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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE
" THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1898.
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THURSDAY'S WEATHER.
Fair; Variable Winds.
By Use I'nited States Weather Bureau.
MINNESOTA— Generally fair; variable winds.
NORTH DAKOTA— Fair In the morning, in- j
creasing cloudiness and light loi-al showers
in th-.' afternoon; iast to south winds.
SOUTH DAKOTA— Fair, followed by cloudy
and local showers.
lOWA— Generally fair; variable winds.
MONTANA Showers; variable winds.
WISCONSIN— GeneraIy fair; light variable
winds.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
The Northwest.
St Paul 70Calgary 4S !
Duluth t>6 Swift Current 32 j
Huron 70iQu*Appelle 5S i
Havre aSjMlnnedosa a 6 I
Helena 52 Winnipeg ;>0
ird 5& Bismarck 68 I
Prince Albert BO Willlston 58:
Boston 58-64|Cheyenne 74-70?
Chicago 76-80 Cincinnati 80-84
New York 60-78 New Orleans 80-90!
Buffalo i .76-82
YESTERDAY'S MEANS.
Barometer 29.80 j
Mean temperature 66 |
Relative humidity 60!
Wind at 8 p. m West
Weather Clear
Maximum temperature 72
Minimum temperature 53
Daily range 13
Am unit :ii precipitation in last twenty
four hours 0
RIVER AT S A .M.
Danger Gauge. Change in
Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours, i
St. Paul 14 5.2 *0.2 |
La Crossa 10 5.0 *0.3 j
Davenport IS 4.0 0.0 '
St. Louis 30 19.4 —1.0
*RUe. — F?!l.
The river will continue rising from St. Paul
tn Xt« d's Landing during the rest of this
week.
Note— Barometer corrected for temperature
and el-.-v a tion. —P. F. Lyons. Observer.
ATLANTIC LINERS.
NEW YORK— Arrived: Bremen, Bremen.
Sailed: Westernland. Antwerp; Teutonic,
NAPLES— Arrived: Alter, New York for
Genoa.
QUEE: STOWN— Arrived: Pennlur.d, Phila-
SOUTHAMPTON— SaiIed: Lahn. New York.
PHILADELPHIA— Arrived: Siberian, Glas-
ROTTERDAM — Sailed: Wertceiviafit; N. w
York.
MOVILLE— Ari "• : athiipia. New York.
TODAY'S EVENTS.
Annual mi-'tmj* St. Paul School Fine Arts, j
M ore bloi k. 10 AM.
Informal hop Baldwin Seminary senior class,
_j h ol assembly hall, 8:30.
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I Jiie Globe's Motto: Live News,
Latest News, Reliable Neivs—No Fake
War News.
..'.■•r The Only Newspaper in the North
west That Prints the Full Associated
Press News Report.
It wasn't expected that Srtiley and
Cervera would get along in peace.
Dors Xorih Dakota hear this? Mexico
ha.<= begun exporting wheat to Europe.
The country is still getting together.
The son of ex-President Harrison is to
li-^ht under the ex-Confederate, Gen.
Lee.
"Bob" Lincoln may yet be proud of
his son-in-law. Young Beck with has
enlisted with the purpose of going to
the front.
Tl:e Republicans of the Sixth con
gressional district have turned another
Page, and 10, J. Adam's name is not
Writ llu-reon.
Surgeon General Sternberg lists can
ned Boups as "delicacies for the sick." Is
Dr. Sternberg working for a cemetery
association?
Commodore Schley is' no Turk, but
nevertheless he Mustapha bey. And
he'll get it though his job is CerVera
than Was Dewey's. — Riff, Bang.
A Havana dispatch says: "A steam
donkey carrying earth and sand Is run
ning night and day on Morro heights."
"\Yhe-re are the other donkeys?
Ami the navy department appears to
have been the last to hear that there
■was a battle at Santia.go. Was this
courtesy to the beard of strategy?
llannirt Taylor has arisen to discuss
the gprtMlea.l future of Spain. Taylor
should be encouraged by his mother
in-law or somebody else to go back in
■his box and shut it.
President McKJnTey opened the
Omaha exposition all the w*y from
'-Va.-ihi.'.gton. He patted Omaha on the
ck by long-distance telephone in a
way to turn William Jennings Bryan
green with envy.
For Whom Are Our Streets.?
There is an old-fashioned notion that
the streets of a city are for the use
of the residents of the city. They are
for the men and women and children
who use them; for the merchants' de
livery wagons; the expressmen's wag
ons, the citizen's carriage, the men's
aiul women's, boys' and girls' wheels.
A i voiding to the ancient notion, they
are not solely for the speculator who
buys lots alongside them and keeps
everybody off until some one comes
along who must have them and pays
his price for them. Not for the in
vestor, who, when a buyer nibbles,
points to the public improvements made
on the street as justification for the
price h«' asks, marking price up a
notch when the street is paved, a side
walk built, water mains put in or gas
light substituted for gasoline. And it
made no difference, according to the
old way of thinking, whether this spec
ulator and this investor lived in the
same town or in some Eastern city;
he took title subject to the superior
rights of the resident public, and one
of these is to have the street put and
kept in such condition that they can
uso it.
