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THP] ST. PA^LJ^IBE
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11. 189 S.
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TUESDAY'S JA/EATHER.
O '.iler.
By ,- 9 United States Weather Bureau.
yix- -. tier in eastern portion;
brisk v t winds. IOWA- Cooler; west winds.
NORTH DAKOTA— Fair; northwest winds.
SOUTH DAKOTA Fair; no , rt j iwei^ I 'j|"i s -
MONTANA- Fair; ror'able wines. wiovUN
g<\ oler; brisk winds.
-,-••!, an s TEMPERATURES — St.
h 62; Huron, 58; Bismarck. 50;
Wi ■ [avre, 50; Helena, 48; Bdmon
.:■!>'., id, 4<: Prince Albert. 44; Cal
gary 42; Medicine Hat. 50; Swift Current. 48;
Bu'Anpe'.le 12; Mlnnedoaa, 4S; Winnipeg, 44.
YESTERDAY'S MEANS— Barometer. 29.01;
nil in t mperature. 63; relative humidity. 72;
v/ 1 !-,< , west; maximum temperature.
68 minimum temperature. 58; daily range, 10;
amount of precipitation (rain) in last
twenty-four hours. 1.7*.
RIVER AT S A. M.
Danger Gauge Change lv
Lino. Reading. 'X Hours.
Ft Paul j! 5'J
10 l.| -°-2
Davenp rl 15 O.b
St L. ills 3.4
. —Fall.
meter corrected far temperature
and — H. Volker, Observer.
P F. Lyons, the official in charge of the
bureau office, is attending the
convention of weather bureau officials at
Omaha Neb. this week. He has author'zed
Hermann Vclker, observer In charge during
bis p.bsence.
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKETS.
STATE. •
Governor JOHN LIND, Brown county
Lieut. Gov J. If. BOWLER, Renville
Sec. State J. J. HEINRICH, Honnepin
Treasurer ALEX. M'KINNON. Polk
Auditor GEORGE N. LAMPHERE, Clay
Attorney General. .JOHN F. KELbY, Ramsey
Clerk Sup. Court.... Z. H. AUSTIN, St. Loulb
Judges ITHOMAS CANTY. Hennepin
Supreme ,. 'DANIEL BUCK, Blue Earth
Court ,'WM. MITCHELL, Winona
FOR CONGRESS.
First District MILO WHITE
Second District D. H. EVANS
Third District CHARLES Q. HINDS
Fourth Distrlot JOHN W. WILLIS
Fifth District T. J. CATON
$lxth District CHARLES A. TOWNE
Seventh District P. M. RINGDAL
RAMSEY COUNTY.
Judge of District Court. .GEORGE L. BUNN
Judge of District Court.JAMES C. MICHAEL
Clerk of District Court.... JAMES A. MEADE
County Auditor WILLIAM PLATTE
County Treasurer ANTON MIESEN
County Sheriff JOHN WAGENER
Register of Deeds VICTOR C. GILMAN
County Attorney HERMAN OPPENHEIM
Judge of Probata Court... JOHN CAVANAGH
Abstract Clerk FRANK J. ELLES
Coroner OREN S. PINB
County Surveyor J. B. IRVINE
County Supt. of Schools. .. .JOHN A. HOGA.N
County Commissioners —
WILLIAM BROWN, CHARLES KARTAK,
£>. J. SULLIVAN, CHARLES REIF.
CHAS. MCARRON. OSCAR TANKENOFF.
RAMSEY COIXTY LEGISLATIVE.
Senators —
Thirty-third District. .EDWARD PETERSON
Thirty-fourth District _.R. S. M'NAMEE
Thirty-fifth District JOHN H. IVES
Thirty-sixth District... .JOHN E. STRYKER
Thirty-seventh' District P. H. ELLERBB
Representatives —
First Ward WILLIAM JOHNSON
Second Ward CHARLES LEIDMAN
Tiilrd Ward HENRY W. CORY
Fourth Ward JOHN J. O'CONNOR
Fifth Ward j. q. JUENEMANN
Sixth Ward A. L. GRAVES
Seventh Ward LOUIS D. WILKES
Eighth, West Part GEORGE F. UMLAND
Eighth-Ninth, S. Side W. B. HENNESSY
Eighth-Ninth, N. Side. .THOMAS F. MARTIN
- gth^Eleventh. Country A. KNOWLTON
It is one of Pennsylvania's very next
duties to ".shake" the people who
"shake the plum tree."
Admiral Cervera wants to be a sen
ator. That position is nothing to any
body'a credit, admiral. Matt Quay is
a sena t nr.
Y< How fever has broken out at She
boygan, Wis. Can't you get some
thing to advertise yourself, Kalama
■Oo, ?!ieh?
It was after all a mistake to annex
Liliuokalani. She is so deaf she can
not hear us.
tn another column of The Globe
will be found the full text of the open
ing address of the campaign by Lieut.
J'>:m Lind.
Theodore Roosevelt is experiencing
b riling early in his campaign.
Dixon has declared for him and
Rev. Parkhurst against him.
Snail's slowness at Paris may result
ln r ri asking her to take her
nd i>ut the remainder of her
i t where \w can sink It.
Chicago has a painter who Is color
I. II has been suspected for some
eral of the men who paint
houses in St. Paul are in the same con
dition.
There are several people around who
■neer at women, but there is no get
away from the fact that seven
womi n control two-thirds of the earth's
population and half its area.
Fritz Thaulow, the celebrated Nor
wegian painter, has arrived in New
York. He might break himself in gen
tly by painting some of the mules at
work on the Chicago crosstown lines.
The volcano Vesuvius isn't the only
pi bble on the beach. The American
navy's dynamite cruiser Vesuvius is a
little consternation producer itself when
it is in the business of coughing up.
Tho Btudy of cooking has been be
gun in the Chicago schools. It would
perhaps I pportun-e for somebody to
award members of the Chicago coun
cil diplomas for "cooking the other
fellow's goose" to a turn.
