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Complete files of the Globe always kept on hand lor reference. Patron* and friends are cordially invited -o visit uud avail themselves of tun facilities of our Kasieiu offices while in New \orkand Washington. In akkanuinc the various pro grammes tor Washington's biittntay we trust that the managers wiii not over look tiie ability of the editor of the I'ioneer Press as a biographer of the Fathei of the Country. Tiif. joint appearance of Uev. S. G. Bmitb aud Mayor W. H. Eustis. or Minneapolis, in the pulpit ot the Peo ple's church tonight will be a counter attraction to Bob li.trersoH's recital of "Some ot the Mistakes of Moses" at the Metropolitan. It is understood in unofficial circles that the time Major W right is absent from the city on his present trip will not oe counted as a portion of his twen ty-four days ot absenteeism from the board of equalization, when ho swure he v\as present and collected three dol lars per day. It is risky business tor a young woman to sue for breach of promise of mania-re. There is every indication that Miss Pollard, the prosecutor of Congressman Breckinriilge, will come out of her present It-gal entanglement with a badly besmirched reputation. It is hazardous to play with fire. \ Thebb is an improved demand for money at the commercial centers, which indicates a desire for investment in permanent channels that has ionsj been dormant. There is an abundance of funds 10 loan, and wln-re the security is good there is no difficulty in securing all the money that may be required. A gexti.kmax who boarded a street car a tew inputs since to ride three' blocks was joKed by a friend on the car over his extravagance in riding so short a distance, "it is cheaper to pay ear fare thin to ba held up." was the sen tentious reply. There is a whole vol ume of just criticism upon the "reform aiiuinistrr.ti jn" in that reply. All but a million dollars of the new bonds have been paid tor. and tuero are more than a hundred applications tor tnese. They have already been award ed, however, and would-be purchasers will be obliged to procure their supplies from some of the fortunate bankers who were forehanded in laying in a supply. Thk friends of Gov. Levelling are endeavoring to patch up a peace with Mrs. L~aseJ It is hoped tiiat they will succeed. Their quarrels and baekbit ings have amused the country greatly, but tuey have become uiontonous and have lost their interest. The two should kiss and make up without delay. It is becoming a popular pastime to hang cabinet officers in eftuy. secretary Hoke Smith was recently hanged in effigy at Duluih, and now Secretary Morton has suffered the same indignity out in Nebraska. But if the proceeding gratifies the participants the secretaries will not care, for such demonstrations are complimentary to them rather thau otherwise. The heirs of Julian Dubuque, the founder of the lowa city that bears his name, think they have a claim upon the greater part of the site of tiiat pros perous place, and propose to establish ihat claim in court. The property in volved is valued at forty millions of dollars, it is probable they would throw off 5.59,999.99'J.(>0 and accept 40 cents as their allotment. Encouraging reports of the progress of the suffrage movement were pre sented to the national woman's suffrage convention at Washington the other day. If there is anything eucouraging to the laborers in tiiat vineyard iv pres ent conditions, they must be easily satisfied. Such indications, however, are not visible to average mortals, even with the aid of a powerful microscope. The resumption of the Plankinton bank at Milwaukee, with an unimpaired capital, is one of the encouraging signs of the times. It is the last or the large financial concerns that recently sus pended to resume business, and but two3raall Barings banks have gone out of business permanently. The banks reorganized since the panic have been placed on a better footing than they previously enjoyed. Assassin* Ekexdkkgast made a bad break in court the other day, by en deavoring to assault Attorney Trade, 'who is conducting his prosecution. The incident might have had a tendency to create doubts as to his sanity, and may have been intended for that pur pose, but his subsequent conduct de stroyed all hope that it could be utilized, for it was a complete demonstration that he was in complete self-control. The CUcaeo City Railway company has been compelled to take a dose of its own medicine. After the recent heavy storm the snow was thrown f£om the railway tracks iv huge wliirows which grs>a.Uy obstructed travel. The com pany refused to remove the snow, whereupon the aggrieved citizens promptly shoveled it back upon the tracks. A few more such exhibitions of public indignation may serve to show the corporation that the public has rights which are entitled to respect. Jvijai. A. EAitLY, the famous Con federate commander, received a pain ful fall at Lynchburg, Va., the other day that will probably result fatally. Gen. Early is an old man, having been born in 1816. He won a series of bat tles over the Federal troops iv