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t^ ST. PAUL S^OLOESTjrEHGHERS.
Tlie bill now pending in the legislature which provides I
for a pension to those teachers who have taught in the
public schools of the state for a certain number of years
is calculated to awaken interest in the work of our home
teachers in St. Paul.
While Ihere are many others who have taught success
fully and Industriously for many years, the three ladies
who have been the longest connected with the public
schools of St. Paul are Mrs. Katharine Deacon, principal
of Franklin s< hool. corner of Broadway and Tenth street;
Miss Laura Hand, principal of Van Buren school. Bates
avenue. In'iwivii Conway aud Ravine streets, and Miss
Lucia M. Miller, principal of Webster school, corner Laurel
avenue and Mackubin street,
MRS. KATHERINE DEACON.
The present principal of the Franklin school. Mrs. Dea
con, t'nst came to Miunesota in 1875. Subsequently, she
nttended the New York city normal school, from which
she was graduated in .lime. 1881. She was at once ap
pointed principal of the Jackson school, St. Paul, where
she remained in charge of the various departments for
fifteen years. She is at present principal of the Franklin
school, having succeeded Miss Shanley in June, 1896. She
has witnessed many important changes in the history of
the public schools of this city. At the time she first be
gan icaching in St. Paul Mr. B. F. Wright was city super
intendent, who was followed successively by Mr. Taylor,
Mr. t'il'Mii and the present incumbent of the office, Mr.
A. -I. Smith. Her efforts in the line of educational work
In Si. Paul have been uniformly successful, and ber ex
perience invaluable to all interested in pedagogy.
As would be readily conjectured, Mrs. Deacon is an
earnest champion ol' the measure now pending in the leg
islature io provide pensions for those educators who have
taught a certain number of years and become disabled for
fun Ikt efficient duty in this line. She points to the fact
that there is not a city in the United States ot? the size
of Minneapolis and St. Paul that is not favored by such
n law as is now before the legislatunv^She cites Omaha,
Toledo. Detroit, Xew York. Brooklyn. Buffalo, Cincinnati,
Chicago. Newark. Trenton. Boston, Washington and many
other cities as examples iv which teaching is recognized
ns a public service fully as important and worthy of at
tention as the police service or tire department.
Mrs. Deacon is fully as firm a friend of the measure
known as the "mill and a half bill," providing for money
for school incidentals, such as library books, pictures and
works uf ait. She said that for many years iv the past
the individual efforts of teachers and pupils combined had
provided such things for the schools.
"These two eases." she said, pointing to a couple of
large book cases with glass doors, "have been filled with
books purchased with money raised by lectures and enter
tainments gotten up by the teachers and pupils on their
own responsibility. Many other things really necessary in
a well governed school room have been purchased by
money literally earned by the pupils." J
It will be seen from this that the city stands in the I
light of a recipient of charity from the teachers and J
A SHOJ-IT FltOlNfTiElfc STOI^Y.
Judge E. C. Flandrau Tells How They Used to Make
Postoffices in the Early Days.
I had settled on the frontier, where
TraVerse dcs i-"ioux and Mankato were
the extreme border towns in South
west, m Minnesota. About the year
"l y ">-t or 1855 a German settlement was
commenced at New Ulm. It orig
inated in Cincinnati with an as
sociation whicli sent out parties to
find a siti- for a town, and they select
ed the present site of New Ulm. The
lands had not been surveyed by the
general government, but one delegate
in congress, Mr. Henry M. Rice, had
anticipated that by obtaining the pas-
Bage of the law allowing settlement and
pre-emption on unsurveyed lands. Un
der the law a town site could only em
brace 320 acres, but the projectors of
New Ulm laid out an Immense tract,
DONALD GRANT MITCHELL (IK MARVEL), XOW SERIOI SLY ILL.
MOW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 23.— Donad
Grant Mitchell tlk Marvel), who Is 111 at his
home in this city, is now past 77 years of
age. and is by no means as strong as he
used to he. Mr. Mitohcli's grandfather was
Stephen Mix Mitchell, the distinguished jur
ist. His father was the pastor of the Second
Congregational church in Norwich. The au
thor wan educated at Yale, whence h° was
graduated in IS4I. Mr. 'Mitchell get in the
way of writing during a visit to his mater
nal grandfather's farm, near Salem, Conu
For three years he lived in the open ai;-. and
his observations of country life, later record
ed in his bu.>ks, were then taken. In I**H
Mr. Mitchell went to Europe and rambled
around England tlie best part of a year. On
comprising thousands of acres. Many
ofthe settlers had not taken any steps
towards becoming American citizens,
which was a necessary preliminary to
pre-emption, and everything among
Them was held in a kind of common in
terest, the Cincinnati society furnish
ing the funds.
