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St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
1oNA,s CONSTITUTIONAL sNAG.

Gov. Jackson, of Iowa, is of the
same mind with the accommodating
and versatile Tim Campbell, and be-
lieves with him that the constitution
should not be permitted to ''come be-
chune frinds." Having railway COM
missioner to appoint, he selected Judge
Mccoy, 6, district judge of that state,
for the place. Thereupon it was dis
covered that the constitution contained
clause declaring that such officer
''shall be ineligible to any other office
during the term for which he was
elected" The Register, equally COM
plaisant in matters between friends,
thinks this little provision no barrier,
and construes it as only prohibiting a
judge from holding any other Office
at the same time he holds the judicial
place. Absurd as this construction is,
the loyal organ stoutly argues for it.
It's reasoning is a curious illustra-
tion of the speciousness of men when
some awkward obstacle contravenes
their purposes. If the clause is thus
to be interpreted, argues this apollo
gist, it might keep good men from
accepting judgeships." Why and how?
Because men naturally hesitate to dis
qualify themselves from officehoIding
for four years." Is judgeship in
Iowa. then, not considered an office?
And is it the Iowa republican idea Of
a good man" that he would refuse
to serve as judge because it might
interfere with his getting some other
office? Or are the suitable men for
| railway commissioners so scarce that
judge must be obliged to perform
the duties Of the two offices?
Then there is the same argument
that was made here recently; that the
term of legislators ends with their
resignation. The Register is more in
clined to this view because the de-
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LTFE,s soLITUDEs.

In several of the farm papers that
come to our exchange table there
nave appeared editorials on farm life
IN which the solitariness Of it was
admitted and lamented; but thew
nave sought to offset this by showing
the other compensations of such life
It's independence, it's freedom and IFS
unconventionalities One of the rea.
sons assigned for the movement from
the farm to the town and city is this
solitude, this segregation of farm life
The town and city, it is assumed
bring closer social contact and give
satisfaction for the gregarious in
stincts Of man.
we think our contemporaries, whose
editors are city men, view the SUBJ
ject of life on the farm effectively in
stead Of subjectively. They write OF
1t as 1t seems to them and not as If
is or may be. Solitude is only rela
tive, never absolute, and always a
matter OF temperament. There is. no
lonesomeness like that of a great citv
to the stranger within it, and there is
no place where companionship is so
plentiful as on the farm to him whose
temperament is attuned to it's environ
ment.
There can be solitude the densest
and most depressing in a city as well
as on farm, but it is in either case
hn
mental resources to give mind occu-
patton. To the ignorant, the solely
physical man or woman, life any,
where is solitary save where it's baser
conditions afford entertainment. Such
ind refuge in the SALOONS of the vii
lage or the city or in the places of
amusement, and they are to be found
living in the crowded city as well as
on the isolated farm. But to the alert
mind there is no solitude, because it
finds in itself resources of occupation,
| and it surrounds itself with compan-
lonable matter. No vocation offers
the food for study and thought that
| farming does, and no profession opens
so wide the doors Of knowledge. The
lawyer plods along narrow way, the
minister treads paths beaten deep and
made dusty by the travel of centuries.
and the doctor finds the human form
his center with limited radius. But
the infinite processes Of nature are in
the farmers domain of study If he
have brains to see and enter it.
The sociability of city life is Elusive
Seen from the farm, it glitters with a
brilliancy that charms; but touched.
1t shrinlls to narrow limits and its
glitter is mostly that OF tinsel. The
range Of acquaintance is not as large
| as that OF the village or the farm.
while it has none Of that kindly inter
est. that neighborliness, that makes
life in the former sweet. The Grape
on the door Of your neighbor in the
city is the first announcement you
have that sickness and death and
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bates in the constitutional convention
contain no remarks showing that there
was any doubt as to the meaning of
this clause This is a reason that, it
seems to us. applies more forcibly to
the position taken that the judge is
ineligible. The purpose of the provis-
ion there is as plain as is that of the
prohibition of our constitution reiat-
ing to legislators. The end sought was
to remove from judges in possible
contingency the temptation to render
an unjust decision for some promised
office. 1t was an, added safeguard to
the purity of thS bench. Should this
judge accept then rendered place. and
the supreme court have to pass on his
eligibility, we have little doubt that
it will follow the rigid and right in
depreciation given our constitution by
Judge Buck, and hold the judicial Of
fees of that stats free from the barter
of politicians. ;, -
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WHEAT INSPECTION.
A Correspondent Thinks 1t Ought
to Be Abolished

