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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
BoYcoTTING sUNDAYPAPERs.

1t is not to be expected that mini ster of
the gospel should have thorough knowl-
edge of ali the practical details of secular
life. His work and study disqualify him
from being a business man in the ordinary
sense. The VOWS Of his ordination require
him to devote his attention more exclu-
sively to spiritual affairs, and he is ordi-
narily content that the laymen shall have
charge of the more material things which
belong to CEsAR's kingdom. Conse-
Quently it is not matter of so much sur
prise that when the Minneapolis clergy
men got together to discuss the Sum
day newspaper they should issue
a proclamation that unless the news
papers of the Northwest put them
selves in line with the policy marked out
for them by the Minneapolis pulpit this
very reverend body of gentlemen would i'm
mediately establish newspaper of their
own, which would knock the stutfing out of
all the newspapers in the country. If such
a proclamation had been issued by body
of business men it would have been ridicu-
lous. AS it is it is only funny. The very
clever gentlemen with good intentions who
issued this manifesto have no more idea of
what it requires to make newspaper than
they have of the whereabouts of the lost
Pleiad. The earth is full of people who
think they know how to run newspaper,
while, in fact, very small-siZed town lot
would contain those who really do know.
There are great many things in the news
paper business never dreamed of in the
philosophy of the Minneapolis clergymen.
If our clerical friends up the river would
divest themselves of prejudice and take a
practical view of things they would see
that instead of being the vicious monster
they imagine it to be the Sunday newspa-
per is in reality an angel of light and good
ness. 1t carries cheer and sunshine into
thousands of homes. 1t makes hearts
lighter and homes brighter by its coming
Whatever adds one drop to the cup of hui
man happiness or contributes one mite
toward tightening the burthen of human
sorrow cannot be messenger of evil. GAS
We have done it unto one of the least of
these little ones so have We done it
unto me-" are the words of the
Master. Nor is it secularizing the Lords
day to add little TO the sum total of hui
man happiness. There is such a thing as
straining at gnat and swallowing camel,
and it sometimes happens that preachers
are just as liable to this gastronomic pecu-
liarity as other people. This is written
with all due reverence for the clerical pro-
fession and with becoming charity for the
failings and idiosyncrases of some of the
members of that profession. Ministerial
boycotting Of Sunday newspapers may be
an amusing diversion for those who engage
in 1t, but the SUNDAY GLOBE will continue
to be issued all the same at the old stand,
at tbs regular price of 8 cents a copy or So
year. The world is moving forward, not
backward.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
A HEALTH SERMON.

Accompanying the printed annual report
of the health department for 1885 is map
of St Paul, showing the entire system of
the city. On this map are certain dots in
colored ink, indicating the precise location
by street and house of every case of
diphtheria and scarlet fever which have Oc-
CURED during the year. A study of the
map shows that In a vast majority Of cases
these diseases appeared i'm sections of the
city without sewer facilities. An in
vestigation of the origin of the ST3
cases of diphtherla which occurred
in the city during the year 1885
34s of them occurred in houses having no
sewer connections, and of 22O cases of scar
let fever but 81 cases occurred in houses
connected with the public sewer. More
than this the Investigations made by the
health department brought out the fact that
of the sos cases of diphtheria and scarlet
fever Sol of the persons affected used well
water. and but 6S occurred among those
who drank lake water. These statistics
furnish good text for a sermon in favor of
Immediately supplying every house in the
city with lake water and connection with
the public sewer
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
AN OLD wEETHEARr OF MINE.

