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4 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE MONDAY, MAY 30, 1898. Published Daliy, Sundays and Weekly. NEWSPAPER ROW, Fourth and Minnesota Streets, St. Paul, Minnesota. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I ( 8 12~~ DIO 11108 inoa Daily 40c J2.25M.00 Doll) «nd Sunday.. .60c 2.75 6.00 Sunday 1.60 ; I 1.00 Entered at Postcfflee at St. Paul, Minn., aa Second-Class Ma-tter. Address all communications and make all Komittancos payable to THE QLOBK CO., St. Paul. Minnesota. At: nymous a mmunloations not noticed. Re ud tnanwcripti will not he returned un less accompanied by postage. BRANCH OFFICES: >>v» York 10 Spruce St. Waahlnartoa Corcoran Building t liU-j;^:....K c;om CO9. No. S7 Washington St. HOW TO ORDER. *'"' Orders for the delivery of THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, either residence or place of business, may he made by postal card or through telephone. Any irivßularity in de .:' be IMMEDIATELY reported to th. i-fli v of publication. CIIAXOE CF ADDRESS. Subscribers ordering addresses of their papers changed must always leave their for mer as well as present address. TELEPHONES. SLOBE Publication Office 10U Editorial Rooms 7 8 MONDAY'S WEATHER. Warmer; Westerly Winds. the Cnited States Weather Bureau. SOTA — Fair and warmer; westerly JSlN— Fair and warmer; light north \>inds. N>)KTII DAKOTA— Fair ape', warmer; west • inds. BOUTH DAKOTA— Fair and warmer; west .vinds. IOWA— -Fair weather; northerly winds, be < 'iniiitf variable. MONTANA— Fair a::d warmer; southerly winds. yesterday's temperatures. St. Paul 5G Medicine Hat SS Puluth :>-, Swift Current 62 Huron ."4 Qu'Appelle 02 Havre R2;Minnedosa 6rt Helena 60 Winnipeg 6$ in 6S I Bismarck SO Battlafnrd 66|WMi8ton 5s Calgary 641 Buft'al) ."'• -:..-. Cincinnati 72— 7G (3— 63 New York r><i — 5 ■> Chicago 4s— ii Pittsburg 72— 7.J YESTERDAY'S MEANS. 1 29. 9tj Relative humidity 30 "\ ■ in temperature 52 Wind at S p. m Northwest Weather Cloudy maximum umperature 57 Minimum temperature 4$ Daily ranc;p 9 Amount of precipitation (rain and melted snow) in last twenty-four hours 0 RIVER AT 8 A. M. Danger Gauge Change in Station. Line. Reading. 24 hours. P. Paul 14 4.8 *0.1 : H8 10 4.4 *0.2 •Use, Note— Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer. ATLANTIC LINERS. NEW YORK— Arrived: La Bourgogne, Havre. SOUTHAMPTON — Arrived: Friedrich dor . New York for Bremen and pro ded. QI'EENSTOWN— BaiIed: Etruria. New York; Berlin, Ni w York. TODAY'S EVENTS. M< mortal exercises, Auditorium, 3 PM. on of graves of Union soldiers, vari meteries, forenoon. Parad? forms park, 2 PM. run, cyclists, to Northfield. Leaves Market house 7 AM. II — University vs. St. Thomas Semi nary, Lexington park, li P.M. Cricket— Minnctotas vs. Minneapolis, Kittson dale, 10:30 AM. K^thodist ministers meet, C?ntral Park church. 530 PM. Ent rtainment. German-American Red Cross B PM. High court of Foresters meet. Central hall, c ncert, Bethlehem Church. Pleasant av-jnue and Ramsey strtet. 8 p. m. ■-The Globe's Motto: Live News, Latest News, Reliable News— No Fake War Ncuia. • The Only Newspaper in the North west That Prints the Full Associated Press News Report. Tiny are still cutting ice in Dawson Cay, hut they aren't cutting any at X- y West. Vis, dear Spain, send over the Pe layo ;il?o. The best you've got isn't any too good for us. Even a whole lot of our projectiles are thirteen-inch. This is going to be Vt i y unlucky for Spain. The government mule is "marching through Georgia" once more, but he is I paying and braying as he goes this time. In the war in New York Mayor Van I Wyck appears to have effectively "bot tled up" Senator Tom Platt and Lem uel Ely Quigg. Sit up straight on your bicycle. Dozen of men anxious to go to the army have been rejected because of heavy curvature of the spine due co bicycle riding. Chicago has queer notions of propri ety. A babe was found on the streets there the other evening. The found ling was forthwith named Ensign Bag 1' y. But why? The United States supreme court having decided the oleomargarine law unconstitutional, those who want to ba sure whether they are tating butter or not cm switch over to plain gravy. Col. Vir.cente Cortijo, who has been confined at Fort McPherson and who is about to be exchanged as a prisoner of ■war, doesn't like the treatment he has received. Did anybody expect he was going into ecstasies of delight over it? The gayety of some telegraph ed itors In their headlines Is remarkable. A Wisconsin man charged with body snatching excited the manipulator of the carbon sheets to say that he was "clearly proved innocent of a 'grave' charge." The record to date reads like this: The Thirteenth Minnesota regiment was mustered in on Friday, May 13, passed through a cyclone and a snow storm on its way to San Francisco, ar rived there on Friday, went into camp and found the sand hills full of fleas. Ring the bell, please, for the next epi sode. Better Think This Over. City Treasurer Horat proposes to the common council a departure from customary methods. He is required by law to give a bond for the safe keeping of the public funds that come into his custody, and the amount of the bond is half a million dollars. Usually fiduciary officers get bondsmen from among their friends and acquaintances, who thereby guarantee, to the extent of liability individually assumed, the integrity and accuracy of their prin cipal and that of his subordinates. No signer of such bonds ever expects that he will be called on to respond to his obligation; but it has occasionally hap pened that their confidence was mis placed, and fortunes have been impair ed, where they have not been entirely swept away, through the dishonesty of the principal in the bond. The effect of the law is that the of ficer and his bondsmen insure the pub lic fund against loss. The bond is the contract of insurance. The public offers the position with its compensation, and makes the giving of security the con dition of receiving the commission. It is to be assumed that the applicant takes this requirement into account in accepting the place, just as he con templates, in the case of an elective of fice, the payment of sundry election ex penses. He accepts the condition with the nomination and election. Until now these officers have furnished the bond and paid whatever expense was in curred in getting it. Mr. Horst pro poses two changes, one