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TODAY'S WEATHER.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.— Forecast for I'i'i
dnv: Minnesota and Wisconsin— Fair; warm
er; moderate northwesterly winds, becom
ing variable.
The Dakotas— Partly cloudy weatner. occa- \
eioiial rain or snow; warmer; southerly '
Winds. . I
lowa and Montana -Fair and warmer; van- i
ul.].' winds, becoming -southerly. ;
Montana— Showers; warmer; southerly.
■winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
1 nited States Department of Agriculture. ',
Weather Bureau, Washington, Nov. 11, 6;48
p. m. Local Time, S p. m. 75th .Meridian ,
Time.— Observations taken at the same mo
ment or* time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
"~pj Tern.l Place. Tern.
g t paul 30 Mlnnedosa 24
Duluth 26| Winnipeg .... 24
Union ■>'-, ** .. „ I
Bismarck 30 Buffalo W-46
■Williston 30 Boston 46-46
I (Havre 32 Cheyenne 4-w
.Helena 56 Chicago :;l-'-'i\]
Battleford 20 Cincinnati W-«
26 Montreal 32-36
me Hat 30 New Orleans ... .70-76
nt 30 Si w York «-54
Q - i Pittsburg ....
DAILY MEANS.
•, 30.02; mean temperature. 28;
aidity, 68; wind at 8 p. m., nortli
h.-r, partly cloudy; maximum tem
-32; minimum temperature, 2o; daily
amount of precipitation (rain) in
y-four hours-. .' 2.
RIVER AT 8 A. M.
Danger Gauge Change in
Line. Heading. 24 Hours.
i.l 3.6 —0.1
* sse JO 2.7 ».0
S ::::::..:::::S i! °"
' . , „,, , .. , . r rected for temperature j
. 1()1K _p. r. Lyons, Observer.
'■-INKS IT IS ••FIXAIAY SET
TLED."
. more we hear the voice of the
stanl secretary of agriculture in j
I md. The last time its mellifluous j
. floated across the country w.is :
■ •.. he was assistant secretary de j
.. and only assistant de jure by vir- j
. f a promise from the president j
he would appoint him to that non- j
■ and lucrative offlce. At that j
time the to-be assistant had arrived in I
■Washington to take the oath of office i
an.l a place on the grand pay roll of
the nation. He had hardly had brush
ed from his Sunday best the dust in
cident to travel mv. :• the road to our
Mecca, made thick and deep from j
the many thousand weary feet
that plod thi re and back, before he an
,,l to the country, through the
<( medium of a handy press
Reporter, what was to be the foreign
■policy of the department of agricul
ture. As we then apprehended the
fresh Mr. Brigham would get from his
chief, the secretary, an intimation that
any announcement of policies would be
made by himself, even so it was, and it
is for that cause that Joseph's voice
has been, stilled so long.
But Mr. Brigham happens to be Wor
thy Master of the National Grange— a
distant connection of Stockton's felici
tous "Rudder ('.range"— of the Patrons
of Husbandry. Were the matter of
whal Brigham did less pressing and
important we might pause to note the
singularity of lhat name, which implies
thai the members are those who pa
tronize the products of those engaged
in husbandry instead of the producers.
But that is a matter that can wait
upon the more imperious presence of
what Brigham, assistant secretary and
Worthy National Master, did in the
latter capacity at the opening session
of the order, society, organization or
whatever else the Patrons of Husband
ry may be. which convened at Harris
burr,, in the state of Quay, on Thurs
day. Passing over the matters of de
tail in reading the Worthy Master's
annual report we come to his assur
ance that the grange does not espouse
the cause of any political party or in
ch ise the policies advocated by either.
ti statement which, we believe, is
avouched by facts. "But"— and there j
are "huts" even among Patrons of |
Husbandry— proceeds the Worthy Mas- j
iter, "when the people have settled the ;
questions at issue we accept their de
cision and try to secure for agriculture j
fair treatment in the legislation car- J
rying into effect the policy indorsed by !
the people."
From which we infer that the Wor
thy Master and assistant secretary . of
agriculture really believes that there
was some question ".settled" by the
flection that settled him in a snug berth i
and that there was some policy "in
dorsed by the people. As he goes onto
Fay that agriculture tries to get its
share, we are forced to conclude that
the question that was "settled" was
whether the game of grab should be re
n< wed and not th?.t of currency re
form, and that such policy was •'in
dorsed" by the "people." When a
question is settled it becomes what the
lawyers call res adjudicata and can
never be unsettled. The wish in the
"Worthy Master's mind was doubtless
father to the thought expressed. Nor
is he blamable if it were. A snug
billet, with a safe salary of $4,500
annually, payable monthly by a boss
who never makes an assignment or '
stands his workmen off, is apt to en
courage the occupant to believe that
the decision that settled him there is
a permanent and irreversible one.
But the Worthy Master should take
counsel of experience; experience so
r< i ent that it cannot all have vanished
from his memory. This self-same ques
tion has been submitted to the people
before this. The queer fact is that it
refused to stay settled. Even the as
tuteness of Jim Blame was at fault
when he asseverated that the election
of ISSB would settle it for the next gen-
eration. When the assistant secretary's
benefactor framed the bill that put the
indorsed policy into effect in 1890 he
imagined he was building for eternity.
