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St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
THE CONTRA ARGUMENT.

A writer in the current number of
Harper's Magazine, in very elaborate
paper, shows why England is not likely
to consent to give up Canada, and az
CUES from various considerations that
the interests and makeup of politics
and society in Canada are not drifting
it United States-ward. The completion
of the Canadian Pacific railroad has
effected wonderful change. 1t has
made that the shortest route from Eng
land to its East Indian possessions and
Australia, and of course not only has
added vastly to the Importance of the
country to Great Britain in political
and commercial way, but has opened
up an immense territory for settlement
and wheat growing. In connection
with other railroad enterprises, it has
brought the facts more clearly to view
as to the vast extent and habitabIe
character of the regions between the
United States and the North Pole.
They discover that they have domain
nearly as large as that of the United
States. Still it is believed to be the
destiny of the continent to be one.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
TELEPHONE REGULATION.

Quite number of the legislatures
this winter are tackling the telephone
monopoly. Indiana was the first to fix
maximum rate for the service, and the
company concluded to make the fight
on that line. 1t withdrew from the state,
and symptoms of weakening are appear
ing in the legislature, as the business
men want the convenience. The rate
fixed by the legislature was ample for
reasonable profit, but the example to
other legislatures was the dangerous
feature. The legislature in Ohio has
beaten similar measure, as the COM
pany has threatened to serve it as it did
Indiana. A bill in the Illinois body
puts the rent at Sc per month as the
maximum, and similar measures in Mis-
souri, name 81 and S3 as the figures.
There are in that state 5000 telephones
in use at a rental of 500 a year The
monopoly is too big thing for the aver
age legislature to tackle, and it doesn't
seem to care to squander its wealth
on impecunious Legislators. 1t is liable
to get itself disliked by reluctantly poor
statesmen.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
"BUTTERANT ABBEY. 81

SCOEk SOuuty.t
Thou art erumbling to the dust old pile;
Thou art hastenIng to thy fall,
And round thee in thy loneliness
Clings the ivy to the wall.
The wOrshlpers are scattered now
Who kneit before thy shrine,
And silence reigns where anthems rose
In days of ''auld lang syne.''
And sadly sighs the wandering wind,
Where Oft, in years gone by,
Prayers rose from fervent hearts to Him,
The Highest of the High.
The tramp of many busy foot
That sought thy aIsles is DER,
And many jovial heart around
Is still for evermore.
How doth Ambitions hope take wing;
How drOoDs the spirit now
l hear the distant eitys din;
The dead are mute below;
The sun that shone upon their paths
Now gilds their lonely graves:
The zephyrs which once famed their brews
The grass above them waves.
oh. could call the many back
Who've gathered there in vain:
Who've careless roved where we do now,
Who, II never meet again.
How would our very souls be stirred
TO meet the earnest gaze
OF the noble and the beautiful,
The lights of other days.
Michael Kayauagn
Minneapolis, 32S second Street Northeast.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
LITTER POSTAGE.

The matter of reduction of letter
postage will be under discussion this
summer, in view of the pledge of the
Republican platform in that direction.
AS there is an uncomfortable surplus in
the treasury, it is good time to make
the change, as the shortage attendant
for time upon such reduch ons will not
be material. 1t is but question of
time when the 1-eent letter rate will be
reached, and any party plank on the
subject would have no effect, except,
perhaps, to slightly hasten the attain
ment. In connection with this there
should be restoration of the old 1-cent
city rate. The present rate is an annoy
ance not compensated by the increased
income, and will be still more so when
1-cent stamps are used on letters. The
free delivery has been extended to 400
or more cities, and the number is con-
Stantly increasing.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
A REVENUE CHIMERA.

