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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
BRIGHT BITS FROM THE WITS.

The ''plunger" risks his money on
divers houses.-Yonkers Gazette.
No lawyer worth his salt ever takes
the will for the deed.-W ashington Star.
The police judge has got his business
down to fine art.-Kearney (Neb.) En-
terprise.
Time flies; yet the orchestral leader
sits still and beats time.-Richmend
Dispatch.
A boastful shoemaker will pirate of
the goodness of his sole till he pegs out.
Charleston World.
The German cOrnet player very often
finds himself in need of a toot- tonic
Rochester Post-ExpresS.
When he has cold in the head is the
only time when Bob IngerSoll is On his
sneeze.-Texas Siftings.
1t is not well for stranger to go alone
to a bank when he wishes to get loan.
Florida Times-U Mon.
The Key West cigar makers are still
out on strike for higher wages, and
there doesn't appear to be any imme-
diate prospect of settlement Of the
keywestian.-Boston Herald.
He-And tomorrow is our wedding
day, dearest.
She-Yes, and it is bargain day at
Silkman's too. Isn't that aggravating?
-Terre Haute Express.
Dog Faneier-YeS. madam, have all
kinds of dogs here. Is there any par
tIcular breed you wish?
Old Lady (who reads the papefseOh,
anything that's fashionable. Lemme
see an ocean greyhound.-New York
Weekly.
Box Office Man-Free lust is suspend
ed, sir.
Disappointed Deadhead-What! with
liking Henry v" on the boards?
Box Office MaR-What has that to do
with it?
Disappointed Deadhead Don't the
play say base is the slave that paYs?n
Gets his pass.-Munsey's Weekly.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04

under II in any district unless 100 voters
petition for it. If he sees fit to apply it
to district he proceeds to appoint
board of election control of three MEM
ber>. to be confirmed by the senate, and
TO hold office for good behavior or lie.
This board appoints a registering officer
for each voting district, who is to hold
for six years. and also three judges for
each precinct. and they select two
clerks. The bill SAYS the Judges OF
election should not he all OF the same
political party, but If they are, IL shall
not invalidate the election" This is
the substance of the measure. Should
1t become law, it would put in the
hands of the president the virtual COLI
troll of all COMPRESSION Il districts where
the two parties were evenly enough
divided for contest. Its Ubiquitous
character is specially shown in the fact
that the general board that provides the
electoral officials is to hold Tor life. A
Democratic president COLD not control
IL unless majority of the board
should die or resign. A more outra-
geous system of partisanship has never
been proposed in this country. But,
fortunately for the country, it cannot
become a law. Ii the party caucus
should adopt it and force all Repub-
licans to its support, the Democrats
have strength enough to defelt it. and
would be justified in Il resort to eX-
treme measures for that purpose. 1t
~ slaaf a.
jorIty of the Republicans would do to
preserve their power if they had the
requisite strength. The policy of
this partisan scheme has been un-
der discussion i'll the cabinet the
past week, and Secretaries BLAINE
and TRACY are reported to have
opposed it, while NOBLE, WANA-
MAKER, PRoCToR, WINDOW and RUsK
supported it, with the president and
MILLER non-committal. BLAINE is re-
ported very emphatic in his opposition.
He is likely to think his chance for the
presidency will come in 1872, and he
knows this would not be a popular
measure to carry in campaign. He
chafes a good deal at the attempt of the
little man at the head to look down on
him. and would not regret being un-
fettered in case he comes into the field
against HARRISON. Then he has big
subsidy scheme in conn ,ction with the
Pan-Ameriean congress. This he
wants to push thrOu<iI, and this dis
turbing question would be likely to
engrosS attention. and excite such an
tagOniSm as to defeat his policy. 1t Is
doubtful that the president will attach
himself to this vicious and dangerous
Sphpma
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
ELECTRICAL FACTS.

