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Hams & Lawrence in Charct. i THURSDAY. .TULY 4. 1901. \ Fit i:-(K\T PARE, In ml>,hi ;uni suburban life one of t"he great developments <■!* the past f < w years has been the greatly added facilities Tor ■> and speedy transportation through ise of the trolley. Here In St. Paul ■\\'.> have not made as great advanoea in thai direction as have )«eri roalized In communities of low population. But is \m> have been provided with already developed Into pood pay ing properties. One of ih<- urgent needs of the city In this behalf is the establishment of im proved passenger traffic between, the heart of the city and South St. Paul and vicinity. The tireat Western Railway company has for years served the public well through its motor service l>etween Inver Grove and the city. The amplest depot facilities have been established at Intervals alone the line; and although they have not been as well patronized of late years as In the past, they are 8111 l Lvuilable and would be found of the Kroat.-st value should a m^re perfect sys tem oC local passengi r Bervice bo estab lished. The manager* o( the street rail way company have been urging on local authorities the extension to them of a franchise for the estab llßhment of a suburban car service to and from Somh St. Paul. One of the conditions they have attached to the es tablishment of Buch a line is so burden some as to put the project out of the question. The people of South St. Paul und the other places in the route will much rather continue to patronize the existing system maintained by the Great Western rather than give the St. Paul City Railway company the privilege it seeks. They are now able to pet to the city on the payment of :, oents each way. in order to do this they are called on (.. buy ten tU-ketp, which in the end is Hi.- same in point of outlay as a s cent fare \>> those who find it necessary to ride regularly on the route. A single •sis only 7 cents, and the service, In point of speed and equipment, j 8 not at Hll bad. This problem of better service between Bouth st Paul and vicinity and the city ircing itself steadily on the public at. tentiom It la on its face far from being a difficult one. The steam railway has already supplied the great need of the public; and with certain im.imvemenls woum „,,.,,, a u the requirements of the A B-cent Care is a flrst requirement. No though! Bho I rtained of glv. 1 franchise to anj co.poraiion which v..i.s not willing to carry passengers st E cents a head. The- advantages which ti.e existing system possesses in the esti mation of the people of South St. Paul Is that the existing population can be bee) served along its route and that there will be no need bo cut up Its principal street for the establishment of another system. The people Immediately interested would probably be glad to have the Great West, ■crn authorities take this matter up seri ously and provide them with added trains and establish a uniform ."-cent rate. If that could be done it would not be dlffl. cult f>>r that corporation to control the traffic, giving to the public all the con. sentences they seek through such a service as the street railway i>oople could give. In any ense the people of both com munities and of all the Intervening points should not seriously entertain any pro posal | > give a franchise to any concern Without having a .Vcent rate established. J'HIO CRETIN CKLUItHATKiX. The Catholics, not only of St. PauV but of the entire NorUhwesi, have just taut for prtda in the wonderful public demon stration made in this city yesterday. It is of cour.se quite natural that those en gaged in the immediate field of B shop Cretin's labors should regard with much. satisfaction the mighty results - t wfflcfc have flown from thoa labors, and be rather disposed to place a free estimate on them. Rut when such an anniversary as thai celebrated yesterday is .capable of bringing toother such a throng of rep resentatives of the chun* from all over the country as appeared in St. Paul, there Is little to do save to join in the ex pression of the wonder which the oc casion must produce. Fifty years is but an hour's space !n the history of any people. Yet we tiers in St. Paul have witnessed in that brief space results the like of which have not fee-em produced in centuries before. The marvelous growth which has been in progress throughout this entire country since the moundation of the republic has aroused the miration and wonder of the world. The progress which Has prevail ed in the growth of the Catholic church and the propagation of the Catholic faith in the United States in the past fifty years, .11 and out of St. Paul, represents even a greater marvel. Tihe Catholic church niig-ht b« said to 'have had no recognition among Ameri cans at the close of the "War of the Revolution. The efforts of the Cathollo mission»vries in Canada and in the South and Central American countries had left no trace on our civilization. My Lord Baltimore had been aible to d» but little for his faith. Charles Carroll, of Carroll ton, found mucth more bitter persecution rig-nt at his own door than he could have found elsewhere on the continent, even among the crags of Puritan New Eng land. Indeed, till trie period of famine emigration from Ireland the'beginnings of Catholic development had been hardly laid. Yet vrken Blsihop Cretin pla-eed his foot on the soil of St. Paul his Church had in th» Eastern atates peached much of power and influence. Here, save for the scattered traces of the faith which found their way from over the Canadian border, th* ohurxfti was practically un known. Those were