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4 The St. Paul Globe y THE GLOBE CO.. PUBLISHERS >..-V. •:■- - - -. .--— ■ - - ;■; : ■■ ... •,/-• ■:. Official ■ <™38S8i2i&> :;: £ tTi op ; Paper ■ - 'S^^^ V £t- Paul ; Entered at Postoffice 'at: St. Paul. Minn., a3 Second-Class Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS Northwestern—Business, 1065 ' Main- Editorial. 78 Main. • •- -; Twin City—Business. 1065; Editorial, 78. CITY ■■.SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Carrier. . | 1 mo. 16 mos. 112 mos. Daily only ......... I .40 $2.25 $4.00 Daily and Sunday .. .50 2.75 5.00 Sunday ........... I .20 1.10 2.00 : -COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS yv - By Mail. 1 1 mo. 16 mos._|l2_mos. Daily only I .25 $1.50 $3.00 Daily and Sunday .. .35 2.00 4.00 Sunday I .20 1.10 2:00 EASTERN REPRESENTATIVE W. J. MORTON, V^. ■ 150 Nassau St. New York City. 87 Washington St.. Chicago. THEST.PAUL DAILY GLOBE'S circulation now exceeds that of any other morning newspaper In the Twin Cities except only the Minneapolis Tribune. THE St. Paul Sunday Globe Is now acknowledged to be the best Sunday Paper in the .North west and has the largest circu lation. ADVERTISERS get 100 per *» cent more in results for the -money they spend on advertising in The Globe than from any other paper. THE Globe circulation is ex clusive, because it is the only Democratic Newspaper of gen eral circulation in the Northwest. \ DVERTISERS in The Globe reach this great and daily increasing constituency, and it cannot foe reached in any other way. RESULTS COUNT— THE GLOBE GIVES THEM. TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1904. INDUSTRIAL COMMOTION A presidential year is always a year of more or less unsettled industrial conditions. Business is apt to be dull at that time. There is no reason why this should be so at present. There are few disturbing conditions about the present political controversy. As far as the financial issue is concerned, ■which held business in suspense four and eight years ago, there is now no • room for anxiety. It has become so much of a habit, however, with our business men to curtail somewhat their operations at the beginning of a year when a president is chosen that .it persists even when the reasons for it have vanished. Therefore there are ai rways six or eight months of dull busi ness before a national election occurs, and dull business means usually some labor trouble. The big events of this year so far are the strike of the packing house em ployes and the strike in the textile mills at Fall River. In one case the men are fighting for an increase in the wages of a portion of the employes, and in the other they are protesting against a material reduction; which is, we believe, the second to be made with in a comparatively short time. The Fall River manufacturers can at least plead the excuse of a falling market. It has not been easy to push their products of late, and they have met market conditions by reducing wages accordingly. The prospect there is for a prolonged stri ggle. The packing house strike has already passed through so many changing and sur prising phases that it would be' rash to predict whether it will last for twenty-four hours or for as many weeks. The world of industry is singularly slow in working away from the condi tions that make such disturbance on a large scale possible. Everyone of them, or course, costs all parties involved, together with the innocent public, enor mous sums of money. A strike is w-tr, and it is as expensive as the other kind. There is always a belief that in a presidential year it will be easier to ob tain advances in wages or to keep them from being cut, because it is imag ined that powerful political influences, •which would be unfavorably affected by prolonged; labor troubles, will step in and insist upon a settlement. Several times this has happened; with the result of postponing by just so much tl>e com ing of the time when wages and hours will be matters for adjustment be tween labor and capital without the slightest possibility of the discharge of a single man or the stoppage of work for a single hour by reason of the diffi culty of coming to an agreement. Meantime, we must bear the ills of our semi-civilized economic condition as best we can, and utilize public opinion as far as it can be done by bringing pressure on all parlies con cerned to insist upon an early ami amicable agreement. Still there is room for doubt about the value of publicity to a youv.g town when the case of Bonesteei is consid ered. THERE'S THE RUB When 'an attempt was made storing the late city campaign to make a party issue out of alleged sales of liquor in the Midway district, and the police de- partment was accused of neglect to en /orcc Hi*. ia\v there. The 9 lobe re- minded the insincere critics on tha other side that in the past it had been found impossible to get convictions. The trouble lay not in the unwilling ness to apprehend, but in the stubborn determination of the average jury not to' find