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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
MayOr Smith.

Hon. r. A. SMITH-GREENLEAF
CLARK to-day rendered his resignation
as member of the park commission,
and | have appointed HIRAM +. STE
VEINS as his successor. There was no
reason for Mr.. CLARK'S action further
than to be relieved of an arduouS posi-
ton on the eve of his departure for
Europe in search of health and a relax
alton from business cares. No one rec
commended Mr.. STEVENS to me, and |
do not believe that he has ever held d
position of any kind in this part of the
country. although he was strongly in
dOrsed for the judgeship that recently
fell to Judge KELLY. l knew that if L
delayed appointing a successor to Mr..
CLARK | would be overwhelmed with
applications, and consequently | acted
at once and thus saved myself consider
able annoyance.
Regarding the abrogation of the plan
looking to the bOulevarding of Como
avenue by the council, | can say that
the sole reason for that was because of
the expenditure that would be neceS-
sary for the additional widening of this
avenue. 1t is now 120 feet in width,
and the idea was TO make it 200 10y buy
ing up lots along the line of extension
proposed. Investigation, however,
showed that the lots were, in many
cases, too narrow and ill-adapted in
shape for the proposed widening; and,
besides, the owners wanted large sums
of money before parting with their real
estate. There did not seem to be any
necessity for mourning this unnecessary
expense. and especially as Como ave
nue. was already wide enough for all
practical purposes.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
Hon. p. III. Kelly.

P.H.KEILY-Oneg good result has been
accomplished by my recent illness, and
that is the disappearance of a trouble
some cough that had caused me a great
deal of uneaSinesS and annoyance. /
am glad to be back in st. Paul again,
and my physician did not interdict bust
ness, so am at my desk as usual, con-
Siderably better for my recent expert
ence at New York. By the way, that
reminds me that l had singular ex-
perience with nurse, who came highly
recommended by my doctor, to take care
of and sit up with me one night. Among
other duties that he had to perform, was
to give me teaSpoOnful of brandy in
my milk every few hours. The night in
question l was tossing about in bed,
trying to find cool spot, when noticed
that my nurse was paying cOnSid-
cradle attention to the brandy bottle.
Finally he sat down by my bedside and
RECALLED me with some choice Sick-rOOm
anecdotes, in which funerals were con-
SpicuOuS. l recall one that he told me
of all old woman who dreamed that she
was about to be buried, and OH the way
to the cemetery the procession had to
pass down path lined with white haw-
thorn. When the pall-bearers lifted
the coffin some of the thOrnS scratched
the lid and she awOke. Subsequently
she died, land, sure enough, it was neceS-
Sary to carry her coffin down a lane
similar to the one of which she had
dreamed. Her husband, however, eau
toned the body-bearers to lift it clear of
the hawthorn, and there were no dis
agreeable consequences. This will give
an idea of the class of stories told me by
my cheerful but partly inebriated nurse,
who only had one sitting with me.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
BLAINE HI,

We tender our fluctuations to Grandpa
BLAINE upon the event which entities
him to the dignity of grandsire, and we
congratulate him upon the hope thus
revived that BLAINE may some day
occupy the White house.
For, as far as Grandpa BLAINE him.
self is concerned, sad experience has
demonstrated that. in the language of
the populace, his goose Is cooked. And
hope fails tOrevive. too. in Papa BLAINE.
who well carries out the theory that by
some inScrutable decree of nature it
must fall to the lot of brilliant fathers
to possess commonplace sons. COntem-
pOraneOus history conveys the fact
that BLAINE Jr. is not overburdened
with brains, but if the allowance given
him by his distinguished father contin-
uas ample enough, possesses intelIi-
genee enough to exist.
Thus, then. the family hope must be
centered in the third edition, BLAINE
the Third. who is reasonably entitled to
the aspiration, the inalienable right OF
every American-bOrn male, of some day
becoming president; and in whom there
is no reason for SuppOSing that the
equally infallible law of nature, TO the
effect that a grandson inherits the quail
tiles of the grandsire, will not be carried
out. And then, too, it would naturally
take three generations to reconcile the
American people, as a whole, to the ide;
of seeing BLAINE in the presidential
chair.
Therefore we would advise the Maine
statesman to pluck up hope once more
and by an adroit manipulation of thu
wires, in whose use he is so well skilled
to prepare the ground for his grandson:
political standing and advancement
He may not be here to see the possible
results of his labOrS in the yOungster'
behalf. but he will have the happy con
seriousness of having as effectually mad,
use of his energy as though he had ap
piled it in his own behalf.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
HIGH III ATS.

