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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
To the Editor of the Globe.

To the Editor of the Globe.
After reading circular issued by the
American Wool Growers association, L
am led to ask the farmers and working
men of Minnesota: ''DoeS the tariff on
wool benefit the few or many?" How
many farmers keep sheep in proportion
to those who don't? The few who have
wool to sell at tariff prices, don't they
lose more than they gain by the prices
they have to pay for their blankets and
all WOODEN goods? Is it not like selling
their pork in the fall for cents pound
and buying it back in the winter sailed
for II centS-rather high price for salt.
Now If the farmers are not benefited or
the public in general by the wool tariff,
who are? 1t is the few sheep rancherS
and Eastern manufacturers. The one
pays nothing for his range, the other
can pound into his cloth all the shoddy
he pleaseS without fear of competition
and can amasS fortune with enough
to spare to defeat any bill before con-
greSS to touch the tariff and pull the
waste wool over your eyes. Now or
never. Your Blaine and antidote are
both before you. At the next presiden-
tial election come out like men; throw
party to the dogs. Vote free wool, to-
bacco, steel. lumber, coal, salt and tin.
These are every mans neceSSarieS. A
party which tries to keep up the prices
on these by tariff is no friend TO the
workingman. G. d. G. WILLIAMS,
Perham. Mimi.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
The Lost Sovereign.
New York Star.

new i OK STAR
Did you ever try to play on a cabman
that old joke of ''the lost sovereign"
It's lots of fun. A friend of mine tried
it last summer in London, and succeed
ed, too, in spite of the rather chestnuty
flavor of this practical joke. He took a
"growler" four-wheel cab after mid
night at Piccadilly circus to go to his
lodgings out in Bayswater. Remember
ing the staleness of the ''lost sovereign"
dodge he thought it would hardly Ego
down" with bright and cunning Lon
don cabby, but resolved to try just for
the fun of it. Just as they came in
front of public house a few
doors from his home the fare stuck
his head out of the cab window and or
dered the driver to halt. II say, cabby,
I've dropped soy in the straw on the
bottom of the coach; just pull up at
that pub till run in and get match
so that can find the cOin."
'All right, SIR" said the cabby. and
pulled up opposite the door of the tav-
ern.
My friend alighted and had taken
scarcely three steps in the direction of
the pub when 10! Mr.. Cabby whipped
up his horses and flew away into the
fOggy night, carrying with him (aS he
supposedly that sovereign snugly con-
cealed in the straw.
The gentleman, having now reached
his lodgings and without expense.
smiled SmOle like unto the neighing
of all Tattersalfs," and wickedly
gloated over the brilliant success of the
ancient sell.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
Clover Leaves.

When eX-Attorney General MacVeagh
was made member of the Glover club,
President Handy introduced him as fol-
lows:
Gentlemen, have the pleasure of
introducing to you Wayne MacVeagh,
who is rising young lawyer; you will
probably hear from him."
After he had sat down Mr.. Handy got
up and said:
Gentlemen. Wayne MacVeagh having
made speech, the enjoyment of the
evening will now begin"
When Treasurer Jordan began an
able address on finance, the club sang
''ROll, Jordan, ROLF" and when Treas
urer Jordan raised his voice in temper
the club went on with Jordan Is Hard
Road to Travel
Mark Twain was about to speak when
he was gravely asked why, if he was
really Mark Twain, he came under the
assumed name of Samuel l.. Clemens.
Mark eyed his interlocutor. Ex-Governor
Bum, of Idaho, whose daintinesS Of
garment is among the charms of the
Centennial City, and drawled out that
he had seen many wonders, but he had
"neVer before seen dude who called
himself governor" Bum sat down.
1t was the Glover club which kept
Henry Watterson from springing the
eagle by singing "The Old Kentucky
Home" and Tecumseh Sherman smile
by singing Marching Through Geor-
gia." Larry Jerome's famous speech
on his war SufferingS was clipped by
the club chanting There's RaZorS in
the Air.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
Owners of 1t All.

