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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
CARELESS LEGISLATION.

A correspondent calls attention to the
slOvenly way in which legislation is
done in this state, by reciting the pro-
visions of the law relating to weights
and measures. Like the Dutchman's
gun, which always shot backwards. the
law is constructed so as to protect the
person who gives false weights and
measures and to punish his victim. 1t
is probably not just to say that the legis-
lature enacted this law in this shape
with the intention of practicing a fraud
upon the public, although some one or
more of the members may have had such
an object in view. Like a great many
other laws, it escaped the scrutiny of
the individual members, most of whom
voted for it without any intelligent idea
of what they were voting for. AS our
correspondent suggests. and fact the
GLOBE has previously adverted to, it is
no wonder that there are so many dead
letter laws on the statute books when
the legislatures are so careless in the
construction of the laws. We venture
the assertion that fully one-third of the
laws now in existence, if enforced ac-
cOrding to the letter, would be dis
grace to the civilization of the age.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
Trying for a Big Trout.

Norwich Comm Bulletin.
A few days ago gentleman in this
vicinity, who is noted as a successful
fisherman. heard of deep hole under a
bridge not far away, which contained
big trout, and. OF course. he was anX-
ious to capture him. The next morn
ing, therefore, he took his tackle and
made for the spot. When within about
twenty yards of the bridge he dropped
to his hands and knees and craWled
carefully along so as not to disturb the
beauty. When in proper position he
dropped tempting fly into the stream
and let it float down past the abutment
of the big bridge into the deep hole and
waited for nibbie.
Well, he waited and waited for half
hour, deXterOuSly moving the fly about
on the water, endeavoring to seduce the
trout to take the bait. Not being sue
cessful, he hauled in his line and put
on a new fly, and then fshed another
half hour with no better success.
Finally he thought he would look
around the abutment and see if he
could detect any signs of his game. AS
he put his hand around the pier he was
greeted with. Say, mister, did you get
a bite?" A closer inspection revealed
couple of urchinS under the bridge en-
gagged in the laudable enterprise of
sharing suckers out of the hole sup
posed to contain 'the biggest trout OF
the season."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
INDIAN COMPARISONS.

The new Indian commissioner, NOR
GAN, attracted some attention from a
peculiar army record and the appoint
ment of his wife as his secretary at a
good salary. Between them the conceit
has arson that the 'Children of Nat
ure" have progressed so far toward civ
ilization that it is unjust to use them
equipped in paint and feathers to show
off the war dances and other savage
customs and styles as representations
of present life, without the revised edi-
ton. They would have with every such
display party of Indians rugged out in
the garb of white people and showing
the improvements made by art and
culture. SITTING BULL would be an
unique character dressed in the most
fashionable attire, with silk hat, patent
leather shoes and kid gloves. But an
indian will be valued little above a
white when he gets into the latter'S
clothes. Who wants trained and do
mesticated bears and wolves as samples
of the original animals?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
SENSIBLE TALK.

Minister ROBERT LINCOLN either did
not read the campaign literature issued
by the Republican party last fall, or If
he did, he took no stock in the cam
paign bosh about free trade being
ruinous to the interests Of the labor
ing classes. In an address de-
Iivered the other day to a dele
CATION of American workingmen who
are attending the Paris exposition, he
asserted that the worklngpeople of
free trade England are among the hap
pieSt, most prosperous, and the best
paid on the face of the globe. He
doesn't attribute the prosperity of the
working classes in England and in the
United States to the tariff or to the want
of a tariff. The foundation Of their
prosperity lies in the institutions under
which they live, and is quite aside from
questions of free trade or protection.
This is much more sensible talk than
the Republican campaign orators in
dulged in when they went around the
country declaring that if the tariff re-
form principle prevailed the laboring
classes in America would be reduced to
the pauper wages of free trade Eng
land. Experience has demonstrated
that pauper wages are just as liable to
prevail under the protective system as
otharWiSe
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
SOUTH AMERICAN soLoNs.
Delegates Appointed to the Con-
gress of Republics.

