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CHRISTMAS WEATHER.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-Forecaßt for
Christmas: Minnesota-Fair f° llow , e , d "£
liKlit snows Saturday; probably colder n
northwest portions Saturday night; southerly
winds becoming northwesterly.
Wisconsin-Threatening weather, with slight
enow on the lakes; warmer; brisk to high
southerly winds.
North nakota— Light snow, probably clear-
Ing, and colder Saturday afternoon; north
westerly winds.
South Dakota— Fair; probably colder bat
urduy night: northwesterly winds.
Montana-Probably fair, and in extreme*
northern portion colder; southwesterly winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture,
"Weather bureau, Washington, Dec. 34, 6:48
p. m. local Time, 8 p. m. 75th Meridian
Time. — Observations taken at the same mo
ment of time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
Place. T' in. Place. Tern.
St. Paul 12 Swift Current 28
Duluth 12 Qu'Appelle 24
Huron 30 Minncdosa 16
Hismarck 36 Winnipeg 20
WUlistou 32
Havre 30 Buffalo 12-14
Helena 36 noston 14-22
33attleford 1G Montreal 6-10
Prince Albert 20 New York 16-20
Calgary 16 Plttsburg IG-20
Medicine Hat SOl
DAILY MEANS.
Barometer, 30.14; mean temperature, 8; rel
ative humidity, 74; wind at S p. m., south
east; weather, cloudy; maximum temperature,
10; minimum temperature. 1; daily range, 14;
amount of precipitation in last twenty-four
hours, trace.
Note — Barometer corrected for temperature
on'd elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer.
GOOD WILL TOWARD HEJT.
As we near the close of nineteen cen
turies since the Christmas message
came to mankind, and over sixteen cen
turies since its sway was acknowledged
by the civilized world, it is fit that we
should remember that it breathes not
one aspiration only, but two. For the
greater part of those rolling years the
men and the nations that enrolled
themselves under the banner of the
cross have road it half way through,
hesitated and stopped. To give glory
to Cod in the rush st was not so dif-
JVi.il ,i task; mighl !>e made luxurious- !
ly comfortable; might, indeed, be a pass- !
1 orl to honor ;*nd high favor, the insig- j
via of progr ss and culture and refine
merit, a step upon the broad and easy!
path. But to so live and help others I
to live that there might be peace on j
earth, and that in the heart of each
mar. of all its teeming millions there
should be lighted the flame of divine
love toward his fellow man— that is
at ouco a lowlier and a higher duty;
before whose sterr. and hard command
ment the world still halts with reluc
tant feet and half-converted heart.
How is it with us, how is it with
(1,-:.- 1. :ulcn: today? All around the
world goes the thrUi of sentiment, the
joyous carol, the sound of anthem and
the voice of prayer lifting Itself to God.
To Him who sits invisible, clothed
Ft ill iii the popular imagination with
the power to bless or to curse, high
arbiter of the iivc-s and destinies of
men, la rendered abundantly the hom
age of mankind. So it was in the ages
that saw the gnat cathedrals rise,
monuments to the consecration of the
highest genius and the ample wealth
of the day to the sacred cause; and
that saw also the frowning castle
where torus held in their Iron grip a I
peasantry who were little removed in
lr.ind or body's growth from the beasts
they herded. If, lifting up the story
of those ages 'hat we now call "dark,"
we find there mirrored the attitude
of the present, then the Christmas
message has still its great work to do;
and the thing that we call "progress"
casts its beams but a little way in a
naughty world.
We are where we are, the world is
still full of injustice and of suffering,
br-rause this Christmas finds us ready
to forget or renounce the second condi
tion of the Christmas message to the
race. The world is nominally Chris
tianized, and we walk by the light
either of the new gospel of righteous
ness or by the rule of moral conduct
•which that system has enforced and
made to seem a part of the .very order
of things. How far have we attained
to the dominion of peace upon the
earth, and to the universal brother
hood which is summed up in the call-
Ing down by each man of peace upon
his fellow. A glance about this world
of ours v.-hieh we claim to have been
rescued from the Imps and darkness
of a pagan time will seem to show that
many another anniversary like this
ihay come and go before the trans
cendent work is done. Today, in pres
ence uf the gentler mood, before the
I'iJtlo ones whose happiness is so con
tagious, touched with, a spirit that is
beyond ourselves, we are almost ready
Tor the benediction. But yesterday the
word w'js of war; of red, grasping in
tolerance; of the big gun and the
ironclad and the heaviest battalions;
<■ ! the religion of might and avarice;
of the glory that comes from an inher
itance of wrong, entered Into by denial
of the rights of others, and over their
dead bodies if need be; of all that filled
the earth with heaviness and sadness
end made men ask "how long," before
a star rose In the oast and a babe was
born in Bethlehem. And how, may
we not. must we not ask, will it be
tomorrow?