of which is im portant. He wishes to be allowed to give the obligation of surety companies, instead of individuals, and he wants the public to pay the premium charged by the company, amounting in his ease to some $1,700. In the absence of any express warrant for appropriating this sum for that purpose out of the public treasury, he suggests that it can be taken from the mayor's contingent fund. As to the acceptance of a surety com pany instead of the customary individ uals there is no ground for serious ob jection if the solvency of the company is unquestionable. As to the payment of the premium out of the public money there are serious doubts, both as to its policy and legaiity, and Mr. Albrecht did well to have the matter laid over until the latter point, at least, might be investigated. As to the policy, it is open to the objection that if the treas urer is thus favored all fiduciary offi cers who have to give bonds are also entitled to the same gratuity, for that is what it amounts to. It is questiona ble whether this will result in making nominating conventions or appointing officers any more careful than now in demanding a reputation for integrity as a prerequisite to selection, and they are now indifferent enough. The prac tical effect of the adoption of Mr. ITorst's proposition will be to make the tax-paying public the primary insurer of the safety of the funds, which risk it reinsures in the surety companies and escapes liability by paying the pre mium. The proposition opens such a variety of considerations, among which we admit are plausible reasons in its favor, that deliberation before decision will be wise. Our Local Podsnap. McCardy— there is but one McCardy, as there is but one Mrs. Astor— is the most bumptious individual outside of the books, and Podsnap is his only equal there. He disposes of all ques tions with that same sweep of the arm with which Podsnap settled every thing. His office is that of comptroller; to him it is that of controller. As comptroller, he has to do with figures, accounts, audits; as controller, every thing is within his domain. He acts up to his conception of his office. There is but one controller, and he is McCar dy; there is but one McCardy, and he is controller; and there you have it. In those confidential moments that come to such men when they lore them selves in admiration of themselves, McCardy marvels how St. Paul pot along before he came to the comp trollership, and he sighs for the fate of the poor city when, at last, implaca ble death comes along and takes him from "our midst." Among a multitude of things Mc- Cardy controls the whole science of finance. Does any one differ with him? A Podsnappian wave disposes of him. Does any one advance suggestions of revenue not first proposed by McCar dy, they are "rot." What any one knows that he does not "is all rot." Just now, some who think they know J are bothering their heads about the I school revenue problem. To McCardy i it is as simple as the easiest in the three Rs. There is so much property assessed at such a value. A tax of but two and a half mills on the dollar can be levied on that valuation for school purposes. That will provide so much rnor,ey to be used in paying teachers, engineers, janitors and repair men. Take out enough first for the janitors,' next for the engineers, next for the repair men. Then apportion what is left among the teachers. Marvelously simple is this problem for financiers like McCardy. Raise more money? "That's all rot." Increase the property valuation so more money can be raised? "That's all rot." The efficiency of the teaching force will be impaired if their pay is cut. "That's all rot." Secure in his own salary, he contemplates with Mc- Cardian equanimity the reduction in that of the teachers. Do they protest? "It's all rot." A great head has Mc- Cardy. His genius cuts Gordian knots that lesser heads puzzle over. For him there is no knot. If you insist there is, "it's all rot." Columbus solved the trick of standing the egg on end by cracking it. McCardy solves the school problem by smashing it. A Bogieimn Exploded. The time seems to be much farther in the past than four years when the public was stirred by the A. P. A.'s, and the country seemed to be rushing head long into a recrudescence of Knownoth ingism, so rapidly has sensation trod on sensation. The movement spread rap idly over the country. Beginning in a few localities, from being sporadic it became epidemic. It melted down par ty lines, seized the government of mu nicipalities and essayed a national in fluence in 1896. It played on historic memories and inherited prejudices. It THE ST. PAUL GLOBE— MONDAY- MAY 30, 1898. rose to eclipse with its opacity the bright sun that rose at the Columbian exposition in that remarkable congress of religions with its promise of re ligious unity of purpose and univer sality of tolerance. It denounced Roman Catholicism as the inveterate enemy of freedom, the unyielding foe of the common school, the traitor within our gates secretly plotting for the overthrow of the re public. It pointed to the arrival of Mgr. Satolli as proof positive of the ripening of the plot. It scented danger everywhere; transformed the cellars of Catholic institutions of piety or learn ing into arsenals in which were being gathered stores of arms and munitions against the day when the pope should •touoh the bell that would be the signal for another St. Bartholomew. It rev eled in the creations of a fevered and crazed imagination. And it has com pletely died away. It ran its course fiercely and quickly. If anywhere its embers smoulder, that has happened since the outbreak of war with Catholic Spain that should extinguish them forever. If the tie of religion is stronger than that of coun try; i£ the sympathies of a common faith should make common the cause of those who hold it; if the pope were waiting the opportunity to smite re publican institutions, then we should now see indications of it. True, the pope did endeavor to prevail upon Spain to avoid war, did prevail upon Sagasta to make concessions that brought the Spanish dynasty to the brink of revolt; but since war became inevitable he has only expressed his sorrow that human passion should countervail the precepts of the Prince of Peace. But American Catholics have not been silent. The most fanatical Apaist in the land cannot fault their speech and actions. Tbey have shouldered the musket quite as