anybody -guilty of keeping a blind pig. Now that no election is pending, we desire to note the issue of a trial on this particular offense, which has been pending in the municipal court for some time. The Globe knows noth ing whatever about the sufficiency of the evidence, but it does know that there was a greaUamount of it. There was ateo a strong defense, which tJi« jury considered ample. From the fact that there were eleven of them for ac quittal from the outset, no question can arise about the practical fairness of their verdict. Under the law we must believe that the charge stood not approved. It will be well to have this event in mind when another campaign comes around and the same old charge is made, as it surely will be. The fact that Tom Taggart once ran a lunch counter is not to be charged against him. There are few men who have lived entirely blameless lives. SHORT CROPS AND HIGH PRICES All indications point to a modest grain crop this year. Neither the excessive promise nor the threat ened disaster of different periods since spring fairly opened will be realized. That the winter wheat crop was materially damaged is now admitted. For a time there was reason to suppose that both the spring wheat and the corn crop would rank among those of bumper years. Al though the spring was late, it was fol lowed by such an abundance of mois ture that grain got a good start. Then came the prolongation of rainfall be yond what was either necessary or desirable, accompanied by absence of sunshine and by piercing winds. Low lands were under water, portions of Kansas were ruined by flood and there was danger to our crops in the Red river valley and other portions of the Northwest not thoroughly drained. We are now fairly advanced to a point where we can calculate upon the future with some reasonable certainty. Harvesting has already begun, and the crops are far enough along everywhere to admit of reasonable estimates. We should judge from the best advices that can be obtained, and from the figures of the most careful estimators, that there will be a large shortage in the total yield for the country, while we of the Northwest will have the ad vantage of at least a fair crop to be marketed. On the other hand, the probability is that prices will rule high. All condi tions are favorable for a good market. Stocks in hand have been well run down; and, while the war in the East does not create the same demand for breadstuffs that it would if the na tions engaged were those of Western Europe, it nevertheless does make a difference both in increased consump tion and in a decreased Russian con tribution to the world's supply. The expansion of the Oriental market, re lieving the pressure and furnishing outlet for a considerable percentage of the American yield, is a powerful and permanent influence working in the same direction. But the main factor is the actual shortage, which points to better prices. Looking at all the facts of the situa tion, the promise is that the farmers of the Northwest, if they understand their interests and are not deceived by false reports, will do very weil. Unless some entirely unforeseen dis aster occurs between this and the close of harvesting, they will be able to dis pose of their grain at more than ordi narily satisfactory prices. Upon such prices, with this enlightenment as to the situation, they should insist. This is our great reliance; the fountain of prosperity which neither trusts nor politics nor any other political or economic calamity can shut off. The czar's idea of peace appears to have a destructive effect on unarmed merchant ships. IT IS UP TO MR. HAY Whether or no Secretary of State John Hay accepts the grand cross of the Legion of Honor, conferred on him by the president of France, is no part of the public's business. It is merely a matter of taste in which Mr. Hay will decide for himself. Men of much greater eminence in the United States than Mr. Hay have made ho difficulty about accepting dec orations from foreign powers. Some of them, it has been charged, have ac cepted things in&ve substantial than decorations. The bestowal of the grand cross on Mr. Hay is said to be in recognition of his services in pro moting the enterite between France and the United States. It appears to us thut President Loubet has a nicer appreciation of the improve ment in existing conditions than we have, for the work of Mr. Hay is not visible to the naked American eye. It wouij be absurd to admit, as some too zealous partisans have insinuated, that the decoration is in the nature of a bribe. Diplomats Inspired by the genius of the republic are not bribed with a bit of ribbon to stick in one's : - A man with r a very, nice sen.-:..' of: the fitness V tluu^B /might; have i refrained from accepting the decoration while THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, TUESDAY, JULY 26. 