Among these peoples that prof ess the
faith to which this day belong? is thrre
recollection of the mandate of peace
and good will? For years thousands
of innocent people have been dying
miserably before the soldiery of the
government of a "most Christian
king." The horror of it is in coir ears.
The ghastliness of it is almost before
our very eyes. It happens because
those people would go out of bondage.
And is this better or other than the tor
tured death of the other thousands
who do not greet this Christmas morn
on the fair plains or desolate hills
across the seas because they would not
admit that of the one great God Ma
homet is the prophet? There is an
other profoundly Christian nation, on
whose bosom the great spiritual up
rising of th-i Reformation was cradled,
and whose observance of the sacred
proprieties is most complete. Her
Christmas gift to earth is a sword, the
rape of a city from an alien and un
godly people, and a proclamation by
her war lord that the Almighty has
chosen him specially as military ruler
of his terrestrial provinces. Further
away sits "holy Russia," devoutest
of the peoples, with her sacred images
for reverence in the hut of the most
wretched peasant, and the orthodox
faith a doctrine of the state. The
Christmas of good will find 3 her has
tening to the work of conquest and
daring deadliest dangers for the lust
of power. Then there is that sanc
timonious nation whose colonists and
missionaries have girdled the earth
with churches as well as military
posts, whose abasement on this day
is due to her consciousness that she
has come late to the feast of the di
vision of the spoil. And are our hands
clean of the hint or hope of taking
this brother of ours by .the throat,
wherever and whomever he may be,
and demanding of him not his life in
righteous service of justice and mercy
and love, but his possessions to sate an
appetite and a vanity that are as old
and as gross and empty as the records
of mankind?
Let us be assured that this Christmas
motto of ours was not for a day or
a century; not for black man or white;
not for a simple age or a complicated
life, but for eternity. It is the law
of life material as well as spiritual;
and in history as well as In faith it is
the wieklers of the sword who perish
by it; it is they who forget justice and
the weightier matters of the law whose
tomb is with the forgotten dead; it is
they alone who find that love is the
law of the universe, and seek for peace
and kindly fellowship and the estab
lishment of justice and kindness be
tween man and man, beneath whose
straining hands there grows into fair
and noble proportions either a great
faith or an enduring- realm. It is be
cause the belief in this, the supreme
knowledge of it is deep down In every
heart that the race moves on, in the
hollow of the waves as upon their crest,
toward the dream of its sages and
poets and prophets and seers. It is
because this is indeed the infinite
spirit in the plastic hearts of men that
they go on building the temple of hu
manity, while states rise and fall and
boast their little glories and pass into
oblivion and nothingness. When this
becomes the sole guide of the law-giver
as well as the priest, of a man in the
counting room as well as of man in the
closet before his Maker, life's myste
ries will drop away, its contradictions
unfold in beauty and its purpose stand
serene and changeless.
Today the man who is reverent in
the face of the unknown, be he loyal
to a creed or simply to the best that
is within him and the power that
gives it its unanswerable sanction,
should have heed to the legend, "Good
will toward men." That is the first
and hardest to learn of the Christmas
messages. When he has learned to
love his brother whom he has seen, It
will be time for one to consider his
| state of heart toward the God whom
he has not seen. When the nations
have put away with horror the bar
barism of aggression; when to ask for
liberty is to receive it in overflowing
measure; when oppression anywhere
is a signal for a great concert of the
truly Christian powers to end it for
ever; when the visible desire of na
tional greatness shall not be the ac
quirement of the greatest possible
wealth In the least possible time, but
how to discover the weakest and the
neediest and lift them up to where
they may catch one ray of the light
that does not fail; when individual suc
cess and riches are sought for mainly
that the opportunities of the less for
tunate may be enlarged; when men
have made an offering of their pas
sions on the high altar above which Is
enshrined no hideous idol, ancient or
modern, but only the mystic light
within which there broods the love
of man to man, then and not until then
will human tongue repeat without pro
fanation the glorious message, "Peace
on earth, good will toward men." Then
and then only will It not be sacrilege
to ring all the bells and shout to a new
earth and a new heaven the cry of
adoration, "Glory to God in the high
est." _
THE AMERICAN POSITION.
