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T H E ST. PAUL ft LOBE
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 19 IS9B.
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About the Weather.
Thi'i.' v./> very little ol ihc snipe of life
. r In iwwn Beven o'clock last
two o'clock thia morning. In fact.
■' • was ii, ■: enough variety about it to
ktyp ■'• thi moroetcr busy ai.d for a time
urj w;is apparently asleep at Ha
post. \r seven a. m. the reading was 34 de
•;■ - .-.' i\ • zero. '.I ten .'■■!;< \ -.here was
i•> \'■ ib i h nge, ami at midnight it was the
mi I:'.'1 :'.'- old sl ry. Apparently the instrument
cfore retiring left a call for twelve o'clock
. an : ha r time and ;wo a. m. there
was a ■ ise of about two degrees, the final
. u.-:i .a trifle over thirty-six
deg :ero.
ST. PAUL.
lay's observations, taken by the
- weather bureau, St. Paul, P. F.
for the twenty-four hours
ioc!- lif-j night.— Barometer
temperature and elevation.
Fligl rature 39
1 . ■■-. 2S
..'uve 34
r>ail> range 11
■ ' »meti 29.84 !
Humid:t> 74 I
ii Trace
7 n. m. ■ 31
7 p. in . wind, w.si: weather, clear.
OTHER CITIES.
observations, titkei; by thq
United States weather buerau. Washington
D. C.
High. *Bpm Temperature.
High. *$p!n Temperature.
5 Lxx; Angel.-; ... 82 74
50 33 Montreal 40 3S
Buffalo 3S 34 New York 42 42
Chicago 44 36 Omaha 40 40
Cincinnati .. .. VI 4i> Pittßljurg 42 ?,6 !
Cleveland .. ..38 34 Philadelphia ...40 38 j
Denver 4s is Pan Francisco.. SO 80 I
...42 10 St Luuis 54 46
Detroit 38 34 Salt Lake 44 40
Duluth 34 32 Washington 40 38
Hed na 50 50 Winnipeg .. ..22 IS
ington time *7 p. ra. St. Paul time).
FORECAST FOR TODAY.
St. Pau:— Fair; Westerly Winds.
G< ■( :a;iy fair; ir «h to brisk wint
erly winds.
North Dakota— Generally fair: westerly -winds.
South Dakota— Generally fair; westerly winds.
Wisconsin — Generally fair; fra->h to brisk
westerly winds.
Fair; westerly winds.
Montana— Generally fair; westerly winds.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.— The low area in
tli.- north continues ltf slow eastward move
aiid is central tonight over Northern
Ontario. Another low area of decided char
acter overlieu tht- British Northwestern ter
ritory tonight with a reading of 29.30 Inches
at Prince Albert. Rains have boen general
from the Gulf states northeastward through
th.> Ohio vadley to New England, and they
have been followed by clearing weather as far
north as Southern Virßirila. There were also
very lis'it rains and snows in the upper lake
region and upper Mississippi valley. Through
out tne Central West generally fair weather
lias rtnuliiued.
The temperatures have fallen about 20 de
grees in extreme Southern Texas and have
risen 2 to 14 degrees in the remainder of the
West Gulf states and the lower Oliio valley.
They have ;'!so ri'aen somewhat in the north
ern *l'>pe; elsewhere there has been but lit
tle ohange.
In the plateau and Pacific coast regions
the weather conditions are praotically un
changed, the rains having continued in the
northern portions and fair weather over the
remainder. The temperatures have risen, de
cWedly so in California. At San Francisco
the temperature at 8 p. m. waia 80, a rise of
— aegn cc during the past 24 hours
Generally fair weather may be expected
Sunday throughout all districts except lv
Northern New England and on the Southern
New England toast, where the raine will ron
tinue, and along Eastern Lake Superior
WU< re th-re will be light snows. There will
no !,!„;■, racure changes of consequence.
Fresn to brfc* south to west wind 3 will pre
il aiong tne Atlantic eoa:?t.
'•' corset will be killed— that Wisc
onsin bill to prohibit tight lacing.
Why so much commotion over the
McEnery resolution? It's innocuous.
Up to date It may be said that Pres
ident Loubet is a good fellow socially
and politically.
Quito a number of bills in the Min
nesota U-gislature have found good
terminal facilities.
The- Cuban soldiers can now go home
and tell their children about the bat
tles they did not win.
The policy of expansion has a most
enthusiastic supporter in the author of
that anti-tight-lacing bill.
Loubel wins the French plum but
he won't like it if you try to make his
name rhyme with get and set.
Even Greater New York has not yet
been able to throw a tie across the
Hack ol the "Teddy- Roosevelt guber
natorial train.
President McKinley having admit
ted his entire irresponsibility for every
thing, can't we turn some probate court
loose on him?
Miss Hfuraden's new book, "I, Too,
Have Passed Through Wintry' Ter
rors." only accentuates the fact that
tht re are others.
The man who runs after an office
until he is winded generally has breath
ci:< ugh I ft to say: "I'm in the hands
of my ft iends."
Waterworks are to be put in at Daw
s'n city. This is an indication that a
majority of the males of that town hav e
drunk all the whisky they dare to.
The Binall boy can see no signs of
prosp< rity with the gruesome news
Btaring him in the face that Barnum'a
citrus is to remain permanently in
England.
A Mississippi planter has trained 120
monkeys to pick cotton in his field*
But the monkey will continue to em
plcy the cat's paw in raking chestnuts
out of the fire.
What are we coming to? Senator j
Allen asked the senate to reaffirm the !
doctrines ancl principles of the Declar
ation of Independence, but his motion
went over under notice of debate.
