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St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
LITERARY LORE.

STORIES OF THE DAYS OF KING ARTHUR-By
Charles Ii. Hanson. .authoro of The siege of
Troy. and the Wanderings of Ulysses"
With illustrations by Gustave Dore; 12mo,
cloth extra gilt edges, S1.25.
SHAKEsPEARE's STORIES SIMPLY TOLD-Trag-
edies and Historical Plays. BY Mary Sey
mour. With eighty three illustrations by
the late Frank Howard, Il. A.; 12mo, cloth
extra, gilt edges, !1.25.
SHAKEsPEARE's STORIES SIMPLY ToLD-Com-
edies. BY Mary Seymour. With numerous
Illustrations by the late Frank Howard,
K. A. Emo, cloth extra. gilt edges, S1.25.
CHAUCER's STORIES SIMPLY ToLD-By Mary
Seymour, author of ''Shakespeare's Stories
Simply Told etc. With eleven illuStra-
tons from designs by E. NJ. Scannell; 12mo,
cloth extra, gilt edges, 81 -.
The SIEGE OF Troy, AID THE WANDERTNGs OF
ULYsSEs-By Charles Henry Hanson. With
ninety-seyen illustrations from designs by
Flaxman and other artists; 12mo, cloth ex
ira, gilt edges, Sl.25.
THE WANDERINGs OF 1ENEAs AND THE FOUND
ING OF RoME-By Charles Henry Hanson.
author of The Siege OF Troy, and the
Wanderings of Ulysses" etc. With sixty
two illustrations; 12mo, cloth extra, gilt
edges S1.25.
Under the title of classical Stories
Simply Told" these six books have been
issued by Thomas Nelson 6 Sons, New
York. Their several titles give an al
most perfect clue to their contents, and
it may be safely said that no more valu-
able volumes for young people were
ever issued. The classic tales of Homer
and Virgil are most fascinatingly and
simply told, and while they will charm
the attention of the young with all the
interest of stories of war and travel,
they are at the same time imparting the
best features of a classical education.
The lIiad," the "Odyssy' and
'Eneid" are nicely condensed in these
two volumes. The Siege of Troy"
and 1.-The Wanderings of Hneas." The
"StorIes of King Arthur and the Round
Tables by the same author, are equally
well told and similarly fascinating.
Shakespeare and Chaucer are epit-
omiZed in pleasant way in the other
volumes; and, for readers still too young
for the great poets, these stories pave
the way for perfect understanding
and great appreciation. Now that the
market is so crowded with trashy writ
ings for boys and girls. it is pleasure
and relief to turn to these clean-cut.
wholesome and useful, as we'll as enter
tanning series. The six volumes form
as delightful and valuable library for
youth as could we'll be found
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
THE METHOD NEEDED.

Michigan is getting an immense
amount of free advertising over its
break In the monOtOuouS system of
choosing electors. The partisans who
have to revise, their programmes are out
of humor, but find little room for attack
on this method in ITSELF although they
are indignant at the source of the move
ment. One of the most beneficial re-
suits likely to come from it is to lead to
consideration of the unfarness of the
common plan, in that it ignores the
minority entirely. Attention has occa-
sionally been called to the matter for
many years, but it has soon been lost
sight of in the presence of exciting
issues. The Pennsylvania or BUCKALEW
plan is the most simple and fair, appar-
emily, of any of the propositions. This
would aliot to the candidate of each
party in the election of president elect
oral votes in proportion to its numbers.
This state, for instance. is entitled to
nine votes for president. If the aggre-
gate vote is 10000, every $4,000 votes,
or as nearly that number as might be,
would have one elector. Under the
present method, the 270,000 votes might
be divided somewhat in this way
CLEVELAND, Democrat, $500; HAIR
RIsoN. Republican, $4,000; DoNNELLY,
Alliance, $4,000; ST. JOHN, Prohibition,
24,30O. The entire nine votes would go to
CLEVELAND, with his less than third
of the whole vote, and the others would
get nothing. This is not majority rule,
or fair to any of the elements. The
Democrats take more than they ought
to have, and the efforts of all the others
are wasted. This method has the
advantage over the district sys-
TEN that it removes all chances
for gerrymandering the districts.
The most important and beneii-
cial result that would ensue from it
would be the removal of the growing
evil and danger of pivotal states. A
bare plurality, not majority, in two
states has decided several national
elections. The fact that the result
hinges upon the electoral vote of a few
doubtful states concentrates unhealthy
efforts in them. If there are millions of
money to be used for corrupt ends, it
flows to those states. If the contest is
diffused over nearly all the states. there
would be little inducement for the
fraud and bribery SO often alleged in
the close states. The Democrat in Yer
mont and the Republican in Texas
would alike have voice in the result.
The discussion over the Michigan de-
parture will go on, it is hoped, until a
uniform and better system than the
present is adopted.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
WISER TREATMENT.

