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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
SnOWbirds on Toast.

Chicago Tribune.
Hunting snowbirds Oh South State
street and the avenues is more profita-
BILE employment than hunting ducks in
the Indiana marshes. But few persons
are familiar with this fact, but it is true
nevertheless. The palate of the epicure
must be tickled in some way; ducks
and reedbirdS are too common, but the
snOwbird, it would appear, fills the
long-felt want. There are millions of
them on the South side, and they are
being shot and trapped at every Oppor-
tunity. The small boy does consider
able towards supplying the wants of
prOprietOrS of restaurants, but the bust
ness has so suddenly developed that
grown men have turned snowbird
hunters, and with reasonably good luck
can make from $3.50 to $3.50 per day.
The birds are wholesaled at 50 cents per
dozen, and four of them go to make a
meal, which costs the purchaser 80
cents. The restaurant man. it will be
seen, has profit of 81 on an invest
ment of so cents. So it is apparent that
there is money in the business for
every one directly interested.
In restaurant window on State
street the sign, ''Snowbirds on Toast, ="
was seen yesterday. The proprietor
was asked if there was much of de-
mand for such game. He said there
was at present, as there always is at
this season of the year. The birds are
plump as can be, juicy and wholesome.
but wOrkingman could eat hundred
of them at a meal without having his
appetite appeased.
The birds feed on the grain that falls
from cars and vehicles. The hunters
are in the immediate vicinity, and either
kill the birds with guns or trap them.
They go in flocks of hundreds, and a
shot fired into their ranks brings down
at least dozen. The hunter has bag
at his side, and into it are tumbled the
victims. The supply is enormous, and
as long as the demand is kept up so long
will the South side hunters continue to
make good living. There are not half
a dozen in the field at present, but when
the snow comes down for keeps the
ranks will be considerably augmented.
That man can make a good days
wages at the business is evident.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
THE CITY PRINTING.

BY unanimous vote the city council
last evening again named the GLOBE as
the official paper of the city, and the
public printing 10 be done at the same
rates for the ensuing year that pre-
vailed during the last. The GLOBE
cannot be indifferent to the compliment
implied in this action of our city gov
eminent, and we hasten to make CRATE
full ackn Owledgment for this renewed
expression of its confidence. The
GLOBE has always had the city'S inter-
ests at heart and has diligently labored,
in season and out of season, to promote
whatever pertained to the welfare of ST.
Paul. The action of the city
government last evening, by re-
asserting in such complimentary
manner its confidence in our fidelity
to the best interests of the city, will
only stimulate us to renewed eXertiOn
In this direction. If possible, we shall
in the future be more Jealous and more
loyal to the city which is so apprec1ative
of our laborS than we have been in the
past.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
HOW 1T is.

A correspondent of the Chicago Trib-
une, writing from MarShalltown, To-,
gives very good illustration of how
protection benefits the manufacturer
without benefiting his employees. In
1870 the iron manufacturers of MARSHALL
town had a capital of S121, 00O, 900 and
manufactured net product Of S62, O00,-
600 according to the figures of the
United States census report. They en-
ployed 1900 men at an average annual
wage of S526. In 1880, after ten years of
tariff protection, these same iron indus
tries had a capital of s230,00O,OOO and
manufactured net product of $685.
OOo,oo0. They employed 10000 hands
at an average yearly wage of
$3.50. The result is seen at
glance. The effect of
protective tariff in this instance was to
increase the capital of the Marshalltown
iron manufacturers so per cent in ten
years and the net product over 70 per
cent. And yet with all that prosperity
to the manufacturers the wages of the
employees were decreased 25 per cent.
1t is not surprising that the owners
of capital invested in manufacturing es-
Establishments should advocate the con-
tinuance of the protective tariff policy,
but for the life of US we can't see why
worllingmen should be deluded into the
belief that protection is intended as a
benefit to them. The history of the Mar
shalltOwn iron industry is repeated in
every other manufacturing establish
ment in the country. The manufacture
ers grow rich at the expense of the la
borers and the buyers. What we want
is revision of the tariff which will give
the workingman and the purchaser a
fair share of this legalized Doodle.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
THE MOsQUE OF OMAR.
The Splendid Edifice That Now
AdOrns the Site of SOlomon's
Temple.

