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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
OLD HOMES.

A writer in the May number of Serb
ner issues an appropriate centennial
wall in the complaint that we have no
old homes in America. The writer had
either forgotten, or had never seen
LOUIS BLANC's half-melancholy, half
cynical aphorism: "Edifices have only
duration: it is ruins which have eter-
nifty" There is no reason why we
should have old homes in America
The country is new. and the popula-
ton shifting one. Property changes
hands very frequently in this country,
and will continue to change until
the country is so old and so thickly
populated that there is no more room
for changes. Neither have we laws of
entail by which homesteadS can be kept
in family from generation to genera
ton. Besides, we have lost the art
which manufactured the bricks of the
Temple of BeluS and of the Roman
wall of Pevensey. We have no build
ing material that can withstand the raw
ages of our American climate. Even
stone perishes here; and the strongest
thing we build, our railway arches,
have to be renewed every now and then.
And even if we could build our houses
so that they would be as durable as the
rock Of Gibralter, the American spirit
of progress would not permit them to
stand. AS soon as they were out of
fashion they would be torn down to
give place to structures built according
to modern ideas. The sense of venera-
ton is not prominent American char
acteriStic, for, like the people of ancient
Athens, we are continually in search
of some new thing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29

of your property, pay the money as you
proceed with your building, allow you
to pay monthly, and thereby secure
home and save paying rent. The bor-
rover finds that when his 100 months
have expired his home is paid for; that
he has paid very little more than rent
would have cost during that time, be-
sides his property has increased in value
from 100 to 800 per cent. Many happy
homes in this city of universal pros
perity have been secured by the aid of
building associations that otherwise
would leave many worthy person
without property or share in the great
increase of values that have taken
place in real estate.
A moments reflection on the advan-
tages of ST. Paul and its numerous
building associations should cause all
that are not already interested in them
to become members at once, either as
depOsitors for the safe keeping of their
earnings until needed, or borrowers for
the purpose of securing property that is
continually increasing in value, and
thereby become land owners and free
holders themselves, even if on small
scale. There is no city in the world so
prosperous as the city where a great
portion of the people own their own
noiheS, dS tney Decollle part OF Tile Guy
then, and have the prosperity, welfare
and development of the city at heart.
Another advantage that should not be
forgotten, is that success in good cause
stimulates everybody to further action,
and the encouragement received has a
tendency to lead onward and upward to
better accomplishment until the reward
always waiting for patience, persever-
ance, temperance and industry. is OBJ
tanned, yiz.-health, wealth and happi-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
A TRIOLET OF HUMOR.

"Maud,' he said. with quivering
quaver in the vowel sounds-'Maud,
three weeks ago tonight asked you to
| marry me-"
you did"
"And you said No."
'That was my answer"
1.-Two weeks ago tonight asked you
the same question.
Il remember
''And you made the same reply"
II did"
"a week ago 1 asked you to be my
wife and you said No again.
| yes"
"You have had another week to think
the matter over and l called to see
whether you had arrived at any other
| conclusion.''
She reflected a moment and then said
gently:
Harry, l recognize the fact that each
time have answered you inprecisely
| the same way. There has been nothing
| in my replies so far to relieve the SINH
| larity." Then after another pause she
said still more softly:
Harry, L should hate very much to
be considered monotonous."
And Harry didn't wait TOR any further
MISUNDERSTANDING Traveller.
A correspondent of the London Lam
| Get makes humiliating appeal to the
medical profession to tell him what he
is to do with lady patient on whom lie
| has been bestowIng fruitless care and
attention for the last twenty years.
| This lady is an inveterate and IncOrrigi-
| BILE snorer. Her husband has confided
| to the medical man that the snoring is
much worse lately" and that, whereas
his helpmate was wont to let him off
with only three or four hours OF torture,
| she now ''snores all night and can be
heard all over the house." Moreover,
she frequently wakes herself with the
noise five or six times in one night and
it is rare that her husband can go to
sleep till 8 or 4 o'clock. Whether she
lies high Or low makes no difference
she can sleep and Snore at any time in
a few minutes, and to aggravate the
case she had lately taken to yawning
great deal.
LA, yes" SAID Miss Oregonian COM
placently, on her return from a trip
east, Il tell you let them New Workers
know that we know about as much
about style as the next fellow. We just
put up at the Fifth Avynoo in New
York and at the Vaundome in Boston,
and at both places l wore my red satin
decoletty dress down to breakfast every
morning, and my solitary diamond year
bobs and my diamond pin and that big
diamond star stuck in my hair, and my
pearl and diamond bracelets: and [
wore 'em all down town every time
l went, and l got me a pale blue
satin to wear down to dinner and to set
around the parlor in; and l ordered the
servants round big as anybody, and set
lnN eli in hn lal, 4 fa.,,
BACKED ey'ry night. ] let 'em see that
we knowed what style was Why.
you'd thought I'd been horn AID raised
right there iii Boston. "-Hi;ae.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
SUIClDE.

