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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
COMING TO HER SENSES.

Plymouth church, which would never
have been heard of outside of Brook
Ign but for the prominence given
her by the transcendent talent of
HENRY WARD BEEcHER, has at last
come to her senses. Since the refusal
of the English clergyman, Rev. Mr..
BERRY, to accept the pulpit, the church
has been casting around at home for
Mr.. BEECHER's successor, and has fixed
upon the Rev. DR.. LYMAN ABBOTT.
This is as it should be, as it should
have been at first. Plymouth church is
distinctively American in its traditions.
None but all American should have
been at any time thought of as the one
to minister to the spiritual wants of her
people. DR.. ABBOTT is a man who has
already made reputation as broad
thinker and fearlessly eloquent speaker.
While time alone will tell whether he
will thoroughly accommodate to himself
the mantle of his great predecessor.
there is no doubt at all but that he will
occupy Plymouth pulpit with credit to
himself and satisfaction to his congre-
cation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
ANOTHER RESOLUTION.

Now let us all with this first day of
the new year make another resolution.
Let US resolve not only to do all in our
power to abolish the croaker and rele-
gate him to the limbo of outer darkness
where he belongs, but let us firmly re-
solve not to play the part of the croaker
ourselves.
Then everything will be lovely and
the pale cast of doubt will not sickly
DER, with its dampening pail, the
various enterprises which may be inaug-
urated for the good of the city and its
people. For it is notorious fact that
not single undertaking, public or
private, is begun in, this or any other
city, but that select coterie of croakers
hastens to predict ruin.
Whether or not the croakers' predic-
tions prove true, and they are usually
false, the result of their efforts is harm
full. They diminish the confidence
essential to success ill any undertaking,
and when by chance they presage
Alright their complacent gloating fur
nishes an example of moral depravity
demoralizing in the extreme.
Out here in the West we are in the
habit of having confidence in each other
and each others efforts. We are more
inclined toward encouragement than
fault finding. Yet the croaker has made
his home among us. Let US resolve to
unite in casting him out.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01

that he could. Here, then, we find these
two noted characters, one the hero of
the religious world, the other the hero
of agnosticism, and we bring
them together in the presence of
Death and ask them respecting
their creeds. INGERSoII. bows over the
bier of his dead friend and says, "Here
is the end" All the consolation he has
to offer to mourning friends in his poetic
tribute to the dead is that another life of
love is now only "a blessed memOry-a
lingering strain of music" The COM
pensation for all the worry of life, the
reward of all its virtues, is that when
Deaths shadow falls, and when the
sum total of human existence is footed
up, it is at best only lingering strain
of music, soon to die out upon the air
and heard no more forever. This is the
best that the high priest of agnosticism
can offer, and that, too, in the home of
luxury and in the midst of Sympa-
thizing friends. How different that
other scene of four thousand years ago,
when old JOB sat down in the midst of
deSOlatiOn and bewailed the death of his
children. UppermoSt in his mind came
the old, old question which has been
ringing in human ears since the first
death on earth-''If man die, shall he
live again?' But how different the
answer from what INGERsoLL gives.
From out of grief-stricken heart there
rises rhapsody of praise whose strains
are still reverberating throughout the
universe-"I know that my Redeemer
liveth and in the last days / shall see
him."
Here they are-JoB and INGERsoLL.
Both honest men. Both pure in their
lives. And from honest hearts they
give what each believes to be truthful
testimony. Which is right and which is
wrong? The boundaries of Agnosticism
end where the realms of Faith begin.
Upon which side of the boundary line
will we pitch our. tents? Which prom
ises the most fertile fields and fruitful
valleys. Through which do the sweet
est waters flow? Is there more comfort
in believing with INGERsoLL, that this
life is the be-all and the end-all of
human existence, or shall we find more
solace in believing with JOB that it is
not all of life to live nor all of death to
die? These are the questions that are
continually rising in our minds as
we from time are called to stand
with JOB and INGERsOLL in the shadow
of the deep mystery and look vainly
INTO the faces of our beloved dead for
IS solution.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
UNINIPROVED LAND.

