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WEATHEE FOE TODAY.
Minnesota—Fa4r, with cold wave Sun
day; brisk northwesterly winds; Monday
fair and continued cold.
North Dakota—Fair Sunday, with tem
perature below zero; brisk northwesterly
winds; Monday fair with rising tempera
ture.
South Dakota—Fair Sunday, with tem
perature below zero; brisk northwesterly
winds; Monday fair with rising tempera
ture.
Montana—Fair Sunday; fair and warm
er Monday; variable winds.
lowa —Fair, with cold wave Sunday;
brisk northwesterly winds; Monday fair
and continued cold.
Wisconsin—Fair, with cold wave Sun
day; high northwesterly winds; Monday
fair and very cold.
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
Lowest temperature 3
Average temperature 11
Daily range 1'
Barometer 30.00
Humidity 96
Precipitation 05
7 p. m., temperature 3
7 p. m., wind, northwest; weather, cloudy.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
*BpmHlgfh *BpmHigh
Bismarck .... 8 16 Montreal 8 8
Buffalo 22 24 New Y0rk....26 28
Boston 22 28 Omaha 10 22
Cheyenne ....12 16 Philadelphia .28 30
Chicago 28 34 Pittsburg ....26 26
Cincinnati ...36 SS'Pueblo 28 36
Cleveland ....26 26 3. Francisco..4B 60
Denver 24 28 St. Louis 40 48
Duluth 0 18! Salt Lake 38 42
Jlelena 10 16|S. St. Marie..2o 22
Jacksonville .48 54; Winnipeg .... 6 12
Marquette ...18 20]
•Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul).
SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1900.
NATIONALITY VS. IMPERIALISM.
One of the most momentous, as It is
one of the most remarkable, features of
international concerns today is the one
that, while the great powers of the world,
as represented by the'.r government?, are
intent on schemes of imperialism, the
spirit of nationality is perhaps more self
assertive than it has ever been, at least
eince the era of more or less abortive rev
olutions marked by the year IS4S.
The African Dutch withstand the im
perialist policies of Britain with a meas
ure of heroism whicn to many minds re
calls the glories of Marathon. The people
of Cuba stand on the threshold of nation
al existence. Ireland still remains unrec
onciled. The Tagal natives of tha island
of Luzon have struggled on for many
months in the assertioruof a determina
tion that their inchoate nationality shall
not be swallowed up in the vortex of
American democracy. While the cabinets,
of Continental Europe look with doubt
and greed to the day which many of them
regard as inevitable when the polyglot
empire of Austria will break in pieces
and its shattered fragments become the
objects of a new territorial scramble, the
distinctive Austrian, the Bohemian anl
the Magyar populations were never mo:e
insistent than today for the recognition
of their respective rights of nationality.
Even poor Poland and her children dream
etill the dream of Polish freedom. The
revival of the Celtic literature and lan
guage, which, until within the past dec
ade, might be thought never to hare
reached the dignity of aught more tlian
a literary fad, has spread itself to even
the mountains of Wales and the high
lands of Scotland.
Whatever these -various movements may
avail, the spirit which underlies them is
the same spirit which has found expres
sion among every people who have play
ed a conspicuous part in the world's his
tory—the spirit of individual liberty find
ing expression through the demand for
national autonomy.
Nothing short of the establishment of
peace as the arbiter of international dls
putey can ever prevent the clash of rival
forces presented by the Slavic and Ger
manic influences. Today England has
aroused the hostility of every nation in
Europe. German sentiment toward her
is being suppressed by the strong hand
of the emperor, France makes no pretense
of her bitter ill-will; while Russian
statesmen see, or affect to see, In every
stroke of British policy a determined pur
pose to dominate the commercial anrt po
. litical interests of the entire world as
completely as ever Rome so dominated in
the strongest days of the Caesars.
Those who abide by the old theory of
the right of national liberty will have but
little freedom of choice among the vari
ous forms of Imperialism now finding
euch powerful assertion, and of which our
own attempt in the Philippines is but an
Ignoble imitation. Aside from mere na
tional fragments of Europe represented
• by the weaker nations, and the southern
half of this continent, five great nations
. control the world among them. Disre
garding the Arrierlcan, the French, the
Germanic, the British and the Slavic
races, the rest are but of little moment.
It is the era of concentration. In national
as in industrial life;, and with the tenden
cy toward absorption continuing undis
turbed in national concerns, it may not ba
bo remote as it appears when the final
Struggle will come.
It is not toward the millennium that all
this tends. Its way is not toward the
Universal Brotherhood of Man, nor even
toward the Federation of Nations of
Which poets have sung. It is simply the
assertion of the power of subjugation,
and in Its ultimate results promises as
little for individual or national freedom
as does the same tendency in industrial
concerns favor economic liberty or social
content.
It is hard to understand why so many
people waste their time trying to find
the North pole when Medicine Hat Is
so much ijearer.
COMMON LAW MARRIAGES.