But his foundations began to tremble
under his policy before the superstruc
ture was fairly completed, and in two
years they went out entirely. The
Democrats came in and began to con*
struct their policy, using largely the
debris of the wrecked and demolished
one, and even that refused to stay set
tled. The trouble is- in the foundations,
and nothing built of that kind of ma
terial can ever stay settled very long.
There will be dynamite under it next
s"ear and more the two years following,
and then the Worthy Master and assis
tant secretary can have leisure in his
Ohio home to ponder on the unsettled- J
ness of the things that are settled.
SIX. ROGERS MAKES ANSWER.
We are glad to be able to return the
complimentary admission made by Mr.
Edward G. Rogers, clerk of the Ram
sey district courts, in the communica
tion that appears elsewhere, of an
agreement with the G1 o b cin its gen- j
eralizations on the subject of making
citizens, by an equally complete agree
ment with him that in all the cases
where the applicant for his second pa
pers has been for ten to thirty years a
resident in this country, a voter and a
permanent resident of the city, the
■jcrutiny into his fitness to assume the
dignity of citizenship is needless. We
will concede that it would be some
thing in the nature of self-stultifica
tion to investigate the capacity for the
duties of citizenship of men whom we
had been allowing to perform all those
duties for so long. We will even agree
that to do so would be an absurdity.
If Mr. Rogers will re-read "the mak
ing of citizens," he will see that, after
he admits our generalizations and we
admit his specifications, there still re
mains intact our criticisem that, in the
great majority of these cases, the ap
plication is not due to the initiative of
the intending citizen, but to the activ
ity of men who take an active interest
in politics and who hunt these unnat
uralized out and bring them in in
blocks of fifty to one hundred to un
dergo the lightning change from a for
eign subject to an American citizen.
This, we argued, indicated an indiffer
ence on their part to the value of citi
zenship and tended to cheapen that
great privilege. We are saved the need
of accounting for this indifference as
due to their ignorance, either of the
constitutional amendment or t>> their
supposition that they were full citi
zens, by the statement of Mr. Rogers
that "most of these very men who are
now applying for full citizenship volun
tarily voted, for the good of the state
as was supposed, to curtail their own
rights and privileges." It would seem
to follow that men who had thus voted
themselves out of the quasi-citizenship
enjoyed prior to the amendment of the
constitution by voting for that amend
ment did not need either to be advised
of the effect of the amendment or to
be hunted up and brought into court to
save themselves from complete, if tem
porary disfranchisement. We therefore
fail to find ourselves in disagreement
with Mr. Rogers at any point.
THE TREND IN GEHMANT.
In the confusion of the news and
comment cabled from Berlin the trend
of the public sentiment of Germany is
not always apparent, but just at pres
ent the tide seems to be strongly
against the one-man bossism which to
Emperor William is the ideal of gov
ernment. The recent strictures of an
ex-judge upon the meddlesome spirit
displayed by his majesty show that
discontent is spreading to the office
holding class, if not to the officials
themselves. While the mere writing of
a book, no matter how severe or in
dependent its language, will not ac
complish much in the way of reform,
even so much spirit is significant. If
there is any country of Europe, aside
from Russia, where the theory of the
divide right of kings may be regarded
as firmly established, that country is
Germany. That the kaiser is the sub
ject of free and scathing criticism
shows lhat the despotic idea is not
holding its ground.
In theory the people of Germany
do not seem to object greatly to des
potism. They look on complacently
while the young war lord goes through
the forms of an absolute rule. So long
as he confines his efforts to court func
tions, military reviews and bombastic
declarations, the general result seems
to amuse the people. Only the fact
that they object when he attempts to
make the sphere of his activities uni
versal in the empire proves that they
are in touch with the progressiveness
of the modern spirit of Europe. While
progress in Germany is not so apparent
as in other nations, where the sword
and rifie are not so dominant factors,
occasional incidents prove that the no
tion of political freedom is gaining
ground. With every strain to which
it is subjected it is probable that the
divinity which hedges William loses
some of its power to save his throne
from attack.
This development of the democratic I
spirit in Germany is in accord with its
growth in other nations. To the forms
of monarchy there seems to be no
radical objection on the part of the
great mass of the people. While roy
alty contents itself with empty honors,
the people on their part respond with
loyalty. It is very doubtful if the pop
ularity of Victoria would save her if
she directly opposed the will of the
English commons, and all indications
are that sooner or later the same thing
will be true of the position of the Ger
man emperor. One of the princes of
the house of Wales is said to have ad
vised his younger brother to stop his
noise and go over in the corner and
sing "God save your grandmother." It
is not unlikely that another generation
will see the rulers of Europe with some
such occupation as their established
and permanent employment.
By the way. Is It not astonishing to see the
Globe, almost if not quite a free trade
journal, turning back the pages of history in
attemnts (and such attempts) to find Demo
crats Who were protectionists.— St. Cloud
Times.