1904 still an officer of the government. That, as we have said, is merely a matter of taste. '"The constitution of the Uijited States expressly prohibits the acceptance by any citizen of a title of nobility, present, honor, office, emolument or title of any kind with out the consent of congress. The con sent of congress will probably not, be withheld in the case of Mr. Hay, an<l why grudge him his Mr. Hay has had more kicks than ha'pence by reason of his efforts in the field cf diplomacy, and a ribbon more or less will not help or hurt his value in world politics. The value of the onion as a substi tute for the beefsteak is beginning to appeal strongly to all manner of folk. WANTED: SOME GOOD MEN Good men, substantial citizens, are wanted on the Ramsey county board of commissioners. The fact that there are openings for men of this sort has been made patent by the doings' of the pres ent board. The filings so far for places on the board, to be filled at the fall election, are not, generally, of a char acter to inspire the hope that the most desirable class of citizens will seek the nominations. This condition should be rectified. The county board exercises most im portant functions in local government. These functions should be adminis tered by men of intelligence and un questioned probity. As for the latter quality that may or may not have been lacking in the past: If it was not j wanting then there have been some very stupid men on the county board. The county does not ask the citizen to give his time to the work of t*e board for nothing. The compensation —$600 per year—is quite sufficient to amply compensate a business man for the time he would be compelled to de vote to the -work of the commission. But it is utterly inadequate compensa tion for the professional county com missioner. The salary was fixed at the rate of fifty dollars per month for the purpose of inducing men of business to seek the office in the knowledge that their time would be paid for. That ob ject has not been attained. It should be the aim of the Demo crats to urge capable and fit men to file for this office and to support such men in the primaries and on election day. The practice hitherto seems to have been to let the county commis sionerships go as consolation prizes to party workers. This unworthy prac tice must be dropped and the standard of membership on the board elevated. In no month does a county commis sioner devote more than five days to the work of the board, and ten dollars a day ought to command a fair ar ticle of business talent. The way to put the county board on a business basis is to elect business men. Let it be understood now, while filings are being made, that the man who aspires to a place on the board must show cause. A sympathetic strike is fellow feel ing for a rest. MYSTERIES OF THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT The mysteries of the postoffice de partment are not to be penetrated by the ordinary mind. There is much complaint in St. Paul about the slow ness of the mails and the uncertainty of delivery, and yet we are told every now and then that a new substation will be opened to facilitate the deliv ery of letters. This has gone on for several years. The central postoffice is large, commodious and could easily handle the entire .mail business of thc city. But for some mysterious reason the postoffice powers that be desire substations for the ostensible reason that it is serving the public, where as it is a fact well known to those in the vicinity of the stations that they received their mail more expeditious!}' under the old arrangement. This complaint has become so universal that the Commercial club has taken the matter up and proposes to thor oughly investigate it. Under the old way and before the establishment of the St. Anthony hill substation, the residents of the hill district would receive letters that ar rived on the fast mail from the East in the afternoon, immediately. But since the starting of the station thesa letters are held until the next morn- Ing. In other words, whereas formerly they received Tuesd^s mail on Tues day, they now receive it on Wednes day. The same complaint has been made since the lower town station has been established in the wholesale dis trict. If you mail a letter at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at the central post office that you want delivered on Robert street that same day, you will discover that owing to its having to go to the substation first it will not reach its destination until the next morning. If all the mail of the city were sent out, as heretofore, from the central postoffice, none of the delays mentioned would occur. In the face of these indisputable facts it is strange that the postoffice authorities still claim that the substations are merely to facilitate delivery. The only way in which they expedite matters is when a letter for that particular dis trict is mailed at the station itself. Letters that go from one part of the city to another are not delivered as promptly as they were when St. Paul was a smaller city ami the postoffics department had less means and less room at its command. Contemporary Comment T — — ; m . - . Campaign Story Nipped \ tl I<; is antce campaign story—this ,that the beef trust brought on t the strike in revenge, for '■ the •; act of : the j Roosevelt administration in : getting - out "an in junction against the combinations. The alleged purpose of the trust is to haVe I the people squeezed so hard that 5 they will rise, up in a body and vote down the ; president. But as the injunction has -so far not been rof ■. the slightest ef fect.