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St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11

mon school teachers. Your normal
schools could not prepare but small
fractionof this large number, even if
they were to devote themselves ex-
clusiyely to preparing teachers for
these schools. 2. To take course in
the normal schools as they are
now organized is SO expensive
that persons who have done
SO cannot afford to teach the country
schools, but go to cities and villages,
where they can get better pay. 5. As a
result most of the country school teach
ers are without normal training. Only
219 per cent are normal graduates; 20
per cent have attended normal school.
but have not graduated, and T715 per
cent of all who enter upon the work of
common school teaching are boys and
girls who never had any SPECIAL train
ing. The result is inefficiency and a
fearful amount of waste time by those
who are trying to do what they do not
understand.
The normal schools were. originally
established to educate and prepare
teachers for the common schools, and it
is tWenty-eight years since the first
school at Winona was established. l,
however, claim that whatever the nor
NAL schools may have done, may be do
ing, or may do in the future for our
cities and villages, they have not done,
are not doing, and never can or will do
much directly for the common schools.
The fact is the normal schools have
been trying to do too much. They have
been trying to prepare teachers
for all the different educational
positions in our educational system. 1t
would pay better if they should aim at
preparing teacheyS for cities and Will
ages exclusively, and for this purpose
raise the standard OF work as high as
possible. Then. in turn, it is the wish
of county school superintendent that
these city and village schools that have
the benefit ofsnormaltrained teachers,
should have one of their courses OF
study especially adapted to the training
OF those who intend to become country
school teachers. There are in this state
sixty high schools. We want these
for the country schools, and they are
willing to do it. providing help is forth
coming from the state.
''It cannot be denied that the county
schools have been more neglected than
any other part OF our educational system.
And yet 20 per cent of the people of
the state depend wholly on the country
schools for all the school education they
ever get. 1t is useless to tell them that
the doors of the higher institutions are
open to them. They cannot avail them
selves OF the open doors. If, then, the
masses cannot bask i'll the sunshine of
the higher institutions, these inStitu-
tions must let their light shine on the
people where they are. They must
look downward as we'll as upward.
They must exert themselves to improve
as much as possible the peoples school.
The engine, though at the head, must
be coupled to the cars and move the
whole train. or else it is useless.
IL eau see no reason why the normal
schools should oppose the bill. They
will have all they can do to prepare
teachers for the graded schools-in
fact, the bill before the legislature will
increase the demand for thoroughly
prepared normal teachers"
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
CHIEF BUGLER.
The Story of Le Caron's Service i'm
the Union Army.


PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.-1nQuiry
here shows that the claim of LIE Caron
to have been major in the Union
army, and to have served in Gen. An
,derson's and Gen. Buell's body guards
eis false. He was mustered into Com
pany A, Fifteenth Pennsylvania cav
airy, as bugler, on Aug. 50. 1862, and
promoted to chief bugler OH Nov. /,
1863. The company was recruited with
the Intention of acting as Gen. Ander-
sons body guard, and was known as
the Anderson troop; but Gen. Anderson
was ordered to another part of the coun-
try before the troop left Carlisle. 1t
was then directed to act as body guard
for Gen. Buell., but he was removed
from command before the troop reached
him. LIE Caron continued as chief
bugler until Sept. Is, 1864, when he was
promoted to second lieutenant of the
Thirteenth regiment, United States col
Ored troops. and further promoted On
March "a, 1865, to first lieutenant of the
same regiment, in which position he re-
manned until Jan. 10, 1S66. when he was
mustered out. He has not corresponded
with any of the officers of the Fifteenth
regiment since the war, but they recol-
lect him very well. They deny his right
to the title Of major, and ascribe his
promotion to the lieutenancy of the
Thirteenth as due to the scarcity of Of
ficers for coiored troops, and not to any
particular ability or bravery shown by
him while acting as chief bugler.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
THE HoYT BILL
On Education Discussed by Supt.
EngStrOm.