It may be to you, for you are very easily
astonished. You asked your Question and got
your answer, and it was correct. If you can
not see in the facts and in the history of. the
Democratic party a. marked and healthy
THIS SAINT PAUL GLOB 3. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1897.
growth cf true Democracy in matters of taxa
tion, you cannot see what is the significant
les;son to be learned from those facts. Could
a tariff be framed today on principles that
the great majority of Democrats would accept
as orthodox, even the Walker tariff would be
strongly protective in comparison with it. We
can measure progress made only by compari
sons with the past, and, on matters of taxa
tion. Democracy today is far in advance of
Democracy at any prior time in our history.
.-*»-
Men who aspire to office should never write
letters, or if they do, a string should be at
tached so they can call them back and cast
theni into the fire. The man who goes on
record in a newspaper lays himself open to
a rip up the back almost any time.— Stillwater
Gazette.
This paragraph refers, we take it. to the
letter of Sam Langum to "the Globe in 1891,
republished the other day. It is an intimation
that Mr. Langum will be punished for his
frank statement of facts then by having his
ambition to get the Republican nomination
for secretary of state next year "ripped up
(he back." We can readily appreciate that
the prison influence will be exerted to facili
tate the ripping of Langum's back, but we
are surprised to have the Gazette suggesting
the application of the knife.
It is worthy of note that the St. Paul
Globe heartily indorses the commission, ap
pointed by Gov. Clough to investigate the
charges made by that paper against the
state's prison. Watch that paper jump over
itself to abuse that commission shou.d it de
cide that there was no truth in the charges
of abuse.— Fairmont News.
Please do not apply to the Globe the
standard by which you measure and guide
your own conduct. It does not follow that,
because you would do what you say the
Globe will do, tha latter will' do it. It is
not built that way.
Where are the gold Democrats, anyway, if
not in the Republican camp?— St. Cloud
Times
The gold Democrats are like the dynamite
bomb with uniighted fuse attached— not in
danger, but dangerous. Having no chance lo
win they can yet make or break almost an*.
ticket put up where they have an organiza
tion.—Grand Forks Courier.
The Democrats to whom the term ''gold"
is applied say to Democrats to whom several
other appellations are given what Seneca s
pilot said to Neptune: "O, Neptune, you can
save us if you will, you can drown us if you
will, but, whate'er you do, I must keep my
rudder true."
The Declaration of Independence says that
ail citizens of the United States shall be free
and -'equal," but somehow that sentiment was
omitted from the civil service laws.—Fari
bault Journal.
The word ••equal" having been omitted
from the Declaration, it was incorporated, in
spirit, in the civil service laws. You have the
omission transposed.
An equal sufferage conference between the
national officers and workers in this state
will be held in Minneapolis Nov. 14 and 15.—
Redwood Reveille.
This is as it shou'.d be. and we trust that
the result of the conference will be a more
equal distribution of the aches and pains
grouped under the general designation of
"sufferage."
Secretary Bliss has not been much in evi
dence since the result of the New York elec
tion was announced. He is not as happy as
his name indicates.— Duluth Herald.
As the secretary ponders over what ho
thought he knew aud what he knows he will
appreciate the force of the line, "Where ig
norance is Bliss."
ATHENS IS EXCITED.
Torpedo Scandal Is Involving tlie
Royal Family.
BRINDISI, Italy, Nov. 11.— Letters
received here today from Athens say
that the torpedo scandal continues to
be the sensation of the Grecian capi
tal. The basis of the scandal was the
.lisiovery of the fact that all the car
tridges fitted to the torpedoes during
the war with Turkey were not pro
vided with percussion caps and fulmi
nating mercury, and that, therefore,
they would have been useless in case
they were, needed. The committee of
investigation appointed to inquire into
the matter decided that two officers,
Capts. Rastopoulo and Anastasi, must
be tried by court martial on the charge
of culpable negligence. Capt. Rasto
poulo, who is now being tried, has ask
ed that Prince George of Greece, who
commanded the torpedo flotilla during
the war, and who was, previous to the
war, a great favorite with the masses,
be called as a witness. The court has
refused to do this, and the Greek news
papers are publishing vigorous articles
on the subject, the anti-dynastic Hes
tia going so far as to demand that
Prince George be tried by court mar
tial. The prince is known to be deep
ly affected by the scandal, and by the
attacks made upon him and upon the
royal family generally, in consequence
of this fresh example of the unpre
paredness of Greece for an outbreak of
hostilities.
VIENNA, Nov. 11.— -The Neve Freie
Presse today publishes a dispatch from
Constantinople, saying that some
Greek bands, which crossed the Thes
salian frontier, between Diskat and
Domenik, have been repulsed by Al\£
Turks, who killed many of the invad
ers and captured a large number of
prisoners. The Turks also seized 150
rifles and 170,000 cartridges belonging
to the Greeks.
BERLIN, Nov. 11.— The condition of
the members of the Turkish embassy
is deplorable. None of them has re
ceived his salary for over a year, and
their debts in this city aggregate 1,500,
--000 marks. The tradesmen are impor
tuning them for money.
.^M.
FORMAL PRESENTATION.
