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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21

resolution, because he could see, what
every individual would see if he investigated
the matter, that nothing is more detrimen-
tai to health than close confinement in hot
weather. And when to the punishment of
confinement are added imperfect ventla
and an entire absence of sanitary condi-
tiOns we can readily see the folly of the
present system of conducting the
public schools. If we want to develop our
children into respectable specimens of
men and women" we must provide for them
the conditions essential to such develop
ment. First of all is good health. Moth
ing conduces so much TO health as open air
and exercise. If we make house plants OF
children the result will be scrub race of
men and women. So far as practical ben
eft is to be conferred it is letter TO have
our children grow into a perfect physical
development without education than il
would be to store their minds with classical
and scientific knowledge at the expense OF
health and sacrifice of all physical devel-
Opment. But such course is not neces-
sary. We can educate both mind and body
without injury to either. Less book cram
ming and more regard to hygienic conditions
are the crying wants of an educational
system.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
GOLD SUBSIDY"

S. c. POMERoY, who was once Repub-
lican Sunday school senator from Kansas,
and sometimes known as ''0ld Subsidy" is
candidate for the office OF commissioner
of the District of Columbia. Like most
statesmen of his caliber PoMERoY is fond
of letter writing, and has written letter to
a friend in Washington which has found its
way into print. He wants his claims
brought to the notice of the president, and
is satisfied in his own mind that Mr..
c CLEVELAND cannot ignore them. PoME-
ROY is subject to the same hallucination
that fills the minds of many other office
seekers. He is impressed with the belief
that CLEvELAND's election was entirely due
to what he did, or rather to what
he did not do. In his letter
to his Washington friend he says: ''But
you know l was nominated in Chicago last
year as a Prohibition candidate for the pres
idency. l declined TO run. This made the
way for ST. JOHN clear, and whether the
president knew it or not, that movement
made his election possible, if it did not Sc
cure it. Still, the saying so may do more
hurt than good" "Old Subsidy is little
suspicious that his grip on the presidents
gratitude may not be as tight as it ought to
be, so he concludes to work another lever.
He wants the attention of Mr.. CLEVELAND
called to the condition of politics in Ohio.
He says: ''And now this year ST. JOHN is
dividing the Republican votes in Ohio and
other states, and taking off a large Prohi-
bitiOn vote from the Republican party, which
makes the success of the Democratic party
in Ohio more than probable" Then he re-
fers to his influence with DANIELS i'm Mary
land and proposes to work the Prohibition
machine in that state in aid of GoRMAN's
election 10 the senate.
POMERoY seems to lose sight of the fact
that he was regarded as the Prohibition tail
10 the BLAINE kite, and if he contributed
anything to CLEVELAND's election it was
done as BURCHARD rendered his abby
mistake. But if he did aim TO help the
Democracy, his help was unsolicited, and a
reform Democratic administration cannot
afford to cripple itself by attempting to
carry such an unsavory political carcass as
that of the retired Kansas politician.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21

grossly one-sided and unjust. 1t is the
relic of time when there was no freedom
of speech or press. One of its most unjust
and unreasonable features is that which
gives the plaintiff the right, not merely to
recover actual damages for any injury he
may have sustained by the alleged libelous
publication, but to mulct the defendant in
what are known rs punitive damages. By
such doctrine the law simply becomes an
instrument of vindictiveneSS or vengeance
in the hands of one party to a suit. This
barbarOus relic has been abolished in Mich
igan, and Michigan's example ought To be
followed by every state in the Union where
the reform has not already been made. A
respectable press neither wants nor should it
have unlimited license of publication. The
new Michigan law does not give such IL
cense, nor does it deprive an aggrieved per-
son of the fair and just means of redress
for any injury done him. 1t simply limits
the damages which he may recover TO the
injury which he has actually sustained.
This is more just to the defendant in libel
suit, and is not less just to the complainant
than the law which has been superseded"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21

