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4 7 JrLOBE'S TELEPHONE CALLS. fILOBE'S TELEPHONE CALLS. J / THE NORTHWESTERN. THE NORTHWESTERN. Business Office ..... 1065 Main faditorial Room* ..... 78 Main Jtfoinpo-ing* Room , .... 1034 Main ffl. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. ■ "Opsines.*! Office ......... 1065 ["JEditcri.-il Rooms ....,. 78 %he gt^tml ©lobe ■OFFICIAL PAPER, CITY OF ST. PAUL. ; "^ THE GLOBE CO., PUBLISHERS. Entered at Postoffice at St. Paul, Minn., li***?.-: as Second-Class Matter. „'." **■;? a. __, CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Carrier. } I mo | 6 mos 1 12 mos Daily only I .40 .2.25 $4.00 Daily and Sunday.] .60 2.75 5.00 Sunday ..| .15 .75 1.00 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Mail. j 1 mo | 6 mos | 12 mos Daily only 25 $1-50 53.00 Daily and Sunday. .35 2.00 4.00 Sunday ... 75 LOO BRANCH OFFICES. New York, 10 Spruce St, Chas. H. Eddy i; In Charge. •**•* Chicago, No. 87 Washington St., The F. W S. Webb Company in Charge. »— . - __i_: WEATHER FOR TODAY. Minnesota and lowa—Snow Tuesday, with rising • temperature; Wednesday fair and probably colder; southeasterly "Winds, becoming northwesterly. Upper Michigan—Partly cloudy Tuesday "With snow in west portion; rising tem perature; Wednesday increasing cloudi ness, probably snow; light variable winds becoming fresh southeast. Wisconsin—Generally fair Tuesday; Wednesday snow, with rising tempera ture; variable winds, becoming fresh southeast. North and South Dakota Snow Tues day; rising temperature in east portions; Wednesday fair and colder; south winds, becoming 'northwesterly. Montana—Fair and probably colder Tuesday; Wednesday fair; west winds. St. Paul — Yesterday's observations, taken by the United States weather bu reau, St. Paul, P. F. Lyons, observer, for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night—Barometer corrected for tem perature and elevation: Highest temper ature, 15; lowest temperature, 8; average temperature, 11; daily range, 7; barome ter, -0.30: humidity, 76; precipitation, 0; 1 p. m., temperature, 14; 7 p. m., wind, northwest; weather, partly cloudy. Yesterday's Temperatures— ' ♦SpmHigh* *SpmHigh Alpena T"** .... 8 16Kansas City .18 20 Battleford ...-4 14 Marquette . ..10 16 Bismarck ... 8 lOMinnedosa . .10 14 Buffalo 14 16 Montgomery .36 . 42 Boston 28 38 Montreal .... 6 12 Calgary 28 36 Nashville . ..18 2 Cheyenne 44 .52 Nashville 18 _0 Chicago 20 24 New Orleans.. 46 Cincinnati . .22 24 New Y0rk....24 30 Cleveland . ...16 20Norfolk 32 34 Davenport . ..16 22' North Platte..22 26 Dcs Moines ..16 _>2 Omaha 16 18 .Detroit 16 20 Philadelphia .28 34 Duluth 18 20,Pittsburg . ..20 22 Edmonton . .12 lSQu'Appelle ...12 12 Grand Haven.2o 24St. Louis .. ..22 22 Green Bay 16 20Ste. Marie ...10 16 Helena 36 40 Washington ..26 30 Huron 14 14 Winnipeg ... 8 8 Jacksonville ..T4 52 •Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul). TO OUR FRIENDS. Anyone tillable to secure a copy of The Globe on any railroad train leaving or en tering St. Paul will confer a favor on the management by reporting the fact to the bus iness office. Telephone. Main IOCS. Subscribers anno) by ir regular or late delivery of The Globe will confer a fa vor on the management by re porting the fact to the business office. Telephone, Main IOCS. TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1002. If- the British government cannot de vise some other bond to unite the colo nies to the mother country than one composed of bayonets of an imperial army, It might be just as well for the freedom of the colonies if the bond were never to be realized. _ LET THERE BE _VO FAILURE. The Globe has always been in favor of the enactment of some adequate reg ulation of the so-called wine rooms. It has always believed, and still believes, that it is a duty which the local ad ministration owes to Itself, as well as to the decent public, that an end shall be made once for all of the vicious resorts which have been maintained by certain saloonkeepers ln the name of wine rooms. That is all that the clergymen of the city want, and that the council and the mayor are anxious to see realized. If there Is any failure to effect the purpose, it will be from misunderstanding, not from any intent on the part of local officials to prevent the destruction of those evil places. It is probably unavoidable In the root ing out of a recognized evil that injus tice and hardship shall be imposed oh others besides the offenders. In this case that condition will be realized in the re quirement which will probably be put in operation of making decent restau rants and hotels go to considerable ex pense and trouble, if not actual loss cf patronage, by complying with the require ments of any ordinance that may be passed. The Globe would be glad to see the restaurants exempted from the requirements of the proposed ordi nance if it were possible, but does not understand how it can be done in view of the abuses which are recognized as having crept into that business In this and other cities, and which place certain restaurants on precisely . the same basis as the saloons ln which known wine rooms have been maintained. Mayor Smith Is ay right His ob jections formulated in the press are reasonable. It would be a positive hard ship to ask the saloonkeeper who may even knowingly have entertained undesir able characters once to forfeit his li cense. It would be a grievous wrong to render him liable to be prosecuted for non-compliance with the provisions of the ordinance by tearing down forbid den divisions, until he has had a reason able time in which to make his ar rangements. The wine room evil is not as rampant or as widespread today as It has been in the past. The worst days of the evil "are past thanks