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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-04
BLAINE WILL VISIT BEN.
The Plumed Knight Says He Will
Make Pilgrimage to Harri-

The Plumed Knight Says He Will
Make a Pilgrimage to Harri-
sons Home.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Sion. James
G. Blaine and William Walter Phelps
arrived in Washington this afternoon.
They came from New York on the elm
tied express" of the Pennsylvania rail-
road. At the depot Representative
HIT, of Illinois. met and exchanged
few words with the statesman from
Maine. Then Mr.. Phelps and MIR.
Blaine were dIiven to the Richmond,
where Mr.. Phelps has suite of apart
ments and where Mr.. Blaine will be hiS
guest for several days. Mr.. Blaine
submitted to brief interview this even
ing. He said he had come here on no
political business. He had come. to
arrange with builders to put up house
on some property near Dupont circle.
He will build this house to rent. He
said he would be here for few days,
and when he left, it would be to go to
Indianapolis to call on Mr.. Harrison.
Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Phelps dined this
evening with Representative Hit.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-04

THE ladies of the w. G. I. q. in vari-
Dus states and localities are signing Pc
htions to congress, asking that body to
pass a resolution submitting the ques-
tion of prohibition to the states for rati
fication OF rejection. Unless it is de-
signed to take the torn of an amend
ment to the constitution, the pertinency
of the action is not apparent, as the
states can vote on the question as
readily without suggestion from con-
gress, and many of them have already
done 20. The states will be jealous of
ANYTHING that savors of dictation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-04

IT HAS been matter of general COM
plant in the cities that use the tele-
phone-and there is hardly all exception
in this country-that the rates OF service
are unwarrantably high. A test case as
to the right of city to fix maximum
charges was recently decided in the
supreme court of Missouri in favor Of
the monopoly. 1t was determined, how
ever, that the streets and alleys could
not be used except upon conditions pre-
scribed by the city, and it could compel
the placing of the wires underground,
as has been done in several cities, and
probably will be the general rule ia
time. 1t will be remembered that few
years ago a different result was reached
by the highest court of Indiana on a
similar question. The legislature fixed
a limit to telephone charges. The COM
panies kicked of course, and threatened
to tear down the wires. and perhaps did
in one or two instances; but the law
stands, and it is believed the ''hello'' is
as common in that state as in most
others. st. Louis will probably secure
the terms demanded by worrying the
company with onerous conditions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-04

WEEKLY ST. PAUL GLOBE.
One Year ST. Six Mo. 65e Three Mo. SOC
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-04
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-04
breed bulls, mich COWS and egg-pro-
ducing hens might in the end be far
more profitable than seed wheat.
A HEALTHY PERIOD.

On one of the closing days OF the year
just ended (the last day or the Saturday
preceding that the real estate trans
actions in st. Paul for twenty-four hours
amounted to over SsO0,OOO. On the first
day of January of the new year the
value of the buildings to be erected in
st. Paul within the twelve months, and
for which plans were in the hands Of
the architects, was $500, 600. At this
time the city engineer has under con-
temptation public Improvements in
value estimated at $1,000,000, and there
are manufacturing plants being ar
ranged for to the extent of another mill
ion dollars. ALI this in the face of So
called hard times and tendency
on the part Of capitalists not to specu-
late. Herein is part OF the secret of the
quietness of the times. Speculative
tendencies and speculative money are
not in the market. Transactions have
reached the basis of cash and intrinsic
values. Imitation and boom have passed
away, worthily succeeded by a con-
sentative spirit, whose work, though
slower, is better and greater in the end.
There has been,no panic; no disastrous
failures; no falling off in real values;
no cessation in the growth of popula-
tion-only healthy and needed check
on speculation, whose course must have
led to the ultimate discredit Of the city.
In hard dollars and cents ST. Paul is
weather., more prosperous, more solid
to-day than ever before in her history.
1t IS somewhat curious to note how
the proportion of voters to population
varies in The large cities. Some recent
figures afford illustration. The eX-
tremes in the list given are Cincinnati,
4.79 of population to the voter, and st.
Louis, 724 per voter. Between these are
New York, 5.S7; Boston, 6.74; Chicago.
COG; Philadelphia, 4.93; Buffalo, 4.S5.
The wide difference between New York
and Philadelphia is not easy to account
for, as there is always contest in New
York state calculated to draw out a
much fuller vote than in Pennsylvania.
Some difference, however, would be eX-
pected from the greater alien popula-
ton in New York. The most remarka
BILE variation is the 7.224 in St. Louis and
4.79 in Cincinnati. Their population
is very similar, with little difference i'll
voting conditions. The country vote is
uniformly larger in proportion to popu-
lation than that of the cities. 1t is be-
lieyed that Minnesota, although having
the largest proportion of those foreign
born, casts the largest vote, for its pop
ulation, of any state i'll the Union,
owing to the liberality of its suffrage
laws.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
THIS AND THAT.

