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Daily"only .40 $2.25 $4.0»
Daily and Sunday. .60 2.75 6.00
Sunday ........... 16 .76 1.00
COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
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WEATHER FOR TODAY.
Minnesota— followed by fair and
cooler ■ Saturday. Sunday fair; fresh
southeast winds, increasing. •■..-■■■.-■•..
Upper Michigan—Fair in east; showers
and warmer in west portion Saturday;
Sunday, rain and cooler; fresh east to
southeast winds.
Wisconsin— fair Saturday, ex
cept rain in northern portion; warmer.
Sunday rain and cooler; fresh east to
southeast winds.
—Showers Saturday, with rising
temperatures. Sunday fair and much
cooler.
Montana —Fair Saturday, with much
cooler in southeast portion. Sunday fair
and warmer. - ■, . ■
North Dakota and South Dakota—
and much cooler Saturday. Sunday fair
and coo!.
St. Paul — Yesterday's temperatures,
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 —barometer corrected for tem
perature and elevation: Highest temper
ature, 6S; lowest temperature, 42; average
temperature, 50; daily range, 16; barom
eter, 30.14; humidity, 87; precipitation,
.20; 7 p. m.. temperature, 61; 7 p. m.,
wind, southeast; weather, cloudy.
Yesterday's Temperatures—
•BpmHigh •BpmHigh
Alpena 54 54 Kansas City.64 70
Battleford ..48 54 Marquette ..62 64
Bismarck ..60 72 Memphis ...66 70
Buffalo .....68 76 Milwaukee ..52 68
Boston 52 66Minnedosa ..52 62
Calgary ....38 42 Montgomery 74 80
Cheyenne ..68 76 Montreal ...64 68
Chicago ....56 66 Nashville ...68 70
Cincinnati ..64 68 New Orleans.Bo . 86
Cleveland ...68 72New York ..68 1 68
Denver 78 84 Omaha .....66 70
Dcs Moines..62 66 Philadelohia 66 72
Detroit 58 60 Pittsburg ...70 74
Duluth 48 62Qu'Appelle ..60 72
Edmonton ..46 48' Frisco 60 64
Galveston ..78 80 St. Louis ...62 62
Green Bay.. 50 60 Salt Lake 74 78
Helena 40 66 S. Ste. Mariesß 64
Huron 58 62 Washington .64 72
Jacksonville 70 74 Winnipeg ...48 66
River Bulletin- .
Danger. Gauge Change in
Stations. Line. Reading. 24 Hours.
St. Paul 14 2.1 —0.1
La Crosse ......10 1.9 , 0.0
Davenport 15 2.4 0.0
St. Louis 30 9.8 —0.6
—Fall.
River forecast till 8 p. m. Saturday:
The Mississippi will remain nearly sta
tionary in the vicinity of St. Paul.
•Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul.)
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 20, 1902.
The campaign of the Roosevelt ad
ministration against the trusts contin
ues, notwithstanding the defection of
Speaker Henderson. The addition of
the sewing machine trust to those al
ready in existence cannot be said to
prove Mr. Henderson's position that
the tariff has nothing to do with the
trusts. It certainly does not show
much fear of the Roosevelt department
of justice.
THE MORAL OF IT.
The thanks of the country are due
to Gen. David B. Henderson, speaker
of the national house of representa
tives. He has done a great public
service in his refusal to assume re
sponsibility for the repudiation by his
party of the universal demand for tar
iff legislation. That is what Speaker
Henderson's withdrawal expresses be
yond all equivocation. His explana
tion of his withdrawal recognizes ex
pressly the fact that he stands upon
the tariff plank of the lowa platform.
He avows himself explicitly to be in
favor of the protectionist policy of his
party. No Republican could be mor&
closely allied than he with the avowed
opinions and policies of his party with
i-eference to the tariff and the trusts.
Then why does he withdraw from the
contest? Because, as he declares, hia
immediate constituents do not accept
the lowa platform or the Republican
national attitude toward the tariff or
the trusts as satisfactory to them. Nat
urally, having reached this conclusion,
Gen. Henderson is unwilling to be
made the personal victim of the con
tinuance of his party in its present
policy toward the tariff and the trusts.
He will not consent to avow any belief
in the conviction that the trusts can
be destroyed or controlled through a
tax on the tariff. He will not give his.
sanction to taking off the tariff on
trust-controlled goods, nor will he con
sent to go any distance whatever in
this direction. He Is a consistent Re
publican. He Is in the most complete
accord with his party on its economic
doctrines, but he finds that both he
and his party are unwilling to concede
the demand which has become general
among the people for a revision of the
tariff, and through that revision. In*
augurating a war upon the trusts. His
position and that of his party are iden
tical. The point at which they part
company la where Gen. Henderson re
fuses to go before the people for a rat
ification of that attitude. He plainly
thinks that he would be beaten if he
did so. The moral of his conclusion is
the one which the friends of the na
tional administration who are now
abusing him wish to avoid, viz.: that
if that national administration persists
' in a like position it will suffer defeat
Abuse of Gen. Henderson at this
time will answer no good* purpose for
the friends of the Roosevelt adminis
tration. The president himself must
meet the situation which Henderson's
withdrawal creates for his party and
for him as its preferred candidate in
1904. The only way in which it can
be successfully met is by his expressed
declaration that the Republican party
in the next congress will give the coun
try substantial relief from the exces
sive burdens of taxation which are now
imposed upon them through the Dlngley
tariff, and in doing so will direct its
action so as to strike a blow at the
tariff-fed trusts. The other horn of
the dilemma on which President Roose
velt and his party are impaled through
Gen. Henderson's withdrawal is repre
sented either by entire silence or by a
frank declaration that no action what
ever is necessary on the part of the
Republican party or Its national ad
ministration in the direction of meet
ing the demand which has so Insistent
ly forced Itself upon Speaker Hender
son's attention.
