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St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
At the Matinee.
She seemed SO sweet and SO susceptib

She seemed SO sweet and SO susceptible,
So young and so petite so bright and full
OF tenderness that was fain to think
The go of love himself had forged a link
To join us twain, and fixed this lovely day ,
For me to find her at the matinee. <
My sleeve touched hers, my eyes her pro.
gramme swept,
We smiled alike, and when my neighbor
wept
My eyes grew dim, my heart beat loud and
fast
The ushers must have heard it. going past, !.
And when some extra touch my soul did
stir,
turned and took long fond look at her.
She gave me back my glance, and / can
swear
On that soft cheek a smile was lurking there.
No one can tell how proud was that day,
Except some other fellow at matinee.
Her fragrant handkerchief, her nut-brown
hair
Took me to bliss, and then to blank despair,
true;
Her sleeve touched mine again-I bolder
And with nonchalant but quiet mien
tucked my card her muff and glass be-
tween.
She lifted it without change Of face,
And in the sweetest tones with charming
grace,
Inquired: s'Haye you a mother living, sir?'
bowed my head. 'sThen please take this to
And then the siren wrote, and this is what
s read:
"Your little boy is ILL., Put him to bed
Detroit Free Press.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
BARNABEE'S FLUsH-FULL.

How Marie Stone Set the Cards
Up on the Bostonian Boys.
Ed r. Johnstone, general manager of
the Bostonians, which are to appear in
''Ideal English opera" at the Grand
opera house next week, fitted through
the city yesterday, says the Chicago
Times. He staid just long enough to
tell of one thing that happened to five
members of his company about two
months ago. The company was going
from New Haven to Boston. The train
was to leave at o'clock a. m.; so 81. G.
Barnabee, w. III. Macdonald, Oscar
We'll, Fred Pond and George Frothing-
ham began game of poker in the New
Haven station, and announced that they
intended to keep it up till they reached
Boston. Now, Marie Stone objects to
poker, especially poker which lasts all
night and keeps everybody in the car
awake, so she bethought her of frolic-
some and hinderouS scheme. She
strolled out from the station to take the
air, and when she returned she wore in
her pocket four packs of cards with
identical backs.
The train drew up before the station
and the game was transferred from the
waiting room to the sleeping car. Miss
Stone, in the solitude of her own cell at
the other end of the car. took all the
spades from the four packs and threw
the rest of the cards away. With this
pack of spades she approached the play
ers, and, gracefully presenting them
with the nice new pack, took their old
ones and flung them out of the window.
The game proceeded and Miss Stone
quietly retired. Barnabee dealt and
Macdonald held the age. We'll looked
at his hand and promptly came in.
little of it himself. rockingham said
it would cost dollar more to play
poker with him. Barnabee gathered up
his hand, skinned it down, said ''GoSh,"
and raised it another dollar. Macdonald
tilted it the limit.
So they went until every one of them
had bet everything but the filling in his
teeth. Then Barnabee said:
"Well, gentlemen, cards?"
"Not any for me-" said Macdonald.
ssNor me-" quoth We'll.
"These'll do me-" said Pond.
II like mine," added FrOthingham.
Barnabee laid down the pack.
s'How many does the dealer take?"
asked Pond.
mot any," replied Barnabee.
ENeEyDouy lOOhou dt eVeIyUOuy elSe
and then at Barnabee, as if to say: eff
the dealers wins this pot we shall know
how he did it."
Nobody had much of anything left to
bet, so a call all around was soon
reached.
ssFlush here" said Macdonald.
'Flush here, too" said each of the
rest.
s'How big?" asked Macdonald.
"Jack high" said Weil,spreading five
spades.
"Queen here" said Pond.
81 get it, l guess" said rockingham.
GIVE got an ace and king" and he
reached for the pot.
"Noyou DON'T" said Barnabee; 81 get
it myself. I've got two aces and three
Sevens of spades-a flush full" And
sure enough he had.
Then there was general comparison
and search through the pack. The
whole thing was an aggregate flush.
"Well," said Pond, 1--WE can play
without fiuShes."
.'No. we can't" said Barnabee, as he
cashed in all the chips in the car. "We
can't play poker with pack of spades.
Pm going TO bed" and he did.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
LOSING GROUND.
The G. o. p. Has Got to Hustle to
Keep Up Majorities This Year.

