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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-24

demonstration we desire not merely 10 eX-
press our sentiments of personal respect, but
also TO emphasize the general cOmmendation
OF your ofhcial course as member of the
iederai house OF representatives.. To the lau-
rels which you have repeatedly won upon
many a field must now be added the oak
leaf wreath, significant of the perfect per-
formance of civic duty We derive
especial satisfaction from your acts
in uniformly opposing the theory that
the wage-earner is enriched by high taxation.
and IN steadily contending for the policy of
aDollshlng the taxes which weigh so heavily
upon the labor of this country. Passing i'll
review your entire congressional career, Your
constituency say Nv ell done, and are pre-
pairing TO serve their interests by renewing
your tenure of legislative Office. We greet
you, sir with the heartiest assurances OF our
coincidence and support. and shall zealously
labor 10 make your next majority stroke OF
annihilation to the cause of monopoly, class
legislation and high taxation
IN THIS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Fellow citizensi No introduction is re-
ouired in this city for our present distin-
gulshed representative in congress. /. there
fore, present to you without further formal
lty one of your old friends, Hon. Edmund
Rice.
When the applause incidental to the
mention of the name Of Hon. Edmund
Rice had subsidized, that gentleman. in
well measured tones which carried con-
viction to the hearts of all his hearers,
SAID:
My Friends and Fellow Citizens: This
inspiring demonstration affects me most
detpy. ana it is with grateful ac-
acknowledgements for the honor tell
dered to me that l assure you of
my thanks. l have been in Washington at
lending to the business of my constituents
during the longest session Of congress i'll the
history of the government. 1t does not be-
come me 10 say whether ! have done well or
III, but if my capacity TO serve you effectively
had been equal TO my desire You would have
had, if you have not now. 10 cause for COM
plaint. But. my friends, the burning ques-
lion OF the hour is the revision
of the tariff, brought to the
attention of congress by the able and
fearless position of the president in his
annual message in December last, and the
only subject of which he treated. He clearly
presented to the country. through congress,
the fact that i'll truth and justice the great
body of the people were fearfully take d
upon the necessaries of life for the benefit of
a comparatively small number of men, who
are engaged in what are
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-06-21
M. G. r. u. NOTES.

WHY SHOULD SIGN TIE PLEDGE?
Mrs. s. II. e Henry.
I'm not a .drunkard.n
Il don't drink anything to speak Of y
II ]. seunt drink take it; if I don't
j LET il alone.n
never take SO much that I don't
know what am about.'
Il can drink little or much; it never
hurts me.n
4 can drink or let it alone.u
why should sign the pledge?"
Because,
/. You don't want to be drunkard.
never found man who did; and the
disappointment of men who wake up
to find themselves drunkards is some
thing too terrible TO take the slightest
chance on, and pledge of total absti-
nenee taken and kept will turn any
man or woman from the path of the
drunkard and the shame it leads to,
and hedge him in with sobriety, just as
effectuaily as a good barbed wire fence
Will turn careering colt from all that
lies outside of its paddock, and keep
him within his own place.
A deliberate promise is the strongest
tether with which any man can bind
a good purpose. You have purpose
to be sober, reliable, pure; then bind
the habits of youa life to il with solemn
promise to abstain forever from all in
toxicating liquors, including wine, beer
md cider, and you are safe from that
dragon.
2. You should sign the pledge and
stop all use of Intoxicating drinks, be-
cause if you drink it ever so moderate
~ you are in danger. The subtle pois-
on of alcohol has just one way with
human blood and nerves and brain,
and if you take one glass today of
light wine. the chances are ten to one
that you will die q drunkdrd. You
will follow in the same road that is fill
ed up with the staggering, profane, un-
clean throng of drunkards who all be-
gan just as you are doing, drinking the
one first glass which opened the gate
sorrow.
5. You should sign the pledge, even
if you never touched . drop of alcoholic
drink, that your name aud influence
may be on the right side of the ques-
ton. If you have boy or girl, that
you may lead your child in the right
way. AS citizen, for the sake ef the
tempted and weak who need the
strength which would come to-them
from your name on the pledge; as a
member of society, that the social world
may sooner adopt the fashion of purity;
as man, that every other man and
woman may know just where you
stand, and that no one shall dare call
your position in question. at is good
neither to eat flesh nor drink wine or
anything whereby thy brother STUN
bleth. or is offended or made weak"
Rom. 14:21.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21