That Omaha doctor who insists that
the climate of the Southwest Is not
only not curative of consumption, but Is
really promotive of the disease, Is wise
In his generation. Badly as an in
crease in population is needed down in
that region there is one man at least
who believes that an increase in the
form of an influx of consumptives is
worse than none at all.
TEAR THEM DOWN.
The fire which took place within a
few days in the wholesale establish
ment of Foley Bros. & Kelley, at the
corner of Third and Sibley streets, of
fers a striking illustration of the wrong
that has been done to the city of St.
Paul by the failure of its officials to
remove the overhead wires from the
business district. The experience of
Dr. Ohage on that occasion does not
express adequately the public danger
which was attendant on that fire and
on the existence of electric wires in
the vicinity. It Is not surprising that
a member of the fire department should
have been injured by coming in con
tact with a live wire. The real sur
prise is, that in view of the great num
bers of pedestrians in that vicinity at
that time, hurrying to and from the
trains, and the vast crowd which the
existence of the fire brought together,
so little injury resulted from the dan
gers involved.
There is not a building In the entire
wholesale district the roof of which is
not surmounted by one or more electric
wires. Many of them have heavy net
works of such wires suspended above
them. Whether those wires are neces
sary in the conduct of the business of
that region, or of the business commu
nity at all, does not matter. They
have no place where they are. Their
existence is clear evidence of long con
tinued official neglect and misconduct.
Not a single wire ought to be found in
midair in the whole region bounded
by Third and Seventh, Broadway and
Wabasha.
It would be hard to explain what in
fluence it is which has operated to
keep those wires In existence. The
violation of tha strict right of the
people to protection in their lives and
property has been continuous and
chronic on the part of the local tele
phone concerns, and it Is hard to un
derstand how any member of the coun
cil or any other public official could
feel himself at liberty to take the re
sponsibility of shielding those con
cerns from the consequences of their
public wrongdoing.
There has been altogether too much
delay in the enforcement of the city
regulations in this regard. The re
sponsibility Is now safely lodged with
the council, however. It is of no avail
to say that the city engineer's depart
ment is, and has been for years, chiefly
responsible for the situation as it ex
ists today. It was Commissioner Law
ler, of the police department, who first
directed attention to the contemptuous
disregard to city regulation which was
involved in maintaining the wires.
What the people now want to see is
the Democratic majority of the council
passing at once an effective ordinance
which will sweep those wires from
their places, and a board of public
works or a police department with
courage enough to put the ordinance
into immediate enforcement by at least
destroying every wire which is not at
least temporarily absolutely necessary
to the conduct of public business.
The Hungarian government seemß
to have very little serious business
on its hands when it engages in 'he
effort to civilize the gypsies and make
them live in doors. There are more
people who think they are civilized
and live regularly within doors who do
infinitely more harm to themselves
and others In this world than the gyp
sies.
AMEND THE CHARTER.
The amendments to the city charter
which the charter commission has
thus far sanctioned must be regarded
with a single exception aa of little or
no importance in the light of the well
defined character of the prevailing de
mand for such-amendment. The pub
lic do not give a button whether addi
tional street lights are established by
a two-thirds or a three-fourths vote
of the board of public works. Indeed,
the proposal to amend the charter in
this respect is little more than frivol
ous, in view of the unfavorable atti
tude which the commission has occu
pied generally with reference to the
prevailing demands for amendment.
The refusal, too, of the commission to
sanction an amendment which would
take the control of the collection of
garbage away from the city engineer's
department and place it in the hands
of the health commissioner, where It
belongs, has a very distinct flavor of
personal antagonism toward the de
mands of Dr. Ohage. The sama is to
be said with reference to transferring
the charge of details of sanitation
work, such as the removal of dead ani
mals, from the department of public
works to the health department. In-
THE ST. PAUL GLOBTS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1903.
deed, the entire policy pursued by the
charter commission thus far in the
matter of amendment of the organic
law is indefensible. While dilly-dally
ing over the esssential demand that the
city shall be supplied with adequate
fire protection It proceeds promptly to
authorize an amendment which will
increase the amount of clerk hire of
the office of the board of public works.
The public, as we suggest, have no
interest whatever In any amendment
or suggestion sanctioned by the char
ter commission thus far, save alone
that which recognizes the right of the
park department to increased appro
priations and to retain its own unex
pended balances. The action of the
commission in sanctioning such an
amendment should at once have been
supplemented by like action with ref
erence to an increase in the appropria
tions of the fire department and of
the police department. Everything
that will tend to the promotion of the
health of the community, to the pro
tection of the lives and the property
of the people the charter commission
should hasten to sanction. If there is
any doubt about the willingness of that
body to relieve the city from the
wretched shackles which have been
placed upon it by the false and dan
gerous notions of economy which have
prevailed under Republican local ad
ministration in the past six years and
have been embodied in our organic
law, it is time that the people should
circulate petitions among themselves
and secure the necessary signatures,
which will leave no option on the part
of the charter commission save to pre
sent such amendments for popular ap
proval.