loyally as any mem ber of the A. P. A. And Satolli's suc cessor, Mgr. Martinelli, is said to have indorsed the letter of a Catholic bishop addressed to his clergy declaring them, as members of the Catholic church, "loyal to our country and our flag and obedient to the highest decrees of the supreme authority of the nation." It declares that "we are now united as one man against a foreign enemy and a common foe," although that foreign foe and common enemy are fellow churchmen, and it closes with an ad juration to "faithfully beg the God of battles to crown their (our soldiers') arms on land and sea with triumph." The charges of Apaism have met their test, and they collapse under it like the mere bubbles they were. Lines to a Contemporary. Gradually we are finding out the conception of a modern newspaper as it. is entertained, and, we doubt not. vastly so, in the editorial rooms of our still esteemed contemporary, the Minneapolis Journal. It is a curious and interesting study. It has the va riety of the kaleidoscope and the de lights of an army composed wholly of brigadiers. We have noted the various exemplifications of this conception as they were worked out from time to time, and have considered them suffi ciently novel* in the newspaper world to warrant remark. We confess to a little surprise that our comment upon these manifestations has not been re ceived by the Journal in a manner that indicates gratification for the compli ment implied, if not expressed, in our recognition of its innovation on the j customary concept of a newspaper. Its latest retort seems to convey the idea that no paper is a newspaper that is not operated after the Journal's own plan, an idea which, if sound, leaves that paper the only newspaper — of the kind— in the land. We observe three factors in the Journal's plan of a newspaper. There are, item, a manager; item, an editor, and item, a Washington correspondent. When the manager joined other Minne apolitans in a message to the president urging him to desist from war with Spain, and the editor, with his wife's hat pin, was prodding the president into war, it became clear that the manager did not manage. When the Washing ton correspondent commented on the folly of going into war without prep aration, and the editor, in the same is sue, went into a rhapsody on the mar velous preparations made for the war, it became obvious that the editor did not edit. We had the temerity to make comment on these illustrations of the Journal's plan of newspaper making as they were presented, with the re sult that we get in return some "lines on a contemporary," the pith of which is that The Globe is not a newspaper because it is not like the Journal. We I admit the explanation, but must de mur to the conclusion. We gather from the "lines" our con- ' temporary addresses us that the Bcheme of the newspaper in the two offices differs mainly as to what is news. Evidently the Journal's scheme admits into the realm of news the opinions of its correspondent, his sur mises as to motives, and his guesse.-; j as to what is to be done and why it is done. In the particular matter on I which these "lines" are based the cor ; respondent had said: "The folly of be ing unprepared for everything had came home so strongly to the admin istration during the past few months that it is without doubt the intention of the president to at once lay the foundation of a large and well drilled reserve force." This passes for news in the Journal's scheme and is exempt 1 | from the editorial blue pencil. We fail | j to scent the news. The folly is, as the I i correspondent admits, months old; the ! purpose of the president is not stated as news because it is unknown, merely surmised by the correspondent to be "without doubt." He was merely guess ing. So we have in this novel news paper scheme an editor expressing very j positively an opinion which he permits i his correspondent to as positively con tradict with his opinion, and the ed itor passes up the opinion of his cor respondent as news. Without any de parture whatever from the regard The Globe has for news, even if it con flicts with editorial views, we still in sist, in spite of these "lines on a con temporary," that it must be news and not opinion. The Globe keeps them separate and in their respective de partments; the Journal mixes them. Its manager does not manage, nor does its editor edit. If Uncle Sam will not permit the free coinage of sixteen-to-one silver dollars in his own mints, he is not averse to turning a penny, niore or less honest, with dollars coined where that ratio 13 allowed. Ihe bullion value of the Mexi can dollar is 46 cents, and that coin is the universally used medium of ex change In the Philippines. PossiDly it is th' re also the standard for the meas urement of values. Anyway our thrifty Uncle proposes to gc-t whatever advan tage he msy be able to get out of buy ing Mexican silver dollars at 46 cents each with his 100-cent dollars and fill ing Merri It's army chest with them for the purchase of such supplies as the islands may furnish and the troops need. If prices there are stated in terms of gold and silver is at par with gold, our Uncle y^U 'pocket 64 cents of profit on every 4oll^r's worth of sup plies he buys. It is stated that the boys will be paid in the same coin, getting two silver dollars for each dol lar due them. We have no doubt that they will not lettJJmcle Sam play that kind of a game on Ihem, but will in sist on having two silver dollars and_ that additional B "cents besides. When the Democratic majority counting Jones — of: the senate finance committee returned the house war revenue bill with their pay-as-you-go amendments, there rose at once from the ultra Republican press a loud chorus of denunciation. They were branded as copperheads, traitors and eiemles of the country, allies of Spain, and with all the other projectiles of vi tv.peration with which those arsenals are stocked. They were blocking the war by Interposing these amendments. They were fiddling while Rome burn ed. They were obstructionists bent only on delay. Now they have an op portunity to turn thoir batteries on one of their own. Lodge offers the New lands Hawaiian annexation resolution as an amendment to this same revenue bill In order to circumvent Speaker Reed, who is strongly opposed to an nexation. They know and admit that it will materially delay the passage of the bill, but vow the two, annexation and