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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
"A PROSPEROUS COUPLE.

Wall. wife, it's fifty years ago sence you an
An we hey CHM the hills er life together
side by side;
How we hey prospered. hant we. wife? an
how well off we pe-
w EN- we wuz spliced we owned one COW, an
now gosh! we own three.
1 owed five hundred on this farm, five hun
dred dollars tnen.
But hev proSpered far beyond the gen'l run
err men;
A kindly Provid ence hez shaped the rough
course of events.
An now | owe four twenty-five all thirty
seven odd cents.
Twas only fifty years ago you only had one
dress
To aggervate your beauty and increase your
loneliness;
Now you've got two serumpiious dresses, an
most tremendous bonnet,
With a monst'ous horticultural fair a-hour-
ishin upon it.
Three chairs wuz in our sitiin room but fifty
years ago,
But we hey prospered wonderf'ly, an now
there's five you know:
We've gained a lamp. puddin' dish, an ex-
ira yoke er steers,
A grin: stone an dingle eart-an' all in fifty
years.
It's all true wat our pastor said: the worl'
moves fast today
An with a quick. electric whiz goes spinnin'
OH it's way:
1t jes, goes spinnin' on its way until its work
is done.
But there's few spinners my dear wife,
who'ye spun ez we have spun.
sam Walter Foss in Yankee Blade.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
HOLD THE TRAIN.

If DAVID B. HILL does not make a
favorable impression during his South
ern tour, it will not be bis fault. He has
evidently prepared his speeches IN ad-
vance. not only with great care. but
also with the utmost discretion. Up to
this point he has maSterfully avoided
all references to subjects on which there
is any prevailing difference of opinion.
But circumstances and the craft of the
enemy seem to have conspired against
him. To start with, he forgot his manu-
script, and his train had to be detained
half an hour while a messenger was
dispatched for this, without which
his Journey would have been in
vain. Since then the railroad company
has been possessed of the most
unnecessary ambition to make up
this lost time. and has driven ahead
from station to station with frightful
effect on the eloquent senator's oratory.
At Roanoke, his first tarrying place, he
was given a chance to say all that he
wanted to, but at Rockford the train
dispatcher wantonly slaughtered his
peroration by Orde ring the engineer to
go ahead long before he had finished.
At WytheviIle he had similar eXpe-
rence, which came SO suddenly, too,
that not even the shorthand reporter
who accompanied him had all oppor-
tunity to set down his remarks. AT
johnson City he was introduced as ian
aspirant for presidential hOnorS." with
the aptneSs of the man with the gun
story, he answered that Johnson City
reminded him of ANDREW j oHNSON,
and this was received with great APP
plause, by which several valuable min
utes were wasted. Then he proceeded:
The Democratic party reveres the con-
stitution as ANDREW JOHNSON did. The Dem
ocratc party stands up for the rights of the
people as JOHNSON did. The Democratic
party hates hypocrisy and sham as ANDREW
JOHNSON did. The Democratic party"
But here the train again moved off,
and the world will never know what
was to follow. The general impression
at Johnson City is that he was about to
observe that the Democratic party loved
whisky as ANDREW JOHNSON did. But
this is pure conjecture. The point of it
all is that the railway corporations have
conceived plot to destroy
the effectiveness of Mr.. Hills public
by these Interruptions. Such
tactics are contemplate. Fair play de-
mands that he should have show.
The next time he tries to spesk let the
train be held until he get through, even
though a collision ensue. The country
wants to hear what he has got to say.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
RAIDING THE RAUMS.

Commissioner Raum has been sharply
criticised by Secretary Noble for favor
ing congressman in pension cases. But
Raum's hide is too thick to mind little
puncture like that.-Baltimore Herald.
If young Prince Raum does not feel
he has indicated himself sufficiently he
should have further opportunities to
make it as plain as possible that he was
dismissed for the sins of his past.
Louis Republic.
AS the story of the bouncing of young
Raum is officially told it appears that
Pa Raum needed all his refrigerator
stock to keep cool enough not to re-
sign to show proper family resentment.
Milwaukee Journal.
1t is becoming more and more appar-
ent that there was falling out in Mr..
Raum's official household, and that some
disgruntled member took occasion to
tell few damaging truths about the
conduct of affairs in the pension de-
partment. The whole truth is what the
country is waiting for.-Detrolt Free
Press.
Secretary Mobiles sharp criticism of
Commissioner Raum's practice of adj
vancing pension cases in behalf of mem
berS of congress would have been time
lier had it been penned earlier. 1t is
too clear for argument that there should
be no fayoriteism i'll the hearing of pen-
sion claimS-that just claim should be
sufficient in itself without the appllca-
ton of Il congressional pull. "-Phila-
delphia Record.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
COMING WEST.

