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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
BURLEsoUING DoNNELLY.

The Little Cryptogram is the title of
neat little pamphlet issued by j. G.
PYLE, of this city. in which the author
i'll facetious yet most skillful manner
exposes the fallacy of Mr.. DoNNELLY's
Great Cryptogram. Mr.. PYLE borrows
Mr.. DoNNELLY's own style of argument
and adopts the DoNNELI.Y process OF
manipulating ciphers and then proceeds
to show that the celebrated plays have
just as much reference to IGNATIUs
DoNNELLY as they have to FRANCIS
BACON. As an illustration he takes
Mr.. OoNNELLY's root number 523 and
applies TO deciphering "Hamlet." On
one page he, in Ophelia's mad song
finds the word 'don." Then turning
three pages further on in the graveyard
scene, by an application of the cipher
process according to the DoNNELLY
method, the author of Little Cryptic
gram finds the expression mill he"
Putting this and that together he makes
the word "Don-nill-he''-Do
which, according to DoNNELI.Y reason
ing. would prove that BACoN's pre-
science enabled him to see down through
the vista of years the coming or his de-
livercr. Altogether MI. PYLE's bur-
lesque on the DoNNELLY cipher is
equally as clever and ingenious as MI
DoNNELLY's original burlesque.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
PENSION APPROPRIATIONS.
The Bill Passed by the Senate
Yesterday,

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE pension
appropriation bill was taken up by the
senate o-day. the question being on the
amendment reported by the committee
on appropriation to strike out the words
''that in all pensions to widows, pay
mentS shall be made from the date of
the death Of the husband" and to in
Sert ''that all payments which have
been or which hereafter may be granted
under the general laws regulating pen
sions to widows in consequence of death
occurring from cause which originated
in service since the 4th of March, 1861,
shall commence from date of death of
the husband" Mr.. COckrell moved to
amend the amendment by striking out
the words (which have been or" so as
to cOntine its application to future pen
sionS. He estimated that the addi-
tional cost under the senate amend
ment would be S1.473,00 If his own
amendment were adopted the additional
cost for 1889 would be $150.0OO. Mr..
Blair commented sarcasticaly on
the liberality recently displayed in the
house of representatives towards those
who had served OH the Union side in
the war of the rebellion, commenting
particularly on the report of the house
committee OH pensions to remove the
arrearageS limitations which would cost
a mere bagatelle of S250,0O0.0 900. In
view of that daWning reason, and that
sense of justice on the part of the Dem
ocratic majority in the house, he thought
that the senator might show a little
iberality in this matter. Mr.. Paddock
suggested that the members of house
committee on pensions should be OBJ
served, as he understood tina the chair
man of the committee had been playing
altogether lone hand" Mr.. Beck
inquired the meaning of the phrase a
'lone hand" and was informed that if
there was any place in the world where
the term was perfectly understood it
was Kentucky. Mr.. Beck spoke with
some bitterness as to the course of the
house committee on pensions, and adj
mitted that both parties were
pandeTing equally. to what was
called public OPINION" that was
to the efforts of pension agents.
such measures to have to play pretty
nearly "a lone hand" He declared his
purpose. whenever the fax bill came be-
fore the senate to move an income tax
to be applied to pensions, so that the
holders of accumulated wealth should
contribute to the support of those who
were supposed to have made such Sacri-
fees for the protection of that wealth.
The wealthy men he would have to pay
this income tax might theE try to hold
in check the political demagogues of
both parties. Finally the vote was
taken on the amendment offered by Mr.
Cockrell, and it was disagreed to yeas
20, nays 23, party vote, except that Mr.
Blodgett voted with the Republicans in
the negative. The amendment reported
by the committee on appropriation was
then agreed to without division and the
bill was passed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
MISSOURI DEMOCRATS.
The Delegation Instructed for
Cleveland.

