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Patrons and friends are cordially inviicdio visit themselves of the facilities of our Eastern Offices while in New Ycik i«.nd Washington. "Sleeping partners'.' are growing numerous. " <Bi. The absurd statement that British marines had been landed at Honolulu lias been denied. John Bull is not in the habit of needlessly placing his nose in a position where it will surely be put out of joint. lie will keep it out of Ha waii until after, his Brother Jonathan lias got through with his business there. «i Peter Jackson, the negro pugilist, is said to be a physical wreck, that con dition having been produced by ex cessive dissipation of all sorts. This appears to be the rate of all pugilists. They take to drink as naturally as a duck takes to water, and as a consequence their lives are short and death is in glorious. _ The question of whether Corbett and Mitchell will or will not meet in the listic arena has been dwarfed into insignifi cance by the question of whether or not Donnelly and Doc Fish will have an en counter. If they ever should meet with weapons other than verbal— but the. prospect is too harrowing, the possible consequences too distressing. On: Masonic brethren do not seem to be seriously affected by the hard times. The report of the grand master to the crawl lodge, now in session in this city, shows that the past year has been a fairly prosperous-one, the mem bership having steadily increased and the financial affairs of the lodges having remained in good condition. The members of the order have reason to be satisfied with their progress in ♦he past and their present status. Senator Ci'sii Davis is unquali fiedly in favor of the annexation of Hawaii to the United States. lie is a firm believer in "manifest destiny," which, he thinks, will attract the far away islands to cur shore. Destiny, however, should have manifested its purposes more plainly by placing the islands a little closer to our coast. We fear it will strain "manifest destiny" a trifle to stretch itself, like the colossus of Rhodes, over twenty-two hundred miles of trackless ocean. ..,.-... '«* Fi:r.xrii justice is swift. It is but a month since the crime of Vaillant. the anarchistic bomb-thrower, was comm itted, and on Wednesday he was found guilty and sentenced to death. In a lew days his head will fall into the basket at the foot of the guillotine. In the United States a man guilty of a sim ilar crime would yet be uninclicted.even if he had been arrested, and at least a year would elapse betore sentence of the law could be executed upon him. The new internal revenue bill has been completed, and will be submitted to the house shortly. There was a ma jority of one in favor of an income tax, and it seems likely that this feature of the measure will be stricken out. The opposition to the tax is so general as to give rise to the fear that a persistence in keeping it in the bill will endanger the passage of any law at this session. As an independent measure it might stand a show of success, but not as a feature of the general revenue bill. Business is picking up in Missouri, as well as elsewhere. One of the old in dustries of the state, greatly neglected of late, has experienced a sudden and unexpected revival. A train was held up and robbed near St. Joseph on "Wednesday, but the bandits secured little booty— the express company, which was the only sufferer, fixing its loss at but $50. But the express officers are not always to be believed in matters like this, and it is probable that the robbers realized enough to buy "drinks for the party," at any rate. Tin; A. P. A.'s and Loyal Americans are having a hard time of it, owing principally to the inability of the mem bers to keep a secret. The former was fully exposed by the Globe recently, and now the latter, a kindled organiza tion, has been shown up to the public of Michigan in a manner not at all flatter ing to the members. As a rule men who ally themselves with such orders are not of the class to whom it is safe to entrust secrets of any sort. They either lack the discretion necessary to guard them, or are so unprincipled as to betray them to any one who shall offer them a bribe of temporary utility or advantage. Another occasion is giveu for a howl from the Republican press. The American Hag that erst floated over the capitol at Washington has been worn into shreds by stress of weather, and there being no other at the disposal of the custodian, and no money with which to buy one, he has neglected to raise it recently, as has been the custom. The neglect of the custodian is certainly censurable, but happily the safety of the republic does not depend upon a piece of bunting; and. whether the flag floats over the headquarters of the gov ernment or not, our people will not for get that they are American citizens. -^*- Congressman Ham. denies that he Is seeking the appointment as minister to Sweden and Norway. Although he represents a state largely composed of Scandinavians, and has an intimate knowledge of their conditions in this country that would be invaluable to the American representative at Stockholm, he prefers to live in Minnesota when his official duties do not require his presence in Washington. The interests of his Scandinavian fellow citizens here nt homo are of far more importance in his eyes than are the interests of those who still remain in the land of their birth, and are likely to remain there forever. '■ .