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t"HE ST. PAUL taWiiE
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 18*8.
Associated IVaM New .
CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS;
By~~Cair 7ie7~7 . I Imu o mo« il2 mom
Dally only 40 c ( $ 2 . 2 5 ,* 4 . • •
Dally and Sunday.. . 60 c | 2 . 75 j »•«•
Sunday loci .7a) l.» 0
COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
by Mall I 1 mo i <~a»o«_l 1- mo "
Baily only ]. 2 6 c if 1 . 6 0 j* 3 . 0 J
Daily and Sunday..!. 36c| 2.00 f• 0 0
Sunday I .75 1-6J
Weekly 1 1 •75 I 1.00
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SUNDAY'S WEATHER.
Warmer.
T'y the T'nited States Weather Bureau.
MINNESOTA Warmer, wi:h Increasing
rtendlneea and .snow Sunday afternoon or
nigiit; southerly winds, bfcoming brisk and
high. NORTH" IjAKOTA— Warmer; increas
ing cloudiness, and probably snow; southerly
■wind*. SOUTH I >AK()TA— Warmer; Increts- \
ing cloudiness and probkWy snow; southerly
winds. NEBRASKA -Warmer; Increasing
cloudiness and probably snow; soutuerly
winds. WISCONSIN— Warmer, with increas
ing cloudiness and snow Sunday afternoon or
night; southerly winds, becoming brisk and
high. lOWA— Warmer, with increasing
cloudiness and snow Sunday afternoon or
night; southerly winds, becoming brisk and
high. MONTANA— PartIy cloudy; colder;
westerly winds.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES— BuffaIo,
24-30; Boston, 32-32; Chicago, H-18; Cincin
nati, 18-24; Montreal, 14-18; New York, 26-38;
Pittabarg, 18-32.
YESTERDAY'S MEANS— Barometer, 30.39;
mean temperature, 1; relative humidity, 80;
wind at 8 p. m., southeast; weather, clear:
maximum temperature, 9; minimum tempera
ture, —7; daily range, 16; amount of precipi
tation (rain and melted snow) in last twenty
four hours, 0.
Note — Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer.
Reform the Ballot Law.
It must be apparent to intelligent
and thoughtful citizens that the form
of ballot in use in this state is unfair
ti> the candidate and unjust to the
A'nter, and particularly the latter, if
lie is lacking in educational qualifica
tions. It has been estimated that the
average loss, in every election, of votes
o>i the bottom-of-the-tieket candidates
is about 25 per cent as compared with
tin- votes on the top-of-the-ticket can
didates. This may not be the correct
average, but whatever it is.it figures
against the chances of election of those
candidates well down on the list.
This is the candidate's point of view.
The voter's view is that he is entitled
to the freest opportunity for express
ing his choice on the day of election;
that he should be privileged to vote for
every candidate of his party, if he be
a party man, in the simplest and most
< > pedtttova manner. If he wants to
scratch Pome candidates of his own
and vote for friends or whomso
ever he oo tuidefs a better candidate
•ther party, h<- should be al
lowed thai privilege. It may truly be
thai h >■ do both these things
with, in.- present form of ballot; but
ex] erience justifies the assertion that
;. vast numl er of voters san tin neither
way thai enables them to leave
•oth in the full consciousness that
have satisfactorily performed the
which was uppermost In their
i Indi . when they stepped Into the
.. and v. d with a.
s-lnch shelf, two
!i printed ballots and a
: . It requires alertness
&ceptional care \r, threading the
: | cklng out one's
i slow ;;n<i toilsome
-<tiy*<" ;. ; s aban
■ ' • • before t! c vot
n r and the
er, !>;>th of whom are
titl I ■ ■ slderation.
The state <>r Minnesota recognizes
ducatlonal qualification for the
All citizens are regarded as
mteed
Ii p -inn in sell cting iht*
pillars of local rernmenta.
. resent ballot is substantially the !
nition of an educational test, the I
■.shin ■lit of a class prl
v 1.i.1i ought not to be recognised or |
Longer in so Intelligent
I lit :s ; !.^■. teßOta.
w nether the man who can read poorly
and write not ;'>t all, being restricted
making <>f his mark
as in legal Instruments, should be al
! to \ >n> at all is quite another
tlon. It does not outer Into any I
deration of the subject of a re
form ballot law siu-h as we are now
dealing with. The fact is, that the
permits him to vote, and then,
through the Intricacy of its voting ma
chinery, robs him of his vote. This is
so palpably dishonest as to require no
ument.
The (ilobo presents today a fac
slmile of the Australian ballot which
was voted in the state of Now York
this y.>;ir. It is. indeed, a ballot as is
a i allot. The voter, whether he could
ii;ul or write, stepped into the booth
With a .toss two strokes of the
pencil— ln the <;mie under the eagle
he had voted for the Rough Rider and
y man on the same ticket with
him. This particular specimen ballot
: in our columns was of the
cast in New York city. On it the
name of every candidate of every
party is printed in the same column
and l.eluw the name of the leading
tidate to be voted for— the gov
ernor. The value of this ballot la its
simplicity. "When a man has
discharged his election duty with such
a ballot he knows exactly what he has
done, Just as he knows how much
ey he deposited in the bank the
re. He can split his preroga
into as many favors as he may
It; he may vote for Brown on the
in ticket, .Toils on the Demo
-1 Smith on the Prohibition,
With the absolute certainty that he
mistake in h!s marking
and that the canvasser can make no
ii determining his intent, it
is the ballot for the people of this en
lightened stut n receiving
I xt winter. It is
the ballot which the highest, the low
lohest, the poorest, the best
ited citizen can vote
osly and understanding^,
with Which he can make his vote
I the m- . . ely.
