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4 GLOBE'S TELEPHONE CALLS. ; :.Y ' THE NORTHWESTERN. Business Office ... . . . 1005 Main Editorial Rooms ..... 78 Mnln Composing Room 1034 Main MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. Bnsincs* Office 10S9 Editorial Room. a. 88 OFFICIAL PAPER, CITY OF ST. PAUL. THE GLOBE CO.. PUBLISHERS. Entered at Postoffice at St. I*aul. linn.. as Second-Class Matter. , CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Carrier. I 1 mo I C mos I 12 mos Bally only" 40 I $2.25 $1-00 Daily and Sunday .50 ! 2.75 5.00 Sunday .15 1 .75 1-00 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Mall. I 1 mo I 6 mos | 12 mos Daily only I SI $1.50 I $3.00 Daily and Sunday .35 I 2.00 4-00 Sunday 1 ... I .75 I LOO BRANCH OFFICES. New York. 20 Spruce St.. Chas. H. Eddy ln Charge. Chicago. No. S7 Washington St.. WII- Hams «*_ Lawrence In Charge. SATURDAY. FEB. 2, 1901. "TRADE WITH THE ARGENTINE RE PUBLIC. Those who are clamoring for an ex panded American export trade and those who arc in favor of a ship subsidy to ac complish that end can both find food for thought in the condition of our trade with the Argentine Republic and the his tory of th.- attempt made to establish a line of steamships between the United States and that enterprising republic. Since the days of James G. Blame there has been no consistent effort made to secure or maintain trade with the South American republics. The average business man does not seem to realize the Importance of these countries in the world of trade. The Argentine Republic is fast taking rank with the secondary powers, but th tough a hick of communi cation we know but little of this grow ing young giant. Few realize that Bueno s Ayres Is a modern city— a world metrop olis with a population exceeding 800,000. This population consist? of Spanish, Ger man, English, French and a large arid growing number of ItaPans. The exports of the republic for nine months ending Sept. 30, IS!*-, amounted to "P_2,518,000 and the imports reached dur ing the same time $87,461 The flourlsn. ing condition of the trade of the repub lic ls shown in the fact (hat. while the Imports decreased, the exports increased over $4,C00,(K.*_ during the time mentioned. This trade, which naturally belongs to# the United Stales, is distributed as fol lows: United Kingdom. EM.000.000; Ger- - man, $12,500,000; Italy. $11.fiOO.000: United States. $9.:«H).00O; France. $8,700,000; Bel glum, $6,900,0-0, and the balance scatter ed. The imports from this country decreas ed $1,400,000 and tlio-so or England $2,003, --000, while Germany's Imports increased $2,500,000 and Italy's $I,(KHi.OCO during the same period. This Indicated that there Is a screw loos, somewhere. The falling off Is no doubt owing to the refusal of the senate to ratify the pending reci procity treaty. Tlie cause for our small trade, with the Argentine Republic lie.s. without doubt. In the lack of transportation. It ls Impossible to control a market unless there Is ample and certain means of freight transportation. As long as the Shippers of tho United Stales must reach the markets of South America by way i of Liverpool or other European ports. it will be impossible to establish a pay ing market for our goods. During tin; first administration of Pica ldent Cleveland, the Argent I ItepuUUc, desiring closer trade relations with the United Slate-, and knowing this to be impossible unless a regular line of steam ers be established between the. two coun- ! tries, offered to contribute SluO.oOO a year. If the United States government would contribute a. like amount, as a subsidy to a weekly steamship line between Buenos Ayres and New York. This of fer was declined by our government and the opportunity to secure the trade or the greatest republic of South America was lost, at least Tor a time. This offer on the part of Ihe Soutti American republic suggests the true theory of ship subsidies. The amounts should be definite and he offered for definite lines to definite ports. The theo ry should be to invade new fields only, the subsidy being given to enable the new line to overcome the expense of an Initial service which is always greater than the income until a trade is established. This system of subsidy makes the ship owner and the traders partners in a mu tual enterprise— the building up of for eign markets. It .seems strange that our Senatorial wise men fall to recognize the only principle on which a subsidy can be of benefit to the American oeo- Ple. A\ i:\l»Ki.\Sl\ ■__ MIX CRY. When Gov. Scofieid accepted the courtesy of etia express companlea and shipped his cow and family vegetables from his home to Madison, his friends a* well as his enemies were disgusted. After a deal of public criticL-m the mat ter was dropped, the governor having followed well-established precedents in accepting the franking privilege from ex press companies. The criticism on the governor of Wisconsin was that those courtesies were, in effect, a brine. This cow episode was largely instrumental in arousing public opinion In Wisconsin which found expression in the anti-pass law. It would he a Godsend if some con gressman would frank his cow or his garden vegetables to Washington and thus bring before the public in a dra matic manner the abuse of the franking privilege that Is now In vogue. It costs the United States $.0,000,000 a year to transport the mails. Of this. $8.000, is expended In carrying the mail under go eminent frank. The government free mall matter weighs more than all (he first-class mat ter originating in the United States. All sorts," of things are sent through -. the mails. Clerks at 'the headquarters 'of both national parties possess rubber fac similes of the signatures of congressmen, by means of which tons of political docu ments are loaded on the mall service, at* the expense of the department." Tools and other heavy equipments of govern ment surveying parties are sent by mail. On one occasion a government party is reported to have sent tons of mineral