Delegates Appointed to the Con-
gress of Republics.
WASHINGTON, aug. IL. The state
department is advised of the appoint
ment of the following delegates to the
conference of the United States, the re-
publics of Mexico, Central and South
America, Hayti. San Domingo and the
empire of Brazil, authorized by the act
of congress of May "a, 1888: Argentine
Republic, Don Vincente e. Quesada,
Don Rogue Saevz Pena, Don Manuel
Quintana; Bolivia, DIR. Juan F. We
lardo; Brazil, Lafayette Rodriguez
Pereira, DR.. j. G. de Amoral Va
lente, Salvador de Mendoza; Co
lombia, DR.. j. M. Hurtado; Guate-
mala. DR.. Fernando Cruz; Peru
DIR. F. S. c. Zegarra. Chilli, Costa Rica,
Ecuador, Hayti, Honduras, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Salvador, San Domingo, Uru-
quay. and Venezuela have accepted the
invitation to take part, but have not yet
sent the names of their delegates. The
conference meets in Washington next
October. The delegates named by
President Harrison are: John B. Hen
of New York; William Pinckney
White, of Maryland; Clement Stude-
baker, of Indiana: T. Jefferson Cool
idge, of Massachusetts; William Henry
Prescott, of South Carolina; Andrew
Carnegie, of Pennsylvania; John r. G.
Pitkin. of Louisiana; Morris NJ. Estee.
OF California, and John Hanson, of
Georgia. OF these Mr.. White has de-
cllned to serve, owing to presSu re of
business engagements, and Mr.. Pitkin
has been appointed minister to the Ar
gentine Republic.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
Attacked by a Gray Eagle.

Daniel Button, of Portland, near
Middletown, Conn.,, was attacked by a
large gray eagle some time ago. The
bird made a savage plunge at him,
badly wounding him and tearing his
coat nearly off. His cries for help were
heard by his son and a neighbor, who
rushed to the scene. The three men,
after hard tussle, captured the
eagle alive, and Mr. Burton now has
the bird on exhibition. With true
Yankee shrewdness. Mr.. Burton con-
ceived the idea of using his tro-
ply as source of revenue, and has
built handsome house for the bird,
where he exhibits it for small fee. A
good sum has been offered for the bird
by Hartford taxidermist, but he will
not sell.
The condition of the eagle when it
was captured showed that it was nearly
starved, and accounted for its savage
attack upon Stalwart man. Had it
been child instead of grown person
who was attacked the eagle would have
made way with it. The bird measures
seven feet from tip to tip. 1t stands
three feet high and weighs twenty-five
pounds.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.

The right or duty of municipal au-
thorities to suppress the Salvation Army
organ ltion is getting to be quite
vexatious question in almost every
American city. 1t is st. Paul's turn now
to be perpleXed over the problem, with
possibly about an equal division of SEN
ment among the people as to the right
of the officials to disturb religious
order while engaged in its peculiar form
of worship. There is good deal to be
said on both sides, and it will puzzle the
most thoughtful to determine what is
the proper course to pursue. So far as
the municipal authorities are concerned,
they have but one course before them,
and that is to enforce the municipal laws.
tits probably for the courts to determine
to what extent the constitutional pro-
visions guaranteeing freedom are to be
stretched by religious enthusiasts, and
to define how much noise can be made
during religious service without con-
shutting nuisance. In no sense is the
case of the Salvationists parallel with
that of the MOrmons, as has been urged
by some parties who are anxious
to suppress the former. The Mormon
church is political power and
attempts to enforce system that is an
tagoniStic to American institutions.
The Salyationists are simply clamor-
GUS religious sect who are impressed
with the belief that the walls of Jeri
cho can still be knocked down by the
blowing of trumpets, and yet have
no evil purpose in view. No one ques-
tons their sincerity, nor is it denied
that they do good in their way. Yet it
is question whether the doing of good
should be tolerated when it conflicts
with the plain provisions of the law,
and at the same time brings discom-
fort to so many others. The fact that
the Salvationists find precedent for
the use of horn and cymbal in their re-
ligious exercises in the ancient Jewish
ritual, is no argument in support of the
right to use those instruments now in a
way to annoy people. 1t is true that
MIRIAM sounded the timbrel over
Egypt's dark sea as she sang her song
of deliverance, and DAVID made the
groves of Judea ring with the melody
of his harp while praising the Lord,
yet they did not do it in such way as
to give offense. The American
people, without regard to their
religious belief, and even those
who have no belief, will not give
countenance to anything that partakes
of a religious persecution. They will
resist every attempt to place legal re-
straints upon the individual conscience,
and will insist upon each and every
person having the freest and fullest en-
joyment of their religious convictions.
Still, the majority of our people will in
sist that everything, including religious
exercises, shall be done decently and in
order. There is good Scriptural author
ity for that. There is a popular I'M
preston that the religion of Christ is
one of peace; consequently that form of
service which tends to disturb the
peace of the community is looked upon
more as species of fanaticism than
religion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
ARTESIAN WELLS.