Virginia in the early '003, and did not meet de feat until he encountered Sheridan. Since the war he has been associated with the Louisiana lottery as one of its managers, and lias accumulated a large fortune. He was excegdingly popular in the Confederate army, and had many Friends in all walks of civil life. KIKFKIt AM) POTATOES. Mr. Kiefcr doubtless shares the pain which we cannot hide and he cannot express, that tho really remarkable speech which he delivered in congress should have been received with such appalling silence by the two organs of the party of which the gallant colonel is so eminent and distinguished and fit a representative. It is strange indeed that it is left to Mr. Kiefer's own efforts and tiie franking privilege, aided by an appreciative paper like the GLOSB— which always accords, even to an ad versary, that recognition which his em inent merits demand—to make his con stituency acquainted with the erudition, the statesmanlike grasp of questions Immense and minute with which that gentleman in this speech enlightened, if he eottld not convince, the -obdurate ina joritv which, unfortunately for him. dominates the lower house. Bnt ir the Pioneer Press and the Dis patch, not to mention the lesser lumi naries—the incandescent lights, as it were —of journalism iv his district, chorse to ignore his greatness, thus paying the tribute envy always pays" to eminence, the Gi.obk. at least, will mete out justice with even and impartial hand, and endeavor to spread the light of the colonel's intelligence among its readers. Happily for the colonel, he is in the possession of the franking privi lege and the mails, for by their aid he can triumph over the petty jealousy which excites what the editors of ills party organs complacently term their minds, and lay before his constituents in their homes all that information about the tariff which be has gathered with the assistance of his gifted and versatile secretary. We said iv a prior article, in which we descanted at some length on one feature ot this speech, that it was one or the most remarkable which we had read among the many striking speeches de livered in this Fifty-third congress; and any one of our readers who has waded through the Record will admit that this is a very strode statement. We firmly believe that no candid and unbiased mind can go over these varied and mul titudinous speeches without coming to the same conclusion. It is not aione that ltaJvances that novel mathematical proDosition that a tax can be reduced 150 per cent, though that feature alone entitles the speech to rank among the great efforts of great men. and to lake place alongside of Mark Twain's won derful map of the defenses of Paru. which drew forth from Yon Moltke the admission that he "had never seen any thing like it." With equal facility Mr. Kiefer turns from philosophy and mathematics to potatoes. In fact, it was while speaking of potatoes that he evolved his novel proposition about the reduction of tho tax on that esculent, which the Wilson bill ruthlessly cut from twenty-five to ten cent? a bushel. The colonel assured the benches and the galleries that "the consolidated price" of potatoes—what ever that may mean— during 1892 aver aged G7 cents; that certain localities in his district raise an exceptionally fine quality of them, and that "under" the duty of 9S cents a bushel, "the potato ptoduct has been aso.irce of suostantia profit to the fanners of Minnesota." He assured his hearers that Germany raises potatoes at 50 per cent— not 150 par cent this tuna— iess cost than they can be raised in Minnesota, "because there a man works as a farm hand all the year for §50," but "with the duty (oa starch) at one cent a pound all round, aud with potato?s coming in from Canada, this new and thriving industry, which male the fanners of my district happy and prosperous, will be wipjd out—anni hilated." Assuming that it is trae, as the colonel evidently wishes to be understood as asserting, that the effect of the incraase of the tax on potatoas by the McKinley act was to so largely increase their cost, and thus mate his farmsr constituents happy aud prosperous, it really seems to us— and we mention it with that diffidence which in the face of the opin ions of so enlightened a statesman all will concede is most becoming— it seems to us .that Mr. Kiefer has played on the fanner a trifle to> assiduously, and overlooked the very important fact that vastly more of his constituents are eat ers of -potatoes than are iaisers of them. There is a very natural antagonism be tween the nun who eat potatoes aud those who crow them, tha former being concerned in getting them at the lowest cost possible, and the latter being tuter ested in getting the most possible for them. Of the 34,000 voters who cast their votes iv the Fourth district In the elec tions of IS'J2, not mora thau 4,000. prob ably, are engaged in growing potatoes ; the remaiuing 3j,000 have no other con cern in that necessitous article of food than in buying it at the grocery and eating it at the table. We fear that, especially in these times, it will hardly commend the colonel to