At Northwest Upper Village, Lower
Falls-which the reader will at once
know is thriving village in Massachu-
SettS-a young man came to the hotel to
take me over to see ''Our hall" He
wore a viSorless cap that was intended
to be an impression of an imitation of
aStrakhan, and his OvercOat was trimmed
with fur which had withStood the raw
ages of time and moth about as we'll as
fur trimming can be expected to with
stand the ravageS of those relentless
foes during constant and pitiless Strug-
gle of seventeen long and weary years.
He was pleasant and evidently pro-
feSSlonal young man, who explained the
''acOostickS" of ''Our hall'' to me showed
me what improvements 1--WE" had
made and contemplated making; said
that three parties of ''his people" were
on this circuit now; he was playing
them on two and three-night stands;
wouldn't do any other kind of business;
would rather keep his people on the
road on expense than hold them over at
a One-night town. That was the reason
that he didn't like to handle lecturers.
He had hesitated some time before TAX
ing me, and only did so to please some
He didn't care to handle lecturers.
Zens.
He placidly assented, and told me
had better leave the setting of the stage
to him, as lecturers knew nothing about
such things. He always managed
Beecher and Cough when they came on
this circuit, but
Just then short, fat man. with a
scowl that looked as though it had been
stolen from the property man, came on
the stage.
BILL" he roared, s'there's three
inches of dust in them boxes. Git into
'em right away, and then go down and
shift that coal over, as l told you"
And as Bill fled into ''them boxes"
and went to work [ saw that the re-
moval of his overcOat displayed a red
flannel shirt and paper collar. The
janitOr told me Bill was handy sort of
fellow about the house, but so all
killin' lazy you had to keep after him
with club all the time.
ROBERT j. BURDETTE.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
THE LUCKY YEAR.

If you have the blues, cheer up. Per-
haps it has never occurred to you that
years with three Fights in them are
lucky years. They don't come often,
only once in a thousand years, but it is
a lucky person who lives to see one of
them. There is an old Chaldean super
stitiOn that a year with three Fights is
one of unlimited blessings. None but
lucky stars are in the ascendency, fields
blossom with abundant harvests, the
cattle are lowing on thousand hills,
shepherds lead their flocks through
green pastures and by still waters, all
business enterprises prosper, everything
you touch turns to gold, want and fam
inc Skulk into their hiding places
until these days of universal prosperity
are over, pestilence seals his lips and
no foul breath poisons the atmosphere,
mirth holds high carnival, and for
twelve moons sorrow and signing
shall flee away. Those who have
faith in this ancient superstition will
derive additional comfort from the con-
Struction of the figures in this year.
There are three of kind and a one
spot. 1t is not the best arrangement of
the figurative symbolization that could
be made, yet it is better than anything
that will be done in the next thousand
wears
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
VOORHEES, GREAT SPEECH.

1t is probable that Senator SHERMAN
did not know that Mr.. VOORHEES, was
so well loaded, OF he would not have eX-
posed himself to the Scathing brOadside
which the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash
poured INTO him yesterday. of the
many brilliant forensic triumphs which
the Indiana senator has achieved during
his long public career, he never made
a more mastery argument than the
speech he delivered in the senate cham
Der yesterday in reply to Mr.. SEER-
MANS premeditated assault upon
the administration. JOHN SHERMAN is
man of prominence and ac-
knowledged ability, but his chronic as
pirations for the presidency have con-
verted him into a crank. He has got to
be like rattleSnake in dog days, Strik-
ing i'll the direction of every noise he
hears without any intelligence of what
he is striking at. Because Mr.. BLAINE
had the ready wit to fire off a response
to the presidents message on the spur
OF the moment, Mr.. SHERMAN became
imbued with the idea that it was his
duty as presidential candidate to as
sault the message also. Lacking in
those ready qualities which distinguish
the man from Maine, Mr.. SHERMAN
went at it in his characteristically cold
bloOded way. He sat down in the pri-
vacy of his closet and devoted days and
weeks to the preparation of a speech
which he imagined would startle
the nation by the cogency of its
reasoning and the brillancy of its style.
What must have been his surprise and
modification then, when, scarcely had
the speech been finished ard the echo
Of his own voice had not yet died away
in the senate corridors, the stalwart Or
ator of the Wabash knocked the under
pinning from under him with such sud-
den effect that Mr.. SHERMAN scarcely
knew whether he was going up or COM
ing down. 1t was stunning blow that
Mr.. VOORHEES, dealt him, and before Mr..
SHERMAN will have entirely recovered
from it Mr.. BLAINE will have been
nominated and defeated, and Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND will be sending in to congress the
first message of his second term con-
graduating the nation upon the over
throw of the protected monopolieS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
A Scotch SmuggIer's Retreat.

