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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27

woman may obtain the education selfish
man will not give her. The number
of young people who possess handsome
little turnoutS is unusually large in st.
Paul. 1t is the exceptional boy who
does not take as naturally to a horse as
a duck to water, and it is the eXcep-
tiOnal girl who takes after him. ANY
fine day little misses are seen jaunting
about the city in small carts drawn by
ponies, displaying the same lack of
training in handling the ribbons that
their mammas and big sisters do. They
jolt along, either with the reinS falling
loosely and c&relessly over the horses
sides, or sit with arms extended over
the dashboard, saving ON the reins,
Slapping their beasts back with them,
and chirping betrayal of their fear
to use the whip. The most fearless
young horsewOman in town is Miss
Margaret Rugg. She is quite on the
order of Amelie Rivers in her
determined mastery of any animal
she takes in hand. Some time ago she
and Flora Auerbach assumed to train
donkey belonging to the latter. They
persevered heroically until their end
was accomplished, and they tell COM
placently that they wore out dozen
whips in doing it. Little Miss Rugg is
the proud pOSSesSor of an Indian pony.
which she calls Thistle He is frisky
/ fellow and fond of mischief, whether
carrying his young mistress on his back
or in the pretty dog cart before which
she drives him. He has thrown her
several times and upset the cart more
than once. The first time he threw her
he landed the little lady against a tree
and galloped back home, leaving her to
follow afoot. She gathered up her hab-
it. set her teeth, and with fire in her
eyes pursued him to his stable, and
there beat him till her arm was tired
and her whip useless. He remembered
the lesson and has never left her since.
Ii through careleSSneSs now she Oc-
casionally loses her seat, she alights on
her feet and is back in the saddle in a
moment, continuing her ride trife
more enthusiastic for the diversion.
She has taught a great many of
her playmates to ride and drive,
and can check off the good
and bad points of horse
in a way that bewllders the unin-
structed. Master George Rugg shares
Thistle with Margaret, and is the true
brother of his sister in fearlessness of
spirit. While South this winter
| powerful horse ran two miles with him
along the beach, and finally planted
him in the sand uuhurt. When the
young mans terrified elders came upon
him, he would have nothing to say to
them, and spent the next day in bed,
not because he suffered any injuries,
bnt only because he was disguised
with life for having permitted anything
in the shape of horse to get the better
of him.
Ex-Mayor O'Brien's children, Dick
and Sadie, own a cunning pair of
Shetland ponies, named Dame and
Sultan, which they drive before
smart" tWo-seated carriage. The only
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
A New York Tenement.

How the man and wife who rent the
top floor back get along is seldom known
to the occupants of the top floor front
How the old woman who sleeps in the
kitchen manages to exist is likewise un-
known to her neighbors. In fact, the
woman on the second floor may be dying
and the people on the floor above know
nothing of it. A reporter
visited a large tenement house in East
Fifty-ninth street last evening. The
sidewalk swarmed with dirty-faced
children. There was Grape on the door
black and white-at which children
were gazing in solemn wonder as it
tiuttered in the breeze. Somebody in
the house was dead, but none of the
children knew who had died. A
physician attached to a diSpensary
in the neighborhood came to visit
a sick woman on the top floor,
and the reporter went with hims From
one of the front rooms came cries. 1t
was the bereayed wife weeping for her
dead husband. From another room
came sounds of laughter and the music
of an accordion. A lot of young peo-
pie were gathered in the rooms directly
over where the heartbroken wife was
weeping. On the next floor lived the
PHYSICIANS patient: She was very sick,
he said. and should have perfect rest.
AS the doctor and reporter were leav-
ing the sick Woman'S apartment, two
boys entered with pals of coal, which
they had stolen from passing coal carts
on the street.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27