tho favor of these 30,000 to learn that he, stoutly and with all the force of his wide learning and fiery eloquence, is trying to make them pay more for their potatoes. There is hardly one among them who would not feel as if he were 25 cents better off if he could get his bushel of potatoes for 25 cents instead of paying 50 cents for them, and who w >uld rather have that quarter to buy something else with than to feel that McKinley's act had made him donate it to some farmer in some one of the colonel's "favored localities." Possibly this occurred to Mr. Kieter, and, schooled in the new doctrine, he saw the error into which his potato buying and eatine constituents had fallen. They had not learned as had tiie colonel, sitting at the feet of McKinley and Harrison, that cheapness even in potatoes is detrimental; that "cheap and nasty go together:" that "a cheap coat means a cheap man under it;" and he doubtless reflected that then it must be true that cheap potatoes meant a cheap man outside of them. He will no doubt make it one of his objects this fall to educate his constituents to a be lief in this doctrine. HOW PROTECTION WORKS. We recently made reference to a Wisconsin firm engaged in manufactur ing farm implements which reduced the wages of its workmen last summer because a Democratic administration had made it necessary, but whose Jan uary report shows a fractional part of one per cent reduction in sales and eol lectious. Our suggestion that common fairness and honesty then should com pel a restoration of the wages to date from the day or reduction calls forth the admission, which is certainly frank, however wide it may be from the pro tectionist theory, that the firm always buys its labor and material at the cheapest possible price. We are cer tainly obliged to the firm for its admis sion of what free traders have always claimed, that it was uot the tariff, but the law of demand and supply, checked, if at all, by labor organizations, that regulated the price of labor. As bear ing on this, we are informed that the Mattoon Manufacturing company, of Sheboygan, engaged in making furni ture, are paying able-bodied men 59 i:euts a day, aud consoling then with THE SAINT PAUL, DAILY GLOBE: ST'NDAY MOR^INTU. FEBRUARY 18, 18f4.— SIXTEEN PAGES. the fact that wheat is 53 cents a bushel. Furniture is protected 3"» per cent, and wheat 25 cents "' bushel.^Protection; ' seems to be * getting ■';' in its - work all round. . NOT SAID BY Mil., KRLLY! Some of the partisan Republican pa pers have been having much.' apparent enjoyment the past week over an alleged iiicldeut at the St. Paul Press club re ception given to Henry Watteraon last Sunday evemnir. As the incident as re ported was entirely untrue, it is possibly as well to correct it, even though the truth may never overtake the misrepre sentation. As the partisan papers reported it.Mr. P. 11. Kelly was credited with saying in the course of a few remarks : that "Cleveland ought to have had his sec ond term first," implying, of course, that he never should' have been elected: at all. To this was added the statement' that Mr. Cutcheou, chairman of '■', the Democratic state central committee, in his remarks, staled that he agreed with what Mr. Kelly had said. While it is true that Mr. Cutcheon stilted he agreed with Mr. Kelly, the remark in question was not made by Mr. Kelly, but was an ejaculation by a geiiileman sitting near uy while he was speaKing, and consequently neither Mr. K. nor. Mr. C. was responsible for the authorship or indorsement of the sen mcnt. ■ . •_■.-..■. .' ■ ■-. : :- >:^.v HEIIO WORSHIP. "Mankind dearly loves a lord," said Burns, and- never were truer words written. We are all hero worshipers of more or less pronounced degree. Some _ worship those who \ have achieved re nown in war; some love the statesmen,'' and some the preachers, while there are not a few who bow down at .the shrine of poesy and offer the tribute of their adoration to the makers of rhymes. If all the peoole in a promiscuous assem blage were given the opportunity of ex pressing their opinions of the relative greatness of those who have figured in history, a wide diversity of opinion would be found to exist, and the verdict would be astonishing, if not amusing.* ' An Eastern journal, devoted to the interests of the young, recently asked its patrons to vote .as to who among forty distinguished Americans was the greatest, and the following was the re sult: Geo. Washington. Hawthorne.. 44B2 Abraham Ltaecnn.B23S William C.3ryant.4llO Ulysses S. Grunt. 805.' John Adams...... 4038 Jienj. Franklin. ..7!).iS Phil H. Sheridan.. 4.'6o Daniel Webster.. 79 Cyrus W. Field.... TUomas Jefferson. James It. Lowell .4128 Henry Clay ....... .753, Robert K. Lee.... .4038 H.W. Longfellow. 7332 John C. Calhoun..399J W. T. Sherman.. .6SU> James G. Blame. .3942 Robert' Fulton .. 874r Eli Whitney. .39j1 S. F. 11. M0r5e. ...67^0 U. G. Farragut...3S4« John G. Whittier..6s^' Winfield Scott ...373i5 Washing' frving.OlS? George Bancroft.. Patrick Henry.;.. 5940 Oliver 11. Perry. ..3lß) Alex. Hamilton.". .5514 Charles Sumner.. 