colonel brigadier, and his mother
dates her ancestry back to the burgo-
mP3jer who defended Morat against
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
Mr.. Frey served under General Grant
during the war, and he was taken
prisoner at the battle Of Gettysburg.
The Dutch Minister Il mean the
man who represents Holland), is
Mr.. DeWeckherlin, and he has been
here about four years. He is very
cultured man, and he graduated at the
University of Leyden. He was i'll
the diplomatic service at Vienna and
secretary of legation at Brussels, and
he has represented his country at
Rome and Japan. He is q widely
travelled man, and, like all the Dutch,
he has a great fund Of knowledge.
The American opinion of the Dutch
people is an erroneous one, and there
is scarcely nation in Europe which
is better educated and so we'll up to the
times.
The Spanish Minister is Senior
Emilio de Muruaga, who is now SO,
and who is the son of distinguished
army officer of Spain. He speaks five
languages, and he has been a foreign
minister at half dozen different
courts.
There were, all told, about thirty
ministers at Washington before the
advent of the Coreans, and the Diplo-
matte Corps embraces, as this letter
shows, some of the most noted men
in the world.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21
THE sANDBAR DUEL.
A Famous Fight Recalled by the Death
of DR.. Thomas II. Maddox.


The recent dispatch to THE CRITIC an
nouncing the death of DIR. Maddox in
Louisiana, recalls the "sandbar duer'
that took place opposite Natchez, and at
tracted widespread attention.
DIR. Maddox and brother of Governor
j. Madison Wells were the principals in
the duel, and Colonel Blanchard, father
of the present Congressman Blanchard,
Colonel Grain, Major Wright General
Curry and James Bowie of Maryland, were
the seconds. The original difficulty was
settled on the ground, but the seconds had
o terrible quarrel, in which James Bowie,
the inventor of the Bowie knife, was
shot down, and another man was killed
by Colonel Grain. While Bowie was
down Major Wright rushed at him with q
sword-cane, and three others Joining him,
the wounded man was carved to piece;
with his own knife. DR.. Maddox spent
some time in St. Mary's County last sum.
mer visiting Senator Fred. Maddox and
others. James Bowie was of the old Mary
land family of that name, and he went to
the then far Southwest with his brother
Allen in the old border days.
Henry Clay, who knew Bowie well,
used to relate at the old National Hotel,
kept by Charles b. Calvert, uncle of Gov
ernor Oden Bowie's wife, the story of his
first meeting with James Bowie. 1t hap
pened in a stage coach going across the
country to Washington. An invalid, O
quiet man in big cloak, border des-
perado and Senator Clay were in the
coach. The rough began to make great
smoke from strong pipe, which caused
the invalid to become very sick. He
lowered the window, and the tough
threatened to kill him and throw him
out. Bowie quickly opened his cloak and
said, "You may keep that window open.
| myself suffer somewhat from the cold,
but not as much as you do from that
smoke
"What in the - have you got to do
with ltT said the desperate, drawing his
revolver
Up went Bowie's hand to the back OF
his neck, and, quick as flash, in such a
position as to have the advantage of his
adversary. Then he said; 'Now, fire
away"
~ guess you're Jim Bowie" said the
other, putting up his weapon. at strikes
me we've met before. L don't care to
smoke"
At the next station the rough got out,
and bed was arranged for the invalid
upon his own and the vacated seat.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21
FLUsH TIMES IN FRISCO.
Experiences Related of tho Old Days
rae

