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WEATHER FOR TODAY.
Minnesota—Generally fair Tuesday and
Wednesday; fresh west to north winds.
Wisconsin—Generally fair Tuesday and
IW'ednesday; fresh west to north winds.
lowa—Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wed-
Itesday; winds mostly northerly.
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pnow and colder in western portions
Tuesday; Wednesday generally fair; east
erly winds, becoming variable.
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enow ii:.i colder In western portions Tues
day; Wednesday generally fair; easterly
Winds, Ixvoming variable.
Montana- Fair in eastern, snow or rain
In northern portion Tuesday; colder in
eastern portion; Wednesday fair; variable
wimis.
ST. PAUL.
Yesterday's observations, taken by the
I nited States weather bureau. St. Paul,
P. K. Lyons observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night.
Barometer corrected for temperature
;mil elevation.
Highest temperature 36
Lowest temperature 27
Average temperature 22
Daily ran^e <j
Barometer 29.58
Humidity 85
Precipitation .02
7 p. m.. temperature '34
7 p. m., wind, northwest; weather, cloudy.
V EST E RDA V' S TEM PER AT URE&
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Battleford ...22 26IOhlcago ... 34 36
}:ismarok ....38 43JCincinnati ..38 46
Calgary 2>"> 30 Cleveland ....32 38
Puluth XS 40, Denver 64 68
Edmonton ...24 ?tsGalveston CO 32
Havre 46 48 Jacksonville .84 72
Helena 38 46 Montgomery .38 72
Huron 3i> 44 New Orleans.sß 66
Medicine Hat2B 22Now .York 32 36
l'r. Albert 28 SMjOmaha s<> "4
Qu'Appell« ..30 -^Philadelphia ".40 42
S. Current....4o 50 Plttsburg ..40 48
Willlstou. ....32 36iPueblo 70 72
Winnipeg ....34 36 S. Francisco.52 56
Boston 34 44 St. Louis 54 57
♦Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul).
TUESDAY. MARCH 27. 1900.
WHY NOT SOON Kill TOLAS LATER?
While the Imperialists In congress are
caucusing, the people of Puerto Rico are
starving. While the senate unites with
the house in handing to the people who
ask for bread a stone, the American peo
ple, as well as the people of Puerto Rico,
are demanding as urgently as they can
make their demands known that the col
onial policy shall come to an end.
Our attitude in Puerto Rico is the same
In principle as that of the most tyran
nous power that ever exercised or sought
to exercise political authority over an
other people. We declare them before
hand to be unfitted for self-government
We make our authority felt by imposing
taxes. We do this, too, on the heels of
the splendid response which the Ameri
can people made to the cry of want which
arose as the result of the devastation
caused a few months ago by the ele
ments. The only government which that
people ever knew wa have taken from
them, and we have set up as near an
approach as we might to a military oli
garchy. We do this against the advice
of each of the men whom we have sent
to the Island to represent the executive
authority of this nation. Gen. Guy V.
Henry, while acting governor, declared
in favor of the largest extension of po
litical autonomy to the Puerto Rlcans.
Gov. Gen. Davis today raises his voice
in unison with those of both peoples, de
manding justice. Starving women Jour
ney from the interior of the island to im
ploro American authority to do some
thing in aid of themselves and their peo
ple. The Puerto Rican representatives
at Washington unite in an appeal to the
American nation which is touching In its
pathos and eloquence. Charity they do
not want. They want to be embodied in
the citlsenshlp of the republic. They ask
that their willing adoption of our flag
shall not be met by the declaration that
they are mere national Pariahs. We an
swer their appeals by declaring that we
have Laken them by force, and we will, if
need b", hold them by force.
Is this expansion? Did Imperial Rome
treat her colonies on less representative
lines? What reason Is there in fact why
these people should be excluded from the
guarantees of the American constitution?
What reason is there why they should be
denied civil freedom at our hands? The
people of New Mexico and Arizona were
Willingly accorded the rights we deny
m. Before the people of Texas had
BUi s:u;l> asserted their right to be
freed from Spanish dominion, we bade
then: make their constitution and prepare
t'. enter the sisterhood of American
Plates. The hand of no Puerto Rican
lias ever been raised in violence against
t'uis flag of ours, save under the coercion
of the Spanish government. Admitting
the rightfulness of the claim that our
itit-ution does not extend to the island,
without affirmative action on our part,
wi.y no) lake that action?
There Is no answ< r possible to all this
but one, that we hold the happiness of
these people to he of less moment to us
than the consummation of the schemes of
our commercial monopolists and adven
turers; thai we are nghtfng in the teeth
Of fate for the recognition of an economic
print i;i<- which is at war with every dec
laration of our future foreign commer
cial policy, and which is being each day
repudiated by the mass of our own peo
ple- !!v- false principle of protectionism.
Our masters mu.-:t stop somewhere and
ai Rome time. They cannot continue la
tii. courses they are pursuing. The mad
neaa i>r imperialism Is dying out of the
Mood <>f even thousands of those who
wer- Inoculated by it through our mar
velous victories over the power of Spain.
]' ■ there may be further than there
lias been; but our imperialist brethren
must ere long yield to the inevitable ar.d
pul an end to the egregious folly and
tyranny of their present courses. Wf>y
not do It while yet It may bo done with
and party politiral advantage?
Chicago Is boasting of a negro wlv>
Jieail; hypnotized a detective- who hoj
htm under arrest. Pshaw! St. Paul defec
tives are fully hypnotised before they
catch their man.
TUNY TAY.