\ far correspondent who says she
Was delighted with the GLOBES vindi-
cation of JOBS wife in tEt .;St Sunday
issue wants to know if we can't say a
word in defense of the women who pre-
fer TO wear high hats. She thinks that
the high hat wearers are badly perse-
cuted class. and it is time somebody was
sd wing Il good word for them. The
GLOBE agrees with its correspondent
that the high hat has been subjected to
Il great deal of cruel and in many III
stances unnecessary criticism. 1t has
its faults, to be sure, ami there are
times when we think that cutting down
of the high hat would be a !"SSing
to humanity. 1t has been e ue of
an immense amount of prof nifty lii the
world. Men have been known to swear
al a high hat who were never known to
USE prOfane language in connection
with any other subject. The high hat
has all aggravating way of bobbing up
in the church and at the theattr well
calculated to raise the old Adam in the
average individual who is so unlucky to
he seated in the rear. But for all that.
the GLOBE Is ready TO admit tina: the
high hat has its redeeming qualities. 1t
adds stature to the woman who wears
1t, and if there is anything in
tue world a woman likes it
is 10 look tall. The short woman is
always enviOuS of her taller sister. just
as the short man tries to tip-toe up to
his tall brother. The high hat is useful
IN this respect, and the GLOBE sees no
reason why women should not be as
much privileged TO wear high hats as
the men are to wear silk tiles. We have
Il suggestion to make, however, in the
nature of compromise, which we hope
our fair correspondent and the class she
represents will consider. 1t is that the
wearing of high hats be confined to the
street, and that it be abandoned when
the church or theater is entered. An
arrangement of this kind will leave no
room for criticism.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
THE FAITH HEALERS.

Like all other preceding craZes Chris
tian science is now having it big run,
The different SectS of faith healers,
mind curers, Gods doctors, and all the
various methods for playing on the SUI
perstitious are now organized under the
general head of Christian science, and
an exceeding thrifty business this new
tangled fountain of health is doing.
The business is principally carried on
10y women, although the men look after
the financial department. One man in
New York is said to derive an income of
10000 year from his Christian science
institute, and Brooklyn woman who
Is eminent for her skill in making faith
pills pockets $4,000 annually. Looking
at it in purely materialistic light, the
SO-called Christian science is the most
profitable business in the world. 1t re-
quireS no capital, and the dividends are
enormous.
The New York doctors are now seek
ing TO shut down on the faith healers
through the instrumentality of laws pro-
hibiting these people from practicing
medicine and endangering the lives OF
people. A petition has been prepared
by the New York Medical society and is
to be presented to the state legislature,
asking for the appointment of a con-
mission composed of doctors and law
yers to whom this matter shall be re-
ferred. The large number of deaths
which have recently occurred of patients
who had submitted to the treatment of
the faith healerS has awakened a uni
versal desire throughout the country to
have some legislation protecting weak
minded people from the fanatical faith
curerS.
Perhaps the greatest merit of the faith
cure treatment is that no medicine is
given. The world is being doctored to
death. Considering the amount of
strong drugs that is dumped into the
stomach of the human family every
year, it is a wonder that anybody is liv-
ing. A majority of the aches and pains
that the human race carries through
life is from the effect of strong medi-
cines that have been taken at some pc
Rod in life. 1t is possibly realization
of this fact that drives SO many people
10 the faith cure treatment. 1t GER
tainly cannot be sustained Oh any other
rational basis. The element of religious
faith does not, nor can it by
any possibility, enter into it.
In the first place faith is
not a thing of monetary value. That
was demonstrated away back in the
early days of the church, when an old
Christian scientist stopped the apostles
in the streets of town where they
were preaching and offered them money
in exchange for the divine power OF
performing miracles. The stern rebuke
of ''thy money perish with thee'' was
sufficient evidence that the apostles did
not consider faith as an article of com
mercc. In the next place, the faith
power is not the result of human edu-
cation, as these modern Christian scien-
fists make it out. They have estab.
lished Christian science colleges. where
pupils are charged so much term and
are sraduate;. i'm the science of faith
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
Hon. John f.. Measher.