Billings, the Iowa lawyer who killed youp g
Kingsley, plum nges still deeper into the vor-
tex of crime. He is now writing poetry.
A citizen of Omaha writes to THE BEE to
announce that he has invented perpetual
motion; that the machine is about finished,
and that he is ready to spring 1t upon the
people as soon as he learns whether there
is prize offered for such a success. He is
respectfully referred to MIR. Keely's hackers.
The snub which the merchants week reo-
Pile are said to have given the South Omaha
packers has opened an almighty big chasm
which the Brooklyn bridge could not span.
1t will result in bringing to public attention
petty iealousies and local political preiudces
which are shameful if not childish.
1t was Sheriff Coburn's chance to get back
at his particular friends, the county commits
sioners, and he made the most of it.
Sullivan now wants to go to congr ess.
And yet his friends insist that John is trying
to reform.
Even the Impassable Chinaman sucumbs to
the prevailing mania in Chicago. Blanche
10y lived happily with Ching until they
reached the city of the lake breeze when he
began to beat and otherwise abuse her and
now she wants a divorce.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08

JOHN l.. SULLIVAN announces that
he will endeavor to secure the nomina-
ton for congress in one of the Boston
districts, and says that in pursuit OF this
worthy ambition he hopes to be able to
put aside less meritorious aspirations.
One of the most celebrated pugilists of
England was elected to parliament and
became a comparatively respectable
man. In this country the election Of
John Morrissey to congress had an i'm
proving effect upon his conduct. 1t is
possible that term in congress would
make Sullivan better behaved man
than he has been, but If he cannot be
reformed without sending him to con-
gress it were better to permit him to
serve out term in the Mississippi pen.
Congress already has quite enough to
answer for.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
OUR FOREST AREA.

The forest area of Nebraska is about
the smallest of any in the United States.
Our naturally wooded district only
states topography, and it lies mostly
along rivers where 1T is OF but little
value. OF course there is but very lit
tie consumption of natural timber in this
state, for we have not got it to consume.
Compared with other states it amounts
to nothing. What we use as lumber
and wood we buy from other markets.
In the entire country over thirty bill
lion feet of lumber, including
one hundred million railroad ties
are consumed every year. 1t is
estimated that fully one-fifth OF the
present forest area has been stripped to
make ties, and figuring from certain
basis the extent of this drain will in
crease largely with the addition of new
roads. AT this rate it is only question
of time when the United States. will be
without timber. The farmer who buys
or settles quarter-section OF land and
imagines that he has home has only
taken the first steps towards the accom-
plishment of his purpose. More than
land is required to make farm. Water
is as necessary as land, and to secure
and keep water it is necessary to have
trees. Accordingly three requisites are
necessary for good farm, land, water,
and trees.
The forestry laws in this country
amount to but little in their present
form. Each state enacts what it deems
proper and much hasty and crude iegis-
lation has been adopted whore the
question has been raised at all, which
is in but very few Of the states up TO
the present time. In France and Ger
many the authorities compel persons
cutting trees to replant others in their
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08