Will the public be fooled lcmger by
the ballot now In use? Or will it de
mand a: .allot such as this?
"U'!ll its voice !>e heard in favor of this
r< f->rm?
•■ is a work— the reformation of
our ballot— to which the St. Paul cham
ber of eomuetce tan devote its intel
noe and energy with th? knowledge
that it is i onCming ■ most substantial
lur citizens. Other cham
•^•rce may follow. Even
the politicians of both parties may be
whipped into line." The cause of the
j people is right and must prevail.
Let us have the reform ballot.
Hebrew Philanthropy.
People who claim to be identified
with Christian philanthropy are s<>me
j times disposed to fail to recognize the
; good which is done by the representa
j tives of ether religious communities.
! The lesson which has been supplied by
' the standard reformed Jews in this
J free country is one which ought to
j touch the heart of every man and
; woman who pretends to have a kindly
j feeling for the unfortunate and the
, suffering of the human race in general.
| The Jew— and we use this word ad
| visedly because the thoroughbred Jew
dees not take offense whenever <i is
I used — looks after the poor of his own
! faith. Philanthr6pists of every sect
j can turn to the record of that noble old
■ n.iin, Moses Montefiore, for tnstance.and
not blush because he was a Jew. There
have been many exhibitions -of Jewish
I philanthropy in this country, and the
sentiment in every instance has sprung
from the greatheartedness of ihe men
who, utilizing their own fruits of en
deavor from toil, have seen fit to dis
tribute kindly gifts in all directions
wherever the touch of support couid be
made manifest in good return.
The Hebrews of New York city are
planning to raise a $1,000,000 fund for
the education of their people, and al
ready 10 per cent of that sum has been
raised. It is believed that the entire
amount will be subscribed within the
next 100 days. There is one peculiarity
about the Jewish element; they do not
draw the line in the giving of support
against the individual sufferer who
may be styled a Christian.
The Rev. Dr. E. C. Gotthell, of
the Temple Emanuel, on Fifth ave
nue, New York, has been one
of the most illustrious exponents of
liberal Hebrewism in this country. He
has always recognized Jesus as a son
of David and a member of the Hebrew
race. He has never failed in all his
ministry to enunciate this doctrine.
The dividing line which has been main
tained by the Jews was that, previous
to the tragedy at Calvary, the Israel
ites looked forward to the advent of
the Messiah as a great event of tre
mendous pomp, whereas Christ really
came, according to the theories of the
Christian school, a» an humble man
teaching the power of peace and glory
derived from this source rather than
the power gained toy warring and
bloodthrsty conflict.
Now, a* the nineteenth century ap
proaches its close, after nearly 2,000
years of the reign and the
demonstration of the force of
Christianity, is it not a s-.rt
of duty on the part of people who
have lived in the enjoyment of the
liberality of this religion to turn a
glance backward and recognize the
supporting element which has been
contributed to the cause by the wiser
representatives of the Jewish race?
Out of Judea came what is believed
by our modern teachers to have been
the Christ. His teachingjs were the
simplest and must beautiful of ai>y
representative at a power which shou'd
appeal to ihe human conscience. The
world has lived long and progressed
under the inspiration derived from this
kindly influence.
We are now approaching the twen
tieth century of our existence in the
reign of the Christian era. The Jew
has been persecuted in communities and
in an individual capacity to a degree
thai has not been experienced by any
representative of the human race, ex
cept it may be the nep,ro or the North
American Indian. But throughout all
this period the Hebrew has sustained
himself In spite of the world's persecu
tion, and he stands today as one of
the truest and most loyal friends of.
our <<wii simp!" f<>i<n irt republican
gov< rnment.
Lg now to the philanthropic
efforts of the Jews of New York, it is
apiT nough to submit sonic
names "i' those who have recently con
tributed to the big fund that it is pro
; to provide for the education of
it. Hebrew people. There is found in
this list of contributors Louis Stern in
th< sum of SSGt.OOO; Jacob H. Schiff,
0; B. Altman, $20,000; William
! Salomon, $10,000; Isldor Straus, $10,000;
I K. lix Warburg, 15,000; Louis Marshall,
$5,000. The subscriptions of these men
alone make up the complement sf the
first 10 Tor cent of the total subscrip
tion to the $1,000,000 fund.
Here is an example of endeavor for
i moral purposes which might be profita
bly availed of by Christian denomina
tions. There is always this distinction
! between the work do-,:o by Hebrew or
ganizations and those which are styled
Christian. The former go about their
work in a quiet, practical way; the lat
ter prefer the trumpet and drum and
the hullabaloo of what is styled the
■ platform and the anxious seat revival.
There is a great deal of en
couragement In example supplied
by this common sense method
adopted by the Hebrews in con
nection with their work for the
Christian endeavorers under whatever
I name they may be enrolled. In fact, it
I does not make any difference what the
I name may be under which really good
work for the sake of humanity shall
j be performed. The real duty of those
\ who are able to carry on the work ls
i to perform it. no matter whether it
| shall be under the head of Hebrews or
\ Christian. Catholic or Protestant. It
i ls here for all of us to do, and we ought
to do it
The New Y. M. C. A.