In the apparently fruitless effort to se
cure some substantial amendment of our.
Infamous divorce legislation, It is worthy
of note that the state of New York,
whose record In this direction Is compar
atively clean and wholesome, Is now pro
ceeding: to wipe out the only stain which
has rested on its good name growing
out of the existing provisions of its mar
riage laws. —
A measure Is now pending before the
legislature of New York, and Is certain
of adoption, putting an end to the so
called common law marriages. These
marriages, which, paradoxically enough,
are not common law marriages at all,
are created by mutual consent and co
habitation. Any two people agreeing to
live and be recognized as husband and
wife are legally married In New York.
This Is not a rule of the common law,
but is the result of an adjudication of
the famous Chancellor Kent, whose de
cision that no ceremony was essential to
the formation of a lawful marriage has
remained for many years embodied in the
law and public policy of the state.
Everybody who knows anything at all
on the subject knows how so-called com
mon law marriages have come to be re
garded. But only those who have had ex
perience or have studied the subject to
some extent understand the public and
prlvaite wrong which is involved in the
recognition of such relationships. The poli
cy of the law is to facilitate marriage in
every way and not to insist upon rigid
proof of the existence of the marriage
relation unless the question of marriage
Is directly at Issue. But the operation of
this condition of the law of marriage in
New York has wrought untold mischief,
public and private, and has acted as a
mask for open depravity.
Cases have time and again appeared in
court, where it has been shown that wom
en have lived for numbers of years with
and borne children to men whom they
have always believed their husbands and
who have held them out as such, only to
find when it suited the ultimate purposes
of the supposed husbands to repudiate the
relationship, that they could be cast dis
honored and unprotected upon the world.
On the other hand, the so-called common
law marriage has operated very profita
bly to women of the adventuress type,
who have the faculty of turning up after
the death of prominent persons In the
character of sorrowing widows.
There are three or four other states in
the Union in which the common law mar
riage is recognized. It has brought dis
credit on every commonwealth in which it
prevails. It is the complement of a vi
cious divorce system. When maxriage
may be entered upon lightly and without
any formality whatever, and the law of
divorce is equally lax, as is the case in
South Dakota, for instance, the result
inevitably sets a premium on public and
private immorality. While this condition
has prevailed with reference to the law of
marriage in New York, the law of di
vorce has happily represented the other
extreme of public policy, there being
but one ground of absolute divorce rec
ognized in that state. With common law
marriage done away with in New York,
the state will take its place as the one
American commonwealth outside the
South in which marriage in its creation
and dissolution is treated with the sa
credness which becomes a society that is
something more than Christian merely in
name.
A POINTLESS LAUGH.
It is a serious public misfortune that
the recent address of Mr. Andrew Car
negie on "Stepping Stones to Success"
has not been more fully reported. The
portions of it which have found their
way into the press have just been- suf
ficient to enable a few addle-headed pro»
fessional funny men In the newspaper
calling to prove the poverty of their
wits.
The expression used during the delivery
of the address in question is that poverty
is often a blessed heritage for the young
man starting out in life. This It is
which has furnished the text for the
humorists, and this it is which is not
unlikely to operate to pervert the splen
did spirit of the address of Mr. Carnegie
Into channels which will withdraw se
riously from its possible effect. Here 13
the passage which embraced the whole
some idea which Mr. Carnegie had in
mind:
"Before I had any stepping stones I had
the most magnificent foundation for them.
I was born to the blessed heritage of pov
erty. I hope I speak to poor young men.
I hope the burden of riches has not been
laid upon any of you at your time of life.
When it is laid upon a young man, and,
notwithstanding all its great temptations,
he acts his part well, he is entitled to
double honor. Ho is ths very salt of the
earth."
What there is in all this to laugh at
it requires the buffoon rather than the
humorist to distinguish. Day by day
the i«ws agencies relate the story of
the pitiful downfall of some young man
or other whose father or grandfather
had eaten out his heart in the miserable
effort to accumulate wealth. He may
at times have thought that he was lay-
Ing up curses for his descendants, but
as a rule all such accumulations have
behind them the honorable disposition
to provide against want for those who
might bear the accumulator's name.
While we know of the many cases where
the sons of rich men have gone to de
struction because they have not known
the blessed heritage of poverty, we know
but little of the thousands of cases of
misspent and misdirected energies
revealing otherwise promising young men
in the positions of social drones, who, had
they not had their bread buttered ok
both sides from the first day they could
eat of it, might have developed health
ful ambitions and have been useful mem
bers of society.
A well known current writer, Max
O'Rell, sees, through the yellow press
In New York, something infinitely funny
in Mr. Carnegie's suggestion, notwith
standing that a recent number of the
North American Review contained a
charming article from his pen presenting
the other side of the picture and setting
forth the delights of a healthful poverty,
all of which merely proves that Max
O'Rell, as he calls himself, ought to be
practicing his new profession- of Journal
ism in the French capital. His case
furnishes a test of the quality of the
THE ST. PAUI/ GkOBE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1900,
laughter which Mr. Carnegie has
evoked.