- in destroying;- the dressed beef monopoly, the story evidently needs: to be called in for repairs. -For. how ; can the beef trust be harboring feelings of revenge when It has not been hurt?— Springfield, Mass.) Republican. . - *-'•, Snapshot Photography in 1904 Snapshot photography, thanks to modern methods, has become a highly developed art. Even since 1900 it has made important advances. For this reason the campaign of 1904 will be more fully illustrated for the future historian than the campaign of any preceding year, and those who come after us win be better able to interpret it for themselves and their children. Let us not overdo our criticisms of the snapshot man. He is performing a val uable work in the community, though ne is sometimes too enterprising and too heeaiess of the proprieties.—Provi dence (R. t) .Journal. Change Diet The human body will endure—though often under protest—such eccentricities of diet that many persons give the sub ject no attention and go on eating as heartily in summer as in winter. Should they take the trouble to vary their ac customed menus they might find that a lessened consumption of meat, especial ly in summer, would improve their condition. Possibly they might discov er, too, that the altered bill of fare worked well- throughout all the year. Just at this* time the experiment is worth making.—Kansas City Star. Uplift of the Campaign That many things will be said in the Jieat of a campaign which would bet ter be leftunsaid is perhaps inevitable But there is no more sense in dragging a campaign down to the level of a mere vulgar squabble for advantage, in which principles are almost wholly lost sight of, and lies and vilifications are indulged in indiscriminately. We have had such campaigns in the past. Let us hope we shall have no more of them, for they are a disgrace to American politics and a reproach to the American name.—Los Angeles Times. Change in Politics Once in 12 Years The natural tendency of American politics, except after a war, is for a change to come at least once in twelve years. After the civil war the Repub licans had uninterrupted success for sixteen years, anyway, conceding the Democratic claim that Tilden was elected but robbed of victory by re turning boards. It was twenty-four years before the party got a president, anyway; but then, the Republican and Democratic administrations alternated until the Spanish war.—Boston Adver tiser. These Be Hard Times Soft-shell crabs are now almost as dear as beef. Mosquitoes have come with the heat. The straw-vote man is already beginning his work. Can hu man nature endure the strain?— New York Herald. All He Is Liable To Give The report that Russell Sage is throwing his money away in politics is exaggerated. His only contribution to the Republican campaign fund has been a pleasant look. —Birmingham News. Joe Knows His Business Speaker Cannon has fully recovered from his recent illness, and is still sure that he would rather be right than be beaten for the vice presidency.—Wash ington Post. Still in the Ring Elijah Dowie and the Chicago Chron icle have gone over to Roosevelt, but Dr. Mary Walker still holds to her pantaloons and politics.—Baltimore Sun. ft- PERSONAL MEINTIOIN 7?. PERSONAL MENTION « 1 Merchants— ti. Larsson Lake Benton; L. C. Brackett. Council Bluffs; J. E. Ma son and wife. Mason City; G. H. Merrill, Owatonna; J. C. Ames, Butler; S. E. Heath, Racine; O. F. Metzroth and wife. St. Cloud; Daniel Hyland. Beaudette; J. H. Worst and .wife. Fargo; Lafayette Hill, Chatfield: N. A. Henderson, Glendive, Mont.; William W. Gross. Seattle. Ryan—F. W. Wright, Detroit; F. F. Forney and wife. Moberly. Mo.; Mrs. A. M. Evil, Helena, Mont.; M. H. McCarthy, Dubuque; E. F. Ross. New York; James R. Lilly and wife. Indianapolis. Windsor^-H.' C. Huebner, Duluth; D. W. Cowan, Sandstone; Carlos Boynton, Mankato: John C. Carlson, Rush * City; George B. i Alee. St. Joseph, Mo.; J. W. Kirk and wife. Willmar; W. F. Doolittle and wife, Omaha; W. F. Heissing, North field, i "1 TODAY'S WEATHER WASHINGTON, D. C, July 25.—Fore cast: Minnesota—Showers and thunder storms Tuesday; Wednesday fair and warmer; fresh south winds. Upper Michigan—Fair in the east, show ers in the west portion Tuesday; Wednes day showers; light southeast to west winds. lowa—Occasional showers and thunder storms Tuesday and Wednesday. North Dakota—Fair Tuesday, except showers in southwest portion; Wednes day fair; warmer. South Dakota—Showers Tuesday; Wed nesday fair and. warmer. Wisconsin—Occasional showers Tues day and Wednesday; light to fresh south west winds. Montana—Fair and warmer Tuesday; Wednesday fair in east, scattered show ers and thunder storms in west portion. St. Paul — Yesterday's observations, taken by the United States weather btf reau, St. Paul, W. E. Oliver, observer, for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night-i-Barometer corrected for tem perature and elevation. Highest'tempera ture, 72; lowest temperature. 