government put an amendment to the bill to that effect? It was also argued that the money for the purchase of public houses would be derived from drink itself. Ever since he had known the country's finances it had been a recognized principle that a duty which would most limit con sumption should be imposed upon spirits. Therefore, the highest duty that could be levied was already pre engaged for public funds. Besides, he did not believe that any beuch magis trates would refuse to renew a license because the holder would not accept the county council's price. At the most the bill would produce a trifling reduction of the actual traffic". If a county council bought one public house for a large sum, it would be utterly impossible for magistrates to refuse to renew the license of another similarly placed. Thus the magistrates control would be come paralysed. The measure would effectually raise a new barrier, formid able beyonci anything existing, to tem perance legislation. As the law now stood the publicans had no claim for compensation arising; from any con tingency to which they were sub ject. The magistrates had absolute power to refuse to renew licenses. How, then, could parliament appropri ate money to purchase licenses on the terms of the holders? The bill was bad in principle, and it was utterly unsup ported by precedent. A comparison had been made with the West Indian compensation measure. What would parliament have said to the placing of £-20,000,00q in the hands of the public authorities to euable them to go around among the slave owners emanci- ' pating any slaves whose owners they could satisfy regarding the price to be paid? In conclusion he said the present measure is so framed that it will par alyze every valuable principle embodied in the existing law. It will throw back indefinitely The Temperance Cans<\ the progress of which is now registered from day today, and in the great future triumph of which we have undoubted confidence." Sh William Vernon-Har court contended that the bill was a vote of censure on past magistration. He absolved the magistracy from such a heavy accusation. If tiie second read ing of the bill was carried, it would only be the beginning of the bat tle. The opposition intended to fight to the end, and to offer persistent and determined resistance at every stage. The magistracy were withdraw ing hundreds of licenses on grounds of public interest alone, therefore the argument that publicans had a vested interest was untenable. Mr. Smith, first lord of the treasury, said the government had successfully encoun tered the tenors of opposition in ttie past, and hoped to be able to do so in the future. During the past five years only 4:« full licenses had been refused throughout England and Wales. There was no foundation for Sir William ilarcourfs statement that hundreds were refused on other grounds than misconduct. In five years only forty-six licenses had been with drawn m the ground that the houses were not required. In twenty of these cases the proprietors had appealed, and fifteen of them had regained their licenses. Thus, out of a total of 07,125 public houses, the withdrawal of only five licenses were sustained against the appeal that it would be an act of per sonal injustice to send men starving upon the world by depriving them of their licenses. The bill woukl not in the least degree Paralyze the Power of the magistracy i'^Tlie country would sustain no scheme involving total pro hibition. Mr. Cames 1 motion to reject the local taxation bill, dealing with pub licans' licenses,- was -■' defeated— to 206. The bill then: passed the second ■ reading. After the "division, Mr. lleaJy moved that the speaker leave the chair in order to enable the bouse to go into committee on the Irish agricultural la borers' bill. £ Several members objected, and , ' the speaker . represented _ that Mr, Uealy s • proposal .- was useless.- Mr. Healy -. insisted, however, and the speaker left the . chnir. The house tiien went into committee of . the whole with William Lawies Jacßsoit, member ' tor North Leeds, in j the ; chair. ; More objections ; were then raised, and Mr. ; Jackson vacated the • chair, but the speaker declined to leturn. ; : There was a deadlock for a'; few moments, which was ended by Mr. Jackson resuming the chair. After the first clause of the bill had been read, : progress ■ was : reported. • A few Unionists and Conservatives and' all of X the '" I'arnellites supported Mr. <Jaine 1 s motion. ".Several tnotnbeis ab- 4 stained from voting^ - -;.: Walkover for a PainHlite. Dt 1 r.MN, May 15 —Mr. Harrison, Par nellite, lias been elected to fill the va cancy in the house of commons for the middle division of Tipper ary. He was returned without opposition. Sir. Mayne, home r uier, the previous incumbent, was also returned without opposiitou. CONSPIRATOUS ARUAIGNED. Panitza and Other Plotters Ob Trial at Sofia. Sofia, May 15.