It is earnestly to be hoped that Mr.
Carnegie will furnish much more of this
kind of gospel to make the wits laugh.
There are those who possess less imag
ination who may choose to take it se»
riously, as is their right. It would be a
blessing for the American people if they
would take It seriously. There would
be less of the devil of greed and more
of the angel of high Ideals among other
men In American social life could it
be so.
. •
■WHAT THEY DO.
Self-contained and sensibfe folks are all
disposed to laugh more or less heartily at
the Salvation Army and its grotesque
street parades. The most charitable view
which prevails among good people re
garding the soldiers in their forbidding
uniforms and the sisters In their poke
bonnets Is that they are mistaken en
thusiasts on the verge of» religious frenzy,
or so many partial outcasts who choose
this line of activity In order to find an
outlet for an Inherited taint of vagrancy.
Even among the submerged tenth they
find but little toleration. Yet their work
represents self-abnegation in an extreme
degree, and if effective at all Is so In
directions In which organized charity is
of but little avail.
Take the salvage brigade, as an Illus
tration of what these devoted people do
or try to do. Such a brigade has been
In operation In different cities In the
country for some few years past, and is
well known In English cities. There is no
reason In the world why its institution
should be called a brigade, save alone
that the body under whose guidance it is
maintained is called an army. It Is really
nothing more than a depot maintained In
the slums of a city, where homeless and
indigent men are lodged and fed while
they carry on some crude industry or
other, founded by the army, such, for
instance, as the collection of scraps of
iron, old clothes, papers, etc. Here these
unfortunate men are boarded and lodged
until, through the agency of the army
labor bureau, employment of some kind
is found for them. Many a poor wretch
who finds the doors of decent people
apparently forever closed upon him gets
here the aid which perhaps he has not
strength of will enough to avail himself
of for his salvation, or which may lift
him to whatever social plane he may
have occupied before he became the vic
tim of strong drink or yielded to the
demoralizing effects of misfortune or
disease.
Thus it is that poverty which is appar
ently chronic is possible of being reached
and if not removed at least alleviated.
This is the class of society of which the
Rev. Washington Gladden recently wrote:
"My contention is that there are con
siderable portions of the class that is
sinking Into penury which must be sep
arated from society, and forcibly -detain
ed in places where they will be compelled
to work and trained for self-support and
usefulness. In farm-colonies and reform
atories, from which the penal element
shall be as far as poss'.ble eliminated,
but which shall rather partake of the
character of social hospitals, in which
the inmates shall be put under a treat
ment that shall wake up their manhood,
and stimulate their ambition, and disci
pline their powers of body and mind, a
certain percentage of those who have
come to be chronic dependents will have
to be treated."
While society Is slowly getting around
to establishing such places of refuge and
rescue the work remains undone, save
by the devoted followers of Booth. They
do not always do their work well or
wisely; but they do as best they can, and
at least they essay to do that which Dr.
Gladden says each one of us ought to
undertake by assuming charge of at least
one or one family of such outcasts, which,
of course, we never do.
Here, after all. Is represented th©
gravest problem of urban poverty; and
those of us who do what we ought to
do in relieving ordinary want can afford
a word of admiration and encouragement
for the humble men and women of the
Salvation Army who go down Into the
hotbeds of vice and crime in a fond en
deavor to lift their fellow creatures out
of the mire of their own 'helplessness and
sin.
•»-
JOHN RUSKIW.
The passing away of John Ruskin has
received but little thought the world
which' he struggled ao hard to make
better and more beautiful to live In. He
gave freely to the world of the best prod
ucts of his genius, and the world had for
gotten him even before he reached the
grave.
How large a figure he presented on the
stage of intellectual and artistic effort
only the older members of our genera
tion know anything of. Much of his teach
ing In art, as well as in aesthetics, has
been declared fallacious. Indeed, there
is little of his, outside his works on
architecture, which has -succeeded in re
ceiving the approval of the thought of
his time. On labor, as well as on art,
however high his ideals, their very grand
eur placed them beyond the acceptance
of a world more Intent on the conserva
tion of that which is, than in specula
tion on that which should be.
Ruskin's teachings may be repudiated
as they will by modem thought; but
Ruskin's Influence on the world will re
main forever far greater for all that
work 3 toward the spiritual elevation of
the race than perhaps that of any man
of his time. He was a poet who wrote
In prose, and his prose-poetry will live
far longer than much of the fine jing
ling versifications of his contemporary,
the poet of opportunism, Lord Tenny
son. He remained plain John Ruskin,
the son of the London merchant, to the
end. He wrote nor thought according
to measure, nor set his music to the
royalist's ear, or the worldling's ear, and
his place among the immortals will never
be any higher, according to the world's
view, than his genius will command for
him.
