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4 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE | SUNDAY. MARCH 19, 1893. CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. v I By Ca:rifr I 1 mo 1 6 mos 1 12 mos j Daily only". 4 0 c !$ 2 . 2 5 i* 4 . 0 0 ! Daffy and Sunday. .50c] 2.75 5.00, Sunday |.16ct .75 _jj_S_g COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Mail I 1 mo I 6 moa I 12 moa Daily GnU 25c $1,50 1$ 3. 00! Daily and Sunday. .35c 2.001 4.00 Sunday 75 1 1.60; Weekly 76 I 1. 00 j Entered at Poatofflce at St. Paul, Minn., as ( Second-Class Hatter. Address all communl- | cations and aake all Remittances payable to THS GI.OUE CO., St. Paul. Minnesota. Anonym us ,"-jnmunleatlons not noticed. Re- j fcettd tninutcrlpta will not be returned ua- Ifss R^iiimr'aQied by postage. BRANCH OFFICES. !\rv»- IcrU 10 Spruce St. llili'asti ...Room 609. No. 87 Washington St. ' _ * ____ i THE WEATHER. FORECAST FOR TODAY. Minnesota Pair; warmer In southwest ter; variable winds. North Dakota— Fair; northerly winds. South Dakota— Fair; warmer in eastern I portion; variable winds. lowa -Fair; warmer; winds mostly! i •<• I herly. M< ntana Pair; winds mostly northerly. Wisconsin- -Warmer In eastern portion; j light to fresh variable winds. ST. PAUL. yesterday's observations, taken by the j United Slates weather bureau, St. Paul, i P. 1". Lyons observer, for the twenty-four , hours ended at 7 o'clock last night. Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. Highest temperature 28 [.owest temperature 'j Average temperature IS i Daily range 19' Barometer 2!»>x Humidity 72 Precipitation "... 0 7 p. in., temperature 2G 7 p. in., wind, northwest; weather, partly TEMPERATURES. yesterday's observations, taken by the I nited States weather bureau, Washing-- Tempexature. Temperature High^Spm. High.*Bpm. Bismarck ....30 & Montreal 14 Vi Buffalo 36 28|New York . 4»; «-| Boston n 34 Omaha ... 25 28 « 'tin-ago 32 2* Philadelphia .5t5 ll Cincinnati ...5-S r.4 Pittsburg 60 58' Cleveland ....:.4 if) San F'ncisco.sß 58 ; Detroit 42 3ft St. Louis ....54 34 1 ">'<;' li 26 20 Salt Lake ...4t; 16 Helena 34 30 Ste. Marie ...32 24 Ja. Lsonvllle .82 74 Washington .50 r>> Los Angeles .62 58 Winnipeg ....24 18 I •Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul ! ■ \O CVISK FOR HYSTERIA. The senate bill for inspection of meats i was only put to sleep by the tap on its i solar plexus the other day, and. reviv- j Ing, is again on the calendar for farther consideration. While no one wants to ! • it diseased or unwholesome meats, and ! while it is well enough for society to ' guard its members against being fed | them, neither the quantity of such meats i put upon the markets nor the general I health conditions of our food animals ; warrants the indiscriminate statements j made in support of inspection. There arc ! always imaginative folk who generalize i from insufficient data, and the tendency | Lo exaggerate is not confined to dema- i gogues. Most men are prone "to take a ! fragment for the whole and call the whole a part." It is generally known that, to protect exports (if our meats from attack In for < ign markets, the federal government ha 3 established aivl maintains expert lnspec- ! tion at thirty-three principal cities, em bracing liß abattoirs. All animals bought .-a these places by packers who do an j export business pass under the eye of these experts, first in the yards or on the scales and subsequently after slaughter and dressing. The meats thus j h spected are not all exported, but are j also sent to the cities and towns of the I country for the retail trade. A perusal ! of the report of the chief of the bureau of | animal Industry, which has charge of this i work of Inspection, would allay the ap- j prehensions of those good folk who seem j to imagine that disease lurks in every creature sent to the shambles. It will assure tlif-m that the cattle of our coun try are exceptionally healthy; more so. In fact, than are their consumers. We Bnd in that report that, of the 42, --310,107 animals, cattle, sheep, calves and ' hogs, inspected before slaughter, 13,866 j were condemned at the abattoirs, and 78,388 in the yards, a total of 92,254, or 1 I to each 160. Of the 2G.550.689 inspections j after slaughter, 70,121 carcasses and 49,295 parts of carcasses were condemned and ! s"iu to the rendering tanks, or one in 223. This is hitrdly a fair ratio, as the 1 inder of the "parts" were passed as ' sound. Of the 42,010,107 ante-mortem ta lons 25,556,744 were hogs, and of the 2C550,689 post-mortem inspections 15,839.034 wore hogs. Put 1 out of each 330 head of ' cattle was condemned before slaughter,, and but 1 ol" each 425 after killing. The! 1 tmber of animals condemned was I but .:! of 1 per cent of all the mil- i lions of animals Inspected. Really, the \ actual danger does not seem to warrant . the genera] indiscriminate and alarming) assertions made. — -»- <;Oi,l> LACE I.\WM\KI\G. The slj-rht of a sovereign commonwealth meeting In the persons of its senators i and representatives to pass laws and vote money has ceased to command re spect In tli. s.