specimens from Montana to Washington by mall, the actual cost of transporta tion of which was $1,300. Not long since an office desk was sent from Indianapolis Ind., to v Manila by mail. By the time 'his piece of furniture reached its destination, it would stand the government about $900. Parts of books are incorporated in con gressional speeches and sent broadcast over the country as free matter. Tons of seeds from the agricultural department, nine-tenths of which never are used, swell the cost of the department with out doing any good. If the free matter sent out last year— the year including the national elec tion—had been paid for at the usual rates, it would have amounted to $3,500,000 ln round numbers, sufficient to wipe out tho entire deficiency of the department. To show where this abuse is located and to fix upon the parties responsible it is only necessary to examine the report of the Washington postoffice. That office handles more mail than all the offices in the following states: Maine, New Jersey, North Carolina, Connecticut, Georgia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, lowa, Texas and California. Of this over one half is franked matter. In IS7I the franking nuisance had reach ed high water mark, the cost of free mail reaching the enormous figures, $2, --443,327. It-became known that congress men were using the mails to have their laundry done at home. This practice, like the Wisconsin cow case, attracted so much attention that an investigation was made and the franking privilege was repealed. It was soon granted again and is now worse than ever. There, are 200,000 postoffices In the world of which more than one-third are in the United States. Germany has less than half of the number of postoffices in the United States, yet makes a profit of $5,- OOO.OCO. Great Britain with still a less number works out a profit of $13,000,000 annually. With tho abolition of the franking sys tem and an amendment of the postal law. to exclude fraudulent newspapers ana'magazines*, the postoffice department, which by the. way Is the best organized business branch of the government, would pny a profit Instead of showing up an annual deficit. ao._i>* "«-.1,1<-Kl>j\<; KANSAS." For fifty years of belligerent history ■Kansas has been the typical state mi'i lanl. Fifty years ago tho Issue of war In Kansas w;i s slavery. Today it is the saloon. Then the cause was national; now it la Mrs. Nation. Then the fray , was marked by bloodshed; now by a j vast shedding of spilled beer and plat© glass. By article 15. section 10. of the consti tution of Kansas, as amended by vote of the people In November. 38S0, the manu facture and sale of intoxicating liquors is "forever prohibited" in Kansas. By statutes passed in pursuance of this con stitutional prohibition, ln the legislative sessions of ISSI. ISSS, ISS7 and subsequent ly, the sale of liquor— for medic inal, scientific and mechanical purposes by special permit—ls compassed with se vere penalties provided with great detail and care. The saloon man is in for a fine of $1110 to $510 or 30 to 90 days for each and every offense; and the saloon patron Is subject I" the same pain and penalties. Moreover, every public official responsible for tho enforcement of the law comes In for like penalties for re fusing to- enforce, besides losing Ids of fice. Among the officials thus held re sponsible are the county attorney and sheriff, the city mayor find police force, the village marshal and town constables, as well as the police justices. If any of these officials rail to perform their dullea In regard to the enforcement of tho prohibitory statute, he may either be re moved by civil process or bo prosecuted criminally and lose his office beside. suf fering the fine and Imprisonment accord ed tho guilty liquor dealer. All of these provisions have been sustained by the supreme court of Kansas in numerous decisions. Section 39 of the Kansas prohibitory law Is undoubtedly that which gives the present crusade its legal Inspiration. It Is known as the "search and seizure" clause. All liquor places conducted with out a legal penult are declared by this section to be "common nuisances." Sher iffs, deputies, constables, marshals and police are directed to shut up and abate them by seizing the liquors and general outfit and destroying them publicly. Public officials are compelled by the section to act on Information furnish ed by any citizen. The stat ute does not in so many words au thorize the common citizen to seize and make destruction of saloon property, but when the latter Is ..declared by law to be a "common nuisance," what can the guilty proprietor do if the unlawful "com mon nuisance" run by him happens- to get abated? The fact stands, that the Kansas sa loonkeeper, according to Kansas .law, is engaged In criminal practices, and his liquor and fixtures are the tools of said unlawful practices; and how can the guilty offender demand of a Kansas court the payment of damages for the loss of the tools of his unlawful occupation? As well might the mountain moonshiner go to the United States court to re cover damage to his Illegal still, or the safe-cracker sue for the loss of his tools while engaged in prosecuting a burglary; Consequently, after one or two failures at attempting Mrs. Nation's prosecution in court, the liquor dealers of Kansas have been compelled to fall back upon the water hose and the fists of their wives for the protection of their prop erty. The saloon can get from the law no protection In the conduct of a busi ness which the law pronounces criminal. But if Mrs. Nation goes out of the boundaries of Kansas with her system -. ■■■ - . • - ■ . ..- .--■--■...-. ■ ■....—-.