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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17

large part of their surplus products, but
they don't buy largely the things this
country wants to sell them. Out of
s500,000,000 they pay for foreign manu-
features the United States gets only
about Ss0,0O0,000, when 1t should have
at least three-fourths. This is the
case measurably with the other coMn-
tries to be represented. To &C.
complish much there must be remod-
cling of tariffs and mutually of COM
mercial arrangements. There would be
more hopefulness of beneficial results
if the United States delegates did not
consist of CARNEGIE and others whose
party interests are on the Chinese wall
of protection. Still, better under
standing of the situation may be he'd,
and influences accelerated toward con-
tinental unifcation of interests and &C.
ton. It does not look well for neigh
bors to pass by without friendly Speech
and take their traffic to distant aliens
There is an excellent field for friendly
work in a pan-American gathering, par
ticuIarly in view Of the exposition pro-
posed for 1892.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
THEY OPPOSE 1T.

Examination of many of the local
Journals of North Dakota indicates that
the action of the convention in imbed-
ding the capital and all the state insti-
tutions in the constitution is provoking
more antagonism to that instrument
than the dispatches sent abroad pre-
sumo. 1t is generally treated as a
feature of the combine that covers the
senatorships, governor and other prom
inent positions. Even in many local
tiles that are given plums the dissatis-
faction is quite notable. 1t looks as if
the success of the constitution were
really imperiled. Its defeat in October
would require the calling of the conven-
ton again, and delay admission two or
three months at least. There have been
instances where the people refused to
accept the constitutions made for them.
The chief objection raised is tn at the
convention has arrogated authority and
become party to deal that is demon
alizing and will give the political atmos
phere of the new state prejudicial
faint
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
TRUST FIGURES.

Among the recent current trade re-
ports is the intlmation that the sugar
trust is negotiating with somewhat
similar institution in Europe to put their
joint grip on the sugar production of
the world. A hundred millions or so,
it is presumed, will suffice for the little
deal. The mind is becoming accus-
toned to robust figures in connection
with these little private matters, as Mr..
BLAINE might remark. A few cents
more on the pound for sugar might
squeeze some millions of people, but
would add some millions of dollars to
the bullying Golfers of the trust. Then
it is mentioned incidentally that an
other hundred millions can be had to
buy up the wheat crop of Dakota and
Minnesota. Other little transactions
will absorb fifty millions more. The
difficulty in raising such sums is obvi-
ated by watering stocks and putting
them on the market at any figures OBJ
tainabie. There are great financiers in
these times, but it is becoming easier to
make figures than to fill them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
PERSONAL POINTS.

Owner of Racing Horse docking
closely at Scales)-Williams. you are a
trifle over weight. Can't you tighten
yourself a litte?'
Williams (the jockey)-Got on my
lightest suit, sir. Amt EFT bite to-
day, and we just trimmed my finger
nails.
Owner-Well, go and get shaved
Chicago Tribune.
Edison is in Europe for rest and rec
reatlon, not for business. After stay
Ing two weeks i'm Paris he proposes to
visit London and Liverpool, and then,
perhaps, Rome. Milan and Vienna. He
has accepted an invitation to be present
at soiree to be given by the staff of the
Figaro, at which the elite of the Paris
scientific world will assem- BILE to do him
honor.
Patriotic Germans are hard at work
wedding out words of French extrac-
ton from their vocabulary. Among
them is tobacconist of Dusseldorf,
who, wishing to Danish theword cigarre
from the German dictionary, offered
prizes for substitutes that should be
thoroughly Teutonic. Two of the
words offered are said to have been
glimstengel (bnrning stalk and gift
nudeln poison tubes.
Father-What makes you so eytrava-
CANT with my money? Son-Because |
didn't think you would like to spend it
yourself after working so hard for it,
The Epoch.
Widows of men who fought in the
war of 1912 need no Elixir of Youth.
They are always young.-New York
World.
A bright boy at Nahant came to town
on Wednesday to see the president, and
on his return was asked what he
thought of him. WELL" replied the
young Republican, 81 was disappointed.
There's man in Lynn who looks more
like Mr.. Harrison than he does him
self. boston Herald.
Seattle, w. T., will be rebuilt better
than it was. Sandstone will be discarded
for granite. A recent discovery is that
of granite quarry nine miles north OF
the city. There is wall Of white-gray
granite mile and half long and 600
feet high. Pieces fifty feet long have
been taken out. This stone will be used
largely in the reconstruction.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
A BASE BALL DANGER.