The revenue officers have discovered
another ingeniOusly-concealed snug
gler's ''bOthy'' in Strathearron, Ross
shire. In their search the officers fol-
lowed the gorge of stream which flows
in series of cascades through rocky
chasm of great depth, says the Edin-
burgh Scotsman. Here, twenty feet
from the bottom of the rocks, they
found one of the most artfully con-
Structed bOthieS ever seen. At first it
appeared to be cave, but on entering
it was seen that it had been scooped out
of the rock and rooted with plankS,
over which bOulders and shingles were
thrown in a haphazard way, as if the
whole were mass of debris from the
rocks overhead. The water channel to
with bOulderS-in fact, there was moth
ing to indicate that such a place eX-
listed except that the rocks above were
blackened with smoke. In the
bothy were found mash tun of $50
gallons capacity, a receiver of twenty
gallons capacity, thermometer,
several minor utensils, and, most
important of all, the poit-dubh, Cor
black pot, as the natives call the still.
How the SmugglerS managed to get
their goods in or out of such a danger
Gus place was puzzle to the officers,
until after some risky scrambling the
gorge was further explored, resulting
in the discovery of cleft in the rock,
down which rope ladder was sus-
pended from a tree at the top. Others
of the officers had in the meantime dis
covered another bothy, near which was
concealed mash tun of $50 gallons ca
pacity. All these utensils were de-
strOyed on the spot, except the still,
which was borne away as trophy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
FOR THE RACING MEETING.
The Twin City Jockey Club Dis
CuSSes WayS and Means.

A special meeting of the Twin City
Jockey club was held yesterday after
noon at the store of w. l.. McGrath to
consider what should be done to aid in
the proposed running meeting to be
given here this summer. Quite num-
Der of people were present, and good
deal OF interest was manifested. ID. l..
Hall. the secretary of the Detroit
Jockey club, was among those in at
tendance. and in response to a general
request explained what was necessary
to be done in order to render the pro-
posed meeting successful one. He
thought there could be no doubt that
such a meeting, properly managed,
would be profitable. In the first place
money enough should be subscribed to
make sure and certain the payment of
the purses. He expressed the opinion
that the entrance fees and admission
to the races would pay the running ex-
penSes. He was of the opinion that
there ought to be one stake race each
day for $1,000, and then purses enough
to make about $4,000 each day. The
gentlemen present talked over the mat
ter for awhile, and finally the result
was the appointment of number of
committees to solicit subscriptions. 1t
is understood that these committees
will 60 right to work and crowd the
matter through. The annual meeting
of the club will be held the LIST of this
month, and it must be known definitely
by that time whether or not the money
can be raised.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
LAUNDERING IRISH TIM.
"reminiscences Of an Eccentric
Member ola Michigan COmpany

"reminiscences of an Eccentric
Member ola Michigan Company.
Timothy McGarigle was private in
Battery X, First Michigan artillery. He
was distinguished as being the only
lrishman of company composed en-
tirely of Germans, and being killed at
Marietta, Ga, according to the field
surgeons report, and yet coming home
with his battery, and landing in Detroit
as fresh and Spry as when he left the
city for the Potomac as a member of
battery X, says the Chicago Tribune.
He was an embodiment of the senti-
ment so Justify sung by all the soldiers
that could raise tune in those stirring
times of war and bareback:
Let the wide world wag as it will,
I'll be gay and happy still
Tim was always gay and always
happy. He apparently cared for moth
ing. AS soldier, in the general mean
ing of the term, he had not the least
qualification; but as a cOmrade and a
general dispeller of blues he was brill
liant success.
Had he been charged with all the
clothing he wore and lost and the cost
deducted from his pay he would at this
day be in debt to the government, even
llou IT'D NoSCo gum vi otllCC HlS ulS-
charge. At least that is the testimony
of his officers. Even his haverSack was
not sacred to him. When it was we'll
filled with provisions a comrade came
to him and said: ''Tim, that is my
haversack you have" Tim looked at
him moment and said: ''Begorra, if
that is so just take it and welcome"-at
the same time unslinging the sack and
handing it to his comrade. Tim
went straightWay to his lieutenant
to ask for another haversack.
That officer replied: ''You shall
have none. l have given you dozen
already" 'sAll right" said Tim, and
walked away contented. A few minutes
afterWard, when the battery was ready
to march, Tim took his accustomed
place, and with haversack stu over
his shoulder. But such haversacl1!
He had taken off his drawers, tied the
bottoms of the legs together, stuffed his
ratiOnS into them, and, after tying the
top, hung the garment around his neck
bottom upward.
Rather than set up tent or be bur-
the open ground, literally no canopy
but the sky, no covering but his blanket.
One night at L o'clock he raped gently
on the tent pole of his lieutenant.
"Who's THEREOF called the officer. Its
me!' What now, Tim?' ''Sure, sir,
it's going to rain, and l want pick and
shovel to dig trench around me so |
will not get welt" ''You intolerable
nuisance" said the officer, ''if it does
rain crawl under my tent"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
MORNING JANUARY