It would be very amusing to note
the comments of foreign nations upon
the possible attitude of the United
States government in Its foreign rela
tions were it not that the true atti
tude of this government, as formu
lated in all its traditions, including
the Monroe doctrine, la only a little
better understood at home than it is
.-•.broad. It Is apparently impossible
for any European government to con
ceive of the meaning of the Monroe
doctrine. They cannot understand it
because it is unlike, in its noble and
courageous spirit, equally strong in
assertion and in renunciation, anything
; that ever entered into their own policy.
For example, we see the young cock of
the German barnyard strutting about
on his dunghill and boasting that the
American government did not dart to i
THE SAINT PAUL GLOBS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1897.
Interfere with his performances in
Haytl. England, he intimates, cowered
before the Monroe doctrine, but he is
not afraid to march right up to the
muzzle of it. Probably his ignorance
does not compass the slightest inter
pretation of the Monroe doctrine, and
does not realize that it did not apply
to the Haytian incident any more than
it did to the exaction by Great Britain
from Nicaragua of a penalty for vio
lation of international comity.
Every American state that runs coun
ter to International law and the usages
of nations must pay its own reckoning
without protection from us. It is only
when the territorial integrity or the
political independence of such a state
i 3 threatened by European power that
we step in to forbid the extension of
the monarchical system upon American
soil. Hayti had sinned, and Hayti had
to pay the penalty. It was nothing
to us whether It was the Union Jack
or the Prussian eagle or the Russian
bear that appeared in the Haytian
harbor, as long as the demand for
reparation was founded upon justice.
If "William the Witless" wants to find
out whether Uucle Sam fa afraid or
not, he should announce the permanent
occupation of Port au Prince and the
annexation of Hayti to the German
empire.
Similar or even denser ignorance on
the part of Europe Is exhibited in
the comments of the leading papers
of their capitals upon the present sit
uation in China. The big free-booters
of the continent, like all other pirates
and banditti, are desperately sus
picious of one another. It makes no
difference whether there la or Is not an
understanding between Russia, Ger
many and France as to the division of
China. Each distrusts every other as
thoroughly as if they were arrayed in
open hostility. Each one is figuring
on all the possible combinations for
and against it in the game of loot that
is now projected upon the continent of
Asia. In the alignment of forces the
position of the United States becomes
a factor of prime importance. It is
gentrr ily understood that England is
desperately jealous of the other powers
that have secured such an advantage
by precipitancy; that Japan is thor
oughly enraged by Russian seizure of
territory that should have been hers
as a result of the war with China, and
was kept from her only by Russia's
peremptory denial; and that there is
talk of an English-Japanese alliance
to secure a proper share of plunder
while the dismemberment of China
goes forward. Much study and solici
tude are expressed over the probable
attitude of the United States and the
possibility that it may join hands axtd
fortunes with Japan and England.
After all these years it is impossible
for the rations to understand that the
American policy is one of strict n<>n-
Interference. The error is pardonable,
perhaps, in view of the present jingo
plan to grab Hawaii, but even that in
sult to the American system and the
American idea ought not to fuddle
diplomatic minds or make them
entertain the conception of an Ameri
can participation in the dismember
ment of China. As already expressed
in Washington, the policy of the United
States toward developments in Asia
and in Africa is one of absolute indif
ference. It matters nothing to us who
become the heirs of Chinese disinte
gration, any more than where the
lines are to be drawn in the partition
of the Dark Continent. In the selfish,
sordid and wicked schemes that are
being carried out across the oceans
we have no part or lot. Our destiny
is fixed upon the American continent,
and to that we limit our political aims,
our protection and our interference.
By the same token by which we warn
all other peoples to keep hands off of
American soil, we guarantee our own
neutrality when the territory in anoth
er hemisphere is In dispute. Our safety,
our independence and our unquestioned
supremacy In America depend upon
our proud isolation and refusal to take
any part In the great drama that is
now opening across the oceans.
-•— —
THE LAST CHAPTER OF A SORRY
TALE.
The word comes from Ottawa that
the commission appointed to arbitrate
the amount of damages to Canadian
sealers by the seizure and confiscation
of their vessels and catch by the United
States, under their claim of exclusive
ownership of the seals swimming in
Bering sea, has fixed the amount at
$464,000. Thus ends another chapter In
the story of this singular interplay of
all bad motives, the last one let us
hope, which no true American, who
loves his country's honor more than her
unrighteous gain, can read without a
sense of humiliation. It Is well to re
view the incidents of this chapter. The
Paris tribunal, to which, under a treaty
with England, the dispute relative to
our ownership of seals on the high seas
and the question of methods for their
preservation had been submitted, de
cided against the claim of Secretary
Blame that the right of property fol
lowed the seals when they left the
breeding grounds on the Prlbyloff isl
ands for the feeding grounds on the
open sea. This cast the United States
in damages for the seizures of vessels
made under their illegal claim. The
amount of these damages the tribunal
left for adjustment between the state
departments of the two countries.