to an aroused* public sentiment, following on the discovery of the hideous incidents which have been made known publicly as having their or- igin in the wine rooms. In this city dur ing the two preceding administrations, the wine room was a positive moral and social scourge. It has found its develop ment to its most evil proportions within ten years. With reasonable legislation at this time it is bound to pass out of existence, and the business of the retail sale of liquor be relieved of one of its plague spots. The city authorities and the city min isters owe it to the good name of the city and the moral welfare of the people that there shall be no failure at this time to wipe the evil out. Mayor Smith has shown his desire to promote " the needed reform. The ministers and the other avowed enemies of the wine rooms Shave in the discussion, so far as it hat proceeded, shown their amenability to reasonable_6Uggestion. The greater pro portion of the saloonkeepers have indi cated that it would be a service rather than an injury to their business to have the evil brought to an end. The public want it ended. It can now be ended unless there is lack of reason shown In one direction or other. Those who may stand In the path of the adjustment which now seems inevitable will take a serious responsibility. It is not every man who falls sick that has the consolation which comes to Gov. Taft by the reflection that his sickness only kept his living expenses from ex ceeding his income. AN ADMIRABLE VETO. -,■-.. _ ■.... - -_.--,- -■.« • ,-•- --' ■:...! ■ ■ "';--.. . "\. . - *.-; ': Mayor Smith Is entitled to the public commendation for his veto of the ordi nance which permitted the running of a spur track from the bridge leading to the public baths to the back of the fac tories which line Water street from Wabasha street. That veto, if sustained by the council, will prevent the ulti mate destruction of the beneficent public institutio-is established on Harriet Isl and through the splendid energy and hu manity of Dr. Ohage. The public reluctantly accepted the ne cessity which was created to have the main track cross the pathway to the baths. The engagements of the railroad concerned to secure. the public safety by the establishment of exceptional pre cautions at the point of crossing were accepted In good faith. The arrangements designed by the health commissioner for the construction of a boulevard and shad- Ed walk on the territory between the tracks and Water street from Wabasha street bridge to the island offered com pensation to the public for the obligation which the requirements of local industry originally created to have that track cross the pathway to the public baths. Now, without any adequate public knowledge and without public hearing, the ordinance creating that spur track Is put through, and boulevard and baths alike are proposed to be pocketed for the supposed accommodation of certain minor industries of the city. It would have been more honorable on the part of the projectors of the spur track schemo to have avowed openly their purpose to ultimately cor ral the space now reserved for that boule vard In order to give it over later wholly to railroad purposes, thus ultimately vir- j tually shutting out the public from ac- j cess to Harriet island. j That spur track is not necessary. Its projectors know that it is not. Any man who has any knowledge of the business represented by the concerns supposed to be served by It would laugh at the thought that it was essential either to the private interests concerned or to the commercial welfare of the community. Mayor Smith has acted wisely. His ac tion is in the interest of the city and its people. It is preservative of a public in stitution of which every public spirited man and woman in the community is proud, and which will long remain an object lesson of superior civic virtue and public beneficence which other communi ties will necessarily seek to emulate in the future. It is a pitiful fact, if It Is a fact, that the men who work alongshore in Eng land are constantly on the verge of starvation. If there is one form of phys ical toil which would require a full stom ach to perform it successfully it would seem to be that of dock labor. It is a blot on British commerce and humanity if such a state of things exists. WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF. The profession of alarm in certain quar ters, lest the acquisition of the Burling ton system by the two Northern roads, might bring upon the latter a great bur den of responsibility for dividends to Burlington shareholders, looks ridiculous in the light of the Burlington earnings statement for the first half of the fiscal year— 1 to Dec. 31. Instead of being a burden, the Burling ton proves itself to be a prominent and helpful factor in the Northwestern rail way situation. In spite of the disas trous drought last summer, which af flicted much" of the corn belt tributary to the Burlington, that company's earnings for the first half of the current fiscal year show marked growth over the pros perous year preceding and all other years. Burlington earnings last year paid a 6 per cent dividend on the $107,000,000 of stock and left a remaining surplus which would have warranted a dividend of even 8 per cent But for the first half of the current fiscal year, when the drought period did its worst, Burlington gross earnings were $25,450,587, as compared with $26,465,417 for the same period last year, an increase of $2,015,170; while the net earnings are $11,230,977, as compared •with $10,289,057, an increase of $1,041,590. This Is not so wide a margin of In crease as that enjoyed by the two North ern roads—which is over 25 per cent—but in view of the fact that the period cov ered is one of the worst in the history of the Mississippi valley corn belt, it Is fully as significant as the tremendous gain* scored by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern. \ Instead of the two latter roads being called upon to : make good a Bur lington guaranty, the latter system shows* an ability to take care of Its fixed charges and operating expense* .pay its share. 