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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15

ing. Last winter young man on
one of the City dailies, who
felt that he was something of
swell himself, was sent up on
Ashland avenue to get the par
ticulars of swell reception. After
stating his mission through servant
he waited exactly one hour and a
quarter before his presence was ac-
knowledged. Then very pretty
came to him and said: "Mrs. Modesty
does not wish word to 90 in the pa
pers. But won't you step down the
back way and have some refresh
ments?'
"Ihank you," replied his pulverized
dignity with awful sarcasm, II had
something to eat at the last back door,
1T makes fellow deucedly cynical"
said young reporter the other day,
with the worldly wise air of twenty
two-year old ennuie, "when you are
trying to get names at ball to have a
woman tell you she hates to be put in
print, and then stand over you while
you write to correct the spelling of her
name and inform you that the lace on
her dress is real"
If there is woman within one block
of him and man within six blocks of
him, both possessing information he is
after, a reporter commonly trudges the
five extra blocks for the man. Women
seldom can tell what they know save
WHEN THEY OUGHT NOT TO.
There is difference in them, though:
ana when reporter does find one good,
like that celebrated little girl who wore
a curl in the middle of her forehead,
she is very good. 1t is no less true of
her that when she is bad she is horrid."
There is no more desirable person
man OF woman-on earth. from a report
orial standpoint than Mrs. Col. Griggs.
She neither patroniZes nor snubs the
seeker after truth. She tells him ex-
acting what he wants to learn, no more
and nothing short, and when she has fin
ished the reporter finds himself on the
sidewalk with no very definite idea as to
how he got there. His feelings are not
injured, and still he has not spent five
or ten minutes, standing around help
lessly and awkwardly on one foot, max
ing a conscious bore of himself and
wondering how in the world he was
ever going to escape. When Mrs. Griggs
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15

divinely, plays like a master, is fine
mathematician, stenographer, Ger
man, French and Latin scholar, good
cook, and splendid seamstreSs. She
does any one of these things well enough
to make a first-rate living by it, and
what did she do one day, in a fit of tenn
porary insanity, but up and marry
man, who makes no more in month
than she could in week, had she put
as a last years bonnet and as stupid
as a man in love. She
washes her own dishes, tends her own
children, and eats her own heart every
day. Then there's Fanny. She mar
ried we'll enough, financially, but oh,
dear! her husband is a perfect brute.
He opens all her letters, keeps her on
starvation allowance, gets ariStocratic-
ally drunk on the dryest of champagne,
and bangs her around as the cOmmOneSt
kind of man full of
CHEAP WHISKY MIGHT DO.
Lottie made a splendid match, too,
you know every body said. She carries
her head mighty high when she is on
parade, but | tell you the Grape she
wears on the inside is pretty black and
heavy. The other day she got the
bill from one of the dry goods stores.
BY some mistake they gave her her
husbands, too, and ever since she has
been puZzling her poor little head to
know where the dear man wears 500
worth of feminine undergear, satin
corsets, No. kid gloves, a lace dress
and three coaching parasols at S25 each.
She picked the lock of his desk last
week and got hold of his old check
book. She can't understand why he
patroniZes dressmakers that she never
does, and a thousand and one other
yagaries the book betrayed. All these
things, Pauline, incline wise woman to
chronic single blessedness, though none
of these exert the strong influence in
that direction that NellIe'S experience
does. She certainly has good hus-
band. He positively adores her, lets
her have her own way, spend as much
money as she will, and she is awfuliy
extravagant. Yet what do you suppose
the one object of her ambition is?-to
be a widow! She sits by the hour
thinking how lovely she would be in
bonnet with white ruche and a long
black veil. She is always impressively
telling me to steer clear of matrimony
If know what is good for me, and if
you ask her whom she would
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15