Geronimo sends word to the Minne
sota Indians to be good and be quick
about it. Geronimo has had his head
bumped against the brick wall known
as the United States army often enough
to know that no band of red men can
butt it over.
Reports from the counties of the
Seventh district indicate that Mr. Ring-
dal, Democratic candidate for congress,
is M>ing through the district like a
Morris park racer. His meetings are
everywhere largely attended, and the
enthusiasm ia such that there is no
mistaking the sentiments of the peo
ple. Mr. Ringdal already has Mr. Eddy
I>< aten, and the present outlook is that
the former's majority may reach 5,000.
The Outlook for Wheat.
The Globe does not Join heartily
with certain well informed men in re
gard to the general pessimistic ten
dency of the wheat market of the
Northwe.n. It Is undoubtedly true,
however, that the world's supply is
coming prominently to the front in the
shape of figures in a way that affords
indication of far less values being
placed upon the product than those of
last year.
It is always a mistake on the part,
of farmers to follow up a year of very
ki.erh prices for wheat, such as the Last
crop year was, with overplanting and
overcropping. A high price one year
stimulates overproduction the next
year, and the farmer inevitably Buffers
from falling into this practice.
American producers, this year, are
confronted with an aggregate gain over
last year of 88,000,000 bushels. There
is at present a world's Increase esti
mated in Europe of 236,000,000 bushels
over the crop of 1897, according to
Bradstreet's collection of reports. Even
in Russia the latest figures indicate
an increase that has not been hereto
fore regarded as possible.
It is folly to talk about the Argen
tine crop and its possibilities, for it is
not harvested until January and Feb
ruary, and reports from that source
are simply used as blinders. What on*
own producers must look to is the pres
ent condition prevailing in Europe.
There have been, unquestionably, gains
in almost every European locality, and.
only very .-light depreciation in the
Asiatic crops sj far as indicated.
Wheat stocks were extremely low at
the beginning of th>? present crop year;
but there has been a freer marketing
of new wheat, both ln the winter and
spring wheat sections, than was an
ticipated. The process of gaining in
Btock supplies has been slow, aoid in a
degree which has had a depressing ef
fect upon the market.
This is no year in which to make
comparisons with former years this
side of IS9I, so far as the month of
September is concerned. There is some
thing in the way of approximation of
volume between 1891 and 1898 to be
considered, and the figures are given
below for the years between 1889 and
1898 from Bradstreet's issue of Oct. 8,
as follows:
East. Pacific
of Rockies. Coast. Totals.
October 1, 1898 ...18.857.C00 4.(371,000 23 528 000
October 1, 1897 ...81,508,0(30 6,251.000 37 759 000
October 1, 1896 ... 63,975,0^0 5,451,000 69 409 000
October 1, 1895 ...55,078,000 9,760,00) (54 838 000
October 1, 1894 ...92,100,000 9,074,000 101 17<lV:00
October 1, 1893 ...71,108,000 7,162,000 78 270 000
October 1, 1592 . ..69,845,000 8,153,090 C 7 998 000
October 1, 1891 ...36.577.000 9,517,00) 46 094' 000
October 1, 1890 ...27,976,00) 0,105,001) 34(581000
October 1, ISS9 ...26,734,01,0 9,514,000 36 248,«00
The general stock of the country at
the different dates named is shown,
and it will be observed that the Amer
ican stock is considerably smaller than
last year; about one-third less than in
1895 or in 1896.
Bradstreet's also gives an outline of
the condition of things abroad in a
table which shows that the stocks in
European markets Oct. 1, 1898, were
about 15,000,000 bushels below those of
1897 at the same date. The same au
thority represents the stocks of Amer
ica and Europe combined at about 6G,
--000,000 bushels, while a year ago they
were 95,000,000 bushels, or about 30,000,
--000 bushels less.
The following are some of the figures
given by Bradstreet's taken from the
Liverpool Corn Trade News in regard
to stocks in Argentine and Australia,
together with those ln Europe and
afloat, as well as the United States
and Canada:
Europe and. Afloat— Oct. 1, 1!?98, 42,400,000;
Sept. 1, 1898. 37,030,000; Jan. 1, 1898, 71600 000;
Oct. 1, 1897, 57,300.000.
United States and Canada— Oct. 1, 1838, 23 -
528.(0.); Sept, 1, 1898. 18,393,000; Jan. 1, 1808,
60,834,000; Oct. 1, 1897, 37,759,000.
Australia— Oct. 1, 1898. 2,603,000; Sept. 1, 1898,
3,200,000; Jan. 1, IS9B, 870,000; Oct. 1, 189T
870.000.
Argentina— Oct. 1, IS9B, 736,000; Sept. 1, 1593
736.000.
Totals— Oct. 1, 1898, 69,264,000; Sept. 1. 1898,
54,359,000; Jan. 1, 1898, 133,304,000; Oct. 1,
1897. 95,929,000.
The situation, from a general point
cf view, so far as the producer of wheat
is concerned, is not at this time high
ly encouraging, much as we would like
to see it so. This has been a year of
excessive production of wheat, not
only in this country, but the world
over. These experiences do not bring
about high prices. The low stocks of
wheat existing throughout the coun
try are being so rapidly replenished
that advancing price is not to be an
ticipated. The export demand Is not
yet a settled point. It may come later,
but it is not likely to be anything more
than spasmodic for some time to come.
Covering of shorts by bears Is about
the only quantity that is likely to be
productive of profits or stimulation ln
prices for several weeks to come. There
is good ground for belief that the later
months of the crop year will see better
prices.
In the Matter of Grain Inspection.
There is something wrong evidently
in the administration of the law con
cerning the inspection of grain in Min
nesota. In an interview with Charles
A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, published
in The Globe Sept. 30, that gentleman
said: "Until men are all honest and
skillful there are bound to be mistakes
made somewhere; and no system of
handling wheat will be satisfactory to
the farmer that does not pay him a re
munerative price for his wheat."
These were the abrupt ideas express
ed by a business man thoroughly qual
ified to advance judgment on the par
ticular subject that he discusased.