About 300,0 900 telephones are in use In
the United States.
The fastest recorded time made by an
electrical railway is about twenty miles
an hour on street car system.
Four telegraphic messages can now
be transmitted over one wire at one
time by using the quadruplex system.
1t is estimated that 25O,OO0 persons in
the United States are engaged in bus
mess depending solely on electricity.
Over LOCO, 900 miles of telegraph wire
are in the United States-ehOugh to en-
circle the globe forty times.
About 400 miles of electric railway
are already in operation In the United
States, and many more under cOnstruc-
ton.
More that 10000 miles of telephone
wire are in operation in the United
States; over these 1,055,000 messages
are sent daily.
Five hundred volts of an electrical
current is considered dangerous to hui
man life, but death depends largely
upon physical conditions.
Telegraphing from moving train Is
accomplished through circuit from
the car roof, inducting current in the
wire or poles along the track.
The most widely separated points be-
tween which it is possible to send tele-
gram are British Columbia and New
Zealand. via America and Europe.
In transmitting a message from San
Francisco, CAL, to Hong Kong, China,
via New York, Canso, Penzance, Alden,
Bombay, Madras, Penang and Slnga-
pore, about fifteen minutes are con-
Sumed.
The longest distance over which tele-
phOning can be maintained is uncertain;
750 miles is common daily occurrence,
bat two gentlemen recently carried on
a protracted conversation between
Charleston, s. c., and Omaha, Neb.. a
distance of about 1,500 miles.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
VICIOUS PaRTrs.NsHIp.

In the compilation Of the views of
members Of the coming congress on
various questions by the New York
Tribune, all but eighteen out of the
uinety-three arereported in favor Of the
proposed law for national control of
congressional elections. But four put
themselves in opposition to it. the other
fourteen being non-cemnittal. 1t is
evident that an emphatic majority of
the party favor that kind of legislation.
1t will be remembered that Senator
SHERMAN is the author of bill for this
purpose which met much Republican
dissent. Congressman HoUK, of Ten
nesSee, has prepared bill that
Obviates the most notable objections TO
The SHERMAN measure, and sent It 10
his Republican associates for examina-
ton. It comprises probably the essen
tial features Of the bill that will be
supported by most OF the Republi-
cans. 1t applies to al congressional
districts. but leaves It in the discretion
~ the president as. to its enforcement.
ae nev.: not make the appointments
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
WOMEN BLACKS mIrHs.
ard Lot OF the Female Toiiers as
tho Anvil an klnpfaud

Hard Lot OF the Female Toiiers az
the Anvil in England.
Mrs. Leonora Barry in Pittsburs Commercial.
From Birmingham | went Oh about
fifteen miles to Dudley, or what Is
known as the Black Country, and it Is
rightly named. Both in appearance
and the conditions of its people
blacker, more dreary life could not be
conceived. 1t is the property of Lord
Dudley. The Inflated JOhnStown, OF
Pennsylvania. did not present more
pitiful appearance after its fearful dis
aster than does this landed property Of
a lord. The country is divided into lit
tie hamlets. bearing such burleSqus
names as Thibbett's Garden, Cinder
Bank, Netherton Ruins [verY appro-
priate), Crodley Heath. etc.
A description of one of these places
will suffice for all. ThIbbett's Gardens
is a miserable, grinly, dirty path, with
little novels built all along its one foul
smelling street, over which all sewage
matter from roof and kitchen has cut
little bitches. At the back or every
dwelling, and included as part OF the
rent. is forge with fireplace sufficient
for ore or more anvilS. Here, at these
dHVIlSr tkIc duQ Va IAAAS
poverty-stricken locality stand day
after day, until months roll into years,
and wears into a lifetime. swinging
hammer and tongS. welding into every
link of chain their health. comfort and
happiness. The doleful sound of the
hammer and anvil, used by the mothers,
is welded into every nerve and fiber OK
the unborn babe. and after its birth it
is Iuiied to sleep by the same m0lrnfuL
cadence, and its little body rests on the
big bellows, or swings in the rud6
cradle that hangs from the rafters-
Nails, such as are used in the bottoms
of ships, hobnailS for heels and SOleS OF
shoes, and chains of different sizes,
Nos. X. 81 and q. are the sizes made By
these women, some of whom are over
sixty years old. The iron rod Is brought
from the factories in coils, and the
women have to straighten 1t out pre-
paratory to using. They get1l2 pounds
of iron rod at batch. They are allowed
eight pounds for waste, and must be ac-
countable Jor the balance.
ChainmakerS, by working steadily.
M axe Is pence per day, which equals 36
cents American money. The rent of a
house of two rooms, with forge and two
anvilS, is shillings 9 pence per week
(66 cents. One good woman, OF whom
the clergyman who accompanied US
spoke very highly, said she had lived in
one house and worked at one forge for
seventeen years, and in that time no re-
pairs had been made except such as
were paid out of her own earnings. The
husbands and fathers of these chain
and nail making women are miners,
working for such a miserable pittanca
that it is absolutely necessary for the
mother, wife and daughter to live this
cruel life.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
SWAIIOWING lHE sur