the days when the missionary priest had to be brought from foreign lands, and, too, usually from laii(fe which knew not oven the language which was destined to be spoken in this region. Bishop Cretin did a great work. But it was not all his work, nor even planned by him. Those who came after him pui'pli minted that work, aa perhaps he had not dreamt cf it. The American spirit took the place of the foreign sense of things; and Catholic and Protestants, laymen and clerics, worked hand in hand for the accomplishment of the same re sult. They suffered, endured and waited togeth< r. "With the prosperity which was b< ;incl in time to reach this frontier land, as the result of its marvellous riches, there would come the strong men of all lands :uid of all creeds. They came. With them came the growth of the church and of the country. They were accomplished side by side. W;hat the American man of evry creed and no creed did for the material development of his country the members of the Cath olic church have done for their faith. They have laid its foundations strong and sure on American soil, and nowhere more strong or more surely than in the jjn at Northwest, from the beginnings made by Bishop Cretin and his devoted associates. The grand significance of the scenes witnessed yesterday in St. Paul is not confined to any one race or religion. Every man who has borne part, however humble, in the up-bullding of this great r-mpire of the Northwest, is entitled to his share of the honor attaching to such great achievements. DANCrfBRA OF DMAINACNK. The state drainage commission has at its disposal $25,000 for drainage purposes this year. Various parts of the state are clamoring for attention and for a pail of the money to be expended in diich digging in their vicinity. The Red River valley alone could use the whole appro priation and then not be half drained. There are thousands of acres of swamp land in the state <whkah can be made of use only through a careful system of drainage, but -will this reclaiming- of the swamp lands be a benefit to the state at large? Will not the emptying of these natural reservoirs tend to produce droughts in the dryer portions of the state? It Iran established fact that de nuding the lamd of forests lessens the rain fall on the one hand, and 'on tha other the removal of the natural ob structions to the flow of water during the rainy periods produces floods. Every new ditch that is dug help 3to rexb the country of its needed water. Every new ditch that is dug not on!y reduces the area of evaporation, but helps to hurry the surplus wateT toward the sea. If it wera possible to drain the swamp areas and still hoard the water in reservoirs in ttve vicinity, for Irrigation purposes, the harm would be minimized, but every acre that is reclaimed by a system of 'drainaige renders uncertain ten acres of original tillable land of the slate. There was a time when the great flat prairies of Illinois never failed to bring forth a crop. It might be wet in the spring—the sowing- and planting might be delayed by too much water, but droughts wi2re unknown. In an evil hour whole counties were ditched and tiled. Th« drainage was complete and the farmrrs rejoiced. The surplus water was removed as soon as it fell; farming was made easy. But the lack of water began to be felt and when a drought set in it seemed impossible to break it. Sections of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are becom ing subject to droughts, a thing unknown a quarter of a century ago. The semi-arid region ia creeping east ward year by year and will continue until the whole Mississippi valley is in the belt unless more care Is taken to con serve the moisture. The forests must be replenished, the hills covered with a new growth of tim ber and the drainage conserved in res. ervoirs. To drain the swamp lands of this state without regard to the disposition of the water will be fatal to many a fine farm. We do not know whether or not the drainage commission has given this matter close investigation. If It has not, before another step is taken the re sult of the system contemplated should be investigated. Drainage may be a blessing or it may be a curse. EVAJTS AIVD THB G. A. R. The settlement of the heated issue be tween Gen. Sickles and his comrades of the, G. A. R. on the one side and Com missioner Evans, the national Republiian committee and the president on the other ought to be deferred to some later day and mare favorable weather. It has thus far been fought out with entirely unneces. sary vehemence: and the general public which is not interested in pensions, save to have their amount greatly reduced, would be convenienced by an adjournment being taken. Gen. Sickles is ordinarily an lrrasciWe man. He is sifted with the gift of plain speaking. They say that lie Is apt to forget antecedent statements, and to in sist on his present opinions without re gard to any change which time or cir cumstances may have wrought in them. But none of them can say that he was not a good soldier, tUat lie is not a man or honor, or tha>t he does not be speak the opinions aad preferences of THE ST. PACT. GLOBE, THURSDAY, JULY 4. 