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STUDYING HISTORY.

\ very pertinent criticism is made by
the scholarly Bishop Cone regarding
the historical instruction given i'll the
public schools of the country. He calls
attention TO the fact that while every
conflict, beginning with the Indian
skirmiShes at the time of the formation
of the government down to the time of
the civil war, is set forth with detail,
and is more or less familiar to every
pupil.
While this kind of historical instruc-
ton is freely given, the future citizens
and statesmen are taught by the primary
school absolutely nothing regarding the
laws of their country, how they were
made. how they are put into operation.
and what their effect is. Of the coun-
try'S constitutional or political history
they do not get glimpse in the primary
schools, and hardly more than a glimpse
in the high schools. 1t is unquestiona-
BILE that this branch of historical
instruction is fully as interesting and
equally as important as that which
busies itself with wars loud alarm"
To the youth who may some day be
called upon to fill an important position
in the government regarding which he
knows so little. information of the kind
indicated is of the utmost value.
But even in the more pretentious
schools it has been almost entirely neg
lected. and it is notorious fact that not
only are the school children ignorant of
those important events in their country'S
political history with which every i'll
telligent American citizen should be
familiar. but the children of a larger
growth, even many among those who
are called to the national capitol to
administer the affairs OF the nation,
know nothing more of the constitution
than the printed copies of it which some
of them may have seen from time to
time, and are, so far as purely political
history is concerned, confined to per-
sonal experiences and "reminiscences in
their own districts.
The study of this branch of the coun-
try's development is free enough from
tedlouSness or completely to be eX-
tremely interesting. and it might well
be given place in the public school
system. at least as prominent as that
which the other kind of historical in
Struction now occupies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19
Young AMERICA.

A German lady of excellent education
and large travel said, the other day:
''The American children are certainly
the rudest in the world. They are more
assertive and argumentative than any
grown person would have the right to
be. In Germany we know how to raise
children. They eat simple food, go to
bed and rise early, and augment slowly.
We teach them to be respectful, indus
trious and studious. Here in America
the children are what they call smart.
If one gets hurt they laugh, and are
constantly wounding the feelings of
some one. America will be sorry for
this some day." This is surely
severe Indictment against our
American educational methods, and
on the face of it seems to bear the
stamp of truth. Is it true that our
children are the rudest in the world? If
it is true, we have been unconscious of
it. 1t is possible that in our fondness
for our own offspring we have been
misled into giving a wrong interpreta-
ton to the conduct of children. What,
in the fOndneSS of our paternal natures
we have thought was real SmartneSS in
our little ones, after all may only have
been rudeness. 1t is possible that we
may have mistaken impudence for pre-
cocity, and what we have considered
exceeding cleverness in an urchin may
have been nothing but unmitigated gall.
1t is certain that our standards of
child-like conduct are entirely differ ent
from what they are in the old countries.
1t is natural that they should be so. In
| the old European countries the people
| still cling to traditions reaching away
| back to the days of King SOLOMON, when
the rod was supposed to be the child's
best friend. Then, too, the difference
in the forms of governmental institutions
| made a difference in the systems of edu-
cation. In countries where autocracy
| is the ruling idea in government affairs
| it is but natural that the Severest dis
| cipline should be maintained in the
government of the household. In a
! country like ours where the government
depends upon the consent Of the gov
erned, it is not so surprising that even in
| the regulation of the household the same
| idea should predominant. The citizen
who asserts his individual sovereignty
| in affairs of state finds no reason to
complain if the child should initiate his
| example in matters pertaining to the
fireside government. Thus it is that
| the American child early develops a
self-asSertion, free exercise of will
power, and precoci0us individuality
| that foreigners are apt to construe into
rudeness. They are, as this German
lady says, more assertive and argument
alive than children in other parts of the
/ world.
Now, the question is, shall we ell
deaver to repress these peculiarties of
American children, or shall we continue
to encourage them? AT the risk of be-
ing considered an advocate of rudeness
| in children, the GLOBE insists that this
youthful precocity shall be encouraged.
America leads the world in progress to.
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WILL THEY? OH, WILL THEY?