j. f. MEAGHER, of Mankato-I heard
a good story from Judge SEVERANCE
the other day, which occurred while he
was holding court near Lake Chetak.,
A character of that region is banned
Tom IRELAND, and one evening he was
sitting talking with the Judge about an
incident Of the Indian massacre of lSG2,;
when thirteen bodies of unfortunate
whites were buried i'm one grave. The
circumstances were repeated, and IRE
LAND undertook to name the victims of
the massacre, but could only muster a
dozen instead of thirteen. Judge.
SEVERANCE knew that there were thir-
teen buried, and the pair undertook to
recall the name of the missing one, but
unsuccesSfully. Next day the judge was
walking down the street when familiar
voice Saluted him and he saw his COM
panion of the previous night. Il have
been thinking about that thirteenth vic
tim, Judge" said IRELAND, land this
morning | remembered that it was my
wife,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
Cured of Her Infatuation.

At the close of the performance of
Frank A. RObbins's winter circus. in
the American Institute building, n. Y.
recently, the proprietor was summoned
to one of the private boxes, where he
found two well-dresSed women, the
younger of whom was weeping and re-
fused to leave the house. The two were
mother and daughter. Mr.. Robbins as
certained that the young woman was
''circdS struck" and was weeping be-
cause she could not become a circus
rider. In order to cure her of her in
fatuation Mr.. Robbins had one of his
ring horses brought out and proceeded
to give the aaSpirant lesson in riding
bareback. The horse was purpOsely
made to rear and curvet so alarmingly
that the young woman prOfessed her
self afraid to mount, and finally went
home cured of her infatuatiOn. The
young woman's name is withheld, but
she is said to be we'll known in New
York society
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15

of next week, and in nearly every case
they have announced their intention OF
remaining through the entire festival.
find upon inquiry that the other hotels
are also besieged with applications for
that we will have very busy season
from the 10th of January until about the
10th of February, and our houses will be
full during that period. Of course, if
we can find parties willing to double up,
cots will be placed in many of the rooms,
but do not think as far as the Ryan is
concerned that we will encrOach upon
our space in the rOtunda OF reading
room. but will retain those apartments
for people who will have TO sit up all
night
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15

THREE LITTLE Fights ARE We.
month. He is the most incorrigible old
land mark in the matrimonial market
place, and the whole town will be glad
to see him hooked. Detectives will
watch the ocean piers to see that he does
not escape, as he did before.
There are many choice old and young
bachelors of New York who are sly. too
sly to pay attention To- any one lady in
marked degree. These snags in the
channels of matrimOny may be removed
this year. They have braved many leap
years, but never before was organization
carried to such perfection.
For 1888 the city has been divided up
by the cheated maidens. Even old
StagerS, whose names appear in the
management of the charity ball. have
been marked for matrimOny. Public
sentiment will run so high in favor Of
the Leap Year association that to dare
it will be worse than social Ostracism.
The buds of two leap years ago are now
the blooming flowers of society. but
they do not intend to be the last rose of
summer, any one of them.
AT preliminary meeting of the Bach
elOrs' Defensive-union, held in the Co
lumbia billiard rooms last week. the
proposed constitution was submitted,
and it was
Resolved, That we protect ourselves in
our stand for Keeping our joys undivided
and our SORROWS undoubled.
Resolved. That We will live and die single
unless we get married while in delrium
Resolved, That we travel in pairs and
never allow one of our number to be in
weighed into a corner by a marriageable
maiden
Resolved, That we appeal to the police to
guard against our being kidnapped.
Resolved. That while we will cheerfully
die for all good women we cannot renOunce
our principles. We draw the line at the
altar.
Leap-year marriages have been as
happy as those of any other year. No
couple married in leap year is, however,
willing to acknowledge that the lady
asked the necessary question. Years
pass, but the couple never get hardened
to the confeSSing point. Yet, at least
one Gotham belle secured her husband
with very little help from him. He
was of the bashful order and yearned
for her, but he never could pluck up the
needed courage. He ScOrned to muster
courage from the neck of the bottle, and
he feared that he should never tell her
his love.
Four years ago to-day it was done.
Half in jest and as much i'll earnest the
lady led the timid sutton into the deli
cate by-paths of matrimonial cOnversa-
ton and intimated that somebody with
tall form and blue eyes and brown
mustache and a hopeless expression
was her ideal. She painted him so we'll
that he proposed before he could relapse
into his normal state of mOdesty. and
they were married on the Goth day of
February. He is now a leader of the
Young Democracy and she is one of the
young married bellies who sometimes
preside over the recherche dancing par
ties of the season.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
A Little Game of the Druggists.