stead and kindred wise provisions
place the matter in something like q
safe condition for the present and
future generations. In 1876 j. Sterling
Morton, of Nebraska City, originated
the idea OF setting apart one
day in the year for the purpose OF plant
ing trees on our broad prairies. The
Legislature afterwards took the matter
up and created Arbor day, and recon-
mended that il should be spent in plant
ing trees. 1t has been so popular in
Nebraska, and so productive of good re-
suits, that other states have adopted
our law. The enactment, however, has
.nothing compulsory about it, and after
n while the novelty will wear off and
the custom will sink into disuse. In
Nebraska the lack of timber is not now
very severely felt but, as stated, fine
groves are an invaluable adjunct to
agricultural states for even many pur-
poses besides those named. Some intel
ligent legislation should be enacted
whereby our timbered area may be
made to assume more respectable pro-
portions In the future.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
HEALTHY RIYALRY.

The rivalry of the motor and con-
solidated horse railway and cable com
panies promises TO give Omaha superior
suburban street car facilities. If the
various extensions projected and under
way are built this season the residents
OF the northwestern and southwestern
portions Of the city will all be within
easy reach OF the business center, and
Omaha will be able to boast better
street car facilities than any city OF
twice her population. II is manifestly
to the interest OF our citizens that the
rivalry between the street car lines be
stimulated wherever aud whenever it
is possible TO do so. Much will depend
upon the action OF the board OF public
works. Its policy in dealing with rival
claimants to given thoroughiares should
be to rs much as possible afford the peo-
pie of any locality the benefit of COMPETE
tion. The position which Mr.. Kier-
stead has taken with regard to the
Lowe avenue and Cunning street
right OF way tends in that
direction. The residents of Wal
nut Hill should by all means be given
the choice of two routes to the heart OF
the city. With the choice of competing
roads, they will be sure Of more rapid
transit and better accommodations 1t
would be detrimental to the public in
terests to grant the monopoly OF travel
to and from Walnut Hill to any one
line, when there is ample room for COM
petition by granting the right of way
TO rival lines over parallel thorough
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN.

AS will be seen by the report of the
proceedings of the republican county
central committee, the coming county
convention is to be composed Of over
one hundred and sixty delegates. This
will give everybody who intends to take
an active part in the fail campaign a
chance to became a delegate and have
voice in making up the ticket. In
view of the fact that large
bodies always move very slowly
the committee very properly fixed the
time of meeting for the convention in
the forenoon. That will enable the con-
vention to get through with its work
before sundown. We would not, how
ever, be surprised if the coming conven-
tion would expedite its business more
rapidly than conventions have done
heretofore in this county, The very
large number of delegates will compel
the convention to abandon the old
method of nominating by paper ballot
and substitute a UiUd Uoce vote by wards
and precincts. That will be a step in
the right direction. 1t will checkmate
double-dealers and sell-outs who
conceal there broken pledges, trickery
and troachery by the paper ballot.
While there is diversity of opinion as
to the wisdom of nominating county
ticket more than month ahead OF the
election, we can safely predict that the
candidates and the central committee
will find their time fully occupied from
the 9th of October until after election.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
Better Than Cremation.
NeU York Suf

There Is a man IN Denver who has an idea
that the country ought To give up the
present method of disposing of dead bodies
and adopt one which he suggests. He does
not advocate cremation, nor anything else
which, so far as is known, appears 10 have
been suggested by any other person. His
scheme is to freeze the dead body in water,
take the block Of ice in which the body has
been frozen and carry it to the north and de-
posit it on the shores of one of the Arctic
seas. He says that he has already made
some favorable progress, and that an English
syndicate is considering the establishment
of an international cemetery on the shores
of Baffin's Bay, where he says that future
generations may go TO find the faces of their
ancestors of the nineteenth century as
natural as life.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
Lots of Fuss for Fifty Cents.