2Bo2 R. W. Emerson... sl9o Noah Webster.... .2B3U Horace Greeley. ...">l4;j John Hanc0ck.... 2706 H. W. 8eecher....4944 Edwin Booth 2700 Andrew Jackson. .4ss4 Fen'imore Cooper. James A. Garfield.4s3b John t£. Adams. .2588 Perhaps it is just that the father of our country should stand the highest in the esteem of the youth, and that Lin-, coin and Grant should follow closely. i et Lincoln's was by far the grandest character of the three, and his achieve ment was the most momentous. Wash ington's leadership was noble, and in some respects grand; Lincoln's was sublime throughout — a triumph 'of human genius over conditions that to most men seemed insurmountable. .It is a queer judgment, however, which places Horace Greeley, a partisan and., narrow- m inded man, .above such uis^ tinguished men as Bryant, Field, Sum ner,. Lee and Caihoun. . Fulton and Morse, justly stand on . a substantial parity; but why should Patrick Henry, patriot and orator though he was, oc cupy a higher station than John Han cock? There may be some reason for highly regarding Ralph .Waldo Emer son, the incomprehensible essayist of the intangible, verbose and platitudi nous; but why place him so far above George Bancroft? Henry Clay was not so much superior to James G. Blame as statesman or orator as he is made to appear in this list, even if his superi ority is admitted; while Charles Sumner, who is placed low in esteem, was the superior of both as to statesmanship and. learning, to say nothing of oratory, in 1 which art he and Edward Everett have been long the recognized models. . And this calls attention to the fact that the name of Everett does not appear on the list. Is there a man in our history who added more to the glory of our nation than he? lie was a statesman of sur passing ability, the model orator of the century, a philanthropist and a littera teur, a master in belles lettres. Cal houn and Webster were contemporaries, and there was always dispute as to which was the greatest power in the halls of congress, or on the rostrum, yat in this list we find them widely sepa rated. -^~-c: The list given shows the general tendency of the American people to let others do their thinking. Men who are • the most talked about are esteemed the highest, while those who are at the helm of public opinion and direct the popular thought and the national policy are but little known or appreciated. The man who compiled a dictionary is placed upon a pedestal of honor, while those who may be said to have formed, the language are ignored. All* such lists as the one given are necessarily of little value. PAST AND PRESENT. ' There is a marked predilection among people generally to view the history of the past and the men who ' lived in the long ago with a feeling of reverence and awe, not unmixed with envy, and to contrast the old with the present time to the great disadvantage of the latter. Many live in the atmosphere of the past. They worship its heroes, pore over the literature and revel in the musty his tory of gone and almost forgotten ages, and are apparently oblivious of the present and all that is passing before them. V To such there is little in the existing order of things that is worthy of com mendation. They call the present age superficial and time-serving, caring nothing for what the future may con tain, regardless of the heritage it may bequeath to posterity, and are certain that whatever may be remembered of the present generation will be scarcely worthy of a place in the history of the world.- The past alone is worthy of their attention, for "there weie giants in those days." There is no doubt that the past is made luminous by the deeds and accom plishments of great men. The great captains of war will live while time exists; the men of letters have written their names upon imperishable parch ment; the statesmen ot iormer genera tions have achieved fame and honor that will endure throughout all : the ages. But have the men and the women of the present accomplished nothing for which they will be held in remem brance? • - - - It is only by comparison that we can iudjre of the relative greatness of men, and it is the misfortune of the heroes of the present tiino to be enveloped in an atmosphere of criticism and jealousy that detracts greatly from their deserts. In former times the masses were iguo raut, and could form but crude judg •merits i of their co t? nporarios. The man who was great In those days to\y«rml ! far above thi inns of Immunity, as the mountain towjr* over tlu undulation:* < of the plain. In thd prjieut a<e the ■ overage.-' has been ' made ".. higher. , : ; Tin; intellectual stature has bean raised; and thu nan who ; overtops all others must be possessed of surpassing greatness. In former aires there warj a few wWißs'i" in the sea where ; little iis'i atjoumlttil; today the whales are in tha majority, and the only question Is as' to which the largest. ' ■ p/iei^.- When tho history of the present age Is written it witt bo found tint w« hay.