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BRANCH OFFICES.
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WEATHER FOR TODAY.
Minnesota—Fair Saturday and probably
Sunday; variable wind?.
The Dakotas—Fair Saturday and prob
ably Sunday; variable winds.
Montana— Saturday and Sunday;
westerly winds.
Wisconsin—Fair Saturday and Sunday;
light southeasterly winds.
lowa—Fair Saturday and probably Sun
day; variable winds, becoming southerly.
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. •-. -:'i
Highest temperature 71
Lowest temperature 53
Average temperature 62
Dally range 19
Barometer .....30.08
Humidity .. AS
Precipitation : 0
7 p. m. temperature 72
7 p. m.. wind, west; weather, partly
cloudy.
RIVER AT 8 A. M.
Danger Gauge Change in
Station. Line. Reading. 24 hours.
St. Paul 14 9.7 *6.1
La Crosse 10 8.5 *0.3
Davenport 15 7.6 0.0
St. Louis 30- 22.6 —0.3
•Rise. —Fall.
The river will change but littleln the vi
cinity of St. Paul from now to Satur
day night. : ,-v: .-.-" tv
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
Hlgh*Spm Hlgh'Spm
Battleford ...70 70 Boston 80 72
Bismarck ....74 70 Buffalo 68 6*
Calgary 70 66 Chicago 66 58
Duluth 72 70 Cincinnati ...80 76
Edmonton ...70 64 Cleveland ....70 66
i Havre 72 68 Detroit 72 70
| Helena 72 72 New Orleans.Bß 82
j Huron 78 78 New Y0rk.... 78 68
! Minnedosa ...74. 70 Omaha 76 16
. Prince Alb'rt.7o 68 Philadelphia .84 70
' Qu'Appelle ...70 66 Pittsburg ....74 68
. S. Current ..70 62 St. Louis ....58 54
! Willlston 72 72 Washington .90 74
j Winnipeg ....76 72
•Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul).
OUR NAVAL FUTURE.
Leaving out of view his contribution
to the literature of the Sampson-Schley
controversy. Rear Admiral Sampson has
shown himself in his discussion, through
the public press and otherwise, of the
problems which are appealing for set
tlement as the result of the recent war,
a very self-contained," well informed
man. His latest contribution to the In
dependent Is especially sound in its views
of our position as a naval power since
our victories over the Spaniards and of
the naval policy which we should pur
sue with regard to the probable develop
ments >!' the future.
. The gist of the rear admiral's views
Is that, notwithstanding our recent vic
tories, we are as yet in the experimental
stage as a naval power; that any wars
that may confront us in the future are
naval wars; that one of our greatest
needs is that of an extensive system of
coast fortifications, and that the main
tenance of the position which our re
cent victories have placed us in makes.
jlt necessary for our own prestige and
for the protection of our national in
terests that we should have a greatly
enlarged navy.
When the late Samuel J. Tilden with
drew from active participation in affairs,
among his first acts was to prepare an
elaborate paper on the great need of
coast fortifications, and on the necessity
or placing the United States in such a
position that they could successfully
protect their Immense coast line against
the aggressions of foreign nations in
case of trouble arising. Under Presi
dent Cleveland, and through the initia
tive of Secretaries Whitney and Herbert,
the first substantial steps were taken to
establish the naval supremacy of this
nation. Our preparedness for the crisis
which cane' upon us in connection with
the Spanish misrule of Cuba was due
to the policy inaugurated by a national
Democratic administration. The advanc
es made since have been all along the
lines then laid down.
The most urgent need of the United
Slates today is concededly the restora
tion of our merchant marine. That, work
cannot be longer delayed without seri
ous injury to our interests as a commer
cial nation. The existence of a strong
navy fin 1 an adequate merchant marine
are the complement of each other. We
can never hope to have the one without
the other. If we. are destined to play
any part as a commercial power In the
Orient the work in both directions must
at once be inaugurated. Rear Admiral
Sampson la right in his general state
ment of the situation. But a navy alone
will not bring us the trade of the Orient.
Nor will the acquisition of the Philip
pines. If the- incoming congress under
stands its duty to the nation It will make
ample provision along the lines marked
out by Sampson, and It will make it
possible to restore the United States to
the relative position which it so long oc
cupied as a great marine carrying na
tion. The work of enlarging our navy
and establishing an American merchant
marine must go hand in hand.
THK NEW YORK CLIMATE.
In that vast hive of humanity, Greater
New York, they are once more experienc
ing the advantages of their blissful cli
matic conditions.
There is an Impression abroad that the
big metropolis has established a perma
nent censorship over the climate of the
entire country, from Baffin's bay to Tier
ra del Fuego. It is certainly recognized as
something of an authority through Its
daily press on the enormities of Minne
sota's climate. In that community of per
petual and Impressive sunshine, the idea
prevails that the Northwest is a place
of jiever-ending winter, interspersed with
cyclones, blizzards and all the accom
paniments of life on the steppes of Rus
sia.
It must be' a pleasing reflection to the
average resident of Gotham just at this
time that .winter among them breaks up
so quickly - and that the period of . sum
mer weather is so protracted. Even In
the early June days, all the conditions of
midsummer:.. dog-day. delights . are. upon
the people, and the noble Hudson, as It
flows on to" the sea, glistens in the rays
of a tropic sun. The natives flee to the
tin roofs vof their tenements, there to bask
in the all-pervading heat. The street car
horses no longer succumb to the universal,
desire for repose by lying prostrate be
tween the car rails as they were wont
to do some years ago; but it is because
there are now so few street car horses.
