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WEATHER FOE TODAY.
For Minnesota and Wisconsin-—General
ly fair: continued cold Thursday and Fri
day ; fresh to brisk -westerly winds.
For lowa—Fair Thursday; colder in
western and central portions. Friday fair;
continued cold; winds becoming north
erly.
For North Dakota—Fair; continued cold
Thursday. Friday fair; not so cold;
north to east winds. . • ;
For South Dakota—Fair; colder Thurs
day. Friday fair: warmer; northerly
winds.
For Montana— Fair; colder Thursday,
with a cold wave. Friday fair; warmer;
north to east winds.
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 -20
Lowest temperature 10
Average temperature 15
Daily range 10
Barometer !!!!!"30.09
Humidity „ 85
Precipitation ... ...."."" .01
7 p, m., temperature 20
"I p. m., 'Weather, snowing; wind, north
west.
RIVER BULLETIN.
c. .. Danger Gauge Change in
Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours
St. Paul 14 8.8 -0.2
LaCrosse 10 7.0 —0.5
Davenport 15 8.6 *0 2
Bt. Louis 30 12.4 —0.'2
♦Rise. —Fall.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
•Sp.m.High. *Bp.m.High
Battleford ... 0 6 Cincinnati ...32 36
Bismarck ....43 IS Cleveland ....26 28
Calgary 16 -10 pubuque 26 26
Duluth 14 18.Galveston ....66 70
Edmonton ...14 .14 Jacksonville .'SB 70
Havre 24 SO'Marquette ...10 20
Helena 30 4'; Montgomery .36 68
Huron 20 33 Montreal .... 20 ''2
Medicine HatJ>2 32 ! Na&hville .38 42
Mlnnedosa ...2 12 New Orleans.sß 70
Pr. Albert ... 6 £ New York ...36 42
QuAppelle ..0 5 Philadelphia .33 46
f. Current ..0 24 Pittsburg ....32 32
Uillislon 6 16 •'Frisco 58 02
■Winnipeg ....12 18 St. Louis" ....3$ 40
Buffalo 26 28 Salt Lake .-.60 68
Cheyenne ....40 60 S. Ste. Marie.22 26
Chicago 28 ' 28
•Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul).
THURSDAY. NOV. 15, 1800.
PL VIM 1 AS A REFORMER.
Thomas C. Piatt and 'A his;. lieutenants ''
have net let the grass prow beneath their
feet while contemplating the host means,
to avail themselves of all the fruits of
the remarkable political victory which
the Republican organization has just
achieved in New Y. rk. Th.^re has I
already been prepared by them for Intro
duction in the incoming legislature a
measure known as the state constabulary
bill, which will hand over completely to |
the state officials the work of policing
the principal cities of the state.
It will be remembered that in the last
legislature Mr. Piatt had such a ineas.
lire introduced, lt was progressing sat
isfactorily until certain complications
arose in connection with the Mazet In
vestigating committee concerning the
Ramapo water .steal which involved Mr.
Piatt himself, his son and his son's lav ;
firm, and which made it Ceslrable that
haste should he made slowly in arous
ing political bitterness. And accordingly
Mr. Piatt ordered the bill withdrawn, and
It was withdrawn.
It is now reintroduced, and iejii; of
course, become a law since Democratic
folly has successfully driven the party
from anything like a substantial repre- !
sentation even in the legislature. The
measure is quite as far-reaching in Its
consequences a,= it might be expected,
considering its source and purpose. It
involves the most serious assault yet
made on the principle of local home rule,
and it place.-, the vast metropolis and
other of the large cities in the manage
ment of their own concerns subject to the
orders and direction of a number of
bucolic statesmen who sneeze when- the
great senator takes snuff and who are
little more in political jife with reference
to Piatt than the performing animals in a
circus are with reference to the ring
master. : ..'
As an indication of the influence which |
the spoils idea has cut in the framing of
the proposed bill it may be pointed out
that it provides for a commissioner of
state constabulary, salary, $6,000, and
$1,500 expenses. The commissioner will
appoint a chief deputy commissioner, sal
ary, $3,500, and $1,500 expenses; two deputy
commissioners, $2,000 salary and $1,000 ex
penses each; a treasurer, salary, $3,500; a
deputy treasurer, salary, $2,500; a secre*
tary, salary, $1500; a stenographer, sal,
ary, $1,500, and four commissioners oi
division and four treasurers of division,
each with a gcod salary and necessary
"expenses."
The cities affected by the proposed law
are arranged in four divisions; first
division, the city of New York; second
division, the cities of Albany and Troy;
third division, the cities of Syracuse and
Rochester; fourth division, the city of
Buffalo. There is to be a commissioner
of division and a deputy commissioner
of division for each of the divisions so
created.
This beautiful scheme is put forward
In the name of re-form, lt is absolutely
necessary to reform the police force. Mr.