Those who have entered their proteat
against the existence of a notorious and
uncovered den of vice within the very
shadow of the oentral police station have
evidently forgotten that we have estab
lished, under tho authority of our munic
ipal officials, a schedule of charges which
enable the vilest outcast of society to
engage In a pursuit declared criminal by
statute and ordinance alike.
The standard of morality which we
have established in the conduct of our
local concerns makes the dollar the test.
Who pays enough money can have im
munity. The toll is levied by our police.
They make the returns. They have been
invested with the character of go-be
tween In the negotiations between crime
and public authority. They enjoy a power
of attorney from the executive which
gives them the entire power to determine
the status of criminals In their pursuit.
Their "list" Is authoritative. They know
who Is on It and who Is not. They know
why one Is on and another is not; why
one pays so much and another so much
more. They, too, under this exalted ar
rangement, may say where the proceeds
in any given case may go—into the city
treasury, via the police court; into the
Individual police officer's pouch or that
of his superior, or Into the Republican
campaign fund.
The woman who advised the represen
tative of the Globe that she had the
assurance of the police that she would
not be disturbed so long as she paid her
"fine" understands exactly the morality
of the case. To her understanding, as to
that of the police administration, the ad
jacent resident or business house raising
objection Is merely interfering with what
is unavoidable and endangering an ar
rangement which our local rulers tell us
with easily understood pride has been
effective in largely adding to the revenues
of the municipal court.
Decent people may close their eyes and
ears if they are offended. If they are un
willing to do this, they can move away.
City government must be maintained and
the operation of t!:e machinery of the
criminal court and of the police system
la necessarily expensive. We may close
saloons in districts which we think ought
to be prohibitive; we may raid the music
halls and dance places; we may keep the
street corners and the vicinity of saloons
clear of the presence of idlers and run
them in a3 vagrants if they refuse to
move on. But when we are called on to
consider brutish social crime thrusting it
self into the presence of Christian so
ciety, the only Inquiry allowable is, has
the necessary price been paid?
FINANCING STIdEL.
The Iron Age of Feb. 22 gives a complete
list of the recent consolidations in the
steel and iron trade and its allied indus
tries. The list gives the amounts of capital
stock authorized, amounts issued, amounts
of bonded indebtedness, and In general
statements of the properties lnclude<Mn tho
consolidations. The list is an int^restn?
one, as going to show how Americans are
financing their greatest industrial inter
ests preparatory to entering the markets
of the world. The Globe regrets that
the same sort of statement cannot be had
in the matter of cotton mills, though it is
true that no such gigantic consolidations
have been effected In the textile Indus
triefl, probably because no such courageous
spirits have yet entered that line of
manufacturing as tho?>e who have won
out In iron and steel. Yet very respect
able fortunes have been amassed in the
New England factories. Iron and sttel
are evidently the basic element in the fu
ture foreign trade of the United States,
though leather, cotton good 3 and copper
made goods will figure largely, unless our
manufacturers fall down by attempting
to enter and hold too strongly competi
tive markets, like those of Europe.
The list furnished by the Iron Age com
pletes the prospect that Is ahead of us
for the coming twenly years, for the au
thorized capital of the several corpora
tions organized in the process of consoll- •
dation Is expressed In the articles of in
corporation, as well as the actual stock
issued In each case, and the authorized
capital is the prophecy of what the finan
ciers expect to do within at least two
decades.
The railways of the United States are
capitalized at about $12.000,«»,000. The list
of the Iron Age shows that steel ar.d iron
establishments that have consolidated are
capitalized at over $500,000,000 In stocks
actually issued, not counting boii'jtal
debts. Probably >400,G00,000 would about
cover the unconsolidated concerns. So
that we have as a net result of the late
expansion of conquest ideas in iron man
ufacturing circles, iron and steel con
cerns financed at over one-twelfth of the
total valuation of all the railways of tho
country. The record is a magnificent
one from any point of view, for it involves
In its horoscope supreme efforts by our
masters of finance to nvjke dividends out
of the markets of the world.
It will be observed In the list of the
Iron Age. which is given below, that 'he
Carnegie-Frick companies are r.ot inc'.ud
ed, and they are now reported to be about
to reorganize at $200,000,000 capitalization,
without bonded debts of any kind. A sum
so splendid that It contemplates the need
ed carrying of new enterpris s in rail
ways In any part of the world until such
time as the company can dispose of the
railway debentures which it may be cim
pelled to take in payment of iron or steel
supplies.
The constituent companies goirg to
make up the consolidations Indicated be
low, listed as assets of the new c mpa
nies, number 357. That is, there were .'57
concerns taken into the new corporations.
The list is a most astonishing one when
examined, and the properties inc'uded
are productive In the highest de
gree. In renaming the corporators, pa
triotism had its sway, and the pat o:-ym
ic "American" won out in the adoption o'
a flag name. The main list is s* follows,
the column of figures indicating the capi
tal stock actually issiud and the bonde:!
debts, combined:
Alabama Consolidated Coal and
Iron company $".,000,000
American Bicycle company 30.0.)0,0<>:)
American Car and Foundry com
pany 5£,0.t0,0-X)
American Iron and Steel Manu
facturing company 4,7i:f1,«i>0
American Shipbui ding comnunv. J. 5.200,000
American Smelting and Etedaine
company jI.3CO.GOQ
THE ST. PAUL GLOBK, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, ldO(X
American Steel Hoop company.., 32,0(K),000
American Steel and Wire com
pany 90.000,000
American Tin Plate company 46,U2r>,00.)