64; average temperature, 66; daily range. 8; barom eter. 29.92; humidity, .75; precipitation, .29; 7 p. m. temperature. 72; 7 p. m. wind,, south; weather, partly cloudy. Yesterdays Temperatures— •BpmHighi *BpntHigh Alpena ......66 7i';Jacksonville ..76 86 Bismarck ;. ...78 82; Los Angeles...Bo 86 Buffalo 70 74Marquette 66 82 Boston 74 78 Memphis 78 82 Chicago 74 82 Medicine Hat..74 80 Cincinnati ...78 80; Milwaukee ...72 80 Cleveland ' 70 72|Minnedosa 64 72 Denver :..82 82jNew Orleans..7B 8S Dcs Moines ..72 78iNew York 72 74 Detroit ..... v7O 78!Omaha 76 78 Duluth 68 72' Philadelphia ..68 70 El Paso 88 90!Pittsburg 76 80 Edmonton ...70 70|Qu'AppelIe ...6S 70 Escanaba ....70 7G!San Francisco.s6 58 Galveston '.. :80 82' St. Louis 78 82 Grand Rapids.'76 SOjSalt Lake 83 90 Green Bay ..76 30|San Antonio ..78 86 Havre 76 78IS. Ste. Marie..7o 78 Helena 73 80; Washington ..68 70 Huron 82 84, Winnipeg 66 90 ♦Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul). River Bulletin- Danger Gauge Change in Line. Reading. 24 Hours. St. Paul 14 3.7 —0.1 La Crosse 10 4.1 —0.2 Davenport 15 4.4 St. Louid 30 17.3 —Fall. The Mississippi will fall slightly during the next twenty-lour hours in the vicini ty of St. I'aiU. What the Editors Say Had we been writing the platform we would have declared what every one knows. That conditions have changed since the passage of the Ding ley law, and the tariff should be revised to meet these conditions, that the great demand of the times is for wider mar kets for the products of our fields, stock ranges and factories; and when ever such wider markets can be ob tained by a reduction or removal of the tariff and the markets thus' secured are of more value to the people as a whole fhan the protection afforded by the tariff, such revision should be made and reciprocal treaties entered into.— Sauk Center Herald. What's the use of standing pat" on the tariff question when we all know , that conditions demand a revision ? When this question hits close to your own pocketbook then you squeal and so do we. For instance, pulp, which is used for the manufacture of print paper, is getting scarce in the United States, while Canada has thousands of acres of poplar trees that are going- to waste because a tariff prevents us using them. In the meantime the price of print paper continues to soar. —Zum- brota. News. In politics the man who sits on the fence never makes a friend. A hot op ponent receives more respect than a lukewarm friend. Each question has two sides; the right and the wrong. If you are a man of convictions, you will take the right side and publicly announce to the world where you stand. The man on the fence has never done anything towards the progress of the human race.. He is like the sign board in this, that he always remains in the same place.—Fergus Falls Free Press. Those who argue that the people may obtain relief from exactions of the meat trust by letting meat alone should not forget that it will be necessary for those who drop meat from the bill of fare to eat some thing else to take its place, and as a result other foodstuffs will also advance in price. The solution of the meat problem is the prosecution of the pack ers' combine, and the time to do ft i 3 now.—Duluth Herald. It is said of Judge Parker that his candidacy invites the support of every voter who conscientiously believes that President Roosevelt's policy of imperi ali&m, militarism and imitation Euro peanism is dangerous to the republic. His character, training and judicial ex perience for a score of years afford an ample guarantee that he would make a safe, sane, and conservative president. —Morris Times. It is too bad the Democrats cannot nominate candidates acceptable to the Republican press. They object to Par ker because he doesn't talk enough and to Davis because he is too old. Their two objections against Bryan were that he was too young and that he talked too much.—Belle Plaine Herald. The four men who successfully held up a train in Otter Tail county in 1899, and were sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, are applying for par dons. Better double their sentence in stead of allowing them to get out be fore serving their time. — Northome News. Frank Eddy says that he proposes to remain in politics until politics are con ducted according to his idea of the game. Frank has forgotten Senator Ingalls' remark that "purity in politics is an iridescent dream." —Redwood Ga zette. The stillness under the dome of the state capitol at St. Paul is so solemnly impressive these days that there must be crape -on the front door.—Winona Republican and Herald. Once in the dear days gone by the great Republican j majority went glim mering in Minnesota and : oftentimes history repeats itself.