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13 | ©He "ft. $Jiml ®\#bs :' -r. . ' "_ ■.-. "?[ CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. .■'.. ' '" * .7 , t '~ .; I By Carrier II molß mos|l2. nios : bally only .............. '.401 $2.25 JI.W Dally and Sunday .60 2.75 800 •Sunday .151 .76 L6O COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. t- , — by Mall |1 mo|6 mos|l2 mos bally only .....J .25 $1,601 &M Daily and Sunday...... .85' 2.00 4.00 7 (Sunday — 75 J-60 (Weekly | ...{ -7&| 1.00 Entered at Postofflce at St. Paul. Minn.. ■as Second-Class Matter. ■— Address ' all communications and make all Remit tances payable to THE GLOBE CO., St. Paul, Minn. Anonymous communica tions not noticed. Rejected manuscripts .will not be returned unless accompanied by postage. . BRANCH OFFICES. Stw York 10 Spruce St, Chißoom 609. No. 87 Washington St. t. ■ ■ WEATHER EOR TODAY. Minnesota—Fair Sunday and Monday; southerly winds. The Dakotas— Sunday and Monday: variable winds. Montana—Fair in eastern, showers in western portion Sunday; showers Mon day: variable winds. Wisconsin—Fair Sunday and Monday; fresh southeasterly winds. lowa—Fair Sunday and Monday: south erly winds. ST. PAUL. Yesterday's observations, taken by the "United States weather bureau. St. Paul, *V. F. Lyons observer, for the twen.y four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night: -— Barometer corrected for temperature and elevations. Highest temperature 52 Lowest temperature 46 Average temperature ..".... 50 Daily range ;.. 6 Barometer 20.04 Humidity 82 _ Precipitation 0" 7 p. m. wind, east: weather, clear. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES. High*Spm High*Bpm Bismarck 76 66 Los Angeles ..70 €0 Buffalo 44 36 Medicine-Hat.s4. 48 "Boston 46 40New York ....50 '42 Chicago 56 54 Omaha 88 80 /Cincinnati ....64 58 Philadelphia ..50 44 Cleveland 48 42 Pittsburg 54 50 •Denver 76 64 Rapid City ...74 60 •Detroit 50 42' Frisco 62 56 Duluth -.4S 48St. Louis ......72 66 Helena 48 465. Ste. Marie..44 44 Huron 66 50Washington ..52 42 Jacksonville ..80 70 Winnipeg . 67 60 • 'Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul). RIVER BULLETIN. '• Danger Stage Change in Station. Line. BA. M, 24 Hours. St Paul 14 8.0 ' "0.5 Davenport ..A. 15 1.9 -%.l Kansas City 21 5.5 0.0 La Crosse 10 3.2 . '0.2 Memphis 33 0.7 0.0 St. Louis 20 3.3 "»•* ♦Rise. —Fall. , ... j • WAXTED—A CITY CHARTER. •' The series of addresses delivered by the Re. Dr. Smith on local government, apart from their intrinsic value, are of much public worth for the effect they pos sess in directing public attention to the meed which exists of intelligent charter legislation. There is no warrant for arguing that the 'failure of the people to ratify- the work of the former charter commission' means that the people do not want charter legisla tion. They are not willing to accept a charter at the hands of a bedy such as .that commission, which they regarded as a sell-perpetuating body, assuming pow er in a great public undertaking which none but the most thoroughly representa tive body should be entrusted with. ".Nor Was the personnel of the commission ac ceptable. Its work was not; and in the choice between the two evils of continu'ng Under the operation of our present patch work system and adopting that present ed by the commission the people chose the lesser evil. There is a general agreement that the most available means -of securing an ap proved charter is through the home rule agency. A charter •.■commission wisely chosen can furnish 'the needed relief. The first requirement'to'economical local, gov ernment is the lessening as nearly as pos sible to the vanishing point of the ex penses of so-called county government. The terrtorial limits of the city and coun ty are so nearly coterminous that the •maintenance of a dual system of govern ment tuned up to the*highest capacity of expenditures, as is the present, can be regarded as little less than a criminal fraud on the taxpayer. - • With a thoroughly representative char ter, commission in existence it will not be difficult to secure popular sustainment of their work. The weak spot in the 'American representative system is now generally acknowledged to be the prevail ing .systems of municipal government. They are generally costly and corrupt. .They produce the minimum of result at the maximum of expense, and under our political system of party contests set a triium on public wrong-doing. Only those who have remained blind to the advancement which has been made, notably abroad, in the science of local government insist on the perpetua tion of the existing models. Better by far.-that we should continue under the present befuddled and antiquated system than that a new charter should be adopt ed that did not embrace most of the now accepted improvements. These include the securing of a larger official responsibility, the concentration of power, as well as trie lessening of the offlceholding class, and their selection on some other basis than "that of'superior activity in ward politics. The Globe believes that the people of St. Paul are prepared to accept a charter which will Invest its' executive head with all appointing power, and which Will confine the operations of the council to strictly local legislative work. The present double-headed council system Is an obstruction and a humbug. A single local legislative body, representing In rea sonable proportion the needs of localities end of the city at large, can transact the public business more intelligently and With more dispatch than it is now dis charged in this city. a Whether the recognized departments are administered by individuals or by boards, the power of appointment in every