These happy conditions will probably
continue In the big city until the closing
days of September, and the newspaper
editors especially will have the amplest
opportunity to devote themselves to-' re
flecting on the horrors of an existence at
any season of the year outside the peace
ful and shaded thoroughfares of the big
burg. It is worthy of note by them, too.
that in the Interval the conditions up
here, next door to the north pole, will
during the entire period remain of such
a chilly nature that even the comforts of
a warm blanket may not be entirely un
known. ---".
The readers of the Globe will, please
bear In mind this morning that a news
paper. Is printed for all classes. It Is no
indorsement of glove contests to publish
the news in regard to those which have
taken place. On the other hand, no con
stituency would continue to buy a news
paper which did not print as nearly all
the news as It could secure.
AND THE TAXPAYER SETTLES.
Judge Mitch Mi's sweeping decision in
the Ritt-Seng case is a lesson both to
the legislature and the gang of politicians
who are running things over at the city
hall. The lawmakers of Minnesota dur
ing the session which closed late in April
rushed through all sorts of special "Jobs"
on the plea that: they were general leg
islation. That they were nothing of tho
sort every man of sense knew, and, now
that the supreme court of the state has
denominated one of these "Jobs" unconsti
tutional, it may be taken for granted that
most of the remainder of this rotten leg
islation will soon take the same road to
oblivion.
In the case of Gregory Ritt the leg
islature was simply used as a tool by a
faction of Ramsey county politicians who
were quicker witted than their opponents.
The "king" already yet wanted to do
things in a certain way, and 'is 'ighness,
Frince" "Billy" Johnson, had his own
ideas as to the proper man for assessor.
The "king" and the "prince" quarreled,
and the latter engineered a coup through
the legislature taking the mayor's power
away from him in the matter and giving
the county commissioners power to elect
an assessor. This body did as it was
directed, and Mr. Ritt, its choice, took
possession of the office in the small hours
of a spring night. Now comes Justice
Mitchell with a pitchfork and tosses
Mr. Ritt into oblivion with -no . return
ticket. This morning Mr. Seng will re
sume assessing the good and bad people
of Ramsey county, the taxpayers will
pay a pretty penny as the cost of this
needless jangle, and later on Mr. Kief el
and Mr. Johnson will, It Is presumed, re
sume trying to select an assessor and
succeed about as well as the board of
public works does In the selection of a
city engineer. ' '."' -: -
Speaking of gangs, does anybody in
this long-suffering community remember
any gang that quite equaled that which
Is now masquerading a3 guardians of the
public weal and public property in the
city of St. Paul and the county of Ram
sey? ,
FOOD ADULTERATION.
It is generally understood among the
people of Illinois, and especially the city
of Chicago," that Senator "Billy" Mason
ls_never to be taken too seriously. To
the average uninformed person the sen
ator's latest declaration in connection
with the pure food commission would
convey the impression that he was in
serious danger of being sand-bagged by
a more than ordinarily dangerous trust or
combination of trusts. And yet the fact
will probably be found to be that Senator
Mason Is, unlike the trusts, losing much
repose over the affairs of that section of
the public that is immediately concerned
in putting an end to the adulteration of
food products.
But, aside from the frenzied state
In which Senator Mason evidently
is, there is, probably, no subject
in which the people have so deep
and vital an interest as that of food
adulteration. Like the evil of the trusts,
the evil of food adulteration has grown
out of individual greed. As for years,
before the trust was* ever head of, men
engaged in the same pursuit in com
mercial life maintained quietly among
themselves combinations which embodied
the principle involved In the trust evil,
so, from the local milk dealer, who makes
requisition on the pump to replenish the
natural supply of the commodity in
which he deals, to the extensive manu
facturer of food commodities, the work
has gone on, and will go on, of deceiving
and cheating, the consumer. There are
not a few who believe that the consumer
is not unwilling to be cheated. When a
small reduction in price will surely se- '
cure the patronage of nine persons out
of ten, it is not altogether reasonable to
expect that the dealer Is going to allow
the trade to pass his door when he can
keep It by adulteration.
So keen has competition been with us
that adulteration has become a recog
nized commercial necessity. Senator Ma
son may grow hysterical over the exist
ing condition. That will not affect the
situation in the slightest. - As long as
men and women are easily Imposed on,
and as long as the .disposition remains
implanted 'in - the human breast to get
something for nothing, as the expressive
phrase goes, there will be adulteration
and plenty of it. It is an evil that can
not be prevented.-' Human -tastes have
ever differed. The human palate does
not respond everywhere to the same ap •
peal. 7 What .Is one man's meat may bo
another man's ; poison.