emperor acquired taste for that sort
of object from the presence of his
friend, the small S0udanese in the
museum cabinet.
Queen Marie Caroline, of Naples, hay
ing heard of the little black prince in
Vienna, sent the Emperor Joseph lit
tie negress six years old. The child
died on the way to the Austrian capital,
and when the remains arrived there the
skin was tanned and placed beside An
gelo. The queen forwarded mulattO,
and afterward full-bloOded African
negro, both of whom died and found
,their way to the museum.
Those composed the collection when
the emperor died. Some years after h&
death Counselor Van SchreiberS was
cnpOinted director of the museum and
: II became Mortified at the appearance
o. the four tanned human skins. He
said they were not appropriate curios-
titles for such a collection, and
al had them removed to garnet,
where they were discovered in perfect
order on the 31st of October, 1S4S.
Prince Windischgraetz took Vienna by
assault that day. His cannon had been
playing Oh the imperial palace and set
fire to the museum. 1t was thus that
Angelo SOliman returned to dust, ac-
cOmpanied by his companions of the
glass case, after many years of private
and public service.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
The FINISH FIGHT OFF,.
Killen's BaCkers Claim to be Discour-
aged With Their Man.
FORFEITS FORMALLY DRAWN.
Dannie Needham Gets on a Fight
TO Finish With Jimmie
Griffin.

The fight to finish between Pat Kill
len, of st. Paul, and Mike COnley, of
Ashland, that was to have taken place
OH March l, within 200 miles of st. Paul,
is off, Last evening j. ID. Hayes and j.
l.. Black, representing Conley and Kill
len respectively, called at the GLOBE
Office and withdrew the forfeit of $3.50
per side. This was done at the sugges-
ton of Killen's hackers, who had decid-
ed not to stay behind Killen, Mr..
Hayes, COnley's hacker, was enti-
tied to the $3.50 forfeit, but
remarked that inasmuch as Mr..
Black had acted squarely and honestly
by him, he would agree that each man
take what he had deposited. Mr.. Black
stated that the reason for this was that
Killen's actions had discouraged him;
that he was arranging matches with
minor pugiliSts, and claimed he had
Hayes said he believed the weakness
lay in his heart instead of his hand.
Mr.. Black did not like Killen's action
in making matches with minor fighters
for gate receipts. Following this state
ment Mr.. Hayes said that he would back
COnley against any pugilist in America,
John l.. Sullivan barred. Also that
Conley could fight within thirty days
after the match was made. as he is al
ways in condition. Mr.. Hayes talks
business. and is decidedly opposed to
monkey business" AS soon as
the stakes were withdrawn, Mr.. Hayes
on behalf of Mr.. Conley, issued this
challenge for match: 81 hereby
challenge Pat Killen to a match with
small gloves, twenty rounds, for the
entire gate, or to be divided, rs and 25
per cent, or Oh any other terms, to be
mutually agreed upon, the match to
take place at any time after thirty days
notice, the place to be mutually agreed
upon within 200 miles of st. Paul, pro-
vided deposit of $3.50 is made as a
guarantee of appearance at the ring.
The deposit will be covered by us at
once"
WHAT KILLEN SAYS.
Il didn't KNOW" said Pat Killen last
night. "that the money had been with
drawn until just now. My hand is in
bad shape, and said that would pre-
fer that the fight be put off for month
longer. But said that if necessary |
would meet COnley in March or at
any time. l think the hackers are the
men who are pulling out. High license
is taking some of their cash. | will
meet COnley in March at the Washing
ton rink, or anywhere else, and give
him all the satisfaction he wants. will
be able to back myself next month, and
1'll do it. Pm ready to fight COnley
with one hand"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
Funeral Reform.