effective stimulant to a cholera epidemic
could scarcely be conceived. and the munic-
Qualities of Toulon and Marseilles, supported
during the past few days by the French
government, have begun systematic de-
tense against this growing peril. Soup
kitchens have been established for the poor.
permanent free dinner of plain, wholesome
food has been spread in one of the theaters.
bread and meat are distributed gratis. and
labor ON certain suspended public works
Will doubtless be resumed 10 give remunera-
tive work to the unemployed. This is ap-
parently the most obvious and effective step
that has been taken since the outbreak OF
the present epidemic, and every large city
preparing for an expected visitation OF
cholera must take into account. as the most
difficult part of its task, the care of its poor
and the throng of deserving people who are
inevitably thrown out of work by the sud-
den suspension of ordinary business. There
is no material.so easily kindled by pesti-
lence as a throng of idle, hungry people.
intimidated by fear of sudden death and
weakened by want of wholesome and suffi-
Gent nourishment'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
TILE WRoNG MAN

The name of SAMUEL CLEMENS of e.
ma. \. Y, was recently placed on the
pension roll, and by some mistake notilca-
ton of the fact was sent to SAMUEL l..
CLEMENS, Elmira, n. Y. In a few days
Commissioner BLACK received the follow
ing facetious reply from MARK TWAIN:
Elmira. n. ", July s, lSS5.-John c. Black.
Commissioner. Dear Sir: have not applied
for pension / have often wanted a pen
sion-often-very often, may say, but mas
much as the only military serSi ice ] performed
during the war was in the Confed-
crate army. 1 have always felt a
delicacy about asking you for it. How
ever. since you have suggested the thing
yourself. 1 feel strengthened. haven't
any very pensionahle disease myself, but
can furnish substitutes man who is just
simply a chaos, a museum of all the different
kinds of aches and pains, fractures, disloca-
tons and malforInations there are; a man
who would regard rheumatism, piles and sore
eyes as mere recreation and refreshment after
the serious occupations of his day. If you
grant me the pension, dear sir, please hand it
TO Gen. Hawley, United States senator-I
mean hand him the certificate. not the money
and he will forward il to me. You wall OBJ
serve by this postal card, which Iinclose, that
he takes friendly interest in the matter. He
thinks have already got the pension, whereas
I've only got the rheumatism, but 1 didn't
want that; had that before. / wish IL was
catching. / know a man that would load up
with it pretty early. Lord, but we all feel
that way sometimes. I've seen the day when
but never mind that, you may be busy. Just
hand it 10 Hawley-the certificate, you under
stand-if not transferable. Very truly yours,
S. L. CLEMENS,
(Known to the police as Mark Twain.l
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
HI General.

w. G. Melville was yesterday appointed
local freight agent of the Minnesota 81
Northwestern line. Mr. Melville has for
sSme time past been with the Northern Pa
cific company and formerly with the Mis-
souri, Pacific, and is spoken of as being
bright, intelligent and competent'g gentle
man. He will begin his duties at once.
A meeting of the st. Paul and Minneap-
oils Passenger association. which includes
all the railway and river boat lines. was
held yesterday, and it was decided to make
rates to the state fair fare and a fifth for
the round trip, tickets to be on sale Sept. s
to II inclusive, and good to return until
Sept. II.
+. L. West, clerk of the general man
ayers department of the Northern Pacific
line, returned Yesterday from trip over
the line with Mr.. Smalley, editor of the
Northwest, securing information for that
journal.
The next meeting of the Western Pas
Senger and Ticket Agents association will
be held at the Plankinton house, Milwan-
kee, Wednesday, Aug. II.
Seven hundred head of cattle from
Washington territory were put on a North
em Pacific train yesterday ell route for the
mountain ranges.
W. A. Carpenter, agent for the Detroit.
Lansing IL Northern railway, left for home
Yesterday
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21

if someone else wants it he must under
stand that the war is not yet settled. and
will not be until we have the West Shore.
We would just as soon as not fight new men,
and perhaps rather, if they have some
money. This fighting bankrupt railway
Is tedious work, tell you, but no one shall
buy the West Shore to make money out of
us, and they shall not have any of our roads
until we have that one. You see there are
good many things to be settled before the
railroad war will be ended. tell YOU | look
ON the West Shore road just as I would on
man whose hand / had found i'm nv money
9raWer-a common, miserable thief. The
TACT Is, we have got the thiefs hand firmly
caught Ill the drawer and we are going ia
Keep 1t there, too. The men who nut their
money into West Shore were deceived
they thought that as soon as the road was
finished 1t would do a great deal of bust
ness. Did they suppose we We're going to
sit still and let them steal all our Gus
toners? Why. the road is run at a loss of
$4,000 600. The West Shore is a good ex-
ample for everyone to remember. The fight
has had one good result. for it has shown
the strength of the New York Central"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
THE TORRID EAST.