The Minneapolis Journal having
offered to bet $3,000 that the Minne
apolis Tribune "lies in its teeth, lies
it: its hair, lies in its heart and lies
iii every bloomin' part of its body"
when it speaks of its circulation, it is
presumed .Col. Murphy will challenge
Col. Swift to come out in the alley and
have his solar plexus Jarred. In the
meantime, the public will reach the
conclusion that both are adding to their
real circulation a mythical circula
tion of some 20,000.
President Loubet, of Francs.
The election at Versailles yesterday
Of M. Kmile Loubet as president of the
French republic, to succeed M. Felix
Kauri", whi died Thursday night, is,
as viewed from this distant standpoint,
a more propitious Incident than was
to be anticipated.
M. Loubet is, like Faure, a represent
ative of the people; but, unlike his pre
decessor, he is gifted with many social
qualities far superior in force of in- j
lluence to any possessed by the Havre
furrier and merchant. M. Loubet is I
no stranger to the intricacies of French
politics, and upon -morn than one oc
casion his persona] courage has ad
vanced hand in hand with the most
exalted personal Integrity. While vic
tims of the Panama canal scandal fell
all around him, Loubet remained un
touched and untainted. He simply
stood ia the group and smiled the smile
Of satisfaction and without the galling
sense of hypocrisy. He is a thorough !
Republican and Possessed of much
more tact than that which characteriz
ed Faure in his administration.
Moreover the election 'of M. Loubet
may be properly regarded as a distinct
advantage in favor of Dreyfus. Unless !
his character is erroneously measured, |
from the knowledge of him possessed
on this side of the Atlantic, he wiir •
promptly undertake to do that which
Faure was too cowardly to do, namely, ;
to see that justice is done to the vic
tim Qi the anti-Semitic conspiracy in
the army.
M. Loubet is a man of exceedingly at
tractive social qualities, and he has
imbibed, in his friendship for the !
United States, something of the spirit i
of Lafayette. His big-heartedness is I
one of his chief qualities, and it is al- i
ways accompanied by substantial cvi- j
dences of sincerity. Perhaps Mr. j
Wnitelaw Reid, former minister to j
France, might, if asked, furnish some
evidence of M. Loubet's generosity to
him in the nature of a contribution of
something like $5,000 to his vice presi
dential campaign fund in 1892. It was
money wasted, of course, but the mo
tive of the Frenchman was sound, at
least from the point of view of personal
friendship.
If the people of France will consent
to behave themselves in this crisis,
there is r.o reason to doubt that the
man is row at the head of the state in
that country who can pilot them safe
ly through the seas of their difficulties.
Certainly there is no discordant voice
in America likely to be heard over
what seems to have been the wisest
choice that the French legislature could
have made in the circumstances.
Sugar Trust Legislation.
True to the declaration of Repre
sentative Dwinnell. of Minneapolis, the j
house in overriding the veto of Gov. !
Lind yesterday showed that "the Re
publican party is pledged to bounties."
The governor's attitude upon the ques
tion of bounties, as defined in his veto
of the beet bounty bill, is in accord
with the principles and declarations of
the Democracy. 'His real offense was
that he presumed to disagree -with a
Republican house of representatives.
That n"iay be improper from a Repub
lican point of view, but then it must i
be remembered from a public point of
view that no man could retain his self
respect after association with this Re
publican legislature, without disagree
ing with it. It is currently reported
that a larger number of grafters and
small-calibered statesmen never assem
bled under the capitol dome.
• The votes of two representatives in
favor ot overriding the veto excite sur
prise and contempt — those of Stivers,
a professed Democrat, of Brainerd, and
Heimerdlnger, a Populist, of New Ulm.
What were these gentlemen doing in
the society of the Republican host? Of
Heimerdinger, perhaps, it may be true,
as asserted by his friends, he didn't
know any better. But no such accu
sation can lie against Stivers. Let's
see. Didn't Stivers sell out his news
paper to Republicans for campaign pur
poses two months before election, and
buy It back again shortly after? Didn't
he lead the forces that insisted on
nominating a Silver Republican rather
than a Democrat for the United States
senate? Stivers is truly a bad lot, so
far as his Democracy is concerned, and
everybody must realize it now. As for
Heimerdinger, nature cannot of course
improve his intellectuals. It is now
left to the Populist brethren to im
prove his morals.
The ease with which the Republic
ans were lined up against the veto sug
gests nothing more forcibly than the
methods of the sugar trust. If the
sugar trust wanted the state bounty
on beet sugar manufacture continued
indefinitely as to time ar.d amount, its
wishes could not have been observed
more strictly than by the house in its
action of yesterday.
It now remains to be seen whether
sugar trust methods will obtain in the
senate.
Who will constitute the list of sugar
trust senators?
Democracy's Doer Is Wide Open.
What's i:i a name? The poet tails us
that the roso by aaiy othor name would
smell as sweet; and Democracy is as dear
to me v.-hen preached by a Popuiist or a
Silver Republican as it is when it comes
from one ordained and anointed in the
Democratic faith.— Col. Bryan at the Minne
apolis banquet.
That's true, in a way, colonel. But
doesn't something depend upon age
and usage and gftnerai reputability?
Imagine the rose under the name of
the dandelion or the cabbage! What
true-blue Democrat can forget that the
name Democracy, the title of his par
ty, is almost as old as the republic
itself? And, while your sensible Dem
ocrat believes in scorning no votes of
Silver Republicans, or of anybody else,
is he not justified in believing, now
that the work of "fusing" is presum
ably complete, that the name of the
party of Jefferson and Jackson should
be perpetuated?
Hasn't the Democracy of Minnesota
conceded and conceded, yielded point
after point, given away the complimen
tary nomination for United States sen
ator? Must it now give up its name,
its birthright — anc!__for a mess of very
cold pottage? ""
It does look as if the gallant colonel
doubted the sincerity of the Minnesota
Democracy and its leaders. Can it be
that the Silver Republicans have won
so warm a place in his affections that
he would have them continue their
title and some semblance of an organ
ization, in direct defiance of the wishes
of the Democratic rank and file?