* not been without our men of nujL Grant will livo foraver a* the equal ot Alexander or Napoleon in war; in statesmanship Lincoln will rank with the most talented rulers of the earth; in literature there are scores of names that will outrank any that have lived before them. Perhaps we have no Shake speare, or Milton. or Homer; but wo have poets whose epics and whose genius have exalted the inuso to her &ttc(erit tnrone of deification. And we Jaave statesmen as well. Gladstone and Bis ma ek will not be forgotten, nor suffer by comparison with those who have preceded them. Longfellow. Bryant and Holmes will be read as long as Pope aud Shelly and Dryden. and will appeal far stronger to human sentiment. The scientists of the present age have opened up new worlds for study. Per haps we have no living genius who can comprehend them all, in their immen sity. But in every province of inquiry there are specialists today who have added immensely to the world's store of knowledge, aud will be as worthy of remembrance as the original discov erers. In the domain of applied science the present is far in advance of the past, aud now the masses of the people are in possession of vast treasures that in former times were reserved for the delectation of a select tew of the more cultured. There are giants in the present as well as in former days— giants in intel lect and in moral ccuratre, heroes who merit immortality. In the past the lib eral arts and sciences belonged to the aristocratic few: today they are the property of the plebeian many. There are men now living who possess a more intimate knowledge of the forces and laws of nature than the most eminent investigators of the past, and who yet make no boast of tneir knowledge. There are patient toilers in the domain of science who have unostentatiously been adding for years to the treasury of knowledge and the storehouse of achievement, end who have accom plished more for the benefit of mankind thau scores ot those .who now live only iv memory, but to whom far greater honor is given. But the future will be the time to write the history and judge of the achievements of the present. And there is no doubt that, vvnen everything has beeu tested by the standard of time and weighed in the balance of utility, the present generation will be found no whit infeiior to any that has preceded it. We are in no danger of suffering by comparisons. If they arc! odious at all they will be so to those who have preceded us, not to the ineii of the present. : HIFALUTIN, OR HIGH JINkS. The man who speaks in a representa tive gathering, formally or informally, must be sure of his facts, aud of his tact. Occasionally the latter quality is the most desirable in any speaker's gift, yet so few have it as a natural in stinct that thoy oftentimes do more harm than eood when addressing the p iblic. For example. Dr. Burcliartf, in three words, the most inapposite, the most unexpected and the most compact for destructiveness of any ever uttered in this country, blighted beyond repara tion the presidential ambition of his favored candidate, Bla'uie. No prear ranged blow of calculated malice could have been so deadly as the smart alliter ation of the .strenuous friend at that famous social consistory iv the Fifth Avenue hotel. At the Press club reception to Henri Watterson, Capt. 11. A. Castle "made some happy remarks upon Mr. Walter son's Courier-Journal predecessor, the world- famed Georse D. Prentice." The captain said "he was born aud raised on the banks of the Mississippi, and had a vivid recollection of the times of Prentice, who was then the demi-god of all parties aud classes." Surely, the captain must have some confused notion of Preutice's identity, or his recollection of those times is not so vivid as he imagined— because most assuredly the Courier-Journal editor was very far from oeiuir the universal demi-god he describes. In fact, as long as the Ohio runs by Louisville, Preutice will be remembered as having incited the most sanguinary Know Nothing riot in the record of such outbreaks in the United States. This alone throws him outof all consideration as a wise and able editor, and renders him as unfit for laudation, in honoring his successor, as praise of— say Vaillant— would be, were the captain's army record the occasion of a special reception by his Grand Army comrades. Only by abetting slaughter aud dye ing his name iv the blood of people whose constitutional rights he endeav- ored with incredible malignity to de stroy, does the name of George I). Prentice ;and his "times" live iv the memory of ono multitudionns "class." For tne rest, Mr. Prentice was the merest sophomore In newspaper writing beside the Northern school. It Is doubt ful if the mau whoso mind runs to poetry ever becomes a master in prose, at least to the extent of authoritative and convincing strength. Once or' twice in a century the conjunction may be manifest, as when Byron wrote his memorable letter to John Wilson, which was such a splendid evidence of his ! manifold ability as to make Kit North grieve that Childe Harold was not au essayist for his beloved Blackwood. Tlie poetry of Mr. Prentice was inter changeable with his prose. Each af fected the other into nn indeterminate weakness of similarity. As an editor he achieved no especial distinction, except