war revenue, must travel together or not at all. The fact that the amend ment will delay the revenue bill "cuts no ice" with them. If there was sin cerity in the howl against the Demo crats, this Calls for a howl against Lodge and his fellow annaxationists. The marriage of Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore caused surprise among Afro-Americans throughout the country. Thej have both been conspicuous contributors to the press for the past few years. Miss Moore is something of a poet and story writer on her own account, and came out in a volumo of "Violets" a few years ago. Her talent is of the passionate, volcanic sort that burns and runs riot on the printed page. She Is what would ordinarily be called a New Or leans Creole, if that elusive terminology could | ever be harnessed to, a definition that would | define. Her mother is an Afro-American, and her father was a Louisiana Frenchman. She was a school teacher in New Orleans, but came East a 'few- years ago and se cured a place in the 1 public schools here and took an active in the work of the White Rose mission, in Ninety-seventh street, \ having charge of the kindergarten and man ual training departments. She will make her future home in Washington. There is keen jealousy between Gen. Mcs by, the cavalry leader cf the Confedmcy, and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Mosby offered his services to the president as soon as war seemed probable, a'pd is ! much dlsappo'nted because they were-J\ot,-jaccepted. The other day he spoke sneertflgly. of Lee's record dur ing the rebellion, and asserted that he (Mos by) carried the last Confederate flag that was seen in Virginia. When his remarks were quoted to Gsn. Lee the latter smile and said: "Yes, I think Mosby is right. He probably was the last man that carried a Confederate flag through Virginia, but Kilpatrick was after him, and he carried It so fast that the people never knew whether it was a Sunday school ban ner or a small-pox warning." Col. Leonard Wood has reported to the secretary of war by jtej.sgraph from San An- ■ tonio that his regiment, officially gnown as the First volunteer' cavalry, but popularly j called "Roosevelt's, Rough Riders," U now I organized, armed,,^qjiii^pe,^, t . eager , for active | servie, and ready ;,to. leav« for Cuba on an j hour's notic?. He asks that it may te s:nt with the advance guard of the invading army ■ and will probably be gratified. Lieut. Col. lioosevelt privately informed a friend r.ere by telegraph that he had SSO of the be*t : riders j and riflemen in the world branded and ready I for the trail. The regular appropriations of congress at the present session will reach $530,000,000, without regard to the omission of the river | and harbor bill, and the special appropria tions for war purposes will exceed $300,000,- I 000, making a total of not less than $830,000,* 000 for the year ending June 30, 1899, the last fiscal year of the century. The Price Current. Annual. The Cincinnati Price Current's statistical annual for the year ending March 1, 1898, has just been issued as of May 26. The pamphlet is compiled by Charles B. Murray, editor of the Price Current, and contains more comprehensive and reliable statistics respecting the provision and grain trade and live stock and beef trade exhibits than anj other publication in the country. It is prac tically the forty-ninthr. annual report of that famous and valuable newspaper upon the pork packing Industries of the United States. It is an almost indispensable book of refer ence upon these subjects, and is sold et re-i tail for 25 cents. .— Come Pronr the Arabic. From the New York Times. A contemporary complains qf "rear ad miral" as an inept, title for a man so emi nently qualified for keeping in front as in the conqueror of Manila. The point is not iil taken, but designations of rank are queer any way, and few jbf, them will stand much examination by philologists. And "admiral" itself, which this critic claims for hi 3 hero, is about the queerest of the let. The word is the remnant of an Arabic phrase, of which the beginning was "ameer," or "emir," and it came to us— alas, that the truth must be toidl— straight from Spain. "Amir-al-bahr" I meant "ruler of the sea." When the "bahr" I was dropped, of course, the article should ' have gone, too. but it didn't, and when some ; overwise person but . in a "d" because he thought he knew the word was Latin, it be came as absurd a muddle as the dictionary contains— which is saying a good deal • • j Can Get Away EawHy. From the New York Sun. If the Harvard remains at St. Pierre a moment longer than her captain chooses to do so. it will justify a large amount of sur prise. There is no harbor at all at that city, simply a slight curve In the coast, not worthy to be called a bay. A few guns are mounted en the neighboring heights, but they are not impressive, and, as the Har vard- must anchor well out from the shore she will need only the help of a dark night and a little care in covering her lights to make her way out. Present a Fine Picture. From the New York Kmes. The responsibility^ of tlfe war depatment is beyond conception. Dewey helpless in Manila bay and SajmpEon, and Schiey riding j in armored impotence t^efore Havana and j Puerto Rico,' whileuathei-secretay of war was ' busy with the contractors 1 who were gong to fit out the troops intended for their reinforce ment, we should ps*som a fine picture of a smart and resourceful Yankee nation. Why Gen. Medfll Grumbles. From the Milwaukee The business wlilch «en. Joseph Mrdill's board of strategy is out lof patience with Is President McKinleyfs failure to start gome of our disappearing, guns after Spain's d■ appearing fleet. { Shot t the 'joitlist end Best." To The St. Paul dlobe:, ; The Pioneer Pr^se lja's been harping a great deal on the .sympathy and moral sup port which we are receiving now from Eng land. As the only moral support we want is such as would indicate that some one be lieves in the justice of our cause, the Pioneer Press was referred to an article in its col umns (published May 24, copied from the New York Tribune nnd giving an idea of European sentiment on this war question)^ and was asked if it could argue from that article that the English people believed that there was any justice and honor in our po sition. As the Pioneer Press ignores every communication that is not for war, will you tear the cloak from its hypocrisy