-, . . THE ST. PAUL, WOl* 3,-' SATURDAY, JfKBRUAKr :_;, 1901. of saloon destruction, she may get into trouble. In a reported interview at To peka she is quoted as planning a crusade In New York city. That would not work as regards New York saloons, be cause they are protected by law. Saloon fixtures in New York are entitled to the same legal protection as other property, and the saloon business is licensed and under protection of law. If Mrs. Na tion goes. to New York she will have to content herself with a crusade on gambling joints and disorderly houses. Mrs. Nation, however, would doubtless find a field of ample dimensions in abat ing this line of institutions, and may be able to fill for the big town a long felt want. When she gets through with the gambling joints and disorderly houses of the country, there still remain the sa loons of prohibition Meantime, the raid of Kansas saloons proceeds with growing momentum. Mrs. Nation now has an organized army of forty-odd helpers. A second leader in the person of Mrs. Sheriff has appeared with ten W. C. T. U. fighters and a reserve force of husbands and sons for a body guard. Wichita, Enterprise, Anthony and Topeka have been pretty thoroughly crusaded already, and the movement has put a damper on Kansas saloon bus iness. It seems that Mrs. Nation made her debut as a saloon wrecker ten years ago, when she put hors dv combat the saloons of Medicine Lodge and Wichita. Mrs. Sheriff' is not altogether a green hand, either, having been at the bus iness six weeks, with a record of four closed saloons in Anthony alone and a further list in smaller towns. It looks very much as though the temp.ranct, women of Kansas, backed by the con stitution and laws of that state, had both the saloons and officeholders very much on the hip and stand in a fair way to make mince-meat of the former and laughing-stock of the latter. MANCHURIA. Well informed persons are generally convinced that Russia has no intention of abandoning Manchuria, her declara tions to the contrary notwithstanding. It is a country of immense natural wealth, and Capt. Younghusband, of the -Brijtish army, who has explored it, says: "If Manchuria were such a wretchedly poor country, as, for instance, Khiva, Mary and Turkestan, and others, which have fallen to the lot of the Russians, comparatively little attention need be paid to the progress of events in that distant portion of the world. But Man churia Is no such desert country, lt is, on the contrary, a country of exceeding richness, of promise scarcely less than that of the Transvaal itself, and com pared to which the whole of Central Af rica from Uganda to Khartoum, is of paltry insignificance. "The timber alone in the vast virgin forests which clothe the hillsides over thousands of square miles must be worth many millions, for this timber is of the most valuable kind; and besides the ordinary pines, which are common all over the world, and which, being fast growing, can be easily replaced when cut down, there are immense quan tities of hard timber— oak, and elm and walnut, to replace which a century is required, and the quantity of which in the world is rapidly diminishing. "Manchuria is equally rich in its pro duction of cereals, and, in the southern portion, of such crops as indigo and to bacco." If hazing Is too brutal, wiiuldn't it be well to Introduce the French duel In stead?. .. Germany's increase of births over deaths amounts to about 800,000 a year. In this respect Germany is Surpassed only by the United States and Russia. Sir Robert Hart declares, In the Fort nightly, that "the days of Taepingdom, when native warred with native, showed nothing worse" than the atrocities com mitted by the allied forces in China. In October last we sold Great Britain $50,000,000 worth of- goods and bought from her less than $4,000,000 worth, the balance in our favor In one month reach ing the great sum of $46,000,000. It is a striking fact that this balance is $20,000, --000 greate*- than tho same month of the preceding year. Speaking of the barbarities charged against the foreign soldiers In China, Sir Robert Hart remarks that "the warriors of this new century can be as brutal, with all their wonderful discipline and up-to-dato weapons, as were ever the savages of earlier times with tomahawk, boomerang or assegai." Writing of what he saw in Pekin, Sir Robert Hart says that "even some mis sionaries took such a leading part in 'spoiling the Egyptians' for the greater glory of God that a bystander was heard to say. 'For a century to come Chinese converts will consider looting and ven geance Christian virtues'.' " A great many of Gov. Van Sant's ad miring supporters are not edified at his distribution of the spoils of office. The way he is farming out the fat jobs to the machine politicians and their hench men is thinning out the ranks of the original Van Sant men like the primeval forest when the lumber jacks get into it. Dr. Dillon, ln the Contemporary, exon erates the American troops from any thing but a minor and sporadic share in the Chinese atrocities. Indeed, he says that, so Tar as he knows, "no of ficers or soldiers of English or German speaking nationalities have been gullty of the abominations against defenseless women." During 1900 there was an increase in German-American trade, both in Imports and exports. The imports from the Unit ed States Into Germany were valued at $829,000,000, against $793,000,000"in 1899, an Increase of $36,000,000. The exports were valued last year at $1,478,000,000 as com pared with $1,253,000,000 during the pre ceding year, an increase of $225,000,000. They way Fred Schiffmann starts in to run the office of oil inspector shows that he has the correct Republican v idea of it. As a pap extractor he must be a daisy. Not satisfied with the $25,000 that the office brings in ordinarily, he pro ceeds, as reported, to swell his revenues by bleeding his deputies. In the past deputy inspectors in the country dis tricts have usually been permitted to pocket all the fees they got. As the bulk of the oil was Inspected in the Twin Cities, the deputies seldom cleared more than pocket money, except in Red Wing, Winona and other southern points. Now, -it seems, rural inspectors are being re quired to turn in a percentage of their receipts to the state oil inspector. Thus the good old Republican doctrine that a " public office is a private bonanza is again illustrated. News comes from Texarkana, Tex., of a movement that deserves to be encourag ed. A. recent dispatch from Texarkana says: "ft'*_l_ SirvitK. a. . neern well known in Miller county, and eight other Miller county negroes, left here for Monrovia. I.lberia, in Africa. On Feb. 1, another party of twenty-five negroes will leave here for Liberia. It is stated that there IB an agent here who will send hundreds of them to Africa during i the next | twelve months. The move 'Is being - encouraged by the Liberian government. Their ob ject is to enter agricultural pursuits in their objective abode Africa is no longer the dark and un known continent of fifty or even twenty five years ago_ It is rapidly being drawn into the current of the world's commerce and law and order has been established in the greater part of it. Colored emi grants from our Southern states will find In certain parts of Africa an ac ceptable climate and a most prolific soil, and thus they will be - able to benefit themselves and their race to an extent that they could never hope for in this country*. ■'. '■" " 'r'l AA'A' Dr. Dillon, in the Contemporary, draws a lurid picture of the atrocities practiced by the foreign soldiers in China. After one piteous tale of mingled outrage and bloodshed, Dr. Dillon adds: "I knew of others, whose wives and daughters hanged themselves on trees. or drowned themselves in garden wells, in order to escape a much worse lot. Chi nese women honestly believed that no more terrible fate could overtake them than to fall' alive -into the hands of Eu ropeans and Americans. And it is to te feared that they were right. Buddhism and Confucianism have their martyrs to chastity, whose heroic feats no martyr ology will ever record. Some of thosa obscure but right-minded girls and-wom en hurled themselves into the river, and, finding only three feet 'of water there, kept their heads under the surface • until death had set his seal on the sacrifice of their life. » * * But a large number of ill-starred women fell alive into the", hand a of the allied troops. I saw some of them in Pekin and Tungtchau, but already dead, with frightful gashes in the breast, or skulls. smashed in, and one with a hor ribly mutilated body. There is a lady missionary in Pekin who, in company with a female colleague, busied her.-elf, to my knowledge, for months in shield ing Chinese women and girls from bein? raped by Christian and European sol diers, and the work was anything but easy, though I have reason to believe that it has proved eminently successful. Even in the broad daylight soldiers hung about the refuge and employed various devices and tricks , to get hold of the women, whom they ought to have bean the first to protect." -"- :.p SATURDAY GLOBE GLANCES. The first Society of Christian Endeavor was organized by Rev. F. E. Clark, pastor of Williston church, Portland, Me., twenty years ago today. There are now over 60,000 societies in the United States. Mr. Clark is president of the Interna tional organization and the general con vention will be held Cincinnati, July 4-8, 1901. It is about time that there was some general protest against the Indiscriminate and wasteful use '.of ' public money in these so-called river and harbor appro priation bills. A couple of years ago $5,000 was given to improve the river in Mississippi and when the government engineer looked it up they found it per fectly dry and,it, never had water In it except after a. rain storm. It is stated as a fact that on the Missouri river above above Sioux City the amount of money spent by the government equals $3,000 for every ton of freight sent by the river boats; this for the past year. That is a deep-seated superstition that makes a man. believe the weather pre dictions of some old fakir whose knowl edge Is gained by consulting a pack of cards and the stars and boldly lays out a programme: of ' thunder • storms, droughts and : blizzards months ahead. The nearest forecasts as to weather aro made by the government signal service, and these , are limited, because unseen and unknown changes j frequently take place : in face of the plain reading of barometer and thermometer. ' A~' Today, Feb., 2, is -the anniversary of the birth in 1651 of Sir William Phipps, famous as the governor of Massachusetts colony. He was one of a family of twenty-five children, twenty ■ brothers and five sisters. The McKinley administration is trying to make a scapegoat of Minister Con ger, who is right on the ground and ought to know something more of the situation than Secretary Hay. . At pres ent China is face to face with a condi tion of affairs which means war unless a miracle occurs. If the Chinese gov ernment does not sign the demands pre sented by the powers, the latter will pro ceed to force to make their wishes re spected. If the demands are agreed to, the Mongolian princes and nobles whose death is asked for in the joint note will revolt, and a war in which the Chinese will be slaughtered in vast numbers will result. During the recent debate in the senate over the army reorganization bill, Gen. Hawley, chaiiman of the committee on military affairs, said the plan was to enlarge the regular army so that garri sons can be established in the large cit ies. ; He declared the time had come when cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Washington, etc., needed garrisons of United States sol diers for the suppression of disorder. This is a Republican admission of the failure of civil government or else it is a slander. ". ■'.'