SEDALIA, Mo-, May 1.-THE Demo
cratic state convention to select dele
gates to the st. Louis national con-
vention met in this city at II noon, and
were called to order by Daniel X.
Shields, chairman of the state central
committee. Joshua Ladue, of Henry
county, was made temporary chairman,
and after the appointment of the usual
committees, the convention took a re-
cess until 2 p, IN. At the afternoon
session the committee on permanent OF
ganiZation reported for permanent
chairman Gen. John Hockadale, of
HALFWAY county, and for secretary, A.
p. Speed, of Cooper county. The fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously
adopted;
We, the Democracy of the state of
Missouri, in convention assembled, de-
clare that we ind0rse, unQualifiedly, the
honest. courageous and economical adj
ministratiOn of Grover Cleveland, and
hereby instruct our delegates to the
national convention to vote as unit for
his denomination, and also to vote Tor a
platform embodying the principles OF
the tariff reform set fourth IN his last
annual message, lndorsing as we Go
without modification or reserve the
position assumed by President Cleve-
land. We send greetings to the Mis-
souri, delegation in congress, and assure
its members that the representative
who most closely adheres in his legisla-
tive course to the president will best
win the thanks of the people who gave
him their franchises.
Four delegates at large to st. Louis
were elected as follows: John O'Day,
ID. w. Carruth, E. L. Martin and Nat
G. Dryden. Adjourned sine die.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
HOARY HEADS.
Famous Aged Ones Whose Sands
Are Nearly Run.

If the following, among the worlds
their respective birthdays this year,
Bismarck will turn seventy-thre
Simon Cameron will be cighty-nine.
George William Curtis will turn sixty
four.
Verdi and Admiral Porter will touch
seventy-four.
John Bright and Edwards Pierrepont
will be Seventy-one.
Adelaide Ristori and Phil Sheridan
will turn SiXty-seVen.
Benjamin III. BriStow and Edwin Booth
will be fifty-five.
Judge Stephen J. Field and Gen. n.
P. Banks will be seventy-twO.
Jefferson Davis and Hamilton Fish
will clear f0ur-scOre.
Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston and John G..
Whittier will be eighty-one.
Gen. Sherman and Gen. LongStreet
will blend blue and gray at sixty-eight.
Prof. Asa Gray, Martin F. Upper
and CassiuS NJ. Clay will reach seventy
eight.
Max Mueller, Thomas Hughes, Ernest
Renan and John Sherman will be sixty
five.
Wilkie Collins, Prof. Huxley, George
L
will be SiXty-three.
John c. Fremont, Benson j. Losing
and Meissonier will have lived just
three-QuarterS of century.
Gladstone, Hannibal Hamlin, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Robert G. Schenck
and Alfred Tennyson will be seventy
nine.
Ferdinand Gle Lesseps, the French
engineer, and David Dudley Field, the
American lawyer, will reach eighty
three.
George Bancroft, the American his
torian, and Won MOltke, the German
warrior, will be eighty-eight-as old as
the century.
Queen Victoria, John Ruskin, Gen.
Rosecrans. Cyrus w. Field aud Julia
Ward Howe will score SiXty-nine sum-
merS.
r. B. Hayes, Donald q. Mitchell,
James Parton, Rosa BOnheur, Dion
Boucicault and "Oliver Optic will
reach siXty-six.
The spirit of seventy-six will animate
Robert Browning, George TicknOr Cur
tbs, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Octave
Feuillet.
Three-score and ten will number the
years of GOunod, James Anthony
Froude, Gen. Beauregard. Benjamin 4.
Butler and William M. EvartS.
Carl Schurz will be fifty-nine, Blaine
fifty-eight. Prof. Haeckel ffty-four,
Mark Twain fifty-three, L. 3. Aldrich
fifty-two, Grover Cleveland fifty-one,
Bret Harte f0rty-pine, Thomas Mast,
forty-eight, the prince of Wales forty
seven, and Adelina Patti, forty-fve.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
MAIN SPEED.
The Old Dispute OF Fast Time Re
viyed Again.