1 7- :,-^77;-_.'.r-77.7^7.7.7 the st; PAUL, G_GOBS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 190:5. holders a dividend of I over .8 per cent, if necessary. It is apparent that the association of the Burlington with the two Northern roads is not-only a good" thing of large traffic importance to the Northwest in its fight for Oriental trade, but is not at all a bad thing from the standpoint of finan cial prosperity. * It is surely not a bad thing for the Northwest, that its two iron-bound highways connecting the Twin Cities with Puget sound have the co-operation of "a system, like the Bur lington, whose traffic earnings for the first half of the current fiscal year are from three to four millions greater than those even of the St. Paul or the Union Pacific. 7 '■■ ■_.'. i Another police officer is unhappily in danger of being called on to yield up his life on account of his devotion to duty. Whether he lives or dies Officer Roche will hardly ever overcome the results of his Injuries. What a sad state of things it is that a man who thus lays down his life or suffers permanent disability in the service of the people must depend on the cold charity of the world to pro tect his w*_2e and little ones from starva tion! Minnesota and North and South Da kota are shown to have increased in the past decade in population in every coun ty. Thus does it become dally plainer Chat "Your Oratrix" is, the only bar rier which, stands between the trans formation of this entire region remaining a wilderness for all time as the result of the wickedness of the management of the two great Northwestern trunk lines. It is not every man who is willing to give up his opportunities for money-mak ing in order to enter politics. The rule works rather the other way. It is safe to say that Congressman Towne will oc cupy a leading place in congress if he finds a seat there under the auspices of Tammany Hall. As an orator there are few men his equal and perhaps none his superior in the entire country. We are told by the press dispatches that for the looting of that Detroit sav ings bank by its cashier and vice presi dent the board of directors are in nowise responsible. They may have been igno rant, but they are none the less respon sible. The crime of neglect which left them in ignorance is little less vile than the crime of robbery of which they claim to have been ignorant. The example set by authorities of Franco in putting an end to freak exhibi tions is one which should be followed generally throughout the United States. The number and variety of freaks which force theselves on the public consid eration, outside of the museums, would of itself be a sufficient reason for the prevention of paid exhibitions of them, if there were no other. . Considering that the delightfully wide range of activity in the passage of bills which is allowable during an extra ses sion called ostensibly for the enactment of a tax code, it must be said that tHe (proposal; to -relieve the bondsmen of Treasurer Bobleter calls for no apology. Few omens seem on their face to bode better for the future of China than the determination of Great Britain to with draw from Wei Hal Wei. It is an ex ample which ought to commend itself to the other powers. Robert Deakin was an Englishman by birth, but an American by instinct and feeling. No truer American man ever found birth under the flag of the Ameri can republic. i|H^ITRIC/.lf) Charles B. Hanford, supported by Miss Helen Grantly and a strong company, is giving a splendid production of Shakes peare's best comedy, "The Taming of the Shrew," at the Metropolitan opera house. Three more performances will be given, including a popular price matinee tomor row afternoon. Mr. Hanford's Petru chlo is a masterpiece of dramatic art and will add greatly to an already bril liant record. Miss Grantly is one of the most beautiful women of the American stage, and her Katherine is charming even in her shrewishness. Of the many plays seen at the local theaters this season, few have attained the prominence of "La Tosca,'" which is conceded to be the best play that the French dramatist, Sardou, has written, and which comes to the Metropolitan theater for three nights and a matinee," commencing Thursday evening next, It was made famous in this country by Melbourne MacDowell and his wife, the late Fanny Davenport, and In Europe by Sarah Bernhardt. The story of the play and .its Immense success is well known. This season the play comes with Mac- Dowell in his famous characterization of Le Baron Scarpia, and with a new celebrity In the cast in the person of Miss Florence Stone. The balance of the cast is said to be adequate. Although it has been on the boards for ten consecutive seasons, "Yon Yon son" seems to have lost none of its phe nomenal drawing powers, and this fact is being thoroughly exemplified by the pat ronage which is being accorded it at the Grand the current week. The Orpheum show is announced to be seen at the . Grand opera house the coming week. - Audiences that were both large and appreciative saw the two performances given by the Rose Hill Folly company at the Star yesterday afternoon and evening. Rice and Barton are the pro prietors of the show, and their names are a guaranty that the entertainment Is up to date in every particular. Mati nee performances are given daily. Modern Realism. "I don't mind filing this saw while you are on the stage," began the stage car penter, "but I would like to know what the noise represents." - "It represents me gnashing my teeth." replied the heavy villain scornfully, as he stole from behind the wings.'