*" Another Georgia Democrat has beeu given a place in Minnesota. Hoke J6uiit.il does not seem to have a very hinh idea of the merit of a Minnesota Democrat.— Muukuto Free Press. The special agencies indirectly allud ed to in the above paragraph have been almost invariably given to non-residents by all administrations. Their work is largely investigating and reporting for Use Information of the department, and it has been held, whether wlselv or not does not matter, (hat _ persons who can have no possible interest iv the persons or things investigated are best adapted to the work. Besides, their duties are nut confined to th« one state.; They are subject to be ordered to any point, ami may be here today and ordered to Flor ida, Arizona or Alaska, or some other distant point, tomorrow. "A PRIVATE snap is a public ofliee." -Kx-Ald Franklin. A WORD TO THK BUKTHItKX. The Minnesota Editorial assoiiation will hold its next annual session in Min neapolis in February, in keeping with the whole-souled character of the peo ple at that city, arrangements have been mada to royally entertain the editors. It is the second time iv n period of twenty-seven years since the associa tion has been organized that the meet ing has been held iv Minneapolis, and, not unnaturally, that city desires to make it a notable event. The Globe has noticed with regret that even half a dozen papers.out ot liie 400 or more in the state, have been so thoughtless and ungracious as to sug gest to the citizens of Minneapolis that they give tne money to the poor instead of entertaining the editors. The editors meet for business pur poses, and do not ask to be entertained, or expect to inflict themselves as a bill of expense upon any community, but when, in a spirit of enterprise and good will, Minneapolis voluntarily and spon taneously desires to entertain, it is un gracious on the part of the cotnins guests to criticise, and, if we wished to be a trifle harsh. we would add that such comments as have bsea nude are im polite claptrap. The poor of Minneapolis will be as we!! cared for as if there was no editorial association in existence. That city has too much enterprise and Humanity to take bread from Its needy poor to enter tain any one. As a pure question of courtesy and good manners, and not as a request for an entertainment, the GLOBE trusts the citizens of that city will not accept the scattering comments of a few papers (which certainly must have been made without reflection upon the social pro prieties of life) as voicing the general sentiment of the association. The editorial fraternity will think as highly of Minneapolis if not entertained as if they are, but such programme as they may choose to make, or no pro gramme, is an affair of their own. Tnis comment is made with reluctance, but the wounded feelings evinced by our sister city, as voiced in their papers, seems to make it necessary that sooie one should "speak out in meeting" in behalf of the editorial association, and repudiate sentiments which do not rep resent that body as a whole. If vor work it right you can always iiave "fifteen dollars iv your inside pocket." HOIiH.WS COMPROMISE. Representative llolman, of Indiana, has suggested a plan by means of which the differences existing witli regard to Hawaii may be reconciled or compro mised, .lie proposes tliat tha United States shall assume a protectorate over the islands, to continue indefinitely or to terminate at a given time or in the event of certain contingencies. It is substantially the plan suggested by the Globe some time since, and will com mend itself to all classes the more it is considered. The differences that exist between the contending factions in this matter can never be reconcile! on the line of the present discussion. The jingo ele ment declare they will never be content with anything short of annexation, aud the more the attempt is made to con vince them that such a thing is impos sible, the stronger does their determina tion become. The conservative element in the country, backed by traditions of the past, oppose a colouial policy as fraught with danger, as well as being un-American. They are averse to cre ating entangling alliances with foreign powers, but are as jeaious of the honor of the nation as are those who prate more of their patriotism. They do not want Hawaii either as a part of the ter ritory of the United States or as a col ony. Neither do they wish to sea the islands added to the possessions of a foreign power hostile to the United States. Both parties, however, might be brought to accept a compromise by means of which the independence of the islands may be assured, and the inter ests of this country bo preserved. Such a compromise is presented in the resolu tions of Mr. Holmau. It would be perfectly feasible for the United States to assume a protectorate over Hawaii. The people of the islands would be satisfied with such political conditions. The interest of this govern ment in their welfare would guarantee them safety from foreign invasion and a reasonable measure of domestic tran quillity. They