Central Foundry company U.OuO.OW
Empire Steel and Iron company.. 4,634,003
Federal Steel company 98,745,200
International Heater company... 1,095,580
International Silver company 1*,9i2,560
International Steam Pump com
pany rr.noj.ooo
National Enameling and Stamp-
Ing company 21.000.000
National Steel company 69.000,000
National Tube company SO.iHiO.oftt
Nlles-Homi'iit Pond company B.OOOvOOO
Pressed Steel Tar company 25,000.000
The Pittsburg Stove and Range
company 2,000,000
Republic Iron and Steel com
pany 48.201,000
Selby Steel Tube company i:t.150,000
Btora-Sheflleld Bteel and Iron
company I4,2i)0,ooo
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
company 5,160.000
United Stales Cast [ron Pipe and
Foundry company 25,000.000
Virginia Iron. Coal and Coke
compa ny 10,000.000
Magnus Metal company 2,000,000
Total $800,026,280
The future of these concerns la in some
Instances indicated by a statement of the
work in hand, hs In the ea.se of the Press
ed Steel Car company, who reported or
ders booked for 1900 at $16,5%,863. for steel
cars and for steel specialties for wooden
cars. In other cases the products BM
given, as In the cases of the Republic a»>l
the Federal Steel companies, both of
which list Iron ore, coal, cok?, pl^ Iron,
bar Iron, bar steel, plates, angles, rails,
rolled steel, cut nails and agricultural
shapes.
It la evident from the sang froid «vith
which these industrials, as they hay.* bee.i
termed, have been put upon the market,
that they are In the closest sympathy
with the masters of money. And it Is
manifest, also, that the projectiles that
Dewey fired at Manila ate to be chased
up by the smokeless powder of Am ari.?an
energy and capital. If Mr. Washbur;i
or any number of Brlce syndicates can
secure concessions for railways cr o her
. .substantial en'erprises in Ch'M, they are
to be backed up by the whole power of
the American money markets, in or*i.*r
that these gigantic iron and steel con
cerns may bring back the gold of the Bast
to pay off the miners in Minnesota and
Wisconsin and the operatives in the fac
tories of Ohio and Illinois. That ti»y
may bring it back, too. to pay fur tho
coffee and sugar that Cuba and B azil
j have been selling us. and which, judsj us
by all appearances at Wa.shlngton, they
will continue to sell us at the iate of from
$150,000,000 to $200,003,000 per year. In oth
er words, judging from all Washlnjtonlan
views, our petroleum and iron and at?el
exports are to be made to exactly bal
ance our coffee and sugar purchases, and
we are then to stick our arms in our vests
and akimbo ourselves into the belief t*hat
we are the greatest and most powerful
nation on earth, and are to become at one
jump the wealthiest also.
There would have been more Interest in
the announcement in a New York paper
that the Prince of Wales would visit
America had it not carried on the same
page the statement that Amos Rusle, the
great baseball pitcher, would return to
the game the coming- season.
Dr. F. A. Cook declares that discovery
of the north pole is feasible under cer
tain conditions, lie falls to recommend
additional relief expeditions to search for
the men who preceded him In that line
of predicting.
Now that Puerto Rico has been afford
ed relief, some member of congress
should immortalize himself by introduc
ing a measure reducing the price of grand
opera tickets in America.
The bubonic plague will now proceed to
hide its head in shame. An Insect classed
as the proboscidlum novlspanlolum is an
nounced as abroad.
St. Paul married people are now being
called away from the city on important
business. It Is housecleanlng time.
Clark E. Carr, who has Just begun
work on a corn exhibit for the Paris ex
position, Is not a chiropodist.
The millennium is at hand. The lie was
passed in a Kentcky court room, and no
work for the coroner.
— m
MUSIC AND THE STAGE.
METROPOLITAN.
The pictures of the Jeffrles-Sharkey
fight, now running at the Metropolitan,
are the clearest and most satisfactory
motion pictures ever seen in this city.
They are absolutely perfect in detail,
with the exception of the last forty-flve
seconds of the twenty-fifth round, dur
ing which time what is known as the
"glove incident" occurred. It was dur
ing this brief period, in the very last min
ute of the contest, that Jeffries swung at
Sharkey, who avoided the blow and
caught his adversary's glove under his
arm. In the breakaway the glove was
torn off Jeffries' hand, and the contest
ended amid a scene of the wildest confu
sion. Seventy-two minutes of actual
fighting are shown, in addition to the
scenes between the rounds, the handling
of the men by their seconds, the actions
of the spectators at the ringside and
every incident of this battle of giants.
The pictures will be presented at a pop
ular-price matinee tomorrow afternoon
and also for the remainder of the week,
the engagement closing Saturday night.
The coming engagement of the French
grand opera company will be the most
brilliant musical and social event of the
season. The repertory for the St. Paul
engagement will be as follows: Monday,
April 9, "La Julve" (Halevy); Tuesday.
April 10. "Romeo and Juliet" (Gouncd);
Wednesday matinee, April 11, "Faust"
(Gounod); Wednesday evening, April 12,
"Salammbo" (Reyer).
GRAND.
"The Evil Eye," the Grand's attraction
the present week, is another positiv fea
ture at popular prices. Since its iast v|.=ll
here it ha.s been much improved in tvry
direction, and in Its present shape offers
one of the most varied and diverting en
tertainments ever given here. The Pha
sey troupe are a positive feature in th ir
clever songs and dances. Th» electrical
ballet is one of the best things of its
kind ever peen here. Taken as a whol*.
"The Evil Eye" provides an entertain
ment especially diverting for the ladiea
and children, nnd that is prolific in its
laugh-producing and interost-croitlnrr fea
tures. Tomorrow at 2:30 the !l;«r popuHr
priced matinee of the engagement will be
given.
"A Grip of Steel" will be seen at the
Grand the coming week.