ferred to coming in contact with her.
The cable gives you a line on which to
base your defense. The woman gives
you nOthing-nOt even the hope of dig
nified exit from this sinful world. She
has you bobbing about in such ridicu-
lous fashion that, in the jaws of death,
you blush over the prospect OF sprawl
ing into eternity on all fours. If finally
you are saved it is miracle. She did
not design it, and you could not.
1t is hard to conceive how
not willfully murder a mouse, can de-
liberately turn herself loose on the
travelling community to become a life
destroying element. Being scared to
death and killed are simple distinction
without difference, and when you escape
being run over you are badly enough
frightened 50 that you don't care if
friends do send flowers and begin to
CATALOGUE YOUR VIRTUES.
The one thing that protects the female
"whip'' from the suspicion of diabolism,
is her Inconsistencies. 1t is the IN
consciousness of innocence, and inno-
cence is only ignorance with its Sunday
clothes on. AS with all faults of woman,
when you look squarely at it, men are
to blame for her awkward driving.
They take no pains to teach her better.
The man who will bother to teach his
wife or sister how to drive is as scarce
as the one who will show her how to
play billiards. Then because she zigzags
across the road in the one case, and
plays all over the floor in the
other, he talks learnedly about
inherent inequality of the sexes. Driv-
ing schools as well as riding schools
should be established, where neglected
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
Mitchell breads "Fanchon.v

New York Graphic.
was talking to a member of Maggie
Mitchelfs company the other day, and
he says that the way that little lady
breads performance of ''Fanchon'' is
pitiful. 1t is still the piece she has to
rely on to make her money:
she scarcely expects to more than
keep even while playing other
things, so bent is everybody on wait
ing to see her Fanchon. She has been
before the public in that part twenty
six yearS-she tells it herself-and her
houses are still crowded for that per-
Torrance. Once on the stage. once in
the first scene, she says that for the
time being all distaste vanishes, and
she is simply Fanchon, as she
has been-with intervals for rest
and refreshment all these years.
But before she goes on her loath-
ing of the part really makes her i'll, and
it increases with each successive per
Torrance. In the day all the company
understands that she does not want to
hear it spoken of, or, above all, she
can't be induced to hear the music of
the famous ''Shadow Dance" hummed.
She hates the sight of Autographs or
bills of herself i'll the part.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
THE NEW ARRIVALS TRoussEAU.

are of hand-stitched garments The
fashion is growing into nearly all de-
partments. The shoe for which ladies
pay the highest price now is a hand
stitched one. This skirt costs $40. A
part of the outfit for the same SUPPOSE
titious infant is a flannel skirt of silk
warp. embroidered twelve or fourteen
inches up. 1t is reasonably priced at
81, considering the work expended
on it."
Glow old is this child?"
Gas it wears long dresses it can
hardly be more than six months. You
haven't half the outfit yet. The infant
must have a flannel blanket with en-
broidered border and deliberately en-
br0idered corner pattern. The blanket
some mothers speak of it as shawl
should be about one and quarter
yards square. 1t will cost Sc. The
baby's bonnet should be of silk. Or it
may have an embroidered cap or one of
crochet silk. handwork. The cost is IS.
Shirts, or vests, should be of the best
silk, and the little stranger will need
half dozen, for which his parents Or
some dOting relative will be taxed S14."
''The infant has now cost S117."
''Some slips of fine cambria are the
next requirement.. Or they may be
made of nainsook and trimmed with
embroidery. What are these slips?
Little common dresses. They vary in
cost; about Sl2 for three is the quality
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
The Amount of Money it Costs
. to Dress the Blessed
Z Thing Nicely.
An Outfit Is Valued All the
Way Between $3.50
and 5000.
Fond and Indulgent Mothers
Scorn to Buy the Cheap
est Goods.
A Handsome, Neatly Dressed
Baby the Most Beautiful
Creation in the World.

"a woman who is economical in pur-
chases for herself will buy the most ex-
pensive baby clothes she can find" The
speaker has purchased wardrobes for
infants in London, Paris and New York.
As she spoke she held in her hand a
baby'S dress made of fine nainSoOk.
The tiny garment was pearl white in
color and very long. Every few inches
there were three or four insertions of
lace. and this was continued up to
within three inches of the band. The
waist of the dress was composed almost
entirely of lace. The only additional
trimming was white satin ribbon. The
price is S25. The reporter asked the
saleslady to produce cloak suitable to
be worn over the dress.
Here it is; price, $50. 1t is made of
the finest silk in the market. The en-
broidery on the skirt and cape, you see.
is elaborate. and, what is more interest
ing, is the fact that it is ali handUork
The tint is cream color; the lining is
fine quilted satin. The ribbons with
which it is finished are of the finest
quality"
ga babe with S25 dress and a SO
cloak should have an outfit to cor
respond.'
Tine next article, then, is skirt,
also Of nainsOok, and made to cor
respond with the dress. 1t should be
trimmed freely with lace at 81 yard
There should be lace ruffies and fine
tucks, also handwork."
''Wby 'handwork?'
because it took six times as long to
do it by hand. Everything now is hand
work. | am not venerable, but l can
remember when Edies were as proud
of machine-stitched goods as they now
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
THE BABy,s REGMENTA1.s.