The board of public works of this city
seems to have another notion about
streets and their use and who are the
parties whose interests are to be con
sulted. It must have caught it from
the speculative investor, since it har
monizes with his ideas of the fitness
!of things. We infer this from its
treatment of the streets in the eastern
section of the city, notably Seventh
street beyond the bridge over the rail
way tracks. For three or four years
the block pavement there has been
going from bad to worse until the street
is well night impassable. Teams, car
| riages, wheelmen avoid it where possi
ble. Retail merchants along it suffer
Irp.s of trade. Lot owners along it who
live on their lots find their property
depreciating; those who own and rent
find rentals failing. It is not a desira
ble street to live on. But there are
others interested. It is the main thor
oughfare through the city from east
to west; the one continuous street. It
is the main outlet of the large resi
dential district of Dayton's bluff to
and from the city's center. All these
I people who actually use the street
; want it paved. A few men who do
I not live on it or near it, who own lots
i on it bought on speculation and held
i for another boom, don't want it paved.
I They would have to put up for a share
lof it. The street railway company is
I indifferent if not hostile; probably the
! latter, for the worse the street the
| more rides. Apparently, the few are ,
I the more influential with the board, j
for it indicates a disposition to reject j
the petition for the improvement; to
consult the wishes of the few who do
not use the street and ignore the many
who must and would. The Globe, in
j behalf of the many, suggests to the
j board that the old-fashioned notion of
' streets ar.d their use and the rights of
the public in them is not yet entirely
obsolete.
Sherman on Expansion.
Former Secretary Sherman accorded
The Globe an interview which will
be found to be very interesting read
ing. Now that the veteran statesman
|is relieved from the perplexities and
i restraints of office, and has bade to
! public station a final adieu, he shows
I in his appearance and- conversation the
) rebound of tha relief, and gives little
! evidence of either the mental or phy
! sical disability of which we heard so
, u.iifh when he was at the head of the
' state department and, there is room to
■ believe, when interested parties were
endeavoring to secure his retirement.
Mr. Sherman has compromised his
j opposition to the policy of expansion of
j territory, so emphatically expressed in
his "Recollections," to the extent of
favoring the annexation of Hawaii, evi
dently induced by the practical control
attained there by Americans, but lie
sets his face against the appropriation
of the Philippines and gives reasons
that are incontrovertible. He wouM
also favor the acquisition of Porto
Rico for navai purposes, but the danger
is that when expansion begins the ap
petite for it will grow and no limits
can be set to it, either by reason or
! prudence.
Mr. Sherman brings out one point
i that has escaped general recognition,
the effect of the destruction of the
I Maine upon the public sentiment and
j upon national policy. Until that event
; Cuba was the trading stock of the
: politician. The Morgans and Masons
; ranted, and the jingoists of the press
raved, but the great mass looked on in
different. They would like to see Cuba
! free, but they didn't care to go to war
Ito accomplish it. But when the Maine
j was destroyed the blood of the nation,
| after the first stunning effect passed,
I rose to war heat at once. If the ad
j ministration tr, attd it as an "incident"
j the people recognized it as an act of
j war. It was this sentiment that found
I expression in the action of congress
j when it rejected the president's request,
i declared war and ordered Spain to
: evacuate Cuba and Cuban waters.
j There has been a large quantity of sen
! timentalism about the purpose of the
war, but it is primarily for vengeance
for the slaughter in Havana harbor.
Our Traii With the Orient.
The attention which the Orient is at
| tracting among the great commercial
! nations of the world is of particular
! and enlarging interest to those con
■ trolling the industries of the United
j States from which a surplus for ex
j port is derived. And, in this connec
tion, it may be said that the activity
of American exporters is more and
more apparent as knowledge as to what
lis required of them is extended. John
Barrett, formerly United States con
j sul at Bangkok, Si am, in a recent let
i ter to the department of state, says
• that among the articles which have
! been most successfully marketed there
I are flour, lumber, kerosene oi^. lubri
j eating oil, railroad equipments, cotton
j goods, raw cotton, leather, nails, ma
chinery, electrical supplies, canned
good?, vine and beer, sewing and type
writing machines, bicycles,, lamps,
\ clocks and watches and novelties. This
i same writer says he knows of no Amer
ican firm handling such goods as are
consumed in any quantity in Eastern
, Apia which failed to do a fair business
, after sending the right kind of men
\ to build up the trade. He points to the
fact of it 3 population of 300,000,000, its
foreign trade in 1897 of over $600,000,000,
j its coast line of 5,000 miles, its many
• cities and harbors, its splendid system
. of rivers, its organizations for the con
i duct of trade and the great opportu
nities for development.
A report has recently been made to
' the British foreign office by Hugh
1 O'Brien, second secretary of the Eng-
I lish embassy at Washington. This
i Bhowe that the trade between the Unit-
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE THURSDAY— JUNE 2, 1898.
eel States and China amounts to one
seventh of the entire trade of the em
pire, being 50 per cent greater than that
between China and Germany, and Is
second only to that of Great Britain.
A score of years agro, and more, the
forecast of shrewd, far-seeing business
men in this country Indicated an early
and constantly increasing demand by
China for our cotton goods. Already
these predictions are being verified.
Cotton goods to fhe value of $7,48G,000
were taken from this country by China
last year, or almost one-half of our en
tire exports of this class during that
period, the sum total of which amount
ed to $17,781,000. The drillings and
sheetings manufactured In the New
England mills are preferred by the
Manchurians especially, because of
their weight. These have, for the most
part, been shipped from New York
through the Suez canal, though more
recently, as has heretofore been men
tioned by The Globe, some very
large shipments have gone overland to
San Francisco, and especially to Puget
sound, and thence by the Pacific route.
China took, in 1896, 33,000,000 gallons
of our oil, as against 28,000,000 gallons
from Russia, which country is the
principal competitor of the United
States in this respect. The shipments
from here are in cans, and are made
from New York through the Suez ca
nal. The Russian oil is transported in
tank steamers.