1001. the rank and file of the Grand Army or ganization. On the other hand, Pension Commission er Henry Clay Evans is conceded to be a careful and conscientious official, the worst charge against him being a dis position to give the pension claimant the worst of It, if he g*ts a reasonable chanc«. That he Is or was a good official he la able to adduce the testimony of Gen. Sickles himself to prove, as he Is to show that his official conduct was entirely ac ceptable in the past to the G. A. R. or ganization. But It is beyond all reasonable ques tion that, for some cause adeauate in their view, the leaders among the old soldiers. Gen. Sickles among: the others, were able to secure the promise from the Republican national committee that Evans would be removed in case Mc- Kinley was re-elected. Evajis and his friends meet all the accusations and, the statement of the promise by alleging that Sickles and his friends speak for the pension agents, and that ho Is obnoxious not to the rank and file of the old sol diers, but to the pension sharks who are uneasy at the restraints which he has been able to place upon thorn in their raids on the national treasury. It is a pretty mess as it stands. It is a fight of politicians. Evans at the best has to do with pensions not yet granted. His administration of the office does not materially affect the essential principles which underlie the pension laws. The fault found with him is one which the general public will sustain him in. Wheth er Sickles spoaks for the bona fide old soldier, or for him who has been de scribed as "the pension bummer," and whether the promise which Sickles quotes was or was not given, it must be ad mitted", at this stage of the controversy at least, that public sentiment is with Evans and against his assailants. Since there is no political campaign in eight, and the promises of the national committee are not impossible of perform ance in the future, when the pressure can be made much greater than it can in an "off" year, it might be well if Gen. Sickles and his friends would ac cept the situation as it stands, and rec ognize that Evans' pull is just at this time a little too much for them. The country la enjoying the longest hot wave of the century. On every hand one hears the expression, "Isn't this war?" We all know what war Is. Columbia has won a boat race and is accordingly elated. Did any one ever know a collage athlete to amount to any» thing after he left collage? Earl Russell knelt before the bar of tihe house of lords. We wonder If his sou! knelt when he "crooked the pregnant hinges of the knee?" This kneeling may be a custom honored "by time, tout to tho American mind it Ls a custom that would be more honored in the breach than in the observance. A report comes from England that Christian Science is making great head way among the aristocracy and has in vaded even the royal circles. If this craze will only spread to the other courts of Europe it will save the anarchists a great deal of trouble. The fad will ac complish what dynamite has failed to bring about—annihilation. All that is needed is time. The ministers at Pekin are worse than a petit jury when It comes to agree ing on the simplest matters of detail. Now they are hopelessly tangled up over the kinds of bonds to be issued to pay the indemnity and the rate of interest they shall bear. A body of ordinary business men would settle a detail like that in twenty minutes. Phillips, the man who cornered corn and thereby gained the title of corn king, is himself being cornered by a customer who demands an account of the Inside workings of that great corn deal. In re sponse to this demand the board of trade of Chicago has given Phillips until August 1 to make things plain to his doubting customer. A king may have his troubles it seems. It is refresning to note that, amid the alleged corruption of the municipal af \ fairs of the city up the creek, the j courts are bound to maintain their dig nity. The giver of tips, Mr. O'Brien, has been found guilty of contempt of court and fined $26. It ought to have been $100. When the toughs get to the point where they can monkey with the courts i with impunity, it is tlmo for a vigilance committee presided over by Judge l^ynch. Minneapolis is to be congratulated upon the possession of a Judge who has the backbone to protect the ermine. Although Uncle Sam Is anxious to for get the Maine, there are others who In sist on remembering it—especially those having claims against Spain on account of the supposed explosion. It will be remem bered that President McKlnley cited the blowing up oif the Maine as one of the causes for armed intervention, insisting that a government that was unable to protect neutral vessels in her harbors had forfeited all claim to sovereignty. The administration desired to forget this, but, like the Teller resolution, it will not be forgot. Tt is reixjrted that Secretary Wilson is jubilant over the prospects of this coun try producing enough bcot sugar to sup ply the home demand. He claims that the beet industry will enrich the farmers who go into it. Sure it will. The country paid over $15,000,000 to these beet sugar growers last year. This would help to enrich them even if they did not grow a beet. The cheaper way for the country would be to pay all beet growers a pen sion to keep them still and open up the markets to sugar which is grown in a sugar climate. Artificial prosperity is always expensive. What does Gen. Gomez want? He is here on some kind of a mission, no one knows what. It was rumored that his visit had something to do with the o d Cuban bonds. Then again, it was sug gested tihat there was a political signifi cence in the visit. Gomez would t-« Cuba's first president and gi down in Cuban history as the first in war, the first in peace and the first in the hems of his countrymen. In this rol.j of father of his country he is hopelessly handi ca»ed. He never cut down a cherry tree and has bee-n suspciqled of telling- what was not the acoua.l truth a.t least twice :'n his life. If Gomez is here to get pointers on the pe.raon.al and pjli'.i^al career of George