Auditor BRADEN'S scheme to raise
revenue from the rental of state mineral
ands is one of those chimerical ideas
that are never suggested except in
times of dire extremity. Upon the
principle that a drowning man will
catch at a straw, the state officials are
casting around in search of every con-
ceivable plan that has promise of rev.
enue in it: and when the glamour OF a
promise appears on the surface they
do no stop to Investigate what hope of
realization there is init, but grasp at it
with the desperation of drowning
man.
So far as this particular proposition
S concerned, there is absolutely nothing
in it except to afford spectators
an opportunity to get in their
work. There is certainly no revenue in
it for the state, for the simple reason
that bona fide mining companies will
not bite at such an unbuSiness-lIke
proposition. We are confident that if
the bill now before the legislature is
passed, the state will never derive
enough revenne from the rental of its
mineral lands to pay the expenses OF
the letting.
There will come a time when these
lands will be of great value, but until
that time comes the state is just as well
able to own them as any one else.
When the northern section Of the state
is developed by the building of railroads,
there will be no difficulty in disposing
of all these lands at fair market price.
And until that section is developed and
facilities afforded for getting out the ore,
what use is therein talking about leasing
them to advantage? Capital employed
in mining is never slow to discover the
proper localities for profitable invest
ment, so that when the time comes that
the iron beds in the northern part of the
state can be mined to advantage there
will be no trouble in disposing of the
lands. 1t would. therefore, be uEwise,
if it were practicable, to tie them them
up with leases, especially when the
leases are pretty sure to be taken by
spectators. who will have no intention
of going into mining business.
What the auditor and the OF her state
officials want to do is to direct the at
tention of the legislature to some plan
whereby the appropriations shall be
cut down to the limit of our present
revenue resources, which are ample for
all legitimate purposes. If the ex-
penses of the state government were
cut down to reasonable requirements,
there would be no necessity for lncreas-
ing the rate of taxation, nor for adding
to the sources of revenue.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07

vision for conveying our state militia
10 New York and back on this occasion,
even if it required an extraordinary ap-
preparation.
Minnesota has one of the finest militia
organizations of any state in the Union,
and this would be good opportunity
to let it be known. Our Minnesota citi-
zen soldiery would make showing at
the Washington celebration that we
would be proud of.
Then again, the historical interest
attached to the Washington centennial
makes it importan that our Northwest
ern states should be fully represented.
At the time of WASHINGTON first in
auguration this northwestern section
was buried SO deep in the wilderness
that its existence was scarcely known.
The appearance of such splendid mil
itary organization as Minnesota can
send to this celebration would impress
the country with the wonderful prog
resS OF our first century's development.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
QUARANTINE CONFERENCE.
Report on the Best Safeguards
Against Epidemics in the South.

Ih
McNTG GoSIERY, Ala, March 6.-The
quarantine conference met again to-
day. The morning session was taken
up in the discussion of a report of the
committee on quarantine, which was
adopted with some amendments. The
report recommends that the health au-
thoritieS shall regulate the hauling Of
persons, baggage or freight from infected
places during yellow fever epidemics
and that the regulations and reStric-
tions shall be such as to afford protec-
ton to endangered communities; that at
all seasons of the year and under all
circumstances, the simple passage of
trains should be allowed, even when
carrying sick refugees to other local
tiles, and that well digested rules to
govern quarantine should be prepared
necessary. That only competent
physicians who have had experience
with yellow fever should be made in
spectOrS of quarantine stations and have
power to administer oaths and detain
passengers and baggage; that state
boards of health should be authorized
to enforce quarantine regulations; that
the quarantine stations at southern sea-
ports are of great advantage and should
be continued; that ticket agents
should be required not to
sell tickets to persons during
yellow fever epidemic unless such per-
sons make a showing that they have
been absent twelve days from infected
districts, and that persons travelling in
the Southern country during yellow
fever epidemics shall be required to
have health certificates. At the after
noon session the proposition to disinfect
Decatur, Ala, was discussed and finally
tabled. DR.. Cochran, state health Off
Ger of Alabama. said it was unnecessary
to dlSinfect Decatur, and opposed the
proposition. The conference meets
again t0-mnrrnW
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
THE MAIL SERVICE.

If there is any department where
strictly business principles are needed,
it is in the mail service. The public
cares little who handles the mails, but
cares good deal that the service shall
be the most expeditions, leliable and
secure possible. 1t is the fashion to
magnify causes of complaint and gener-
alize from small data, but there is no
doubt that there have been some
grounds of complaint, based upon in
experience. There would be a great
improvement if the same management
were to continue. 1t is hoped that the
Republicans who have SO largely held
the positions will not be displaced ex-
cept for the good of the service.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
O'CONNELL'S LOVE.