Will B. B. Herbert, of Red Wing, run for
congress again?
viii Loren Fletcher add any more scalps to
Scheffers?
Win Mark H. Dunnell, of Owatonna, ever
resufrect himself?
VIII Senator NJ. G. Daniels, Of Rochester,
be. the Prohibitionist gubernatorial candidate
thiSsyear?
will H. B. Strait stand idly by while W. D.
Washburn, William Window, c. A. Gilman
and.Ignatus Donnelly are all scheming to
succeed Senator Sabin?
Will the brilliant young senator from Du-
luth, Hon. Lon j. Whiteman be a candidate
for anything this year?
fWilEeX Oil Inspector Fl. A. Castle discuss
protection and high license upon the stump
this year?
<WilLOil Inspector H. B. Willis come out
and express himself in favor of some one
gubernatorial candidate?
Will exSpeaker Jared Bensons voice ever
again be heard?
sMlf ex-Speaker and Railroad Commits.
sioner John L. Gibbs make another break
ferthe governors chair?
AWiA ex-Lieut. Governor and ex-Congress-
F1aifJ. B. Wakefield pinch himself and wake
himself up?
viii Hon John Lind distinguish himself
at Washington, SO that he can get renomi-
nation?
Will Milo White endeayor to have the dis
trict convention some other place than Kas-
son?
VIII ex-senator Samuel d. Peterson again
fling aside the possibility of becoming del
egate to the Republican National conven-
ton?
Will w. r. Merriam, C. A. Gilman. A. r.
McGill, Albert Sehetfer A. b. Strait, John
l.. Gibbs. A E. Rice and others, all run for
governor?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19
GOOD FOR THE GIRLS.

The statement is going the rounds of
the press, with more OF less iocular COM
ment, that several young ladies at Vas
sar college not only pay all the expenses
of their tuition, but all their living ey-
penses,by doing work of manual char
acter, sewing, mending, hair-dressing,
in fine the multifarious duties generally
. devOlving upon ladies' maids, for their
wealthy companions. 1t seems to us that
the joeularity is misplaced. The girls
who are struggling against great diff
eulties for an education deserve all
honor.
No enc who has not had experience of
the peculiar constitution of the average
feminine mind anappreciate the heart
burning, the snubbing, the thousand
and one petty annoyances which
must fall TO the lot of these
brave girls, simply, because not
so well off i'll this worlds goods as their
companions, they are obliged to work
:.r the living and the educational! ad-
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MEN WHO TALK.
Samuel G.. Sloan

Sc. SLOAN, Real Estate Agent-WhiIe
there has been no large movement in
real estate, the fact that a number of
holders are clearing up mortgages indi-
Gates not only healthy condition of the
market, but that money is getting plen-
tiful again. There may not be revival
OF the real estate boom this spring. as
many dealers have prophesied, but a
great many improvements of property
are promised, thus indicating that own
erS are satisfied with their Investments
in st. Paul realty. When man owns
piece of real estate. although its value
may depreeiate, he does not look upon
this drawback the same as he would if he
had lost his money in stocks OF wheat.
linen he becomes SOured against the
country and seeks elsewhere for place
to put his money; whereas the case
of real estate it is to his interest to see
that the property is enhanced by i'm
prOvementS around it, and his example
Will always stimulate others in the same
direction.
Building societies, too, are doing good
work in advancing the prosperity of st.
Paul, and the fact that IabOring men
and mechanics are putting their earn
lngs into homes for their families is a
great preventive of strikes and tends to
make the community more lOyal. A
man who has put his all into a little
piece OF property will naturally hesitate
Tor some time ere he takes a step that is
going to prevent his making the paw
ments when they fall due; and homes
for WOrkingmeD, wherever built. will
always be found preventive against
labor agitation and strife. Within the
next year or SO there will be marked
Improvement in building operations all
over st. Paul. even If there are no sales
of property to outsiders who want
to speculate. l am led to this be-
lief by the fact that it is no'Ionger a
common occurrence for real estate
owners to go to their agents and saw.
''Sell my lot and get what you can for
it," but on the contrary, those who
have property want to keep it and make
it more valuable. Five years ago I stood
in the woods not far from DaytOn's bluff
and Arlington Hills and auctioned off
lots at from $500 to S400 apiece, and to-
day these same lots command readily
500 front foot, and the owners are not
willing to part with them even at those
figures. There will not be much at
tempted in the direction of further
plating OF outside property for some
time to come, but more attention will
be paid to inside holdings and their i'm
provement, all of which augurs we'll for
the substantial and permanent prOsner-
ity of st. Paul.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19
IN CHURCH.