The spirit of Western enterprise
which is rapidly taking possession of
the Chinese indicates, also, an early
and increasingly large demand for our
iron and steel products. It is unques
tionably true that railroad construc
tion, at which only initial attempts
have hitherto been made in that coun
try, is on the eve of rapid extension,
and that a large increase of contracts
for steel rails, locomotives and railroad
equipment and material is certain
to result. Already American flour >is
growing in favor in China, wherever
introduced, and the exportation of this
product is increasing in volume year
by year. Certainly, by reason of its
direct ocean communication between
the ports of the Pacific coast and those I
of Asia, the United States nation, with
its enormous resources of raw mate
rial, its manufacturing appliances and
skill, and its superb transcontinental
railway systems, should, of right, 'com
mand with the opening of the new cen
tury its just proportion of this ex
panding and desirable trade.
The aggregate bank clearings are ]
legitimately looked to to indicate the
condition of business. They represent
only payments made by means of
checks and drafts, and they, in turn,
represent either cash deposits or cred
its with collaterals. As their volume
inci-eases or diminishes, as it shows in
the clearing house statements, so the
volume of trade, the buying and sell
ing and exchanging, rises and falls.
It is significant of the improved condi
tion of trade that the bank clearings
for May are heavier than in any pre
vious May since 1890. It should strike
the man who holds to the quantitative
theory of money with force enough
to shatter his faith, this fact that the
clearings of the banks of the seventy
seven cities of the United States rep
resented in the clearing house asso
ciation aggregated $3,330,000,000 in May.
That is to say that over $5,000,000,000
of credit paper carried that amount of
exchanges. It is one of the inexplicable
phases of mentality that minds capable
of grasping ordinary economies, like
the self-binder, cannot grasp the econ
omy of our banking system.
Quite as important in its bearings
upon the war as is the news from San
tiago is the brief statement of the
financial condition of the Spanish
treasury and of the Bank of Spain.
The government is paying the interest
coupons on Spanish and Cuban bonds
in notes, the supply even of silver be
ing exhausted. The run on the Bank
of Spain by holders of its notes, anx
ious to get silver for paper, betokens
a loss of confidence that will grow into
panic, should the bank suspend silver
payments. The latest accessible state
ment of the resources and liabilities of
the bank, that of April, gives it a gold
stock of $46,869,262, of silver $52,144,51S
and of notes, $248,551,621.
Aren't the Chicago girls rather hard
on the boys? A dapper young bicyclist
clown there the other day requested a
very pretty girl to give him a kiss. She
screamed and he was assessed $5. And
yet the request was made politely and
might have been declined with or with
out thanks without cost to either.
| EPISTLES TO ST. PI'Jl. j
A committee of St. Paul men waited on
Col. Welz, of the Ryan hotel, yesterday, to
make preliminary arrangements for a ban
quet to be given In the Efsr future. "Jack"
Heinlein, the colonel's trusty lieutenant, v%-as
at his elbow. In the course of the conversa
tion Heinlein furnished some wisked-for
data, when Col. Welz put in:
"You have met all these gsHtlemen, Mr.
Heinlein?"
"I think not," Jack replied.
"Oh, is that so? Gentlemen, this Is Mr.
Heinlein. He is my confidence man."
Col. Welz has considerable faith in man
kind, even i^he has run a big hotel for
all these years. One or his guests, a dia
mond salesman, sent a draft for $200 to one
of the local banks to be cashed. One of the
colonel's trusted boys brought back the
money, which the colonel proceeded to
count. Thumbing over the dirty bilLs nntii
he- h?d counted ?125. he turned the roll over
to Heinlein, with the remark:
"I guess it's all right, Jack. He didn't
make any mistake so far."
John James Ahem, who for many years
ornamented the place that Billy Johnson hopes
he may get, and Tom Conroy hopes he may
keep, got into this town the other day after
a couple of months' absence, and brought
a new story with him from Montana:
"I was in Livingstone, Mont., on the day
that the election was held in St. Paul," said
Jim, "aiul I met a man who U3ed ' to be
known here long ago. He used to be in local
politics, and was something of a good thing
about twenty years ago. He told me how
he had come off in Montana, and it wasn't
half bad. It wouldn't do to give his name.
but I may say that his Initials were Johii
McConnell.
"He left here one day when he wasn't
thinking of what he was about, and landed
In Butte. He and a friend got together and
went up in the hills, and as soon as they
got enough money together they went into
the saloon business— which looked like thb
best thing in sight.
"One right McConnell's partner went out
to look about the camp and got mixed up
with a faro game. Soon after midnight he
got back to the saloon and asked McConnell
for a drink.
" 'Go and get It,' says McConnell, 'you are
as strong as I am.'
" 'But,' said the partner, 'I have no right
behind the bar. I put up my interest in the
place against $300 worth of checks with
Dutch Bill, and he's your partner now.'
"Of course, McConnell was sore and ho
said that he didn't want to be in partner
ship with Dutch Bill. He'd jusjt go and
win the other half of the saloon back.
"Just an hour later Dutch Bill was refus
ing McConnell and his partner credit for a
drink in what had been their saloon, and
Mac hasn't ha 4 any luck since."
TUB PHILISTINE.
FOR RED CROSS NURSES.
In reply to inquiries as to Red Cross form
of enlistment for'ujmrtjes, The (Hobo has
received the following rules and regutatWns
from the Red Cross Hospital and Training
School for Sisters,, in New York:
"In order to become a sister of the Rod
Cross, the applicant must be of unques
tionable character and qualifications. Fur
ther, she must fl) take the regular tw»
years and three months' course of training
at the Red Cross hospital, or (2) present c r
tlfleates from some reputable training school
for nurses and take a six mouths' postgrad
uate course in methods specially applicable
to war or other national calamity. At the
expiration of the cowrse, upon giving satis
factory evidence of requisite fitness, the can
didate is graduated as a R<~d Cross sister,
and can thereafter act as such either ai
home or abroad.