case, we think, should be given to the mayor, ihus fastening the responsibility for .wrong-doing effectively on the appoint ing power. .;' No body of . electors but the very ig jiorant are willing now to hear national or state issues fought out'in a munici pal contest. As has been pointed out, it Eeems the very height of absurdity that the Philippine question should enter into _ contest for the election of a "mayor and board of aldermen. It is a mere means of humbugging the electorate dear to the heart of the professional ; office-seeking class, because it bears no relation what ever to their conduct in office and offers a splendid means by which to avoid '". the consideration of details of local adminis tration which might be embarrassing -to them. - 7-"•'-"•"" '• i ■-■"-' Nothing short of the " fullest interchange - of opinion will ever suffice to enable a' clear understanding to be reached as to the best form of charter likely to be ap proved by the people. There Is more ig norance prevailing on the subject of mv • nicipal government that on any other topic of political concern. It is only by constant discussion and agitation that we can finally arrive at a conclusion which will be generally acceptable and which may be embodied in the form of a charter fairly assured of adoption by the peo ple. - BEGINNING OP THE END. The victory achieved by the British forces over the Boers at Glencoe Is doubt less the beginning.of the end. The Brit ish government, having decided upon the annihilation of the Transvaal and Orange Free State republics, have taken such steps as will doubtless secure their end much more promptly than the friends of the Boers would wish. Even to those who most profoundly sympathize with the patriots of South Africa the tre mendous military force which is being organized and equipped for the war leaves but little doubt of the ultimate re sult We believe that enough is already known to satisfy any intelligent observer that the ultimate purpose of the British government is the establishment of a British confederacy In South Africa. When the work of the military, authori ties is accomplished there will no longer be an independent nation in South Africa, Both tho Orange Free State ' and the Transvaal republics will have become transformed"irito" British dependencies. There is but one possible serious ob stacle In the path of such a course. That obstacle is the not very probable inter ference of one or more European nations with the progress of the British pro gramme. It was for this end that war was inaugurated, and to this end that Mr. Chamberlain maneuvered through out the recent negotiations to maintain inaction on' the part of the opposing forces until the-vast armament which is preparing to land in Natal had reached its destination. . - Unless the prevailing understanding of Boer character is wholly at fault, the predictions indulged in by English rep resentatives that the - recent victory at Glencoe win put a substantial end to the resistance are wholly unfounded. In all previous engagements with the Brit ish, the Boers had come off successfully. • It is not at all likely that the recent reverse will have the result anticipated. These people did not enter upon this contest looking forward to a series of victories. On the contrary all their dec larations showed that they had in view possible experiences such as that which has just befallen them. Trie war will go on to the end. The end will not be reached until the forces now under supreme command of Gen. Joubert are practically destroyed. ANo one believes that this end can be ac complished at least before the landing of the army corps 0f^24,000 men. which is on the point of transshipment to : South Africa. How long after the accomplish ment of this result the end will be reach ed remains yet to be seen. Confronted by a force of 47,000 men, with artillery and ordinance, in equipment and skill vastly superior to that of . their opponents,: the Boer's will do serious damage to the Brit-" ish army before the end has been reach ed. Indeed, nothing,.y short \of the dec* imation of the Free State, and Transvaal •■■■:■: ' S 'i ";'a' ''-i*V-. -.--"i^f-»•-:*-r.V--''" • forces will result in handing over South Africa to - the "absolute* control of the Imperial government, unless 'In the in terval other nations shall either- peace fully or" by force intervene. I There is nothing extraordinary about the apparent inferiority in equipment and military skill of the native forces to those who confront them. It could not well be otherwise. In the artillery arm of the service the Boers can never hope to show their ability to cope with the British. That arm of the Boer force has been hastily gathered together, and does not include anything like. the : perfected sys tem which is at the disposal of their enemies. Doubtless a few more general engagements with results -such as that which followed at "Glencoe will resolve the contest into something of a scattered warfare. Even the most ardent lovers of peace who sympathize with the Boers in their present struggle will hope that they may give the best possible account of themselves before they have been over whelmed by the vastly superior '■- force of the enemy. - , a. - THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL. It is more than -likely that the : great American novel, the long expected, will be a delineation of life as it is found in the industrial centers of the United States. The mighty middle class, the working people, is infinitely more Inter esting than is cultured wealth or loath some poverty. Lazarus in the gutter, and Dives among his coffers, are accord ed that fleeting interest which always attaches to the isolated, the. morbidly ex treme; but the busy wealth creators of the world have a life too varied, too in tense, not to be fraught with great hu man interest. ..