It was not long before- they discover
ed th;it they needed legal advice In
their venture, and called on me to reg
ulate their matters for them. I was
f
scholars. The money they earn is given directly to li
braries and pictures for the school room, and these, even
tually, become city property.
MISS L.UKA HAND.
in IST"-' Miss Laura Hand came to Minnesota. Since
then she has been engaged In school and school woik in
both St. Paul and Minneapolis. .Miss Hand is a graduate
of the stale"normal school at Mankato. Before locating in
Si. PaUl she was principal of tbe Lincoln school, Wash
ington avenue, Minneapolis, coming to St. Paul in 1574.
For two years she was principal of the Franklin school,
now in charge of Mrs. Deacon. For two years, also, she
was in charge of the school in West St. Paul ami principal
of tlie Humboldt school, corner Delos and Livingstone
avenues, for live years. From the Humboldt she came to
the Van Buren school, where slie has been during the
past six .years. Her experience in educational work in the
Twin Cities lias been more varied, probably, than that
of any other teacher now in the employment of tlie city.
Miss Hand fully indorses tlie views held by Mis. Dea
con concerning ihe justice of Betting aside an annuity for
aged and worn out school teachers. Recent adddltlons to
the interior attractions of the Van Buren school building
show that teachers and pupils have not been Idle outside
of school hours. A handsome oak frame, upright piano
in tlie corridor of the second floor was purchased with
money earned by individual effort and cost the city noth
ing. Some very creditable works of art, a cast of "Winged
Victory," a reproduction of the beautiful, though muti'ated
Hermes, and other choice casts and pictures are ail newly
acquired and valuable appendices to tlie interior decoration
of the Van Buren school, and all earned by the skillful
financing of faculty and pupils. Such additions prove tlie
enthusiasm awakened In the pupils, and this is highly
creditable to the ability aud industry of the present prin
cipal of the school. From time to time new books have
also been added to the school library, until a line collection
of useful volumes has been accumulated.
MISS LUCIA M. MILLER.
School reports on hie at the office of City- Superin
tendent of Schools Smith show that in September, 18t'!>,
Miss Lucia M. Miller was ap*x>iuted principal of the
Webster school. She had graduated from the St. Paul
high school a short time previous to this date, but had
done grade work in other schools. As she says herself,
"I began teaching iv short dresses," and since then she
has been closely identified with the educational interests
of this city. She has done grammar school work in the
Franklin school, afterwards becoming principal of the
school in IS7S. In 1879 she was principal of the NeiU
school. She remained there until 1881, when the Webster
school building was completed, and she became the prin
cipal. She holds that position today, and her career as
an instructor has been uniformly successful. Her varied
experience with the desires and ambitions of students has
convinced her of the eminent appropriateness of the "mill
and a half bill before the legislature. That It would be
of great service, as well as encouragement to pupils, she
Is convinced.
deputy clerk of the court and always
carried the seal and naturalization
blanks with me, so that I could take
the declaration of intention of any one
who desired to become an American
citizen, anywhere I happened to find
him, on the prairrie or elsewhere. In
this way I qualified many of the Ger
mans for pre-emption and took them
bj: the steamboat load down to Wi
nona to enter their lands. I would be
furnished with a large bag of gold with
which to pay for the lands, and some
times, with the special conveniences
furnished by the land offlce, I would
work off forty or fifty pre-emptions a
day. I became such a necessary factor
In the building of the town that if any
difficulty occurred, even in the running
of the mill which they erected and
his return to America he settled in New York
and took ud the stu3y of law. But he was
meanwhile busy with writing out his impres
sions of Europe. The fruits of this work
were seen in a volume entitled "Fresh Glean
ings; cr. A New Sheaf From the Old Fields
of Continental Europe. " In 1848 Mr. Mitchell
paid another visit to Europe, and was in
Paris during the revolution of that year.
When he returned his pen became ouite pro
lific, and, besides editing a weekly? he pub
lished some new books, incognito, which were
very widely read. It was about this time
that Mr. Mitchell brought out his famous
work, "Reverica cf a Bachelor." He has
been always interested in life in the country,
r.nd his works breathe a beautiful pagan
Bfiirit.
ran by the accumulated water of
many large springs, I wa* immediate
ly sent for to remedy the evil.