suitable for this infant. Night gowns
of fine cambria, made to button all the
way down the front, can be had for Sc.
Three fine flannel double gowns,
trimmed with colored silks or colored
ribbon, will captivate the eye of the
lady who selects the rich baby's ward
robe. They may be finished in differ
ent colored flannel, which is finely
pinked. The cost of the three is $40.
The outfit also calls for sack to be
worn loosely outside of the dress. There
may be three of these-one of crotched
silk for 81, one of cross-barred zephyr
for 50, and one Of fne-made flannel for
s.. total $40.
1.-The next item is what is called
barrow coat of flannel. It is epby0id-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
Song of the Shirt.

Merchant Traveller. -
"What are you reading, John?" in
quired Mrs. Blankersby of her husband,
as she looked up from her mending and
saw him, book in hand, stretched at full
length upon the sofa.
''It is the song of the shirt"
1.-THE song of the shirt?n
Eyes; you know how the tune goes?"
he said, in an attempt to be witty.
mo, john" she replied, gently; 81
can't say that know how the tune goes,
but | should imagine that the words are
this dad-binged button hole has been
ripped out of this dod-gasted Wristband
for the last three weeks"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27

the keystones of the structure, and it
will be wisely and permanently estab
lished, even if great wealth should not
be the much desired ad unct.
This is country of wonderful posi-
bilitieS for the industrious and ener-
getic, and every day only Increases the
chances for persevering, straightfor
ward man of buSineSS.n
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
eyes," continued the saleslady, +"
PART OF THE OUTFIT.


thought it would be about $500. This is
an imaginary baby, to be sure, but
some people with real ones think moth
ing of spending that sum on an outfit
for newcomer. Let us suppose, now,
that we have Il customer who wants an
other kind of a wardrObe-a case where
strict economy must be observed. A
cream-cOlOred cashmere cloak with en-
broidered cape costs S2.75. a neat dress
of nainSook embroidered is sold for S1.75,
three slips cost st, three skirts IS cents,
three shirts 81, and cunning barrow
coat rs cents. This baby's snug and
comfortable outfit costs grand total of
$3.50"
do you sell many of the cheaper
kind?'
mo; because the demand is for
wardrobe which costs more"
"What are the figures of the average
demand?'
"From S4S to s5S; or, speaking within
bounds, from $50 to $75. The range is a
wide one, from $3.50 to S17O, leaving
out the carriage. When lady comes
i'll and eXpends more than $500 on one
outfit feel as if the amount in excess
of that figure was almost thrown away.
A really charming outfit can be had for
$50. have seen some very expensive
clOaks for babies. One that l recall in
New York was of pearl white, EN-
broidered in pearl white silk. The
work on it represented one woman's
toll for over three months. The price
was Sl75, and, in view of the work on
it, it was cheap. You would be sur
priSed to know what some plainly
dressed mothers cheerfully eXpend
in dressing their latest baby. Proud?
Well, when l see the lines in some of
the motherly faces, don't envy them
the delight they take in making their
cherished ones as attractive as possible.
If there is beautiful creation in this
world it is a handsome, neatly-dressed
babv''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
ABOUT THE PROPER THING.

knitted bands to accompany this outfit
cost $3.50. Then we come to the basket
toilet, with brush, comb, powder and a
variety of baby fiXings. The basket
toilet is worth S10.'
And that settles tips
Hardly. In beautiful weather like
this the child must have outdoor air,
and that involves the purchase of a baby
carriage. One with an enameled cane
body. with side tenders. upholstered in
imported silk brocade goods, piped and
pointed with satin back lining, spring
with Silk-lace edge, standard gear and
patent adjustable rod, costs S34.''
The exhibit Is fnll is aS fellows.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
GirIish But Strong.