The Splendid Edifice That Now
Adorns the Site of SOlomon's
Temple.
The Mosque of Omar is beautiful. Its
walls are adorned with marbles of deli
cate colOrs and the dome is rooted with
tiles of brilliant blue and some blue
and yellow. The effect from the Mount
of Olives is of turquoise dome roofing
walls Of pearl. 1t stands high: white
payements and tall expresses around;
steps lead down to other courts, once
the Court of Gentiles, the Court of the
Great BraZen LAYER, etc, and olives and
grass OF emerald green and abundant
wild flowers cover the nakednesS where
SOlOmOn'S offerings had enriched the
entrance ground between the golden
gate and eastern walls of the temple it
self.
Inside the mosque is exquisite. A
circle of marble pillars inclOse the YER
liable rough rock OF Mount Moriah, and
support the inner part of the dome,
which is rich in mosaic, worthy to be
compared with that in Santa Maria Mag
glOre i'll Rome. Portals and partitions,
inlaid with tortoise shell, mOther-Of
pearl and ivory, divide the little side
chapelS from the central passageway
between them and the sacred rock, the
scene of Abraham's awful obedience
and of the sacrifices which interpreted
to men, and made them partakers of the
one great sacrifice of the Son of God.
We saw the opening cut in the rock for
the escape of the sacrificed blood. and,
descending into the excavation below,
we found a similar opening communi-
eating with a duct which discharged
into ceSSpool by the Brook KedrOn.
We crossed the outer southern
court, and, passing the fountain
supplied by the same water as
its grander predecessor Oh the backs of
braZen oxen. we descended beneath the
present mosque. Ell AkSar, close to the
Mosque of Omar, into the same gallery
which led to the old temple from the
| south, and up which our Lord walked
| again and again when he was here. 1t
| is now half filled with rubbish and
| earth, but the ceiling is still so high
| above that we needed to be reminded
that the ground level is far down under
the rubble. The pillars, in single solid
| blocks, the round keystone in the roof,
| and the lintclS of long single stones, are
| witnesses of the glory which has de-
| parted. Leaving this gallery we climbed
| the city walls by the golden gate, and
walking south at the angle of the walls,
we descended underground into the
stables of Solomon. That they may
| have been utilized by him, and certainly
| were by the crusaders, the halter rings
declare; but 1t seems that the original
intention was to raise the level of the
valley, and the thick forests of pillars
are chiefly for support.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
MARK OF PROSPERITY.

Nothing more forcibly marks the
prosperity which this country, as a
whole, has enjoyed in the past year
than the amount of railway building
that has been done. Nearly $4,000 miles
Of track has been laid and the work still
goes bravely on. And it should be
marked that the most of this building,
exceeding as it does any year in the
cOuntry'S history and involving the eX-
penditure of S325, 0OO, 900, has been done
IN the West, and a large portion of it in
the Northwest in the region Immediately
tributary TO st. Paul and Minneapolis.
That this phenomenal railroad build
Ing has been the cause. through its de-
velopment of an enormous extent of
"new' country, of the superior prosper
lty which the West has enjoyed over
the rest of the country, of course goes
without saying. The railroad is the piO-
neer of settlement. 1t creates new
demands by virtually creating pOpula-
lion, in that it places population where
it did not before exist; and more than
that, our friends in the Overcrowded
East would do well to observe that it
creates opportunities. In every Sc ction
of country newly opened towns spring
up with magic growth and business
chances offer on every side.
To the Eastern merchant with small
capital, who in the fierceness of COMPETE
ton finds it difficult indeed to make
both ends meet, the new country espe-
cially commends itself to consideration.
He is sure with the exercise of ordinar-
lily good judgment to do as well i'm any
of the rapidly growing towns to which
the railroads have given birth as he is
doing in the East, and there is every pos
sibility that he will do far better.
These opportunities only come with
the growth of the Western towns and
cities, consequent upon railroad devel-
ments, and the avidity with which they
are being taken advantage of is as good
an assurance as could be wished of the
West and NOrthwest's continued pros
perity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
BUSINESS MEMS REUNION.