- United States. There is j something about the Solon from Way- I cross Center who comes down to the cap- j Ital with his carpet sack and blows out i the gas that appeals to America's sense I of humor, rather than to America's : pride. Minnesota is. of course, excepted, ! but in general the legislature of today Is a standing joke. Even its corruption Is ' not taken seriously. Half a dozen bri bery investigations going at once fall to I attract public attention. The legislature, in point of fact, is the ' bulwark of free institutions, and some- ' thing ought to be done to prop it up. America mteht borrow a leaf out of Can n 'as book. A provincial parliament over < ■ line has enough embroidery and gold lace about It to dazzle the public. A leg- I Mature ought to be clothed in respect; but, lacking respect, glitter and gold lace ! will do almost as well. When the law- j makers of the province of Manitoba met • at Winnipeg the occasion was something ' to Impress the voter. The Royal Can adlan Dragoons paraded, and the Thir teenth tfeid battery roared a salute. Mnrk the contrast On one side of the line, ceremony, gold lace and honor. On the other, nothing but a few clean col lars and a camp-fire of the lobby. Small wonder the legislator of Canada fs look eel ::j> to and respected, while his brother V in lawmaking in the United States Is offered $0 bribes. If the Solon of the states lAtl been escorted by royal dra goons and saluted by a field battery, $10 would certainly be the minimum. Ceremony seems to be the only salva tion of the American legislator." If the law will only allow him a military es cort, top boots with spurs, and a broad blue sash spangled with gold stars, there may be some hope for him. He may be able to eleel a senator without Involving himself in scandal and puss the few need ed laws without attracting a third house larger than the other two. BAGUB STREET MARKET SITE. The proposal of the city council to pay $50,000 for eleven lots in what is known as the Eagle street market site, a reso lution to this effect being new In the hands of a committee consisting of Mayor Kiefer. Comptroller MeCardy, Assembly men Benson and Thompson, and Aid. Knauft and Bantz, Is exciting a good deal of interest. The only terms offered, and which terms are now being seriously considered by the committee, are that the city shall pay for one year a rental of $1,750, in addition to $800 taxes, and at the expiration of that time pay $49,000 for the site, or $51,550 in all. City Engineer RundltUt reports that it will cost $3,400 to till the site to grade, making the grand total for the Eagle street site $54,950. In considering this proposition the question naturally arises, why should it be considered for ;i moment, in the face of the fact that the eleven lots desig nated in the resolution could be pur chased in the open market today for $20, --000? Why should the city of St. Paul pay $24,950 moie for a certain piece of prop erty than it can be sold for to the private purchaser? In exact figures, deducting the cost of filling to grade, $8,400, the price asked is $31,550 more than It can be sold for. Another question that Is worthy of careful consideration is this: It is learn ed from a variety of sources that the Eagle street site Is by no means a popu lar one with the people. At a recent meeting of the. market gardeners It de veioped that SO per cent of them were opposed to. the location. Why should such a site, at su<-h a remarkable ad vance over real, values, be forced upon a class of people so vitally interested as are the market gardeners? In view of the recent action of the council in so promptly taking into seri ous consideration the proposal of the agents of this site, there certainly exists food for thought in the above sugges tions. — — ■•» NEW YORK HOTEL HORROR. On Friday afternoon another hotel fire horror was added to a historical list that embraces almost every prominent city ln the country. The destruction of the Hotel Windsor, New York, by fire, In broad daylight. In the busiest portion of the day, while all the day force of em ployes were on watch and presumably alert, with the attendant great loss of life, raises the ominous question. What would have been the harvest of death had the flames broken forth at midnight? Heretofore night only has been the hour of dread for hotel guests. A mid day alarm of fire would, supposedly, have emptied the house of its inmates in an orderly manner, without panic and with out the loss of a single life. All repom agree that the hotel was thoroughly equipped for fighting Hre, with pumps equal in force to six powerful fire en gines. Yet it does not apear that any effort was exerted to make them availa ble. The costly machinery was there, but at a most critical time it seems to have been totally impracticable. On the subject of fire escapes reports are a trifle hazy, and, in some cases, conflicting. In several Instances, notably in the case of Miss Bessie Winter, safety was found by means of a fire escape. But the heroic efforts of the department with scaling ladders would seem to Indicate an un warranted deficiency In practicable tire escape apparatus. The story of the origin of the fire is peculiar. In many cases the origin is mysterious. Here it appears plain enough, and an eye witness, Waiter Foy, is alive to tell the story. A guest of the hotel, while walking toward the Fifth avenue front to look out upon the St. Patrick's day parade, lights a cigar, throws the burning match into the folds of a lace curtain. Tn an instant the en tire contents of the parlor were ab!aze,< and the flames sped furiously from room to room, driving before them the panic stricken guests and others who were temporarily in the hotel to witness the parade. It was the beginning of fhe end. The structure was doomed, and a fierce fight to save human life the grim business of the moment. The Hotel Windsor holocaust will of course revive talk about "fire-proof" structures. But of what use are inflam mable edifices filled with the most inflam mable goods and decorations Imaginable? If it teaches a lesson in simplicity of or namentation, even to the extent of rigid exclusion of combustible decorations In the interior of hotels, apartment houses and other human hives, a lesson that will be heeded; much good may result In tha future. STATE BOARD OF EQt