How the people of New York and other
Eastern cities must sigh for the pleasant
breeZes of the Northwest as they swelter
under the fierce rays Of heat which the sun
is pouring down upon them! With the
thermometer at 80 and the air growing hot
ter and hotter each day, and the wealthy
people fi0cking to mountain and seaside,
while the poor wander down TO the wharves
where they hope TO catch breath of cool
air as it comes over the water, we can well
imagine the horror of summer life in the
East. How they must long for one of those
cold waves from the Northwest that they
are always INVITING US about! Last winter
when the thermometer dropped down to
the neighborhood of 40 in this section,
our Eastern friends laughed immoderately
over the rigOrs of our ''arctic climate" But
the laugh is on the other side of the
mouth at this writing. The most well
come guest to the forlOm and barren
streets of New York to-day would be
Manitoba cold wave. The poor sun
stricken people of the sizzling hot
East would greet it as they would the angel
of life. We will not return evil for evil.
| We will not laugh them to Scom in their
heated affliction. Our sympathies go out
to our brethren in the unfortunate East.
| We would love to have them all up here i'm
Minnesota with us, where ''the ingredients
| of health and long life are" and where the
bloom of health could be brought back to
! their fevered cheeks under the charm of
our cool breeZes and electric atmosphere.
| Cases of sunStroSe are so numerous that the
! board of health of New York city has issued
instructions concerning its treatment. Not
| that they Will ever be Serviceable i'm this
section, but as a matter of curiosity, we re-
publish them.
''If the skin is hot and dry. place the
! person i'm sitting position against anything
that will be a support TO the back; sponge
with or pour cold water over the body and
limbs. and apply to the head pounded ice
wrapped in a towel or other cloth. If there
is no ice at hand, keep cold cloth on the
head and pour cold water on it as well as
on the body. If the person is pale, very
faint and pulse feeble, lay him on the back,
let him inhale ammonia for few seconds,
or give him teaSpOOnful of aromatic spirits
of ammonia or tincture of ginger in two
tableSpOOnfulS of water. Use no cold water
upon the head or body, but rub the hands
and feet and apply warm applications TO
| the same until the circulation is restored"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
ADDITIONAL ST. PAUL NEWS.
Yee.erday Mornings Fire.

At 7:4O o'clock yesterday morning a fire
was discovered in the warehouse of P. H.
Kelly & Co., on Third street, below Broad
way. A dense volume of smoke filled each
story of the building, the fire originating in
the basement and running up shaft into
the stories above. The origin is unknown.
The fire was quickly quenched by the de-
partment, the chief difficulty experienced
being from the smoke. Jean Irwin. a fire
man, was overcome by the smoke, and an
employee of the building named James
Costello had his hand burned in attempting
to turn off the gas at the metre. Mr.. Kelly
stated that the damage was small and fully
covered by insurance. William NJ. Bush
nell, who occupied section of the ware
house. in recognition of the service rem
dered, sent the firemen 200 fine cigars, ac-
companied by complimentary letter, say
ing he hoped the department would enjoy
quiet smoke as a recompenSe for the big
smoke it had swallowed during the morn
ing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21

IN this mornings GLOBE will he found the
reply of Luverne correspondent to Mr..
BRAKES last communication concerning the
Sioux City land grant. The former cOmmu-
nication, of which the correspondent speaks,
was not published from the fact that it was
too personal in its character. The GLOBE
only desires TO publish facts of public inter
est relating TO the matter, and viii not be
made the channel OF personal ordinations
The decision of the supreme court referred
TO by our correspondent and the recent de-
cision OF Land Commissioner SPARKS have
virtually settled the status of land grants
and indemnity limits. and a further discus
sion of the law is unnecessary. All that is
necessary will be to call the attention
of the interior department to any violations
of law or abuse of privileges conferred by
the government and there will be a speedy
adjustment Of the matter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21