Way It Look*.
Atlanta Journal.
Th* trusts thouerht that the Texas law
ti» preven-t their Infamies was an outrage,
but the supreme court of the United
States declare? that it is all ri^hA. It
seems that the Mclvir.ley administration
does not yet control the supreme court.
People to Ht* H«aiv«l From.
WaFhtagtotr Times.
The same American people who com
peifet] fhe MeKfntej administration un
v.iliingly to '.:> i< the relief at VFeyter s
■c.''liuvMil! ados wifl diive it iri'.o doing
listi- c t > the 119 teW wr»>Uit^t tn;.;: i;•
...... iit;a.;u.; ot Buerta Klco
.Capital Chat.
Washington Ot-bslp, Political and
UtucrwUe, (or the Renders
of the Ulobs.
WASHINGTON, March 20.—(Special.)—
It lias bfon decided to have Murat Hal
stead edit the official'souvenir of the Re
publican national convention which will
in*»t in Philadelphia on June io. Mr.
Halsteud has recently been In consulta
tion with the publishers of the book,
which. It is said, will be the finest of its
kind ever Issued, In \SSfi Charles W. John
son, Former reaving clerk of the senate,
had charge ol the publication of this book
at tiie Minneapolis convention which
nominated Benjamin Harrison for a sec
ond term. The men who will be In charge
of the Philadelphia souvenir this year,
under the supervision of Mr. Hateteftd.
propose to make It so valuable that it
can b" used as a campaign document for
the benefit or the Republican party in the
coming national campaign.
The souvenir will contain a complete
history of the Republican party, from ltd
Inception up to and Including tho con
vention of 1900. It will include a sum
mary of the proceedings and platforms of
the party, with historical sketches of all
the party's candidates. Together with
this valuable information will be given
biographical- sketches and portraits of the
founders and prominent men of the party.
The book will be an edition de luxe, about
ten by twelve inches in size, bound in
morocco. The illustrations will be steel
engravings.
The frontispiece will be a large engrav
ing of the Republican party's first candl
date. John C. Fremont. Then will fol
low portraits of all the other candidate*
in the order of their nomination, with
biographical sketches and the more prom
inent incidents connected with their po
litical lives. Following these will come
portraits and sketches of eminent states
men of contemporary fame and engrav
ings of the members of the present na
tional Republican executive committee.
It is also proposed to make, the souvenir
an authentic Republican text book for
ready reference. The publication of the
book has been intrusted to the National
Souvenir Publishing company under an
stgreemert between Joseph A. Esler and
William If. Patton and the national Re
publican executive committee.
♦ • •
The action of the house last Friday in
referring back to the committee on post
office* and post roads the so-called Loud
b'.ll 1 was not surprising, in view of the de
termimd opposition against it from almost
every section of the United States. It is
doubtful now whether thi3 measure can
pass the house before the adjournment of
this congress for the summer. In connec
tion with the controversy over the Loud
bill the Washington correspondent of the
G1 ob c is in receipt of a very peculiar
communication from Philadelphia. The
author of it is Wilmer Atkinson. He heads
his communication like this:
LITERATURE AND HOGS.
An appeal for literature. Then
Mr. Atkinson's views, perhaps
somewhat peculiar, follow:
The rate, for hauling hogs, and
sample hogs, from Chicago to
Philadelphia is $5.60 per ton, in
large or small quantities, one hog
deep, and the hogs have to be fed
and watered on the way, the
sick ones doctored and the dead
ones thrown out. The hogs are
weighed in bulk. The distance is
a little over 800 miles.
The rate publishers pay for sec
ond class matter —sample copies of
newspapers and serial books—is $20
per ton (average postal haul be
ing a little over SOO miles), and the
mail bags do not have to be wa
tered," none get sick or die on the
way, and may be piled two or
three deep;
It is proposed by the Loud bill
to Increase the rate of the latter
class to $80 per ton, over fourteen
times as much as hogs, and sample
hogs pay. each individual piece to
be stamped, and nothing at all Is
said In the bill about Increasing
the rate on hogs, nor of requiring
each hog, or fraction of a hog. or
sample hog-, to %be stamped, and
there is no difference in the rate
between hogs and sample hogs.
Why this partiality for hogs?
Why this discrimination against
literature? Is it fair, is it right?
Upon what glorious principle of
honor and patriotism can It be jus
tified? None whatever—it is all
wrong. The next step will be to
give hogs free passes to go and
come anywhere and everywhere,
while books and newspapers will
not be allowed to travel at all.
This is class legislation, pure and
simple, and therefore inimical to
the constitution of the United
States. It certainly is.
Seriously, gentlemen, let it not
be said of us that we enter the
twentieth century as a people who
show favors to swine, whatever the
breed, but that we love literature
better than hogs.
♦ • «
It is doubtful, as I stated several days
ago, whether any of the pending bills pro
viding for the laying of cables from the
Pacific coast to Alaska. Hawaii, the Phil
ippines, Japan and China will becon^
laws before the close of the first session
of this congress. Thete is just a bare
possibility that a measure, reported from
the senate committee about a week ago,
may become a law. It will be recalled
that it provides for the laying of a cable
from San Francisco to Honolulu, and
that connections by this line can b9 made
with Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. The
! provisions of the bill make it necessary
that this cable line be constructed by an
American company, and a subsidy will
be granted by the government if the bill
becomes a law.
As lias heretofore been stated in Wash
ington dispatches to this paper, the laying
of a cabte oven to Honolulu will be high
ly beneficial to tha West coast business
interests. As this measure will be earn
estly advocated by Messrs. Foster and
Turner, of Washington, in the senate;
Cushman and Jones in the house; by
Senators Simon and Mo Bride, from Ore
gon, and the representatives from that
state in the lower house, and a full dele
gation from California, if may be suc
cessful in both houses, ar.d if it is, It is
certain to become a law by the approval
of the president.