Experiences Related of tho Old Days
of'lO.
Colonel Mike Brannigan, the cele-
brated guide and hackman of El Paso,
Texas, is on a visit to San Francisco.
Mr.. Brannigan said TO reporter of
the Examiner: 81 have como back to
San Francisco for the purpose of see
ing some of my old friends of the
Argonaut days of 1S49 that is, as
many Of them as are alive. / can tell
you some interesting things about
early times in this city 1 owned and
drove the first hack that ever rum
bled over the streets of San Francisco.
In 1851 / got $50 a night to drive Cath
crime Hayes, the famous singer, and
her motherbetween the Razette House
and Tom Maguire's Theatre, which
was then situated on Washington
street, between Montgomery and
Kearney. ] also got the same sum
from several others ut the time for
the same trip. Those were good old
days, and /, as well, l suppose, as
very many others, would wish to see
them back again. ] saw 81 200 paid
for box in Maguire's Theatre on the
opening night of Catherine Hayes
season. A Limerick butcher at Sacra-
mento paid 81 800 for box when she
went to the capital city to sing. Dol
lars in those days were more plentiful
than nickels are now. When the
mail steamers would arrive / have
seen gambler give man an ounce
of dust THAT is $l6) for his place in the
long line of anxious people waiting
their turn outside the postofice, which
was then at the corner of Brenham
Place and Clay street. Then you
would have to pay SO dozen for ar
ticles to be laundered, and men used
to throw soiled underclothing away
and buy new articles rather than
pay for washing. / remember when
Lotta Crabtree first appeared in this
city. She used to play banjo and
dance jigs at Gilbert's Melodeon, at
the corner of Kearney and Clay
streets, and got So a week. / think
that was in 1854 or 1855. She went to
Virginia City in 1860, and made hit.
Twenty dollar gold pieces we're
showered on the stage for her benefit.
MY charges then as hack-driYer
were $50 day and all the expenses
paid. / would like to see that state Of
things again, and we would have less
complaints about capitalists and the
like. Everybody was capitalist in
the old days, and if only few of the
wealthiest exist now l don't know
why they ought to be blamed. We
all had a chance to become million
aires, and if we did not it can't be
helped, and there is no use repining." |"
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21
Sneed ON Railroads.

Speed is hard to average. An average
of4s $40 miles per hour Is the fastest time
in the United States. This is made on the
Pennsylvania "limited" in its run from
Jersey City to Philadelphia, 30 miles, in
112 minutes. The Flying Dutchman train
is supposed to make the fastest time in
the world, between London and Bristol,
11Sf miles, in less than two hours. The
average, though, of even this fast train is
only 59s miles per hour. There are sew
eral other trains noted for remarkably
fast time o. short distances. Sometimes
a straight ind even grade for distance of
20 miles will permit train to run at the
rate of more than mile q minute. One
train on the Canadian Pacific Road, from
Cotaneu to Ottawa, averages 90 miles per
hour for distance of rs miles. On the
New York Central Road the late Mr..
Vanderbilt once travelled at the rate of
80 miles an hour. An average of 36A
miles an hour is considered fast travelling.
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pF wrcEuERLIN. MuRuA0k
each year, and the big building OF the
legation is one of the finest at Wash
ington. England, it is said, expects
her Ministers TO do much with her
dinners, and novel was recently
published by former secretary Of le-
cation to America, which tells how an
English Minister took in the United
States years ago, and how the money
spent in wining and dining the Sena-
tors brought about q good treaty. This
novel appeared only short time ago,
and it Is said that some Of the oppo-
nents of the Fish Commission, see
ing that Joseph Chamberlain was
trying TO do the same thing
as had been done in the past,
sent copy of this novel to each
United States Senator, and the result
was that Chamberlain's fat jumped
into the fire. Uncle Sam is fast grow
ing older, and his eye teeth are cut.
John Bull will have to adopt new
tactics before he can longer twist our
people around his strong thumb.
Still, Minister West is nobody's fool.
His whole life has been passed in
diplomacy, and he has served at the
court of the Gar.
The other legations are fast buying
houses in Washington, and the Ger
mans own their own house. 1t is a
wide, three story pressed brick, with
a door in the center, and it looks like
Germany-strong but unostentacious.
The Mexicans have just finished a
new building, and the day will prob
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21
RAIN UPON THE ROOF.

When the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres,
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
What bliss to press the pillow
Ola cottage-chambe bed,
And listen to the patter
OF the soft rain overhead
Every tinlSle on the shingles
Has an echo in my heart;
And q thousand dreamy fancies
Into busy being start.
And u thousand recollections
Weave their air-threads into woof
AS / listen TO the patter
OF the rain upon the roof.
Now in memory comes my mother,
AS she used in years agone,
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn;
o feel her fond look on me
As ! list to this refrain
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter Of the rain.
Then my seraph sister,
With wings and waving hair,
And her star-eyed cherub brother
A serene, angelic pair
Glide around my wakeful pillow,
With their praise or mild reproof,
As listen to the murmur
Ofthe soft rain upon the roof.
And another comes to thrill me
With her eyes delicious blue;
And mind not musing on her,
That her heart was all untrue;
remember but TO love her
With passion kin to pain,
And my hearts quick pulses culver
To the patter OF the rain.
Art hath naught of tone or cadence
That can work with such spell
In the souls mysterious fountains,
Whence the tears of rapture well,
AS that subdued subduing strain
Which is played upon the shingle
BY the patter of tho rain.
-LCoates Kinney.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21
GENERAL PAKENHA MS BODY
A Strange Story of its Reshipment and
Final Burial.