Piatt's great ambition is to take the
police of the big cities out of politics, and
indeed, to take everybody else out who
docs not think as Mr. Piatt thinks,- and
do as Mr. Piatt says. Of course, it cuts
no figure whatever that the people who
immediately pay the taxes which main
tain the police force and the other
agencies- for- the maintenance of public'
erder shall haye r next to nothing what*
ever to say about the men who police
their cities. It is necessary in the in i
terest of reform, as that idea is recog
nized and acted,on in politics by Senator
Platt.that ali control shall be taken away
from the people of the several cities and
merged entirely in Mr. Piatt and his po
litical friends "up the state." Politics
and reform ; may be regarded as con
vertible terms by very wicked persons
like Richard Croker and his fellow bosses
of Tammany. But by Mr. Piatt and his
aides the . two are utterly Irreconcilable.
In order to reform anything or anybody,
according to Mi. Piatt, you have to take i
that thing or that person out of politics,
and then every is serene. Hence the
taking of the .New.. York police out of
politics and out of the control of the peo
ple at one and the same time!
Of course it is the Democratic ox that
is gored by this stroke of reform. Down
in St.' Louis they had the same sort of
thing done and the state was Democratic.
Whereupon the 'people of that devoted
Chicago suburb, who are Republican in
politics, and more especially the Republic
an politicians among them, raised most
furious uproar on the injustice which was j
being done, as well as on the perversion
which was being effected of all true un
derstanding of responsible local govern
ment.
But, after all, the state constabu
lary bill, as ' outlined at this
early day, -may .-be safely accept
ed as being little more than a
feeler by Mr. Piatt and his fellow re
formers. Just how it is received will de
termine to some extent at least the shape
which the state constabulary measure
will probably take which wilt turn over
the cities of the state to the control of
the Republican state .politicians.
AN UNREASONABLE COMPLAINT.
' TI '""'■:■:'.' ■•'.„■'- • « * ■ -"
"Within a day or two the press reports
called attention to the fact that crimes
of violence had increased in remarkable
degree in the city'of Chicago, and that
the thugs and highwaymen had sue-;
ceeded in terrorizing the community. The :
press of the city had, it was said, work
ed itself into a great rage over the situa
tion, and a -demand -was almost certain
to be made for the removal of the heads:
of the .police department and for a gen
eral reorganization of that body.
Concurrently with these reports • we.
.read of the conduct of a savage prize
fight between two young lads, maintain
ed in Chicago solely and only for the-,
"gate money." One of them is seen
blind, bloody, ' weak and reeling over a:
public stage,.beaten. by his opponent who.
puts forward every physical resource to
knock him insensible in order that the 1
sharp of the gate money : which goes to
each shall be calculated on a basis more
favorable to. the. successful boxer. The
police stand by, together with thousands
of spectators, and watch the brutal show,
waiting -patiently" until the poor battered
remnant of, humanity is beaten to the
ground and made insensible or until "the
gong sounds," terminating the awful
scene.:.~.*•.'-"; *"■—"•""•""" ''■" ••
"'The newspapers, which condemn -the
police fence for its inefficiency in sup
pressing thugism and robbery reports
with touching -fullness of details of -this
shocking exhibition, and the readers in
whose behalf they protest against the
reign of thugism, swallow each detail of
the disgusting fray. Yet wonder is ex
pressed. that there should be a reign of
thugism prevailing in Chicago.
It is too often the case that the police
are in complicity with the criminals. It
was the case too recently right here in Bt.
Paul to call for any especial comment.
But there is no such complicity in the
case of Chicago. It is not necessary
that there should be in order to explain
. .c prevailing outbreak of crimes of vio
lence in that city. The fact Jhat such
a vile exhibition as that given in the
last two founds of "the recent McGovern-
Broad prize-fight can be-tolerated in any
community offers all the explanation that
is necessary if the community is handed
over to the domination of the criminals.
j n-e New York legislature was compell
ed, for the protection of society, to put
in operation a law which practically doe
away with boxing exhibitions. This
became necessary because those who are
personally interested in prize fights and
fighters could not be relied on to observe
the law which permitted boxing contests,!
but aimed to put an end to just such ex
hibitions as that which took place at
Tatteisall's, .dn- Chicago,' on Tuesday
night. Their interest is a money interest
in every instance. All such contests are
conducted on a money basis. Most of
them have been frauds, and all of them
have been more or less brutal. No com
munity has a right to complain which
finds itself in the grasp of its criminal
ciasses which- will allow the brute in
stinct among men to manifest itself and
to come under public protection as it did
in this case.. Indeed, it would not be far
out of the way to say that the people of
Chicago may -consider themselves espe
cially fortunate in having so high a de
gree of public order maintained as pre
vails, especially in view of the accepted
standards of public taste and public
morals in that community.
XICiAR CANAL.
The president will. In his annual mes- ]
gage, take strong grounds in regard to |
the construction of the -Nicaragua canal. I
He will recommend the ratification of the i
Ilay-Paimcefote treaty, and make other
suggestions looking to a speedy adjust
ment of the old difficulties which sur
round that gigantic enterprise.