♦ ♦ •
In speaking of the distinguished visitors
the West coast will have this year If
might be interesting to again state the
fact that Admiral and Mrs. Dewey will
practically go over the same territory
as that to be traversed by McKinley and
Bryan. The admiral of the navy wilY go
to Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth first.
After visiting the three large cities in
Minnesota, he will go to the West coast
over the Great North-Western road, and
will spend some time in Seattle, Portland
and San Francisco.
—J. S. Vail Antwerp.
SMART SHORT STORIES.
When Senator-elect "Joe" Blackburn
was practicing law in Kentucky, a young
fellow came into his office and expressed
a longing to get ,-A'ork. Mr. Blackburn
handed him a writ and told him to go to
a certain house 5 and serve the paper on the
tenant. "Now, don't come back and say
you couldn't find him." he continued.
"Nail it to the door if you have to, but
serve it." The.eager young man started
out and returned an hour later with his
face covered with bruises, and his clothes
torn into shreds. "Well." said Mr. Black
burn, "did you serve it?" "No sir." re
plied the battered employe; "the tenant
licked me and told me to bring the paper
back to you." .Blackburn arose from his
chair, and, towering up with indignation.
gald: "Here, suh, take that writ back and
serve it on the. tenant, suh, and tell him.
for me, suh, that by heavens, suh, he
can't intimidate me through you, suh."
- • •
Since Lotd Beaueliamp. the present Brit
ish governor of New South Wales, has
occupied the government house at Sydney,
he has ordained that at official receptions
inly guests of a certain rank shall be per
mitted to approach the presence through
designated doors. To these blue tickets
iii- awarded; to others of Inferior mold.
s\ hite. At ■ Fecenl function, through some
.n{..!r.:i;M£<. n-eiii, an Important pi;b'.ic ma:
recciVyd a b'.ue card, white a while out
was sent to his wife. When the pair
reached the audience chamber, the lady
Oeettfted to be separated from her hus
band, or to abandon the aristocratic blue
ranks. An iilil-de.-citmp endeavored to rea
son with her, and explain the commotion
tliat would ensue If blue and white were
Buffered to mlnglp together Bui the fair
one was equal to the occasion. "Non
sense." said .she, a.s she pressed forward;
"what do you take ua for—v seldlitz pow
dti?" The aid collapsed.
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Representative Sibley, of Pennsylvania,
told the following story on on,; of his con-
Btituenta, an old man who lived up in his
• ■nil.try at Ihe time they built the All —
gteeny Valley railroad. Jl* hid some Hat
land-in tho valley where rh'jy wa.nl'-d io
build the road. He wan opposed to rall
inails, never having Been one of th m.
Under the righi of eminent domain they
built the road, and after It was built he
find his wife concluded that they would
X'> over and nee the train go across.
They got on the top of the hill. As a
long freight train came around the turn
and swept down the valley, they watched
it till it was out of sight, and thi-n she
turned to him and said: "Well. Josiah. It
didn't do no harm."
He said: "Maria, that Is ull right. This
time she went endwise, but the next time
she may come sidewlse, and there won't
be a crap left in the whole of wire grass
region."
SHELDON'S FAILURE.
Shakopee Argus: None doubts the sin
cerity of purpose of the Rev. Mr. Shel
don; none should try to belittle his ef
forts and the work he accomplished. But
from the very nature of the "experiment"
Mr. Sheldon must have known that his
work would be brought, even uncon
sciously, into contrast with the works of
Jesus Christ; and the result, whenever
the human is brought face to face with
the divine, is ever the same. The one is
pkiably weak; the other infinitely great.
Watervllle Advance. The one week
editor of the Topeka Capital says an
editor should treat his readers as a father
treats his children by giving them, not
what they want, but what they ought to
want. Got the cart before the horse.
People buy and pay for what they want
not what some one else thinks they want.
Albert Lea Tribune: Topeka Capital to
declared by the press, the people and tho
pulpit to be the greatest fake failure that
was ever sprung upon the people.
Albert Lea Standard: The Rev. Shel
don's religious dally newspaper experi
ment served a good purpose. It proved
that such a publication is only consid
ered a curiosity, a freak, and that it can
not supply the needs of the public for a
cosmopolitan newspaper. Besides, there
are more moral lessons and humanitar
ianism in a good modern newspaper than
in all the papers with a religious hobby
that were ever printed.
Cass Lake Voice: The Rev. Sheldon is
making the regular management of the
Topeka Capital look like thirty cents. As
an advertising venture It will do him
more good than a newspaper.
DuluCh Tribune: "What would Christ
do?" is the question Rev. Mr. Sheldon
constantly asks himself as he edits the
Topeka Capital. There are gentlemen
quite as religious as Sheldon who do not
approve of applying that test to the case,
or to the general acts of a Christian life.
Racine Journal- The consensus of cler
ical opinion teems to be adverse to the
Topeka experiment of Rev. Sheldon as
suvoring too much of notoriety and coir.
of the realm.
Wausau Record: By common consent
the first issues of Mr. Sheldon's paper
are excellent examples of the kind of a
newspaper no man of sense would print.
Sioux Falls Press: A newspaper
avowedly Christian is as much of an
anomaly as a Christian bank, or a Chris
tian shoe shop, or a Christian cattle farm, j
Mr. Sheldon's fad deserves a place on thfc
shelf.