would have to pay no tribute. The United States would be fully recompensed by the trade advan tages that would accrue and by the possession of a strategic position in the Pacific ocean that might, at some tiune in the future, bo of immense value. The cost to this government would be tri fling. The maintenance of a war vessel in Hawaiian waters would be all that would be necessary, and this would in volve no extraordinary|expenditure; for the vessel would, in the natural order of things, be in commission in some part of the world, and it could be maintained as cheaply at Honolulu as elsewhere. •* A protectorate would satisfy all but the most extreme of the jingo shouters. They would regard it as a concession to their demands, and as a possible step towards the consummation of their de sires. The opposition would have the double satisfaction of having by this ceans defeated, temporarily, at least, the plans of their antagonists, and of protecting the Hawaiian islands from the encroachments of foreign nations. It would be an assertion of American supremacy in the Pacific gratifying alike to all parties, robbed of its odious acquisition feature, and at the same time respecting the sentiment favora ble to the extension of our civilization and trade. The llolman plan is, of course, a mere temporary makeshift. The status of Hawaii will eventually demand perma nent settlement. But the times are njt yet rive. The Hawaiian people are not yet sufficiently intelligent to assume the responsibilities of a republican form of government. The monarchy still has mauy adherents who would make much trouble iv a republic. When Liliouka lani and her niece Kaiulaui shall have passed from the stage of actiou the race of hereditary sovereigns will have be come extinct, and a transition may be effected without any serious disturb ance of social, political or economic conditions. The Holmau compromise THE SAINT PAUL DAJLY GLOBE: I RID AY MORNING, JASiUARY 12, 1804. is certainly worthy of consideration, ami, perhaps, may prove to bo tha best way out of the existing dilemma. "iiisiNiiss tai.knt"' secures recogni tion and promotion. Possibly the lire men might "turn on the hoso" If tha "talent" of the new secretary begins to develop. IKMAHK VlliiK PitKß I'R.-YDKK. The attack made by Mr. Johnson, of Ohio, upon the tariff laws and the mo nopolies in the house Wednesday was. perhaps, one of the most remarkable exhibitions of gall and good statesman ship combined ever witnessed in a leg islative body. Mr. Johnson is a manu facturer and a beneficiary of the tariff laws, and a monopolist besides. He iran declared: "1 believe in making all the money I can. I am a tiu>rou*u-gomi( monopo list and taking advantage of all the bad laws you Republicans have made, but I don't belie vh in defending those laws here." These words are an apt illustration of tinman nature the. world over. Men are found who freely denounce the bad laws they linct on the statute book 1 ?, but at the same tiuip.in their business trans actions, they take advantage of them to the inmost. And they are not blame worthy in their conduct. They would possess an unselfishness that Is one of the attributes of the Doity if they neg lected such opportunities for profit. lint the spectacle of an avowed mono polist acknowledging that h« receives an unjust profit, and denouncing the laws that Kraut him that privilege, is rare indeed. Mr. Johnson has proved himself a paragon among men— one who can. in tlie defense of a principle which he believes to be just, deliberately seek to overthrow the laws t'.iat put thou sands of dollars into his pocket every year. He demonstrates his patriotism iv a startling and exceptional manner — in a manner that disarms hi.s critics and places him on a plane far above the hired tools of the combinations that seek to perpetuate the tariff robbery. None will dare to accuse him of an un worthy motive. Mr. Johnson's words are entitled to more than the. ordinary consideration. He has long been a practical manu facturer. The products of his factories are liberally protected by the tariff laws. He knows that he could make a good profit from iiis business without the pro tection of the tariff laws, and he knows that every dollar he receives by reason of the protection is unjustly taken from the pockets or the people. He knows, however, that if he should retuse to take this tribute he would be driven from business by his competitors, who would undersell him in the markets, even if they had to suffer loss by doing so. As long as the l;ivvs give him au advantage he takes it, While declaring that his privileges are unnecessary, that hi 3 protection is robbery of his neigh bors. Of course the monopolists will assail Mr. Johnson's motives. They will seek to show that he has political ambitions that will be promoted by his pandering to the free trade sentiment. But Mr. Johnson is of foreign birth, and could not hope to reach the presidency, while the senate, under conditions at present existing and likely to continue for the remainder of his life, is beyond his grasp. And his very course respecting the tariff will impede rather than hasten his progress in that direction, for Ohio is thoroughly wedded to the idol of pro tection, and would not tolerate a free trader in