Commercial Directory of American
Repnblles Given to McKinley.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.— Secretary
Sherman, Minister Romero, of Mexico,
and Minister Merou, of Argentine,
members of the executive committee
of the bureau of American republics,
were at the White house today and
presnted the first volume of the com
mercial directory of the American re
publics to President McKinley. There
was considerable formality about the
matter, the presentation being made
in the blue parlor. Secretary Sher
man presented the volume, saying the
work was regarded as of "such vast
practical importance to the commerce
of our country as to be well worthy
that we should come in a body to pre
sent *4t to you. Upon looking through
its pages, you will quickly discern its
far-reaching value as a factor in dis
seminating generally information re
specting the natural resources, the pe
culiar commercial activities, the vary
ing occupations of their industries and
the latent capabilities of the countries
of the Western hemisphere."
President McKinley made a formal
response, expressing his interest in the
work of the bureau, and the hope
that the publication would lead to
closer commercial relations between
the republics of America.
GIGANTIC FRAI'DS.
End Not Yet Reached in the Ho.uns
Naturalization Cases.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 11.— United States
District Attorney Beck has sent to Washing
ton for assistance in running down the natur
alization frauds which were recently un
earthed in this city. Mr. Beck has also noti
fied Secretary of the Treasury Gage that
frauds have assumed gigantic proportions.
While Attorney General McKenna may not
personally take part in the trials, some mcm
i ber of his official staff will be here when
the defendants appear before court.
WfISHifICOIiOGABIH
THAT THE COMPACT OF THE MAY
FLOWER WAS DRAWS
.YEARS AGO.
ITS MEMORY IS CHERISHED
.i
BY THE DESCENDANTS OF THE
PILGRIM FATHERS THEN ON
SHIP BOARD.
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THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS
.i . 'J
Celebrate* the Anniversary of the
Compact With a Happy Party
at H. P. Iphain'M.
November 11, 277 years ago, forty-one
pious men in the dimly-lighted *:ebin
of the good ship Mayflower drew up j
a simple document, known in history j
as the compact of the Mayflower, pro
viding for the first form of civil gov
ernment held on the American soil j
by the fleeing subjects of the British j
crown. Those sturdy pioneers, when
they "'landed upon a stern and rock- j
bound coast," little thought that, in |
two short centuries, the land of their j
destination would become the grand
est republic in the world, and the
compact drawn up in the little cabin
of the ship at sea would be the govern
mental foundation of the "States," and
that this action of theirs would be the
guiding star of "nations yet unborn."
The Pilgrim fathers were undoubted
ly the most picturesque and quaint
colony of settlers. It was they who
originated many beautiful customs;
they who are told of in poetry and
prose. The "Courtship of Miles Stand
ish," the story of John Alden, and
many other beautiful bits, which will
never cease to have new interest for
the American people. Their literal in
terpretation and living up to the teach
ing of the Bible made them a proper
people to give birth to nation.
Last evening I score or more of the
descendants of' these men, and the
children's children of the heroes who
fought in the colonial wars, gathered
in the palatial residence of H. P. Up
ham, on Summit avenue, to celebrate
the anniversary of the landing of our
Pilgrim fathers, on Plymouth rock, and
to do honor to their memory.
The Society of Colonial Wars, whose
motto is that of patriotism, and whose
certificate of membership is the proof
that tbe holder is a descendant of
Miles Standish, or some other illustri
ous personage, is scattered throughout
the United States, although its mem
bership is necessarily somewhat lim
ited.
The gathering at Mr. Upham's resi
dence last evening was an auspicious
one, as there were a number of gen
tlemen present who are high in the
order. Among them were Fred de
Peyster, governor general of the order
of the United States; Bishop Whipple,
of St. Paul, who is chaplain general,
and a number of visiting members from
distant points. The occasion is one
which will linger long in the memory
of the guests as the best enjoyed and
most successful "Annual Meeting and
Banquet" the society has ever held in
this city. In former years tbe occa
sion has been celebrated in the Ryan
hotel, but this year Mr. Upham, who
occupies the highest position of honor
in the local society, namely that of
governor, opem.d his residence for the
occasion and proved to be the host of
lusts.
The first part of the evening was
taken up with a business meeting,
when matters of purely business nature
were disposed of. Following this came
a veritable "feast of reason and flow
of soul." A letter was read from Gen.
Brooks, expressing his compliments on
the felicity of the evening, and re
gretting that circumstances were such
as to prevent his attendance at the
gathering, that he felt it keenly. An
other letter of regrets was read from
Howland Pell, secretary general of the
United order. The speechmaking was
of an informal order, addresses being
made by Bishop Whipple, D. R. Noyes,
Rev. Dudley W. Rhodes, Rev. E. P.
lngersoll, and Bishop M. N. Gilbert.
Refreshments were served, after which
the company scattered through the
spacious parlors and spent the remain
der of the evening in social intercourse.
