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St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

vast territory that surrounds st. Paul is
| being pierced by lines OF road. and the
products of this country are beIig poured
into the Eastern market through this great
| Northwestern gateway. The record OF 1885
eclipses that of any other year in the way
| of railroad building. The total new mile
| age for the year is 2, 1856 miles, against 66O
miles last year. and 1,033 miles in 1884.
| The greatest number of miles built i'll any
previous year was 2,400. i'll 1882. The
| total expenditures for construction were
S45, 147, 767, an increase of S31, 254, $50 over
| 1885. Other improvements cost Sc, 113, 566,
making a total expenditure Of $50, All. 1888.
| The important work of the year has been
| the completion Of the Burlington & North
ern and the extensions made by the Mime
sofa and Northwestern, Manitoba, the
| Northwestern and its proprietary roads,
| Northern Pacific and Milwaukee q st.
Paul. Something about the work of the
roads during 1856 is shown below:
The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
| Omaha road have put the greater part of
| their improvements in and near Duluth and
! Washburn, in the northern part of Wiscon-
| sin. Considerable track laying has also
been done in Nebraska. and double track
has been built between Saltwater Junction
| and North Wisconsin junction. The
| dI1OuUb tApcliuCu iMPiOfOhiNAeo ""O
| $3.50. 900; new mileage, 379.
| The Chicago. Milwaukee & s.. Paul line
| is building into the Northwest with short
| branches. They have under construction a
| line from Ottumwa, Ia, to Kansas City,
Mo-, which will be completed early next
summer. This extension is 205 miles long.
Their extensions in the Northwest were 24S
miles, Up to Oct. 81. the present year,
this company had expended for improve
| ments 81, 1,634.271.
The st. Paul & Duluth road makes
spendd showing for the year, having built
stations, laid track, constructed turntables
and otherwise improved its property. The
Duluth Short Line Railroad company pro-
poses to build next year a new line from
Thomson to OneOta. thirteen and three
quarter miles; also branch line from
OneOta to West Superior. a distance Of five
miles. This road will be operated by the
st. Paul & Duluth company, and its con-
structiOn will cost nearly a half a. million
of dollars. The contract has already been
let and work begun on the grade. There
has been expended i'll improvements the
sum of S516. 721.92.
The Burlington & Northern tracks have
reached the city during tine past year and
through trains are now being run between
St. Paul and Chicago over that line. But
little improvement has been made by this
company locally, but great deal of money
has been expended in buildings erected
along the lines and in the purchase of roll
ing stock. The amount expended will
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
ANOLD ENGLISH CHRISTMAS.
How Sir Roger De Coverly Kept the
Feast i'm Queen Anne's Time.

Sir Roger, after the laudable custom of
his ancestors, always keeps open house on
Christmas. l learned from him, says a
writer in the Spectator of1712, that he had
killed eight fat hogs for this season; that he
had dealt about his chimes very literally
among his neighbors. and that in particular
he had sent string of hogs pudlings with
a pack of cards to every poor family in the
parish.
81 have often thought" says Sir Roger,
sit happens very well that Christmas
should fall out in the middle of wi inter-. 1t
is the most dead, uncomfortable time of the
year, when the poor people would suffer
very much from their poverty and cold if
they had not good cheer, warm fires and
Christmas gambOls to support them. l
love to rejoice their poor hearts at this sea-
son and to see the whole village merry in
my great hall.
Il allow double quantity Of malt to
my small beer and set it a running for twelve
days for every one that calls for it. l have
always piece of cold beef and mince
pie upon the table, and am wonderfully
pleased to see my tenants pass away a
whole evening in playing their innocent
tricks and shutting one another"
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
THE CHRISTMAS GHOST.