—Anoka Union. « ; » [Among the makers J a a Real Fiction "Dear me!" exclaimed. Myrtilla, as she returned from the book shops, "summer fiction is so very, expensive." ' "I get-all the summer fiction I can read," replied the wise young man, ; "and it costs me only a quarter." "Gracious!" How is it possible?" "Oh, I- write twenty-rive postal cards to the same number of beach and moun tain resorts, requesting them to send me their descriptive booklets."—Chicago News. , _ Conscientious . Mrs. Greene— had your husband's sister, at dinner: last Sunday, .as usual. I should think she'd be ashamed of her self allowing you to slave all day Sunday for her. •-:.......- Mrs. Black—Oh, she's very conscientious about it. After she has eaten her din ner and is" ready to go she always lee-, tures me upon my disregard of the Lord's .—Boston Transcript. Too Long "Our next experiments." said the em inent government chemist, "will be in the direction of cold storage. We want to know how long. food . supplies can be pre served with ; ice and retain their health ful properties." -.._... ~ 1 "Don't do it,'-' said the man who boards round. "The last duck our land lady gave us - for Sunday dinner lasted ten days."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. '"■ ■ ■ ■t- " Regular Custom , , ' "Did you follow my advice and send your 'mint-julep' poem to the. editor of that Kentucky magazine?" "Yes; and he took it." "Of course he did. Didn't I tell you no true Kentuckian would decline a mint julep?" " "That's all right; but he only paid me 15 cents for. it."—Judge.. . - : . . — ~~~- —~— ■ . ■'-! %'•■■'.■'. - . ;vThi« One Thing That Is Free When coal and beef are very dear And rents are costly as can be, r- Let us be thankful and take cheer,. . Our glorious country still is free.:-'.." . --/.;i> '—Washington Star. All But r "Vis. sor,7 explained old Jerry Murphy, "iv'rything do be fair in loove an' war, ixcept - th' Toohey. leddy : that \ Dinny Rourke married —th' frickles iv her.now!** .—^Cleveland. Leader.. . Amenities '. Miss Bragg—Mr. Hansom called to see me- last Tuesday.-evening.-•■.,-■ -. - Miss Snappe—Yes. I told him you wouldn't.be home that —Philadel- phia Ledger.'- :• _ ' The i Reason ;, :.—" "Folks blames lots er dey s : troubles on ! de - devil," says. a - sable philosopher, - "fer j de reason;. dey's - 'fraid ter saddle 'em on any er de res' er de family!"— Atlanta Constitution. "'.-/>■ ■'-_ •-.. -. ■..■•".. ~- A Killing Pace -• :i - . 'Pa. what -do they mean by the death rate?" -. > ' :-V-i :.. ■ -^ :; •■<■-' --"That, - son, . is the speed at which.an automobile travels." —Cleveland Leader. -■ ' Two View Points } • ■ "; i Willie—Ma, what iisi an affair? -- *" ■ ■* Ma —It all depends; my son. To me it means a social function; to your father it means a flirtation. —Philadelphia : Press. ;:-.V ■■'. :-'-'-.' Flirtation 1 k C : Stella —Did * you buy ■ a nobleman while you . were ' abroad? ;■—:.:.^■■'- -lr . rt —No, merely shopped.—New York Sun. : . .' :.£ .' ■~i : :}.i-':Z:':\^^;~.''t7'r;~r■■■ Defin«*d "Papa, what is good society?" "Had society, my son." — Ufa. At St. Paul Theaters ■? The new version of that old domestic drama, "East Lynne," as presented by Miss Percy Haswell and the Fawcett company at the Grand, is superior to the dramatization with which most theatergoers are familiar. The plai ning the entire week, including mat inees Wednesday and Saturday. Next week at the Grand Miss Percy Haswell and the Fawcett company will present two plays. For the first half of the Aveek, Sunday to Thursday in clusive, including a Wednesday mat inee, the society drama, "The Social Highwayman," will be the bill. This piece has not been seen here for sev eral years. On Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee "Romeo and Juiiet" will be given, with Miss Haswell as Juliet. This will be the first Shakespearean offering of the summer engagement. SARBONNE WILL HAVE AMERICAN LECTURES James H. Hyde Will Found a Course That May Be Permanent PARIS. July 25.—Owing to the suc cess of the French lectureships at Har vard university ami elsewhere in the umted States, established through the influence of James H. Hyde, of New York. Mr. Hyde has offered «to found a similar course at the Sorbonne upon American literature and American in stitutions. Dr. Louis Laird, rector of the University of Paris, has accepted the offer with the understanding that the American course will be made per manent if it is successful. Prof. Bar rett Wendell, of Harvard, has been ap pointed to open the course in Novem ber. This will be a notable innovation in the conservative Sorbonne, which has never heretofore admitted lectures in the English language. Rene Millet, the former minister of France to Sweden and to Servia, has been secured for the Hyde course at Harvard, his subject being "France-In the Mediterranean." Afterwards he will visit leading universities of the United States. Funck Bentano, the author, will also tour the United States under the auspices of the American section of the Alliance Franeaise. GERMANS ARE VERY MILDLY SENTENCED Acquitted of Treason Against the Em peror of Russia . KOENIGSBURG, Prussia, July 25.