Since the time of Columbus .a passage j
to the Pacific has been eagerly sought. -
A canal across the isthmus of Panama J
has been the dream of many an engi
neer. The great De Lesseps, who con
quered the sands of Egypt, who brought
the wealth of India to the door of Eu
rope, retreated, baffled before the diffi
culties of the Panama route. Two hun
dred and eighty million dollars hare been
sunk^ in tthis scheme, and yet the work
seems hardly begun.
Since 1854 the United States has had a
grant from the government of Nicarauga
to construct a canal through its territory.
There lias been concessions made to other
Interests for canal and railroad purposes
—to private parties and syndicates. These
T^ ST. PAUL GhOBE, 'ijiIJBSDAy, JSQVl^iijjr Wf j^oq.
the.Nlcaraguan government has recently i
declared void. The Marine Canal com- <
pany bias made some progress in ths line j
of surveys, \ estimates etc., . acquiring:
through these efforts vested rights which
the United States will doubtless protect.
With the way cleared -by the Hay-
Pauucefote treaty and the adjustment of
private concessions, the government of
Nicaragua stands rea,dy to renew such
concessions for the construction aijd
maintenance of the canal, as the Unit
ed States may desire. j~_*
7 yth the two parties pledged to the
construction of this great commercial wa- ,
terway, with the interests actual and
prospective in the Pacific, with a- fuller
realization of the necessity for a closer
connection of the West with the East in
time ..of war, . congress will no doubt take
immediate action.
The difficulties in the way of the con-,
struction of the canal over the proposed j
route through Lake Nicaragua are small
compared to those of the Panama route..'
The Panama route contemplates a canal
at tide water. The other utilizes na- !
ture's waterways and gains the elevated
country by means of locks.
The canal will be one hundred and sev
enty miles in length, fifty-six of which
will be .across Lake Nicaragua, This ■
lake is the key to the situation. Lying
about one hundred feet above sea level,
it will act as a reservoir to feed th» ;
canal. From the lake the route follows j
,the course of San Juan river for sixty
three miles, then cuts across the coun
try to a point of the coast known as
Greyton. At the point where the canal
leaves the river/bed a huge dam will B3]
constructed to : force as much water as
is needed from the old channel into the
canal at a higher level.
The scheme, it will be seen, Is not to
dig a canal, but to hoist it into the air,
.keeping the surface of the ditch, or aque
duct, on a level with Lake Nicaragua
for about one hundred miles; then when
the level land of the .coast is reached,
to drop it by means of locks to sea level. '
From the lake west, to the Pacific ocean
at Brito, is but a -few miles, and the'
canal, after being ; carried through the
lava peaks near the Jake, makes .a sudden j
drop to the level of the sea.
Within the last few years the .experi
ence on -the great Manchester, Cronstadt
and Chicago drainage canals has demon-'
strated the fact that canal construction
•work ..can be done now for one-halt' of
the estimates made fifteen years ago !
This is due to the use of .improved ma- ;
chinery and the use of dynamite. . •
Mr. Cooley, of Chicago, in an interview ;
about two years ago, stated that the sur
vey made by Menocle in 1889 along the:
route which is outlined above is the best
possible, and that -the plans laid down
.by that -engineer cannot be improved
upon. The estimates, however, based up
on the conditions of that time, where '
they are specific, can be cut in two, re
ducing the estimated cost of the canal
to $50,000,000. ;
There is no national Issue of greater,
importance today than' the speedy con
struction and control of this interoceanlc
-waterway. There may 'be interests which
will oppose itit is possible that • tit*
transcontinental lines of railroads will
see in this a menace to their business!,
but that is far fetched, the improvement
in railroad construction will keep pace
with the competition of water traffic. The
tariff ,of time will always be an element
in railroad transportation which cannot,
be overcome.
LET US BE HUMBLE.
It is good for a nation, as well as for
an individual, to indulge occasionally in
that kind of meditation which fosters a '
spirit of humility. "Lest we forget—
lest we forget."
We, as a nation, are prone to pat our- •
selves on the back with supreme self
-complacency and congratulate ourselves .
for being God's own people in God's own
country. Our attitude is perhaps not so
much that of the Pharisee who thanked
God for not being like other men, as that
of ' .
Little Jfeck Homer,
Who sat in a corner,
Eating his Christmas pie.
He stuck in his thumb
And pulled out a plum.
Saying: "What a good boy am I."
Like Little Jack Homer, we have been
enjoying our pie, our share of the good
things of earth; we declared that it was !
all right, that we had no fault to find
and like Little Jack Homer we have
good naturedly extended the same judg
ment to ourselves. We judged our- .
selves by our share of the
world's good things and labeled ourselves
O. K. with a. big blue pencil mark.
To anybody wishing to jar the main- ;
stays and. the starch out of this feeling
of national self approval, we can sug
gest no better means than a comtempla- ;
tion of the record of murders commit
annually in the United States. In fact
the record is such that any one not hav
ing any further acquaintance with our :
country might take us for a nation of
barbarians of the middle ages. :
The average number of murders com- '
mitted annually in the states of the '
Union during the last decade is as fol- -i
lows: "." '''-[-^ iji'.HvS'!