The claims amounted to over a mill
lon dollars, largely made up of loss of
prospective profits, and Secretary
Gresham, rejecting these, made a com
promise offer in 1894 of $425,000, which
was accepted. When the bill came into
the house to appropriate the money to
pay this award there was a tremen
dous uproar. Morgan, over In the sen
ate, fairly frothed in his rage at the
shameful surrender by the Cleveland
administration. In the house, Hitt,
chairman of the foreign relations com
mittee, insisted that the award was
largely composed of claims laid by
Americans who had put their vessels
under Canadian registration and were
| entitled to nothing, because they had
violated the property rights of their
government. Joined to these were the
anti-Cleveland Democrats, who were
willing to do anything, however reck
less, to bring humiliation upon the ad
ministration. The bill was defeated.
Pelagic sealing continued. England
was invited to join in further negotia
tions looking toithe prevention of open
sea sealing. She declined, and, we must
admit, with justification. Why nego
tiate further wihen payment of dam
ages was thus refused? But a treaty
was negotiated submitting the whole
question of damages to a commission,
and the senate ratified it. Judge King
was appointed on the part of Canada
and Judge Putnam for the United
States. They have been in session for
several months at Victoria and Hali
fax, receiving evidence and hearing the
counsel for the respective countries.
Mr. Don M. Dickinson represented the
United States, and Ire speaks very high
ly of the counsel for Canada, The
question was simply as to the amount
of the judgment, the liability having
been fixed by the Paris award. Mr.
Dickinson evidently succeeded in hav
ing rejected the claims for remote or
prospective damages, and the award is
for the sum agreed upon by Gresham
and Salisbury, $425,000, with interest at
3 per cent.
Under the terms of the treaty the
damages awarded must be paid within
six months after the award, so this ses
sion of congress will be asked to in
clude this sum in its appropriations.
We trust there will be none of the
horse-play of 1894 repeated, but that
the money will be appropriated and the
incident closed. It has lasted long
enough and brought this country noth
ing but humiliation. It rose in the at
tempt to fulfill the promises of a "vig
orous foreign policy" made during the
Harrison campaign, by utilizing any
chance to "twist the British lion's tail"
regardless of justification. It ends in
the rejection of every claim made by
us, and, finally, in the affirmance of the
action of Secretary Gresham in adjust
ing the damages for which this country
is liable. It is, however, a fitting close
to this international farce-comedy that
John W. Foster, our international busy
body, should appear before the curtain
to explain that he was absent in Japan
when President Cleveland acted on the
arbitration treaty which has resulted in
this award, which he evidently regards
as excessive, and that, therefore, he
cannot be held responsible for It. If
Mr. Foster will now go off to China and
busy himself with negotiating a settle
ment of the difficulties between that
country and Germany, and stay there,
the United States will try to forget and
forgive him all the shame he has
brought upon it while trying to save
the interests of his client, the North
American Commercial company.
MR. TAWXEY CRAWFISHES.
Mr. Tawney, who still labors under
the delusion that he is a representative
of a Minnesota congressional district
and not a bit a misrepresentative of
it, has come home to see how the chic
ory industry is flourishing in his dis
trict and whether the hens are doing
their full duty to mankind under the
stimulus he secured for them in the
Dingley act. Mr. Tawney has the pe
culiar faculty of getting himself more
misunderstood than any statesman of
our day. There was that interpolated
section 22, the authorship of which was
credited to him and the greatness of the
paternity of which was thrust upon
him by the Times-Herald In one of
those write-ups which the suddenly fa
mous get from the alert gentlemen of
the press who are quick to scent the
budding of genius. But, instead of
waves of warm approval from the
state in which his political fortunes are
cast and whence must come all the
laurel wreaths for future advancement,
there came chilling blasts of disap
proval and censure. And then Mr.
Tawney hastened to deny the pater
nity of the interpolation or any fur
ther responsibility for it than his fa
voring vote gave', a responsibility, he
added, that he shared with the entire
Minnesota delegation.