< Compared to the other sections of the United States, the Middle West—particu larly the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois—has produced little of a characteristic literature. Right here in St Paul there is a wide field teeming with rich material for,' the novelist, and themes for stories stand awaiting the coming of the artist who shall possess the skill to draw them. There could scarcely be more i, pic turesque surroundings for .a thrilling drama than these environments of the upper Mississippi with that undercurrent of wondrous, changeful life which, has come with the growth of the city. ' The coming writer must be one who has grown up amid the charm of these' surroundings, and his merit will lie in ability- to make the reader feel his love for the • city of his birth. . .7" -; : Minneapolis, with the . distinctive ' life that attaches to . her great saw mills and; flour mills, does not lack in suggestions for the writer. Further -north,'; there is the history of the lumbering region about Minnesota's lakes, -a - history -^ which has furnished the; basis for a few superficial tHB -'ST.- PAUI, GI/OBE, StJNDAY, sketches, but whose inner heart has not been expressed. - -;• * Yet the day cannot be far distant when the native writer will cease striving to mold his attempts upon the 'works of the masters of • the past, and will open his eyes to the grand vistas of unwritten lore before him, allowing nature' and life to show him the way. m ■ A BRACE OP SULTANS. And now the sultan of Turkey has his troubles with no convenient policeman at band to , communicate with. Judging from what he lias recently done the sick man of the East must have recently suf fered a fearful attack of dyspepsia. Else why should he have caused several of the ladies of his commodious and lux uriously appointed harem, to be drowned in ■ the Bosphorus? Tied up In weighted sacks and dropped from the harem's walls into the briny deep I The raison d'etat for this melancholy and tragical occurrence appears to be as follows: There .'a .in the domain of the sultan a political organization known aa trie Young Turk party. Of late the mem bers of it have been indulging in a con spiracy and cutting up high jinks en rather an elaborate scale. In . the midst of these . demonstrations . the discovery was made that a number of ladles of the harem had become compromised in these petty revolts and . had materially assisted the Young Turk party in its iniquitous machinations' To ' drown a number of erstwhile harem .favorites., in the Bos phorus has for several centuries been a fad with various sultans.' Of course, we cannot reasonably expect that Abdul Hamid should prove an exception, to the weaknesses of his shady predecessors. Considered from both political and economical points of view, perhaps, on the whole the drastic measures of trie sultan may not appear so offensive to the concert of powers. As previously stated the slaughter of superfluous odal isques has continued for years in that locality, and with the almost single ex ception of Mr. Gladstone no prominent English statesman has elevated his voice against the practice. No voice from Germany has been raised in protest. Un til within the past eighteen months the United States has rather felt that we had all we could attend to on this side of the water in Jealously safeguarding the Mon roe doctrine. France had no time for the sultan, and the czar was ever a ready and fluent apologist for all such san guinary peccadillos of Abdul Hamid. The latter has always had women to drown, and he has continued to gratify his pen chant for this sport unawed and unmo lested. He has been In no immediate danger of retribution In the past. He Is in no danger at the present. The slaugh ter will continue so long as the Young Turk party can inveigle rash and. too confiding harem - habitues into schemes against the government. • It is Turkish law and custom, and who shall say the sultan nay, with Russia showing her teeth at every move toward interven tion? 7- .;-;7 7. ; '--' -.-7.V."7 But what of our own little 7x9 sultan, who has , lately crawled In under the folds of Old Glory? It-is true his haiem is not so numerously stocked as is that of Abdul Hamid. . Our sultan possesses, we are told, but thirty ; women. - He is not in a position to drown any of them for the evident reason that he really cannot spare them. It would be a great waste of raw material. But,' alas for poor hu man nature, it is prone to go astray, to fall by the wayside and to sadly err at the most unexpected occasions. What would Mr 7 McKinley do should a passion .for.wife drowning suddenly seize the sul tan of Sulu? Our executive could not brush the flagrancy aside. The deed would- brought home to him with ter rible import. Under the Stars and Stripes the crime of uxoricide is punishable with death. Would Mr. McKinley kill our sul tan? Or would he raise his salary? It is difficult, under existing circum stances, to speculate on this problem. We have seen so many lapses from the strict text of the constitution that any one guessing on the probability of Mr. Mc- Kinley's action in the premises would likely discover that he had another guess coming. For Mr. McKinley's sake It is to be sincerely hoped that the- sultan of Sulu will not kill any members of his harem. Nor any of his slaves. Our glorious flag-is now protecting these twin evils, and it would be a shame, a deep, deep shame to ask the Stars and Stripes to protect murder as well. No, our sultan should behave himself. He ls now-draw ing a salary of $10,000 per annum, and he cannot do better than hang on to his job. y But no drowning of women, no ux oricide. Mr. McKinley would, doubtless, draw the line, at that WHAT IT SHOULD LEAD TO. It would have been more grateful to Americans had the two remaining races between the American and the British yachts been sailed before the final 'res. of victory was achieved. As the Globe has contended from the outset,' there never was a possibility erf the sub stantial defeat «of the Columbia. Noth ing short of accident could* have resulted in sending the cup to England, but it would have been more exciting, as w.ll as more instructive, had the contest been fought to the end. ,_-..