^-Owo State Journal. 7 - -;■ *.- FROM "THE CHA*RM_-*** I reach my arms up, to the sky 7 And golden vine on vine Of sunlight showered wild and high Around my brows I twine. *y'>u + y ■'-"'■ •"'7: ' •:': ". * V.:.'* Come redness of the crystalline. Come, green, come hither, blue, And violet, all alive within; ."".-: . For I have need of you I v Come, honey hue, and flush of gold, And through the pallor run '-■. With pulse on pulse of manifold 77 New ichor of the Sun. 7 Oh. steep. the silence till it sing! 7 r *" O glories from the height Come down, where I . am - garlanding § With light, a child of light! -*---• —Josephine Preston Pealbody, in the Feb ruary Atlantic. - ■ ■'--■****: Minnesota J"ax Problem. The legislature, by its express manda.e, required the-tax commission to "devise a system of fax _ as that should be at once just and equitable, and should reach all forms of property, both tangible and intangible, and also to j propose such con stitutional amendments as might be necessary to effectuate such purposes. The manifold evils and abuses which had grown up under the present tax laws, ( while giving rise to the imperative 'necessity for new tax laws, at the same time constituted the chart and compass whereby the course of the tax commis sion was made entirely clear. At the outset of Its labors, however, it was confronted by the existing constitutional restriction that all property on which taxes are levied shall have a cash valua tion a/id that property should be assess ed for its true value. - :* 1. .. ' "-: " "' -7 7-t*--**' Cash Valuation Evils. The evils of a cash valuation of all property, for purposes of taxation, un der the prevailing constitutional and statutory system of taxation, are as stale as a "twice told tale" and require no ex tended mention. Striking inequality in" the assessment of the different species of Teal estate prevails between the numer ous political . subdivisions of the state, as well as locally; farm lands are assess * ed, broadly speaking, at one-third (1-3. of their actual value, while urban real esate is generally assessed to the ut most endurable limit, and not infre quently in excess of its real market val ue. Personal property, in the practical administration of the tax laws, has come to signify only such grotesquely small proportion thereof as a myopic assessor cannot entirely exclude from his closely restricted line of vision. Household ef fects and the mortgages of widows and wards, which cannot be kept off the records of the probate court or the reg ister's office, can furnish striking illus trations. That the franchise of a public utility corporation might have a taxable value was a concept undreamt of by our local tax officials, until recently, and was only gingerly recognized by state tax officials as a novel principle of doubtful practical application. Oil. of the Stand ard Oil company; biscuits, of the Na tional Biscuit company; ore, of the Steel corporation, articles having a taxable val ue, constituted, in the complacent minds of the taxing officials, merely the idle dreams of yellow journalists. To be specific, the, tobacco trust, salt trust, sugar trust, linotype trust, coal trust, lumber trust, steel trust and express companies, according to the tax records, either never had a dollar of assessable property in the state, or were safely in trenched against taxation behind the In terstate commerce clause of the federal constitution. The assessment of street railway franchises furnishes a perennial object * lesson of the violent and erratic fluctuations wh_c_i the value of such franchises undergo on specific occasions. The telephone, telegraph, sleeping car, length successfully escaped from the length suicc*4-|s_ully escaped from the onerous constitutional provision that all property should be assessed upon the basis of cash valuation by resort to appropriate constitutional amendments. These serve markedly to emphasize the Inequality of the present tax system. Moreover, railroad property is also ex empted from the operation of this cash valuation clause of the constitution, by being subjected to a gross-earnings tak of not, at present, exceeding 3 per centum. Such exempted railroad prop erty now constitutes from one-third (1-3) to one fourth 04) In value of all taxable sWp~> °fy>^ -W Street When .the new general manager started to boss things at Muggs & Cups' whole sale coffee house the troubles of J. Ryan, janitor, were pushed over onto the slide. . In the early days J. Ryan never failed to send his son down the alley at noon time with a tin pail and a 10 cent piece. The janitor's son always cropped the 10 cent .piece at the corner beer depot and then., hurried back with " J. Ryan s bucket- of suds. One day th* general manager wandered into tne engine room at noon time. J. Ryan, janitor, always to-k luncheon in the engine room. The janitor's son had covered his route for the day and J. iL_r^ The Janitor's Son. Ryan, janitor, was attempting to hide his face in the tin pail when the general manager arrived. 7... "What are you doing?" asked the boss. "Drinking," answered J. Ryan, janitor, scorning to tell a lie. "What?" 7 - "Beer." "Cut it out," ordered the general man ager, and that ended the interview. J. Ryan, janitor, loved his brew as a wash for lunch. The general manager ordered it stopped, but J. Ryan, janitor, figurea that it would be all right if the janitor's son got ; the 10 cents worth in without being discovered, _. "Ryan, jan itor, told the" rest of the story to a friend. ***»'* &t "Ye see," he -said, "th' boss he sez I wuz to cut this out an' I looks up aglnst ut whin I hits on a foine schame t' bate him out. I has little Jimmie chase hls self down t*;<: Casey's tin shop an' he buys me a tin sprinkler, wan wld th' long nose on 'dm. "Jimmie comes , back wid th' sprinkler an' I has him chase, th' bucket. After Jimmie gits started I waits fer 'im an' as I waits th' boss comes out on ; cu' back platform. - Vr .