The figures OF the subsidy Mr.. BLAINE
viii think Geedful to encourage traffic
with the Spanish-Ameriean regions are
put as high as S3O.OC0,UOO. With the
proposed reduction of internal revenue
taxes this would leave little occasion
for any diSquiet over a surplus. But
this will not alone build up mar
let for American goods. When they
reach those countries they must be sold
in competition with the same products
from over the water. manufactured with
no disadvantages from taxed raw mate
rails. There are some speeialties made
in this country that could push their
way somewhat, but business, and not
sentimental influences, will be control
ling. What little trade has been had in
that direction is dwindling. The sales to
Brazil have decreased 5 per cent in two
years, while the imports have grown
per cent. Goods from that section find
easy way to United States markets, and
only the demand is needed for an ex-
change.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04

mhch-in-l0ve Young girl will say, "we
are not going to settle down. We will
be just as free as ever TO go where and
do what We please.
"All very pretty fancy, my dear maid;
but unless your husband Is worth q
million and owns a private car and
yacht, you will find marriage about the
most settling business ON earth. Ii you
don't care for your husband you can
slip off and spend month In New York,
live at some fashionable watering place
in summer and 20 abroad when you
please; but IL you do care for him il
Will be your pleasure to stay at home
with him. because he can't leave his
business; still, the girl who takes time
to see something of the world will never
regret it when she marries."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
THE RACE PROBLEM
A Colored Minister'S Original
Views on This Perplexing Cues

A Colored Minister'S Original
Views on his PerplexinS Cues
ton.
TalIah assoc (Fla) Floridian.
A few Sundays since Rev. w. 81.
Sherwood, pastor of the African NJ. E.
church. of Tallahassee, delivered a
lecture to his congregation, having for
his text "The Race Problem" Among
other things he saiu:
Man was made to work. The con-
strucuion of his hand is evidence of this.
God made all mankind to work, but the
negro he has doomed to labor. 1t is
left to his choice, work or perish. for
God has ordained that the negro who
steals shall be caught, aud the sooner
we recognize this fact the sooner heav-
en- and earth. which seem now to be
against US, will turn In our favor.
The recent race wars are but the
precursors of awfuler times yet to come.
Futurity is impenetrable by finite judg
meut. No conformity of circumstances
enables us to fully solve this perpleXiDg
problem, yet thoughtful observer of
the signs of the times may f0resee the
ultimate issue. The problem admits of
but one solution.
That is this, the negro must work.
He must come out of politics. There is
nothing in politics for the negro but
death. Death to the politician and
death for the race he presents He is
too weak to stem the food. The North
has dropped him and he cannot stand
alone and maintain partisan ground.
In fact, he is not prepared, if allowed,
to share so largely as he thinks in gov
ernmental affairs. Empowered with
the use of the ballot TOO soon, he has
almost worked his ruin. He must get
some money. What the negro wants is
commercial power; then, brains and
morals with these, he can sway COM
handing influence. Without these he
must remain at the bottom. God and
nature put him there, and l promise
you the white man will keep him there.
You who are dependent upon these
white people for employment had bet
ter make friends with them. If not,
they will fill your places with the poor
element of their own race. and with
catapult of the combined forces of
money, wealth and intellect they will
hurl us out, off, down and under. What
trouble the.cOlored man is havingihe him
self is making it. The constant elamor
of the SO-called leaders of the race for
political position and power fills the
white man with apprehension of he gro
rule. thus tanning the flames of race
prejudice. They will not submit to
negro rule, and it cannot be expected
of them. Such is unprecedented. So
sudden a change of slave to master
more than often hangs some body
Haman and Mordaeai examples. The
negro race wOnld be the same under
similar circumstances. repeat it, the
negro must work. Let him go to the
top by those resistless superiorities of
wealth, character and competence.
Elevated upon this basis ne will stand;
without these he falls. He must give
up politics and come out or he will get
killed out. / am giving it to you
straight
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
The CORYPHEE.