The G. o. p. Has Got to Hustle to
Keep Up Majorities This Year.
The Blaine men in Minnesota have
taken much heart over the Endorsement
OF their favorite son in the East, and
think now that nothing can beat him for
the nomination. Their efforts are re-
newed to make the Minnesota delega-
ton Blaine one first, last and all of the
time. Bill King, of Minneapolis, good
authority says, is at the bottom of this
movement, and his finances and schem-
ing are shaping things Maineward.
The May 16 convention will probably be
strong one, but just now it looks to a
man up tree as if the delegation chosen
would be SOlidly Blaine. In connection
with Blaine's possible denomination it is
well to consider that Minnesota is no
longer solidly Republican state, and
that even a magnetic name cannot
bring back into line hundreds
and thousands of discontented Re-
publican voters. The Republicans claim
that it is not fair to judge their strength
by McGill's vote. But it would seem to
be fair to estimate their strength at just
what candidate nominated by them,
and lndOrSed received, and more unfair
w SOii.'iuSf IuO pIOoCuU
strength Oh the basis of Blaine'S vote of
1884. The campaign of 1884 was fought
without any particular issue except as
to whether Mr.. Blaine or Mr.. Cleveland
should hold an Office. Issues not hav-
ing been raised in the West, party lines
were well adhered to. In 1886 in Min
neSOta there was an issue. 1t was the
question as to whether the ''bOss" ele-
ment of the Republican party should
win or not, and the ''bosses" won ON
slender margin of 1900 votes. In 1888,
in the face of the growing prohibition
vote, the Democratic f-for-revenue
platform, and the nomination of McGill
by the "bosses." where is Mr.. Blaine's
magnetic vote coming in? Take, for in
stance, Grant county, where Blaine had
700 majority and McGill 400. How much
of this will be left Oh the simple issue of
Republican protection or Democratic
low taxes! 1t is "a farmers county es-
sentially, and not even to be stolen by
the Republicans. Republican prosper
ity in Minnesota is Indicated by de-
clining scale, as the following table of
majoritieS show. Strange that in year
where 10000 more votes were cast than
when Blaine ran, McGill should lose so
much.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
1924 II, ,22sI 12,7esI ND 2.522
From this it will appear that these

FROM GnlS III Will appear CnaC GneSe
brewerieS, all in existence in 1886, pro-
dueed 1000 less barrels of beer in 1887
(March) than they did in in March, 1886;
but that in 1888 (March) their produc-
ton was only 500 barrels less than in
1886. Ten brewerieS in 1888 increased
their production over that Of 1886. Six
teen breweries decreased their produc-
ton in 1888 from that of 1887. In the
case of only one brewery is the decrease
so large that other than trade reasons
might be assigned for it There is moth
ing, as far as high license is concerned,
in the beer trade to indicate any marked
decrease in production.
The whisky trade. on the other hand,
is flourishing. While dealers might
talk some about competition, and prices
being down, yet they do not deny that
more whisky is being sold in the state
than ever before. There are more
wholesale liquor houses in the state than
last year: those that the local-option
law in Dakota affected, crossing the Red
river at once and establishing them
selves here. While one effect of high
license undoubtedly has been to reduce
the number of saloons temporarily, it
has at the same time made it profitable
for the wholesale houses to open bars,
and they are generally doing so. The
cheap grade of spirits handled by whole
sale houses are, as rule, rectifed goods.
How that business has increased can be
seen from this table, which shows the
rectifying business of One-half of the
number of rectifiers in the state for the
months of February and March, 1887 and
1888:
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
DON'T BE DECEIVED.

No intelligent man should allow HIM
self to be deceived by the false cries
which the Republican politicians are
uttering in order to distract attention
from their scheming. No one should
suffer himself to be hoodwinked by the
mud-slinging at reputable men, whose
only offense is that, by the choice OF a
majority of their fellow citizens, they
occupy public offices which the Repub-
lican politicians covet.
No one should be deceived by the hyp-
ocritical cries of the blatant Repub-
iican partisans. They profess that their
efforts are directed solely in the public
interest. That is all bosh. The only
interest they know is the cent per cent
they squeeze out of the poor man with
irOn-clad mortgages and usurlous
loans. They SIMULTANEOUSLY declare
that it is the public good alone
for which they are laboring. That is
arrant nonsense. 1t is for their own
private good, estimated in dollars and
cents, that they are reaching out. They
profess to have an abiding love for the
workingman, and yet they never lose all
opportunity to grind him down to the
lowest limit of endurance for the pur-
pose of putting few extra dollars in
their pockets. Oh, they are a highly
successful lot of hypocrites, these silk
stocking Republican politicians and
their constituencies tools, but their
hypocrisy is of kind the st. Paul
Uofarc will baua nnna nf
They would command more respect
if they came boldly forth and acknowl-
edged the real object of their pursuit to
be the Offices; but as it is they arouse
nothing but disgust, feeling that will
exhibit itself in the well-merited re-
buke the voters will deal out to them at
next Tuesdays election.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
A Brilliant Gathering.
Special to the Globe.