While there is an unusual migration
from the older states to the new regions,
that from Central Illinois is remarkable.
From few of the principal counties in
the heart of the state it is reported that
not less than 5000 families will leave
this spring. The land renters are most
numerous in that section, and 1t is prob
able that they comprise a large part of
the homeseekers. The exodus is not
prompted by lack of prosperity so
much as an excess of it. The crops
have been so good that the owners want
higher rents, and the valuation of lands
is said to have advanced from 80 to 40
per cent III the past four years. Sales
of farms have been numerous of late in
the more eligible sections, at from $50
to 500 per acre. The regions named
as chiefly sought by the migrants
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
MAY BE USEFUL.

The Republican papers show no dis
position to grow weary of porting over
the votes recently had in the interior
districts of New York state. In the
annual election of the county boards
and in some municipal contests it is un-
questioned that they have made very
marked gains over the similar elections
of a year ago. 1t may be conceded that
the attempts of some Democrats to eX-
plain them as merely local affairs with
very little general politics in them are
lame and unsatisfactory. They were
run On political lines in the main, the
county boards having the control of the
election machinery, and the uniformity
of the Democratic losses shows some gen.
eral cause. The Republican claims that
they indicate dissatisfaction with the
state administration and a rebuke to
those who so reSolutely asserted the
rights Of the party in holding the legis-
lature, with decentralization growing out
of the rivalry of leaders, are partisan,
rather than legitimate conclusions.
While they are basing their hopes upon
fallaciouS foundations, they will do the
Democrats a good service if the latter
are persuaded to inquire what the real
cause of this expression is. 1t may be
found to have timely and needed les
son for some Of the leaders. The masses
of the party in New York are like the
Democrats in other states. They be-
iieve in principles and in standing by
them boldly and persistently. They had
full share in the victory won in the
election following the passage of the
MCKINLEY tariff. They stood squarely
with the party in other states and be-
lieve in that issue. They saw when a
house made overwhelmingly Demo-
cratic on that line met in December, the
representative man Of tariff reform-the
aggressive, defiant leader-WaS passed
by. While there was no conceded lower
ing of the standards, the country was
unable to recognize so clearly the line
Gments of advance and determination
in the countenances at the front. The
motives that were alleged for this
course were not satisfying. Then, i'll
New York, the men who led the or
ganization had not been identified
with championship IN any distinctive
way in the cause of tariff reform. There
was lack of heart and robustness in the
enunciatloHs, although not retrogressive
in form. Upon this issue the party is
a unit everywhere, and the masses are
not disposed to tolerate even suspicion
of temporizing and weakening. The
success of the party depends upon its
fidelity to this cause, in which SO much
of the welfare of the people is involved
IL it is recognized that harmony and
strength are only to be had in an aggres
sive and persistent fight for tariff re-
form, the Slight reverses in New York
may be useful and salutary.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
HIS OBJECT IN LIFE.
He Stuck to 1t in Spite OF sneers
and Persecution.