The establishment of the St. Paul
Young Men's Christian association is
|an achievement which, by its very
! nature, engages the interests of good
I ciflXHiß. Acute business men in many
j large cities have invested much time
I and money In securing and maintaining
similar organisations. Railroad offi
cials are cautious about spending coni
j pany funds for such matters, and the
j feet that a number of these companies
■ have been supporting, and are eop.tln
j uing to support, Y. M. C. A. quarters
aj. important points along their llr.es
for the benefit of employes is a guar
antee of the organization'? valu<>.
One thousand four hundred and fif
teen associations are now sustained in
American cities, and own buildings
worth altogether $20,146.525. A large
number of associations are added year
ly, and new buildings mark the prosper
ity of existing organizations.
Thcusand-s of people, who have visit
ed St. Paul within the last five years,
have been disagreeably surprised to
find no adequate Y. M. C. A. and in
many cases have attributed the cause
to a lack of enterprise in the citizens.
It is therefore with pleasure that the
announcement of the new Y. M. C. A.'s
opening is received.
The handsome quarters in the Dyer
building, on West Fifth street, with
the excellent gymnasium* running
THE ST. PAUL GLOB 3 SUNJAY NOVEMBER 27, 1893.
track and bathing plant, together with
the other advantages connected with
the association, were described in de
tail in Friday's Globe.
It is needless to say that such an
undertaking should receive the hearty
support of the citizens. As its directors
have declared, it is not established to
compete with the churches or mission
ary societies, but to furnish a place of
amusement and recreation for young
men as an offset to saloons and other
questionable attractions.
Gompers on Annaxa tlon.
The Globe recently called atten
! tion editorially to the action of the
! New York Central Labor union in re
! questing the referendum of unions to
investigate the probable effect of an
nexation upon American labor. It was
i pointed out that, while a number of
labor organizations were for a time
, fascinated by the visions of imperial
; ism, they have now run up against the
; angular reality of the facts, and are
i confronting the question like men of
| sense. They have asked the referendum
of unions to find out the facts, and
these are being doled out to the con
sternation of the money grabbers and
| jobbers who know well what the con
; certed action of the labor unions
| means.
On the heals of the action of the
Central Labor union, and the author
j itative statement that the average
wage of the West Indian negro is
20 cents a day, and that of the
East Indian Malay 10 cents, the sign
ed statement of Samuel Gompers, pres
! ident of the American Federation of
Labor, is significant. Mr. Gompers rep
resents the honest, law-abiding, respec
table working men of America. There
is nothing in him of the demagogue o*
! the anarchist, and his words, published
and signed by himself in the New York
! World, carry the thought of the organ
i ization over which he presides.
Mr. Gompers denounces in scathing
terms the dishonorable action of the
administration in pretending to wage a
"war for humanity" and ending it In a
shameless land-grabbing scramble. He
| says:
"Hawaii we have annexed irrespec
tive of the wishes of her people, who
were not asked whether the constitu
tion under which they have recently
lived meets with their approval. Nor
was annexation ever given to them, in
direct or Indirect form, for decision.
In the case of the Philippines we have
the question repeated, only in a more
aggravated form. It will not be amiss
to call attention to some of the condi
tions prevailing in the islands which
the thoughtless enthusiast and the
grab-all monopolist commercial spirit
urge us to annex. We should know the
dangers which are involved in the silly
or wicked policy of Imperialism or ex
pansion."
Then he reviews among other things
the conditions of slave labor in the Ha
waiian islands, a test case concerning
which is to be made in the supreme
court of the United States. These are
the closing words of the labor repre
sentative:
"We do not oppose the development
of our industry, the expansion of our
commerce, nor the power and influenct
which the United States may exert
upon the destinies of the nations of
the earth. On the contrary, we realizt
that the higher intelligence and stand
ard of life of the American workers
will largely contribute toward attain
ing the highest pinnacle of industrial
and commercial greatness; and these
achievements in the paths of peace will
glorify the institutions of our republic,
to which the grateful eyes and yearn
ing hearts of the people of the earth
will turn for courage and inspiration
to struggle onward and upward, so that
the principles of human liberty and
human justice may be implanted in
their own lands.
"The flag of our republic should float
over a free people and must never cloak
slavery, barbarism, despotism or
tyranny."
The Growth of Four People*.
An interesting feature of the Decem
ber McClure's will be George B. Wal
dron's clear-cut review of the progress
of four peoples —^Anglo-Saxon, Latin,
German and Slavic. The sketch is
confined to the last 500 years, and the
figures presented make an interesting
study.
It is only five centuries ago that the
Anglo-Saxons were the weakest of
European peoples; now they occupy
nearly a third of the world's territory
and control a proportionate fraction of
its inhabitants.
Mr. Waldron presents diagrams
Showing the relative growth of the
four races. The results somewhat "dis
credit the popular phrase, "the dying
Latin races." According to these dia
grams, the Anglo-Saxons have in
creased their territorial holdings by a
! little over 14,900,000 square miles since
j 1400 A. D., and show a gain of 471,-
I 000,000 in population. This gives them
! first place in the race, while they
J started 500 years ago as fourth. But
the Latin peoples do not make so poor
a showing. In 1,400 they held the first
place in population and the second in
territory. Today tßey are second to the
Anglo-Saxon in population and terri
tory, having gained 251.000,000 people
and 14,475,000 square miles. If these
figures are correct, the Latin races,
while not so vigorous as the Anglo-
Saxon, are yet a long way from dead
or dying.
The Slavic.peopies 500 years ago held
the first place territorially and the
fourth in population; today they rank
third in both. In the same time the
Germans have lost their rank as third
in territory and second in population,
and now hold fourth place in both.