THE Minneapolis Evening Journal is par
tisan Republican paper, yet we are glad 10
note that it is not extensively partisan. II
knows a rascal when il sees him and is not
afraid TO point him out. In speaking of the
Roach assignment the Journal says: ave
believe that slr. JOHN ROACH is a fraud. and
that this latest move on his part is merely
another bluT at the authorities who are hunt
ing up the record of his transactions with
the government Of the United States. It is
at any rate certain that Mr.. ROACH has, up
to this time, los; no money ut the hands OF
this country. Even his rickety and unSea-
worthy old Dolphin has been well paid for,
and he has realized handsomely out of every
other job which he has done for the govern
ment. II will be time enough TO extend sym
pathy TO Mr.. Roach when the details Of his
alleged failure are better known"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
THE MEETING.
Special to the Globe.

CHICAGO, July 2O.-The managers of
the lines members of the Northwestern
Traffic association were in session to-day,
and disposed of their business satisfactorily
to the Northwestern and Omaha lines at
least. There was but one subject discussed,
the rate that should govern freight over
the Washburn route to st. Paul and
Minneapolis. 1t was shown that the
Omaha had lost its traffic at rates
fixed by the commissioner, and that
it could not compete with the st. Paul d
Duluth road unless it was allowed to make
the same figure. The argument was ire
Sistible, and the Milwaukee q st. Paul
road, which had been the only objectOr,
withdrew its opposition. 1t was unani-
mOusly voted that the commissioner author
iZe the Chicago, Minneapolis, st. Paul 81
Omaha Washburn line to use the current
rates of the st. Paul IL Omaha road on
business from Washburn to st. Paul and
Minneapolis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
Chicago. Freeport & ST. Paul.

Speclal 10 the GLOBE
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, July 2e.-Surveyors
in the interest of the Chicago, Freeport &
st. Paul Railroad company have been at
work near Black River Falls, east of here,
with view of locating the most feasible
route for crossing the steep dividing ridge
between the Black river and Trempeleau
valleys. After reaching the village of OSSeo,
twenty miles east of here, the road
follows down the Beef river valley, which
VIII require little or no grading until it
reaches WOnderi. From that point the
survey crosses to Durand, where it strikes
the Chippewa twenty-five miles west of
mere, running down the south bank of the
Chippewa parallel with the Chicago. Mil
Waukee " st. Paul till it reaches the Mis-
SiSslppi. The management say work will
be resumed before the expiration of another
month. The towns at this end of the road
have raised all the funds required.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
ANOTHER RASCAL TURNED OUT

= l.
Mr.. ]. AMBLER SMITH is Washington
attorney who has presumed too far on his
confidential relations with the war depart
ment, and is now reaping the whirlwind of
his own folly. Mr.. SMITH was once a
Republican member of congress from Vir-
ginia, and is the son-in-law of ex-senator
LEWIS, another Republican, who repre-
sented that state in the upper branch of
congress during reconstruction days. Dur
ing Secretary LINCoLN's administration of
the war department Mr.. SMITH seems to
have enjoyed peculiarly intimate relations
with the department. He was in the habit
| of distributing his professional cards
| throughout the country, announcing the
fact that he was attorney and claim
agent pTacticing before the different bu-
reaus in Washington; but Mr.. SMITHS spe-
cialty was in prosecuting pension claims.
Many applicants for pensions found n bar
TO their claims in deSertion mark affixed
to their names on the rolls in the war de-
partment. Mr.. SMITH claims to have dis
covered process by which these marks
could be removed. So he had this fact
made known TO his clients by announcing it
on his card. That he meant what he said
is probable because no notice was taken of
1t by Secretary LINCOLN. But when Sec
rotary ENDICoTr took charge of the war
portfolio Attorney SMITH found himself in
a box. Mr.. ENDICoTT was not the man to
permit the war department 10 be proStituted
to the base uses of a raScally attorney. Ac-
eordingly the GLOBE has been favored with
the following announcement for publication,
which speaks for its itself:
War Department. Adiutant Generals Office.
Washington, July l6, lSS5.-By direction of
the secretary of war, for the words 'deser-
| ton mark quietly removed" used upon his
business card, J. Amber Smith. attorney of
this city, was on July 9TH instant suspended
from further practice in the bureaus of the
war department. BY order of the secretary
of war. r. c. DRUM, Adjutant General
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
CHOLERAN ErROPE.

