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Y/EATHER FOR TODAY.
Minnesota Fair, except showers ln ex
treme eastern portion Monday; easterly
winds; Tuesday fair.
North Dakota— Fair, with colder in cen
tral and eastern portions; variable winds.
South Dakota— Fair, with colder in cen
tral and eastern portions Monday; varia
ble winds; Tuesday partly cloudy.
Montana— Partly cloudy Monday; Tues
day fair and warmer; noruierly winds,
becoming variable.
Wisconsin— Probably showers Monday,
with wanner in eastern portion; fresh
northeasterly winds; Tuesday fair.
lowa- Fair; except showers in extreme
eastern portion Monday, easterly winds;
Tuesday fair.
V BSTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
High.*Bpm.l High.*Spm.
Battleford ...52 50 Boston 78 56
Bismarck ...74 72 Buffalo «4 58
Calgary 42 40 Chicago 52 40
Duluth is S6'.Clncinnati ...72 08
Edmonton ...44 42 Cleveland ....70 52
Havre 44 4_,Denver 78 72
Helena 34 34; Jacksonville .76 68
Huron 72 72 New Orleans.B2 76
Medicine Hat.4S 16 New Y0rk... .70 66
Mlnnedosa ...60 60j Omaha 70 08
Prince Al 40 4i| Philadelphia .74 ti!
Qu'Appelle ...44 42 Pittsburg ....82 76
S. Current. ...46 42 Salt Lake 74 72
Williston .....56 52] St. Louis 58 58
Winnipeg ....70 OS- Washington .72 66
ST. PAUL.
yesterday's observations, taken by the
United States weather bureau, St. Paul,
P. F. Lyons observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night.
Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation.
Highest temperature 6'
Lowest temperature 49
Average temperature •>*>
Daily range IS
Baromet er 30 -°>>
Humidity ■■ f'2
Precipitation Tra S. e
7 p. m., temperature 64
7 p. in., wind, east; weather, partly cloudy.
RIVER AT 8 A. M.
Danger Gauge Change in
Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours.
St. Paul 14 7.4 -0.6
La Crosse 10 9.3 —0.1
—Fall. ————-—==_
REFORMATION OF THE NORMALS.
One of the noteworthy achievements of
the administration of Gov. Llnd is the
elimination of an abuse of the normal
concept that has crept ln and grown until
the concept was subordinated to lnstitu
tionalism. to the development of a grsat
establishment regardless of its original
purpose. The board of trustees has
adopted the recommendation of Supt.
Lewis, and has cut out the grade
and secondary Instruction, and abolished
the elementary diplomas which were
given to half-baked students in pedagogy
and filled the state with teachers
armed with that "dangerous thing," a
"little knowledge." This had grown, in
each state normal school, to such an ex
tent that barely one-fourth of Its enroll
ment were pursuing studies at all related
to the science of pedagogy. Hereafter our
normals will be more what they should
be, technical schools ln which those who
wish to pursue teaching, and have had
the necessary preliminary education, may
be admitted to study the science and
the art of teaching.
Another action, upon which the state
ls to be congratulated, was the decision
that the construction of the new normal
Rt Duluth, for which an appropriation
of $75,000 waa*made, will be kept strictly
within the limits of that amount. There
was a disposition shown by some mem
bers of the board to follow the custo
mary method, and use the first appropria
tion as a mere beginning, expending lt on
foundations of a building planned to cost
from two to three hundred thousand
dollars. Then succeeding legislatures
would be forced to make additional ap
propriations until a great structure was
completed, vastly too great for legiti
mate purposes, after which would fol
low the degradation of the concept by
the installation of elementary studies,
making the school mainly an addition to
the local schools for all purposes from
the kindergarten to the high school. This
was stopped by Supt. Lewis, who called
the attention of the board to the law,
the need of ' which was urged by the
Glob c, and which had its Introduction
by Representative Umland, a Democratic
representative from St. Paul, that makes
It a felony for any officer or board to
exceed in expenditure the appropriation
made. This will limit the size of the
Duluth normal to a building that can
be built for $75,000, one, it is needless to
say, that will be ample for all the needs
of a strictly normal school.
One of the presidents of the normals,
all of whom were present and resisted
the reform proposed by Supt. Lewis,
urged, against the excision of the "C"
classes, that, If the normals were deprived
of the large number of pupils Included ln
these classes, they would not have the
support in the legislature that they want
ed in order to get appropriations. This
reveals the motive that led to the ex
pansion of the courses to take in ele
mentary and secondary instruction, and
Which constituted the abuse the superin
tendent sought to correct. The object was
to increase the number of students from
rural districts who would g.o back with
the flavor of normal instruction, if, with
out its essence, and create a sentiment
ln the country that would be influential
with the legislators in securing appropria
tions to sustain the Inflated institution.
We have not heretofore bad so frank
an avowal of design, although the circum
stantial evidence was sufficient to war
rant the conclusion now affirmed by this
precedent. It is thus that all these in
stitutions have worked legislatures and
the state treasury. And the correction
of this abuse is one of the acts to be
placed to the credit of this administra
tion when, in another campaign, it is
weighed in the balance.