Bellingham Times: If Rev. Sheldon
was to run a weekly paper on the same
plan that he is pursuing with the Topeka
Capital, he would go out of business In
about four weeks.
Fairfax Standard: One week of Shel
donism on the Topeka Capital may be
said to have demonstrated how Jesus
would not have run a newspaper. He
would not purely for sensationalism, have
entered Into such a project. Having en
tered the work he would not have cast. I
aside an erring, though faithful, employe
and thus have driven him to suicide. He
would not have forced a narrow, one
idea paper on the people, but would have
given them Intellectual food according to
their wants and capacity aa in the days
of old. He would not, as Sheldon saya
he would do, gather his assistants from
men of his own class and creed, but
would have sought his disciples where h©
could have found the men best fitted for
the work.
Dcs Molnes Leader: Let us hope that
the application of the formula, "What
Would Jesus Do?" be not carried farther.
11 :3Avors too much of sacrilege, of cler
ical fakirism, of ecclesiastical mounte
bankery- In a word, it is open to all
the objections which are rightly brought
against extreme yellow journalism.
—«a^- —•
Mu*t Be Pretty Bad.
Denver News.
Hon. Chauncoy Depew may be a fin
ished after-dinner speaker, but his
speeches in the United States senate are a
little more platitudinous, inane and in
consequential than the average senatorial
deliverance.
*^».
WANTED— A MAJf.
I wish we had a president with' some
backbone,
Don't you?
A man who had the bravery to say hla
soul's his own.
Don't you?
I'm getting somewhat weary of states
men who declaim
Condemning our "plain duty," then gig
bark on the same;
-When up against a show down, who fade
out of the game,
Aren't you?
I wish we had a president with courage
to be just.
Don't you?
Who wouldn't writhe and wriggle at the
dictate of a trust,
Don't you?
I'm getting tired of men who deal out
hisrhfalutln* gush.
In glittering generalities who hold a
royal ilush.
But when it comes to deeds, who have a
spine made out of mush.
Aren't you?
I wish we had a president who had a
little nerve.
Don't you?
Who'd stand by his convictions and
wouldn't cringe or swerve,
Don't you?
I'm getting rather weary of men who
are so stout.
For "Duty and fo» Destiny," when it ia
time to spout.
But when It's time for action, who ooze
and lizzie uut,
Aren't you?
I wish we had a president who'd stand
up to the rack,
Don't you?
Who'd set his face toward the truth and
nevermore turn back,
Don't you?
Who wouldn't play the weather vane to
be a candidate.
Who principle to policy would not sub
ordinate,
Nor be a tool for stronger natures to
manipulate.
Don't you?
I wish we had a president who knew
where lu> was at.
Don't you?
Who, when occasion called for it, would
put his foot down flat.
Don't you?
Who had a little snap and sand, who
would pat up a fight.
Who would defy all hell Itself for what
he thought the right;
In fart. I wish we had a man. Now.
tell me. honor bright.
Don't you?
-Denver N>vrs.
*♦ Em mi
Owen Oliver in Madame.
BVo and an apple overcame an ancestor
of mine. He would not Imve wanted the
;'l'ple. he said, but for Eve. That was
exactly my 'case.
13ve lived at No. 52 and I at No. r.4. I
am not Hiiro wlif re tho apple lived, but. It
was iit one of the two. It hung on a hi&h
btan-h over No. f,2's garden, but'it fat
tened on the soil of No. ;»4 fos which I
paid rent.
It wis Eve, of course, who called my
attention to It. 1 heard her voice through
tho open window. She nas an attractive
voice.
"Oh, look, mother!" she cried. "There
is my apple."
"Hush, dear! It isn't your apple at all.
It belongs to the people next door."
"He isn't people." objected Eve. I am a
bachelor.
"Anyhow, the apple Is his."
'Is it?" She tossed her head. She has
a graceful way of tossing her head.
'•Then he shan't have It. Mr. I,ayton
gave it to me every yoar." Mr. Layton
was my predecessor. "You know he al
ways lent rue hi* ladder to get It." I felt
inclined to offer my ladder there and
then, but the time, like the apple, was
not ripe
As the summer went on the apple- grew
In size and beauty. Eve watched the ap
ple, and I watched Eve. She was so nice
to watch that I did not offer her the for
bidden fruit. 1 regarded it as a hostage
for her regular appearance.
"Look at its rosy cheeks, mother!" she
used to say, teas'ngly. "If it gets much
bigger it must drop." She made motions
expressing rapture.
"Eve, dear," her mother protested,
"you know it isn't yours."
"It would be if 1 had a ladder." Then
she would give a merry little !augh. She
has a charming way of laughing.
The apple still hung on, however, and
grew and grew. In the dusk of evening
Eve tried to reach It with a clothes prop—
at least it looked liko Eve. I knew It
was a crothes prop, because shu let it
drop over my wall, and it smashed three
panes of a cucumber frame. Next morn
ing she happened to be in the garden, so
1 returned it with grave ceremony.
"I—l'm afraid it broke something," she
apologized.
"Not In the least," I assured her.
"I'll tell 1 Mary Jane not to stand It up
against your wall again," she promised
mendaciously.
After that the apple blushed more fu
riously than ever. It was so ripe that it
was marvelous how it held on, I heard
her say. She was probably unaware that
I hnd climbed up one night and secured
it with fine wire.
Next she tried knocking tennis balls at
It. Of course, she never went within a
couple of yards. I picked up nine balls
next morning and restored them to her.
"I thought they were windfalls from my
apple tree," 1 said, and she fled Indoors.
"I believe he was laughing at me," I
heard her tell her mother. "Now, I will
have It."