He Stuck to 1t in Spite OF Sneers
and Persecution.
Ee was born of poor but otherwise
unobjeetiOnable parents. who impressed
upon his mind while he was yet in a
plastic and doughty state the impor-
lance OF having an object in life, says
the Chicago Tribune.
He was StudiOus boy. He began
wearing Spectacles at an early age, and
never wasted any of the precious hours
III playing bull-pen, mumble-peg, Skinny
or any of the rude games that thought
less boys delight in, and his teacher at
school was accustomed to point him out
to the other children as a model.
In consequence or which the children
all hated him and said he was a molly
cOddle and sweet little goSling with
glass eye.
But he was truly good boy He did
not mind what they SAID. He smiled at
them with gentle, winning smile, and
went on being good.
lie did not chew gum, and refused to
associate with boys who chewed tobacco
on che sly or played hockey.
As he grew to manhood he cast about
him for an object in life.
lie found one.
HencefOrth he devoted his energies to
that one object. He kept it steadily be-
fore him. 1t was not riches he sought.
The pursuit of wealth for its own sake
was degrading in his eyes, and whatever
of world prosperity came to him wa
made SubSerylent to his one great OBJ
ject in life.
lie pursued not the elusive phantom
of fame. The filthy cesspool of politics
had no charms for him, and the empty
hOnorS that await the man who enters
the army or navy did not tempt him.
Neither did he waste his powers in
the futile search for perpetual motion.
The ephemeral joys of the actor, the
professional ball player, or billiard ex-
pert ayailed naught as enticements to
lead him from the path he had marked
OUT for himself.
Step by step as the years rolled away
he drew nearer and nearer to the goal of
his ambition, and his heart Swelled with
proud satisfaction.
And he died at the age of sixty-three,
leaving TO posterity, as the result of
life devoted to the pursuit of one great
object, collection of So ,469 Cancelled
postage stamps.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
JOVIAL JOCULARITIES.

Jagson says that women who have at
tanned majority always seem to be in
the minority.-Elmira Gazette.
There are hired men so lazy that they
will ask companion to watch the clock
for them. Journal.
A loss of temper is like any other
kind of loss. The worst thing about it
is the recovery.-Wa Washington Star.
The genius of the Thespian is more
apt to ''come into play" than that of any
other genius.-Yonkers Gazette.
No man has right to apply for a
pension on the plea that he was half
shot when he enlisted.-Philadeip hia
Times.
When the old gentleman of ninety
proposes to the old lady of eighty-five it
is the court of final resort.-Columbu
Post.
The only way to win in an argument
with woman is to walk off when you
have stated your side of it.-Atchison
Globe.
Mrs. Gadd-Mrs. Blabb tells me her
daughter is going to marry a man OF
note. Mrs. Gabb-That's queer. heard
she was engaged to a trombonst.-G Good
News
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
JACK KETCH ABROAD.

Hangman Berry, England's public ex-
ecutioner, prociaims himself strong
opponent of capital punishment. He is
coming here to lecture.-Boston Globe.
James Berry, English eXeeutioner.
after hanging 200 criminals, resigns his
Office and comes out against capital pun
ishment. Has he grudge against his
successor?-New York Advertiser.
When Berry, the British hangman.
comes here to lecture on his art, it
would simplify many things if he would
illustrate his descriptive passages with
judiciously selected examples.-New
York World.
Berry, the British hangman, is going
to make lecturing tour through Amer
lea. He should drop in at Sing Sing
and take whirl at electrocution just to
see how the New York life extingulSher
compares in celebrity and certainty with
the old-time trap and noose.--Detroit
Free Press
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
General satisfaction.
Pittsburg Post.

PIttSDurg POSI-. |
1t is stated positively now that Arch
bishop Ireland, of St. Paul, is to be
made the third cardinal in the United
States. There is not prelate in the
country upon whom the comforting of
the red hat can be more fittingly be-
slowed. The archbishop is one of the
most progressive representatives of the
church on this side of the Atlantic, and
his efforts in behalf of education would
in themselves seem to entitle him to
recognition from the Vatican. There
will be general satisfaction over the
reported intention of the holy see to
honor him with the high office.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
SAND CREEKS SHORE.
Written for the Globe. !