On next tuesday evening the cham
Der of commerce proposes to celebrate
its twenty-irst anniversary by BAN
quet and reunion at the hotel Ryan. 1t
is appropriate that this organization,
composed, as it is, of the representative
business men of the city, should thus
celebrate the day on which it reaches
its majority. Just twenty-one years
ago from next Tuesday the first meet
ing to organize the chamber of COM
merce" was held in Ingersolrs hall
and articles of incorporation were drawn
up and presented by Capt. RUSSELL
BLAKELEY. By singular coincidence
the father of this association
is now its president, and will
preside at the ceremonies in celebration
of its twenty-first birthday. 1t is I'M
necessary TO recapitulate the services
that this organization has rendered the
city. They are known of all our citi-
Zens. and all honor is cheerfully paid to
the fathers who stood by the cradle of
the organization, who nurSed it in its
infancy, who have watched over it
through all the vicissitudes of its
minority, and have brought it up to its
present high standard OF public useful
ness. But twenty-One years make a
long span in human life. Some of those
who were present at the birth of the Or
ganiZatiOn have fallen by the wayside :;
others remain with us, crowned with
the hOnOrS which are the reward of
useful lives.
A new generation has grown up
since the chamber of commerce came
into existence. There has been a
bountiful infusion of young blood
into the association. The majority
of the organization are the men
of this day, the men who are giving
the impetus to the growth of the city.
They utilize the chamber of commerce
as the focus for the concentration of
their individual wisdom and energy.
. Now that the chamber of commerce
has reached the full stature of man
hood, and is young giant in its
strength, it is exceedingly appropriate
that this anniversary celebration should
occur. The organization is no longer
homeless. 1t resides in its own house
of magnificent architecture and elegant
furnishings. 1t has passed the proba-
tionary period, and is no longer an ex-
pertinent. In addition to being the law
giver for the city and the molder of
public opinion, the chamber of COM
merce is now the general directory to
which all go for information.
The next meeting of the directors will
be held in the chamber next Monday
morning at O'Clock, and a general in
vitation has been extended to members
and the citizens generally to visit the
chamber at that time and see the i'm
prOvements that have recently been
made in the way of decorating and
furnishing the building.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
How 1t Is Done.

A Minnesota pillow manufacturer, in a
letter to the New York Evening Post,
shows how the Eastern Steel trust, pro-
tected by the high tariff, robs Western
farmers on pillow. He says:
The modern pillow is mostly steel. The
cost of the material in it other than
steel is about so cents. We get our
beams, moulds and lays cut to shape at
the mills. You see that the change in
price of steel makes large difference
in either the profit account of the manu-
facturer or in the cost to the farmer
Until last year and for some years prior,
we had been getting our steel at AZ
cents pound. There was nothing to
Indicate that the mills were not doing a
prosperous business at that rate. Their
statesmen were actively soliciting orders,
their trade was good, and | read Oc-
casiOnal accounts Of increase in their
facilities for supplying the demand
Last year the Steel trust was formed,
and the price advanced rapidly, until
now the steel we bought last year at AZ
cents a pound costs us 1O15 cents a
pound, an advance of 125 per cent.
This is not due to any increase in the
price of Iron or wages, but solely to the
rapacity of the trust, and the trust is
made possible by the tariff.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
Red-Headed Girls.
Ashland (Wis.) News.

aSuiaiu wis., NeWS.
A joke in proper time and at proper
place is very well. Rut deliberate lie
is no joke, and there is nothing witty
about statement which is remarkable
only for its conflict with common sense
Why faSten to the red-headed girl,
who already has too much burden of
odium, the ill-founded prejudice against
white horse! 1t were just as reason
able to say that whenever you see red
cow you will observe white-haired
girl, or that if you hear frog croak you
will hear a Patti MARBLE.
Let us give the red-headed girl fair
chance. Underneath her incandescent
locks there may be Hebe face and a
Venus form, not to mention an intelli-
gence to cOnfound ana a temper to APP
pail the wiSest editor who ever flip
PANTY referred to white horse and a
bright-haired lass as street relations.
Anyway bright red hair is honest. 1t
doesn't reflect the wig of flax nor smell
OF the hot curling iron. The only thing
about it to remind one of white horse
is genuineneSS. There are no dyes upon
the white horse and nothing more than
freckles upon the red-headed girl. Let
neither be disparaged to make FOOLS
holiday.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
Addressed the Pilgrims.