In cases of emergency nurses may be en
listed for the special need upon presentation
of their certificates and without taking the
six months' course niention(d, but it should
be understood that at the close of the serv
ice in question their relation with the Red
Cross ceases until they can bo graduated in
the regular way. In this connection, how
ever, credit will be given for character work
done during enlistment.
"Candidate's must have no Idea that thero
Is any romantic or sentimental attractive
ness in the stern demands of war, pestilence
■or famine. The emergencies of the service
are often most trying, somet'mps involving
privation and danger, and only tho3e ready
for such work can be of real use."
BUSY WOMEN.
Philadelphia Aububon society gave an ex
hibition recently which proved to the de
votees of style that beauty could be attained
in millinery without cruelty to birds. Flow
ers, airy choux and chiffon, ribbons and
ostrich plumes were all used in the decora
tions.
Miss American, chairman of the commit
tee which has in charge the project of fitting
up the school grounds in Chicago as sum
mer playgrounds for the poor children of
the city, said, when speaking of the enter
prise:
"We are trying to aid the work of improv
ing the morals of Chicago, and we are be
ginning with the children in tho worst parts
of the city. By putting in this system of
playgrounds we hope to do considerable
Rood in keeping the children off the streets
and so lessen the amount of crime. In sum
mer there is much more crime among the
children than at any other time of the year,
because they are then free from the restrain
ing influences of school life. For instance,
in the Maxwell street district it is said that
juvenile crime increases CO per cent in sum
mer over the other seasons of the yoar.
Owners of lots will not allow them to play
there, and policemen will not let them play
ball on the streets, so between the two they
have a hard time of it. The parks are too
far away for them to go there, and they
must have some place to play. We are not
trying any new experiment. This plan has
.been tried in Philadelphia and other cities,
and has been a success from the start."
A rector of an Episcopal church in New
York recently inserted a notice in a local
paper to the effect that "services would te
held for the benefit, of business men and wo- i
men." The editor's comment was: "The sun
do move."
When Mrs. Davis, wife of Senator Davis,
took her kodak into the senate and, In Ep te
of the rule that no ; camera shall be brought
into the gallery while congress is in session,
turned it on the earnest disputa.nt3 the day j
the president's war message was sent in, she
only gave another illustration of the fact
that if a woman has a will she also has a
right of way. When the ambitious phoio
grapher was reminded of the rule she just !
laughed and continued to take snap-:ho s i
until she had a complete set of photographs —
the only set in existence. . What could the
sergeant-at-arms do when he had to deal wi h
the wife of the chairman of the committee on
| foreign relations?
WHAT MAN CAN BO THIS?
Mr. Wise, of Virginia, who attended a ses
sion of the Daughters of the American Revo- |
lution in Washington, tells this story:
"One of the ladies who made an address had
the several sheets which contained her re
marks carefully pinned together. As she pro
ceeded with her speech she would detich a
sheet and put the pin in her mouth. Then
she would detach another sheet and put an
other pin in her mouth. She kept this up
for several minutes, and yet she continued j
talking all the time. I want to know what
I became of those pins. Slie certainly did cot
swallow them, and she did not .remove them
from her mouth. The thing was a mysi.<-ry
to me at the time, and it is a mystery yet."
A man with such a name might, at las'
make the guess that the pins that went into
the speaker's mouth made theTr appearance in
the points of her address.
Mrs. Cornelius Chadwick, wife of the c; p
tain of the cruiser New York, and the in
ventor of the carrier for wour.ded men, Is at
present the object of much congratulation over
the government's adoption of her contrivance.
A large supply of carriers has already been
sent to the navy department and orders fcr
many more have been sent out. The carrlor
is an oblong strip of canvas so equipped with
rings and snaps as to enable the bearers to
keep one hand free and thus to steady them
selves on a rolling ship.
SRAIN EASERS.
Dr. Grace Peckham Mjurry delivered a lec
ture before the students of the Woman's
Medical College of the New York Infirm
ary for Women and Children, last week, and
urged upon her hearers the effectiveness of
hope. To illustrate her doctrine, she to!d
this fable:
"Once a milkman, going to market with
his wares, was seized with the thought that
the unaccustomed strength of the milk might
prove injurious to his: customers, and he
stopped to waier it at a wayside pond. Into
one of the cans with the water went two
frogs. As soon as. the cover was put on one
frog gave a loud croak, said how dark it
was, how nmooth 'the sidfs of the can were,
and he never expected to get out, and with
another despairing croak gave up and sank
to the bottom. The other, the optimistic
frog, said that no doubt the sides of the
can were smooth and that It was dark, but
he would keep on kicking. So he kicked and
paddled and splashed and finally when the
man opened the can there he sat on a nice
little pat of butter."
Dr. Grace Peckham Murry is one of the
foremost women physicians of the world, and
she ha 3 compacted a world of philosophy Into
a story.
A volunteer company in Ohio has been
dubbed "The Disappointed Lovers" becaus3
of the number of young men belonging to it
who have enlisted on account of disappoint
ment ir. love affairs.
The government of Uruguay has refused
permission to establish a Red Cross society
at Montevideo In aid of the wounded Span
iards.
A number of English and American women
are now engaged in the business of horse
raising. Lady Stella and Lady Dorothy Hope
have recently taken a small farm in the
southeastern part Of England for that pur
pose. There they will breed and train pon
ies. Both of these women are fine riders
and excellent whips, and, in addition to this,
are expert veterinarians, always prescribing
for their sick stock. '.