Judge MOODY. who has been senator
of still-born state some years, in one
of his recent addresses draws a graphic
picture of South Dakota as one of the
'largest manufacturing states in the
Union," by virtue of the cheap motive
power furnished by the artesian wells.
In his view, there is absolutely no limit
to the scope of this power. 1t could turn
all the spindles of the world. On the
visit of the senate committee to Aber-
deem the other day they were shown
something of its possibilities in the
streams that were thrown by it, suffi-
Gent for all the needs of a fire depart
ment, and in the sewer pumping. If
every town can tap an eager potency
of from 100 to 200 pounds pressure to the
square inch. uniform and ineXhaustible,
there can hardly be exaggeration in the
possibilities it contains. 1t may whirl
the wheels of manufacture, furnish
electric lights, and, perhaps, in time be
harnesSed to the pillow and harvester,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
A Dancing Goose,

Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
For several weeks the employees of the
gas works, as well us the electric light
works in the same neighborhood, have
been seen to stop every evening on
quitting work and surround lot of little
cOlOred children who daily cOngregate
on the square near the railroad embank-
ment. Monday Telegraph man deter
mined to see the cause of the gathering,
and on proceeding to the locality found
the little colOred children engaged in
"patting" with all their might, and an
old gray goose in the center of the circle
dancing, first on one foot and then on
the other. The gander seemed to enjoy
the dance, and, though it may read like
a fake" was keeping most excellent
time to the rude music of the children.
For an hour or so the goose will dance
to the patting, always stopping when
the children cease their music, and
seems always ready to resume.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
A Strange Bird.

A bird differing considerably from
anything rof the kind ever seen around
Quitman, Ca, was On exhibition on the
streets recently. 1t was about the size
and shape of goose, web-footed, and
legs considerably longer Its body
feathers were speckled much like the
guinea's, only they were much mere
glossy and beautiful. Its bill was long
and sharp like cranes. and it had
vicious look out of its little eyes. A
beautiful ring of black and white polka
dot feathers made charming collar for
its graceful neck and nice set-otf for
its glossy blue-black head. This rara
avis was caught by Green Patterson,
who was working on j. T. Perdue's
place. He says it showed fight both to-
ward him and the mule he was blowing
with until he knocked it down with
stick. This strange bird attracted no
little attention, and number of names
were suggested for it, but no one
seemed to know exactly what it was.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
TURNING THE RAsCALs OUT

Tammany Hall is doing wisely in
protecting its reputation by expelling
from its membership every official who
is guilty of malfeasance in office. The
organization does not wait for a legal
conviction, but when satisfied that a
member holding responsible Office is
not an honorable, upright man in every
relation of life, he is Immediately made
to walk the plank. The last notable iu-
stance of this purifying process is the
recent expulsion from Tammany of
Sheriff FLACK, who SurreptitiouSly Sc
cured a divorce from his wife. There
seems TO have been a conspiracy to
which to which all the officers of the
court, including the judge and several
prominent New York lawyers, were
parties, and the purpose of this conspir-
acy was to obtain divorce for Sheriff
FLAcK from his wife, against whom he
was probably unable to establish just
grounds for enforcement. The suit was
instituted in her name without her
knowledge or consent, and by the con-
nivance of the judge and clerk the af-
fair was kept secret from the pub
lie and from Mrs. FLACK until de-
cree had been granted. The metro
poltan newspapers finally succeededin
unearthing it, for it takes smarter ras-
Gals than live in Gotham to conceal
their rascalities from the detective syS-
tenn enforced by the press of this coun-
try. Mrs. FLACK has employed an en-
inent law firm to protect her interests,
and under the pressure of public senti-
ment that is being worked up by the
New York papers, Judge BooKsTAvER,
Clerk JARVIS, Sheriff FLACK and the
lawyers who played supple-jack, for
them will be lucky if they keep out of
state prison. In the meantime Tam
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
Battle Between Golden Eagles.