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Senator McMillan, of Michigan, said
yesterday that, while precedents are
against seating Senator Quay, he is ln-
cllned to think precedents will not be ob
served and that Quay will be seated. This
is the broadest possible hint that the Re
publicans In the upper house of congress
Will throw all precedents to tho winds
and seat Quay on purely ' partisan
grounds. Oh, for the day when the peo
ple will elect their own senators by di
rect vote!
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Ol R POETIC MAYOR.
In the spring the young man's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love. So with
the kindly and amative gentleman who at
presents officiates as mayor of St. Paul.
Amidst the vexations Incident to the
truckling ingratitude of his party asso
ciates, Mayor Klefer still finds sufficient
ardency of soul to appeal to the muses
in the discharge of his official duties. Not
the least imaginative of the ignoble souls
who have found themselves unable to rise
to a full recognition of the sacrifices
which Mayor Klefer made on behalf of
the city of his love ki consenting to be
elected Its chief magistrate will deny
that in all of his state papers has been
revealed a beautiful vein of poetic fancy.
Extending away back to the earlier in
spirations of his congressionel career,
wlien that lowly but succulent product
of the soil, the potato, inspired him to an
exposition of economic science which will
long survive in the annals of congres
sional eloquence and profundity, there
has been no public utterance of this dis
tinguished man which has not tended
to beautify and cnasten the literature of
true statesmanship.
Mayor Klefer's appeal to the young
men of the community in his Arbor day
proclamation, to come forward and plant
each a shade tree to the endurance of
his love, must stir the maiden heart to
its unfathbmed depths. Another poet,
perhaps not quite as highly prized in his
lifetime as our own local poet laureate,
has found Inspiration in arboreal dreams,
just as has Mayor Klefer, when he sang:
How sweetly bloomed the gay, green birk,
How rich the hawthorn's blossom
As underneath their fragrant shade,
I clasped her to my bosom.
There was always lacking ln poor
Burns that element of regard for the
utilitarian which distinguishes his great
prototype of today. His dreams were
of the golden hours, with angels' wings
which gilded above him as he sought tho
grateful shade beside his lady love. To
the mind of the scholar and humanita
rian, like our own Klefer, the objective
point Is, of course, the shade tree and
"Its chivalrous and patriotic planter,"
for neither of which did Burns give a
continental, so to speak. Yet the differ
ence ls only the difference ln the age ln
which each sang, rather than In the
singer. The one lightened the weary
hours of bucolic toil wfth the sweet prod
ucts of his imagination. The other de
scends from the high eminence of prac
tical statesmanship to toy with those vi
sions of youthful bliss to which, as life
advances to' its goal, the really poetic
mind will ever revert with feelings of
mingled joy and regret.
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SO-CALLED SMOKE NUISANCE.
At Intervals for at least twelve years,
St. Paul has been aroused on the subject
of smoke ordinances and smoke con
sumers. The city council has enacted
ordinances and our commercial bodies
have appointed committees and debated
the subject, and the courts have, in the
last event, been appealed to more than
once ln order, ostensibly at least, to put
an end to what ls called the smoke nui
sance. The most recent developments ln
this behalf do not differ materially from
those which have resulted in the period
mentioned.
We suppose that it is generally agreed
that lt would be a great gain to society
lf lt could be saved the necessity of wit
nessing the great outflow of smoke which
ls Incident to the use of large quantities
of soft coal. If penal enactments of a
local character could be looked to suc
cessfully for its removal no doubt we
would tang since have been saved its dis
cussion. But not all the ordinances and
resolutions and speeches and scientifio
demonstrations thus far made have suf
ficed to satisfy any Intelligent person
that this desirable result has yet been at
tained.
Hardly a business man in St. Paul.
but has had his attention called to the
alleged existence of one or more de
vices through the adoption of which all
our woes In this direction would be
brought to a close. These devices have
been offered for sale with remarkable fre
quencs', and it may be a mere coinci
dence that their appearance on the mar
ket has usually been attended by the re
opening of the discussion and the at
tempt to legislate the difficulty out of ex
istence.
In a climate like that of St. Paul, where
there ls but little humidity in the atmos
phere, this evil is not as great as in other
communities. Only on damp days may
the people be said to be greatly annoyed
by It. Its effect on the public health ls
not of sufficient moment to be at all a
factor ln the case. There Is doubtless
not a single manufacturing establishment
ln this city which would not gladly, ordi
nance or no ordinance, adopt, of Its own
volition, any device that was adequate
to the end sought. If there be such in
existence, it certainly ought to be able
to find its way into general use without
the necessity being Imposed on our busi
ness houses of meeting criminal charges
against their employes. The evil can be
allayed by the careful and skillful hand
ling of furnaces. The preponderance of
all Information on the subject shows,
however, that ln order to avoid the evil
altogether nothing short of the use of
anthracite coal will suffice.
THE LESSON OF IT.
The acquittal of Senator Quay and his
subsequent appointment by the governor
present a signal triumph of the practi
cal politician over the mere man of senti
ment in politics. The triumph was fairly
won as such contests must be carried on.
Senator Quay stands for the prevailing
standard of public morals among the
Republicans of his state.
It ls not mere partisanship which dic
tates the conviction that the Influence of
Senator Quay upon the politics of his
day has been degrading. He has been
identified ln the public mind with no
laudable public or official act. His stand
ard has always been low. He has rep-
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, MONDAY, APRIL 34, 1899.
resented the spoilsman in all things, and
he has depended upon the spoils principle
in his successful conflict with his enemies
within his own party. Accepting even
the construction which the jury doubt
less placed on his financial transactions
with the People's bank, lt must be re
garded as a grave public obligation to
drive such men as he from public life.