Mrs. James Havens^ formerly of Denver,
Coll, has been appointed' postmaster at Pabor
Lake, Fla., to succetd W. E. Pabor. poet
laureate of the National Editorial associa
tion.
There are many, wom^n who have neither
the courage nor tho malice to say anything
really bad about, their acquaintances, but
who go about making 'ill-natured little com
ments that do as' much harm as the most
seriou:; accusation's.
"I hate being atnbbccl| with a toothpick!"
exclaimed a victim: of< one of these mild de
tractors: "they give such nasty little pricks,
which are unworthy of serious notice, but
whirb exasperate' one even more than an
actual scandal." — New York Tribune.
We bnre it silently when the ruthles3
iconoclasts attacked our faith In the one
time existence of Abraham, Homer and
Shakespeare, but when they attack our be
loved "Yankee Doodle" and insist that It is
not only not American, but a direct importa
tion from Spain, human nature can go no
farther. Down with the iconoclasts! Long
live Yankee Doodle!
I>. A. R.'S Wilt FUND.
To Be lined to Aid Soldier* and
Sailors.
At the regular May meeting, of the national
board of managers of the National SoeTrty
of the Daughters of tho American Revolu
tion, held in Washington, D. C, last Tues
day, the following resolutions vere adopted:
Whereas, The president of the United
State* and the Burgeon generals of the
army and navy have recognized and ap
proved the action of the national board of
management at its April (18S8) me.eting. iv
placing the National Society of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution at the serv
ice of the government; and
Whereas, The efforts of the Daughters of
the American Revolution Hospital corps have
met with marked success and found a cor
dial response In every section of the society;
and,
Whereas. The efforts of this hospital corps
have quickened the deaire for further work
in this hour of our country's need; and
Whereas, We are informed that the time
Is approaching when a large amount of
monoy will ba required for special demands,
from sickness and other causes, consequent
upon this struggle, by sea and by land;
there-fore, be It
Itesolvod, That in addition to the work of
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Hospital corps, every chapter and member
at large of our National Socioty of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, be
requested to unite at once in a general effort
to succor needy families of nn.n who have
gone to the front and to furnish comforts for
s,)!diers and sailors, whether regular or vol
unteer. Be it further
Resolved. That all members of the na
tional society, Daughters of the American
devolution, are strongly urged to immediate
action for the accumulation of a large sum
of money to be used in emergency and exi
gency calls of every kind, such aa are at
tendant upon the condition of a nation en
gaged in warfare; and in furtherance of this
purpose we would recommend that the Inter
est of all patriots be invoked by raising this
lund, to bo known as the "Daughters of the
American Revolution War Fund;" and be it
further
Resolved, That a war committee com
posed of the members of the national board
of management, with the addition of Mrs.
George M. Sternberg and Mrs. Charles L
A.den, be formed; that the treasurer general.
National Society of the Daughters of the
American Resolution, be elected treasurer of
the war fund, and that the moneys be un
der authority and direction of a subcommit
tee. Be it further
Resolved, That we advise tho raising of !
S l?£ ♦£" al P cunt as will be commensurate
-with the spirit and aims of the National So
o'luUon Daughters of the American Rev
—M. Margaretta P. Manning.
President General N. S. D. A R
-Alice Pickett Akers,
Recording Sec. Gen. N. S. D. A. R.
BALDWIN'S CLASS DAY.
Interesting ExeroJtea in St. John's
Church.
The old church of St. John's presented a
very patriotic interior yesterday afternoon, on
the occasion of the class day exercises of tho
Baldwin school.
The platform was a perfect bower of flow
ers, palms and vines, and a glorious back
ground was made by a huge American flag
draped from the ceiling, and completely cov
ering the real wall. At the sides smaller
flags made a suitable frame, and, seated amid
the flowers and flanked by the Stars an'i
Stripes, were the graduates of tho school
Hattie Wilson, Samuel Mairs, Annie MaeMil
lan, Frank Monty, Caroline Fogg, Frank Fer
nald.
Margaret W. Webster was not present, and
her essay on "Hindoo Literature" was read
by Judith R. Dousman. The subject of this I
essay was well handled.
Miss Hattie Wilson read an essay entitled i
"A Galaxy of Fair Women," and Samuel
Mairs gave a very thorough review of the
"History of Hunting" from Its earliest time
to today.
"The Man of the Future" was the somewhat
weighty subject chosen by Miss Annie Mac-
Millan, and Frank Monty gave an Interesting
paper on St. Paul.
Mis 3 Caroline Fogg had many interesting
facts to tell of Peter the Great, and Frank
FernaJd read a rather lengthy but very inter
esting paper on "Modern Warfare." The sub
ject had evidently been well studied and the
result comprehendingly given.
There was not an essay read during the af
ternoon that did not show a thorough knowl
edge of the subject presented and a delight
fully clear understanding as to how to impart
this knowledge to others, the delivery of each
pupil being easy and smooth.
'Music relieved the programme of monotony.
Miss Martha Neal opened the programme with
a spirited march, which was followed by a
violin solo of national airs by Willie Neal.
Miss Virginia Dousman played two mandolin ]
solos, Judith Dousman contributed a piano i
number, and Miss Alice Humphrey sang
" 'Twas April."
Mrs. Baehus, the directress of the school,
received the guests, among whom were:
Mrs. Dousman, Miss Saunders, ]
Mrs. Fernald, Miss Wheaton,
Mrs. Noble, Miss Wilson,
Mrs. Dorr. Miss Cochran,
Mrs. La Belle. Miss Lanpher,
Mrs. Sturgis. Mis 3 Web3ter,
Mr. Prendergast, Miss Gardner,
Mr. Hutson, Miss Armstrong,
Mr. Carr, Miss Mona Johnson,
Mr. Cran, Miss Sturgis,
Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Doran.and others.