Some one has said that many genera
lions will have passed before the genius
of John Ruskin will be understood or
recognized. Certainly he was something
of an exotic to the clime and the time in
which he wrote. But that he exerted
measurable influence In lifting up aes
thetic and artistic standards and in
sinking more to its level the element of
the sordid and unworthy in human na
ture will not be denied, even by the pres
ent generation, grudging as it has al
ways been toward him.
Ruskin cared as little for what the
world thought of his writings aa for
what It cared on any other subject
whatever. However we hold his opin
ions, there Is that within the covers of
his books that muat forever appeal to
the sense of tha sublime. No man who
reads his "ForsvClavigera," being- a se
ries of monthly lexers to workmen, but
will see In John, Ruskin something far
more grand than is revealed in anything
which he has ever thought of or written
concerning art or the aesthetlcal, grand
ly and beautifully as he has written of
these latter things. For It is true of
him that he loved humanity much more
than he loved mere beauty or color,
either hi nature or in art.
WHERE DO ifEPLBMCAXS STA?fD?
The St. Paul Dispatch has been good
enough to publish the following quotation
from the Gl ob c:
"They (referring to Republicans invited
to attend next Sunday's pro-Boer meet-
Ing) see that sympathy with the Boers,
If publicly expressed, might very easily
lead to anti-expansion and anti-imperi
alistic expressions of sympathy, and that
from one thing to the other is but a
step."
The Dispatch, in commenting upon the
Globe's statement, says: "That is ex
actly the reason, and it Is very kind and
courteous of the G I ob c to put It in such
a light."
The Globe begs to assure the Dis
patch that the statement above quoted
was kindly meant and courteously in
tended, as are indeed all the G 1 ob c's
utterances directed towards the regenera
tion of true American principles in the
Republican party. The Globe loves
while it chastens, and does not confine its
efforts for the elevation of public senti
ment to the Democratic party, where
they are less needed, but on proper occa
sions joyfully applies the rod to such
Republicans as may be saved from the
clutches of the Pecksnlffian mercenaries
who at present are misleading the Repub
lican party.
If there Is a Republican so bound by
the thraldom of partisanship that he
fears to express sympathy for the Boers
because such an expression might com
mit him to a similar expression of sym
pathy for the Filipinos, let him hug his
party chains and prostrate himself be
fore his masters, submitting his mental,
moral and physical powers to the domi
nation of those apostles of gross com
mercialism who at present dictate Re
publican policies and to whom such words
as justice, equality, liberty and freedom
are but a scorn and a jest.
To the Republican who places party
fealty before honor, religion and justice,
the statement in the Declaration of In
dependence that all men are created
equal—that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights,
and that among these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness—is absolute
ly meaningless. Their condition is that
of moral imbecility; and If the Declara
tion of Independence was revised by their
leaders and stated .that among the ina
lienable" rights of adherents oi the Re
publican party are life, liberty and the
pursuit of Fillpinosi they would welcome
it as a perfectly proper revision.
If, as the DißpatchA#s3er>ts.r Republican
ism today means jm^erlallsm, with its at
tendant mfiltarfcHtt"; expansion, with its
attendant wars-of conquest and aggres
sion, and the represslon v6f sympathy with
the Boers of South Africa in their strug-
gle against the power of Great Britain,
then it would be well for all Republicans
to read tti£ Declaration of Independence
.and view the present standing of their
party in the light of Its grand and simple
declarations. If the declaration of July
4, 1776, is not a dead letter, if there re
mains any virtue-in it, if it means any
thing to the American people of today—
and the Globe believes it means just
as much and is just as dear to the hearts
of the people a3 when John Hancock
signed it—then the reawakening of the
rank and file to the eternal truths therein
contained will lead to such a cleansing of
the Republican raarty as will once more
make it the party_, which Abraham Lin
coln esteemed it an honor to belong to
and to lead.
A sudden rise in the temperature of the
Atlantic ocean may ba accounted for by
the hot messages Count Castellane has
been sending to the editor of the Paris
Figaro.
It is fair to assume that LI Hung Chang
will emerge from the confusion at Pekin
with a complete ww .spring outfit of yel
low jackets and peacock feathers.
Connecticut preachers have started in
to purify the stage and hope to accom
plish it without the use of anything
Btronger than boraclc acid.
The New York court 3 have fixed a
value of 120,000 each on wives, but it Is
doubtful if Mr. Roberts will be able to
realize on his securities.
Webster Davis, when he thinks of the
figure he Is cutting in South Africa, must
Imagine he is looking at himself through
a high power telescope.
The United States cannot point tho
finger of scorn at England. Gen. Otis
has taken and retired from various
Spion Kops himself.
The Chicago Journal is responsible for
the wise remark that it is easy to make
money, but hard to pass it afterwards.
The Globe does not know who hold 3
the office-^* coroner at Ladysmith, but it
ought to be a paying job.