Written for the Globe1
Just farmers rig in a crowded street.
A common and simple thing,
AS pass to my work with tagging feet
But it made me think of spring;
And thought of my own dear mother, dead.
In that land so far away,
And longings for home passed through my
head,
And fingered with me all day.
In that far-off land of the hard No l,
And the cattle on the slope,
Where the creeks and the valleys begin to
rum
And the farmer is full of hope;
In memory hear the coyotes yell,
And | hear the wild duck squawk
While the prairie dog from his winters cell
Mods a greeting to the hawk.
Where the wild goose flies DER favored
world.
And answers the white brants CRY,
Where raindrops now by the wind are hurled
From the rain machine hung high:
Where the spriDgtide's pledge, in the broad
rich field,
Is of grain and hay in stack,
And the sun reflects. as from off shield,
From the little old pine shack.
Where no whistles blow at the break Of day
A call to nv round of toll.
Where men don't falter and fall by the way,
But trust in God and the soil;
Where my toil-racked bones would fair find
rest,
And never see print-shop more,
In the home with dad that / love the best
By the side of Sand creeks shore
ID. ~ Zook.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16

are Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas
and Missouri. 1t is very old rule that
migratory movements follow isothermal
lines. These take the movers largely
to the states south. Iowa and Missouri
seem to be the most favored. AS the
exodus is likely to continue-in fact. is
believed to be far from its maXlmum-it
would be we'll for this state and the Da-
kotas to diffuse their interesting liter
allure in that region somewhat literally.
Thousands of their best citizens came
from Illinois. They should be able TO
influence others by personal effort. In
Central Illinois the chief crop is corn.
The impression perhaps prevails that
this cannot be grown very extensively
in Minnesota and the Dakotas. The
facts in the case can be made to serve
useful purpose.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
Archbishop Ireland.

New YORK Press.
The report from Rome that Arch
bishop Ireland is to receive the cardi-
nal's hat is probably authentic. The
pope has lately shown such signs of
favor to the distinguished prelate from
st. Paul that his elevation as one of the
princes of the Catholic church would
not be surprising. The OSservatore Ro-
mano. the special organ of the papacy,
has followed the Monitore di Roma in
publishing an article defending Arch
bishop ireland against his critics, and
upholding his liberal policy in ecclesi-
astical affairs. This is strikingly sig
nifcant.a and tits not unlikely that Arch
bishop Ireland will return to the United
States as Cardinal Ireland.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
Rusk Handicapped.

Chicago Mail
Uncle Jerry Rusk has been sadly
handicapped in launching his presiden-
tial boom. His position is one which
carries with it so many grave RESPONSE
bilities that he finds little time to dab
bic in politics. He sent some of his
cucumber seeds to an Iowa farmer
awhile ago, who acknowledged their
receipt the other day in this note:
Your blamed cucumbers robbed me
of my wife, so instead of sending me
cucumber seed this spring send me
another wife. hear there are num-
Der of likely women in your depart
ment.
1t will be seen at once that it requires
rare discrimination to SOW broadcast
those deadly cucumber seeds where, in
the language Of Cakes Ames, ''they will
do the most good"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
CLEAN THE STREETS.

The average man and woman have
probably not overenjoyed the cold days
and nights we have been experiencing
for week past. A thermometer down
towards zero and bleak winds seem I'M
reasonable after the promise of spring
which has been held out to US. But
there is a consolation. If it were warm
er the streets would be muddier, and
the memory Of their condition during
the recent thaws tempers the present
discomfort. 1t is decidedly uncomfort-
able to wear heavy furs again and to
brace oneself against the Wintry blasts,
but it is not bit worse than it would
be to founder over crossings ankle-deep
with slush and melting snow. For a
month or more on any sunny day it has
been practically impossible to make
ones way along the less travelled ave-
nues in the heart of the city, and even
at a crowded point like the corner of
Robert and Fifth streets, where thou
sands of people daily wait for the cars,
no efficient efforts have been made to
provide dry path. Women and children
returning home from errands down town
sit for half an hour in an electric train
with wet feet. and, when sickness follows,
wonder what is the matter with our
local STRENGTHENING department. The
lack Of an appropriation is the ex-
PLANTATION of the general neglect, but
this is not sufficient to apologize for
these conspicuous instances. In other
cities the crossings of the crowded
thoroughfares are swept BY private en-
terprise. which relies on the grateful
beneficiaries for its compensation. And
if the city hall authorities can not pay
for man and broom at such points.
they can at least persuade all ambitious
urchin or two to undertake the work on
their own hook. There is no doubt that
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
HUNTING QUAY.