If The Globe correctly diagnoses
the political situation, there is but one
organization behind the administration
of Gov. Lind, and only one. It is Dem
ocratic, in name as well as fact. Its
leaders ar e Col. Thomas D. O'Brien,
our national committeeman, and Col.
L. A. Rosing, the chairman of our
state committee, two stanch Democrats.
Hints, suggestions, possibly orders,
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19, 1899.
even, may "go" when emanating from
these gentlemen and from our gov
ernor, who now regards with satisfac
tion his benevolent assimilation by De
mocracy, begun upon the night of his
election and continued to the point that
no traces of his political orphanhood
remain.
Why, then, should the great Demo
cratic chieftain confuse the situation
by recognizing, even by implication,
the existence of a Silver Republican
organization? That gifted whirlwind
of Northwest, Col. Charles A.
Tonne, had method in his acts, appar-
I ently, when, from the depths of his
| snow blockade, he wired the Minne
! apolis banqueters his regrets and used
the phrase "the Democratic party and
its allies." Why allies? Does the dis
tinguished leader of the Silver Repub
licans Imagine that more good can be
done to the cause of Col. Bryan by j
declining to give Democracy complete
recognition?
With Col. Bryan in the presidential
chair, who would receive recognition
in the distribution of the patronage
of Minnesota— Democrats or Silver
Republicans?
Let the reform forces get together
in name as well as fact. Let them
become known as Democrats. No more
honorable title can be suggested or
conceived. This idea is growing in
strength with the rank and file, the
men who do the work in wards and
election districts. It was admirably
epitomized at the Ryan hotel banquet
of the Ramsey county Democracy by
the leader of the Sixth ward, Mr.
Charles McDonald, when he said:
While we declaim any intention at this
time of provoking a discussion of the sub
ject, nor would we be guilty of one action
that would discourage those persona formerly
of other political parties who recently have
shown a disposition to affiliate with ' us on
one particular question, still the Sixth ward
Democracy believes that it is only a ques
tion of time, and a very short time at that,
when this proposition of several divisions or
one party must be dealt with.
To borrow a phrase from The Globe, we
must say that t we heartily concur in the opin
ion that we. must "chop off the tails." If
v,-e fall to do this now, which is the oppor
tune time, the chances are we will perish i
by internal discord. You probnb'.y all are
aware that, in any case, several small or- !
ganfzations hanging around the skirts of the ;
main organization are enly an inducement for |
designing people of the other side to work a
split in orr ranks.
I am not unmindful of the fact that our
opinion on this l>articular score is quite con
trary to that of eminent men in the party,
but this bsing a Democratic meeting we feel
it our right and duty to voice our sentiments, j
The young Democracy of Ramsey I
county is frank and honest in the '
treatment of this question. The time I
has passed for Democrats, when they j
get together, to pass the word "Be j
careful.. Don't say a word. You'll i
hurt the feelings of our allies."
To paraphrase the distinguished Ne- j
braskan's own remark, the door Is :
wide open, the building known as De- I
mocracy stands on its own founda
tion. It will not be moved, nor will the
door be widened, but it will remain
wide open for all who would enter
therein. Let the Silver Republicans
ponder over this idea.
Where Was Mr. Lincohi?
State Senator Horace White also spoke his
toast being. "The Republican Party." In
the absenpe of Representative Cousins the
Rev. Dr. Duffleld respcuded to the toast
"Abraham Lincoln."
The New York Press thus closes its I
report of two and two-thirds columns |
of the Republican club Lincoln day
banquet in that city. Gov. Roosevelt
had spoken for the "State of New
York;" Senator-elect Chauncey M. De
pew, as the president of the club, had
talked in his ever-pleasing way of
things in general and everything in
particular. Gen. Miles spoke for the
army and Admiral Schley for the navy;
but all that was reported on the great
subject of the evening was "In the ab
sence of Representative Cousins, the
Rev. Dr. Duffield responded to the
toast, 'Abraham Lincoln.' "
It is well enough for Republican or
ganizations to make of the anniversary
of the birth of Mr. Lincoln a physical
and intellectual feast. He was a great
man, who found substantial support in
his great work at the hands of Union
loving Democrats, to whom he always
paid just tribute.- But if, today, a
Democratic club should assemble to
gether in commemoration of this man's
birth and feast themselves on viands
and choice speech, and a Democratic
newspaper should discuss the great
subject around which the event cen
tered, in any such fashion as this Re
publican newspaper treated the affair
of last Monday evening in New York,
something would be to pay.
The celebration of the anniversary of
the birth of Abraham Lincoln ought
not to degenerate into an occasion for
the discussion of party politics only,
j and to the extent of ignoring compiete
; ly the views of orators respecting this
j striking- historical figure. 'It is a bad
, example which is being set by the Re
j publican Club of New York. Primarily,
I and above all else, should attention be
given to a discussion of the exalted
qualities of the man and patriot that
he was. The toast to his memory
should be the first and not the last on
the list, and all things else should yield
thereto.
The above is only a suggestion, and
from the "far West," indicating to the
metropolitan community what, in the
judgment of the people of this section,
would seem to be proper upon an oc
casion of so universally interesting and
i solemn import as a celebration of this
i kind.
New York Legislature and Trusts.
The campaign for the creation of
' trusts, of every conceivable form, has
| advanced so far as to invite legisla
tive action in New York state calcu
| lated to curb the spirit which is seek
, ing to control the idle capital of the
metropolis and the country generally.