— All the accused in the trial for high treason and conspiracy against the Russian emperor were acquitted today of treason, and three —Koegst, Ehren fort and Braun—were also acquitted on the charge of conspiracy and sentenced to short terms of imprisonment, Mer tius, Poetzel and Kugel to three months, Treptau and Novagrotzky to two and a half months, and Klein to eight week*. It is considered a highly significant fact that no conviction took place in the features of the case that directly concerned Russia, the state's attorney having dropped the charge of lese ma jeste to the Russian emperor and moved ridiculously light sentences in the other high treason accusations. The ac quittals on all the treason charges pleases popular feeling, which is against Russia at this moment. The government organs taunt the Russian authorities with having hu miliated the German government by ex posing it to a legal fiasco out of friend ship for Russia. DEWEY AND HIS MEN WILL GET PRIZE MONEY WASHINGTON. July 25.—After a le gal battle of several years, Admiral Dewey and his men who fought the battle of Manila, are to receive their prize money on account of the capture of the Don Juan de Austria and other Spanish property. In the supreme court of the District of Columbia today Justice Gould signed an order con firming the report of the auditor in the case, overruling all exceptions filed by either side to the report. The amount of the property cap tured finally was fixed at $1,657,355, a sum considerably in excess of what the government claimed to be due. One half of the amount will be paid to the captors, while the remainder, as pro vided by law, will be placed to the credit of the navy pension fund. Disaster on an Auto NORTH TONAWANDA, N. V., July 25. —George F. Schultz, a Buffalo law yer, is in a serious condition, and Mrs. A. L. Pearce, of Sanborn, lies at the point of death as the result of an auto mobile accident. While running at high speed on a country road, Schultz's automobile struck a stone. The heavy machine was turned over in the ditch, crushing Schultz and Mrs. Pearce be neath it. Cotton Operatives Strike FALL RIVER, Mass., July 25.—The strike order issued by the Fall River Textile council calling for upwards of 30,000 operatives to remain away from the mills, in protest against a reduction of 121.2 per cent in wages, became ef fective today. All the eighty-one cor porations, with thirty-seven mills, in volved In the agreement to reduce wages, were closed. STILLWATER Mayor Armson,~:City Clerk Ward and five of the aldermen are hack from a visit to the First regiment at X-ake City. They were cordially entertained by Col. Reeve and the company. At an impromptu shoot with Colt revolvers at a distance of ".'5 yards the record was: City Clerk Ward, t'i; A!d. B:ennan, 21; N. A. Nelson. 20; Cnpt. McMillan and I-i<vut Marsh, of Company X, 39 <*a?h; Aid. Holen, 17; Lieut. Nolan. 15; Aid. Starve!. 10; Aid. Berkly, 11; Mayor Armson. 2. Walter W. Ridout. a Tvetl-appearing young man from Minneapolis, was out for ■ enjoyment yesterday and drifted over here on an Interurhan car. He was- in a crowd that, had been drinking and was noisy, resulting in his being ejected from the car at the street railway barns and then locked up. He said he was not the whole thing but was ashamed of his part. The company did not insist on further punishment and he was releesed by Judge Doe. The coimty board of equalization yes terday began _the review of the books of county assessors. The real estate returns .were satisfactory, but In such towns as Cottage Grove, Baytown. Oakdale. Wood bury. Newport. Oneka and the village of South Still water, were below the totals of last year, anil a small horizontal raise was made in each town. J. G. Arnvson. president of the strcr-t carnival organization, has made appoint ments of the various committees, and the work of preparatior. will be given prompt attention. George Binth. Ole AVlck.strnm and Wil liam Berry, young men of South Still water, forfeited $10 ball each in the mu nicipal court yesterday for fast driving in this city. The steamer Isaac Staples, of the Bronson and Folsom fleet, departed yes terday with a big tow of lumber for Mo line. 111 . and South Muscatine. T " f ON THE MILWAUKEE Engineer Pulls Mail Train at Speed of a Mile in Forty one Seconds Engineer Sullivan, who takes the night mail train out of Chicago on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, made his engine go five consecutive miles in a little less than 3 minutes and 25 seconds yesterday morning. The train was on time until Sparta vMs., was reached, and then, owing to delay caused by tardiness of a south bound train, the mail was laid out to await the arrival of the other tram It was on the run into La Crosse that S lvan let the big locomotive go. When a long, straight strip of track was reacned he pulled her wide open and sent