down. Even Prudy Prim, than whtm
no more proper girl exists, confesses
81 had the blues too awfully for
anything last night. and went over to
stay with Carrie. George had been per-
fectly horrid to her all day, accusing her
of flirting outrageously with Col. -
out at Minnetonka last week, and say
ing all sorts of mean things to her. We
talked our miseries over; then Cad
started up, quoting:
pray We by the Gods above,
Give me the flowing bowl l love,
And let me sing in wild delight;
l will, will be mad tonight.
and down we two went to the side
board. We each drank three milk
punches, four SOurS, and pony of
brandy. Then George came march
ing in and declared the bar closed.
We ate bottle of olives and went to
bed, not dead, but very sick. The next
morning / called to Carrie to send Sally
in with pair of slippers. My feet are
swollen So said |, THAT can't get my
shoes on"
George howled back: TRY on your
hat and see how your head is Our
heads did feel so bad that
WE WERE VERY PENITENT.
"We acknowledged our wickedness,
noticed she wasn't wearing it still.
But, then, such is the course of the
penitent.
AS for tobacco, it is a filthy weed. no
doubt; but the fair sex love it, just the
same. Cigarette smoking no longer
marks a woman disreputable. The
majority of women who indulge in it,
however, have not gained the moral
courage to come before the public. But
there is well-known society woman,
living on Summit avenue, who sits on
the lawn in front of her house and
smokes after dinner with her husband,
as if the angels did the same thing, and
saints did not object. Whittier are we
drifting? l give it up, but not to de-
struction, my word for it. When tip
ping, and smoking and what not that
the church condemns, and the state
barely tolerates, become so common
as to be perfectly proper, back we will
swing, blase, to the perfectly proper OF
this day and generation. When we
can do as we please and nobody OBJ
jects,we will say like the Frenchwomfan
on one occasion: GLOW very pleasant;
what pity there is nothing wrong
about it," and quit doing it.
PAULINE PRY.
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among my married friends is all I want
to make an accomplishing old maid of
me for

among my married friends is all want
to make an accomplishing old maid of
me for
SIX MONTHS TO COME.
1t is this tendency fully developed
that in time will produce the perfect
bachelor woman. A philanthropic eye
to her own happiness will put her on a
level with the selishness of the bachelor
man, and a wider view of her own
Importance is, alas, bound to make
her just as wicked. The idea OF
the Independent female, that she is
as good as man, evoluted, must mean
that she can be as bad without spelling
for the uses of society. 1t is fallacious
to suppose that, even now, gum, cor
sets, tight boots, and gossip embrace
the vices of respectable women. Ask
the bartender at the Ryan, or the Mer-
chants, OF the West, and they will tell
you that that the feminine capacity for
strong drink is large and prOmis-
ing. Beer is the every day
stand by in summer. Sherry and
port wines divide hOnorS,z with it in
winter. An order for brandy OF
whisky cocktail from women before
breakfast no longer calls forth startled
"What is the world coming to?' Orders
companied by cash to save their record
being carried to the desk. There is a
demand for brandy and soda when
madame or miss, weary from the after
moons festivities, must stimulate her
self for the evening. A decanter filled
with whisky and one with brandy
occupy an inconspicuous place on al
most
EVERY DRESSING TABLE
that is not ornamented with the white
ribbon; and, oh, "whisper it softly
under the stars" they do say they are
several fair creatures, dear to the
hearts of the sacred upper ten and
adored by Mrs. Grundy, who, when the
world goes hard with them-when
madame sends home new gown that
does not fit, when Charley's devotion
seems to wane, or when the hated Bella
or Dora outshines them, set to work as
deliberately as their 2:40 brothers to
bring their spirits up by pouring spirits
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15
CLAUS WORKS A CORNER.
Clever SpreckeIs Wins First Blood
in His Fight Against the Sugar