Since the perhaps temporary depres-
sion Of the athletic vocation in which
the most noted citizen of Boston dis
tinguished himself, the Athenian mind
has sought temporary diversion in furi-
Gus betting on base ball games. The
report reaches New York that as much
as 100000 day changes hands in this
way, and the moral sensibilities of that
city are shocked. The Herald thinks a
stop should be put to this demoralizing
practice. Pool selling OH ball games is
not confined to Boston. The great ma
tional game is in danger of popular dis
credit in its professional aspect on ac-
count of the prevalent disposition to
connect it with gambling. The man
ayers do wisely to guard against this so
far as in their power. People have been
known to bet on the length of prayer.
They cannot be prevented from putting
up stakes OH ball games, but it should
be shown that there is no necessary
tendency to gambling.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
THE SPEAKERS HIP.

The fight for the speakership will be
between Reed, of Maine. and McKin-
ley, of Ohio.-Fort Wayne Gazette.
Maj. Mckinley feels assured that he
will be chosen speaker of the next house.
and thinks that the idea of an extra ses-
sion has been Observation-Disclosures
News.
Mr.. Mckinley stands an excellent
show of becoming speaker of the house,
and in that position he would WELD
measure of influence which could be
made serviceable in advancing his pol
itical fortunes. Mckinley has his eye
on the presidency, and no man ever
went to the White house rom the SEN
ate.-Kansas City Star.
Congressman Russell, of Connecticut,
thinks that Mr.. Reed, of Maine, will be
made speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives. Mr.. Reed is a very able
man, whose greatness has been some
what eclipsed by the fact that he is sup
posed to resemble Shakespeare. AS no
body knows anything about the APP
pearance of Shakespeare the compli-
ment to Mr.. Reed is not APPARENT
Troy Telegram.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Gen. Albert Pike, the head of all the
Masonic orders and rites in this coun-
try. is in his eightieth year.
Lady Kortright has just given $4,000
for cOnvalescents' home, or retreat,
in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
Cardinal Newman, who is now in his
eightY-ninth year, cordially receives
American visitors whenever his health
permits.
Nine Dejerine Klumpke, who has re-
ceived the degree Of ''doctress" from
the Paris Faculty of Medicine, is an
American married to Frenchman.
Sir Edwin Arnold, author of 1.-THE
Light of Asia" has son with literary
ambitions. The young man is writing
a romance entitled The Wonderful Adj
ventures of Phra, the Phoenician.
Morgan Grace, NJ. D., brother Of ex-
Mayor Grace. of New York, and mem
Der of the upper house of Wellington,
New Zealand, has been nominated by
the pope Count of the Holy Roman En-
pire
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
ALL THE AMERICAS.

The arrival OF some of the delegates
directs attention anew to the American
international conference that is to meet
at Washington Oct. 4, and probably
continue in session two months or more
1t has been looked upon as one of Mr..
BLAINE's pet schemes, as he urged it
when in the cabinet eight years ago,
and has hardly received the considera-
ton it merits. 1t is to consist of forty
or fifty delegates. representing all the
governments of Central and South
America, Mexico, and, perhaps, Hayti,
and any other independencieS on this
side of the ocean, Ten delegates have
been appointed to represent the United
States, who are regarded as men of ca
pacity and standing. The official state
ments of the subjects proposed for the
conference have eight specifications,
some of them used to fill out the
programme, without involving much of
interest. The prevailing idea and only
material purpose is to promote COM
mercial intercourse between the various
peoples represented. There are large
possibilities in the field, but it is not
easy to see how they can be worked out
on the plane of repulsiye tariff thrown
in the face of the visitors. There are,
for instance, in South America about
three-fifths as many people as in the
United States, and this country buys a
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
ITEMS FROM EVERYwHERE.