It Is all very well for bishops and
other less important persons to de
clare that the best way to settle the
miners' strike is by arbitration. Have
not those experts on the entire subject
of industrial disputes and their set
tlement, the mine oparators, declared
that there is nothing to arbitrate?
Surely that ought to settle it.
FURTHER DELAY CRIMINAL.
The conviction is now prevalent that
the tie-up in the production of an
thracite coal will come to an early end.
There is nothing whatever in the re
ported facts of the situation which
would give apparent warrant to any
such conclusion. The mine owners are
just as insistent now as they were
five months ago that there is only one
ending to be had of the difficulty, while
the miners are just as insistent that
that end will never be reached. The
prevailing conviction of an early set
tlement must be regarded as the prod
uct, pure and simple, of the grave and
urgent need, growing more grave and
more urgent each successive hour, that
the people should have placed at their
disposal their winter's supply of fuel.
The situation as it exists Is an im
possible on#. It is mere blind folly for
President Baer, or his associates, to
say, at this time, that no coal will be
mined until their former employes ac
cept their terms. The coal must be
mined, whether by their former em
ployes or a new set of employes. It
must be mined, if not by those who
control it, then by the commonwealth
in the exercise of its ultimate sovereign
power.
It has been stated in the public press
by one of the officials operating the
mines that if the men were to resume
work at once it would require many
weeks before the necessary anthracite
coal could reach the people as the an
thracite coal bins of the country are
now entirely empty. In the light of
this fact, if it is a fact, the country may
be regarded as demanding the dis
charge without a moment's further de
lay of the duty of the mine operators
toward the consuming public. If the
situation is as thus represented, every
additional day's delay must result in
adding to the suffering which the peo
ple must endure with the advance of
the cold weather and the extortion
which will probably be practiced upon
them in the price demanded, at least at
the outset, for their fuel.
The only thing really that can be
said about President Baer and his
recent declaration on the subject cf
the strike is that he is altogether too
noble and Christian a gentleman to fol
low such a pursuit as that of coal
baron. He should prayerfully ask God
to relieve him of his awful responsibil
ities.
Negro lynching as a pastime seems
to have extended to the Pacific coast.
The hanging of that negro in Oregon
will probably disturb the serenity of
the Crumpbacker crowd who wish to
start up the baiting of the South, but
it will not surprise them at all, or any
body else, for that matter.
Americans used to have some no
tions of their own some years ago
about Canada's manifest destiny; but
it is Canada which is now putting for
ward views on that subject. On latest
reports of such views there may be
some treason-felony trials conducted
in the Dominion one of these days.
There is but little consolation, rip doubt,
to be found by Mr. Michael J. Dow
ling in his present situation in the re
flection that public office will not
want for an adequate supply of Mich
aels, in Ramsey county, at least, for a
long time to come.
That returned doctor may expatiate
as he pleases about the arctic regions
being models of health; but human
experience has shown that notwith
standing the absence of microbes the
grim reaper is well in evidence up that
way.
Adam Bede declares that he will
take the stump at once. He can do
so, if he will only keep steadily in mind
that Ramsey county is not included
in his district.
Speaker Henderson Is to be thanked
for the discovery of another excel
lent specimen of superior Democratic
presidential timber—Horace Boies, of
lowa,
The next Boer rebellion will succeed,
on a close estimate of time, about the
date when Russia wholly vacates Man
churia.
Feminine Answer.
He-—"Do you think blondes have more
admirers than brunettes?"
She —"I don't know. You might ask Miss
Turner; she has had experience in both
capacities."
Lost Track of Them.
Mr. Upjohn—l wish you -would tell
Kathleen she cooks her steaks too much.
Mrs. Upjohn—You are three girls late
John. The name of the present one is
Mollie.—Chicago Tribune.
T" AT ST. PAUL
heatrcr
Haverly's Minstrels will close a brief
engagemenf at Jjthe Metropolitan opera
house with *tha .matinee and evening
performances tefaay. The show has
scored a big hit and is undoubtedly
the most satisfactory performance of
minstrelsy that has been seen here for
several seasons. The singing is far
above the average, the specialties are
unusually strong" and the comedy work
is handled with' rare judgment and dis
cretion. There is enough variety to
please all tastes, and everything pre
sented Is high class. The matinee will
be played at popular prices.
"The Wizard of Oz," which comes
to the Metropolitan next week, is one
of the biggest productions ever pre
sented in this country. The show will
be brought to this city in its entirety
and the performance will be put on
just as it was during the run in Chi
cago. This will necessitate the show
beginning at 8 o'clock sharp for the
evening performances and the curtain
will rise promptly at that time during
the engagement of "The Wizard of
Oz."
The "White Mahatma" seance at the
Metropolitan tomorrow night will be
something in advance of anything of
the kind ever seen in this city. The
attraction Is high classed and one that
has excited much interest among
scientific men generally. No matter
what the explanation may be, it is cer
tain that the "White Mahatma" suc
ceeds in mystifing those who witness
his marvelous manifestations.
There will be a bargain matinee per
formance of "Up York State" at the
Grand opera house this afternoon at
2:30, and with the performance tonight
at 8:15, the engagement of this pretty
pastoral play will come to a close.