A. e. Engstrom, of Cannon Falls, is
the school superintendent of Goodhue
county and was president of the recent
state convention of county superintend-
ents held at st. Paul. He is deeply
concerned about the status of school
teachers obtainable throughout the
state in the common schools. They are,
he says, much below the intellectual
standard required, and that it is impos-
sible for educationaliSts to expect the
normal schools to supply the want. He
has. therefore spent the past two weeks
at the state capitol. and interested legis-
lators in the matter. securing the INTRO
duction of legislation to meet the needs
of the situation. The bill has been in
troduced in the house by Hon. F. W.
Hoyt, of Red Wing. Supt. Engstrom
thus explains the proposed new law:
The object of this bill is to improve
the country schools by improving the
quality of their teachers. 1t is to pro-
vide a course of normal training that
shall be within the reach of common
teachers, and that shall be inexpensive
to the state. There are several reasons
why the normal schools can never sue
ceed in doing their work satisfactorily.
1. There are at least 1,5UO persons
every year who enter the ranks of COM
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
A Burglar, Finding Himself in
a Trap, Kills the Man He
Is Robbing.
The Wife Of His Victim Lodges
q Leaden Missile in His
Thigh.
Remember Chicago" the Le-
gend on q Banner Borne
in London.
Ee Capon's American Military
Ee Capon's American Military
Career--Great Storm on
the Continent.
Snecial Cable 70 the Globe.

Special Gable to the Globe.
LONDON. Feb. 10.-Last night Mr..
Kent, landlord of the Gloucester hotel
at Swansea, closed his house at the
usual hour. and with his wife retired
for the night, locking all the doors, in
Guiding that of their bedroom. At an
early hour this morning Mrs. Kent
awoke and heard sound made by the
striking of match. Rousing herself.
she saw man in the act of lighting a
candle. She awoke her husband. who
sprang from the bed and grappled with
the intruder. Mrs. Kent reached under
the pillow and grasped her husbands
revolver, but. the candle not having
been lighted, ii was too dark for her to
shoot at the struggling pair without en-
dangering MIR. kent'S life. With rare
coolness the lady struck a match,
lighted the candle, and, again taking
up the revolver, fired, striking the
burglar in the thigh. The latter fell
and craWled under the bed, bowling
and cursing. Mrs. Kent then ran to the
door and unlocked it. The burglar, a
negro, seeing her act. came out from
BENEATH THE BED,
and, seiZing looking glass, threw it at
the woman. 1t missed her, but struck
the candle and eXtinguished it. In the
darkness the negro escaped, and when
the candle was relighted Mrs. Kent dis
covered that her husband had been
horribly slashed about the throat and
stomach with a razor, An alarm was
raised, and with the assistance of those
who came in, Kent was put to bed. He
was able to give description OF the
murderer, but died soon after the
effort. By this time the alarm in the
neighborhood was general, and
thousands of men set out in pursuit of
the murderer. At noon colored sea-
man named Tom Allen, was discovered
at the dry dock with several wounds
about his person and his clothes
covered with blood. He was arrested
and confessed his crime. His motive,
he said. was robbery. He had con-
cealed himself in the bed room before
the house was closed, and had inflicted
the wounds on Mr.. Kent only to make
good his escape.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
"REMEMBER CHICAGO"
An Immense Liberal Radical
Gathering in London.

LONDON, Feb. 10.-The Liberal-Radi-
cal meeting ann ounced to meet at Hyde
Park this afternoon took place in the
midst of terrific snow storm. The
demonstration was one long to be re-
membered. The thousands of persons
present consisted chiefly of working
men, but there was large attendance
of members of the various Radical
clubs. From one Of the stands. which
was profusely decorated with red
Streamers, waved banner bearing the
legend, Remember Chicago" Speeches
were made, and resolutions passed de-
manding the release of the Irish pa
triots now incarcerated in Irish jails.
Speeches were made from twelve plat
forms. The speakers were unanimous
in their denunciations of the govern
ment's Irish policy, and particularly
severe in their illusions TO MIR. Balfour.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
GREAT Loss OF LIFE
Reported From Swollen Rivers
ON the Continent

LONDON, Feb. 10.-The storm reached
London at o'clock, and at this writing
10 p. m.-shoWs no sign of abatement.
The streets are almost choked with
snow, and travel is well-nigh suspended.
Snow continues to fall throughout the
south of England and in Wales. On the
coasts heavy gales prevail, and a num-
Der of shipping disasters are reported.
Telegraphic communication is greatly
interrupted.
THE HAGUE. Feb. 10.-A storm of
exceptional severity is raging through
Holland. The rivers are greatly
swollen. and Rotterdam. Dordrecht,
Schiedam, Zwolle and Kampen are in
undated. Many shipwrecks, with great
loss of life, are reported.
BERLIN, Feb. 10.-ReportsS of heavy
SNOW storms come from all parts of
Germany. In this city the snow is
foot deep, and in the Bavarian high
lands it has fallen to depth of six feet.
In the West and Northwest thunder
and lightning accompanied the snow.
Traffic is almost entirely suspended in
Schleswig and Jutland.
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CAME TO GRIEF
BY Taking Up Receipt That |
Didn't Turn Out just as Anticip- |