Rod and Gun.
Alexander Shaw, farmer. Oldtown
Stratherick, was going his usual rounds
to look after his sheep. While going
past small clump of birch wood,
among very long heather, he fancied he
heard peculiar fiuttering among the
bushes.
He took but little notice, but the noise
being repeated, he went to see what was
ado. He found two golden eagles fight
ing, firmly fixed in each other with beak
and talons.
On his approaching, one of the birds
noticed the intrusion and let go his hold.
The other held his opponent fast in his
talons. Mr.. Shaw then got up quite
close, and got hold of one of them. He
put his foot on the other ones neck.
He searched his pockets and found a
little bit of string, just enough to tie
one of the eagles. While he was tying
the one he kept he let the other one off.
The bird was not able-to take fight
for considerable time after being set at
liberty, being much done out with the
fight. The other one, which Mr.. Shaw
took home, does not seem to be any the
worse.
What sens most strange is that the
eagles are seldom or never seen so low
down the country. My belief is that
they must have been fighting for long
time in the skies, the one having been
pursuing the other till they fixed in
each other and dropped.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
It Is Partaken of by President
Harrison and His Select
Party.
The People Of Ellsworth Turn
Out to Greet the Pres
ident.
He Shakes Hands With a
Horde of Pine Tree States
men.
To-Day the Driving Flower
Festival Will Be Witnessed
at Bar Harbor.

ELLSWORTH, Me-, Aug. Ex-senator
Hale has as guests tonight President
Harrison, Secretaries Blaine and Tracy,
Mrs. Wilmerding, Mr.. and Mrs. b. G.
Lodge, Walker and Miss Blaine, Mrs.
August Jay and Miss Guerney. The
President and party came this morning,
and ride over the country has consti-
tuted the chief feature of the day.
After lunching with Senator Hale, the
president was entertained in the house
and strolled through the grounds until
about p. m. Then, with Secretaries
Blaine and Tracy and others members
of the party, he was driven to Hancock
hall, where reception was held. This
was the first formal popular reception
that he has held since leaving Bos-
ton Wednesday, and the people OF
Ellsworth turned out in large numbers
to greet him. The president stood upon
raised platform in front of the strge
and, after an introduction to the COM
mittee who had managed the affair,
shook hands with the people as they
passed before him, many of them being
introduced by Mayor Aiken and Judge
Wiswell. After shaking hands with
the president the people greeted the
other dignitaries in the presidential
party. The reception occupied fully an
hour. 1t was popular affair in the
fullest sense of the word, and at its
close people gathered on the sidewalk
in front of the hall and cheered the
president and party as they were driven
&C.
PARTY AT SENATOR HALE'S.
1t includes in addition to the visitors
from Bar Harbor, Judge and Mrs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Cummings. The
weather to-day has been the best that
the president has seen in New England.
Tomorrow President Harrison and ac-
companying party will leave about II a.
m. and will reach Bar Harbor in time
for o'clock luncheon with W. B.
Howard, at Moss!ey hall. Eighteen
plates will be laid. In the afternoon
the driving flower festival will be wit
messed, and later the president will
dine with Mr.. Guerney. The pro-
gramme for the rest of the week is de-
termined upon. Wednesday a start
from Bar Harbor will be made early in
the morning. Bath will be reached in
time to allow luncheon with Arthur
Sewall and for inspecting the shipping.
The journey will be continued to Man
chester, n. H., where the president is
ito be the guest of eX-GOv. Cheney for
the night. Thursday reception by the
governor and legislature will be given
at Concord. At 2:50p. m. the president
will start for Washington, travelling by
way of Lowell and Mansfield, but not
going through Boston.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
"INOPERATIVE LAWS"

