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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
minneapolis Horse Notes.

Every day the inside track at the fair
grounds is fairly alive with fast horses.
The reason the inside track is used is that
the fence on the backside has been
moved up So as to cut off the mile track
Turfmen are moving all their horses from
their winter quarters to the stables on the
grounds. whefe they are placed in the
hands of trainers. Price Smith and +. A.
Parker are the favorite drivers and they
have been engaged by the owners of many
of the best horses Of the city. T.. A. Parker
has Y. G. Hush's Palma, with record of
1929; j. a. Lovejoy's handsome bay
gelding General Hancock, 2:2419; w.
J. Tenders brown mare Namouna,
2:2S4; G. B. Shores brown geld
ing Dick GarTet, and several
very speedy horses which he owns himself.
All these horses have been mentioned in
this department, as have those to be driven
the present season by Price Smith. One
of the most promising that the latter has is
J. +. Whitcombs gray mare, Theresa Scott.
Price considers her one Of the best PAGERS
in her class, and there is probability
of her record being greatly lowered.
She is handsome animal, moves easy and
graceful and is always admired.
l.. A. Legg has taken his stud Of ring
horses to the track, where they are being
exercised. La Belle n. is reported one Of
the swiftest runners in the Northwest. She
has record of 1871. Allie Becker by
Imp. Rapture, dam PLAINTIFF, by Planet, a
hurdle racer and three-year old chestnut
FLY by Springbock, dam Allie. complete
his stable. 1t is thought that other thor
oughbred horses will soon be stabbed at the
fair grounds Among them viii be Col.
w. S. Kings string, and Edward Wilson
and Hugh McNair's stables. The latter
are mostly colts. but have great promise.
DRIVING PARK ASSOCIATION.
The Driving Park association viii meet
at the Nicollet house this evening to fur
Their arrange for the summer meeting. 1t
has been fully decided that it viii be a
mixed meeting, and generous purses for
trotting and pacing races and mile dashes
will be hung up, and horses from various
points in Minnesota. Wisconsin, Iowa and
illinois will be entered. Although it is not
yet definitely known it is quite likely that
Northwestern circuit will be formed. and
will probably extend from Winnipeg TO
Iowa.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20

has bought of Montana man the fleet
footed trotting mare Cyote, sired by Clark
Chief, dam a Morgan mare OF known speed.
This mare in color is light sorrel, six
years old. She is now in foal by standard
stallion and is due to foal June 2. Mr..
Roach intends to send the mare to MI.
Bonner's horse stable if she proves to be a
good breeder
Hon d. j. Cameron of La Crescent has
quite fine breeding stud. The stallion
that has stood at the head of the stud for
the past few years is Bashaw Chief by
Green's Bashaw, dam by King Cymerey.
BashaW Chief weighs ,O75. This stallion
received an injury while nursing and conse
quently has never been trained for speed,
but his get all show fine turn of speed,
and his entry in the five-year old stakes
(breedersO of Lady Bashaw shows he has
faith in the trotting qualities of his get.
Mr.. Cameron purchased in December in
Canada and shipped to his farm in March a
Grey Eagle stallion to place at the head of
his stud. This stallion weighs 1850 pounds
and stands 1917 hands. He is perfect in
form and a grand, stylish horse. He is
finely gated, and after his season is over
he will be driven. Now [ do not see why
Mr.. Cameron is not making capital cross
on his Bashaw mares and he ought to get
good trotters. Mr.. Cameron has been a
lover of the horse from boyhood up, and in
his usual quiet way is getting together some
trotters that will be heard from ere long.
AS he is member of the Trotting Horse
Breeders association and one of those
breeders that any state may be proud of is
my excuse for letting you know what he is
doing and trust the senator will pardon me
for giving him this publicity. Yours truly,
j. p. III.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
pREvALENCY OF DIVORCE.

