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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29
THE STATION MASTER.
Copyrighted.

TLone Prairie Union Pacific Railroad, 1880.
An empty bench, sky of grayest etching,
A bare bleak shed in blacklist silhouette.
Twelve yards of platform. and, beyond them
stretching,
Twelve miles of prairie glinmering
through the wet,
North. south, east, west. the same dull gray
persistence,
The tattered vapors of vanished train,
The narrowing rails that meet to pierce the
distance,
Or break the columns of the far-off rain.
Naught but myself-norf orm nor figure wax
ing
The iong.hushed level and stark shining
waste
Nothing that moves to fill the vision aching
Where the last shadow fed i'll sulien haste.
Nothing beyond. All, yes! From out the
station
A stiff, gaunt figure thrown against the sky,
Reckoning me with some wooden sal9taIon
Caught from his signals as the train flashed
by;
Yielding me place beside him with dumb
Born of that reticence of sky and air,
We sit apart yet wrapped in that one vesture
OF silence, sadness, and unspoken care;
Each following his own thought-around us,
darkening,
track;
Each following those dim parallels and
hearkening
For iong-lost voices that will not come
back;
Until. unasked-I knew not why or where
He Welded, bi. by Bit his dreary past.
Like gathered clouds that seemed to thicken
there for
Some dull housekeeping of their care at
last.
''Long had he lived there. As boy had
started
From the stacked corn the Indians painted
face:
Heard the wolves howl the wearying waste
His fathers hut from the last camping
place.
Mature had Knocked him; thrice had claimed
the reaping
With scyIhe Of fire of lands he once had
sown:
Sent the tornado-round his hearthstone
Rafters, dead faces that were like his own.
"Thcn came the war time. when its shadow
He had walked dumbly where the flag had
led
Through swamp and fen-IInknoWn, uu-
praised. unreckoned,
To famine fever and prison bed;
"Till the storm passed and the slow tide re-
turning
Cast him, wreck, beneath his native sky;
At this lone watch gave him the chance of
earning
Scant means to live-who won the right to
de-
All this heard-or seemed TO hear-hslf-
blending
With the low murmur of the coming breeze,
The call of some lost bird and the amending
And ceaseless sobbing of those grassy seas;
Until at last tho spell of desolation
Broke with trembling star and far-off
cry.
The coming traini glance around the sta
ton;
All is as empty as the upper sky.
Naught but myself - nor form nor figure
waking
The Iong-hushed level and stark shining
waste
Naught but myself, that cry, and the duh
shaking
OF wheel and axle stopped in breathless
hastei
Now, then. look sharp! Eli, what? The
station-masterS
Tbar's monet We stopped here OF cur own
The man got killed in that doBntrain dis
aster
This time last evening. Right therei AL
aboardr'
Bret Harte in the Independent
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THE NECK OF A DRESS.
1t Can Be Changed to High or
Low without Trouble.


A bigh-necked waist can be cut into a
low one or the latter, by the addition of
a yoke and sleeves of the same or of a
different material, be completely
transformed. Ifof contracting material
it is easier to gather the new goods
about standing collar, draw it down
and fasten it to the lining OF the waist,
sew in full sleeves of the new material,
and thus simulate guimpe. liz the
goo DIS are plaid or striped it is an easy
matter to match one of the eolors in
cashmere. and as yard will be ample.
the expense of renevating can be kept
within 80 cents.
There is usually plenty of old black silk
in the house, and with little shocking.
or few tucks. with alternate rows of
brier-stitching done in gay colOrs, one
can fashion stylish and very useful
guimpe.
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F|ELt,MAHLER
81 co.
REMNANT SALE
-OF--
DRESS GOODS,

