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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10

ence between keeping OF losing our
holdings or homes.
If we are to judge by the signs of i'm
provement now noticeable, it may be
possible to sell lot or get accommoda-
ton at the banks by the time the pay
ment of the assessment in question can
in reason be called for. which all know
is not now the case. write in the in.
terest of our citizens and the holders of
Manchester property; some of whom feel
that an effort should be made to stay
the Onerous collection till the work is
completed. IL. A. BREWSTER,
President Citizens Union.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10
Soldiers Home Report.

Yesterday Secretary Beebe. of the
Minnesota soldiers home, issued his
financial report for August, making the
following showing: Home Building
Expended, S17,694.26; balance undraWn,
SIS, 1887. Home Repairs Expended,
S1S5.0S; balance undrawn. SS16.12 Home
Support-EXpended, S5.I60.7s; balance
undrawn, S16,2l3.22, Home Relief-Ex-
pended, S2,0S5.25; balance undrawn.
$50. 1925. Temporary relief was granted
4Sl applicants, amounting to S2.5l5.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10
FAILED IN THEIR MISSION.
Dakota County Real Estate As
seSsment Must Stand.

A large delegation of Dakota county
citizens headed by County Auditor
Tautges was before the state board of
equal zatlOn Yesterday with the request
that the real estate assessment of that
county be reduced. Under the law
real estate assessments can be- equal
lied but once in two years. and, as this
is not the year, the board was powerless
to grant the request of the Dakota
county contingent.
The board has completed its consider
alton OF horses. cattle and musical in
struments. The general assessment is
considered to be fair, and the board
found occasion to make but few changes.
In some counties the assessment of
horses and cattle was raised from 20 to
30 per cent.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10
DRAINAGE CONTRACT.
Isaac W. Webb Will Do Work i
the Rad Riunn NnIou

Isaac W. Webb Will Do Work ia
the Red River Valley.
The Red river drainage commission
met yesterday afternoon at the gov
ernor's office to open bids AMI award
the contract for excavating and opening
the mouths Of the Tamarac and Sand
Hill rivers. According to the engineers
estimate there are 100000 cubic feet of
material to be removed. But as all the
appropriation is not available at once,
it has been decided to take out 100000
cubic feet this year, and the remaining
100000 by Aug. 1, 1894. The engineer
finds that with 100000 feet taknn out
both rivers can be tapped and the spring
overflow avoided. But. to get the chan
mel down to reliable depth, 100000
feet more must come out. The bids and
award were as follows:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10
'ramarac Sand Hill

The contract was awarded to WeDb,
he to give bond of $4,000. If the bond
is not furnished by Saturday the award
will be cancelled and the contract given
to the next lowest bidder. The contract
requires that at least 500, 900 yards snail
be completed by Jan. l, and the balance
of the work, amounting to about 200. 900
yards, must be completed by Aug. l,
1894.
The commission adjourned to meet on
the call of the secretary.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10

the city clergy will take part in the diff
ferent meetings., delivering addresses
appropriate to the occasion. Mrs. h.
E. Webster, the president of the Cen
trail w. G. 7. u, will deliver the ad-
dress of welcome Tuesday evening.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10
THE ST. PAUL DIVINE WRITES PITHu Y
OF THE FRENCH CITY
IT'S FEATURES AND FAULTS.

Contrast of English and French
Manners-A Glimpse Into the
Music Halls-Beauties OF the
City Noted - Churches and
Scenes Far From Their Ln-
fuence.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10

Preparations Under Way for OBJ
serving Temperance Sunday
Labor Day Sabbath-SermOns
Announced by Leading Pas
tors on Subjects Of Present In
terest.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13
BRIGHT BITS.