ALIZATIOX. Mr. Dwinnell. of Hennepin county, wanted to have the representation on the state board of equalization changed from one for each judicial to three from each congressional district. The house sus pected that this was a scheme to secure for the cities a larger proportion of members, and when the bill ccme on for consideration the rural representatives sat down upon it with emphasis. Their suspicion gets some warrant from the heat with which a Minneapolis paper assails the majority and its assumption that, through the action of the state board, the large cities are assessed a greater share of the state taxes than they should bsar, owing to the preponderance and jealousy of members of the board from the coun try. This is so serious a charge that The Globe felt it to be Its duty to Inves tigate the case to ascertain Its truth. The method of assessing is well known; the primary valuation by the local as sessors; the review of their work by the THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1839. county boards, consisting of the county commissioners and auditors, and the final comparison, rectification and bal ancing by the state board. If there had been the partiality charged upon the state board, it would appear in compari sons of the valuations made by the three bodies. It would show most strongly in a wide difference between the valuations j of the local assessors and those made by the state board, for one might expect the local assessors to be careful not to give property in their jurisdiction higher values than were given In other coun ties. The large cities are In the counties of Ilennepln, Ramsey and St. Louis. The valuations of property are to be found in the state auditor's biennial reports. Taking real estate as the standard, it be ing about 80 per cent of the total value, the following: comparisons of the valua tions of the three separate bodies, in the years ISM, 189G and 1898, do not seem to bear out the charge of favoritism: "j County | State County. [Assessors] Board. j Board. IS94— i ] j ' Hennepin . .jji'c.jww.a-in $m,m,239i0i30.i9i.0'M Ramsey ...I 114.-141, G7C 114.476.28 1 >! ]U,476.&>2 St. Louis ...| 43,02C.917| 48,455,355| 44,k'2S,ii'i<; iS%- i ' | Hennepin . | 125,735,555! 101,712,8511 101.712.551 Ramsey ...| «.,'JOI.J!SIi 52.4tW.841] 82.409.51 l St. Louis ...| 88,858,1001 41,037,939| 38,142,102 1898— I | Hennepin .| 98.473.150 98.039.420] 98.030,420 Ramsey ...I SI.VjB.JiSS: S2,UUU.a(Mi 82,000,5*1 St. Louis ...| 37.228.301! 37.524.9891 37,:)38,567 It will be seen from these figures that the state board has taken sometimes the assessors' valuations, sometimes the county board's, and sometimes, as in St. Louis county fo; 18%, made a lower valuation than either the assessors or the county board. The charge is unsus tained. m WAR BY THE CODE DIELLO. There is something attractive in the suggestion from Baron Russell of Kil lowen that the great nations of the world adopt the code duello as a method of eliminating war. The idea of the chief justice of England is that nations, when they become involved, instead of drawing their guns and blazing away after the fashion of politicians in Arkansas, ap point seconds, write polite notes and. If they must fight, do it in a gentlemanly way. All of this appeals to people who have caught the spirit of modern prog ress. War in the past has olten been rough, and sometimes even it has been brutal. Any means that will tend to remove it from its present rowdy -status and make it a matter of high art and etiquette will be hailed by ail civilization as a distinct triumph. Various conventions have endeavored to bring about the happy state of affairs desired, but to very little purpose, and even Baron Russell's suggestion, though It has practical value, cannot be put into effect without serious inconvenience. In the case of two great powers the plan might work- Imagine England and France involved. The seconds once ap pointed, the rest would be only a mat ter of detail. With a choice of weapons ranging from Jhirteen-inch guns to bridge whist, something could be found satis factory to both. The rivals could eat "tinned roast," the survivor to be vic tor, box twenty rounds or shake dice, and the whole thing be settled without severing family ties, mussing up the landscape or booming the stock of the cof fin trust. All of this is so alluring that there is temptation to overlook manifest difficulties. It is only necessary, how ever, to call the case -to mind to realize the perplexities of the seconds in the event of a break in the diplomatic rela tions between the bushmen of Austra lia and the Laplanders of the North. The bushmen would never agree to snow balls, and the Laplanders know very lit tle of the use of the boomerang. Pin wheels would be all right for China, but would never suit the Esquimau. Russia would insist on caviar and Germany upon liverwurst. Indeed, diplomatic complica tion?, under Baron Russell's scheme, as compared with those of today, would resemble a map of Boston drawn over section lines. Conflicting peoples could never remember their original troubles while code complications were being ad justed. War on 5 o'clock tea lines is a Rleasant dream, but there is small use in delaying the shock of waking. Baron Russell's project will not do. It is very pretty, but It can never be anything but a voy when war can be conducted by the code. It will share the fate of the duello. The one can hardly be revived to beautify the other. The anything-to-get-there editors of Republican papers, who were "pointing with pride" last year to dollar wheat as the consequence of McKinleyism and Dingleyism, are maintaining a silence now, with wheat at 65 cents, that com mands our intense admiration for their discretion. The