His occupation breathes the very atmos
phere of peculation.
The lament of Mr. Wanamaker over
the result were better not spoken. lf
the efforts of such men as he ln such
a cause as this are the efforts of men
sincerely desirous of purifying politics,
rather than of capturing a senatorship.
It should be plain to them that the task
they have set themselves to ls one which
will cover the compass of more than a
single lifetime. The corruptions which
beget men of the Quay stamp and on
which they thrive have taken more than
a single generation to reach their full
fruition. A system which maintains at
its apex an executive officer who will
hasten to restore such a man to the high
position which, on every principle of
honorable dealing, he had forfeited
must be attacked from its root rather
than from its topmost branch.
Let Mr. Wanamaker and the rest of the
Republican reformers look a little away
from home, and ask themselves whether
Quay ls responsible for the present re
gime at Washington, or how much worse
he ls than are the members of the lead
ing group of administration politicians
whose operations have brought such a
load of danger and infamy on the gov
ernment of the United States.
The remedy needful for Quaylsm Is a
heroic one, and its application is not
to be confined to any one state.
CUBANS ALL, RIGHT.
Americans were not led to form a very
exalted estimate of the ordinary Cuban
when brought in contact with him, in
connection with the prosecution of the re
cent war. Lazy, shiftless, inhumanly
cruel, positively dishonest, utterly unfit
to have control of his own affairs— these
are some of the characterizations that
have been applied to him.
But the Cuban has not behaved so bad
ly after all. Garcia won the respect and
confidence of his American companions
in arms, as he already enjoyed that of his
own countrymen. He was a splendid type
of the revolutionary soldier, and history
will present to view no more noble
minded devotion to the liberty of his na
tive land than he showed throughout his
remarkable career.
Gen. Gomez, too, has been severely
criticised. But his aTtltude, throughout,
since the cloTse of the war has been such
as to entitle him to the respect of the
American people. Alternately deposed
and reinstated as the Cuban commanding
general, he has remaniuG apparently
steadfast ln his determination to aid the
American authorities ln eve£y way in his
power. The most recent announcement
of his readiness to publicly declare in
favor of the control of the Island by this
people until Its social, political and com
mercial life is once more restored to nor
mal conditions is of the utmost Impor
tance. It will tend to pacify the Island,
to lmire the perjple to the changed condi
tions, and will, lf acted on by the Cuban
people, remove the steadily increasing
danger that our political promoters may
be able .to And a pretext fipr retaining
control*Of the Island and securing its an
nexation to these states through some
other agency than the honestly expressed
will of the American and Cuban peoples.
And, too, Quay can remember, to Gov.
Stone's discomflture, that Quay himself
voted against the seating of Henry W.
Corbett, of Oregon, who was named
senator after the legislature had failed
to elect.
A Vienna man has Invented a flf teen-bar
reled quick-firing rifle carrying flfteen
cartridges at a time and flrlng forty-flve
per minute. This gun ought to be tbe
chief exhibit at the disarmament conven
tion.
A California girl telephoned her lover
Aye miles ever a barbed wire fence that
her father was coming with a pitchfork.
That girl is worth her weight in gold
even If she weighs 160 pounds.
The first church ever built ln America,
that at Jamestown, "Va., is ln ruins. Sev
eral of those ln New York are in the
same state, but they don't look lt.
Mr. Hobart announces that he ls out
of politics. Some people know intuitively
when to get out of a thing and neatly
avoid being kicked out.
What appears to be the use of asking
Croker where he got it? Everybody
knows where Quay got lt, but he couldn't
bo convicted of lt.
The fellows who have been telling gold
stories ln Alaska the past two years
would do great work if turned loose on
spring fish yarns.
A New York paper advertises "Ladles'
waists for sale." Be more explicit, please.
Are they willowy, medium, embonpoint
or assorted?
It ls unfortunate that our own Mr.
Klefer isn't ln congress. He could then
also already yet be a candidate for
speaker.
Cuba has raised a large tobacco crop.
It ought therefore to be unnecessary for
us to get our Havana cigars in Connec
ticut.
Great Britain is going to fortify Wei-
Hal- Wei. Wouldn't it be better to start
with burning it or changing its name?
Five thousand American Indians have
emigrated to Mexico. Occasionally even
an Indian does a real bright thing.
The Bolivian revolution is ended. The
descendants of Bolivar have probably let
go a minute to get a better hold-
There is no objection to your eating
strawberries now~lf you can get money
enough to buy them.
Gov. Stone, you aot like a man who
wants the people to believe him "tarred
with the same stick."
All the Indications point to a much
more enjoyable year this year than last
for Alfonso XIIL
The shirt waist of 1899 is a hummer.
And the girl who wears it can sing a few
lines herself.
A chair trust, with a capital of 'steen
millions, has been formed. Gentlemen,
be seated^
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DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.
METROPOLITAN.
Hi Henry's minstrels opened at the
Metropolitan last evening to a falr-slaed
audience. The Arst-part scene introduced
the company on the forward deck of the
Aagship Brooklyn, attired in the regula
tion man-o'-war oostumes. All but the
end men were in white face and the solo
singing of George M. Decker, Osoar
Michaels and J. Marian Melvlan, together
with the double quartette, was the fea
ture.