The Inferior commodity in the commer
cial sense too .often means the bogus
commodity. And therein lies the 1 kernel
THE^ST. PAUL GI,<>BE, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1899. *
of all the power and .jurisdiction of pub
lic authority on this score. Within' cer
tain limits it may be possible to* prevent
the sale of given " eoriiodltles for what
they are not In fact. Adulteration, car
ried to this point or nearly to It, can
be stopped If the laws are enforced. But
the "" probability ris ' that : there are laws
enough on the statute books at this mo
ment') to prevent* every evil in this behalf
from which society suffers, if there were
courage or honesty.. enough-In official life
to put them into operation.-- But there is'
not. And it may be reasonably doubted
whether ,there- ever will' be. Men can no
more -be- legislated-out of selling bogus
wares than they can be into doing no
sinful things 7 in any direction where
profit or, possibly, pleasure results.from
the transaction. The "law can only aid.
Unless there are judgment and discern
ment enough among the consuming pub
lic to prevent at least the worst frauds
that are attempted In the way of adulter
ation of food . produts, there Is indeed
but little hope that government can eradi
cate the evil. '."--'
GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.
One who reads the speeches of these
leading Democrats . who organise ban
quets so as to get a chance to speak and
thus keep before the public, dreading lest
they be , forgotten, finds little to satisfy
him If he is seeking the remedy or the
treatment Democracy will apply to
these trust r formations If it is again en
trusted with power. There are reams of
rant and volleys of vociferation and a
powerful making of wry faces, but no
where yet have .we read any delivery
from any banquet board that indicated
that the speaker had given the matter
any serious investigation along basal
lines. Vivid portrayal of methods and
actions, fierce denunciation of rapacity,
appalling predictions of commercial en
slavement, of this there has been plenty.
But this will hardly suffice for several
reasons, the chief of which Is that Re
publicans are doing precisely the same
things in the same empty way, and, as
the Republicans are in, and are quite as
verbosely denunciative as these Demo
crats, the disposition will be to let the
Republicans try their hand once more,
badly as they have bungled thus far.
It is this condition that makes it Im
perative that Democrats propose some
definite line of policy; some legislation
that will prevent the use of power by the
trusts to Injure. We repeat that Demo
crats must put on their thinking caps,
and if those of them who frequent ban
quet tables will not do it or cannot do
it, then the rank and file must. Primari
ly, we repeat again, must it be determined
whether the trend to consolidation Is a
cancerous commercial growth, to be
sharply cut out, or a natural, logical
and inevitable differentiation on preced
ing evolutionary growths! We have
stated the reasons which compel us to
accept the latter as the source of their
origin, not the least of which is their:
persistent growth in the face of prohibi
tive laws and a jealous and apprehensive
public opinion.
If it become the consensus of Demo
cratic opinion that the movement is a
logical and natural evolution, the; ques
tion comes: Wherein lies the capacity,
of trusts to inflict public injury and what
legislation is essential to prevent the use
of that power? So far as the enforce
ment of economies in making, distrib
uting and selling tend to cheapen cost of
product the public Is . benefited, unless,
by use of their power, they prevent re
duction or increase price. The Induce
ment to advance price while reducing
cost lies ' in the unrestrained - capitaliza
tion upon which shareholders will expect
dividends. Laws reducing capital to ac
tual plant ■ value would remove this in
ducement. Democratic principles would
not be violated were these monopolies
limited to a fair rate of dividend upon
such capital, . the excess profits to go
Into the public fisc.
Democrats will have to consider
whether, in order to secure effective leg
islation, they will not have to waive
somewhat of their ancient doctrine of the
rights of states and give, by constitu
tional amendment, power to congress to
regulate corporations operating on trust
lines, whose product forms part of Inter
state commerce. Thus far In experi
mental legislation this dualism has
proved a bulwark for the trust, the fed
-
eral law being Inoperative within the
states and the state acts void of force
beyond their own limits. These are
some of the- phases of the question to
which Democrats must address their
minds if they are going to put the trust
Issue into shape for intelligent discus
sion, and present it in a way to win the
votes 7of intelligent, reasoning men.
Were Republicans defending this child
of theirs It would be sufficient, perhaps,
to indulge in. mere mouthings, but they
are trying avoid the parentage and are
braying quite as loudly as are our own
banqueters.
A BOER- CRISIS.
If England adheres to the position
taken by its Transvaal commissioner, of
refusing to allow any outside nation to
Interfere, either by arbitration or other
wise, there is a strong - prospect of
trouble. It will surely force matters be
tween England and the South African
republic to an issue earlier than has
been looked for. ".-':'.". '." *, ■' 77.
British suzerainty has not been very
effective in restraining the Boers in the
exercise of sovereign rights. The citi
zens of the republic have certainly . de
meaned themselves toward the English
speaking population of the surrounding
country, as well as : toward the British
government itself, as decisively as any
independent state might do. Whether
they will continue to do so In the crisis
which now evidently confronts them
may be open to serious question.- -
It Is impossible that the existing sta
tus can continue. There must. be sub
mission on the part of the Boers.-There
is no other alternative. The refusal^ to
treat with Krueger's government through
any. outside nation is in itself a virtual
settlement ;of the entire question, and
probably means that, just the condition
exists^ which ; Mr."' Chamberlain i has been
so long waiting for. There Is no longer
any possibility of foreign: intervention;
and the imperial government already
has its hand at the throat-of : Krueger
and his people. What will happen in
case there is any resistance it is riot dif
ficult to' understand.". The probability,
however, is that so hard-headed a man
as the South African president will rec
ognize that discretion is the better, part
of valor in this Instance, and make such
concessions to the ultlanders as will
meet British -requirements. . . - -.
