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advertisers, great and small (but
mainly the small advertisersl, the
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possible. II. Beals, Jr.
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ciously is the key to success. The
man who toots his horn the earliest,
loudest and in the most attractive
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scription agent, of the DAILY LIGHT.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
WOMAN FAIR.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that "a
woman with a clean mind will never
permit her skirts to drag along the
Streets" She favorS shorter skirts for
street habits.
Marriage does not change human nat
ure, and it is not human nature to love
anybody one is continually quarreling
with. Pettish wives and surly husbands
are advised to make a note of this; also
all happy pairs, fresh from the altar,
who desire to keep happy.
Mrs. Martha Strickland, teacher of
parliamentary law, lays down the rule
that in all cases when a speaker is IN
certain whether the lady in the chair is
married or single she should be adj
dressed as Mrs. President. She also adj
vances the broader plea that no adult
woman should be addressed as Miss
The man who ''saws wood and says
nothing" is regarded by many as about
the highest type of American manhood.
Of course this silent citizen does not
saw wood for fun, nor merely for his
health. 1t is doubtful, however, If he
ever sawed to better purpose than did a
young woman in Columbus, Ind, a few
days ago, to whom a merchant of that
place offered twenty yards of silk for a
dress if she would saw half a cord of
wood in front of his store. She Dor
rowed a saw and went through the
wood pile in exactly three hours, and
the admiring crowd bought her a SIP
hat to go with the dress. The compen-
sation was liberal, and the young wom-
an had he satisfaction of showing, in
the language of Sam Patch, that ''some
things can be done as we'll as Others"
Miss Mary A. Ripley has been lectur-
ing to the assembled women of Buffalo,
and she sums up all the light that has so
far befallen her in this prophecy: Il
will venture to say that previous to the
year 1900 this doctrine will be greatly
%broadened so that it shall be stated
somewhat like this: In whatever place
the interests of are under con-
sheraton there shall women be to
watch and protect, to guard and guide,
to elect and legislate, to interpret and
execute"
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is the idol
OF the Brooklyn saleSwomen. She doesn't
shop often, but when she does she makes
it a mornings work. She calls the girls
who wait on her MY DEAR" asks their
opinion of the stock, and if one of them
has a cold in her head, chapped hands.
a pimDie on her nose or a cold sore on
her lip, she kindly and gr%atuitously
preScribeS a remedy. In return for this
simple interest she gets the best and
quickest service and hints about bar
gains and special sales.
Here is the new fashion in bouquets:
No more composed punches of flow
ers' are carried by the fashionable
women. A ~beribboned bouquet is re-
garded as bad FORM" only the Paris
ian has another phrase for bad FORM"
aud a dame of the haut monde now
enters a salon carrying a spray or
branch of some flowers in season, such
as lilac CT mimOsa. In this land of ex-
travagance, where all the flowers are
always in bloom, she might hold a spray
of orchids or a bunch of roses. but the
arranged bouquet, jamais,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
WILL BE TRIED.

1t is accepted as a fact in Michigan
that the bill will become a law which
provides for operating the presidential
canvass by congressional districts, in
place of the prevalentmethod of the state
vote. The house has passed the bill,
and it is made the special order for to-
morrow in the senate. Some prelimin-
airy and test votes in that body show
that the Democrats and patrons of hus-
bandry are united in its favor, and will
be able to pass it. The two electors
corresponding to the senators will be
elected on the general ticket, and each
of the eleven districts will choose one.
The Republicans bitterly oppose this
change, although the party has for
a decade past incorporated the
principle into the national Or
ganization. The greatest contest, per-
haps, the party has ever had over any
question in its national convention was
over district representation. 1t will be
remembered that at the national conven-
tion at Chicago in 1880 this question was
fought out, the contest lasting for three
days. The ablest men of the party took
part in it, and the question was settled
as the rule of the party that each dis
trlct should have the right to elect its
own delegates to the convention. In
Illinois this ours had been followed,
but the GRANT third term movement,
led by LOGAN, had a majority in the
state convention, and set aside the dele
gates chosen from nine of the
twenty districts. The national con-
vention repudiated this action, and
gave seats to the men elected
by the districts. The principle
is the same in the selection of electors,
and it might be presumed the Republic
ans would favor it. No doubt they
would if they could figure out partisan
advantage. But if the principle is cor
rect it should be carried out. Michigan
is a good state to lead in the departure,
as its politics is so uncertain that
neither party can claim it for next year..
The late polling was so close as to re-
quire the official returns to determine
which party had carried it. BY the dis
trict plan it will probably be about
equally divided. 1t is not certain that
any other state will follow its lead this
year, although bills of that sort are be-
fore the Ohio and one or two other legis-
latureS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
OUTSIDE VIEWS.