Washington we respectfully ivfer him to a fellow by the name of G-. js- vernor, of Ohlo-^the latest authority on things pertaining lv Father George. The preachers of Omaha have resorted to the time-honored injunction to stop the threatened bull fight at South Omaha, The bull will be brought into' court, constructively, and there his status as a> part of the community will be determined. inasmuch as the promoters of the bull fight promise that not a hair' of the bulls head shall be touched, the anxiety of the good preach ers on behalf of the male cow does not clearly appear. There is a precedent for this action, however, in the order of Judge Gildersleeve, of New Tork, on the afternoon of the late black Thurs day. In that case a temporary injunc tion was issued against the Wall street bulls in the shape of an order to show cause why they should not back out of the arena and quit goring the lambs. i^ATTHE THEATEKS. j! The Criterion Stock company, at the Metropolitan opera house this week, is drawing crowds in spite of the hot weather. Tha advance sale for the spe cial matinee this afternoon is very large, and the indications are that the house will be filled for this performance this afternoon, and the Saturday matinee also. The Metroix>litan is the best ventilated and cooled theater in the world. The theater Is supplied with water from an artesian well sunk to a depth of nearly 500 feet. This water comes to the sur face ice cold, and is forced by pumps through a coil of 500 pipes, the extreme length of which is over 700 feet. These pites are set at the junction of the audi torium and stage, and air is forced through the ice-cold coils by three fans with a combined strength of twenty horse power into the chambers under the parquet and circle, rising through the apertures in the floor into the body of the house. By this cold air current the temperature of the house may be lovrt-ied twenty degrees. Tonight (Friday) the Minnesota State band will again bo heard at Corao park. There are eight numbers on the pro gramme as follows: March-"l4uraJ«e" ..." '.... Ganne Overture—-'Barber of Seville" ....Rossini Trombone —Concerto ... Novakansky Mr. John. Hansen. Vaise E&pagnole-^'Cuban 8105 -80 m .... — .'.';..':;<............. .. Selling Grand Selection— '•JUucitC' Donizetti Caprice Martial— Trot dv Cavalier" i...:" Spindler Potpourri — "Hottest Coon '.} n s>p.mdl«'r Town" „,.....■ • . Marion, GaJllop— "Merry Wives of Wind sor" fi11i?.....:. ........ Nicolal SAIItD BY THE YCHi.NU'STKRS. Hostess—'And does your mother allow you to have two pieoes of pie when ycu are at haras, Willie? Willie (who .has a.skf-d for the second piece)—No, ma'am. Hostess—Well, do you think she would like you to have two pieces here? Willie' (confidently)— Oh-, she wouldn't oare. This- isn't lur pie, you know. Dolly Is a firm believer in the all-wise and all-seeing power of her Creator, but she Is also a must devoted mother to a family of six M»que aiwl kid and waxtn bahies. On Sunday morning nurse can:« homo from church and found Dolly busily l>ressing out a doll's dress with a toy flatiron. Nurse fixwl her charge with' a stern, reproving eye. "This Is Sunday" she said—just as if Dolly didn't know the dullest day of the seven. "You should not labor on the lord's day." Dolly lifted a pink face and smiled serenely. "Gnd knows this little iron isn't hot." she said. One of the first things to attract the attention of Baby Clarence wa# grand ma's hat rack, made of a piir of deer horns. One afternoon when he w;as three years old his papa took him to Captain G.'b park. When relating the incidents of the trip to his mama on their return he exclaimed: "And, oh, maona! I saw a deer and he.had a hat rack -on his head!" Maibela -mother was showing her a brood of chickens hatched in .aa incuba tor. "They "are poor little orphans," said the mother. ■ "An' is that the orphan asylum? ' asked Mabel, pointing in wonder at the incu bator. "Why, Johnnie! What in the world do you .want to be a newsboy for?" "So's I can jump on and off the 'lectric cars." A little girl w.rnt out to play one day In the fresh, new snr>w, and when she came in she said: '".Mama, I couldn't h lp praying when I was out at play." ''What did you prny for, my dear?" "I prayed the snow prayer, mama, that I heard in Sunday school.** "The snorw prayer! What do you mean little one?" "I mean the beautiful snow prayer in the Bible, mama. You know it says, 'Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow' " N "Enjoy your party, Bobby?" "Yea, ma." "Well, what glrla did you dance with?" "Oh, I didn't dance. I had three lights I licked him every time."—New Yo k Press. TOO GOOD TO TALK ABOUT. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Here is a "down South" story tha is credited to Walker Hill, the banker: Two colored citizens sat in a skiff in the creek that runs - 'ion.gsi.de Mr. Hill's old home in Virginia. They were fishing and resting. Suddenly Sam, who had been lazily pondering, said to Bill: "Say, Bill, wha' d' you think is de be:?' thing in dc wort* to eat, huh?" "Well," said Bill, after giving the mat ter that due consideration ttnat its grav ity demanded, "I kinder think de tea' thing in de worl' to cac would be one o' dem fine yeller leg chickens, fr eJ in .'.» pan an' cooked wid good cream gravy. Dats my 'pinion. Wha* d' you think is de bes' thing in de worl' to eat. Sam?" Satm did not hesitate a moment. Hs answer came out promptly and most de cidedly. "My 'pinion de bes' thing in de worl 1 to eat is a good ole 'possum and sweet 'taters." Biff! Bill hit htm a sounding whack on the side of the head and Sam fell into the creek. He came up floundering an i puff ing like a narwhal. "You blame fool," he sputtered, "wha' d' you do dat fer?" '•Cause, niggah) you wan' a unstand dat -dafs entirely- too- good, a__ thing for a common niggah bo, talk about," said Bill. :."