- The result of Friday's contest cou'd hardly have been more decisive. The con fidenca of the American sailors was'evi dent from the outset. With such a breeze and under such /circumstances, but one conclusion - could have been arrived at from" the result, and that conclusion has been fully and fairly -expressed by,; S r Thomas Lipton. -The Columbia is the su perior boat; more than that, the Columbia is as far superior to trie Shamrock as has ' any of the former successful American;, yachts been the 1 superior of its British competitor. ; A . ."'•■ We have looked in vain for some ex pression on the part of the writers in trie London daily pi ess which would tend to minimize the victory of the Columbia. That no . expression has appeared is .in itself - the ; highest testimony that ' could have been" offered of the completeness •of the American victory. In his address at the conclusion' of the races Sir Thomas Lipton i felt called upon to * say that he ; had succeeded ; in. demonstrating to the* satisfaction of the Eritlsh. public that an i English : yacht 'could come into' American waters, engage in such a contest as has Just taken place arid be treated with fair- ness. The condition' of .' English opinion with reference toy American • standards of honor which is involved in this declar ation of Sir Thomas Lipton's cannot very easily be overlook 3d or misunderstood. It involves the settled conviction' that Americans are ever prepared to go to dis honorable lengths -In the '■ accomplishment of their purpt '.."' All' the vlctoiies of American yachts >.-J for > forty-five years were, according to Sir Thomas Lipton's statement, -if airly {won, in the estima tion of our British cousins. Americans, of course, are too familiar with this line of opinion to regard it seriously in this case. We have left no doubt of Ameri can superiority both in seamanship and naval: architecture, and we are content as a people tl at the results shall remain as the only response to be given to such unsportsmanlike arid hostile opinion. The chief value of the recent v-Clory will never bo realized until American public sentiment has crystallized In a de mand,, which cannot be ignored, that the national authorities shall. take such s:ep3 in the immediate future as will give prac tical direction and scope to the genius of the American people as a seafaring race. All such victories must be barren of re sults until an American merchant marine is established competent to contest with England for the ocean-carrying trade of the world. The Impetus given to naval construction by the events of the recent Spanish var ls sufficiently strong to offer the full* st assurance that such a mer chant marine v hen established will have Ihe needed backing of a powerful Ameri can navy. 7 --_7 '"- THE LAWYER'S BAD NAME. There Is an old and very : familiar ad age about the inevitable consequences of giving a dog a bad name, The consa quences are always "*4Uite serious and ar© confined usually to trie dog. The adage is often given application to other, members of the animal kingdom as well. From time to time the public are treated to discourses concerning the true relation of the members of the legal profession toward society; and it is almost invariably the case .that all such discourses axe ad dressed to, if.not occasioned by, the .ac cepted application of trie* dog adage to the lawyer. The discourse Just delivered by a professor of law Jin the University of .Michigan on the subject -. as to whether the devotion to true' Christian principles is consistent with the successful practice of law as a profession is not an excep tion in this regard. A * ;- '_■<' Prof. Brewster opens the address, in question with these sentences: ; One but slightly familiar with litera ture Is able to recall - the many gloomy pictures : drawn Iby j poets ajrd the novel ists _of the ■ lawyer. Popular .. caricatures - have shown him as the sleek and pros perous rogue; playwrights , have depicted- him the villain of the ; stage. '" Such rep resentations have generally been received,; If not with open, commendation, at least with silent approval. V 7-? '... 't >.-: "' .A-^AK All this is no doubt" true. The traditions as to the acceptance of the, golden rule by the lawyer as the controlling principle of his conduct in or out of his profession are. certainly., not .at ; all ..favorable to the lawyer*. Yet It remains true that, even in the ; light. of the serious.interference of modern industrial -q progress with the profits of the lawyer," there is no . slacken ing of the onward march of enterprising youth up the steep heights of Judicial re nown. . ' ' *- . y ,7,, "" The American law school produces each successive year its generous crop of i law-, yers; and, while many fall by trie wayside, the calling still embraces a very fair pro-; portion of the keen and cunning among men.." f ,'.y..i.; "7r- 'A-'i -.-' ■--■ ;. ..