South Carolina ..221: Delaware ...... 43 "
Georgia 3SI Mary .... :..'. *2£o
Florida 157 Dist. of Columbia 24"
Ohio 332 Virginia 305)
Indiana 22*1 West Virginia f. £7
Illinois 315 North Carolina...'2Ss •
Michigan 205 Kentucky 39$
Wisconsin 151 Tennessee ... '40s
Minnesota 159, Alabama '4451
lowa £02 Mississippi .'.317 '
Missouri -. 562 Louisiana 358
North Dakota:.... £9 Texas v ..1021
South Dakota 43 Arkansas ....:.'..'-305
Nebraska 168 Montana ...20
Kansas 235 Wyoming 22
Maine 18 Colorado [ .252
New Hampshire.. 9 New Mexico ..... 58
Vermont 6 Arizona ......'..'." 43
Massachusetts ... 96 Utah !.!!■!!" 57
Rh^de Island ..... 52 Nevada ..." 29
Connecticut 73 Idaho .„ ' w
New York .512 Washington' .. "102
New Jersey 120 Oregon ... 70
(Pennsylvania .....312 California ......'. "422
There was murder of all grades and
qualities; from the refined fiendishness of
a Leutgert and the ghoul-like brutality of
the Wise case down to.the coarseness of
the common thug or footpad that brains
his victim in some dark alley for the
sake of a few paltry dollars. Some prac
ticed "murder as a fine art," others as a
mere commonplace, everyday trade or
handicraft and still others in the bung
ling manner of amateurs, and -all in all
the figures reached the appalling aim of
10,000. Compare with this record the
paltry 600 reported from Germany or 800
reported from ranee and we can amply
afford to be- heartily ashamed -of - our
sches. We.think of.ltaly as the country
of the vendetta, where no . man can go
home on a dark night v/lthout getting his
frame punctufed in various places; where
it is the. common customary thing for; a
man to come home at night on a stretch
er with his ; back stuck full of"stilettos'
like a pincushion, yet Italy reports less
than -4,000 mngders, annually, and even
granting that>fl:aly has only half as large
a population we have, we still come
out as an easy winner by a safe majority.
We have,;i>-idaed, all reason to feel stag,
F e.r£<? at the 'enormity of this record,
and it is well for us to realize that in our
social _ fab^^here. is an immense dis
crepancy somewhere; that the church the
. " ■it'-'-'-^ ' .' - - .' -
school, the^rwj&ie-and the state have an
■enormous "jtas'l^ ; before them, which will
require united and unswerving en
ergies of in 'alike.
TIIUR CJ.OUi: PLAICES.
Prof. Winchell, of.the State university,
I has rendered a service to .the state little
understood and appreciated in | his re
ports on Minnesota geology.
—o— ~2££yi£-
Is there any good reason why some of
the magazines leave their ; pages uncut?
It is an annoying task to cut a hundred
or so pages to find out the contents. It
is noticed, however,' that the advertising
pages are cut. It looks .as if j the ad
vertising pages had ..more value than the
reading matter, _"for. which "people are
supposed to buy the ' publication. It is
probably a scheme to .get people to look
over the advertising pages first.
Our old-time Minneapolis newspaper
friend, A. J. Blethen, now of the Seat
tle Times, takes the defeat of Bryan so
seriously that he says "there will never
be another presidential election in the re
public."
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Nevada should be abolished as a state.
It had 42,354 population by the recent j
census, the loss in population since 1380
averaging about 1,000; a year. It has one
congressman .and two senators, and there
fore as much voice in the United States
senate as Minnesota, with nearly forty
times as many people. Make it a ter-;
ritory, or a county attached to California
or Utah. ; : ■' '■ a
The military spirit has struck the toy
trade and it is said that the holiday
toys on exhibition will be a long pan- >
orama of war and munitions of war.
—o—
"The Adx^jsor, a magazine devoted to
the interests of advertisers," published at
j.j.33 BroadWay\ New York, by David
Phillips, a -hustler, known in St. Paul'
and. the Northwest, is - one -of-• the best
things of the-, kind now published.: ->;"•'-''
J'i . —o —
On Nov. 1635, Old Parr (Thomas
Parr) was 'buried in Westminster Abbey,;
London. He was the noted old man of
England. He did not marry until .he
was -eighty, years of age, and, becoming
a widower, he "married again at one hun
dred and twenty years. . He died in 1635,
at the age of one hundred and fifty-t«vo:
years. '- ,:'""'"
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A national good roads convention will
-meet in Chicago, Nov. 19 to 24. > ,-.
"'' —o— :.=
"^te Pioneer "Press from what it knows
of Ames admires neither him, his meth
ods, nor .his policies."—Pioneer Press. Yet
that paper did not put a straw in his -way
to the mayor's office of Minneapolis.