The gradual lOoSening of the sacredneSS
of the marriage bond is probably one of the
worst evils now affecting the country. The
family is the very foundation of church
and state and everything that interferes
with the family threatens the very super
structure of society. Divorce is dry rot
which is entering our very vitals, and being
such agent of destruction becomes practi-
cal question and deserves our best thought
Recent statistics go to show that
divorce is fearfully on the increase
in all the states. Statistics in
Massachusetts show that within the last
twenty years the increase has been over 100
per cent. In Virginia in the same time the
increase has been 20 per cent; in New
Hampshire 200 per cent; Rhode Island, SO
per cent. Ohio, so per cent; Maine, rs
per cent; and in Chicago the ratio of di-
vOrces to marriages the last year was l to
-, and in San Francisco to 6.
These figures indicate the frightful dis
regard of the sacredness Of the marriage tie
which prevails throughout the country.
Time and again the public press has
sounded the alarm, but the. community at
large seems to be asleep and does not under
stand the malstrom into which we are
drifting. 1t seems to be mistaken notion
with some people that easy divorce keeps in
check laxity and sin. Statistics also go to
show that with the increase in divorces
comes a corresponding decrease in the size
of the legitimate family, and that
Legitimate births are constantly in
creaSing. A review of other nations
whose remains pave the turnpike road of
history" will trace their decay mainly to the
degeneracy of domestic affairs. 1t was so
with Greece and Rome and it will be 50
with us. We live in pell-mell age of
headlOng advancement and unless our
present loose tendencies in domestic affairs
change, our decline will be as rapid as our
growth. The main problem for this age to
solve Is to find the cause for our lax social
conditions and to provide a remedy that can
restore the sanetity of the marital bond and
family relationship.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK.

twelve-year-old son of Secretary WHIT
NEY, in letter inclosing 81 to the Worlds
Pedestal fund, signs himself HARRY
PAYNE WHITNEY, S. 0. N. s." In view
of the fact that the secretary has had his
carriage embellished with coat of arms,
some people would think that the extra let
tering at the end of the young mans name
stood for ''Son of Snide Nobleman,"
when in reality it stands for ''Son of the
Secretary of the Navy"
AT the same time it must be admitted that
the secretary of the navy is deserving all
the ridicule he is subjected to by the public
press for his disloyalty to American ideas
and customs in affecting to have family
coat of arms. There is no objection to any
individual making himself as ridiculous as
it is his pleasure to do so by the use Of any
sort of debris gathered up from shattered
European royalty, but when he comes into
public place and stands as the representa-
tive of American ideas, he has no right to
misrepresent the country and bring it into
rldlcule because of his own weaknesses.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
A JUNKETING GOVERNOR.


There is very interesting situation out
in Alaska. A Washington dispatch says
hat the governor of that territory spent
nearly all last winter in Washington, and
there wrote his annual report. 1t occurred
to him that in view of change in the adj
ministration it would be a pleasant thing
for him to have summer cruise along the
Alaskan coast and among Seal Islands
Accordingly, not long before the 4th of
March Secretary CHANDLER issued an order
to the commander of the tug-bOat Pinto, di-
recting him to place his boat at the service
of the governor of Alaska. Immediately
thereafter the governor left for his north
western post to start out on his junketing
tour. 1t is only recently that number of
gentlemen who are applicants for the posi-
ton of governor of Alaska territory, under
Democratic administration, discovered the
existence of Secretary CHANDELIERS ORDER
and they are in dreadful state of trepidation
When the present governor of Alaska gets
his boat out of the reach of the mails, as he
can easily do along the Alaskan coast, he
can remain away for an indefinite period,
and there would be no way to ask his resig-
nation or to notify him of his removal I'M
less another naval boat should be sent in
pursuit.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
AMERICA STARTED HIM.