Many questions have been asked con-
corning the highest speed possible to be
attained by railway locomotive. The
London Engineer submits the state
ment that eighty miles an hour is the
greatest possible limit, and for the fol-
lowing reasons:
Because no greater velocity has ever
been attained.
Because of the resistance of the air.
Because of the back pressure in the
cylinders.
Because of the amount of power which
must mo doubt be lost in imparting
violent motions to masses OF metal
which can make no return when COM
ing 10 rest. The swinging motion of the
engine, the excessive vibration of its
parts, and the jar and conclusion all
operate to the same end and tend to
keep down the speed"
Because of 1.-The extraordinary retard-
ing influence of very moderate rising
gradients"
Because of the coupling rod-''it ap-
pears to be beyond question that coup
ling an engine tends to keep down the
Speed.'
This scarcely seems to settle the mat
ter. There is not defect in the
mechanism which can not probably be
remedied or improved The whole
question depends on the resistance of
the air and of friction. The resistance
of mechanical friction does not increase
with the speed. but with the weight of
the load to be drawn. and it does not ap-
pear that the resistance of the air
through which the train moves increases
i'll such ratio with the acceSsions of
motive power as to neutralize the in
crease of velocity that should ensue.
With smooth, solid and stable track
way and improved mechanism for ere
ating and utilizing steam power, there
seems to be no good reason why trains
may not attain the rate of 100 miles per
hour. But it would be manifestly dan
gerous to attempt such speed on the
average American railway. There are.
of course, limits to the power of all
mechanism, but it does not appear that
all the possibilities of rapid transit by
rail have yet been exhausted.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
PAIRING 1T DOWN.

The house appropriations committee
is now engaged in the arduous duty of
pairing down the river and harb0r bill.
1t has already made mess of it. The
vitality necessary appropriation asked
for the Duluth harbor, for the $500"
canal and for other lake improvements
have been cut down to point which
will render possible but very little eff
fective work in those directions, and the
end is not yet.
There is no doubt in the world but
that the bill does need a good deal of
pruning, but the committee seems to be
so constituted as to be unable to dis
criminate between the necessary and
the baselesS appropriations which are
little better that downright robbery.
That enormous sums should be voted
for every little trout stream for which a
member may ask an appropriation, to
be expended in his district, of course,
and thereby increasing his personal
popularity, is preposterous, yet in scores
of instances practically that very thing
has been done. Naturally then the sum
total of the bill is tremendous
The committee observes that fact and
notes the necessity for cutting down the
estimates. Very proper, of course. But
how does it do it? Does it throw out
rivers? BY no means. 1t simply cuts
down the large estimates which have
been made up by reputable engineers
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
IN MARYLAND.
The Republicans Meet and Elect
Delegates.

EAsToN, Nd, May 1.-THE RepuDli
can state convention met here to-day
and was largely attended. The dele
gates were harmonious and enthusiast
tic. Chairman Conkling made brief
speech, and DR.. Wash c. Tuck was
unanimously elected temporary chair
man. A permanent organization was
effected with Col. L. S. Holds in the
chair. The platform denounces the
Democratic tariff policy, favors the abo-
lition of taxes on tobacco and alcohol
for use in the arts, and modification of
the duty Oh sugar. Other sections de-
nounce the administration as false to its
professions of reform in the civil Serv-
i've; favor liberal pension policy; APP
prove the action of Congressman Nc
Comas and other Republicans in con-
greSS in opposing. the Mills tariff bill
and urge them to persevere in defeat
ing every device intended to place upon
the statute book the free trade theories
of Mr.. Cleveland'S annual message"
And without expressing any preference
pledge hearty support to the nominees
of the national Republican convention.
The following delegates were chosen to
Chicago: Walter B. Brooks, Gen. Adam
E. King, William d. Burchinall, Daniel
ID. Dickson, DR.. w. G. Tuck. Hon. Mil
ton G. Urner and Thomas GoruSch. f.
Snowden Hill and John r. Bond were
named as electors at large. Adjourned.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
Two BanuuetS.

WASHINGTON, May 17.-Just after
the Ingalls-Voorhees episode in the SEN
ate the friends and admirers of both
senators rendered each reception, and
selected tonight for the occasion. The
reception to Senator Ingalls, brought a
large crowd to the club house of the
Republican league, where speeches
were made by Senators Ingalls, and
Sherman, Representatives Perkins,
of Kansas, and tombstone, of
Indiana, and Judge Shellabarger.
Senator ingalls, in his speech criticised
the nomination of Mr.. Fuller to be chief
justice of the United States. A re-
ceptiOn to Senator Voorhees, was held
at Wizards hall, which was deliberately
decorated and filled to overlooking. The
speakers were Senator Voorhees,; Rep
resentative Cultivate, of Ohio; Caruth,
of Kentucky, and Compton, of Mary
land: eX-GOv. Curtin and Commission
ers Black, Stockslager and Hall, of the
pension, land and patent offices re-
spectively. Prolonged applause greeted
every mention of President CleveIand's
name,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
Newspaper Advertising.

