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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
STATE PRESS TIPS.

This notice is served in the Lanesboro
Journal i'll the congressional contest: "Mr.
White and his friends will support any good
one outside of those Kasson conspiritors,
but Mr.. Tawney, Mr.. Diment. Mr. Dunnell
and such men cannot be elected
The Wateryille Advance. Minneapolis has
been made the head of navigation. 1t is eX-
tremely difficult to float boat on that stream
between st. Paul and Minneapolis the greater
portion of the season and in a few years will
cease entirely But that matters but little if
the improvement appropriations fall in the
right hands"
Pease. of the Anoka Union, is unwilling q
conspiracy limited at in this extract "Of
course st. Paul can never have two senators
at the same time, and Gov. Merriam has the
same right to aspire to the succession as any
other man, but the sele elton of Nelson to
help in downing Davis shows how little he
cares for the Republican party"
The Preston Times feels this way about it:
1.-THE people of Minnesota should immedi-
atelY take Greeley's advice and go West and
grow up with the country. In all the wide,
wide state not man could Bill Merriam find
capable of taking the wardenship of our pen
itentiary, but had to import one from Illinois,
and now the newly elected mayor of st. Paul,
backed by the Merriam gang, insults the peo-
pie of that city by appointing this same man
from Illinois as chief of police
The Belle Plains Heruld does not quite
understand the needs of reform: THE new
mayor of st. Paul commences his regime by
practically declaring that to the victors be-
long the spoils. He discharges Chief of
Police John Clark, and puts an entirely new
man in his place as chief. This is small Of
the new mayor and augurs badly for his adj
ministration. The business and moral porr
ton of the sanity city will be the losers, as
there is but one opinion regarding Chief
Clark. and that is that he was about the very
best chief of police St Paul has ever had.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
EXTINCT MAMMOTHS.
Frozen When They Died. and
Their bones Covered the Plains.

In his book on ''The Mammoth and
the Flood" Mr.. Howorth advances a
new theory with regard to the remains
of mamm0ths and other large animals
in the soil of Siberia. All over this
great plain, wherever the ground is
frozen hard. are found mammoths and
other animals preserved very fresh. so
that the wolves and bears can feed
upon their remains.
These hamlnotllS have been found
from the eastern border clear to the Obi
river. They have been found under
conditions which make it certain that
they could not nave lived. unless the
surroundings and climate had. at the
time they existed, been entirely differ
ent from the present conditions. The
remains of the plants OIL which they fed
are also found, and Southern contemp0-
rary shells are discovered with the re-
mains, pointing to climatic conditions
which no longer exist.
Mr.. HOWOrth believes that this pia-
teau is one or the most recent features
in the Known physical geography of the
world, and that its rapid elevation
caused the tremendous change of eli
mate which has enabled the bodies of
the great beast to be preserved intact as
we find them. He says that, unless these
animals had been frozen Immediately af-
ter they died, and remained frozen to this
day, they would certainly have decayed
and disappeared. A single Siberian
summer sun would have destroyed
them completely. 1t is known that
further east the bones of great
animals have been found 1900 feet
above the sea under conditions which
Falconer declared to be absolutely in
compatible with their mood of life.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
A TRUANT BAND.

If you care to look at it that way,
there is something very pathetic in the
case Of those unappreciative pupils who
played truant from the Genoa Indian
school the other day. There were eight
cen of them, big, brOnzed children of
the wilderness, and, like other children
who are thrust out into world that is
new and strange, they were homesick.
Nostalgia" their scientific educators
would probably call it; but good, homely
inconsistencies is what it amounted to.
They despaired of learning the white
mans ways, or of ever liking them, even
when learned. Their untutored minds
could not be tutOred up to the point of
approaching the beneficent effects of
the eiviliZing process prescribed for
them by their philanthropic Uncle
Sam. Their hearts turned with long
ing to the old scenes, the old
untrammeled life of the forest and
prairie. 1t was shockingly bad taste,
and against all the canonS of culture,
but culture wasn't what they went in
for; and so, without a dollar in the
pockets Of their white mans clothes,
impelled and guided only by that des-
Derate inconsistencies that was on them,
they glided forth in the night and
struck out for Arizona, a thousand miles
away.
Of course they were followed, over
taken and whisked back in an hours
time over the twenty weary miles they
had tramped toward home and freedo m.
1t was for their own good-we know
that because all scientific humani-
tarians and theoretical philanthropist S
tell us so. Education and civilization
are what they want, whether they know
it or not; and so, when we express a fur
tive sympathy for these truants, and
confess an indefensibIe inclination to re-
greet their capture, we do it in a most
apologetic manner, and do not for a
moment presume to draw conclusions
with the scientific humanitarians above
mentioned.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
THE SNAP GIVEN AWAY.