Jacob Stone, historian of the Society
of Minnesota, during the course of the
evening read the text of the compact
of the May Flower. Mr. Stone gave
an excellent address on the history of
the compact, giving some very inter
esting bits of detail and motive. It
took 107 days for the Mayflower to
make the passage from England to this
country, and 169 days from Holland,
where the Pilgrims spent thirteen years
in exile. After the perilous voyage of
over five months, they safely landed
on Plymouth Rock. In the party were
such men as John Carver, William
Bradford, Peter Hopkins, William
Brewster, Miles Standish, etc. John
Carver was selected the first governor
of the colony. The early trials and
privations of these adventurers were
also related in an attractive manner.
The officers of the society are as fol
lows: Governor, H. P. Upham; deputy
governor, Maj. C. B. Sears; lieutenant
governor, C. P. Noyes; secretary, C.
H. Whipple; treasurer, G. H. Daggett;
registrar, J. W". Chamber! in; historian,
Jacob Stone; genealogist, C. E. Mayo; 1
chancellor, E. S. Chittenden; chaplain, |
D. W. Rhodes. These gentlemen's j
terms of office expire Feb. 10, 1898.
PIMP SAVED HIM.
Frank E. Frost Took Poison, hut j
Will Recover.
Frank A. Frost, a saloonkeeper, liv
ing at 415 East Seventh street, at
tempted to kill himself at 1 o'clock
this morning by swallowing a vial of
some unknown poison. He was taken |
to the city hospital in the central pa
trol wagon, and the efforts of the phy
sicians to restore him to conscious- i
ness had, up to 3 o'clock, proven fu
tile. Domestic trouble is said to be the j
cause of the attempted suicide.
Frost is part proprietor of a saloon i
at 256 East Seventh street. He reached !
home shortly "after' midnight, his wife j
says, somewhat under the influence of ,
liquor. Fi-isband his wife, the latter j
says, had been having trouble for the !
last two weeks, arid when she did not :
get up to let him in as soon as he
knocked at the dyor, Mrs. Frost says
her husband broke in a window, and
began to abuse her for her delay.
She says after she' left him he threat- }
ened to kill both her and himself, j
Mrs. Frost retired and says her hus- |
band locked himself in the kitchen.
Shortly before taking the poison Frost
went to his -wife's bedside, and she
says, told her "he 1 was going," at the
same time showing a small bottle,
which he raised to his lips and drained.
Frost then went back into the kitchen
and when his wife hurried after him
a minute later, he was lying uncon
scious on the floor. Several low ir,o:na
escaped him and he lay as though
dead. Mrs. Frost was badly fright
ened and summoned Officer Casey.
The officer found the woul-be suicide
with a small vial tightly clutched in
his left hand and wholly unconscious.
Mrs. Frost, seen by a reporter for the
Globe, said that she and her husband
had been having trouble lately, due,
she said, to Frost's Jealousy. He had
taken to carrying a revolver lately,
the wife said, and night before last,
while handling the weapon, had threat
ened to kill her. The couple have one
child, a daughter six years old.
At the hospital at 3 it was stated
that Frost was out of danger. The
nature of the poison taken was not
detected.
m
TALES OF FRENCH GUILLOTINE.
Some of Km Famou** Victims — Caste
of the Executioners.
PARIS, Nov. 5. — France is to have a
new official executioner before the be
ginning of the year. The present Mon
sieur de Paris, Louis Deibler. is sixty
nine years old and has been in harness
for thirty-five years. The job is worth
$1,200 a year and perquisites, and upon
retirement there is an annuity of $200.
In these days the legal beheading of
a man doesn't happen often; the crime
must be very atrocious to bring the
penalty, because the French laws are
wondrously lenient in matters con
cerning the spilling of blood. The
records of all the trial courts of France
for the last six years — that is, since
the application of the much-discussed
Beranger law — show that when a man
commits murder his chances of being
guillotined for it are about one in
eighteen. If the murder is committed
in hot blood he rarely gets more than
five or six years in prison, and if it be
premeditated he stands three chances
of deportation to one of execution.
For that reason when the sentence of
death is pronounced the French news
papers print the fact in fat, black
type, indicating its rarity.
M. de Paris is the sole executioner
for continental France, and there is an
executioner for Algeria and Tunis.
Until 1871 there was one for each
province, named after the chief cities
— M. De Rennes, M. de Tousouse etc.
Charles Henry Sanson was the first
executioner of Paris holding office
from the time the guillotine was
adopted in 1792 until 1820, when he was
succeeded by his son, who had the job
until 1840. He in turn was succeeded
by one Roch, who was in office until
the accession of Deibler. The latter
grew up in the trade. His father was
a provincial executioner before him,
and as soon as the son was over his
military service he was made an as
sistant. At the present time he is a
man of some influence and much re
spected in his neighborhood. He is not
a pretty man to look at, but he is said
to be exceedingly urbane. He has had
two wives, both daughters of execu
tioners. Intermarriage is a character
istic of the craft; which is, perhaps,
self-explanatory. The four assistants
of M. Deibler are all sons of former
executioners, and each has married
the daughter of an executioner. It is
a little caste all by itself.
There is but one guillotine in France,
and it is lugged around from place
to place as it is needed. It is a very
ugly looking machine, and cost $3,000.
M. de Paris receives, in addition to his
salary, $2,000 a year for taking care
of it and keeping it in business-like
condition. It does not look unlike an
old-fashioned Franklin printing press.