The printed reports of the various United
States consuls in Europe, giving statistics
and information concerning the cholera
visitation of 1884, furnish no additional
knowledge to what has already been given
by the newspapers. Mr.. FRANK II.
MASON, consul at MarSeilles, says that
sanitary science and medical skill have
made but little substantial progress in deal
ing with Asiatic cholera. AS an illuStra-
ton of this truth. he refers To the enormous
death rate of 40 per cent. at Marseilles. and
of the celebrity with which it was transmit
ted from one city TO another. 1t was trans
ferTed from ToulOn TO MarSeilleS within a
week after its outbreak in the former city.
and, while it was at first pronounced a
benign or mild type. the disease rapidly
assumed q malignant and fatal form.
Mr.. MASON is believer in DIR.
Rocks theory that water is most effec-
tive agent in keeping the plague alive and
transmitting it. 1t will be remembered
that DR.. KoCK kicked up row among the
European medical men and the municipal
authorities of TOulOn and Marselles by in
sisting that water should not be used in
cleansing the streets. In his report TO the
state department Mr.. MASON saws: ut
was found that of the daily new cases of
cholera large portion were Piedmontese.
many of whom, as it is now stated, had
consumed. during the day preceding their
attack. only fruit and water. The munich
pality of Paris had interdicted the import
OF fresh fruits from the infected districts.
and the enormous crop of apricots, peaches,
plums and other perishable fruits in that
section had become thereby almost worth
less. The poor laborers and their families.
deprived of work and driven to the last ex-
tremity of hunger, had devoured these
fruits in quantities and slaked their thirst at
the public hydrants. A more fertile and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
Marine Matters.

The water is again on the rise and regis
tered five feet above low water mark yes
terday. The Mary Morton of the Diamond
10 line will leave at IL a. m. for down-river
points.
The PittSburg made clearing at II
o'clock yesterday morning for southern
river points.
The Centennial arrived at a. m. yester-
day and cleared for st. Louis at 1915.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-21
BEWARE THE DOG.
A Pathetic Tale of IL Canine, Lost.
Strayed or stolen.


Some days ago dog of monstrous pro-
portions. long, lean, lanky and good-na-
tured strayed into Central fire hall. AS he
was minus that passport which insured
him against the onslaught of dog killer,
Chief Black concluded to secure license
and keep the dog. This was accordingly
done. a few days later. however, Officer
Collins of the police force appeared and
claimed the animal as one which had
strayed from him. AS the chief or the
firemen declined to give up the dog Officer
Collins sought to obtain him by legal means,
and yesterday the dog was taken under
writ of replevin and escorted to the munic-
ipal court room. Fortunately the court
was not in session when the animal was
led in at the end of steel bar. His pres
ence, however, drove Bailiff Clause out the
side door and Clerk Ahern on top of the
judges table. From these out
looks the question Of where the
animal should be kept was dis
cussed and he was finally assigned
quarters in the room used as wood-shed.
When the police reporter visited the court
room short time later he found the clerk
initiating the lion tanner while the bailiff
stood at hand with two red-hot irons. The
monster, whose sleek coat was in color a
cross between q strawberry blonde and a
subdued brindle, was chained to the off leg
of sewing machine, which he dragged
around the room at pleasure. He was
sharpening his teeth on a raw sirloin steak
preparatory to attacking an old grip sack
which was placed before him. With the
aid of the clerk and bailiff the reporter reaG
the following chestnut engraved ON
brass girdle about the CANNES neck:
II am Chief Blacks dog; whose dog are
your"
The dog will be held three days, when he
will be turned over to Officer Collins, unless
the animal is rebonded by Chief Black. 1t
is expected that the chief will seek this
course and thus invite lawsuit.