To the Editor CT the Globe.
The question of the right of the state
to charge for grading grain is an i'm
portant one. In his report the chief
inspector informs the public that the
number of cars graded ION arrival" I"
including wheat, fax, corn, oats, bar
ley and buckwheat, for 1895 was 151,-
756. The number of cars inspected
into vessels" was AZ, 1852, and the total
cost of inspection was s142,605. I ask
the question, who is receiving the ben
eft, the wheat buyers and millers, or
the farmers Of the state? 1 consider
this inspection Of grain as an impo-
sition on the farmer, an unnecessary
cost, a special tax, and a burden and
discrimination against the farmer 1t
Is nothing else than a tax on their
property to support the party friends
Of those in power. What a mistake
the farmers made in the Inauguration
Of this accursed grain inspection law,
one of the many that they committed
by the election of a Republican gov
ernor and legislature. The law fur
nishes the governor with a power to
distribute through the commission soft
snaps for the benefit of the Republican
party. If ever there was a necessity
for change Of state administration
the time is at hand. We want the
burden of taxes lessened, we must make
the change. I have faith in the Dem
ocratic party to use the knife to save
the state some hundreds of thousands
Of dollars in taxes. Let the party ad-
vocate the abolition of all unneces-
sary offices for the good Of the state,
in like manner as the supreme court
has dismissed the Republican trading
stock for power in the legislature.
John Diamond.
Mankato, Mimi, Jan. 1.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
MERRIAM PARK.

Merriam Park council. Royal Arcanum,
held an important meeting Thursday evening
and installed the following officers: c. T.
Saunders, regent; Prof. p. e. Sullivan vice
regent Ed Paradis, orator; w E. Wood
secretary; II. s. Sumner, treasurer; w S.
Wood, collector; II. p. Stone, chaplain; f.
Matson, guide; John Keyes, warden; ID. E.
Danforth sentry. The Merriam Park cOun-
Gil now has a membership Of over eighty,
and carries $4,000 insurance for the benefit
Of their families.
The Interurban club gave one Of the most
delightful parties of the season at WOOdruR's
hall on New Years night. The club was
fully represented. After the party bad en-
toyed dance, lunch vas dainttly served by
L. A. Bedell Mrs. Smith Jones and Mrs. w.
B. Hawley.
The annual meeting and election Of officers
Of the Ladies Society of the Olvet Congre-
gational Church will be held Friday Jan. TO-
at O'Clock, with Mrs. S. G. Cobb, of Mar
shall avenue.
The Kings daughters will meet with Mrs.
Holmes on Monday afternoon at 2 O'Clock
Those interested In the cantata are urged to
be present.
The Ladies Society Of Trinity NJ E. Church
will meet with Mrs. Barwise. corner Prior
and Carroll street Tuesday afternoon, at q
o'clock.
The regular meeting of the ladies' guild
will meet with Mrs. T. Bowman, Of Carroll
street, next Friday at O'Clock.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Presby-
terlan church Will meet with Mrs. Bishop
next Friday, Jan. TO- at o'clock.
Mrs. William Jones met with serious ac-
cident last week by falling and breaking her
arm. She is rapidly improving.
Mrs. Thompson and daughter Mrs. H. P.
Stone, have gone to Pennsylvania, where they
will remain during the winter.
The installation of officers of the Midway
Odd Fellows will take place in Columbian
hall next Tuesday night.
j. j. Bell and Miss Kate Bell. of Hastings,
I1ft de-, ATn,, d Dtn.,~,-
| a family wedding.
| George Holmes and Miss Holmes left on
Tuesday for a pleasure trip to Wisconsin.
Mrs. J. E. Hall will leave tomorrow for
her home in Washington, d. G.
Mr.and Mrs. Z. D. Mckay. of Chicago
spent Friday with Park relatives
Mrs. Louise Taylor. Of Madison, is the gues,
of Mrs. Fred Johnson.
Rev. Mr.. Burchard, of the Park, is visiting
Park friends.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
Pittsburg having enioved hv tha y,