"No, no, dear! I forbid you to touch it.
It's no use looking like that, Eve. I shall
be really cross if you do."
When 1 came home that evening the ap
ple was still there, in all its glory, but
when it grew dusk I noticed maneuvers
with the prop going on once more. Fi
nally I heard a cry of triumph, and the
rustle of her skirts as she ran indoors.
Then I went out.
I climbed the tree, gathered about a gal
lon of apples and sent them in with a note.
"Dear Madam—l trust you will accept
a few apples from my tree overhanging
your garden, as I notice that there is only
one upon your side.
"I have, however, a special reason for
desiring that one. May I enter your
garden to gather it? Yours very truly,
—"Prank Newton."
In a few minutes Sarah Ana returned
with Mrs. Parker's thanks, and an as ur
ance that she would be pleased for me
to gather the apple whenever I liked. 3*,
after putting the ladder over the wall. I
Went round to their front door and knock
ed. I was shown into a eogy fitting ror.m.
Mrs. Parker received me very pleasantly,
but Miss Eve was rather quiet, as a
young lady should be.
"You will be surprised at my bo'.hering
you about a single apple," I said. "The
fact is, I want it for some one who ha 9
particularly admired it."
"We have noticed," said her mother,
with a side glance at Eve, "that it is a
singularly fine apple."
"An exceptionally fine apple," I agreed
"It would be almost Impossible to matoh
it."
"I should like to see it when you have
picked It," Mrs. Parker confessed. Eve
said nothing. She appeared to have be
come absorbed in a book.
"I'll bring it in at once." I promised. I
went out through the French window and
ascended the tree. No one was looking,
so I gathered another fine apple fiom
my own side. When I returned Miss Eve
had disappeared.
"It doesn't look quite so large off the
tree." I suggested, placing the apple upon
the table.
"No," said her mother, examining; it
critically, "I scarcely think It does; bat
it is a very fine one."
"Perhaps your daughter would like to
see it?"
"Ye—es." She laughed. "I am afraid it
will make her feel rather envious." She
rang the bell and the servant came. "Ask
Miss Eve to come for a moment, please.'
After a few minutes' waiting, during
which Mrs. Parker discovered that we
had some mutual friends, and asked ma
to call in there sometimes, pretty Eve re
appeared, looking guiltily defiant.
"Mr. Newton wants you to see his ap
ple, Eve, dear. Isn't it a beauty?" Ere
flushe dand gave me a swift g'.anc*.
"Yes." she said, hesitatingly. She seem
ed to be studying the Moor rather than the
fruit.
"It might be a fellow to the one that
tempted Eve!" I observed, with a smile.
She traced a pattern with her foot.
"Adam was also tempted. 1"
"By Eve, I believe? I don't fancy he
wanted the apple much, did he?" She
blushed again.
"You could not have a nicer apple than
this, anyhow?" She looked right at me at
last, iier eyes said quite plainly, "You
needn't tell mother." As if I had any
euch Intention I
"I am glad you like it," I said, "because
I want to give It to you. if I may. I could
not help noticing that you admired It."
'There. Eve!" said her mother. "I told
you that everyone would see that you
coveted it."
"I—l am sorry." she said, in a subdued
little voice.
"Please don't say that or you will spoil
my pleasure In giving it"
"Then—l am sorry." She took it with a
laugh
Soon afterward I went, assuring Mrs.
Parker that I should soon avail mysetf
of her kind invitation to call again. I
hope they did not hear me laughing when
I got indoors.
The next day was Sunday. In the after
noon Eva sat under the shade of my ap
ple tree reading a book. So I strolled out
and looked over the wall.
"Eve," I remarked, "was lurried out %t
paradise for stealing an apple."
She looked up and smiled. Then she
looked down.
"The annual apple on this .side haa al-
Tody's Attractions at
Si Paul Retail Stores.
FIELD, ■CHUCK & CO. continue their
great sale of highest grade novelty silks
at an average of 50 cents on tho dollar;
also offer another chance for shirt waist
lengths and tailor-made suits and Jackets.
ST. PAUL HARDWARE CO. call es
pecial attention to their Acme razor,
which they unconditionally guarantee.
ways belonged to Eve," she asserted, pre
tending to cut the pages of her b-ok
They were cut already.
She mig-ht spare a tiny piece for Ad
am," 1 suggested. She. glanced at me out
of tho corner of her e.\ <•
"Adam was better .-. 1 hout tlie ar pie,
you know," she assured me.
" \<iarn," I declared, "needed no pity a'
ai'."
Khe tested her chin on me hand and
looked at me inquiringly with h?r 01-j
eyes. I'would put down how ahe locked,
if If were possible. It isn't. Mere or
dinary charm of future or colorin? !■»
common enough to have words. Real
prettineas is unique, unnameabte; rrti^
willful curves of the featuri 9. ittUs wavci
of the hair-and "ways." She is pretty
like that.
"Adam," she remarked, "lost paradise
and the apples."
"But he had Eve."
Sh« studied her shoes, and I seated .njr
self on top of the wall.
"You have plenty yt apples." she said;
"and you are not shut out of Paradise."
"Then," I replied, promptly, "I will
come in." I did.
"flow do you know this is Paradise?"
she asked, demurely.
"Eve is here."
She looked at me saucily over her book.
"Poor Eve was much to be pitied." Bho
simulated a sigh.
"Because she lost Paradise?"
"No; because she kept Adam."
'Did she mind, do you think?"
"Well—you see, it was just a very little
bit her fault that he ate the appie."
"She would have eaten every scrap her
self if the had been a modern Eve."
She looked up at the desecrated bough
and laughed. A stray sunbeam danced
in her eyes, like the dazzle of diamonds.