by pub lishing this query? —"Tuesday." St. Paul, May 29. [epistles to st, piul, j EPISTLES TO ST. PATTI. The horse had been newly clipped and was evidently proud of Itself. It w«s pulling a high-wheeled affair which might readily have been taken for a juggernaut If It were not occupied by a maiden with no other aim on earth than to have her tailor-made effect count for what It was worth. The equipage passed down in front of Newspaper Row and a coupe of messmates saw it. ''Ah," said one, "that's a queer oversight." "What's that?" "Why they clipped the horse and banged his tail, but they forgot to remember the mane." "I see that the committee on highways cf the assembly has not made much progress with that Dunne resolution," eald Assembly man Reardon. "What resolution was that?" asked Alder man Sheperd. "Why, don't you remember that at the last meeting of the assembly Billy Johnson offered a resolution directing the hoard of public works to take preliminary tteps for the relaying of the hirsute on Horace Dunne's head? The committee is up against it be cause the repairs are to go on a down town thoroughfare that is much used and nothing but asphalt ought to go on there. The ad jacent property owners will kick on the ex pense, of course, but the work cught to b3 done or the foundation will be gone. Now if Bob Hare was on the board " and then Mr. Shepard made his escape. "It's funny what an effect drinking has on Bill Biker's eyes," said Martin. "One of them takes on a glossy look alter he licks up a few beers." "That's a fact," cut in Fitz, "I've notlcel it myself. Ho!" "You fellows don't appreciate the provisions of nature," remarked the scientist. "That's Bill's spirit lamp." The people at the Windsor hotel remember Mis 3 Bell yet. She was the leading lady in Mr. Lltt's big production of the "War of Wealth," and when she walked out on an aerial structure to give the villain of the piece a chance to assassinate her they didn't get the rescue party ready in time, and Miss Bell's internal economy received a jar con sequent upon a fall of thirty feet and the alighting upon the naked boards. Miss Bell was sent to the Windsor to stay until she recovered, and she stayed there and ate ham and eggs and other epicurian and fearsome dishes for three months. Mr. Llt.t order. d j that no expense be spared— and there was ni sparing, for she sued him for $10, COO as soon as she got strong enough, and he settled for $2,000. But that has nothing to do with the story. Miss 801 l was an exceedingly dramatic young woman, one of those persons who say: "Sir! give me a postage stamp," and things like that. It is related of her that on one occasion Col. Monfort sent her up a choice bit of lunch— early fruits and things of that kind. It happened to be ten minutes before the regular hour for luncheon, and she mads the waiter stand outside with the tray until the hour had struck. One day gave a servant s:me cloth:s for the laundry, and inquired, when they would be ready. The servant told her they would be ready at noon on the second day fblicwlng. "Let them be here at 12 o'clcck on Wednes day," said Miss Bell. The time for the return rf the laundry work came and passed, but the c'.othcs were not returned. At ten minutes past 12 Miss j Bell rang for a bell boy. "My clothes," she said; "bring them to me." The boy went away and came back presently. "The clothes are not ready," he explalnsd; "you can have them tomorrow." "Bring them now," she commanded. "Thfy were to be ready. I can brook no delays." "But they arc not washed," he persisted. "Fetch them," she said; "it matt.rj not to me what has been done. The time has come." Three minutes later two men carried a tub ful of soapsuds and dirty clothes into the j room and went out. --The PJiilistlne. When Van came down Friday morning — of course everybody knows Van— he got a note from Postmaster Smith requiring him to at once present himself at the p;s.omce and take away his mail or bo declared a nuisanre. Van cut out a few editorials and pastsd them up and then concluded that it might be as well to send that boy who was making th 1 ? daily cartoon up to the postoffice— and he sent him. Presmtly the boy came back and made a humble request that there be a dray sent in the place of him, for the mail matter was | more than he could bear, or something like that. Then Col. Vandiver sent a dray and he j presently got his mail. lie had forgotten the fact that he had sub scribed to the curative qualities of Gimcart'3 indigestion poultices. But the public had not forgotten the picture they had been requested to look upon, and some members of that same public had made comments. It seems that the medicine that had been boosted by the colonel had to do with dys pepsia, and the first correction that came to hand inquired if hs had not subscribed to the wrong sort of dope. One writer said: "Why do you complain that you cculd not eat without getting that full feeling?" Another asked what indigestion had to do with a man's looks: A third unfeeling wretch desired to bo informed if that full feeling was in any way related to that tired feeling, and another communication, from an unmarried lady, sought information as to whether he was as handsome as his picture made him. Van went through a good dsal of the matter and then sent for the porter and had the mail ! taken down to the engine room and fed to the I flames. Said he: "Hereafter it will be different. It I have ! a sore log and get cured of dyspepsia I j won't mind telling about it, but I hopo I j may die if I ever get into the dyspepsia game again. If my stomach has no more standing in this community than has the dog that runs the street, then what is the use of a man spending all his life trying to build up a reputation to prove that he is all right so j far as his innards are concerned?" How Sea-Power Counts. From the Philadelphia Preas. Was there ever a more significant vindica tion of sea power? This country of 70,(503,000, with unexampled resources, was about to occupy Cuba last week in overwhelming forces. Suddenly four Spanish armored cruisers appear. They were not as strong as our united fleet, but they are swifter and their plans no one knows. Instantly all plans of an invasion have to be postponed until these cruisers are dealt with. The troops on shore mark tims. Our ships at sea are gathered from hither to thither. All waits on the next sea fight. Its fate settles the war. Sea power counts