the senate. The incident is a remarkable one, but will raise Mr. Johnson in the esteem of all honest men, to whatever party they may beluus. It shows that in his capac ity as a legislator he is faithfnl to the interests of the people, in spite of the fact that his individual interests lie with the monopolists. Tins will be a working day for the grand jury. It is a favorite day for some events. It is Friday. PEAT FOR FUEIi. The use of peat as fuel throughout this section of country is again attract ing wide attention. On our wide prai ries wood is out of the question, be cause of its scarcity ana higli price, while coal, except the cheaper aud in ferior qualities, is beyond the reach of the masses, because of the excessive transportation charges. There are in Minnesota extensive beds of peat that might ba utilized for domestic aud man ufacturing purposes, and an organized movement is In progress having for its purpose the introduction of this fuel. In Europe peat is extensively used, both in the house- hold and the factory. It burns slowly and emits an intense heat, and is, besides, more cleanly than coal. It is cheaper than coal, even in the coai-miniiig regions. But the peat of Ireland, England and Germany is of a different quality from that found in Minnesota. The chief objection to Min nesota peat is ite noxious smell while burning. It stinks as badly as a com post heap, and thus far no process has been devised by means of which this objection may be removed. But there seems to be no good reason why inven tion should not remedy this defect, pro vided the reward promised shall be sufficient. The supply of paafc 13 inexhaustible. It will serve the necessities of the coun try for centuries to com?. But it is as yet scarcely- touched, and for the reason stated is practically unavailable. The time is not far distant, however, when it will be absolutely necessary for our people to place their dependence upon the peat beds. Wood is becoming scarcer and coal dearer year by year. The cost of a winter's supply of fuel is becoming the most serious matter in the affairs of every household. Coal bins have a disagreeable habit of be coming empty just at the time when the price of the article is the dearest and the ponketbook the leanest. The high price of fuel of every description hereabouts ought to stimulate the en terprise of those who are interested iv the development of the peat industry, tor, aside from the fact that the utiliz ing of the product would relieve a great public necessity, the promise of profit is the most flattering. Even in its present imperfect condition peat could be used in many classes of manufacturing in places where the stench from the chim neys would cause the least public dis comfort; but, robbed of this offensive ness, it might come into use generally, and cheapen the expenses of the home, the business house and the manufact ory. The Globe is pleased to learn that he owners of some of the largest peat marshes in Minnesota and Wisconsin contemplate offeriug a liberal reward to the man who shall invent a success ful process for consuming peat without subjecting those in the neighborhood to annoyance from its disagreeable odors. Invention has already succeeded in per fecting a process by which garbage may be consumed without emitting an odor. Why cannot a similar process be em ployed in furnaces where peat is used as fuel? , The subject is one of great Impor tance to the future of this part of the country. With cheap fuel our develop ment will be steady and rapid. At the present price* it is aiiuagt u»*£M£lkt§ to profitably conduct large matiufactnniu: .' enterprises requiring th». use of consid erable steam power. We could not hope to compete with the Eist. where coal is cheap, in such enterprise,, bat will have to. confine ourselves to those branches of manufacture in which little power is needed. Tiios'j at present, en gaged in enterprises requiring clia:i» « fuel, and thoso contemplating sue*.] en terprises, c;iu afford to give Him matter careful attention and bring übom a' solution or the fuel problem that will contribute largely towards the develop meiit ot our commerce, trade andiu-. dustry. v- V, The work of ••reform" and 'HioWlm; up" is immense, ll's a groat matt it you know how to work it. P \TK UN A LISBf lIiMJSTR ATKI). Mr. Donnelly has very kindly given to the papers the impressions made upon his mind by the decision of the supreme court in the slate elevator case. Mr. Donnelly can always be relietl upon to be interesting, to bo occasionally amus ing, aud, at rare intervals, instructive. In the interview which he kindly pre pared for the papers in this case he is. as usual, interesting; and, to the extent to which he reveals his conception of paternalism in government, he is in structive. Mr. Donnelly has been a more or less interesting personage to the people of the state for a good many years. Probably there is no man in the state of whom such a vari ety of opinions is held. These range from thoso which impute to him the disinterestedness of the phil anthropist and the wisdom of the states man down through the various grades to those which assign him to the rank of demagogue craving notoriety, with a natural bias in favor of the sensational. We confess to have halted for :i long while between the doubt as to whether Mr. Donnelly was a politician because he was a philanthropist, or was a phil anthropist because he was a politician; and, while the doubt is not entirely re moved, we are inclined to think that he belongs to Hint class wliich make up the larger portion of paternalist:*, whose warm sympathies are readily ignited by any tale ot wrong, and who believe that a universal panacea for ail the ills that society is heir to is simply a "be it en acted." Any familiarity with that class of our fellow beings who are constantly call ins upon the government to redress wrongs, real or imaginary, divides them readily into two classes. One— and this the smaller class— whose purposes are purely selfish, who look upon govern ments as implements for jobbery, and who are reformers for revenue only. I» this class fall all those people who cultivate popular prejudices against the foreigners and the products of their handicraft, with a view to their whole or partial exclusion by the imposition of a tax on them, hoping thereby to iu sure for themselves a larger profit on their own products. Others of them ar.^ those who labor to convince legislators that sundry of the pursuits for their fellow men need inspecting aud regu lating, expecting themselves to do the inspecting and regulatiug, with a min imum of labor and a maximum of salary. But by far the larger part of tiiis ele ment of our citizenry are unselfish senti mentalists, the Don Quixotes of pater nalism. The sympathies of these good people are always bubbling over for the oppressed aisd downtrodden aud wronged. Their anger is quick to flame at the oppressor; their imaginations are agile in the creation of social dragons like the "money power," which feed and glut and batten on the miseries and misfortunes of men. Impatient of the slow processes by which nature and nature's creator are content to work out the great problem of humanity; ig noring the inevitableness of the con ditions in which they live; failing to see that they are the result of human agen cies, and that any betterment can only come from the improvement of the mor als of men, they would use as the sole agency of reformation the law-making power of the state. In this class of pa ternalists we are inclined to place Mr. Donnelly. We are not, therefore, surprised to find that the Sage can see no difference between the relations of the state to the farmers and those of the state to its paupers, its defectives, its insane, and its other unfortunates who, through some misfortune, have become incapable of caring for themselves. To him all classes of citizens are alike. The state stands ever to all its citizens in loco parentis. it is the father with the stioug arm, quick to wield the rod or apply the shingle, who guides the steps of his children with constant Musts and Snails, and Must Mots aud Shall Nots, and is obdurate in the belief that, unless he did so, the children would go at a killing pace to the bad. .It is one of those, fathers to whom his children are always children, who never grow to be men aud women capable of self reliant action; a father, withal, endowed with that wisdom approaching omnis cience, which knows invariably what is best for each and all of his children. It is this inability to discern the differ ence in the one case between caring for those whom misfortune has rendered in capable of self-help and caring for those capable of helping themselves, and In the other the difference between regu lating business and engaging in it— this failure to see the vital dlfferenco of things— that martis.tue paternalist of the sentimental school. To Mr. Donnelly the farmer, preyed on by the elevator and other rings, classes with the person whose reason is unthroned, or the child born with defective powers of body or mind. Tney are equally proper objects for the solicitous care of the state. There is in all this an idealization of the state which will not bear scrutiny or analysis. It assumes many things' that do not exist; it assumes primarily a wisdom instate legislators which no person in his senses would concede them. It assumes a breadth of view which takes in the whole social organi zation of a state, and sees with accurate eye the relations of part with part. But, most egregious consummation of all, it assumes that when this impossible wis dom has expressed itself in some meas ure its "be It enacted" is equal in effect iveness to that command which spoke to chaos, "Let there be light." Another peculiarity of the sentiment alist is that he learns nothing by experi ence. He pesters legislatures into the enactment of some panacea for some ailment of our social body and passes on to the pursuit of another ill and the ap plication of another plaster, serenely confident that the measure enacted has relieved society ot one of its evils, and either btlssfully ignorant or compla cently indifferent to the fact that he has but added one more to the dead letter laws which cumber the statute books of states and nations. A list of the paternalistic laws of this state which slumber undisturbed among its several compilations, which fell into innocuous desuetude at their very birth, and whose existence is unknown or for gotten, would be an object lesson In the futility of