as an incendiary writer of mur derous prejudices. Hence, when tlie suave Henri Watterssn heard him called a "demi-god" he must have felt that it was a deflection from himself as tlio : gallant champion of the "star-eyed goddess" whose vacillating fortunes the imaginative Keutuckian has jealously watched for many a year. But. how ever imaginative Hie Blue Grass Henri may be In regard to his astral-eyed eidolon, he cannot distance our Minne sota Henri and his "demigod of all par ties and classes," George D. Prentice. Last but not least, where wa3 Press (Hub President Conway's memory of orators, when coming down to our own country he could name but four, and they were Webster, Clay, Calhouu— and Henri Watterson? Alas for fame! Where is the other nobler trio. Wendell Phillips, Roscoe Conkliug and George William Curtis, that Mr. Watterson could be hitched to, and gaiu more momentum by the association? Tradition is hard to dislodge. A vast constituency that was not born when Webster died in 1853 Uso imbued witb t.ho former estimate of the Massachu setts statesmen that it would consider it against every canon of standard ap preciation to deny him the least ray of his former luster. So be it. It is well to feel respect for that enthusiastic verdict of lone ago, but it is strange to the leminiscent mind, that while Webster lived ho was never lancle I without so:ne cursory or sustained comparison with Burke; and. near your own day, go >d judges, like Summer and Hannibal llamlin.aaid thai Hoscoo Conkling was tho superior of W«bster, Clay ani Calhoun as an orator— Sumner asserting that "he knew English to the last shade." Webster was no more like Burke than he was llko Conkling. He had not the culture, the glorious imagination, nor. above all, the moral sensibility of Burke. The solemn splendors or rhet oric iv the reflections on the French revolution, and the speeches iv the im peachment of Warren Hastings were as remote from Webster's mind as trie conception and expression of Hamlet would have been. His one great speech In leply to Hay ne is the measure of his oratory; the rest of his record is thai of a skilled advocate and diplomatic arbitrator. Not a vestige of any measure he favored aim supported has the least considera tion in the political world of today, ex cept, perhaps, the Missouri compromise. Finally, Caro Padre Conway, presi dent of the Press club, the names of Daniel Webster and Maj. Gen. Winfieht Scott, "deceived by the hectic flush of victory" of the Native American fac tion in 1844, were used with fatal suc cess in the tarnishing of that consistent patriotic reputation which otherwise would have a more eminent share in the pride of our common political his tory. Now while this regenerated republic honors in receptions and banquets and congresses its worthy men, why are we prone to the awkwardness of praising some of them by a comparative juxta position with others iv the nation's Walhalla, vvfiom they mayor may not even sugirest? If a man be memorable at all, why not leave him "sole and responsive" to his own distinction? In this intense and vital present a recent affair shows us as repeating the comparison of Webster's day, when we went back to Burko for Ins parallel; and now we retrieve Webster and his famous compeers for a similar use, when, the while, there seems to be a strange forgetfulness of the splendid three, Conkling, Phillips and Curtis, each in his own incomparable way the spokesman In the mighty piayof events which we all remember without special recounting. The ever-cited orators of the Web sterian period almost seem like the nodding friends of Rip Van Winkle in the interlude to his long nap, for their oratory was about as useless, with the coming awful issues almost in sight, and their only solution in conflict and bloodshed. The eloquent voices of a nation's kindled spirit should never be forgotten in the least, as when by some happy chance a distinguished guest of the hour may be enriched by a sugges tion of their faintest ring. But the suggestion must have some perceptible pertinence. It will hardly pass to make D. O. Mills' son-in-law greater than Horace Greeley, or George D. Prentice "the demi-god of all parties and classes" instead of the commendable Henri Wattersou, who lends the Cou rier-Journal to no riotous blood-letting, but cherishes his aiiy and star eyed abstraction with chivalrous loyalty. Nor will it do to set forth the amiable and estimable Kentuckian as standing with the immortals in oratory — unless the occasion is one of "high jinks" — and the hour— oue of early mellowness. WE HAD STAVIN' TIMES. [Writteu for the Globe. 