The domestic relations of O'Connell
can not escape the notice of the most
careless reader. They were broadly
distinguished from those of common
men by the vehement and ever-fowing
tide of emotion that coursed through
them. They are Illuminated by every
occasion that comes up, and we find
him acting the part of a spiritual adj
wiser in detail to daughter in a grave
and anxious crisis of the soul, the par
ticular nature of which is reverently
yelled. Their verbal expression is con-
centrated in his letters to his wife.
From these it appears that his whole
married life, from its commencement
in 1902 to its close in 1886, was one con-
tinued course, not of ardent affection
only, but of courtship. Unless for the
purpose of satire no such gushing
vocabulary OF love has ever, as
far'i as know, been laid
open to the public eye. O'Connell
speaks of Charles Phillips, the author
of ''Curran and His Contemporaries,
I as ''inSane with love-" Some might be
inclined to retert the phrase upon him.
After eleven years of married life, in
letter of no more than sixteen lines,
his wife is my darling heart" ''heart's
treasure" ''my sweetheart love-" my
own Mary" my own darling love-"
my own dearest, dearest darling,"
:.andf''I wish to God you knew how fer
ivently dote On you.' This is from
him when on circuit, to whom the ex-
penditure of a minute was the expendi-
Iture of drop of professional life's
blood. In other ways we shall see that
he was man who never could with
hold, never could contract. his sympa-
thies. In this very letter there is one,
and but one, morsel of pure prose
his business "is increasing almost be-
catalogue of endearing phrases is
scarcely shortened, and he truly de-
scribes his case when he says, s'Dar-
ling, will you smile at the love letters of
your old husband?"
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
The Haymarket Monument.

CHICAGO. March 6.-The Haymarket
monument, which is to be dedicated
May 4, the coming anniversary of the
anarchist riot. will not bear the names
of the policemen who were killed by
the bomb. 1t has been the intention to
include in the inscription list of the
officers injured, or at least of those who
met their death. To-day the committee
having the matter in charge decided
such plan inexpedient. on the ground,
it is stated. of lack of room for the
amount of lettering required. Instead
there will be the following under the
figure of the policeman which forms the
chief part OF the monument: In the
mand peaee.h The Grafton at the un-
yelling will be delivered by Leonard
SWEET, once the partner of Abraham
Lincoln,
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
AN OUTRAGE TO RIVALRY.
A Sample Of the Congratulatory
Letters Received.

A Sample Of the CongratulatOry
Letters Received.
To the Editor of the Globe.
Do you know what you have done?
probably not. Your Souvenir of the
Inauguration of President Harrison,
1885," was an outrage upon every and
all conceivable rivalry in journal ism.
What have you done? I answer, in your
caIlous Indifference to the aspirations
OF your contemporary journalists, you
have scooped up the head of every
president that ever drew salary; you
have given facsimile of his autograph;
you have epitomiZed the biography of
each, so that no living man, woman or
child who reads the English language
can take refuge upon a plea of ignor-
ance, that they know nothing of the
presidents of the United States. Not
only this; but, Mr.. GLOBE, you have
furnished galaxy of their portraits in
style of artistic excellence so admir-
ably truthful that 100000 would have
been considered foolishness nifty years
ago, as proper compensation for what
you gave yesterday for five cents.
Please send me copy if you have an
extra. l want to place in my scrap
book the whole outrageous demonstra-
ton, for the enlightenment and admira-
tion of those who shall come after.
Respectfully, PERRY ID. MARTIN.
Lake CitV. March 5. 1889.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Senator Sherman is preparing to build
thirty houses in Washington.
With all due respect, the fact may be
mentioned that Mrs. Harrison is in her
tifty-seventh year.
Patti says that she will be glad to see
the ''dear shores" of America again.
Well, America will be glad to hear
again the very dear notes of Patti.
Algernon Charles Swinburne is about
to publish volume of ''original border
ballads" says cable dispatch. This
probably means that they will border
on the too-naughty- -for-perusal style.
DR.. Mary Walker expects a place
under the new administration. She
wants fat clerkship in one of the de-
partments. She will urge her services
to the Union cause during the war i'll
pushing her claims.
A Washington reporter asserts that
he called on Elliott F. Shepard at the
Arlington hotel, Washington, day or
two ago, and found the unique editor
cutting paragraphs out of the Bible for
the Mail and Express and having them
telegraphed to New York.
Rev. DR.. Henry NJ Field made an elo-
quent and telling after-dinner speech at
the recent New England banquet at
d.
vile Times-U Union: "Dr. Fields effort
last night was by far the most brilliant
one which ever graced the post-prandiaI
exercises of a Florida banquet table, -
Mr. Fields is great favorite in the
South.
President Harrison's typewriter, Miss
Sawyer, has aroused the enthusiasm of
| Washington correspondents. She can
not whistle, like Elijah Halford, but
she can sing with the best amateur in
the land. She has plump, round, red
cheeks, brown hair, large, gray eyes
and trim little figure. She looks
about.twenty years old, but is probably
older. She knows more about Harri-
sons political secrets than HaIford him
self. and she knows how to keep her
knowledge to herself. Her special bette
nOire is newspaper man, no matter how
pleasant he may look.
The youngest college president in the
country is Rev. De Witt HYDE, of
Bowdoin. Three or four years after his
graduation from Harvard he was called
to the presidency of Bowdoin, and he
has given great satisfaction in the
position. He stood high in his class
at Harvard and played on the
Varsity ball team for two seasons.
He is tall, handsome man, with full
brown beard and brown eyes. He is
still an athlete and a skilled tennis
player. His lectures on mental and
moral science display strong powers of
analysis and deep insight into prob
lens usually regarded as the special
field of older minds than his.
The new American duchess" of
Marlborough wasn't presented to the
queen of England last week, but several
other American ladies were, including
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, formerly
Miss Endieott; Mrs. George B. McClel-
Ian and Miss Mcclellan, Mrs. Brad
ley Martin and Miss Chanler, of
New York. and Mrs De Roode, of Ken
lucky. The Duchess of Marlborough's
absence may be charltably described to
the fact that the Marchioness of Bland
ford, the dukes first wife, whom he
treated so infamously and who obtained
a divorce from him, was in attendance
on her majesty and presented her young
daughter, Lady Frances Spencer
Cburnhh hill
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
THE DIFFERENCE.