The Inspection of grain by state of
ficials has undoubtedly in the past
given to Minnesota a reputation for its
product in wheat not enjoyed by any
other commonwealth of the Union. The
climate is especially adapted to the
growing of wheat and its seasoning. It
has come to pass that laws have to be
enacted in order to graduate the prod
uct to facilitate its sale at its highest
prices for milling and export. The law
as originally framed gave to certain
men, who should receive their appoint
ment to office, an arbitrary power which
ought not to be conferred anywhere
with the temptation that must neces
sarily exist in dealing with so impor
tant a matter.
Mr. Pillsbury, in the interview above
mentioned, frankly declared that he
could not see "how wheat can be han
dled in large quantities to be shipped
out of the state without being graded."
His theory on this point brings us back
to his earlier expressions quoted above,
to the effect that "until men are all
honest and skillful there are bound to
be mistakes made somewhere."
The skill involved requires on the
part of an inspector a knowledge of
THE ST. PAUL GLOBS TUESDAY OCTOBER 11, 1893.
what he is engaged ln doing. There
Is submitted to him a sample of grain
for inspection. The farmer who dis
posed of that wheat jnay have mar
keted it 200 or 300 miles from the point
of official inspection. Viewed along the
line of a general principle of right gov
ernment and conduct of commercial af
fairs it would seem that a producer
when he comes to sell a product should
receive for it precisely what it is worth
in the market, as . the value may be
judged by the purchaser, without the
intermediary service of an official,
either of the state or the federal gov
ernment.
It is Inevitable that out of a policy
of this kind evils will result. It may
be due to the Incapacity of the ofli
cial; it may also be due to his abso
lute dishonor; but no insinuation of
this sort is intended in the present
instance.
The Globe prints today the report
of a committee appointed at a meeting
held by upwards of 200 farmers on
Sept -4 last, at Moorhead, in this state.
There are several affidavits associated
with this report which are worthy of
perusal in connection with the viewa
above expressed in regard to the ex
istence of the law itself governing grain
inspection, as well as to the methods
by which the inspection is conducted.
The system of dockage Is arbitrary
and undoubtedly leads to the Infliction
o' much injustice wherever applied.
When the farmer ships his grlln, he
pays a freightage charge for the vol
ume that he believes he has deposited
In the car at his station. When thi«
dockage comes to be computed by the
grain inspector at some distant point
no consideration is given to the farmer
for the amount of his original freight
charge. The result is a wiping out of
much of his revenue from the sale of
his crop, and oftentimes the complete
expungement of his profit. One in
stance is referred to in this report, now
under consideration, of a farmer who
shipped to market 25.000 bushels of
wheat, which he regarded as No. 1
northern, but, when it had passed un
der the eye of the inspector, the grade
was fixed at No. 2, and his loss was
$2,500 as a result of the dockage and
the costs of freight for transportation.
This is not right.
Another instaiice is given of a loss
of $763 on a shipment of 12,000 bushels,
three-fourths of which was graded No.
2. Of course the freight rates represent
so much grain shipped. But even
this question depends very largely upon
the servants of the railroads them
selves, who simply indicate 'by marks
in the car, and its recorded capacity,
the volume that has been placed there
in. The point that is likely to be urged
In the future is that the grain shall be
actually measured or weighed at the
stations where it is delivered for trans
portation.
The ordinary farmer of the Northwest
is in no position, financially, to build
granaries in which to store his product.
He is driven necessarily to the market
as soon as the harvesting and thresh
ing period is over. If there are to be
laws governing this whole question of
grading the quality of grain, they
should be equitable laws, not looking
to the compensation of the grain in
spectors, receiving their appointments
from political powers, but to the inter
ests of the man who, through his la
bor, and self-denial, and thrift, pro
duces the crop.
School of Osculopathy.
The incident at Detroit in which
speech was restored to a mute girl by
the shock resultant upon a kiss has
served only to make fun for the para
graphers. Its serious side has been en
tirely overlooked. The hints that gave
the world Newton's law of gravitation,
Watt's steam engine and Harvey's
discovery of circulation were, however,
vague and blind compared with this
straight tip from nature. The infer
ence is so plain that it cannot be over
looked. Nature wants a new school of
medicine. For lac-k of a better name
it might be called osculopathy. The
possibilities of such a curative school
are dazzling. True, it might not be of
much value for acute strabismus,
though men have had their eyes opened
by a kiss, and for broken iimbs and
tuberculosis its utility is doubtful, but
as a tonic and stimulant the old schools
of medicine would have nothing to
compare with it. "That tired feeling"
would 'retire without a struggle before
such a course of treatment, heart fail
ure would be no more, and nostalgia
would efface itself from the list of hu
maai ailments.
Then, also, osculopathy would be
fully in line with human progress. Its
opportunities would be open alike to
either sex. In fact, its greatest suc
cesses would undoubtedly redound t#
the credit of the women. No man with
any sense of chivalry could long re
main un cured, no matter what his mal
ady, before osculopathy as practiced
by a competent doctor with the proper
amount of personal charm. Only one
drawback presents Itself in contem
plating the beauties of this newly dis
covered agent. It might result In epi
demic hypochondria. The man with
out an ailment would be compelled to
invent one. But this is a minor mat
ter. The world now has its long-sought
opportunity to combine business and
pleasure in the matter of its medicine
and ehould not overlook its advantage.
Kow the Germans Do It.
It behooves American business men
to reduce the search for export mar
kets to some sort of system, if they
are going to compete successfully with
other nations. Germany sent out a
regularly organized export commission
two years ago to study the markets
of China, Korea and Japan and to
bring back not only exact and techni
cal information, but samples of prod
ucts most in demand in those coun
tries.
These samples were arranged In an
upper story of the palace of the im
perial diet at Berlin, where German
merchants and manufacturers could in
spect them, by getting a card of ad
mission from the official in charge.
Afterwards the collection was distrib
uted to places in the empire where
similar goods are made. The report
of the commission was not made pub
lic, as it was desired to keep its re
sults for the exclusive use of German
merchants.