•■ A balloon fitted up with automatic in struments was sent up at Paris recently. The instrument showed that it had risen to the height of 56,000 feet, or over ten and one-half miles, where the tempera ture .as recorded was 102 degrees below zero. ~'.:* T. A new trust has been organized, or a movement has been started- to consoli date all the crematories of the United States and Canada into one association. There are now seventy-five crematories In this country. -The object is to make a uniform price for cremation. Cert.fi cates, to be paid "up during the lifetime of the holder, will be issued, and upon the death of the owner of a certificate his body may be incinerated at any of the crematories in the association. Sales of real estate in Galveston show that values are held at about one-half the figures prevailing before the great storm. A general feeling of insecurity exists. -'"' >' * —— Charles A. Towne closed his senatorial .career with a speech of 20,000 words, last ing three hours and two minutes. The Chicago American says: "Mr. Towne's salary as senator amounted to $712. His mileage from Duluth to Washington and return amounted to $288, so that he wi'.l draw about $1,000 for filling Cushman K. Davis' shoes . for fifty-six days. His speech contained'2o,ooo words. Thus Mr. Towne has been paid by the - United States just five cents a word and $5.50 a minute for his services as senator from Minnesota." :. Now supposing he had made no speech he would have received the same salary. The member of con gress from i this district has received over $20,000 salary and we have yet to see any of his eloquence or advice to con gress or the country. . Six years ago today the Kearsarge, the war corvette -which vanquished the Con federate cruiser, Alabama, was wrecked and lost, in the Carribbean sea. —o— * : . ."'."'*'- The treaty of peace between the United States and Mexico, which ended the Mex ican war, was signed Feb. 2, 1848, at Guadalupe. '" *£ "-•..""' .According to th. Medical Record th_ grip, or influenza, as it was formerly called, is,' all finings considered, "the most insidious * and dangerous disease; which attacks civilized races." No spe-: cific for the malady is' known, accord ing to this authority, and, its onslaughts are not to be effectually guarded against. On tin- first suspicion''of an attack .the; : sufferer should consul t a - physician and;' be guided by reason and clinical; expe [ rience. These teach .- rest in bed,' the avoidance of drastic agents and above all the curbing of the desire to leave the sick room until after the seeds of the disease are | entirely eliminated from the system. Sharkey, the prize fighter, ha* what is known as a "cauliflower" ear—that 3 one ear Is twice the size of the other and still growing. It was the ,- result of being badly crushed by a blow from Gus Ruhlin In a fight a year ago. Shar key is not the. only pugilist that suffers from "cauliflower" ear. George Dixon Matty Matthews, Jimmy Handler Kid Broad. Young Griffo and Kid Lavlgn. are on the list. Broad had an operation performed on his about six months ago, but It was not successful. Sharkey told a reporter that he will spend $5,000" if he can restore the member to the condition it was in before he became a fighter. —o— During the recent argument by Attor ney General Griggs before the supreme court in favor of the president ruling Porto Rico and the Philippines outside of the constitution, one of the questions ask ed him was: "May congress establish in newly acquired territory j any other than a republican form of government?" To which the reply was "yes." But when Justice Harlan asked him if congress could confer titles of nobility in the ter ritories or "dependencies" the attorney general did not answer. A:::P —— The past year witnessed an unusual number of remembrances, in the wills of rich men, of educational, religious, and benevolent Institutions. This Is all right and the habit. of giving should ber encouraged, for by right a country whlch has made possible the accumula tions of great fortunes has a just claim for recognition in some form for the gen eral public good. • —o— There is a good deal in common be tween primitive man and the~bird The former lives in a dugout, or tepee made of poles, logs or sticks, just as the eagle crow and buzzard- build their nests with no idea of beauty, and bones, feathers and skins befoul both forms of habta tion. —o— The presentation of Christ m the tern- Pi e LI commonly - called the purification of St. Mary the Virgin, the anniversary of which is Feb. 2. The feast of Can dlemas dates from Anglo-Saxon times and was celebrated with many candles the Savior being termed "A light to lighten the Gentiles''-although the virgin was herself regarded as a light. The day l?*^% l£ a iS known as "Groundhog day. The tradition is. if that animal comes out of his hole and sees snow on the ground he walks about; but if the sun shines he returns to his hole and stays six weeks. In England and Europe the day Is watched with anxiety "If Candlemas day be fair and bright J* 1"'" will live another flight; 5 ' t"ut if Candlemas day be clouds and. Winter is gene and will not come again." PERTINENT OR PARTLY SO. Today Is ground-hog day, and the coal man will wake this morning with many misgivings. Tennessee has passed an anti-cigarette bill. Moonshine id to be the only in spirational medium permitted in that state. >.. •;.- .*- Admiral Dewey was hazed at Ann apolis, but it was not done by Spanish students, anyway. Either Mr. Van Sant is not governor over Minneapolis, or that telegram to a Cincinnati paper was what the baseball world would call a "grandstand" play • • • Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper, is dead. Steven was the author of the prop osition that.one might as well be dead as dead broke. He has now tried both *•■*■■ i ■ It is said that Building Inspector Haas' illness ls due to the tensile strain of the burden of the grand Jury report. <. * * • St. Louis has been priding itself on having the largest policeman in the world, arid St. Paul takes the wind out of the Missouri sails by coming to the front with one half a size larger. - •'• • • The name of Minneapolis* new baseball magnate, Beall, is pronounced as though the "a" was not In it. In Minneapolis they call him the bell of the ball. The British torpedo boat destroyer which rammed a hole in one of his maj esty's ships could hardly have been as vigilant as her name hinted. Building Inspector Haas must have felt, when he read that grand jury report, as though he had been struck by something at least as big as an unabridged diction ary. AT THE THEATERS. METROPOLITAN. "Standing room only" at the Metropol itan opera house for "The Rogers Brothers in Central Park" was the pleasing climax to a succession of big houses throughout the week's engage ment. There are still plenty of good seats for the two remaining perform ances, the matinee this afternoon and the farewell performance tonight. Dan Sully in "Tiy Parish Priest" will begin an engagement of four nights and Wednesday matinee tomorrow night. Harry Corson Clarke will be seen at the Metropolitan the latter part of next week In his new comedy, "What Did Tomkins Do?'