"I think she could be persuaded to
share it with the modern Adam," she
stated.
Thereupon she dived under the chair
cushion and produced it.
"Now you have Paradise—and the ap
ple," she told me.
"They are nothing," I said, feelingly,
"compared with—Eve."
But Eve—my dainty little Eve—is com
ing to No. 54 in the spring. It will say«
any further dispute, she says, about th«
apple.
m
STATE PBESS GEMS.
Vernon Center News: A preacher no<
a thousand miles away while making a
pastoral call on one of his parishioners i
few weeks ago was entertained in thu
parlor while waiting for the lady of tin
house by a little Miss whom he had taken
on his lap. In their conversation he In
cidentally asked her how many com
mandments there were. She answered,
"Seven or eight." "Oh, no, dear," sa!<3
the clergyman, "there are ten."
"I know," said the little miss, "ther«
used to be, but I heard papa tell mamma
yesterday that you had broken two or
three of them, and that only leaves seven
or eight, you know."
G. A. R. in St. James Journal: A cler
gyman in the west country had tw<
curates, one a comparatively old man,
the other very young. With the formei
he had not been able to work agreeably,
and on being invited to another living he
accepted It, and took the young curate
with him. Naturally there was a fare
well sermon and we can imagine the feel
ings of the curate, who was to be left
Dehind wheq he heard the text given out:
"Abide ye here with the ass. and I an<J
the lad will go yonder and worship."
Culbertson Era: When a girl . hat
throttled herself with a band of rigid
linen that paralyzes her neck muscles and
t-aws a crimson line below her chin; when
she has cut off her breathing power
abruptly at the walsit; burdened her
back with a ponderous mass of swing
ing, dragging cloth; poised a winged
and ribboned monstrosity on her head,
and dazzled her eyesight with fluttering
dots and dashes, she looks her very beet.
She is chic, she is good form, she pleases
our distorted vision as no exponent of
nature'q laws ever could.
A girl's outer details form a sort of
sign language, and though it takes a
social expert to read it with absolute
accuracy, no one can miss its general
meaning. The more valiantly she has
sacrificed personal comfort to the Tor
turing laws of correct feminine gearing,
the more the masculine spectatorwants to
know her, and to have it seen of men
that she knows him. A quick pace sets
her heart to pounding angrily at its bar
rier, and a possing wind swirls her into
a helpless mass of skirts. But she never
has to struggle unaided with a heavy
BWing door, or wait unnorticed at a
crowded door, or wait unnoticed at a
crowded counter. The world steps a*tde
for her and she walks unjostled in a
glittering social haze. She finds a vel
vet cloak at every puddle. Surely bodily
freedom is not a high price to pay for
all this.
Fergus Falls Journal: John O. Aune,
who visted his cousin at Wall Lake,
while on his way to Norway last fall, has
sent the latter some handsome specimens
of copper ore which he has taken near
the sea coast, about 140 miles north of
the city of Trondhjem. Mr. Aune knew
of the existence of this ore when a boy.
but not having sufficient capital to de
velop it he came to America and pros
pected in the West for a number of years,
returning to Norway last fall, where he
now has three claims yielding handsomo
returns.
CONGRESSES AT PAEIS.
In connection with the Paris fair innu
merable congresses will be held. The for
lowing list, says Nature, prepared by the
committee of the Paris International as
sembly, the secretaries of which are Prof.
Patrick Geddes and T. R. Marr. shows
the date of some of the more important
congresses announced in science and edu
cation:
Pure science: Ornithology, June 26-30;
meteorology, July 23-28; physics. Aug. 8-11:
mathematics. Aug.-6-11; geology. Aug. 16
--28; electricity, Aug. 18-25; anthropology
aiid archaeology, Augr. 20-25; psychology.
Aug 22-25; ethnography, Aug. 26-Bept. 1;
chemistry, Sept. 20-29; botany, Oct. l-«.
Applied science and associated industry:
Horticulture, May 2R-27; forestry. June
4-7; mines and metallurgy, June 18-23.
Wine cultivation. Juno 20-23; insurance,
June 25-30; actuaries, June 25-29; agricul
ture, July 1-7; testing of materials, July
9-16; steam engines and machinery. July
16-18; applied mechanics, July 19-25; arch
itecture and naval construction, July 19
--21; photography, July 23-28; applied chem
istry. July 23-81; navigation. July 30-Aug.
4; pharmacy, Aug. 8; economic and com
mercial geography, Aug. 2331; tramways,
Sept. 10-12; fruit culture, Sept. 13-14; rail
roads. Sept. 20-29
Medicine and hygiene: Homeopathy.
July 18-21; professional medicine, July 23
--28; medicine, Aug. 2-9; dermatology, Aug.
2-9; dentistry, Augf. 8-14; hygiene, Aug. 10
--17; hypnotism, Aug. 12-15. Education:
Modern lunguage teaching. July 24-29;
higher education, July 30-Aug. 3; teaching
of social science, July 30-Aug. 6; primary
education, Aug. 2-5; secondary education,
Aug. 2-5; techntcal. industrial education.
Aug. 6-11; educational press, Aug. 9-11;
bibliography, Aug. 16-18; teaching of draw
ing, Aug. 29-Sept. 1; popular education.
Sept. 10-13; agricultural Instruction, Sept.
14-16.
PLYMOUTH CIX)THINO HOUSE,
corner Seventh and Ilobert. are out with
their new spring shoes, and show th»
latest novelty In shoe leather that has
been seen anywhere.
YERXA says there is never a day when
their utore news is not of absorbing In
terest to the money saving housekeeper.