The Pittsburg Post says: The death of
Lord CAIRNS, late lord chancellor of Eng
land, recalls the fact that he owed his sue
cess in life TO this country. Many years
ago, when Pennsylvania was in financial
difficulties, and it appeared there was no
property in the state worth having, two
Seotchmen Of the name ofNIcC ALMoNrcame
TO the United States and began to invest
money in the keystone state. They bought
lands here and lands there: bought and
partly built the Reading railway: opened
coal and iron mines, and made themselves
for time what the CAMERoNs have since
hecome-the bosses Of PENNSYLVANIA. After
n time the results have vindicated their
foresight. They returned to England
with an enormous fortune. still. however.
retaining considerable property in this
country. They used their money 50 wisely
and so well ,hat about twenty years ago
Lord DERBY, who was then prime minister.
felt that something should be done for
them. and he offered the elder brother a
peerage. The old Scotchman declined.
I'm too old for eorunet, = he said. but.
nv loud. If you want to eblige me. raise nv
nephew HUeH to the peerage and I'll give
him $40. coo a year to enable him to support
the dignity OF his rank Ii was 80 done.
HUGH CAIRNS, who was rising lawyer
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
HONEST MEN TO THE FRONT

Il
President CLEVELAND has announced
his purpose to promptly fill the federal
offices in the South with honest men. In
reply to the argument of distinguished
visitor who told the president that the peo-
pie of the South had prayed and struggled
for the election of Democratic president
more in the hope that they would be re-
Iieved of the bad officers who had been set
over them than for any other reason. Mr..
CLEVELAND said that he thoroughly I'M
derstOod and appreciated the situation in
the South. He then explained to his visi-
tor that his time had been so occupied with
the consideration of the diplomatic APP
pointments and with the attention he was
compelled to pay to senators who fingered
at the capital after the adjournment of the
senate, he had been unable up to this time
to give his attention to the removal of that
class of officials who had violated every
principle of civil service reform by using
their offices for partisan purposes. He
assured his visitor, however, that it was his
purpose as soon as senators and others who
had claims on his time should get
away to take up and act upon the matter
his visitor had at heart, and all others which
had been necessarily delayed, and it would
be his aim to give not only the people of
the South but the people of the whole coun-
try honest, reputable and efficient officers.
This declaration of the president will be
assuring to that important class of people
who had grown tired of waiting for the
time to come when the rascals were to be
turned out. Rome was not built i'll day,
and so the huge task of reforming every
department of government cannot be ac-
complished in a month, or in six months.
The work is progressing as rapidly as cir
cumstances will admit, and everybody can
rest assured that when it is done it will be
very thoroughly done.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
TIRED OLE 1T.

The most exciting and tiresome work the
president has had to perform since his in
auguration has been the reception of Wis
itorS from all parts of the country and on
all sorts of missions. The Washington cor
respondent of the New York World writes
that even his enormous physical strength
Is not enough to withstand the daily pres
sure upon his attention at the White house.
During the first month he thought that it
would De easy enough to see every one who
called. For the first three weeks he was
able to endure it very well. but at the fourth
week the boredom of shaking hands for an
hour with crowd of people that ne did not
Know and in whom he could take no per-
S0nai interest began to wear upon him. 1t
was Ike continued dinner OF quail What
was easy at first soon became bUrdenSome
task. The news OF his affabiiity and ac-
feasibility had gone forth. so that each day
brought greater crowds than ever TO see the
White house. Within the past week he has
had so many people to see him that he has
been obliged to beat retreat He has
found out that placing himself on exhibit
ton FOR an hour or more every day accom-
plishes no good beyond the qualification of
mere idle curiosity, while the drain upon
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
Rebuilding tI.e Midway Park.

Mr. Ben Woodmansee, the superintend-
ent for Mr.. Kittson at Midway, ON Wednes-
day last commenced rearranging and re-
building a part of the track. A very ser
ious objection has always been made to the
track, and that is that the first turn was
too sharp. 1t was difficult for horse with
a long stride to get around that turn at a
high rate of speed without breaking. When
Charley Greene was here a few years ago
with Great Eastern, he tried that horse on
that turn for half an hour at time to get
him around it without breaking, and finally
gave it up in despair. 1t is proposed now
to completely remove the difficulty En-
gineers have surveyed the ground and
staked out where the new part of the track
is to be located. The change will COM
mence close to the judges stand and the
Objectionable corner will be shaved off and
that end of the track will be carried over
into the grove near the old barns and then
brought around ON to the back stretch. The
first quarter will be built over new. About
two feet in depth of the old track will be
dug up and removed in order to remove
the stones which were continually
working up to the surface. 1t will then be
filled in with fresh dirt, and it is expected
that about three weeks will be required to
complete the improvement. On Wednes-
day forty men with teams were at work
and more have since been added.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
The Anglo-Russian settlement.