Excluding the Negro From the
Franchise.
The exclusion of the negro from the
franchise, except he possesses similar
educational qualifications to his white
brother, Ls rapidly going on in the
South. In three states, South Caro
lina, Mississippi and Louisiana, this
has already been accomplished by
changing the organic law of the state.
Alabama will soon fodlow their lead,
for an amendment to Its constitution
will be adopted by the legislature now
in session and undoubtedly be ratified
ly the people. A movement to secure
the same result is on in Georgia- North
Carolina's recent experience with a
race war will excite the white citizens
to adopt some drastic method of deal- i
ing with the subject, and Virginia may
be expected In due season to step into
sympathetic relationship with its
Southern neighbors.
The fact will have to be squarely
faced by all these states that a dimin
ished vote, such as must follow these
new conditions, will mean a smaller
representation In congress from the
"black belt." But even this fact will
cut no figure, If the utterances of the
New Orleans Times-Democrat axe an
I
index to^the prevailing white senti
ment. • Thus, after thirty years of ex
perience, it is demonstrated to the
satisfaction of half a dozen states that
it was an error on the part of the Re
j publican party to have invested the !
[ colored man with the right and privl- !
lege of suffrage. Sentiment in other |
states of the Union may, indeed, be dl- j
vided upon the wisdom of the policy !
inaugurated by the party. It waa
adopted foy^ great political party, not j
as an act=%f generosity toward the (
colored race, but as a measure to main- j
tain tha-t party.»4n power at all hazards. |
jlt has faii«d of its purpose in the i
! South — that w&s long ago apparent.
The citizens of states in a higher
latitude have no good ground for criti
cism of those of the seaboard states
so long as the latter go peaceably
about their methods of readjusting the '
suffrage. We Cannot appreciate the !
conditions in the Southern states, for j
we are entire strangers to them. With j
us the colored man is generally a self- j
respecting person, having an intelli- '
gent conception of the duties of citi- j
zenship and desirous of discharging j
them as coiiscfentiou-iy as his white 1
neighbor. He *nay be an altogether j
different person in the South.
If the South becomes too warm for i
I the active, hustling colored politician, j
j who has been disfranchised, Minneso
ta will welcome him to her soil. He 1
should, of course, bring along his coon- j
1 skin cap and ulster at this season of
I the year. He will find here a healthy,
bracing climate and "good people,"
and he will get along quite comforta
bly after he has acquired their ways.
In the dark days Minnesota was, we
believe,- on the line of the "under
ground railroad," which was consider
ably patronized from points in the
South.
Mrs. Carse's Farewell Address.
The action of the national officers of
the W. C. T. U. In not permitting Mrs.
Carse's farewell address to appear in
tact in the Union Signal does not add
to their reputation for fair dealing. It
was agreed that Mrs. Carse should
use her "Temple column" once more
in order that she might review the situ
ation and say farewell. But the edi
tors, while not denying the truth of
her statements, decided that they
were "misleading" and therefore
should not be trusted to the discrim
ination of the public.
What Mrs. Carse wanted to say was
that of the $300,000 necessary to retire
the trust bonds, for which the W. C.
T. U. made Itself morally responsible,
there was already in sight $180,000; that
as soon as the other $120,000 was raised
the Temple>->tr.ustees would come Into
possession of #ie $100,000 which Mr.
Marshall Field' has pledged. Fifty
thousand dollars of Mr. Field's gift is
to be in stock and $50,000 in cash.
These moneys are reasonably secure
— not absolutely, since the best pledge
may h,e broken, but ordinarily one
would say that the "money was good."
In addition Mrs. Carse wished to say
through the columns of the Union Sig
nal that they had other stock pledges
which, in the event of their securing
another $50,000 cash gift, would enable
them to get •control of the outstanding
$600,000 stock, jhe also wonted to lay
before the Signal's readers plans for
organizing Willard circles for the pay
ment of the Temple debt, and to ex
plain how money thus raised would
return an interest when the building
was cleared: • * . v
All these thing* itoe national officers
did not deny — their could not, for the
facts were all set forth in the St.
Paul convention, but they were "mis
leading," that is Mrs. Carse did not
state that $180,000 was not lying in the
bank waiting to be used, and there
fore she was not permitted to publish
her farewell address.
There is still plenty of room on all
Alaskan- bound steamers.
The temperature is in hard luck
these days. It is constantly falling.
The one-cent revenue stamp is the
best little wood sawyer in the business.
Mr. Aas has been elected to the North
Dakota legislature. He'll have plenty
of company.
Dear Old England has cut away the
fog only to find itself in snow drifts
several feet deep.
Havana ought to have sunshine to
day. Blanco is booked to leave for
Spain this morning.
Send the coal man right up into the
"cheerful" row. He hasn't been heard
"knocking" this weather once.
A St. Louis man swore over a tele
phone and got a thrashing; for it. But
he didn't get the thrashing by tele
phone.
What if Bug-ah-Ma-Qeshlg should, in
the language of New York newspaper i
men, get "cold feet" up on Little Boy
river?
The Minneapolis Journal is still una
ble to realize that it did a great deal j
to elect Mr. Lind by working for Mr.
Eustis.
The private deposit boxes of the
Kansas state treasury have been loot- I
cd. Perhaps somebody was looking for
his "doodle book."
John H. Kelly., one of the Merrimao j
heroes, has been fined in Boston for i
I drunkenness. Heavens, when the crew )
went into Santiago bay were they ail
dr— but we digress.
