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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-10
BABIES AT Wholesale.

New Stock to Be Given to Any
One Desiring Ready-Ma de Fam
lilies.
A. couple of ladies who presented
themselves at 551 Jackson street in
answer to the advertisement that was
withdrawn from the paper Friday
morning. were ushered into the same
room Prudy and had graced Tuesday.
There they found Mrs. Stencil asleep
upon a sofa. the old man had caught
reflection of In the mirror, and the
woman with the big-headed baby in her
arms. In reply TO their inquiry for the
boy baby advertised, they were given
the detail of our appropriation of him,
and were offered in his stead their
choice of a girl baby that was born Fri
day night and another girl baby which
the woman. on being asked how
old it was. said: ut is old;
since this morning" Its mother.
Mrs. Stencil on awakening
assured them, sis real pious-goes to
church every morning. The railroad
man must either be excessively profit
gate or else is father kept in stock.
For the parentage OF each of the girls
was put on the shoulders of the railroad
man, as that of the boy had been. Mrs.
Stencil guaranteed the ladies, as had
been proved to us, that they could take
the baby without being seen or known.
To stimulate trade, she further III
formed them that she had orders for a
girl baby from party in Faribault,
from another in town, and from another
out Of town. but that
FIRST COME; FIRST SERVED"
if they would take their choice before
Monday they could have one or both.
She was expecting more every day, she
said, to fill other orders, and the appear
ance of a young German woman seen in
the room adjoining, justified her ex.
pectations.
Mrs. Stencil. it was learned from a
city physician. is afflicted with rheuma.
tism and no longer goes out to practice.
but keeps the wolf from the door by
conducting a school of midwifery in
connection with her hospital and baby
TRANSPORTATION industry.
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UTTERLY ABSURD.
At the Navy Department the Ru-
mors Are Laughed at.

WASHINGTON, March .9.-Secretary
Tracy left Washington for New York
this afternoon. Commodore Walker,
who acts as secretary during the alb
sence of the head of the department,
was tonight shown the latest San Fran
cisco bulletin, respecting the alleged
blowing up Of the United States steam
ship NipSic. He had no hesitation in
stamping it as an absurd fabrica-
ton. and he denies that any
orders have been sent to San Fran
cisco looking to the immediate equip
ment of the new cruiser Charleston. To
show the utter improbability of the
story Commodore Walker says that tel
e2raphic news reaching San Francisco
from Samoa must cross from Auckland
to Australia, thence across the Dutch
East Indian islands to Asia, up through
Europe to England, across the Atlantic
ocean to the eastern coast of the United
States, where it is taken up by the land
lines and transmitted to California. So,
said the commodore, it is evident that
such news could not possibly reach San
Francisco before it is known in the
East. as the navy department has an
officer stationed at Auckland for the
very purpose of forwarding information
respecting Samoan events, and 1t is not
to be supposed that he would overlook
matter like the sinking of the Nipsic.
SECRETARY TRACY
was intercepted on his way from Wash
ington to his home in Brooklyn at 1880
tonight. He was shown the latest San
Francisco bulletin respecting the al
legged destruction at Samoa of the
United States steamship Nipsic by the
German corvette Olga, together with
the remarks thereon of Commodore
Walker. The secretary said that on the
journey from Washington to New York
he was not in Geographic cOmmunica-
ton with anybody or any place and
could not be expected to know more
than Commodore Walker who was in
Washington. He fully subscribed to
the statement of the commodore. who
stamped the story as all absurd fabrica-
ton. He had not sent any private in
formation to any one.
NOT EVEN MENTIONED.
1t is learned that the reported de-
structlon of the Nipsic was not even
mentioned at the cabinet meeting this
afternoon, which fact is additional proof
that none of the executive departments
are in possession of information which
would confirm the rumOr.
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SOME OF THE STOCK.