Now Mr. Tawney insists that he has
been again misinterpreted. Those re
ports that came over, hot wires from
Washington that' told of him and
Fletcher and Eddy meeting with
Grosvenor and sLxty or seventy other
Republican representatives to devise
means for "taking the starch" out of
the civil service law grossly misrepre
sented the patriotic and public-spirited
motives that animated the men who
gathered, very fitly, in the room of the
river and harbor committee. How far
the unfavorable reception of their pur
pose by the press of his party in this
state has convinced our James that he
and they were misunderstood is a mat
ter locked up in the interior chambers
of what he is pleased to call his mind,
but he feels it incumbent on himself to
state that they were misrepresented
and misunderstood. They are not at
all enemies of the merit system. Con
trawise, they are it 3 best friends, its
most zealous guardians. It is the men
who are charged with the administra
tion of the law who are its real ene
mies, and it is from them these patriots
would save and preserve it.
So, upon his arrival in Wlnona, that
fecund city of statesmen, Mr. Tawney
immediately takes the First district
into his confidence and imparts the
esoteric motives of the gallant seventy.
The language in \yhich the conveys this
precious information 1 indicates that,
while Eddy has bqen reading law, Taw
ney has been studying f.he language of
diplomacy, the high art of which is to
use language so afc to conceal thought.
Lest we should be suspected of being
uncharitable to the member from the
First, we quote from his prepared in
terview. He said to the'te lobe's local
correspondent: . __
"No assault upon the mtrit system is in
tended or contemplated, 'the only purpose
being to effect, if possible,, a reform in the
administration of the civil service law by
so restricting the power -iof those charged
with the duty of administering the lav/ that
it will be impossible for them in the future
to destroy the merit system in the executive
departments of the government by extending
its operation and protection to government
employes that the original framers of tho
civil service law either expressly excluded
from its operation or never Intended should
be included therein."
If the reasons given are correctly
stated it seems clear that there is a
far simpler remedy than that proposed.
What is the need of negative legisla
tion to prevent officers from perform
ing acts for which there is no warrant
in the law? For what are courts and
writs of prohibition and mandamus
and injunction if not to be used in pre
venting "those charged with the ad
ministration of the law" from "extend
ing its operation" to employes "either
expressly excluded" or who were "nev
er Intended to be included" by the
framers of the law? If President Ar
thur thus exceeded his powers, if Pres
ident Harrison imitated Arthur and
made further unauthorized extensions,
and If President Cleveland followed
these laudable examples of disregard
of the intention of the framers and the
letter of the act, why has not there
been protest made ere this? "Why was
not Tawney's stentorian voice raised in
protest when these orders were made?
Why did not the halls of the house of
representatives echo with denunciations
of this violation of law? Why was it
left for the faithful Tawneys and Ed
dys and Fletchers, at this late day, to
discover the nefarious purposes of the
administrators of this law and
to form their combination to
stand up and not only re
sist future encroachments, but to ef
fect what he is pleased to term a "re
form" in the law by annulling all these
extensions not intended by the fram
ers? If an incredulous public should
persist In seeing under all this diplo
matic language the purpose to tear
down utterly what has been built up
with so much of effort, if it perceives
the motive of destruction instead of re
form in these men, and in this pretense
of amity towards the merit system an
other case of Greeks coming with gifts,
the public will only display its wonted
common sense.
. -^
We are specially pleased with the presi
dent's message for two reasons. One is be
cause It la at last open to the public, and
we will be inveigled no longer Into columns
of guesses about what it is going to con
tain. The other reason why tto aro pleased
13 on account of the important stand taken
on the currency question. — Norwood Times.
If the "important stand taken on the cur
rency question" specially pleases you, we
award you the doughnuts for being easily
pleased with the most diaphanous "stand"
ever taken.
— «»_
We want any kind of grain, vegetables,
meat, eggs, live chickens, hay or wood on
subscription, and want it as soon as you can
get It to us. We will allow all tho market
will stand, and perhaps some more. Don't
wait to ask about it, but bring them along.—
Park Rapids Enterprise.
Respectfully referred to Mr. Hanna's liter
ary bureau, Room 1, Glover building, Wash
ington, D. C, with the suggestion that it
blow a llttlo of its prosperity into Ilubbard
county.
— .
The New York Sun, which bolted straight
into the Republican ranks during the last
presidential campaign, is said to be experi
encing a change of heart and will soon re
enter the fold of Democracy. — Glencoe Enter
prise.
From plague, pestilence and the New York
Sun, good LoTd, deliver us.
What a pity that all the country papers do
not have as smart an Aleck as the G1 o b o
to josh each other wlthi— Wlndom Reporter.
Between you and ma and the uncommunica
tive gate post, right on tho dead, we agreo
with you.
GOV. CLOIGH'S PRESENT.
Interchange of < hrist iuhh Conrt
cices at the State House.