With complexion like the rose
Mid the shows.
Due 10 powder on her nose,
suppose:
She twirls upon her toes
In abbreviated clothes,
And exhibits spangled hose
To the beaux.
When cruel time bestows
Adfpose,
Fairy parts and all those
She Outgfows.
Then murmuringly she goes
To the very hindmost rows,
To pirouette and pose
With the crows.
When life frayed and faded grows,
Like her bows,
Shein garnet sits and sews.
Furbeiows:.
It'll her weary eyeiids close
In the peace OF Deaths reposa.
Is she reaping what she sewSe
Heaven knowsl
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
LITERARY DIABOLISM.
Paris the Great Headquarters for
Indecent Publications.

Boston transcripts Paris Letter.
The exhibition of vile books on the
stalls outside librarians windows is at
all times an offense against decency in
Paris, but during the last three or four
months the scandal has become such as
to Justify any modern Juvenal in de-
seribing this city as an immense lupa-
mar. Old Rome, as described by Juvenal,
could hardly have been more corrupt
than is Paris of the present day. to judge
from the literature that one sees every
where offered for sale with absolute lib
erty and absolute shamelessness.
The government pretends to exer-
else some control in the interest
of public morals over pictures and
illustrations, but the pen and the print
ing press are free to pander to the very
worst passions. Books professedly OBJ
scene are those which meet with the
best sale. A gloss of luxury is gener-
ally put upon all this viieness by means
of fine paper and printing and engrav-
ings that are often beautiful from an ar
tistic point of view. A work of this
kind entitled "Pour Dire Entire
Hommes." which appeared few
months ago, has now run through sew
erai editions. No financial risk appears
to be incurred in publishing literature
of this sort. 1t pays, consequently men
of talent are enticed to wall0w in the
slough. The prostitution of the arts to
the most sordid aims was never more
fiagrantly apparent in Paris than 1t is at
the present time. In addition to the or
binary supply of indecent literature in
tended for French readers, mass of
literary obScenity has issued from
the press this summer for stran-
gers attracted by the Exhibition. And
the fact is worth observing, inasmuch
as it is not at all to the credit of the
Anglo-Saxon race that when such pu-
trescence Is published in foreign
tongue the language chosen Is invari-
ably English. 1t must find plenty of
purchasers or there would not be such
keen competition in supplying the mar
ket. The indifference of the French
legislator and the nation generally to
the disgrace that is inseparable from
the public display of all this obseenity
in the streets of the capital is really as
tonishing. One is forced to the conclu-
sion that the spirit Of uncleanness must
be very strong in a people who can toll
crate the spectacle of this villainous
traffic being carried on with the same
publicity as I'm the sale Of any other ar
tieIes de Paris,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