There is, as every one knows, great
deal of valuable unimprovrd property
i'll the city of st. Paul. Though citi-
zens have been accustomed to seeing
miserable shanties on vacant lots rang
ing alongside triumphs of architectural
skill, costing scores of thousands of dol
lars, for so long that the incongruity of
it has ceased to present itself fOrcibly
to their consciousness, it is the first
thing that impreSses visitor to the
city.
That it impresses him unfavorably
need hardly be said. Before he can
make himself acquainted with the city's
real solidity in commercial way he
concludes that the prosperity of which
he has read so much only appears in
spots. The criticism is one frequently
made, and it is apt.
There is hideousness and incongru-
ity about the proximity of tumble-down
ShackS to handsome buildings that
must be acknowledged. 1t is condi-
ton of affairs that the owners of unim-
proved business property ought to be
ashamed of. 1t is strange that self
interest, if nothing else, does not induce
them to change the complexion of
things. Certainly there is more money
in building, even of modest proper
tons, that can be readily rented than
IN vacant lot, however valuable, upon
which taxes must be paid and which
brings i'll no income.
1t is much to be hoped that the new
year will bring with it an awakening of
interest among property owners and
that general resolution will be made
to improve the general appearance of
the city, and to add to it's prosperity by
extensive building operations during
the present year.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
THE WOOL TRADE.

Trade Between Russia and the
United States to Our Detri-
ment.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The United
States consul at Odessa, Russia, has
made special report TO the department
OF state in regard to the condition of the
wool trade between Southern Russia
and the United States. The conclusions
of the report, which is contained in a
pamphlet OF fOrty-thTee pages, are
briefly stated as follows:
FlrSt-That the wool trade between
South Russia and the United States has
been carried on for twenty years, greatly
10 the detriment Of the revenue of the
United States.
Secondhand all of the wool shipped
from South Russia to the United States
is the property OF three or four Amer
lean importers.
.Thlrd-That these importers, in COM
blnatiOn with the shippers, have coll
spired to prevent the recognition of a
market price for the so-called Donskoi
washed woods at RoStOff-On-DOn.
FOurth-That all of these woods are,
and ever have been, secured woods.
Flfth-That these woods have in many
Instances succeeded in entering the
United States at low-duty limit C21<
cents, others again at high duty, when
all OF them should have paid duty as
secured woods.
Sixth-That the fraudulent designa-
ton of these woods has benefited the
American importers and has been a cor
responding loss to the honest wool
merchants land to the United States
government.
Seventh-That this loss will exceed
S10.0O0,000 can easily be demonstrated.
Eighth-That this loss will reach be-
tween S15,OO0,OOO and 20,00O,OOO is very
probable.
Ninth-That market value for the
so-called DOnskOi washed woods exists
at Rostoff-on-Don.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
Lieut.. Woodruff, u. s. A.

Lieut.. Fl. W. WOODRUFF, in charge
of the weather bureau, chamber of COM
merce-AS is pretty generally known,
the bulk of my work is done in the even
ing, say along about 10 or II o'clock, and
recently upon coming down to the Office
found the outer door locked. Upon
inquiry found that the chamber had
instructed the janiter to close up in the
evening, regardless of who might be
the sufferers, but unfortunately was
among the first victims. l brought the
board to terms, however, by addressing
letter to the managing committee, in
which I stated that for some time past l
had been considering the advisability of
transferring my Office to the GLOBE
building, and especially since it was
necessary for three classes of people to
have ingress and egress at all hours of
the morning. They were the employees
of the signal office, representatives of
the press and telegraph and district
messenger boys, and unless they could
be provided for, must quit my present
quarters. This kind of language did not
suit the committee, and they at once is
sued orders for the doors leading into
the building from the Sixth street side
to be kept open all the time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
BEGINNING OF THE End.

1t may be that before the present gen
Grafton passes away it will see the abo-
lition of the English house of lords AS
at present constituted, and the substi-
tuition for it of something like our SEN
ate. What looks to be very like the be-
ginning of the end appears in the plan
of radical young Irish peer, a member
Of the present house of lords, the Earl
of Dunraven.
His proposition is to create life instead
of hereditary peers, and to make the
legislative body elective by the peerage
for period Of nine years, third of the
number retiring biennially. He would
have the chamber of peers consist of
only 100 or $50 members, and the I'M
elected peers who might be eligible
would be relegated to the house of
commons.
Though this plan is radical enough to
cause the Tories ami those Englishmen
'who dearly love lord" to throw up
their hands in holy horror, and while it
would be decided step in advance of
the present status of England's aristo-
cratic body, it still is far behind the
standard eyinced in our senate. If The
earl should propose that the people in
stead of the peers should be the elect
ors, and that the choice should not he
restricted to the life peers, he
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
HIGHER EDUCATION.