In spite of the fact that Gov. Clough
stood stanch and true on the St. .Louis
platform, and that the presentation
speech of yesterday was delivered by
no less aggressive a disputant of finan
cial heresies than "Farmer Hayseed,"
the Christmas present of the caoitol
officials to the state's chief executive
yesterday was of solid silver. It was
what the feminine contingent called a
sugar and creamer, or, in other words,
a sugar bowl, cream pitcher and sugar
tongs, the whole being enclosed in a
rich satin case of purest white, the
dairy officials insisting that, in view of
the recent supreme court decision as
to fast colors in dairy products, any
tint in the present would be a slur
at the enthusiasm of the department.
The silver idea was opposed by some
of the more fastidious gold men about
the state house, but, on the assumption
that it could be taken as emblematic
of the silver tongue of Darius F.
Reese, rather than as signifying any
compromise with political heresies, the
elaborate present was chosen.
It was a present fit for a king, too, and
Gov. Clough said as much, in kind, when
presented with the Christmas token.
The governor did not get around to any of
the general gift distribution of judgships,
surveyor generalcies and the like yesterday,
but he did present each of the stenographers
in the building with a glove bond, and each
of his office assistants was handsomely treat
ed in the distribution.
Auditor Dunn was waylaid by Santa Claus
at his suburban home In Hamline Thursday
night. Tho office force presented him with a
pastel portrait of the two heirs to the estate
of Dunn, life size, and the best wi3hes for
the successful promotion of the Iron Range
land grant forfeiture, and Mr. Dunn's other
ambitions, not particularized. The force also
presented Deputy Auditor Iverson with a gold
watch chain.
General glad tidings were visible In these
offices as well as In others at the state house
yesterday, although the most elaborate exer
cises were brought off In the governor's room,
which had been selected as the forum for tha
oratorical festivities.
Nearly all of the state officials will remain
in the city today, as the mildness of the
winter so far has not caused any serious dam
ages to the fences so far as reported.
Some of Sam Fullerton's friends at Roseau
sent him a punch bowl.
Bob Dunn's Milaca friends shipped him a
boom, nearly new, and of most modern con
struction.
Attorney General Chllds got a copy of Sue's
"Wandering Jew" from Moses E. Clapp. Gen.
Chllds sent Moses back a copy of that touch
ing melody. "Come to My Home: I Have No
Home, Either," marked down from 60 cents
to 35 cents for -..his sale.
State Treasurer Koerner got a tin bank
from A. C. Haugan, locking with a puzzle
combination.
Secretary of State Berg got a map of tho
Rainy lake country, and an etching of Mil
lais' famous "'Soap Bubbles."
Dairy Commissioner Anderson was? sent
some Elizabethan era armor, with the in- I
ecriptlon on the cuirass, "The race la aot al
ways to the Swift."
Adjt. Gen. Muehlberg got a copy of a post
humous work of Napoleon's just published on
"Indoor Base Ball As I Found It at St. Cyr."
Superintendent of Public Instruction Pender
gast got 300 messages in fair feminine chlrog
raphy, 299 of them applications for places in
the summer schools.
Insurance Commissioner Dearth got a tele
phone call from Thomas Blythe Scott
Secretary Hart got the words and music
of "Comrades" from Warden Wolfer. He
sent the warden a new design for a bird cage,
with a noise proof solitary like the long dis
tance telephone cubby hole.
Public Examiner Kenyon got a monogram
of his Initials which had been wrapped in
print.
Prison Agent Whittler got some St. Cloud
granite from Channlng S«abury.
Dar Reese got a dozen bottles of "Schiff
man's Throat Gargle, expressly for campaign
use."
Fire Warden Andrews got a fine line of
hose.
State Printer Whitney got an army mule
from Capt. Castle, and a 21-meal ticket at a
Willmar lunch counter.
TWO CHARGES FOR HIM.
John Larson, arrested a week ago
and taken to Anoka on a charge of
larceny, was brought back to St. Paul
yesterday. The case against Larson in
Anoka fell to the ground, but as he is
wanted in Stillwater for stealing a cow
from Frank Benz. in July last, he was
taken to that city last evening by
Sheriff Smith. Larson was discharged
from the reformatory about a year ago.
"ItOST JHty'S liA[iE"
AXXA KATHARINE GREEN'S GREAT
STORY. WHICH IS TO AITEAK
IX THE GLOBE.
FIRST INSTALLMENT JAN. 2.
OXE OF THE GREATEST DETEC
TIVE STORIES OP THE
DECADE.
NATURE AND ART DIFFER.
Battle Royal Between Bright Minds
—The Sew Detective and Her
Opportunity.
Anna Katharine Green's great Etory.
