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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16

land in order to assure the proper me-
neurological conditions for maintaining
an equality of climate and sufficient
rainfall. In accordance with this report
legislative inquiry will be set on foot
looking toward the better pres
ervation of Pennsylyania''s for
ests. Though the lumbermen have
there, as elsewhere, made vast
vast lnroads into the states woodland
w ealth their depredations have been
slight in comparison with the rapidity
with which Minnesota forests have
been disappearing. There should not
be here less vigilance than is
being displayed in the matter
in the Keystone state. Indeed the
need is far greater in Minnesota, since
her forests are more accessible for lum-
bering operations and her vast extent
of prairie land with her forest removed
allows the winds an unObStrncted
course, while in Pennsylvania this
force is broken by the mountains, which
at the same time aid in the precipita-
ton of moisture. 1t is not too soon to
set about finding some way for reStor-
ing our forest. Unless something is done
it will be too late. Experience has
shown that but little can be expected
from the observance Of Arbor day,
though much might easily be accom-
plished thereby.
Just what can be done is a legitimate
matter for legislative inquiry. and it
should without fail he brought TO the
attention of the next legislature.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
She CHARMS THE SERPENT
A Snake Charmer Tells How Easy it
Is to Handle Pythons.
NERVE AND MUSCLE NEEDED.
Anaeondas, PythOns and Boa-Con.
strictors are Easily
Handled.

1t is shivery thing to pick up an an
aconda. Even if he is dead he isn't
pleasant handful, but long, wriggly
snake, with cold, scaly, clammy skin,
and an incessant vibration going on in
side of his wiry ribs, as if he were
anxious to be squeezing you to death, is
about as loathsome an object to the
touch as can be imagined. Yet Alma
Don Janata cheerfully plays with two
boxes of them twice day and makes a
good living at it. She has dozen pets
altogether. They are boa constructors,
anacondas and pythons. Their lengths
range from six to fourteen feet. Two
fat young men in blue uniforms trotted
out to the stage in Madison Square
garden last evening carrying a big red
box between them. Two lean young
men trotted after them with box that
looked just like it. All four sat down
their burdens as gingerly as if
they were made of dynamite.
They really held something far
more deadly-Miss Janata's Miss JEFF
Jeffrey off the STAGE snakes.
A pretty young woman in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
ON THE OTHER FOOT.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gander, and that is why Winni-
pegs abSconded bank cashier seeks pro
lection under the eXtradition treaty
between this country and Great Brit
ain. We are sorry that our Winnipeg
friends have had so much of their good
money stolen, but we do feel sort of a
qualification that our Canadian neigh
bors have had brought home to them
some of the Inconvenience we have
been suffering from the existing eX-
tradition treaty between the two coun-
tries. Heretofore the hardShips have
all been on our side. We have
had the brunt of this extradition fool
ishness to bear. 1t has been our en-
bezzlers all along who have been skip
ping across the line. AS long as they
continued to blow in their stolen wealth
on the Canucks our neighbors have
been satisfied with the eXtradition as it
stands.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot,
it is possible that we can secure new
Treaty, making felony of every descrip-
ton extraditable. 1t is claimed by
the Canadian authorities that young
CAMERON can be taken back
to Winnipeg on the charge of
having brought stolen money
into the United States. We hope he
can, because we want to see the young
rascal punished for the crime, and for
the additional reason that it will estab-
lish precedent by which some of the
absconded cashiers and treasurers
can be brought home again. If
it is an extraditable otfense to bring
stolen money into the United States, it
will necessarily follow that it is an ex-
tr&ditable offense to taken stolen money
into British domlnions. We are not
particular upon what technicality the
rascals are caught up, just so they are
caught,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
Choosing a Husband.

Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
Husbands are not made to order; they
just grow. To get good one you have
to know him when you see him. He
may not look like the man your fancy
painted, yet you will recognize in him
the qualities that go to make up the re-
liable, enterprising, amiable man.
AS a rule women are not pos
seSSed of acute business minds
and are not as Observant as
they might be. One after another they
will fall into the same open trap, just
as though they were blindfolded or were
impelled by some uncomfortable force.
The majority OF them seem to think
they must marry, and all that is neces-
sary is to find man that is good looking
or rich. The average girl first takes a
fancy to pretty man, and thinks
and dreams of his lovely hair,
charming eyes, elegant dress, divine
mustache and dove-like voice. She de-
clares that he is too sweet for anything.
This fever passes off in time, but too
often it leaves perverted taste. A
dandy figure. swell manners and clat-
tering tongue are apt to even outweigh
good heart, Industrious habits and
moral worth. Even after marriage. Wis
ions Of the early ideal rise up to disturb
the serenity and tranquility of the do
nestle scene. Better such an ideal had
never been formed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
A wOMAN's LONG LIFE.
Came West Sixty Years Ago, and
Stopped at the Small Tavern
Kent at Chicago.

Came West Sixty Years Ago, and
Stopped at the Small Tavern
Kept at Chicago.
Special to the Globe.
ZUMBRoTA, Mimi, April Is. = Mrs.
Arilda Scofield was born in Putnam
county. New York, the Goth of June,
1900, and was the oldest daughter of
Esther and Jeremiah Griffith. Her
grandparents, on her mothers side,
came from France, and were of wealthy
people. When Miss Arilda was seven
years old her father moved to near
Geneva, Seneca county, N. Y. After
residing there about four years her
mother died, and her father, with his
children, returned to their old home in
Putnam county. He afterwards became
lieutenant in the war of 1912, and died
in 1914, leaving four orphan children to
the care of grandparents. At the age
of twenty-three Arilda became ac-
quainted with Amos Scofeld while
attending school, and the next
year was married to him
They resided in New York number of
years. Her husband engaged in the
mercantile business in small place,
JOUk Ill d pdIlIlcI, dIus do LIDS Uccu uilC
case in thousands of instances before
and after his time, was involved in debt
by his partner, and failed in business.
Broken in health, he decided to move
West; consequently, on the 18th of No
vember, 1888, he and his wife and six
children started West, their mode of
travel being with wagon, and their
objective point being Illinois. On the
Oath day of December they stopped at a
SMALL. TAVERN IN CHICAGO,
and Mrs. Scofield remembers Chicago as
it was then, low and muddy, with no
Palmer house or Grand Pacific.
They settled in McHenry county,
Illinois, on Queen Ann prairie,
named after the first white woman
settler. The country was new
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.

There is the brightest kind of an out
look for st. Paul in building way this
season. Work has been projected al
ready sufficient to keep every artisan in
the city busy on full wages until
long after snow flies. 1t promises,
indeed, to be the busiest season
in St. Paul's wonderful history, and yet
it is possible for small number of men
to cloud these bright prospects over in
moment. If disputes between employ
ers and employees should arise, such as
occurred last summer, and if the spirit
of forbearance and liberation should
not be exercised, another deadlock may
ensue which would prove disastrous to
capitalists and workmen alike. 1t is
gratifying to observe, however, that
there is at present every disposition on
the part of employers and artisans to
agree. A continuance of this good feel
ing is alone necessary to enable st. Paul
to fulfill the promise of a splendid record
for this building season.
A significant feature of the work pro-
jected IS found in the proportionately
equal division of it between business
blocks, Office buildings and residences.
That is to say, an appreciate balance
exists between new places for doing
business and new homes for the accom-
mediation of business men. In neither
respect has st. Paul hitherto kept up
entirely with the demand. Great as the
growth of the city and its business in
terests has been, it might have been bet
ter had the facilities in the directions
mentioned been better. AS cause for
complaint in this direction disappears,
then. an added stimulus will be given
to the city's development, and the
present year will be quite likely to
see an addition to the population
which will not only justify all the
building now projected, but will also
probably render necessary as much
again during the year following. The
record which the Twin Cities are max
ing is one which may well warrant the
envy of sister cities.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
A GREAT RABBIT HUNTER.
"A Twelve-Year-Old Pennsylvania
Rows Novel Plan.