There are about $4,000 arrests per an
mum for drunkenness of late in MasSa-
chusetts. 1t is not presumed that there
is more intemperance there than in
Maine, Kansas, or other reform regions,
but the sensible people in that state do
not expect to eliminate inebriety by
legal measures. They would, however,
reduce the evils of the practice as far as
possible. They find that the system of
arrests and small fines is unsatisfactory,
and the legislature, police officials,
judges and experts have agreed that it
fails to meet the object sought. They
have concurred in a new regimen. 1t
provides that first offenders shall be
discharged without fine, and no other
dlSparagement than reproof and ad-
monition. But when they repeat their
folly the official grip is to tighten
on them. When they are brought
up very few times they become habit
uals, and are given definite term of
imprisonment quite long enough to work
out of the system taste for liquor if
they have any tendencies in that direc-
ton. good deal of discretion is given
the judge, who has the data to show the
record of each offender. The police
officials will have no power to release
any party arrested, but he must go be-
fore the judge and put on file this chap
ter of his biography. If he has not
enough of the man i'll him to brace up
and keep sober he is a nuisance to his
family if he has one. and it is better off
without him. If, in addition to the
confinement of the habitual, he could
have his system infused with some
KELLEY medicant creating a dis
like for the liquor taste, when
he is released from his eonfine-
ment, he would be ready to become
sober and decent man if there is any
thing in him. If he is an incorrigible
the term of imprisonment should be
very long. 1t is a wholesome direction
Of general thought that would deal
more severely with the persistent in
temperate. 1t is hardship to impose a
fine upon the mentally industrious and
sober man who has a mellow freak at
long intervals. There are difficulties in
treating this evil, and in all the thou
sands OF years since men commenced to
get drunk there has been no infallible
and complete recipe for reducing the
bad effects; none will be found now,
but the Massachusetts movement seems
to be in the right direction.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
A oLEvERLY WON VICTORY.

The litigation over the STEWART
millions which broke out afresh few
years ago eliminated In the disastrous
rout of the claimants in the United
States court the other day. 1t is very
seldom in the history of law suits that
so important matter is disposed of in
such short order. The contest came up
in the fern of a suit in ejectment. The
Irish relatives of the dry goods million
alre instituted an action against the
occupant of piece of real estate which
Mr.. STEWART had wilIed him. If
the will was good the occupant
was rightfully in possession of
the property, but if the will was
void,as the plaintiffs claimed, they were
entitled to recover it. This was a very
simple and conclusive way of testing
the whole matter. and, with decision
in their favor. the relatives could have
gone on and ousted the other heirs in
the same manner and set aside com,
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
THE STORY OF DAY.


La Crosse has big sawmill fire.
Forest fires still rage about West Superior.
The loss in the Muskegon fire foots up to
$5O0,00o.
A killing frost is reported in the Middle
Western states.
a new volcano appears in Armenia, and de
stroys several villages.
The boycott of the Alton is liable to result
in several heavy suits.
The militia is called out to disperse a negro
mob at Wilmington, Del.
Omaha. Milwaukee and Lincoln win the
Western association games.
A bridge to cost SlO1OoO,OOO, is to connect
New York and New Jersey.
The Charleston is still al Acapulco, but the
Itata's whereabouts IS problematical.
Washington state miners are trying to wipe
out the unions by employing negro labor.
Delegates to the Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union conference are gathering at
Cincinnati.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
THE FIELD FOR 1T.