paternalism well worth the labor of preparing. The state elevator law differs from these oply in this, that wiills tbjßjr were still- bora, tula liaj tue distinction of having received its quietus at the- hands of the supreme court. Tin: grand jury con secure the wit nesses without coingout of the build ing where it is cold. The Plttsburg Post siys that upward or 10,00:) men started to work Monday in a few Pennsylvania manufactories. The reports from all parts of the country are of the same encouraging character. And yet, with these facts staring them in the face, the Republican papers de clare that the fear of a Democratic re vision of the tariff is paralyzing the in dustries of the country, and that if that sort of thing doesn't stop there will be a general suspension of manufacturing. Facts are stubborn things— too stubborn for Republican theories, for they fail to bear out the prognostications of the rob ber tariff organs. Wi: iiavi: been pained to observe for ronte time past that there was some thing wrong in the working of the wheels in the head of our morning neigh bor down the street, and now we have found it. 1c says that the Hawaiian matter is "a wetehed business." That's it; creased trousers, eyeglass, hair parted iv the middle, boutonnieres, and "evwyting weally so wetehed, don' cher know." Tin-: "farmers" who farm the fanners and fern farms with their mouths, who gathered iv Minneapolis and posed as "We. the Farmers of Minnesota." took their fling at Secretary Morton and be rated him iv terms of bucolic coarse ness. The mutual regard of the secre tary for the "farmery" and of the "farmers" for Ilia secretary is one of the most beautiful instances of reci procity that we know of. Tirr proposed Income tax will sutely increase the crop of liars. Maybe that, is what Democracy wants.— Anoka Union. It would be hard to increase the crop. Since Mr. Pease, of the Union, was on earth before, the indignant statement with which he was familiar when it was first enunciated (having been pres ent) has been changed, and it now reads: "All men are liars— except Democrats." Thk Globe wishes to indorse nnd heartily commend to the newspapers of the state the following sentiment from the Albert Lea Standard: Whatever may be the notions of out sids newspapers, it is proper to allow Minneapolis to determine how it will provide for its deserving poor,as well as the manner of its entertainment of the editorial association. IN THE THEATERS. In these times that try men's souls; when the necessities of life, even, are not forthcoming, it is really marvelous that the theater finds patronage. The house that greeted Frank Daniels at the Metropolitan last night must have grat ified that actor, and the applause was in keeping with its goodly proportions. Frank Daniels as a mirth provoker lakes his colors and methods from no living model, and hence cannot be measured with the customary tape. His faults and his virtues as an actor arei part and parcel of the individual himself, and when one sees every move and every word call forth a smile, where is the need of cavil. Daniels pleases his au diences in his own way, and he pleases them immensely. Joseph Hatton, in his famous "Cigarette Papers." recently told a good story illustrative of this something called naturalization, as ap plied to a painter in oils, in which his hero had painted an ordinary marble to so resemble cork that the object beins piaced in water, it floated. So in the case of Frank Daniels in perhaps the funniest episode of "Little Puck." Dr. Savage, the tutor to Old Giltedge's son, has called, and the old man wishes to demonstrate to the learned professor his skill at opening a barrel of beer without spilling a drop. This, he avers, he has frequently accom plished, and that neighbors from miles around have been attracted to the spot by his wonderful accuracy in striking the spigot. Finally, after a loud report is heard and Daniels makes his appear ance, covered with foam, the audience needs no verbal explanation. The nat uralness of the scene speaks for itself, and the atmosphere is so permeated with the delicious beverage that those who are wont to disturb their fellow by a visit outside between the acts, find themselves sufficiently regaled, as if by absorption. The play of "Little Puck" is too well known to require any extended restate ment of plot at this time. Suffice to say it has lost none of its humor, and Mr*. Daniels has surrounded himself this season with a good company. Last night all the old favoiite characters were well presented, including the Hoodoo, Slug gers, Miranda, the old professor, Billy the incorrigible, and the meek and humble Tabbatha, and a number of new songs had their first performance by this company. Besides this Mr. Daniels has added in numbers to his already adequate bevy of pretty girls, so that '•Little Puck" goe3 with a whirl. Dan iels remains the balance of the week, including Saturday matinee. "Spider and Fly." A successful week for this attraction is drawing to a close at Mr. Litt's the ater; the many features that have al ways proven strong drawing cards, the marches.singing and the shapely forms, have lost none of their attractive force, and, with the matinee and night to morrow the fourth successful engage ment of