In this age of moral, social, political
and religious reform movements, no
agitation for improvement is more
deserving of serious consideration than
that which calls for greater economy in
conducting funeral rites and ceremonies.
Multitudes of poor families are made
much poorer every year by the indul-
gence of a desire to show that, if they
can afford nothing else, they can at
least afford to bury their dead respect
ably" This expression means very
often elaborate furnishings quite out of
keeping with the social condition of the
person lately deceased, including the
supply of a long string of carriages for
friends and host of undertaker's Incl
dental expenses, frequently amounting
to sum not to be gotten together with
out at least years pinching and priva-
ton
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
SENT FOR HER KNITTING
And Sat Her Opponent Out in a
Sitting Match.

An amusing civil rights incident is re-
ported from Beaufort, S. G.. During
the recent spell of mud and slush a
prominent gentleman met very large
and portly colored woman on the street
where there was only room for one to
pass along at time.
They met in the narrOWest place, and
neither would turn back for the other.
Each stood firm in front of the other.
After while the man sent a passing
boy after chair, and when 1t arrived
he quietly took his seat in front of his
antagonist. She also sent for a chair
and her knitting, and was soon COM
fortably seated in front of her opponent.
An admiring crowd had by this time
gathered around to see the show. 1t
was now about dinner time and the gen.
tleman was getting hungry. So he or
dered out table and his dinner from
neighbOring restaurant, and there ate
very hearty meal in the presence of a
very large crowd. He then very quietly
arose and informed his dusky opponent
that he no longer wanted to 20 in that
direction, and that he was going back to
his place of business.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS,
Soon Will come the cooler season

Soon Will come the cooler season
~ When car windows all must drop,
And the car stove, when the cars stove,
81 Will come out on top. =, Puck.
~ The Times wants to knew whether we
are to have stoves or steam on the rail
roads. We don't see what good rail-
road conld be without steam.-Life.
According to the fitness of railway
things, it seems as if the baggagemaster
should be called the Observation-Disclosures
Commercial Bulletin.
Conductor latter the accident)-Well,
sir, we have at last found your valet,
but, sad to say, he's cut in two"
English TOuriSt-Aw, veWy distress
ing! Sorry to trouble you, dontcher-
know, but I've never travelled in this
country before, would you see in which
half is the key of my trunk?-Life.
Citizen Ito railroad official What has
been done in regard to heating the cars
with steam?
Railroad Official-We have been con-
sidering the subject in its different
aspects.
Citizen-Ah, that's encouraging; cold
weather is almost here, you know.
What result have you reached?
Railroad Official-Well, not any. You
see we haven't quite finished the as
pects.-Judge.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
The Deadly Parallel.

That is ''deadly PARALLEL when Mr..
Blaine's recent interview on the tariff
on tobacco is compared with the school
text book of Iowa, the strongest Blaine
state in the union. 1t is as follows:
James G. Blaine] Iowa Text Book
Tobacco to millions Tobacco diminiSheS
of men is a necessity. the appetite for food.
The president calls tilt sometimes causes
a luxury, but it is a disease of the mouth
luxury in no other and throat. 1t weak
sense than tea and ems the strength. At
coffee are luXuries. first it soothes the
1t is we'll to remember nerves; at last makes
that the luxury of them irritable and I'M
yesterday becomes steady. The student
necessity OF to-day. whose brain is rem
Watch, if you please, dered more active by
the number of men it may find himself
at work on the farm, suffering at length
in the coal mine, the from head troubles
iron foundry or along and failure of nerve
the railroad, in anyIstrength, and he ends
calling, and you will his work before his
find % in 100 chew time. The business
ing while they work. man who has gone
After each meal theIbeyond his natural
same proportion seek powers with the aid
the sOlace Of a pipeIOf tobacco finally
or cigar. breaks down entirely