LONDON, April l9.-The Standard be
lieyes the following are the basis of re-
ported compromise between England and
Russia: Russia consents to an immediate
meeting between Gen. ZeleDsi and Sir
Peter Lumsden at Pul-I-Khatun, Russia
and England having agreed to
limit the zone to be
debated to the territory between lessar line
on the south and line from A. K. Tepe to
Pull /. Khartun OH the north, excluding
Pull 1. Khartm and including Penjdeh.
Russia renews her assuradces that
no further advance will be made,
provided Afghans do not attempt
to regain their former positions. The com
missioners are instructed TO find practic-
able frontier north of Mercuhak and to the
south of Pul-i-Khatum. restoring Zuticar
and Acrobat to Afghanistan. Penjdeh is
to be ceded to Russia. and friendly aSee-
ment is to be made with the Amer.
SENTIMENT IN RUSSIA.
ST. PETERsBURG, April 1.-THE report
gains ground that England has made fresh
proposals which Russia is inclined to ac-
cept. The newspapers here welcome what
they call the retreat of the British and
agree that peace is assured.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
BUSY BODIES AT WORK.

Republican editors are very busy just
now sending marked copies of their papers
to King HUMBERT of Italy, containing
some remarks made by Minister KELLEY in
1871 concerning VICTOR EMANUEL's occu-
pancy of Rome and political Sequestration
of the pope. Of course the object of these
Republican editors is to make things dis
agreeable for Mr.. KELLEY when he reaches
the Italian court, regardless of what en-
barrassment it may occasion the United
States. At the time Mr.. KELLEY made his
remarks for which the Republicans are un-
willing to grant him an amnesty, he was
mayor of the city of Richmond. At a meet
ing of the Catholics of that city, called for
the purpose of giving expression to their in
dignatiOn at the indignities which in their
opinion the Italian revolutionists were
heaping upon the holy father at Rome,
Mr.. KELLEY was asked to preside, and he
did so. He was member of the Catholic
church, he was speaking to an assemblage
exclusively Catholics about matter that
aroused the sympathies of the de-
nomination, and he denounced the
act from a Catholic standpoint. He goes
to Rome to-day as the representative of the
American government. He does not go
there to represent ANTHONY NJ. KELLEY
and it is a matter of no consequence what
his individual opinions may be on religious
questions, and what he said half a genera
ton ago, when he was not man of affairs,
has nothing to do with his present mission.
The organs should also remember, as DIS
RAELI once said, when twitted for uttering
long years before views adverse to those
which he was then expressing, ga great
deal has happened since then" A great
deal has happened in the fourteen years
which have elapsed since Mr.. KELLEY made
his speech of which Republican organs are
complaining. King HUMBERT occupies
very different relations to politics from what
his father did. The conservative and pro-
gressive people of Italy regard the situation
in very different light from what it APP
peared to reflect in 1871. At all events as
long as Mr.. KELLEY faithfully discharges
the duties of his office as American minister
it is nobody's business what his religion is.
That he has the ability to reflect credit
upon his government no one denies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20

ment on all the stake races offered by the
Minnesota association of tfotting and pac-
ing horse breeders will be due May l, land
govern themselves accordingly"
All the horses at Midway are being
logged on that part of the track that is not
being cut up for the improvement.
Minnie r is recovering from the attack
of rheumatism she had some weeks ago, and
is running out every day.
Little Brown jug is being driven every
day regularly, and has been ever since he
arrived at Midway. He shows no sign Of
trouble.
Johnston is in splendid shape. His coat
is little rough yet, but that will come all
right in time. His eye is bright and he takes
his feed regularly.
On Thursday last Astoria was bred to
Revenue, and So So was bred to the same
horse on the 4th of April.
Sannie G is expected to foal in about two
weeks
The old gate opposite the reform school
is to be removed to the University avenue
side opposite the main stable building, and
the University side is to be fenced. In adj
dition roadway is to be built from the
avenue up to the barn and to the track.
Midway, out of Astoria, will not be 3
years old till next fall and was never shod
until "a few days ago. He goes at both
gaits, the trot and the pace, and can move
at three-minute gait now, although he has
been driven but few times.
Turf, Field and Farm: NJ. T. Grattan
has withdrawn from the Minnesota Horse
Breeders association. He was in the
minority and kicked over the traces.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
SFALL INTO LNE.S