Didn't Turn Out just as Anticip-
ated.
Special Letter to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Minn., Feb. lin looking
over a weekly newspaper few days
since. I read this: "For house plants
during the winter, land plaster is very
convenient fertilizer: SCOT can also be
used" Some years ago friend OBJ
tanned some land plaster and hap
pened into her house few minutes af-
forwards, when she told me of 1t, also
gave me some of it for the flower gar
den.
That evening applied the plaster to
flower beds very thiniy, we'll knowing
it to be very powerful, and used only, on
meadow lands when thrown from
wagon in dust-like cloud as the horses
draw the wagon over the meadow of
hay lands. Early the next morning
there was a cloud of dust down the
road, and fleet steed was just visible
drawing a carriage. A few moments
more and my city friend, in
frenzy of grief, was running up and
down my garden-walks. as if she had
become suddenly craZed with grief.
Only that her husband broke the spell
W l.
should have tainted dead away with the
fright the whole proceedings had
caused. She had used the plaster rather
freely in her garden, and cautiously on
her house plants, and killed about all
her flowers. had some flowers in the
garden that were only slightly hurt,
and had used none on my house plants
and they were all safe from harm, but
the lesson was not lost on US. We
never made use of such bits of informa-
tiOn as have quoted at the head of this
article, and l have at all times when
seeing them at ONCE sent out warning
note against their use when seeing
them going the rounds of the neWspa-
pers. And l also remember that an ola
editor once said many such items found
their way into the papers because
editors thought they would he useful to
their readers, and sometimes such items
were sent out by some one that wanted
to appear in print, and it was taken for
granted it was all right, but he had
found
IT ALL WRONG,
sometimes to his own especial cost, and
he gave no such items without trial
himself or asking those that he thought
might OF ought to know. That is not
always convenient or may be never
thought Of, and one might as well pass
such items by, or try them on some
plant that one does not care whether, it
lives or dies. As general rule all
plants should be changed into new soil
every year and all artificial or forced
growth done away with. N
A FORCED GROWTH
is not the growth for blossoms, which is
usually the aim of nearly all who grow
house plants. Yet there are some ladies
who care more for bushy green plant
than for flowers. But such plants will
not bear the slightest chill, as there is
no substance in them, nothing TO resist
any change in the atmosphere Of the
room in which they have been kept.
Such growers of plants can use manure
from the stable in the water that she
gives her plants. but not too strong or
too often. SCOT, like hen manure, is
good fertilizer, but must also be used
with caution. A tablespoonful of SCOT
to pint of water will be quite strong.
After standing few days more water
may be added to it.
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL. s
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
Mr.. Pendleton Better.

BERLIN, Feb. 10.-The North German
Gazette says that gratifying change
for the better has lately occurred in the
condition of Mr.. Pendleton, justifging
the hope that he will soon personally
assume the direction of affairs at the
American legation. Mr.. Pendleton re-
turned to Berlin on New Years day,
and the official American oyertures re-
garGing Samoa which were made at the
foreign office OF Jan. Z are attributed to
his initiative.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle says that Mr. Pendleton,
the American minister to Germany,w
preside at the coming Samoan confer
euce.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
First Vestihule Train.

CITY OF MEXICO (Via Galveston),
Feb. 10.-Bishop Spalding, of Peoria,
has arrived here. The first vestibule train
from New Orleans arrived in this city
to-day. 1t made the run i'll seventy
three hours. An immense crowd gath
cred at the depot to witness the arrival
of the train. Senor Dubian, minister
of finance, is ill. 1t is rumored that
Senior Matias Romero. Mexican minister
at Washington, will replace him. The
American residents of this city are max
ing preparations 20 celebrate Washing
ton'S rthd3y
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
The Bottom Dropped Out.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 19.-The bot
tom dropped out of a pot filled with
molten glass in the glass works Of
James J. Murray & Co, at Trenton av-
enue and Culvert street, this city, this
evening. .settin, fire to the building, and
doing $4,000 worth OF damage. The
firm employs 100 persons. most OF whom
will be temporarily thrown out Of en-
plOympDt
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
HORSE TREATMENT.
Some Suggestions How to Break
and Handle Them.