SOhtj 1HE SIOCh.
being taken by some one else before
my friend has time to get my letter and
write to you. If it should be, could you
get another for her?''
"Oh, yes, We'll have more in a few
days" she replied, as obligingly as a
dapper dry goods clerk who assures you
that If the dress pattern to which you
have taken fancy should be exhausted
when you return, there is plenty more
to be obtained where that came
from. We drew a duet of long
breaths of mingled relief and
suppressed amazement when we
We're again shut in the cab. "Just
fancy" said Prudy, "they don't want
| to SO much as see who takes it and don't
care what becomes of it, once it is be-
yOnd their doOr!''
land the inexhaustible supply the
woman seems to have control of could
get us a girl or boy. and as many as
we hike! l dare say if we had expressed
desire for twins she would have uil-
dertaken to furnish them in any sex and
color we might idicate. declare, the
ways of the heather Chinee may be pc
cuiiar, but they are not a circumstance
to those supported by ChriStendom for
the removal of the discomforts of
vice. DON'T you suppose there is any
law to prevent WOman's diSpOsing
OF human being as unceremOniously
as of a
A LITTER OF KITTENS,
and isn't the mother in any way respon-
| Sible? For woman to refuse to be-
stow so much as the attention of a
glance upon her child and to cast it
into the hands Of an irresponsible per-
son who is charged only to get rid Of
| surely if the Sacredness of human life
| is not diSproved tradition. this is GRIM
| NAL"
"Well, if it isn't" sighed Prudy, ''the
least the law-can do for such forsaken
children is to order OF their heads as
fast as they presume to show them in
the world.''
When we had breathlessly related
our experience of the afternoon to
Henry, he coolly inquired: "What do
you propose doing-marry the girl, or
| take the child?'
Take the child" / retorted. "The
woman may have set forth the ease of
the conditions on which she disposes of
children only to induce us to agree to
take it. Perhaps when you get down
to business there is more red tape
about it. OF course, the money there is
in it the woman gets at the other end
of the string. But mean to learn i'll
full just what the simple method of
baby farming ISL
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AN OLD HAND AT 1T.
Mrs. Stencil Has Had at Least
Six Years Experience in st.
Paul.

!. Mrs. Stencil ii as Had at Least
Six Years Experience in st.
Paul.
Mrs. Stem first appearance in St.
Paul in her culiar line of business,
so far as mt records show, was in
1883, VIII, lie occupied a small one
story d. 6 at No. 44O Wacouta
street. e she lived and pursued her
calling until October, 1883. ''Lower
town. was not as aristocratic at that
time as now, and Seventh
street was the main artery
for innumberable cess-pools of crime
that lurked in dark places just off that
place was within stones throw of
drug store-als0 church-physical and
spiritual remedies were therefore
always near at hand. The neighbor-
hood is not largely given to residents,
and the few tenements that are offered
are occupied by transitOry class, and
but slight trace could be discovered of
Mrs. Stencil, or the extent of her bust
ness. A dozen business men on Seventh
street knew her, and remembered that
she was midwife; but none could be
found that traced any resemblance be
tween her and Little Buttercup,"
whose DaDy-laflnIHg PRACTICES long
since became notorious. The occupants
Of 440 WacOuta street directed the re-
porter to the present location of Mrs.
Stencil on Jackson street, and they also
were familiar with her business.
"Haf you a Daby to dispose OFF" was
the squery.
: The answer was sufficiently vague to
guarantee further information.
SWELL. Mis- Stencil is de woman you
wants TO see"
G. E. Dickerman, who owns the Wa
couta street property, said he knew that
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ONE HUNDRED A YEAR.
What Becomes of ALI the Babies
Left i'm the Midwife'S Charge.