Clever Spreckels Wins First Blood
in His Fight Against the Sugar
Trust.
SAN Francisco, July 14.-When
Claus Spreckels announced that he
would fight the great sugar trust single
handed every one prophesied he would
soon come to grief in spite of his mil
lions. Now the first victory for
Spreckels in the fight must be recorded.
When the trust was formed a few
months ago. the officers began not only
to corner refined sugars, but to include
in the squeeze the raw product. They,
of course. pinched the producer as we'll
as the consumer. The result of this
was that they doomed the raw article,
but caused hand to mouth buying of the
refined product. Claus Spreckels saw
through this little game, and, quietly
capitalizing his resources. bought all the
raw sugar he could secure. Now the
refiners find that they have largely over
sold refined sugars; that the raw pro-
duct is
BEYOND THEIR REACH,
and they are obliged to send to Europe
for raw material. From New York
comes the news to-day that they refuse
to make any prices on refined sugars.
There has been an advance of one and
three-fourths cents per pound in the
price of refined sugars within the last
six weeks. Of course this advance is
largely due to the concentration of the
raw product and the consequent inabil-
lty of the trust to secure raw material
for their refinerieS. Some time ago Mr..
Spreckels contracted for $4,000 tons of
raw sugar from Manila, and on this
transaction alone, at the present rates,
he can realize $40 per ton. or S2,0O0,OO0
in the aggregate. A dispatch received
here Thursday night said Claus
Spreckels had joined the sugar trust,
but his son here denies it, and SAYS
Spreckels is just getting in good fight
ing trim,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15
PLUNGER HESS Is MAD.
The Young Man Who Has Re.
Gently Stirred Up ChicagO's
Corn Market TS q Maniac

Ine IOuRS man VINO Has Re-
Gently Stirred Up Chicago's
Corn Market Is Maniac.
CHICAGO, July 14.-It is stated this
morning that Charles E. Hess, presi-
dent of the Hess Elevator company,
owing to unfortunate speculations on
the board of trade, is now raving
maniac, and is only prevented from COM
hitting violent acts by being confined
in his residence. Several weeks ago,
his father, Ernest Hess, who is a
wealthy grain dealer and the owner of
two elevators. started for European
tour and transferred the entire manage
ment of his extensive affairs to his sons,
the younger of whom, Frank w. Hess,
is secretary of the company. Besides a
bank account of $4,000 which was
placed to the credit of the young men,
there was large credit in margins re-
naming in the bank. After the father
went away. Charles, it is reported, de-
velOped a remarkable faculty as a
'splunger" and
STIRRED UP THE CORN MARKET
to a violent degree. His actions Gre
ated considerable comment, but it was
attributed to his youth and consequent
desire to show himself. He would
wildly bet 100 to l that corn would be
So before IS, and then he would
offer to buy in million lots, and In al
most the same breath offer to sell. As
the credit of the house was very strong,
no calls were made for margins, though
the young operator had spread and
straddled until his affairs were seri-
ously complicated and he was involved
to the extent of 100000 bushels or
more. The open trades he made, it is
asserted, would have exhausted every
thing to the credit of the company had
call been made for margins. The real
condition of affairs did not become
known, however, even to his friends,
and then promptly his brother Frank
and a broker took the complicated af-
fairs in hand and succeeded in drawing
out with only $1,000 net loss. A cable
gram has started the father homeward.
1t is unknown whether speculation
caused the unfortunate young fellows
insanity or whether suddenly developed
insanity led to the speculation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15
HOSTESS FOR SIX YEARS.

The next time he shows up at the
same house to report social gathering,
madam the hostess cruShingly informs
him that she wants nothing in the
paper. and if he is not literally picked
up and thrown out, he has all the I'M
comfortable sensations of that proceed
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15
BLAZING BUILDINGS.
Fires of Day-The Loss Aggre
eating MANY Thousands.

- -
eating Many Thousands.
Special to the Globe.
PHILADELPHIA, July 14.-Fire at an
early hour this morning caused loss of
about 5000 in Harrison, Frazier &
Company's sugar refinery on Delaware
avenue, below South street. The flames
originated in the drying room and are
supposed to have been caused by sparks
from an electric light wire.
AN ORPHANS HOME IN RUINS.
Special to the Globe.
WABASH, Ind, July 1.-THE Wabash
county orphans home burned yester-
day. The children, forty-seven in num-
Der, escaped. The flames originated in
the roof from defective fiue The
structure was three-story frame.
There was an insurance of 81 200 on the
property.
LAFRENIERE's HEAVY LOSS. =
QUEBEC, P. O.. July 14.-Lafreniere's
burned yesterday. A large number of
logs were lost. The damage, it is ex-
pected, will reach 100000; partly in
sured.
FOOTWEAR REDUCED TO ASHES. -
AVON, Mass, July 14.-At an early
hour this morning fire was discovered in
the boot and shoe factory of G. f. Little
field, and before it was under control'it
had made clean sweep of all before 1t,
and almost the entire business portion
of the village is in ruins. Loss on Lit
tlefield's factory, $1,000; insurance, 81
500. From this factory 120 hands are
thrown out of employment. The loss
ON other buildings will amount to about
$4,000. with $4,000 insurance.
TWOHUNDRED GUESTS STAMPEDED.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, July 14.-The Southern, a
family hotel, corner of Wabash avenue
and Twenty-second street, caught fire
last evening and a wild stampede
among the 200 guests followed. Several
ladies attempted to jump from the win
dOws, and others were carried down
ladders from the fourth-story windows.
Prompt work by the department soon
subdued the flames. The loss will not
exceed $1,000, mostly caused by smoke
and water. The fire started in the
basement and was carried up the air
shaft to the attic. None of the guests
lost any property.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15