How 1t Feels James K. Morgan,
sheriff of Sherman
to BE county, South Dakota,
is native of this city,
Hanged. says a New York pa
per, but has been in
the West over thirty years. He Is here
OIL visit to his relatives Oh Satan
Island, and he fiads New York has UNI
dergene mighty change since he left
itin 1861 to go to the front.
II find," says the sheriff to me the
other night, that the question whether
a,man should be hanged or executed
electrically has been settled. am glad
to find that electricity has carried the
day, for assure you that death by hang
ing is intensely painful"
n''Why. sheriff." said, sis 1t possible
that you were hanged?"
l.'Quite so. and it was no joke. When
the war closed | went West to seek my
fortune. and had pretty hard time be-
fore found anything even resembling
1t. One hard winter two others and my
self went into Wyoming on a prospect
ing expedition, and had to maintain
ourselves chiefly by hunting. Antelope
were very scarce just then, and we suf-
fered considerably from hunger. One
morning we separated, the better to
seour the country, agreeing to meet on a
distant hill at noon. My companions
were hardly out of sight when | shot a
steer, and was in the act of cutting it up
when three ierce-looking cowboys
Swooped down upon ufe. l am, as you
see, swarthy, and they took ME for
Mexican. As they were also dirty
looking | made the same mistake,
and saluted them i'll the little Spanish
l had picked up. 1t happened that
tall cotton tree was conveniently close,
and. without saying word, one of the
men threw his lariat around my neck
and tossed the other end of the rope
over a stout limb. His two companions
pulled upon it, and | was in the twink
ling of an eye gOin through all the ago
MES of hanging. The pain was fright
full. There was tremendous rushing
through my ears, the sky and every
thing else turned bloOd-red, pins and
needed seemed to be sticking into
every part of my body, and at the
same time the back of my head felt as
if it were being sandbagged at the rate
of forty strokes second. How
long it lasted l couldn't tell.
To me it seemed hours. When
/ regained consciousness one of
my friends was pouring whisky down
my throat and the other was rubbing
my chest with the same liquid. 1t APP
pears that my comrades had returned In
time to cut me down before life had fled,
but Just then wished they had let me
be. The process Of resuscitation was,
if possible, still more agOnizing than the
hanging; but, as the man condemned
by law does not suffer in that regard,
there is no use in dwelling upon it."
''But why did they hang you?"
''They were driving herd of cattle
to Idaho, and it was one of their steers
that l had shot. When my friends ar
rived and explained the cowboys cut me
down, and when was ready to receive
them they were profuSe in their apollo
gies.
THAT Is how know that hanging is
one Of the mOsL cruel deaths to which
You can put man."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
Why Women There are all sorts
of motives that actuate
Marry. women to marry. For
thia act her raasnps ara

Why Women There are all sorts
of motives that actuate
Marry. women to marry. For
this act her reasons are
more numerous and unique than for
any other, says the Atlanta Constitution.
The best and most excuSable reason Is
being so much in love that she feels her.
self unable to live without the man she
cares for. When this kind Of affection
assails her she might as well go and
marry. Marrying Is the only thing that
will make her a useful and rational
member of society.
When girl marries in her second
season the man may be pretty sure of
her wv hole heart. 1t always seems a
pity for woman to fall in love so
Young, though. In marrying at nine
teen she gives up four or five years of
perfect freedom and unhampered pleas
nre. One can be married for long
time, but four or five years are all that
are socially accorded to young ladyhOod.
These years. with their freedom and op-
rortunities for travel and reading, are
not 10 be scorned. They often give the
strength and experience upon which is
formed the success of lifetime. Every
man and woman should belong entirely
W utIuSClI iOl dt ICooV tOof yOUio VI lilo
perfect physical and mental maturity.
One should know ones strength and
ones weakness before asserting the one
or resisting the other against fellow
creature.
Then In marrying young girl man
seems to take more risk and more re-
sporsibilities than he does in marrying
one between twenty aud twenty-five.
Between those ages a woman's social
aims and worldly ambitions become de-
cided. I remember seeing this sadly
exempIified in man who married
pretty village girl of eighteen and took
her tn city. She thought herself very
much in love with him, and certainly he
was very handsome, lovable being.
In five years she developed into so
ciety butterfly, loving nothing but her.
self and the batteries of men concern
ing her pretty looks. 1t seemed pity
that this little country girl hadn't had
four years Of single life in which to de-
yelop her tastes.
/ never knew woman who married
at eighteen who did not regret it. no
matter how happy their married lives
have been. The happiest matrOn will
say, "Don't marry so young. Give
yourself chance to see something of
world before you settle down."
But" the enthusiastic and very
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
NEW ENGLAND's DRsoLATIoN,

In noting that an extensive iron
works, probably the largest at Boston,
has been sold and will be moved to a
more eligible locality out of the state,
the Boston Globe looks back despOnd-
iDgly upon a long array of local indus
tiles that have gone from there. The
once great copper smelling factories
and vast stone industries are about
blotted out. The tanneries, it says,
have mostly departed to the Northwest,
and the once lourishing woOdenware
industry has mostly gone to Minnesota
a I'd Michigan. 1t finds millions of dol
lars scattered in the debris Of iron fOun-
dries. Then it looks out into the
country and sees shrinkage in the
value of farm lands in tell years Of
81 929, 142, or Il per cent, and makes the
startling statement that in one decade
I42 towns in Massachusetts have lost
105,361 in population, and 141, 0S5 since
the war. No wonder that there is
clamor for less of the sort of protection
they are enjoying.