bicycle companies are said to have entered into a $25,000,000 "understanding" to save expenses. There is a pleasant sort of resiliency about that word un derstanding which isn't conveyed in plain trust. Sorosis will please take official cog nizance of the fact that the queen regent of Spain accomplished more in the treaty business than did the whole cortes. Aguinaldo might slide around to a tele graph office and send his condolences to Alfonso. Neither has any peace worthy of the name. Charles A. Plllsbury Is spoken of as a Republican candidate for vice president. He ought to have flour enough to make that stick. Evidently the queen regent of Spain believes in the motto "Never put off till nianana what you can do today." All attempts to save the Spanish cruiser Colon have been abandoned. It is quite evident she has come to a full stop. If Ella Wheeler Wilcox is looking for a state of "unkissed kisses," let her take a bird's-eye view of Texas. The indorsement Gen. Miles is getting from the beef investigating committee Isn't doing him any harm. It is noticeable that the Delaware leg islature adjourned itself by simply blow ing out the gaa. The traveling library bill traveled through the house committee of the whole. If anybody finds that Alaskan boundary, he ought to put a ten-ton weight on it. | EPISTLES TO ST. PAUL. One of the most noteworthy charac teristics of the house of representatives at the capitol is its disposition to ad fourn sharp on the stroke of 12. The Philistine dropped in the other day Just as one of the members made his usual noon hour motion for' a recess. "Regular," rorrfilrlled a bystander. "Most regular > e &'^iifctye. body on earth. Just like a lot of mules on a railroad dump. Kick the scrapers over behind 'em and trot off to the crib." The destruction of the market sheds has resulted in some revelations. Those whose necessity it has been to come down town nights will 'WTnombor'" the inky blackness of those *Jon.gj tunnels, not only on the Seventh street face of the old mar ket, but on both slrleS' cif the area north west of it. Now Jth» 'city lamp-lighter did not get any official notification of the tearing down of these' shed?, so the next night he went right cm' his- usual rounds, the result being that there shone out on the night air the rays of two lamps that had long since bqen fjjrgotten save by the officer on the beat and the lighter. They could not be seen from the street, but they used up five feet per hour, and that helped a little! Of late years, at least, the travel through that, north mar ket passage after nightfall has hardly been heavy enough to average one to the dollar paid for the illumination of the two tips in the lonesome place. • ■•. • • John L. Townley Is' telling a story of an experience he had recently at Hastings, where he went to try a case. It was during the intricacies of a legal struggle, and Mr. Townley noticed a strong smell nt burning sulphur. Soon after the court remarked: "We will take a ■ live-minute recess, gentlemen," and produced from under the judicial desk an eight-day niatch in full blaze, with which he proceeded to light hia pipe. • • .* Patrolman Ben Morris was presented, the other day, with several good sized fish, neatly wrapped up in a brown paper. As he could not very well carry the lish around with him he dropped in at En gine House No. 8 and asked if he might leave them until he went home. The permission was readily granted and Morris found his bundle waiting for him when he called on his way home. Upon opening the' bundle, with visions of fried fish floating In his mind, Morris was surprised to find that he had nothing but some blocks of wood, with the tails of the original fish neatly tacked on so that they would stick out at the end of the bundle. * * .* Yesterday Bailiff Parrish looked out from the municipal court room, and no ticed two small boys, beating a third, who was smaller than either, and howl ing lustily. Assuming the role of peace maker, the officer Jerked the boys apart and demanded to know what the trouble was. "We were all right to lick him," said the biggest of the aggressors. "Why, he's got the smallpox." And the excitement proved to have arisen from the fact that the youngster's vaccination was taking. * • '*. Little Frank Farre.ll was up for more good advice from Judge Orr yesterday. "So this is the boy whole stole Pioneer Presses, is it?" asked his honor. "It is, sir." The court thought a minute. "I continued the case yesterday to have time to think," he said at last, "and I have thought long and industriously. I have searched the records for a precedent and none appears. This is not a probate court. In case the boy is Insane let him go to Judge B&zille. But as for me, I have no power to inflict punishment upon a person who will deliberately steal, ap propriate, secrete and carry away copies of the Pioneer Press." SMART SHORT STORIES. An old minister at a certain village was In the habit of paying unexpected calls at the school and putting the pupils through their "facings." On one such occasion the minister asked 'the , class if there were any pi'ophets nowadays. This was . a poser to the majority; but one bright lit tle fellow, the son of a pushing trades man, eagerly extended his hand. "Well, my lad, are there any prophets?" asked the minister. "Yes, sir," was the answer; "small pr.olits and quick returns, father says." After the battle of Custozza a soldier, supposed to have been killed, was entered j on the books of his, company: "Died on the 24th of June 1866." A few days after ward it turned out that he was still alive, and the honest quartermaster made the following entry: "Died by mistake." At length there came a letter from the min istry of