F. H. Mason, the American consul
general at Frankfort, urges the organ
ization of' a like commission for the
benefit of American merchants. It
should be made up of "well-trained
young men, with good manners, a prac
tical command of French, German and
Spanish, combined with intimate
knowledge of a certain class of man
ufactured goods, and the commercial
methods, currencies, weights, measures
and customs of foreign countries."
Not the First Frost.
The first frost from Indiana, reported last
night, was evidently a mistake. That event
occurred sbme weeks ago, when Lew Wallace
offered his services as a major general. — Chi
cago Record.
Ep/s(/es to St Paul.
"I'd go and buy," remarked the offices eeker
to the officeholder, "but I have only money
enough to pay my rent, which 1b Just about
duo "
"You ought never to be handicapped In a
desire to perform a quod act by limitations of
that kind. Just take a look at the system of
my friend MeCardy,", said the officeholder.
"That would never bother him. He would
simply make a transfer from one fund to
another. You have money in the rent fund
but none in t'ho grocery or booze fund. As
Manager of all funds you can *ike a certain
sum out of the reut fund, add it to the gen
eral, then let the general fund make a loan
to the boozo fund and there you are. You
have now the prl<jj» aoid a llightly Impaired
rent fund which will ,be niad^ whole when
the general fund is fattened a little."
• * •
A man sat near the door of a crowded Selby
car during the storm Sunday evening. Every
person v/iio got into the car all the way up
l\>urth street stepped on the foot of the man
near the door, and ho swore fervently and
tried to smile aciv-p-tance of apologies until
ho was tired. On upper Third street a
woman stood up, threw h r weight on to the
one foot that she placed carefully on the foot
of the suffering man, and shook her umbrella
at the conductor.
"Pleasant avenue," yelled the conductor.
"Yes, isn't it?" shouted the man who had
*een stepped on, pulling his loot away. "It'«
a Pleasant avenue and a pleasant evening and
I'd like to break your dodgttated face."
Then he jumped off the car and fell In a
pool of water.
Dramatic and Musical.
METROPOLITAN.
Magic and mystery reigned supreme for
tvo and a half hours at the Metropolitan last
night under the guidance of Kellar; so myste
rious, in fact, were some of Kellar's trlcka,
as he styles them, that it robbed one of
the pleasure of following them, for, try as
one might, it was impossible to form any
conclusion as to how they might be done.
Kellar's mysteries differ from the feats per
formed by other magicians. They seem to
be distinctively his own and are peculiar in
that he has little occasion to caution his
audience to watch him closely. Aside from
the first half hour of the evening he seldom
uses sleight-of-hand. Nearly all that he
does that might be classed under that head
is confined to the first few minutes that
he is before the audience. It is exceedingly
clever, although not new.
Mrs. Kellar takes a prominent part In the
evening's entertainment, and mystifies the
audience as much as ever with her feats in
thought transference.
The first part of the entertainment con
cludes with what Kellar styles a rapid and
highly satisfactory manner in which to rid
one's self of a wife. Mrs. Kellar is seated on
a chair under a framework of wood and is
then drawn up several feet from the floor
and suspended in midair. When all is ready
Kellar reaches for a pistol and apparently
fires three or four shots In rapid succession
at his wife, and, before he can lower the
plEtol she disappears from view, like a flash.
Where does she go? That is the mystery.
In the second part Mrs. Kel'.ar was blind
folded and from the stage correctly stated
the denomination and the numbers on sev
eral bank notes obtained at random in the
audience. She squared and cubed numbers
that shs apparently did not know and eou'.d
not see, In a most remarkable manner. Much
of the second part is devoted to spiritualistic
and cabinet work, and is clever beyond de
scription.
The entertainment closes with a reproduc
tion of Kellar's blue room, and in this his
work is m-ost wonderful. He appears and
disappears at will. One moment he i 3 seated
in a chair at the rear of the stage, and while
you watch him he seems to fade from view,
and you are looking at — nothing — or in h'.a
stead will be a grinning skeleton. It Is la
this part that he apparently parts with his
head and while it is seen soaring skyward,
Kellar appears safe and sound, and while one
is wondering at the awfulaess of it where
Kellar so recently lost his head, a beautiful
rose bush, covered with full-bloom roses,
is seen, and, rising out of it, is Mrs. Kellar,
the Queen of Roses. It is all most mystifying
and wonderful.
The Minnesota Press.
Out of the 300 Republican country news
papers in Minnesota, only about forty ara
supporting William Henry Eustis for governor
with any degre-e of enthusiasm. What' 3 the
reason? — Anoka Union.
• « *
It is a campaign of the corporations against
the people, and the result dapends upon the
people. If they stand for principle they will
win, otherwise they will lasa. — Buffalo Jour
nal.
• ♦ •
With a Republican head, a Democratic heart
and a Populist liver, the Minneapolis Times
needs only a Prohibitionist conscience to make
it an ideal candidate for something, itself.—
Princeton Union.
• ♦ »
Donnelly's spirit must be a reincarnation
from the days of "Ragnarok," the era of fire
and gravel. This would account for the fire
that is in his speech and the sand that is in
his craw. There may be something In the
osophy, after all.— Paribault Pilot.
• • «
John Llnd is gaining in strength every day
of the week, and the outlook for hia election
is most promising. A united effort on the
part of all opposed to the giant monopolies
of tho day will place him in the governor's
chair.— Chaska Herald.
• • •
It is conceded that John Llnd made tho
best quartermaster with any of the regiments
from this state. Gov. Clough has even ex
pressed his pleasure over the satisfactory
manner in which he looked after the welfare
of the Twelfth regiment, yet the Minneapolis
Journal sees fit to single him out for attack,
simply because, he is a candidate for governor.
—Blue Earth County Enterprise.
• • •
There was no Republican enthusiasm shown
the past week among the G. A. R. The
local politicians of the Republican faith are
following in the footsteps of the gubernato
rial candidate when the old soldier Is turned
down. These same old soldiers will be heard
from when the voto is counted. — Worthington
Globe.