A white kangaroo, the first ever
known, is on exhibition at the London
aquarium.
A Middletown. Del. duck mingles
with chickens and endeavorS to conceal
its identity by making attempts at crow
ing.
The queens sole emblem of royalty at
her granddaughter wedding was a
small diamond crown, worn over the
cap.
After courtship that lasted an hour,
a young couple in Akron county con-
cluded to get married, and were welded
the following day.
Three visitors to the Paris exposition
will shortly undertake the trip from
Vienna with wheelbarrow as sole
vehicle on their way.
Henry Wilson, of Jefferson county,
Ohio, has cow that is seven years old
and weighs less than 300 pounds. The
animal is about three and half feet
high.
A trumpet producing its musical note
by the vibration of circular steel
membrane by means of electricity has
been invented by Capt. Zinang, OF the
Thirteenth infantry, in garrison at
CONFRONT, Orne, France.
A Philadelphia dealer. not being able
to sell even single pair of shoes of
certain grade at 81, thought to mark
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
PLEASANT PORrER's PLANT.
He Says Sam Crawford Earned
the Commission Paid Him.

the commission PAID Him.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. - Ex-Gov.
Pleasant Porter, of the Creek nation. to-
day filed with the department of just
ice, protest against the proposed pro-
ceedings in the matter of ex-gov. Sam
uel j. Crawford, of Kansas, and other
persons, who, as attorneys for the
Creeks, received ten per cent of the
purchase money as compensation for
services rendered in bringing about the
purchase by the United States of the
interest of the Greeks in the lands en-
braced within Oklahoma. Porter and
two others were authorized delegates
of the Creek Indians for the
sale of these lands, and with the ap-
prOval of the Creek council. employed
these attorneys to assist them. The
contract with the attorneys was at first
approved by the interior department,
but subsequently the contract was with
drawn and tbe compensation left to the
judgment of the Indians. Gov. Porter,
in his protest, says that the Greek dele
gates assume the responsibility for all
that was done, and that they also have
the approval of their nation, which, he
says, is a regularly organized local self
government with which the United
States has no more to do than with one
of the states or the Union. The Creeks,
he continues, became alarmed at the
introduction of bills in congress throw
ing open to settlement large tract of
land which they had in 1886 eeded to the
United for nominal consideration on
the understanding that none but
FREEDMEN AND FRIENDLY INDIANS
should be located thereon. He says
that the Creeks. afraid of being cheated
out of their rights in 1864, employed
counsel to represent them, and after
long contest, succeeded, in January
last, in securing from Congress 81, $780,
857 for their rights in the lands. That
the employment of counsel was peces-
sary. MI. Porter says, is shown by the
fact that the claim was never settled
until council were employed, and by
the fact that the Creek nation has never,
unaided, been able to secure the pay
ment of any claim, large or small,
against the United States. The United
States disputed the claim of the Greeks,
and the latter engaged counsel just as
any other state or individual would
have done. When the work was ac-
complished to the entire satisfaction of
the authorities of the Creek nation, the
counsel employed were honestly paid
at the rate agreed upon by the parties
in interest. The protest concludes
with the hope that the case will be
carefully examined before ANYTHING is
done to the injury of any person.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
The Dog Swallowed the Cat.

New Bloomfield penny Democrat
James Willis, of this place. is the
owner of most eccentric bulldog. A
few weeks ago we gave an account Of
how this dog had stopped runaway
horse by jumping at its head and grab
bling the briGle-rein. Now comes the
story of how it disposed of brave and
warlike half-grown eat which presumed
to brlstle and spit at her dogship. The
cat had just about struck her fighting
attitude and was preparing to rush this
SulIivan-like canine. when the dog put
most unceremonious and unprofes-
sional end to the fight by swallowing
the cat whole. She then quietly lay
down and went to sleep as if nothing
unusual had happened, and has since
suffered no Inconvenience from her UNI
masticated repast. Just what this dog
will do next to show her erratic tenn.
permanent il is hard to tell.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
She Paid the Fares.