Robert Teal, Frank B. Morton and Dan
Allman sang "coon" songs and told new
Jokes ln a manner that pleased the audi
ence.
Hi Henry was heard to advantage in
several cornet solos, assisted by a mili
tary band of thirty pieces, which ls a
splendid musical aggregation.
The vaudeville part of the programme
gave Baker and Teal an opportunity to
introduce some clever specialties in the
shape of rag-time dancing and a bur
lesque cake walk. Dan Allman was fun
ny ln a monologue, and the Couture
brothers made a hit with their tumbling
and contortion act. In fact they do one
of the cleverest turns seen ln St. Paul
ln a long time. On the whole the show is
good.
There will be a change of programme
each of the coming three nights arXi
Wednesday matinee.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week Otis Skinner brings his com
pany to the Metropolitan, presenting Car
son and Parker's comedy of "Rosemary. '
Dr. Watson (lan Maclaren), author and
lecturer, will deliver one of his lectures
at the Metropolitan opera house Friday
afternoon, May 5, his subject being "The
Heroism of the Scot."
GRAND.
The production of "A Royal Prisoner"
at the Grand last evening, with Mr. True
S. James In the title role, was a disap
pointment.
The production is billed as a romantio
drama, and might possibly be such but
for the farce-comedy proclivities of the
star and some of the cast. Just why a
gay, debonair, adventurous character, as
Mr. James ls supposed to present in the
role of Alexis Razoumovskl, should be dis
torted Into a comedy part does not appear
from the sentiment of the play. Only ln
the last act does Mr. James seem to rise
to the requirements of his role, when he
discards antics, Alppancy and shallowness
ln a scene which does him credit. The
supporting cast ls, ln general, fair. In
two instances, the characterization of
Jessallne Rogers as Elizabeth Petrovna,
empress of Russia, and that of Frederick
Bock, as Count Ivan Schouvaloof, im
perial minister of Russia, the support is
all that could be desired. Mr. James
Jackson as governor of a prison fortress
and Edwin Felix as a lletenant in "Her
Majesty's Own" regiment, in the legiti
mate comedy *>parts, were at times ade
quate.
The plot of "A Royal Prisoner" is laid
ln Russia ln 1741, and deals with the ad
ventures of a reckless lieutenant, por
trayed by Mr. James as Alexis Razoumov
skl. For Alrtlng with the wife of the
minister of police he is imprisoned, and,
instead of accepting his own freedom,
when set at liberty by the daughter of
the fortress keeper, aids the escape of a
titled conspirator who has appealed to
him. To save the keeper of the fortress
he assumes the Identity of the royal
prisoner, is interviewed by the empress
in prison, taken a captive to the royal
castle and makes love to the empress.
The deception ls discovered, and the en
raged empress is about to slay the Im
postor with her own hand when admira
tion for his magnanimity toward his fel
low prisoner moves her to forgiveness,
and Razoumovskl ls made a minister of
state.
"A Royal Prisoner" will run through
the week.
"Too Much Money" is the attraction
that follows "A Royal Prisoner" at the
Grand.
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ENGAGEMENT BINGS.
Engagement rings among the Egyp
tians were always made of Iron, symbol
izing the mutual sacrifice of liberty. One
of the earliest gems used ln the engage
ment rings was a loadstone, which was
supposed to indicate the force of attrac
tion which drew tho maiden from her
own family into another.
Gold money used to circulate ln form of
rings in Egypt at a very early time and
the Egyptian at his marriage placed one
of these gold rings on his wife's finger to
signify that he trusted her with all his
property.
Among the Anglo-Saxons the bride
groom gave a pledge, or "wed," at the
betrothal of the ceremony. This "wed"
Included a ring, which was. placed on the
maiden's right hand, where It remained
until, at the marriage. It was transferred
to the fourth Anger of the left.
The gift of a ring in Spain ls looked
upon as the equivalent of a promise of
marriage, and ls considered sufficient
proof for the maiden to claim her hus
band. A well known custom is that of
passing a piece of bride cake through
the wedding ring, and those to whom the
pieces are given place them under their
pillows at night In order that they may
dream of their husband that ls to be.
These "dreamers," as they are called,
should be drawn nine times through the
ring. Many brides, however, are so su
perstitious that neither for that purpose
nor on any other occasion will they take
the ring off the Anger J when once It has
been placed there/ '*
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Naturally 'Are 1 Flattered.
Baltimore Herald.- , s
Few candidates tcan, resist the tempta
tion to construe a big registration as a
compliment to themselves.
Illiteracy* In Portugal.
Of every hundred Portuguese peasants
only twenty can read and write.
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WHEN SPRING LEADS SUMMER.
When rosy Spring takes Summer's ready
hand
To lead her to her own fair-smlllng land,
She Ales along the way with happy laugh
ter,
While joyous Summer follows lightly af
ter.
About the meads the Aowers are blue
and golden.
Still beckoning onward, as. in ages olden
When this fair world was young, on sea
and shore,
Fond visions led the daring to explore
Its bounds remote.
When Summer shows the way for Au
tumn's feet
Beside the standing corn or garnered
wheat.
She loiters, all too happy in her straying.