in the world's wide work it is the first and last thing which does count. The United States must have a navy Becond only to Great Britain's. Anything short of this is national peril and national lack. Fourteen years ago a naval board of ex perts recommended eighteen battleships. The report was laughed at. Does any one laugh? With even twelve battleships we should have saved the cost of this war, and for the direct cost^of this war sixty battleships could bs built. Which is cheaper? War or the prepa ration which insures peace? A S«-:inilnloiiM Removal. From the Now York Sun. Apropos of the removal of Mr. Worthlng ton. C. Ford from the burtau of sta;lstic3, the Railroad Gazette makes a pregnant ob sr.rvation on the wretched system of which this removal was an example: "This incident reminds us that we are now at war with a nation which has car ried the practice of a 'civil service without starch' beyond the wildest dream 3at Black or Platt or any gentleman in the national administration. In the art of dis rupting the work of the nation for the ?aks of plunder or politics or your nephew the Spaniards have the advantage of many gen erations of assiduous practice; and the re sults have been beautifully shown in Wey ler's break-down and in the affair in Mauila harbor ■ Sunday before last." It is not merely that appointments for par tisan reasons are likely to be bad appoint ments for the service; it Is, also that the motive for making them is essentially cor rupt. From paying partisan debts out of the public treasury to levying toll en moneys passing through the hands of an official is not a difficult progress. Spain ie rotten wi:h this sort of corruption today. Fortunately for the United States, our own movement is in the opposite direction, and the scandalous removal of Mr. Ford Is an exception which evokes indignant condemnation- RETURN THE REBEL FLACS SO SAYS SENATOK FORAKER, OF OHIO Gives III* Reasons Why the Confed erate Flags Should Go Cock Into the Hands of Their Original Owners The Stars and StrlueN Wow Float Over a United and Pa triotic Nation. Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, of Ohio, has written a letter strongly urging the return of the captured Con federate flags. He gives his reasons as follows: flo The .propriety of returning the Confederate nags depends almost entirely on the circum ?.w1 Ces ,.? tten<ll " g the transaction. "Who?" When? "How ?" "Why?" have every t'hng to do with the case. When Mr. Cleveland undertook to return tif.™ J BB7 ' fals action excited a ato-in of pro tests. Most, if not all, who were fiercest in »nw r t ££, oS tlOn "i en favor such a Proposition HS^' hfs l 8 not due t0 a change or ssntlment with respect to the abstract question bu L 10 a change of conditions and circumstances There were many reasons why Mr. Cleveland's •action was unpopular. In the first pla-e t was unwarranted. The Hags had been tuken in battle; they were the property of the ia tlon, and only the congress had author ty to dispose of them. It was, therefore a gross usurpation of power, and in view of tor. Cleve land's record exceedingly offensive. Personal ly, he had not had anything to do wlih the capture of the flags. His sole contribution to the Union was a substitute. WheJher right lully or not, he was generally regarded as not having been in sympathy with our cause dui ing the war. He had done a number of things after be coming president that confirmed tni3 opinion, and made him obnoxious to the soldiers and the masses who felt as they did. His vetoes of private pension bills were co frequent and often couched in such offensive language as to show unmistakable hos-iiity I to that class of claims, regardles3 of merit He had visited Gettysburg, and, although there in an official capacity, and greeted by the governor of Pennsylvania and thousands of his countrymen, he had refused to speak a word or to formally particlnate in the exercises in any munner, and had acted in such a way as to show that his emotions were unmoved, except hi disgust, by the historic fields and sacred memories about him. The graves of the heroic dead, the scenes of their bravery, the inspiriting words of Lincoln, carved on the monument be fore him, all alike were without effect. When the president of the nation thus stood sullen and dumb on the greatest battlefield of the republic he gave offense that was deep and lasting, but he had done something to yet more seriously wound patriotic sensibilities. He had gone fishing on Decoration day. Thi3 action seemed so inexcusable and so out of place and unbecoming in the chief magis trate that it was everywhere considered a deliberate attempt to show his contempt for the most sacred sentiment of the American people. When, therefore, following after all this, without any action of congress to au thorize it and without a previous suggea tion to pave the way for such a step, he bluntly ordered the trophies of the nation's struggle for existence to be returned to the "late Confederate states," it is no wonde. w the people were aroused and angered, for they could not feel otherwise than outraged. His action was not only unwarranted, but it was impertinent. Indecent, unpatriotic and indelicate in the highest extreme. Men who cared nothing about the retention of the flags by the government felt, and justly so, that if they were to be returned at all tho congress and the men who captured them should be consulted and have charge or the transaction. But there was another feature of Mr. Cleve land's proposition that condemned it nior« than anything else, and that was the fact that his action was taken at a time and in a manner and with a spirit that made it look like a sort of recapture based en polit ical triumph of the cause that arms had failed to establish. For the flags to go back in that way had a tendency to create the impression that the cause they represented, had not, after all, been lost, and to revive hope with respect, to it that was calculated to make further ultimate trouble. But now we have an entirely different s t uation. The president of the United Statw was not only in full sympathy with the Union cause, but he fought for it with distin guished bravery and devotion from the b gir ning until the ending of the conflict. He bore an important part in the captures. His action in favoring a return would not be misinterpreted; No improper significance could be attached to it. All those win op posed the