ROME. Jan. 3.-The pope addressed
the pilgrims to-day in the presence of
the whole court. After expressing joy
at the evidence of the cohesion of Cath
olics, the pope said: You have not
given faith to those, who, with the voice
of calumny, try to persuade you that
the pope is the enemy of Italy. The
popes have always been the greatest
friends and benefactorS of Italy. You,
like ourselves, are convinced that the
church, by her holy mission. ought to
be independent of whatsoever terrestrial
authority. [Cries of Yes, yes.''l That
the church is a divine institution, and
that to try to reduce its interests to a
question of the laws of Italy can only be
the result of most deplorable blindness"
The address was greeted with enthuSi-
astic applause which continued several
minutes. AT the conclusion all present
filed past the pope and received his
htaccipc
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
ANOTHER COMPLIMENT.

Without solicitation on our part, and
even without the knowledge that such
thing was contemplated, the board of
county commissioners of Ramsey county
ordered that for the ensuing year all
delinquent lists should be published in
the GLOBE. We are grateful to the
commissioners for this unsought recog-
milton OF the GLOBES Importance and
influence. This compliment. coming, as
it does, in connection with the action of
the city council last evening, naturally
inspires us with the utmost good will
for our public officials, who. as the rep
reSentatives of the people, thus for
mally declare the GLOBE to be the lead
ing and most influential newspaper
published in the capital city of the state
and the metropolis of the Northwest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
COMMON ERROR CORRECTED.
The Rattlesnake Not SO Wicked
as He Is SupnOSed to Re.


as He Is Supposed to Be.
AS to the cuSsedneSs of the rattlesnake
would like to correct very common
error writes Tyrone, Penn, man to
the Philadelphia Press. These other
wise dangerous reptiles always give
warning, and never bite unless roughly
trod upon or incautiously caught with
the hand. On cold, rainy or damp
day, when partially torpid, they give no
alarm and will not bite under any cir
cumstances. A man may take them up
and fold them around his neck without
harm. The same may be done at other
times, but the performer must be ex-
tremely cautious.
He may touch any part of the snake's
body except the tail or rattles. The
RATHER has well-knOWn. but unwritten
law: Thou shalt not suffer any man
to touch thy tail or rattles on pain of
death to the offender" Observing this
law an expert may handle one of these
reptile monsters almost any time with
absolute impunity. 1t is needless to
say. however, that do not recommend
Sueh performance as an everyday ex.
ercise. Even an unloaded gun will
sometimes go off unexpectedly.
There is a popular belief that rattlers
jump at their victims. This is vile
SANDER upon the good character of the
noble snake. They do no such thing.
People may say what they please
against the copperhead. That enemy
of mankind emb0dies the meaneSt kind
of treachery, but the RATHER would be a
noble bird if it had wings.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
THE SLEEPING CAR ORDER.

1t seems that the various sleeping car
companies doing business in Minnesota
intend to coolly disregard the order of
the state railway commissioners regard
ing the closing of upper berths in Sleep
ing cars. They allege as their reason
that, not being common carriers, they do
not come under the jurisdiction of the
commission, and declare that the order
is unreasonable inasmuch as, if they are
compelled to close the upper berths,
passengers who have been in the habit
of buying whole section will content
themselves with the purchase of a lower
berth; since thereby, if the upper is not
sold, they will secure the advantages of
a section. Of course they will.
That is precisely the consummation
which the commission seeks to bring
about, and the rejoinder of the
companies is singularly imprudent.
The men who buy a whole sec
ton and occupy only the lower
berth do SO simply to obtain little of
the comfort that the company ought to
provide without the exaction of double
price. There is no objection on the
part of travellers to the lowering of the
upper berth when it is needed, but they
do object and have perfect right to
object to the attempt made by the COM
pany to compel them to purchase an
extra bed for which they have no use.
1t is virtually highway robbery, only
equaled by the calm audacity with
which the sleeping car companies force
the travellers to pay the porters' wages.
AS to the right of the commission to
take cogniZance OF the matter, it is I'M
likely that commission composed of
such intelligent men as have been ap-
pointed to the Minnesota board would
take definite action without being sure
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
COME OFF, EHATTON.