And singing softly to the brooklet's play
ing
Upon the pebbles; and her hands are Ail
ing
With dusty globes of luscious wine, dis
tilling
Their sweetness into life's glad, calm
content, • ■
With whose repose fond memory has
blent 1 <
Her tender note.
"When Autumn points to Winter's frozen
home,
And leaves the field where she was wont
to roam
To guide his footsteps; still her fondest
longing |
For scenes where , once, the happy hours
came thronging
With every new delight, breaks forth in
weeping, ,
And oft she pauses to, look back where,
sleeping
In happy peace, the fertile valleys He:
And as she looks the tears that dim the
eye
Shut out the sight
When Winter's frost ls drifting down the
air
And all the world is silent,, cold and bare.
When through the leafless trees the wind
ls sighing,
The while across the sky the clouds are
flying;
Then does the heart's despair break forth
in sobbing
That seems one cry alone ln all its throb
bing—
Oh, take me back again to those old days
When Spring led Summer through tne
dreamy maze
Of youth's delight
—Lewis Worthlngton Smith ln Collier's
Weekly.
STOCKS LESS ACTIVE
AFFAIRS IN WALL STREET SEEM
TO BE DRIFTING TO A
BREATHING SPELL
RAILWAY LIST IS STEONGEE,
Profiting- by tho Absence otf Acute
Excitement ln tbe .Speculative In
dustrials — - Money Market Has
Settled Into a. Condition of Great
er Ease Stiller Rates Would Re.
■nit ln Influx of Interior Currency
NEW YORK, April 23.— Henry Clews'
weekly letter, reviewing the stock mar
ket, says: During the past week Wall
street has shown some abatement in
speculative operations. Such a high state
of excitement as has prevailed for nearly
four months past, almost without inter
mission, of the tension of exceptionally
high prices, cannot be prolonged Indefi
nitely. It must encounter reactions, if
not sharp breaks; and, at the present
moment, affairs seem to be drifting to
wards a breathing spell.
The capitalization of new Industrial
organizations since Jan. 1 has undoubt
edly been quite large, and the distribu
tion of such a mass of securities re
quires some time, and lt ls not surprising
lf there be some postponement of further
creations until this process of distribu
tion has made some considerable prog
ress. It is not to be supposed, however,
that the entire gross amount of these Is
sues is placed directly on the market.
A large portion ls taken by the stock
holders in the concerns going into the
combinations, ln exchange for their prop
erties, and that stock ls likely to_ bo
held mainly as a more or less perma
nent Investment by Its recipients, and
therefore to that extent at least can have
no important effect upon the security
market. Another considerable portion
of the issues will be held in the treasury
of the new organizations to provide a re
serve resource. The stock to be placed
on the market, In probably most In
stances, represents principally the re
quirements of the combinations for work
ing capital, and, judging from appear
ances, those requirements are wisely be
ing provided for upon a liberal scale, so
as to provide the concerns with a large
ready money resource and make them the
less dependent upon borrowing facilities.
From these facts lt will be seen that
the probability of the market being dan
gerously flooded with the issues of the
new combines may easily have been over
estimated through hasty inferences from
the largeness of the aggregate of the new
creations. People are apt to draw dispro
portionate conclusions from great totals,
and it may therefore be prudent to arrest
the pace at which this movement has
been running for the last four months.
That course would mitigate the halt
which has been apparent ln some quar
ters; it would also invest the future of
the money market with more assurance,
and any further creations of these Issues
would find their path easier, while the
consolidation movement would become
less an element of disturbance than lt
has been.
I take it that the present abatement of
activity in the industrial and traction
stocks is due to those engaged ln these
new Interests having concluded that the
policy of moderate movement rather
than of hasty "rushing" is most condu
cive to the cultivation of confidence in
this important reorganization of Indus
trial capital. The movement has come
ln obedlence.to a series of natural causes,
and, if it is protected against the taint
of over-capitalization, these issues must
have their place and standing In tho
stock market, the same as they have in
London and continental exchanges. But
violent movements, no matter how intrin
sically legitimate, create distrust and
prejudice when they are pushed with
energy and speed for which the public
are unprepared.
In the absence of acute excitement ln
the Industrials somewhat more attention
has been given to the railroad list, and
an Improved feeling has prevailed ln that
branch of operations. But, while the
market has been fairly well sustained, lt
has not been particularly animated. The
reports of damage to the wheat crop
have given courage to the bear side and
lessened the ardor of their opponents.
There Is a disposition on the part of the
aggressive operators to await definite in
formation as to the winter wheat. At
present the reports regarding it are more
or less conflicting. There is no question,
however, that it will prove bad enough;
still, it must be considered that there
will be a very large amount of wheat
carried over from the last crop, and the
Increase of acreage will give an ample
supply for export, home consumption and
seeding. Besides there remains still the
open question as to spring wheat. The
spring crop generally expands as the
winter contracts, and that of last year
reached 295,000,000 bushels, or 100,000,000
bushels more than the output of 1897.
The money market has settled Into a
condition of greater ease, which appears
likely to continue until the fall months.
The treasury has so arranged Its with
drawals from the depository banks ln
connection with the payment to Spain so
as to cause the minimum of disturbance.
The withdrawal of $1,000,000 a week ls a
comparatively light affair when lt is con
sidered that the government's excess of
payments over receipts will cause the re
turn of part of the money to the banks.