The great battleship Wisconsin Is !
launched, but California is mad clear ;
through. The craft was christened '
with a bottle of foreign wine when a I
million bottles of native California
champagne were within easy reach.
Chicago has had another heavy fall
of brown snow. Really, though, Chi
cago never ha^ anything else, as all
Chicago's snow is siftod through such
a ni^ze of smoke that it hardly knows
its own name when it reaches the
earth.
The Minneapolis Times opposed Mr.
Lind, and he was elected by over 20,000.
The Minneapolis Times attacked Mr.
Dunn, and he was returned as state
auditor by over 44,000. Will the Times
please state over its own signature
what influence it thinks it has in the
state of Minnesota?
He (Mr- Un 3) is not likely to find anybody
who oan wholly nil tie place of Mr. Powers,
but he should at least be able to find a
successor who will no. maJte the office an ab
surd and preposterous waste of public money.
— Pioneer Press.'
The Pioneer Press appears to be
afraid the new labor commissioner
will not spend the state's time and
the state's money in gathering statis
tics to boost the Republican party, as
Mr. Powers has done. He won't.
Ep/st/es to St. Pau/.
The city hall gang; is going broke buying
newspapers. Some days ago President Cope
land, of the board of public works, and Com
missioner Sandell, of the same board, w«nt
to St. Louis to attend the good roads con
vention. Both of th«m took occasion to give
It out that they knew something about good
roads themselves, and it might be well to
watch the smoke they would make in that
convention. The convention has been on for
several days, and the city hall gang have
been buying and reading the newspapers very
industriously to xee Just where the fireworks
came off. Up to date the delegates from
Minnesota have not fixed the heads of the
members of the convention and have not got
ten into the newspapers to any greater de
gree than among the hotel arrivals.
• * *
There are still some difficulties in gathering i
election returns in Minnesota. For instance, j
the votes cast up in the northern part of
Beltrami county were a long time rea.hing
Bemidji, the county seat, and the messenger
traveled more than 1.000 miles. William Zlp
ple, of Lake of the Woods, was the man wbo
carried the precious bundle of eleven vote 3so
flar. Talking to a newspaper man up at
Roseau the other day Mr. Zipple told an in
teresting story of his experiences.
On election day his section* of the country
was treated to a genuine snow storm, and he I
being one of the judges of election, walked ten !
miles to the polling place. Af'er the vst:»
were canvassed he was the clicsen one to car
ry the ballots to the county seat. Wednes
day morning he took the steamer Edna
Bridges for Rat Portage, and when but a few
miles out from Rat Portage the boat got
stranded in the ice and sprung a leak, filling
to the deck in a short time. Mr. Zipple took
his place at the pumps with the crew, but
after five hours of hard work they were
forced to give it up, having gained no head
way whatever. Another boat coming along,
he took that to Rat Portage, and from there
proceeded by train to Beimidjl. He carried
eleven votes 528 miles, which, when c*a
vassed, gave the Republican candidate fcr
county attorney a majority of two vo:es,
when before they came in he was nine be
hind. The county attorney-elect U W. F.
Sweet. Mr. Zipple's absence from, home was
ten days, and the round trip covered 1.C66
miles.
» • •
Just before the W. C. T. U. convention a
party of local workers were making a tour
of the city, asking for funds to help carry
on the approaching venture. Three of the
ladies entered the district attorney's office,
which was just then in the possession of
some newspaper men and a politician or two
and Assistant United States Attorney Dickey
himself. Going Straight over to this gentle
man the loader asked:
"Is Mr. Dickey in?"
"Xo," web the quiet reply, "he I 3 not."
"Oh, we are so sorry, we wanted to see
him."
"No doubt he will be sorry too." said
solemn -faced Mr. Dickey, "I am sure he
will regret the pleasure, but he wUI not re
turn till about 5 o'clock, good bye."
As the door closed each man in the room
arose and shook Mr. Dickey by the hand and
at ilfteen minuies to 5 he went home.
• • •
There was fun on an interurban car
Thanksgiving eve over three men and as
many turkey feathers. A score or more of
male merrymakers got onto the car at Ninfiii
street and scattered themselves about in the
vacant seats, all of them apparently felt
good. The last man to enter carried three
big turkey feathers ard after a little time he
slyly stuck one of them into tie rear of the
band on a friend's hat. Te enjoyed the ef
fect a few moments and then leaning toward
his victim, suggested in a whisper, that he
take a feather and stick it into the hat baud
of another of the party farther up the car.
Xo. 2 took the feather, the mate of which
bobbed saucily in his own hat, although he
knew it not, and Up-toe:ng up the car, stuck
it with great care into No. 3's hat. When a
broad grin greeted him on his way back he
er.joyed himself hugely. No. 1 then gave the
innocent victim another feather and told him
to have No. 3 put it in the cap of another cl
the crowd still farther up the car. Grinning
with pleasure Xo. 2 took the third
feather to No. 3 and suggested tha funny
scheme which caused Xo. 3 so much joy ha
nearly gave the whole thing away to No. 4,
and Xo. 2 almost died of laughter and so
did everybody els© in the car. Through
some intuition born cf mixed drinks, no
doubt, Xo. 4 surmised something was up
and looked at hi, cap. No. 3 gave him the
laugh and Xo. 2 Joined in at the expense of
Xo. 3, who in a few moments discovered his
own feather. And then everybody turned tfceir
attention to the first victim who Just laughed
away till the ear .stopped at his s reet and
away home he went with the turkey feather
still sitting Jauntily In the rear of his haf.