"Lost Man's Lane," will appear in the
Globe, running fifteen weeks from
Jan. 2. Critics pronounce the story the
bust this author has written, which is
strong praise indeed. The lady ha 3
written the following signed statement
for the Globe:
I know very little about the "true"
detective story, and my limited knowl
edge makes me hesitate from comment
ing upon it. But I presume that what
is evident to me must be equally evi
dent to others. There is, of course, a
marked difference — that is, the great
difference that must exist between fact
and the fiction that is acceptable as
fact for the purposes of romance.
The culminating point in the "true"
detective story is the capture of the
criminal by the astute officer of the
law. Will they get their man? is the
question. In fiction the interest de
pends upon the elucidation of the mys
tery. It is the wide difference between
nature and art.
The "real" detective Judges from evi
dences and deductions based upon his
familiarity with the operations of
known professional criminals. His skill
is largely in proportion to his more or
less close acquaintance with police rec
ords and often depends upon a personal
acquaintance with the criminal.
The daring of the "real" criminal is
often startling, and the reader is nat
urally interested to know the outcome,
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN.
but in nine cases out of ten you have
been keeping the company of brutes,
and the attendant sensations to a sen
sitive nature are consequently pilnful.
Bank robbery is the least offensive
because a successful bank robber must
not only be daring, but also skillful and
ingenious. The reader cannot but fol
low the gleam of the dark lantern with
bated breath and experience a sense of
relief when he has either got his booty
or is caught by his old acquaintance,
the "real" detective.
The "real" detective has a powerful
ally in the cowardly member of the
"gang," who, to save his skin, turns
"state's evidence." Such a piece of
clumsy machinery would not be accept
able in fiction and might be looked
upon as a positive weakness in the au
thor who saw fit to employ it.
French writers of stories of crime
have a great advantage over their Eng
lish and American coworkers. In
France it is permissible for the "Juge
d'lnstruction" to resort to any and all
means to compel a sucpectf.d criminal
to incriminate himself. Here the law
comes in to protect the criminal even
against himself. Here the writer of
"detective" fiction must pick his way
with extreme caution, for while writing
fiction it must conform to the require
ments of the law. It becomes a matter
of nice selection, so that what would
offend taste in a police report is enjoy
able as an artistic production.
The "real" detective is often battled
when confronted by a crime committed
by an unaccustomed hand.
As a writer of detective fiction I hay?
depended almost entirely upon my im
agination for plot, situation and char
acters. My preference is to have my
characters people of refinement, who.
through emergency or swayed by un
controllable emotion, Justify themselves
for the instant in committing crime;
characters criminally disposed perhaps
and lacking the moral strength to re
sist a favorable opportunity. You can
not make a criminal out of whole clr>tn.
Predisposition must be lurking some
wlu-re. or it would never spring out
from itg secure lair upon provocation.
These are the kind of cases that give
thr police in real life and in books prob
lems to solve that often baffle them. In
real life they are found ready made: in
fiction they must be invented.
I have 30 far been unable to get up
any interest in the brute force that
tends naturally to crime, making a lif
of crime a vocation. Hence, I have nev
er offered that grade of character to
my readers. It his always seemfd to in
more a matter of endurance than brains
to hunt an old offender whose habits
and individuality have left inevitable
marks all along his way to f scape from
which the "real" detective has simply
to get enough evidence to arrest the
man, whom he has clearly suspected
from the moment that his attention was
called to the crime.
If detective fiction were only that, T
could never have written a lln*?. To ma
it is a battle royal between equal!;
bright minc!3, the culprit having the
disadvantage of the consciousness of
guilt.
Disguises are laughed at by the police, we
are told. I have been very careful about us
ing this element in my work, although the
employment of disguises is not uncommon.
Disguise does not necessarily mean the use
of false hair. A man may disguise himself
by changing his bearing, voice, gait and so
on. I remember what an old postofflee in
spector told me once. This experienced offi
cer pot only disguised himself, but rode miles
upon miles with the suspected man in broad
daylight and, though known by name and
appearance under ordinary conditions, was
not suspected by the guilty man.
There are exceptions to all rules, even rules
made by the police, and it is the exceptional
that makes interesting reading. I am told. I
look for the naturally unexpected, and when
I have found such a treasure, I take pencil
in hand and take the ''dear reader" into my
confidence and tell him or her just what, in
my estimation, will induce him or her to go
on.
Never, to my knowledge, have I deceived
my reader by a misstatement. If. however,
they will do me the honor to read my stories
a second time, they will, by careful perusal,
find just where they succeeded in deceiving
themselves.