Special TO the GlODe.
PITTsBURG, Pa, April 27.-The Mon
ongahela house was tonight the scene
of the most brilliant gathering of states
men and prominent individuals that
Pittsburg has known in many years.
The occasion was the second annual
dinner of the Americus Republican
club, in honor of the sixty-sixth ami
versary of the birth of Gen. u. S..
Grant. Among those who surrounded
the festal board were: Senator John
Sherman, of Ohio; Senator Benjamin
Harrison, of Indiana: Gov. James A.
Beaver, of Pennsylvania; Hon. John
Dalzell, of Pennsylvania; Senator
NJ. S. Quay, of Pennsylvania;
John G. New, of Indiana; Col. James
p. Foster, president of the league of Re-
publican clubs, of New York, Lieut..
Gov. Davies, Pennsylvania, Col Fred ID.
Grant and many others of almost equal
prominence. Covers were laid for POI
members of the Americas Republican
club and their guests. Fronting the seat
of master of ceremonies, Hon. John
DalZell, was displayed the most noted
portrait of Gen. Grant in existence. On
the right of this, heavily draped in
mourning. was an excellent picture of
Roscoe COnkling. The walls were taste
fully decorated with the national en-
blems, while floral designs innumerable
Ornamented the table.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28

there is no further temperance legisla-
ton the number Of saloons in Mime
sofa in 1889 will be greater than
the number in operation in 1887 prior to
the enforcement of the new law. The
other evils the law was supposed to
reach gambling in saloons, selling of
liquor to minors, women in saloons,
liquor in houses of ill-fame, still flour
ish, and force of 5000 policemen to
each city could not as the law is, pre-
vent them. Another way in which the
law is evaded in many instances is,
where salOonkeeper by violation of
the law cannot renew his license. He
has it taken out in the name of his wife.
As to blind pigs. the state is sown with
them, more thickly than it ever was be-
fore. The inference to be drawn from
all this is that high license has only
succeeded in one particular. 1t has en-
riched municipal treasures at the ex-
penSe of the drinker. The sentiment
for a graded high license law is grow
ing, and if prohibition does not sweep
the state within two years, will be
heard from in the legislature,
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
CANADIAN BUDGET.
No Changes in the Tariff-Finan-
ces Very Stringent.

OTTAWA, April 27.-Sir Charles Tup-
per delivered his annual budget speech
in the house of commons this afternoon.
The surplus revenue over expenditures
for the year ending June 80 last, Sir
Charles said, was 1887. The estimated
revenue this year was S9G, 900, 900 and the
estimated expenditures S37, 900, 900, show
ing probable deficit of $1,000,000 for
the year ending June 80, next. The es|
timated revenue for 1S8S-S9 was $780,.
100000. The expenditures for the year
would, however, be kept down to wipe
out the probable deficit of Sl,000,000
and make the two years balance
one another. The country was in
a stringent financial condition, but was
sound at the core, and there were indi-
cations that the stringency was passing
away. There had been applications for
further tariff changes, but the govern
ment did not propose to make any alter
ations this year. The government had
decided to postpone for the present the
proposed increase of duties on steel,
with a view of establishing steel rolling
mills in Canada. A year ago, the speaker
said, he had referred to the very un-
pleasant relations that were then threat,
.ened between the United States and
Eanada. He was glad that the cloud
had been driven away by the fishery
treaty which had been concluded be-
tween the two countries. The parla-
ment OF Canada would undoubtedly
ratify the treaty, but no matter what
the action of the senate of the
United States might be, he believed
nothing would disturb the continuously
harmonious intercourSe-that friendly
reciprocity of good neighborhood be.
tween the countries. 1t was proposed
to perpetuate the good feeling now
existing by taking steps to meet the
provisions of the Mills bill. He be-
lieved Canada did not require a re-
enactment of the reciprocity treaty OF
1854 in its entirety, valuable as the re-
suits of that treaty were to the domn-
ion. He had every hope that the Mills
bill would become law this year, and
in order, therefore, that Canadian lum-
Der and salt might enter the United
States free under the terms of that bill,
the government sought to obtain power
to abolish the export duties by an order
in council. He twitted the opposition
with changing their ground from COM
mercial union to unrestricted reciprOc-
ity. which he characterized as "the
widest chimera ever proposed by any
party"
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
A SCHEME DISCOVERED
To Make Scheffer the Candidate
of the Democratic Party.