• • *
The St. Paul Dispatch is pursuing similar
political tactics to those which characterized
It* course two years ago when John Llnd
was a candidate for governor. That paper
lied about him as only a partisan can lie.
Winona Herald.
Intermittent Death.
The emperor of China, if the newspaper
dispatches could be believed, has recently
been indulging in a most remarkable serlei
of intermittent deaths and resurrections.—
Chicago Times-Herald.
i ___
Amaze Him Some M<nr«.
Alg«r seems amazed that a Boldlar e«uld
get hungry or thirsty or sick. List th« In
vestigation commission amaze him in an
other way.— Kansas City Times.
WHEN HIS WIFE IS AWAY.
Of all the insidious.
Temptations invidious.
Contrived by the pulling men down
There's none; more delusive
Seductive, abusive,.
Than the enaro %) a toan with hU wife out.
of town.
He feels such doubtfulness.
Stay-out-all-nightfrilnesß,
Sure-tu-get-tlghtfulness—
I own with pain —
A bachelor's rakish ness,
What-wM-you-takishness,
None can explain.
His wife may be beautifuL
Tender and dutiful.
'Tis not that her absence
Would cause him delight:
But the cursed opportunity
Baleful Immunity.
Scatters his scruples as day scatters night.
—Augusta (Qa.) Herald.
IN WOMAN'S REALM.
THE CLUB CORNER.
The Globe desires to make its club cor
ner a clear and faithful reflector of Minne
sota organizations and to this end extends
to tu«m an urgent Invitation to use its
space as an open parliament. The roster of
clubs, which la about completed, shows that
many have taken up the same themes of
I study for the year. It will be helpful to
the clubs themselves and instructive and ln-
I teresting to others to compare the results
|of these various discuasiojjsi and researches.
j If each organization will forward to the
j department the Questions discussed at its
I meeting and the decisions reached, tho in
formation will be given Its proper setting
by reference to this club roster. Thli wrk
will be further facilitated, both for the club
secretaries and the department. If those
who have not done go will send to us copies
of their current programmes.
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The largest Individual club in the country-
Is the Alumnae Association of the Girls' Hleh
and Normal School of Philadelphia. It has
a membership of 1,700, including fcome of the
moat famous women of the land.
♦ ♦ •
The Colonial Dames of the State of New
York have issued a volume entitled "Tie
dot^ ,/!? Bter -" U is a quarto ' bOUQd «■
uom of the popular colonial yellow; tha
l linings and letterings are blue, and the ao
p.-arance of the book Is inviting. On heavy
cream paper the reports cf the secretary from
its foundation are printed.
• • ♦'
The Looking Forward Club of New York
City Is an organization fo.med am ;ng and
open to the 2,0C0 women employ* in John
Wanamaker's store. The purpose of the club
Is social recreation and intellectual improve
ment. Mrs. Florence M. Stowell was it. dele
gate to the Denver biennial, and read a ta
per before the convention, describing the ac
tivities of her club.
GOOD WORDsIoR THE CLUB.
The woman's club is the logical outcome of
the needs of education. It is the mather'a
training school. But there must be unit
of purpose between mother and teacher The
latter has struggled long for that end It
has been the work of the ciub to accomolish
it.— The Clubwoman.
♦ • *
The school board has a right to expect from
the women's clubs greatly needed moral sup
port In all its jud = cious efforts. It also faeU
that merited censure wi!l be forthcoming for
any narrow-minded policy which cripples the
efficiency of the schools.— lrma T. Jones.
• • •
Club women ara now learning the most
needed lesson of all. to work from the too
downward, to reach the masses, to deve'oj?
the Idea of the sisterhood of all women, and
help bring all together on one plane— to be.
; in fret, a strong, helpful, elevating force.—
El.en M. Henrotin.
• * «
A house is no home unless It contains food
and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
For human beings are not so constituted that
they can live without expansion. If they do
flot get it in one vay, they must In another,
or perish.— Margaret Fuller Ossoli.
• • *
Our homes, our schools, our public library,
the neglected and untidy corners and alleys
of our streets, the sweet gongs of multitudes
of tiny, trembling warblers invite the sympa
thetic, intell'gant concern of each woman and
each club.— Helen Winslow.
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In general we lack business methods, we
lack familiarity with parliamentary law. In
nearly every club calendar sent to us we
find art and music arranged for study, art
sometimes made interesting by photographic
reproduction, and the stereopticon. This is
most commendable, but we ought not to omit
the discussions of subjects dear to every
Churches and Their Work.
The Twin City Luther league will hod
its semi-annual convention today at St.
John's English Evangelical Lutheran church,
of Minneapolis, Chicago avenue and Seven
teenth street east. The convention will open'
in the afternoon, and will consist of twj ses
sions. The afternoon session will be devotei
to the transaction of business and th 3 dis
cussion of papcis on the following siibje^ta:
"English in Re'ation to the Wo:k of Our
Lutheran Church in the West," by Rev. G.
H. Trabert, D. D., and "The- Luther Leagu?
as the Pastor's Aid," by Rev. N. J. LLove.h y e.
At the evening session a literary and mv leal
programme will be rendered.
The Twin City Luther league Is compo c]
of various Luther leagues and Young P. o
ple's societies of the different Luli'iai
churches of both cities.
* • *
The Presbyterian Syncd of Mlnneso a will
celebrate the 2;.ot'h anniversary of the founda
tion of the Presbyterian church at iti an
nual meeting, which will bo held in Duluth
Thursday evening cf this week. A fpeclal
coach will be attached to the St. Paul &
Duluth train leaving at 2:15 p. m., which
will carry the !-;t. Paul clergymen to Duluth,
arriving in Duluth for the opening tesio/i
of the synod on Thursday evening. Add es*cs
will bo made by a number of well known
Minnesota clergymen, among whom are sev
eral Twin City ministers who wiil contribute
to the programme. The exercize* will be fully
in keeping with the importance of the ovent.