And Tammany Hall has taken the in
itiative in the movement. Senator
j Grady has prepared an anti-trust bill
■ which will have the indorsement and
i approval of Richard Croker, and the
j provisions of which will, if the law is
! adopted, have the effect of compelling
a halt to the indiscriminate combina
tions of capital which have been so
conspicuous during the past twelve or
! fifteen months.
Senator Grady has taken as the basis
of his measure that provision of the
Missouri law which reads as follows
"Any purchaser of any article or com
modity from any individual, company or
corporation transacting business contrary
to any provision of this act, shall not be liable
for the price or payment of such article or
commodity, and may plead this act as a de
fense to any suit for such price or payment."
The main trouble with respect to all
anti-trust Jaws has grown out of their
r.on -enforcement. It is proposed by
Senator Grady^to strike at the heart
of the evil by putting a power in the
hands of the individual which shall
enable him to fight oppression in the
courts. The law will be carefully fram
ed, so that the rights of competition
shall be guaranteed, and in the event
of infraction of the statute proper legal
recourse may be found in a thorough
ly legal way.
There could be no more striking evi
dence afforded ot the scope of the
ftnti-trust sentiment than this legisla
tive movement in the Empire State;
and there could be no higher tribute
paid to the West than that -which is
reflected in the embodiment of the
principles of the Missouri law in the
proposed new statute.
The subject is one which commands
the attention of every legislator in the
country, and Minnesota will lose noth
ing: by lining up with New York on
this important proposition.
Marked Improvemsnts in Realty.
The real estate outlook, reference to
which is made in another column of
The Globe, certainly exhibits indica
tions of a stronger market. Dealers
report more active inquiry and a larger
number of transfers than for any sim
ilar period within the past eight years.
This, too, is not confined to properties
in the Twin Cities, but the same re
ports come from all over the state.
Steams county is a fair index of the
general trend of the real estate busi
ness in the interior, and from St. Cloud
come reports of several real estate
transfers of importance, with others in
contemplation. Another fact bearing
directly on the tenor of the real estate
market is this: In spite of the unusual
severity of the winter, shipments of
lumber have been much greater than
usual, and the local stock of lumber is
100,000,000 feet less than it was a year
sirce. This fact certainly indicates a
revival in building, and, as the pros
pects for a heavy lumber trade and a
large cut by the mills are good, it sub
stantiates the almost unanimous re
ports of real estate men concerning a
healthier tone in realty.
Tha National Council of Women.
According to reports from Washing
ton the women of the National Council
do not take kindly to the administra
tion's policy of ' "benevolent assimila
tion," as applied to the Filipinos. On
the woman's page of The Globe this
morning are some sentiments from
this council which would certainly be
disturbing did the million or more
women represented in the organiza
tion have a larger power than that
necessary to pass resolutions.
But they protest against the slaugh
ter of the Filipinos and the occupation
of their lands. They assume that the
subject is within a woman's mental
grasp by boldly declaring that what
is order and liberty to Americans may
be chaos and oppression to the natives
of the East Indies, and surely is such
if. forced upon them; and finally, the
mothers who, though desiring peace,
yet willingly sent their sons to fight the
Spaniards, gloiied in the victories of
the Stars and Stripes, and, with un
checked enthusiasm, gave of their
means and their energies to relieve the
wounded and mitigate the evils of Al
gerism — these same mothers are now
making a vigorous protest against the
policy which compels their sons to
carry the president's blessed burdens
of liberty into the jungles of the Phil
ippines.
The question is whether the women
should be heard at all on this subject,
and, if they should, whether this coun
cil is representative. Eight or ten
hundred thousand women do not mean
much if they represent only a class
and not a country. However, (he coun
cil can hardly b e so described, since it
is really a federation of federations
within whose ranks are found such na
tional organizations as the National
Association of Loyal Women of Amer
ica, the National Council of Jewish
Women, the Young Ladies' Mutual Im
provement association, the Woman;,
Republican Association of the United
States, the National Woman's Relief
society, the National Christian league,
the National Suffrage association, the
Woman's Christian Temperance union
and many other national societies, as
well as a number of local organiza
tions. Among the patrons of the Na
tional Council are such women as Mrs.
Todd Helmuth, president of New York
Sorosis; Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, of Cali
fornia: Miss Clara Barton and Mrs.
Caroline Bartlett Crane, of Michigan;
while Lady Aberdeen presides over the
international council, of which the
American organization is a member.
If any body of women should be heard,
then, none will be found more repre
sentative than the National Council of
Women.
One other thing. The war over wom
an's suffrage is raging with unusual
fury in the East just now, because of
the activity of the anti-suffragists,
who maintain that women have more
influence without the ballot than they
will have with it. This is a most ex
cellent opportunity to prove — or refute
— the claim. \
Bird Day.
The movement to establish a Bird
"day in the schools is worthy of gen
erous encouragement in order that the
apnalling slaughter of birds may re
ceive an effective checK. Next to the
heartless demand which the vanity of
women is making upon the lives of
these little creatures, the mania among
boys for collecting eggs and killing
birds is doing most to exterminate a
form of life which is of inestimable
value to mankind.
The observance of Bird day would
| do for birds what Arbor day has done
and is doing for the trees. In fact, a
day for the studying of ornithology
has already been set aside in several
states with such success as to make
it no longer an experiment. Many
I species which were considered such a
i nuisance as to be placed under sen
tence of death, to be executed at the
pleasure of the small boy, have been
found to be not only harmless, but
positively valuable to farmers. Fur
thermore, familiarity with birds stim
ulates love for them, and when the
boys love them too much to kill them
just for fun the mothers' befeathered
bonnets call forth embarrassing but ef
fective protests. One day taken from
the study of books and spent on the
study of birds will not be lost.
A Social Folly.