Thf> nearest postoffice was at Fort
Ridgt. ly, about sixteen miles away, and
it soon became apparent that one
ought to be established in the town. I
was, of course, sent for to see if it
could be accomplished. It was a very
easy thing to do with the very efficient
and influential delegate we had in con
gress, Hon. Henry M. Rice. Having
THE ST. PAUL, GIvOBK SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1899.
agreed upon a Mr. Anton Kouse as
postmaster, I at once wrote to Mr.
Rice to give the new settlement a post
office. It was not long before I re
ceived an answer, which contained the
postmaster's commission, his bond
for execution, a key for the mail bags,
and all the requisites for a going post
office
The New Ulm people were a very so
cial lot, and my visits to the town al
ways included a good lot of fun, so I
concluded to make a special event ot
the establishment of the new post-
MtHce, and as the weather was fine I
invited half a dozen friends to accom
pany me in a drive to New Ulm to par
ticipate in the ceremonies of openins
the new postoffice.
One of the earliest settlers at New
bim was Francis Baasen, who be
came Minnesota's first secretary of
£?*!- , a .*? d was a gallant officer In the
Mrst Minnesota regiment, so celebrat
ed in the War of the Rebellion, and has
recently been appointed, by Gov. Lind
as assistant adjutant general of the
state. He had a claim about two miles
below the town, just where the ferry
crossed the Minnesota river at Red
Stone, and had erected a log shanty
there in which he lived. Of course we
always called on Baasen on our 'way
up, and also on our way back, when
wfc visited Ne w Ulm. Baasen was a
charming gentleman and, while his
shack was destitute of any of the
luxuries or elegancies of life, there was
a door, or hatchway, in the middle of
the floor of the only room, which led
to a kind of cellar, the contents of
which supplied all the deficiencies of
the house and, flavored with the gen
erous hospitality of the proprietor
made everybody hajipy.
On this occasion we stopped to take
Baasen into the party, and while dis
cussing the great event which brought
us up, I decided to add some new feat
ures to the inauguration of the new
postmaster. Baasen had been appoint
ed a notary public and was provided
with large business-like envelopes and
formidable red seals, so I wrote a Ut
ter to Mr. Kouse in about the follow
ing language:
T „*? xe .s;J- Ho?- M f? "* on > Washington, D. C.
. ( v.f'r. *t Hc "' Antol - K o us e. Postmaster
at New Llm, Territory of Minnesota— Sir- We
have been informed that a flourishing settle
ment has been founded on the waters of the
UP J, e I J ,l* I - 1 - < * !< - ta rlver in Minnesota terrltorv
whlch has been named Xew L"lm, and that
the Inhabitants are sufficiently numerous ana
Intelligent to need a postoffice. It has a \so
been represented to us that you are a Rood
and true Democrat, and the choice of the
people for the offlce of postmaster. It is
therefore our duty and pleasure to appoint
?r ot tO^ hat « offlce * Uis our dfsl '-c tbaTyou
k-cate the offlce in a part of the town which
will accommodate its inhabitants, and see
tickPf afaii ? y .? lways r vote the Democratic
ticket at all elections. I am yours very truly,
tj •_> . . , —Franklin Pierce.
President of the United States or America
(oeal.)
I enclosed this letter in one of Baa
sen's large envelopes, and we all drove
up to the house of Mr. Kouse and
called him out. I stood up in the
wagon and made him a speech, inform
ing him of the creation of the office,
and that [ had his bond and commis
sion and a letter to him from the pres
ident of the United States, which I
was instructed to deliver to him in
person, and I added that it was cus
tomary on all such important occa
sions for the newly-appointed postmas
ter to propose the health of the post
master general.
Kouse rushed into his house and ap
peared with a brown jug and a tin
cup, from which we all drank a bufnp
er to the health and prosperity of the
postmaster general, the town of New
Ulm and its postmaster. I then hand
ed him his credentials, including the
letter from the president, and the post
office at New Ulm was a reality.
I have never learned whether my
friend Kouse caught onto the joke or
whether he has cherished the executive
letter as an heirloom for his poster
ity. —Charles E. Flandiau.
GAS COKE is the cheapest fuel in
the market for furnaces, stoves and
grates, it is equal to the best hard coal,
find costs 40 per cent less.
ST. PAUL GAS LIGHT CO.
Dl.sas-recaljle February!