Anti-rallroad legislation is getting a
setback i'll the West just ut present.
Following the defeat of the maximum
freight rate bill in Nebraska comes the
announcement of the defeat of a similar
measure In Minnesota. 1t looks as if
the farmers had been trying to carry
things a little too far and had met with
the fate that usually overtakeS such tao
ticS.-BoSton Herald.
Minnesota has already got itself
laughed at, through its legislature, by
the bill prohibiting the appearance of
ballet and skirt dancers and tights
clothed chorus girls on its stage. One
such exhibition of folly ought to be
enough for n ~SeSsion.-St. Louis
Chronicle.
Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, has
so many ScandinavianS in his conStitu-
ency that he has decided to visit Nor
way and Sweden this summer to study
the original stock; but to Just what end
he expects to apply the knowledge he
obtains is not quite Experimentation
Democrat.
The Minnesota senate should not
leave the McHale bill in the rudimentary
form indicated by this section: "WhO-
ever shall display any immoral or i'm
modest piece of statuary, exhibiting the
female form wholly or partly nude, or
shall display any figure of Venus with
out petticoatS, shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor." A clause should at once
be added providing that figures of Pallas
Athene shall not De displayed unless
the goddess be clothed in a bloomer or a
divided skirt.-Mllwaukee Sentinel.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
BETTER THAN NONE.

Although Republican papers affect to
be highly pleased over the passage OF
the Australian ballot reform bill, the
manlpulatOrS are undoubtedly correctly
understood by Chairman CAMPBELL to
be really opposed to any effective meas
IRE, Just as they were in Maine, New
Mexico, Pennsylvania and other states.
They aimed to defeat it by loading it
with veXatiOus provisions. But it has
become a law, and something is gained
for the cause of reform. The tedious
work in the preparation of the ballot
will be quite as obnoxious to the mass
of Republican voters in the cities
as to the Democrats. The kepub-
lican theory that it will be more
difficult for Democrats to master
the task than for their presumably
more expert wielders of the pencil will
not pass the test. The method may in
duce more mixture of names by the
voters; but Republicans are quite as
apt to mix their tickets as Democrats.
The object of the secret ballot is not to
induce scratching, but to leave the voter
uninfiuenced in the preparation of his
ticket. 1t is to insure his freedom in
the exercise of this right of citizenship.
No valid reason has been, or can be as
signed, why it should not be optional
with the voter to make one mark do for
a whole ticket, if he wants to vote it
entire, in place of following down a
long string of names and marking each.
1t Will be remembered that the Dem
ocrats only asked that the single mark
should be allowed in the larger cities,
where the tickets are large. They are
unitedly and earnestly in favor of the
reform ballot, but would not have it
made a terror to the impatient or mex
pert voter. The Republicans refused
to allow the single mark in the cities.
That is exactly where they did not want
1t. But something has been gained to
the cause of a free and honest ballot.
Reforms are usually made slowly. and
error fingers among its beneficiaries.
incidentally, it may be noticed that the
Democrats have Jared extremely well
wherever the new system has been il
operation. 1t has not been noted that
they have anywhere suffered from it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20

nesota the laughing stock of the world.
Duluth Post.
Minnesota will not cut a very big
Splurge at the worlds fair, only $50, 600
being appropriated for the purpose of
displaying her resources. 1t is true
$4,000 is quite a little sum-, but it will
not spread over much ground at the
worlds tair.-Sherburne Star-News.
Gov. Merriam awakened a storm of
Indignation Thursday evening by his
veto of the Minneapolis charter. his
veto having been induced by purely
political considerations. 1t was a con-
temptible act for a governor to do, as it
was a purely local measure, and there
was no pretese that the charter was in
conflict with any possible prohibition
OF the conStitutiOn.-Le Sueur Sentinel.
Gov. Merriam was very foolish to place
upon himself the responsibility OF veto
ing the Minneapolis charter bill. If it
was a detrimental Measure to Minneap-
oils by increasing certain power, the
people ought to stand it, as they elected
the representatives that urged the meas
ure.- Wilimar Argus.
Minneapolis people are boiling over
with rage because the governor vetoed
the Minneapolis charter bill. 1t does
look as though they ought to be permit
ted to fix up their W local matters as
they like; but perhaps the governor is
less prejudiced than are the good but
indignant people of the Flour City,
Red Wing journal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
A REFORM.