HoLo wanted ads. in the GLOBE are seen by
HeP the most people
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15

entertains she does not treat a reporters
appearance on the scene as piece of
impertinence, but as matter of bust
ness. He goes away from one of
her teas or receptions resigned to his
lot and with no abnormal thirst for
first-class murder sensation distressing
his young soul and threatening the life
of everybody he comes in contact with.
Miss Susan BealS is one of the excep-
tional women who can tell what she
knows. If she is bit inclined to
work the reporter on behalf of differ
ent philanthropic enterprises in which
she is always interested, she only enjoys
the opportunity it affords him to taste
THE BLESSEDNESS OF GIVING.
A neWsgathersr invariably comes
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15
None More Beautiful

Than Lake Minnetonka. Frequent and
fast trains via the Manitoba road to
either side of the lake. Elegant new
cars. Four-track line to Minneapolis.
and only dOuble-track railway to the
lake.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15
CONTACT WORK.
Sewer ON DAILY Street
OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 10, 1888.

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, MIMI, July 10, 1888. I
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the City of st. Paul, Min
nesOta, at their Office in said city, until
10 m. on the 23d day of July, A. d.
1888, for constructing q sewer on
DAILY street, from West Seventh street
to Jefferson avenue, in said city, together
with the necessary catchbasins and man.
holes, according to plans and specifica-
tions on file in the Office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties
in sum of at least twenty (2O) per cent
OF the gross amount bid must accom-
pany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
r. l.. GORMAN, President.
Official: w. F. ERWIN.
19+2O4 Clerk Board of Public Works.
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TOlLERS' TROUBLES.
Four Hundred Mill Hands and
One-Third as Many Barbed Wire
WorLaps Co ON Gtu;Sro


Workers Go on Strike.
Special to the Globe.
OTTAWA, Ont, July 14.-Four hun
dred mill hands employed by j.. r.
Booth. lumberman, struck work yester-
day for an increase in their wages.
About 100 men remained faithful to
their employer. They had been men,
aced all day by the strikers, but the
presence of large force of police pre-
vented actual violence.
KICK AGAINST A REDUCTION.
Special to the Globe.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 1.-THE Free
man Barb Wire company, of East St.
Louis, which employs about 125 men,
cut wages about 20 per cent yesterday,
and the result was strike and 100 men
left the shops. The wages ranged from
So to So per day, and there was cut of
so cents all around. The company ex-
poets to fill the strikers places.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-15
The COMING OLD MAID
Pauline Discourses Of a Radi-
cal Change That Is
Impending.
a Peep Into a Boudoir and the
Secret Is Re-
vealed.
Pretty Women Will Smoke
Cigarettes and Enjoy Slim
ulantS Like Men.
Cash Orders Sent to the Bars
of the Principal
Hotels.

,HE coming
old maid is
going to be
about a S
much like
her prede-
ceS Sor as
pears are
like pickles.
In fact, she
Will no long
er be an old
maid. She
will ha q
b a CHI eior
woman, a
delic 10 u S
combination
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-03-15
The so" Strike.