--'y. ... ' 'Thin Jimmie comes up th' alley an' th* little baste won't see th' waves o' me band. He walks" up an' hands me th' sprinkler jist as th' boss walks up. " 'What 'aye ye there?' says th' gen eral manager. °, ''... An' thin, ime 7frind, ye ;• should 'aye seen me. . Oh, It wuz fierce. I J Ist had t' take th' sprinkler from th* kid an' waltz up the platform . wavin' .it around, an' all me tin cents * worth o' beer is lakln' out be th' end. ,- "77 " 'What has ye, there ?'. sez the gineral manager again, an' be th' ... powers ye could : feel i th' tears •in me voice whilst : I smoiled an* . sez, ' 'Shure 'i Mister Brown * I wuz _ thlnfcin' th' platform naded -sprink *-___**, an' so: I decided I wud spread on a bit o' water.' " 7; property in the state. Instead of beln_ equitably apportioned, like ofher taxes, all these gross-earnings taxes go into the state treasury exclusively. It re quires . no argument to demonstrate that a tax of three (3) per centum upon gross earnings falls far short of a three .3) , per centum tax on the actual "cash val ue" of such railroad properties. * In the consideration of these various inequalities and defects of the present system of taxation, the question natu rally suggests itself whether the legis lature in creating the tax commission did not contemplate that the proposed new tax code should, so far as practica ble, equalize and proportionately adjust the taxation of all the various kinds of property upon a fair and uniform basis. Instead, however, of such a readjust ment of taxation upon an equitable basis, the tax commission have framed a code which would still further exaggerate the present inequality in. taxation by requir ing all other property to be taxed upon a full cash valuation, while no change is proposed in such property as is taxed on the basis of gross earnings. It is fair to presume that the com mission was created to alleviate, not to increase* the evil. 11. Machinery Is Defective. The defective tax machinery is a sec ondary- reason for the unsatisfactory na ture of the existing tax laws. No ade quate tribunal is now provided for the administration of the tax system. In cities the councilmen, and in counties the auditors and county commissioners, are charged with -certain important duties for which they are in large part unfitted or can only grudgingly give a small fraction of the time necessary to discharge such duties properly. The public records teem with illustra tions of the costly errors and superficial and prejudicial work of the county auditors and county boards of equaliza tion. The attorney general and governlor have, with rare and recent exceptions, constituted ornamental rather* than use ful members of the state board of equal ization. A new tax code should therefore pro vide: First and foremost for the taxation of all forms of property so that the same will be placed upon a parity with such species of property as is now sub jected only to a gross earnings tax. Sec ondly: A tribunal for the purpose of administering the tax laws should be elected in each county, as well as for the state at large. Thirdly: The inquisi torial feature of all administrative tax machinery should be reduced to a mini mum instead of being further extended. Fourthly:. Real estate should be taxed for county and municipal purposes only, thereby rendering impossible the per nicious inequality in the present assess ment thereof. Fifthly: The arbitrary and sometimes confiscatory effect of lo cal improvement assessments should not be further increased, as the tax com mission proposes to do by a constitu tional amendment sanctioning the "front foot" assessment under all circum stances. Sixthly: The way should be paved for ' the future adoption of a graduated Income tax. This could be accomplished by merely striking out of the constitution the provisions "that property on which taxes are to be levied shall have a cash valuation, and that property should be assessed for its true value." Seventhly: The exemption should be increased rather than diminished. Other changes necessary and defects in the proposed tax code will receive notice hereafter. —Moritz Heim. TWO HUNDRED PRISONERS FREED JUDGE SANBORN SUSTAINS APPEAL OF PETER DEMING, A VOLUN TEER CAPTAIN WAS CONVICTED BY SEGUXAES Court Holds That Courts-Martial the Regular Army Cannot Le gally Try Members of Vol unteer Army. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 10.-Established precedents of the United States army were overthrown and the freedom of nearly 200 men now confined in federal penitentiaries was assured by a decision rendered by the United States circuit court of appeals today in the case of Peter C. Deming, a former captain of United States volunteers. Deming was imprisoned at Fort Leav- I enworth on the sentence of a court mar tial composed of nine regular army of i ficers. The opinion written by judge Sanborn is that the court martial which sentenced Deming acted in violation of article 77 of the articles of war, which provides that officers of the regular ar my shall not be competent to sit on court martial for the trial of officers and sol diers of other forces. Deming will be released from the Fort Leavenworth penitentiary within six days, and • all former members of the volunteer army who are confined in fed eral prisons on sentence inflicted by courts martial of regular officers will also be liberated, as the result of today's decision, it is stated. .E. A. Rosier, United States district attorney, esti mates the number of such cases at 200. POSSIBILITIES IN A BOY. I have a profound respect for boys. ?