• • •
"Xo, I have neither been held up nor had
my valuables carried away yet by burglars,"
said a man who lives in a fashionable dl-.tiiot.
in St. Paul, but who every day appears
at hie business office in the Guaranty Loan
building, Minneapolis. "Hut I have not got
ten off scot free. Not long ago I got up one
morning and found the drawers of the dreaser
in my bed room had b««i ransacked, and a
similar condition was found in the dining I
room and other parts of the house. Nothing
waa missing, however. Tnat nothing was car.
ried away was explained in a no;e left by
by the burglars on the table in the dining
room, which raa something like this:
"We have tried jour silverware and found
it plated and the Jewelry of yourself and wife
found in your bed room was not worth carry
ing off. We expected better things of you."
St. Paul's First Gambier.
Looking back to the early days of Bt. Paul
— going clear back to the times of the '4&ers —
one is likely to conceive that the gambler of
those days was a picturesque person, with a
penchant for unbelted guns. The fact is that
the most gentlemanly man In St. Paul dur
ing the first winter after the territory had
been organized and Gov. Rttmaey n*<3 located
himself In St. Paul wae a gambler. He wa«
a young and handsome man, smooth-shaven
and careful in his speeoto. Xo one knew Just
where he came from and no one inquired.
It was in the days when the legend that waa
later adopted by M*J. Edward* at Fargo, "All
records east of the river barred," waa the
sentiment of the Northwest. He came to St.
Paul, up the river. In the fall of '49. He
stayed for three years. He contributed to
local charitiee. He dealt square faro and he
played an honest game of poker. He knew
ail of the 800 people in the town ait the time |
of his arrival, and he got to know the new I
ones. 13m fleeced nobody, but his bank waa j
open at all times, and when the Rev. Edward
D. JJeill was around looking for support for
his church he got substantial recognition —
quite as substantial as that given to the In
dian missionary who came in from the woods
occasionally. He was a nas looking young
fellow; he dealt squarely with everybody, and
when h« went c.way he left no d-ehu and no
enemies. He was a fair sample o* th« early
Mississippi gambler, who was willing to take
a chance for his money. In these decadent
days, when gambling as a profession has
fal!en in other hands, it U worth while to
remember the first gambling man in St. Paul.
The name of him is Cole Martin.
• • •
When Dr. Neal waa writing his historical ao
eount of how toe counties, of Minnesota were
numed he went to William Pitt Murray and
asked him about Martin county. Mr. Murray
knew very well that the county waa named
after Martin McLeed. but he had a Joke that
he wanted to work off, and he told the
preacher historian that it was named after
Cole Martin, the gambler.
• • •
Old Cole is now one of the antique figures
of the national capital. When Wiiliam Pitt
Murray or any of tfce old-tiniers from St.
Paul drop* in at the capital Cole meeta them
and exchange* reminiscences. He la well
along to 80 years of age, and it is some time
since be «ruehed>a card exoept in the way of
solitaire. He is a handsome old man, sturdy
and upright, with flowing whiskers. He is
full~os anecdotes of the high play that waa
made by sesatora of much fame, when resting
themselves from their labors in statesman
ship. He was talking the other day to a
Washington Post man and told some stork*,
some of them being interesting. It appears
that some years ago it waa promised Co!e
that When ths senate was safely Republican
j
he would be given a job. He will get it next
year. j^
• • •
But Cole Martin waa the first gambler In
St. Paul, according to tradition, the first
man who was willing to go into the depths of
a faro box and stand tor his share of the
losing on an even footing. William Pitt Mur
ray remembers him. as do some other '49ers
Mr. Murray aaya that he was one of the
finest looking young fellows in town.
"He was over six feet high," said Mr. Mur
ray. "At that time we did not wear hair
on our faces, and Cole was clean-shaven. As
I remember him. he was one of the best
looking fellows in town, and he was such a
clean man, outside of his business, that he
was with us all socially, and there was no
distinction as to classes. He came up the
river in th« fall of "49. He had a partner
Wit* him, named King Cole. I don't reniem
lier much about the partner, and I don't think
that I knew either of them until they went
into the gambling business. At that time the '
[ oaly people who played at all were the trad
ers and the river men. Later the original
townsite owners had a lot of money, and they
went into the game to some extent. Some of
the fathers of St. Paul displayed a passion
for poker that could not have been sus
pected from their start in life.
• • •
"Cole Martin and 'King' Cole had a gam
bling house on Third street, two doors up
j the hill from Robert. The house was hand-
I somely appointed. Thtre was a saloon in the
; cellar, and upstairs, in the gambling quarters,
| there was furniture thai was luxurious conx
| pared to that which most of us enjoyed. The
liquors were always of the best, and there was
always wine when there waa a good play on.
The river men played faro and the traders
played poker at -firat and then drifted into
faro. There was a disposition on the part of
every man who owned a corner lot to consider
himself a miliicoaire, and a good many of
the fellow* tho'jg-ht that they could play
bank. On the whole. Cole Martin did not
leave here broke. He spent his money freely,
kept a horae or two, and his hand was open
to every charity.
• • •
"He must have left hera In 1853 or there
abouts, for there was nothing to hold him
hore. King Cole, hi 3 partner, went down to
the Middle states somewhere, and. as I re
member, died in a hospital. Martin went to
Washington and got into big play with the
senators and public men. I see him every
time I go to Washington, and have a chat,
and he is still the good fellow that he was
when he was here beardleas and in It with
the best of them, In the very early '505."
England's Idea of Fun.
Prom London Tidbits.
Tom— There's a fortune In tho raocoours*.