As one who cons at evening DER an album ali
alone,
And muses. on the faces OF the friends that
he has known,
So turn the leaves OF fancy till in shadowy
design
find the smiling features of an old sweet
heart of mine.
The lamplight seems to glimmer with a flicker
of surprise,
AS turn it low to rest me OF the dazzle in
my eyes,
And light my pipe in silence, save a sigh that
seems to yoke
Its fate with my tobacco, and 70 vanish in
the smoke.
It's fragrant retrospection-for the loving
thoughts that start
Into being are like perfumes from the blossom
OF the heart
And to dream the old dreams over is a luxury
divine
When my truant fancies wander with that
old sweetheart of mine.
Though hear, beneath my study, like flut-
tering of wings,
The voices of my children, and the mother as
she sings,
feel no twinge of conscience to deny me any
theme
When care has cast her anchor in the harbor
Of a dream.
In fact, 10 speak in earnest, believe it adds
charm
To spice the good a trlhe with a little dust of
For 1 find an extra flavor in memory's mellow
wine
That makes me drink the deeper to that old
sweetheart of mine.
A face of lily beauty, and form of airy
grace
Floats out of my tobacco as the gent from the
vase.
And I thrill beneath the glances of pair of
As glowing as the summer, and as tender as
the skies.
can see the pink sun-bonnet, and the little
checkered dress
She wore when I first kissed her and she an
swered the caress
With the written declaration that ''as surely
as the vine
Grew round the stump, she loved me'-that
old sweetheart OF mine!
And again feel the pressure of her slender
little hand.
AS we used to talk together OF the future we
had planned
When should be a poet, and with nothing
But write the tender verses that she set the
music to.
When we should live together in coy little
cot
Hid in a nest of roses, with fairy garden
spot,
Where the vines were ever fruited, and the
weather ever fine,
And the birds were ever singing for that old
sweetheart OF mine.
When should be her lover forever and
day,
And she my faithful sweetheart till the golden
hair was gray
And we should be so happy that, when others
lips were dumb,
They would not smile in heaven till the others
kiss had come.
But all my dream is broken by a step upon
the stair,
And the door is softly opened, and-my wife
is standing therei
Yet with eagerness and rapture all my Wis
ions resign.
To greet the living presence of that old sweet
heart of mine.
James whitcomb Riley.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
A NATIONAL LITERATURE.

Nine. HENRY GREvILLE, the noted
French novelist now in this country, in an
interview some time since declared that the
time for the literature of our distinctly ma
tional traditions has gone by and that the
present school has won its place because the
people demand it, because it is more in &C
cord with the taste of the times. 1t is
doubtless true that the average reader is
deeply interested in the trials and struggles
of heroine or hero, whose experiences he
or she can see duplicated either in every
day life or which may ever find
counterpart in various episodes of
their own existence. Active life and the
struggles of one kind or another are always
interesting, and that is why the so-called
realistic and analytical schools have gained
such prominence. But there is no reason
why literature more purely artistic i'm con-
ception and execution, and more national in
character, should not exist at the same
time. Profound analysis of the motives
which control the actions of the people in
everyday life and vivid depicting of the re-
suits of modern civilization. which have
made the HowELLs kind of novels so
popular are interesting enough, but can
hardly be called national in the strict sense
of the word. 1t is, too, quite a wrong as
sumption that the day of our national ira
ditions has gone by. Although the great
American novel so long expected in vain
will probably deal with contemporaneous
events when it does come, there is an
abundance of material already at hand to
produce a literature as distinctly American
as the delightful romance of JAMES
Kenmore COOPER. There is no
reason why authors of the present day
should feel themselves bound to borrow
from foreign sources in writing for Ameri-
can readers. There is as much now of a
varied and romantic character in American
life Of the past and present which the ro-
mancer's skill can weave into an interesting
form as there was in the time of IRVING or
of LoNGFELLow. Talent, experience
shows, exists in abundance. 1t remains
with the authors alone whether the literary
work of Americans shall assume national
character or remain more or less worthy
imitation Of foreign models.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14