Lett IN the MlOW11e'S Charge.
At. the city health office it was re-
ported that Mrs. Stencil is rather neg
ligent about making her reports, follow
ing the course pursued by many ply
sicians and reporting all births at
which she is the attendant at the close
of each month. A clerk of the depart
ment stated that she usually re-
ported eight to ten births per
month. Health Commissioner Hoyt was
seen shortly afterwards, and stated that
he believed this number to be somewhat
exaggerated, and did not think it was
possible for that number of cases to be
treated each month in the place on
Jackson street. Ii the figures are cor
rect, however, he believed that outside
cases treated by the woman in her
practice of midwifery must be included;
although the woman claims that from
rheumatic affection she is unable to go
about the city to any extent to attend
patieis and pleads her disability as a
reaSo, cr,pi. receiving women at her
homes 10 two deaths have been re-
ported = :, The place during the past
winter, g., allese were of women who
died in ch,loI firth, one case being that
of girl w ucame from neighboring
town. Bot. cases were attended by
reputable physicians. Mr.. Hoyt thought
it would be impossible for any deaths of
infants to have occurred in the house
unknown to the department..
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tons are directed against foreigners.
Ihey carry on high game here, and
our government has but one vessel
while they have three good ships. (
hear by way of Auckland that we will
have more ships here. God only knows
how this affair will end. The Samoans
90 not want Germany to annex their
island, but have long ago asked both
England and the United States TO take
them. Their old king, Malietoa, was
deported year ago, first to Germany,
then to the coast of Africa and then to
MarShall's island. to the north of Sa-
moa, where he now is. | am kept busy
from morning to night, and have been
since the 9TH of December, when the
Adams left for California. My mail by
this steamer wilfbe the heaviest have
yet had. and my several reports to the
secretary are quite lengthy, full, and
giving
EVERY ITEM THAT HAS OCCURRED.
The little paper published here, the
Samoan Times, has been suppressed by
the Germans. On January o the Ger
man consulate, German cODsul's
house, etc.. were burned. Loss $780,
900. 1t was the greatest fire ever in
Apia. sent men to render aid. | got
thanked In public proclamation, %
copy OF which send you. L think, and
certainly hope all my actions in this
Samoan business will be approved by
the government, for the state of Samoa
was never IN such condition, and ]
am here alone, just at the top and in the
midst of it all, and of course the respon-
sibility is great. | hear Germany in-
tends sending out troops. About Jan.
sent Lieut.. Hawley to Auckland to
telegraph to the secretary, and he will
be back on Feb. 2. The German consul
at Auckland chartered a small English
steamer the other day, and sent her
here with important German dis
patches, but what these dispatches were
no one but the Germans know.
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Damaged $4,000 Worth.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, March 9.-Con-
gresham S. Y. White, of this city, has
brought suit against the New York
Times for libel, laying the dam
ages at $4,000. The alleged libel
consists OF "a dispatch from
Washington which recently APP
peared in that paper charging Mr..
" hite with prostituting his high office
for personal and selfish ends. The dis
patch in question charged Mr.. White
with presenting a resolution author
izing the president to declare war
against the Venezuela, government, if
necessary. to collect the indemnity
for certain damages sustained by the
Venezuelan Transportation company
when some of their vessels were seized.
Mr.White says he had no interest in the
matter. but simply presented the reso-
luton as it came from the senate. He
charges that the dispatch was published
for the purpose OF injuring his reputa-
ton and good name.
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FOR BETTER OR WORSE.
The Founding Is Taken in Charge
by the Globe,

There was a hollow sound about
Henry's laugh as we entered hack in
front of the Ryan about S:15 o'clock
Thur sday evening, and told the driver
to go to ST. Jackson street. A street
Arab who passed us, whistling Johnny,
get your gum" was declared to be bad
SIGN, and if my companion demanded to
be assured once, he did ten times that
he would not have to walk the office
floor with the baby all night. A MEM
DRY of the dog sent shiver over my
own body as we mounted the steps to
the house and rang the bell. 1 stood
muffled in furs we'll in the shadow and.
to the same woman who had admitted
Prudy and me Tuesday and now opened
the door again, Henry said: I'VE
have come for the baby" The woman's
responsive grunt was scarcely audible.
She turned on her heel, hurried back
into the room at the end of the hall, and
was back in moment with the baby
and a couple of packages. Without
waiting for us to more than get hold of
the baby. she had slammed the door
upon us all. "Well, l never in
all my life" gasped Henry, when
driving to DIR. WelIington's office on
Seventh street. eve get the baby and
don't so much as go through the cere-
mony of dropping nickel in the slot or
pressing button. Let's see it." But
the face was completely covered with a
white cloth. GLOW old did you say 1T
is? Five days, and out in a hack al
ready! An instance of the fast life of
Young America that Englishmen con-
DENIM"
We carried our charge up stairs and
into the bright light of DIR. Wellington's
Office, where the doctor took it and M
wrapped it. There it lay on her lap,
sleeping as sweetly as though some
body in all the world had care over it..
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AS LEGAL AS BANKING.
No Law That Reaches Person
Who Gives Children Into I'm
known Hands,