this attraction at the Grand in the past eighteen months will terminate. "The Black Crook." There will be a line of citizens at the Metropolitan today, for the sale of tick ets opens this morning for the engage ment of "The Black Crook" at this house next week. It will be one of the most gorgeous productions St. Paul citi zens have ever had au opportunity of witnessing, and the self same show that was the talk of New York city for over a year. "The Devil's Auction." Although this week at the Grand has been one of the spectacular burlesque kind, that fact will not in the least; in terfere with the coining one next week, the new edition of "The Devil's Auc tion," for not only is this spectacle well known, but it is also a popular one here. The changes and revision it has had since last seen will give it an entirely new flavor with old admirers, and have a tendency to create many new ones. Little Miss Columbia, the child dancer, seven years of age, is pronounced a wonder, and although her appearance is but one of the incidents of the produc tion, she will create a sensation, or this city will be different from the many others in which she has been seen this year. New soenery, new and elaborate costumes and a display of handsome girls are also promised as features of til is production this season. Wages to Be Raised. Next Week. Jtlflge. "I see jour hired man is an octoroon." •'Oil, no; he's a white man. He's been eating some of my daughter* cooking-school experiments this week, and he* bilious/ BUYING OUTSIDE PAPERS. MINNESOTA REPUBLICAN PAPERS NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Albert Len Standard. The Republican apostles of protection to home industries who manage the affairs of their party in this state met in St. Paul lust week to the number of a score or more, including the state cen tral committee and others, and decided to .subscribe for a large numbei of copies of the New York Tribune and Chicago j Inter Ocean, to circulate, among the [ voters of the state to inculcate the pre cious doctrines of encouragement to ''infant" and other alleged home in dustries. The daily and country of Minnesota are not good enough for them, and besides, according to their notions. Minnesota pavers can paddle ■their own canoes; the doctrine of pio tectiou does not apply to them. This is the way protection generally works and the Minnesota Republican editors will please to keep pleasantly and persist ently pounding away to uphold it; but they should understand that they must continue to nurse and cradle their own infant industries. Tho Sleeping; Partners. Lo Sueur Sentinel. At the late meeting of the Republican state central committee it was decided to buy a large number of copies of East ern newspapers for circulation as cam paign literature. The suggestion of the GLOBE that Republican newspapers in Minnesota must be "sleeping partners" with their party seems to be about the thine:. The Republican party managers must set a high estimate upon their own state organs, and reciprocally the party organs must highly value the slap in the face which the managers give them. Or Course Not. Anoka Union. Thai's it! The Republican state cen tral committee wants to buy a lot of New York 'tribunes for circulation as campaign literature, instead of circulat ing good Republican papers of the | state. It wouldn't do for this commit tee to extend a. -helping hand to local papers. ■? ■'■•"."• ■ ■» IRREPRESSIBLE MARY. . Gov. Lewelling is Undine one Lease of public life very, troublesome.—ln dianapolis News. Doubtless Mr. Lease is enjoying his respite while Mary Ellen is embroiled with some one else. — Omaha World- Herald. It is a petty rivalry that incites Mrs. Lease and Gov. Lewelling to try to take the eyes of the country off from Corbett and Mitchell.— Washington News. If Mrs. Lease' will not submit t'je case to arbitration it only remains for Gov. Lewelling to secure as favorable terms as possible and surrender. — Chicago Tribune. The latest news from the seat of war is that Mary is still in the ring and not at all disfigured. If the governor never had the experience before, he now knows what it is» to sit down on a wasp. — Leaven worth Standard. .:' Just because Mrs. Lease is continu ally making herself unnecessarily con spicuous that is no argument against! the general principle of woman suffrage. Senator Hoar and Elijah Morse have been known to do the same thing.—Bus ton Globe. Probably it would be to Mrs. Lease's pecuniary advantage to accept the oiler that she says has been made to her of $25 a night for. a lecture tour of the country, and all her expenses paid. Mary Ellen is not handsome, but she is part and sassy. — Boston Herald. WHAT THE EDITORS SAY. The congressmen who are staying away from the house may shortly have to do so as a permanent thing.—lndian apolis News. There are some very promising candi dates for private life on the Democratic side of the house of representives.— New York World. The provisional government of Hawaii refuses to acknowledge Grover Cleve land as a bigger man than Liliuokalani. —Philadelphia Item. Republicans can't understand why the Pitisburg plate glass works have resumed. They ought to see through it.— Washington News. " There are numerous hints that Gov. McKinley's inauguration in Ohio was simply a dress rehearsal for something bigger.