Men who inaugurate reforms are very
apt to fail in their immediate effort, but
if it is a genuine uplift and they live
long enough, the balm comes to their
souls at the sight of its fruitIon in other
and dellcacy has been started; it need
not be stated where, or that the
prophet has not taken the home honors.
But the tide rises and moves on. No
Mrs. PARTINGTON can stay it with the
broom act. The possession Of neither
limbs is to be conceded of but one sex.
An indication Of the working of the
~leaven, to change the figure, is brought
from Rome, Ga. A hard-pushed lawyer,
III a suit that involved a very fascinat-
ing widow, took advantage of the quick
ened sensibility. The widow was aware
that her hands and arms were ex-
ceedingly alluring, even to the
uncultured, and had an object
in taking Off her glove and
posing the bare hand and wrist before
the jury. The lawyer believed that
display tempered the mind of the twelve
jurors toward the fair widow. and adj
VerSeIy TO his cause. HIS hardened moral
sensibilities were only affected in view
of a fee, but. he thought the Minnesota
e%ffiuence had come to the jury box, and
broke out into this sort of virtuous in
d%ignation.
Il tell you the immodest can-can
dancer, the immodest ballet girl, with
all her disgusting nudeness, was not so
bad as that oma when she sat there
with her ungloved hand to her face, dis
playing her bare flesh to you, gentle
men,
If the lawyer sized up the progress of
the revived view of anatomical propri-
ETY., the Oriental veil may come to the
front yet. The only purpose of the al
fusion is 10 mark the fact that no part Of
the country has barriers to moral forces
put in motion elsewhere.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
ON THE WHOLE THE BEST.

The legislature adjourns to-day with
between 600 and 700 bills ~unconSidered
and undisposed of. Most of these, if
enacted, would have been general laws.
The local bills, Of which, as always,
there have been a legion. went through
in swarms. But the more permanent
measures, over which there would be
difference of opinion and a clashing of
wavering interests, have been slain
with an unprecedented wealth of car
mage. Worse things than this could
have happened to the state. Some of
the laws which failed to pass were
remedial in their character and
aimed to cure plumbers which have
been made in previous enact
ments. 1t would have been better if
these had survived. But the vastness
of the dead had no claim to living, and
we can count ourselves fortunate that
the session was not long enough to vital
lZe them. The GLOBE hats all along
taken the position that the chief value
OF legislatures was not to be looked for
IN the laws which they pass. They have
an educational influence which is very
NANNtAhO AOl SOOus anu lDCy oSl We do u
substitute for revolutions. People
chafe under the existing order of things,
no matter how good it is. and feel eager
warnings for q change. If there were
no legislatures they would very likely
go to war with each other because of
their discomfort. In such case there
would be some bloodshed and dis
turbance, and then after this things
would settle down into very much
the same condition in which they had
been before. Legislative sessions af-
ford an economical substitute for this
style of domestic strife. Instead of
taking muskets in their hands, the dis
contented form political clubs, and
cast votes with much depth Of feeling
and very high hopes. They elect sena-
tors and representatives who get to-
gether and chin a great deal. Then
they adjourn without doing anything
worth speaking about, and society goes
ahead at very much the same gait as 1T
would have had there been no legisla-
ture. 1t is much more comfortable to
have a legislative mountain bring forth
a mouse than it is to have this necessary
act of parturition performed with dy-
Mantle and cartridges. Our fathers
were very wise when they decided that
talk was a more desirable parent of flu
tlllty than a shotgun.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
POSTAL SAVINGS n

In the session of the senate Wednes-
day night there was an interesting
passage e the bill reported from the
committee amending the law providing
for the savings banks to invite the capi-
tai stock in place of the mutual plan Of
organization. In opposing the change.
Senate DONNELLY worked in a strong
passage in favor of the postal savings
banks scheme. The deposits in the
savings banks of the country were
stated at the enormous total of 1,5OO.-
600, 600. Aside from the absolute Sc
curity afforded the depositors, the
senator's point was that this money in
the hands of the government would be
loaned to the states, and by the states to
the counties, then to the persons need
ing money at low rates of interest, say
ing the high rates now paid, and
meeting in a measure tho agricult-
ural call for more money. Without
examining the feasibility of this attain
ment, it may be noted that one evident
advantage in favor of the government
system is shown IN the fact that the
faith of the government obviatcs
the occasion for any considerable
amount 10 be kept as reserves. This is
shown in the experience of the savings
banks Of the British government. The
aggregate Of the deposits in them is not
far from S535, 900, 900, but the mount
held IN reserve to meet this vast sum is
comparatively trifiing, not exceeding
t2,5OD,OO0. Ordinary banking institu-
tiOua could not carry on business in thIs
way. No faith theory would preserve
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
THE NATURAL EFFECTS.