Wisconsin and Minnesota are neigh
boring states. and each has a cabinet
member accredited to it. And yet it is
worthy of remark that very different
feeling prevails in each Of these two
states over the distinction thus con-
ferred. When the news of RUsK's ap-
pointment reached them our Wisconsin
friends were wild with enthusiasm, and
the members of the legislature in ses-
sion at Madison stood on their feet and
yelled themselves hoarse in expression
of delight. One enthusiastic member
even went so far as to move that the
spect to Gov. RUsK.
If there was any yelling, or other
manifestation of pleasure, when the
news of Mr.. WINDOWS appointment
reached Minnesota, we failed to catch
it. On the contrary, there was a pro-
nounced expression of opinion, among
the older and more prominent Repub-
licans, that Gen. HARRISON did not hold
Minnesota Republicanism in very high
DOM as the most distinguished represent
ative of the party. If Minnesota was
to be compllmented by the appointment
of cabinet officer, they could not un-
derstand why such men as RAMSEY,
DAVIS, SABIN, MCMILLAN, DUNNELI.,
STRAIT, NELSON and others who
had earned national regulations, and
who are yet actively identified with
Minnesota Republicanism, should have
been overlooked, while the choice fell
on one whose name is only a memory,
and not very sayory one at that.
However tickled the pride of our
Wisconsin friends may be by RUsK's
appointment to a cabinet Office. the feel
ing is not shared in by their Minnesota
brethren on account of WINDOWS ap-
pointment.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
LITERARY LIBATIONS.

Town Topics
At the club.
Old Soak is discovered writing and
evidently in deep thought. Finally he
lays down his pen with an air of salts
faction.
Youngbludde (who has been contem-
plating the performance with some de
gree of curioslty)-What are you up to
now, Soak?
Old Soak-Pve just been making list
of the Books that have helped me"
what do think of it? (Reads.)
!. Wrecked in PORT" by Edmund
Yates.
History of Burgundy"
Campaign of 1914 III Champagne"
'Bitter Sweet"
''Life in the Grande Chatreuse."
"Romany Rye"
Life of Louis de Bourbon"
1.-The Cask of AmontilladO," by Poe.
"The Twelve Decisive Bottles of the
World"
Youngbludde-Pardon me, Mr.. Soak,
if | say it's rum 'un.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
THE PRO RATA SCHEME,