.' GRAND. Performances this afternoon and even ing will conclude the engagement in this city of Bret Harte's beautiful story of the Sierras, "M'liss," which has been holding forth with such splendid success at the Grand the past week. In the title role Miss Nellie McHenry 'fcds a most congenial characterization. Joseph Bren an. as Yuba Bill, Is excellent, and Frank Dayton, as the schoolmaster, is also seen to good advantage. The scenic surround j ings are elaborate and the production a most complete one in every detail. Next week Frederick Warde and his excellent company in his latest success, "The Duke's Jester," and a repertoire of classical plays. ;: V j p/.l STAR. Excellent audiences have enjoyed the performance given this week at the Star by the "Wine, Women and Song-Burles que company. The sketch team> Gilbert and Goldie, are a tremendous hit, and Bonita and her pickaninnies are im mensely popular. There are a number of other clever artists in the company and the olio is one of the finest of the season. .>■■•'.• Next week the Victoria burlesquers. Painful for Whom? St. Cloud Journal-Press. The St. Paul Globe is "after" Sam Fuiierton, executive agent of the game and fish commission, and has, through a discharged employe of the old com mission, secured copies from the letter files in the offlce of the commission of several letters.written.by Fuiierton at the conclusion of the campaign of 1896, in which he scored the Swedes for their defection from the Republican candidate to John Lind, their countryman. One of these letters was written to C. S. Benson, of this city, treasurer of the commission, and is reproduced in the Globe of to day. Fuiierton certainly showed, his nerve writing such a letter to "Knute": Benson. Mr. Benson laughed when shown a | copy .of the Globe - today and said he had returned Fullerton's •; letter at the time' and told him: that he and other Scandinavians' would not stand for such intemperate : ..language regarding their, fealty to John Lind. It is a painful ef fort on the part of the Globe to make political ; capital against Fullcrjon. _ . Ik in IIS 01 DEMAND IN All LINES CONTINUES GOOD AT STEADY PRICES STEEL MILLS ARE ALL BUSY Wire Nails and Barbed Wire Marked lip Sj.2 Per Ton on Heavy Demand From the AAA A We.t. NEW YORK. Feb. 1.-R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade tomorrow will say: The week in general business has been without striking new features.' but in this respect the outcome has been favor able. Not one of the great industries finds any scarcity of orders for goods and business is done at prices -which show a slight tendency to rise, except in textiles which have been affected by the reduction of 10 to 20 per cent in the | season's opening price by the American "Wool company. This cut is expected to be indefinitely continued. Developments in the money market, however, indicate I that the dry goods trade is preparing for j a season of activity and the new woolen prices are not lower than most buyers expected. There is nothing discouraging in the slight decline in commercial prices ; from Jan. 1 to Feb. 1 and railway earn- ! ings continue large, increasing 11.1 per I cent for three weeks of January over last j year and 26 2 per cent over 1899. New York bank clearings for the week gain d i 48.3 per cent over 1900, and outside New York the gain is 10.8 per cent. There is ! a loss of .04 outside New York for the I week, compared with 1899, but it Is due I to the fact that enormous settlements ' were made in that year. .■".':.-. ADVANCE IN STEEL. While steel mills have contracted for their product for three months aheaf, prices naturally rule ahead. There is ex pectation of a gain in Bessemer, while rumors are active as regards billets, plates and structural materials. All those lines ''show a brisk demand. Wire nails and barbed wire were advanced $2 per ton owing to heavy orders from the West and it is expected the few mills still idle will shortly resume. Activity In Texas oil fields had an Influence on the sales. Wages are In a fair way to be satisfactorily adjusted at Valley Forge, the reduction agreed upon is les 4 than originally announced. Export oiders decrease and the Russian armor plate contract may not go to an Ameri can, although his terms were the best. THE LEATHER TRADE. Boot and shoe shops receive more orders and although quotations are nom inally unchanged many makers refuse new contracts without a small advance. Tho upward tendency Is so general that purchasers are eager to do business at the current level. Jobbers have arrived at Boston In great number and Inquiries indicate that liberal sales will result. Leather sells freely, particularly of Union Seal, but the large transactions were probably at slight concessions. Glazed kid has become a conspicuous feature of tho market, factories running at full capacity, but failing to meet the demand. The market ls irregular with more indications of advancing than of declining. WOOL MARKET. A sudden increase in the sale of wool at the three chief markets to 6,415,00 pounds, against 4,567,000 pounds in the previous week, does not appear sig nificant. After such an unusually dull season some recovery was in order. For five weeks sales were 18.1.87,700 pounds against 28,579,930 in the.same weeks of 1596, which was the