PROTECTING THE FOREIGNER.
The facts of commerce have become so
undeniable that only the hardiest moss
back Republican now denies that almost
every line of manufacture is sent to for
eign markets and there sold in open com
petition, after paying all charges, at less
prices than : are demanded and obtained
in the home market. xThe Dingley rates
operate to ; permit this discrimination
against the !domestic consumer and thus
operate to protect the foreign market to
the injury of the home. Time was when
this same discrimination was practiced;
and that, with' one acclaim, Republicans
either denied it or said that the exports
were a cheap and inferior product, too
poor for our , market. From "Export
Notes," In the Manufacturer, the organ
of the national association, we take a
few Items bearing upon this question of
ability of our makers to compete with
their foreign competitors.
The international pump trust has a
large order from Calcutta. The Pen
croyd Iron works, of Philadelphia,
shipped the last portions for a steel
bridge over the Atbara river, In Africa.
The Maryland Steel company are sup
plying the Panama railway with rails.
The Brooks Locomotive works send loco
motives to Finland. The president of the
Maryland Steel c company .explains that
"we secured our foreign orders for rails
simply because we } bid • lower than any
one else." The Johnston Harvester com
pany shipped twenty-one carloads of har
vesting machinery to Russia and France.
The British bark Port Sonachan Is
loading at Sparrow Point with rails for
Melbourne, part of a contract for 35,000
tons for Victorian railways. The Great
Northern railway,' England, orders twen
ty locomotives ;of the Baldwin works.
The Phoenix Bridge company, of Phoe
nlxvllle, Pa., has a contract for six more
steel bridges ; for the Eastern Chinese
railway, making eighteen built for
that line, j.' Twenty-five years ago
"brummagem" 73 ware — knives. nails,
guns, hinges--> were imported from
Birmingham. -„ tide _ is now
turned and '7 we are 7 ourselves . send
ing a great deal of 'brummagem' into
England and 'into the city of Birming
ham itself." i 7"
Recently the secretary ; for the colonies
was Interpolated by a member of parlia
ment, who wanted to know why a large
order for an Indian railway went to an
American firm. ; He replied that tenders
were _,; made i : to five English and two
American firms' :y: Four of the English
firms declined to bid, but another was ad
mitted. The most favorable English tender
asked for three years : to fill; ; the contract
and placed the price at £116,000; the most
favorable American tender asked about
one year's time and '£60,125 for the work.
"And I am sorry to say that this. is not
the first time in which there has been a
marked difference both in price and in
time of delivery between American .and
British, tenders'." 7 No wonder, in view of
these instances, which might be multi
plied into hundreds, those Republicans
who see that protection Is choking itself
to death and will strangle the party with
It, are crying for a retreat under cover of
the trusts. But the wonder is that so
many Democrats, posing as leaders, fall
utterly to . perceive the opportunity that
opens wide before the party to take up
an Issue that will not only reunite the
party and inspire It as in 1892, but will win
to us that large body of intelligent Re
publicans whom the Issue that year
brought to us,;giving us the victory.
The Baltimore Herald gravely an
nounces that "It Is always hard for a
lawyer to win his case when he runs up
against a packed jury." In view of the
fact that there are generally two law
yers, at least, concerned In every case,
the above Is a trifle ambiguous.
The French claim the great American
admiral on the ground that he descends
from a Huguenot family named .De
Huoy. Belgians say he Is one of their Do
Weys. But he still remains our genuine
Yankee George Dewey.
One might: reasonably Infer from the
tone of Chicago papers that Admiral
Dewey was coming from Manila for the
express purpose of laying the corner
stone of the Windy City's new postoffice.
A pair of scientists announce that they
have discovered that the sun . Is blue.
Anyhow, it will do to gamble on that a
good many of. the people on whom the
sun shines these June days are blue.
The unanimity . with which. each state
in the Union agrees not -to blackmail
David B. . Henderson is remarkable. Mr.
Henderson, is a, man of whom It may be
said, he got there before he really started.
"Will the time 3 ever come." anxiously
intrhires the Boston Globe,"when we~can
turn on cold In ; the radiator on a hot day
just as we turn on heat?" Oh. we don't
know: ask Mr. ! Trlpler.
Congressman i Hopkins ' says that ex-
Speaker Reed "will never again be a can
didate for any public office." .-.. Possibly
Mr. Reed considers. the ! presidency a
"private snap."? ■«
Gen. Gomez' ! regards American occupa
tion of Cuba las "disagreeable." It Is so
disagreeable to:him, In.fact, that ha has
left . the Island and gone homo to San
Domingo.
Judging;from, present conditions In the
Philippines Senator Davis and the rest of
the 520,000,000 peace commissioners are
poor judges of the:value of real estate.
All the prize fighters, big and little, will
now please march up, Into the center of
the. ring and talk It out, so that we can
proceed; with the Filipino war, 777:7
Boss Piatt still remains."Me Too" to all
talents and purposes. ..When the country
shook "Jim" Sherman,' candidate for
speaker, Piatt shook him also. r : *
vNow that Admiral Dewey has promised
to come home-, the ' Minneapolis Republic
ans - are trying "to; obtain*! similar assur
ances from John Goodnow.