AhOWH IdAuSt
us there no law that reaches
woman who consigns her infant to an
other to be thrown out of doors into the
first pair OF unknown hands extended
to receive it, and none to prevent the
second party receiving children
for that purpose?' was asked of
a prominent attorney yeSte rday.
mo record is made of the disposition
of the child-none can be made as con-
ditions now are, and records of births
in her house are recorded only at the
end of each month. The births on
record are from eight to ten month,
and the death rate record Is not one a
year. Now the matrons Of neither of
the orphan asylumS in town do not find
esdpty homes and hands for their
charges at the rate of eight
month. Il during the thirty
days that intervene between
registration days, six, four, three or two
oitflis woman's babies die, what proof
is there that any ever existed, and even
after they are registered, how can it be
traced what becomes of them when no
accounts made of the total disappear
ance they effect when they pass un-
marked into unknown handS?"
You have prObed just one of the
ulcers of vice that feed OH the Lifts of
our social SYSTEM" answered the at
torney; ''there is no law to
reach either of the women associated
with the disposal Of the child unless the
death of the child could be traced as
the direct consequence of their act,
which, as you intimate, is next to i'm
possible to accomplish. The common
law that should operate in case of this
sort has no jurisdiction in this state.
Nothing can be done unless you-or
rather, the legiSlature-create a new
law regulating the abuse so far as legis-
latiOn cam" PAULINE PRY.
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can't be bothered with it, for sometimes

can't be bothered with it, for sometimes
one reason and sometimes another"
THE parents then would not be likely
ever to lay claim to this baby In case
my friend took it,
Lord, no; they don't even want to
know who you be or anything about
you. After it's once the other side of
that door we don't. care what becomes
of it. When folks take 'em they usually
come in the night, SO as they wont be
noticed, and we don't want to even see
who it is takes it,
The young man emphasized the state
ment, and the woman who had admitted
us sat smiling and nodding approval on
the method described.
''What do you do when nobody takes
the baby?"
after we've advertised it as long as
we think there Is any use, we put 1t out
to board somewhere"
us this little thing perfectly healthy
in every way?'
"Just as healthy as Gan be-"
as he good?" asked Prudy. ignorant
that all babies are good until they've
been IN the world long enough to wake
up to the possibility of being bad.
Yes, he's pretty good: not much
bother to any one"
wen, III WrIUe I'd my 1rlenu, L
said. rising to go, "and in case there
should be any inquiries she would like
to make that have not occurred to me
whom shall she address?''
Get piece of paper, Charley" the
woman ordered the young man, land
write it down for her."
Charley found card and while he
was writing. creature that looked to
be neither man nor woman. for all her
petticoats and two braids of black hair
that hung down her back, started to
come into the room and was quickly
driven out, with far less ceremony than
had been shown the dog. In the mirror
on the wall opposite me, l had caught
the reflection of an old man, which
raised question as to the number and
variety of inmates the house contains,
and suggested that both may be infinite.
"Charley' handed me card, on which
was written 'Mrs. I'll. Stencil, ST. Jack
son street. st. Paul.
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THE DARK WAR CLOUD
It's Shadow Lingers, and
Americans Everywhere
Are Excited.
Rumops Of All Kinds Afioat,
But Nothing Certain from
Samoa.
The Navy and State Depart
ments Pronounce the
Stories Absurd.
Letter From the Captain Of
the Nipsic--Our Naval
Strength.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9.-This city
had touch to-day of the excitement
which would follow the confirmation of
the rumor that the United States man
of-war Nipsic had been sunk in Samoan
waters by the German man-of-war Olga,
as reported in the Breslau dispatch two
days ago. All manner of disturbing ru-
mOrS were abroad during the day to the
effect that the naval authorities at Mare
island had received news confirming the
sinking of the Nipslc, which was
intensified by the statement that the Ger
mans had seized the American mail
steamer Alameda. of the Oceanic COM
pany. The statement was also made
that the secretary of the navy had tele-
graphed an inquiry to the Union Iron
works of this city. as to how soon the
steel cruiser Charleston could be placed
in readiness for her guns. Based upon
these rumors and the further statement
that the Southern Pacific company had
received notice to be prepared to handle
the CharleStOn'S guns and naval stores,
the newspapers put out bulletin boards
declaring that the sinking OF the Ameri-
can man-of-war had been
CONFIRMED BY PRIVATE ADvICES.
Tremendous crowds surrounded the
newspaper offices, and in spite of lack
of definite confirmation of the news re-
garding the Nipsic, the news spread
rapidly throughout the city that the
rumor of the sinking of the American
ship was true. Newspaper extras,
issued up to 6o'clock, failed to definitely
dispose of the question as to the fate of
the American war ship, or whether the
Washington authorities were finally in
receipt of contirmatory news. How
thoroughly the excitement had
taken hold of the masses was
shown in the crowds of men and
women about the bulletin boards, and
the common sentiment expressed in
case disaster had overtaken the Ameri-
can vessel. The story respecting the
steamship Alameda is shown to be un-
true by the receipt of cable from Sgd
ney noting her arrival there. The
steamship Zeaiandia. whieh,is due here
next Saturday, will bring mail advices
from Samoa up to March /, and unless
definite teiegraphie adviees. are re
ceived from Auckland in the meantime
will give the first authentic news from
the island received since the 1st of Feb
ruary.
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FOUGHT TO A DRAW.
A Fifteen-Round Mill Between
Moore and Murray.