♦ • •
Aa all-day sewing meeting will b3 held
today in the church parlors of the House
of Hope church by the women cf th? Home
Missionary society. Lunch v. ill be served at
1 o'clock to those in attendance.
« • •
Tho Young People's Society of the Hou«a
of Hope Church will give a social oa Friday
evening, Oct. 14. at 8 o'clock.
* • •
The result of the recent Illinois W. C. T.
U. state convention, held at Elgin, in regard
to the much-discussed temple queeticn, Is
considered by nearly all of the St. Paul wom
en interested to be a forerunner r.f the do
feat of the question at tho national conven
tion which will be he'd here In Noverubo".
Mrs. Carse and her staff spent all of Sat
urday trying to gain the support of tha con
vention at Elgin. The delegates refused to
take any action, and the question was laid
on the table.
It i* the general feeling in St. Paul that th«
idea of trying to save the temple shou'd bs
given up and the money acd energy ot tho
unions devoted to their lezitimita wcrk.
There remain but four states now that have
not decided to withdraw their support from
Mrs. Carse, Ohio being the la»t state to de
cide against her.
Mrs. Carso was asked at th» Illinois con
vention if she did not issua the bonds for
the temple while Miss WiUard was in Can
ada, and if both Miss Willard and Mr 3.
Stevens did not disapprove of her action.
Mrs. Carse, who use* the memory and U.'e
of Misa Willard as on© of her strongest plea^.
was at a losa for an answer, but finally re
plied that her action was afterward ratified.
This will undoubtedly be discussed freely at
the national couvention.
SLIDING BACKWARD.
Retrograde Movement in China.
Hastened by Dowaßer Bmpreis.
LONDON, Oct. 11.— The Pekln corre
spondent of the Times says:
"The retrograde movement continues.
An imperial edict orders the suppres
sion of the native press and the pun
ishment of the editors. It also cancels
the new methods promulgated during
the past few months. The last step
must give general satisfaction since the
proposed changes were too radical for
the people. All officials who have sign
ed memorials In favor of reforms have
been dismissed from office. The board
of agriculture is abolished, its presi
dent, Wu Ma Timg, comptroller of the
Hong Kong and Shanghai bank, being
deprived of his ranlk. A memorial
impeaches him as a 'slave of foreign
devils.' The contract fox* the Niu
Chwang railway extension loan has '
woman as the member of a home. It has
been trufly said that "it takes brains to run
a modern kitchen."— Mrs. H. H. Pyle, first
vice president, Connecticut Federation.
FLYING EMUKHS.
A minister of the seventeenth century
unwittingly perpetuated his name- by
beginning hl3 teimon thus: "Arriving
at the Mount of St. Mary's, in the stony stago
where I now stand, I havfr brought you some
flna biscuits, baked In the oven of Charity,
carefully conserved for the chickens of the
church, the sparrows of tne spirit and tho
sweet swallows of salvation."
The late queen of Denmark, though the
grandmother of so many sovereigns, did not
e::pect to be a quet-n harielf. Wben, at t\7;nty
four, she maiYied Prince Christian of Sch es
wig-liolsteJn-Sundtrburg Giuecksburg, thera
was not the least expectation that shs would
ever come to the throne of Denmark. The
prince was about her own age, and both weia
very poor. Louise had nothing and Christian
no more of an income than would comfcrtabiy
keep a bank clerk. The young princess began
married life with an attention to her house
hold r.ffairs seldom seen In royalty. She iook
ed after the penu/es, while Prince Christian,
It is toid, gave drawing lessons to help out.
• • •
A Maryland law, which goes into effect
Jan. 1, gives the husband the eanie marital
rights in his wife's property as the wife has
under exiating law in her husband's property.
Each will have dower rights. The change
givea to the husband more of property righ:s
than he enjoyed under the now obsolete com
mon-law riijht of "courtesy." The latUr was
a contingency upon the birth of a chim, and
gave the husband a life interest in all the
landed property of his wife. The husband'g
new rights fasten on the wife's property the
moment she brings it into matrimony or ac
quires it thereafter by inheritance, gift, or
purchase, unless steps have been taken to
keep him out of it. Should ho not waive them
or by joining her in a deed of her property
convey it to a purchaser, his olaim to each
piece or parcel to the extent of one-third con
tinues until after her death, wh«>n he becomes
a life tenant of his one-third. The new right
will attach even thougli the parties are sep
arated, but not absolutely divorced. In brief
the statute aims to give both husband and
wife, widow and widower, respectively, the
same or an equal share in each other's prop
erty under like conditions at de-ath, and equal
rights in property in all respects.
• • ♦
A floating dental shop that may be towel
all about Florida waters is a device of Dr.
F. H. Houghton. It Is to be used thie win
ter when Northern people migrate to the
land of sunshine, flowers and white sand,
and are troubled with aching molars.
Titles of Adnlation.
The African king of Monomotipa, a king
dom, described by ancient Portuguese writers
in a highly fanciful way, is surrounded, ac
cording to their accounts, by musicians and
poets who thrive In his atmosphere and who
"adulate him by such refined flaitieri s aa
the lord of the sun and moon, great magi
cian and great thief."
The king of Persia is called "branch o!
honor, mirror of virtue, rose of del*glit."
His majesty of Ava is called God, and in
his correspondence with royalty style 3 h m
self king of kingis, and ina:st3 upon b ing
obeyed, as he attends to the preservation o'
animals— an ambiguous conclusion, to which
foreign royalty might reasonably object. He
is also regulator of the s:a3cn?, t'.:e abs^luti
master of the ebb and flow of the «ea, broth
er to the sun and king of the four-and-twenty
umbrellas. To mark his dignity the four
and-twenty useful and often plebeai ert'cles
are always carried before the eugist mon
arch.
The most striking titles of the king of
Achem are sovereign of the universe, whose
body is as luminous as th 9 sun, whom Goi
created to be as accomplished as the moon
at her plenitude, whoee eye glitter* like t '. c
northern star; a king as spiritual as a bill
is round; who, when he rises, shades all h«
people.
In the age of Augustulus, your eternity
and your perpetuity were not unusual titles.