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[ Eleven years ago today Don Pedro was
deposed from the throne of Brazil and
L«e republic proclaimed. '-'.■-'
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A visitor to a Chicago pie bakery, :
•where the output is 36,000 pies a • day,
found -out -that pumpkin pies are made -of
"a -mixture of sweet potatoes, apples and
cheap, flour, . flavored with a chemical
extract, Cranberry pie contains only,
enough cranberries to. 'make a showing.'
after the manner of the. oyster ..in*, the
church fair stew. " The rest is apple lel
ly, colored red and flavored. I have for
gotten the , other substitutes employed,
but. these will give you' a general idea
of the morality of the business."
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On Nov. 15, 1712, a duel with swords
took place in Hyde park, London, be
tween the Duke of Hamilton and Lord
Mohun, leaders of opposing political
parties in England, and both were ki led.
> and then the seconds fought and were
badly wounded. The duel created a great
commotion.,;. .;!;%' '"*
"The impostor employs force instead of
argument, imposes silence where he can
not convince, and propagates his char
acter by the; sword."—Junius, Letter xi.
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A rooking chair with rubber" tires, has
just been patented.
It is said' that 70,000 Americans spent
the past summer in Paris, the total num
ber of visiting:, Americans, however, run
ning to about 200,000.
i> - i o—
Today, Nov. 15, is the anniversary of
the birth of j Johan Kepler, in IG3O, the
astronomer;; ofi William Pitt, in 1708. an
illustrious 'English "commoner" states
man; of Dsfon- Stubcm, In 1730. a Prus
sian general who served the Americans
during the "evolutionary war; of William
Cowper, in '731. English poet; of Sir Wil
liam Herschel, in 1738, an eminent astion
omer and. 'cHi^coverer; of Richard 11.
Dana, in ..'17,87,: an American poet and
essayist: of Eliza Leslie, in 1787, one of
the early popular American story writer;
of Thurlow Weed, in 1797, a famous
American editor and politician.
The Suez canal is ninety-two miles lung.
and it costs a ship at the rate of $1 to
$1.50 a ton, depending upon the tonnage,
to pass through. The original cost of the
canal was ?50,00C,000.
The man who makes figures figures out
that quinine to the amount of 1,000,000,000
grains came into the United States last
year. That amount ought to kill a lot
of fever. ' . ;?;AAcAAAALA:'
A Dominican friar, it is said, after forty
years of church work in the Philippines,
was asked to write a book describing his
impressions of the habits and customs of
the Filipino people. He-agreed to do ■■■■■>
If no one would look at it. until his death.
He died recently at Manila, ' and the
-much sought-for book was found among
his effects. On the first page was the
title, and all the other 300 pages were
blank except the last, on which was
written: "This is all I know, after forts
years' study of the Filipino people."
Well, the Americans are different. They
are curious to know all about them, and
will do so. regardless of cost and regard
less of what it will all amount to after
finding out.
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"The little things in life I love
A song,, a .word, a "smile, •-
An hour of happy blue above
'Neath which I walk the while.
, For at the best, tho' be our state
The peasant's or the king's,
This life is- a mosaic, great—
But made from little things."
s :.^ —o —
Today, Nov. 15, is-dedicated in the
Catholic calendar to the memory of St.
Malo, patron saint of the city of St.
Male, Frauee. A-:A::
England's orders so far for American
canned meats for the; troops' in South
Africa amount to over 5,000 tens.
—o—
Our national j debt, is now .only $1,403,
--000,900. It (has been on a standstill most
of the time; Soy the last; two years, ow
ing to the*' War expenditures using up
receipts. . ,
—o—
It is said that the false teeth output
of the country is about 29,900,000 a year.
The porcelain of ' which they are composed
is chiefly kaolin; and the process of put
ting, on the enamel is extremely deli
cate. '"•'..:■■
Wireless messages are now being .sent
to the distance of forty-two j miles. | Ex-
periments in wireless telephones are now
being made with success for Gen. Mile?.
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A shortage Is reported in Pacific coast
salmon packing this season, and an 'ad
vance in prices is "announced. "*■ *"* -■!
PERTINENT OR PARTLY SO.
Just what the charge against W. D.
Cook, who 'sent 400 penines to the mint',
is no one seems to know. The treasury
department has formally announced its
desire to " retire these coins from circula
tion on account of their bacilli breeding
proclivities and Cook may have been
merely starting out along definite lines
as a, sanitary reformer.
* * *
The city hall elevator evinced a dispo-'
sition, executed unsuccessfully, to pro
vide official places for some of those
who fell outside the breastworks a week
ago. . -" - "
Could it have' been Horace Bigelow
who said that the Germans raised Kane?
A local paper says the verdict in the
Cook case was a surprise, but the real
surprise was the losing of Dave Hen
nessy's gun, which never" appeared in
the narratives of the affair until the case
came into court. '.:>; '
Thomas A. Edison has invented an
economical system of heating compressed
air, and if he will now invent a process
of compressing "hot air" the political
campaign will cease to be a waste of
time and money.