Cincinnati Times-Star.
Hello, Exchange, give me 1906 said
an anxious father in West End drug
store late one evening last week.
Hello, is that you, doctOr?'
My little girl is awful sick and we
want you at once"
Cant Gomez"
"What shall | do? Give her what?"
Aqua what?"
aqua calciS?'
"Four ounces?"
''All right. GoOd-by."
Then turning to the druggist Put
me up four ounces of aqua calcis, what
ever that is"
A few minutes later the druggist
handed him rour-ounce bottle full and
the anxious parent asked:
''HOw much?"
"FOrty cents" was the answer. The
money was paid and the customer hur-
ried away to his sick child.
Do you know what aqua calcis is?
1t is lime water, Simply-that and
nothing more.
With cents worth of lime you can
make enough lime water aqua calcis) to
supply whole city full of sick children
For 40 cents worth of lime you can
make enough aqua calcis to whiteWash
all of Cincinnati.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
Won't Fit Four Feet.

Bralnerd News.
"Bill'' Merriam is putting in his best
work for gubernatorial honors for the
next year. His management of the state
fair last year has made him a great ia
vOrlte with the farmers, and the non
chalant grace with which he presides
over the State Agricultural society is
capturing the agriculturists i'm spite of
themselves. Still he may find it harder
task to create void in Gov. McGilrs
shoes than he thinks for. The gov
ernor's brogans will fit almost any one,
but there is one thing they will not do.
and that is accommodate four feet at
the same time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
Corporation Attorney Murray.

Hon. W. P. MURRAY-Thus far only
thirty-one applications for license under
the new law have been filed at the city
hall, and these are from salOOnkeepers
in the principal portion of the business
district. One great difficulty encOun-
tered by the applicants seems to be in
the matter of bondsmen. each applica-
ton requiring $1,000 bond as a guar
antee. Then. too, man can only sign
one bond, and take Mr.. UANM. for in
stance. Say that he signed one bond
for $4,000; that is as far as he can go
under the new law, no matter how much
his interests may be affected.
Last year there were about TAG licenses
issued, but after the 1st of February,
that being the date of the extension by
council for payment of licenses, we do
not expect that more than $50 saloon
keepers will make application for a re-
newal of license on a $1,000 basis. Many
of those now in business have an
nounced their intention of keeping open
under the old law until the limit ex-
pires, and they will then close up for
good,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
Once in a Dogs Age.

Boston transcript.
A small girl out at Dorchester, Mass,
was banteringly asked by her father
the other day:
''Well, my dear. how does mamma
treat you nowadays? HON often does
she scold you?'
''Oh, about once in dogs age,
papa"
''HOw long a time is dogs age?''
''Well, you see it is different times.
Sometimes it is ten years, sometimes it
is five years, sometimes 1t is two years,
sometimes one year, sometimes less :;
some dogs, you know, die very young!"
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o, GRAVE.

o, grave, yawn no more in the sulphurous
midnight ray.
Eomit no more that spectral shade, chill and
gray
Supplemented and musted with clinging
clay.
Hush! Lie in silence, poor ghost of my yes
terday.
Slumber unseen, gaunt skeleton mystery,
Alone and unknown; for what boots such
history
AS thine. poor victim of premature over
a throw
Silently sleep where buried you long ago,
Meath withered verdure; and over your
breast shall grow
More flowers than weeds, tho perchance
only one shall know
Martha Eileen Holahan.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
Will Go Democratic.