Final Burial.
A strange story comes from Chester
county, South Carolina. 1t is said that
the body of General Pakenham. who COM
manded the British in the attack on New
Orleans in 1912, is buried in that county
and his grave has been found Old resi-
dents of the county say that the Generals
body was packed in cask Of rum and
sent back to England. On its arrival
there it was, through mistake, not even
opened, but shipped again, this time to
Charleston. Reaching this city IL was
sent to .McMullin, who kept general
stock of groceries and liquors. There a
spigot was placed in the barrel, and the
boys who had returned from the war
would congregate round the store, take
large potations ofthe good old Jamaica
rum, and tell oftheir exploits. After the
rum was exhausted the head of the cask
was knocked out, and the body of q man
was found therein. The news spread like
wildfire and the boys gathered to inspect
the body. Several of them had been to
New Orleans and had seen General Pack
enham and at once identified the body as
that of the general. The body was in
closed in a coffin and buried near the
store, Mr.. Austin now owns the prop
erty. He lives few miles from Ross
vile, Chester county. Until quite re-
Gently there were still living some men
who helped to drink the rum and who
identified the body.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21
Late Ideas of Breakfast.

The old adage, mo breakfast, no man, 4"
is perhaps as true in some form to-day as
when first formulated although of late
years the ideas of people concerning
breakfast have undergone a radical
change. For the laboring man and for
the man of much physical exercise a
heavy breakfast is necessary but for the
man or woman of sedentary habits light
breakfast is doubtless much better I'm
any case, fruits should always be found at
breakfast. Many prefer it after the meal,
but it is not only more digestible but as
sists the digestion more surely if used at
the beginning of the meal, For light
breakfast the fruit should be followed by
one of the cereals in some form with
cream, which is more nourishing than
milk, and by many as easily digested.
This, followed by delicate dry toast or
rolls, with coffee, tea or chocolate, and
perhaps eggs In some FORM makes break
fast so easily digested that many persons
can do far more work on ii than ON heavier
food.-[Table Talk.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21

symbolic Of her beautiful, but short
life, marks the spot Standing by
her grave recalled the first and last
time ] heard her sing the oralorio of
the Messiah She sang with such
singular sweetness of voice, and in
tensity of feeling, 81 know that my
Redeemer Liveth," that it was I'M
possible for a lover of music 10 hear
her without the very depths OF their
soul being stirred. y.
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Wnetner TN ere q NAAr1nhAhh LihNo
now in the United States book for
every man, woman and child within
it. Bancroft's library contains from
10000 to $4,000 volumes, or about half
the number Of Chang Yen Hoon's.
THE JAPANESE LEGATION.
The Chinese Minister is million
aire, and he lives here in million
aires palace. His chairs are Of gold,
or gilt, and their covering is silk.
One of his robes would make the
finest silk dress Washington belle
ever laid her eyes on, and Ge sports q
diamond on his cap as big as the egg
of pigeon. He is learning English,
and when he is not at his work he al
ways has book in his hand.
Kuki, who represents Japan, is also
bright and brainy. He is short, dark
faced, almond-eyed and dark-haired.
He dresses in American clothes and
always has a good taller. He wears
q silk hat, and his beard is made up
of lust 200 black strands. He is a
statesman, and we'll fitted TO represent
the Americans of the far East" !"
English is now taught in the japanese
schools, and our postal system has
been adopted by Japan. Travellers,
as they come here, tell of the wonder
full changes that are going on in that
country, and there is no more pro-
gressive ali-round nation on the globe
than that of the Japs.
Nine. Kuki is not now in Washing
ton, but she mixed we'll with society
while she was here, and she was noted
as wearing fine diamonds and elegant
silks, made in the latest styles from
Paris. Her boy, little Kuki, grows
like Jacks bean stalk, and her niece,
Yoshi Kuki, grows prettier day by
day.
The new Turkish Minister is very
fne-looking fellow. He is as straight
as a string, and his hair is as black
and glossy as polished ebony oiled.
He is Greek, and it is said that he
sleeps with the Sultan. He and Sam
Cox are on good terms, and Cox, by
the way, has had painted on the walls
of his new house this legend, in Turk
lsh characters
e "Allah, light of the world"
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ably come when
each nation will
float its flag over
its OWL quarters
h ere. Romero,
the Mexican min
ister, is a bright
fellow, and was a
great friend Of
Grant.
One Of the fin
est looking minis
ters here is Col.
Emile Frey, who
represents Switz-
erland. His faith
a, xx,nd n Evufoo
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There are number of ladies in the
Diplomatic Circle, but many of the
brightest have left within the last sew
eral years. Nine. de Struve is absent
and Fran Won Eisendecker left the
Capital with her husband. The
Baroness de Fava, the wife of the
Italian Minister, will probably be at
the Diplomatic dinner tonight, and
the Viscountess de Nogueiras will
also be there. Both Nogueiras and
his wife are fine looking, and they
represent the Portuguese at Washing
ton. The Viscount is tall and dark,
and he wears a white imperial. He
is a man of culture, and he talks
United States like native. The
Baron de Fava is also popular man,
and his wife is one of the bright
women Of Washington.
THE GERMAN LEGATION.
(aarn,auv Ia now ranrpaented nv Herr
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21
An Imitation Ivory.