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The latest fashion in warships is to
have them Morocco bound. The Havana
wrapper has gone out of style.
;,....-■. * » *
The Chicago city council will not meet
for several days, as Chief Kipley has or
dered the arrest of every known crook in
the city.
The Republican state central commit
tee, at heart, is as anxious to have a ro
count as a kitten is to saib a boat In a
tub.
AT THE THEATERS.
METROPOLITAN.
"At the White Horse Tavern," which
will be seen at the Metropolitan to
night and the remainder of the wtek,
is a comedy of trans-Atlantic flavor'
which has been on the road to success
so long that it may be considered that
it has nearly reached the goal. It tastes
of the real Tyrol, the region of romance,
the Austrian Alps, and the bit of an
inn that is tucked away in the moun
tain side, a continued invitation to re
pose for the guests who essay to stop
there, in the play.
The reflection from the ice on the'
Alpine summits dazzle their eyes; the
little lake that leaves the road at the
mountain's foot threatens to swallow
them, and the fleecy clouds grow black
and pour down avenging showers of
real water, which soak the just and un
just actors alike.
The sunshine gets through often, how
ever, and there is a laugh *very few |
seconds. There are - music and folk
songs, pretty maidens and romantic
trysts, quaint characters and odd do- i
ings; in fact, the most delightful pot
pourri of color to delight the eye, of
wit to delight the ear, and of connected
merit that appeals to the intelligence
and understanding.
The play comes from Germany, the
home of "The Private Secretary." and
a source which has supplied more than
one . success and inspired others. "The
Germans are prolific play producers, al
though they do not always give the
best acting versions. "At the White
Horse Tavern" has passed through the
hands of Sydney Rosenfeld, and it has
come out with many improvements and
all the original charm unimpaired.
GRAND. >
Comedy, hap always been a popular
style of entertainment with local theater
goers, with the consequence that "A
Stranger in a Strange Land." which is
being seen .et the Grand this week, is
meeting with a cordial reception. Wil
liam Friend, as Jack Thorndyke, and
Miss Beatrice Norman as Alice Welling
ton, are both seen to good advantage, j
and Joseph Cusack as the Indian pro
vides no end of amusement.
"McFadden's Flats," which has been
such an enjoyable treat to those who'
have a fondness for comedy, has been
overhauled, changed and brought up-to
date, and is announced to appear at the
Grand the coming week, commencing
Sunday night at S:ls.
STAR.
Isham's Octoroons are entertaining large
audiences at the Star theater this week.
The bill is somewhat out of the run of
the attractions which have been offered
at this popular theater since its opening,
but it is not the less enjoyable for that
reason and has made a tremendous hit.
A LITTLE RESPITE.
Institutions that have learned to ex
pect attacks from legislators are getting
a little temporary solace out of the face
that a number of the state assemblies
are to be occupied for a while in tlie
forthcoming sessions over closely contest
ed elections for United States senators.
In several legislatures cither the major
ity of one party is so small, or the num
ber of candidates so large, that prolong
ed contests are certain. This is likely
to occupy time and attention to the ben
efit o vested interests which are com
mon objects of attack. Of course the lac
ter cannot hope to escape, and will in
due season be subject to the usual har
rassing, but anything which keeps legisla
tors otherwise occupied is so much clear
gain, especially in states whore there
is a time limit to the sessions. Satan
ever finds ample mischief for the aver
age legislator to do, but the latter is le«i
apt to be in a dangerously idle state of
mini! when there is a senatorial contest
in the field.
FARMER AND FOREST.
Cteii. t>.!iiew Tell* Why ih? State
Suould Adopt Forestry System.
To the Editor of the Globe:
"There will be plenty of buffaloes for
many years to come," was said not so
very long ago. But the buffaloes are!
.gone. Those who find profit in a waste
ful eoiisumption of our pine forests are
shouting: "There is no danger of the pine !
becoming exhausted." So they said in
Michigan; but lumbermen in Michigan
are importing logs from Canada to keep
their mills running and the price of •
standing pine In Michigan has gone up j
to X 8 per thousand feet on the average, ;
or twice its value "in Minnesota. Two
years ago a forest expert from the divi- '
sion of forestry, Washington, spent three j
months in the Wisconsin forests making.
an official survey and estimate of the
standing pine in that state. He found
the present supply 17,000,000,939 feet; that
•there was originally li.-y.0J0.000.000 feet;
that 86.000,000,000 feet had been cut since
1840 and that 26.000,930,000 feet had prob-!
ably been destroyed by fire. \c
A safe estimate of the present amount
of standing pine in Minnesota is £9.000,
--000,000 feet. Possibly there are 25.000.9C0.- !
000 feet. But it is being cut at the rate
of half a billion feet per year and most
ly shipped out of the state. Anyone can
judge how long lumberine: in this state
on its present extensive scale will last.