Cecil Rhodes yrould doubtless be glad
to leave his happy home at Kimberley
for almost any oile.: (1
The weather man wants It understood
he can turn out a rfeal article of winter
when he tries. _'■ ■■/ .
Oriental advices; say there is insurrec
tion at Hllo. Nothing is said about jack
and the game. , . ,
There are school teachers who have
switches which they do not use upon
small boys. ■? "-*
In the art of breaking bad news gently
the censor cannot! bqneounted a success.
A kop by any other name would prob
ably be just as hard to capture.
And, after all, Mr. Roberts, "there Is
no place like home."
The banana belt has moved South for
the winter.
AUvuys . Profitable.
Philadelphia Record.
The man who enters into business wants
everybody to know It. He realizes that
his success Is dependent upon the pub
licity that can be given to his venture.
Ho is anxious that the public shall know
how desirable It would be for them to
trade with him, and he soon discovers
that the only way to attract customers
is by advertising. It naturally follows
that If advertising be beneficial in the
beginning of a merchant's career it must
always prove profitable.
♦
fjk Warm Cornell
\< ... For Men 0n1y... i|
The way women will Jump at con
clusions and state supposition as fact
is enough to drive a man crazy. The
other night when Mr. Brown went homa
to dinner, his wife said:
"Oh, John, I am so worried about the
Smiths."
"What's the matter with them?" said
Brown; the Smiths lived across th©
street.
"Why, the doctor's buggy haa been
there all day, and now there's another
buggy there, so they must be having a
consultation. And Johnny ran out about
6 o'clock to the drug store, and came
back soon."
"But who's sick?" said Brown.
"Mrs. Smith is sick, of course, and Mr.
Smith came home from the office in a
great hurry just now. Oh, John, won't
you go over to inquire, and ask if there
is anything we can do?"
"Yes, I will; I'll go right away." And
he did, but when he came back he was
in an awful temper.
"The next time, Mrs. Brown, that you
make such a fool of me, I'll know it."
"Why, John, what in the world do you
mean? How Is Mrs. Smith?"
"Nothing the matter with her," growled
Brown. "I went there and when Smith
came to the door I tip-toed into the
house like an idiot, and asked if there
was anything I could do. Smith began
to laugh.
" 'Do for what?' he said.
" 'For your wife,' said I like a fool, 'I
hear she is very ill.'
" 'She's all right,' said he.
" 'And the doctors' buggies,' I began.
" 'Oh, those buggies belong to the men
who are putting in our new refriger
ator.' " Brown glared at Mrs. Brown,
who turned red. "So you didn't see the
doctors?"
'•Well, I saw the buggies and I sup
posed of course—"
"But you said they were doctors—and
you said Mrs. Smith was sick."
"Well, I supposed of course—"
Brown slammed the door and went out.
• ♦ »
A hotelkeeper in a small New York
town, who was also a member of the
volunteer fire department, wa3 recently
married in hi 3 hostelry, and neglected to
invite his associates in the department.
At the last moment he concluded he
ought to ask them, and, being too late t-j
send out invitations, he turned In a fire
alarm from the hotel, and when they all
came dashing up with the apparatus, ha
asked them in, and as soon as they re
covered from their wrath at the trick,
they complied.
• * •
Mrs. Toun is an enthusiastic member of
the Civic league, and when she came
home from the recent meeting at wh oh
licenses for dairymen were agitated she
made a mental resolve to get up early
the next morning and interview her milk
man, so she told the cook to call her
when he appeared. Mrs. Toun, who is a
young married woman, lives In a flat, and
the next day she conversed with the milk
purveyor through a speaking tube:
"Milkman," she called down the tube,
"are your cows tagged?"
"What, mum?" he bellow. ■ d.
"I say, are your cows tagged?"
' "I don't think they are, mum,"
■-"Well, I can't take milk from you any
more, milkman, I'm a member—"
"I don't understand what you mean,
mum," the milk gentleman shrieked.
"This is what I mean," sa'fl Mrs. Toun,
in a shrill falsetto down the tube, "I'm a
member of the Civic league, and we have
all promised the president not to take
milk from any cow that does not have a
tag round its neck, and—"
"I'm licensed," roared tha milkman.
"That's not enough," Mrs. Toun contin
ued. •'Your cows are not tagged, and I'll
have to get another—" but just then
something like a big D came up the tube
and Mrs. Toun shut it with a snap, and
went away with a conscious air of duty
done. The way the league is educating
women in municipal affairs is a great
help to everybody.
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AT THE FUNERAL.
Mrs. T.— That was real lace round her
neck. ■
Mrs. D.—Yes, and what a pity to bury
it.
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An authority upon chemistry was lec
turing -before a well known woman's
club, and illustrating his remarks with ex
periments. All went well until he paused
a moment and then said: "I'm very sorry;
but I must ask any of the ladies who
use face powder containing bismuth to
leave the room during this experiment,
as the gases I am about to set free have
a peculiar affinity for bismuth and turn
it purple."