A stout, jolly, florid-faced woman
boarded Broadway horse car at Forty
second street one bright, sunny after
noon last week, says the New York
Sun. She was accompanied by young
couple, evidently lover and sweetheart.
The three had no sooner found seats
than the young man thrust his hand in
his vest pocket and made dash for the
rear platform, where the conductor was
standing in half dream. But the old
lady, who had been whispering to her
daughter, wouldn't have it. She dashed
through the car like a cyclone, and,
catching the young man by the collar,
jerked him back so quickly that he lost
his balance.
mo, Jimmy" she cried, breathless,
81 pay the fares. You go back and talk
to Dorothy"
Jimmy protested, but without avail.
The prospective mother-in-law pulled
out her purse, and with majestic air
handed silver halt-dollar to the con-
ductOr.
"Take the fares out" she said. ''l'm
a married woman. and no man but my
husband can treat me-"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17

them. Utah has provided for a School
system that compares favorably with
that of the other territories, and it has
a university that is fully equipped with
the modern Improvements. In denom-
national schools there are four SuS-
tanned by Mormons, and eighty-fve by
other sectS. 1t has been presumed that
the Mormons are largely ignorant peo-
pie imported from Europe, but the per-
centage of those who cannot read Is
just the same as in Connecticut, and
only thirteen states and territories have
a smaller proportion. There is less in
temperance and crime there than in al
most any other community. The con-
ditions and requirements for statehood
are abundantly possessed, and the only
obstacles are the political phase of Nor
monism and polygamy. When these
are put in process of extinction. the
public mind will recognize the strong
claims to statehood.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
STATE SENTIMENT.

The WaSeca Herald seems to dislike
the young element which is gaining
strength in Minnesota. The Herald is
sick of such upstairs as Heatwole and
Collins, whom it calls carpetbaggerS.
etc.-Windom Reporter.
Secretary Window is said to have
an eye on the gubernatorial chair.
There may be several other eyes on it,
also, but there is about 100 pounds of
avOirdupOiS in it, and aSpirantS for the
governors seat will find that possession
is great dvantage.-Richland North
Star.
Gov. Merriam has no sympathy with
Chicago's aspirations in regard to the
worlds fair, and, in fact, has already
promised to aid in locating it in Wash
ington, D. G. Perhaps he thinks he
will be in the United States senate by
that time-but he won't.-Lanesboro
journal.
The st. Paul GLOBE, noticing this
'selixir of life," thinks it has made
another discovery, which pleases us
nightly. 1t collects a long array of
proof tending to show that Republican
statesmen have greatly prolonged their
lives by joining the Democratic party
Just as they were climbing over on the
shady side of the hill Of life.-Le Sueur
Sentinel.
The Republican state political ma
chine is already at work laying wires
for the next gubernatorial election.
And the fight will be hot one. EX-
Gov. McGill wants to be indicated by
a nomination for governor, and of
course Gov. Merriam will want re-
nomination, besides innumerable others
who would like to 'get there" if they
could The fight will be between
Doodle" Merriam and McGill.-
Your genuine ''true sportsman" is
one who lives in large city and goes
into the country only once or twice a
year. He becomes righteously indig-
nant if a farmer shoots an old prairie
rooster in self-defense, but about the
10th of August he arms himself with a
shotgun and half-ton of loaded shells,
a bottle or two and seven or eight half
starved dogs, and descends upon the IN
fortunate country and makes life a
burden to the inhabitants thereof
Dakota Tribune,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
Five Generations.

Sanford (Fla.) Journal.
While in Augusta, Ga, recently 1 had
the pleasure of seeing the five living
generations of one family. They are
kinfolks of mine. and will tell you
who they are. and ask if it can be
equaled south of Mason and DixOn's
line. First, Mrs. Jane Butler. ninety
years old; second, her daughter, Mrs. [.
V. Tarver, sixty years old; third, her
daughter, Mrs. Fannie Tarver Doolittle,
forty years old; fourth, her daughter,
Mrs. Georgia Doolittle Richards, twenty
years old; fifth, her daughter, Cleye
Richards. one month old at this writing,
fine baby. This is not all. 1t occurred
in the same family twenty years ago,
when Mrs. Buffers mother was living, of
which the family has pictures, and hope
soon to have pictures of the present five
generations. They are all fine, healthy
ladies, and some of the five very pretty,
and bid fair to keep up the series of
FIVE generations for long time to come,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
MoRsELs OF GAsTRoNoMY.