•■'<! •»■ •< >■.; ■■■■• ■ ... ■ THE 31ARTI.VL, SPIRIT. '"■•••■■-■■-?.■■••■. *■'<>.* ta^lin ■ -;- -..-•. .. When the line, ■■ • - . .-.: ■ Guns asnine, -»9. Tramps the-^tfcefet in cadence fine, ■ - The martial : spirit thrills one like the " ■ ■"-•■ nectar ot> old wine. ; > • • ■• ■ • And the heart, Wttha start. '• "--• - - - U\± , .-..■.- Throbs in aynsfßathy with those that play "■ : <d ■ the t gfta^r, grander part... ly '' '• ."TO- ,»j '-. ■ ..,; l When -the^flflfe; 3^ .- sl'j ..."i" .^w--^i* Ribboned rag.- Sr" Inspiration seems to drag From the loudly roaring Spring-field and % the anapm'.ftiyackiins s*t > Every eye ■ ** %■■ Gazes high * --;- ; ,,.. ; Wkn the sacred lov* of country as its banner flutters, by. rf* •-■?; - When -tlv? «weet. Wild "Retreat- Halts the swift, pursuing' feet ■ ■■ Of. the charging soldiers pressing home .', the burden of ; defeat. • - \ >/>i -- Even- drum .': : - Thunders 4'Come." ; ._.:;,". ... .- ■ And the son-it of the nation makes their ":* purple, ■■ pressed: lips : dumb. ■- • • ... -j- —Will E. Maiden. POLITICS OF THE STATE The Robert G. Evans boom for gov ernor, launched by Minneapolis politi cians, Is not meeting with that tremen dous ovation doubtless expected for it. It Is somewhat singular that of the state papers and politicians who supported Mr. Kvans during the senatorial contest last winter, many of the most influential are vehemently opposing the idea of running him as a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. Some contend that the Mill City man demonstrated a lack of prower to concentrate the forces of his party, and that he would not Be the right man to place in the race for governor in IKS. However this may be, it is extremely doubtful if Evans would land 75,000 in the rear of his ticket. But Minneapolis, or any other section of the state, will find it difficult, if not impossible, to bring out a successful can didate for governor next time, since tha gang has decreed that Gov. Van Sani must be renominated. The Winona Her ald may be pardoned for saying that Van Sant deserves a renomination, since the governor and the editor of the Her ald live in the same neighborhood, and besides that paper is one of the gov ernor's special organs. It is not alto gether strange, therefore, that Van Sant is being pushed forward by the papers from his own town, but there is an ele ment of peculiarity in the attitude of some of the other papers over the state on the Van Sanrt-Evans proposition when they* assert with such boldnesa that nobody but Gov. Van Sant can or will be nominated by the Republicans for governor. So far as individual strength is concerned there is no com parißon between that of Evajia and Van Sant. The course of affairs Is a good illustration of the power of "that in vincible gang." The Minneapolis Journal is held respon sible by the country press far the Kvatis boom. All sorts of angry words arc v, - ing spent on that paper for daring- tn say that Got. Van Sant cannot be re elected. The Anoka Herald stamps the | Journal as the organiser of an anvil | chorus and says of course the governor j rant lie re-elected if 30.0C0 04- 40,000 i>f his ! partisans begin knocking h'm eighteen I months before the election. Ther?. se-cins to be vary little argument In such a theory. If the present in-cum-bent of the executive's eha4r was tho man his party really wanted in, the office, does anyone think for a minute that the Journal or I anybody else would be organizing an an Hi j chorus? If there are 40,000 Republicans in i the state wiho, at this stage of the #ame, before the governor has filled out half Mr. Wiggins and Mr. £arker Brooklyn Eagle. There lives In Chicago a charming young woman who Is the proud possessor cf two dogs. This in itself, it may be conceded, Is hardly worthy of comment, for there are many charming young women who own doga; but these particu lar dogs have been very strangely named. The fact is that the young woman in (juestion prizes her dogs so highly that she thinks the greatest compliment she can pay to a young man is to name a dog after him, and at the same time she Is so discreetly decorous and such a slave to propriety that she-would not yen- ture to give the young man's front name to. a dog—it would seem too familiar. Now, young men come and go and young women are notoriously fickle, but dogs— at least these dogs—remain, so it hap pens that they are now bearing the ap pellation of cavaliers who have passed on to other charmers. It never would do to change a dog's name every time a vi vacious and flirtatious girl shifted her affections, you know. The real names may not be repeated here, lest trouble should arise therefrom, but for the purposes of the story the dogs may be designated as "Mr. Wig gins" and "Mr. Barker," The idea of calling a deg "Mr." may seem strange, but in view of the way they were named it would not seem proper to refer to them as simply Wiggins and Barker and the young woman never does it. She ia dis tinctly formal in addressing them, as nat urally wo.uld be expected of a girl who has been properly brought up. That, it may be said in passing, is ths occasion for this story. If the circumstances were different there would have been no dis tressing complications and misunder standings. A young lr.an who knew nothing about the dog« called on the young woman re cently He was a stranger in the city, but she had been a chum of his sister's at boarding school, he