Every remnant and short
length has been sorted out
Of our DRESS GOODS stock
and placed on the center
tables in the Dress Goods
room. This assortment OF
remnants is the accumula,
ton Of the past two OF
three busy months, during
which we were too busy to
bother with short lengths.
They're just as good, just
as stylish and actually
worth just as much money
as ever, but we want to
close them out quickly and
entirely, and to accomplish
it are willing to sacrifice a
few hundred dollars.
Of course it's impossible
to quote prices on such a
lot of goods. Well only
say that every piece bears
a large reduction, and many
pieces will be found at
nearly half-price.
We also wish to say that
every piece of goods offered
at this sale is WAR
RANIED to be strictly
ALL-Wool. You know we
never try TO make low
prices by Offering cheap,
unreliable goods.
The lot consists of Black
and COlOred CASHMERE S
and SERGES, STRIPES,
CHECKS and PLAIDS;
FANCY SUITINGS and
BR0ADCL0THS. PRINT
ED FLANNELS, JERSEY
CLOTHS and EIDE B.
DOWNS.
Tt will be a rare oppor-
tunity to obtain reliable
and stylish Dress Goods far
below actual values.
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CHORUS,
CHURUS.
Down went McGinty to The bottom of

Down went McGinty to The bottom of the
hole,
The driver of the cart gave the load of coal
a start
1t took an hour m half to dig McGinty
from the coal
Dressed in his best Sunday clothes
When they dug McGinty out, loud for venge-
anee he did shout,
And the driver of the cart he then did spy:
He picked up half brick, aud he hit him
such lick
That it caused tumefaction of his eye.
Then he kicked up such fuss that the COPS
got in the muss:
They arrested Dan for being very drunk:
And next morn the judge did say: "No fine
you'll have to pay.
But six months you'll sleep upon prison
bunk
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

CHORUS.
Down went McGinty to the bottom Of the
wall
Although he won his five, he was more dead
than alive
With kicks and bruises on his face from such
fearful fall
Dressed in his best Sunday clothes.
Off to hospital they hooked him. and for dead
the doctors booked him.
But McGinty gave the doctors q surprise,
For he soon began to shout: Say, ye black
guards let me outr'
Though his head was twice its ordinary
size.
Bound TO see his wife and child, with delight
he near went wild.
He walked along as proud as John the
Great:
In the sidewalk was hole to receive load
of coal
McGinty never saw until TOO latel
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One hundred thousand dollars seems
2 big thing to pay for house, but
Washington has dozens Of such man
SiOns, and big transfers are made every
week. 1 see advertised to-day the res
jdence of Stanley Matthews. The price
asked is SS7, 800, which is less than the
value Of the around aud the
improvements. Near by this is
the home of the late Senator
\ ulee. which is one OF the finest houses
in Washington, and which was deco
rated by the famous painter, LafaTge.
This is for sale at Si00.e00, aud Senator
Palmer, now minister 20 Spain, Is ask
ing Sl25, 900 for his Washington house.
IX-SecretaTy of the Navy Robson
was ruined by the owning of a big
house in Washington, and his
mansion on Sixteenth street has
been on the market for a
long time at somewhere between SIS, 600
and 100000. Within the last few days
the for sale sign has been taken down,
and | suppose the house has been sold.
just below this is the beautiful home of
the late Senator Pendleton, which will
probably be for sale on account Of the
senator's death; and across the street is
the great red brick which Window built,
and in which Blaine wrote the greater
part of his book. This has been sold for
q good round sum. Next door to Pendle-
toms is Senator Cameron'S old house,
which has enough rooms for summer
hotel, and which he sold TO Morgan, the
New York banker, for S95, 600. Morgan
expected to cut swell in ii, but he died
the same year he bought 1t, and his
widow DOW occupies il.
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day when he came
home from the war
department, a n d
StantOn;s house
has the same fiat,
hree-story from t
nd the same un-
J conventional en-
trance that it had
when he occupied
it. 1t now belongs
to Senator Sher-
man, who bought
it a few months ago
for $50, 900, and who
b as since spent
something like &c.,
600 in putting it in
order. 1t was a
boarding house
la st season, and
Senator HOar lived
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

