St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-11


Mohr against Anton Miesen, and it |
merely came before the supreme court |
on an appeal from the court below on |
the denial of motion for new trial. |
However, the temper of the syllabus |
and opinion, given by Justice Wander |
burgh, very plainly indicates that the |
court holds that deals ostensibly for |
future deliveries, but without eXpecta- |
ton or intention on the part of either |
party to the transaction is illegal.
Real love transcends everything, and |
1t always makes a desperate effort |
with varying success, according to con- |
ditions-to overcome all obstacles and |
span every difficulty that interrupts the |
one deratunl-marriage. This be- |
ing true. there is at least color of plaus-
Utility in the story that Edward Davis,
member of parliament from Montgom-
eryshire, is in this country on delic
iOusly romantic mission. He arrived in
Minneapolis yesterday via the 500. and
he was accompanied by DR.. David
Lloyd Jones, an eminent Welch divine.
Rumor spices the event with love, and
an accomplished lady is the heroine |
of the romance. 1t transpires
that there is an English law
which ought to be relegated to the
shades of barbarism, by the way-that
inhibits man from marrying his de-
ceased Wife's sister, AS the Hon.
Davis cup of happiness cannot ever be
filled to completion until he has done
just what this law forbids, and as such
absurdities as the English statutes en-
body III such cases are not part of the
nuptial conditions here, Mr.. Davis has
Invited both his pastor and his fiance to
country where the liberty he Graves is
legallZed. 1t is not related just when
hn nor knriil hea l..lN =
will be soon.
One believing in the discerning pow
ers, good taste and good Judgment of /
Judge Koon cannot help concluding
that Senator Washburn isa man of
anomalous social breeding and ideas, or
else he attempted the role of the snob
when in Europe. The senator, upon
his return from his tour, INDUCED in
very emphatic criticisms of American
manners abroad. He blushed for sheer
shame, forsooth, every time he saw
tellow-countryman presented to the ton
of the old world. Now Judge Koon
comes home from his sOjourning, and
gives the picture a very different color
ing. Indeed, the judge has no hcsitancy
in prOclaiming that he was proud of
every American tourist he met during
his travels, and, moreover, he accentu-
ates the point by saying that every
where in the old world Americans are
courted. He is dumtounded at Wash
burns pedantic display upon the ethics
Of social functions.
Since the new year the Jefferson club
has been in state of peaceful desue-
tude. Not because 1t is dead, however,
but because it has no active present
mission, and action always has been the
real lite and usefulness of the organiZa-
ton. 1t is largely composed of men
who are occupied with affairs of the
day - business men and bread
winners. 1t never was. in other
words, social organization.
Since the political spirit has commenced
to move there is talk of renewing the
meetings OF the club. Jackson day is
sure to be commemorated in fitting
way, and it is thought best that the
club get into the harness before the an
niversary of Gen. jackson arrives.
Again, it is contemplated to attend the
next national convention in body,
and the subject of uniform
has got to be arranged a long
time in advance. Surely those who at
tended the last convention, held in st.
Louis, will never forget the inspiriting
sight of the many clubs, hailing from
all the leading cities of the union, and
numbering thousands in the aggregate,
in their neat uniforms, as they paraded
the streets to martial music. Minneap-
oils should not take rank behind any
city of its size at the next convention,
and it is likely that the jefferson club
will not permit such an event.
Maj. Charles McC. Reeve springs a
new plan for raising fund for the
worlds Columbian fair commission in
order that the products and resources
of Minnesota may be displayed with
credit to the state. The idea is not en-
tirely new, although it is unique.
He proposes following the plan
at the Vienna and the Paris
exposition. 1t is the lottery play. The
people are easily drawn into lottery
schemes where there is an opportunity
to draw big prizes with a small cash
outlay. This fact has been eXemplified
everywhere a lottery has been held,
and there is no doubt that Mai.
Reeves could succeed were the law
to be arrested meanwhile. But the
and newspaper that should advertise
the project could not be sent through
the mails without liability of sever
penalty. And everything connected
with the management, the major and
the balance of the commission, if they
participated in it, could be held amen
able to the iron-clad, rock-ribbed pro-
visions of the statutes. This
plan, the major apologies,
is not presented by him as
a commissioner, but as a patriotic Min
nesotan, enthusiastic in the interests of
the state. He feels that a failure to
make creditable exhibit would be
worse in its effect than to make no eX-
hibt at all, and he takes up the measure
as a last resort.
Concisely stated. Mai. Reeves idea is:
Sell from 100000 to 100000 tickets at
81 so each. Split the difference and
say in round numbers, S250,0OO. Now
for an arithmetical calculation: 100000
tickets at $3.50 each amounts to $375.000.
Each of these tickets includes an adj
mission to the worlds fair, for which
so cents for every ticket. or 1925, 700,
must be turned over to the Columbian
exposition. The difference-S250,0 600
remains with tue commission. OF this
amount Sl25,000 can be expended in
cash and miscellaneous prizes. The
other half, or $l25,00O, is left for the
commission. Many spectators have
made money, few are out 81.
But, it should be added, Mai. Reeve
has not wholly despaired of the benefits
that may be reaped from the manifesto
that is soon TO issue from the commits
sion. This will be in the form of pat
riotic appeal to each county in the state
to furnish money towards the required
fund, pro rata. according to the assessed
valuation. This plan will put more than
half the burden upon the Twin Cities,
while some counties will have to
contribute merely a nominal sum.
Indeed, Mr.. Reeve estimates that
several counties would fall belo " 500
entire and all this will be done, if ac-
complished at all, with the tacit under
standing that the next session of the
legislature shall reimburse the various