tive injury. Idleness is the parent Of vice,
and the more idle hours an individual has
at his disposal the more temp
tatlons he finds in his pathway.
In this sense the apparent harshness of the
old farmer who worked his boy from early
morn till dewy eve as he said, TO keep him
out of mischief, was eXcusable If not justi-
fable. 0verwork is crime against ma
ture, but an idle waste Of time is a crime
against both nature and society.
There ought to be q systematic division
of time i'm fulfilling the requirements of
everyday life, and the eight-hour plan is
the most appropriate system that has yet
been suggested. 1t was the one adopted
by ELIHU BURRITT, the learned black
smith, who spent eight of the twenty-four
hours at his forge, eight hours were
devoted to sleep and the remaining eight
hours to study. BY pursuing this plan he
became healthy, wealthy and learned
man. If the labor organizations are going
10 adopt the eight-hour labor plan. then
they ought to formulate a system whereby
their members would be required to improve
the eight hours of vacation which they
"ONiu nave NJ 'iOii uispoS"i CdCh u"H' y"
litical or industrial power ought not to be
the only object of labor organization. 1t
has, or should have, for its object the social
and intellectual elevation of the working
classes, and whatever movements are in
augurated in labor circles for the benefit of
the working people should have these
objects definitely i'm view. A reduction of
the hours of labor can be of no DOSsible
benefit to the workingman unless the extra
time he gains be utilized for his improve
ment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
LAW AND ORDMK LEAGUE.

Until the object and purposes of the pro-
posed Law and Order league are more
clearly defined it is difficult TO determine
what benefits its existence will confer upon
the public. We can very we'll see how such
an organization can be made to serve good
purpose and we can likewise see how it may
become public nuisance. A league COM
posed Of representative citizens of the city
who are noted for their conservatism could
be made valuable ally TO the
city officials in the government of
municipal affairs. Such an organi-
cation would occupy about the same re-
lation to the municipal officers that the
chamber of commerce does 10 the city coun-
Gil. 1t would be an advisory body, always
ready to make important suggestions and to
carefully investigate all matters relating to
good order and the enforcement of the mu-
nicipai laws. If such be the aim and pur-
poses of the proposed Law and Order league
there ought to be no hesitation on the part
of the people of the city to encourage its
organization. But if on the other
hand the league is liable to fall
into the control of crankS, who
will peryert it into a prosecuting instead of
prosecuting body. or if, as is so often the
case with similar organizations. it is to drift
into political machine, then the sooner it
is squelched the better. Until the objects
of the proposed league are more fully de-
velOped it is but fair to suspend judgment
and withhold criticism so far as its organ
ization in this city is concerned.
Discussing the subject as a general prop
osition we are free to say that
the organization of law and order
leagues is in itself a reflection on
municipal governments. 1t is virtually
saying that the city officials are unwilling
or incompetent to enforce the municipal
laws. There are cities where such condi-
tons of official laxity do exist to an alarm
ing extent, and it is necessary to organize
citizens leagues in order to secure anything
like an enforcement OF the laws. 1t is no.
toriously so in Chicago, where the Law and
Order league has been a positive benefit TO
the city. But there are numerous other in
stances where, under the guise of law and
order leagues, political organizations have
been formed with the sole purpose of get
ting control of the municipal Offices There
fore it is all the more necessary that abund-
ant caution should be exercised in organic
ing any sort of society outside of the law
for the professed purpose of enforcing the
law. The best law and order league that
can be organized in city is an efficient po-
lice department.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
WOMAN,S GENIus.

The theory that woman never rises to the
highest spheres Of the creative art Is
knocked all to pieces by the records of the
patent Office for last year. During the year
1885 there were ninety patents for inventions
issued to women. This is a conclusive
refutation of the SANDER against women
that they are not possessed of inventive
genius, a SANDER which cannot be too often
refuted. 1t is true, that of the ninety pat
ents issued for female inventions none Of
them were of startling char
acter. but all of useful nature.
For instance. the list starts off with patent
to bright New England girl for an i'm
proved mammoth hustle. Men will sheer
at this from the fact that blind, ignorant
man can't wear hustle, but if he u nder-
stood the comfort and convenience of this
article in woman's dress he would know
how to appreciate the Yankee girls inge-
nuity. The second on the list Is patent
to Virginia woman on dish-washer. If
there is any perplexing problem in house
hold economy il is to know how to tighten
the wearisome drudgery of dish washing.
Talk about your higher spheres, you crusty
old bachelor. The woman who has invented
an improved dish-washer has done more
for. humanity in general, and her own sex
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
CUPID,S CAPERS.