1 Oh, -we had stavin' times in St. Paul, don't ye mind. And we'll have stavin' limes ngin, If you'll just hold your breath for a couple Of months. ■ And wait till Bob Smith sets in. There waz erowin' and blowin' and tbrowiu' of hats. When tbe kurnel got there with both feet: Aud we felt that redemption was well nigh at hand When Freddy flopped into the seat. But things didn't pan out as well as they might. And a whole lot of people are sore: They're loafin' around in the alleys and streets. And matin' a deuce of a roar. As yer passin' them by you'll hear them re marßin'. "I wonder if Bob will win : — Oh, we had slavin' times when Bob was on deck. And we'll have stavin' times agin." Reform is a purty good thing iv its way — A very good thing— if it works: When it doesn't— deep down in the hearts of some folks, A feeliu' of lassitude lurks. It's all very toell to talk pure politix Before the election ensues. " Aud of every manner of terrible things The fellows in office accuse; But after the "oatU? k-< over and won. And ihe angels rush in with a yell. To iind that the gang but existed* i:i mind, And their theories all but a sell— A terrible kickifl" is sure to result. But there ain't no occasion to shout; For it's devilish hard to turu out a gang When there isn't a gnng to turu out. Oh, we had etavin' times in St. Paul, dou'tye mind. And we'll bave stavin times agin If you'll just hold your breath for acounle of months. And wait till Bob Smith gets in. — Michael Joseph Donnelly. Uncle Ham's Cats. Some three hundred and odd cats are maintained by the United States gov ernment, the cost of their support being carried as a regular item on the accounts of the postoffice department. These cats are distributed among about fifty post- I offices, and their duty is to keep rats ] and mice from eating aud destroying postal matter and canvas mail sacks. Their work is or the utmost importance wherever large quantities of mail are collected, as. for example, at New York where from 2,000 to 3,000 bags of mail matter are commonly stored away in the basement. Formerly great damage was done by the mischievous rodents, which chewed holes in the sacks, and thought nothing of boring clean through bags of letters in a night. Trouble of this sort no longer occurs since the offi cial pussies keep watch. Each of the postmasters in the larger cities is al lowed from S3 to ?40 a year for the keep of his feline staff, sending his estimate for "cat meat" to Washington the be ginning of each quarter. _ ONE COUPON AND TEN CENTSi ""=== I^^.C3-IO CITY! ■ - --'-■•■..> -.- • . • . . _■_.■■ Coupon for Part One. Feb. 18, 1894. To Art Department, Dai! Globe, St. Paul. Name postoffice State > Send Part One as above addressed. Enclosed 10 Cents. ■ COUPON AND TEH CENTS^ .^= A LETTER FROM BILL NYE. IT IS NOT NECESSARILY. FOR PUBLI CATION. |||i A GUARANTEE OF GOOD FAITH. Reports to a Wealthy Insurance Man or St. Paul That He Had a ..:. Good Time in England, but America is Good Kuou^li for Him — Itcfroshlnjc « Humor on Various Subject?. Bill Nye's letters for publication are usually written for $50 to $100 a column. He sometimes dropi into prose and poetry for the benefit of personal friends. A St. Paul friend of Bill's read iv a New York paper a few weeks aao that the festive humorist was dis porting himself in London, and accord ingly wrote him a letter. The St. Paul man is a person of large wealth. But as time hangs heavily witiiout occupation, he became connected with one of the life insurance agencies, and dispenses the ge:ilal tontine as a missionary work, not for the money there is iv it. It oc curred to him it muht be a jjo.>rt idea to have Bill do some insurance missionary work in London, and he sent the genial humorist a lot of insurance literature, at the same time suggesting that he, Bill. write Gladstone, Wales, La bouchere and a few more bright lights of Britain. Bill received tho letter after his return from Soudan. He replied iv his chatacteristic way as follows: Watkutowx. N. V.. Feb. 10, 1894.— My Dear : Your letter reearding insurance and things, addressed to me care Authors' club, in London, returned looking sea sick and pale yesterday. Had I received it while there I could have secured Gladstone. Jerome. Be sant, Doyla and Sir Arthur Sullivan mi tho tontiue. Had them where they would have had to "tout" or beg. Now 1 am doing the big. poorly ven tilated East, but to better business thau ever before. We got a frozen audience here for th<d first on the whole season's list. I went out to the footlights and said, "Gqoil evening, sir!" But no one laughed. Thai's ihe way with people who are brought up on Mine. Keutz' Female minstrels and Old Tune's cellar door. Why should you ask me how Fame feels? 1 never get time to ascertain; ana if Ido snatch a moment for that purpose 1 find souk* other man's hand stroking her hair. To tell you the truth, 1 care more for my watermelons on my upright farm, and the sweet breath of the two-year-old steer which 1 ride to and from the mill than I do for the 'catty' smelling palaces of princes and the pomp and hauteur which compels me to sit for hours in the presence of royalty when my wisdom teeth are all afloat. I had a good time; a great big good time, with food, lodging, wine aud song, and riding hither and yon on the rail ways. Once on Candlemas day I rode from London to the country seat of a aucal chum for a week at his shooting box. We went via the London & Northwestern railway. Labouchere and Baltenberg had the pleasure of accom panying me. "How d'ye like the North jvestern?'Vßatten berg asked. "O, I think it's the best road under the sun." "Such