Scotia Herald.
During the session of the legislature last
winter we were ordered by Secretary OF
State Laws to send the Herald to Represent
alive Hanna and charge the same to him.
We did so. In fact we would have sent the
paper to handsome Hanna anyhow, for we
knew he would rather lose his bangs any
time than be without it. After the brilliant
session was over we sent our bill to the sec
retary of state for 80 cents (cheap enough,
ehO. In the course of month or two he o.
KID it, and passed it ON to Cruzan, chairman
of the house committee on public accounts.
This gentleman, after deliberation worthy so
weighty matter, affixed his Gaulc sigma
Jure to the document. Then the bill moved
on to Tom Nj. Cook, clerk of the house. Tom
signed it, and sent it on its travels to John
G. Watson, speaker of the house. This gem
tleman, after due consideration, also put his
John Hancock to the paper and sent it over
10 the auditor of public accounts. The audi
tor mailed it back to the Herald for our sig
nature, and it has gone back again. If it is
approved by the auditor we believe and trust
that he will issue a warrant for the so cents
with the big name of Benton at the bottom,
and forward the same to Scotia Then we
will pack our grip, grasp our pass tightly, go
to Lincoln, visit the state treasurer, and, on
being properly identified, perhaps get our
money. Verify, 1t is hard for a poor news
paper man to get his own. now isn't it2
Herald Sl.50 year with premium.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
BUZZINGS.

What prohibition In Iowa, ha, ha, ha |! l."
said a well known liquor drummer who trav-
els through Iowa. "Why, my boy, l glory
in my Iowa trade. 1t is the easiest snap in
the world to sell WHISKY in Iowa or Kansas
both of which states l cover.
''There are many methods of getting
whisky into those states unknown to the
local authorities. What do think of pro-
hibiting! rll tell you right now that there
s no such thing as prohibition. | have been
in the business for years, and although !
sell whisky L don't drink it. have sold
liquor in Iowa and Kansas, and get more
money out of it than l ever get out of Ne
braska and Colorado.
"Why, go to Atchison, Kan, for instance.
If you are posted you can go TO any of the
cubs there, where you will meet the city and
county officers indulging in their regular
toddy. They are not drunkards by any
means, but they want their regular drink
and get 1t. 1t is the same in all towns
throughout these states.
"1he means of getting liquor into prohibi-
tion states are manifold. Some of the most
ingenious schemes for evading the spoilers
are practiced, much cleverer than any that
are practiced in smuggling.
81 was in an Iowa town lately and after
supper sat on the hotel verandah A boy of
about fifteen years came to me and asked me
If was MIR. So-and-So. / said was. Said
he, can you send me gallon of whisky for
81. .502' l said l could not, that he was a
minor, and that did not carry that class of
goods. Well said he, ten of us boys chip
ped in 10 cents apiece and want to get gal
Ion of whisky, and l thought you could sell
it to u.s..
VI questioned HIM. and he said that boys
of his age were in the habit of buying
whisky and after getting it would go into the
woods and get beastly drunk.
''This is sad Offset TO the drinking OF
minors in non-prohibition states, where boys
who are inclined to be tough may some
times go to low down saloons, play pool and
drink beer, but the systematic way that boys
in Iowa towns go to work TO buy the barrel
house quality of whisky by subscription and
get beastly drunk is so much worse that the
contrast cannot but be fearfully alarming. )
-.
81 have just returned from a visit TO Vic
toria B. c., said a gentleman 70 the Buz-
ger 'sand found il one of the most beautiful,
as well as aristOcratic cities on the conti-
nent.
''The people are mostly English, but there
are quite a number of Americans there in
business. Everything is run on the English
plan. Business, with the exception OF the
retail trade, is generally suspended after 8
D. M, and everyone dimes in the evening.
.'The theatres are very pretty and full
evening dress is de rigeur for anyone who
wishes to be entirely in good form. The
city is surrounded by beautiful drives and
pleasure resorts, ana the latter part of the
afternoon is devoted 70 pleasure There are
many handsome turnouts on the drives
every afternoon, and swell young English
men tool their handsome dog carts behind
baDg-tailed tandems.
~ met. at a hotel, the original
"Chumey," from whom the character, SO
cleverly played by Sothern, was drawn.
was talking To the clerk and heard the inIm-
table stutter known to those who have seen
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
The iiubbies Help.
ScOfid Herald