Williamson-Did the man you bought that
mule from say that he wouldn't kick?
Henderson-No; but he would have said so
II 1 had asked him.-Brooklyn Life.
Doctors Wife (anxiously) I send for
Physician-No. I have given myself up,
and he may possibly lind me at fault.-Har-
per's Weekly
Camera Fend, lat the worlds fair)-I won
der why these foreign heather get so mad
when take snap shots at them.
Candid Friend Perhaps they have
seen some Of your pictures OF other people
Street & Smiths Good News.
What do you think of this idea of using
firearms In musical Accomplishments? said
the young man to her father. 1T is good
one" was the emphatic answer. THE next
time any seTenader comes around this sway
I'm going to try it myself. '-WashtngtO
Star.
1.-THE electric launches are the most remark
able things at the worlds fair, said Pitts
burger who had just returned.
They are the only thing which are
charged. Everything else is cash-Washing-
He-Do you mind stoppin' bit, now2
get rather glddy, don Cherknow.
She-But if you get giddy, why do you come
to dancesl
He-Well, I'm a bachelor and that sort of
thing and it's the only way l can see Of payin'
spitality.-Londop Punch.
Mrs Watts-I believe Mr.. Oldbatch's de-
hesitation of babies Is all affectation. He sat
| by one in the car yesterday that cried for
| half an hour ana actually seemed to enjoy it.
rs Mrs! Potts-Of course he enjoyed il. He
| hates them so that he Is delighted to see one
| in sery.-Indianapolis Journal.
Druggist--Dtd you take that salve around
| to Mr.. Jeffries?
| Pat-I did an brought il back agin.
Druggist-What the matter?
Pat-'TwaS the wrong number. The man
| that lives there has salve for sale himself.
He has the soign on his dure Mat-Judge.
Eugene Field says: II am going to write a
sentimental life of Horace We know
mighty little of him. but what 1 don't know
I'll make up. I'll write such a life as he must
have lived As Mr.. Field is the poet who
describes Horace as painting Rome red and
then leaving Maecenas to pay the freight"
we have no doubt of his ability to do full JUS
tice to his subject But we re sorry for Hor-
! ace.-Ro chester Post Express.
statesman from New York was indulging
in little social relaxation. The lady with
whom he was conversing undertook to give
the convers alton a little life by the remark
/ Don't you think Burns poetry is beauti-
tulYi + s+
shade of naughty Indignation swept over
his face, but he answered gently:
Mr.. Byrues, madam is superintendent of
policemen a poet Washington Star.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13
Great Fortunes Honestly mada.

There is a popular fallacy among I'M
thinking people to the effect that the av-
erage span of human life is too short for a
man, by his own efforts, to amass honestly
a fortune as great as or greater than
81, 600 900. And the man who is the pos
SCISSOR of millions is accordingly regarded
with suspicion, merely because he is ex-
ceptionally rich. He stole it; he made
other people poorer by his thrift; his
gains were ill-gotten," are expressions
frequently heard when some wealthy
mans name is mentioned in connection
with his enormous possessions.
Fifty years or so ago, when modern in
ventions were unknown, there might have
been some reason in saying the average
life was too short in which to make a
million dollars by individual effort with
out resorting to dishonest practices. But
at the present day there is no reason in
any such assertion. In this age of activity
and advanced methods the possibilities of
legitimate fortune building are almost
limitless. The shrewd and tactful for
tune builder ceases to depend upon his
individual efforts when he has gathered
$1,000 or $4,000; he employs another man
to help him. And when his fund has
grown to S25, 900 he employs half dozen
maybe twenty-fve-me in his business.
He takes no advantage of them; he fur
nishes them employment at mutually
agreeable wages, and they furnish him
with their labor, the fruits of which are
his by purchase.
AS the owner of S25, 900 of capital and
the employer of twenty-five men, the
fortune builder is on the road to be a
millionaire, provided opportunity and
health do not desert him. Who can
truthfully say the travelling of such a
road is not strictly honorable}
Examples of immense fortunes built by
honest industry are plentiful. There was
John Stephenson, the car-builder, who
died the other day He began life work
ing for 81 a week, and died a multi-mil-
lionaire; yet no breath of suspicion could
possibly attach to John Stephenson.
Thomas A. Edison is another millionaire
who has made his millions honestly.
George w. Childs has amassed millions
during his lifetime, and there is not a
person who would impute to him an i'm
pure motive, much less a dishonest act.
These, however, are but instances illus
trating the possibilities of the age There
are, as matter of fact, thousands Of very
rich men in this country whose wealth is
the result of Intelligent and honest in
dustry. In America to-day mans fort
une is limited by his ability and by OPP
portunity- else.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13
The swinburne Island Cases.

There is no fear in New York appar-
emily that the cholera will gain foothold
in that city. The cholera cases at Swim
burne Island do not attract much atten-
tion for the reason that it is confidently
believed that the quarantine authorities
will be able TO keep the disease out of the
city. They are certainly extremely vigi-
liant in the discharge of their duties
Only three or four of the ten persons al
the Swinburne Island hospital suspected
of having the cholera have been found to
be suffering from that disease There
was one death from cholera at the hos
pital on Thursday afternoon.
The vessel that brought the cholera
into New York harbor is the tramp
steamer Karamania. The quarantine of
ficer suspected that as she was from
Naples, where there are now about a do
zen deaths day from cholera, she
might have the disease on board, and an
Investigation strengthened the suspicion
There had been two or three deaths dur
ing the voyage, but an effort was made to
convey the impression that they were not
caused by cholera The quarantine of
ficer, however, determined to be on the
safe side and he held the steamer in quar-
arantine. IT was fortunate that he did.
II he had been less cautious the cholera
would have got into New York.
Last year the cholera did not make its
appearance in New York harbor until
Aug. 3D. the date of the arrival of the
| steamer Moravia, on which vessel there
| had been twenty-five deaths during the
voyage. Other vessels with cholera on
board followed soon afterwards. A good
deal of alarm was caused, principally be-
cause the quarantine authorities were
not prepared to take care of cholera pa
tients and the passengers and immigrants
taken from cholera infected ships. They
are better prepared now, and there is not
likely to be any such alarm as there was
last year.
There is not great deal of danger tC
| be apprehended from cholera by cities
that are clean, have good sewerage sys-
tens and pure water. In an article in
the last number of the Cosmopolitan Mr.
Poultney Bigelow says that Berlin has
been rendered practically cholera proof
by her system of sewerage, which makes
it impossible virtually for the drinking
water of the city to become contaminated
or diseases that thrive where there is
filth to gain permanent hold.
The municipal authorities of the cities
of this country should see to it that toe
drinking water of their respective cities
is pure, and that proper attention is giver
to the disposal of sewerage. There is nc
| cholera in the country now, except at the
! Swiuburne Island hospital, and there are
! good reasons for thinking there will be
none this year, but it will do no harm tc
beprepared for it if it should get through
our quarantine.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13
PERSONAL.

DIT N. A. Check. of orange county. Y C..
+ D. one 81 the most successful business men Ia
f sam. Among the other possessions which
I ne mas Accumulated s. hcr1 ~ l26 elephants,
worth an average 90 si,1O apiece.
George G Perkins. now representing Cali
I iornia IN the United states senate as success
] sor 70 the late Senator stanford ran away
! from MS native Maine whoa boy, TO serve
] before the mast on a small sailing vessel.
Daniel Webster used 20 he fond Of draughts.
The widow Of ex- Speaker Linn Boyd Of Ken
lucky says than when in Washington he often
! VISITED her husband. and that they would
play the dreary game Of checkers steadily
H9uf alter hour, sometimes TIL after mid
/ night"
Barnes Greeley the only surviving brother
OF Horace Greeley, lives at the age Of seventy
nine years, on the Old Greeley homestead at
ChappaQua. He is described by a recent lady
visitor as tall, loosely jointed shamblng of
gait, with snowy hair and beard, mild blue
eyes peaceful Yisage, and tongue that is the
covered.
A Philadelphia physician who died the
other day left will containing some queer
provisions, including this one: "If my family
never settled with Mr.. Foster concerning the
DOG wish and want them to give to the boy
roster, VINO was bit. the sum OF $40; but II
they have settled with the said Foster, then
ms is IN fulhllment of a promise l made to
them when was in trouble concerning the
dog
Congressman W. C. P. Breckenridge, of
Kentucky, talking about public speakers the
other day said; Il used to think that the
late senator Beck. of my state. was the fast
est speaker on earth. We once spoke to-
gether In Kentucky Beck spoke an hour
while talked straight ahead for forty min
utes. In the published reports my speech
was half column longer than his. In ten
minutes Beck could say more than any living
man but in an hours talk l was nearly 80 per
cent. the faster"
Prince Yorihito, near relative of the Mi
kado Of Japan, viii arrive at Vancouver, B.
c. on the steamer Empress Of China in a few
days. The Canadian government has instruc-
ted Lieutenant Holmes, the commander of
Battery G, TO fire a royal salue when the
steamer sails into the bay and otherwise
tender the visitor all military honors. The
prince will spend few days in Vancouver,
and then he will go direct to Washington. AS
he Is travelling as prince. and not as a prt-
vate persons, Yorihito brings with him a full
suite of seventeen people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13

The business men Of Savannah have
stated frankly, plainly, and strongly 10
I the senator's and representatives from
/ Georgia what they think ought 70 be done
. to remove the distrust that is now para
/ living all kinds Of business. Their views
are set forth in the resolutions that
/ were adopted yesterday at a Joint meet
ing Of the board of trade and the cotton
| exchange. The resolutions contain all
/ that is necessary to be said, and the con
/ gressmen from Georgia will have no
trouble in understanding from them what
the business men of Savannah want them
to do
In word, the Georgia senator's and rep
resentatives are asked to support the
Presidents recommendation, which is
that the Sherman silver-purchase law
| shall be promptly and unconditionallyr re
pealed. That recommendation, if carried
out, would restore confidence and make
currency easy to obtain at low rates Of
interest.
There is no indication in
the resolutions that the bust
ness men of Savannah are hostile
W 0lANCIs Inc JHltIEutC lEOlH bilb EGSOIu-
tions is that they understand that the
silver question will have to be settled,
and that they want it settled, but that
they do not believe it can be wisely settled
if its settlement is made dependent upon
the repeal of the Sherman silver law.
They think the silver law should be re
pealed promptly, because the condition of
the business and industrial interests of
the country is such that its repeal is i'm
peratively demanded, and that after that
is done the silver question can
be considered calmly and dispassion-
'ately and settlement of it
reached that will be generally
accepted and approved In the meantime,
the purchase of silver having been stopped,
distrust would disappear and business
would move along in its accustomed chan
nels and in its usual volume This pro-
gramme seems so reasonable and wise
that business men cannot easily under
stand why it does not meet with instant
favor from all congressman who are
sincerely DESTROYS of doing what is best
for the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13

There arr different views as 20 what has
] become Of tho currency. That there is q
currency famine there is odoubt Their,
/ is no lack Of currency iu the country
/ The per capita amount that is outstaud-
J ing is greater than that Of any other
I country in the world except France, and
/ France needs larger amount than any
/ other country because she has not q very
/ satisfactory system Of checks and drafts.
There is an impression in New York
| that great many millions Of dollars are
/ locked up in country banks. These banks
! have been afraid that they would be
| called on suddenly by depositors for their
! money and therefore have prepared for
! such an emergency. No doubt the country
banks have a very large amount of cur
rency on hand, but the main reason why
currency is scarce is that the people are
boarding it. Their unwlse course is
making it extremely difficult TO carry on
business.
The New York Sun suggests a way to
put an end to the famine. 1t is this
Let the Secretary of the Treasury an
nounce that he win accept 'offers of
United States bonds, and pay for them in
gold to the amount required for the sink
ing fund during the past fiscal year, or
say, S4S, 900, 000" If this announcement
were made the Sun thinks the currency
would leave its hiding places at once
Attention is called to the fact that the IA
nous gold corner of BLACK Friday
memory was broken by the sale by the
government of $4,000, 600 in gold, and the
announcement that it stood ready to sell
$50, 600, 900 more.
The plan suggested by the Sun would
answer if there were a corner in cur
rency, just as there was corner in gold.
Only few people held gold when the
government broke the corner in it in 1869,
and they held it for speculation. The
currency famine is caused almost wholly
by the boarding of currency in all parts of
the country, and the boarding is due to
distrust. If the government should pay
out $4S 900, 900 or any other large amount
of currency for bonds the money strin-
gency would be greatly relieved, but the
only way to get the boarded currency into
circulation is to remove the distrust, and
that can be done only by legislation Con-
gress knows what kind of Legislation is
needed, and the people are anxiously
waiting for it to act.
The financial depression began about
Jan. l, and since that time there has been
an increase in the currency of about $685.
1000, and during the next week or two
there will be still further increase of a
good many millions of dollars The in
crease that is in sight is having a good
effect, as shown by the decline in the pre-
MUM on currency in New York
The announcement that congress will
take vote on the bill to repeal the Sher-
man silver purchase law has created a bet
ter feeling, but an'announcement that the
law would be repealed in three or four
days would have infused new life into
business.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13

The man with The uogligee shirt was talk
ing Of hard luck says The Buffalo Express.
Its just this way" he said: when things
get 10 going against YOU there's DO stopping
them. Luck and hard luck run In strcaks
with every man and when things get 20 com
ing your way there's no stopping them any
more than there is when they get 10 going
against you.
AS an illustration let me tell you Of an OK
perlenCe / had. About three wears ago ! he
gan 10 have hard luck. I lost everything 1
had one way or another, and got into all sorts
of trouble. Finally landed in Richmond,
Va, stone broke, without a friend TO whom
/ could apply for aid and nothing ahead OF
me but turn on the roads as tramp. l
could get nothing TO do ia Richmond and
started out TO tramp up north.
1t was hot as Tophet. I tramped along
DAY after day, sleeping on the ground and
stealing what l had to eat. which was not
much, let me assure you. One day | struck
Stony creek, which is in a wild part OF the
state. l followed up along the creek until l
reached Stone Mountain. and there l made a
discovery. / found an ice mine. 1t was fully
an acre in extent and the ice was as clear as
crystal l realized what the find meant and
after taking my bearings carefully made
my way back to Richmond.
1t didn't take me long 10 get some capital
lists interested in it, and we formed stock
company, with me as president, to work the
ice the next summer, II looked as if had a
fortune in my grasp.
Early the next summer we started to work
IL. put my hard luck came toddllng along ana
did me up. There wasn't month that sum
mer when we didn't have frost, and there
was absolutely no demand for ice. That
left me stranded again in worse shape than
before "
Il don't see why" put In the doubling
Thomas, who wore a broad-brimmed straw
hat. Why didn't you wait and work II the
next summer"
Il told you was in hard luck, didn't I?'
asked the man with the negl1gee shirt, Sc
Yerely, We'll, was. Although the summer
was cold the winter was so warm that 1t
melted every blamed bit OF the ice and left
nothing but pool of water there, which was
of no earthly use to anybody"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13
Story of a Great Lawyer.

THERE'S good story told on the Hon. Oscar
Turner" remarked a once prominent lawyer
and county judge of the interior of the state,
who is now a minister of the gospel says the
Louisville Journal,
They say" he continued that upon one
occasion, many years ago, he was engaged in
very important case IN one of the interior
counties. There was large array of legal
talent on each side and the case was being
fought bitterly. Soon after court opened one
morning, Col Turner was examining witness,
He asked a question to which the other side
objected and discussion at once ensued. The
opposition spoke at length against the asking
of the question; one off, Col. Turner's col
leagues replied in an equally
lengthy argument. Another of the
opposing counsel addressed ;the
court, and another of Col Turner's colleagues
responded When the latter had finished, q
third attorney for the opposition aired his
views on the subject, and was followed by
another of Col. Turner's fellow-lawyers. This
continued until the day was well S mt, and
all parties were worn out All duri = the ar
guInent Col. Turner, who had asked the Ques-
ton, sat in silence, paying close attention to
the speakers, but taking no part whatever in
the discussion. Finally, about or O'Clock
in the afternoon, the presiding judge decided
that the question was proper one, and might
be asked.
NOW, Col Turner said he, you may put
your question to the witness
oh responded Col. Turner rousing him
self, L have forgotten 1t now, Judge. 1t was
not important, anyway"