Pennsylvania Reformed Repub~
Iicans DO Not Love Him.
PHILADELPHIA, March l5.-The Re-
form Republican league makes public
an address to the Republicans of Penn
syIvania, criticising the essential points
in Chairman Clarkson's defense of MIR.
Quay. recently issued, suggesting that
Mr.. Quay's seat in the senate, VOluu-
tarily vacated by him so constantly, is
in serious danger of an involuntary and
permanent REIMBURSEMENT and OF Occu-
patton by very different type of Re-
publican statesmen, not through ''Dem-
ocratic hostility" but because the Re-
publican voters of the Keystone state
desire fitting representation i'll the
United States senate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
Ole Olson

lOlal. ....-.s-... .-SH
This may seem to you people in the
city like a rather small and niggardly
gift in a case of such extreme deStitu-
ton, but you must remember this is IN
dependent of and in addition to the
thousands of bushels we have contribu-
ted for the same purpose during the last
twelve or fifteen years. Besides, this is
only a starter. Wait till you hear
from us again. ] tell you we
are in dead earnest. We mean
that these elevator combines shall
not starve to death if it takes the last
bushel of wheat we nave got to save
them. We have farmers elevator
here which has laid up the snug little
sum of 81, 200 as the profits of its bust
ness on a two-cent margin. Surely it
will never allow its sister corporations
to pine and die On a four-cent margin
without rushing to the rescue. We shall
call meeting of the board and vote a
liberal contribution at the earliest mo-
ment. No doubt the farmers ware
houses all over the state will be glad to
do the same thing. Meantime, keep the
ball rolling. Let the gocd,wOrklgo on.
Yours i'll the bonds of charity,
OLE OLSON.
P. S.-If the case is one of deSpera-
ton draw on the farmers elevator at
once for $500. o.! o!
Elbow Lake, March Is.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
Benny Is Hostile.

Detroit Free Press
The president, it seems, is about to
punish the wicked people of Venezuela,
Colombia, Nicaragua, Hayti, Honduras.
Mexico and the Philippine stands for
refusing to enter into reciprocal rela-
lions with US. The punishment takes
the form of increasing the price, to eg-
cry consumer in the United States. of
the mild coffees produced by the coun-
tries named. Whether the countries
will survive the infection is problem-
ati
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
Pr. Lyons. Local Forecast Official.
The Republican 7G-Cent Dollar.
New York World.

The Republican 70-Cent Dollar.
New York World.
An extraordinarily stupid or ordina-
rily dishonest Republican organ an
nounces that the Republican congress
men will today place their party on
record against the 7O-cent dollar"
Against it? Why. the Republican adj
ministration is Issuing, by virtue of
Republican law, more than S50,000,00
year of paper notes redeemable in 70
cent dollars. Under Republican law
the market is made for the entire silver
product of the country-a favor ex-
tended to no other American produc-
ton. And under this law both the
price of silver and the value Of the silver
dollar have steadily deprecated. Yet
the fools and the Pharisees of this party
Join in professions of hostility to the
'70-cent dollar" 1t recalls the aspira-
tlOn of the indignant versifier:
Oh! for forty -parson power
TO chant thy praise, Hypocrisy
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
r0nAY.s WEAIHER.

WASHINGTON. March 15-Foreeast for Min
nesota: Fair, followed by local SHOWS DUR
ing the afternoon or night; winds shifting 10
easterly; slightly warmer in the northwest
portion For Wisconsin: Fair; northerly
winds. South Dakota: Light SHOWS; east
erly winds; slightly warmer. North Dakota:
Light SHOWS by Thursday morning; easterly
WINDS slight rise in temperature. For Iowa:
Light local SHOWS; northeaster.y winds; no
change in temperature.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULT-
URE. WEATHER BUREAU. WASHINGTON, March
IS. Gas p m Local Time, p m. 18th Merld-
ian Time -ObseryatiOns taken at the same
moment of time NJ all stations.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
4 Marning.

Chicago Tribune.
The little boy picked himself out of
the puddle where his rude playmates
had thrown him. He wiped the mud
from his velvet trousers, his silk stock
ings. and his lace collar, and straight
ened out his long, golden curls as we'll
as their demoralized and bedraggled
condition would permit.
~ This" he SAID, bitterly, sis what
comes of being mammals little pet"