A law of Theodora the Great begins: "If
any magistrate, after having concluded a pub
lic work, put his name rather than that of
our perpetuity, let him be adj"dg.d guilty
of high treason." When Caesar had con
quered Rome and was put to d!ne with the
godis, he had the good taste try i^s'st on tns
removal of his new tit'e, djmi-ged, from his
statue at the capitol.
been signed by the Hong Kong- and
Shanghai bank."
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Times says:
"Huang 1 , formerly consul at Sing
apore, and later minister designatory
of the Chinese in Japan, was arrested
here today by order of the empress
dowager for complicity in the general
reform movement. Her general pro
scription gives satisfaction."
TIME IS UP.
Spaniards Musi Get Ont of Porto
Rico AViihin n Month.
SAN JUAN DE PORTO RICO, Oct.
10. — Wild rumors of depredations in the
western part of the island continue,
but there is little foundation for them,
though a certain disorderly element is
still seeking the opportunity of personal
vengeance. Inquiry here as to these
stories, which are of Spanlßh origin,
shows that they are greatly exagger
ated.
The Spanish evacuation of Vega Alta
Vega Baja, Tea Alta, Toa Baja, Dora
da, Barcelonet and M.anao was delay
ed owing to the rains and floods, but
it is proceeding now. The American
evacuation commissioners received an
important communication from Wash
ington yesterday, and at the joint ses
sion today the Americans told the
Spaniards it would be necessary to
complete the evacuation by Oct. 18, un
dertaking to supply transportation for
the remaining Spanish forces, if it was
necessary. The Spanish freight steam
er, due to sail here tomorrow, has been
ordered to remain here, probably to be
used for Che transportation of Spanish
troops.
EXPECT GENEROSITY.
Spnnlßpdn Are Depending Upon
KimlllneKS o f Americans.
PAFtrs. Oct. 10.— The Gaulois this
morning reviews the political situation
and draws the conclusion tbat "be
tween the alleged Republican purpose
of expansion and the Democratic op
position thereto President McKlnley
and the American commission will r>e
inspired after all with the sentiments
of generosity, which are the honor of
victorious nations. The keynote of
these expressions seems to have been
sounded by a Spanish diplomat to an
American hero last week, the diplo
mat saying that the United States
should be generous to Spain."
A dispatch from Madrid this after
noon s?ys that the cost of the Cuban
and Philippine campaigns will exceed
3,000,000,000 pesetas.
M. Juice Cani'hon, the former French
ambassador at Washington, arrived in
Paris today. He will remain here for
two months.
OPPOSE ALLIANCE.
Parncllltpa Would Not Like to See
England and America I nitcd.
DUBLIN, Oct. 10.— The Parnelllte
convention was opened here today.
John E. Redmond, presiding, said it
was Incredulous that a statesman with
Mr. Chamberlain's experience and
astuteness should declare that the pass
ing- of the Irish lg-cal government bill
satisfied the aspirations of Irishmen
The Farnellitus would not ho satisfied
until they secured home rule. Reso
lutions were passed in favor of home
rule, approving the local government
act, denouncing the project of an An
glo-American alliance and uraring the
release of political prisoners.
Harvard Heroeii.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. Oct. 10—The Har
vard Crimson publishes a Ist of Harvard
men wbo wore !n the mllita-y or naval serv
ice of the United States during ihe w.tr. T.-e
list comprise? 1134 names, of Which eighty-two
wore tho-e of men who were in tha under
graduate departments last year. Th.ro ws>. o
eight deaths, among them being P. A. Cnc.
'94. private in the Fiftieth bwa; .1. T. Fur
ness, '98, corporal in ttn< Forty-ninth Iowa;
W. W. Lahman, '90, private in th« First
Illinois.
Qniet Day in Kansas City.
No Kansas City train robbery yesterday.—
Chicago Tribune.
ONLY REAL CHARITY
j THAT DISTRIBUTED ALOMi THI3
LINES OP CAREFUL ORGAN
IZATION AND WORK
HOW IT WORKS IN ST. PAUL
Tola at «, ie An nuas MeoMnK of the
Associated tharluo, R nir)rt ,
of the Various Officer* Sub.nlUed
Her. S. G. SSt.m., t .m. ,. alfl |fee ( . <Mn
l>liittent of v Four tli He-elidlon
to the President; y.
The active Interest that the mem
j bers of the corporate body known aa
I the Associated Charities of St. Paul
| have in that institution was demon-
I stnated yesterday afternoon when it
I was shown that the largre office la the
mayors suite at the city hall was not
capable of holding the ladies and ffen
tleir.en who had come together for the
purposes of the annual meeting of the
££*&*• The awttog was no!
large, but at once representative of the
interests allied in the name of charity
and included all creeds and conditions
of men and women. The meeting was
largely given up to Latenlng to
routine reports and the extension of
congratulations to the varied interests.
Tne president. Rev. S. G. Smith, was
m the chair, and during the meeting
he was paid the compliment of a fourth
re-election to the presidency, the other
officers being also re-elected.
In calling the meetiin^ to order Dr.
Smith desired to say incidentally that
the work of the association during the
past year had been quite as satisfac
tory as any of the preceding years,
and that it had demonstrated very
clearly that organized, scientific char
ity was the only real charity.
Secretary T. A. Abbott, of the board
of trustees, called the roll of the allied
charities and it was shown that there
were thirty-five of the ind.vldual bod
ies represented. Mr. Abbott then read
the report of the board of trustees in
part as follows:
It may be well to review the objects sought
to be accomplished, and, at the risk of be
ir.g tiresome, refresh our minds as to the
need of this machinery.
First is investigation. Wo have now record*
of over 13,000 cases and have carefully In
vestigated more than 7,000, of which, over 1.200
have been added during the year jUHt closed.