O'ROURKE LOCKED UP.
Result of Kis Argument With the
Health People.
James O'Rourke, the Great Northern engi
neer, living at GO9 Mississippi street, who
has been under the bun of the health de
partment for two months, owing to alleged
frequent violation of quarantine, was yester
day arrested on a bench warrant issued by
Judge Orr.
O'Rourke was locked up at the central sta
tion and denied bail. Mrs. O'Rourke called
at the station to secure her husband's re
lease, but those in charge refused to let
the engineer out of jail until his case had
been passed upon by the court.
The charge of violating the health ordi
nance, upon which O'Rourke was arrested,
was to have been tried in the police court
Monday. O'Rourke, it is alleged, failed to
appear, having been released upon his own
recognizance, and a bench warrant was is
sued.
The engineer's story is different. He claims*
he was in court, or rather visited the muni
cipal court at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning
and found no session in progress.
BROUGHT BACK HIS MAN.
Sheriff Wagoner Returns Prom Chl
enfio V. i!li Asn Phelpa.
Sheriff Wagoner returned from Chicago yes
terday morning, having in charge Asa Pnelps,
who was indicted by the grand jury last
October for swindling.
Phelps was run down by the Omaha rail
way offlciala. He is accused of swindling a
man^named Ivan Anderson by short changing
him on a train belonging to the company.
The prisoner was said to have been accom
panied by a man named Pierce, who pulled
a gun on the train hands in ihe attempt to
escape after the crime.
Pierce has not been apprehended.
BSIEFS OF THE COURTS.
The motion of the plaintiff to set as'de
tho verdict of the jury in the case of Mary
A. Vincent against Alphonse Vincent, for
divorce, was denied yesterday by Judge Otis.
Dr. Halvor Sneve, who took some ttcck
in the Columbia National Hank, of Minne
apolis, before the failure of that concern, was
yesterday adjudged to be a debtor of the bank
in the sum of ?I,BCO. The de;-:s'on was ler.d
ered by Judge Lochren In the United States
court.
A deed of assignment by Charlotte Schu
macher to John Sander ml filed in the district
court yesterday.
The continued cases on the criminal crl
endar, which were left over from the May
term, will be taken up this morning by Judge
Bunn.
GRAND AVENUE BOULEVARD.
Contract for Improving It Let to
Fielding «&. Steepler.
The board of public works yesterday award
ed the contract for boulevarding and im
proving Grand avenue from G/otto to Floral
streets, to Fielding & Shepley. The bids were
opened some days ago, but as there was some
question among the property owners as to
whether granite or sandstone curbing should
be used, the award was not niarto at the time.
The property owners decided to have sand
stone curbing. The improvement will cost
$3,527 and $3 additional per tree for 44 trees
to be placed along the boulevard.
PAVING ON ASHLAND.
Contrnet Awarded, bat No Ilond
Filed Vet.
The contract for paving Ashland avenuo
was awarded to Hennessey &. Cox, May 0.
Yesterday Channlng Seabury was at the city
hall inquiring as to why something was not
being done toward paving th? street.
President Copeland, of the board of public
works, informed Mr. Seabury that the con
tract had been sent to the office of the city
attorney to be executed. At the legal de
partment Mr. Seabury received further in
formation to the effect that the cuntract had
been taken by the contractors to execute a
bond and had not been returned-
WOULD ANNEX PORTO RICO
BUT NOT THE PHILIPPINE
ISLANDS
Ex-Secretary Sherman Tallin About
the War and the AcuulMitlon of
Territory Says I nele |3n.m Will
Merely Set Up Cnlin for It
self—The Purpose o* His VJ»it
West.
Ex j Secretary of State John Sherman
and Mrs. Sherman spent yesterday
quietly together at the Ryan, and at
5 o'clock started for a drive around
the city, returning about 6. Mr. Sher
man, at that hour, received a repre
sentative of The Globe, who last saw
the ex-isecr«tary in Washington just
four years ago, while he still occupied
his seat in the senate. There is no
noticeable change in the personal ap
pearance of Mr. Sherman. His tall,
spare figure, always inclining slightly
forward, preserves its otherwise nat
ural erectness, and his eyes are as
bright, his voice is as steady and his j
mind apparently as cltar as at any '■
time within the past twenty-five year 3. I
When asked concerning the condition
of his health, Mr. Sherman replied
pleasantly:
""My health is very good. I am in
nothing like the bad way that some
of our friends, the newspaper men, en
deavored to make me out. But then, !
I am seventy-five years old, you know, i
and that is about all there is to It."
"The belief seemed to get abroad that |
the duties of the secretaryship of state,
in view of the condition of affairs with
Spain, were overtaxing your strength
a little too much," was suggested.
"Oh, no," replied Mr. Sherman, "the j
duties of the office do not involve any i
extraordinary labor. Everything goes j
along smoothly. Questions of foreign
relations are constantly arising, look- J
ing to the interests of our people and
to their protection from injustice in
different parts of the world; but all
this is easily done, because the United
States occupies so conspicuous and at
the same time so peculiar a position
among the nations that no power would
care to do it or any of its citizens in
justice."
THE WAR WITH SPAIN.
"What are your views, Mr. Secretary,
in regard to the precipitation of thi3
war with Spain?" was asked.
"I think," replied Mr. Sherman, "that
the war might possibly have been
avoided; but the destruction of the
Maine created such a feeling of resent
ment in the United States that the peo
ple themselves simply took hold of tha
matter. The barbarous severities prac
ticed by the Spaniards towards the Cu
bans and their harsh methods of con
ducting a civil war naturally created
among our people a strong feeling of
sympathy with the people of Cuba."