We have heard of the ghost Of the Christn.>
Past.
And the ghost of the Christmas Coming,
But they trouble us not, for Time flies FAST
And the old world keeps a-humming,
But the love sick clerk in the dollar store,
Is haunted by ghosts uncanny,
And he wishes at times he was free once
more,
And no longer betrothed to Fanny.
It is not the Ghost of the Christmas Past
That keeps the young swain in a worry,
Nor the Ghost of the Christmas Coming fast
He could Danish both spoOks in hurry.
No, the spirit that troubles the lover most
And that makes his whole life unpleasant.
Is neither of these; it's the awful Ghost
Of the Future Christmas Present.
-Somerville Journal.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
A wIFE,s CHRISTMAS GIFTS
This is the season of the year

This is the season of the year
When husband is q little near"
Wife something more than ''little dear.
She hies her to the Christmas shops
To buy him something, and then stops
To wonder how it can be done,
But finds the task an easy one.
Of slippers neat she buys pair.
A sealskin cap for hlm to wear;
A dressing-gown on top OF that;
A meerschaum pipe, a cigar case,
a handkerchief as fine as lace;
A mustache cup. diamond pin,
A fine cravat to wear it in
These and hundred, less or more,
OF articles she finds in store.
Although her funds are nearly nil;
Then as she meets the dealers gaze
She looks him in the eye and says,
Just send them up-hell pay the BILL y
-IndianapOiis Journal.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
Christmas Popcorn.

Christmas is q legal holiday everywhere
except on morning newspaper.-New Haven
News.
The young man who is debating what to
give his girl on Christmas could satisfactorily
solve the question by giving himself.-Phila-
delphia Herald.
The man who writes it Xmas is having
his annual innings. He should be put on KO-
Kos list, for he never would be missed
n orriStown Herald.
The queen has thirty grandchildren to buy
presents for, but as she has the pocketbcok
of England to back her she will get along
New Orleans Picayune.
1t is understood that rs usual Kris Kringle
this year refuses to adopt tight pants. tooth
pick shoes and swallow-tail coat while N ak
ing his calls.-Philadelphi Herald.
Now is the time of year when the frolic-
some wife will begin to save up her husband S
money on the sly to buy him Christmas
present with.-Kentucky State Journal.
The only one who writes it Xmas
Is surely at a loss,
And for his X he ought to
Be nailed upon q cross.
Washington Critic.
About this time of year the average young
lady, in fit of economy, purchases materials
and builds several ''home-made Christmas
presents at a cost of about SO each, which at
the stores would cost about dollar apiece
Norristown Herald.
s'What would you like for Christmas pres
ent?' asked Philadelphia youth of his best
girl.
''Well,'' was the quiet reply, "I'm tired of
jewelry and kDick-nacks. guess an engage
ment ring would suit me about as well as any
think. k."-Philadelphia Herald.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

In the Ooudoir pink and white
Curtains are drawn close tonight
And the Pickering fire-light
Falls upon Her Grace
On the quaint brocaded gown,
And the curls of golden brown,
'Tis not strange that half the town
Worship her sweet face.
Through the storm and snow and sleet
Bells are ringing loud and sweet,
Songs and laughter stir the street,
But she does not hear.
What to her is Christmas, pray?
Tired of feastlng, tired Of play,
Tired of too much holiday,
ALI the long, long year.
Gifts are strewn about her chair,
Bric-a-brac and Sevres ware,
Pearls of price, and jewels rare
From the far-of seas.
Costly cabinets that hold
Wonders wrought of gilt and gold
From admirers young and old,
High and low degree.
City swell and country clown
All have sent some trifle down
For the beauty OF the town
With message sweet.
All! what signs and sentiment
Ger these presents have been spent
Hearts in every parcel sent,
Offered at her feet.
V.
Cousin Ike of PocOmoke,
Sends her mittens for joke;
Jones, who pulls the Harvard stroke,
Sends silver oar.
Young Plantagenet, who somehow thinks
He has won 1.-THE little MINK
Diamonds galore.
VI.
Scarce a present sent to-day
But recalls the vanished May,
Or some memOried day
Half forgotten dreams.
Walks and talks beneath the moon,
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
CHRISTMAS CAJOLERY.