The discomforts of this month can be
escaped by taking advantage of the winter
excursions of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad to one of the many pleasant resorts
of the South. This line offers unsurpassed
facilities for reaching the cities of the South
the winter resorts of the beautiful Gulf
Coast, of Florida, of California, and of ihe
West Indies. Write C P. Atmore, General
Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., for folders
descriptive of Florida or the Gulf Coast.
A Soo Line' Excnr.sion East.
Visiting Montreal. Washington. New York
and Boston. Two weeks' trip: $99.00, includ
ing all expenses. Get particulars. 398 rtubert
■tent
If Iff I 1111. I
Changes Which Recent Elections Will Hake in United States Senate.
-Vv ■ — ■ Vt
MILLIONAIRES* ( 't.VB OP THK UNITBHD STATES SENATE.
Names, lutcrcrtts. Fortunes (cst.i
Perkins, Cullforuiu '1.-unnporliiiliiii $15)000,000
Wolcotl, Colorndi Mine* mill mlnlui; .... 5,000,000
Slump, Mnl.,. Cnttle and iiiliiliik. . . . 5, 000,000
*!<-'-i>m, liiniio .\ Cattle Very Rich
Fairbanks, Indiana ('(trituration Lawyer . . Moderate
McMillan, Mlchlf*raii Lumber. snsh, etc. . . . 10,000,000
HninnvH, Michigan Corporation lawyer . . . Nominal
Davis. Mium-sotu Corporation lawyer . . . Koiiilnul
Cartel-, Montana . . . Cattle and* Mine* .... 1,000,000
Clark, Moutana EverythliiK' .'10,000,000
Tbumton, Nebraska Kallroad lawyer .... Moderate
Jones, Nevada Mines 5,000,000
Stewart, Nevada Mines Millions
Sewell, New Jersey Manufactures (i.000.000
Kean, New Jersey Manufactures .-,,000,000
Plntt. New York Express lines ri, 000,000
Depew, New York Railroads IndeHnlte
lltiiiiin, Ohio Iron nnd coul "in.000.000
Foraker, Ohio Corporation lawyer . . . Nomina!
Mcllrldc. Oregon Mining* . » X.000.000
Simon, Oregon Corporation lawyer . . . IndeHnlte
Aldrich, Rhode Island Mercantile pursuits . . . 1,000,000
Foster, "Washington Lumber, etc 8,000,000
101 k I iin, Wesl Virginia Coal, etc 10,000,000
Scott, West Virginia Corporation interests . . Indellnite
Spooner, Wisconsin Corporation lawyer .. . 1,000,000
Warren, Wyoming- Cattle Millions
Clark, Wyoming Corporation lawyer . . . Indefinite -
Cuflfery, Louisiana Sugar .... (probably) 1.000,000
MeEuery, Loulsinnn Sugar Indellnite
"Wellington, Maryland Lawyer Nuiiilnnl
McComas. Maryland Lawyer N'omlual
Vest, Missouri Corporation lawyer . . . Indellnite
From the Chicago Chronicle.
With four states stil hopelessly tied
up in deadlocks over the selection of
United States senators, it may be con
fidently said that the "Millionaire's
club" of that body will suffer no dimin
ution of influence in the next congress.
Even if the members of this organiza
tion — if it can be called sueh — whose
togas are in dispute, should fail, still
one-third of membership of the upper
house will be eligible to the club. They
will either be millionaires in their own
right or representatives of corporate
power. So it will be seen that the
trurHs are not unprotected.
The Hanna-Elkins-Platt coterie will
not be sensibly weakened by the losb of
Quay, for instance, should that senator
lose his grasp and fall Into private ob
scurity. Neither will the retirement of
Gorman affect the workings of the
combination which has looked after the
interests of the poor millionaire in tariff
legislation during the past ten years
or so. If Quay is a loser— and it looks
as if the fatal thirteen will destroy
him— then Wanamaker, himself a mil
lionaire, or one of his creatures^ will
fill his shoes. So it will be observed
that here at least the man with five
figures to tell his fortune need loose no
sleep.
Gorman is no millionaire, yet he has
been accounted as not unfriendly to
ward protected interests. His suc
cessor, Louis E. McComas, is a lawyer
who owes his elevation to corporate in
terests, who was placed on the supreme
bench of the District of Columbia for
the good work he had done in a politi
cal way, and who will— it is believed—
never "throw down" his matters. Here
again protected interests have little to
worry over.
Edward J. Murphy, Jr., of New York,
yields more or less gracefully to the
placid, accomplished, smooth and olea
ginous Dr. Depew. Here is a distinct
gain, for the doctor is a shining suc
cess as a clubman, has had a world
of experience in smoothing over rough
edges, tops them all in his ability to
turn a serious discussion Into an after
dinner Joke and withal is the official
representative, of the biggest combina
tion of corporate interests in the world.