— The trial of Maj. Panitza opened here to-day. Besides Panitza, nine other Bulgarian officers, four civilians and a liussian officer, Capt. Kolobkoff, were placed on trial. All are charged with conspiring to over throw the government. The indictment accuses a liussiun ofliciai of being privy to the plot and of supplying the con spirators with money. It is alleged that M. Viliannoff. secretary of the Russian legation at Bucharest, began to negotiate with Maj. Panitza in 1887 with the object of arranging for a coup d'etat. M. Jucobson. dragoman of the leeation, and Capt. Kolobkoff worked in conjunction with Vilian noff. I. A. Zinovieff, chief of the Asiatic department of tine Russian foreign office, is designated in documents that have been discovered under his initials, "I. A," The indict ment gives the key to the cipher used by Pauitza and Kolonkoff. A letter from M. Zankoff shows that he took part in the plot. Evidence will be ad duced to show that Kolonkoff promised to send (Jon. Domontxmtch' if the coup d'etat was successful, to control affairs until a new prince was elected. The plotters intended to ar arrest Prince Ferdinand and his min isters on the night of tne 13th of Janu ary. Prince Dolgoroukoff visited Bul garia in September to assist Pauitza in laying plaus for the corruption of the army. The trial was adjourned until May 20 to enable the accused to instruct their counsel. WILLING TO DIVIDE Ai'lilCA. Germany Does Not Claim All of the Dark font inc. nt. Beklix, May in.— Germany does not elaiui Uganda and Uuyoro, but insists that the thirtieth degree east of Green will be defined as the western limit of her territory in Africo. The southern limits are admitted to be debatable, and are, therefore, to be left open for the present. Thus the northern limits of the German sphere of influ ence will run in a straigfit line from Kavirondo to the junction of the thirty-second degree with the equator, thence westward along the equator to the thirtieth degree. The London Chronicle in an editorial proceeding on the basis that England lias already con ceded the foregoing claims, says: "We would rather that Lord Salisbury !;ad ceded Ireland to Germany than thus meekly to surrender vital stratgetic points in Africa upon the keeping of which our imperial position in two con tinents depends. REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL. An Uprising at Porto Allegro Quelled by Troops. Eio de ,Ja>"i:ii:<>, May 15.— A rising of the people against the government took place on Tuesday at Porto Allegro, in the province of Rio Grande de Sul. A portion of tiie troops fraternized with the people. The outbreak was sup pressed by the police and the troops who remained loyal. During the fight ing a number of people were wounded. The governor of the province has re signed. The primary cause of the dis order is alleged to have bi.»t;n popular discontent over the new blinking laws instituted by Dr. Barbosa, the minister of finance. NOT IN LOVfi WITH CHINESE. Gladstone Qualities His Criticism of Exclusion Laws. Loxbox, May 15.— Mr. Gladstone has -written a letter in explanation of his re marks on the Chinese question on the occasion of his presentation . of 'an , ; ad dress to Thomas BayJey Potter at the Cobden club on Monday iast, when he criticised the anti-Chinese laws in opera tion in the United States, and declared that the Chinese were more dreaded tor their virtues than their vices. The Liberal leader says he did not mean to be understood as favoring Chinese emigration, but that in limited numbers they are no more harmful than the other races or classes. He admits that : legislation restricting the number of Chinese to be annually landed is neces sary, but condemns the policy of wholly .j closing the ports to people of one nationality while leaving them open to others no more desirable as citizens. A CARDINAL'S INTRIGUES. Lavigerie Aids German Opera tions in Africa. Rome, May l.">.— Cardinal; Lavigerie has concluded an agreement with the German East Africa company with the view of the monopolizing of Uganda by Cardinal Lavigerie's French missions to the exclusion as far as possible of all British missions; the French missions to use their whole influence to piace the trade of Uganda exclusively in German hands and Cardinal La vigeieto • exert his utmost power to withdraw Uganda from the scope of the Berlin delimitation negotiations. It is a significant fact that several priests who are under the authority of Cardinal Lavigerie accompany Emm's expedi tion. Refuses to Fight a Duel. Berlin, May 15.— Ilerr - Puttkamer's brother has challenged IJerr Rickert, the Freisinnige leader, to a duel for slandering the German Liberals. Rick ert has^efused the challenge on the ground that he was acting in a public capacity,, the offensive language having been used in a speech from an election platform. Matrinuiny is His Mission. Rome, May 15— It is stated that the forthcoiningjvisit ofthePvinceof Naples heir to the Italian throne, to St. Peters burg is solely for the purpose of arrang ing for his marriasre to the Broad Dtich ess Exenie, oldest dausrdter of the czar.- Funeral of a Centenarian. Hamrvko. May 151-The funeral of David Gatham, who died here on Tues day at the age of 101 took place to-day. Ha was a survives of the battle of lasw sig and was buried with military honors. Angry at the I'ope. Rome, May 13.— The French govern ment is intensely annoyed at the recent negotiations between England and the Vatican, and the papal nuncio at Paris has been instructed to use his utmost efforts to smooth matters over. At Tjeast Five Victims. LonsviiXr:. Ky.. May 15.— The over turning of a caisson at the new bridge last night proves to have been attended with greater loss of life than was at first supposed. In addition to Superin tendent Mitchell, who was killed by a falling beam, four are missing, and it is thought are certainly drowned. These are Charles Sa tinders, white, bridge la borer, Edward IJrenham. white, carpen ter: James -Wathen;. colored, caisson eaulke; William Biinberry, caulker. - -.: ..