nroposition when advanced by I Mr. Cleveland have confidence, respect and i admiration for the wisdom and patriotism | of President McKinley, and therefore kro.v there could be no other purpose in it all : han to subserve our common wefare. It could not be connected in any way with political success or defeat. It could rot in the slight est affect the verdict that has been render. d with respect to secession and disunion. But in another respect the situation is ex ceptionally favorable. We are at war with a foreign nation, and no section of the couutry is more patriotic and zealous in the support of our cause than the South. Those who bore arms against the Union have by thou sands engaged in its service. Soraa of the most distinguished officers In the Conftdma.e army are marching as generals at the heid of our columns. They are now as conspicuous for the flag as they were against it. In the congress every war measure bas been patriot ically supported by all the representa"ivfs of the oeceding states, and the admin stra tion relies upon them with entire confidence and In the belief and knowledga that Eeciional lines and past differences have been effactd for the purposes of the pending struggle, a"d that to the end cf it all alike will remem ber only that they are Americans. There has been a new dedication t~> the caus» of liberty, humanity and free institutions. It embraces all the people of every state and section. To the men who fought with Grart and Sherman nothing could be more gra'i- I tying than the realization that they have lived to see the day when the Union i.hey upheld is defended with all the ardor of sincere patriotism by the men who fought with Leo and Jacksnn. It is pre-eminently a time for unity of sentiment, harmony of action and al!-o;e>val ing friendship and good fellowsrjp. Not only are Lee and Wheeler and the men of Hie South marching abreast with Wade and Shatter and the men of the North, but tne sons of all the states are side by side in our navy. In the harbor of Card;nas Ensign Bagley, of North Carolina, and John B. Meek, of. Ohio, gave up (heir liv^s toge'ker on the deck of the Winslow. In the bombardment of San Juan the battleship lowa was 5-.m manded by "Fighting Bob" Evans, of Vir ginia, and in the far-away harbor of Manila the great victory of Dewey was achieved, by the heroic representatives of almost all the states of the Union, those from the Siuth and those from the North vyins with <ach other to win the day for their common coun try and to add glory and renown to the fig of our fathers. In the presence of such acts we can well afford to turn our hacks on all but the lessons of the past, and, blotting out the bitter memories of estrangmiont and strife, press forward to the future with a common confidence and pride in the d'sttny that awaits us. — J. B. Forak r. FOURTEEN TO GRADUATE. The NanieM of the HendrlcliH School Sen lorn. Hendricks school wiil graduate a clars of fourteen this year. Fay Newton ranks High est in scholarship, and will deliver the vil.' dictory. The class history will be given by VioS Murphy; the class pfophecy, by Georg'- Green; the class poem, by Blanche McL;an. The commencement ex-jreises will be heij. some evening the last week of school. The following are graduate*.: : Fay Newton, Blanche McLean, Valarien Bredenhage;i, Clara Hardwick, Jennie Jofi'arson, A'ina Christensen. May Murphy, Lilian Merkl-^y, Louis Gauthier, Charles Kin/. Ross Willis, Wesley Lawton, George Babeack and George Green. HUMBOLDT'S PROGRAMME For the I.ust Week of i in- Gradunt in« C'liish. The programme for the last week of school arranged by the graduating class of the Hum boldt high school has been arranged. Sunday evening, June 12, Rev. Gamble will preach to the class at the Hebron Baptist church; Tuesday evening, June 14. class day exercises will be held in the asssmbly hall of the high school ; Wednesday evening the junior-senior reception will take place iv the same hall; Friday evening, June" 17, com mencement exercises wili bo. held at tba Clinton Avenue M. E. church, at the close of which the class will adjojurn in a tody t) the parlors of the church, where they will b; received and banqueted by the members of the alumni of the class of '97. At the annaul meeting the next evening the graduated class will be formally received Jftto the alumni. Election of officers will then tui.o place, and other business wili be dispasrd of. Claimed He Stole IJooKn. Charles Ramsey, a 16-year-old boy, was ar rested yesterday upon a warrant charging the theft of two books from the Jefferson school. Ramsey is alleged to have been im plicated in the theft with Alphonse Carhett neau, arrested Saturday. The youthful prisoners will be tried before Judge Orr in the police court today. FOR WINONA SANGERBUND. Concert Given at Hednann'i Hall by I iiitcd Societies. Hedmann's hall, on Ricj street, was last night filled to the doors with the Mends of the active singers of the Eintracht or Harmonia society, which is one of the youngest German singing societies In the city. The object was to raise funds to assist the society in going to Winona to the scate sanf?.»r bund, n^xt month. The programme was a very g-ol one. numbers bting contributed by the Concordia, Mozart and Arion societies! After a.n overture by the Central or chestra the Eintraoht society sans a short chorus. Ald.-elect Matt Bants was then introduced and delivered a s-iiort address, during which he told of the harpy facu'.ty possessed by the Germans and how on such occasions they always enjoyed themselves. Fif teen members of the Mozart club led by President P. J. Gkstn, san? "Sussa Rust ' ( 'Sweet Rest"), and for an er.co.-e im Krug Zinn Gruentn Tanze." After a selection by the orcnestra thirty-fiv-» members of the Conro.-dia Mannerchor | under the direction of Prof L W j Harmse.