Some time ago we paid the high compli-
ment 10 Scotia ladies of saying that they
were the smartest on earth, some of them
getting their washing on the line before s
O'Clock on Monday morning. Investigation
and research, assisted by an interested
party, since that time, has proven to
us that we were wrong in part and
that the lords and masters of the
ladies deserve at least part of the praise. 1t
Is fact that in the early hours of Monday
mornings the SAID husbands are hustled out
of bed by their ambitious spouses aud made
to turn the festive washing machine and
twist the vermicuar wringer until the last
piece of linen gives up its real estate. But
hubby never hangs the clothes on the line.
oh, no. That would give the snap away.
Let honor be given to whom honor is due.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08

heard the;drst katydid sing, and the old be
lief that the first frost would follow in six
weeks occurred TO me. That would bring
the first frost on September 3, most too early
for the corn" Other persons report having
heard the katydid sing that same evening,
and there will be a great deal of interest
taken in seeing how near the old saying
comes true. While the corn is looking very
fine, stinging frost as early as September
would have very serious effect on II.
The prognostcation of the katydid has
been realized barring day. Last night,
September 4, a brisk frost did occur, but for
tunately of not sufficient severity to do any
damage.
Prof. Katydid is hereby nominated chin
atologist of the Iowa state university.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
TO PEOPLE THE NEW STATES.

An organized movement for coloniz-
ing the new states with negroes from
the south is the very latest project for
solving the race problem down south.
The movement has received the ap
proval of the conference of colored
Methodist ministers in session at Mil
waukee the past week, and its promoter
explains that all the prellminaries of a
great negro exodus from tho south to
the new states have been arranged, SO
that results will be apparent within
short time. He says the movement has
nothing whatever to do with politics,
its only purpose being to enable those
who desire to avail themselves Of it to
improve their conditions.
The new states can furnish homes for
half the negro population of the south,
and, while it is not to be expected that
that proportion of them will leave the
south, it is very probable that many
thousands will avail themselves of so
excellent an opportunity to better their
condition in all respects. If the move
ment has been organized on practical
basis, provision will be made for enab-
ling those who desire TO leave the south
to locate permanently on lands which
they may ultimately own, and to enter
at once into developing the agricultural
resources OF the new states. Under
such an arrangement the accession to
the population OF these states
of an army of trained. and
industrious farm hands inspired by an
ambition to attain the best results pos
sible from the new conditions, would be
very great gain.
A colonization scheme simply de-
signed to draw negroes away from the
south, without making any provision
for enabling them to become helpers in
the work of development, would be a
wrong to them and to the communities
of the new states, and further explana-
tion OF the plan of the proposed exodus
will be awaited by those communities
with anxious concern
The exodus can hardly fail to create
some anxiety in the south also. If it
shall assume large proportions 1T will
diminish the supply of class of labor
very essential to that section, and
which could not be readily replaced.
The agricultural labor performed by
the negroes of the south they are
peculiarly adapted to and white people
cannot do it so well, nor can they be
found in large numbers willing to do it..
The southern advocates of negro colon
ization admit the gravity of the labor
question involved, but they profess
Willingness to suffer whatever loss may
result if they can have the race contro-
versy removed. A serious reduction OF
the supply OF negro labor in the south,
compelling the employment of white
labor to take its place, would increase
very materially the cost of produc-
ing aud gathering the cotton
and other crops, and un
doubtedly the white labor would be
found less tractable. The negro agri-
cultural laborer of the south is easily
discouraged.
The experience of Kansas with negro
colonization, which proved SO disas-
trous to thousands OF poor negroes,
should. however, be warning against
such wildcat schemes. The climate of
Kansas is much more suitable for the
southern negro than the frigid zone Of
the nakotas, and Kansas was in every
other respect more suitable for coloniz-
Ing the ne gro. But Kansas became a
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
The Cronin Jurymen.
rbso11n T..fI,It,o

Extract from daily paper for the year 1927 /:
"Another half day was spent in a fruitiess en-
deavor to secure jurors in the Cronin case.
Court adjourned shortly after the noon hour
on account of the unexpected death of jury
man Klamm, who quietly expired of old age,
without leaving the box. 1t will be remem-
bered by many of our old residents that
when this Juror was accepted, some twenty.
five or thirty years ago, we expressed grave
doubts as to his bodily yigor and power of
endurance" ETC., etc.