The Wanamaker front door is also a
historic one, and this has been a cabinet
house for number of administrations.
1t was in it that President Arthur called
on Tillie FreliAghuySan and gave rise
TO the report that there was to be soon
a marriage in the White house. 1t was
in this that Mrs. Whitney held her
grand receptions, and the gorgeous
paintings Of her ball room have given
place to the works of art purchased by
the postmaster general. This house
Will be open during the coming season.
and it has been so refurnished that it
will be grander than ever.
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or TJ AT

worth at least SS0.09D. and Sawyer'S
Inillions will keep il In iiue style. There
are fine houses all around it.
Tn block near by Senator
fdmunds hides his eXcluSiveness
IL his ir0n-barred d0nion keep. His
house is red pressed brick with copper
plated bay window which has rivetS as
big around as trade dollar. EdmundS'
office is on the ground floor near the
buffers pantry, and his library ana par
lors are above. The house is worth
about $4,000, and the lot on which it is
built cost the senator S14.oo0 some years
ago. Just above is is Blaine's barnlike
palace, for which the rich retired mer-
chant. Mr.. Letter, pays him $1,000
wear aud does not use it more than four
months out OF the twelve. Mr.. Letter is
here this winter, and his family are
making the money fly. Across the
street. fIOm this is Senator Stewards
castle. for which the Chinese legation
pay him rent Of $1,000 year, and
which the Nevada senator says he owns
hut caPnOt afford to live in. | under
stand that he wOuld like 20 sell it and
that his price is S12j,090 cash.
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them. At the head of it ex-senator
Henderson, Of st. Louis, has built q
grand brown stone castle, and this is
about ready for occupancy. 1t has tur-
rets and towers, balconies and cosy
hooks. and II must have cost in the
neighbOrhood of $lOO.0OO to build IL. IL
has large lot about it on the side OF
the hill. and its windows give view OF
all or Washington and miles OF the 70
t0mac valley. Just above il is Joaquin
Miller's log cabin, and within short
distance of it, nearer to the
White house, is the modest
brick which Breckenridge of Ken
lucky has rented for term OF years.
On the corner of Sixteenth and L streets
Senator Teller is living in L. C.. Craw-
ford'S house, for which he pays about
S10O a month, and on the corner of Six
teenth and X. in a big red brick. nicely
furnished, lives Secretary Evarts.
Evarts was great entertainer while he
was secretary of state, and it is said
that he spent SS0. 900 more than his sal
airy during the Hayes administration.
Senator WOlcett lives in modest quarters
near 10y. and further down still, on the
corner of Sixteenth and III, is the beau
tiful brick mansion of John Hay, Lin
coins biographer, which stands on the
ground which cost him So square foot
and which could not De now got for $40.
Mrs Zach Chandler has Just bought a
big lot on Sixteenth street. opposite the
EvartS mansion, and she will probably
build a house here as q residence for
herself and her son-in-law, Senator
Hale, of Maine.
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but he has bought
the big brick house.
near Blaine'S. which
Secretary Fairchild
occupied last year.
and IS building a big
addition to it. Mrs.
Hearst is one of the
moStnOtcd entertain
ers in Washington,
and neither expense
nor care is being
spared in making
her house a beautiful
one. Senator Sawyer,
who has for years
lived in the house
W h ich jefferson
ID avis occupied
when he was here in
Washington, b a 5
stopped paying rent
and has built a mag
nific6nt brown stone
mansion within a
stones throw Of Du
nnnf nirrln IL *
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Down went McGinty to the bottom of the
jail
He staid exactly six, And his board it COS t
him nix:
Six long months for no one went his bail
Dressed in his best Sunday clothes.
When his half q year was spent, they let
McGinty went,
And he dressed himself as in the days of
yore:
But imagine his surprise, he could scarcely
believe his eyes
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