l see her enter, and with eyes
Cast down in modest, reVerent wise,
Walk up the aisle demurely:
watch the while she takes her seat
And think, Even as her face is sweet
Her heart is good--ayc, surelyr'
All, fair-faced saint, would were good
AS thou, and like thee understood
This faith and firm believing,
And were not still outside the fold.
All, though my heart may seem but cold,
Heav' n knowns it's had its grieying.
1 cannot say, as she hath said,
Lord. in Thy path my feet shall tread"
For all, have not found it;
And yet in that she follows Him.
] know His way is right though dim,
To me, the light around 1t.
A busy world, that men have made
A scene of strife, and gain, ana trade
A hard world TO live in:
When one we meet whose heart is freq -
From worldlinesS and vanity,
There comes q little light in.
Thus has she ever seemed to me,
And whatso' er the future be-
Wherever Fortune leadeth,
To life her memory will lend
The picture OF one worthy friend
My friend, my dear friend Edith.
FRANK Roe Batchelder.
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yantageS which come to the others so
freely. No one can, consequently, APP
preciate adequately the courage with
which these young women are inspired.
The chances are that the education
thus b ought by the labor of their own
hands will be far more valuable and far
more thorough than that gained by their
fellow students who are not obliged to
count the cost.
And, afterwards, when the practical
duties of life devolve upon each one of
them, when reverSeS come, as come they
do every day under the influence of the
varying conditions of American social
life, the girls who made their own way
at school will find themselves better
equipped than their former companions
to meet every emergency that may
arise
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poses nomination, but will support
him if he is chosen. The young ele-
ment among the Republicans is casting
about for a gubernatOrial candidate.
Their chances fall often in the direction
of A. X. RICE. despite his frequent
statements that he will not run. Many
regard MERRIAM with favorable eyes,
owing to his youth, but think that his
money might embarrass him in fight.
~
New England towns are given to Sc
Letting municipal notices. L propose
for few Minnesota burgs something
like these:
"Cipher-gO-bragh."
Observation-Disclosures Cannot Daunt."
st. Peter-'Hic facet MCGILL."
WinOna-"Thy WINDOW Comes"
Duluth-"Great Expectations"
ShakOpee-''An Inland STRAIT"
Red Wing-"Reform, Our School,"
Not to leave out Minneapolis, | sug-
gest that in her present state of ObScur-
ity, owing to the political plans and
ambitions of Il. K. BYRNEs, she adopt
this: mot Dead, but Sleeping"
~
Rev. DR.. SAM SMITH delivered lee
ture on ''Literature'' before the West
Side Chautauaua circle one night last
week. In the course of his remarks he
described journey he had made to
Scotland and visit to the home of Sir
WALTER SCoTT. While wandering
about the grounds of the SCOTT prop
erty he came upon a number of neg
lected graves, overgrown with weeds.
On one of them, half-buried by dead
leaves, and held in place by a stone, lay
folded piece of paper.
Mechanically" said DR.. SMITH, 81
stopped, raised the stone and unfolded
the piece of paper. The legend it bore
was Homes for the Homeless i'll Da-
there by Second Day Adventist, who,
when the dead rose, wished them to
know that Eden lay beyond the water,
in the land of the Dacotahs."
By A Fool.
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.
had expected to speak on the land SUBJ
sidy bill, and had prepared speech
brlStilng with facts and figures, which
was very dry production indeed. A
day or two before the speech was to be
delivered. lobbyist came to KNOTT
and asked him to favor bill to improve
the harbOr of Duluth. KNOTT ironically
asked him where Duluth was. The
lobbyist, taking him seriously, produced
map showing almost the whole con-
tinent drawn in circles, each circle
growing smaller until in the cen
ter was found the word Duluth"
On the map were printed statistics
showing that there were 2,000, 900 square
miles, about that point, all tributary to
Duluth. The lobbyist asked KNOTT to
The sequel showed that he did ''gO for
Duluth" He saw chance for some
fun at Duluth's expense, which he in
tended merely as the introduction to his
speech. But, after beginning, the
house, with uproarious applause, de-
mauded more. He could not then go
from the ridiculous to the sublime. The
rest of the humor flashed into his mind.
and was given utterance, to the great
delight of the house. KNOTT and Du-
luth found themselves simultaneously
famous, and Duluth turned what was
intended to be sarcasm into a profitable
advertisement.
Duluth should invite PRoCToR KNOTT
to come up and pay her visit.
A few days ago party of New York
business men was registered at the
Ryan. They came for the purpose of
combining business and pleasure, and a s
a result of their visit few more tens of
thousands of dollars will be invested in
St. Paul. But gratifying as that exhi-
bition of confidence in st. Paui'S pros
perity may be. it was not what | started
out to tell you. From one of the gentle
men whose name would meet with ma
tional recognition, but which is not pub
lished for obvious reasons, the Whis-
perez learned rather startling piece
of information. 1t is to the effect that
JOSEPH PULITZER, whose phenomenal
success in building up the New York
World from one of the poorest to one of
the best newspaper properties in the
country has challenged the admiration
! OF the country, can live but short time
longer. He is now in California for his
health, attended by his family physi-
clan, but the disease with which he is
afflicted, blood poisoning, has gotten
such a firm hold upon him that cure is
impossible and death only matter of a
few weeks. Mr.. PULITZER is himself
aware of his fate, but with the indomi-
table will power that has made him so
successful In business affairs. he fights
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19
WHISPERS.