Bralneru JOURNAL.
The Republicans of Minnesota will
have hard road to travel next year if
they are compelled to go into the cam
paign on Blaine platform, while the
Pioneer Press, Congressman Nelson, w.
ID. Washburn, and many other leading
Republicans, and the labor element of
the state are standing squarely on the
principles embodied in President Cleve-
lands message. 1t does really begin to
look as if the state would so Democratic
newt fall
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
SENSIBLE WORKMEN.

The workingmen of Boston have few
superiOrs as class in the country SO far
as practical intelligence and good hard
sense is concerned. They are accus-
toned to think and decide for them
selves, and he must indeed be an adept
at sophistry who is able to pull the wool
over their eyes.
Being thus constituted, it was to be ex-
pected that the Boston wOrkmen would
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15

readily see through the selfish schemes
of so-called labor reformerS and actual
anarchists. That they have done so is
cVinced by resolution recently passed
by the Boston Labor union to the effect
that no socialists or agitatOrs need apply
for admission to the order. They
recognize clearly that the honest work
ingman has nothing in common with
the blatant professional "workingman"
who makes his living by stirring up
strife and preying upon his more in
duStriouS fellows, and they recognize
the difference in the most practical
manner possible.
1t would be well, indeed, if every
labor organization in the land would
follow the excellent example which
comes to them from Boston, for until
the w0rkingmen themselves stamp him
out the socialist, who hates nothing so
much as work, unless ii be soap and
water, will continue to flourish in the
land which mistakenly offers him an
ASYLUM.
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cure just as they would be graduated in
law or dentistry. They come out of these
colleges with c. s. tackled to their
names, which being interpreted means
Christian scientist What sacrilege in
the thought that God would delegate
mOneV-making scheme.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15

failed. The Italian priest is just as
averse from receiving addresses from
Liberal Catholics as from the Tory
Catholics, on the ground that his mis-
sion was specially confined to a study of
the position and to the reception of
Catholic opinion on all sides in Ireland.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15

with the slow action of the masculine
mind, but now the feminine finer feel
ingS can jump to the right conclusion.
The new rules Of the Ladies' Leap Year
association to be passed at the regular
meeting tonight expressly state that
'All lOng-standing cOurtships dating for
three years or more must be finished in
January or the man in the case will be
black-liSted."
There is one peculiar case in Brook
Ign. Toward the close of 1884, when
the Ladies Leap Year association was
about to be adjourned for three years
and day, there was peculiarly aggra-
waiting case of long cOnrtShip in Adelphi
street. The sutton had been paying at
tcntiOnS for seven years. with the eX-
ceptlOn of the previous leap year, when
he made an ocean voyage on steam
snip for men only. 1t looked as if he
was afraid some lady would use her pre-
rOgative. On Jan. /. 1881. he called
newed his VOWS. When 1884 came he
was about slipping away again, but
postponed it from day TO day, till the
last month of that year rolled away.
The Ladies' Leap-Year Protective
association then passed resolution
that the young lady must either bring
the young man to terms or forfeit her
right to protection. She did neither,
but was fined SO as compromise, and
the young man paid the fine.
Leap year is here again, and that
couple is still two. For eleven years
they have exchanged vows, until they
are threadbare. Maggie Mitchell and
Mrs. Langtry have bought property with
the money he has spent on theaters. and
she has made twelve pairs of Christmas
slippers for him. She has seen the num-
bers of his slippers increase from seven
to eleven, his size week ago. He has
kissed her alabaster brow under waves,
bangs and pompadOurs. He has bound.
ed her jersey many time. He has seen
Ulster go to Newmarket.
Such long-drawn-Out faithfulness but
hydrOphObia-dread of marriage has sick
ened the Leap-Year club. The lady in
question is president this year, by Tea-
son of her experience and her number
of leap-years-eight or so. The nom
proposing man in the case has told her
over and over again that he cannot af-
ford to get married. Yet candy store
has been started in the neigh
borhoOd Oh his trade alone. The club
will bring this man to terms this