1t Is little over two weeks until the
municipal election. The two tickets are in
the field from which the voters will choose
their municipal officers for the next two
years. There is great deal depending
upon this election. The people of this city
have great interests involved. This is q
crisis in st. Pauls history The city is
just riding the tlood-tide of prosperity,
which promises to lead on to fortune. But
one false movement may drift us backward
on a receding tide until we are lost in an
ocean from which there will be no rescue.
Under Democratic administration the
city has reached its present prosperity. The
same party which has built ST. Paul ND to
its metropolitan proportions has placed be-
fore the people ticket, not only worthy of
their support, but in the character of its
candidates is an earnest pledge that the
Democratic party will continue successful
and prosperous administration of municipal
affairs. With these facts before them the
people of st. Paul will naturally conclude
that this is no time for swapping horses. 1t
is the duty of the Democratic voters to go
to work for their ticket and assure its cleo
ton. Let every Democrat be in line and
answer to his name when the roll is called.
The Democrats are essentially the guardians
of st. Paurs interests, and it is their place
to see that they are protected
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20

FIVE hundred dollars are annually appro-
priated for department libraries at Washing
ton, the original design being to provide books
OF reference relating TO the work done. Un-
der Republican management this purpose has
been set aside, and three-fourths of the books
have been fiction and current literature for
the entertainment of the clerks. A list of
books for the treasury department has re-
Gently been handed in. Secretary MANNING
at once struck OF the list the books which did
not pertain to official subjects. creating much
dissatisfaction among the clerks who had been
getting their reading at public expense.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
Local Horse notes.

J. C. Meloy Of Hastings few days ago
sold to Dennis Ryan of St. Paul his Hughy
Angus PAGER for 1000. Mr.. Ryan has
sent the horse to Salt Lake City. This
horse has for some time been in the hands
of Mfr. George p. Smith Of Hastings, who
has trained him and brought him to his
present rate Of speed.
Sherwood. bay colt. the property Of z. G..
Long Of Hamline. sired by Blackw0od, Jr.,
first dam Zalie, BY Peacemaker; second
dam. Star Queen. by Seeiy's American Star,
foaIed 1888. is a very fine looking animal.
and shows what kind Of stock Blackwood,
Jr., can get.
All who have entered in the stake races
should bear in mind that the second pay
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
ABUSE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE.


The Washington correspondent of the
Brooklyn Eagle says that there are facts go
ing to show that the civil service law has
been violated on several occasions by the
civil service reform commission. During
Mr.. ARTuURS term it could not be said
that all clerkships We're open to COMPETE
ton, but those only of the lowest class.
Thus merit was put at discount in order
that Republicans already IN Office might be
benefited whether they possessed the quail
ficatiOns or not This may be said to be all
very well on the principle that deserv-
ing servants ought to be promoted but if
the civil service law was to be carried out
it ought to have been carried out to the
very letter, and the seventh section of that
law clearly forbids promotion without the
necessary examination. The Eagle CORES
pendent asserts that when Mr.. DUDLEY
was pension commissioner he appointed
seyenty-tive special men, and did so with
out any examinations, Notwithstanding the
fact that the act of congress authorizing the
appointments expressly provided that ex-
aminations should take place. The
interior department vacancies were
filled by transfer of men from
the census bureau. and all of the persons
transferred were of identical political faith.
The appointments in the agricultural de
partment have been VIGOROUSLY evasive of
the civil service laws, and were so up to the
time Mr. CLEVELAND assumed control.
1t might be out of place to charge bias
against the civil service commission or
against any individual member Of 1t, but it
is none the less true that until recently ap-
plicants for position under the government,
whose examinations proved in every way
satisfactory, were familiar with the fact
that their names We're frequently pigeon
holed without word of explanation.