The Russian influenza that has com
menced to travel of recent years under
the name of the grippe becam discour-
aged in this country, probably by the
clear, repellant atmosphere of theWest,
and turned back, hardly getting west of
Chicago. 1t has reached London, and
the reports of its work are much like
those from New York and Chicago a
little time since. The deaths from lung
affections have been more than doubled.
Still, with its fogs and damp weather,
the death rate does not approach the
highest in several American cities. If
it is Russian production, it is taking
commendable course in going home
ward. 1t might do civillzing work
among those barbarians who are driving
out the Jews, probably the best element
of the population. The grippe might do
the Nemesis act there with the applause
of decent people in all lands.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18

pletely the will and all the proceedings
and distribution had under it. There
was formidable array of counsel on
either side, BENJAMIN f. BUTLER being
among those retained by the claimants
and JOSEPH II. CHoATE among those
representing the heirs under the will.
The case had been pending for four
years before it had actually been reached
on the calendar in this way, and thou
sands of dollars had been expended in
taking depositions and accumulating
testimony. The Irish relatives who had
Instituted the suit were present in
body, having come all the way from Ire
land for the purpose. A long and seri-
Gus contest was expected, but at the
very outset Mr.. CHoATE raised legal
point which blocked the plaintiffs abso-
lutely. 1t appeared that the Irish rela
tive who would have inherited from Mr..
STEWART, it his will erenot good. was
dead, and that the plaintiffs in the
pending action were her descend
ants heirs. Mr.. CHOATE contended
that, while under the New York
laws an alien might be the heir
of citizen. this privilege did not
descend to the aliens offspring. and that
if the immediate heir, if the STEWART
estate were to be distributed according
to the statute governing in the case of
lntestacy, died without securing the
property which belonged to her. as was
the case here, her descendants had no
standing in court for this purpose. Mr..
BUTLER and his associates were taken
entirely by surprise when this view of
the law was advanced, and although the
court allowed them time to examine the
authotities, and meet it if it were pos
sible. they accomplished nothing, and
the action was dismissed. This was
really, from lawyers standpoint,a very
beautiful achievement, and promises to
be famous as cleverly won victory in
the history of litigation.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
HEREDITY A DELUSION.

In his pulpit discourse yesterday,
Rev. Mr.CROTHERs incidentally referred
to heredity as an unQuestioned fact in
the explanation of vicious lives. 1t has
been understood that the biological eX-
pertS have been able to catalogue it
among the Yerities Oh natural and
scientific grounds. When persons go
wrong it is common to speak of the bad
blood in them, and inquire into the
record of their ancestry. The man has
inherited disposition to indulge in in
temperance or other vices. 1t has been
asserted that the bad phases of charac-
ter are bestowed upon the descendants
more abundantly and surely than
the virtuouS and moral traits.
man named FORD was hung in
Illinois few days ago for a
deliberate, cruel and wanton murder.
that had no other impulse than the rob-
berry of few dollars. He exhibited on
the galiowS no more senSibility than a
brute. The narrative given of him has
his birth in the slums of New York. His
father was hung, and if any of his rela-
tiveS or ancestors have escaped the gal
lows or pemtentiary, justice has MIS-
carried. His case is cited as ar evi-
dence that criminal tendencies pass
down the genealogical line in a continu-
Gus series. But there are modern sci
entstS who come with their incono-
elastic clubs and propose to pound the
life out of this popular belief. Prof.
BIRGE. one of the most learned of the
members of the faculty of the University
of Wisconsin, denies the claims of her
edity. He is an associate of Prof. FREE
MAN, who is preserving to us the great
est of dramatists, whom the puissant
Minnesota iconoclast would destroy, and
therefore may be supposed to have at
least conservative environments. Prof.
BIRGE was recently invited by the
Mothers club at Milwaukee to address
them on this subject. He assured them
that the conceit that their offspring
could be endowed with the qualities
that had been developed in the lives of
their parents was deIusion. The in
fant at birth possesses nothing mentally
or morally that the original infant in
the ancestral line did not possess at
the same period of its mundane career.
If the father or any other antecedent
individual met proper conclusion of
his life by the rope. this afforded no
reason why the child should not
grow up to be divine or phi
lanthropist. If man is a drunk
ard it does not follow that
his child Will have mental or physical
inheritance Influenced by that fact.
Nothing that is acquired is transmitted,
says the Wisconsin philosopher. If the
child of the drunkard grows up under
similar influences and environments as
the father he will be Incorporate also,
but not because the father was. With
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
DAKOTA GOSSIP.