A writer in the March Atlantic pre-
Sents forcible points in favor of the pro-
posed pro rata scheme for electing a
president. Under this plan, without
figuring exactly if Minnesota has seven
electoral votes, the ratio for one, OH the
basis of the November election, would
be about $1,000. This would give the
Republicans four, with three to the
Democrats, unless the Prohibitionists
came nearer the third ratio. This plan
offers inducements to minorities to vote.
The Democrats have none now in Yer
mont, or the Republicans in Mississippi.
1t is probable that the scheme will at
tract considerable attention.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
OUR TREATY WITH JAPAN.
The London Times Finds Fault
With 1t of Course.

LONDON, March THE Times, COM
menting on correspondents inference
that the treaty of commerce between
America and Japan provides for the
admission of Americans to entire COM
mercial citizenship in Japan in return
for Americas reserving for Americans
in Japan immunity from Japanese mu.
nicipal laws, expresses doubt whether
the favored nation clauses of the older
treaties. do not prevent Japan from en-
Iarging American rights without grant
ing an Identical boon to the other treaty
nations at the same time. The Times
complains of the conservatism of En-
glish diplomacy in the matter of an OBJ
solete and worthless privilege, to the
England being accused of thwarting
Japan's attempt to establish CONNER
cial relations with the nations.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
70 GLOBE PATRONS /:

The GLOBE regrets to an
nounee to the Northwest that
the special Inaugural Edition
was exhausted early on the
morning of publication. The
edition was an unusually
large one, but the demand
was unprecedented in the
history Of the GLOBE. Orders
are now pouring in from
every Northwestern quarter,
and aggregate high in the
thousands, but it is impossi-
BILE to fill one Of them. The
GLOBE appreciates the evi-
dent favor with which the
edition was received, and re-
grets it's inability to meet
this tremendous demand.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
THE CIGARMAKE ERS.
The Legal Protective Association
in Session at New York.

Special to the Globe
NEW YORK, March 6.-The Legal
Protective Association of Cigarmakers
met here tonight. leading cigar manu-
facturers from all parts of the country
being represented. A resolution re-
questing congress to repeal the mixed
tariff Oh tobacco and cigars and create
specified duty of S. per pound on I'M
ported cigars, 80 cents per pound on
leaf tobacco on the stem and 60 cents
per pound on stemmed tobacco was re-
ferred to committee. A resolution
to abolish advertising devices, long
credits and gifts of large quantities Of
samples was rejected. Resolutions
were adopted favoring national bank
ruptcy law; favoring the repeal of laws
which compel the labelling or other
marking of imported cigars, and estab-
fishing censorship by the association
over travelling cigar statesmen. Edward
Heyman was elected president for the
ensuing year; Emil Sidenberg, vice.
president; Frederick A. Ford, treas
urer: Morris SwiSe, counsel,
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07

has been interviewed, and, out of twen-
ty-three seen but two favored prohi
bition and four opposed, the other seven
teen sitting on the fence. The submis-
sion was a Republican measure, largely
at the instance of Senator QUAY, but
the politicians of that party are going
to turn up on the winning side. Sitting
on the fence may be taken to mean that
they are personally opposed, but don't
mean to get left if the people are going
the other Way.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
To Restore Order in Samoa

LONDON, March IA Berlin dispatch
says that Herr StuebeI goes as special
commissioner to restore order in Samoa.
and that he will have control of the
German squadron in Samoan waters.
He is reputed to be an able diplomat.
The American accounts of the terms of
the armistice arranged by Herr Knappe
and Mataafa are not believed in Berlin.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07
HERM AIMS SKILL.
Washington Post.

Last week Hermann, the magician,
was standing with half dozen gentle
men near one of the trees i'll front of
Wizards hotel. The branches were
full of chattering English sparrows.
Said Mr.. Hermann: II cut Zis from a
neWspapaire about how to eat re spar
row." and he read as follows:
Take a fat little bird by the beak.
sprinkle a little salt over it, take out
gullet, put the bird cleyerIy into your
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-07

THE country has outliyed twenty-five
presidents, representing all sorts of
politics and political shades, and it will
get along pretty well now for four ysars
under the direction of the man from
Maine. His reputation is involved,
and he has wealth enough now to care
more for working up matter that will
look well in his biography.