Perhaps one of the silliest organiza
tions which youthful folly has ever
effected is that of "The Marble Hearts
Anti-Matrimonial Association of Apple
ton, Wis.," referred to in The Globe
of last Sunday. <The members of this
association are young men. It ia said
that they are bound by oath not to
ir.arry; but the proviso is added: "Of
course a member may marry, but In
doing so he relinquishes all rights to
the funds of the organization."
The evil and immoral Influence of
such superlatively foolish organizations
must be obvious to anyone. When a
man makes a vow or takes an oath It
is presumed that he Intends to reg-ard
It strictly; and, if he violates such sol
emn pledges and the fact Is made
known, even his ordinary word of honor
becomes valueless; and this, of Itself,
often stands in the stead of capitai
with a young man who starts out In the
world to make his fortune.
The principle underlying such unions
as that known as "The Marble Heart"
is wrong from other standpoints of
morality which it ia unnecessary to
discuss. They become absolute social
cores when governed by oathbound coo
ditlons; and there should be some
method discovered and applied for the
prevention of their existence. No man
should take an oath lightly, and in
the degree that he looks upon such
form of accentuating reliability of
statement and individual action, as of
indifferent worth, Just so far does he
descend In the social scale and under
mine, not only his own self-respect,
but that of his associates for him.
There is an abundance of ways for
the effervescent follies of youth to vent
themselves without so flagrant a dis
regard of recognized rules of morality
and correct living as that manifested
by these shallow, and conceited young
sters of Appleton, Wis.
Such a surrender of the power of appoint
ment (of Gen. James M. Vainum as sur
rogate of New York city) w« do not expoct
from Theodore Roosevelt. A reform gov
ernor who, lv the second month of his term,
lets the machine dictate his nominations ei
ther by pressing bad men on him or by
dissuading him from naming good men has
made a rather bad beginning.— New York
Times (political hermaphrodite).
Never mind, Teddy, everybody knows
your standard of excellence isn't lower
than in the days when the Times was
ycur friend. And Varnum, too—noth
ing was the matter with him In those
same days, and nothing is the matter
now.
Epistles to St. Paul.
Two young men wearing pearl-eoloved Fe
dora hats with wida black bands were quite
companionable and chatty on an interurban
par the other evening. From their conver
sation one would judgp, ai:d quite rightly,
that they had not met before for a year or
two. One of them had a good deal to say
about New York, and his words indicated a
familiarity with that city. Few other people
were In the car. One, however, was a pallid
youth, with long, black hair and high cheek
hor.es. Rather carelessly attired, ho wore a
brown Derby with a dent on the port 6i<le
of the crown. •
"Ret the cigars that chap's a newspaper
man," observed the Ne-w Yorker, sotto voce,
to his companion.
"Don't know, hut I'll go you if I lose," was
the reply In un undertone. "Are you going
to ask him?"
"No; going to test him." This in a low
voice. Then louder:
"Most remarkable incident I ever saw in
my life. You see the minute he placed a
common pair of eye glasses across his nose
the lenses cracked and flew all to pieces.
Dozens of oculists, opticians and medical men
examined him. and pronounced the case un
paralleled iv any of the books."
"The deuce, you pay. "VYas he compelled to
wear spectacles?"
"Yes; couldn't read without 'em."
"What did the doctors say about It?"
"Said it was some abnormal condition of the
pupils of the pye."
"How did he read, then?"
"Used colored or smoked louses. His eyes
had no effect en them."
Meanwhile the suspected journalist remained
impassive, signifying by neither word or deed
thnt he was aware of the presence of the two
young larkers.
"He don't seem to bite," said the New
Yorker's comrade.
"No," feebly, "guess I've lost the cigars.
Didn't even prick up his ears. 'He's got no
cos.9 for news."
In the face of all this the New York man
had wan his bet. The party referred' to was
a newspaper writer of experience, and that
is the reason he didn't give himself away In
the presence of such a palpable fake.
• • •
The other night a little dried-up Irishman
drifted into the central stration and asked
Jailer Lou Galvin for a night's lodging. He
was accommodated and shown upstairs to
the Hotel de City. In about an hour he came
down stairs, highly lndignr.nt.
"Fhat in blazes de yez be puttin' a
Christian in a cowld place like thot for?"
he demanded.
"It Is the best we have," returned Mr. Gal
vin with his customary politeness.
"Oi'll tell ther mayor on yez," thundered
the little fellow.
"Perhaps >ou had better go out of doors
if you are rot satisfied," remarked ths
jailer.
"If Oi do yez will go out first," shouted
the dissatisfied guest, as he scampered up
stairs as if the bnnshees were after him.
• # ♦
The cashier in the registry department at
the postoffiee is a very much indignant man,
all because of the fact that some of the ol«?rka
have been using him as the butt of a practi
cal joke. Some ingenious servant of Uncle
Sam, having moro time than he knew what
to do with, conceived the idea of coating a
quarter with a tin foil, which he proceeded
to do so dexterously that the tin foil looked
as if made on the coin. Then another young
man took the quarter around to the registry
window and shoved it in for change.
"What is this?" inquired the cashier as he
! rung the coin and listened to the flat sound
it gave out.
"ft'a perfectly genuine," declared the
joker.
Then an argument ensued. The jokist re
fused to take back the coin, and the cashier
insisted it was counterfeit. Finally he threat- J
ened to refer the matter to Capt. Lawrence,
of the secret service, and became so positive
that a little trifling wager was laid on the
genuineness of the disputed quarter.
After the stakes were in safe hands, the
joker whittled off the tin foil with a pen
knife, and now the cashier is looking for a
chance to get even.
• ♦ •
A pleasing incident interrupted Gov. Llnd in
his office yesterday aft<-rr.oon and served! to
enliven the governor, who is just at present
besieged with aspirants to political honors.