line coacnes," says Labor. "Yes." says 1. "And the "up'olstry!" says "Bat." "Yes," says I. "The scenery through some parts of Wiscon sin, the rapi't motion, the safety, the splendid smooth road bed, and the charmins breakfasts just before we reach Chicaco — " " 'Ow? Who said anything aboutWis coiisin?" iwclaiined Lnbby. "1 was speaking about the Northwestern, the London & Northwestern." "That's different," says I. "There's only one Northwestern, and iii thought heveryone knew it was in the States. Hif you hare speauin' of tho London «& Northwestern hallow me to hadd." says I, with much 'auteur, "these little dry goods boxes on wheels which you call coaches are hall right, so far as they go: h'aud your roadbed is smooth. But, O. tfafl dull, deceased deadness of the landscape, and the crowded aspect ot thiutrs. No, proud h' editor, your Northwestern is <i tair sort of road. But there's only one Northwestern." saying which 1 re lapsed into Punch, and dilieently sought for a joke. 1 trust, my dear , you will not print thia letter. Mr. Teasdale mlztit think I wanted an annual, when, as a matter of fact, a few "trips" during the season will suffice, if I am in the North western territory during the year. lam glad to be back in the States. There's no home like my owu honie (.says 1 to myself). Across the dark blue sea. The land of beauty aud of worth, The bright land of the free. Where royal foot hath uever trod, Nor bigot forged a chain. Oh, would that I were safely back (says 1 to myself while wavinsr at the I witticismsof Victoria atWindsor) in that bright land again. Sincerely roars, E. W. NTB. BILL NYM ILL. The Famons Humorist Reported Dying at Niagara Palls. New York, Feb. 17.— 8i1l Nye, re ported dying, is lying ill at the Hotel Imperial, Niagara Falls, and his man ager has canceled all his engagements for next week. ■ Col. Clongh Answered. To the Editor of the GloDe. in this morning's ' Globe app.eared an editorial article entitled "Tax Any One but Us." which contained the following allusion to those members of the St. Paul chamber of commerce who think the income tax clause of the Wilson I revenue bill an unfair and unwise prop osition at this time: "In thus asking others to ba taxed, and themselves exempted, we see an instance of that sort of patriotism which Artemas Ward so happily builesqued." As one of the members of the cham ber who voted in favor of tiie resolution of the chamber on the subiect referred | to, 1 should feel much obliged if you would take early occasion to specify the particular tax which the members of the chamber want to have imposed on otiier people while they themselves are exempted therefrom. W. P. Ci.oigh. St. Paul, Feb. 15, 1894. [If Mr. Clough will re-read the article he will find his answer in the words "A chamber composed of business men who could at one time ask congress to continue the taxation of the raw ma terial of iron and steel, of which they are insignificant consumers, etc.." he will find his query answered. -Ed.] FINAL FUR SALE We will close our Minneapolis Store Monday and bring our balance of stock on hand. We want to make one final effort to get our stosk turned into money. The sale of the past two weeks has been a wonderful success, and while money has been lost WE are satisfied, and we know our customers are. No such bargains were ever sold in St. Paul. Speaking of this, we saw a dry goods window yester day with fur bargains (?). One was about the poorest Krimmer Jacket we ever saw, marked "$65.00; cut to $35.00." We never asked over $40.00 for such a gar ment at any time. Another Astrakhan marked "$60.00; cut to $39.00." We would be glad to take $40.00 ANY TIME for such a cloak, and have some bettor ones NOW at $25.00. This shows the dif ference between so-called bargains and GENUINE bargains. Our goods are marked as they wen originally, in plain figures, and aie fo. sale in all cases for cost, and in most of them we wiil take a loss. WE WANT THE MONEY and mean business. We still have a good assortment of Seal Garments, and we will take 10 per cent less than actual cost for any one of them. You can save from $50,00 to $125.00 on a garment. Isn't this worth your while? Owing to having so much capital locked up in these goods, we are very anxious to reduce the stock. We are selling goods for $200.00 that cost us $225.00, and were marked $285.00 to $300.00. We only have 4 Otter Jackets left. $95.00 takes any one of them. They cost ussllo.oo each. We have about 40 Astrakhans that were $50.00, $55.00 and $60.00. You can buy any of them this week at $35.00. This involves a consid erable loss to us. Men's Coats we have an elegant stock of, and we will put the knife in deep. We can give you good Coats now at $60,00, $75.00 to §100.00 that were $90.00, $100.00 and $150.00. Our Coats, ye \ know, are the best. Goods sent on approval at these prices to any part of the country. • . ■ . •■ vs**' Our new Hats for Spring are now 1 ere, and they are "dandies." Prices, $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00. Come on. AND H8 I ■ EM MB §H fu3 b*j K« >>a BSa Si 3 *5^3 %" v j' ' »^* ■ *-v" r "*' ' • ■ ' '■"."'.