OF the Democratic Party.
Delano Eagle.
Mr.. Scheffer, with all his abilities and
excellent qualities for the office, will
not secure the nomination by the Re-
publican convention for governor or for
any other state Office, and it is said by
parties who are very close to him, that
he does not expect to be nominated by
that party. Mr.. Scheffer. or his sup
porters, having already indorsed the
Farmers Alliance platform, will repu-
date the Republican platform, and the
Democrats will indorse or nominate him
as their candidate. This is said to be a
faYorite scheme Of prominate Demo-
Gratis, including P. 81. Kelly and NJ.
Doran, who are anxious to unload DR..
Ames, and will see to it that the Demo-
cratic state convention for the nomina-
ton of governor and other state officers
will be held within week or so after
the Republican convention, so that this
very scheme can nicely and conven-
iently be carried out.
Should the above scheme be success
fully and, to all parties concerned, sat-
isfactorially carried out, the chances
are, should the Republicans renominate
little man McGilI, that Mr.. Scheffer
will be the next governor of Minnesota,
and the Democrats will have grand
jubilee over their victory.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
| March.
Total gallons rectifed Feb
ruary. 16,51O 16, 160
Total gallons rectifed March, Is, 29S 1S,947

Total increase in 1855.

Total increase in 1888. 5,3O4
7 So that high license has, to all ascer-
tainable intents and purposes, not af-
fected the whisky OF beer trade. The
business is doing so well that 1925,
600 distillery is being erected in South
st. Paul. and one of the largest brewing
firms of Milwaukee is about to open eX-
tensive and magnificent headquarters
in ST. Paul. High license has not been
able to reach either the large number of
social clubs, so-called, that are spring
ing up in all parts of the state, where
liquor is freely served. These clubs
supplant to a certain extent the saloons
and do not pay the $1,000 or $500 fee.
They exist in st. Paul and Minneapolis
and a number of the country towns.
One noticeable feature of high license
in the cities has been to make costly
saloons the rule rather than the eXcep-
ton. st. Paul, since high license went
into effect. has had more fine saloons
elegant bars, fixtures, etc.-Open than
ever before that time. There has not
been either perceptible diminution of
grOggerieS. as one who walks certain
streets in any of the larger towns can
see. While the first operation Of the
law shut up in the state $500 saloons,
there are indications that they are pre-
pairing to open again. The number in
st. Paul and Minneapolis keeps steadily
increasing. and the same is the case in
outside cities. 1t is safe to say that if
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
A HARD DOSE.

Those Republican organs in Mime
sofa that would make it appear that the
Republican party is for tariff reform
must feel uncomfortably sat down upon
by the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
Republican state conventions held this
week. Both of these conventions
adopted platforms favoring protective
tariff, and made it certain that they de-
sire BLAINE for president.
One can sincerely pity them from this
time on for the squirming that they will
have to pass through before they can re-
swallow Mr.. BLAINE and protection.
We can hear the ringing voice of that
prince of independents, KNUTE MEL
SON, declaring:
81 will put free sugar, free coal, free
salt and free lumber against free whisky
and free tobacco under all circum-
stances, and so will the great mass of
the American people"
We can at the same time see alleged
tariff reform Republican organs of Min
nesota lugubriously placing the name
of JAMES G. BLAINE at the head of their
editorial columns and beneath his twin
declarations:
81 would remove the tax from tobacco
at once. l would wisely fos-
ter, not reduce, protection"
No wonder that Mr. NELSON is not in
sympathy with his party, nor that EARLE
S. YoUMANs supports the MILLS bill
and Gen. JOHN B. SANBoRN voted for
CLEVELAND. When Republicanism
sinks to the level of hypocrisy and deceit
that it has, the brightest minds within its
ranks are fain to leave. Mr.. BLAINE
for president and protective tariff
platform is the dose that Brothers
WHEELooK, EVANS, HEATwoLE and
the rest of them have got to swallow
this year, willy nilly.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
Hurts the Party.