David Higgins and Georgia Waldron
have appeared in this city on several
previous occasions, their last appear
ance here being in "At Piney Ridge,"
but those who have witnessed "Up
York State" pronounce it the best ve
hicle by far that they have ever had.
Mr. Higgins is most congenially cast
as Darius Green and Miss Waldron is
afforded splendid opportunities for the
exploitation of her marked talents in
the role of Evelyn Blair. The support
ing company is splendid and the scenic
effects and accessories very realistic.
"The Night Before Chirstmas," Hal
Reid's beautiful pastoral drama, treat
ing of Ohio rural life, will open a
week's engagement at the Grand opera
house tomorrow evening and it is sure
of a cordial: reception.
The last two performances of Frank
B. Carr's "Thoroughbreds" at the Star
will be given this afternoon and even
ing. The week has been a successful
one. Al Reeves' Big Burlesque com
pany will pecupy the boards a week
beginning with tomorrow's matinee.
HISTORY AND TRAGEDY
CONNECTED WITH OLD JEWELS
Could Old Heirlooms Talk They Would
Tell Strange and Wonderful Stories.
Art jewelers are paying enormous
prices for antique ornaments, especial
ly those whose beauty consists chiefly
In remarkable workmanship rather
than the weight of the gems with
which they are set. The woman who
relies chiefly upon the creations of
some other woman of ideas and orig
inality is, if she had not the wealthy
ancestors to bequeath them to her,
seeking old-fashioned ornaments in
second-hand stores and pawnshops.
The most exclusive and high-priced
jewelers in the large cities are sending
out agents to procure for them the for
mer treasures of bankrupt aristocrats.
It is said that several New York firms
have sent such ageftts to New Orleans,
which promises a rich harvest of old
gems.
This innovation has also brought
forward the reproduction of prehistoic
ornaments. A few old Egyptians
pieces, too, are being copied. In one
shop is a duplicate of a famous old
Egyptian bracelet. All this work is
done by hand and is of hammered gold.
It is linked with jewels, and the me
dallions are in a relief of the sphinx,
the snake and a woman's head. The
work is so fine that, placed beneath a
microscope and enlarged ten times, It
is still perfect. The price of this
trinket is $400. Another Egyptian cir
clet Is a band of emeralds and dia
monds half an inch wide. This is in
tended to be worn high up on the arm,
and is meant to fit snugly. The heavy
band of the Greek slave is another fad
of the moment. It is massive, and is
made either of burnished gold or black
onyx. Mra. George Cornwallis-West
has ordered a Greek slave bracelet to
be made of blackened ivory studded
with diamonds, which, it is said, will
cost $3,000.,
One of tne beautiful creations m^^
recently for a woman who is havin^
her heirlooms' "reconstructed" is a
necklace, of which the wearer is proud
er than she would be of a dog collar
of Egyptian pearls or a string of dia
monds. Tire foundation of this neck
lace was an old chain formerly owned
by one of the ladles in waiting to Em
press Josephine. The links were square
surfaced hollow ovals, alternated with
tiny imitations of coiled serpents made
of a greenish gold. The clasp repre
sented a superb piece of workmanship
—two snakes coiled on a bed of roses,
the flowers being exquisitely cut from
coral.
Pendant from this were slender gol
den branches made exceedingly flexi
ble, and dropping from the end of each
was a coral rosebud. In the same
wealth of jewels was an ancient coral
set —earings and breastpin, also of the
rose design, although they came from
a fashion of nearly half a century later.
There were three roses in each ring
and six in the pin. These the girl with
sentiment and ideas had made into
twelve pendants, which were suspend
ed from the oval links. From an old
fashioned snuffbox fourteen diamonds
were taken, and these were set at the
drop of each pendant—thus making
one of the most historic as well as
most beautiful necklaces worn In
Washington last winter.
The pin which confined the stray
curls at the nape of the neck was also
a historic treasure. A medal of honor
conferred upon one of the first gov
ernors of Massachusetts, made of two
shades of gold, shield shape, and cross
ed with a pen and sword, served the
purpose which the Duchess of Marl
borough first inaugurated by "confin
ing her angry locks" with a diamond
brooch, the point of which had pre
viously been broken.
A tendert little story is told of a cur
ious old ring t»wned by a woman of
society and sentiment. It is a large,
heart-shaped opal, deep set and with
a ruby sunk iato the larger stone. It
was the engagement ring of the great
grandaunt of its present possessor. The
original owner was the sister of one of
our colonial governors. She became
affianced to an officer in the king's
army. Befng teligiously inclined, she
declared that she would shatter all be
lief in superstition by wearing an opal
in her engagement ring. That was at
the beginning of the Revolution. The
soldier obeyed his duty—but once,
when trying to obtain a glimpse of his
lady love, he was captured and shot as
a spy. Thts has the ring and its piti
ful little story been handed down for
fi ve generations. Small, indeed, must
have been the hand of the first woman
who wore it, for, although its present
wearer has hands slender and daintily
formed, the opal heart is tight upon
her little finger."—Brooklyn Eagle.
They Were Good Friends.
Maude —"Tom declares we are so much
alike that he often mistakes me for you."
Clara—"Y-yes. I suppose Tom never
will let up on that grudge he owes me."
RETAIL TRADE BETTER
DISPOSITION TO BOOK ORDERS
IS UNRESTRAINED.