smallest aggregate in five years. These figures indicate present conditions in this industry. Even the small operations were only accepted at a further reduction in quotations, the average now being the lowest since June, 1599. Interior holders are stub* bornly refusing to accept present prices. Heavyweight suitings were opened at the expected redutcion and another week of the London auction sale, is hot expected to have any effect,** Cotton vagaries havo not been regard ed with alarm by spinners, since a tem porary corner cannot have any important effect in the commercial world. Some mills Bent their raw material to the aid of short-sighted individuals, who had sold cotton they did not possess, although local stocks were known to be light. For a few days middling uplands sold at 12c, surpassing all record for many years, but with the end of the January deal there was a sharp decline to a more rational position. WEEK 11. WALL STREET. Market Has Been Largely Manipu- lated by Professional Traders. The stock market this week has been largely ln the hands of professional trad- ; ers of abundant resources, and while the ! general demand from the outside public i for stocks has been rather languid, the ! professionals have been able to manipu late prices at will. For instance, the ; transactions in St. Paul, the control of I which is admittedly sought by some of ! the most powerful financial interests in the country, footed up for a single day more than half the total number of out- I standing shares of capital stock of the i company, and for the week the number i of shares dealt in exceeds by a liberal ' margin the total common stock issue. I The case of St. Paul is a fairly repre- ; sentative one. It has been made clear i that this kind of market is not to the i taste of the more substantial Interests in i the street, probably because it Interferes I with plans maturing for the strengthen- ' ing and consolidation of the railway prop erties. The inspired announcement that I the St. Paul deal was off was the out- I growth of this -sentiment. An excited i speculative demand for a stock in tho ! open market is not calculated to facilitate I negotiations for purchase or control by i private agreement. It would indicate that in more than one case the advance ! in price of a stock has been part of a I plan to frustrate an Intended purchase | lor control. It ls believed in Wall street that many such plans are held in abey ance en account of the level of prices which have been attained ln the stock market, to be tenaciously followed up at | the most favorable opportunity. The statement issued by the Steel & Wire company was not regarded as reassuring as to the trade conditions disclosed and ! the Iron Age frankly admits "a disposi tion to halt in the trade." Some appre- ' hension continues to exist concerning the final settlement of disputes at issue be tween the powerful combinations in the trade. The fact that there has fairly de veloped something like a hostile array be tween two of the .most stubborn and strongest personalities in the financial world, each of which has boundless re sources at his back, makes the future of this dispute of vital interest -to. all j branches of the steel and iron trade.: As to the money market, the outflow of gold Is regarded with equanimity as it is with drawn from a fairly plethoric market. Business in railway bonds lias Decn large and at advancing prices. The abundance and cheapness of money has thrown investment funds into the bond j market. United States 3s advanced Vi per cent, and new 4s "J_ per cent over the call price of a week ago. BRADSTREET'S REVIEW. Relatively Bent Trade Reports Are From the West nnd South. NEW YORK, Feb. I.—Bradstreet's will say tomorrow: Business, as a whole, has been of a' larger volume this week. Cold and stormy weather has unquestionably stim ulated retail business in boots, shoes, rubber goods and clothing, and this has aided in lightening the stocks carried by the retailers as a result of the unusu ally mild weather heretofore. Mine has been doing, too, in the whole sale lines on spring account, and bus iness in this respect is - classed aa fair. Reports are relatively best from the West and South,: from which sections advices are that the total January bus iness compares ' well with - a year ago. Heavy cuts in rubber goods point to coming i sharp ; competition in this Indus try. . Staple prices arc little changed, cotton, pork and White pine lumber are all higher, but fractional declines are GLOBE'S CIRCULATION FOR JANUARY. Ernest P. Hopwood, superintendent of! circulation of the St. Paul Glebe, being-1 duly sworn, deposes and says that the actual circulation, of the St. Paul Globe for the month of January, 1901, was as follows: Total for the month 529,550 Average per day 17,082 ERNEST P. HOPWOOD. Subscribed and sworn to before me ' this 31st day of January, 1901. ', H. P. PORTER, '< Notary Public, Ramsey Co., Minn, ' (Notarial Seal.J [ FURTHER PROOF IS READY. The Globe invites any one and every ! one interested to, at anytime, make a ' full scrutiny of its circulation lists and J records and to visit its press and mall-1 ing departments to check and keep tab ' on the number of papers printed and the ! disposition made of the same. noted in wheat, corn, flour, oats, lard and tin. heat, Including flour shipments, for the week aggregate 3,776.100 bu. against 4,838,678 bu last week, 2,724,937 bu a? 0 l? e corresponding week of 1900, 6,585. --418 bu in 1899 and 3,635,035 bu in 1898. Rom July 1 to date, this season, wheat exports are 115,977.683 bu, against 120,11., --._-. on U 2St Season and 15!).517,659 bu in IS9--99. Corn exports for the week ag gregate 2.487.707 bu, against 3,972,152 bu last week, 3,598,962 bu ln this week a year ago .3,697,731 bu in 1899 and 4,10-1,981 bu in 1898. From July 1 to date this season, corn exports are 115,252,444 h_ an. st _ 129.245.865 bu last season and 93,1 4U,6-->4 bu in 1898-99. Failures in the United States for the last week ,of a January number 238, as against 281 last week, 171 in this week a a iß97a^°' ln IS"' ?