Love is blind until marriage opens its
eyes.-Hartford Sunday Journal.
A soft snap-the parting of the front gate
Observation-Disclosures Observer.
If girl wants to get married she gen.
orally says so to her popper.-Chicago
Telegram.
A man can fall in love on SO salary, but
he can't keep house on it.-New Haven
News.
Some one says beau on a girls arm is
worth two on her hat. That depends on
how tight it is tied.-Oil City Blizzard.
1t is said that Glove is blind and per-
haps this may account for the fact that two
lovers never care for light in the front
parlor.-New Haven News.
An ardent West Side lover who is vooing
a dainty bit of feminity of 275 pounds
avoirdupois says he does the hugging ON
on the instalment plan.-Chicago Telegram.
A man is in comfortable circumstances
when he has SIS, 600. A woman Is i'm the
same condition when her lover sits i'm the
big armchair with her.-Hartford Sunday
Journal.
Lives of sweethearts all remind us,
From retrospective view,
That the beauX who came behind us
VIII get stuck for oyster stew
-Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
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in particular. than il she had scaled the
heights where HUMBOLDT stood, or had
sounded all the depths and shoals of
science where AGAssIZ walked with familiar
tread. The good she has done will flow on
In perennial and undying stream when the
names of DARWIN and HUXLEY and all the
great male lights that shine In upper firma-
ment are forgotten. Another female inventor
from illinois gets a patent for an inn
proved powder puff and SO on up to ninety.
showing that the American feminine intel
lect is not fallen in these historic days.
These patent office records are sufficient
evidence of woman's creative genius. al
though they are not in line with what men
think ought to be considered great dlscoy-
cries or inventions. Some one has wisely
said: "WOmans genius for bearing with
and forglving the poor conceits of men is
something grander than the highest gifts Of
art or invention"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14

appearance as Rosallnd, said gentleman
TO the GLOBE the other day. Il was in
England at the time and went down to
Stratford to witness the performance. 1t
was the last anniversary celebration of
Shakespeare's birthday. and was a notable
event in the history of the old town on
THE BANKS OF THE AVON.
The announcement that Americas most
illustrious actress was 10 honor the occasion
by making her first appearance in one of
Shakespeare's best plays. attracted large
crowd of people. The town was Overrun
with visitors. The three large inns were
not commOdious enough to accommodate
the influx of strangers. and private houses
were opened for their accommodation,
Every house where there was a spare room
was occupied by visitors. Miss Anderson
was greeted with an enthusiastic reception
seldom witnessed In English audiences. and
her success was magnificent. / never saw
her play better. She seemed to be inspired
by he tcaslon and the surroundings, and
tell you it made my loyal American heart
beat with pride to see this
LOVELY AMERICAN WOMAN
achieve such triumph in a foreign land.
And an additional interest to the play was
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
"wHAT DO WISH FOR your,

What do / wish for you? Such swift keen
pain
AS though all griefs that human hearts have
known
Were Joined In one 10 wound and tear your
own:
Such Joy as though all Heaven had come
again
Into your Earth. and tears that fall like rain,
And all the roses that have ever blown,
The sharpest thorn, the sceptre and the
throne.
The truest liberty, the capuves chain.
Cruel, you say? Alasl I've only prayed
Such fate for you as everywhere, above
AL others, women wsh-that, unafraid,
They clasp I'm eager arms. So, little dove,
i give you TO the hawk. Nay, nay-upbraid
Me not. Have you not lonRed for lover
-Carlotta Perry in Lippincott's Magazine.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
THE QUESTION OF CREDIT.