A1Oy NOtCl tdu.
Freddy Smith, twelve-year-Old boy
of this place, has long enjoyed the re-
putatiOn of being the most successful
rabbit hunter in the county, says a
Cochranton, Pa, letter. He never
carried gun, had no traps in the woods,
and the rabbits he brought in showed
for themselves that they had not been
caught in the 'switch-up" snares that
every boy knows how to set. How no
managed to capture so many rabbits was
a mystery until in burst of confidence
he gave the snap away" to another boy,
who couldn't keep the secret.
Freddy Smiths plan of hunting rab-
bits is as original as it is novel. He has
an enormous pet Norway rat. Unknown
to any one, that rat has been his COM
paniOn on all of his hunting excursions
for a year or more. Freddy knows
where rabbits abound and the holes they
hide in. He goes to burrOw, sends his
rat in to explore the interior, and places
a little bag over the exit. If there is u
rabbit inside the Norway rat rOuts il out
and ii flies for the opening, only to dash
wildly into Freddy's bag on the outside.
Then the ingenious hunter breaks the
rabbits neck with smart blow of his
hand, and is ready for another one.
When he first began to hunt with this
rat he found that great deal of time
was lost by the rat being in no hurry to
come out of burrow. So he hit upon
the plan of fastening a string to him, by
which he pulls the rat out when his duty
has been done inside. On several Oc-
casions the rat has had a young rabbit
in his mouth ON being drawn out of
burrow, Last season this boy is said to
have captured over 200 rabbits by means
of his rat and bag. There is law in
Pennsylvania prohibiting the hunting
of rabbits with ferrets. If the success
rat should develop Freddy Smiths in
other parts of the state there will have
to be novel addition to the game laws.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
DIR. MUNHALL's MEETINGS.

Whatever may be the winding up of
DR.. MUNHALL' S revival meetings IN this
city, there was certainly nothing dis
couraging in the way they were inaugu-
rated Yesterday. 1t is creditable to the
religious sentiment of this community
that there is no hall in the city large
enough to accommodate the crowds who
were anxious to hear the eminent revi-
valist. Still it is matter Of regret that
the city is not provided with hall with
a seating capacity of at least 5000 or
5000.
There are some things in connection
with these revival services which merit
attention even from the standpoint OF
secular journalism. There are few
scotfers who either do not, or they affect
not to see any good of religious services.
Then again there are others, and great
many Of them, who hold to religious
beliefs and profess reverence for
religious subjects who insist that
the excitement which usually accom-
panies revival meetings is not in &C
cord with the proprieties which should
be observed by churchmen.
1t is not within our province to enter
upon discussion of these distinctions.
We are satisfied to rest upon the simple
principle that whatever makes one per-
son better is help to the whole COM
munity, and we think we are safe in
saying that no one was ever made worse
by attendance upon a religious service.
Another point is that whatever has a
tendency to lead the young people of a
community into straight paths and to
bring them under wholesome influence
deserves encouragement. In glancing
over the great crowd at Market hall last
night the observer could not fail to be
impressed with the preponderance of
young people in the assembly. 1t was
better for them to be there than out on
the streets.
To those who feel an interest in the
growth of Christianity, it must be graft
flying to observe with what harmony the
ministers of various denominations in
this city have come together in the work
of supporting Dr.. MUNHALL in his re-
vival efforts. 1t sometimes requires
something of this kind to convince
worldlings that charity is really Chris
tian grace, and that there is such thing
as ''the milk Of human kindness" among
the clergy
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
The Eighth w Wonder.

Madison Democrat.
Blaine may properly be denominated
the eighth wonder of the world. Every
body knows all about him, and yet no.
body knows anything about him for a
certainty. He has never said anything
about himself that could he depended on,
and what his friends say or have said
about him, is equally uncertain. He
is candidate for the presidency, and
he is not; he is sick and must soon die
of an incurable disease, and anon he
was never in better health in his life.
He is great man as every one is ready
to admit. but what it is that makes him
great no man living can tell.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
Cameron Under Arrest