Pittsburg having enjoyed by the mu-
nificence of Republican congresses, for
thirty odd years the right to lay trib-
ute on the iron and steel consumers of
the country, does not propose to lose
ITS grip now that the iron and steel
plants, obeying an imperative law, are
moving towards the ore beds of Min
nesota. Congress is to be dragooned
into building canal from the Smoky
city to Lake Erie, and making slack
water navigation on the Ohio river
by converting it. practically, into a
canal. The bristles that line Pitts
burg's spine are phenomenal in their
length and stiffness.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06

When the business" interests of the
country were advised that the tariff
was to be increased, the dispatches
told readers Of papers that there was a
rush of these business vultures to
Washington to urge Chairman Dingley
to increase still more the tax on the
things that competed with their own
products. Mr.. Dingley assured them
that this bill was merely a temporary
matter that would last only until Au-
gust 1898, when they might come down
again to tell a Republican ways and
means committee what they wanted
10 write again, as in 1886, their wishes
into the schedules and have a Repub
hcan president approve the edict OF
leave to loot. Not in so many words
did he say this, but this only is infer
able from what he and the other man
ayers of congress did say.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06

There were pictures In the art GAL
lery of the worlds fair that appealed
to cultivated tastes but past which
the stream Of men and women went
with careless or Indifferent glance, to
pause and gather in a crowd that
from morning tonight hardly showed
diminution, before Hovenden's Break
ing Home Ties" It touched the com
mon heart profoundly, and the sad
.dened and moistenedCeyes of the gaz-
ers gave proof how closely the artist
had come to the great heart of our
common humanity. His tragic death
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
WITH INTENT TO AMUsD,

"Did you go to !cIRrch yesterday" mo,
I slept at home. life.
First Tramp tell yer, pardner, Tom Reed
is the man fer me.
Second Tramp-How Is that?
First Tramp-Why, they say his policy is
to do nothin.-Puck.
Tomlinson-Blame the luck I lost yaIua-
BILE silk umbrella yesterday.
Hankins-How SO?
Tomlinson-MaddoX came along and recog-
nized it.-Life.
"See how clean of snow Browns sidewalk
is, and look at Jacobson's, next door,"
Eyes, but you don't understand
'What?"
''I saw Brown borrow Jacobson's snow shov-
el two hours ago.-Cleveland World.
"The prisoner broke in, your honor, and
ate UP three pies my wife had cooked, and
then stole five copies Of my book Of poems, u
began the complainant.
"Then,' said the Judge, ''this is not case
for my court. lunacy commission must
take it up."-Harper's Bazaar.
"our ice bill is bigger this month than IT
was In July"
Is it possible?"
eyes. the janitor keeps the fiat so hot that
we're compelled to pack ice around the steam
pipes. es."-Exchange.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
Let 'Er Go, Gallagher.
Courier-Journal.

Give America free trade and we can
meet and beat England in all the neu-
trail markets Of the world, recovering
those markets that geographically be-
long to us. That is why the Courier
Journal has always been for free trade
Give Americans the opportunity for a
stand-up fight, and we shall meet and
beat England on the land and on the
sea, as we have twice done before, vim
dicating for all time the power and
glory of the Western hemisphere, and
this, it's august republic, vaster today.
in grandeur and in arms than Rome
when Caesar ruled. That is why the
Courier-Journal is not afraid of war.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
TODAY,s WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-Forecast for Mon
day
For Minnesota and North Dakota-Cloudy,
with occasional furries Of snow; warmer;
Boutheasterly winds.
For Iowa-Far; warmer; southerly winds.
For South Dakota-Fair; warmer in east
ern portions; southerly winds.
For Wisconsin - Cloudy with occasional
snow furries; warmer; southeasterly winds.
For Montana-Cloudy; probably light SHOWS;
colder in central and western portions; west
to northwest winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
United States Department Of Agriculture.
Weather Bureau, Washington, Jan. 8, GAS
p m. Local Time 8 p m, 18th Meridian
Time.-Obs ervations taken at the same mo-
fnent of time at all stations.
TEMpER ATIrRES
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06

Senator Jones, Of Arkansas, is q year
too late with his bill to coin silver on
the basis of its market value Had he
presented 1t at the opening of the Fif-
ty-third congress instead Of it's close,
and resisted is emasculation in the
finance committee, it might have been
accepted as a compromise. But the
fight has been waged between the two
extremes of gold coinage and 16-to-I
silver coinage, and the latter has lost
the day. All was staked on 16-to-1 and
lost. 1t is now too late for compro-
missing.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
THE MOON, TARIFFS AND WHEAT