£ my ' ™firs«d- busied boys in the street often attract me strangely. A boy is a man in the cocoon; you do not know what it is going to become; 'Ma life is big with possibilities. He may make or unmake kings, change boundary lines between states, write books that will mold char acters,* or invent machines. Every man was a boy; it seems strange, but it is really so. Wouldn't you like to turn back ward and see Abraham Lincoln at twelve when he had never worn a pair of boots —the lank, lean, yellow, hungry boy, hun gry for love, hungry, for learning, tramp ing off through the woods twenty miles to borrow a book, and spelling it out crouch ing before the glare of the burning logs? Then there was that Corslcan boy, one of a goodly brood, who weighed only fifty pounds when ten years old who was thin and pale, and perverse, and had tantrums and had to be sent supperless to bed or locked in a dark closet because he would not "mind!" Who would have thought he would have mastered every phase of war fare at twenty-six, and when the ex chequer of France was in dire confusion would say: "The finances? I will arrange .them." - . Distinctly and vividly I remember a squat, freckled boy who was born In the "Patch," and used to pick up coal along jailroad tracks in Buffalo. A few months ago I had a motion to make before the court of appeals at Rochester. That boy from the "Patch" was the judge who wrote the opinion granting my petition. Be patient with the-boys. You are deal ing with scul stuff. Destiny, waits Just around the corner. Be patient with the boys!— Philistine. - Liked Traveling. Harold—She said she would be willing to go to the . ends of. the world with me. * . - ;- " Jerrold—Oh! Any girl would. : But how about settling down In a Harlem flat?— Puck. '-"______ 7.- "* •":■!■ Perfect . Success. 7 Landlady—l believe ln letting coffee boil for thirty minutes. That's the only way to get the goodness out.of it. . '_.New Boarder (tasting » his and | leaving it)— You * have -succeeded. admliAbly, ma'am.—Evaruville Courier. lyrist oh!* political Mill Moritz Helm, Democratic candidate for nomination to the municipal court bench, yesterday retired from the race. Mr. Heim withdrew his name from the list of official candidates in the county au ditor's office by affidavit. Mr. Heim says he withdrew because he has not time to devote to the. campaign, and be cause his friends urge that lie should practice law exclusively or strive. for a higher judicial position. E. L. Mabon yesterday filed his certif icate of candidacy for tne Republican nomination to the board of aldermen from the Eighth ward. Mr. Mabon is a member of the board of public works. Some of the Hennepin members are a bit nervous over the fact that a meet ing of the three big delegations has not been arranged. The object of the meet ing, viewed from the standpoint of the Minneapolis lawmakers, is to secure the enactment of a law fixing the maximum amount of municipal bonds that may be issued for waterworks extension. They want a $250,000 issue authorized for the Mill City, and if they can .get the Ramsey and St. Louis delegations to agree upon that as a maximum for St. Paul and Du luth, their bill will have easy sledding. The St. Paul and Duluth members do* not seem particularly anxious' about wa ter bonds, and the first move will prob ably be a meeting of the Hennepin dele gation, which Senator Wilson has been requested to call this week. The Noyes resolution for representa tive farmers' delegations to be brought before the tax committee to state their views on the proposed tax code has not struck a popular . chord. The Noyes resolution is doomed to defeat, as neither the friends of the bill nor the opposi tion can see anything in it to insure against a series of hearings, covering many we^eks. Neither side is desirous for protracted delay, but neither is anxious for an immediate trial of strength. That the representatives of the farming in terests should be heard is generally con ceded, however, and there are several plans on foot to secure that end. One of the most popular schemes is fathered by Representative Pennington, Dakota county, leader of the Democratic minor ity in the house. Mr. Pennington's plan contemplates limiting Lie number of counties' which may send delegations and the dates upon which the delegations will be heard. This plan may be farther mod ified by the reception of delegations made /few {fork fetter. Sew Postoffice at Last— NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The senate has passed the bill appropriating $2,000,000 for a new postoffice building in New York city. The selection of the site shall be made by the secretary of the treasury, the postmaster general, the postmaster of New York city, the president of the chamber of commerce of the state of N_w York, and the president of the New York board of trade and transportation, who are constituted a commission for the pur pose. When the commission shall have determined upon a site, it shall certify its findings to the secretary of the treas ury, who, upon approving t&e same, shall proceed to acquire the property. .Odell's Charities Bill— Now that the lunacy bill has been dls» posed of various rumors are circulated regarding a charities bill. If a charities bill is introduced at all it will be a rad ical one, and will be modeled after that of last year. It will reduce the member ship of the v present state board of char ities, making that body consist of three members instead of twelve. The mem bers will receive salaries and will -be expected to devote