■ The time ' Is slowly, 'l but- surely jcoming
around^ again : ' for prominent" citizens to
'"; * „-.-." : -iT" 77: V .-; ■■"'.' '.1:7- ". *'"" 'TZw-'J
begin declining to accept second place on
the presidential ticket. 7 :■*>,.>.. „..--,. -... .,.;•:
Chicago Investors have . lost $3,000,000 In
the linseed oil trust. The mourners will
not Include many persons 'outside of their
Immediate families." 7; 77'Z^'
Everybody in St. Paul is entitled to
carry, an ax now. The next Modern
Woodmen convention will be held here.
The cold truth might as well be known
first }as last. Neither Mark Hanna nor
Secretary Alger proposes to resign. •■-••
The crash suit exhibits a little hesitancy
In coming forward this summer, but it
will be with us by and by.
How fierce the light that beats upon a
■throne! Republican newspapers have
quit calling him "Dave."
-Bellamy Storer knew where he was all
the time, but didn't know he had to tell
the newspapers.
Possibly one of the lessons to Loubet
Is that he ought not to attend horse races
on Sunday. )£z7i7z7!:.
When it comes to getting revenge the
St. Paul base ball team is positively cruel.
Probably Chief Devery wouldn't know a
hard blow if he met it coming up the pike.
Alger Is getting out of the cabinet at
usual speed this summer.
Zola Is again back In Paris, and, mora
than that, he is saying things.
The victory will be a popular one. Jef
fries was born in California.
AT THE THEATERS.
METROPOLITAN. .
The Neill Stock company will present
"The Senator" at a 25-cent matinee this
afternoon, and, for the - last time, to
night. The company has scored a de
cided hit, and has added to the popu
larity won during the previous engage
ments in this city; the play has served
admirably to introduce. the new mem
bers of the company, as well as to re
new acquaintances with the old favor
ites. The organization :is undoubtedly
stronger than when last seen here, and
should play to big business throughout
the entire engagement. The scenlo ac
cessories are elaborate for "The Sena
tor," and It is promised that all the Neill
plays will be produced on the same lav
ish scale. For the coming week two
plays will be presented, "The Dancing
Girl," a four-act drama by Henry Ar
thur Jones, for the first half, and Boucl
cault's comedy, ; "London Assurance,"
for the latter half of the week. The sale
of seats Is now open. : .Kv-H *
FUNSTON'S GREAT SWIM.
Reckllnghooaen Telia How It All
Happened Over the Water.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Dashing Brig. Gen. Fred Funston,
whose heroic deeds in the Philippine is
lands have been . exploited In the dally
press 1 all over this great United States
for the past few weeks, was the subject
of "conversationings at Reckllnghoosen'a.
" 'Tain'd no use of spoken about him,
but dat Fritz Yon Stohn Is a bravery
snoldier." was the opener by Reckllng
hoosen. "It's 'Deutschland ofer all.' No
yonder tose Phllllpspeanuts vant to sue
In day courthouse for pieces venn sutsk
like braferles Is skown to dem like Fritz
did." ,-.-•..: , ;■- . ■;_-- 7': 7: .'.';-..'>
.'• Vhat's loose now again?" interrupted
Bimberle. - "Are you . seek, oder , ain'd
your healthiness so good no more? How
you maig oud hees a Deutscher mid sutsk
names like; Yon Stohn. Hees names ain'd
dat 'tall; it's Funs On."
"Dats rlghd; oh, dats oil rlghd," ex
claimed Reckllnghoosen. "You yoost hit
day head on day nail, dats vhat ho
maid." . -':'*,' .• .-•-...
"Vhat is It he did maid?" asked Bim
berle. • ." .7.7.7 V"
"You yoost said it vhat he did," replied
Reckllnghoosen. "He maid day fun on
vhen day fun It begind mid day Phillips
peanuts." '.' ' . 7-'--t7l : -
"How did he done it?" again queried
Bimberle. v.^.'Vf- 7! J ■' -
"Questshon me how din he done, derm
could I tole you it might be yet better,"
replied Reckllnghoosen. "He din valt for
no constructions In dip low mattics. Nix
kommeraus!" • -
"Vhat he did did derm? Did he vent
und askeded Ackinaldo for promiskon to
spooch mid him?" exasperatedly asked
Bimberle. .7' '••~","?
"Litsten und I told it on you how he
didet it," gravely responded Reckllng
hoosen. . "Falrst he knocked on day bam
boozle poles houses vltsk lining In Aek
inlado's mens mid deir bad : visors.
'Herein!'. it said behind day inside some
yon! You know 'herein' dat means In
Spanish 'Come In vonce!* Den venn Yon
Stohn oder Funs On, like you calls him,
vent in, he askeded day man vhat yore a
whole chirt on him, to sir ender. 'Nefer!'
said Aquayaconolombo, 'so long like a
rlvver pflows apast us."
" 'Is It you vhat representatlfs Ackin
aldo?' askeded Yon Stohn.
" 'SI, sinyore,' said Aquayaconolombo.
(Si, sinyore, dat means in Jewnited
Staatses lankwldge jass, sir), was the
explanation offered by Reckllnghoosen.
" 'Derm for day twicest times I . aks
you to sir ender in day name yon day
Jewnited Staatses,' said Yon Stohn.
" 'Non.non, (Non, non, sinyore!