About 100 we'll known sporting men
and theatrical people went out to asport-
ing resort just beyond Single Creek.
Minneapolis, last night to see
ffteen-round glove contest be-
tween Dick Moore and Tom Murray.
The place of meeting was kept a secret
until IL O'Clock, when the party met on
the corner of NicOilet and Washington
avenues and took hacks. Both men
were in good condition and used two
ounce gloves. The referee was
local celebrity well known in sport
ing circles. Both men opened
with cautious sparring for an opening.
Moore scored the first hit, getting in
three in rapid succession on Murray's
neck and chest. Murray also scored
once Or twice, but no harm was
done on either side. The second
round was All active one, both men re-
ceiving some heavy blows. Round three
was about even, so far as honOrS were
concerned. Both men got in one Or
two handsome swinging blows. No
fighting to speak of was done in the
fourth round. In the fifth round some
hard slugging was done, both men COM
ing in for their share of it.
Murray got the worst of the
sixth round, being lifted off his feet
once by swinging Highlander. In
the seventh round hardly a blow of any
consequence was struck. Murray got
five stingers in the face in the eighth
round, bringing the claret and
making him wink hard. Moore was
hit once. Round nine was marked
by heavy slugging on both sides.
Murray was knocked all over the room
and bled like pig. Only the call of
time saved him from complete knock
out. Moore was not injured to any ex-
tent. In the teuth round Moore
landed on Murray's face at will and
knocked him all around. He could
not. however, get in a Knockout blow.
Murray's eyes were. nearly closed. The
eleventh round was also Moore's and at
one time it looked as though Murray
would go down. The twelfth round
opened with a rush, which ended
i'm a clinch. Moore got in hard
one between the eyes. which almost
closed the left one. His lip was also
badly cut, and Murray was hit once in
the face. The thirteenth round was
marked by cautious sparring. Moore
landed twice on his opponents face.
In the fourteenth round only four
blows were struck. Two of these
Moore caught in the face and
two Murray stopped with his visage.
Both men came up smiling for the fif-
teenth and last round. Moore led and
caught Murray in the neck, but the
| next instance he himself got right
handler in the face which staggered him
for second or so. The referee de-
cided the fight draw.