One of the prominent city pulpits yes
terday diScoursed upon the subject
of suicide, in reluctant compli-
ance with some inscrutable men,
tai impulSion, as explained. 1t is
DeryadeS the sacred desks gen.
orally, leading to an avoidance of the
inculcations needed to deter those
reached, from this unholy crime. 1t
was stated by the preacher that the
manifestations of this phenomenon are
multiplying of late to an alarming eX-
tent, and that the victims were most
numerously from the professional and
more Intelligent classes, presumably
those reached by the pulpit. 1t was
conceded that but a minority of the self
deStroyerS belong to the ranks of ire
spOnSibleS from mental disease, heredi-
tary Or other irrationality, consequently
very grave responsibility must attach
to those whose special vocation it
is to invigOrate and enlighten
the conscience. Members of all the
churches are found in varying num-
berS ON the roll of self-destroyers.
With no censorious spirit, but with even
larger and kinIlier charity than was
shown in the assignment given the
daily press. it may be insisted that the
reluctance of the pulpit to tread this
uncanny path has led many weak and
befogged brother to sneak into a dis
honOred grave. 1t is the prerogative of
the sacred desk to portray the inspired
picture of the human body as the TEN.
pie of Deity and made in his likeness,
whose destruction is an insult to its
Maker, and will invite the sternest ret
riDution in the assizes of the Infinite.
The too prevalent notion that the faded,
pain-wrecked or storm-tossed traveller
Oh life'S sea, commits but a trivial Of
Tense in the sight of Heaven in ending
the life he did not ask for. is a
heresy that should be combatted
by the interpreters of the divine
government, and all the awful perils
consequent, held up in the strongest
colors. How often is it heard from the
pulpit that this earthly life is iinmeas-
urably grand and noble, and not base
and ignoble except as made such by the
possessor-t dignity of human nature
exalted, and the destruction of this
wonderful temple crime that Will
darken with inetfacible blight the
limltless future? If the suicides are
mainly of the educated and readable
classes, the development of the con-
science by the pulpit should leave little
chance for damage from the even un-
duly wrought stories of crime in the
papers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
CURBsTONE COMMENT.