The money markets of the interior are
generally easy, and stiff rates here would
be apt to bring currency this way all the
more rapidly.
Foreign exchange ls sustained by the
Increase ln the imports with the influence
of the remittance of $20,000,000 to Spain.
Compared with March, 1898, the imports
of last month show an increase of $11,231,
--017. On the export side there ls a de
crease of $8,156,527 from last year, and an
Increase of $17,181,722 compared with 1897/
The March excess of exports over im
port's Is $31,670,769, compared with $51,058,
--313 ln 1898 and $10,930,803 ln 1897. For the
first quarter of the year the imports and
exports compare as follows:
1899. 1898. 1897.
Exports ..$313,914,736 $315,964,523 $261,055,216
Imports .. 191,291,423 185,464,546 186,942.839
Excess of
exports $122,623,313 $150,499,977 $74,112,377
Thus the surplus of exports over Im
ports for the last three months is $122,
--623,313, while for the same dates of last
year lt was $150,499,977, and in 1897. $74,112,
--877. Compared with the first quarter of
1898, there Is therefore a decrease in the
surplus of exports amounting to $27,876,664,
or at the rate of over $100,000,000 per year.
It will be seen from these figures that a
tendency has set in, since the opening of
the year, towards a gradual diminution
of the previous large excess of exports
over Imports.
ACCUSES HIS WIFE.
Indiana Specialist Says She Has
Been Giving- Him Arsenic.
TERRS HAUTE, Ind v April 23.— Dr. B.
E. Patton, well known as a specialist in
the cure of cancer, and proprietor of a
large sanitarium in this city, is lying at
the point of death from the effects of
arsenlo and chloroform poison, which he
claims was administered by his wife.
For some months past the physician has
been materially losing strength, and now
lies under the care of three physicians,
who state that the chances for recovery
are very slight Since his illness forced
him to take to his bed the physician has
reiterated time and time again, in the
presence of his brother physicians, that
his wife was the cause of his condition.
The attending physicians were inclined to
believe first that their patient was mild
ly Insane on the subject but were at last
led to the belief that there might be
some truth in his statements.
| Late last night the invalid asked that
the prosecutor and coroner be sum
moned, to whom a sworn statement was
made by the dying man and taken down
by both the coroner and prosecutor. In
addition Dr. Patton asked that a post
mortem of his body be made ln order that,
the true cause of his death might be as
certained.
Mrs. "Julia Patton, the accused woman,
has filed proceedings for a divorce, and
is now at one of her farms near New
market, Ind. She has been married four
times, and ls worth something over $100,
--000 in her own right. No steps have yet
been taken to apprehend her.
GLEANED BY A GIEL.
Not more than a hundred miles north
of St. Paul there ls a village devoted
chiefly to lumbering Industries. The peo
ple are of the class usually found ln such
a place— the majority of them of foreign
birth. Industrious, eager to acquire, with
out culture, but anxious to learn.
One spring when it was yet too early
to begin the yearly house cleaning, and
too late to be yet busied with the winter
sewing, some of the women made the
startling discovery that what the village
had long needed and should have was
a literary society. Just what proceedings
to take ln order to form one none of
them knew, but they were persons of
energy and hope, and felt sure that once
having gotten the feminine portion of the
community assembled and interested in
the proposed society they would probably
find a way to form lt. A few days later,
one of the ladles gave a very Informal
tea party, to which were bidden all the
women, young and old, who were consid
ered eligible to membership. Among those
Invited were three who were looked to
as the salvation of the scheme— a pretty
college girl from Michigan and two
bright girls whose people had moved to
the village from a Southern Minnesota
town.
The Invitations fo the tea were prompt
ly accepted. When thetcompany had ar
rived the hostess at once made her an
nouncement concerning the formation of
the club. All eagerly agreed to her prop
ositions, and before the party was over
the society had been formed and officers
chosen, one of the Minnesota girls having
been elcted president, with her sister as
secretary, and the college girl as treas
urer.
It was decided that the study of Long
fellow should be taken up. "You know,"
said the college girl to her two friends
on their way home that night, "lt would
have been lovely lf we might take_,up
the study of Browning, but you see they"
—with a slight tone of contempt— "cannot
appreciate anything but a simple poet like
Longfellow, and I think he will be quite
too deep for some of them."
The next day the president received a
note from her friend: "Come over;" it
read, "I want to talk to you about the
society. I fell to making plans last night
after leaving you, and became so en
thused that I could not sleep, for dream
ing of It, and how we may civilize the na
tives through the gentle poet's Influence."
The girls planned to Invite a few of
their friends, among whom were four or
five rather nice young men, which plans
they Immediately executed.
At the next meeting the names of the
new members were brought up, and the
girls were terrified at the frowns which
immediately appeared on the faces of
those about them. At last, the hostess
of the tea party informed them that it
had been the original Intention of the
society that no men should be admitted,
and that was still the wish of the ma
jority of the members. The girls were
silent with chagrin, but yielded with a3
good grace as possible, and then came
the rather embarrassing duty of Inform
ing the young men of the stata of affairs.
The Minnesota girls were girls ot re
surces.