Cent? believe you are the man of
whom bought this cane?
Proprietor-Yes 1 sold you that cane.
"And you said the handle was of gem
uine ivory, and find that it is artificial"
direct from Ceylon, and the only explana-
ton / can give is that the elephants have
taken to wearing false usks."-[Texas
Siftinpa
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21
THE DAUGHTER OF A KING.
An Alleged Descendant of the Royal
House of Wurtemburg.


A stout, rather pretty little girl stood in
the hallway leading to the grand jury
room in the courthouse at Pittsburg a few
days ago. She looked around stolidly and
seemed too young or too unlearned to un-
derstand the cause Of her presence there.
She was the principal witness against n
middle aged man named Robert Reed,
who was charged with abducting her for
immoral purposes. Samuel Ammon, who
is the attorney in the case, told the girls
story.
This girl, said he, twas witness be-
fore the grand jury to-day. Robert alias
Michael Reed, was to-day indicted for en-
ticing her away from home for immoral
purposes. Her name is Frances Steubeu-
raCh. She is Is years old, and is a daugh-
ter of Lena Steubenrach, for whose death
DR. Hall and Mrs Brown are now in prison.
Lena SteubenraCh was either the wife or
mistress of Prince Salm, son of the last
King of Wurtemburg thus making this
young girl granddaughter of the King.
As near as can learn Prince Salm came
to Latrobe years ago, Being finely edu-
Gated man he was installed in the chair OF
Mathematics in st. NiuCents College.
While there he became acquainted with
the woman, and upon good authority II is
said that he married her. After brief
and unhappy life with her he deserted her
and went to New York, where he married
an actress, and later he went TO his old
home in Germany, The poor girl knows
nothing of her ancestors, and is of such
tender age as to be unable to appreciate
her condition.
For a sample Of pure American humor
listen to the gentle landlady as she takes
no the pitcher of SKINNED milk and asks
the now boarder II he will have cream iu
his coffee. e.-l Nebraska State Journal.
FINE SKATING at Athletic Park.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21
THE GERMAN LEGATION.

Won Albnnsleben,
and he is n blonde
bachelor, He is q
highly cultured
man, and has been
in the diplomatic
service for u long
time.
Minister Rous-
tan represents the
French in the
United States. He
was for a long
time at Tunis, and
h5 aided in the
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21

establishment of the French power in
Northern Africa. He is straight and
good looking, and, like most French
men, he has had his romance. The
particular one i refer to has appeared
in the newspapers, but whether 1t is
true or not ] do not know. 1t sufiices
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21
First of the Music Rides.

The regular Saturday night music rides
at the new Riding Academy will begin
tonight. The school is now open for in
spection and will be for several days
more. 1t is we'll worth visit from lovers
of horsetlesh and those fond of eques-
tTian sports. The stable for cleanliness
and order, is unrivaled in this country; in
"A stable,
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If IL is case of cut or bruise, or break,
or sprain, Salvation Oil will setlle,matters
for % cents.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-21

that Il was not most plimentary
TO either Roustan or his friends.
The English legation is probably
the most prosperous one at WASH
ington Sir Lionel Sackville West
is said to have $4,000 al
lowed to him for entertaining