all their time to the work. The bill will follow the line of the lunacy bill a3 far as local boards are concerned. If pressure can be brought on the governor sufficient to sway him, no such bill will be introduced. Public to Be Excluded— No chance is to be given to the gen eral public to witness at close quarters the launching of Kaiser Wilhelm's yacht. The invitations are to be reserved for the favored few. It developed yesterday that officii-., circles is Washington .had Imposed a limit 'of I*ooo persons as guests at the launching, the workmen,. how ever, to be Included in those to witness the launching. Biggest Freight Terminal— Eight blocks of land on the South Brooklyn water front were bought yes terday as a site for one of the largest freight terminals in the world. Irving T. Bush paid over $1,-00,000 to the Hunt estate for the property. It extends from Forty-second to Fiftieth street It will be taken over by a new corporation capitalized at . 55,000,000. Former Comp troller Bird S. Coler is financially inter ested in the corporation, and it was ru mored that he would become president of the new company. The property com prises the largest stretch of water front held by any private interest in Brook lyn. Money will be spent lavishly to de velop the proposed terminals. A sys tem of wharves, piers and warehouses will be erected, to be larger than any now existing along the waterfront of New York or New Jersey. Each of the 1,300-foot piers will accommodate three of the largest ocean freight steamers at one time. It will be possible to unload vessels directly into railroad cars. The cars can then be lightered across the river to any point. Work will begin on the terminals within a few months. Mr. Coler, Irving T. Bush and others said to be interested refused to discuss the pro ject. Three Platoon System Ended— When Commissioner Partridge an nounced that he had issued an order abolishing the three-platoon system and bringing the old two-platoon system into effect again there must have been some heartburnings among those who spent so much time and energy in raising that large fund among the policemen to have the three-platoon system adopted. The commissioner says increase of robberies demands the change. Palatial .--tables— James B. Haggln will build a $550,000 private stable on a $200,000 plot near his projected $1,500,000 palace in Fifth ave nue. The land cost about $200,000, and the stables will be constructed at a cost of $550,000, making a total outlay for land and building of $750,000. It will be the most elaborate private city stable in the world.j Mr. Haggln will soon demolish the Progress club house, on the north corner of Fifth j avenue and Sixty-third street, to make a site for his $1,500,000 mansion. He paid $735,000 for the Prog ress club property. ~ Thirty Dollars for Gran Opera— Although Charles Stewart Smith, chair man of the committee on opera, vehe mently announces that no schedule of prices has been" determined upon for Prince Henry night, Maurice Grau non chalantly acknowledges that grand tier boxes will: be sold at $250 and single seats at from $5 to $30. A mighty roar probably will arise from "j the multitude, as these prices are apparently exorbitant, but Mr. Grau says the cost of produc tion will exceed $50,000. >;-■.:'-- Bankers Protest Against Tax— The j bankers of the United States are up in arms against the decision of _-•■* Internal j revenue bureau that the undi vided profits of the banks are . taxable , under the war _ revenue bill passed by congress in 1898. Several conferences have been held between representatives of the various clearing house associations of bankers in the leading cities to bring about united action against the collec tion of i such -tax.77 A test case -Is to be made against John W. Yerkes, the com missioner : of . Internal revenue. : Steel Trust Buys Supplies— If, „ as. in former years,, the Iron. trade is a correct barometer of business , condl- up _ from the counties by congressional districts. The house committee on the reception of rules, should it be appointed some time ln the misty future, will And Its hands full. Every session, brief a3 it is results in the commission of one or mora' 'bills to the committee which everyone! is trying to escape connection with asi; members. The shy and-coy conduct of the 1 members relative to service on the com- j mittee is only equaled by that of the' speaker, who acts as If he really cannot 1 bear to force members to perform un-: grateful tasks. It is a good bet at even money that Mr. Dowling will not appoint** the committeee until there are enough bills in its hopper to influence a majority* vote of the house to demand its appoint-' ment or the same majority takes ur- 1 brage and uses its power to kill the rules ' under which the committee was author-' teed and relieve the speaker of the ne- ' cessity of forcing unpleasant assignments on his friends. The Smith bill for a constitutional con vention, fathered jointly by Sherman Smith and L. H. Johnson, of the Minne apolis delegation,'^ only one of a dozen that as many different house members were prepared to introduce. The bill, if it 4s not hurried out of committee, looks to be in a very fair way to pass the house, which has twice before accorded it that courtesy. The senate Is now. ready to kill It, * but the bill may prove the rock on which both houses will have to anchor. The most ardent "friends" of the tax cede are those who have con sistently stood by the constitutional con vention scheme. They want the tax bill passed, some of them ln an#amend ed form. The quiet tip from the senate that the upper house will pass any old tax bill sent it by the house, and do it quick, has scared the opposition, and may result in sending it into the open. The