Jack— Why do you ihink soT Tom — Beau.-.*
1 lost one there.
• • •
Algernon— Charley, do you think your sister
would marry me? Charley— Yes. she'd marry
almost anybody, from what she said to ma.
• • •
Every beby is the sweetest baby In :ih&
world. You w«re once considered the sweet
est tlning In the world, although you may
not look it now.
• • •
May— How did you come to change the day
for your wedding? Helen— Oh, there is to
bo a big gama of football that day, and. Paul
couldn' 1 . get away.
• • •
"If you do not marry me I sh*!l hang my
self," exclaimed a love-lorn your.ig man. "WeU,
If you do, please go a little way down the
street," was the young lady's cheerlul re
spon&e, "for I heard papa say he did not
want you Iknaging about here."
ADUI-ZAD TO KIPLING.
In Response to "The Truce of the Bear."
At the Pass called Muttianee, above the
huntsman's Vale,
You heard Ud bandaged Matun mumble hii
oft-told tale:
And you gave him the dole he asked for, and
he let you look at the place
Where fifty Summers ago. It seems, he had,
like yourself, a face.
He told how he lost his visage— how I, Bear
Adarn-Zad.
Whom he hunted for sheep-fold thieving, and
plmllar doings bad,
Had touched his heart with pity and balked
kin vengeful plan
By rearing up and pleading for Truce In the
form of a man;
And how, when he lowered his musket, I
came, with tottering gait
Till— with a lightning stroke' of my paw I
anted my treacherous hate.
And left him writhing faceless — I do not Bay
it's a He,
My memory's dim— perhaps Matun remem
bers it better than I?
'Twas a dastardly thing (if I did it)— l'm free
to admit that much —
Tho' I doubt if the annals of Bruin record
a cleverer touch-
But what I wanted to mention is your luck
leas choice of a t.me
For telling this tale of Matun's, good Kip
ling, In a rhyme.
'Tls not that you do an Injustice to me— tho'
you certainly do.
Seeing I've given up evil and now am re
formed and true —
But that's not what I complain of when I
cay that your poem'a unfair,
'Tls not that I am old Adam-Zad, but that
I am a Bear.
My fear is lest your verses shou'd be wrong
ly read afar
And should pass for an allegory to the hurt
of the Good White Czar;
For the sign of the Russian Empire Is a
Bear, as ycu ought to know.
And the reading publio is stupid and get
things muddled sot
Yesl the time was unluckily chosen, for Just
at this moment, alas!
It happens the Czar of Russia Is saying a
holy mats;
He's proposing a Truce; he Is pleading with
hands upraised In prayer.
And you come along with this story and Jig
ger the whole affair!
'Tis a thousand pities, Kipling, for you're
read all over the earth,
And this ooinciflonee is sure to call forth
mocking mirth;
Of oourse you never meant it. but it's most
uncommon sad
This ta!e should read like a fable with the
Czar as Adam-Zad I
No doubt you simply wrote It as you wrote
your "Soldiers Three,"
Or any of your notions, for fame and the
usual fee;
But the time was m 111-cbosen that I fear
'twill be now In vain
For you to write to the papers and, so to
speak, explain.
Yet, better late than neyer!— lt may do some
slight good,
Since the poem Is morally certain to be mis
understood;
So write and warn all readers to thought
fully beware
And not mistake old Matun for th« victim of
the Czar.
And mention that in picturing the treacher
ous Bear's advance
With "pavr3 like hands In prayer upheld" you
couldn't, by any chance,
Have meant to hint at recent moves and pro
jects in the East,
Or et the sly diplomacy of Russia — not the
HMt
In view of recent doings, on the distant
Chinese shores
The parallel is Bruin-like — It goe.i upon all
fours —
A most unfortunate affair, for which you're
not to blame.
But which misleads tho readers of your poem,
all the same.
Indeed. I've heard it mooted that the soreed
so lightly penned
Has brought the Peace proposal to an un
timtiy end;
And that shiee it was published the Ozar in
rain has spent
His efforts to revive his scheme yclept Dis
armament.
So write at once, dear Rudyard, write quick
ly to the prest.
And notify the critics that they've strangely
mis:-ed their guess;
That they're all astray in thinking that your
recent verses had
A reference to any one except old
ADAM-ZAD.
— J. W. Bengough In the New York Times.
Ice Clone-* Firm, Too.
To The St. Paul Globe.
"Ice opened firm," you gay
In The Globe fwlay.
That don't stem right
In my sight.
For every mite
Is closed tight.
— B. S. O.
The Two Isthmus Cana.s.
n f°^' STS L - Abbot ' ot the engineer corps
of the United States army, one of the inter!
national tecnmoal committee employed by the
.new Panama Canal company, makes in the
exuung. created; one of then*
(Grey town) prefac
ing unusual natural
Hal n s ( or.siaen.
should extend al ,i.g
all the route, exc.pt
the lake portion, i.
c-, for a distance of
SSSbSSH s#^^
ties accurately!
practice. <-a.Ji work; and
many tmb.inkmenis
which must be per
manent elements of
dange;-.
S3? abott s^^ 5 'SSrif t R3
CaCaL » already exists".
which may prejudice
t tho Interests of the
D !f^ anCe^ t0 ** H f ht - DtoUnte to be lighted
~h d s , u P« r vißed flnd supe r vis j
a ' S °° m " when v "» canal "
l*leted, 46 miles. completed, its
miles, or nearly fout
times as great A
farth^es* l -th."X
fore less probable. *£? y Xut 40 m?S
from the locks. An
earthquake on April
29, 1898. at Look.
destroyed. several
~ . buildings.