Special to the Globe.
Z PEMBINA. Oak, April 15.-Manager
Balfour, of the Winnipeg Union bank,
Chief of Police McRae and Lawyer
Richards arrived in Pembina to-day
after Cameron, the defaulting bank
teller. City Marshal Moorehead has
Cameron in the Pembina county jail.
Although repeatedly interviewed by all
the members of the party, the young
defaulter has not divulged any names
excepting to Attorney Kneeshaw, who
it is understood has all the particulars
of the case, but at present has nothing
to say to newspaper correspondents. 1t
is said, on good authority, that promi-
nent Winnipegers are accompliceS
with Cameron in the theft of $4,000. A
young man named Diamond was arrested
by Chief McRae on the st. Paul train
this morning as being implicated in the
robbery.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
Aa0du AeS9Q2A.

and there were out a rev settlers within
many miles of them. While here they
went through many hardships of from
tier life. Mrs. Scofield relates an in
stance of mo bread'' in the house and
none in the neighborhoOd for several
days. 1t was about harvest time and
one neighbor had piece of wheat about
ripe. This was cut by the neighbOrs,
portion of it thrashed with machine
called in those days a fail, and a mes
senger sent many miles to mill before
instances of like character. While re-
siding in Illinois she buried her hus-
band, and in 1916 moved to Wisconsin
and settled in FOn du Lac county. In
1856 she moved to Minnesota and settled
in the southern part of G0Odhue county
and went through pioneer life in Mill
neSota, encOuntering many hardShlpS,
though not as severe as in her former
life. For the past fifteen years she has
been residing in the village of Zumbrota
with her youngest and unmarried
daughter, Persis. Many
IV-l WAR INCIDENTS
are connected with her history. Her
grandfather served in the Revolution
airy war, her father in the war of 1912,
and three sons in the civil war. One
son was shot at the battle of Bull Run
and afterwards died at Alexandria, and
another son died at Murfeesboro, after
having served in the war about three
years. She is the mother of nine chill
dren, five of whom are still living. d. B.
Scofeld. treasurer of Goodhue county,
being one of them. Among her grand
children are Mrs. I'll. ID. Brown, of st.
Paul, wife of III. d. Brown, of the firm
of Brown, Tracy & Co.; Mrs. Collins,
wife of II. l.. Collins, of Baker, Collins
/ 81 Co., st. Paul, and E. A. Mitchell, of
the Zumbrota Independent. She has
lived to see the seventh generation, as
she has several great-grandchildren,
and can distinctly remember her great
grandmother. She remembers as dis
tinctly and converses as intelligently as
twenty wears aUO
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
GEORGE FOR CLEVELAND.
He Prophesies an Enthusiastic
and Victorious Campaign.

Henry Georges Standard.
No enthusiasm in such campaign! [
for one will go into it with more en-
thusiasm than l ever felt in any ma
tional campaign since / voted for
Abraham Lincoln. And every one
of us who truly rerliZes that
it is the first great political
battle on the march toward the aboli-
ton of industrial slavery must feel the
same way. 1t is not to make few re-
auctions in the tariff that we will throw
ourselves into the fight, but to
break the solid phalanx of linked
interests that supports the rob-
Der tariff; to make breach in
the massive wall that bars our way; to
lead men to see the glory of freedom
and to trust her and to follow her; to
turn them from the false teachings that
the interests of man and man, and class
and class, and nation and nation, are
only to be served at the expense of
others, and to open their eyes to the
great truth that in the good of all lies
the good of each.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
The Stars and Stripes First.

Boston Herald.
Mayor Hewitt appeals keenly to the
American heart when he asks for pre-
cedence for the American flag, and if he
carries this patriotic preference so far as
to desire the exclusion of all other flags
from American buildings, we do not
think he goes farther than that same
American heart will accompany him. If
we remember Alright, Mr.. Chauncey M.
Depew said something of the same kind
about ''old glory" in one of his speeches
not long ago. Why men who have tine
true American spirit should object to
this honor to its emblem is not apparent.
We doubt, indeed, if such men do. And
it won't do to fool with this spirit to any
great extent either. If it should become
aroused, it might prove dangerous.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
UNJUST PROSECUTION.