Whereupon the entire audience, save
three courageous sisters, rose and fled
from the room.
• • •
From the New York Herald: Will the
gentleman who noticed the cruel earth
rise up and bump a lady in the head, as
she alighted from a Broadway car, please
address D. Herald. Object matrimony.
• • »
There is a report that some women have
gone into the business of raising mice—
what for was not stated. Generally it
takes a mouse to raise a woman—on to
the nearest chair.
• • *
A young man who is evidently a phil
osopher has written a long letter to an
Ohio paper, telling his fellow men how
to choose a wife. He Imparts a great deal
of information that was known to the
ancients, and then states that the final
test of a helpmate Is her fondness for
dogs. If she is kind to a dog she will
be good to her husband. This Is reason
ing by anology. This young man is so
wise that he could probably tell us what
the connection is between a reporter and
a cane.
• • •
LIFE ON THE HILL.
He (holding a pistol to her head)—
Your money quick-
She—Oh; please, sir, I haven't any.
He—None of that, give me your money.
g ne —oh; don't take my savings, I am
trying to buy a pair of diamond ear
rings to keep my family from starving.
He (his face softening)—l never rob
the deserving poor.
She—Oh, you are a gentleman!
He—Yes, but it is not generally known.
She—l will keep your terrible secret.
- He offered his arm and walked home
with her. Next week he called and now
the engagement is announced.
• * •
The Rev.. Mr. Shelden, of Kansas, is
going to run a Topeka paper for one week
the way that Christ would run it. We
can be reasonably sure that St. Paul will
be on the exchange list. —Reggie.
Elephants as Nurses.
Siamese women Intrust their children
to the care of elephants, who are careful
never to hurt the little creatures; and if
danger threatens the sagacious animal
will curl the child gently up in his trunk,
and swing it up and out of harm's way
upon its own broad back.
Uulacky Fuel.
The Icelanders will not burn ash for
firewood because of their curious super
stition that those who sit about such a
fire will become enemies.
V^S- Effort to Elect Senators By Popular Vote.
Bryan Is Said to Favor Befmont.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 27.—(Spe
cial.)—As predicted In the Washington
dispatches to this paper for the past two
months, there have been various at
tempts on the part of members In both
houses of the national congress to pass
a measure providing for the election of
senators by direct vote of the people.
The committee before which bills cf this
kind have been pending have reported
favorably, and unless some unexpected
opposition arises, they are likely to pass
cither one or both houses within the next
few months. There will be opposition to
them, without doubt, but this opposition
will come from men who have plenty of
money to further their political ambitions
and, therefore, are not anxious to permit
mere brilliant men than they, with less
money, to become members of the senat<j
in their places. Opposition of this kind
will always be forthcoming, and until
the United States congress provides
legislation to prevent the purchase ot
legislatures by millionaires, the scandals
which have made this congress notorious
will continue.
The Clark case In the United States
senate, while It has not been in any de
gree worse than others which have not
been investigated, has convinced the peo
ple that It Is not safe for legislatures to
choose senators, for the reason that
wholesale bribery can be carried on to
the detriment of the people of the sev
eral states and the United States at
large. The Clark case, having been airccl
very thoroughly in the senate committee
on privileges and elections, will, without
doubt, stir up men In both houses of con
gress who desjre honest elections. As be
fore stated bills without number are
pending for this purpose, and one or two
have been reported favorably, and If
they pass both houses of congress and
are sent to the president.the present chief
executive will not be impolitic enough to
veto them, and therefore a law of this
kind may be put upon the statute books
within the next few months.
Outside Indications do not point to any
legislation of great importance by which
lobbyists can make any great amount of
money. It is a fact, however, that a
larger lobby is now maintained in this
capital than has ever before been
known. The greater part of thirf paid
element of the so-called "third house" is
paid by foreigners who desire to prevent
the enactment of legislation which wIU
not bo beneficial to their interests. This
foreign lobby Is also maintained here in
order to prevent, or at least to modify
legislation which may bo enacted for the
government of the new possessions ac
quired by this government, ks the re
sult of the war with Spain. There
are domestic measures without number
looked after by the so-called members of
the "third house," but ■ they are not be
ing so well paid as has been the case in
former sessions. The lobby, however, a3
before staled, 13 a big one and anticipates
that something will develop within the
next few weeks winch will give them an
opportunity to earn the big fees for
which they are looking.
« • •
The vice presidential aspirations of
Joel P. Heatwole, representative from the
Third Minnesota district, are no longer
regarded as a huge joke. The mere fact
that Mr. Heatwole gained such a victory
over William R. Merriam, director of the
United States census, regarding the print
ing measure which was up a few days
ago, forces the Western people to recog
nize the fact that if a candidate for the
vice presidency Is to come from that
section Mr. Heatwole might be more ac
ceptable to the people of the country
than any other man yet mentioned west
of the Mississippi. The contest waged
in the lower house of congress against
Gov. Merriam, the present director of the
census, who desired the printing of his
bureau matter outside the government
printing office, has gained Heatwole a
standing, not only among printers In
every section of the Union, but has made
it possible for him to become one of the
strongest vote getters of the country, due
to the fact that the workingmen, pushed
on by the prlnters.will advocate his can
didacy before the next national Republi
can convention.