Cost carefully eat*-. Cost estimated by the
mated on detal.sa; government com.
P, I *?* at ai3CUt WOO.- mission, on data
WO.COO. recognized as whol
ly insufficient, at
about ?133,W),000.
Concession* from Co- Concession from Nicy
lomhia (upon which; aragua and Costa
wlwle undertaking! Rica (upon whi h
w based) ample, sau' whole unde-rtukla*
isfuotory and un- is based* cither ox.
questioned. plrt-d, or <-xpiro next
year, and officially
deolared by Ntcars*
qua to be forfeited
and veil.
"But let us iissuma that both canals ar*
coratructrf and open to navigation, and
then corniwro the two routes, by consid
ering whJch of thorn would undoubtedly b*
selected by vessels seeking to < toes tha
isthmus. This )s a crucial test which will
reveal their relative merits:
PANAMA. NICARAGUA,
forts both known to Roth ports artificia'
be good and easy o* to which access
access. m ay bo doubtful,
especia/My on Atlaa.
tic side.
Length of rout*. 4C Length of i-oute, 171
mites, and time of miles, and time of
transit U hours. transit, not less
than 44 hours.
Summit level proba- Summit level, 110
bly 103 feat and per- fecit.
haps only C 6 feet.
Locks double from Lo:>.k3 sir pie (subse
the opening of the quently to hnve an
canal, one chamber other chamber adi
-738 feet by 82 fact, ed); dlmi>nelon« iBO
and the other 738 byo by £0 feet.
59 feet, with inter
mt»diate gates.
Curvature gentle. Curvature too sharp.
Smallest radius. Smallest radius in
8.2C0 feet. Of the canal proper, A<m
46 miles, 2fiV, a.ro feet. For 6S mile*
straight. and 15 the route traverses
have rud'M equal to the San Juan river.
or exceeding 9,SfO where, to gain 47>4
tecft. mil. -a as a bird (llrs.
it ia nn-cis&ary to
travel 67% mile*-*
loss of 43 i.er cent
No troublesome wiufls Heavy trade winds
or river currents to and strong river
be encountered even current®,
in times of flood.
"T: would seem from this analysis that
there can be little difference of opinion ns
to which Is the better route. But perhaps
some enthusiastic adw-aio wiK say: 'The
Nicaragua canal nifty be the more, costly,
may present more natural dimriiUio*. may
require rroro time for construction, and
may be less easy of tran It; but let 113 have
an American canal, made with our own
money, and wholly under our own con
trol.'
"Such considerations are outside tho prov
ince of an engineer. But perhaps It may
bo suggested rhait we have already In
■ and reFponsibi'.ltit.rf on the Whraus,
whero the Panama railroad was built and
is now controlled by an American com.
pany, und«r American protection; that the
business control of any <annl must vest in
its stockholders and bondholders in time of
peace, while, in fact, in timu of war — un
less i'.s neutrality by guarante-d by th»
great maritime powers— the trans-It v.ill bn
controlled by the belligerent having com
mand of the sea.
"Slay It not, then, be wiser for our gov
ernment to extend Its powerful assistance
U) what ra-ure has determined as the best
route, rather thin to expend more tlm»
and more money for what, after all Is
said, must remain a distinctly inferior
canal, unable to compete with its rival
for the commerce of the world?"
Senator Hanna. for Export Bemntte*.
Following President Hill, of the Great
Northern railroad, Senator Hanna, of Ohio, la
credited with favorlDg tha payment cf a small
bounty on exports for a brief parted of years,
for the protection of American shipping in tha
foreign carrying trade. What Senator Hanna
considers to be a «mall bounty, a.d what h»
notion of a few years ia, as applinabie to the
building up of our merchant marine, we have ■
no Information. *■«-
There cgn be no <Joubt Whatever that Sen
ator Haima's latent suggestion, if courageous
ly put into operation, whether the direct pay
ment should be made to the American ship
owner or the exporter, would rev atlotUM
production In the United States, while an
American merchant marhio w>u!d materiaJlM
with a rapidity far beyond any precedent in
history. Ten year 3of such a bounty would,
fliid tho United States in control of. the world,
on land and eea. — Seaboard-
Grandma. Victoria* drip.
If "William could get his ear reloaded from
the .grip of Grandmother Victoria ha would
be In the w*r between the United States and
Spain In le«s than twenty-four hour*. This
country owea England considerable gratitude
for- the quiet and effective manner in which
•he has saved us from foreign complications;
but she probably wants her pay In some
thing more substantial than gratKude.—Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Conntlntf the Coat.
Senator Hawl«y estimates that It will take
a permanent garrison of 50,000 men. to hoM th»
Phllipplnei. It may not bo amJ#s to remarfc
that the pay of 50,000 men, including officer*,
would amount at the present rates to about
|1,000, C00, 000 a month.— Philadelphia Bulletla,
A Valuable Bird.
Friend— How was your Thanksgiving tui*
kfeyT
Scribbler-TFlne! Had twenty-seven jokes
about It accepted! — Brooklyn Life.
Cut His Life Short.
An Indian man who died the other day at
ti a age of 115 years proudly boasted that he
had been addicted to whisky and tobaoco
ever since his childhood. What of it? If he
had not done so he might have reached a ripe
old age. — Chicago Times-Herald.
Sagasta I» Not SaKacincx.
Spain would be btt er off with m-or; m .-v.ey
and iess macana. — Burton Gi.be.