The observant reader Of the Minnie
apolis Tribune must have been struck
by the synchronal appearance of the
full moon in the sky and editorials
on the tariff in that paper. The inco-
herence of the latter will recall to him
and confirm in him that popular notion
of the relation of the full moon to the
processes Of some peculiarly constitut-
ed minds. Should he care to carry
the conjecture farther he might find
relationship Of the tariff, with its
ebbing and flowing, its occasional
spring tides, with the tides of ocean
and the moon, and he might thus es-
tablish very plausible theory to ac-
count for the simultaneous appearance
Of the full moon and the aberrancy
apparent in the editorials on the tar
iff.
During the fuIling Of the moon the
Tribune has been troubled by the ef-
feet of the tariff on wheat prices and
it found, or imagined 1t had found,
some "old-line Democrat who also
imagined that there could be no restor-
alton of old-time prices until the tariff
on wheat was put back where it was
Driven into a corner by few histor-
ical facts and a logical application Of
them, it finally asserts that, anyway,
''the extremely low average of wheat
prices has been reached since the tri
umph Of free trade ideas in the elec-
tion of 1892 The notion that free
trade ideas triumphed in 1892 is pretty
conclusive evidence of the theory OF
the demoralizing effect of the full
moon on this particular writer. A
mind is in very tangled UP condi.
tion that cannot discriminate between
the tariff plank Of 1892 and free trade
We have had three periods of high
tariffs; that of 1928, that of 1912 and
that Of 1890. In 1928 the lowest ex-
port price Of wheat was 95 cents and
the highest S1.62 a bushel. The next
year the lowest was 81 and the high
est $1.75 In 1880 the lowest was SLIP
and the highest S1.15. Then came the
Clay compromise Of gradual reduc,
ton, and in 1886 the lowest price
touched was s1.37 and the highest
$2.12. Then came the Walker tariff,
and the following was the range Of
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06

a short time ago. killed by a locomo-
tive while trying to rescue a little
girl, added pathos to the memory of
those who saw his picture. Now the
picture is to further consecrate the ar
lists memory by making a tour of
the cities of the country to create
what will be called the Thomas How
enden students aid fund, to be used
In assisting poor art students in the
development of their talent The ST.
Paul Art association should secure its
exhibition here
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06

If any one wonders at the popularity
Of Mayor Pingree. Of Detroit, stand
ing that has carried him into the may
or's chair for a third term in spite
Of the opposition in his own party
and of the Democrats, the story of
his fight against the street railways for
three-cent fare and universal trans
fers will shed little light on dark
spot. Tom Johnson's company meets
the issue with an eight-for-a-quarte
rate
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06

If, in reading the news from the
Transvaal of the difficulties that have
eliminated there in another instance
of British protection" you wonder
what and who the "Uitlanders" are,
who seem to be the bone Of conten-
ton, it will enlighten you to know
that the word is Holland Dutch, and
means literally the "outlanders," or
foreign residents.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
THIS REPORT is WORSE.
suDf. PendergRst's Attnck More se-
rious Than at First SupDoseJ.

a later report from Huthinson. where
Superintendent Of Public instruction
Pendergast is confined with an attack
OF erysipelas, states that his prospects
are less hopeful and the malady will
apparently run its course, requiring
suspension of his duties at the capitol
for two weeks more at least.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06

The last three years Of this period
were the closest approach to ''the tri
umph Of free trade ideas" that the
country has seen. So beneficial, in
deed, was the effect of lessened taxa
ton that a committee Of a house Of
representatives, of which N. P. Banks
was speaker, declared absolute free
trade and direct taxation as near at
hand. With 1860 came the war and
the opportunity for protecting the
farmers with a tax on foreign wheat,
a policy that prevailed until Aug. %,
1884. We do not ask any one to
mote" the coincidence of this tariff
and the decreasing price Of wheat, but
simply give the facts Of; the markets
as the suitable answer to the moon
struck argument of our contemporary.
The average export price of wheat in
1866 was S141; in 1870, s1.29; in 1875,
SLIP; in 1880, s1.25; in 1885, 0S6 in 1890,
OS3, and in 1894 67 cents a bushel. If
there is any connection between tariffs
and wheat prices it would warrant the
conclusion that "the extremely low av-
erage of wheat prices has been
reached since the triumph of pro-
tective ideas in 1890.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06