1t may have flavor of inhOspitality
and ungraeiOuSneSS to look away
toward November while the Republican
friends ara thronging the streets and
gathering their impressions Of the viva
cious and ambitious twins, who are
justly elated at the honor done them.
But great portion of the visitors will
be bitterly disappointed at the results
of the convention, and some alienation
of their sorrows may be had in the real
ization that the November gales will
give q melancholy dirge as they whistle
through the whiskers of the men to
be named on the ticket. Perhaps
the Nebraska man was premature
in giving the snap away. He might
have waited until after the victims had
been designated. But he has emitted
the feline. The Democrats are to turn
over the electoral votes of Kansas. Ne
braska, Minnesota and South Dakota to
the Peoples party. BY SkirmiShing
around little the revelatOr might per-
haps have found few more states that
could be picked out of the Republican
table, but these are quite enough. Pull
the 81 votes OF these states out or the he
publican list. and the most expert men of
figures have a task to find 223 electoral
votes to be gathered in for. the Republi-
can ticket. They may even take New
York and fail to work out satisfactory
result. The Democrats will not be
able. of course, to enlarge their col
umns by turning over these states to the
third party, but they are kindly inclined,
and would have the young and ineXperi-
enced organization encouraged by get
ting into the electoral college. If the
result should be that no choice could be
had by that Lody, and the election
thrown into the house. the Democrats
are fortunately we'll provided for that
exigeney. The Republicans can guess
successfully at the outcome. Still, they
can have all the fun there is in hot
campaign.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
FOR STRANGERS TO SEE.

Some weeks ago the GLOBE urged
that preparations be made to beautify
the city in advance of the Republican
convention. 1t called attention to the
fact that many strangers would be here
from abroad, that the impression we
were to make on them should be IA
vOrable one, that our streets should be
swept and garniShed, our buildings
adorned, and the illuminations which
have been so successful in past years
should be again repeated. Col. WRIGHT
was in the East at the time of this APP
peal, and this paper called on him to re-
turn and take charge of the work. It is
now too late to do anything of
this kind adequately, and the GLOBE
is versatile enough TO find con-
solutions in the situation. Since
we have neglected this opportunity,
the proper attitude to take is that on
the whole it was not worth while to
embrace it. Festoons ard banners are
tawdry things at the best, and we do
not care to be measured by such arti-
fetal adornmentS. The visitor whose
good opinion is to be priced would not
be influenced in this way. In Minneap-
oils they are distributing badges carry
ing on their face the story of the city's
prosperity. Lumber and flour have
made Minneapolis what it is, and our
wealth is based ON our railroads and our
jobbing trade. Our busy streets in the
wholesale district and the great net
work of tracks to be seen from DaytOn's
bluff leave little untold in these direc-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
THE NURSE OF MEDIoCRITY.