Plenty of Money in the Interior and at
All Centers for Trading Purpo«e»—
The Selling Position the Strongest
Bide of the Price Situation — Exports
of Grain—Failures of the Week.
NEW YORK, Sept 19.—Bradstreefa
tomorrow will say: Jobbing distribu
tion continues very active and retail
business is improving:. Now that the
corn crop is practically made and the
only possible changes are those of
quality, the disposition to book fall
and winter orders is unrestrained at
the West and Northwest At the
South the tone of trade reports Is not
ably cheerful, largely owing to higher
cotton prices because crop accounts
are not so favorable as a week ago.
Collections are, as a whole, good, and
the reports as to this and as to money
conditions point to good supplies of
the circulating medium in the country
at large. Whatever stringency is noted,
a condition usual at this time, is lim
ited largely to the employment of
money in speculation. The claim Is
made that there is plenty of money
in the interior and indeed at all cen
ters for ordinary trade purposes.
The selling position seems to be the
strongest side of the price situation,
except possibly in the cereals and
agricultural products generally.
Good Position of Farmers.
Even here the fine financial position
of the farmers enables them to market
their products slowly, and no accumu
lation of moment Is recorded except
in cattle receipts, which this week sur
passed all records. Notable strength is
exhibited in manufactured goods, the
textiles leading in volume of demand
and In strength of prices, in keeping
with advances or firmness in the raw
materials. A large distribution of cot
ton goods Is going on at the West, and
the firmness in the Eastern trade is
notable in view of the relatively
quieter tone of demand.
The coal situation deserves notice.
The delay in the ending 1 of the anthra
cite coal strike throws increased pres
sure on the bituminous product, and
prices for that article are now at least
one-quarter higher than the low point
before the strike began. Anthracite
production is slowly but surely in
creasing as more mines and miners
go to work, but the necessities of some
retail buyers make for fancy prices
for what Is left. A long season at full
time will be necessary to restore
stocks of anthracite to old dimensions.
Hides have eased in price partly be
cause of this and also because of tan
ners suspending work owing to un
profitable business in the finished ma
terial. Leather Is strong as ever, how
ever, because the shoe business is
good, being best at the West.
Lumber is active as heretofore and
the strength of prices is notable, hard
woods being specially strong.
Car Famine Less Acute.
There has been a slight easing of
the car famine as to coke and coal
supplies, and the furnace situation in
the valleys is therefore bettered, but
the Eastern mills are complaining of
delayed supplies. Foreign ii-on and
steel are reaping the benefit, and the
European invasion of iron has now
reached the Mississippi. British pig
iron for quick delivery is selling free
ly at Pittsburg and Chicago. Foreign
steel is being bought for mills in the
Central West, and large quantities of
rails, these for next year's delivery,
are Wng bought abroad. In finished
products, export tin plates, Americans
have about all the business that they
care to accept. 'Rails, plates and struc
tural iron are all heavily sold ahead.
The ore trade on the lakes is as active
as ever, every nerve being strained to
hundle the business offered. In other
metals the features are the renewed
weakness in copper and tin, the boom
in the former metal appearing short
lived. Hardware is notably active at
all markets, and as an instance West
tern stove manufacturers are reported
to have all the orders they can handle.
Wheat, including flour, exports for
the week ending Sept. 18 aggregate
5,435,323 bushels, against 5,444,142 last
week, 3,840,574 in this week last year
and 3,535,857 in 1900. Wheat exports
since July 1 aggregate 55,537,065
bushels, against 72,181,845 last season
and 38,519,690 in 1900.
Corn exports aggregate 49,508
bushels, against 91,512 last week; 611,
--258 last year and 2,134,205 in 1900. For
the fiscal year exports are 980,859
bushels, against 12,132,934 last season
and 39,791,241 in 1900.
Business failures In the United
States for the week ending WSept 18
number 182, as against 197 last week,
158 in this week last year, 183 in 1900;
147 in 1890 and 182 in IS9S.
In Canada for the week eighteen, as
against eighteen last week.
Bank Clearings.O^!; '-^;< ,•
NEW YORK, Sept." 19.—The following
<able, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the
bank clearings at the principal cities for
the week ended Sept. 18, with the percent
age of increase and decrease, as compared
with the corresponding week last year:
" 1 Inc. [Dec.
New York $1,696,562,165 50.5
Chicago ....... 159,690,543 25.4 .....;
Boston . 128,911,193 18.5 ......
Philadelphia ... 108,915,446 26.5 ......
St. Louis ...... 46,833,081 34.7 ......
Pittsburg ....... 43,450,330 60.8 ......
Baltimore ...... 24,932,073 ~ 24.2 ......
Cincinnati . .... 21.438,25!) 36.5 ......
San Francisco .. 31,377,285 39.4...;..
Kansas City ... > 21,651,482 40.0 '.
Cleveland 17,068,770 46.3 ......
Minneapolis .... 15,765,078 42.1 ......
New Orleans ... 11,893,914 32.0 .
Detroit ...... .9,292,850...... 4.2
Louisville ' 9,492,436 42.1......
Indianapolis ... 10,667,554 25.9 .'..;..
Providence .... 6,634,400 .27.1 .....;
Omaha .. ...... 6,996,879 29.2
Milwaukee ..... -r 6,753,947 , 10.8 .".'.'.;'.'■
Buffalo .. ..... 6,132,362 12.5 ....".;
St. Paul 5.605.351 36.0 ......