Senator ingalls, has just changed his
quarters, and he will live in rooms near
the White house. Senator Spooner re-
mains OH Capitol hill. and he has rented
hOuse near that OF Justice Field where
the old Capitol prison used to stand.
Senator Moody, of Dakota, has brick
house which faces the capit0i grounds.
and Senator Pettigrew has furnished a
home i'll the same neighborhood. SAM
uel Randall owns house on Capitol
hill, and he is now lying sick within it.
1t is on a back street, and looks as
though it might have been taken from a
secOnd-ciass tenement row in the
Quaker city, and carried bodily to Wash
ingtOn. 1t has white marble steps and
is red brick of three stories and a
basement. 1t would rent for about $40
a month. and its interior is as plain as
its outside. Randall'S workshop is
filled with congressional records and re-
ports, and there is nothing but the evil
dence of hard work in it. Randall has
always been a drudge. and he has let
congressional business boss him. He
worked at the capitol and at the house,
and his present illness is partly the re-
suit of 0yerYork.
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1t costs more at the hotels nearer the
White house. and Frank HiScock, Gil
Pierce. Piatt. OF Connecticut, WaShburn,
Of Minnesota. and Squire, Of Washing
ton. who are at the Arlington. have
board bills winch run well up into the
hundreds of dollars a month. Frank
Hiseock rajties around in the rooms
which were so long filled with the great
ness OF Charles Sumner. and his front
windows look out upon the White house,
towards which his eyes are ambitiOuSly
turned. Senator FaTwell lives in Nor
TONS big fiat, the ShOreham. where the
cheapest quarters are Sl2.0J0 year.
while Dixon. of Rhode Island, stops at
the Argo nat. on Sixteenth street. and
Paddock. of Nebraska. has his old quar-
tcrs at the Portland, just opposite Bob
Srhenck's residence. aud Bate, of Ten
uessee. and Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky,
have comfortable quarters at the Ebbitt
house.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

Ex-Speaker Carlisle lately bought a
house on K street for something like
$4,000. Roger Q. Mills boards at a
boarding house on G street. and Martin.
of Texas. has left the treaeherouS gas
burners of a hotel and lives in a private
house ON Capitol Hill. Tom Reed is at
the ShOreilam, and the other little big
bugs and the big little bugs are scat
tered here and there all over the city.
FRANK &. CARPENTER.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

1t used to be that none of the Sout h
ern senators owned houses here. They
lived at the hotels far down the avenue,
or in boarding houses near the capitol.
This year quite number of them have
opened establishments IN the North
west. Vest, of Missouri; Beck, of Ken
lucky, and Reagan, of Texas, live in
one block on p street, near iowa Circle.
Their houses are nice red pressed brick
of three stories, with bow windows in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

Indian Meal Will Make Them
Beautiful-Never Wipe the Face
Downward if You Want TO Keep
1t Youthful Looking.
This being the season of chapped
hands ana lips. the following hints upon
the care of the masculine hands and
face, which are culled from Sun arti-
Gle, will be found alike timely and use
full:
Keep two pots in your bed room, a
little one of cold cream and big, OPEN
mOuthed jar of corn meal or Indian
meal. Every night rub little cold
cream in your face. Rub it in we'll, and
then wipe it off the skin without wiping
it out of the skin. The heat of our
houses and buildings generally bakes
the human face. and it needs correct
i've. When you wash your hands soap
them well, and then put a tea
spoonful of corn meal in the palm
of one hand and rub both hands to-
gether. backs and fronts. Then wash
the soap and meal off, and if you are not
proud of the appearance and feeling OF
your hands you are beyond the reach Of
pride. Another beauty of this plan is
that he who follows it never will have
chapped or rough hands. Remember
this, that whether you rub or wipe your
face do so with an upward motion. The
general custom, and natural one, OF
wiping downward says the loose skin of
the face into wrinkles and ages man
before his time.
And herewith is appended another
idea in the toilet line, which, from It's
somewhat radical nature, however, will
scarcely fnu many men willing to try
it. A resident of this city had corn
on the middle toe of his left foot,
which had bothered him for many
years. One morning he could bear it
no longer, and adopted unique and
sudden method of getting rid of it. He
obtained rifle and fastened it firmly,
muZzle downward on a board set for
the purpose. Then he laid board
down under it and fired it
twice. The bullet entering the board
WINGED him that the rifle was firmly
fixed and properly adjusted, and his
next move was to place his bare foot ON
the board so that the corn on his toe
came directly over the bullet hole.
This matter being arranged to his
satisfaction, he got friend, who was
present during the preliminary opera
tons, to pull the trigger. The result
fully equalled if it did not exceed his
expectations. The bullet went
through his toe and carried the corn
with 1t, leaving large ragged hole.
which will be quite likely to give him
as much trouble as did the corn. He re-
fused to have physician, and says
bullet hole is better than a corn any
day.
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other material exclusive to mourning,
the effect is WidowiSh and very coqnet-
fish especially as topped off with bright
red hair. Bleached blondes are dyeing
themselves inearnadine, and orunetteS
are chemically turning their hair to the
newly popular brightness.
Patti is an early example OF the red
haired brunette, but not the first, and
travelling actresses have already dis
played the new freak in this city. How
much these examples will be followed
by our own women remains to be seen.
The Paris salon, which sets the fashions
in the hair, as well as other things, dis
DIaVed some years ago tremendous
array of blonde heads. The great ar
lists of the French capital fell in love
with dark-eyed women with yellow
hair. As the result of this, half the
durk-eyed women in Paris bleached
their Somber tresseS to golden hue,
and in short time most of the civil
lied world had followed in their wake.
We were lately in the final throeS Of
this particular form Of hirSute decora-
ton in America. There were prom
ises of a general return Of blonde hair
to its original color, and a conse-
QHent improvement in the appearance
of the owners OF the n
hair. But suddenly &C.
the Paris artists lost 49,
their heads over wom- SI%Z
en- who had dark eyes 80
and the heavy red ~
bair which Titan
loved. For year all
the beauties of the T
saloon have had this
sort of hair, and red 30 -
hair dye is as preva- 49, ~
lent in Paris as yell
low dye was once IL ~
The fashion has now n ~
come across the ~ m .<Ea
ocean. but 1t makes - ESNSgs9
way slowly. 1t may T%L<zXsS\%V@1
even yet be time for At<N Il
a pause. Red hair toX<X g.
be beautiful and eff VES -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