Dat means nosslr), said Aquayaconolom
bo; 'not so long like it pflows day rivver
apast us.'' »-""_""'"'
" 'Benn to day hotel mid yous Phillips
peanuts und day rlvver,' said Yon Stohn.
"He hollered out on his snoldlers, 'Come
ahett, fellers!' und he und hees whole
rechment svimmed in day riff dis day
vas ofer mid delr unlonforms on on day
odder side." "~.7-'.l" ■'.>•;"-' '■
"Mid der unlonforms on?" Incredu
lously inquired Bimberle.
"Jass, mid 'em on, besides vitsk yet
day hed delr. gunses, pltse'ses. zaberses
und odder oppertunences on yet, und
catritches In - delr belts around delr
shoulders," replied Reckllnghoosen.
"Ob, derm. no yonder, Is It day malg
sutsk spokenlngs aboud him. Veil, I'm
annahow klad he's a Amerikans man, be
cause odder snoldlers couldn' do dat."
"Oh, jass day could," interrupted Reck
llnghoosen. "Yon" Stchn lairnd dat in
Deutschland." , "";'. '•r
"'Taln'd nodding so; he 'tis Is a sub
checkt yon day kaiser," hotly rejoined
Bimberle. "He is a Jewnited ; Staatser
yon Kantzis, und venn he cooms back
day Kantzisers von't built him a house,
but day'l.gif him day whole shdate, dat
-vhat day'i do mid "Funs On." -
"Reckllnghoosen," said Amzwltcheler,
"you should yet know less than dan say
en dat Funs On Is yon Jewrope, because
of he vas he vouldn't.svimmed. day riv
ver ofer; he vould been so full yon bair
dat day whole rechment-vould floated
over.".; ?/-';..;■ . , -.-•>;.-;
7 Easily Downed.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The grocers who are organizing a whis
ky company to compete with the whisky
tiust propose to fight the devil with fire
water.
A TeboKKSS Slide.
L. A. W. Bulletin.
. Many a man who boasts of his descent
from William the Conqueror shows what
a steep descent It has been. . *
Tobnccoi Chewing Expensive.
Chicago Tribune. .■■[ ■:■".',-
In Kentucky the grasshoppers. are said
to be eating up the tobacco j crop. \ To
bacco chewing is an expensive habit..
— r— — ssj." _" .' ' .'""-'.';: -
Probably She Does.
Chicago Record.
When Xt comes down to .facts, the girl
graduate probably does know more about,
the "* science -."of. government ,^ than ; . many
persons of $ the masculine gender who
pose as statesmen. .-.'■'
PRICE LIST IS FIRM
BRADSTREET'S SUMMING UP OF
TRADE CONDITIONS FOR THE
PRESENT WfiKK ,
DEMAND HAS NOT DECREASED
Some of the Features) Are Puacling,
hut, There la Nothing to Indicate
a Falling Off in the Steady Ad
vance That Ha* Prevailed the
Greater Portion of the Year—
Ineaa Fail are* Light.
NEW YORK, June 9.—Bradstreet's of
tomorrow, June 10, will say:
j Exceptional firmness in prices at. the
highest level as regards general staple
values yet reached/a small rate of busi
ness mortality, undlmlnshed Industrial
activity, perhaps most manifest in all
branches of trade in which iron, steel and
other metals enter, and large bank clear
ings, reflecting to some extent, the im
proved tone of stocks, but likewise large
payments on previous profitable business.
are among the features not necessarily
new, but still noteworthy, reflected in
trade advices. Enlarged shipments of
breadstuffs, a result of recent buying in
duced by crop damage reports at home
,and abroad have, it is true, not been suf
ficient to offset liquidation on the late
moderate rise, but this is partially ex
plained by continued good advices from
the spring wheat crop, confirmed by lib
eral receipts at primary points. Iron and
steel display all of their old and some
new. strength in the urgent demand for
the balance of the year, and the usual
summer shut down seems likely to be
honored more in the breach than In the
observance In this trade. The outlook In
the trade as regards next season's labor
scale is still unsettled.
. The usual early spring predictions of
an immense reduction in cotton acreage
have failed of realization and current es
timates favor a falling oft* of 3 to 5 per
cent in the cotton belt as a whole. This,
added to good trade at heme and abroad,
and advices that the crop has not yet
made up all the time lost by a backward
season, has strengthened values of the
raw materials lightly.
Wheat, including flour shipments for the
week, aggregate 3.158.047 bushels, against
3,570,065 bushels last week, 4,730,982 bushels
in the corresponding week of 1898, 1,893,322
bushels in 1897, 2,922,695 bushels in 1896
and 1,731,737 bushels in 1895. Since July
this season the exports of wheat aggre
gate 215.223,485 bushels, against 220,876,046
bushels last year, 4.774.333 bushels In this
week a year ago, 2,388,294 bushels in 1897.
1,525,829 bushels in 1896 and 655,754 bushels
In 1895. Since July, this season, corn
exports aggregate 160,149,425 bushels,
against 186,697,820 bushels a year ago.
Eslness failures for the week number
173, as against 129 last week, but com
pared with 221 in this week a year ago,
257 in 1597, 234 three years ago and 232 in
189f.. Business failures In the dominion
of Canada for the week number 19, against
IS last week, 26 in this week a year ago
3S In 1897 and 21 in 1895. ' '
PRICES TEND UPWARD.