St. Joseph 4,663,832 32.9......
Denver... 5,305,875 34.1 ......
Seattle 5,119,130 69.4 ......
Washington ." .. : . 3,299,448 83.5 ......
Peoria ... ...... 3,083,378 61.6 ......
Portland, 0r.... 3,643,207 80.1......
Dcs Molnes"..:. ', ; 2,012,459 33.1 ..;....-
Grand Rapids .. 1,829,985 67.4 ...'...
Sioux City .1,637,805 64.^6 .."..-..
Tacoma 1,490,572 5.2 ......
Spokane .. .... 1,768,160 80.3 ......
Topeka ........ ■'-.- 1,488,628 56.6....;.
Davenport 1,003,140 ...... 1.4
Helena.;. ..... . 684,760 20.8 ......
Fargo .......... '"■ 469,384 48.8 ......
Quincy-..:.;..:. , : 280,550 ...... ......
SiouxlFalls .... 233,771 5.9......
; ♦Houston ...... 11,517,804 3.6 :.:...<
*Galveston .... ..: 8,994,000 52.4 .;.v.-.i
I
Totals, U. 5..]52,496,579,672 43.3 ......
Outside N. V....1 800,017,507 30.0 .;....
.: •■ '■' ■'■• ,"--■ ■-.- Canada. ._•'
Montreal ...... - $23,018,764 .39.8 ."...Vr
Toronto .. ..... ' 15,147,453 21.4 ......
Winnipeg 3,185,540 43.6 ......
' Halifax ...... 1,515,021 ....... .7.2
; Vancouver, B. C 1,255,309 : 5.6 ......
Hamilton ...... - 927,521 ; 9.1 ...;..:
St. John, N. B. . 807,149 ...... ,- : 6.0
Victoria, B. C. 601,569 24.4 ...v.V
♦•Quebec ;..... 1.379,904 47.8 r. ..'
Ottawa :.'...... - : 2,131,917 .....
London ..;-;•... . ,729,477 ..;..v).;..:.;
I-• Totals, Canada! • $47,838,4301 ~: 28.9] .."..:.';
•Not -. included ■. in ' totals . because * con- ■
taining other : items. than . clearings. **Not
included in totals because of no compar
ison for last year. .
m
. Proper Caution. :'■ '\*}~,\
•■' —May always hurries under cover
as soon as ,it begins■ to rain. r
Belle —Yes; she believes,. with Napoleon,
that •in order •to ' succeed one" must ■ keep
the powder —Judge.
,-'.'.' '"■- - -. .'' ■'■'..'* "■ ■- . ': •■
.--/^JRusty;" In Her Botany." r
S Mrs. ■; i Newed— * are . - those : purple
things?,-; :•■ -..-"""". ■.-■--, .:'"%:. „•.; ■;-■," ;
Dealer—Eggplants, ma'am. .- "
x Mrs. Newed —Oh,":how '■ lovely! " I'll take
two and set; them out iin our ; back yard.
Do i they .' bear - fresh." eggs • all ■> th» year
round? :-,:;;' :'.- -"-..-■-"•"■ ■ ■■. „" "■ :
HAS THE PREBIDENT
CHANGED HIS TACTICS?
Hint a* to What Ho Will Talk About
; r on His Western Trip.
To the Editor of The Globe: ;
' 'In yesterdayj morning's issue of the
Pioneer Press we note that the presi
dent's Western speeches will be chang
ed on' his ; Western tour, and • that ha
will give f his ■• views on "The Lack of
Connection Between the Tariff and. the
Trusts." This, following closely on his
private conference with . the I leaders |of
the Republican party in which it was
decided -to : make i : no I changes In the
tariff, seems 'to us to indicate that our
bold' and fearless president.• has been
called off, or, in vulgar, parlance, called
down ,by the trust magnates. This \is
not hard to understand, when every
intelligent observer of" the ; movements
of the Republican party knows that in
the ' trusts that . party lives I and moves
and has its being. The war of the Re
bellion has at last worn itself out as an
issue; the so-called : Southern dlsfran
chisement of the negro seems to have
lost its ; potency as an issue; and the
tariff alone remains. When ; every, ar
ticle of domestic use and : most \ articles
needed in our manufactures remain on
the high tariff, it seems to use that the
next great battle between the two
most prominent parties must be waged
on; the protective tariff issue. What
the v Pioneer Press - calls the Western
Republican movement for tariff revis
ion has ; been ' going on '„ for at least
twenty years. AWe can remember dur
ing that period of time that almost
every leading Republican paper in the
West has been advocating a lower tar
iff in those years when there was no
presidential or congressional election,
but they all wheel into line and defend
beet root sugar and dead and down
timber speculators and operators, when
it comes to the crucial test of the bal
lot box. Party and patronage are dear
er to them than political honesty and
the public welfare.
Our colonial policy Is also beginning
to be recognized as another failure, but
a sort of patriotic pride keeps the bulk
of . our people ; from acknowledgement.
Even the most ardent admirer of the
colonial • ownership must fall back
upon the defense that we got the Phil
ippines and cannot let them go. v It is
like the boy whose fingers are fettered
by the feelers of the lobster, only the
lobster in this case seems to be Uncle
Sam. : —W. M. C.