A large class of school girls from the North
Side high school, of Minneapolis, took the
governor's office by sturm. The governor
emerged from his private office to learn the
cause of the commotion. Tho suave Tom
Downs was on the spot, and introduceid the
girls as his constituents. The governor shook
hands with encii one, and they all went away
happy.
Gloi»e Denervet Credit.
The St. Paul Globe of Wednesday con
tained a London dispatch, the contents of
which is certainly an "eye-opener." It Is
to the effect that a change has come o'er
the spirit of the Briton's dream and, In oon
sequence, this country is not viewed with
quite the same favor as formerly across the
big pond. And all because we are taking
large slices of trade away from John Bull.
Tho story certainly comes under tho head of
"news"— and The Globe deserves credit for
being the first to giv« it to tho reading pub
lic—Eden Valley County Line (Ind.).
The School Book Qaention.
To The St. Paul Globe:
The -writer lias a little girl, 7 years of a«e,
in one of the public schools. Since last fall
I have bought her two new books, and new
again she has been ordered by her teacher
to buy two more. It seems to me thut the
child should bi permitted to finish one" book
before buying a substitute. The reader my
girl bought last fall she had but about half
finished, when she was ordered to discard that
and buy a new one. Do you think this a
proper way to educate children? To teach
them such unpardonable wasting of money?
Perhaps the American Book company can ex
plain. I suppose the tw.-hers must obey that
ootopua and the school board.
—a. f. a.
St. Paul, Fob. 18, 1899.
Mississippi by 200, MUea.
To The St. Paul Globs:
Which is the longest river In the world?
Which is the longer, the Mississippi, including
the Missouri, or the Nile? — S. JL Clon«y.
From its source in the far Western moun
tains th« Mississippi Is 4,200 mile* In length;
the total length of the Amazon Is 4.000 miles.
The Mil* la 1.370 milas lons. i
fACIFICATION, N
From the Chicago Times-Herald (McKinley
Republican).
Pacification looking to independence, not
subjugation preparatory to annexation, should
now be the American policy in the Philip
pines.
Such scents of slaughter as attended the re
pulse of the Filipinos on our lines last Sat
urday and Sunday send a shudder of horror
and pity through the land. History may tell
us that civilization and pi-ogress have always
advanced through such eharn<-l scenes to the
salvation of savages and for the good of man
kind.
But the people of the United States have
neither the blood-thirst nor the land-hunger
that will tolerate a war of conquest whose
battlefields are shambles and whose victories
are butcheries.
There is no glory in routing an army of
undisciplined eemi-savagea. whose ranks are
recruited from Ygorrotes bowmen, half-naked
boys and women masquerading as soldiers.
The sluaghter at Manila was ntcessary, but
it was not glorious. The entire American na
tion justifies the conduct of its army at Ma
nila because only by a crushing repulse of
the Filipinos could our position be made se
cure. It will also sustain any steps that may
be nt-cessary to make Manila invulnerable to
like assaults in the future.
But the conscience of the American people
will not tolerate the slaughter of Filipinos in
a war of conquest.
We do not seek tlulr !and. We do not want
to replace the yoke of Spain with one bearing
the more merciful and just label of the
United States of America.
If ive could we would order our army and
navy back from the Philippines, contenting
ourselves with such a naval depot as would
Guns and Ships.
From the Nautical Gazette.
The new gun fur the British navy, official
ly known as "Mark VIII.," Is wire wound,
and, according to all accounts, -will be th«
roost formidable weapon of the kind ever
constructed. Many experiments have shown
that a charge of lfiT'/fe pounds of cordite la
sufficient to throw a projectile SW pounds in
weight a distance of 10,000 yards, whereas
'he existing 12-inch guns need a charge of 295
pounds of powder to firp a projectile weigh
ing 714 pounds the same distance. The new
gun has also a greater destructive power, it
having been found that its projectile will pen
etrate 21.1 inches of wrought iron at a dis
tance of 1,700 yards, whilst the penetrating
powe.r of the present 12-inch gun at the same
distance is 19.4 inches. At shorter dis
tances the difference in the destructive ca
pacity is much more pronounced, the muzzle
perforation of the now gun being 38.5 inches
of iron, as against 26.7 inches in the case of
the older type of weapon. The first battle
ships to be armed with these guns will be
the Canopus. Goliath and Ocean, each of
which will carry four, mounted 1n their bar
bettes. These improvements in penetrative
power and range are said to be mainly due
j to an Increase in the length of the gun, the
new weapon being abcut 10 feet longer than
the existing guns of the same calibre.
* * *
It costs more to build vessels now than It
did a few months ago. Owing to great ac
tivity at all of the shipyards In the country,
the Drice of steel has advanced $7 per ton,
ar.d is quoted at $29. Thus vessels that were
contracted for at about $215,000 In November
last now cost $240,000. A convincing indica
tion of the advance in values Is found in
negotiations for the sale of the steamer C.
A. Black. The owners of the craft have been
offered $235,000 for her by two intending
purchasers, but are asking $340,000. The
original cost of the Black was not very much
in excess of $200,000.
* * »
Four guns from the Spanish cruiser Vis
caya. two of small and two of large calibre,
lave been set up in the naval academy at
Annapolis, the great ones near the Tripoli
monument and the small ones on the portico
of the old chapel. The position of the two
li.tter is significant. Two yards from the one
on the right is a gun that Cortez brought to
Mexico, captured by our forces In tho Mexican
■war. One gun represents the beginning of '
Spanish rule in America, the other the end.