Heatwole is a modest man. His biog
raphy in the Congressional Directory
occupies less than four lines. This is the
smallest sketch of life, to date, of any
representative In the United States con
gress. ~* Representative Eddy is also mod
est, the history of his life being con
tained in four lines and a half.
This is what Mr. Heatwole has writ
ten for the Congressional Directory:
"Joel P. Heatwole, Republican, of
Northfleld, was born in Indiana Aug. 2,
1856; is a printer; was elected to the
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses, and
re-elected to the fifty-sixth congress, re
ceiving 19,271 votes, to 13,183 for C. G.
Hinds, Democrat, and 1,446 for J. R.
Lowe, Populist."
This sketch can at least be commended
for Its brevity.
ft * A
The latest Information from the Bryan
people is Vo the effect that his favorite
for the vice presidential nominee on the
Democratic ticket this year Is Oliver H.
P. Belmont. of New York. There is lit- _
tie definite information, however, at
hand whether Bryan, while being en
tertained in New York by Belmomt, as
sured that gentleman that he would be
glad to have him associate* with him on
the national ticket for 1900. John R. Mo-
McLean and his friends in this city have
not given up the idea that the proprietor
of the Cincinnati Enquirer Is yet in the
race. The prospects now seem to fore
shadow the selection of Belmont for
Bryan's running mate, with the bare i
possibility that McLean may go to the \
convention with enough strength to de
feat the New York man. Something
more positive regarding Bryan's inten
tions and the sentiment existing through
out the country regarding Bryan's as
sociate on the ticket this year will prob
ably be known when the national Demo
cratic committee meets In thla c!ty to
select the time and place for the next
national Democratic convention, and In
the meantime the friends of Belmont are
enthusiastic, and John R. McLean and
his followers are using every possible
endeavor to secure the honor of becom
ing Bryan's helpmate on the national
ticket this year.
The advocates of the "pure food bill"
will have their annual convention In
Washington, March 7. It is the purpose
of the advocates of the pure food meas
ures, just now pending in congress, to
endeavor to get some kind of legislation
through before the first session of the
Fifty-sixth congress takes a recess next
summer.
I have received from Alex J. Wedder
burn, corresponding secretary of the na
tional pure food and drug congress, a
communication announcing that this con
vention will be held in MSrch. In the
issuance of this call Secretary Wedder
burn, by direction of the executive com
mittee, makes the following announce
ment:
In compliance with the requirements of
the constitution of the National Pure
Food and Drug congress, the undersign
ed officers and executive committee here
by call a meeting of said congress to be
held in the city of Washington, begin
ning March 7, 1900, at 12 o'clock.
Your committee, in issuing this call,
would direct especial attention to the
fact that the National Pure Food and
Drug congress, through its authorized
committees and officers, has since the
last meeting of the congress used every
effort to secure the passage of the "pure
food bill," indorsed by the congress and
Introduced in the house of representa
tives by Hon. Marriott Brosius, of
Pennsylvania.
The same bill has also been introduced
In the senate by both Senator Hans
brough and Senator Allen. It Is believ
ed that, with a united effort all along
the line, the bill can be passed and a
national pure food law be enacted dur
ing the preserit session of congress, it
Is, therefore, greatly to be desired that
any interest entitled to representation in
the congress should be represented at the
third annual session.
• • •
The state department Is in receipt of
Important information from Sidney B.
Everett, the United States consul at
Batavla, in reference to the packing of
sugar in Java. The United States con
sul says:
I wish to call attention to the fact
that a new problem, and so far an un
solved one, is appearing In connection
with the sugar trade of this colony. It
is of special Interest to Americans, as in
the last two years at least seven-tenths
of the sugar crop of Java went to the
United States. It Is the question of
packing sugar.
At present sugar Is packed In cases
made of matted bamboo straw, and it
has been found to be the ideal packing,
far superior to the grass mats used for
Philippine sugar. Unfortunately, owing
to Improvident methods and neglect of
government supervision, the bamboo la
showing signs of giving out, and experts
predict that the time is not far distant
when it will be so scarce as to become
too expensive to use in packing sugar,
in view of the present small margin In
the profits of sugar planting.
In some districts there have been gov
ernment officials who had foresight
enough to compel the natives to plant
a new tree as soon as the old one was
cut down; but, unfortunately, such cases
were few and far between, with the re
sult that many districts of Java are now
almost entirely denuded of bamboo. Con
sequently the planters are casting round
for a material to take the place of bam
boo matting. So far nothing has -been
lound that will answer. Jute is unsuit
able.