Judge Albion Turgee, in his lecture
on the colored people of America, de-
clared that no woman with a trace of
black blood in her veins would be re-
ceived in society. A Minneapolitan
among the audience disSented from
this view, declaring that such woman
would be received by the mem
berS OF the Plymouth church at
the Flour City. Il doubt it, SIR re-
piled the judge, 'and l say so after
twenty-five years study of this ques-
tion." He declared that the only So
ciety open for such woman is that of
her own race. She must choose that,
OF infamy.
Mrs. Julia Ware Howe was recently
delivering lecture III the New England
states. She was speaking of the I'M
natural conduct of people after they be-
came rich, ceasing TO recognize and pro-
vide for their poor relations. The audi
SO that the distinguished authoress
questioned the ACCESSIBILITY of finishing
the lecture. However she continued to
the end without, liz her opinion. Strik-
Ing responsive chord among her hear
ers. But her caustic remarks had not
been unayailing. After the lecture a
young man was seen wandering about
the street in a distracted manner.
Where is Mrs. Howe?'' he declared.
81 must see Mrs. Howe. have done
great wrong, and allowed my brother to
he sent to the poor house." From this
Mrs. Howe interS that it is not the most
interested audience that is alone sus-
ceptibIe to conviction. Ground that is
barren and Unlocking to the eye may be
made to bring forth abundant fruit
A member of the Transfers assem-
bly, tells the following story anent the
strike. When the busses were first
started he offered a team for their use,
asking what they would pay. He was
told So day and feed, with the eXcep-
ton of oats. At those rates he offered
to get two or three more good teams if
they would be well taken care of. He
hustled around and got two fine teams,
which he brought around to labor head
quarters with his own. For some time
he could not find anyone around, but at
last found two men who seemed pleased
to get the three teams. These
men told him they could not
pay more than 1925 day.
This surprised him, and he said
he had arranged for three dollars. He
was told that the man who had made
those arrangements had no authority to
do so. Then he began to wonder if the
men who said they could pay 1925
day had any authority. He could not
find anyone to inform him who had all-
thority, and as he did not care to leave
three $400 teams in the hands OF he
knew not who, he took them away
again. This caused considerable hard
feeling, and it was thought by many
that he had not acted squarely with the
men. He said, however, that he would
do anything he could to help them, but
must have some knowledge of whose
hands he was placing his own horses
and those of other men to whom he had
gone security for their safety. He
thinks the strikers have not acted Just
squarely with him. but has no hard
feelings over the matter. However, his
team and the others he brought are now
being used for other purposes than pull
ing the strikers buses.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
May WEATHER.

Rev. Irl q. Hicks, of st. Louis, pre-
diets the following weather for May:
Owe calculate that the storms during
the last April period will have prepared
the way for cool opening, with frosts
in the north, of 'fiowery May On or
about the Sd the temperature will
change very rapidly, growing quite
warm. yerhaps in few hours, and end
ing in heavy rain, hail and wind storms,
From the eth to the 18th inclusive is a
regular storm period, with danger days
on or very near the 9th. 10th and 18th.
much rain, attended in various places
with violent developments of electrical
and atmospheric phenomena. The pc
Rod will wind up with almost a CONT
mental barometer and very cool days,
until the reactlonary movements about
the 18th cause higher temperature and
detached, scattering storms.
From the 10Th to the oath is the most
pronounced period for the month, with
days of greatest violence about the Goth,
21st. 22d and Esd. There is an equinox
of Mercury on the 25th. which not only
covers and intensifies the above dates,
but which will most likely cause a
wet SPELL" or continuation of cloudi-
HeSS anu rain up 10 Tedctl0nary move
ments Oh or about the 9th. There is a
strong probability that at this time
there will be succession of storms,
which will repeat themselves for
number-of days at about the same hour
every day, in twelve and twenty-four
hour cycles, one at night and one in the
day: in which event the day storms will
begin in the middle of the afternoon.
and those of the night after midnight,
the night storms recurring later, and
the day storms earlier every day antil
the cycles come together in a final
elbow out" We expect cool weather
during and after these storms, and that
this state at this time will be indicative
to a great extent of the character of
the summer
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
OLD TIME TEMPERANCE.

1t is difficult to realize the density of
the ignorance that possessed those old
Puritans in Massachusetts 100 years
ago. In 1889 the legislature of that
state enacted law in regard to beer
and malt liquors. 1t asserted that strong
beer, ale and malt drinks promoted
agriculture, and on account of their
wholesome qualities, should be recon-
mended for general use, as means for
the preservation of the health of the
people. For the encouragement of their
manufacture, it was ordered that all
brewers who make over 100 barrels of
beer per year shall be exempt from
taxes and duties for five years. A fur
Their object set forth in the law was to
secure the use of these mild beverages
in place of stronger liquors, which were
regarded as harmful. Probably there
are those who will insist that the people
OF Washington's time were about as
wise as their posterity in this matter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
SELF MURDER is EPIDEMIC.
Phenomena of Society Discussed
by DIR. Smith.