One would not know whether to
laugh or cry If out of it all came BEN
JAMIN HARRISON. Months of hard
work spent in preparation, hundred
thousand dollars of money gone, dele
gates and SightseerS from every quarter
of the country, noise and confusion,
eloquence aud music. the nation on tip
toe in eager expectancy, and from the
womb of the mountain emerges the In
dianapolis attorney. Could amy anti
climax be more absurd? And yet this
is the logic of the situation. The lead
erS of the party shrink from admitting
it. They cheer themselves with, de-
lusive dreams of bigger things. With
the instructive American diStaste for
the commonplace, they refuse to submit
until it is proved that their protests are
unayailing. 1t Is beautiful spectacle,
this war between circumstances and as
plrations. Our friends, the enemy,
would put at the head of their column
man equal to the honor and the respon-
sibility. They love the great. the brave,
the strong. They would have their
standard bearer valiant, bold, capable,
inspiring. And yet what can they do?
They are bound hand and foot 10y letters
of their own forging. Born as party
of freedom, they have grown to be the
champions of slavery. and out of such a
soil are born none of the rugged, aggres-
sive personalities of the kind they seek
for a leader. The breasts throbbing
with noble enthusiasm, the brains alert
to analyze anu discover, the souls fred
with unselfish ambition to rout human
ity's oppressors, find no encouragement
or welcome i'll ranks drilled to fight the
monopolists' cause. Theirs is an atmoS-
phere in which mediocrity thrives, and
where the higher, robuster natures are
stified. The Republicans never again
will follow a leader fit to lead until they
stand for principles worthy Leaders,
sword
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
MEDIEVALIsM IOWA,

That is rich ana rare revival of
medieval romance which is furnished
forth from the neighborhoOd of indie
pendence, the trotting-borse metropolis
of Iowa. There is none of your in
sipid, fin de steele five-o'clOck tea flavor
about this story. On the contrary, it is
quite sufficiently vigorous and brutal to-
have been purloined bodily from the
faded heart of some musty old middle
age tome. 1t has to do with the dear,
delightful cOurtship methods of We
Olden days, when we tender lover
yanked We obdurate maiden off with
him to his moated and buttresSed castle,
and there, by his winning ways, taught
her to rejoice necessarily that her MOI
had cut no figure III the case. To be
sure, this Iowa lover labored under
a handicap as regards the castle;
but levee hotel in Des Moines
answered the purpose fairly well, and
the river obligingly jumped its banks
and contributed the moat. And then,
too, to make amends for the omission of
the castle and other scenic effects, the
bold abductor puts into his role a real
iStic intensity of ruffianism that renders
it comparatively easy to forget the in
tremendously modern mise en- scene.
The obdurate maiden, poor girl, has a
very rough time of it. and she doesn't
readily fall into line with medieval
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
SUB ROSA.
written for the Globe.1

Written for the Globe.]
The United States senate-that circle of
sages-
Perceiving the world had existed for ages
The slave and the victim of natural law,
Had resolved remedial enactment 10 draw.
Galileo's old laws were of foreign invention,
With domestic production not worthy of
81 mention.
And reciprocal justice required that con-
r. found it,
The earth should stand still and the sun go
4. around it.
Two millions were voted to counting the
stars,
And third to surveying canals about Mars;
¬her-no joke if the ocean be wavy-
TO the special committee on finding the
. navy.
Some clamored to buy the winged steed of
~. Mahomet,
Other some to annex the fair tail Of a comet;
Again-and at this all humanity wondered
1t was further declared sixty cents made
hundred.
But now theIe arose most important affairs;
So putting the employees out on the stairs,
And turning to business by way of digres-
IsI sion,
The senate went into executive session.
For hours it remained there; twas thought
beyond doubt
That the direst of wars was about to break
out;
And 'mong waiting outsiders conjecture was
rife
On the momentous question Of possible strife.
At last the doors opened, and. sedate and SOL
emn,
The newsmen fled in at the head Of the COL
umn;
Senatorial features were scanned here and
there,
But all unrev ealing tn expressionless stare;
When one of the Solons slipped up the back
way
II tell you," said he, there's the devil to
payl''
.What is it?" they gssped, with tremor and
shiver;
s.Why we've placed Minneapolis at the head
of the riverI''
Charles James Williams
St Paul, 1892.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04

methods. Her lines, too. rather lower
the tone of the episode, and when, she
tells the court that she ''had been keep
ing company with him (the abductor)
for two years, but had given him up"
one can't help wishing she had eX-
pressed it q little ditferently-had said,
for instance, that the varlet had sued
for her smiles and been repelleh with
Scorn and cOntumely. The symmetry
of the affair is further marred. more
over, by the fact that the court she tells
her story to is not the gailybedight royal
court which in former times was mixed
up in so many matters of this kind. but
plain. prosaie police court. OF course,
medieyaliSm can't make much head
way against the adverse conditions OF
a police court; and we therefore suggest
that this feature of the case be now
abandoned altogether, and that very
large allowance of nineteenth-centlry
justice be measured out to this villain
Gus. swaShbuckling sutton.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
THE OUTCOME.