A gentleman here who is largely inter
ested in sugar plantations, with whom I
was talking the other day, told me that
anyone w"ho could invent something sat
isfactory would make a fortune in Java
alone as his method would be at once
used by every planter. Inasmuch as the
sugar exports for last year were GSf>.s42
u ei £" 9> U *KCan r*ad».v be seen that
it may be worth some one's while to try
»J,f »an lnventor acquainted with sugar
? n o iM? r? enies set hls bram to work
ftir tL URar*i.T vould not necessarily do
for Java, as this sugar has a much long
er sea voyage to under-o. and must be
rruch more carefully protected
• * *
Under a recent date John P. Bray, our
consul general at Melbourne. Australia
transmits information regarding a wooi
sale at Geelor.^ of interest to wool grow
ers in this country. Mr. Bray was for
merly a resident of North Dakota, a
sheep-raising state. The state depart
mf£t says of Bray's report that:
Many American buyers w^re repre
sented at the Geelong sale and purchased
largely. Up to the date of the con
sul s writing 10.916 bales had been shipped
to the United States and it was antici
pated that the total shipments for the
season would aggregate 20.000 bales or
more than double those of last sea
son."
Information has been received here
that Great Britain is preparing to place
at its big naval station in the Bermudas
one of the largest floating dry docks yet
constructed and far greater in capacity
than that which is now at that point
and said to be the longest yet built.
The present dock, constructed in 1869
was towed across the Atlantic to Ire
land island, where the British dock
yard Is located, in four pieces and there
set together behind an enormous break
, water, which proteqts the entrance from-
; the heavy swells of th Q oqean. White
the present dock was found large enough
to accommodate the various classes of
yespels usually assigned to the North
American and We»t Indies station it was
lacking in capacity for battleships and
armoured cruisers of the Powerful type.
The importance of having a dock at
Bermuda in which any class and typa
of British warship can be taken has
recently been recognized by the naval
authorities and a contract was recently
let for constructing the new dock which
should be ready for operation in about
two years. There are few docks in the
world like that now at Bermuda, and
though thirty years old It is yet in a
fine state of preservation and will proba
bly serve useful purposes for years. The
Spanish dock at Havana that this gov
ernment bid on last autumn is of the
same general type, but far smaller.
There is now building at Baltimore a
steel floating dock, which.the navy is to
place at Algiers. La., the dimensions of
which will equal those of the new dock
now under construction abroad for Ber
muda, and which reports show will be
ready for use in one year.
To find room for Its big new basin at
Bermuda an immense dredge has been
sent out, and is now at work digging a
channel at a point near the present naval
station and farther Inland, so that ships
drawing thirty feet or more can readily
reach It. With the addition of this nsvf
dock Bermuda will become a far more
important outlying naval station of Great
Britain than any other she holds, per
haps with the exception of Malta. There
are now Immense shops at Bermuda for
executing all kinds of naval work, and
with a drydock capable of taking in the
largest war vessel the station will ex
ceed Halifax in point of naval rank.
Rear Admiral Hichborn, who seems to
hay« arrayed against him every member
of the naval expert board at present,
will soon declare himself as opposed to
the proposed coaling station system of
the navy, and especially against the es
tablishment of stations at Narragansett
bay and at some point on the Maine
coast, as recommended by Admiral Brad
ford and special boards wtiich have lately
been considering the question.
Two reports are now before the navy
department in which sites are recommend-
Ed to be selected at these two localities
for new coaling stations. Admiral Hich
born will give expression to his opinions
on the subject before the house naval
committee, where he Is expected to ap
pear soon by special request.
It is his belief that specially designed
colliers should be built, with a view of
coaling at sea. and he points to the suc
cess which has attended the recent ex
periments between the Massachusetts,
New York and a collier rigged with a
new coaling apparatus by which, while
steaming ahead, bunkers can be filled at
a rate of about forty tons an hour. Ad
miral Hichborn's theory is that better re
sults, however, can be obtained by the
collier towing the warship than in being
towed, as was the case in recent tests.
He holds that the coaling station idea Is
sufficiently meritorious In times of peace,
but in time of war it furnishes, he thinks,
a% additional point of attack by an enemy
against whom remote stations must ba
guarded.
The matter of transporting fuel to these
stations, he maintains, adds to the cost
of the naval establishment without any
adequate returns. Coal can be had in al
most any quarter of the globe in time
of peace, he says, and in time of war he
contends that the only system for recoal
ing ships will be that by means of the
collier. The latter vessels can, be so con
structed as to tow. Instead of being towed,
and, being equipped with towing ma
chines, they can handle large ships with
out danger of hawsers parting and other
accidents.
— J. S. Van Antwerp.
i^
Roman Theater I>lKO<rr«M-od.
At Benevento, a laTge Roman theater,
as large as the theaters of Pompey, and
of Marcellus, and better preserved, has
been discovered. The entrances, the am
bulatories, the lower tows of seats, the
stage and the orchestra are all perfect.'