"We shall give a little card party," the
president said; "Invite the boys, and tell
them then." That was the beginning of
the end for the literary society, for the
very small card party proved so enjoya
ble that lt was often repeated at one
home or another. After three meetings
the literary society was discontinued, and
all for lack of Interest, not, however, on
the part of the well-meaning women for
whom Longfellow promised to prove "too
deep." The lndifferenc manifested by
the president, the set- nary and the
treasurer was most depressing and dis
couraging, for always, on society nights,
they _had some other engagement or
stayed home to plan for another "at
home." And this happened In this end
of the century, this age of higher educa
tion, of bachelor girls and purely platonlc
friendships.
* '• *
Last summer I went down to Dubuque
from St. Paul, and during the eight hours
which the trip consumed I could not help
hearing the conversation of two women
who occupied the seat directly behind
me.
The fallings, vices and idiosyncrasies
of their servants was the subject which
occupied three or four hours' time, then
some personal gossip, and after that their
worries and troubles concerning their
children, followed by elaborate accounts
of their own 111-health. And such peevish,
fretful, complaining tones! Meanwhile we
passed the most^ beautiful portions of
Minnesota and Wisconsin, but these
women were so Intent on the recital of
their miseries that they had no eyes for
the wonderful beauty of nature. I won
dered what effect this habit of com
plaining must have upon their own spir
its, when the mere* listening to them had
such a depressing effect upon me that
even now I cannot think pleasantly of
that journey.
Who ls lt that says so well, "The cup
and saucer Is broken ln the morning, and
we go around with the pieces of broken
china in our face and voice all day?"
—Beth.
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TICKED OFF "MARCONI."
Farther Sncces-sfnl Tests of Wireless
Telegraphy at Chicago.
CHICAGO, April 23.— Prof. Jerome J.
Green continued his experiments in wire
less telegraphy ln Chicago today with
uniform success. He sent signals from
the life-saving station to a moving tug
on the lake for a distance of a mile and
a half. At every Intervening point be
tween that and the shore the dots came
distinctly and regularly, in response to
signals whistled from the boat to his as
sistant at the sending station. As the
crowning feat of the day the relay on
the tug gave out ln succession the letters
which form the name of the great discov
erer, "Marconi."
This will probably be the last test Prof.
Green will make in Chicago. Several sug
gestions have come to him while ln Chi
cago, some from practical electricians
and some from the tests he. ha 3 been
making. These will be made use of
when the new apparatus ls adjusted ln
his laboratory ln Notre Dame.
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Anti-Semite Riot.
ALGIERS, April 23.— Edouard Drumont.
editor of the Libre Parole, of Paris, paid
a visit today to Max P^egls, former mayor
of Algiers, editor of Antl-Juif and a
notorious Jew baiter, now undergoing
four months' imprisonment here for in
sulting 'the governor general. His pres
ence led to anti-Semite disturbances, and
M. Drumont, Mayor Vernola, and many
others were arrested. Several policemen
were injured.
M. Drumont and the mayor were subse
quently liberated, but others. Including
members of the staff of Libre Parole ana
several municipal officials, were detained
in custody.
Daughters* Conference. •
PHILADELPHIA, April 23.— The an
nual national conference of the Daugh
ters of the Revolution will convene In
this city tomorrow and will last several
days. One hundred and seventy-five dele
gates representing every state ln the
union except two are here.
Among the new business which will
come before the meeting will be the final
arrangement for the uniting of the so
ciety with the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution.
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Saengerfe-st Abandoned.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 23.— The
saengerfest of the Northwestern Saenger
bund, which ls announced to be held ln
this city next year, has been abandoned.
This *was decided at a meeting of the
United Singers of Milwaukee, comprising
the German singing societies affiliated
with the Northwestern Saengerbund,
held today. A dispute over the financial
guarantee ls the cause of the trouble.
BIG TRADE BALANCE
SURPRISING SHOWING MADE BT
THE FIGURES FOR THE
I-AST FISCAL YEAR
TWO DOLLABS BACK FOE ONE
The Value of Exports Double That
otf the- Goods Brought Into tho
United State, p aPm p r0 dncts
Contributed In » _,„,-„ Measure
to Swell tbe Total of the Good.
Sent to Foreign Countries.
WASHINGTON, April 22—The fiscal
year of IS9B was the banner year for the
foreign trade of the United States, our
exports being the largest ever recorded
for a Ilk© period and our imports excep
tionally small. According to a compre
hensive report just prepared by Mr.
Frank H. Hitchcock, chief of the sec
tion of foreign markets of the agricul
tural department, the total value of our
domestic exports reached the enormous
sum of $1,210,291,918, exceeding the record
breaking figures of the preceding year by
$178,284,310. On the other hand the
ports during ISDS were the smallest since
1355, their value beig $616,049,C54, a de
cline of $148,680,758 from the figures of
IS'jl. Broadly stated, for every dollar'i
worth ol foreign merchandise brought
into the United States two dollars' worth
of our products found a market abroad.
Our domestic exports as compared with
our Imports showed an excess of $594.
--212,259, or more than twice the excess for
1897, which was the largest previously
reported.
An interesting fact developed by the
report of Mr. Hitchcock ls the Increase
ln the exports of agricultural products,
being 70.3 per cent of the total, or $858,
--.■"07,942, a gain of nearly 25 per cent over
1897. Exports of this class also show
a greater gain proportionately than non
agricultural exports.