There is a volume of practicle bust
ness sense in the single sentence used
by John Wanamaker, the Million
aire merchant of Philadelphia, about
advertising business. He says: 'My
plan Tor or ifteen years mas mas been zee to buy
what l wanted. would not give an adj
yertisement in newspaper of 400 cir
culation for 5000 dodgers or posters. ),
Advertising by cards however costly.
and by circulars however elegant, is
simply advertising for the waste basket
as a rule. For one-fourth the cost of
getting up and mailing cards or circu-
lars, the widely-read newspaper will
present the business advertisement to
double, treble or quadruble the number
OF people, and the newspaper is always
read, news, advertisements and all.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
REPORTED F4VORABLY.
Railway Right of Way Through
Reservations.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, May II. Senator
Dawes, from the committee on Indian
affairs. favorably reported the Spooner
bill, which is the same as Hudd's house
bill granting right of way to the Mil
waukee u Lake Shore railway through
the Lac Flambeau reservation in Wis
conSin. Also, with an amendment, the
bill granting right of way to the Yank-
ton " Missouri Valley Railway company
through the YanktOn Indian reservation
in Dakota. The Dawes amendments re-
Quire the consent of the Indians with
compensation wholly in the discretion
of the secretary of the interior: maps of
the definite location; the road TO be op-
Grated with due regard to the rights of
the Indians; the road through improved
lands must be fenced and kept fenced.
and the road shall execute bond in the
penal sum of $4,000 for uses and bene-
fit of Indians, and damages may be OBJ
tanned before any court in the territory
for any actionable doings of the com
pany by suit through the United States
courts and all such damages shall be
turned into the United States treasurer
to the credit OF the Indians.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

The Democratic convention behaved
most handsomely yesterday. 1t was a
fine representative body. composed of
| earnest, intelligent Democrats, who had
the cause of Democracy at heart, and
who came together with the determine
ton that 10 disturbing elements should
mar the harmony of its proceedings.
Those who went into the hall with the
expectation of Witnessing monkey and
parrot time were disappointed. The
delegates were not there for that pur-
pose. They were evidently impressed
with the gravity of the situation, and
proceeded to a discharge of the high
trust imposed upon them with dignity
and decorum becoming a representative
body of this character.
The Democrats OF Minnesota have
reason to feel profoundly grateful to
their delegates, not only for the emf
nently satisfactory results of yester-
days convention, but also for the man
ner in which it was done. The conven-
ton proceeded upon the theory that it
was fully capable of performing its
work without instruction or dictation
from anyone. If there were any would
be bosses there they failed to cut any
figure in the convention. If there was
any fractional spirit there it failed to
make an impression. If there were any
states made out beforehand they were
smashed in the convention. There was no
machine, and no indication of machine
methods. 1t was Democratic conven-
ton, conducted according to established
Democratic usageS, and IN which all the
members were on perfect equality.
The character of the delegates chosen
to represent Minnesota in the st. Louis
convention is the best verlfcation of
the wisdom which governed the conven-
ton. 1t is delegation the Democracy
OF the state have reason to be proud of,
as it is one that will compare favorably
with that of any other state. All of
them are gentlemen of prominence in
the state and who have rendered dis
tlnguished service to their party.
Yesterdays work augurs well for the
success of the party in coming state
election. The wise and conservative
methods pursued yesterday will inspire
confidence in the party among the
masses of the people. The harmony
and enthusiasm which prevailed were
in agreeable contrast with the noisy
Kilkenny cat fight in the Republican
convention the day preceding. The
platform adopted Is in accord with
popular sentiment in this State, and
there is no reason, if the Democrats of
Minnesota shall steadily persue the
policy outlined in yesterdays conven-
ton, why victory shall not perch upon
their banner and Minnesota resume it's
normal place in the Democratic galaxy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
alsDSlaSAy VI siNDsssasO
President Cleveland's Order
Abolishing the Teaching Of
the Indian Dialect
Endorsed by Good Thunder,
the Noted Scout Under
Gen. Sibley.
Spooner's Right-of-Way Bill
Reported Upon Fa-
vorably.
The Pension Appropriation
Bill Passed by the
Senate.
Special to the Globe

Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, May Commissioner
Atkins is in receipt of the following let
ter, through Bishop Whipple, of Mime
sofa:
Birch Coulie, Mimi, May Z, 1SSS.-My
Dear Bishop: l wish to write YOU a
few words about my people herc at
Redwood. [ am very much pleased
with what l report. The great father
sent us word through you that he de-
sired to have the Indians give up the
use of native dialect, and learn to read
ami think i'll English. so they might
hear, understand and more quickly ac-
qulre the ideas and ways of civilized
people. L told our young men and
women, and this winter we have had
daily English schools. The result is
that since Easter we have our
church services in English. our
congregation is entirely of Indians, and
the full services of the Episcopal church
are read in English, and English chants
and hymns only are used. They do the
services very much better than in Da-
kota. | am very glad of this, and want
you TO hear 1t and tell it to the commits
Sioner OF Indian affairs, and through
him to the great father for me that we
have obeyed his orders and found it
good. The Indian language is the
blanket that covers his head and keeps
daylight from his eyes. Your old
friend, Coon THUNDER.
Bishop Whipple says Good Thunder
was Gen. Sibley's scout during the
Sioux war. He rescued, with others,
over 200 white women and children
from death during the outbreak. ''He
is one of the truest men | ever knew,
and his letter will crafty you, and
send it to show the benefit of teaching
Indians ENGLISH ;,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
HAIL ITS COMING.
Representative Cox Talks on the
Tariff Measure.

WASHINGTON, May I7.-In the dis
cussion to-day in the house on the tariff
bill Mr.. Cox, of New York, said he
would be willing to reduce taxation in
almost any way. He would do almost
anything to get rid of the surplus,
which menaced and paralyzed the in
dustries of the country. In 1861 he had
gone to the custom houses in Boston
and New York and found there the cost
of some articles imported there. After
making computations and allowing for
the premium on gold, he had found that
in order to get S50,O0O,O00 in the treas
ury the country had to pay the enor-
Gus sum of S15O.OOO,OOO that never saw
the treasury. Deducting the 60 per
cent for deprecated paper money, it
would be found that in order to get
s50.000,000 into the country there is now
paid S300,000,000. He would not call
this protection system robbery or burg
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18

patriotism will be successfully played
and the English taxpayers, already over
burdened, will be saddled with a tax Of
several millions more.
It's way those English financiers
have. and the people who pay the bills
have nothing to do but submit no mat
ter how WY face they may make over
it. When it is recalled that London
alone contains 10000 unemployed
and half-starving people, this demand
for additional taxation to maintain an
army which has nothing to do and will
probably have nothing to do, is all the
more audacious.
There seems to be but one resource
left to the English taxpayer who has
anything at all left after the taXgatherer
has been around. Let him pack to-
gether his household effects and sail
away for free America, where work
awaits every honest man, where land
lordism is not rampant, where no huge
wage-eating army or navy is main
tanned, where an irresistible move
ment is in force to depress instead of to
elevate taxes and where, becoming a
citizen, he will be as good as any man
in the land.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
Once a Consul at Genoa.

New York World,
Charles Edward Allen, seventy-two
years old, is an inmate of Bellevue
Hospital suffering from the infirmIties
of old age. About forty years ago Mr..
Allen was the United States Consul at
Genoa, which position he filled most sat
isfactorily, and on his return TO this
country he published book describing
his experiences, entitled my Consul.
ate" In addition to this he is the
author of several books upon England
and number of novels of highly sem
satiOnal nature. Previous to the out
break of our late war he distinguished
himself by his enthusiastic advocacy of
abolition. At one time he was very
well known in this city, which was
partly brought about by his eccentricity
in habits and dress. He has been stop
ping. for the last six months at the Put
nam house.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
TRUE LOVE MEIER BLIND.

| think true love is never blind,
But rather brings an added light;
An inner vision quick to find
The beauties hid from common sight =
No soul can ever clearly see
Another's brightest, noblest part;
Save through the sweet philosophy
And loving wisdom OF the heart.
Your unahointed eyes shall fall
On him who fills my world with light;
You do not see my friend at all,
You see what hides him from your sight
I see the feet that fain would climb,
You, bat the steps that turn aStray;
l see the soul, the unframed, sublime,
You, but the garment, ana the clay.
You see n mortal weak, misled,
Dwarfed by the earthly clod
/ see how manhood perfected.
May reach the stature OF god,
Blinded 1 stood, as now you stand,
Til on mine eyes, with touches sweet,
Love, the deliverer, laid his hand,
And 10. 1 worship at his feet.
-Phebe Cary