Advance the Paat "Week; Not Equaled
, '*•* Recent Years.
NEW YORK, June 9.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade will say:
The past week has brought a rise In
prices not equaled in any other week of
many years.,. Iron products have ad
vanced 8.82 per cent in one week and pig
iron 4.8 per cent, following advances of 8
per cent in pig and 4 per cent in products
during May. Cotton has advanced 1 per
cent and cotton goods 1.8 per. cent during
the week, with woolen goods .8 per cent
and boots 1 per cent. A little reaction of
6 per cent appears in leather and .7 per
cent in hides, but the characteristic of
the time is that expectation of higher
prices induced buying far in advance of
requirements for consumption. ' j
It Is needless to say that this is a
symptom of danger, and the most con
servative manufacturers, especially In
iron and steel, have striven "to avoid It,
but actual inability to deliver products
demanded leaves them little power, while
speculation In wool and other lines is
running away from consumption. It is a
saving feature that quotations are quite
largely fictitious. Almost all the goods
now being delivered or produced in some
industries are on prices fixed by orders
accepted several months ago, and nearly
all the iron works being thus tied up
far ahead the prices quoted Indicate not
at all what they are getting, but what
they see fit to ask as a way of refusing
orders which they cannot accept, or else
the bids of impatient buyers who can find
nobody ready to deliver large quantities.
During the pasjt week quotations have
risen for anthracite No. 1 to $17.50, for
Bessemer, to $18.50 at Pittsburg; for gray
forge, to $16.20; for billets, with practi
cally no sales, to $31; for bars, $2 per ton;
for plates and sheets as much: for rails,
to $26; for structural beams and angles,
$5 per ton, and for wire halls 25 cents per
keg. But there are no accounts of large
transactions at these or any other prices,
though small sales of pig last week for
Italy and this week for Bremen, at mar
ket prices, with German offers for 10,000
tons Southern pig, indicate that needs
abroad hre quite as great as they are
here. -'-..;:<-
While there is a better demand for
woolen goods, so that prices of soma
have advanced, it is not yet possible to
distinguish heavy speculative operations
in wool at Boston, from efforts of mills
to buy. The cotton market has ad
vanced a sixteenth. Goods are selling
largely and prices of ginghams and prints
have advanced.
For the current week failures have
been 159 In United States, against
203 last year, and 10 In Canada, against
17 last year. '-:.-' V.*':
■WHY STOCKS SAGGED.
Bradstreet's - Financial view of
. Week's Business In Wall Street.
NEW YORK, June 9.—Bradstreet's
financial review tomorrow will say: At
the beginning of the week the market
showed a disposition to continue Its dull,
sagging tendency. The announcement of
•further gold shipments was calculated to
support this belief, and with the absence
of any public buying led the professional
traders to generally act on the short side
of the account.- There was, however,
less . evidence;.of liquidation, and the
money market failed to show any trepi
dation on account of the gold shipments,
which, for the past ten days, reached the
total of $2,500,000. The large gold hold
ings of both the banks and the treasury,
with the abundance of money and the
absence of • any exceptional demands at
present, rob the specie movement of. its
usual effect. It also clearly recognized
that at the present rates of. exchange,
some ■' European Interest. generally
thought to be the Bank of England Itself,
had put a premium ' upon gold consign
ments, small, but sufficient to reduce an
artificial flow from this country. -
. There was a steadier tone in Tuesday's
trading, and' Wednesday yielded, two In
cidents which, - for -: the . time being., at
least, seemed to change ? the' temper of
speculation. One of these was the dec
laration of the regular 3 per cent quar
terly dividend in the American Sugar
company's,common stock, and the other
was the ■declaration' of 1% per cent half
yearly dividend on Atchison preferred.
The upward movement continued, on
Thursday, and ■ the strength of the mar
ket on the* whole seemed to center in the
portions of ' the list L which ■ had been : the
object of the • principal - bear . pressure.
London took but a small part 'in the
i trading f here.| though " the .-■ Atchison • divi- '
: dend induced some foreign buying of that
,atoe^;'^-!•■,■: 7 ■;7:,77
WEST WAFfS PLACE
DEMANDS THE RIGHT TO NAHI 10
THE RUNNING MATE FOR
'7f-7'; '■-, ' . M'KINI.EY
HOBART rIS ODT - OF IT
Trait laaue Fatal to the Chance, of
the Man From, New Jersey—
Some Talk of Senator Davis,, but
the Minnesota. Man, It I* Said,
Ha* No Desire to Be Vice Pres
ident. * ."*-*■"'•"
CHICAGO, June 9.-Wstern Republican
congressmen are nearly a unit for the
idea of selecting the vice presidential car
didate who is to be President McKlnleys
running mate next year from the region
west of the Mississippi river. It has leak
ed out that during Congressman Hender
son's stay In Chicago, when representa-
lives of various state congressional dele
gations were calling on him at the Annex,
the question of selecting a running mate
for the president was discussed quite as
fully as the speakership contest.
Practically without exception the con
gressmen were firm in the belief that
not onl> is Vice President Hobart out of
the question as the party nominee to suc
ceed himself, but that there is an unsur
passed opportunity for the Republican
party to make a strong political play by
selecting a man from one of the states
west of the Mississippi.