Should the conflicting Interests of the
varied concerns which the members M
this club hold fast to incite to revolt
or insurrection it will be the part of
the "easy boss," Piatt, of New York, to
still the troubled waters. How ably
the urbane and insinuating doctor will
second his efforts must appeal to every
man.
If "Rough Rider" Allen of Nebraska
fails to get back into the saddle for
another six years' campaign, who can
dcubt that worthy colleague of John
Melton Thurston will succeed him?
White, of California, will not likely
succeed himself, but the row out in
the Pacific coast state does not offer
much in the way of the kind of man
financially—that will take the place. In
little Delaware, George Gray, one of the
able men of the present senate, is ap
parently doomed to defeat. But for the
failure of the conflicting corporate in
terests of that state to unite, his suc
cessor would have been named long
ago. "Gas" Addicks seems to be the
leading contestant, although he lacks
manS* votes of the needed number. He
would be an acquisition to the club.
When March 4 comes, in one-third of
the present senate, will be retired. Thir
ty men will have finished the terms to
which they were elected. Of that thir
ty, four are still without successors,
fourteen are re-elected, and twelve are
succeeded by new men. Many of the
new men are young in years, much
younger than the average of men se
lected for the offlce. But the club has
not suffered to any appreciable extent.
It covers a wide range of interests, from
silver ofe to manufactures of all kinds;
fiom cattle on the hoof to the finished
product.
Tiiis so-called club is a singular group
in' itself. If statecraft and announced
political principles on the part of mem
bers governed them merely, it would
be an extremely difficult and delicate
operation to secure a united quorum on
any topic. It would be difficult beyond
the powers of one man— not excepting
the smooth Dr. Depew or his even abler
colleague— to count votes enough in the
club to pass a resolution of eulogy on
a deceased member,, so widely do the
expressed views of the members sep
arate. But when it comes to passing
a tariff bill in aid of th£ oppressed man
ufacturer, etc., a quorum speedily ad
justs all differences, and substantial
unanimity is the result.
The club runs the gamut of every
thing frpm avowed adherence to the
infallibility of -silver as a panacea for
all ills, the sturdy belief that a man
who boils sugar anywhere inside or out
of the United States as expanded
should be looked after, the necessity of
caring for iron, wool, lumber, cattle
dead and alive, coal, manufactures of
all kinds, to expansion, and its direct
reverse. It believes In expansion of
trade and constriction of power there
over. It numbers— or will in the next
congress— among its members the best
dressed man In bq'th houses and pos
sibly the worst. But it represents the
concentrated genius of money and In
this aspect is singularly united in its
every action.
A WIDE GAMUT.
It embraces the 'cool hardihood and
brutal audacity of Hanna and the
placid, smooth, Pecksniffian methods of
Elkins. It may lack the cold-blooded,
calculating scheming of Quay, the
Machiavelli, but it will gain the gentle
insinuating pcrwer of T^alleyrand De
pew. It runs from the stumbling and
interminable periods of Jones and
Stewart, of Nevada, to the fierce Invec
tive of Vest, sometimes called the
Thersites of the senate: the ornate,
easy glide of Spooner; the awe-inspir
ing Foraker, in his anti-administration
forays and the manner in which Thurs
ton handles the groundlings. Gorman's
skil as an obstructionist — he tied up
the Wilson bill for weeks until it suit
ed him— will be missed, although a big
majority of the club professes Repub-
lican tenets. But "Ed" Wolcott's beau
tiful clothes and sauve manner may
be relied upon on occasion to do as
good service.
Some thirty-four senators who will
take seats in the next congress will be
eligible to membership in the club. In
the present congress, now on its last
legs, the master was not queit so
strong. There may be others .who have
escaped notice, but one-third of the to
tal is a fair estimate of way protected
interests have cared for themselves.
They do not all come from any one lo
cality, either. No section has been over
looked, for the men who can, and they
will, join its organization, hail from
all over the forty-five states.
Let us take a glance at the make-up
of the club as it will be In the next
congress. Taking the states In their
ordet. it will be seen that California
first breaks in. Perkins, a holdover, is
among the elect. He is a representa
tive of mining industries and also of
transportation, coastwise and other
wise. He has much money and large
interests, some of them suitable for
tariff scruitiny, to see that the flag
floats over the commerce of the high
seas. Here is the list about as It will
be called by the secretary on all im
portant measures:
MAKE-UP OF THE OLUB.