Our purchases of foreign agricultural
products in IS9S amounted to only $314,
--291,790, as compared with $400,871,468 ln
1897, a decrease of $86,759,672, or about 22
per cent. The value of the American
farm produce sent abroad during 1898 was
much more' than double that of our agri
cultural Imports, the excess of the for
mer over the latter amounting to $544,
--216,14.. In 1897 the excess on the side of
the agricultural exports was only $288,
--883,720, and in the years Immediately pre
ceding still smaller.
ENORMOUS GAINS.
The total value of the breadstuffs sent
abroad advanced from $197,857,219 ln 1897
to $333,897,119 ln 1898. In wheat and Hour
alone there was a gain of nearly $100,
--000,000. While these enormous gains re
sulted ln part from the higher prices that
prevailed, there was at the same time
an Important Increase ln the quantity
shipped. The total wheat shipments
were 148,231,261 bushels, nearly double the
quantity exported In 1897. Averaging the
export price at 98.3 cents per bushel, the
value was $145,684,659, a gain of $85,764,841
over 1897, when the average price was
75.3 cents per bushel, and the total value
$59,920,708.
Although our exports of wheat flour did
not increase very much ln quantity dur
ing 1898, the gain ln value, as a result
of the higher prices, amounted to $13,183,
--371. During 1898 the export price averaged
as high aa $4.51 per barrel, making the to
tal value of the shipments $49,203,718, as
compared with $55,914,347 for 1897, when
the average price per barrel was only
$3.84. In the quantity shipped there was
an increase from 14,569,545 barrels to 15,
--349,943 barrels during the two years men
tioned.
The combined shipments of wheat and
flour would amount to 145,124,972 bushels
for the former year and 217,306,005 for the
latter. The total value of the exported
wheat and wheat flour reached as high
as $211,948,877 ln 1898, while In 1897 lt was
only $115,834,525.
Next to wheat Indian corn showed the
largest gain, the total exports being 203,
--74-1,939 bushels, valued at $74,196,850, as
against 176,916,365 bushels, valued at $54,
--087,132, In 1897. The average price ln 1898
was 35.5 cents per bushel, as compared
with 30.6 cents per bushel the preceding
year.
INCREASED TOTAL VALUE.
The difference In prices again counted
In the Increased total value of $20,109,693.
There was also a noticeable Increase ln
exports of cornmeal, 827,651 barrels being
sent abroad ln 1898, as against 475,266 bar
rels ln 1897. There was an Increase In the
price of 23 cents per barrel, making the
value of the exports $1,766,068, as against
$902,031 ln the preceding year.
The exportation of oats also showed a
gain, the total being 69,130,288 bushels,
valued at $20,632,914, against 34,033,552 bush
els, valued at $8,756,207, ln 1897. The price
was 24.9 cents in the former year, and
29.8 cents in 1898.
Of rye, 15,541,575 bushels were exported,
against 8,560,271 in 1597. As regards the
value of the shipments there was an in
crease from $3,637,508 to $8,825,769. the
price being 42.8 cents ln 1897, and 56.8
cents in 1898.
In several cases there were gains ln
quantity exported, accompanied by a
falling off ln value. A notable example
of this was furnished by cotton. Our
shipments of cotton increased from 3.103,
--754,949 pounds In 1897 to 3.850,264,296 pounds
in 1898, a gain of 746,500,346 pounds, but the
total value of these shipments, owing to
a drop of 1.4 cents in the average export
price, from 7.4 cents per pound to 6 cents
per pound, declined from $230,890,971 in
the former year to $230,442,215 in the lat
ter, a loss of $448,756. ,
There were a few Items that exhibited
a considerable falling off ln both quantity
and value. Chief among these should be
mentioned leaf tobacco, barley, canned
beef, salted or pickled beef, hides and
skins and butter. Our leading agricul
tural imports in 1593, named ln the order
of their value, were coffee, sugar, hides
and skins, silk, vegetable fibers, wool,
fruits, tea, leaf tobacco and wines. Of
these items the only ones to show an In
crease over 1597 were coffee, hides and
skins, 'silk and vegetable fibers.
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TO WED MAY 4.
An Official Announcement of Rich
ard Harding Davis' Marrlagf.
MARION, Mass.. April 23.— Tha mar
riage of Richard Harding Davis and Miss
Cecil Clark, of Chicago, will ho solemnized
In this town Thursday, May 4. Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Clark have been here this
week to perfect arrangements.
The services will be held at St. Gabriel's
Episcopal chapel at Marlon (lower vil
lage), and Rev. Percy Brown, of Rox
bury, Mass., will perform the ceremony.
The Clark cottage and the picturesque
little chapel will be decorated eleborately
by a Boston florist. A Boston caterer will
preside over the repast for the guests.
The guests will come to Marlon In a
ptlvate car.
Mr. Davis and his bride will remain In
town for the enjoyment of their honey
moon.
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Red Cross Change.
NEW YORK, April 23.— At a meeting of
the executive committee of the American
National Red Cross ln this city the com
mittee was dissolved and the affairs and
funds of the organization here will be
turned over to the National Red Cross ln
Washington. The report of the treasurer,
George C. Bouldt, shows cash receipts
$90,140.
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Backing Dr. Semi.
CHICAGO. April 23.— Friends of Dr.
Nicholas Senn. surgeon general of the
Illinois national guard and head profes
sor of surgery ln Rush medical college,
have announced his name as a candidate
for the Republican nomination for gov
ernor of Illinois next yearr