There is no state in the Union where
the prohibitionists display so much zeal
as in Iowa, and none where zeal is, at
times, founded upon such discreditable
grounds. Prosecution by the regular
authorities of those who infringe the
laws, whether those laws are good or
bad, is legitimate enough, but when it
becomes persecution it is time for the
conservative people of any community
TO condemn unSparingly misdirected
zeal
A case in point, showing the base uses
to which the development of the pro-
hibition sentiment may sometimes be
put, occurred last week at DeS MONIES.
Two wholesale liquor dealers who had
been complying with the law as they,
under legal advice, understood it, had
been approached by two constables, who,
pointing out alleged violations of the
law which they had discovered by the
despicable methods of the spy, threat
ened prosecution unless they received
substantial sums of hush money. The
dealers refused to submit to blackmail,
ana the prosecution enSued, resulting
lin the speedy acquittal of the dealers
and the merited discontinue of the
spies.
That is one of the worst features of
the prohibitory law, the system of often
sive spying and persecution, through
1gnoble motives, it at once gives rise to-.
The spy and informer has never been
looked upon with favor in this country,
and he is inseparable from any
prohibitory law. Iowa has had
enough of him, and despite
his success in putting money
in his purse by his zeal in convicting
illegal dealers in liquor, the sale of
liquor in Iowa goes on. The experience
of Maine has been even more unsatis-
factory. Persecution there has been
gried to such an extreme that the peo-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
THE BIRTH OF THE OPAL.

the Sunbeam loved the Moonbeam,
And followed her low and high;
But the Moonbeam fled and hid her head
She was so shy-so shy.
The Sunbeam wooed with passion,
All he was a lover bold,
And his heart was afire with mad desire
For the Moonbeam pale and cold.
She fed like dream before him,
Her hair was a shining sheen;
And, oh, that Fate would annihilate
The space that lay between.
Just as the Day lay painting
In the arms of the Twilight dim,
The Sunbeam caught the one he sought
And drew her close to him.
But out of his warm arms startled,
And stirred by loves first shock,
She sprang afraid, like a trembling maid,
And hid i'll the niche of rock.
And the Sunbeam followed and found her,
And led her to loves own feast.
And they were wed on that rocky bed,
And the dying Day was their priest.
And, 10 the beautiful Opal,
That rare and wondrous gem,
Where the Moon and Sun blend into one,
Is the child that was born to them
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
TO-DAY's WEATHER.

SIGNAL OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT, ST.
PAUL, Minn, April Is, 1888, 1915 a. NJ
Indications for twenty-four hours, commenc-
ing at : a. H. to-day: For st. Paul, Mime
apolis and vicinity: Fair weather and
warmer, followed by rain and light to fresh
variable winds. For Minnesota and Eastern
Dakota: Warmer and fair weather. followed
by local rains; light to fresh variable winds,
becoming northerly. For Southwestern Da-
kota Fair weather, followed by colder and
local rains; light to fresh variable winds, be-
coming northerly.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
ST. PAUL, April 15.-The following obser'
yatinns were made at s as D. M. local time ::
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
A Gentle Hint.


Boston Courier
'John," she said sweetly, as she
glanced at the clock, "do you know any
thing about base ball?"
''Well. / rather guess [ do" he ali
swered with pride.
There is shortstop in every nine,
isn't therc?"
Certainly
rs there long stop, too?"
mo"
sit is pity"
"Why sop
Because" and she glanced at the
clock again, IF there was long stop you
would make money. Every club would
be bidding for yOu.'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
Brand New Laws.

Omaha World.
Mrs. Suburb-Now, John, when you
go into the city don't forget about them
new laws they've got.
John-All right; let's see. What is
they. anyhow?
'''There, L knew you'd never remem-
Der. You must keep that tobacco tag in
plain sight on the horse and you mustn't
leave the dog in the street without tying
him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-16
Ethereal MiIdness

We hail with joy the gentle spring,
The time when disappears the snow
And farmers hear the robins sing,
And Sol with warmth begins to glow.
The poet then in ecstasies
OF buds and early blossoms sings,
Of babbling brooks and greening leas,
Of trailing arbutus and things.
But while we hail the gentle spring.
The budding tree, the greening plain,
We must confess that it doth bring
Some little drawbacks IN its train.
Our overcoats are thrown aside,
When come bright morns and sunny moons
And then tits mighty hard to hide
The patches on our pantaloons.
Boston Courier