• ♦ ♦
The contract for the masonry work of the
dry dock at the Boston navy yard has been
awarded to O'Brien & Sheehan. of Xew York,
who are the lowest of seventeen bidders in
tho recent competition. The firm agroed to
perform the work for $525.400. The construc
tion of tiie necessary machinery will be
awarded to another New York company at
its bid 1 of $130,000, making the total cost
$955,400. The new dock is the largest of the
kind ever undertaken in the country and
will be the most costly basin yot built for the
navy. Its dimensions will permit the dock
ing of the largest warship, the plans giv
ing a draught of at least 28 feet over the
sill and a length to accommodate any vessel
of the transatlantic line.
The Trusts and Their Paradfae.
It Is not possible these days to keep the
run of information as to the number of trusts
organizing to control production and pricos.
These combinations are forming in every
important branch of manufacture and trade.
Their object, needless to say, is unconsciona
ble profits. Nearly all the commodities they
engross are covered by protective tariff. This
is the coming question in our politics. Pro
tection will be destroyed by its own greed.
The state of New Jersey is the favorite
field for incorporation of these trusts, whose
operations are extended to all parts of the
country. The reason is that New Jersey
offers special inducements. Her statutes al
low companies to incorporate with unlimited
capital, and with great variety of Interests
and objects. The companies so incorporated
are free from state supervision as to their
business. This, to trusts. Is a most attractive
condition; for there is nothing your honest
trust so truly despises as meddlesome in
quiry under lawful authority.
Last year New Jersey helped the suffering
trusts further by enacting that the resi
dences of incorporators need not be given in I
the articles of incorporation. The fee for In
corporation, paid to the state, is 20 cents on
each $I.COO of capital stock; and an annual
franchise tax must be paid to the state of
one- tenth of 1 per cent, up to and including
$3,000,000 of issued capital stofk. and one
one-tenth of 1 per cent on the Issued stock
between $3,000,000 and $r>, 000,000. Above
$3,000,000 the tax is $50 a million. These taxes,
though a trifle in proportion to the advantages
gained through the facilities offered and the
secrecy assured, bring in large sums oi
money; for New Jersey has made herself the
paradise of Incorporations, trusts and com
bines, and for years there has been a rush
to get In under her laws. It pays her, in a
way, to foster this business, since through
various devices for taxation of these great
combinations, taxation of Inheritances, of
railroad earnings, etc.— though the amount in
proportion to capitalization is insignificant—
the state" meets all its expenditure and lays I
no direct tax upon the people for support of
the state government. — Portland Oregonian.
WHERE THE TIDE OV BATTLE
FIOWS.
There comes a crß3.oy feeling
When the foremost ranks are reeling
And tho light artillery wheeling
To a rear position gots.
Though the bullets thick are hun-nMna
You can hear a distant drumming
Which tells the reserve's co-jiing
Where the tide uf battle flows.
The skirmishers way scatter
When they hear the bullets patter
With the sal-cr's clang and clatter
And the cheers of charging foes.
The raw recruits may waver,
The bugler's note may quaver'
But the drum rolls louder, bi'aver
Where the tide of battle flows. * "
The honor of a nation.
Thrilling through its strong pulsation.
Gives new hope r.nd animation
To the shattered ranks which close
'Round the tattered Hag, still flying
'Round the wounded and the dying
In long -blue-clad lines a-lying
Where the tide of battle flows.
So the drum will keep on bemtlng,
While advancing or retreating.
And Its stern commands relating
With a subtle cower It knows
Thrills through all, with hope luspiring
Till men never think of tiring
And. unflinching, face the Bring
Where the tida of battle flowr.
I —Will E. Maiden.
OT ANNEXATION.
prevent our ever again being caught In the
dilemma which forced Dewey to take r fuge
from Ifong Kong in the destruction of M-in
tojo's fleet and the capture of Manila.
But today the peace of the Orient will not
permit our immediate retirement from the
Philippines, We are the sucetssors to Span
ish sovereignty there, the guardians of the
islands from the rapacity of foreign nations
and in a broad sense the trustees of civili
zation and peace throughout the islands.
This ia the White Man's Burden wiiich
Dewey achieved for us, and which has been
thrust upon us by the impotent oppre.--si.Mii
of Siiain and the » 'mi-barbarous condition of
the Philippines.
The path of duty and national honor in the
Philippines U a narrow and perilous one. W«
can sco the end which should be the estab
lishment of an independ nt Philippine repub
lic. But the way to that end is involved In
doubt and difficulties which ought not to
prove insurmountable.
We can only k?ep cur conscience clear by
keeping the end always In vi"w and working
toward it with patience and honesty.
But we want no repetitions of the battle of
Manila.
Let the president proclaim the purpO3e of
the United State* to be pacification with a
view to the ultimate Independence of tha
islands. Let him summon the chieftains of
the principal sections of the country to a
council to devise Borne system of horn? rule
until the Filipinos are able to assume all the
obligations of the government.
Let him announce that we have no .inten
tion of annexing Asiatic territory and that
th? pledge of congress as to Cuban independ
ence will be the pledge of the American na
tion to the Philippines.
Treating of Trusts.
A varnish trust has been orgatiize-d, but
as long as there is no whitewash trust Sec
retary Alger will continue to feel easy in
mind.— Baltimore Herald.
• • *
The paper trust has been capitalized at
555,000.000. Every work of the trust could
be done by a new enterprise on a capital of
£15.000,000. It is because of needed dividends
en the $40,000,000 of water that the price of
paper has been and Is to be raised, primarily
out of the newspapers and secondarily out
of the purchasing and advertising public-
Trenton True American.
• * •
The United Shoe Machinery company, capi
tal 150.000.0C0, has filed articles of incorpora
tion in New Jersey. Thus the grasp of tha
trusts draws tighter about the throat of one
of the great industries of New England. The
policy of the Republican party, to which the
representatives of Massachusetts and Indeed
of all New England have cravenly consented,
has ever been the sacrifice of the industry
of this section to the demands of greedy capi
tal of other sections.— Boston Post (Dem.).