The damsel now doth don her sweetest smiles,
And from her face affection radiates.
INFO her suitor prettiy she prates,
Exerting all her soreeries and wiles.
She would not anger him for anything,
For Christmas rapidly is drawing nigh.
And. az the chill December days go by,
She keeps her eye upon diamond ring
But other Jewels are to her not barred
She's never known shining jem to spurn'
She purchases. his kindness to return,
A gaudy, inexpensive Christmas caro-.
Rambler.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

Fragments of a lovers tune
Lotus hours in leafy June
Spent by Summer streams.
OF the lovers far away
Who have sent her gifts to-day,
Two there are who fondly pray
For her promise sweet.
There's simple ring Of gold
From lover gray and old,
Who would lay his manifold
reasures at her feet.
From poet comes song
Full of tenderness, and long,
Telling her his passion strong,
Praying her reply.
And he sends simple rose
In whose heart the Summer glows,
To recall that garden close
Whe:e they said good-by!
Who, "for better or for worse"
Shall she wed-the golden purse
Or the poet and his verse
Whom she really loves?
Will she choose life of song
Far from money-mart and throng
And forswear French boots and long
Eighteen-button gloves?
X.
Grave has grown that face petite
In the freight flushed and sweet,
And the joybells in the street
Still merrier swing.
Now Pm sure that all the rest
OF the story you have guessed,
For the rose is on her breast,
At her feet the ring.
XII.
1t may mar this fond romance
When l say she had glance
Through a newspaper by chance
After breakfast time,
And there saw her lover old
Had in Wall street dropped his gold,
While some one d million cold
Left the man of rhyme!
Ernest he Iaucy Person.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

OF Minnesota, a II q
how people with one
foot in the grave had
emigrated thither and
soon after arrival had
abandoned all notion
of becoming a corpse.
The climate invigor-
ated them, and they
developed into prize
fighters and freaks
who could Tot b e
moved from an atti-
tude by a span of
horses. He h a d a
hacking cough and
was splitting blood.
He was a trife dubi-
GUS and looked upon
the whole thing as a
cock and bull story,
but it was the only
chance. and so h e
packed his gripsack
and started for the
great health resort.
The thermometer was
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
Here Comes the Tin Horn.

Tra-ra-ra! Tra-ra-ra! Tra-ra-ra!
I'm the annual gift of papa,
For he's ne'er at the spot and he doesn't know
what
A diaphonous nuisance l are.
But mamma, my mamma, ha, ha, ha!
She's the one that's made hors de- combat
By the racket that's nigh when l tootle at my
Tra-ra-ra! Tra-ra-ra! Tra-ra-ra!
-Yonkers Gazette.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
How adam and Eve Celebrated.

Kentucky State Journal.
merry Christmasw That's what Adam
said to Mrs. Adam when he awoke the first
Christmas morning after they were mar
ried.
And then she said: 'Adam, L wish you'd
take your gun and see if you can't kill
turkey for dinner"
Adam went out after breakfast and
brought home fine old gobbler, and from
that day to this it has been the custom to
have turkey for dinner on Christmas day.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
THE IRON HORSE.
He Continues to Push His Way Into
the Northwest.

ETAILS given by the
railroads centering in st.
Paul, showing their i'm
provementS for the past
7year, are extremely fiat
tering, and prove that
st. Paul is rapidly be-
coming one of the great
est railroad centers in
tho Tuitad StatpS The
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
WHEN THEY WE'RE pItrNTED.

Since the 4th of December. and up to the
present time, the GLOBE has printed in the
various issues articles giving de tails of mat
ters touched upon in this number. Those
who delight in the study of statistical tables
and elaborate explanation, can secure the
copies of the GLOBE containing the informa-
ton, by sending an order to this Office.
The articles were published Ola the follow
inp dates.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

vigorating of any in the world, and in st.
Paul the death rate is lower than any city
in the country. After he had been here
two years he looked like the corpu!ent gen
tleman whose picture is here shown. In
fact. he is the very same man. This is
nointer for consumptives in the East.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

last him to the end OF
the journey, and so he
started out with buoy
ant hopes. He weighed
112 pounds, and his
pantaloons tapped
about his legs like a
sheet on a clothes line
during a wind storm.
The usual hectic flush
,was on his cheek, and
(he expectorated copi-
ously, without regard
to any shining mark
that might be deco
rated. He was an ex-
cellent type of the de-
bilitated and rapidly
decaying citizen of the
East who gets thrown
in a wrestle with the
enervating atmosphere
of that country, and
comes out to the
Northwest to become a
man again-where the
climate is the most in
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH.
A Little, Story About the Glorious
Climate of Minnesota.