If a horse has never been handled
and Is timid, get him with his COM
panions into small loose box. Con-
triye to let the Others out, but to
have him retained. Let him stand
alone in the box five or six
hours without food. Then approach
hi M with grass or some other bulky prov
ender and offer him little from the
hand. 1t he is afraid to come near and
take it. drop handful in corner and
quietly retire with the remainder.
After an hour OF so return with the
food and offer handful as before. If
he is still afraid to take it drop some
and leave: but return and repeat the
offer at short intervals till he COM
plies. Hunger will in time compel
the horse to take food from the hand as
offered; and until he allows his nose,
face, head, neck, shoulders, ETC., to be
stroked and patted when he gets it, he
should have it in no other way. By so
acting. the horse will gradually cease to
be afraid, and will permit halter to be
put on and himself to be moved about
by it. Till he submits to this, and to
have a bit put in, he should not be re-
moved from the box or be tied up to it.
n tliIllu llOTSe uHdCcuStOultu W q lldl-
ter is. when tied up, apt to back and
pull till the rope OF something else gives
way and he is free. This may be avoid
ed by binding him first in stall. or
box. so short that he cannot get back to
pull, or by keeping him up with whip
if he does pull or by holding the end
of the halter rope passed
through the ring in the manger
in the hand, and allowing it
to go with him little until he gets ac-
customed to its restraint. This last is
the better method, as by it he is neither
hurt nor frightened. To avoid the in
Fiction of pain or fear at least till they
know what is wanted of them, ought to
be standing rule in all stages of horse
breaking. The former incites to kick
ing. etc, in self-defense, the latter to
running away from the real or fancied
cause of it. There are heroic methods
of mastering horses by fear. but if re-
liable service is wanted of them these
should never be resOrted to till mild
means have been fairly tried and failed.
The latter may take little longer time
to effect the desired object, but it is far
more satisfactory in the end. Many
vices exhibited by horses are the re-
suit of harsh and unskiltul breaking.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.
the Opinion OF the Des Moines
Register.

There Is No Cause for Alarm in
the Opinion of the Des Moines
Register.
Some pape RS are getting up an un-
necessary alarm and creating uneasi-
ness among farmers about threshed
corn fodder, ensilage, half-cured clover,
etc., causing spontaneous combustion,
and burning valuable barns, stock and
feed. We see in our exchanges two or
three doubtful statements of this kind
lately. We do not believe spontaneous
combustion ever occurs from such
causes. Some hare Drained chem
lists contend otherwise. But we
will give any one of them 500
who will build a fire with wet
corn stalks, wet clover, hay, straw or
ensilage, without the presence of chem
ical or metallic agents, and no friction
or pressure. 1t is nonsense to claim
that any of these. articles or forage,
when wet, will heat so as to ignite.
fire was applied to them. In the pro-
cess of fermentation they generate
heat, but they do not ferment unless
they are damp or wet. AS the heat
dries out of the hay or threshed corn
corn the heat subsidies with the evapor-
alton Of the moisture. When there is
moisture enough to cause heat it is too
wet to burn, and when it is dry enough
to burn there is no heat.
Any articles of wet fodder in stack
or NOW, without pressure or friction,
are in no danger of combustion without
the presence of oil, sulphur, sulphuric
acid, or some other strong ca loric-pro-
ducing agent other than the mere fod-
der and dampneSs. Farmers can safely
sleep soundly, unless there are incen-
diaries, cigar smokers or something else
more infiammatory than wet straw. 1t
is poor substance with which to build
fires.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
SpurgeOn Is Hopeful.

LONDON, Feo. 1u.-Charles Sturgeon
has sent letter to his gregation,
saying that he will soon see them again
and that his limb is improving, though
he can not use it yet. His long absence,
he says, shows the vitality of the church,
which he declares will remain a power
for good when he has departed.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
WINDOWS Boom Siisiaid,

Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-This morn
ing's Post contains the following: "For
the time being, Mr.. Windom's boom
for secretary of the treasury seems to
have been mislaid. Perhaps if Senator
Sabin would stand up for moment it
might be found under his chair
cuShiOn,n
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
LUGARD HOLDS kARoNGAs,
And Kilwa and Lindi Still in the
Insurgents Hands.