-n, captivated the audience by lan excellent rendition of Klauer's 'Part-well to the Forest," and in re sponse to a deserving encore sang "Yaeger Lust" ('Hunter's Joy"). The Arion society, with a chorus of ei^hl I teen, under th« direction of their new I leader, John S. Grode, followed with i Witt's "Good Night to the Flowers " | and for an encore rendered "Hunter's Joy," by Lott. A feature of the pro ! grairme was Hinz's one act musical comtrdy, "A Court Session," presented by three members of the Eintracht so ciety. The cast was: Judge, Otto Hahueppmiller; prisoner, W. Kollman i-herger; officer, Theo. Wilhelm. The comedy was well sung and acted, and created roars of laughter. The closing number was a joint j chorus number, "Spring's Greeting," I sung by a chorus of eighty voices, made up of all the societies. This is to be th^ principal chorus at the Sangerbund festival. F. Rihm, president of the Eintracht society, arranged the programme and acted as manager of the affair, which was a financial success. Dancing followed the close of the musical programme. - SECRETARY WOOD'S DATES. St. Andrew* Societies Will Keep Him Huh). An event of not a little importance to the Episcopalians of the Northwest ia the fi:st visit to this vicinity cf John W. Wood, gen eral secretary of the Brotherhood of St. An drew. o/ M p \ oo^ w i. ] ! spend toda y and tomorrow at^Panbault, his otijor dates being as fol- Minneapolls. Wednesday, June 1, St. Mark's church, diocese council; s p. m. St. Mark's cnurch, Bishop Whipple's annual address- Mr \\ood, "The Brotherhood or St. Andrew and \\hat It Can Do for the Church." Thursday, June 2, St. Mark's church- holy communion, 7:30 a. in.; at diocesan council all day; 8 p. m., Holy Trinity, Rev. S B Purves, rector; Mr. Wood. "The Responsi bility of the Layman and How He May l.is charge It;" conference of brotherho-d men after service, by chapters, as follows: Poly Trinity, "Details of Personal and Chapier Work;" Gethsemane, "How to Win Men for the Church;" St. Mark's. "The Junior De partment;" St. Paul's, "The Working Chap ter; the Duty of the Officers; cf the Mem bers;" All Saints', "How to Keep the Rule of Prayer." Winona, Friday June 3, 8 p. m., address. Mankato, Saturday, June 4, 8 p.' m., addr ss. St. Paul— Sunday. June 5, Christ church. Rev. C. D. Andrews, rector: 8:00 a. ni., corporate communion; 11:00 a, m., St. Peter's, Rev. George H. Mueller, rector, ad dress, "The Brotherhood Man;" 3:00 p. m. t Church of the Messiah, Rev. C. E. Haupt. rector, address. "The Boys' Chapter and the Sunday School;" 4:30 p. m., St. Clem ent's, Rev. Ernest Dray, vicar, address, "The Chapter .Membership;" No. 13S1 St. Clem ent's chapter meeting. Minneapolis — Sunday. June 5, St. Paul's. Rev. Frederick T. Webb. D. D., rector. 7:30 p. m., Mr. Wood, "The Need and the Op portunity for Lay Work in the Church;" conference after the service on junior chap ters, with representatives from each to dis cuss subjects assigned. St. Paul — Monday, June 8, Commercial club, 2-3 p. m., business men's reception; 0 p. m., Christ church. Rev. C. D. Andrews, rector, general conference, hymn 143, collect: 1., "The Chapter Man," (a) "Qualifications," Mr. John W. Wood; (b) 1. "In Sunday School;" 2, "In Mission;" 3, "In Prison;" 4. "In Hotels." 11.. "The Chapter Boy," Mr. George J. McCarthy. 111., "The Chap ter Meeting," Mr. John W. Wood. fi:3o p. m., guild hall, luncheon; 8 p. m.. brother hood fa vice, "The Rule of Prayer," Rev. C. D. Andrews; "The Rule of Service," Rev. H. M. Hood; "Do We Keep Them?" Mr. John W. Wood. Willmar— Tuesday, June 7. Winnipeg — Wednesday, June 8. Grand Forks, N. D.— Thursday, June 9. Fargo— Friday, June 10. Little Falls— Saturday, June 11. Brainerd — Saturday. June 11. Duluth— Sunday and Monday. June 12 and 13. Mr. Wood will sail from Duluth June 14. CHASING THE DUCK. Its Fleet ParsuU Reunited Badly for Andrew Lee. Andrew Lee was taken to tlie city hospital last evening, suffering from an ugly tut over the !eft temple, said to have been in flicted by a beer glass in the hinds cf An drew Nelson, alas Bjrnard Johnscn. Lee's alleged assailant was arre?:cd on Mie charge of ussault with a dangerous weapon. and C. D. Wright. Austin Grant ar.d V. G. Peterson, said to have been concerned in the fight, were locked up on the chug:- tf dis orderly conduct. The trouble took place on Missi-sippi street, rear he bric'ge. It appears that the four prisoners were eng;;g-d in "rushing 'he can," when Lee tried to intrude. • H'l <om pany was not desired, and when he reus-4 to leave, he claims, Johnscn struck him with a beer filass. SIGNED ON SIXDAV. Soils of VotcruiiM Kerrnlt Four New SoMters. The recruiting of members for the Sons ol Veterans company of volunteers being or ganized to take the Sold under the second call for troops is progressing to thn satisfaction cf those organizing the company. The hen), quarters at the Market houss were open all day yesterday, and four new members signed the roll. They were: J. L. Lamprey. 3') Central avenue. Edward Reilly. 77 Tilton street. William J. Iteilly 219 Rondo street. Andrew Watz, 127 Martin street. Thf-se additions jpake the total number that have signed the roll up to daU 1 '«"!. The company will undergo its first fuil com pany drill at Market hall this evening, and it is desired that all those who have jolnpd the organization will be present. The drill will take rlaca In the hall opening on Wabasha street. Always the Whole Show. It is a common thing for the owners of inferior shows to allege that the larger i nea divide when exhibiting in towns of ord.nary size. In every instance the assertion Is a malicious lie. Xo tent show, big or little, was ever divided. It can't be d.no. for many reasons, which ought to be self-evident to BJjy sensible person. For the arrest and corvictlon of any person circulating such a report againtt the Great Adam Foropaugh and Sr-lls Brothers' Consolidat d Shows, The Globo is authorized to state that thi y will pay a liberal reward. These united aud fa mous entortainm'-nts, when they exhibit hPre* Tuesday June 14. will fill the whole adver tised bill just as they do in any of the big A metropolitan millionaire does not and cau not get any more for his money than d es the poorest country lad. Thosp are the fair and hon<st lines upon which the great est arenic aggregation Is run. Payne Avenue Scorchers. Two alleged scorchers were locked up at the Margaret street station yesterday after noon for exceeding the speed rate on the Payne avenue hill. They gave the names of John Brown ai;d William Jones. The police let them go on $5 bail. LATE SOCIAL NEWS. Mrs. N. M. Dean and daughter, of East Twelfth street, are visiting friends in Far go, N. D. A dancing party will be given tomorrow evening at Central hall by the Iron Hall. Concert at Bethlehem Church. church. Pleasant avenue and Ramsey ■treat, A concert will bo r;iven ut Bethlinem this tvtning for the benefit of th? church. The programme will include numb.rs by (he Coneorla Singing society., Mrs. Lohib.iuer, Mlsa Marguerite Morton. Miss Hope Payne.