■ .-. n» . : Northern Pacific Dividend. Q9 Bostox, May 15."— The ': Northern " Pa cific directors to-day declared the quar terly dividend of 1. per cent on the pre ferred stock. • ■ ■ * TO t» END; IO JESSY. The story is told That a weaver of old ■ ' "~~ invented a "Bpiuning jenny," . ..- And by the aid Of that laborer staid ; ■ .Turned many an honest penny. " But. ttiougij his store of the precious ore . . — ■■ Increased beyond nil measure, I've a Jenny in nnud. • . . . .Of a different kind. .. ■ : .; Would prove a fur greater treasure. . : — Merchant Traveler. Ji; WIOL OF THE INDIAN COBRA Explanation of a Wonder Thai Has Long Puzzled the Natural ist. Harpers" Magazine. The natives of the jungle say thai some cobras carry precious stones aboui with them, and at night coil in 11m grass to watch them glitter. Prof, ilensoldt, the Indian traveler, says. "One night a native called me to set this wonder. Close to the water's ediH stood an immense tamarind tree, ana within fifty yards of it the l^tive coolly halted, and mysteriously pointed to tlm root of the tree. A foot from the trunk I observed in the grass a greenish light, apparently proceeding from a singlo point. After a time 1 could see tlm cobra coiled near the foot of the tree, slowly swaying its head to and fro in front of the shining object. "I'nfortunately I had no gun, and mv guide, who seemed to feel that he wa.« responsible for my safety, entreated me so earnestly to let the snake alone thai 1 acceded. ' Moreover he promised to bring me this stone vvitiiiu three days The eooly kept his word, for the second morning afterwards he brought me the stone. He had climbed the tamarind tree before dark, and after the snake hak taken up his position he had emptied a bag of ashes upon the .stone. The frightened reptile, after chasing: about for a while trying to find its treas ure, had gone off. The cooly remained in his safe position until daylight, when he descended the tree, dug the stona out of the ashes, and hero it was In my hand. '•The cobra stone was a semi-trans parent, water-woiu pebble of yellowish color, about the size of a large pea, which in the dark, when previously warmed, emitted a greenish, phospho rescent light. I found it to be ehloro phane, a rare variety of fluorspar. "The mystery is not difficult to ex plain. Cobras feed on insects, and seem to have an esj>ecial liking for tire flies. Only the male fireflies fly about. ana a close observer will notice that ;» constant swarm o 1 the male insects will fly near the females, which sit on the ground aud emit an intermittent glow iug light. The cobra uses feifj pixwpti h iescent stone as a decoy for the ire tlies. Competition would lead to tho Bnake'o seizing and carrying off the treasure and habit has become heredi tary." Desperado Mitchell Jugged. ,T.\c ■ksonvjli.e, Fla., May 15,— F. R. Mitchell, town marshal of Cedar Keys, was brought here today byUnitedStatcs officers and taken before the United States court charged with conspiracy. In default of $-.2,000 bail, he was commit ted to the county jail. Advices from Cedar Keys report one deputy United States marshal still there. Jle has se cured a revenue cutter and will go down the coast to the point where Cot trell, the runaway mayor, is supposed to be in concealment. Burglars Surprised by Coppers Last night burglars entered Ander son's tailor shop, at Seventh ani Coder sivenue, Minneapolis, by breaking tho back door, and were moving out the en tire stock when surprised by Officer A. P. Johnson. They had seven rolls of cloth, rive coats and one pair of trousers outside when caught. One of the men was secured by Oftieer .Johnson, but tho other escaped. There have been niitn erous ounflaries recently in that part of the city and these are believed to be the men who "have been doing it all. Three Smothered to Death. Brooklyn, May. 15.— While a num ber of children were playing to-day in an excavation for a cellar at Seventh avenue an Fifteenth street.the embank* mene caved in upon them, and Arthur Tayloa. axed eight years; his brother John, aged three years, and Percy Weaver, aged three years, were smoth ered to death beiore they could be ex tricated. Otto Bruno, aged nine, was taken out alive, and will recover. Tho bank had been undermined by recent rains. :; - ■ : . :;> ' .->; m: ;>i>' - -'■■ ' He Saw. Detroit Free Press. ••Kin I do anything with a pusson who calls me a thief?" he asked as ho stopped a patrolman on Bcaubicu street. "I am afraid not." "But hain't dat agin my character."' "Yes, but suppose you went to law, and tne other party should come Into court with the feathers?" ••What feathers?"' . "Chicken." "il'm! I see! I reckon I hadn't bet ter pay any 'teusluin to dat puMONt re marks, He dun amount to nut It in', anyhow." r ■^ Spring Planning. Chicago Tribune. Petted Daughter— Mamma, I saw such a beautiful set of diamonds clown town at Stoneking & Co.'s this morning! And they are marked only $2,500. I'm sure papa will buy them for me if you say so, Doting Mamma— Ethel, your papa does not expect to fail in business till the first of May. You'll have to wait till after he has compromised with his creditors. If he gets them for you whei we start for seaside in June that will b</ soon enough, won't it, darling?— An liupostsr. Boston Transcript. McCarthy— ls McAdoo an Irishman, do you think? 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