St. Paul, Sept. 19. v^;
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THE WONDERFUL VOYAGE
OF A DERELICT TREE
It Has Drifted About the Ocean for
Nearly Two Years.
A tree adrift In the middle of the
Atlantic ocean is the rare sight re
ported by Capt. Freeman, of the Brit
ish steamer Sldra, which recently ar
rived in port with a cargo of pig iron
from Benisaf, in the Mediterranean.
It was on July 29, when in 35.19 de
grees north and 38.22 degrees west,
that an unusual looking object, was
seen floating ahead of the steamer.
Those on the ship's bridge made out
the trunk and limbs of a tree about
twenty feet long, canted to one side
and the roots sticking out of the wa
ter.
The body of the tree had been
bleached white by the sun, and It was
covered with barnacles. It evidently
reached the sea by being washed down
from some Atlantic coast river in a
freshet. Many months ago a tree green
with foliage, standing upright, was
seen off Cape Henry.
The tree seen from the Sldra Is in
the same position as a bell buoy, seen
two months ago by the British steam
er Thirlby, which arrived here. For
this tree to reach its present position
it must have been drifting about the
ocean for nearly two years. When
this odd derelict went adrift it must
have been picked up by the gulf
stream and carried up the coast past
Newfoundland. Then It was swept
3,000 miles across the Atlantic to the
vicinity of the English channel. Next
the gulf stream carried it south past
the coasts of France and Spain and
the northwest coast of Africa, a jour
ney of 5,000 miles. Here It drifted out
of the gulf stream and went into the
very center of the so-called Sargasso
sea, in the middle Atlantic ocean, the
-scene of legends of the sea, where dere- ■
licts are supposed to finally come to
rest in the fabled sea of grass. The
Thirlby passed the buoy spoken of
April 26, in latitude 34.34 and longitude
39.42.
The navy department keeps a rec
ord of all objects seen adrift, and only
twice in five years has a voyage of the
kind been recorded that compares with
that of the tree seen from the Sidra.
One of the Cape Canso buoy. As that
buoy was one year drifting across the
Atlantic, the buoy reported by Thirl
by must have been two years wander
ing the seas, as it traveled twice as
far as the Cape Canso buoy. The lat
ter buoy broke adrift from its station
off Nova Scotia and drifted nearly into
the English channel. The buoy was
a little over a year in making the trip.
The skippers of vessels were often
puzzled to hear the bell far out at sea.
The buoy was sighted thirteen times,
and was last seen 600 miles off Eng
land. It averaged a drift of ten miles
a day.
The tree seen by the officers of the
Sidra will doubtless be picked up by
the gulf stream again and be carried
across the southern edge of the North
Atlantic ocean, through the West In
dies, and up the Atlantic coast again.
It is following the track of the fam
ous derelict Fannie E. Wolston, which
was adrift nearly four years and wan
dered 9,115 miles. She was 110 days
crossing and recrossing her tracks, and
traveling around in circles. She was
sighted forty-one times, and crossed
her own tracks twelve times.
That this was the tree green with
foliage and standing upright reported
adrift at sea not far from the mouth
of the Chesapeake bay about a year
ago there can be little doubt—Balti
more American.
THE SONG OF THE DESK SLAVE.
O this Is the song of the man who's
chained
All day to a roll-top desk;
Who, sweltering over a type-machine,
Assumeth a shape grotesque.
The Breeze and the sunshine are not for
him,
The sky is a mere hearsay;
He sits and he grinds 'mid the rustling
sheets
Through all of the dull, dull day.
He thinks of the years when his hands
were hard,
His arms like the best of steel;
He thinks of the days when his lithe
limbs made
Good time on a racing wheel;
He thinks of the day when he held his
own
In harvesting hay or grain—
Then smiles at the thought that a croquet
game
Cm give him a next-day pain.
He sighs to remember" the mighty brawn
He showed on the college track;
He thinks of the days when he played
baseball
And wishes those days were back;
He thinks of himself in a football suit
Well padded and picturesque,
Then weeps o'er recalling the flabby form
That's chained to the roll-top desk.
O man In the field, with the hoe or plow,
O man with the ditching spade!
Yearn not for the "easy white -handed
Job"
Instead of your sturdy trade.
There's money—sometimes—in tho office
grind—
There's life in, the work you do!
You are fanned and warmed by the breeze
and sun
And arched with a roof of blue.
Your food is the food of a hungry man,
You sleep like the dead at night;
Your muscles are firm and your heart Is
good
Your cause !s the cause of right;
We slaves of the desk would renounce
our hope
Of wealth or a "raise" In pay
If we could but feel as we used to feel
'. Back there In our "husky" day.
, _S. W. Gillilau in Los Angeles Herald.
NEWTAMMANYHEAD .
CHARLEB P. MURPHY ELECTED
LEADER BY THE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
ORGANIZATION GIVES UP
TRIUMVIRATE SYSTEM
Protest Against Devery Becoming the
Representative of the Ninth District
on the Ground of Fraud—He Asks
for His Credentials, but Can Get no
Satisfaction.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Charles P.
Murphy was tonight elected leader of
Tammany Hall at the meeting of the
executive committee. This resolution
was offered by President Haffen, of
Bronx borough:
"Whereas, The experiment of the
committee of three has proved the de
sirability of individual responsibility
and leadership,
"Resolved, That the position and du
ties heretofore occupied and performed
by the committee of three be hereafter
occupied and performed by Charles F.