himself had mot her once or twice, and he was assured of a warm welcome. It is impossible to describe his emotions satisfactorily, but if the masculine reader will mentally put himself In his place-remembering always that nothing had been said t» him about dogs—h<; may have a fair conception of how he felt and what he thought. He heard her tripping lightly down the stairs, and just as he was rising with pleasurable anticipations to meet her there was an interruption of some sort. He knew this because he beard the stamp of her foot, the rustling of her gown and these rather startling words: "Behave yourself, Mr. Wi.ggl.ns! You're mussing my dress all up. How do you think I'll -look if you don't let me alor.e? Stop it, I tell you!" The next moment she appeared in the doorway, smiling a pleasant welcome to him. "Pardon me for keeping you waiting," she said, "but Mr. Wiggins has been bothering me so I could hardly do a thing." "I think I heard you spfak to him," suggested tha young man, rather point edly. "Oh, yes," £iha replied, calmly; "I have to speak to hi-m pretty sbarply snma tin-K'S, or there's no telling what he'd tlo. Why, he nearly trippoil me up twic* this afternoon." "He mi# be an awkwar.l hrute," he remarked for want of something better to say. "Oh, no; not really awkward—just play ful, you know," she answered. "And he's no worse than Mr. Baxter, either. Why, this morning Mr. Barker bounced into my room and ran away ■with one of my shoes Just as I was about to put it on—actually seemed to think it was a joke. Some times I think Mr. Barker has a vein ot real humor in 'him." The young man said nothing. There really seemed to be nothing for him to say, and if there haU been he couldn't have said It. He had met strange peo ple in his time, but— Wei!, wouldn't you have been art a loss to know what to say or do in fhe same clreumstanr-ea? "They're a dreadful trial," she went on. "You've no idea how annoying they WHAT GOJJF COSTS US. Gustave Kobbe in Harper's Weekly. It is -within bounds to say that this country spends at least $15,C<»,000 a, year on golf. Fifteen million dollars ia a largo amount even to an American. Few of vi .have that mi.'-eh picket money, yet I be lieve the sum in be v.el! within L-jurids when •<s>k-in:rjr i.p mo annual oy.-.--i.«li iti:res for golf. ; Remein<b<T that a few years ago the Morris County Golf club, at Morris-town, N. .T.. although already 'boasting fine ana extensive links." added in one purchase $90,000 worth of land 10 its possessions, so that cl lib house and links now represent an expense or about $150,(K0; that the Midlothian-County club, near Chicago, represents at leasrt an equal amount of expenditure and owns a rail road two miles long, over which the "Golf Limited" conveys racimber3 of the club from th&-Blue'lsland station of the Chi cago, Rock Island & Pacific railway to the club house. .;. ■ In round number's there are a thousand listed < lubs in the United State?, but there, must be many more."- I myself be- hi* t«rm, do not want him re-ele-ted, there certainly must be some good reason for the opposition that is so 'generally mani fested. Surely there is no one so un reasonable as to try to say that all these 40,000 are "disgruntled and disappointed officeseekers." The g-overnor hardly had that many applicants altogether. Nor does there appear to be any just cause why tihes« 40,000 of apparently iudfptna.-nt men should surrender the'.r ideas and lon ■v-tctions and bow to the will of a handful of grasping politicians, banded together for the purpose of cornoring the po'ltU-al market of the state. It would seem tint the 40,000 ou#ht to have the right of ex pressing tihetr preferences If this ring of four or five presumes to dictate the policy of the entire party. The truth Is that the Anoka Herald has 'been very conservative in saying that there are 39,000 or 40,000 Republicans \\\\o do not want Gov. Van cant renominated or re-eleioteid. Judging from the returns which came in last fall it would seen that the number is muoh larger. No doubt the Minneapolis Journal and tho others who argue that Gov. Van Sant cannot foe. re-eleoteid, are basing their statements upon th«si> and other facts. By What method of calculation it is i'g ureld out that the man who runs 75,'X;0 behind his ticket in. a pres'dential year, with a side pinner on the ticket, too, can be re-elected in an off year with no one in the field upon whom to lean, is certainly mysterious, to say tne least. Speaking of gangs and such things, the following from the Madelia Messenger might bo pertinent: The dominating Influence "t 1 "de gang* 1 has made a lot of country newspaper boys lay down the party pencil and light for locality. If the Democratic cities aro to have all the officers It Is only ju.stlc that tho Democratic cities eleel the gov ernor hereafter. The country has elect ed Republican gevernoKS, senators and congressmen since Mtnni t»otu has been a stato and allowed the cities to re ceive all the benefits. Hereafter It is up to the cities to do the work. On the heels of this*effusion from tiio Messenger codes th.