The single objection offered to Mr. Ho
bart was that he hails from the state
of New. Jersey, the home of the great
trusts that are to become one of the mot.t
important issues of the next campaign.
The congressmen said that the rice presi
dent's renomination would be tantamount
to a confession by the Republican parly
that its declarations against the trusts
were not made In good faith. His Identi
fication with big financial interests, in
cluding several of the richest Industrial
combinations, would be used by the Dem
ocrats as an argument to support a claim
that his renomination was forced by Wall
street.
The effect of the congressional discus
sion of the vice president's political status
Is indicated by news dispatches from the
national capital stating that Mr. Hobert
would not permit his name to be present
ed to the national convention. The news
was offered on the authority of an in
fluential member of the Republican na
tional committee. Two Chicago congress
men who read the dispatches said that it
was evident that President McKinley had
talked with the vice president and had
conveyed to him his own as well -as the
desire of a majority of the Republican
leaders in the West that he should lake
Immediate steps to make public an-
nounoement of his withdrawal from pub
lic life at the close of his term.
AGAINST HOBART.
It is known that Mr. Hobart, until a
few days ago, expected to be renominat
ed, and that his Eastern friends were
industriously at work among members
of the national committee endeavoring
to arrange matters so that he would have
no opposition either before or during the
convention. They urged his remonlnation
on the ground that the ticket of IK*
would be stronger next year than a ticket
with a new candidate for vice president.
The action .of the Ohio . convention in
enunciating an unequivocal declaration
aganist trusts brought the Hobart work
ers to a halt. Then came the personal
declarations of Western congressmen
against the vice president. And finally ap
peals from a number of national com
mitteemen to the president, and Senator
Hanna urging Mr. Hobart's retirement.
Congressman .Henderson, who is to be
speaker of the next house or representa
tives, was very frank in declaring him
self a strong partisan of the Idea of se
lecting the vice president candidate from
a state west of the Mississippi river. His
colleagues of the lowa delegation shared
his views about the political expediency
of such a course, and it is understood
that they are prepared to offer the na
tional convention a man, who. In their
judgment, would be a first-rate candi
date. Their offer did not meet with
favor, however, because It was taken for
granted that lowa has had enough hon
or thrust upon it in the selection of Col.
Henderson for speaker.
Illinois congressmen, who dined with
Col. Henderson at the Union League club
all expressed themselves as favorable to
a Western man for vice president. Ohio,
Michigan. Indiana, Wisconsin and Minne
sota are said to be a unit—that is. the
congressional delegates are. In the West,
with the -possible exception of Chicago,
where bosses are in control of the ma
chinery of the Republican party, the
ideas of members of congress have a po
litical significance, for the reason that
they are In a position to deliver real dele
gates to the national convention.
The supporters of the plan of selecting
a man from the trans-Mississippi region
have abundant reasons for their course,
which, in their minds, are ample to jus
tify themselves.. They say. in the first
place, that it would be a departure from
party traditions, which would be grateful
to the Republicans of the West. The
trans-Mississippi country has never been
represented on the national Republican
ticket. \7 .-.'..
Another reason that was offered by the
congressmen was that a Western man
running. with President McKinley would
make deep Inroads into the ranks of Mr.
Bryan's followers.
TALK OF DAVIS.
Senator Cushman K. Davis,. of Minne
sota, was discussed freely In connection
with the nomination, but his friends ex
pressed the conviction that he would un
der no circumstances accept it. Senat.r
Wolcott. of Colorado, who remained loyal
to McKinley in 1896. In the face of almost
unanimous apposition in his own sate,
was discussed, but his name was dismiss
ed because It was stated that his recent
domestic troubles would have an unfor
tunate influence on the campaign. Ex-
Senator Manderson. of Nebraska. Senator
Thurston, of the same state, and a num
ber of other, well-known Republican lead
ers were talked about, but wholly In a
tenative way.
A Chicago congressman, who would
not permit the use of his name in con
nection with the movement, said that
Vice President Hobart's withdrawal is
practically certain;
7 "The West." the congressman said,
"will not stand for Hobart. There is no
objection to him as a man or as a Re
publican, but the fact that he lives in
New Jersey Is enough to make his re
nomination In a critical year impossible.
Western congressmen are In favor of a
man. They believe that such a
choice will he more nearly in line with
some of the proposed declarations of the
Republican party."
; . Ex-Go'v. Altgeld said that Senator
Jones will not resign the chairmanship
of the Democratic-national committee.
"I have been aware of Senator Jones'
plans for a .long, time." said the ex-gov
ernor, "and I am In a position to state
that he will continue at the head of the
■committee" at" least until Its term ex
pires. There has beenn a great deal of
talk about Jones' resignation, which has
jno foundation In " fact. I' have no doubt
but it is ; the "outgrowth, of a desire ' to
have him get out SWtti
The ex-governor also intimated very
| pointedly • that he Is not likely to resign
ills connection with the ways and means
and advisory: committees; merely for; the
sake of quitting them. ' .
Hope for, Pence.
; Philadelphia 1! Bullet "::'
If the big. powers agree to arbitrate,
(the little ones will have to.'-arid that's all
there is of ttr^? 7T 7 „ ,