Perkins, of California; Wolcott, of
Colorado; Shoup and Heitfeld, of Idaho;
Fairbanks, of Indiana, McMillan and
Burrows, of Michigan; Davis, of Min
nesota; Carter and Clarke, of Montana;
Thurston, of Nebraska; Jones, and
Stewart, of Nevada; Sewell and Kean.
of New Jersey; Piatt and Depew, of
New York; Foraker and Hanna, of
Ohio; Mcßride and Simon, of Oregon;
Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Foster and
Turner, of Washington; Elkins and
Scott, of West Virginia; Spooner, of
Wisconsin; Warren and Clark, of Wyo
ming; Caffery and McEnery, of Louis
iana; Wellington and McComas, of
Maryland, and Vest, of Missouri.
It is not asserted that all of these
senators are in the five figure class, so
far as their personal holdings are con
cerned. Fairbanks, Burrows, Davis,
Thurston. Depew, Foraker Clark? of
Wyoming; Waffery, McEnery, Welling
ton. McComas and Vest are not usually
classified as the owners of millions.
Caffery is a sugar planter and Mc-
Enery believes Louisiana's salvation
depends on the canebrakes. The rest
are lawyers who have always and still
do stand for corporations, and in the
senate— so it is beHeved— by virtue of
their leanings toward corporate inter
ests.
The long list of eligible members of
the club embraces men who have $30,.
--000,000 to show for their work. Several
members of the senate left positions of
trust and profit Which paid them six
or seven times as muoh as the law
gives a senator in order to wear the
toga. One attorney now living in Chi
cago might have gone to the senate
from a Western state provided he could
see the financial beauties of leaving
$30,000 a year for $5,000. He did not see
It that way and is still a private citizen
with the big salary. But he serves an
other railroad now and no longer lives
in the Western state.
BACKED BY CORPORATE
WEALTH.
A glance at the Interests which these
senators represent as owners or as in
terested in other ways will show that
the bulk of the concentrated wealth
of the United States is* behind them.
Since the elections commenced — or
since the complexions of the various
state legislatures were known— trusts
have been formed with amazing rapid
ity. Not even a toothpick can now be
purchased without the puyer paying
tribute to a trust. He who chews gum
is an assistant to a combination of
capital. So it will be seen that the
club is still a power in the land de
spite the widely varying political' ten
ets of the members.
Men like Perkins, Depew, • Piatt,
Thurston, Foraker, Elkins, Hanna,
Sewell. Scott and Kean are interested
in keeping up transportation rates and
privileges. Hanna, Elkins, Wolcott
Shoup, Heitfield, McMillan, Carter!
Clarke, Jones, Stewart, Piatt, Mcßride
Foster and Aldrich are Interested in
cheap transportation. Hanna, Quay's
successor (whoever he may be) Al
drich, Wolcott. Clarke. Elkins, Carter
and Caffery are deeply concerned In
matters affecting manufactures. So it
will be seen that wires cross frequent
ly, making concessions, etc., the soul
of legislation on any topic touching
any big interest.
There is" another feature connected
with the senate of the United States
This applies to the second place on
the presidential ticket. There was a
time, not long ago, when* the tail to th©
dricks also; Blame was well to do and
Logan poor; Cleveland was well to do
kite was chosen without regard to
anything but geography; now he must
have a barrel. Up to date no extremely
wealthy man has been chosen as pres
ident. Few who could be called rich
have ever received the nomination for
either office. This applies to al! par
ties. But with the second Grant cam
paign that state of affairs ceased. Here
Is the list of the succeeding nomina
tions: v
Tilden was a millionaire, Hendricks
had nothing; Hayes was comfortable
and Wheeler wa.s poor; Garfield was
poor and Arthur was rich; -Hancock
had nothing and English owned mil
lions: Clevi land was poor and Hen
and Thurman was comfortable; Har
rison was comfortably fixed and Mor
ton a millionaire; Cleveland was cdm
forfable and Stevenson wealthy; Harri
son comfortable and Whitelaw Reid
a millionaire; McKinley poor and Ho
bart was worth millions; Bryan poor
and Sewall in the millionaire class.
RICH TAIL FOR THE KITE.
So it will be observed that the mil
lionaires' club is a thing of compara
tively recent date. The presiding of
ficer of the senate in nearly every case
since the "formation of the first trust
has been a man qualified in his own
right to a snug corner in the cluhroom.
rhe men who In the beginning formed
the club saw the great advantage of
having a member as presiding officer
in the farm where they expected to
"Trow their crops. And it so fell out.