- little St. Paul X view, which .sunn' people say is the offi cial mouthpiece of the erang, with this one: That refrain sounds familiar. It hn_s been sung before, and is more of a swan song than anything r«lse. We notice tbat tho country dlitricits never forget to coma to the cities for campaign funds. For some reason or other they art; long on demands of this sort and short on help. Does tho Messenger deem this considera tion of any moment? can be. They have no regard for any one. Mr. Barker just about ruined one of my gowns last week by his boisterous fun. I told him to let me alone, but he wouldn't and I finally Just had to slap him good and hard." "But—but why do you permit It?" ven tured the young man. ''Surely It would be permissible to have such troublesome creatures turned away." '"Oh, yes, 1 could do that." she ad mitted, "but it has been going on so long that I know I should miss them. They're so delightfully jolly that I've really come to enjoy their antics—some times. I've learned to put up with It all, and even when they're most annoy ing I frequently have to laugh—they're so original, you know. Mr. Wiggins threw the cook down the cellar stairs day before yesterday." Here was another occasion where the oung man could say nothing, lie wis clearly beyond his rlcpth and was afraid that any comment he might make would prove to be a mistake. "Caught her by the toes, you know," tlia girl explained after a moment. "How very extraordinary," he said. "Oh, no; lie's always doing such things, and he doesn't mean anything by it," she said, carelessly. "Quite a common occurrence?" ho asked in a bewildered way. "Not throwing them down the stairs," she answered, "but he certainly does like to catch people; by tho toes. He so. s for mine If he happens to see me in my fctocklng feet—when I'm putting on my shoes, you know. I try to bar him out of my room, but he gets in somehow." Will the reader pause to consider what he would have done about this tlmo? It would havo been nothing, wouldn't it? Ha would have been wondering what kind of a place he was in, wouldn't he? And how he could get out quickly and quiet. ly and reach some <"iulet spot wh< re he could think it over. And yet she bled on. She supposed, apparently, that he knew about her pets; indei d, said to be so wrapt up in them that she thinks every one knows about them. ■•J wish you could see Mr. Barker," she said. "Thank you; from what you hay. me of him I don't bi lieve I wo:.id care to," he returned, coldly, for even court , would not make him put the sea] of his approval on such a crea<l "Oh, you'd like, him," she Insisted. "I know you would; every one do. g er ami bright and nr-tive and entertaining. But the poor ffllow* lias been ailing lor a day or so. I left him in my room roll ed up In a blanket in front of the win dow whore he cm git the sun. He reg Ireaj a lot -of petting' and Pare when lie is sick." "You—you look after him person he asked. "Certainly". Why shouldn't I?" '•No reason at all, of course," ht> hast ti ed to say. "It shows kindness of heart, and—and most girls would hardly uo It." "Well, it is a good deal of a task." she admitted, "and sometimes I rather wl3h there were not two of them. One id enough for any girl." "I should think so," he said In empha sis. "Especially when they're so full of fun and so boisterous," she added. "Why, one of my dearest girl friends ref is* <1 to come to the house any moro becauH.- >>t a playful little Joke tha-t Mr. Wiggins played on her. He grabbed her by the ankle as she was passing along a dark hallway and. nearly frightened her to death." The young man says lv* does not know how he got out of the house finally, and he was in a daze for some time after ward. Then he happened to meet a friend of the family, and suggest- 1 n an Incidental way that he heard a good deal of Mr. Wiggins and Mr. Barker wihlle calling there. "Yes, of course," was tho reply. "Very clever little dogs, are they not?" And now he says h& is going to call there again, just to show that he doesn't always act Hko a chump. long to a club -within little more than an hour's railroad rid.- from New York, but X has not yet got Into thj "Guide." How many more clubs must there be that have escaped notice. The total number easily is 1,200, although 1 think BID 13 a small aggregate to allow as having ap ed the official eye. Considering that the Country club of Brockline, Mass.. has 750 members, and that it is not at all extra ordinary to find golf clubs with over X 0 members, it is net unreasonable to allow an average membership of 120,<K0. In New York city then? are two thousand players who are not mam-heirs of any clut>. Golf ers of this class throughout the country must aggregate at least 30.00J, so that the gcifcrs of America may 'be put down at lEO.OCO strong. C'ettii.-l- tt Is not tco much to allow an average annual expense of $ICO each, when makes the total $15, --000,000. ■ __ -••»— ftto* n Dlmiilf. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. He—ls dat a dimple in yo' chin? She—Nopey. I got dat when we cut to' <2e prize at de card pahty. GLOBE'S CIRCULATION FOR JUNE. C. G. Brandhorst, assistant superin tendent of circulation of ths St. Paul Globe, being duly sworn, depose and says that the actual circulation of the St. Paul Globe for the month of June 1901, was as follows:— Total forth* month- 572,250 Average per day 19,975 C. G. BRANDHORST. Subscribed and sworn to bttore ms this 30th day of June, 1901. H. P. PORTER. Notary Public, Ramssy Co., Minn 1 Notarial Ssal.l FUR r«ER FROOF IS READY. The Globe invites anyone and every one interested to, at any time, make a full scrutiny of its circulate iists and records and to visit its press and mail ing departments to check and keep tab on the numbsr of papers printed and the Disposition made of ths same. GOVERNOR AS i« i;>i \\ New Fork World a prominent New Fork city Repub lican who went to Newburg to see Odell ..n Friday found him deliverii i n cine of his father's Ice was. visitor was turning from one of streets leading up the steep liili from Mi., river. H<- was just pausing the Pale notel when ;l uheery voice sung out: ■■"•■11..: Wha| " ' you doing up h Tin: \ iaitor looked in ih whence cam.