In his speech Saturday night, Mr..
WILSON did not state the matter too
strongly when he insisted that trusts
sustained the relation of effects to pro-
tective tariffs as causes. A class of
manufactures is unnaturally stimulated
by precluding outside competition,
more goods are created than the local
markets a absorb, and the protective
policy debarS the use of foreign mar
ketS. The ordinary competition would
reduce prices, but to obviate this the
various manufacturers of some article
form a league OF trust, regulating the
output and fixing prices as high as the
tariff rate will allow. 1t may, per-
haps, be recalled that about the time
the final vote was being taken in
the senate on the tariff bill. SEN
ator SHERMAN in a speech admonished
the parties for whose benefit the meas
ure was being adopted not to combine
to suppress competition and aise prices.
1t was like suggesting to water not to
run down hill. There are occasionally
firms that Queerly do the stubborn act
like the twelfth man on the Jury. but
they are finally brought in by intimida-
ton or purchase, or crushed out. The
barbed wire trust is one that has been
troubled in this way. There were pat
ents held by n firm that were neces-
Sary, and have finally been bought for
$500, 900. and all the companies are row
in the trust, lately chartered in Ken
lucky as the Columbian Patents COM
pany. One of the parties to it exuIts
that 1.-THE purchasers of wire do not
realize at what enormous profit it is
Sold" But they could not help them
selves Of the deal. Another corpora
ton, comprising twenty manufacturers
Of spring tooth harrows, obtained a
charter of the New York legislature.
and Judge SMITH, of the supreme court
of that state. had occasion to express
the opinion that at is hard to conceive
how a monopoly could be more firmly
entrencled OF how competition could be
more effectively ~Strangled." These
trusts insisted that there was 10 pur-
pose to raise prices, but simply to regu-
late production. They all put out that
sort OF chaif at the start. The prices
soon begin 10 advance. The barbed
wire trust has made two advances in
pflceS during the past month. 1t would
not be worth while to combine unless
prices were to be put up and big profits
realized. The members of the trusts
are less to blame than those who furnish
them the tempting opportunities.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
Next Seasons Buttons.

London Telegraph.
Not worth a button' was an ex-
preston wont to carry much meaning,
Next season, however, a button may be
worth a great deal. Latterly it has
been the aim Of a well-dressed woman
to dispense with any outward and Wis
ible fastening to their attire, merging
the Indispensable junction in much
mystery. The inevitable reaction now
threatens, and buttons are to he revived
for ornament as well as for use. The
more antique they are SC much the more
stylish will they be conside red.
Consequently, to use the language of
Hibernia, antique buttons are being
manufactured in great variety. Minia-
lures of the beauties of different reigns.
set round with pearls, enamels. studded
with paste, old silver. and gold, incrust-
ed with jewels, are all to be in favor.
The smartest will be of Wedgwood
china, OF It's best reproduction. The
ground is to be the color of the dress or
coat, and the figure or tracery upon
each button is white, cream color or
delicate relief.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
THE p RIrL.

Some bills have to be enacted any,
how, and the most important one at any
congress is the appropriation bill. 1t is
impossible for the government to run
along unless this is passed, II here is
where the reputation of a legislature is
made OR lost. The greatness of all the
worlds modern statesmen has been
shown more in their method of dealing
with this branch of legislation than
with any other. GLADSTONE as a chan
celior of the eXchequer, propounding
the wISeSt methods of accommodating and
disposing of England'S income, is GLAD
STONE crowned with his proudest lau-
rels. The successive Democratic con-
crosses under the leadership of Mr.
KERR, Mr.. RANDALL, and Mr.. CAR
Isle gain their greatest IuSter when
their handling of the nations finances
is compared with Mr.. REEDS billion
dollar house of representatives.
Nothing proves the stupendous in
competency of the leaders in our pres
ent legislature SO clearly as their treat
ment of this important matter. Instead
of bringing it up early in the session.,
when it could be debated and honestly
dealt with, it was by the most unac-
countabIe folly postponed until the con-
fusion of the very last day. In the
hurry and despair of a dying legisIa-
ture, dlsheartened at the general result
of its work and nervous with the strain
OF long hours, it was r~ailroaGed through
heavily freighted with extravaganza
and jobbery. An increase of the tax
levy and a total expenditure $3.50, 600
in excess of any in the history of the
state is the direct result of this abso-
lutely uneXcusable style Of doing bust
ness.