war, announcing the death of the man at the hospital, when the quarter master recorded the fact as follows: "lie-died by urder of the ministry." A country schoolteahcer recently gave a boy a question in compound proportion for home work, which happened to include the circumstance of ■ "men working ten hours a day in orfler to complete a cer tain job." Next morning the unsuspect ing teacher, in looking- over the little pack of exercises, found Jim's sum unattempt ed, and the following. letter inclosed in the j page: "Sur; I refuse.' to let Jim do his 1 sum you give him iastnite as it looks to me to be a slur eight-hour sistum; enny sum not more than eight hours he is welcum to do, but .not more. Yours truly, --Abram Blank, Senr." A six-year-old, while visiting at the house of a friend, accidentally tripped and fell down about ;six of a flight of stairs. Running to the little one's as sistance, Mrs. R., -after picking the tot up, asked: "Did you hurt yourself, dear?" "N— no'm.'i she replied, sobbing ly. -< How many steps did you fall down?" "I d— don't k— know. I did— dldnt— k— k— count them." VARIOUS ODDITIES. • Vienna has begun the construction of bicycle paths through the streets. Ground has been conceded for the pur pose of building a new street on condition that a strip be prepared for the use of bicyclists. The number of decorations awarded in England during the forty-three years since the institution of the "For Valor" decoration, the Victoria Cross, half have been awarded for acts of gallantry per formed in India, no fewer than 182 hav ing been given for the Indian mutiny, against Til for the Crimea. Ten were awarded in connection with the late In dian frontier campaign and four for the recent Soudan operations. The largest pure nugget ever found was known as the "Welcome Stranger" nug get. It was found Feb. '5, 1369, by two men named John Deason and Richard Oates, in fossicking the margin of a patch of alluvium near Dunolly, Victoria, almost on the surface of the ground. It was resting on a beet of stiff, red clay, just above the bedeck, barely covered with a loose, graveljy >pam. It was about i twenty-one inches long; width not given, and ten inches thick. ■wlih a little quartz, Iron oxide and mjillock in it, but the great body of ft ■*■* solid gold; so there is no reason to suppose that either John Deason or Rihcarß P&i 1 ?^ felt much ag grieved on the scfl^e Wl the foreign sub stances in this most .."welcome stranger." It contained 2.256 oiuieei of gold, or, after smelting, 2,248 ouno.es- of fine gold, and was valued at the, Bank of England at $47,070. Its gros3 weight as it came from the ground was att^ut 208 pounds. NUTRIMENT* IN NUTS. In different parts ofiEurope scientists have lately been ejtpeSimenting as to the nutritive and medical'values of different nuts, and have advanced opinions favor ing the use of certain nuts as food in the case of certain diseases. It is claimed that there is a special kind of salt in nuts which is especially good * for softening the muscles of the arteries, and elderly, people who suffer from the stiffening of these muscles are especially benefited by eating nuts. In France, among the poorer classes. the absence of , flour is replaced by the chestnut, which is dried and ground. The peasanls eat walnuts with bread which has been smeared with garlic, and this diet 1b said to replace meat. Bread Is 11 ke wise made of the chesnuts. There Is a pine nut of Korea which la rich in oil, and la supposed to be so strengthening that It is given to Korean children who are delicate of constitution. There is also a nut in Korea which looks a little like a beechnut that is roasted Jind eaten and is given in the raw state as a remedy for coughs. THE STATE PRESS. Sic 'Km. St. Cloud Times. Democrats can afford to stand pat and yell ''go it Reed." and "go it McKlnley!" as the fight of the administration upon tzar Heed waxes warmer. The warmer it gets the more probability there will be of Democratic success next year. Ohjeet* to the Law. Lake City Republican. The present garnishee law in this state makes It possible for a creditor to selzo the wages of a laboring man in excess Of $25 a month. All wages not exempt must have been earned within thirty • lays next preceding the garnishment or execution. The law la an Injustice to the debtor from start to finish and 3houtd be repealed, and another doubling the amount exempt and striking out the thir ty-day clause should be substituted In its place. Just because a man is poor and in debt is no good reason for per secuting him. No liul.n i metl Goods. ■Chaska Herald. Dairy Commissioner Bowler has pro mulgated official notice that violators of the food laws will be proceeded against without further notice. If rumors are correct, something Is liable to "drop" almost any time among food adulterators. Maj. Bowler does not propose to promote the embalmed food industry. Kui'is Come to Life St. Peter Herald. Hon. William Henry Eustls does not seem to have profited by his experience last fall, and has announced that he will be a candidate before the Republican state convention in 1900 for the guberna torial nomination. Mr. Eustis will not have clear sailing by any means, as Capt. Van Sant has also signified his intention of becoming a candidate, and Congi-ess men Eddy. Tawney and Morris would only nee.d but little urging to enter the field. The Consumer Pajs. Montgomery Messenger. Some of our Republican exchanges are very jubilant over the raise in wages of a few employes in the iron works of the middle states. If they consider the raise of from 10 to 40 per cent on nails, wire, etc., etc., they will see that it is the con sumer that pays the advance and not the millionaire manufacturer. Sees a New