DIdIItIU NEWS.
The Moorhead News takes the Pioneer
Press to task in five column editorial
on the heresy and inconsistency of it's
reputed Republican doctrines. If it
would only have the grace to come out
and call itself mugWump and not en-
deavor to stab the Republican party in
the guise of friend under the fifth rib,
it might, perhaps, be said to have le-
gltimate field in partisan journalism.
Now. Now the paper appears without any
claims to be Republican paper. The
Moorhead News by compendiOus quota
tions from editorials of the Pioneer
Press points out its inconsistency and
the manner in which it Injuries the Re-
publican party of the state.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28

medical school, the university trustees
have chosen as model what competent
authorities declare to be the best one of
these, the Harvard medical school,
whose course is three to four years in
length, and whose instruction is so
thorough and examinations so severe
that the possession of a diploma argues
the possession also Of as good medical
education as can be given in the schools.
There is need and room for just such
a school in the Northwest, and there is
noreason why, pursuing this plan to
its logical conclusion, the trustees of
the state university cannot establish it,.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
The scheffer Platform.

Reu Lake FAILS News.
Albert Scheffer is in confused state
of mind, and is making up platform
upon which he may be indorsed by any
Or all parties. 1t will be a platform
that will be wet for dry people and dry
for those who may be wet. 1t will be
backplastered, lined with tar paper,
cork holes and scuttle hole in the roof,
with veneered finish. which will be oil
upon the waters for both Democrats and
Republicans, still permitting each to
stand well in their respective parties.
1t will be written in the blood of a
lamb to indicate its innocence, but forti-
fed with the horns of billy goat, en-
blematical OF pugnacity.
1t was but the work of an hour for the
alliance to adopt him, but who will
adopt the alliance.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28

cabinet; Gov. Ames, Gov .Lounsbury.' of
Connecticut; Gov. Davis and ov.-Elect
Laft, of Rhode Island. Lieut.. Gov.
Fuller, of Vermont; Hon. A. ii.
Rice, Hon. A. A. Ranney, Hon.
w. w. Crapo and others. Gen,
Hawley was unavoidably absent, but
sent letter of regret. A large banquet
hall was elaborately decorated for the
occasion, life-size bust of Gen. Grant
occupying a commanding position,
while at the end of the main hall was
glory of flags with gilded eagle and
shield of the national colors, the shield
being crossed by a band bearing the
name of Grant. Hon. A. w. Beard
presided at the banquet, while seated
before him around the tables were up
ward of 800 gentlemen, many of whom
have achieved a national reputation.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
Becoming the Rage.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 27.-Miss Ada
Bell Richards, daughter of the late
Capt. S. G. Richards, of this city, a
cousin of President Arthur, was mar
ried last night at the Glasgow Avenue
Presbyterian church to DIR. Wright, of
the Choctaw Nation, Indian territory,
the ceremony being performed by Rev.
DR.. Marshall, cousin of the bride.
The groom is quarter bloOded Choctaw
Indian, son of the late Gov. Wright,
of the Indian territory. He is well
educated physician, thirty years old and
quite handsome. The couple became
acquainted while Miss Richards was
doing missionary work in the territory
last year.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
Limbering Its Neck.

Houston Argus.
Since the election in November, 1884,
the neck of the Pioneer Press has had a
real Democratic stiffness. 1t has de-
nounced without stint the fallacy on
which the protective tariff rests, and
free trade papers in the East have quoted
it with warmth. There is strong evil
dence in its columns of late, however,
that it is limbering it's neck so that it
can ''bOW its head' to the protective
tariff plank which the Chicago conven-
tion will sling at the West, and MAIN
tain its proud position as true and
steadfast organ of it's party even if it
has to put on the shelf every conviction
it holds Or policy it has advocated.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
Leads to Free Trade.

WrIgUC IImGS
The editor of the Howard Lake Her.
aid, in his first number announced his
paper as Republican; in the second
number, now before us, he places HIM
self and his paper pretty squarely on a
free trade platform. The influence of
college training, as we are compelled to
admit, is in the free trade direction, and
the editor of the Herald is crammed
full of university knowledge and theo-
rieS.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
At a Premium.
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Red Lake Falls News.

Red Lake Falls News.
Available candidates for governor, on
both sides in this state are now at a
spot cash premium, and those who have
any good stock on hand, that will an
swer the purpose, should not be over
modest in bringing it to the front. for
measurement and sizing up. They
must be magnetic, able to draw on sight,
running capacity, two forty in the sand,
with a record having no loud smell.