This means that all measures at relief by the
city and county, cr by the different charitable
bodies, are carefully administered, usually wtth
wisdom, so that money paid in taxes or vol
untarily contributed for the relief of the
poor, the sick, the suffering is well spent;
that no one in authority has a crowd of un
worthy dependents who are fed at the publlo
crib and supported in idleness; that none axe
recipients of bounties from siveral
sourc&B, while others are neglected by alii
that the poor are not pauperized and so hand
icapped In the struggle of existence.
Let me cite two Instances of what is being
accomplished: The chief almoner of our city
and county la the board of control, whlcti
last year expended nearly $10.0v0. fJ9.578.05) *
for provisions and fuel alone. This body, aa
you know, Is non-political and non-partisan
and its work is so admirab'.p that no deserving
person is omitted from the ministrations. It
has been our duty to serve it by investigating
applications fcr relief, and our intimate and
cordial relations with it have excited the
wonder and envy of our sister organizations
in other cities. Now note result: Loss
money per capita appropriation U expended
in Ramsey county for out door relief than in
any county of like size and surroundings In
the country. This per capita has so decreased
since 1892, when we were organized, that afl
compared with other cities, we now spend
66 per cent, while formerly we spent 160 per
cent. It total expenses of the Associated
Charities were now added to the outlay of the
board of control, each citizen of St. Paul
would still be taxed less than the citizens of
auy ether town in the United States, simi
larly situat?>d. For these re-arons wo be
lieve that if all our money and energy w^re
spent in investigation alone they wouid be
well spent.
But, besides investigations, a good share of
time and money is spf nt in fri< r.dly visiting,
of which you are already apprised.
This is the second line along which we
opened our energy and Income. The third la
provident snvirgs, whose object is to t ach
the value and virtue of thrift and to show by
direct eXompL 1 hew quickly cents grow to
dimes and dimes to dollars.
FRIENDLY VISITING.
In directing the acceptance of the re
port Dr. Smith said that he wished it
to be understood that the board by no
means assumed credit for all of the
work performed and desired particular
ly to commend the work of some of
the minor bodies.
Miss Clara Sommers made the ro
port for the Friendly Visitors. She
said in part:
The modern idep. of charit thy
charity ties ifi the prevention hihl cure of
pauperism rather th?.n in giving mat rial
aid. Tiiis aim Uip friendly vial or att<
to accomplish by seeking Otil tb« poor, visit
ing them, and giving cer ti The
growth of this movement in 1 ' : . - city
been slow so far as in mben
but judged by the kind of work done, rather
than, by the number of ■ h ,vo
every enu 3 * f>ir ootigratnlationa.
All ihs tle.ds aid kindness and I
one friend does to another are !onc by th' 1
friendly visitors for the! 1 - poor frlendi. and
in all their Intercourse then I
never can be any thought cr givil £ ;>!ms.
SECffcETARY GtyTRIDGE'S PIOI EUBB.
The general secretary, Mr. Ga'rldg*, In
hi 3 report, amongst <U',icr things, raid:
During the pait year wo hmstlcfttftd 1..21
casec of neei, of whom 646 wrr> new. Dur
ing the previous year t'ac corr p iul.n<
figures were 1,303 and 661; a Statement which
shows less distress last year than the pre
ceding year.
"Of the €43 new cases which came to us
94 wero not in nesd; besides this 31 wora
false addresses, a plin sometimes resorted to
by undeserving apflcants whe:i they il*«
cover an investigation is to bo mad . Thus
117 of the 646, 20 per cent, rcoiuir .1 not line.
It is Sometime* very difficult, :i!mo3t iiii;
ble to tree* the underlying cans*] o." the
distress. Tlios.; which frequently ippear
however, arc well known: Intci'ipo:- in- \ in
provirience or extravagance, laslnen or ihltt
lessneaa, Inefficiency or brainle*sne * nnd \in
wis^ philsnthropny or Riving wi': out chrty.
Th« highest expression of eharitt la
whose purpose it Is to pi
. to w.-.nt. This the /
aims to do by its parlor c>nf« 1 Lj
Its departments ci provKteai
friendly visitor*.
ELECTION v k F IRS.
D. R. Noyes moved the adoption
the report of ilnating c unmit
tee on officers for t!ie ensuing >-«m:
the secretary was baatructed to
the ballot of the association for tlw
tpltowlng Hat:
President, Dr. S. G. Smith; vice pres
ident, Rev. J. F. Dolphin; treasurer,
E. W. Peet; secretary, T. a. Aftbott;
board of trustees, T. A. Abbott, R v.
J. F. Dolph'p, J. F. Jackson. Vrs. C.
G. Hig-bpe. Rev. J. .T. Lawler, D. R.
Noyes, E. \v. Peet, P. M. Kent, Rev.
8. t;. Smith, Mrs. O, B. Tounff.
Treasurer E. W. Peet made a br:rf
but very satisfactory report. Ho show
ed that the association received $3
during the past year and had dis
bursed it all with the exception of $7ft,
which still remained in the treasury.
The following dclt>g-atcs to the state
meeting of Associated Charities, to be
held at^ Still water. Oct. 15, wore named:
W. W. Wilson, A. W. Gutridge, Mi---
G. B. Tour.?. Mrs. H. S. Fairch.ld,
George Qerlach, Mrs. C B, Beveranea
and Rev. J. J. Lawter.
Condition* at BaattaS**
WASHINGTON, Oct. ».— C --^rd
TV--od re] orl i tn the war l * ht
that two deaths occurred ■monjc the A
lean troops at Santiago on th • Ra ii--.t. uu
"SStSgJ^STW -AdjcUnt <*ne a W
fnsfton- Fever case \ j!1 k:ndi, ■■"•; t >:ii
sickness 1130. fVeaths Oct. 8: .1 ihoa W.
Johnson,' Company B, Third Dnlti
volunteers, yellow fever; All
corpora!. Company L, Ninth I
volunteers, bilious foyer. —
nrigaclricr General Vnlun p.rs. Con-m ndirg.
l!nrd on tl«o Chiid.
When a wsaaaa says that ore of li°r -!iil
dren looks like her husbamVs f mily It 'a
lior way of admitting that it U i'ot as gi od
looUlng as the rest.— Atchlson Globe.