Now the man who tails the kite must
have the "sinews" of war" wherewith' 1
to "boost" It, or he is of no value.
Another feature "of the senate is the
decreasing age of the members. Not
many years ago it was thought on all
■sides that a man under fifty year*? of
ige was too young to take the toga,
sveii with a preliminary course of
'raining in the lower house. Now sen
itors just beyond the statutory limit,
with no previous instruction in legis
ative methods, dawn upon the start
ed vision of the gray beards of the old
school. Ninety men make up the total
when all tho- states are represented.
In the next congress only forty-one
will be more than sixty years of age
jr have reached that staid and settled
period in life. Eleven more than one
third only will be of the age which
twenty years ago was looked upon as
he minimum.
It has been' said, and righteously,
that New England and the extreme
south are least prone to depart from
ancient traditions. But these two sec
tions have been invaded, and there is
no telling how soon it will be when
:he septuagenarian will drop away as
senator from either. Today neither
'egion has any monopoly on these aged
statesmen, yet both have men who are
aot to exceed one-half the age of their
•ollcagues or predecessors. Lodge, of
Massachusetts, and McLaurin, of South
Carolina, are young men. Clay, of
Georgia, and Butler, of North Caro
lina, are also among the young men.
In all other respects a comfortable
ige has come to the Southern delega
:ion.
Senator Pettus is the father of the
senate in point of age. He is seventy
?ight years old. Morgan, seventy-five;
Piatt, of Connecticut, seventy-two;
Hawley, seventy-three; Shoup, seven
ty-three; Cullom, seventy; Allison,
"seventy; Gear, seventy-four; Hoar,
seventy-three, and Stewart, seventy
three, are in"* the same class. Teller,
Frye. Vest, Jones, of Nevada, bunch
together at near seventy. Then comes
Jones, of Arkansas, sixty; Bacon, six
ty; Lindsay, sixty-four, Caffery, six
ty-four; McEnery, sixty-two; Hale,
sixty-three; McMillan, sixty-one;
Burrows, sixty-two; Davis, sixty-one;
Cockrell, sixty-five; Clarke, sixty; Gal
linger, sixty-two; Sewell, sixty-four;
Thomas Piatt, sixty-six; Depew, sixty
two; Hanna, sixty-six; Proctor, sixty
seven; Ross, sixty, and Foster, sixty.
Turpie, Bate, Pasco and Mallory, but
the^ are shy and do not let the rude
public into their secrets.
Berry, Baker, Wolcott, Harris, Mc-
Comas, Nelson, Hansbrough, Thurs
ton, Aldrich, Wetmore, Tillman, Petti
grew, Culberson, Daniel, Martin, Scott,
Quarles, Spooner, Warren, C. D. Clark,
Money and Sullivan are between fifty
and sixty. The remainder of the sen
ate — quite a respectable remainder —
is the group of youngsters who are
holders of togas. They run from but
a few years more than thirty to forty
nine, the junior-senator from Illinois
being in the last group. Indiana, until
the close of this session, has one old
man in the senate.
Two years ago D. W. Voorhees, well
In the seventies, lost his seat to C. W.
Fairbanks. Voorhees would never
have used the seat if he had won, but
he was succeeded by a man a trifle
over half as old. Turpie, well in the
sixties, yields to A. J. Beverldge, whose
course has not run over half his. The
Hoosier_state will have two senators
whose combined ages will be but five
years greater than that of Senator
Pettus, and but fourteen over that of
Senator Cullom.
Senator Cullom Is colleagued with a
man twenty-one years his junior, who
Is one of the first to cut senatorial red
COL. HARVEY,
Who Has Bought the North American Review.
NEW YORK. Feb. 25.— George B. McClellan
Harvey, capitalist and editor, who has just
purchased the North American Review for
$225,000. and has assumed editorial charge of
the publication, is only 85 years old, and a
few years ago was a reporter working hard
for a small salary. He was born in Vermont
of Scotch descent and got a grammar s-iu;ol
education. When Harvey was only 15 he was
already writing for the dally pacers. At is
he secured a place as reporter on the Spi inj*
fleld Republican and was one year on the local
staff of tho Chicago Daily ' News. When 21
he came to New York and began to work aa
a reporter on the World. He rose from that
position to be managing editor of the paper at
25, and editor-in-chief at 26. Resigning l>e
cause of poor health, he did not return to
tape also. Bacon, of Georgia, travels
with a man not much over half his
age. Shoup, of Idaho, is partner with
a man thirty-one years younger. The
aged Mr. Hoar is joined with the
youthful Mr. Lodge, a man twenty
four years his Junior. Tom CarUr Is
joined by a man who beats him by
fifteen years, and Sewell by one who is
lower in the scale by nineteen. Thus
it will be seen that age no longer con
trols In any portion of the Union.