Perhaps some of the Whisperer's Du-
luth friends may care to hear something
about PROCTOR KNOTT, the first man to
bring the thriving lake city into ma
tiOnal prominence, and whom they have
cause accordingly to remember CRATE
fully. Born in 1880 at Lexington, KY,
he was admitted to the bar at the age of
twenty-one, and in 1867 was sent to con-
gresS, where he remained until 1888,
when he was elected governor of Ken
lucky. retiring but recently. The ac-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19
TO-DAY'S WEATHER.

SIGNAL OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT. ST.
PAU, Feb. 10 1880 a. m.-Indicauons for
twenty-four hours commencing at a. m.
to-day: For 81. Paul, Minneapolis and vi
cinity: Colder. fair weather, followed by
rain or snow; light 10 fresh variable winds.
For Minnesota, Eastern and Southwestern
Dakota: Rain or snow in fouthern portions;
fair weather, followed by rain or snow in
northern portions; colder, light TO fresh
variable winds. generally northerly.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
ST. PAUL. Feb. IS-The following obserya-
tion> were made NJ : rs n m local time:
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BOOKS.

CALIFORNIA OF THE SoUTH-Its Physical Geo.
graphy, Climate, Resources. Routes of
Travel and Health Resorts, being a CON-
plete handbook to Southern California
ID. Appleton IL Co., New York: st. Paul
Book and Stationery store, st. Paul.
This is an exceedingly interesting
book of nearly 400 pages, Handsomely
printed, delightfully."- illustrated and
pleasantly written. All who are inter-
ested in knowing more about this most
charming corner of natures great vine
yard Will thank the GLOBE for telling
them of this book.
A CHAPTER IN UNNATURAL HISTORY Bv the
same publishers,
Is an amusing book of grotesoue pict-
ures and jolly fun. A glance through
it is certain to produce many hearty
laughs.
The Nuns CURSE. Novel. BY Mrs. f. II.
Riddle, Author of Miss Gascoigne, ETC.
This is story of absorbing interest
and will be in wide demand by readers
of good novels.
MEMOIRS OF AN ARABIAN PRINCESS. An Au.
photography, by Emily Ruete, nee Princess
of Omanand Zanzibar
A neatly-told story, well printed and
bound. 1t Will do 70 while away an
evening with. ID. Appleton IL CO.,
New York: st. Paul Book and Station.
cry company, st. Paul.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19
All Are Compromises.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

P1ttSDurg DISpHtcH.
Senator Gorman'S assurance that a
compromise tariff bill will be passed at
this session would be little more in
teresting if it was stated what kind of a
compromise will be made. All tariff
bills are, by their nature, compromises;
which leaves, as the one distinctive as
will be passed. and that Is not so certain
either,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19
PEAKING OF BUSINESS MEN.