The two uprights in which the knife
runs are a little over ten feet high, and
the greatest width of the platform is
about four feet. The knife itself is
wedge shape, eighteen inche* wide, and
weighs 140 pounds, with the weight
which surmounts it. In an execution
it falls about four feet in two-thirds of
a second.
The machine was first set up in the
Place de Carrousel for the execution
of political prisoners, but was removed
by the Commune to the Place de la
Concorde, where it stood at a point
twenty-five feet north of the present
Obelisk. There, from January, 1793,
until August, 1794, over 2,800 persons
were beheaded, .including Louis XVI.,
Charlotte Corday, Marie Antoinette,
Mme. Roland. Philippe Egalite, Dan
ton, Desmoulins, the sisters of Louis
XVI., and Robespierre and his brother.
It was then removed to the Place de
la Nation, where 1,800 more persons
were beheaded in one month. About
fifty feet from the entrance there are
five oblong stones inlaid in the pave
ment, over which the guillotine is
erected; the center stone is the one
upon which the basket is placed to re
ceive the head as it falls under the
knife.
The agitation for the abolishment
of capital punishment in France is not
carried on with the vigor that marked
the palmy days of Victor Hugo and his
associates, but observing men say that
the disinclination of French judges to
inflict the death penalty is becoming
yearly more marked, and that, while
the existing law may not be soon
changed, it will gradually fall into a
desuetude that will be the equivalent
of abolition, considering the great lati
tude permitted the magistrates in its
construing.
-^-«.
WHERE IS WARREN!
Young: Man Who Married >liss Lin
coln Is Missinu;.
CHICAGO, Nov. 11.— The where
abouts of Warren Brekewith, who con
tracted a marriage with the daughter
of Robert T. Lincoln last Wednesday,
is still a matter of surmise merely. It
is understood he is not at the resi
dence of Mr. Lincoln, where his bride
has remained since her return from
Milwaukee, after the hurried mar
riage ceremony, and Mr. Lincoln main
tains that all reports of a prospective
reconciliation are without foundation.
"I have nothing whatever to add to
what has already been said," Mr. Lin
coln said today. "My daughter is at
home. I have not seen the young man
and shall not extend my pardon to
him."
TWO ODD OCCUPATIONS.
Queer Methods by Which Some
Women Earn a Livelihood.
When necessity compels woman 13 a mar
velous inventor. Some of those who are sud
denly left to shift for themselves resort to
queer methods to earn a livelihood. For some
time a number of women in New York have
been doing professional mending. Expert
ness with the needle is tho only preparation
necessary for the business. The menders
are missionaries in a way, for they seek out
bachelors at their boarding houses, apart
ments and hotels, and make a contract to
keep buttons on coats, vest: and trousers, to
darn hosiery and to close up rents in cloth
ing. The price charged for such service
varies according to the size of a man's ward
robe. This scheme of a perambulating re
pair shop appeals to the average man, for it
means money in his pocket. Tailors charge
good round sums for odd jobs, and a woman
fixes up many things that a tailor would not
touch. It is easier too to have a woman drop
in while a man is away at business and rid
him of all the worry about the condition of
his clothes.
A Philadelphia woman has hit on a novel
plan of converting muscle icto cash. When
her husband,, a laboring man, died, leaving
her with four small children, with healthy
appetites, she decided to become a profes
sional cleaner of kitchen floors. She has
worked her specialty to advantage and is so
efficient that her regular customers would
as soon think of allowing a plumber to tune
a grand piano as to permit anyone else to
touch their kitchen floors. .Many kitchen
floors nowadays are made of hard wood or
tiles or are covered with oilcloth or llnoleu^.
An expert can clean them with great ra*trd
ity, as this woman has proved. She makes
the average floor as neat as wax in half an
hour, and charges only i"> cents for doing sd.
She carries her own tools, soap and cloths
for getting the dirt off and putting the shine
on, and leaves things spick and span behind
her. For each customer she has a certain
half hour on a certain day. She is an exact
woman, and, knowing this, her customers
have the kitchen ready for her. She earns
from $3 to $4 a day, and says she likes the
work better than standing behind a counter.
THE INSPOKEN WORD.
The tall grass waved and the sun shone
down
And the zephyrs were wild with glee;
The lambs were gambolling on the lea.
And a maiden daintily lifted her gown
As she tripped along with me —
A maiden with eyes that were big and brown.
With a face that was fair to see
And a laugh that was heavenly,
men,
And I held her little hand.
Aad we strolled away from the haunts of
And at last we sauntered back again
And left the enchanted land-
But she was as mad a.3 a hornet then,
For I had lacked the sand.
—Cleveland Leader.
PEED Of DIVERSITY
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMEVr IS
TRYING TO IMPRESS IT OS
FARMERS.
GOOD MARKETS ABROAD.
AMERICAN BITTER BEGINNING TO
GET A FAVORABLE RECEP
TION IN ENGLAND.
OLIVE CULTURE IN THE SOUTH.