Mr.. FRANK HATTON, who is well
known throughout the West, is engaged
in publishing and editing very reada-
bic daily paper in New York, a paper
which is none the less interesting be-
cause it is intensely Republican to the
extreme of stalwartism. But, much as
we admire even an enemy who has the
courage of his convictions and exhibits
fearleSSneSS in expressing them, we can
not do otherwise than condemn par
tisanship which runs away with COM
mon sense. And Editor HATToN has
been displaying partisanship of that
kind and of the most virulent nature III
his comments upon the nomination of
ex-Secretary LAMAR to the supreme
bench. In the misdiIected ardor
of his opposition Editor HAT
TON harps with increasing fury
upon the dead issues of the late war, in
whose stirring scenes Mr.. LAMAR en-
gagged with reluctance, and whose close
none viewed with greater satisfaction
than he.
Not content with trying to galvanize
the cOrpseS of these buried issues. dead
so long ago, into new life, Editor HAT
TON laShes himself into a very frenzy
of wrath, and declares that i'm LAMAR's
confirmation the South will regain by
legislation and decisions from the bench
of the cOuntry's highest court all which
she failed to maintain and lost when she
took up the sword. All this balder-
dash is of course the veriest nonsense.
But it tickles certrin number of the
stalwarts who are now in the dotage of
their Republlcanism, and accordingly
Editor HATToN gives utterance to it.
The South seeks to regain nothing.
She has cheerfully accepted the result
of the war, and is now engaged with
every energy in the development of her
material resources. She is too busy in
attempting to overtake her prosperous
sister, the West, to talk politics, even if
she had the inclination; and she is peo-
pied by those to most of whom the war
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
WHY?

Why should the man in the moon have
a carpenter shop? To shed his beams, of
courSe.-Cleyeland Sun.
Why is woman like the autograph of a
great man? Because you can seldom
make her out.-BurlingtOn Free Press.
Why does the Southern lady spank the
pepper box, while her Northern sister
shakes it? Why, to get the pepper out,
of course American Commercial Tray
eller.
Why is jewelers. store always old,
no matter how new it may be? Because
there are marks of time to be seen
there. Judge.
"Why is an imitation stOvepipe hat
like all autumn fashion?" asked the
Judge. Because it is false tile.--Pitts-
burg Chronicle-Telegraph.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
CHINAMEN RELEASED.
The Chinamen in the st. Louis
Murder Case Released.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. Jan. 3.-The Chinese
high-binder cases were nolle prosecuted
to-day, and the four Cinnamon under
conviction of murder were released.
Two others had been released four
months ago on their own recOgnizance.
Chic Coon, Chic Chiago, Chic Peck,
POok Sig, Hook Laigk and You Sing
were found guilty of murder in the first
degree two years ago on the confession
OF Cong Sing, who was seen leav-
ing the room of Lou Johnson.
fellow Chinaman, short time
before he was found standing on
his head in bucket of rice with dozen
gashes in his body. The dead man had
headed police raid Oh the above gam
blers, and the murder was supposed to
be for revenge. Cong Sing was arrested
little later at MurfreesbOro, ILL.,, heav-
lily armed and smeared with blood. He
claimed he did not commit the murder,
but carried the body to the place where
it was found. He accused the above
named Cinnamon of the crime, and
they were convicted OH his testimony
The supreme court granted new trial
On the ground of insufficient evidence.
Cong Sing went crazy, and, despairing
OF another conviction, the prosecution
entered nOlle prOsequi and the men
were released as above.