plentier tn a II
usual, but that
the a d v a N C e
guardof pioneers
in dress progress
have taken SIM
ult neOusly to
redeemed h a i r
and blackened
toilets; and they
were chriStened
red widows. Here
is a good speci-
men. The ground
color in this case
is gray, while the
hat, sleeves and
parallel bands
are black. Al
though no Grape
is used. nor any
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

The statesman who calls on Secretary
Noble trOts up the same steps that Ed
win Al Stanton ItStAd In mount every
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When he found his wife had skipped the
day before.
To lose his wife and child--Oh, such grief
would drive him Wild
And TO drown himself no went down 70
the shore;
And he Jumped Ia. like a fool. for he
couldn't swim. and you'll
Bear in MIND that water Dan ne'er took
before,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

Matt Quay keeps house on / street,
beyond Wanamaker's. Plumb, OF Kan
SaS, boards. Henry b. Payne occupies a
rented house OH Vermont avenue, and
just next to him Allison, of Iowa, lives,
in the house which came to him through
the death of his wife. Senator Mitctall.
of Oregon, has rented fine mansion on
Connecticut avenue, and Dolph is living
in his Old quarters near the White
house. Henderson. of Nebraska, has
rented the big double brick which Far
well, of Chicago, had last season. He has
taken it for term of years, and has
furnished il to the queens taste. Here
tofOre he had lived in flats, and he now
has one of the best houses in Washing
ton, and in the most fashionable part of
the city. Just above him are two fine
white stone houses which belong to
Congressman Bayne, of Pitts6urg.
These houses are worth $4,000 apiece.
and Tom Bayne lives near the bigger OF
them, while the smaller is rented to
Gen. Arson q. MeCook, of New York.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,, is liv-
ing near the White house. Mcmillan,
of Michigan, has bought an SS0.00O man.
sion on Vermont avenue, and George
Gray, of Delaware, lives just above the
Shoreham, where Stewart, of Nevada,
boards,
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CIIORIra

Down went McGinty to the bottom of the
say,
They haven't found him yet, for the water
il was wet
And they say bis weary ghost haunts the
docks at break of day
Dressed In his best Sunday clothes.
EXPLICIT DOWN WENT M'GINTY.