Failure of Apple Crop In the North
a Bonanza for Virginia
Farmers.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.— "The fail
ure of the apple crop in the North this
year in combination with the exceed
ingly good crops in Peidmont, Virginia, j
and South Carolina, has aroused great
interest in apple growing in that sec
tion of the South," says Mr. W. A.
Taylor, the assistant pomologist of the
department of agriculture. "I have j
just returned from a trip to that re
gion, where I attended the meetings ;
of the Virginia State Horticultural as
sociation, which was held in connec- |
tion with the recent Lynchburg fair.
"The prices the apple growers are j
receiving are phenomenal. They are j
getting from $2 per barrel for apples j
like Winesap, New York Imperial, '
and Ben Davis, up to $5 and $6 a bar- !
rel fur Yellow Newton pippins, which
grow in that section under the name
of Albemarle pippins. One man whom
I saw last week, Mr. W. H. Boaz, _of
Colesville, Va., has sold his crop from
1,100 trees of pippins for $20,000, and
several growers of pippins have had
offers of from $14,000 to $15,000 for their j
crops. There seems to be a disposition, \
however, anions the growers of pippins |
to hold their crops in anticipation of ]
still higher prices.
"They freight their pippins almost !
entirely to England, and at the sta
tions along the railroad from Char
lottesville to Lynchburg, the bales are
piled up with the mark "American
Produce," which signifies that the
fruit is for export, as that mark Is
one of the requirements for entry in
British ports.
"The orchards of that region are
quite different from the orchards of
the North and West. They are large
ly in mountain coves and on hillsides,
the land being quite stony and rough.
Pippins are almost entirely grown in
cove lands that have a southern ex
posure, and are protected from cold
winds by hills and low mountain
ranges.
"Other fruits are grown to some ex
tent in the same region, peaches in a
small way, plums and a few pears,
but the principal fruit industry of the
region is the growing of winter ap- !
pies. The collertion of varieties of ap
ples which took premiums at the j
Lynchburg fair, has been forwarded '
to the Madison Square garden, New
York city, for exhibition ai the Amer
ican institute fair.
"The Albemarle pippin was original
ly known as tlie Newton pippin, but ;
since it has been grown ively
in Virginia, especially in Albemarle
county, it has become commonly
known as the Albemarle pippin. This t
apple was originally grown on the old
Pelham farm on the Hudson river, and
has since become famous as an export
apple. Being so Arm, it endures trans
portation and handling much better
than any other fruit of its kind.
"The division of pomology, of the |
department of agriculture, has In pre
paration a revised catalogue of the
American Pomologlcal society, which
will be published as a bulletin of the
department. This bulletin will contain
a map showing the different fruit dis
tricts of the United States and Canada.
"The department having adopted this
catalogue, or revised list of fruits, as
authority in the proper noirn nclature, It
is desirable that, this system should Im
thoroughly used in tin* country in or
der to avoid the confusion arising from
one fruit having several peculiar
names in different sections of the coun
try. It is hoped that the nursi rymen
will observe the rules of nomenclature
in publishing their catalogues, which
will assist very much In harmonizing
the names of fruits.
"The proof sheets have been t>
of an agricultural paper read by l>r.
T-. O. Howard, the entomologist of tin
department of agriculture, before the
Association of American Econom'.c En
tomologists, entitled 'Temperature ex- :
periments as alf< cting received ideas on
the Hibernation of injurious Ins
It is a well-known fact among agri
culturalists nnd hortimilturalists, that
winter weather of a s.n degree of s ver
ity is more favorable to plan! growth,
than an open winter with freezes and
thaws. The question now conns to all
of us from farmers and other-, whether
a winter, which lr-s been unusually
severe will not have resulted In the
destruction of injurious insects to such
an extent as to promise comparative
immunity the coming season. W
been obliged, or at least I have been
obliged to answer such questions theo
retically. There have been, so
we are aware, no experiments along
this line. I therefore give th result
of recent experiments by Dr. Albert
M. Read, the Washington manager of
the cold storage department of the
American Security and Trust company ;
the same gentleman who directed tie
experiments on the effects of cold
storage upon household insects.
"Dr. Read has found, in the course of ;
his experiment-; whicli have now ex- i
tended over two years, that a syste
matic temperatuie in the nelghb irhood !
of 18 degrees F. will not destroy the I
larvae of Thieola Biselliella (carpet i
moth), or the Attagenus pious (black
carpet beetle), but, an alternation of ;
the low temperature with a compara- i
tively high one, Invariably results in
the death of the larvae of tin se in- |
sects. For example, the larvae, which <
had been kept at a temperature of IS
degrees, were removed to a tempera
ture of from 40 to 50 degrees. They I
became slightly active, and when re
turned to the lower temperature and
kept there for a little time did not re
vive upon their restoration to a warm
temperature."
The department of agriculture Is very
much interested, at the present time,
in the introduction of American butter
into the markets of Great Britain, with |
a view to competing with the French j
and Danish for the Ilritish custom.
To further this project the depart- j
mint has shipped eight I.OaO-pound lots, |
at intervals of two weeks d urine;
past summer. The butter that has thus
far been sent, was made in creami
in lowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Wisconsin.
Ohio, South Dakota, Connecticut, Mas
sachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont,
and New York.