Suicide as One of the Special
Phenomena of Society Discussed
by DIR. Smith.
At the Peoples church yesterday
morning g, Rev. S. G. Smith preached a
powerful sermon on the ethics, causes
and effects of suicide. A very large
and highly interested audience dwelt
upon the eloquent remarks of the doc
tor. During his discourse he gave the
newspapers little rap for publishing
accounts of such things in Photographic
detail, but excused the publishers on
tile ground of supplying public demand
He said in substance:
When the Phillistines beat back the men Of
Israel and slew them upon the heights of
Giiboa, the proud spirit of Saul, unable to
brook defeat and disgrace, led him to self
slaughter Suicide, as one of the special
phenomena of society. may well ask the in
telligent scrutiny of the physician. the hu-
manitarian and the public teacher. My mind
isturned to it to-day because of its antagon-
Ism to the hopes which belong to this season
OF the year. Easter symbolizes Immortality
and freshens the memory ofi1the reappear-
ance of our Lord. amid the scenes of earth, to
those whom He loved. But suicide is the de-
NAL of the good in life, is an attempt to
escape from the things we fear and hate, and
may we'll be named the reversal of Easter.
At the outset of this discussion let me dis
tiuctly say that there are numerous cases on
record i'll which men. among the noblest and
best of mankind, have committed suicide on
account of dethroned reason. Such an one
was Hugh Miller, the Scotch geologist, and
there are many like cases. Indeed, some
persons hold that all suicides are insane,
but the authorities, and notably Blandford,
do not agree with this opinion. What is
known among medical men as the emotional
impulse to suicide is the prevailing form of
mental disturbance. This impulse Maudsley
says, occurs frequently without any appreci-
able disorder of the intellect. although the
fact that it is often hereditary would indicate
that there may be reasons III the structure
which are not always apparent. SpitZka in
a considerable discussion Of the subject
refers this impulse to a deep-seated Gepres-
siou, which may result from various causes,
terminating in meiancholia. Clauston says
that two-fifths of those afflicted with melan-
cholia attempt suicide. These impulses re-
turn ut certain intervals, and are repeated on
the recurrence of exciting causes, as the sight
of certain weapons and the like. Suicide
Is considerably upon the increase in all
civilized countries. One of the noticeable
features. being an increasing number of child
suicides DR.. Hammond reciteS a case,
aH,ong others, of 4 boy of ten who commit
::..l siiiei... and the reason he gave was hat
ne vas tired Of Sc much dressing AID IN
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
STATE POINTS.

10 quiet any misrepresentation regard
ing the meat inspection bill we would
say that it does not apply to animals
slaughtered by farmers or others for
their own use. The only penalty i'm
posed is for selling or exposing or offer
ing for sale fresh meat that has not
been inspected. A person can Kill and
eat as much diseased meatas he chooses.
Herman Enterprise.
The next step taken by the Iegisla-
ture in the interest of temperance should
be a bill prohibiting treating. This
foolish and unnecessary custom, in our
mind, is responsible for at least two
thirds of the drunkenness of the pres
ent day, and should at once be arrested.
-Delano Eagle.
The GLOBE is model newspaper,
alive to the interests of the great North
west. and just the paper for the reading
public.-NOrth st. Paul Sentinel.
From among all the unEind criticisms
which have been uttered by our ex-
changes from all over the state about
the legislature just closed. we CLEAN
the following from the GLOBE, which
we take pleasure in transferring to our
columns. The GLOBE is Democratic,
but its editor possesses good, sterling
common sense and its commentator
more than overbalance the many unjust
things which men ignorant of the stu
alton have seen fit to utter.-Glencoe
Register.
Senator Scheffer's liquor law will
make Minnesota lonesome waste for
drunkards. About the third offense
will do man up.-Litchfield News.
A fine or month or two in jail will
do more to bring reason to the alcoholic
patron than all the prohibition that
could be passed by dozen legislatures
Let it be remembered by all temper
ance people that this bill was drawn
and introduced by Senator Durant. one
of the most prominent Democrats of
Minnesota and very probable guber-
Material candidate two years hence
Faribault Pilot.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
Y. Nj. G.. A. BUILDING.
Dedication ola Fine Structure a,
Cedar Rapids.