l.ijtlit. Moorhead News. The Pioneer Press has seen a new light. It is hoped It will keep it in view until after the next presidential election, for there is nothing more certain than that the nominee for president of the Republican party in 1900 will not be a pronounced enemy of trusts, and that the nomination of the opposition will be. Therefore, if the Pioneer Press adheres to its present views, it will of necessity become ally and the advocate of the lat ter. The Democratic Male. Waseca County Democrat. The G. O. P. at present may hold the reins over the Democratic mule, but the patient animal may raise both feet at the same time, kick the driver real hard, and then dock him the time spent in the air. — . _«_ YARNS WITH A POINT. On the occasion of a public reception at Napier, Australia, the school children of the town, after being duly complimented by his excellency from County Tyrone on the hearty manner in which they had ren dered the national anthem, were solemnly assured that if they put their shoulders to the wheel they would be sure to reach the top of the tree! This mixed metaphor being commented upon, a compatriot of his excellency retorted: "Sure, it was an axle tree he meant, bedad." The author wanted some reading, and he sought out an unfamiliar shop. He thought he would be recognized any where, because his portrait had appeared in the periodical press. So when the salesman handed him a copy of his own latest book, he winked drolly at the man behind the counter, and pushed the book away from him in mock disgust. "For heaven's sake, no!" he cried; " I can't read that man's stuff." "Well to tell you the truth," said the salesman, solemnly, "I can't either!" A scientific demonstration which caused some amusement is described in a recent number of the Criterion. "A certain phy sician had a large Toepler-Holtz mahcine which gave a spark like a young streak of lightning. His wife was much inter ested in it, and watched the doctor 'ma nipulate it, until she fancied herself mas ter of the aparatus. One day a party of friends called whfn the doctor was out, and the good wife seized the opportunity of paralyzing them with her knowledge of science. She was a very dignified woman of portly presence, and, after leading them into the office, she began her explanation with all the Impressiveness of a lecturer. She spoke briefly of the pre liminary manipulation of the machine. 'And then,' she said, laying her hand upon one connection, 'the electricity goes from here to here." whereupon an angry white spark leaped out from the brass ball in dicated, with a report like a horse-pistol, and smote her upon the extended finger, causing her to sit upon the floor with a violence that shook the window panes. The guests stood around in expectant at titudes, looking at their fallen hostess in pardonable surprise. Only for a moment did that capable woman leave them in doubt. 'There,' said she. In the most m itter-of-fact manner, as though events had simply followed the usual course, 'you see how it works. Now let's go into the garden and look at the chrysanthe mums." WHY LONDON LAUGHS. "What book would you recommend for a man who has just got engaged?" "I should say a check book."— lllustrated Bits. The Main Thing— Max— l am afraid your father will object to me, as I keen a shop. Freda— All he'll want to know is— does the shop keep you?— lllustrated Bits. "Parker always exaggerates everything so." "Yes. He can't even start an ac count at the bank without overdrawing it."— The Cigarette. Husband (going out shooting)— I know I'll miss you while I'm away, dearest! Wife— Oh, of course you will! You al ways miss everything when you're out shooting!— Colored Comic. Wise Lad— Maurice and Johnnie have been rude to their mamma. Mamma has complained to papa, who is heard com ing up stairs. Johnnie— l say, Maurice, here comes papa; I shall pretend to be asleep. Maurice— l shan't; I shall get up and put on my trousers.— Cigarette. A Pertinent Question. Boston Traveler: Beef Packer and Millionaire Swift, of Chicago, tells the beef Investigation com mission that mouldy meat is sought by the epicures of this country. If this is true, why was it not saved for the epi cures instead of being sent to the sol diers, who did not seek it? Where liiKniln I* Mi , oil. Washington Post. We miss the name of John J. Ingalls from the preliminary proceedings of the pending prize fight. The liirufiled Czar. Washington Post. There is not even a remote possibility of Mr. Reed getting provoked and re signing bis leadership. Poetry of the Period IS it BnUHCFf When you hear the sparrows trilling, trilling from this eaves. Whan you sneeze, sneeze, sneeze. When you cough and cry and wheeze And you wish that all the snow banks were a million miles of cheese, Is it spring? Is it spring? 11. When you look out your window through a glassy frame of ice Is it spring? Is it nice? Yea. It's nice, 'course it's nice For the coal man, the weather man and the man that's got the price. It is spring, lovely spring? 111. When you're waiting for a "Lowry car" to take you down the line In this spring-like time. You stand kr<»e-deep and sublime In a snow bank a-muttering. "Oh, 'aint the weather fine?" For it's spring? Lovely spring? IV. When you get down to your business and you trudgo along tha street, frvery one you meet Gazes sharply at your feet As if they knew Niagara was washing them so neat For it's spring? Cheerful spring! V. Yes, it's spring! 