Breathes there a man with soul so
dead.
Who never to himself hath said:
My advertisement shall lie read
In that great GLOBE through
out the land.''
If such there be, 60 mark him well,
No goods his stCre doth ever sell.
And soon you'll hear an auction
bell
In front, held by the sheriff S
hand!
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

C o m D a II Y i II &
vignette will give a
pretty good idea of
his present appear
ance. 1t was in
1871 that KNOTT
made his famous
speech regarding
Duluth. A friend
of mine was talk
ing to him about it
recently. He said
that he had no idea
at the time that the
speech was going
to make such a
sensation. In fact,
it was entirely an
iOcnirafiOp II a
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

THE proposed duel between the New
York club men might appropriately
take place with stuffed clubs as the
weapons. 1t would be physical i'm
possibility for the belligerents to blow
out each others brains, even with Cat
ling guns
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

WHEN the fact becomes noised about
that Gov. ALGER, of Michigan. is worth
s20,0O0,0O0, he may expect numerous
professional politicians to declare in
favor of his presidential boom.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

CHAIRMAN MILLS now promises the
Iong-looked-for tariff bill in few DAYS.
This is one of the MILLS that grind eX-
ceedingly slow. 1t remains to be seen
how fine the result will be.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

SOME of our Eastern contemporaries
are trying to hunt up the derivation of
the word blizzard" Since the blizzard
hunted them up, they take an interest
in the subject.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

COMMUNICATING REA, who was
nominated by the GLOBE, thinks
CLEVELAND will do the old soldiers
justice. \ good many hundred thousand
other people think the same way.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

GEN. SHERIDAN is. no doubt. very
bright man, but it is hardly credible
that he should remember his own birth.
Still, he was a precOciOus child.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

PRESIDENT AUSTIN CORBIN, of the
Reading road, has been doing a good
deal of talking Of late, but he has as yet
refrained from explaining who got the
S4O,0OO,OOO the road has made for some
one. The stockholders know they
haven't If
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

THE ear is massing his soldiers on
the frontier. The car. it will be re-
membered, is of the opinion that peace
will prevail-if he has to fight all Eu-
rome to secure it
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

CHICAGO thinks she is surely on the
track of the SMELL murderer now. The
SMELL murderer must be getting NOR e
and more amused.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

ST. PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
DAILY (NoT INCLUDING SUNDAY
VI in advance 81 90 SIN. in advanceS2 %
4 N. in advance. 4 co u weeks i'll adv. 1 90
One month. zee.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

THE president is indeed courageous
man. Think of starting on great fish
ing excursion. with a warm campaign,
and lis consequent villifiers, coming on.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

THE American syndicate is said to be
again reaching forth to grasp China's
pig-tail. Some one has given it the
''queue" when to act, no doubt.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

FoR man who received free board
and lodging While in the city, BILLY
O'CoNNoR seems strangely indispOsed
to return to st. Paul hospitality. He
may be assured of very warm recep-
ton if he should ever change his mind.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

II THIS latter day it is better to be a
first-class base ball pitcher unsigned
than the owner of producing gold
mine.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER will also
have to be something of sprinter if
he gets away with Congressman Cox.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

Now SINCE they are all the rage, let
US have a Peoples trust for protec-
ton against the mOnOpOliStS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

IT WILL be observed that Minnesota
Republican editors are unanimously in
favor of tariff reform. 1t gives us
pleasure to see these gentlemen taking
such warm interest in Democratic
SUCCESS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

BREATHE it softly and reach for your
gun, the writing of spring poetry has
already bugun.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19

OBSERVE well the day of rest by
going to church and reading your Sun
DAY GLOBE.