— Washington Star. A liberal tax on congressmen who fail to face the music might do much to ward straightening out the financial sit uation.— Washington Star. We still believe that the Marquis of Queensberry rules should be amended so as to limit the preliminary debate to six mouths.— Chicago Dispatch, "Gen."' J. Hale Sypher didn't cut much of a figure before the comittoe on naval affairs. A sypher stands for not-li ing, anyhow.— Philadelphia Press. It has been said that the president is better than his party. The party seems to be trying hard to prove it, and to be meeting with success. — Washington News. Gov. Waite declares that "Colorado is not ruined." Indeed, no. But it would have been if it had been in the power of Gov. Waite to ruin it. — Louisville Courier-Journal. It is reported that a crank is lying in wait to assassinate the governor of Kan sas. This is not only a crime, but also a grave breach of professional etiquette. —Baltimore Anerican . Having managed to gather a quorum by the constable process, the unterrified Democracy at Washington will now proceed with its great act of digging its own grave.— Philadelphia Inquirer. TheMcKiuley boom is now confronted with its most formidable danger. The Ohio leglslat me is in session, and the governor of the Buckeye state is with out the veto power.— Washington Post. If Russell A. Alger and Thomas W. Palmer become rival candidates for United States senator from Michigan a seat in the Michigan legislature will have a positive cash value.— Chicago Times. The Democrats of the house have pleased the country by getting down to business, and they can completely re store themselves to its good graces by pushing the tariff light to a conclusion as soon as practciable.— Detroit Free Press. Congress will doubtless call a halt in the tariff debate in order to pass a res olution expressing this country's ad miration for the gorgeous manner in which our ambassador, Runyan, has just appeared at the German court.— St. Louis Post- Dispatch. Democratic congressmen should go right ahead with the great work ot carry ing out the pledges of the platform. They will have to meet the people at the polls this year, and it won't do to say that they didn't have any oppor tunity.— Constitution. The Republican party in congress has committed itself absolutely against a just and honorable course in its treat ment of the question. It has declared Its willingness to compromise the honor and injure the influence of this nation. It now rests with the Democratic ma jority in congress to say whether such a disgraceful course shall be followed, or whether the president shall be up held in his honorable and statesmanlike policy.— Kansas City Times. ."'■•' ■ •'.■' '■' ' ** , Butterscotch. Two tablespoonfuls of molasses, two tablespoonf ula of sugar, two tnblespoou fuls of watefe HPHE phrase is not very elegant, but common a usage has made it very expressive. It means that the individual speaking has very little regard for the truth of the statements uttered, or else is talking about something of which he knows little or nothing. If this definition is correct, then v/hen we talk of "SIGHTS AND SCENES OF THE WORLD," we are Not Talking Through Dor Hat! Because we know just what we are talking about and we don't say anything that is not absolutely in keeping with the facts. We have said before, and we repeat the asser tion without fear of successful contradiction, that the series of views comprising Sights end Scenes of the World Is the most magnificent collection of interesting subjects that could possibly be gathered together, and that from an artistic standpoint they consti tute a work which has not been hitherto equaled in the whole range of art productions, and yet, notwithstanding the interest and merit which is characteristic of them, they may be had by any oJ our readers for the nominal sum of TEN CENTS For each part containing 16 views. Here is what Part Ten, delivered this week, will contain: I. The City of Mexico. 2. City of Bombay, India. 3. Island of St. Helena. 4. Cape Town, Africa. 5. The Royal Paiace. Honolulu, Sandwich Islands 6. Constantinople. 7. Ruins of the City of Capernaum. 8. Royal Palace of Peterhof, near St. Petersburg. 9. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg. 10. Devil's Bridge, Switzerland. I I. Island of Madeira. 12. 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While they are a delig-ht to the eye they serve also as a means of instructing- the mind, and it is done" in such an easy, pleasant manner that it scarcely occurs to the child that they are studying- and receiving- the_ very best kind of an edu cation, while at the same time it is "apparently an amusement and a pleasure. WHAT IS NECESSARY? Sights and Scenes of the World consists of a mag-nificent collection of 320 photographic views, 11x13 inches in si:;e, of famous places in all parts of the world. With each view is a very interesting- description, giving historical and other data, intended to convey a thorough understanding- of the subiect represented. These photographic views arc bound in parts there being- TWENTY parts altogether, each one containing sixteen views. 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