Before I wrote "That Affair Next Door" my
detective forae consisted of "Ebenezer Qryc6,"
"Q," "Byrd" and "Hickory." Now, Misa
Amelia Butterworth, by force of circumstan
ces, ha 3 been Included. The uncertain num
ber of summers In her life and the very
certain opinions and Yankee wit made Ufa
such a burden to poor "Gryce" in "The Affair
Next Door" that I could not resist th»
temptation to give her another opportunity In
"Lost Man's J^ane," To what an, extent sh^
has taken advantage of it, or whether Mr.
Gryce, old as he is, will give her a chance,
the reading of the story will determine. It
will be enough for me to say now that the
mystery of ''Lost Man's Lane" was one that
even he could not solve without the a!rl of
"Amelia." —Anna Katharine Green.
XOT THE MAX IX THE SONG.
This GallnKher Will Not Be Let Go
Xcitt.
Capt. F. G. Downey, of Spokane, who
arrived in St. Paul Thursday, will start
on his return trip homeward with a
man whom the authorities of Spokano
have desired to see for the past six
years. The individual in demand i 3
one Ambrose Gallagher, an English
man in spite of hl9 name, who ia
charged with forgery. Mr. Gallagher
is, at this writing, an inmate of the
Olmsted county jail at Rochester.
Capt. Downey, who represents the
sheriff of Spokane county, secured Gov.
dough's signature to the requisition
papers yesterday.
Gallagher was arrested in Olmsted
county about ten days ago, on a tele
gram from the sheriff of Spokane coun
ty. Capt. Downey, who was seen at
Sheriff Wagener's office yesterday said:
"Gallagher enlisted in the United
States army several years ago, and was
employed, so I am informed, as a clerk
in the United States commissary de-
partment at Fort Spokane, Lincoln
county. Tho forgery he is charged
with was committed in Spokane coun
ty. While in the government service,
he incurred some physical disability,
which resulted In placing him on the
pension list. It was this circumstance
that enabled the authorities to eventu
ally locate him, by ascertaining hia
whereabouts when he signed the
vouchers sent to him from Washington.
After disappearance from Spokane, he
was first located in Sun Francisco, but
ho got away fiom that city In time to
escape us. We finally located him in
Olmsted county. Gallagher is a man
about thirty years of age, who prides
himself vi en his small hands i D 1 feet."
IN A SECOND SCRAPE.
Robert .S. Wallace \<>w In Trouble
nt l)«-nver.
Chief Goss, yesterday received a let
ter from El P. Valentine, Inspector of
customs at Denver, Col., making in
quiry as to Robert S. W.i'i i c, v. :
been arrested in tliat city Dec. 17.
charged with impersonating a fe
officer. Wallace was formerly in the
employ of Farwcll, Ozmun & Kirk, of
this city, as stamp cl-rk. He was ar
rested last September, charged with
embezzling H. 600 from the firni. He
wa.s arraigned In th<? municipal court,
the warrant charging him with the
larceny of ?112 belonging to the firm.
The prisoner waived examination an 1
was held to await the action of the
grand jury. His father deposit d
bail for the young man's appearance
and he then 'eft tho city. The last
grand jury returned r.n indictment
against Wallace for larceny in th
ond degree, but he has never been ar
raigned under it. County Attorney
Anderson said he had not decided
whether a deputy sheriff would be sent
after Wallace to bring him back <>r
not. If the government had n cave
against Wallace at Denver the county
attorney thought it would be advisable
to allow the young man to be taken
care of there. A lett- r advising iho au
thorities at Denver of the facts ; :
case will be forwarded by Chief
WHAT TO DO WITH \r\\.
ll<'i«neyi!i Attorney* A»U tin* Su
l>r<:o»f» Court to Act.
A eoinmlttea from the flranepin County
Iler asi")c!u;!'j:: appear d befor" 'li.- s>.
court in the disbarment proceedings ag:iinj r .
A. H. Nunn. of Minneapolis, yesterday, :>nl
asked tbat th» c-^urt take crM evidence In
tho casa now pending.
As the case was rot on the nalesdar, the
application was therefore Informal In
ae'.cr.
Tho defendant Nunn is charged with un
professional conduct in defacing the records
Ii the oftlco of' tho clerk of courts in li'-u
--nopln county, nnu tho supreme court bai
decline*) to tak? formal action In Ibc d
in -!!t mt on the ground that It r.iiciht compel
the defendant to clisch n l<ts erldcncA, an 4
thereby do him n po>< j i.-!>- i:iji.
In the meantime Mr. Sui ■ beoi
tiifd on th»> charge In tn<- H. no*p>ln count]
dUtrict coim. and the jury il | c;i t ;:-K»«!. Ho ti
at*' awsiiitj a ■ccacd ir!.;l