-;••-7 A But ; why should the repute of the law yer be worse than that of . other men? May it not be due as much to the folly of the others as to ■ the : wisdom of _ the lawyer? The Christian virtues are not deemed essential to the successful pur suit of this calling." All the assurances which all the law professors"" In all the universities in the universe may offer to the world from now till 4 doomsday will not suffice to convince the world of the affirmative of this proposition. There is a story told of an interview be tween an English solicitor and Ills client, a British farmer, in which the farmer ask ed his lawyer to give him some . positive assurance as to the probable date of the termination of the litigation in which. he .was involved, declaring somewhat de spondently that he .was: reduced to his last shilling. The deep sympathy of the attorney for his client was " touchingly shown when the former exclaimed: "Your last shilling, eh? .You are to be congrat ulated, John, since.l : assure you that I have already reduced I your adversary to his last sixpence."-"..*'•'* ;-7*y ' -•■'■ The consequences A to s the lawyer "of a bad name are never as ; bad -as they are to the dog. The dog rarefy" survives. Tho lawyer rarely dies or goes to the poor house. . But the reputation sticks quite as close in the one case as in the other. Not even the most scrupulous regard for all the requirements of the decalogue on the part of the lawyer will, we fear, ever suffice to win for him the unquestioning homage of society..".' ■ - ~ . ;7s; '7 Aa ———-——-»-- —;——— GREAT Y. M. C. A. COURSE. ; The announcement made by the Young Men's Christian association of the reduc tion in the price of seats for its enter tainment coursp is very generally com mended by the public. 7 The effort of .-the association to furnish • a season's course of ten fine entertainments at a nominal expense to the people.is. certainly worthy of every, encouragement. The theory of placing the" price so low as to require : every seat ,to be sold in order to assure financial success is "worthy of trie spirit of enterprise which "has characterized . every movement of the board of directors : now managing the new association. The . committee of the board, Messrs. - Fred R. Blgelow, William J. Dean.and Arthur B. Driscoll, who have, the 'entertainment course in charge, are • sacrificing -. much time -and pains to permanently ; establish a course which will furnish the very, best talent to St. Paul people at prices within reach ;of the poorest citizen. When the association announced last year that it would furnish the people ; of. St.- Paul nearly fifty of the most eminent musi cians, - orators and entertainers; with re-_ served ? seats in'-theilPeWple's church for < from $2 to $2.50, many, predicted that It ■; could;not be done without loss of money. - This year theyy have , engaged ■'. a much :■::-' ' .••;- 7;::W \v \7 ;v7'. A .7. '" OCTOBER 22, 1899, larger galaxy - of the finest talent and offer nearly , 100 - great artists and - enter tainers with reserved seats at prices ranging from $1.25 to 52.50. " --.'. ,„ ■ . • Too much cannot be said in praise of the talent making up the course. It con tain* such famous singers ' as • Heinrlch" Meyre, of Berlin; Carl E. Dufft, now ac knowledged -to be the, leading oratorio basso of this country; Edward C. Towne, formerly leading tenor in Seldl's New York City Wagner ; Festivals, now of the Redpath Grand Concert company; E. E. Bullock, E. F.yWebber, Robert Bruce, B. G.. Willard,' of ; the Boston Temple "■■ Male Quartette; . Ragna Llnne, whose remark able soprano ;so delighted St. Paul when introduced a few seasons ago by trie Schubert club; Mary 1 Louise Clary, 'the superb contralto of the Theodore Thomas World's Fair Festivals, and Marion Titus, formerly soprano of the Boston Sym phony orchestra, now with the Redpath Grand Concert company. ' During " the series such well known violinists as Bernhard Llstemann, Adolph Rosen becker, Helen yon Fursch, and such great pianists as Sherwood, Frey and Kober will be introduced. The lectures have been carefully selected to cover the whole range of oratorical excellence, Including Dr. . James. Hedley, the exquisite humor ist; Hon. George R. Wendling, the king of statesmen orators; Rev. Russell H. Conwell,. who preaches each Sunday to the largest congregation in America at the People's Temple of Philadelphia, and Prof. John B. De Motte, .author, philos opher and sage. The popular entertain ers of the course will consist of Leland T. Powers, impersonator; El vie Everett Burnett, ■■'■ reciter; "Maro," the l wonder worker, and Clara Murray, the harpist of the Chicago Conservatory of Music. • iipi :— "_ HOW IT OPERATES. The scandals which of late have at tached to certain officers of the German army merely afford another Illustration of the inevitable results of militarism. With practically the entire able-bodied population -of a given state in arms, and controlled by ■' a comparatively few . men possessed of more or less absolute au thority, such results are inevitable. The form of life represented by these ruined gamblers is that of plain shiftlessness. They live their lives in a condition of servile laziness; they are mere parasites on the public substance. The fortunes and ambitions of thousands of their fel low creatures are daily within their con trol. Having no intelligent or active pur suit to engage them, time hangs heavily on their hands, and their rank alone pre vents the dissolute character of their Uvea from becoming notorious. . A recent : statement :of - the proportion in numbers which the officers of the several European armies bear to the enlisted men makes very clear the strongest influence which operates to maintain European militarism. Social ' caste is the controll ing force in the system. The privileges of aristocracy must apparently be upheld, and no opportunity. for general idleness for the worthless progeny of the priv ileged class seems to be -as valuable as that offered through the military estab lishment. . .