Nine. Victoria, who is known all over
the continent as ''the strongest woman
in the world" and is sometimes spoken
of as ''the female Hercules" is of me-
dunn height. with a girlish, graceful
figure and nothing herculean-lo looking
about her. Yet she readily lifts
thousand pounds. Her strength is
s wholly yd the result OF athe f training
she eats but little meat, preferring
birds and fowl. Eggs are her main diet,
and she drinks cocoa.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
How 1t Works in Our Climate.

Teacher-Jane, why were you not at
schoo yesterday?
Jane--Blease, ba'ab, I stayed at hobe
to be Queed of the bay.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
JUST LIKE PA AND MA,
The Boys and Girls of. st. Paul
Who Handle Their Own
Steeds.
Many Fancy Turnouts to Be
Seen Every Day on the
Avenues.
Who So Many Ladies Who
Drive Carry Danger
With Them.
The Art Of Horse Tanning Not
One Of Their Accom-
plishments.

F 1 WERE to draw
a picture of the
avenging angel, l
would put her in a
cart, guiding a
horse along Third
street. There is no
escaping a woman
so placed. She sits
Indifferent. uncon-
scious as fate, and
certain only in con-
tinuance of action.
How she will act,
when she will turn,
from which side she
will strike you, none
can tell. Disput-
ing the right of way
with a cable car is
infinitely tn he nre-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
A Famous Name for a Doc.

A Famous Name for Dog.
Judge.
"Why do you call your dog Wellington,
Mr.. Slobson?"
because Of the ease with which he
can rend a bone apart,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27
DON'T GET into DEBT
The Advice Of a Wealthy st.
Paul Man to the Rising
Generation.
Words Of Good Advice From
William Dawson, the Mill
ionaire Banker.
Corner Stones on Which He
Would Rear a Success
full Career.
Incidents in His Own Bust
ness Life--Stiek to What
You Begin.

INTEGRITY of
character, coup
led with perse-
verance in his
C h o e II vOca-
tiOn,'' said Will
ia III Dawson,
Wv ill conduce
very materially
to the success of
a young man
starting in bust
ness, and l have
-nA,N Als- A-a,..
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-17
War Declared.

The long pending difficulties between
the merchants and jobbers of the larger
Iowa cities and the different leading roads
of that state were brought to focus Sat-
urday by formal declaration of war by
the Davenport shippers against the c.,
R. l. & P. road There were entered in
the district court of Scott county and in
the name of the State of Iowa by Att0r
ney General Baker, twenty-fo four suits
against the Rock Island road alleging
5000 damages in each instance for ex-
tortlonate freight charges. The total
amount claimed therefor is S120.0 and
the firms who enter complaints ere,
Wadsworth & Co, wholesale dry
goods; Van Patten & Marks, whole
sale grocers; Robert Krause, whole
sale clothing; Roddewig Schmid;
& Co.. cracker manufactures, and Sckles,
Preston & Co., hardware The allegation
cites cases wherein the road has charged
so much per hundred pounds, whereas
the legal rate less, Their ely setting up the
excess charges.
These suits thus commenced are but the
initistory steps of proceedings Of similar
nature to be commenced at Dubuque
Burlington, Ottumwa, Cedar Rapids.
Sioux City, Keokuk and other importanr
points in Hswkeyedom against the road
with which the shippers at those points
do business.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-17