MAY SHELL THE COAST.
Admiral DewejrHl Plan for Suli.ln-
H'atlnK tiw Filipino*.
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.— A special,dat
ed Manila, Feb. 24, says as a result
of the war of incendiarism and assas
sination inaugurated by the insurgents
Admiral Dewey has made a request
to be allowed to shell the coast and
drive the Filipinos back into the in
terior.
This policy has been opposed thus
far, owing to the bloodshed and injury
to property that it would entail.
The knifing of Americans by slinking
and cowardly natives has now become
frequent In the streets of the city. The
Filipino assassins steal up on their vic
tims from dark corners and doorways
and are off again before capture is pos
sible.
All foreigners now carry revolvers
exposed in their belts so they can
grasp them quickly in an emergency.
A striking feature of yesterday's cap-
nil
Good is Milton Star Btand
Butter. No other brand or
kind is just as good. Extra
prices are paid for extra
g-ood milk, from which we
skim by centrifiig-al process
the richest of sweet cream
and make this extra g-ood
butter— "STAß BRAND."
You might know there is
something* extra about it
bjr the sales. More
Star
Brand
is sold in St. Paul than of
all other brands combined.
The national prize and the
seven state prizes that we
have won with "STAR
BRAND" didn't come by
chance.
When jou can buy this
excellent butter for
£uG Pound,
packed in 2, 3 and 5-pound
jars, delivered at your
home, why wilt you longer
tolerate the ordinary kind?
Telephone, write or call on
us for a jar any time. We
don't sell to dealers— only
direct to familiet.
miltonWry CO,,
Ninth and Wabasha Streets.
ture of insurgents on the skirmish line
was the discovery that hundreds of
them were armed with dummy guns,
which make a brave showing, but are!
of course, useless except to Impress
their enemies with a display of
. strength. Of the weapons captured
yesterday there were three dummy
guns to every Mauser.
ANDREE'S BALLOON.
NEW YORK. Feb. 25.— The following
letter, which may have started the re
cent report In regard to the supposed
finding of Andree, is published In tha
Siberian Advertiser. It is from a well
known sportsman named KJalen:
I hasten to Inform you that Andree's bal
loon has boen found. I was running In snow
thoes after elks in the primeval forest of
newspaper woik. but entered the Industrial
field aud built several electrical railways.
Gjv. (Ireen, of New Jersey, appointed him
his aid with the rank of colonel, ai.d Presi
dent Cleveland offered him the consul gen
eralship at Berlin, but Col. Harvey declined
the post. Among oiher properties ho owns
is the Newark (N. J.) Daily Advertiser. He
is the president of several electric railway
concerns in the vicinity of New York, and
last year acquired the street railways ot
Havana. Col. Harvey Is a close friend of
William C. Whitney, and numbers among Ills
acquaintances some of the leading lawyers,
club men and business men of the country.
The North American Review was foui:n. <1 iv
1815 and Is perhaps the leading American
magazine ot its kind.
South Yenisei, and c::me across traces of
An-dree. It was 360 versts U-34 miles) from
Krasnolars and 100 versts (B7 miles l from
the gold washing In S&nvanich. down in t,i«
pit 'if th* river. The balloon and ropes wr«
torn, und three bodies lay at its side, olio
with n broken skull.
Please prepare assistance so the balloon
and bodies can be brought to the washings
at Sur.vanlch, which can only be done by
means of suowshoes. I guarantee the truth
of these facts and shall soon be in Tomsk.
aUOTiDATIfIII
lid S Iri I lull
"I have gone Id day* al a time without a
j : ..ment ol' the bowels, not being able to
j-ojve thorn except, by uslug hot, water Injections.
Chronic constipation for seven years placed me In
-iiis terrible condition; during that tlmo I did ov-
Brj thing 1 heard of but never found any relief; such
was my case until I began using CABCAKET& 1
now have from oue to three patsagc- a day, r.nd if 1
wus rich 1 would give 1100.00 for each movement' It
i. such a relief.' Avi.meh L.Humt.
1889 Russe.l St.. Detroit. Mich.
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