The opening of spring business seems a
fitting time TO refer to a question which con-
Germs both buyer and seller very materially.
With the revival of prosperity there is dis
position on the part Of retail dealers to be
more than usually liberal in the matter of
extending credit. This excess of conf
dence, characteristic especially Of business
dealings in the West, is frequently as I'M
fortunate for the buyer as the dealer.
Without any original intention of purchas-
ing things for which he will not pay, the
buyer on credit finds himself soon in
volved to an astonishing and alarming
extent The ease with which he gets into
debt blinds one to the dangers of the situa-
ton. Before their magnitude is realized
the bills become larger than can be paid.
The result is inevitable financial loss to the
seller, and frequently injury of a much
worse kind to the purchaser. The record
of any criminal court will demonstrate that
fact. In credit business, too, much in
justice is done those customers who habitu-
pay their bills. The losses occa-
stoned by those whose purchases have
exceeded their ability to pay must
be Offset in some way. and that way is US
ually found in the payment of percentage
of the loss by each cash buyer. The adj
vantage to the merchant in placing his
business on a purely cash basis is easily
recognizable. 1t places him upon surer
footing and enables him to deal with the
public in a more liberal spirit. With the
adoption OF strictly cash system people
will buy only what they need. The care
lessness which leads to needless extrava-
gance should be overcome. There is no
other effectual method of doing it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
ANIUsICALR ENAIssANCE.


The days when the troubador gaily
window of his lady fair dwelling In some
time-wOrn castle have seemed very far back
in the dim ages of antiquity as one listened
to the more or less noisy banging on the
piano by modern amateurs. Romance and
a concert grand of the latest approved pat
tern have seemed in some way incongruous.
OF course the dreamy melody of
a CHOPIN nocturne, the gentle persua-
siveness of a GoUNoD lullaby or the
moro insidlous strains of a WALDTEUFEL
waltz, all have a sentimental attractiveness.
even when piano is the means by which
they are given expression. But the music
which appeals most strongly to the senses,
which has ever been sentiments chosen
meuth-piece and by which the loves and
sorrows of the hero and heroine of bygone
ages were wont TO ind utterance, is that
such as the singer of old evolved from his
Tyre or Lutte. In the pred0minance
which the piano and other noisler
forms of music have attained it is encourage
ing to observe that the customs of olden
times are again coming into favor. The
fashionable young lady of the present day
is beginning to learn TO play the either, the
guitar, the violin, the mandolin and even
the banjo in preference to the once uni
versal piano. The change is far from being
an unpleasing one. Simply as mat
ter of variety it would be CRATE
full, but when it combines the
most melodious of all kinds of music with
the breaking of what was fast becoming a
dreary monotony of amateur musical knowl-
edge, it is doubly welcome. This renais-
sance in music may not be long-lived-pop-
ular crazes usually are not-but so long as
it lasts it is worthy to be enjoyed and en-
couraged TO the utmost
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
THE E1GHr-HoUR MOVEMENT.

The concerted movement in labor circles
to bring about reduction of the hours of
labor after the LIST Of May is naturally ex-
citing public interest, and the discussion of
the subject results In unfolding many feat
ures connected with the matter which have
not heretofore been discussed. There are
reasons why the demands of the laborers
should be acceded to in this matter, and
there are reasons also why such a conces-
sion might prove detrimental to the labor
ers. In the first place the question of wages
will have to be determined. If the laborer
receives the same We. es for eight hours
work that he now receives for ten
hours then the reduction will be
to his advantage in that respect.
If, however, the wages are to be regulated
by the number Of hours employed then the
reduction will be hardship to many la
borers who have families dependent on
their labor for support The argument is
that reduction Of hours will result in a
decrease OF products. and consequently
higher price for manufactured goods, and
thus the employer will be enabled TO paw
higher wages for an hours work. But
suppose that the question of wages be adj
justed satisfactorily to both employer and
employee then the question will arise as to
whether the increase in idle hours which
will be granted to the workingman by
the reduction of his hours of labor
will be advantageous to him. The answer
10 that question depends On what DISPOSE
lion the workingman makes of the extra idle
lime which will be given to him by the new
arrangement If it is to be devoted to
mental cultivation and the more refined So
;ial enjoyments then the change will be
beneficial to him. If 1t is to be devoted to
rattling dice at the saloon counters, as is
boo often the case now. then the reduction
Of the hours Of daily labor win be a posi-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14

LYScHrNG may at times be justihable. but
the South Carolinians who lynched a thirteen
year-old boy. who was instigated 20 make
murderous assault by a negro servant upon
their mistress, seems 20 have been rather
oyer-z gallons