Different sorts of lumber brought by rail
way from the Pacific coast are now found
in most lumber yards competing with
our home products. When our own sup
ply is exhausted up will go the price of
lumber. Farmers are necessarily large
consumers of pine lumber and It will
make an important difference with them
financially whether or not a more eco
nomical management of our forest re
sources be adopted.
The increment or growth of our pine
forests probably "amounts to ,309,900,900
feet per year. And if the cut over and
waste lands that are not well adapted
for agriculture were planted to . pine the
whole increment, the ugh not marketable
till a future period; - : would reach about
600,909,000 fee* board measure per year.
Every year we neglect. to adopt a forest
ry system entails future loss to th? pub
lic, and especially,to the barn builder, or,
in other words, the farmer.-.,;ys^sg^s?f:--:
—C. C. . Andrews.
St. Paul, Nov. 14
Monday, Nov. 5 -„,... .... 17,675
Tuesday, Nov. 6................... 21,900 !
Wednesday, Nov, 7,,... .^24,100
Thursday, Nov. 8......... 21200 *
Friday, Nov. 9,. r? , v . r .... ; .... : ..... .18,350
Saturday, Nov. 10 ....._.,.., ? tf9 18 000 *
Sunday, Nov. 4 21,400 *
(Advertisers are reminded that the respective circulation] of th*
week-day and Sunday Globe are largely separate propositions, thai of ■
the Sunday being smaller in the rural parts than the week-lay edition
and larger in St. Paul and near-by cities and towns,)
THE PROOF IS READY.
The Globe's circulation ..statement is not accompanied by an affidavit, and
for the reason that few advertisers do not realize that any person who will ma!&
a willfully fraudulent statement will scarcely scruple to swear to its accuracy.
Instead of parading an affidavit, the Globe invite, any one and every on 3
interested to, at any time, make a full scrutiny of its circulation lists and
records and to visit its press and mailing departments to check and keep tab
on the number of papers printed .and the disposition made of the same.
ENGLAND'S NEW- LITERAL SENSATION
The cleverest woman in England today j
is John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie in ;
private life). She is also the most talked j
about, as her new book, "Robert j
Orange," Frederick A. Stokes company, j
is the literary sensation of the day across \
the water, says the Times-Herald.
Mrs. Craigie is in reality an American, I
as she was born in Boston in 1567. Her j
•grandfather, Rev. James Richards, was j
the founder of the first theological sem- :
mary in New York. v She left this coun
try, however, at an early age, and trav
eled extensively with her parents. Her
elementary, education was obtained in
Paris, where she was put to school, -j
Having learned French in her childhood, '
she speaks it with the same facility as :
English. She is also deeply versed in i
the classics, which she studied at Uni- !
versity college in London under the cele- j
[ bra ted Prof. Goodwin. She began writ- :
ing at an extremely early age, but did '
not attain .to general recognition until
j the appearance of her first long novel, j
"Some Emotions and a Moral."
T. Fisher Unwin became her publisher i
i through the fact that she was unwilling I
to relinquish the unusual title which the j
book bears. It was first submitted to an
other firm, who accepted it on condition :
that the author accept a different title
and make other lesser changes. She re
fused to comply and offered the manu
script to Mr. Unwin, who also strongly
recommended that she alter the title, but
did not insist when he found the fair
author inflexible. Her judgment was ap
proved by the outcome, as the book
proved a great success, selling over SO,
--000 copies in the first few weeks after
its publication.
• • *
- Other well known books by Mrs. <'ral
gie are "The School for Saints" and her
mystical, impassioned tragedy, "Osbern
and Ursyne." The chief quality of her
work is her power of brilliant generaliza
tion, a power which she sometimes sub
ordinates to a satirical and biting ten
dency.- In her descriptions of character
she is a black and white artist, using
but few lines, but those most effective.
She also .has the skill of the major -nov
elists .in handling elemental passions,
with a certain added masculine compre
hension which enables her to brsathe
the breath of life into Active men as well
as women.
Another quality of her work which
must not.be forgotten is its indefinable
air of having been written by a mental:
aristocrat—a genuine lady of quality. No
one has ever laid bare with more skill
the motives of the better classes of Eng
land. Her women and men never for a
moment forget their breeding; they never
do or think anything vulgar— the rea
son, one comprehends, that the author
herself is such a thoroughbred that she
has no conception of vulgar or low-bred
traits. Even her villain, Parflete (In
"Robert Orange"), receives his death
wound like a gentleman, and opens the
door for the exit of his -murderer with
the courtly remark: "Sir, I have the
honor to wish you good day."
"Robert Orange" is the sequel to the
story "A School for Saints," and it deals
with the irresistible impulse which push
es a man on towards his calling—if he be
strong—and despite the temporary allure
ment of love and ambition. Mrs. Craigie
is a Roman Catholic, and her chief char
acter is a Romanist who is destined by
fate or divine purpose for the priesthood.