A man in the last stages of consumtio'
had read in the local papers in the interie
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

450 above, yet he wore an Overcoat, with
fur collar and cuffs. The marrow had
frozen in his bones, because his blood was
thin, but be had lunch enough in his grip to
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

through [ h e in
considerate formal
ity Of her mother
who thought she
must needs make
polite a ck WI
egdement, before l
left for the East, of
1.-The kind attention
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
THE MISTLETOE SPRAY.

A CHRISTMAS EVE REvERIE.
Written for the G lobe.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25
Telling Of st. Pauls Wonderful History
Is Really an Inexhaustible
Topic.
An Elaborate Array of Statistics of
Progress Condensed Into Small :
Space.
The Record of Railroad Building
EcHpses That of Any Former
Year.
Continuation of the Story of a Great
City Portrayed on Page
Fifteen.
A BIRDS EYE VIEW.

From time to time, within the past
month, the GLOBE has printed articles
giving details of every important feature of
st. Paul's progress during 1886. There are
also some articles of detail in this issue
which have not appeared before. Interest
ing statistics CLEANED from this mass of
matter show as follows. The figures have
been corrected since the publication of the
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

had shown her daughter through the sum-
1ner which to me had so quickly flown by.
The Souvenir came.
Early Christmas morning it was brought
m INV room while / was busy with the
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

Water board. ....... 5lU. S. Engineer Nc
Workhouse. ........ KenZie. e........... .16
Charities and correc- State fair. r.......... .16
tiOns. .............. 81 Fire commissioners. II
City engineer. .,... IL Postofice .......... Is
U. S. Engineer Al Lumber r-... 20
len ......... -. IL Custom house. 80. .22
Increase of firms. IL City treasurer. 80. .22
Parks. .13 Railroads. ........ .23
School improvem is. .13 Banks. .23
Municipal court. .13 State wat erways
Building review rs commission. ..23
Police, ......,...15I
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

UST one year ago!
Yet what an age it seems
when one has to look back
over twelve long months ol
ceaseless wandering in the
vain effort to forget. 1t is
only with the happy that
time flies. With such as ]
it creeps by with leaden
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-25

preparations for my journey. With
feverish eagerness 1 tore the package open,
noticing even in my haste that the daintily
embroidered silk and satin packet exhaled
the white rose odor, which was her favorite
perfume. Expectantly opened it, but not
so much as single leaf of mistletoe could
| find.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-10

naturally sympathize with pleasant, joy
full people; we with difficulty sympathize
with sorrowful and miserable persons,
Anyone can easily convince himself of
the truth of this, by one day attending a
funeral and the next day wedding
1t is therefore but natural that sympa-
thy grows, if those around us habitually
manifest pleasure and but rarely pain,
while it decreases, if we ordinarily wit
ness little pleasure and much pain, 1t is
also natural that sympathy at present
grows but little, since the life usually led
under orr present conditions is such that
suffering is daily inflicted or daily dis
played by associates.
And please observe that Synpdthy and
pity are two greatly different things.
Sympathy requires equality; pity regards
the object not only as suffering, but as
weak, hence as inferior; therefore the
distreSScS of those beneath us excite only
VIC Ntllllilltlll llltiI Will
we regard the suffering Of an over
worked cart horse. 1t is Just because
the occasional O-called "charitieS' of the
wealthy have their motive in pity and
not in sympathy, that they lack all moral
value, though the following remarks of
Prof. Adler are also true; "Of what avail
would it be if one of the members of the
great monopoly which have recently
described were to found an orphan asy-
lum or to build a hospital? Should we
really be willing to clap hands as many
are supposed to do and cry, Oh, how
charitable the man is Why, he has not
begun to give back to society what he
has taken from it in the first instance,
much less that he should claim credit to
himself for his chartableness In such
cases "charity' is nothing but huShs
money.
And for the very reason that there can
he no sympathy without equality, we in
a former chapter denounced the subjcc-
ton of empIoye to employer as democrat
izing.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-10
CHARGE TO THE JURY
BY Hon. Henry StOddard. Presiding
Judge in the Boycott Case.
CONCLUDED.