The result thus far ascertained seem
to show that the Western shippers are
to get most of the benefit from the ex
port trade because they do not have a
very satisfactory home market, and
consequently will ship the bulk of their
product to England.
The department has made one trial
of fresh or unsalted butter, but it was
not very satisfactory; and the exper
iment may be repeated in the near
future. The department buys tho but- j
ter from creameries which ha\ c been i
highly recommended, and which have 1
been pm*** winners where they have
shown their products. Evei
the journey from the creamery to the
market is watched, and the department
expects to be able to point out the
plac -s where there is need of impi
ment.
Thr* 1, utter is shi;, j,. ->i to the agent of
the bureau of animal industry in Lon
don, and Iv places it in the han
commission men or retailers,
sees fit, and gets from them und the
consumers statements •
butter and their id com
pared with other butter which is found
on the market at the sa m
statements have been mosl enc
ing, and in many cases thi
the effect that the American butl
better than it was possible to find on
the market before its advent.
The shipments of the depart
resulted in some of the I:*
mission men of London sei
American-- to make pel ar
rangements to take
and some shippers on this side have
forwarded butter in carload lots on
the strength of reports whirh have
come from those who have been han
dling the d
A great many h
received at the departmenl I
tion as to how to prepare and ■
butter for the Euglish mails
bulletin will he Issued nnd arra
giving in full the information which
has been obtained by exp
Ir has hern found that the
American butter can be sold at I
ling and 1 penny, which is the
by English consumers for Danish,
French and Finish butti
quality. Some of the cxi
shown decided profits. The de]
ment has also shown thai but!
small packages, half p mnd,
prints, can be placed on the market
i" g 1 condition, but London i
mission men say that they would rath
er have it in la
"Every section of the country that
devotes itself to the raising
product, exclusively, Is subje
ure and possible ruin." g a j
culturalist Saunders, of th
ment of agriculture. "In
to prevent this
m< nt is encouraging the p
of a number of fan
out tbe country.
"The people i
of oranges, and \\ hal v
When the heavy fi
ago visited that sei tion
the entire
and. furthermi
so that it will taki
■
rais.-d most
the South, and, •
to that i
would be almost rui
"Now, on thi
pie of thai
oranges. fi K . s .
there would ha
anything o< uring
all at one tin
would ha
fall back on, ii
Ol ll'
"The depart!
a great
■ii of oli
< ultivated quil
md with great profit,
growers sell all of their pro
in their own si
of it comes Ei
but like •
with this branch ol
is slow work.
Mom.- one
know that thi
they will attempt it th i
"Our experin
out tl
thai line as tl
take hold
show that ti'
' illy and
sufficient a
p ople n.
Th< :
growing lots
ascertain which is
! of Introd
i
gi owth.
■"Ihe olive v. a
ida about 150 j
cans, who can
Spain, and olives are I
lie. n grown as fai
Carolina. The Mm
of a semi-slave race, an I
time fighting among tl
with other nations who drove ihi i
of Flo -ida, and the ■!;■. c Ind .
..nt to i uin.
' The raisin-; oi' olh es I
is to this industry. Th< harde part
is to get lv with tbe trade. A •,*
man from ihe Si •'* h who I
olives, took his oil I , New York, but
lid not buy it.
and he aftert
fai 'or;. . Tl
people who use oli-.
tii ular, and only
of imported ol
Ci Uld not S"l! a i
qvtently won! l
quiri
lean ■
ivhen tin
Am; rican prod
imported <
i Californ
made olive oil
de in Belling :
ii awaj
to find "tit that it wa
at tide. 1
It il ii on ll Ha
SPRINGFIELD
to thi
late : ■
The i-'rowd
withdn '
■
nnd all app'.l
linzcii's Place Si
HAMILTON, 0.. No*
bon emphati :all
was to succeed Will P. Hazei
-secret sen I
the position, and would, in
fourth assistant
Han ison, and was the Kepi
■
i ars ago.
Mill City Man's Coal
WASHINGTON, Nov.
ng the buildii g
Minn., Indian
to Owen i**.- Hill, ot Miiim a]
of $2D,300, and for hi ;
system to Samuel I. P
Great !):i«ii:ik«* Done.
MADRID, Nov. 11.- •
done by Hoods In various pa
try within the I irt twenl ■■ I n
■
gos.-;-. Valencia and Malaga
traffic and *• legi aphl
-••riously interfered ■••
Decree lor SVii»oii.
«OINES, I"., Nov. *
cultural college, at *
■
-.;* agrlcultu
the degree
Decrf* •>." \ul«*n*»:n> .
MADRID, Nov. ll- A royal
It!-.* autonomy to Cube will
MlaUter lo China.
WASH INGTON. Nov
■mm! ■:, Page Bryan, i
nols, to tie envoy extraordinary and m
pica potcntlary of the I
M«>r** I'l'ior « ii-ten.
NKW ORLEANS, L.i., Nov. 11. -V.
nothinjj t.r» report In the
to-btv • be number
of new ba9c nnd (tea too. Th» •■■■
-*v-?r, ia ic«arsled witii U'.tie conc-OTL