"A feeling developed in this section,"
was suggested, "that your retirement
from the state department was, in some
measure, due to the fact that you were
not in accord with the administration
with respect to the policy of war. Is
that true?"
"Oh, no, that is not true!" replied
Mr. Sherman, emphatically. "While, as
I have just said, I think the war might
have been avoided, my view is that
inasmuch as war was declared by con
gress, it ought to be carried forward
and continued until Spain is driven
from the island of Cuba. However,
we certainly do not want the island;
but possibly it might be governed by
the inhabitants themselves under some
guarantee of protection »»y the United
States, m my jutlgmeiit, tfiero is a
I very decided objection to its being en
grafted upon this nation as one of the
states of the Umon. Cuba should be
i permitted to remain as a separate gov
ernment in the relation to this country
of a friendly colony; and I think it
probable that the people there will get
along very well when once relieved of
Spanish rule."
"Then you do not anticipate eventual
annexation following the termination
of the war and as a sequence to the
rearrangement of affairs and the ad
justment . of new conditions?" was
asked.
MUST OBSERVE THE PROMISE.
"No, I do not," replied Mr. Sherman.
"The United States will undoubtedly
be compelled, in obedience to a true
sense of honor, as well as in considera
tion of public interests generally, to
observe the promise already made that
Cuba should not be annexed to the
United States, but that the people of
the island should be protected in the
free and full enjoyment of government
by the chosen representatives of its
own citizens."
"But do you not regard it as impor
tant that the United States should be
possessed of some one of the islands
in the West Indies group?" was asked.
"If any acquisition to our territory
is to be made in that locality," replied
Mr. Sherman, "it should be Porto Rico.
That is an island of no great size and
no considerable population; but, at the
same time, it is one occupying a strong
position to the eastward in the West
Indies group."
"Do you not look for oarly and deci
sive action regarding the annexation of
Hawaii as a result of the accomplish
ments of our navy in the Philippines?"
"There has long been, in both houses
of congress," said Mr. Sherman in re
ply, "a strong opinion that the Ha
waiian islands should be annexed to
the United States. The public institu
tions in that distant country were real
ly founded, for the most part, by the
missionaries, who, during the last half
of the present century, have been go-
I ing out and settling and remaining with
! those people. The population is known
to comprise at the present time a com
munity of quiet, inoffensive people, who
will readily acquiesce in the form of
government offered to them by this
country and Europeans in those isl
ands. We have, now, an opportunity to
secure there, on a permanent basis, a
coaling station and a harbor for our
ships. Further than that I do .not think
j the United States ought to go in the
I way of acquiring new territory. How-
I ever, this is a matter that must be
I settled by congress."
WOULDN'T ANNEX PHILIPPINES.
"Then It is to be' assumed you would
not favor a permanent occupancy of
the Philippines by the United States,"
was suggested.
"No," was the reply, "I should be
very sorry to see the United States
adopt the policy of acquiring territory
at so remote a distance from our shores,
and inhabited largely by a people who
are entire strangers to our institutions,
our public policy and even to our re
ligion. To become permanently possess
ed of these islands would be in the
nature of a wide departure from our
fixed principles and all our traditions."
Mr. Sherman in conclusion reverted
to the earlier part of the conversation
by saying: "Referring, again, to the
situation in Cuba, I think the m.'itter
of annexation .is out of the question,
inasmuch as both the president and
congivss, as well as popular opinion,
have announced to the world, as the
purpose of the United States, not to
acquire absolute control over Cuba by
annexation."
In regard to his visit to St. Paul and
his journeyings towards the coast, Mr.
Sherman said:
"My general idea is to go to Tacoma
and Seattle, and perhaps down to Port
land. We propose, also, to go up to
Sitka. We shall travel leisurely from
here to the Yellowstone Park, where we
will stop briefly, thence on over th«
mountains, stopping, probably, at half
a dozen places on the way. 1 have been
over the same ground nerore, but I am
very much interested in the growth of
all this section. I rfgard the Northwest
as the most hopeful and prosperous
portion of our country. I think Wash
ington will become a very largely popu
lous and prosperous state, as its re
sources are varied and abundant. When
I resigned from the state department
I had this trip in view and now I in
tend to take time enough to form an
estimate of the resources of Alaska.
and especially of the state of Washing
ton. I have visited the state twice in
th«; past, as well as Oregon, and have
been several times to California. We
are just going slowly along ond for
nothing else than recreation, and we
are both feeling the better for it, al
ready."
CUPID AT COURT HOUSE
CAUSBtD A GBHERAL COMHOTIOH
AMONG THE CLERKS
Tlie I-ov<-Ii«-st June Bride That Has
Been S.-en in the BvlMteg >md
Her HliiHliin^ (hoom I'rum Yel
low Medicine County I pset the
Dry lluiiiflrum *.•! OHieiul Life
Married by (apt. GalMefc.
The loveliest June bride that has put
in an appearance in the court house
for many a year fell into the hands of
Capt, Gallick yesterday. He married
liei» to a blushing groom amid the ap
plause of all of the young ladies who
are working on the details in the as
sessor's office. Never did unpreten
tious bride have the crowd of admiring
damsels in her train that Louisa Geiss
had. and not for many a day was there
a bride about the court house who cre
ated so much excitement.
She was not stately, and she did not
carry herself with the air that marks
the Vere de Vere, but that did not
make any difference. She came into the
court house from the Fourth street
side, hanging on the arm of her intend
ed. Henry Slough, the groom, had com c
| up out of Yellow Medicine county for
the purpose of meeting his bride. She
was really pretty as to face; was dark,
with fine features, and she was array
ed with as much regard for the con
venances as though the marriage was
to come off in St. George's, Hanover
square, and not within the dingy pre
cints of the civic mausoleum.