The Westminster Gazette has hit up
on scheme which may take Great
Britain and the United States away
from the shadow of war. 1t says.
The only method Of escape from this
deadlock, which shall impose neither
humiliation nor retreat on either side
is to find something which is not arbi-
tration, but which is as like it as posi-
BILE" The newspaper thinks board Of
conciliation will do exactly what is
wanted.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
Col Kiefer is decidedly of the opinion

Col. Kiefer is decidedly of the opinion
that when a congressional district Sc
cures representative who is IAN all
round American" an expert mathe-
matician, a patriot and a statesman,
it is the rankest kind of folly to retire
him and put an untried 1edgling in his
place. This conviction of the colonel
has, of course, no personal significance
but is only a generalization drawn
from the deep fountain Of his congress
sional experience.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
TEMPERATURES
Below zero.
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer. 3O.4O; thermometer &C; rela-
tive humidity, rs; wind. southeast; weather,
thermometer, -13; daily range, IA; amount
of melted snow in last twenty-four hours, .08.
Note-barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. p F. LYONS,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06

The sale of seats for single operas of the
Damrosch Opera company season at the Met
ropolitan opera house the latter half of this
week begins at the box-ofIlce this morning.
The season sale closed last Saturday night
and no more tickets will be sold at a discount.
although any parties can secure seats now for
all the operas or any one of them, as they
may choose. The repertoire is: Thursday
Jan. 8, 'Fidelio;" Friday. Jan. 10, Die
Meistersinger;" Saturday matinee, Jan. H.
'Tannhauser;;" Saturday night JAM IL
'Die Walkure."
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Deaths.
MEMBER.

Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts, widow Of
Edwin S. Roberts, deceased, died at
her home, near Mappsburg, on the
Sth instant in the S5th year of her
age.
Mrs. Rebecca Wilkins, wife of Mr..
Charles F. wilkins, died at her home
near Eastville on last Monday, after
lingering illness of consumption.
She had many friends in this county,
who regret her untimely death.
Mrs. Tabitha Warren, wife of Mr..
John Warren, died at her home, near
Pungoteague, Tuesday, 18th instant,
aged II years. She was buried in the
cemetery of H ollies Baptist Church,
after funeral services conducted by
her pastor, J. NJ. Dunaway, on We'd
nesday. She had been consistent
member of Hollies Baptist Church
for so years Her husband and six
children survive her.
William H. Copes, son of Solomon
and Sallie Copes, born in Accomac
county, Va, in 1910, was accidently
killed by falling tree near Enfield,
n. C., on January 27th. 1896. While
only a small by he was converted and
Joined Downings Church. Soon after
reaching manhood he was happily
married to Miss Sallie Cutler. To
this union there were six daughters
born, all of whom, with a bereft
wife, mourn their irreparable loss. His
body was gently laid beside the body
of his mother at Pearsons Church in
Southampton county, Va, on Jan
uary goth. His private, social and
public life were above reproach. Hi
only ideal was Christ and he labored
earnestly and continuously to fashion
his lifelike his Divine Model.
E. E. ROWE.
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Pastor Pounded.

MR.. EDIToR:-Following their ex-
ample of last year, my congregation
at Horntown, pnt their hands and
hearts together again last week, and
brought out for their pastor and his
family a quantity of desirable arti-
Giles, in the way of groceries, canned
fruit, &C., and when l went up, the
other day, l was invited to call at a
certain place, and there they packed
my carriage, in the foot, in front, and
on the seat, and all could not be
gotten in. and then in my pocket they
put sum of money not to be des-
pissed. These acts of kindness touch
me very deeply. AS an expression Of
affection and interest, l value them
highly. What desire above evey-
thing is. that may be an instrument
of spiritual good to all the people.
J. CARSON WATSON.
Oak Hall, Va, February 18th.
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Belle Eta ven.

Mrs. Geo. T. Willis is critically i'll.
DR.. VIM. E. Brickhouse, who has
been critically i'll, is gradually i'm
proving.
The street line question is giving
rise to warm discussions among prop
erty owners throughout our town.
Mr.. John B. Doughty has opened a
fancy grocery and provision store in
the Corbin building on Main street.
Prayer meeting will be held lin the
Presbyterian Church, on Wednesday
nights instead of Friday nights as
heretofore.
Messrs. W. G. and A. D. Mapp gave
nice dance at "Downingsville," near
Exmore, on Tuesday night. The
music. which was especially fine, was
from Philadelphia. About twenty
couples were present.