-'. -7 -•• .-.-"-••*- '•- - - ••-•"''', " When such revelations as these are pos sible in the German army, what might not the conscience of the world be treat ed to could the inner facts be made known with reference to the military systems of the other countries? Poor, decrepit Spain enjoys the doubtful pre eminence of having a larger proportion of officers relatively to enlisted men, and a larger army relatively" to national wealth than any other nation of Europe, even including Italy. It is militarism which has brought such nations as Spain and Italy, Austria and France to their present wretched condition. The same force must operate in time in the same way with reference to the now mighty nations of England, Russia and Ger many. . :.' y The lesson of all this to the American republic is apparent. A large' and power ful class among us are Intent on hasten ing this people onward to a realization of conditions similar to those which pre vail among European peoples. The new departure towards foreign possessions and standing armies is merely an expres sion of the same disposition; to find op portunities for lives ~of idleness and worthlessness for those who would other wise play an active and honorable part in the productive life of the country —... ■.'■-•..-, How far we are destined' to go on. the road thus traveled by. European nations Will, -in a measure, be decided by the re sults of the national. elections of 1900. SALVE FOR A WOUXDED HEART. Five thousand dollars Is not an c x r bltant sum to recover in a suit.for-breach of promise, but In this case it will," doubt less, serve as an alleviating balm to the wounded heart of Miss Minnie > Thomas rneyer... Such was the amount awarded to her by a New York jury in her. su t for breach of 'promise against Alphonse dl Lehner. Miss Minnie Thomasmeyer wanted to -use $10,000 real badly,, but the jury strained 'the qualify of mercy down to trie lump sum of $5,000, which she wi 1 probably receive. This, however, leaves Miss Thomasmeyer but $4,400 net, as' she had, at different times,; during, nine long years of courtship by the assiduous, but faithless Alphonse, loaned $6 0 in : cold, decidedly cold cash. At the con clusion cf this strictly business . trans-: action Cupid Is supposed to have thrown up his job In this direction in disgust. The part in which Cupid did actually participate ' is/as , follows: At a plc:»lc in 1887 Alphonse and Minnie encountered each other and straightway became e.i amored. Each", year they, ' apparently, became more and more so,, and it was the cheering thought in the mind of Minn'e that this condition was likely to continue '- indefinitely. ■'■'• At odd spells --during '-'•- the billing and cooing -/pre ceirs.7 Alphonse would borrow various sums; of money: from the too confiding Minnie, and this continued until the amount - rose to '. the sum of $600 and the old man, Thomas meyer pere, "tumbled to the racket" and expelled the speculative "; Alphonse from the malson de: Thomasmeyer with consid erable force. - But- that same love that gives locksmiths. the merry ha! ha! man aged to circumvent the irate old man, and - "Minnie" and Alphonse continued to^mect^ secretly at the. home, of relatives. ; - Thus matters ■ stood . until 1896, :. when .at another fatal picnic Alphonse met and was ro-enamored of a coy and artless maiden named Mary Helwege. Speaking of hearts bowed down, Minnie, on learn ing of this, was attacked with a serious case of that melancholy indisposition. She called on the "other woman" and proved by oral and documentary tea l mony that she and Alphonse were en gaged to be married, and urged Mary to abjure Alphonse arid heroically tell ' h'm to go back to the woman who for nine years had loved him and paid his run ning expenses. This appeal was unavail ing. Mary couldn't hear Minnie. And -so- they were married, Alphonse and Mary, and with a great gulp of grief Minnie started for a law office with a fat retainer in her pocket and vengeance In her heart. -Alphonse never showed up in court. But he filed an answer In which he denied that he had ever promised to marry Minnie. At this the Indignant young lady identified one of his letters In which the false one had inadvertently and passionately written: V .._ . "I wonder how long I will have to wait before you.will be willing to marry me. L am sure you cannot complain of my inconstancy, and my aim has baen to make yoTi my wife. Surely you can trust your happiness in my keeping." Other testimony developed the fact that, at no time had Minnie been any more reluctant to tryst her happiness in his keeping than she had been to trust her money with him. There are few, If any, who will refrain from bestowing on the plaintiff the sym pathy to which she appears jus'ly en titled. That the verdict was a compro mise goes without saying. Some men don't believe in damages for breach of promise, anyway, and these men oftsn get on juries and queer the whole course of justice. A'phonse had the money, had married the .woman of his latest selec tion after nine leng years' contemplation of the subject of matrimony, and it was right that he should be made to "cough up," not only the $600 borrowed money, but nine thousand four hundred . other plunks as a slight compensation for the havoc he had wrought in''the. Thomas meyer household and in : the confiding heart of Minnie. Such are the simple annals of a breach of promise suit in a New York court cf justice. The Jury gave the fair plaintiff $5,000 and are, doubtless, glad of it So far as editorial comment has gone it has all