The fact of the great church icono-
elast coming upon Donnelly'S own
stamping ground and stepping on his
coat tail looks more like war than the
correspondence between James G..
Blaine and Baron Faya.-Jamestown
Capital.
Stock raising is destined to become
one of the leading industries of the
western part of North Dakota, many
of the farmers deriving larger profits
from the proceeds of their stock than
from the remainder of their farm. The
rise in prices for cattle has proved a
powerful stimulus to stock raising, and
the farmers of this and adjoining coun-
ties will look to the raising of stock
more than uSual.-North Dakota Re
publican.
The Republican press is putting a
great deal of faith upon the effect
good crop i'll South Dakota will have
upon politics, and evidently thinks that
a large yield will appeaSe the farmers
for the payment of the high tariff tax
aid induce them to desert the iRdepend-
tnt ranks for the g. o. p. again. The
Republican man gers viii iind to their
sofro2 that the farmers are not fools
The idea OF the Republican party being
rrsponoible for the weather, What
neXt?-I Iagsttn Herald.
Organic your Tariff Reform club
The directors # the z. o. Z. are hard at
work They will leave ilofIing undonr
To keep the billion-dollar government IN
power. The slnews 0f war viii be fur
nisiled by the protected manufacturers.
Rise in your might, people bf this grand
country. aiid shew that the right must
presaii.-N atertown Jornai.
1t II unaiprStootl that Senator Petit
grew has tiuuned bis war paint and
SWING rs tGi:ialiawt over his shoulder
ana wall Ss~-tkat the rambling Chey-
enisra 8, rtal;H i,e.aiI= j ;he Indian
i.rriipfy-s.ss thi transferred from ;sie
q, t-n t.-es-Ta.i.iain 70 lie Dak0tas-aS
;s.'. .;,-'',i bl {. itaiH * the Indian tie
,;isInr.it lu.irJ;snari.'s S"n,ios Petit
-frn eia> ta i5;v,. grasped tar sitGi-
.,ni ;sflsi ~. ,otAiiawk oii the ri fht side
Ills StIIiic.-I.l1cildsiiU IumIurrcIdi.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18

exactly the same environments the
child will reproduce the father. Seem
ing support for this view is familiar to
many in cases where infants are taken
from their parents and given entirely
different developing influences. If
Prof. BIRGE is right, and the old-time
theories not we'll based, important con-
siderations may come from it. But it
will not easily be accepted by many
who have given the matter inquiry.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18

to the growth of the cities. The COM
pact populations have little room for
flower gardens and have to depend Hpon
the dealers in flowers and plants. The
figures, too. afford some index OF the en-
largement of the classes that have
means for lavish indulgence in the fads
of society. Flowers are, however, one
of the fancies of fashion that is thor
oughly wholesome and need not be
deprecated. They beautify, elevate and
SWeeten life
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
SUNDAY FOOTLIGHTS.