the engine along at a rate of eighty-eight miles an hour. He ar rived in La Crosse almost on time, ami rt nnftam W? S receiv<?d in St. Paul with 50 000 pounds of mail matter on board, light on schedule. GREAT WESTERN ROAD ANNOUNCES LOW RATES Reduces Chicago Fare to Equalize Tar iffs—Home Visitors' Excursions The Chicago Great Western road an nounces a round trip rate to Chicago good July 27 and 28, of $14.70. It is said that this cut has been made to meet the rates made into Milwaukee by other roads on account of the Saenger bund, which will meet there shortly. < v road also announces the regular home visitors' excursions." These special rates are applicable to business ill^^' Paul to Po'nts in Kentucky and Ohio, west of Sanduski- and Louis ville The rate is single tare, plus $2 for the round trip. The excursions "fcill be run Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27, and Oct. 11. ROCKEFELLERS BUY MORE ST. PAUL STOCK Wall Street Now Refe PS to Road as a Rockefeller Property Special to The Globe NEW YORK. July 25.—The Globe says that while the Rockefellers have been increasing their holdings of Mis souri Pacific stock, thejf have also been buying more and more of Chicago Mil waukee & St. Paul shares. The Milwaukee is now commonly spoken of as a Rockefeller road. Doubtless the time is not far distant when a more intimate relationship will be entered into between the Missouri Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande and St. Paul. Certain railroad men declare that plans to secure two or more outlets to the Pacific coast for the Missouri Pa cific will ultimately inure to the ben efit of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. • Inspect Pere Marquette DETROIT. Mich., July 25.—The first inspection trip over the Pere Mar quette by officials of the new syndi cate which has bought the Cincin nati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Pen* Marquette and the Chicago, Cincin nati & Louisville, wound up at Detroit tonight. The members of the party dismissed their special train here and left via the Michigan Central for Toledo and their respective homes. The special train left Grand Rapids last night and covered the lines lying between Grand Rapids and Luding ton, Saginaw and Ludington and Sag inaw and Detroit. Another trip will be made next week to go over the re maining divisions of the Pere Mar quette. Duluth Grain Is Quiet Lake grain business out of Duluth is very quiet at present, and is not likely to improve very much until the new crop begins to come in. There is an apparent disposition on the part of the farmers of the North west to hold up shipments until better prices prevail. Some charters are be ing made at 1 cent a bushel from Du luth to Buffalo, which is considered to be a very low price. Rock Island Issues Map The Rock Island has issued a larga wall map of the United States, which shows up the topography and geograph ical divisions of the country In a strik ing manner. While the map includes the railroad lines of the Rock Island, together with those of the Frisco sys tem, they are not given the prominence usually evident in railroad maps. Belt Line for Detroit DETROIT, Mich., July 25.—Plans ara well under way for a new belt lir.a around Detroit, to be controlled by the Pere Marquette. The road will be about twenty-five miles long and cost about $500. OOf), exclusive of rolling stock, docks, .stations, etc. RAILROAD NOTES The matter of baggage transfer charges in this city will be discussed Thursday when the Western Passenger association meets in Chicago. A sys tem to establish uniform charges for this class of service will be submitted to the association. The burned dock, warehouse and tug boat.s of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minne apolis & Omaha road in Duluth will be replaced at once with better and larger equipments. The loss entailel by the fire is estimated at about $350. --000. The freight business of the ro-nl has not been greatly hampered by tha loss of the dock, and at present is be ing handled through Itasca and Su perior. , Cardinal Has Not Resigned ROME, July 25. — The Observatory Romano, the Vatican organ, denies th« report that Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary, of state, had ten dered his resignation. .':, ."*';?■••. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE 4 - ■ " A Contemporary Receives Interesting In-.-" formation About Jesse Grant' To the Editor of The Globe: > Your ; contemporary, the Pioneer Presat wants to know what one Jesse, son or Ulysses S. Grant, ever did to get liis narn» in the papers? Historical curiosity ought always to be gratified. lie resigned a lucrative municipal-office rather .than go . on acting • with , two men whose: names were ': then. very much !n the . papers ■ after . a" fashion ' which.; made -him. as well as many others;: consider their.: company ob jectionable. - - One -of . their names •-» was Charles Parkhm?t. : the . other was Theo dore.Robsevftlt. : .. — 1.. Jau:e». ■ c E«iuGlalre.;.\7lE.. July 23, 19047 ' .