be>_i-favorable, to Miss Minnie. ... - And now Mr. McKinley, in anticipation of soon having -a " live congress on his hands, is wearily working through the long watches of the night upon a mes sage that is expected to seeth and boll its way in house and senate like hot lead poured into ay tank of ice water. ' Con siderable heavily, censored news is also likely to be divulged in that document. It will certainly have to be if trie people are to obtain a clear idea of what has been going on 'in the ' Philippines under Falstaff Otis. Having shucked out 10,000 "immunes" from the civil service rolls, Mr. McKinley is now said to favor . a new cabinet de partment to be known as the department of commerce. - But what if there is such, a subdivision of official duties that could ' not be accomplished by the joint efforts of the secretaries of ' the treasury, in terior and agriculture? What, in fact could be done outside of nominating sev eral more place hunters to office? - "Slavery," -says Prof. Schurman, "is a recognized institution among the Sulus. If we were to take it away mere is no telling what would; happen.''. We took it away " from the South, and we know what "happened. 7: Everything happened for the best. Prof. i Schurman appears to have got his oratorical wires crossed. Somehow a great many things are be ing done nowadays in different quarters of the globe which increase our respect for the Goths, Vandals and other ancient and ; cruel barbarians. The main t. oub c with these latter-day atrocities is that they are perpetrated under the hyp 30. id eal name of "benevolence." ■' .'• ' ■' . "Emperor William's skipper," says tha Chicago Times-Herald, "who came - over to help Sir Thomas win ..the cup, will hardly lecture about it when ha g-ts back." Can it be possible that we have beaten England and Germany both? ; For the city council of Memphis, Te..*n., a man by the name of Rumpus is a can didate. The laws against disorderly conduct would hardly seem to ' coun. tenance raising a rumpus in the coun cil. -'' . -- ,''•-* There seems to be no way to make up a presidential ticket of Bourke Cockran and the New York Journal. The former is anti-expansion and pro-trust, and the latter expansion and anti-trust Henri Rochefort, the v editor of Paris L'lntransigent, has fought 210 duels.. Editor Rochefort must have dead oodles of honor—almost as much as the average Spaniard. ■ ■.■•»- . '•'-., Mr. McKinley seems to be laboring un der a severe attack of indecision.- He doesn't really seem to know whether he, congress or . the people is the "whole cheese." -- - /*■;."•. t It is •strange, but true, that the two most enlightened nations on earth— land and the United. States— engaged in wars, and both fought, not on justice, but greed. Milk has gone to 7 cents a quart in Chi-, cago. It is only a question -of a short time when Chicago will have to take its milk punches without the milk. Mr McKinley advances the Idea that Providence ; has put tho Philippines into our lap, but a wild cat could hardly be more restless and irritating. . . . A Chicago committee is,making active preparations for a Dewey parade, and all that will be necessary.to make the affair a success will be the presence of Dewey. ~ The Hague peace conference and Mr. McKinley's international bimetallic com mission will :go down in history as two prominent examples of ineptitude. - .-" Uncle Sam has lately been : getting, out some new bank bills. It Is noticeable that the last batch are rather more useful than, ornamental.- .-'. .■'■"■ i In • Ohio Mark • Hanna has been . driven to the dernier ressort of making speeches' ! personally. .■ ■ -• - .'.! -Be careful now. The Boers' laager Is, '.neither a stein nor a schnitt, but a* camp __-- ■ ________ : " '■'{ Sir Thomas' Lipton's ■ disappolntm:. Nt lis ; probably not so great as would : have, j ' '*'''7-"'^'7 7i'v^7' \--* '•• ■■ "'■•'"■f been had he never seen trie ungainly big pitcher miscalled a "cap." London now has women barbers. The bearded man will like as not become extlnot in the British metropolis. J Should Mr. Quay fall of being seated in the United States senate no one would bo more surprised than Mr. Quay. The ; Cook County Democratic March ing club appears to be an organization that rides in Pullman cars. Mr. Goebel's election may be assured, but the pronunciation of his name is still a matter of doubt. .■ * Now, ,if ever, it behooves Oom Paul to sing another hymn and read another text. r. '^-» : [TiEroTcoßS ][ (FOR HEN ONLY.) The sultan of Turkey doe? not bother himself about the new woman; he does not ask women whether they want to vote, or what they think about evolu tion. He is an old-fashioned man with conservative ideas, .and when women get too numerous around the palace he just drops a few Into the river end goes on as If nothing had happened. There is no woman question In Turkey, the sultan is the whole thing and woman la not ad vanced. Would that wo were all sultans and could drown our troubles. . The first thing an American sultan would do would be to drown Charlotte Perkins Stetson, who gets so in the way and talks and talks and talks, and never says anything. Mr. Roberts, who is trying to break into congress, must be a very unhappy man, and certainly he has trouble enough. He has three wives. Mr. Roberts is dis tinguished because he has all his wives at once instead of on the tandem system, like the other congressmen. He Is awful ly bothered, as he does not know which wife to take to Washington. Mr. Wu, the Chinese minister, took his prettiest wife, and there was no row. But the women all over the country are making such a- fuss about Roberts that he is worried to death; he Is so worried that he is employing detectives to see how many wives trie other congressmen have got in Washington, and when the trouble real ly Is about to begin It may not amount to anything. A man with three wives ought to know a thing or two by this time and have cut his eye teeth if he is ever going to. Roberts has discovered that he is not the only pebble on the beach and he majp take his seat surrounded by his loving wives and amid profound silence. Mrs. Mary B*.k-»r Eddy is the best busi ness woman of this or any other country. She does nothing by halves, and some men could learn a lesson from her. She does not say. she has a special revelation or anything so ordinary as that Oh, no; she says she is the feminine manifestation of God prophesied in the Scriptures, and she has come to finish the incomplete mis sion of Christ. Nobody but a new woman of this end of the century would have thought of that. Mrs. Eddy- is certainly the best In a century of good things. She Is the chief cook and bottlewasher of the champion fake which announces that all is God, God is all, God is gcod, .good God! In her Key" to the Scriptures, which a local writer says is more like a jimmy, as It is made to fit where a key would not, she tells suffering humanity how to live a la Eddy, and how to get along without doctors. A Mrs. Woodbury re cently said real mean things of Mrs. Ed dy in print, and the latter, who always speaks in parables, likened Mrs. Wood bury to some unpleasant beast that is spoken of in Revelations. So the fur flies and a slander... suit .is the . result. However, as long. as. the ''main point of Mis. Eddy's efforts, the sale of her pho tographs ~ and souvenir spoons, is not interfered with, Mrs. Eddy does not mind a little thing like a slander suit. It must be rather satisfactory to the elder sister and adviser of God. She claims that she was predicted from the beginning. to ap pear in this age; that's the reason that we speak of the good old days. After one good look at the faces • of .the heal ers most of the masculine Christian sci entists prefer absent treatment. .'. A storm in Austria,'; during which a He brew said God destroyed! all the Chris tians and saved the Jews. Mark Twain said- was the worst case of nepotism he had ever seen. -. -• • • • This Is the time of year when women, put up-thingsjellies. jams and nlck'es. Hubby has to put up for them, and I-*er with them, but woman pu's them up. But as man has to cover the outer woman, she does what she can for the lnn°r man. What women can't put up. from job"* to jams, and jellies to jamborees, is not easily done. Man com-s too often under the head of things easily done. » *. * There Is a movement .on foot to do away with man's choosing and asking j some woman to be his wife and giving the privilige of proposing to women. This of course began with the fed<-ra*ion r clubs, but we" can so" the fine Italian hand of the civic league in this There was a star chamber meeting at St. ! Cloud the other day and it was srpp-if-ed I that this new measure was discus el. I No wonder the men In Chicago are tak- I Ing to chamber work.. Rouse vouTe'ves, ■ brothers, this Is an insidious danger and ] threatens life, .liberty. and the pursuit i of happiness guaranteed "to ev^ry man J In this'great and glorious renubllc. T'n ; der the new; arrangement there would, p of course, be more proposing than there ;is now. But it won't do a thing to us. I There is a prize offered, by th? Divorce ! club, of San Francisco, to the firs + man j who'says no. But ito'a .-"tot to stick to It i and not be bullied. Everything Is tv ned | unside down these days and we will ha "glad to get to our heavenly home, where | there is. neither marrying nor giving In . j marriage. Oh, for the good old dars i when women cooked and took care cf th« j children, and didn't know much, and j men stayed out nights and nobody asked { them where they had. been. Oh. the good old days, the pood old days. • • * A Protestant orator got an awful sur- prise the other . day when he lectured I to a crowd of the people on the Blh'e. j "Which will you have." he cried, "the ; Douay. or the King* James version?" j "Dewey, Dewey, Dewey, every time.*' I shouted the crowd, and the lecturer Ii I still wondering what struck him. , A man-somewhere Is being tried for murder because he did not call a ohy sician for his child, and. let the Chris tian Scientists pray over it. Just as if a "man had not a. right to do what ho pleases .with his own child. The doc tors have got a pretty good thing now. but if they" Can' fix things up with the . authorities so that every mantis arrested , whose relatives" die - without 1 their, assist ance they will" have jj nothing less than a cinch. • This. Is what we call con-sump tuary legislation. - ■• "'.-'V'"--.* A? ■y ;■:,•;-.;. - '-•••,• • • There.is; administer in St. Paul who is making : a study 'of the different plays that come to trie two theaters here, so he can" know Just exactly how much temptation there Is in them for his peo ple. ,- y He goes to everything that.come?, and while *it" is Very hard on him he bears' up pretty well. The leggier the drama the more he makes it a point to be present, so 4he can study real con ditions, ' conditions that are not too much covered up. _-He thinks that ':ministers ought . to-know about things and , see; what there Is in all this talk' about realism. That's the way ministers ought to do. They ought to see.where their people. are, and see what they' see.' A' Face things and;;' not . clcse | their >eyes' ~to .' every-day .'," facts, and so' .we commend '. this minister; for. his cpu: se :and admire him for his stand. We un derstand' that "A Stranger in New York" was the sorest trial of this duty Mint he •does so bravely.; ! 7 — Re^g'e.