In an article contributed to the cur
rent number of the Forum, Rev. NJ. J.
SAVAGE presents well-directed paper
against the tendency to higher educa-
ton in the public schools. He shows
the tallacy of attempting to establish
public school system upon the scheme
of state education where everything is
open to every child from the primary
school to the university. The public
schools should be common free schools
in the StricteSt sense. The two impor-
tant considerations overlooked by the
advocates of the higher education policy
are, first, only an infinitesimal fraction
of all the children of state ever do, or
ever can, avail themselves of any such
opportunity; and, secondly. that a sys-
tenn of education that aims at, and can
only be finished by the university, can
not be adapted to the needs of the i'm
mense majority who will never come
in sight of the university. The under
lying principle of the public school sys-
tenn, according to DR.. SAvAGE'S opin-
ion, should be the use of public money
for public ends. Whenever the public
school system goes beyond the limit of
fitting children for the ordinary duties
of citizenship, it transcends its legiti-
mate boundaries. Those who seek the
higher education for the sake of entering
Oh professional life aim at purely per
sonal ends, and not the public welfare
at all. The person who is preparing
himself for the practice OF law is look
ing only to make money for himself:
why, then, should his bills be paid by
the public any more than those of one
who is trying to learn trade? Thus it
is. DIR. SAVAGE argues, that the at
tempt to introduce higher education
into the public schools is a perversion
of the public money to an unjust use.
And then, as to the second considera-
ton mentioned above, he insists
that a graded system of teaching
which begins with the primary
school, and whose logical end is the uni
yersity, can hardly be one best adapted
to the needs of the great majority, who,
as a matter of fact, do not even get
through the grammar school. Must not
the result necessarily be, he asks, that
they will get smattering of the first
end of many things, and that they will
learn hardly anything with such com
pleteness as to make it of practical
value?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
FOR MRS. BEECHER,
The Irish National League will
Present Her With a Testimo.

The Irish National League will
Present Her With a Testimo.
NAL.
New YORK, Dec. 31.-The New York
municipal council Of the Irish National
league intend soon to present to Mrs.
HenryWard Beecher set resolutions
expressing the sympathy and regret of
the society for the death of her husband
and It's respect for his memory. These
resolutions are drawn up on heavy
parchment, fastened in the form of a
banner upon stick of dark-colored
wood, either end being mounted with
knobs of b ass. When unrolled it pre-
SCENTS an effective appearance, with the
white silver fringe at the top and
bottom OF the 15X1S-inch sheet. The
text of the resolutions is written
in elaborate and delicately tinted letter
ing and scroll work of intricate design
fills each of the four corners, while at
the head of the whole testimonial a
large eagle with spreading wings bears
in its beak wreath surrounding the
letter B and an inverted torch. In its
talonS it holds the Irish and American
flags draped with Grape. Above the
eagle is the word Freedom" and be-
low it in graceful scroll is the phrase,
HE lived not for an age, but for all
time" The lettering is admirably done
in different cOlored inks, which pro-
duce, so we'll are they chosen, general
effect which is artistic and pleasing. In
the center of the text is the name of
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, large inch
letters of the well known gothic style
used in church inscriptions, while along
the margin relieving the ornate tracery
of the scroll work are green tinted
palms crossed over wreaths of immor-
telles and bound to them bysbowS of
CRANE
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01

from the biting cold. Finally work
tngman, perhaps with the thoughts
of his own little ones, to
whom he was homeward hurry
Ing. in his mind, in passing
caught sight of the wan and frOst-bitten
face Of the poor little child, which was
even too cold to cry. He spoke to a
neighbOring hackman, and learned that
the babe had for nearly an hour been
thus exposed. Entering the store, where
presumably the child's nurse had gone
to look at Christmas novelties, he re-
lated tie circumstances and secured
permission to bring it inside to get
littlewarmth. Then, after making the
Ifwee tot as comfortable as possible, he
left.i The nurse, returning long enough
afterto have found the child frozen had
it remained outside, was much concerned
at its disappearance, and much relieved
at finding it in such good hands.
But there would have been one
frantic mother had she known what her
darling had gone through.
Apropos of the appointment of Post
master LEE the Whisperer understands
that I'll. p. HALL, up to the last mo-
ment, could have had the Office if he
only had said the word. He frankly
said, however, that, besides his disncli-
nation to ask his friends to go on as
heavy bond as is required for the in
ycumbent of the st. Paul Office, he could
not afford to give up his entire time for
the small recompense, the salary being
$4,000 year. 1t is fact that
the salary attaching to the st.
Paul office is entirely inadequate
considering the responsibility The
st. Paul Office is not only the
money order depository for Minneapolis
but for the entire Northwest, and the
amount of money for which the post
master must account weekly is enor-
nous. The position is an extremely
eXacting one, and duties half as respon-
sible in banks are twice as well paid.
Uncle SAM is not very generous to his
assistants. L understand, however, that
HALL has had no reason to regret his
refusal of the Office, as he has had one
or two excellent business opportunities
since going to California and may make
more out of them in few weeks than
he could have made in the st. Paul
pOStoffice in year.
1t seldom pays business man to give
up his time to the government.
The WHISPERER.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
CATHOLIC CELEBRATION.