ZANZIBAR, Feb. 10.-News has been
received from Lake Nyassa to Dec. 10.
Lugard was still holding Karongas with
a greatly reduced garrison, including
six Europeans, the remainder having
left owing to i'll health. The sultan's
commissioner had nearly arranged peace
with the Arabs. The lake missionaries
were all well. Kilwa and Lindi are still
in the hands of the insurgents. Kilwa
is completely stockaded. The ransoming
of the German missionaries was due 10
the mediation of French missionaries.
1t is rumored that. under British pres
sure pna the sultan N has no mpsted NJ let the
completely in the escape of Lieut..
Cooper's murderers. Karl Tuppen. an
employe of the German Vitu company,
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
The Blood

Is the source of health; therefore, to keep
well, purify the blood by taking Hoods
Sarsaparilla. This medicine is peculiarly
designed toact upon the blood, and througl,
that upon all the organs and tissues of the
body. 1t has a specific action, also, upon
the secretions and excretions, and assists
nature to expel from the system all humors,
impure particles and effete matter, through
the lungs, liver, bowels, kidneys, and skin.
It effeetually aids weak, impaired, and de-
bilitated organs, inyigorates the nervous
system, tones the digestive organs, and im-
parts new life and energy to all the func-
tionS of the body. popularity of Hoods
Sarsaparilla is that strengthens and builds
up the system while it cradicates disease.
Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Dyspepsia, Bilious
ness, Sick Headache, Liver Complaint,
Catarrh, Rheumatism, etc., are cured by
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by druggists. 81; six for s5. Prepared by
C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
THE CLEARANCES.
Pulse Of Trade Shown by the
Exchanges of Leading Cities.

Boston. Feb. 10. - The following
table, compiled from dispatches to the
Post from managers of the leading
clearing houses in the United States,
shows the gross exchanges for the
week ended Feb. Q, with rates per cent
of increase or decrease, as compared
with the amounts for the corresponding
week in 1883:
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
The Plumber Valuable.

ROME, Feb. 1O.-The value of the
plunder secured by the mob in the re-
cent riot is estimated at e75,000. The
government possesses evidence that the
anarchist leaders fomented the agita-
ton. The radicals Of Milan made an
attempt to-day to celebrate the revolt OF
1858. They were forcibly dispersed by
the nolice.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
The Ministry i'm Doubt.

PARIS. Feb. 1G.-Tt is expected that
the chamber OF deputies will pass the
Scrutin d'arrondisSement bill to-mor-
ROY after a short debate. The real
issue between the cabinet and the oppo-
sition will be fought Oh the revision
scheme Thursday. The fate of the
ministry is doubtful.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11

Eight per cent is all and more than
money is worth compared with any
thing else the people have to sell. and
we insist that this legislature shall fix
this as the maximum rate.
A STILL SNAII VOICE
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
He May Not Recover.

LONDON, Feb. 10.-The Daily News
has information that the condition Of
William O'Brien is such as to render
his recovery very improbable. The an
nOuncemeut has filled his friends with
anxiety and increased the general i'll
dignatiOn at his cruel treatment.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11

He drank water
at h ON e. was
president OF q
local teetetaller'S
club and came to
the session with
a hundred peti-
tons in his vest
pocket for pro-
h i bi tion. He
filed the petitions
promptly the first
day, tasted Rht n
ISL WINE lHt
second, fell foul
of C h a IN payne
the third, and on
the fourth went
to the varieties
and bl S II e d
down to the tops
of his homemade
stockings at q
half-naked girl
who sang, "Jonn-
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
The Opportunist Chosen.

PARIS, Feb. 10.-In the election of
Cote-D'Or to-day NJ. Bargy, Oppor-
tunist, was elected. receiving 80, 764
votes to 25,979 ior NJ. Toussaint, Con-
Servative in favor of revision.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
The Mahdi Alarmed.

CAIRO, Feb. 10.-A Greek, who has
just arrived here from Khartoum. re-
ports that Senussi has taken Ell 0beid
and that the mahdi is alarmed.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11

VIENNA. Feb. 1O.-The Neue Freie
Press publishes q letter from Sir Arthur
Sullivan. protesting against the piracy
of his operas by theatrical managers of
this citv.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
New Laws for the Japs.

LONDON, Feb. 10.-Great preparations
have been made at Toxic for the public
PRONUNCIATION by the mikado tomorrow
of the Japanese constitution.