'Course it's spring! And we all knew a two or a thing That when winter comes once more We'll all be South galore. That Is we think we will before lt'a spring. _F. C. M. A DAKOTA HERO. Across a Western plain trailed a long provision train With a little guard of soldiers in the rear. When a scout rode swiftly back, shouting "Close up for attack!" Close behind him rang the. war cries, loud and clear. A circle soon was made, and, in skirmish , line arrayed, The soldiers and the teamsters blazed away. While the wild, war-whooping Sioux. finely mounted, fairly flew Around the little band of men at bay. At dusk the sergeant said we were run ning short of lead And at best could hardly struggle through the night. You could hear those brave men swear not a red should raise their hair As long as they had strength enough to fight. A fellow, young and slim, who was r known as "Curly" Jim, Whispered something in the sergeant's ear. The latter shook his head, as he turned away, and said : "You couldn't make the trip, my boy, I fear." The young scout made reply, with a glit ter in his eye: "There's no one left on earth who cares for me, So, sergeant, let me go, and If I pass the foe I'll have the reinforcements here at three. "To reach Yates, twelve miles away, In and hour will be play For this speedy little saddle 'bronc' of mine." Then he sprang 1 noon the back of his prancing little black, And galloped swiftly through the skirmish line. As he rode across the plain the arrows' fell like rain And the bullets whirred and sang about his ears, But his life seemed fairly charmed, for he passed the Sioux unharmed And waved his hat in answer to our cheers. Just a little to the right of the young ster's line of flight We saw a head-dress flutter in the breeze. Then we saw a puff of smoke as the red skin's rifle spoke, And the fleeing broncho sprawled upon his knees. We saw the brave boy stand, with re volver in one hand. After ending, with a ball, the pony's pain. Then he knelt upon the sod, prayed a hurried prayer to God, Ere he sent a bullet crashing through his brain. Following his fall came a thrilling bugle call, Ag the cavalry from Yates charged down a hill. AVhlle the disconcerted Sioux in all direc tions flew We gathered 'round the form so white and still. Every hatless head was bowed In that wild, blasphemous crowd, While the sergeant sang a fragment of a hymn. Now ft little pile of stones from the wolves protects the bones Of Dakota's youthful hero, "Curly" Jim. —Will E. Maiden. DREAM OF THE GEOMETRICIAN. Alexander Knlatowskl, Polish born in vestigator Into subjects geometrical, With logarithms deep. Sat on brooksids green and bosky, where his metal incubator Hatched no truths trigonometrical, And so he fell asleep. He though he was incarcerated in an octohedron, Where a host of things pentagonal In horrid conclave sat, And where his wits wore enervated by a dodecahedron Wearing over mien diagonal An algebraic hat. In a costume of trapeziums and circles fabricated. Which refused to be square rooted. To his horror he was dressed. And he found that his trapezouls would not be eradicated; He was parallelo-booted. Though he did his very best. In this life somnymbulistical he ran from apparitions. In a course circumambulatory. Toward a vast abyss, . Where with his mind statistical he found geometricians Giving facts somewhat consolatory Of a short death's bliss. No aslnorum pons appeared to cross perl patetically: The scholar leaped elusively, With awful eerie scream. . . And himself upon the grasses he found not apathetically, And was convinced conclusively That all had been a dream. —Pearson's Weekly. TO BIDV.iRD KIPLING. God give you health and length of years! And us new treasures of your mind! Tour loss would leave a world in tears And no successor leave behind. You spoke some things that liked us not— MNtruth unmeant— hard-hitting truth. Half-truth, the worst of all— God wot You had the courage of your youth. But what you saw or thought you saw With young and clear unblinking eyes You said; and by the Jungle Law You could not have done otherwise. "When 'Omer smote 'Is bloomln' lyre," The gods be praised, the schools were few; He found a coal of living fire And passed It down the years to you. —James Jeffrey Roche In Boston Tran script. WAITING. She stood while yet 'twas early dawn Close by the open gate; Her cheeks were pale, her eyes were wan; She murmured, "He is late! How does he dare to treat me so? And after all .he's said! Ah! here he comes;" her eyes grew bright. She raised her pretty head. And as the laggard came in view She cried in tones to freeze: "You're getting later every day; Three pints this morning, please." —Polly Pry in New York Herald. Some Day. Some day, some day we will \>i friends I know, ■ it = We cannot always treat each other so; Some day our paths will meet, and we, dear heart, Will wander home together, ne'er tr, part. -«t. Paul's. ATTEMPTJT ARSON DASTARDLY PIHPOSEJ OP MID XIGIIT MISCKEWTS THWARTED H\ THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WOULD HAVE BURNED LIVING To Hnve Roblted the Dea.l Rumor That Johsi Latinah Had Hidden Txmmmmimt* Believed to Have Aron»ed tk« (ovetou.ne** of t'u prlnelple.l Rant-al* Track. Found In the Snenr. There Is every Indication that a das tardly attempt was made yesterday morning about daylight to burn a house at -199 Hatch street, near the cordage works, in which an old bachelor, reputed to have money, occupied an upstairs room. A German family occupy rooms In the rear, on the first floor. Whether further criminal action was contemplat ed is a matter of conjecture, but there can be no doubt but that the incendiaries were willing to sacrifice the lives of those in the house in accomplishing their pur pose, whether it be murder of the old man to gain possession of his money, or simple robbery of the premises. John Latlnah, the bachelor, who occu pies a room in the upper story of the house. Is a German Jew, fifty-three yeara old. His neighbors know little or noth^ ing of him, but