• • •
The price of whisky Is speedily advancing.
Some people will be inclined to praise the
trust for this.— Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.).
• * •
There were four more trusts formed the
past week— the soap, milk, sheet, rod and
breakfast food trusts. The milk trust of
Chicago is fathered by Joe loiter, of bull
wheat fame. Unconsciously the trust kings are
making socialism possible by their own pa
ternalism.—Perham (Minn.) Bulletin.
» « *
Last week the woolen manufacturers of the
East entered into a p.ool with a capital of
$50,000,000. and this week the dispatches state
that the wholesale clothing Sheeneys of the
United States were about to form a $200,000,
--000 trust. If they do what show will a white
man stand In this land of the free, and home
of the trust.— Perham (Minn.) Bulletin.
• * •
If there was any doubt about this being
the era of trusts It -would be dissipated by
reading of the formation of the new $00,000,090
whisky trust, the $30,0«X>,C00 milk trust and
the $50,C00,0<>0 soap trust.— Belle Plaine Her
ald (Dem.).
• • •
Now it Is a rye whisky trust. The octopus
is evidently getting loaded with samples of
all the dl£Terent brands.— Boston Herald
(Dem.).
REFLECTIONS OF WBAHI WILLIAM
Oh, don't I wish I were Eagan!
(Whose name. I reckon, rhymes to "pagan,"
Though I'm not sartln how pronounced!.
I'd like to be in his way bounced,
Instead a bein' arst to do
Sis hours' work for the price of twj.
And dogged or jugged because I won't!
Oh, no; I really think I don't!
Six years of pay for loafln' round
Then quit, as If all hunky found!
Oh, if our noble boys in blue.
On land and on the ocean, too,
Wi'.l punish m? with such good t : m^3
I'll quickly far outdo his crimes!
He only roasted Gin'ral Miles
But if they'll give me half the. piles
He puts away in ev'ry year.
With all his grub and whisky clear
And title still, ond schmoke tobac,
And folk*;' a rattin" en his back.
And lodgln's free, and shc-es, and fires,
m call the whole caboodle liars!
— C. L.. James.
The Harden of the Philippine*.
Edv.'ard M. Shepard, a prominent Democrat
of the state of New York, "in responding to
the toast, "Anti-Expansion." before tha
crockery board of tr3de. of New York ,-lty.
last week, said:
"A treaty called a treaty of peace has
just been ratified, ajid at the sam« time the
most bloody battle the war-has brouzln us
and a battle plainly tho initial battle of a
very long conflict, has been fought Tho
lllipincs are doing in their savage" way just
what we would probably have done under
the circumstances. Is it not well ty count
tho cost?
•No American has the audacity to say
that our fleet is now the fleet of a ilbera.tor
Put we are told that it is to extend our
trade. The annual trade of the Philippines
amounts to J14.000.0iW, just 1 ,>er cent if
cur total trade with other nation* What
would you gentlemen think of a proposi
tion to undergo a year's war for an In
crease in your trade of 1 Der cent? >BiH
we are to have open ports there to copy
the system of the EnglUh. We nuv retain
nt vi T « ■ With tha ani
Jo.OOC.iiOO or $6,000,000 yearly
t K thpy -.? iIy '. Bee what the expansion
wou d be with American methods In the
Philippines. Time islands are already more
densely peculated than this state outside of
Greater New York. What room Is th^re
w en </£ r Rr ? wt ,. n <> f American population?"
Mr. Shepard thm took up tho subject of
S' ; hhT"', 81 " 1 3aid that while n « r
trad* with the colonies in the tenip^nfts
swnes. where white mea lived, was good
?h r pmh 1 T i rad< ! Wl v th lmUa - situated liki
the Philippines In the tropic zone was 30
rents r>er capita of India's population
•The expoptetlons of England to Austral
asa, where 4.000,000 <rf white men live"
satfl he, is almost as great as to India
with it* 300.000.000 Inhabitants. If we ™ *
slat in the policy, of subjugating these peo
ple by force of anna, we will have on our
lands a war like that we had with the Stm
inoles in b lorlda. a war which will inflict
on us damages as ereat ps ihet our benefit
at the maximum estimate will be."
A qii'-cr Kevejiae RaUer.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal Is a Drmo
rra'tlc newspaper, but It doesn't take kind
ly to the antics of the gentlemen who are try-
Ing to do something in the way of revenue.,
producing for next year's campaign. Refer
ring to the latest scheme of the committee,
our Memphis contemporary say*:
"The latest method of the Democratic lead,
ers to raiae a campaign fund by contracting
with I. U. Cannon & Co. to handle the sala
of two grades of 'Thomas Jefferson' t?) cigars,
which are to be sold for B and 10 cents re
spectively, the said manufacturers to pay to
the national committee. M<-v;rs. Jonea CMtt
Harvey, Altge-ld, Teller and Stone, n hulf cent
for each 'flvo-ceater' and a cent for t^ch 'ten
center' sold. Is a disgrace to national poll
tics, and smacks of the ward bum politics."
The Commercial-Appeal haa p'.aced itself la
a position to be branded as the hired tojl of
Wail and Lombard streets.— Washington Post.
Woman Who Wanted to He Klrnt.
I do net want a pretty man,
I care not for a witty man.
Nor for a man who hankers to be great;
I do not want a billionaire,
I sigh not for a millionaire
To come around and choose me for his mate.
I'll never wed a drinking man,
I care not for a thinking man.
Nor one who seeks in politics to sway:
I'd rather wed a dromedary
Than play a part that's secondary.
As the wives of such men always have tc
play.
—Cleveland Leader.