Special to the Globe.
CEDAR RAPIDS, To-. April 2S.-To-day
was given over to the young men of the
city, it being the dedication of the
Young Mems Christian Association
building, the first in Iowa. Rev. Will
lam Fawcett, d. d.. delivered the dedi-
catory address. taking for his theme,
"Rocks in the Way" and treating in a
mastery manner the rocks. scriptural,
physical and mental in the path of life
which young men must encounter.
After his address he undertook the
work of liquidating by pledges the re-
naming unpledged $1,000, and was sue
ceSStul. The building, a complete one
in all its details. is of pressed brick,
three stories high, $50 feet front, with
gymnasium, nata forum, baths, reading
room, library, auditorium. parlors and
committee rooms, all deliberately fur
nished. Its cost was $4,000. The
membership is 1000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
An Artist Dies.

GUTHRIE, Okla, April 2S.-W. Y.
Herancourt, special artist for Harper's
Weekly in Oklahoma, dropped dead
here in front of his tent at o'clock yes
terday morning of heart disease. This
was the first natural death i'm Guthrie,
The deceased was thirty years old. He
has been doing considerable work here,
and was generally esteemed. He was
secretary of the first Guthrie mass
meeting, and the new council passed
suitable resolutions regarding his death
to-day. The body was sent to Heran.
courts home at Dubuque 10.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
Its Name Long Enough.

Boston. April 2s.-The journeymen
plumbers union met last night to con-
slider the formation OF new Organiza.
ton of the journeymen plumbers OF
America. it is proposed to call the new
organization the United Brotherhood of
JOurneymen Plumbers of America,
uniting the international plumbers
union and National Trades Assembly
No. 95, K. OF l.. A committee appointed
at previous meeting submitted its re.
port, which, after some minor changes,
will be sent to the headquarters of tho
two organizations, to De from there SEM
out to the local bodies for adoption.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
BrockWay Insulted.

NEW YORK, April. 2S.-W. E. Brock
way, the noted forger, who was ar
tested Thursday as habitual criminal
and held ill default of $1,000 bail. has
deposited $1,000 with the city chamber
lain and secured his release. He prom
ised Justice O'Reilly to keep off the
streets during the centennial. Brock.
way has never descended to the level OF
picking pockets or committing any less
exalted crime than forgery, and he felt
quite insulted at his arrest, especially
as he has quit crime altogether, and
m cans to spend his old age out of Jail.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
is HE A SANDWICH?
To What Country Does David Nc
Kiniey Belong.


WASHINGTON, April 2s.-Opposition
to the appointment of David Mckinley
to be consul at Honolulu has brought
out an odd story of the relations of Mr..
Mckinley with the Hawaiian govern
ment. Mr.. Mckinley was consul at
Honolulu for three years, and was re-
moved by the last administration. On
his return to San Francisco he came as
the representative of the Hawaiian gov
eminent, and has remained the
Hawaiian consul ever since. A letter
received in this city, which will be laid
before the secretary of state, says, on
the authority of the privy council Of
Hawaii, that the representative of that
country abroad must have taken the
oath of allegiance. Mr.. Mckinley must
therefore be a citizen of Hawaii. If SO
he is not eligible to appointment as con.
sui to Honolulu. Mr.. Mckinley is a
brother of Maj. Mckinley, congress-
man from Ohio.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29

HARRISON refused to see a Jealous
Republican from Virginia the other day,
although he sent in word by the usher
that he was only FIVE minutes man
and had voted for him forty times last
fall. There were a good many who
voted for him on the ''early and often"
plan in the Virginias, and the president
doesn't want them hanging around the
white house.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29

cumbents. 1t is a curious fact that one
of these protests from Mississippi
comes from a man who was an old-time
Abolitionist in Michigan, and elected
speaker of the house by the Republi-
cans. He wants to prevent the APP
pointment of colored man as post
master of his locality. If the color line
is to be wiped out. it will hardly be ac-
complished by making color a disquali-
fication for Office. As citizens the dark
skinned people have as much right as
others to have their claims considered.
The men who can render the most eff
cient and satisfactory service should be
selected
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29

BERLIN, April 2S.-Mr. Buckingham,
the secretary of the American dele
gates to the Samoan conference, has
arrived here. The National Gazette. in
all article on the Samoan question.
favOrs Herr Won Bars proposal tn
restore the tri-partlte control and to ap-
point nominal king of Samoa, with an
outsider as umpire. 1t is expected that
the British delegates to the conference
will take only mediatory part in the
proceedings.