state that, he is reputed to have saved considerable money from his work as.a laborer, and that he never goes out but to his employment. His room, though poorly furnished, contain ed everything: necessary in the line of cooking utensils and conveniences, and he has been in the habit of acting as his own restaurateur. He retired early Friday night and knew nothing of the fire until awakened by the smoke. Jumping out of bed, he found the entire side of his room, next the out side wall, in a blaze, the smoke pouring into the room through several large holes burned in the floor. His neighbors and the family living in the rear of the house were roused about the same time, and an alarm of fire was turned in, while they made every effort to check the progress of the blaze. Pails of water were brought from a neighboring well, and with the timely assistance of the ftre department the house was saved, but not until one side had been badly burned and holes eaten through the floors and walls. An investigation of the fire showed that it had been set by unknown parties. One of the firemen discovered two large auger holes on the west side of the house and kerosene stains covering several square yards about the holes told the rest of the story. The holes were bored directly be neath the room occupied by Latinah, the purpose being evidently to carry the fire directly Into his bedroom. On the same side of the house were tracks in the snow, indicating that two persons at least had been concerned In the deed. An examination of the clapboarding showed five more places where the mis creants had attempted to bore holes, but failed through striking obstacles. In the rear of the house, which is en tirely of frame construction, is a small shed, the roof of which leads up to the windows on the second story. Against this shed was a short ladder, and tracks In the snow showed that two men had climbed up there and had set their kero sene beside the window, while they tried to pry it open. It Is thought that the discovery of the fire came earlier than expected by the parties who set it, and that they intend ed to start a blaze in the rear and an other on the same side as the first, but were prevented through the miscarriage of their plan 3. There Is absolutely no clue to the Ident ity of the firebugs. They were not seen by those who discovered the fire, and Latihah is unable to give any light on the . subject. He said yesterday that he did not know whom to suspect, and explain ed, in broken English, that he had no idea why one wouid wish to burn him out. The Rondo street patrol wagon re sponded to the alarm sent in, and offi cers from that station Investigated the affair". No action has yet been taken by the police, and they are almost as much in the dark as is Latlnah regarding the responsibility for the occurrence. .^*.- II MEMORY OF MAJ. WILKINSON TABLET WILL, BE PLACED IX THE AIMIIMSTR \ MON Bl ILDIN<; AT FORT SftSUIMI Cerenionlea in t'(Vnne«tloii With the Event Will ll.' Participated In by the G. A. It., of Mlnneaitolln and St. Paul. The committee of the G. A. R., con sisting of Capt. J. J. McCardy,- of St. Paul, and J. F. Foss and Judge J. P. Rea, of Minneapolis, which was ap pointed to secure a memorial tablet to be erected to the memory of MaJ. M. C. Wilkinson, reports that a contract for the construction of the tablet has been let. The tablet is to be of bronze, three feet long and two and a half feet wide, and ■will bear appropriate inscription and be placed on the walls in the administration building at Fort Snelling. Unless somj change Is made, April 19 will be the day of the ceremonies attending the placing of the tablet, as It is the anniversary of the day that the regiment to which MaJ. Wilkinson "belonged was ordered South. Capt. McCardy, chairman of the com mittee, says it will be made an occasion - worthy of the man and attended with con siderable ceremony, participated in by the G. A. R. of the Twin Cities. A complete programme will be pub lished in a few days. <H'ARAXTINED 35 MORE. New Cane of Smallpox Clumpm a Third Street Hotel. The first case of smallpox to develop* among the white people of the city was reported to the city physician yesterday. The patient gave the name of Frank Brown and came to St. Paul from Minne apolis last Tuesday. He has been lodg ing at the Mission house, 145 East Third, and though he complained of sickne?a when he first came to St. Paul his case was not diagnosed as smallpox until yes terday. He was at once removed to the pest house. The fact that he has never been vaccinated makes the health depart ment of the opinion that the disease will be hard to eradicate in his case. As soon as It was known that Brown had been stopping at the Mission house the place was quarantined and orders given to confine all lodgers who have been there for tlie past few days. As a result, at 6 o'clock last evening, thirty five persons who had been exposed were confined there, all having been vacci nated by Dr. Leavltt and Health Officer Sinks. The records of the house show that fifty-two people are wanted, as hav ing been exposed, but the larger part have already been found and confined. They will be obliged to remain under quarantine for the full period. One More •' 'Graph." Philadelphia Ledger. The ergograph Is an Instrument de signed to ascertain the nerve strength of an individual. It is now being used in the public schools of Chicago, to test the nerves of the pupils, because the authori ties, claim to have ascertained that there is a connection between the nerves and the mental ability of students. This is a long way in advance of the crude edu cational methods used by our fathers and grandfathers, and yet there were Intel lectual giants In their days, too.