1t is to be remarked in the matter of intern
perance, as in all other evils which have been
only empiricaIly treated, that many notions
have passed current as truth which only
need q scientific investigation to be proved
fallacious. Perhaps the one most frequently
held, and most injurious in its effect, is that
of the hereditary nature of the drink habit.
An inherited taste for liquor the most fire.
quent and most successful of all pleas for a
conformation of the Oifense of inebriety. This
result Of well known law seems, indeed. en-
tirely to be expected even though its force
as an excuse should be denied But there
are some facts which seem to prove that he
redity has very little to do with intempe-
rance Mr.. Charles Loring Brace, whose ac-
quantance with the vicious and depraved
classes OF New York city is perhaps as extern
sive, and covers as long a term of wears as
that OF any one living, recently made very
remarkable statement in this connection.
Among the 100, 1000 girls who have come un-
der his charge within thirty-three years, 80
per cent, he says, were the children Of
drunkards, and yet ''the number of drunk
ards among them is almost nothing" This, -
he well adds, "is most extraordinary re-
suit"
From such a result, so well attested and
gathered from 50 busy and so extensive an
experience, it may be concluded that there
is nothing in heredity which cannot be sue
cessfully met, so far as the tendency to in
temperance is concerned. Mr.. Brace attri-
butes the astonishing fact above quoted to
what be calls mind cure" These little
vagabonds, these children of outcasts and
drunkards, put out into new circumstances,
feel moral shock of a pleasant kind They
think talk and feel differently, and are
struck by new experiences of religion and
disinterestedness New food, new surround
ings, influence them, and the children come
out nf their old habits so the. they some
tfhS turn out better than the boys and girls
Of the locality" In other words, new influ-
esces, new interests, what DR.. Bushnell has
called "the expulsive power" of new affec-
ton, are more potent than heredity, strong
as we know that law TO be.-Frank Leslie's.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-17

The railways in Russia have participated in
the general improvement in the trade of that
country. According to a report from the
British embassy in St Petersburg, which has
Just been issued by the foreign office, a great
increase has taken place during the first half
Of the present year, both in the number of
passengers and the amount of goods carried
the increase in the former being nearly
100000 and in the latter 14S000,00O pools
over the figures for the corresponding period
of last year, The net receipts were on the
average $500 per verst in 1888, against g41O
in 1887. As might be expected, the purely
strategical lines pay the worst. Mr.. Dering,
the author of the report, gives tables con-
tanning the figures of all the railways Of
Russia, relating to length, total traffic,
traffic per verst, and comparison with 1887.
There are three of these tables, the first con-
tanning the statistics Of the twenty-five lines
in which the receipts per verst are above the
average, the second those of the nineteen
lines in which the receipts are below the
average, but above the half of it, and the
third those Of the twenty lines in which the
receipts are below half the average. London
Times
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-17

hultOr ARGUS
Rock ISLAND, Dec. 15-There has
been great deal said and something has
been done about fixing permanent
grade for our streets and sidewalks. This
Is = most desirable thing to do and when
tits done it should be incorporated in
our ordinance with proper penalties SO
that everybody will be compelled to build
TO grade and thus avoid the step-ladder
style of our sidewalks and the lack of
uniformity in our streets But what
shall be the grade should not be left to
the whim Of u surveyor whose judgment
AS to the proper grade may not be any
better and perhaps not as good as many
of our citizens.
Men who have lived here and built our
buildings have probably thought more on
this question and Understand better the
needs of this city in this regard that any
single surveyor. whether he lives here or
not. If it is true that survey has been
made, which it is expected will be
adopted, let the mayor and city council
before 1t Is adopted and acted upon. take
counsel of competent persons. All of
our property owners are interested in this
and, have no doubt, would be glad and
are anxious to help in settling this vexed
question. What is done now ought to be
done for the next hundred years, and
sholld be well done; if done wrong it
may impose great loss and expense on
the people. The fixing of permanent
grade Is the one thing needful now. but
the need is rot so Urgent that we must do
something for which we will repent at
leisure. In this matter let US act not
only carefully, but inteligently. X.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-17
S33i,OOo 900


The lumber manufacturers are inclined
to the belief that this includes the cut of
the Mississippi Logging company, but
not that of the Chippewa Lumber and
Boom company, which, although con
trolled by nearly the same men as the
two above companies, cuts its own stock
The amount which will be cut by outside
loggers is indefinite, so that no correct
estimate can be given of that. On the
Black riv'r the Lacrosse loggers expect
to bank ITS 600 900 feet, and around
Marshtield the estimated cut is placed at
97.000,00 feet The Knapp, Stout &
Co. company, of Menominee, expect to
cut 100 900, 900 feet on the Red Cedar
and tributaries.
The loggers are getting tired of the
fine weather in that region and wish to
see snow. A little snow would be of
great help, as the ground is in coed con
dition, and it would greatly facilitate
operations. If the condition of things is
improved by the first of January it will
be in time. For skidding and cutting it
has been marked, and it is more easily
done without snow. Until portion OF
the logs are landed on the bank the log
gers will receive no payments, so it
makes them rather hard up.