The Wilbur Opera company may not be the
best i'll the world, but it seems good enough
for st. Paul, and was last night welcomed to
the Metropolitan for season OF summer
opera by house that packed the immense
auditorium from footlights to entrance. Ii
was splendid audience, and with snch in
spiration the spirited Wilbur company could
not but sing and play its best. Prac-
tically it is the same company as
last year, with the exception that
the plenteous form of May Baker
is conspicuous by its absence. All the other
principals are the same, and the chorus is
the same well-costumed, well-shaped body of
girls. The bill was ''Nanon,n and though
the tuneful opera is a trifle too frequent, it
was sung with dash and a spirit that made
it go off with pleasing success. Susie Kirwin.
is in better health than last year, and her
smile is more contagious. She was prime
favorite from the beginning and rendered
the title role satisfactorily. Mrs IRE
deniek made pretty Ninen, and Miss Belle
Hamilton made a fascinating CASTOR and
a demure De Maintenon. Kohnle was as
funny, Conley as pretty and Tredenick as
comical as ever, and all were in good voice.
George E. Fisher. always q clever specialist,
played Hector, and sang it we'll, and E. A.
Clarke made good abbe The remainder of
the east was clever and the chorus excellent.
The inevitable march of the mazons the
Chinese and skirt dancing specialties and
the Kirwin and kohnle medley served to sea
son the performance. In all, it was a most
successful inaugural of the summer operatic
season, and it looks as though the Wilbur
company would renew its last years tri-
umphs and popularity.
i
The best play yet presented at the Grand
opera house this season is ''The Two Sisters"
by Denman Thompson and George W. Ryer,
which opened weeks engagement last
evening before large audience. The play
is clean-cut and is entirely devoid of sensa-
tionalism and forced cimaxes. 1t is story
of everyday life in the big city of New York,
and deals with the life of two inndcent girls
who cast adrift in the metropolis by the die
tates of fate, struggle against the temptations
of villaiuy and vice. There is u strain of true
pathos which runs through the play, and it
certainly holds the mirror up to nature
The company is a very strong one,
and does full justice to the characters allotted
to lit. Misses MerrIck, Lillian Billings,
Ollie Lewis Mrs. Fred Hooker. Add Ry man,
James A. Mahoney, George W. Ryer, j. A.
Weller and John Barker presented portraits
which can be found in the busy life of New
York. and proved themselves painstaking
artists. An excellent quartette and a num-
bsr of specialties by members OF the COM
pany were heartily received last evening.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
MEN WE MEET.

August Nilsson, who represented the Sec
ond ward of st. Paul in the house OF rep
resentatiyes the past session. is as full of
athletics as chimpanzee is full of monkey
shines.' His baritone gymnastics, amazing
as they really are, do not cast his calisthenic
attributes and accomplishments in the shade
The latter is his strong hold. If anybody
doubts it, let him interview Representative
Kinney, of st. Louis county. The latter has
hadian experience with the stalwart young
Ramsey Democrat that he will probably re-
member. Bro. August has an arm of steel
and amuscle like Corliss engine.
i
';Dick'' Walsh, it is said, really did more
actual work during the last session of the
Legislature than two-thirds of the others who
made so mucn fuss and blow. He was the
secretary of the Ramsey delegation. and, as
1T is easy for any one to realize, he was obliged
to keep a record of as much legislation as
almost any other two delegations ever
dreamed of. His friends urged that he ac-
cept5,a position in the corporation attor-
ney office, but Dick" sought business else
where, and Phillips was left undisturbed.
an i
Frederick Georgius Bernardo Woodruff is
making his mark in his chosen sphere. The
eyes of the bench and the admiration of the
bar is challenged. and the cotemporaneous
sprigs of the law are wondering. Woody
has host of friends, withal.
i
Joe Roach, of Mortified. and Henry Bull of
Wright county. were at the Merchants yes
terday. The adhesiveness of their mutual
friendship was matter of general comment
during the session of the legislature. There
was no element of fckleness about it. 1t
was of that lasting sort that permeates, and
this morning the two-typical of the histor-
ical Damon and Pythias-will undertake a
sojourn in the mountain wilds of Montana
Joe Roach has purchased the last few weeks
train load of Minnesota cattle, and it is his
purpose 10 transport these to the different
ranches in the new state, where they
are to be developed for metropolitan con-
sumption. He couldn't go and feel
really happy and leave Henry behind. There
fore he telegraphed his compatriot and
Henry came, although he had to ride in on a
freight train to make the appointment. The
cattle loaded, they will start on their starring
tour. Fort Buford is one of the objective
points. joe knows the commandant of
that 'fastness, and he promises Henry a
rare treat when they arrive there. They are
banking upon the honey ETC., that Uncle
Sans commissary affords and if anybody
can reach it they kin" in the phraseology
of Jack Bunsby.
~
Frank E. Searle is down from ST. Cloud
While he has nothing particular to say,
there is no Disgusting the fact that he feels
lively concern in the pending wheat investi
CATION case. He was a champion of the in
spectors in the house last winter, and he is
not made of that sort of stuff that viii per
NIT him to desert his friends in a threatening
hour.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18

WHETHER the gathering at Cincin-
natl this week takes any explicit action
in reference to coming into the national
tleld as a thlrd party next year or not,
the political doctors will be able to give
a fair diagnosis from the conditions
shown. The radical elements usually
are explosive OH such occasions. They
will favor separate action.