After many years neglect, the English
now begin to appreciate tomatoes.
What the watering place hotel wants
most of all is more gastrOnomic variety.
If cook books helped people to eat in
telligently there would be none too
many.
Beefsteak pie, of which they are so
fond in England. reminds one of Amer
lean hash.
At the present rate of poisoning, only
the brave will venture to eat a plate Of
ice cream.
The newest nonsensical gaStronomic
combination in London clubs is salad
of lettuce and oranges.
A large number of obviously ancient
fowl are masquerading on watering
place hotel tables as "spring chicken"
French pancakes, on the bill of fare,
may be all very pretty to look at, but
they are something of mess to eat.
Caterers at the fashionable watering
places are not doing much in the way of
astronomical novelties this season.
The average man at the summer hotel
is not satisfied at dinner until he has
partaken of each and every entree.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
DUVERGE Is AT LIBERTY,
But His Case Is a Precedent for
ExtraditiOn Under Consular
Court Trials,


Extradition Under Consular
Court Trials.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-The state de-
partment has received an opinion from
the attorney general in the case of Capt.
Duverge, which will be accepted as
settling the question of the right of this
government to bring to the United
States for confinement persons con-
Yicted by consular courts of offenseS
and sentenced to Imprisonment. In this
case Capt. Duverge was found guilty of
killing Consul StanWOOd, and was SEN
fenced first to Imprisonment for ten
years. As there were no proper means
of carrying out the sentence
der. it was sought to bring the
prisoner to the United States and
confjne him here. The attorney general.
however. decides that this cannot legal
ly be done directly. During former adj
ministrationS prisoners sentenced by
consular courts in the Ottoman empire
were brought to the United States for
confinement, but the attorney general
explains that this was done only when
the prisoner had been sentenced to
death and the president had used his
power of making conditional pardon
and committed the sentence practically
in that way. In the case of Capt. Du-
verge, resource may yet be had to SIM
liar device, which would result in his
confinement in the United States for a
term less than ten years, pardon be-
ing extended for the remainder of the
time, thus imposing the necessary con-
dition, but meanwhile the officials of
state department are not without appre-
tensions that the prisoner may by his
escape avoid any official solution of the
problem.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
He Knew.
Young Catholic


A teacher was telling her little boys
about temptation, and showing how it
sometimes came in the most attra ctive
attire. She used as an illustration the
the paw of cat.
Now" said she. ''you have all seen
the paw of cat. 1t is as soft as velvet,
isn't it?'
.'Yesem," from the class.
''And you have seen the paw of a
dog?"
'Yesem."
"Well, although the cats paw seems
like velvet, there is, nevertheless, con-
cealed in it something that hurts. What
is it?"
No answer.
"The dog bites," said the teacher,
'when he is in anger; what does the cat
do?''
Scratches" replied the boy.
Correct" said the teacher nodding
her head approvingly. "Now what has
the cat got that the dog hasn't"
"Whiskers," said boy on the back
seat; and the litter that ran around the
class brought the lesson to an end.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
A Stroke of Genius.

Merchant Traveller.
"What did you say?" said Larkie to
her husband, after some one-sided talk
at the breakfast table,"
81 didn't say anything"
"What's the use of denying 1t. Pm
not going to disbelieve my own ears"
sit wasn't anything of Importance"
"Probably not"
Then what do you want to know
for?"
Because as your lawful wife L have
a right to know"
Il said to myself"
"Well?"
Il said to myself that it was about
time that you had another silk dress"
Harry, dear, wouldn't you like to
have another cup of coffee?"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-17
HIT OR MISS.

When marketing for chickens, al
ways remember that the good die young.
Puck.
The nobility of Europe are nowhere
beside popular prize-fghter's "dukes."
Merchant Traveller.
"Misfortunes never come singly." At
this time O. year the small boy often
meets trouble in green pears.-Terre
Haute Express.
Language varies with popular needs
new meanings necessitate new terms.
Hence it will not be at all surprising to
find in coming grammars such conjuga-
lions as this: The verb to Doodle:
present, accuse; past, accrue; future,
acquit.-Baltimor American.