In connection with the details of the
pope's jubilee celebration the GLOBE
presents its readers this morning with
an extended account of the rise and
growth of the Catholic church in the
Northwest, and more particularly here
In the Twin Cities. The Catholic church
has been an important factor in the set
Element and development of this North
western region. Dating away back to
she days of Father HENNEPIN, there has
not been an event associated with our
Northwestern history in which the
Catholic priest and missionary has not
been conspicuous figure. The
church sent its missionaries here
to labor among the Indians long
before the white settler attempted to
make his home in this region. When
the pioneers came they found these
holy men, who had been the advance
guards of civilization, sowing the good
seed from which has sprung the i'm
perial grandeur of the Northwest of to-
day. Other Christian denominations
have contributed their full share to-
ward building the walls of the North
western empire, and deserve the fullest
need of praise for their assistance in
developing that grand civilization which
now blesses this region. But it was the
Catholic church which laid the founda-
ton stones of the structure, and it is to
the honor of its ministry to say that no
class has been more industrious and
more jealous in pushing the great work
to its present high stage of advancement
than the Catholic clergy. There is one
man among us who has been conspicu-
Gus above all his associates, not only in
promoting the interests of his church,
but also in contributing to the material
prosperity of this section of the coun-
try where his labors have been devoted.
That man is Bishop IRELAND, who
commands the respect of Catholics and
Pr otestants alike, and whose name
is lndissolubly linked with the history
of Northwestern progress.
Yesterday Pope LEO XIII. celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of his ministry.
During the half century of his minis
terial labors the renowned dignitary has
been spectator of many important
events in which the church of which he
is now the head played an important
part. Yet we venture the assertion
thot nowhere within the whole realm of
ChristendOm, during the fifty years of
his ministry, has he seen more marvel
GUS work and with more beneficial re-
suits than has been done within that
time right here in Minnesota.
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would come nearer hitting the
mark of popular approval. This sug-
gestion would, in the meanwhile, be we'll
worthy of trial. 1t is monstrous that
few men, whose brain power in many
instances is limited to a knowledge of
proper time to go in when it rains,
should by the accident of birth have the
power to annul every measure orig
mated by the people for the benefit of
the community. 1t is enough that these
few peers should be permitted to exact
an annual rent roll of some $3O,O00,0O0
from people many of whom find eX-
istence difficult thing at best.
1t would be great day for Great
Britain, that which would see the aboli-
ton of the power of the peerage, and
the Liberal party would do we'll to aid
the Earl of Dunraven, by all means in
its power, in putting his suggestion
into effect
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
George r.. Finch.

GEORGE r. FINCH-Business will
have respite now for few days, but
the year Just closing has been an uncom-
heard about money matters. Among
all classes of dealers the same opinion
prevails, and do not think that there
is the slightest doubt that 1887 has been
the most prosperous in every way in
the building of st. Paul.
Mr.. KELLY continues to improve
daily, but / have not heard anything
definite as to time being fixed for his
return to his residence on Dayton's
bluff. He is still at the Hotel Norman
die in New York, attended by his wife
and brother and Mr.. and Mrs. HARD, of
New York. Mr.. HARD is the president
of the Chatham National bank, of which
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
Dennis RYAN.

DENNIS RYAN. Capitalist-Just as
soon as l can put matters in shape, l
shall leave for the South with my family,
and we will probably winter at Thorn
asville, Ga. Nearly all the work has
been completed on the exterior of the
Ryan annex, and as soon as the weather
permits the interior of the building will
be attended to. Now that have the
hotel off my hands, am enabled to give
more time to other projects in which |
am interested, and particularly the Gro
ton aqueduct at New York. With care,
this enterprise would have paid hand
some profit already, but certain matters
were neglected, and for awhile it seemed
as though all the money put into it was
about to be wrecked, but we are coming
out all right now. 1t is likely that before
going South 1 shall spend short time
in New York, but I want to dispense
with business as much as possible on
this trip and obtain needed rest and
recreation.