The differences between the Brother
hood of locomotive engineers and fire.
men and the G. B. & Q. railroad COM
pany are at present writing unsettled.
Trains are running on all branches of
the road. and the company claims that
their business is not seriously interfered
with. The strikers, however, affirm
that the road is not doing over thirty
per cent of its usual business. The
public is not concerned in the question
of right or wrong between these OPP
posing parties, The point with us is
that on account of differences between
employers and employed the public is
greatly Inconvenience and greater in
convenience is threatened. Nor are we
mere spectators. When the business
of a great common carrier isinterfered
with, we are all interested, for it results
are far-reaching in effect upon the
general business of the whole country,
especially that section which the road
serves.
At first we were inclined to throw all
the blame of this great inconvenience
upon the Brotherhood, and we still be-
lieve they would better have preserved
their record for conservatism a little
longer. But if it be true that they
waited for weeks to get conference
with Manager Stone, and that that official
would neither grant nor refuse an in
terview. there seems little more excuse
for this attempt to gain his attention.
A portion of their demands seem to
us unreasonable. Length of service
and experience in other trades count
for something. We see no reason why
this should be an exception. Still we
are willing to admit that there are two
sides to the question. Never having
been protected by any brotherhood or
union we do not feel the necessity of
such methods. In general the laws of
political and social economy should
have as full play as possible. and should
not be interfered with by organizations.
Let supply and demand govern
The only excuse for labor organiza-
tons is combination Of capital,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-03-15
A Pine Line 70 Chicag0.

A dispatch from Lima, Ohio, to the
Chicago Tribune states that the Stand
ard Oil company has commenced the
preliminary work for building an i'm
mense pipe line from this city to Chi
cago-a distance of over 200 miles-for
the purpose of transporting oil, both
crude and refined, to the Western me-
tropolis. The Standard eompany's
action was brought about by the re-
strIetions in the Interstate commerce
law, and the savings in freight will in a
short time pay for building the line.
The right of way has been secured to
within short distance of Chicago and
the contracts for building two sections
of fifty miles each lot to Mcdonald &
Co. and Wright &c Co., large Eastern
pipeline contractors. A large amount of
pipe and fittings for the line has already
arrived here for distribution along the
line. The capacity of the line will be
about $4,000 barrels day Immense
relay and pumping stations with huge
pumps will be erected at intervals along
the route. Linemen are at work now
putting up telegraph line along the
route for the exclusive use of the com.
pany.
A line from this rich oil and gas
center to New York City is also con-
templated and the specifications have
been drawn. The estimated cost is
$4,000 900 and the New York line will
be commenced as soon as the Chicago
line IS completed, which will be about
sixty days. The cost of Transporting
oil by the pipe line will be only few
cents barrel. The Standard Company
has commenced building additions to
its already immense refining works in
this city to meet the increased demand
the completion of the pipe line will
make.
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Bound to Have Her.

Miss Florry," said the employer.
you have been in my establishment as
bookkeeper Tor five years. and l have
raised your salary each year until now.
| am paying you all / can well afford.
and am afraid shall not be able to
raise the figures for next year any higher
than they are now-S1, 200"
You have been very kind to me. Mr.
Plummer." replied the young lady, but
| have been offered 81. 800 by Swagg &
Co to take their books next year"
The underhanded sneaks. Trying to
take my employees from me, are theyF
Well, they can't do It'll I'll give you
sl.400. Miss Florry. and you can snap
your fingers at Swagg & Co."
Fourteen hundred dollars is liberal
offer, Mr.. Plummer. and l am obliged to
you. but Shroat 81 Belknap sent me word
Yesterday that they would pay me 81 500
If would go into their Office as head
bookkeeper"
''Shroat & Belknap, hey? They're a
pretty pair of sharks They'll give you
$1,000, will theyf I'll see EN- in Los
Angeles frstY' exclaimed Mr.. Plummer.
See here. Miss Florry, I'll do better
than that. I'll take you into the firm.
I'll marry you'll Tell Shroat & Belknap
you are engaged. Ha' hal I'll marry
you, Florryf'
20. Mr.. 'Piummer (demurely). thank
you sincerely for your offer, but can
never be anything more than daugh-"
Wha-whatr' gasped the head Of the
firm.
Il have promised to marry your son
Harry. Mr.. Plummer"
Red fire and slow curtain. IL Chicago
Tribune