Whether BLAINE is really in it of his
own volition or not, he is being hit by
the HARRISON fighters with the lighteSt
suspicion of gloves. Should he discover
at the last moment, when the admins
tration forces have him under the band
wagon, that he had never intended to
allow the use of his name, there will be
sore places scattered about his anatomy.
Whatever his game, he does not mean
for HARRISON 10 take the trick. That
fact crops out with no sort of dubious
ness. Aside from what may be called
family and domestic grievances, HAIR
RIsON has intimated in his speeches
that the secretary was making claims
in the management of foreign matters
that put the credit in the wrong quar-
ter. His eyesight has been equal to
this observation without any aid from
the OculiSt. Reciprocity is his pet, and
the petty larceny of the White house
occupant, or attempt to appropriate the
credit, has not contributed to the mag
nanimity and serenity of the premier.
Then the withdrawal of his name under
the hot fire, directed at him with appar-
ent success, will carry with it the NOR
tifying suspicion that it was the final
resource to avert defeat. 1t may be
predicted that he will never feel well
enough to make campaign speech in
favor of the election of HARRISON. The
workers for the latter are not fully ex-
pressing their feeling. but they think
very much as a Republican senator is
reported by the Washington corre-
SpOndent of the st. Louis Republic as
speaking in an unguarded moment:
BLAINE is q - trickster and a liar II
he is encouraging the idea of nominating him
for president 1 say it unequivocally that he
lied to the president, and that he has lied to
nearly all the members of the cabinet and to
many Republicans in the senate and house
of representatives who have talked to him
during the past year. think his conduct, if
he is seriously thinking OF taking the nomi-
nation. dishonorable in the extreme. He
ought to have withdrawn from the cabinet
the moment he even contemp plated being dis
loyal to the presidents fortunes, and if 1
were in President HARRIsoN's place, notwith-
standing BLAINE's greatness and his popu-
larity, would flip him as quick as wink
and put some honorable man on whom
could rely at the head of the state depart
ment.''
Secretary FOSTER has put this feeling
in more euphemistic words, but has left
no doubt that his mind runs in the same
channel. Mr.. BLAINE has not needed
to consult an aurist, so far as known.
He hears all that is being said, and
grinds his teeth. The most plausible
solution of his attitude is that he would
make it uncomfortable. if not impos-
sible for HARRISON to be the nominee;
ard then, with an innocent air, affect
surprise that any could suppose he had
ever tolerated any use of his name.
But he will not then feel well enough
to remain at Washington.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
PERTINENT PERSONALS.