To the Editor of the Globe F.
Your article under the above caption
in your issue of the 9th inst, brings to
mind another class of laws that cumber
our statute books, which are not only in
operative, but pernicious examples of
legislative perverSenesS and injustice.
For the present | shall recite but one
act which is type of the whole of that
hateful class of laws. to wit: AN act
to amend section nine [9) of chapter 81,
of Statutes of 1878, relating to weights
and measures" approved March Z. 1887.
The section to be amended reads as fol-
lows:
whenever wheat, rye, Indian corn"
ETC., ''are sold by the buShel, and no
special agreement as to measure or
weight thereof IS made by the parties,
the measure shall be ascertalned as fol-
lows: Sixty pounds for bushel of
wheat, clover seed or potatoes" etc.
This section is amended by the act of
1887, so as to read as follows: when
ETC., ''are sold by the bushel, the meas
ure shall be aScertained by weight as
follows: ''Sixty pounds for bushel of
wheat, clover, seed or potatoes" etc,
ETC., land any person or persons de-
handing or taking, or receiving any
greater number of pounds for bushel
of any or either of the articles hereinbe-
fore mentioned, shall be deemed guilty
of miSdemeanOr, and shall be pun
ished by fine not less than s. nor more
than S1O0, or by Imprisonment in the
county Jail for not more than ninety
days, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment."
The occasion for an amendment of the
law was the public demand that there
should be standard of weights and
measures that would protect purchasers,
and punish fraudulent vendors; but
wise and honest legislature, and an up
right aud intelligent governor put the
shoe on the other foot, and instead of
Furnishing the OffenSe of fraudulent
measurements, they punish the inno-
cent purchaser "whO demands or takes
or receives" any more than the standard
fixed by the law! So thatinstead of the
purchaser being on the alert to prevent
short weights, he now must be on the
lookout lest he receives too much for
even if he wants OF demands" more,
like Oliver Twist, he is guilty, while
there is no law in Minnesota to punish
the light weight fraudulent vendor!
Thus it was that adefrauded and COM
planning public went to its lawmakers
for penal law TO protect 1t from fraud,
got hoisted on its own petard, and is it
self made victim OF similar law.
The people asked for bread, and their
lawmakers gave them stone.
And, by the way. while on this sub
ject of weights and measurements, is it
not pertinent to TASK why there is no
fixed legal standard in Minnesota for
weight and measurement of anthracite
and bituminous coal, and wood? Has
the influence that evidently procured
the passage of the perverted law we
have just considered, also DISTRACTED
the enactment of any laws to prevent
the cruel and outrageous frauds and eX-
tortions that the people of this state suf-
fer in the price, measurement and quail
ty of the fuel they are compelled to buy
and consume in this latitude, or freeze?
st. Paul, Aug. IL. JUST WRIGHT.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-13
NO OUNCES NEED APPLY.
Teachers of Indian Schools Must
Be Up to Snuff.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-The commits
sioner of Indian affairs. having received
a large number of applications for APP
pOintment as teachers in Indian schools.
has sent the following reply to all ap-
plicants: "Your application for appoint
ment as teacher has been received. In
closed please find blanks to be filled out
and returned" 1t is the purpose of the
office to appoint no person as teacher
in the Indian school service who
would not be able to secure a SIM
liar position in the best schools
for white children in the community in
which he resides. Indeed, the exigen-
cies of Indian schools are such as to re-
qulre really higher order of talent to
secure success than is required in Or
binary teaching. Emphasis is laid
upon the fact that those who are en-
gagged in the Indian school service
should be persons of maturity, Of vigor-
GUS health, with some experience in
teaching and with special fitness for the
work. Preference is expressed for
those who have had normal school
training. 1t is very undesirable that
persons should enter the service who.
by reason of ill-health, age or other in
firmities, are unable to do full, vigorous
work."