A pretty girl out of the assessor's of
fice told a Globe reporter that the
bride had on a white albatross dress,
trimmed with Valenciennes, with a
white brocaded silk sash and a picture
hat, also of the virginal -color, topp-id
with three plumes of ostrich feathers.
She carried a white parasol that was so
love4y that she could scarcely wait un
til she got clear of the entrance to the
hall to raise it— this was after she had
been made Mrs. Slough, according to
the ritual of Court Commissioner Gal
lick. The young lady who told the re
porter about the raiment said, inci
dentally, that the groom ought to be
ashamed of himself to look so uncon
cerned.
When they got to the door of the
clerk of court's office the young woman
weakened and let him go in by himself
The minute he arrived he was some
[ how identified as a prospective groom,
I and there was a rush on the part of
the clerks to get him. He was arrayed
in a spring suit with ice cream effects.
He had but barely made the proposi
tion that he wanted a marriage license
when one of Capt. Gallick's scouts
came to the front, and presently the
gallant captain himself came in. There
was a moment's conversation between
the groom and the captain, and the
young man from Yellow Medicine wag
led away a captive in the train of the
| court commissioner.
While this was hippenins the news
of rhe coming of the bride had g.,ne
j forth through the city hall. Treasurer
j Horst was at his door waiting to gee
iiie'i^iOcfssioi'i.
A young woman in a black md white
checked silk shirt waist hai ca ri d the
news into the courrty assrs-or's oi'Ac,;
ami thirty young women drew thtir
breath in admiration or lifted their
noses in scorn as the only she came
down the hall with the man of her
choice.
B^b Seng, Charlie Fairchi d and Reg
ister Krahmer and M. W. Fitzgerald
and Clerk Rogers lined up in the hall
way ai:d took off their hats while the
I procos=ion came down the line, and tie
musical soul of Clerk Brun*on, of the
board of public works, who happened
down at the time, was moved to the
whistling of the wedding march com
posed by the late Mr. Mendelssohn.
Capt. MeCardy pushed his head out
of his office for a moment, and per
mitted his fac^ to relax from the ma h
ensaticaJ pn posit on that it usual y .-ets
forth into the geom- trical s.mblan c of
a smile.
Even Judge Orr came up out of the
depths and smiled h:s approval, and
never aid 1 r:de and grcom of unofficial
station have such an audienc-e during
their march as r!id the young man f on
Yellowstone and pietty M ss Gelss.
The girls from the assessor's office
crowded after the wtdding rr c ssoi
until th? head of it, Capt. Gallick. ar
• rivrd at the marriage bureau. T.:e
; captain ushsied the 1 r da' pair into h a
i den aii a general would ush- - his b. - :
gade up to the enemy, th-n he fo'low-
Pd them in and shut the do r.
If Gallick only knew what the gir's
on the outside said of him when he
shut that door he would know ;h;t
his chances for politic il preferment
went glimmering that moment.
"Mean thing' 1 was the least of tha
epithets.
Wfithin the office was only the clerk
of the court commissioner, v pn I y
girl herself, who lent ihe re c s^ry
feminine assistance to the bride; C. F.
Arrol and M. J. Schorn, wh > were
quite willing to be witnesses to the
marriage. C.-p-. Gallick psrfoim d that
I ceremony of h : s wh eh !e ivea both
| bride ard groom in doubt t>s to wh ther
I they have been sentenced to be hung,
or really and truly rrarried, a" <i pro
i nounceel a qua"i:^el b.-r.e.iV.i n ih it
i has an official flavor. Then h ■ partid
i pated in the usu -:1 bridal favors, aad
j told thfrn that It w»:s all uve-.
i Mr. Slough was somewbai ab»tr;c el.
I Ho saluted the bride at the behest of
t.hf court commissioner, anl we ;t down
I aft:r h s roll. He took, an the: 1 'o k at
Mrs, Skragh as he pulkd out his wad,
and without a word of comment h.>
stripped off |25 and hand, d it to Capt.
Oalluk. Without the siigiitsrt regard
to precedent, the captain r< f us. d to
fi.ll dead and opened the door.
Then the procession took op its way
again to the door of the city hall, and
again there was a whistlim; eh rus, ac
companied by inrignant looks from the
young 'a'ly assessors. Tre b idil 1 air
went up Wabasha street, ard for some
reason known only to themselves and
the groom the witnesses of the cere
mony Wrnt a'onir.
Capt. Gallick bought cigars for ev
ery mnn in tfee city hall, and looked
really srorry when the demand fell off
for want of men wh.) would :m ke. .
The wedding was the second cere-"
mory cflpbratr<3 by the captain yester
day. The first was between a girl of
about seventeen and a man twenty
years her senior. There was no evl
j pence of a bridal in the an ay of the
couple. The groom was Alex Me Far
land, of Huron, Ont., and the bride
was Bt at rice Htdgins, of Tuscola.
Mich.
DAVIS BOUND OVEK.
Minns His CMC to Go to the Grand
Jury.
Paul Davis, the alleged all-round
crook, against whom several charges •
were made subsequent to his arrest
for the alleged burglary of Sehwabel's
saloon, 354 Jackson street, a week ago,
was arraigned in the municipal court
yesterday. The complaint against
Davis Is made by A. Rachelman, a West
Third street tailor, who claims he in
terrupted .Davis while the latter was
attempting to rob his store.
Davis waived examination and WM
hc!d to the grand Jury in $2,500 bail.