- the voice and saw Boa ernor or the Btate atandl: g back i.f ;m i.'.- wagon ■ pound chui k '■: On the sidew .ilk wat< hing t! was his intimate friend, Capt. Dickey. 'I'h' captain was giving th.- governoi advice about his jcb when the .v> w v u rH visitor came along. "Look nil. B< a, thai lump is over weight," he was saying. "I'll bet you it Isn't," responded "thi« governor. "You must think i ton my business. I'll bet thera i-in't hall a pound overweight." Tlie captain was about t" accept the wager when th.- goveri •■!• the New Yorker and hailed him 11.> passed ttv» fifty-pound chunk ovar to the regular Iceman and shook i. his visitor "I wa.s just hiving a bit '-r exercise," he explained. "Up in Albany there is lit tle opportunity for exercise, and I've neen enjoying myself here at home for a week getting my hand back in prac tice. "1 used to serve Ice i" the merchants and they have 1 v having a lot of fun with me today. I've really enjoyed tlia two hours 1 have been travoliiyc abou| with the wagon. Come up to ihe city club and we'll tulk." On the way to the club the governor spoke to mi.re than liftv mi n The ol<| men all railed him "Ben," and he 1 them by their first nai The governor delivered i■•■ In N for threa or four >.at\: before he an interest In politics. NO MORE lKii.ow ii.\i:k New York Herald. Extermination of the mosquito In Ha vana has resulted In the virtual eradica tion of yellow fever. In an official ro port MaJ. W. C. Gorgas, of the army medical department, who is chief sanitary officer on Gen. Wood's staff, says: We commence June with the city five from yellow fever, no cases being on hand. This Is probably the first tlm«j Havana has ever entered June free from yellow fever. April and May also com menced In the same way. MaJ. Gorgas reports the number of deaths for May 517, which was considera bly less than for any May since l*ss;>, with the exception of last year. The aver age number for these yearn was 735.81. Our last ca.se of yellow fever occurred May 7, .M.i, Gorgas continues Slnca March l we have only had one death from yellow fever, which occurred on March 13. I cannot but hope that this exceptionally good condition is In great part due to the large amount of labor and money we are expending in the destruction of mos quitoes, and the circumstances point in the same direction. Formerly we paid no particular atten tion to the mosquito, merely disinfecting for yellow fever, as we do for oth;T"in-' > fectloua diseases. The amount of sun!-' tary work done continues, but most of our attention is now being paid to the destruction of mosquitoes. The suburbs and the small streams In the suburbs have been thoroughly cleaned out, and pools have been oiled and drained. The mayor has Issued an order prohibiting the keeping of standing wate* within the city limits unless made mos» quito proof. This Is bring enforced. an 4 all standing water found not protected '6 emptied and the owner lined. THE i.i: \i)i:t:siiij' OF a vji:it11 \. Nineteenth Century. No competent observer can doubt that In wealth, manufactures, material prog ress of all kinds, the United States. In a very few years, must hold the first place in the world without dispute. Its popula tion will soon be double that of any nation of .western Europe. The population will have an education second only to that of Germany and Switzerland, and su perior to that of any other European na tion. The natural resources of their country exceed those of all Europe put together. Their energy exceeds that of the British; their Intelligence is hardly second to that of Germany and Prance. And their social and political system U more favorable to material development than any other society ever devised by man. This extraordinary combination of natural and social qualities, with vast numbers and unbounded physical re sources, cannot fall to give America tha undisputed lead In all material things. It Is a curious Instance of the power of national egotism that Europe fails to grasp this truth that roiani, with th'tir wretchedly poor country, narrow aea board, and scanty rivers, ports, and min erals, still aspire to the first place; that Frenchmen fail to see hOW their passion for art, rest and home has handicapped them in th race for supremacy in things material; that Britons, in their narrow. island and their comfortable traditions, will not rec-ogn'-ze that the industrial prizes must ultimately go to numbcr3, national unity, physical resources, geo graphical opportunities, trained Intelll-* gence, and rest!, ambition. THE WIN US. When sluggish lags my pulse, I plea/1 The rigorous North will rouse and blow, • Clearing the far horizon's blur. Starting the rune-chant of th fir, And bringing for mine earnest need The bracing tonic of the snow. When I Incline to dreams, and fain With half-shut lids, would lounge an<J The boughs swing languorously above To low, thrush lftantes of love. And rlpplefl lf-nly th>} grain. The South for me, the South for met When melancholy suits my mood, I long to list, mlii lapsing leaves. The misty East discourse of pain In Its thin minor, and the rain With plaintive sorrowing Imbued, Make plaintive patter round i"-- eaves. And when the pilgrim zest Is strong For Bracken ■! pathways mounting hlgtt Along the hill slopes to the crest. Then would I have the ardent West Fling me his buoyant welcome eong. Toss me his old ecstatic cry. So, with the veering winds that sweep The empyrean I am one; Feeling close kinship unto each, Soul-sympathies of aptrlt-speech, Blow they or shrill, or low, or deep. Across the face of God's white sun! Clinton Scollard In the Youth's Corn* panlon.