Murphy."
The resolution was carried by a vote
of 29 to 9. On a proposition to change
the place for holding conventions in
the Ninth district for selecting dele
gates to state, county, senatorial and
assembly districts, Frank Goodwin de
manded that the matter be laid on the
table and protested against William S.
Devery becoming the accredited repre
sentative of the district on account of
fraud. The matter was referred to the
committee on elections. After Ihe
meeting Devery made a formal demand
for his credentials, but was unable to
get any satisfaction.
BRYANT IN LITERATURE
AND HIS GOOD INFLUENCE
He Was Nature's Poet and Went to
Her for Inspiration and Strength.
When Bryant first apeared there was
no American literature worth mention
ing; certainly no poetry. Brockden
Brown had written a half-dozen clever
novels and Washington Irving a few
bright essays and satires In the style of
Addison. The poets of the time were
Hopkinson, Green, Trumbull, Barlow,
Dwight and Humphreys, but it requires
now a pretty careful search In old
anthologies to bring any of their writ
ings to light. "Thanatopsis," though
written six years earlier, was first pub
lished In the North American Review
for September, 1817, and naturally at
tracted widespread attention. Here at
last was a true poet, and in accord
ance with the nomenclature of that
day the author was styled the "Ameri
can Wordsworth," a name that has
more or less clung to him to the pres
ent time. Of course he was not the
"American Wordsworth," nor does his
verse resemble that of the English
poet. Both were observers of nature,
as all poet 3 are, and both were addict
ed to emphasizing moral lessons, but
Bryant's preaching resembles Cow
per's much more than it does Words
worth's. Had he been called the Amer
ican Cowper, it would have been fool
ish enough, but still a more accurate
comparison than the other.
"Thanatopsis," as first published and
as it now stands in the approved text
of the poems, are two quite different
poems so far as polished versification
is concerned, though the theme is the
same. Many changes and additions
have been made, but nevertheless as
first published It was a remarkable
poem for a boy of eighteen to write.
Not but what boys of eighteen some
times take somber views of life, and
for a moment or so have melancholy
thoughts, but it is not the natural state
of as happily a situated youth as Bry
ant was. The thought of the poem is
commonplace and even trite. The
world's sepulchre—all that live must
die—are texts for preachment as old as
mankind. But the versification in
which these thoughts were expressed
was sonorous and musical, while the
imagery was pleasing. The American
mind of that day was fond of sermons
—many think it still —and was greatly
pleased with this poem. It was stamp
ed as the work of genius, and soon
found its way into the school books. It
was quoted everywhere, and at a sin
gle bound the author attained a na
tional fame. It has been read and
memorized by every generation of
school children since, and we have
been educated to admire it as one of
the masterpieces of poetry. It is in
deed a fine poem, ranking with the
best passages of "The Task," but not
at all comparable to the "Tintern Ab
bey" of Wordsworth. Those who think
Bryant is an American Wordsworth
should read "Thanatopsis" and "Tin
tern Abbey" together. Both poems are
on the thoughts suggested by rom
munings with nature, and are, there
fore, fairly to be compared with each
other. The one will be found to be es
sentially commonplace, the other full
of Inspiring and elevated thought.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
Nicaragua Has Volcanoes.
A highly suspicious odor arises from
the frequent reports which nave appeared
In the public press of late concerning vol
canic disturbances on or near the pro
posed route of the Nicaragua Canal. It is
a remarkable coincidence, at least, hardly
explainable on scientific grounds, that so
many things are happening, or about to
happen, precisely at the period when the
selection of the Nicaragua route is still
among the possibilities. Remembering the
facility with which certain Panama per
sons were once able to put a padlock on
the lips of a large number of influential
Frenchmen, It seems possible that a like
influence may be at work now on the
seismologists in another direction. We
have never subscribed to the cynical
statement of Horace Walpole that "every
man has his price," but we are ready to
swing the door pretty wide when it comes
to anything relating to Panama. —Leslie's
Weekly.
The One Thing Needful.
To the late Gen. Thomas J. Morgan, th«
telling of this little anecdote is credited:
In a certain Sunday school the subject
of the lesson was the condition of man In
Eden. On a large leaf suspended in the
room were named certain gifts with which
God has blessed man. Among these was
mentioned the giving of a wife. The pas
tor in some remark to ttfe children tried
to show that man needed company.
"If," said he, "you liad a dog at homa
or a playful kitten or a beautiful song
bird, would that be all you would want?
They agreed that it would not.
"What more would you want?" h«
asked, expecting that they would answer
father, mother, brothers or sisters. After
a pause a little fellow about three year*
old, with a thin, soft voice, spoke up:
"A wife."
The school broke into laughter, the pas
tor maintained his gravity with difficulty
and the superintendent disappeared to
vent his feelings where he could not b«
observed.—New York Times.
Tommy Hit It.
It was Tommy's first glass of soda
water that he had been teasing for so
long.
"Well, Tommy, how does It taste?
asked his father.
"Why," replied Tommy, with a puzzled
face, "It tastes like your foot's asleep."—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
He Breaks Even.
"Don't you find it expensive running to
a doctor so often?" asked Wellum to
Sickurn.
"Oh, no," replied Sickum. Tou se«,
he always puts mo on a diet, and I save
enough on my meat and grocery bills to
more than pay his."-—Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune.