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St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27
WITH INTENT TO AMUsE.

A Growing Demand.-"They talk of
new creation of peers in England
For the export trade? e?'-Brooklyn
Life. m
In Sunday School.-The Teacher
What are the two things necessary to
baptism?
baby.-Life. a
The Landlady-Can you recommend
this turkey?
Marketman-I can, ma'am. With
careful usage, that bird will last you a
month-Life.
On the Safe Side.-President Roose-
velt (to would-be policeman)-Do you
drink? RI
O'Toole-No, Your Warship; nor eat
nuther.-New York Herald.
An upstate dairyman has put his
foot in it by naming a brand of butter
after New York's reform mayor
YonkerS Statesman.
Husband-What makes you go about
with that happy look on your face to-
night, my dear?
Wife-A good reason why. Only
think, l have made twenty calls and
everybody was out.-De Sobremesa.
A man named Simmons is said to
have declined to become the private
secretary of man named Green for a
peculiar reason. The salary was
tempting, and. the work would have
been light and agreeable, but, then, as
he said, he couldn't bear the thought
of signing letters: Green. per Sim
s''-Youth's Companion.
'"There's no use in trying to get
away from the solemn fact" said the
dreamy-eyed young man. THE new
woman is a most practical and unsoul-
full creature"
"What makes you think SOP"
81 told Miss Bogleigh that she had
inspired some of my best poems.''
"What did she say to that?"
Nothing She wrote to my publish
ers for a percentage of the royalties. >"
washington Star.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27

age, and clung to their whisky and
tobacco with all the "tenacity of
the devil fish"
More delightful, as a whole, is the
chapter on Balaam's experience. The
first sentence of this is a foretaste
and promise of the rest. Mrs STAN
ton, writing n-Balaam and his beast,
opens it thus: "The chief point of in
terest, in this parable of Balaam and
his ass, is that the latter belongad
to the female sex" We do not think
that anything more is necessary to
establish the title of these estimabfe'
ladies as the greatest humorists' OF
the day. Representatives of relig
ious and literary criticism at the
East should no more think of let
ting them feel the blighting spell Of
their displeasure than they should
of placing on their index eXpurga-
torius the works of Mark Twain
and Max O'Rell. The woman's Bible
is welcome CLEAN Of sunshine in a
weary world.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27
NIGHT RE OF VALUE.

The subsidence of the free silver
craze promises to give some value
to the meetings of what is called the
trans Mississippi commercial con-
gress. This body, as originally
formed, had for it's main purpose the
pushing of the campaign for free
silver. It was originated and en-
gineered by the promoters of the free
silver boom at time when there
seemed to be some prospect OF sue
cess. The underlying idea was to
organize the silver-producing states,
and those of their neighbors who
were in sympathy with them, as a
solid force to operate upon public
opinion and upon congress. 1t was
believed that so formidable an ag-
gregation of states and of votes
would be able to make its demands
needed. So, in all previous meet
ings of the trans Mississippi associa-
ton, little has been heard on any
SUBJECT SdN Z lIIt 1lSC SOlllSIoS ON sAA
yer. 1t has represented the Col
orado idea" How slender the sue
cess of it's achievements, we all
know.
There is no reason, however, why
such an organization, like the i'm
migration convention recently held
in st. Paul, should not become per-
manent, and be of practical value to
the states concerned in it. They
have large interests in common.
Their wants are best understood by
their own people, and the advance
ment of agriculture and business can
be promoted by discussion and har-
mony of action among them. The
| present session of the congress
shows signs of reason in the willing
ness of members to consider other
subjects than the free coinage of sill
yer. Of course, that still plays a
considerable part The delegates
from the mountain states would not
feel themselves at home in any body
where they did not raise the free
silver standard on high at every op-
portunity. But this year, for the
first time, they are also engaged
upon other topics. The diversiff-
cation of industry in the country be-
tween the Mississippi and the Rocky
mountains is under consideration.
This is large enough to occupy the
attention of the congress, and good
results might be brought about by
a systematic study of means to pro-
mote immigration, of the need and
possibility of irrigating arid lands,
and of the introduction of a larger
range of farm products. When the
Mississippi association conde-
scends to apply itself to these hum
| BILE questions, it gives promise Of
understanding the only mission that
| it can ever have. It's willingness to
| do this is one more addition to the
accommodating proof that the free sill
yer question is on the verge Of dis
| appearing.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27

who argued for the legitimacy of the
methods of the trust, claiming it to
be indeed a great public benefactor.
They, possibly, took their cue from
the remark of a prominent Republic
an. who said that these trusts and
combinations were largely private af-
fairs, with which neither congress
nor the president had any concern.
But the courts held with the attorney
general and decreed the dissolution
of the trust. The trust obeyed, even
claiming credit for the alacrity with
which it yielded. Then it went over
into New Jersey and reincorporated.
Then came the tobacco trust. mod
eled after the whisky trust, and lay
ing its net over the dealers in tobacco,
making sales to them conditional on
their buying of no other, and refusing
to sell to them in case of violation.
This trust thought to avoid the New
York law by organizing under the
complaisant laws of New Jersey, haV-
ing it's offices and doing business in
New York city Now comes Attor-
ney General Hancock-this time Re
publican-and permits suit to be
brought in his name to restrain this
trust from doing business in that
state. And, in his opinion granting
leave, he lays down propositions that
no court will deny. The time may
come, if the attorneys general OF the
states get to be ideal officers, when
a trust will find it as difficult to find
a place to do business as Corbett
and that kind have found to get
place for a fist fight.
Not undeserving of his need of
praise is the attorney general OF our
own state, who insisted on trying
conclusions in the recent great rail-
way case. Believing that the stat
utes prohibited the consolidation of
the railway lines between which an
agreement was to be made, and that
this prohibition was unaffected by
any right previously conferred, he
insisted that the law as he under
stood it should be tried in the courts,
and the trial court sustained him. In
all these cases it would have been
much easier to let matters drift
along. Any one of these attorneys
general might easily have believed
that his political path would be
smoother if he did not display too
much activity. 1t is to their credit
that they felt their highest duty to
be to the laws whose enforcement
depends so considerably upon their
earnestness and activity. 1t is also
another illustration of the old, but
ever new, proposition that what the
nation and the state and the city
need is not more law, but an undls-
eliminating and resolute enforce
ment.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27
FIRE DEPARTMENT FUNDS.
Unprecedented Condition of FL
nances at the YEARS. Close.

Unprecedented Condition of FL
nances at the YEARS. Close.
The board of fire commissioners, at
it's regular meeting last night, ap-
proved the delinquent pay rolls of
the fire department for the unpaid
salaries due the firemen for Novem-
ber, 1894, and for the 10 per cent due
on the salaries of July, August, Sep
tember, October and November, 1893
The total amount of the arrearages
due is, according to the secretary's S
account, SS,59S.3S. OF this sum,
$1,503 63 is the amount due for serv-
ices rendered in November, 1894, or,
in other words, 10 per cent of the en-
tire pay roll for that month. The
amount due for the five months of
1893 is $7,O94.75. These pay rolls will
be approved by the council, and as
soon as the certificates of indebt
edness are sold in accordance with
the resolution of the council, in
structing the comptroller and mayor
to issue them, the comptroller will
audit the pay rolls, and the firemen
will receive the pay due them.
The report of the secretary of the
fire board developed a pleasing and
unprecedented financial condition.
With the close of the fiscal year,
which ends Nov. 80, 1895, the fire de-
partment will have a surplus on
hand of $9,443.7S, and all salaries and
bills paid up to date. Out of the
S215, 900 allowed the department in the
tax estimate, it actually. received
$211, ,7S7.76 and expended $2O2, ,343.9S,
leaving the balance already named.
This is a great Improvement over
the situation year ago, when the
department owed all of it's employees
one-tenth of their November salaries
and had a balance on hand amount
ing to little more than $4,000.
Owing to the considerable amount
saved out of this years fund, the
board purchased a stock of hay and
oats sufficient to supply the depart
ment until next May or June. The
bills for these supplies are included
in the November account. The No
vember pay roll, amounting to Sl4,-
1881, was passed, and bills agSre-
eating $6,7S474 were approved.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27
TAKE 1T TOO SERIOUSLY.

1t is astonishing how many peo-
pie there are who are unable to ap-
preciate the most excellent of jokes.
Here we learn that religious and So
cial circles in New York are much
exercised over the appearance of the
first part of the woman's Bible. They
find it full of criticism of Biblical char
acters, and the criticism is not of the
German school, either. 1t is distinct
ly American and feminine. The way
that Mrs. Stanton and her associates
knock the patriarch around and pull
the hair of Moses and his successors
is shocking to them. 1t is said that
the Christian women who have lent
their names and approval to the
woman's Bible project are disgusted
with the result, and ready to with
draw their support. We think, on
the contrary, that they have assisted
to perform a very valuable service.
For one thing, they have added
something to the gayety of ma
tions, at no time an inconsiderable
service The most careworn man or
woman cannot spend half an hour
over the pages of the woman's Bible
without rising refreshed. Here is
something absolutely unique. There
is no break in the humor of it. Not
for a moment do the enthusiastic
editors lapse into an interval of
common sense. From the opening
chapter, which asserts that woman,
as a sex, is represented in the Trim
ity, without assigning to her her par
ticular certificate of membership,
down through the Mosaic law to the
end, it is continual entertainment
and delight. Where there is so much
| to tighten the labors of working age,
it is impossible to do any justice by
quotation. There are two bright and
| shining gems, however. One is the
comment on the act of taking the
calf. This, says Mrs. Stanton, is a
| type of the way men have always
acted. 1t was just so, she adds, at
the Boston tea party, in the begin
ming of the American revolution. The
| wretches, whom history has called
patriots, threw overheard tea, which
| constitutes woman's favorite bever-
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27
EARTH SAVED HIM.
Elevator Shaft, but Escapes Sc
FiOuS Injury.


Officer John CoWan fell thirty feet
down an elevator shaft last night
and did not break a bone. About
$50 the officer was trying the doors
of the Hallowell wagon factory, 499
Minnesota street. He had crossed a
sort of bridge which connects the
paint shop with the second story of
the main factory. He placed one
hand on door of the main building
In the other hand he held his Ian
tern. Turning the knob he uneX-
pectedly opened the door. He moved
forward and stepped heavily upon
thin air, plunging thirty feet down
ward to the basement of an elevat-i
or shaft. The floor was of soft
earth, and he was therefore saved
from serious injury. After a while
he even recovered his breath. He
could not escape, for the only door
was bolted on the outside. After an
hour of useless effort, during which
he whistled several times in reply
to his sergeant's whistle on the
street above, Cowan began firing his
revolver. The reports were heard
by a passer-by. Sergeant Ross was
notified, and the basement door was
speedily opened Cowan was taken
to his home at 432 Western avenue,
and attended by DR.. Quinn. The
later found that the patrolman had
broken no bones, but was severely
shocked. 1t is hoped that no internal
injuries will develop
Officer Cowan met with another
painful accident last spring, when he
became entangled in coil of wire
charged with electricity.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27
DIR. JoHNsoS,s TRIAL.
Jury Selected md Examination
of Witnesses Begun.

Slow progress was made yesterday
in the trial of DIR. John f. Johnson,
charged with manslaughter for having
caused the death of Clara Bergh
through a criminal operation. The
statement in yesterdays G o b e that
two indictments were pending against
Johnson was erroneous. There is only
one Indictment. but there are two
counts.
The jurors selected are Otto Luserke,
James B. Mitchell, George p. Harper,
John B. Hartsink, j. Henry Probst,
Duard w. Morgan, Nicholas Lor!g,
Harry c. Judson, Frank e. Hall, Peter
III. Sims, Paul d. Neff, Charles T.
Mueller.
The first witness called was Mrs.
Mary II. Bergh, the aged and decrepit
mother of the dead girl She said she
has lived in st. Paul forty-two years.
Clara was nearly twenty-seven years
of age at the time of her death. When
she left home on the morning of June
II last she said she was going to Mar
tel, Wis, to have an operation per-
formed for female weakness, and
would be back in a week. Witness had
seen DR.. Johnson several times. Had
seen him on the morning after the
girls death, when he went to her
house. On that occasion he denied hav-
ing seen The girl
Lilly Walton, Clara's sister, identi-
fled a photograph of her dead sister
that was taken about eight years ago.
James Aldrich, night clerk at the
Astoria hotel, testified that on the
night of June II DR.. Johnson brought
a woman to the hotel at II o'clock and
registered as 20. Johnson and wife"
They were assigned to the same room.
The photograph was shown witness
and he was asked if that was a picture
Of the woman he had seen with the de-
fendant ON that occasion. He could
not tell. The only resemblance he
could recall was that she had a thin
face like that shown in the picture.
On cross-eXamination, witness said he
was positive defendant registered as
80, Johnson and wife" The land
wife, had not been written in next day
in another handwriting.
Emile Constant, proprietor of the
Globe hotel, testified to having seen
Clara Bergh at his hotel on June 1S,
when she went there with Lowe. He
ndu never seen neT again awe, DuC
saw the body when it was carried out
after her death on July 5.
The next piece of evidence was the
court reporters transcript of DR.. john
sons testimony at the coroner's in
quest. The defense did not object to
the introduction of this. The principal
point CT interest in it was the admis-
sion of Johnson that he and the girl
had occupied the same room at the
Astoria hotel on the night of June. II,
and that he had a certain instrument
with him; that he had prescribed a
particular kind of medicine for the girl
on a previous occasion, but when she
informed him of her condition the
morning after they had stopped at the
Astoria, he had told her not to use that
medicine any more.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27
NICARAGUA CANAL REPORT.

If the forecast that has been pub
lished Of the report of the Nicaragua
canal commission is authentic, the Sc
verest blow which it has yet received
will have been dealt to the most
gigantic scheme of this generation
for plundering the treasury in the
interest of a strong combination of
promoters and other spectators.
These men have succeeded singu-
larly we'll from the beginning in
using the commercial arguments in
favor of the Nicaragua canal to blind
the people to their private scheme;
which was to secure a government
guarantee of bonds, with big bonus
to themselves. Men of both parties
have been caught by their specious
pretenses, and it looked at one time
as if the canal subsidy scheme would
go through. in spite of protest or de-
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27

have never sung in my own country as
yet, and | am anxious that my own
people should hear me-
Her concert tour has been success
full beyond the most sangutle expecta-
tons, remarked her manager, Mr.. Ell
lis, as the noted diva turned to examine
a large bundle of letters and packages
which had just been sent up to her
from the office, land while the tour has
been a hard one, owing to the long dis
tanceS covered between dates, yet the
splendid audiences, and the wonderful
ovations which they rendered Nine.
Melba and her company, have made
travelling and concert giving pleasure.
In all of the large cities so enthusiastic
has been her reception that whenever
it was possible we have returned. In
Chicago two concerts have been given,
and we go there again from the Twin
Cities for Monday evening. We started
in by giving four concerts per week,
but after a fortnight's trial, we found
that in view of the vast amount of
work which would be expected of Nine.
Melba before the end of her Paris and
London engagements, ii would be nee
essary to save her strength as much as
concerts a week. Mile. Carlotta Des-
Vignes, a noted Eastern mezzo-Soprano,
will arrive in the morning and will
make her debut in the evening in the
aria from Samson and DELLA and
will sing the role of Martha in the act
of Faust which we present on some
of our programmes" The evening s
programme will be:
Tampa" ............. Herold
Orchestra.
Aria from Samson ct Delila"-
Saint-SaenS
Mile Desvignes.
Prologue-'I Pagliacci'' -. .Leoncavallo
Sig. Campanari.
Cavatina-"Nobil Signor" NeS
Huguenots) ................. Meyerbeer
Nine. Scalchi.
Aria from La RENE de Saba" .Gounod
Sig. D'Aubigne.
Mad Scene, from Lucia" ....Don1zetti
Nine. Melba.
Aria-"Barber of Seville" Rossini
Sig. Campanari.
Overture-"William Tell .......R Rossini
Orchestra.
Aria-"Ah fors e Lui' (''Trav-
ia'a Nine Meiba. '''''''' ' e' III
Aria-"Che Faro" ("Orpheus''). .Gluck
Nine. Scalchi.
Aria-La Donne Mobile ........ Verdi
Sig. D'Aubigne.
WaltZ-"Se Saran Rose" .......... .Ardlt
Nine. Melba.
DanSe Des Bacchantes C'Phile-
mon ct BauciS'O O............... .Gounod
Orchestra.
Quartette, from ''Rigoletto''.. 80. Verdi
Mesdames Melba, Scalchi, Signori
D'Aubigne and Campanari.
Conductor. ................L Landon Ronald
Stage Manager. Sig. Rigo
-(The programme is subject to slight
changes
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27
AID. MURPHy7s VIEWS.
He Has Some Pronounced Ideas
on Lighting.

Aid. Murphy has some ideas on the
not attend the adjourned meeting of
the board of aldermen called to con-
slider that subject. 1t was almost the
first time in his official career that the
aldermen from the Ninth ward had
missed meeting. When asked his
opinion OF the resolutions concerning
the lighting question. Aid. Murphy said:
.'If | had been on hand last evening
| would have supported the Brady res
olution, as being the wisest and most
practicable scheme yet proposed in this
matter of street lighting. My idea is
that this matter should be first coclsiG-
cred by the board of public works, which
is in position to consider the subject
intelligently. The members know where
all the street lamps are located, and
what lamps should be discontinued.
They are in session daily. and their in
innate knowledge of the whole ques-
tiog makes it most appropriate that
they pass upon it.
"I believe the new concern should be
afforded every opportunity to do our
lighting and should be given all encour-
agement. as being heavy investors in
a ST. Paul venture. | don't know who
the parties are. but they have put their
money into this investment, and, if
they show disposition to do the fair
thing by us on the lighting question, 1
for one would be disposed to bid them
Welcome"
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27
JUBILEE SINGERS.
Second Concert of Giazier's Or
@anizalicm Given Last Night.

Second Concert of GiaZier's Or
ganizmliom Given Last Night.
Glaciers jubilee singers gave very
enjoyable concert at the Atlantic Cen
gregational church, Conway street and
Bates avenue, last night. The COM
pany consists OF eight persons, who
give both vocal and instrumental
music. The former consists chiefly of
plantation melodies, which are always
enjoyed. Some very acceptable solo
work was also given by Miss Bertha
Reynolds, contralto; W. P. Payne, bar
itone, and C. A. Hughes, tenor. The
instrumental work was of a great vari-
ETY.. and included selections upon the
autoharps, mandolins and guitars. G..
w. Watkins is a very clever ventTilo-
auist, and his part of the evenings
entertainment was enthusiastically re-
ceived by the audience. Each inGivid-
ual member of the aggregation is
skilled, both in vocal and instrumental
work, and the programmes contain a
pleasing variety.
The company will give thirteen more
concerts in st. Paul, appearing tonight
at the Arlington Hills Presbyterian
church.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-27
ANDREWS HAS FRIENDS.
The Young Man in Jail IL Former
State Official.


F. M. Andrews, the young man from
Alexandria, Douglas county, arrested
at Fargo and held in the county Jail
here awaiting trial on the charge of
selling a mortgaged bicycle, was at one
time am employe in the office of the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton, and later had an appointiVe Office
in the legislature Fred Won Baumbach,
of Alexandria, eX-secretary of state, is
said to be his uncle, and the young
mans wife and child are now being
cared for in Mr.. Won Baumbach's home.
Several months ago Andrews came TO
st. Paul, and applied to Sam Fullerton,
executive agent of the game and fish
commission, for a warden's commission
He brought with him a very cordial
letter of recommendation from Knute
Nielsen, United States senator, and Mr..
Fullerton issued the commission
without question. Andrews said that
he intended to make a tour of the state
on a wheel, and thought that he could
do the commission some important SER
vice. He had been a warden and knew
how to manage the business, and being
interested in the protection of game
and fish, was willing to do all that he
could to see the law enforced
Instead of going about the state,
Andrews returned at once to Alexan-
dria and began acting as warden, try
ing to cut out the old warden at that
place. In a short time he was notified
that that would not do, and that the
commission would be revoked unless
he was more careful. Andrews then
mounted his wheel and started over the
state. While travelling over the state
he mortgaged his bicycle and is now
charged with having sold it.
Andrews is very bright fellow, and
has had many warm friends over the
state. No satisfactory explanation is
offered for his lapse.