* in 189S and 305 Canadian failures for the week number a.<. as compared with 34 lust week. 31 In and M lnklß a7. year &S°' ** *"* *ln ]*>S Weekly Bank Statement. AlaW YORK, Feb. 1.-The following table, compiled by Bradstreet's, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended Jan. __, with the percentage or" increase and decrease as compared with the corresponding week last year: *"| Inc. i Dec. New York !$1,::-1.894,523 " 45.3!~7. ]^pA I 122.755,010 11.8 . S2f?E l_ ' 3.6 Philadelphia 86,645,748 j 3 0 Si laouis 38,524,5301 __......... Pittsburg ; 37.840.528 30.1 Baltimore f 19,600,994 3.8 fcan Francisco .... 20,557,531 j 11./ Cincinnati 18,449,850 ; 29.5 ...... Kansas City 16,281.2541 30.4 New Orleans | 12.345,519 1.2...... Minneapolis j 10,324,525 14.5... Detroit 8.529.274 ri 2 Cleveland 10,708,384 i.b{.All Louisville 8.443,741' 16 9 Providence 6,442.009] 15.1 Milwaukee | 6,247.177 2.5 t-.J laul 4.276.500 7.9...".* Buffalo 4,822.3501 9.0! Omaha _.OQl,__S 8.7 Indianapolis 7,011,803 23.2!... Columbus, O [ 5.630,3001 26 2 . .". Washington 8,318,631 1.... Portland, Ore. .... 1,576.165 ■''J\ .. . Dcs Moines 1,208,055 5.5. ..... Seattle 2,185,213! 17.0 lacoma 1,263,317 18.7.... Spokane 839,156 1 4.8 Sioux City 1,063,163 24 1 Fargo, N. D 288,-62.... 'A. Sioux Falls, S. D. 222,886 86.6....... Helena 914.614 54. Totals, U. 5.... $2,032,345,6291 33.7 1 . ..." Total outside N.Y. 650,351,106! 10.5| dominion of CANADA. Montreal | $12781X220 6.7|.... . Toronto 9,267,407 12.2 Winnipeg ............ 1,702,898 ....'.. 1.4 Halifax 1,405,6341 7.4 Hamilton 678,128 | St. Johns, N. B | 641,216 (-...!.' Vancouver I 699,7831 12.0 .. Victoria I 533,696! W.B I : * Totals I $27,741,992! ) \ ELY MI\I*V« .MOWS. Oliver Company Acquire* Another Property— at Tower. ELY, Minn., Feb. L-(Special.)— prospects for a continuation of pood times among the iron miners of the Ver million range were never better. The Oliver Iron Alining company at Ely has just acquired another property which will tend to increase the pay rolls consider ably. The property which the company has leased is described as lot 2,*secticn 27, 03-13, and lies just north of the Ze nith mine. The lease ls to run for fifty yean and the minimum output is to be 25,000 tons annually, and a royalty of 21 cents a ton and 8 per cent of any ad vance over $3.50 a ton in the price of ore at Lake Erie ports. The company ha been exploring on the property, and that a body of ore has been found the lease shows. The ore may be hoisted thiough the Zenith shaft, or a new shaft may he sunk. The annual feature of ore buying by the Eastern consumers la seemngly be coming less and less important. Six or seven years ago not more than 10 per cent of the iron ore in the Lake Superior region was controlled by the consumers, while now at least 75 per cent of it is pro duced by the same interest that turns it into iron and steel and finished products. It is an interesting fact, however, that the 25 per cent of ore bought in the open market at this time is about equal in ton. to the SO per cent seven years ago. The total movement of ore from the Lake Su perior region In 1893 was 6,065.716 tons wherea3 hi 1900, it amounted to more than 19,000,000 tons, so that the increase in the volume of. ore has, for the present at least, compensated for the decreased percentage of ore bought in the op.-n market. 1 he annual meeting of the Roberts Iron company was held last week, and the following directors and officers were elected: Harry Roberts president and J. H. Bartow secretary and treasurer. The Roberts mine. produced 60,000 tons last year. • . .. A surprise was in store for mam' this week when Paymaster Trebilcock, 'jf the Zenith mine of the Oliver group, an nounced that he was about to leave for Crystal Falls, Mich., to become assist ant superintendent of the Mansfield mine at that place. This mine has a good deal of history connected with it. In the fail of 1593 twenty- eight men were caught in the mine by a cave In, which allowed the Michigamme river to flow into the workings of the mine, and were drowned. In 15.6 the proprietor, con ceived the idea of digging a canal to turn the river away from the workings, and did so at a great expense. The mine is looking better now than it ever did. The Minnesota Iron company, at Tower, is now sinking a shaft on tha north side of the hill on which its hard ore mines are located, and will then go to the depth of 259 feet, and then run a drift 2,000 feet to Montana shaft. The drift will cut several veins of ore that have been found by the diamond drill, and the ore will be taken out by tha Montana shift. Drifts have also bd-*n run to the" depth of 950 feet to open some ore that has been found by drill some time ago, and which will be attacked before lone. Late mining operations at these gr*a'_«r depths have failed to dis cover any cf the native copper that was occasionally nearer the surface. In all some 100 pounds of copper have been taken from the mine, chiefly out of Mon tana shaft at about 300 feet." Thl. cop per has invariably been found imbedded in the Iron ore, and with no connection with any cupriferous rocks. Range Cattle Wintering- Well. FORMAN, N. D., Feb. I.—(Special. I— Cattle on ranges are getting through the winter In fair shape, with an unusually small per cent of losses so tar. Several land seekers were up from lowa ■th a week inspecting Sargent county real es tate. Some desirable addition to our population is to result Maj. K. I). Pease has been appointed assistant sur geon in the regular army, with the rank of captain. He will leave Feb. 20 for the Philippines.... The local lodge of M. W. of-A., of For; can, are taking:* Steps to complete their - hail. the foundation of which was laid last fa11....8y a strict party vote last Friday the De Lamere Mistletoe beat tlie Sainton' County Teller for official county newspaper for the K-i t side. The-.papers, named as official are the Mistletoe, Havana Herald and the In dependent.