Ninth: 1t is not essential to make
such conspiracy criminal, that the asSO-
ciates should combine not only to compel
such other person to do said act in the
manner above stated, but also to compel
such other person to pay the expenses of
the associates in breaking up the business
of such other person; but if such combn-
alton exists, to compel the payment of
such expenses the conspiracy becomes
highly criminal.
have already stated to you that it be-
comes criminal do not think it alters
the nature of the thing to call it highly
criminal.
am under the impression that have
covered every request contained in that
paper, and am under the impression that
have pretty nearly gone over the whole
case, 50 far as the questions of law are
concerned; and have endeavored so far
as have been able. to state to the jury
the line of demarkatIOn, the point or line
to which the defendants may 60, lawfully
and legally, and the point beyond which
they may not go without making them
selves criminally liable to a prosecution
Of this kind; and trust that have sue
ceeded in expressing to you my notion Of
what the law is upon the subject.
ought perhaps to say a word or two
in reference to the evidence in this case,
but shall be exceedingly brief. and
shall say nothing as to the unlawful pur-
pose Of this alleged combination, confed-
Grafton and conspiracy, because there is
it, practically no conflict of evidence, as
to what the purpose of the combination
was; and it is solely a question. of fact
for YOU to determine whether that com
bination existed, if one did exist, for a
legal or illegal purpose. But the evil
dence as to the alleged illegal means to
carry into effect an alleged lawful com
bination, perhaps demands a word or
two of comment. In reference specific
ally to a demand for money, or alleged
demand for money, it is not claimed on
the part of the State, as | understand it,
that any definite and precise demand for
money was made; but it is stated in a
general way that two or more of these
accused parties associated themselves to-
gether, and stated that they would treat
the Courier ~ the Nrlrs had bner treated
that they would boycott the Courier,
that they would pursue the Houier FIJI .
thpr than the Acc~ had been pursued,
and then referred the managers of The
Darlington Publishing Company 10 the
course of their dealings with the NeirS.
In their dealings with the N1rSit is stated
that "A money demand had been made.
In the case Of the NeJrS it is claimed on
the part of the State that there was a
specific demand for money to pay the
expenses of the boycott, So called, and il
was embraced in two or three papers.
that it was made by a committee Of which
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-10
A FAVORITE.

One cold night last winter jumped on
the platform of Fourth avenue car at
Eighteenth street The driver was half
dead md irving &c hav. !;tt!2 u .S.fntIr
into his fast numbing fingers passed
the time Of the night with him, and some
how We got into conversation. Been
long on the road" says l. "Fifteen
years, says he. You must he favor
tie with the company, says |. Yes, |
am" says he; you see that old gray
horSe-that nigh one there Il do, ="
says |. II am favorite of the company, &c
says he; last winter the old gay fsll
sick. so did |. The company sent for Il
doctor for the horse, and sent me notice
to quit I'm a hell of favorite r'-Er-
change.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-10
OUR RIGHTS.
We are slaves, we are forced to labor,
BY WIN. A. STOCkMAN.

We are slaves, we are forced to labor,
But Use not the wealth We create,
Which is put in the hands Of our neighbor
by unequal laws of the State;
Together we labor in sorrow,
And brother lights brother for life,
But the laws Of justice tomorrow
Shall peacefully settle the strife
The wealth that is gotten by labor
To labor alone shall belong,
And justice from neighbor to ncighbOr
Shall replace injustice and wrong.
We ask not that wealth be divided,
That each one may equally share,
But Labor at last has decided
The getting of wealth shall he fair.
We wish not all government ended,
That anarchy reign in its place,
But our stttuteS shall be amended
Till justice appear on their face;
As 'all men are equal created,
Regarding their rights we depOse;
1t follows, if true, as here stated,
The workmanmust reap where he sows.
But power To congress was given
$50 our constitution describes),
"ro dispose of the"-gifts of heaven
Some considerations were brides.
Thus all lands that had amy merit,
And things that thereunto belong,
That we should from heaven inherit,
Were sold for the price of a song.
And for this we are forced to labor
With rigor both early and late,
Al ~ Il,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-10

p. F, Bohan, Leading Merchant Tailor
Is Center street is in receipt of com
plcte assortment of Fall and Winter
goods which he is now making up to
order at favorable prices. An inspection
of our stock is carncstly invited. Perfect
fitting garments and finest finish is guar
anteed. 7. F. BOU>N,
Is Center street