He is beloved by two women, and he
loves> one of them in return. Brigit Par
flete, the object of his affections, is a
married woman living apart from Her,
husband. A well-substantiated report of
the latter's death arrives, and Robert
and Brigit . are married. The report
proves false and they separate. Later
Parilete actually dies, but Robert has,'
renounced his ambitions and passions of
the world, and is on. his way to Rome
to join the Jesuits.
Such, in bare statement, is the funda
mental and rather unpromising idea upon
which this talented author has erected
a structure of character analysis, philos
ophy, passion, wit, romance. For, de
spite the fact that this story deals with
English politics in the days of Disreali
and that its chief character leaves one
of the most charming women ever pit
into the pages of a book to become , a
priest, is a story of absorbing Interest
after all. Dove is always interesting, and
Mrs. Craigie knows how to write about
love as do. few living authors. This a
how the spirited, . unconventional and
beautiful Sara loves: .
Whenever I hear his name I could faint.
When 1 see him I could sink into the
ground. At the sight of his handwriting
I grow cold from head to foot, I tremble,
my heart aches so that it seems break
ing in two. I long to be with him. yet
when I am with him I have nothing to
say. I have to escape and be miserable
all alone. He is my thought all day; the
last before I sleep, the first when I
awake. I could, cry and cry and cry.
I -try -to read, and I remember not a
word. I like playing best, for then 1 can
almost imagine that he is listening. But
when I stop playing and look around r
find myself in an empty room. It is
awful. I call his name; no one answers.
I whisper it: still no answer. I throw
myself on the ground and I say: "Think
of me! you shall, you must, you do think
of me!" It is great torture and a great
despair. Perhaps it is a madness, too.
But it is my way of loving. I want to live
while I live. If I knew for certain that
he loved me—me only—the joy, I think,
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PEARL MARY TERESA CRAIGIE.
. ("John Oliver Hobbes.") t .
one may find something to note or reflect
upon on almost any of the pages:
She told herself that she was" deeply
anxious about his soul, but in a crowd
she watched for his broad shoulders and
his handsome face. ~: --•
I am afraid she i 3 a coquette—a serious
coquette.
The world—to a young mind—appears
controlled by elderly, suspicious,- hateful
custodians, ever on the aiert to capture
would kill me. Love! Do you know, poor
little angel, what it means? Sometimes
it is a curse. • .. . : _V
And this is the tender and rapturous
way that Brie-it talks to Robert 'during
their brief honeymoon:
I have but one prayer, and that is Jhat
I may outlive you. When you die 1 shall
soon follow you. It won't - seem-so very
long. But if 1 should die first I should
have to wait, because you would never
yield, and your grief would cut sharply^
and slowly, a little more and more each
day- And, although I might be with you,
you could not see me.' I should know all - ~
your thoughts, and yet I could say noth
ing. Almighty God is too kind to let me
be so unhappy after I am dead.
» * *
Mrs. Craigie's pages are strewn so!
thickly with philosophic observation, bril
liant epigrams and keen comment that
one enjoys them best by reading them
Slowly, Interesting as the story is, there
is keener delight in her work from the _
purely intellectual side than from the
recreative. Opening the book at random
or thwart every high enterprise and pas
sionate desire.
* ♦ ♦
Those who can be disillusionized have
no convictions. Disillusion is the failure
of a half-belief.
.*..** ■':-' ;-<* *
They managed an appearance of inti
macy by discussing with great freedom
the private affairs of their friends. i ~
* * *
The very book in which the vanity of
all things is most insisted on has lived
itself nearly 3,000 years.
5 * *
Disraeli called him a personified hallu
cination.
* * *
She is not clever enough to feel bored;
she is too well brought up to be fascinat
ing, too handsome to insist oil homage.
* * * ■ —
„ ''Nations go mad." said he, smiling.
Why not to my advantage, then, as
well as yours?" .
* * *
I find a great campaign is being waged
everywhere against the soul. It is a
universal movement—the oniv things c».t
sidered now are the pocket and the liver
* * •
It is an anecdote to be told in the
Boccaccio manner—gracefully, with hu- _
mor, with much indulgence— it'
might be the sort of story they tell' in
hell.
* * *
The question being raised by the elites
is, whether the character of Robert Or
ange is quite convincing or not. Can a
man love a woman so humanly, so de
viously as is herein depicted, while be
ing at the same time irresistibly drawn
toward the monastic life? In answer tc
this question Mrs. Craigie is said to reply
that Robert Orange actually lived and ~~
acted as represented.
Look* ».s Tlionsrli He Did.
Toledo Bee.
When Grover Cleveland pulled the
hole in after him we hone he nailfd I
down on the inside.
American Alliance, for Instance.
Philadelphia Inquirer. rt'*Lj
'Salisbury may be old, but he knows i
thing or two • that always startles th<
youngsters.
AKiA That's All He Want*.
Atlanta Journal.
Mr. Hanna indicates that he doej no
care to be president in name, but onl;
in reality. - i-v.' •
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My*tery Explained.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Perhaps - the . Jones vote went to th
place where all the pins go.