leaders of the opposition are not opposed to tax legislation, and may be expected to rally to the convention hi... With them may be reasonably expected the support of the growing element in favor of postponing action on the tax bill until the commission's amendments are sub mitted to the people. This will result in greatly weakening the "friends' " forc es, and it may result in forcing the passage of the convention bill to insure the accomplishment of any legislation looking to taxation by Gov. Van Sant's session extraordinary. tlons, then the country is now in the most phenomenal state of prosperity. Notwithstanding the enormous capacity of the plants of the United States .Steel corporation and the independent concerns, • such as the Colorado Fuel and Iron com pany, Tennessee Coal and Iron, Sloss- Sheffield, Republic Iron Steel, etc., the consumptive demand is so great that steel billets and steel rails will be imported in large quantities from Europe during the present year. The plants of the United States Steel corporation which manufac ture billets cannot turn out more than enough to supply the demands of the —c departments of the trust which make finished steel products from the bil lets'. Many outside non-producing con cerns, which have heretofore depended upon the steel trust for billets, have been cut off entirely, and are now seeking their necessary supplies abroad. This condi tion has been so much intensified during the past few days that it was semi-offi cially announced yesterday that the steel trust itself was in the market for for* eign-made billets. JVew York-Jersey Trolley TnnneU * Although lt was announced some t*__e ago that the Jersey trolleys woui_ enter the city by a tunnel under the North river, It was learned yesterday where the terminal station on this side would be situated. The obtaining of options on real estate in the blocks east and south of the Appraiser's Stores, and bounded by Greenwich, Washington, Mor ton and Barrow streets, has been going on quietly for several weeks. The project so far as the North river is concerned is as ambitious as that of _"__e Pennsyl vania Railroad company. The cars will be run by electricity and will have a double equipment— an overhead trolley pole to be used on the surface ln New Jersey and in the tunnel a third rail, or a slot system, like that now used by the Metropolitan Street Railway company. An immense terminal station will .be built on the property en which the options have been secured. Tourists in Convict Stripes-* Forty-six United States prisoners, dressed In the customary striped convict suits', attracted no little attention yester day at the Grand Central depot and at he Pennsylvania road's depots in Jersey City. The men were in charge of the Unites States marshals from the Eastern, Northern and Southern United States court districts of the state of New York,, and were en route to Atlanta, Ga,, where they are to be confined in the new Fed eral prison which has just been completed at that place. They comprised all of the Federal prisoners in New York state, and who have for a time been in Sing Sing, the state prison, under a contract between the state of New York and the government. The new prison in Atlanta, it is stated, will accommodate all the prisoners of the Federal courts In the Eastern states, who are shortly to be removed there. The prisoners were plac ed on a Pennsylvania train, in charge of sixteen deputy marshals. Thirty Million Security Company- The details of the proposed new secur ities company, to finance a new issue of $20,000,000 of stock to electrically equip about 100 miles of horse car lines in the borough of Manhattan, will be sent out next Wednesday or Thursday to the stockholders of the .Metropolitan Street Railway company. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. will conduct the financial operations nec essary to the flotation of the new secur ities. The plan does not for the time be ing contemplate the merger of either the Manhattan "L," the subway or the Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines, although for the sake of legality the securities company will acquire a street railway line in the city of New York. There will be new and important New York interests in the new company. IN MEMORY OF LINCOLN SOXS OF VETERANS ARE AD DRESSED BY GOV. VAX SAXT. Union Defender' day, the anniversary of the immortal Lincoln, received ade quate expression and observance by St. Paul camp, Sons of Veterans, at Garfield hall last evening. The feature of the evening was an address by Gov. Van Sant, who feelingly spoke of the martyred Lincoln and the lesson that his eventful life holds out for all. Of those who responded to the great leader's call, he paid a fitting tri bute., y-y-■-■•■:::..,*-y ?.-,,., y '■y^y-yy< ■ Appropriate remarks on the -occasion were also made by Col. Trowbridge and Commander J. A. Lathrop, the remainder of the programme being given over to patriotic vocal selections, a cornet solo by C. E. Casler, a piano solo by Prof. Newman and a drill by Masters Krai and Schjlla. .. ';--■:-..-:, The members of the camp and their friends were present In large numbers and took an enthusiastic interest in the proceedings. , -. Lincoln's anniversary was appropriately observed last evening at the First M. E. church by a memorial in which vocal selections and : addresses were the prin cipal features. The programme included interesting boyhood recollections of Lincoln and his time by E. P. Pennlman, a ; poem by H. W. Wright and. a discourse on Lincoln's public life by R. A. Hoyt ■ Each number on the ; programme I was. followed by the audience singing some patrrotlc selection. - The memorial was .in x charge: of the Men's league - and . was presided over by Prof. C. P. Wagner. .■