Herbert Spencer was rendered. but
declined, a nomination for alderman in
London.
John L. Sullivan travels with a sten-
Ographer, TO whom, at his leisure, he
dictates books.
George Bancroft's executors have al
ready realized s440, 00) from his real and
personal estate.
The king of Denmark is described
as strapping man. with a. prominent
nose, shaggy eyebrows, broad fore
head and Burnside whiskerS.
Archdeacon Farrar says there is room
only fol- two more monuments in West
muster Abbey, and this space is re-
served for those of Gladstone and Ten
nySOn.
Tip-O-Tip. son OF the late Zulu king,
CeteWayO, is in this country. To raise
money to pay his expenses in college he
is giving small entertainments in West
ern cities.
Gounod. the composer. is an eccentric
individual, and will only work at his
own time and to order. 1t is said that
he has twelve unfinished operas lying
in his manuscript drawer.
Commodore William p. McCann. who
has recently been retired from active
service, procured his midshipman's
warrant by his personal InterceSsiOn
with President Zachary Taylor.
Richard Grid is probably the largest
individual grower OF sugar beets in the
world. He has 15,00o acres of ground
surrounding Chino, CAL. and this year
will have 1000 acres OF it in beets.
Cornell university has given preSi-
dents to three other universities -Schae-
fer to Iowa, Jordan to Stanford aid
Andrews to Brown. Eight members of
its faculty have declined college preSi-
denotes.
Walter Damrosch is composing the
music for grand opera on the subject
Of Hawthorne'S Scarlet Letter."
George Parsons Lathrop, Hawthorne's
son-in-law and the wellknown writer,
is constructing the librettO.
Whatever may be thought of Lord
Salisbury as a statesman, there can be
but one opinion of his high quality as a
man since the occurrence of the runa-
way accident " hich almost cost him his
life. When extricated from the wreck
of the carriage his first thought was for
the poor cOachman, who had been
thrown from the box and seriously in
jured.
Joseph Arch, she leader of the agri-
cultural laborers' unions of England, is
a weak and worn man of sixty-siX, who
has thoroughly exhausted himself in
his efforts to gain political power and
recognition for the toilers upon the
farms. He is self-educated man, and
knows what it is TO have labOred from
sunrise to sunset for 60 cents ddy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
Last Session Of the British
Parliament Practically
Ended.
The Queen to Return From
Scotland to Accept Resig-
nations.
GladStone's Plan of Election
eering Changed--Irish
Contests.
Latest Estimates Show -Four
Hundred Miners Lost at
Ppizbpam.

LONDON. June 3.-The last session Of
the present parliament virtually CLOSED
today. The desire of section of th4
cabinet. strongly supported by Mr..
Chamberlain and the UnIonist party, {.
pass the Irish local government bill, sc
that they would be able to go before the
constituencies with their Irish pledges
redeemed, has failed to prevail agains:
electoral exigencies. The Radicals
have decided not to oppose the passing
of the estimate. which will be voted H.
the desultory fashion in which million.
are usually voted at the fag end of
session.
The queen will return to Windsor on
June 20, in order to avoid the necessity
of the ministers travelling to Scotland tc
tender their designations. The formal
ties of the dissolution of parliament are
certain to occur before June p, and
The Electoral Contest
has already commenced. The date OF
the opening of Mr.. GladstoHe's mid.
lothian campaign is not yet fixed His
idea of addressing small meetings from
village to village has been abandoned,
and instead he will address three great
meetings, one at Edinburgh, another at
West Calder. and the third at Dalkeith.
Mr.. Gladstone is in capital health, but
great speech nowadays leaves him
almost Frustrated.
y The McCarthyites are now completing
their election programme. The whole
of the fiftY-fve sitting members will
seek a reelection, and all of the Par
nellites seats will be contested by Nc.
Carthyites. The amount of the Ameri-
can donations to the election fund Will
largely determine the fate of the Par.
nellites. Gen. Collins, the American
delegate, has left London for Dublin
with L. P. O'Connor to endeavof
to promote reconciliation be-
tween the two Irish factions, but it is
not likely that he will succeed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
COUNTRY DELIVERY.

The rural communities, at least, will
overlook many of the shortcomings of
congress of late if il will act favorably
upon the multitude of petitions to ex-
tend the postal delivery to the country
districts. The postmaster general has
been giving the subject some attention,
but he isapt to be busy in the campaign,
and may not press the matter. 1t is out
side of politics and the old platforms,
and may be Endorsed by every one
without apprehension. In view of
some recent appropriation bills that
whirled through congress. the ques-
ton of expense need not be con-
sidered. Other departments of the
government are not Solf-Supporting.
More than one-third the population
of the country live on farms, and the
greater part of them can BE- reached by
a reasonable extension of the free de-
livery system. The leading nations of
Europe, and even some of the Oriental
ands, are in advance of the United
States in this matter. There is really
greater need of free delivery in the
country than in the city. Residents of
the towns have easy access to the post
Office, while the rural population is de-
MED the facilities the service should at
ford for them. tits to be regretted that
the farmers cannot have this extension
the present campaign. 1t is to be a
newspaper, educational campaign, and
its best parts will not be possessed in a
large way by those not in daily touch
with the outside world.